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Speaker 1: And what's really cool is he released the song on Truth,

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Speaker 1: music star John Ridge. It's such an honor to have

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the attitude I have, and that

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Speaker 1: now is the time to be bold. Well, can you

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Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence and those people that signed that document,

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Speaker 1: and they were willing to risk at all for future generations. Well,

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Speaker 1: So who are we to sit here as the benefactors

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm not gonna say it because I

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, Lisa, I'm leaning in to the

428
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Speaker 1: onslaught of hatred that's coming my way. But but to me,

429
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Speaker 1: the fact that they hate it is validation that I

430
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 1: said it correctly. If they liked what I had to say,

431
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. I just

432
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Speaker 1: truly respect what you're doing and the way you're going

433
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Speaker 1: about this, and I have sort of similarly come to

434
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Speaker 1: a conclusion that you can't speak the truth and say

435
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Speaker 1: what needs to be said and be accepted by society.

436
00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 1: It's one or the other. You know, you you either

437
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Speaker 1: sell out, get a pat the head from the left

438
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 1: in society and you lie and you don't tell the truth,

439
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: and you don't see what needs to be said, or

440
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: you know you speak the truth and you know you're

441
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Speaker 1: you're going to be an outcast, But I I so,

442
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: I I totally agree with you, know your perspective, and

443
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: you know what, You're not an outcast. They want to

444
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: make you think you're going to be an outcast? Am

445
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 1: I an outcast? Sitting at number one right now on iTunes?

446
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 1: Am I an outcast? No? I'm an outcast to them?

447
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: Well good, I want to be cast out of that crowd.

448
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: I don't do not want to associate with them, just

449
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 1: like they don't want to associate with me. I don't

450
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of that machine. But I'm

451
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: definitely not an outcast. Look, there's millions of people right

452
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: now consuming this song. They're feeling great about the song,

453
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 1: that blasting it all over the place. Um, they just

454
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 1: want to make you think that you're going to be

455
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Speaker 1: an outcast. And at the end of the day, there's

456
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 1: only there's really only two entities that need to approve

457
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 1: of what you're doing as an individual. Number one is

458
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Speaker 1: your maker, God needs to approve of it. He's the

459
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Speaker 1: one you want to had on the back from. And

460
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: number two is yourself. You will sleep good at night

461
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: knowing you were true to your voice and true to

462
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: what he wanted you to do, and you took the heat,

463
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: you took the licks, and you kept on coming. When

464
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: you lay your head down at night, you can have

465
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: a grint on your face going, Yep, I didn't make

466
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: everybody happy, but that wasn't the point. I think we

467
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: did what we were supposed to do, and that's that's

468
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: where I come from. I agree with what you're saying.

469
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Speaker 1: I guess what I was saying is, you know it

470
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Speaker 1: there is, you know, a cost to it in the

471
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Speaker 1: sense of I've had you know, friends and families sort

472
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Speaker 1: of you know, ending relationships over some of the things

473
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Speaker 1: I've said, or not getting the vaccine and things of that.

474
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't regret it. I'm not going to stop. Yeah,

475
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Speaker 1: and you can stop. I believe what I believe and

476
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Speaker 1: I hold those core values and I'm willing to take

477
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Speaker 1: whatever comes my way or or professional you know, I've

478
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: walked away from, you know, professional things that could have

479
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: been good for my career because I didn't, you know,

480
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to make decisions that would have compromised

481
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Speaker 1: my belief. So I'm with you that that was the

482
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Speaker 1: only point I was making. But but you're right, you

483
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Speaker 1: know you week good at night? I do? You know

484
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Speaker 1: I do because I do believe that what I'm doing. No,

485
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: I I'm glad you said that. I do. I believe

486
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: that what I'm saying is right, and I believe it

487
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Speaker 1: to my core. And you know, I'm willing to to

488
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: take whatever comes as a result of speaking the truth.

489
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Speaker 1: So that's why I just I so respect your approach

490
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: and the way you talk about things and what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to ask you how did you

492
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Speaker 1: get into all this? So I know that you were

493
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: born in Texas and you grew up in Tennessee. How

494
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Speaker 1: do you get into country music to beginning? How hard

495
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: is that? I imagine it's really really tough to to

496
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Speaker 1: even break into the industry. Well, so, my dad is

497
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Speaker 1: a preacher. He started appreciating it was nineteen years old. UM,

498
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Speaker 1: and he's never been one of those big church preachers

499
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Speaker 1: because he's way too hardcore when he preaches. He's not

500
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Speaker 1: a kind of preacher you can listen to every week. Um.

501
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: He's more of that evangelist style. A matter of fact,

502
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Speaker 1: a lot of his preaching has happened in third world countries,

503
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Speaker 1: where it's happened in prisons in the United States. He

504
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: still preaches in prisons today to be seventy here in

505
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: a couple of days, still going at it. And and

506
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: it's also a really great singer and great guitar player.

507
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: So he would he would go a guitar around his neck.

508
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Speaker 1: My dad checked this out. He went to thirty two

509
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: Marty Gross, Dirty two Marty Gross and stood on the

510
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Speaker 1: street corner in the French Quarter with a guitar around

511
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Speaker 1: his neck, singing gospel songs while people were throwing stuff

512
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Speaker 1: at him, spitting on him. And then he would preach.

513
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: And I said, Dad, why would you keep standing there

514
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Speaker 1: with people spitting all of you. There's one picture I

515
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: saw that I saw something running. It looked like sweat

516
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Speaker 1: on his guitar. I said, well, we must have been

517
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Speaker 1: hot that day you were sweating. He goes, no, it's

518
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Speaker 1: in February. He goes, that's spit. I go what. He goes, yeah,

519
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: that's spit running off my guitar. Ago from them spitting

520
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: at you. He goes yeah. I said, why would you

521
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Speaker 1: keep doing it? He goes, because about one out of

522
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Speaker 1: a hundred of them would stop and asked me what

523
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Speaker 1: I was talking about. And so it wasn't about being comfortable,

524
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 1: it wasn't about being popular. It was and about any

525
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: of those things. Was about doing what it was he

526
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: was called to do and doing it at a high

527
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: level at any cost. And so for me, when I

528
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: stepped into music, I loved playing music because my dad

529
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: played music and I wanted to be like dad. You know,

530
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: he taught me how to play the guitar. When we

531
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Speaker 1: got to Tennessee, I started meeting people that were kind

532
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: of in and around the music business. One kid I

533
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: went to school with his dad was a bus driver

534
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: for Ricky Skaggs. He drove his tour bus. And that

535
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: just blew my mind. Your dad knows Ricky Skaggs. He goes,

536
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: my dad drives his bus like that. It's crazy. And

537
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: so I realized how close I was to that whole industry.

538
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: So like seventeen, I started entering talent contests and I

539
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: got hired at Opryland, USA, which was our big theme

540
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: park here for a long time, and I worked there

541
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: right after my senior year, and that's where I met

542
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: some guys that wanted to start a little band and

543
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: instead of going to college, I went on the road

544
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: playing music with these guys in this band, and that

545
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: wound up being the band Alone Star, which got signed

546
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: and we sold four or five million records, and at

547
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Speaker 1: that point it was off to the races for me

548
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: and met Big Kenny, and Big and Rich came into existence,

549
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: and just one thing after another, quick break more with

550
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: John Redge. That's awesome what you said about your dad's

551
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: I bet he's super proud of you, because it sounds

552
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: like the way you're describing your dad or you have

553
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: a lot of the same attributes. So I bet he's

554
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: pretty proud of you, know, you taking a stand and

555
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: being who you are this particular song. I think he's

556
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: probably more proud of this particular song progress than anything

557
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: I've done. And he's not one to to lay a

558
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: lot of accolades out, but he did on this one.

559
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, there's a lot of people

560
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: gonna hate you for saying what you just said. I said, yes, sir,

561
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: he goes, but you said it anyway. I went, that's correct.

562
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: He goes, well, good for you. I'm proud of you.

563
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: And how that was just the biggest thing to hear

564
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: him say that, and and then I got to call

565
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: him the day it went number one, and I said, well, Dad,

566
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: you know that song that a lot of people aren't

567
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: gonna like. He goes, yeah. I go, well, it's number

568
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: one on iTunes, number number one, must download a song

569
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: in the world right now. He goes, well, I guess

570
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: somebody must have liked it. I said, yeah, you think so,

571
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: number one man so, And it proves the point that

572
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: the left tries to make us think that we're isolated,

573
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: that we're the only one thinking like that, that we're

574
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: the only one feeling this way, and they try to

575
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: keep you busted up. That's part of why they censor

576
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: people is they don't want you to see that there's

577
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: a large contingency of Americans speaking the same way they don't.

578
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: They don't want you seeing that because that gives more

579
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: people courage. Courage is contagious, but so is fear. Both

580
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: of those things are highly contagious, and we want courage

581
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: to be contagious in this country. And the only way

582
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: that happens is people have to step out and be

583
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: courageous and step into the fire and take the incoming.

584
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: And you know what, if you can succeed what on

585
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: top of taking them on, Buddy, you've got yourself a

586
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: great recipe for other people to follow. And and I

587
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: really hope that the success of this song does inspire

588
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: people to be courageous and come forward and let's go.

589
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: There's a hope. There's a lot more of us than

590
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: there are of them. I really believe that. Now. I

591
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: believe that too. And I do think, you know, looking

592
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,239
Speaker 1: at the success of your song, or even looking at

593
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: the success of Top Gun Maverick, which is really you know,

594
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: pro American movie, there's not this woke crap and it's

595
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: just like wholesome, good content. I do it gives me

596
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: a hope in the sense of I do believe there's

597
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: more of us than them. You know, they're louder, they

598
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: control the institutions, whatever. But there are ways around it,

599
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: as you've pointed out, and you've proven with your song.

600
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: But you're totally right. I do believe there's more of

601
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: us than there are of them. Yeah. And by us

602
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: and them, I don't mean Republicans and Democrats. And you

603
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: know this as well as anybody. There are as many

604
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: nasty judas Republicans as there are Democrats. I mean they

605
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: are thick. I have met a bunch of them. I

606
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: have supported people in the past and then realize who

607
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: they actually are they've actually done behind the scenes, and

608
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: went yuck. You know, so this is not a Republican

609
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: Democrat thing anymore. There was a poll earlier in July

610
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: that said percent of Americans agree that the country is

611
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: on the wrong track. I'm sure you saw that one. Well,

612
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: at least if you get eight percent of Americans agreeing

613
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: that they like ice cream, that would be a big deal.

614
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: But to agree that the country is on the wrong

615
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: track eight out of a hundred Americans, well, that means

616
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: there's liberals in that mix. There's there's moderates, there's conservatives,

617
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: there's all there's there's religious people, there's atheist, there's every

618
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: everybody is in that And when I saw that poll,

619
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: I said it is time to drop this song. I

620
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: wrote the song in January. I've had in my back

621
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: pocket since the beginning of this year, and I was

622
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: waiting to see what the summer would be like before

623
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: the elections happened. And let's just see how bad things

624
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: get in this country, and if we can get a

625
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: consensus that we don't like it, when I saw that poll,

626
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: I went, there's your consensus, there's your unity right there,

627
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: and that that was kind of my Uh that was

628
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: the red the red flare that went up and said, okay,

629
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: put the song out. And that's when I started up

630
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: setting this thing up to put it out. I love that.

631
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: And then what's obviously the response in people listening but

632
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: sort of I'm sure it's brought you some comfort to

633
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: hear some of the feedback from people. Yeah, a lot

634
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: of One of the most common things is your song

635
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: says exactly what I've been thinking, which is which is

636
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: the best compliment ever? Uh That it's almost like people

637
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: are apoplectic these days, that there's so many bad things

638
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: going on at the same time that when you try

639
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: to talk about it, you just start stuttering and stammering

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Speaker 1: and you can't even get it out because it's just

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Speaker 1: too much like which one are we going to start with?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've been mowing the grass before,

643
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: you know, and you mow over a yellow jacket nest

644
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 1: and they come swarming up at you and they're stinging

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Speaker 1: you all over, and you just take off running as

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00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: fast as you can. Like that's kind of what the

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00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: current events feel like to me, we're just being swarmed

648
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: and you can't get it out. So this song kind

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00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: of distills it down to a really simple message and

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00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: lays it out in a really simple way where you go, Yes,

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Speaker 1: what the song? That what that song just said. That's

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Speaker 1: how I feel about it, And that's what I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: from most of the people. I do think in some respect,

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00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: because you know, there's been a lot of hardship with

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Speaker 1: COVID and what they did to us during that and

656
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: all the other stuff we're saying in the Biden administration too.

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00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of the stuff we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: it's sort of makes you realize more pointedly what matters

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Speaker 1: in life, right Like, it's God, it's family, it's friends,

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Speaker 1: it's the people. You know, there's there's still even amidst

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00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: the fire around us and the chaos around us, you know,

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00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: there's still so much beauty in life. I think, yeah, absolutely,

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00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, all the shutdowns and everything made everybody

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Speaker 1: slow down, and that's the hardest thing for a person

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00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: to do, is slow down. I mean, everybody's just going

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00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: as fast as they can all the time. So that

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00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: the slowdown UM gave people a chance to think about

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00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: important things. Um it. Also it also showed us who

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Speaker 1: we're really dealing with here. I mean, they shut down

670
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: the churches, but they left the strip clubs open, okay.

671
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: And then they say, hey, you have to you have

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00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: to jab yourself with this experimental uh medicine whatever you

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00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: want to call it, with this experimental procedure. And if

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: you don't, you lose your job. If you don't, you

675
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: can't travel. If you don't, you can't go to a concert.

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00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: If you don't, you can't go to school, on and

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00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: on and on. And I'm like, it's experimental. There's no

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Speaker 1: long term study on this. I'm not doing it. But

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00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. If you don't want to do it,

680
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if there's no long term study on it.

681
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna do it. We're gonna wreck your life. I go,

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00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, last time I check that. That's awful reminiscent

683
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: of the Nuremberg codes, that you tell somebody they have

684
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: to do something that's experimental, that's in the medical world.

685
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Think we've got history that says that's a really, really

686
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: bad idea, but they did it anyway. And so there's

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00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: lines in the song that says, they say, let go

688
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: of Jesus and let government save, and you can have

689
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: back your freedom if you do what we say. Stick

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00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: your progress with the sun don't shine. I mean, that's

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00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: how far over the line they've gone. And when you

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00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: go that far over the line we said, you're no

693
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: longer talking about political differences. You're talking about human beings

694
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: being mistreated in general. And that's where we are today.

695
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's why you're seeing this backlash, this whiplash,

696
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: this boomerang effect that's starting to come back around, and

697
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: they're panicking about what this fall is going to look

698
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: like at these elections. Uh. And even the Rhinos, the

699
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: Republicans that play ball with all these scoundrels, they're sweating too,

700
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: as they should be. And am I mad about what

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00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: they're doing. Sure, I'm mad about what they're doing, But

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00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: when you listen to the song, there's a little bit

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00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: of a in in that song. Because I believe that

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00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: the American people and the principles our countries founded on

705
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: will outlast, out survive everything that we see going on today.

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00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really rough ride, but

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00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: I do believe we survive it because it's us. We're America.

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00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: We survived things like this, and we just gotta take

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00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: your head on. Well, what I picked up and moved

710
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: during COVID. I left New York because obviously it was terrible,

711
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: and I moved to the Free State of Florida. And

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00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 1: I didn't get the vaccine either, And I just figured

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00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: it myself, Okay, maybe I can't fly for a couple

714
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: of years, maybe I can't do certain things. But worst

715
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: case scenario, I'm hanging out in Florida for all. Like,

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00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: it's not it's not that bad. I'll just write out

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00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: the apocalypse. You're in the Free State of Florida, John Rich,

718
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: You're awesome. Anything you want to leave us with before

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00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: we go, I just hope people keep their chin up.

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00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: I hope people, uh, they catch a big case of courage.

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00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: I hope that on their level wherever they are, with

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00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: their neighbors and people they talked to and hang around with.

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00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: You need to be bold. You need to speak your mind,

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00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: and you need to realize that there's a lot of

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00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: people out there um that will follow suit if they

726
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: see you doing it first. Somebody's got to be the

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00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: point of the spear, even down to the down to

728
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: the very neighborhood and street that you live on. Remember

729
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: that you're American, remember whose shoulders you're standing on, and

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00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: act like it. And if we do that, we'll get

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Speaker 1: our country straightened out. It's awesome, and go check out

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Speaker 1: his new song Progress, John Redg. I really respect your

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Speaker 1: respect what you're doing, and I respect your voice. So

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking a stand and taking time to

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Speaker 1: come on the show. I really appreciate it. Yes, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: I love your voice as well. You're a You're a

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00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: very important voice in our country, and I'm honored to

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Speaker 1: be on your podcast. Call any time. How awesome, John,

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Speaker 1: I think that's so cool. Everything he does for fterates.

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Speaker 1: He's an awesome guy, and I appreciate him joining the show.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate you at home for listening every Monday

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Speaker 1: and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week The

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Speaker 1: Truth with Lisa Booth. I want to thank my executive

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Speaker 1: producer for all the work he puts into putting this together.

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Speaker 1: Please leave us a review, give us five stars, and

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Speaker 1: Apple leave us a review. We always appreciate it. Until

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Speaker 1: next time, say where the song, don't sign