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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

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Speaker 2: We were here in Georgia at the Job Creators Network

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Speaker 2: Freedom Fighter's Summit and we found Lee Greenwood out here.

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Speaker 3: Just wandering around the hole.

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Speaker 1: Let me just grabbed them and brought them over.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, this is really exciting for me because

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Speaker 2: we've your song has inspired an entire generation of people

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Speaker 2: to get involved in politics and follow as president.

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Speaker 1: And I really do.

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Speaker 2: I mean that from the standpoint of that starts playing

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Speaker 2: and no matter where I am, everybody's singing it.

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Speaker 1: What doesn't that mean to you?

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Speaker 4: Let me just go back to the beginning of me

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Speaker 4: writing God Blessed the UYSA.

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Speaker 3: It was in nineteen eighty three, so before politics.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was the song that I wrote for

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Speaker 4: America because of the love of my love of the country.

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Speaker 4: And I'm a farmer from California. You know, I was

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Speaker 4: a drum major from a high school marching band, and

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Speaker 4: it was a lot of things that added up in

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Speaker 4: my head to wanting to do that. But when my

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Speaker 4: career started in Nashville, Tennessee as a country artist, my background,

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Speaker 4: which is rhythm of blues and jack rock.

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Speaker 3: I was raised in the Beagle area during the Vietnam War.

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Speaker 4: There was a lot of things in my head that

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Speaker 4: kind of said, I really love being in a country

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Speaker 4: that's free and we can vote freely for who we

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Speaker 4: want to be president and officials who tell us what's

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Speaker 4: best for us as a people. And I guess when

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Speaker 4: I got to Nashville, there was a moment or two

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Speaker 4: where I just didn't have any time but to just tour.

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Speaker 4: And I did that for three hundred days a year

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Speaker 4: for the first three years.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And after five and six albums, I had an inspiration

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Speaker 4: one night to just write the song which I've been

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Speaker 4: writing to write.

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Speaker 3: For my entire life.

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Speaker 2: So once you were six, after seeing the entire country

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Speaker 2: then from a tour bus.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because being born in California, twenty years in Nevada,

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Speaker 4: I mean I was in the casinos in Nevada for

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Speaker 4: twenty years, performing there in all kinds of shows, main room, lounges.

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Speaker 4: I even dealt cards into casinos for a while, this

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Speaker 4: kind of you know, keep the bills being paid. But

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Speaker 4: I never really toured the entire country. So from my

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Speaker 4: point of view, when I say Washington, that means I'm

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Speaker 4: from the West coast, from the East coast, say Washington

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Speaker 4: to me a while, because now I live in the South,

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Speaker 4: and I say, y'all, so so yes, things change when

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Speaker 4: I started touring the whole country and I got a

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Speaker 4: better perspective of if I may put it this way,

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Speaker 4: from Seattle to Miami, or New York de Los Angeles,

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Speaker 4: of Virginia to Frisco, and you kind of see things differently.

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Speaker 4: And yet when I when I was perceiving moving from

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Speaker 4: that the people would be.

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Speaker 3: Similar.

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Speaker 4: But they are and a different culture in New York

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Speaker 4: than Houston. Sure, but when you talk about patriotism, there's

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Speaker 4: nowhere more patriot than the people in New York City,

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Speaker 4: or in Dallas, Texas, or San Jose, California, you know,

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Speaker 4: or Virginia. I mean, I've found it to be very

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Speaker 4: true no matter where you go. And so as my

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Speaker 4: song began to resonate with everyone saying unities, what's important,

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Speaker 4: then it started resonating, of course, with the politics and politicians.

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Speaker 3: And here was that then it would have been during

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Speaker 3: the Reagan era.

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Speaker 4: Because I wrote the song in nineteen eighty three, I

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Speaker 4: was at the RNC only by choice for Ronald.

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Speaker 3: Reagan and the reason I ended up there.

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Speaker 4: Was because I did a command performance at the White

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Speaker 4: House for the Reagan and Bush administration. And that's when

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Speaker 4: I met forty one, who became a very close friend

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Speaker 4: until the time of its passing. And then of course

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Speaker 4: it just kind of rolled over, you know, to the

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Speaker 4: next conservative. I found out who I was at that

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Speaker 4: point because then I realized I am a conservative.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't probably as a youngster.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I have to admit I was like, you know,

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Speaker 4: wild in life and that having a great time with life.

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Speaker 4: But I became more of a conservatives as I moved

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Speaker 4: along until now my wife Kim and I who have

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Speaker 4: been married thirty three years, and she's a Southerner from

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Speaker 4: Tennessee and was a former Miss Tennessee, USA. And I

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Speaker 4: married into a very beautiful Christian family and so we've

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Speaker 4: become even more entrenched, I think in the conservative values

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Speaker 1: That's awesome with this guy. So how did that happen?

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Speaker 1: I mean, when did he come to you?

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Speaker 2: Because this is like people see this as his song

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Speaker 2: now and that this is Walkouse song.

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Speaker 4: Right if you look at it from my perspective, When

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Speaker 4: I've I worked with Bush campaign, both Bush presidents, father

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Speaker 4: and son, and then I recorded an album in nineteen

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Speaker 4: ninety two after I married my wife, Kim, who was

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Speaker 4: in miss Tennessee, USA, and worked with Donald Trump for

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Speaker 4: twenty one years as a director for three states in

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Speaker 4: the South, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Naturally it would be rubbing elbows with.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump as the owner of miss Universe for a

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Speaker 4: long time, so we knew him long before. But there

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Speaker 4: was none of the are you going to run for president?

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Speaker 4: Could you use my song? It was none of that

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Speaker 4: that would come much later. But during that period of

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Speaker 4: time in between presidents, I recorded American Patriot, which is

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Speaker 4: all of American songs, which is America, the beautiful God,

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Speaker 4: bless America, that this land is your land, even the

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Speaker 4: Battle Him of the Republic, which At one time I

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Speaker 4: was working the Hilton Hotel in Vegas. Elvis was in

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Speaker 4: sing the Trilogy, and I went, that's Southern Americanism. And

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Speaker 4: I saw, if I ever get my career, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to actually sing the trilogy to.

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Speaker 3: Close my show.

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Speaker 4: I knew it very well, but it was just not

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Speaker 4: to be, because Tim and I were married in ninety two,

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Speaker 4: the same year that I released the album, and then

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Speaker 4: four or five six years you know, prior to that,

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Speaker 4: I had already realized that I have to.

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Speaker 3: Have my own anthem.

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Speaker 4: And when I wrote it, it wasn't for politics, of course,

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Speaker 4: you know that, right, and it still is And of course,

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Speaker 4: after our great president, President Trump leaves office, it'll once

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Speaker 4: again be the focus of what we do, and.

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Speaker 3: That's building homes for wounded moriers.

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Speaker 4: And over fifteen years we've built two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 4: the rest of the country. Thanks to people like Johnny

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Speaker 4: others charity called Helping a Hero.

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Speaker 3: We also worked for tunnels to.

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Speaker 4: Towers in New York, Saint Jude's and Memphis and things

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Speaker 2: But so does that come from your time watching everyone

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Speaker 2: coming back from Vietnam?

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Speaker 1: Like what inspired that? Because I saw you at one

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Speaker 1: of your events.

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Speaker 2: I went to one of your events where you bring

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a very special time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, to answer your question, I just love the

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Speaker 4: pageantry I guess of marching the military and is discipline.

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Speaker 4: We recently sang for the opening of the Medal of

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Speaker 4: Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, which is supported by forty

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Speaker 4: you ever want to go see something that represents American

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Speaker 4: patriotism at its roots, and that's those who are awarded

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Speaker 4: guess from the very beginning when I would drum major

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Speaker 4: we played USO shows for like fifteen or twenty years

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Speaker 4: the basic of patriotism is. You can't imagine a six

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Speaker 4: her tiny little sweet voice. That's for patriotism, stuf Art.

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Speaker 4: But you can never forget that it's the military that

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Speaker 2: We were in Washington last week and we were taking

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Speaker 1: And she didn't know what it meant, of course, uh.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, this is the beauty of how

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Speaker 3: Well, Dolphin's thirty and now married.

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Speaker 4: He was valedictorian of his high school in Franklin, Tennessee,

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Speaker 4: He went to an Ivy League WNL in Virginia, and

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what undergrad meant. I thought, when you graduated,

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Speaker 4: so then he went on to Vanderbilt and got a

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Speaker 4: PhD in cancer research and immunology. So he's a biotech

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Speaker 3: He was like very smart.

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Speaker 4: He had a perfect science score in high school, but

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Speaker 4: and Fort Worth, Texas for four years. Changed from theater

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Speaker 4: major to music major, and now he's finishing his masters

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Speaker 4: back to Nashville and starting his career parallel to mine. Bob,

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Speaker 4: I hate it when people say, oh, he's walking in

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Speaker 4: your shoes. He's doing what you do no, hardly. Parker

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Speaker 4: will be very different. He's a great singer and piano

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Speaker 4: player and all, but he wants to produce it, wants

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Speaker 4: to be artistic. And so if anybody wants to look

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Speaker 4: at his YouTube, it's Parker Greenwood. And he's got five

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Speaker 4: songs for his thesis in college, which would be his

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Speaker 3: So that's kind of fun. That is.

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Speaker 2: So do they do any of these political events with

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Speaker 2: you or did they stay out of that.

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Speaker 4: They've had the opportunity, yes, to be at many of

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Speaker 3: I don't know what. I don't even ask them what

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Speaker 1: I mean, we you know, we've never that's not even

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Speaker 4: We've never influenced our children to do with Because I

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Speaker 4: more of a liberal look at at their world because

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Speaker 4: I think that's the key is once we've become mature

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Speaker 4: enough to know that we have something to protect. You

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Speaker 1: And that is a really good point. If you have

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Speaker 2: Even when we're in there today talking about debt and

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Speaker 2: all this and why does this affect and why not

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Speaker 2: just keep taxation. It's interesting because you do have a

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Speaker 2: different perspective when you have your children, absolutely and you

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Speaker 2: and you go, well, I don't want them to end

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Speaker 1: I don't want to leave something bad for my kids.

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Speaker 4: And I will say this, both both of our sons,

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Speaker 4: very tight. Kim and I've been married thirty three years,

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Speaker 4: and we understand what our commitment to them is. But

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Speaker 4: now as the adults, we let them start making more

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Speaker 4: they will do that and not necessarily.

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Speaker 3: Mirror who we are or what we are. But I'm very.

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Speaker 4: Confident that as they watch what I do, they don't

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Speaker 4: don't go against what I believe in. I mean, we

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Speaker 4: don't have arguments about that. But they endorse, you know,

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Speaker 4: if not even for the president or for the Congress,

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Speaker 4: because that's a fluctuating.

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Speaker 1: Thing and that's a lot of work.

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Speaker 2: And when you were talking to me about your travel

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Speaker 2: schedule to massive amount, I'll just end on this.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that continues? Do you see in the

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Speaker 2: Do you think you just continue traveling for the wounded

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Speaker 3: Of Well absolutely.

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Speaker 4: I will say this too that because of my reappointment

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Speaker 4: I keep pushing away from Washington, DC, and it keeps

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Speaker 4: dragging me back. You know, President Bush forty three nominated

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Speaker 4: like twelve years. It's a six year appointment. But the

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Speaker 4: further administrations Democratic Republic and didn't replace me. I think

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Speaker 4: maybe it's hard to replace America's patriot. But yeah, but

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Speaker 4: Finally when it got to the Biden administration, it was

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Speaker 4: in Washington, d C. Now at the Kennedy Center and

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be there.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are honored that you were here today. We're

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Speaker 2: honored that you do what you do, and I just

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Speaker 2: want to say thank you. I think on behalf of

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Speaker 4: Well, we love what you do, and I'll enjoy performing

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Speaker 4: tonight for this group who embraced his freedom like we should.

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Speaker 2: That's right and that I think that is the key.

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Speaker 2: We're here at the Job Creator's Network Summit. It has

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Speaker 2: been an amazing day, great people. Lee Greenwood, thank you

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