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The Alex Marlow Show - Bibles and Bourbon with Country Icon Lee Greenwood · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: Ready to break the narrative, get the real story with
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  Speaker 1: no filters and no apologies, cut through the noise, with
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  Speaker 1: real conversation, real conviction, and real news. It's time for
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  Speaker 1: truth without spin.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Alex Marlowe Show. See Alex marlow Show. I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you're here. We're gonna have a fun show today.
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  Speaker 2: Lee Greenwood is here. He's in the building. When told
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  Speaker 2: he's across the hall, You're supposed to be here, actually
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be here five minutes ago. But you know
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  Speaker 2: he won't hear this. You know how I know he
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  Speaker 2: won't hear this because he's in the building. So that's
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  Speaker 2: how I know he's not in his car lessening to
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  Speaker 2: the radio at this point. And I think he'll get
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  Speaker 2: the joke if he does come across this audio at
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  Speaker 2: some point. But Lee green was supposed to be here.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be here any minute. We'll be talking about God
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  Speaker 2: Bless the USA, which I first heard twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, maybe twenty two to twenty three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounded like an old song then and is
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  Speaker 2: an old song, and it's a hot song. We have
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  Speaker 2: the hot song here on the marlow Show. We'll be
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  Speaker 2: talking all about it with him in a moment. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get into some news. The most fun and exciting item
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  Speaker 2: to start the day is doctor Fauci held in contempt
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  Speaker 2: eight to five vote in the House Homeland Security and
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  Speaker 2: Governmental Affairs Committee. And I got a little sound of that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to share and video if you got the video?
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  Speaker 2: Which one? Where is my cut here? I don't see
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  Speaker 2: where it is in my sheep? And do we have something?
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  Speaker 2: We have something? Right? Okay, never mind, I guess we don't.
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  Speaker 2: So on. So the earlier today eight to five vote.
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  Speaker 2: The move followed a testimony where he invoked the Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Amendment more than one hundred times, Paul's office at one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eleven times. And this was framed as a
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  Speaker 2: vote of dressing whether a witness who receives a broad
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  Speaker 2: federal pardon can refuse to answer committee questions. And this
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  Speaker 2: was the sticking point where the trap of the pardon
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  Speaker 2: from Biden comes into play. If the pardon is legitimate,
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  Speaker 2: then he would not be incriminating himself by giving truthful answers.
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  Speaker 2: He refused to give truthful answers. And I think Ram
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  Speaker 2: Paul knew going into this thing that he had him
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  Speaker 2: all right, it's cut thirteen guys, can can we hear
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  Speaker 2: some of that?
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  Speaker 1: Seeing no other motions, the question is on reporting of
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  Speaker 1: an original resolution regarding contempt of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: The cleric will call the.
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  Speaker 3: Role mister Chairman, on the vote of those present, the
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  Speaker 3: Yeaser eight, the Naser five, on the vote by proxy
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  Speaker 3: and for the record only, the Yeaser zero, the Naser
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  Speaker 3: two on this vote, the Yaser eight, the Naser five,
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  Speaker 3: and the motion is agreed to mister chairmangized you.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, so good stuff. And so the resolution is
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  Speaker 2: going to certify the committee's report the US Attorney for
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  Speaker 2: the District of Columbia for potential prosecution under relevant statutes,
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  Speaker 2: and Paul indicated it would be sent to the DOJ promptly,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens here. So
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  Speaker 2: this is something that could lead to deeper investigations. Ron Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: I know, is hot to trot on this is he
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  Speaker 2: was one of the most vocal, I think opponents of
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  Speaker 2: Fauci during the pandemic Senator from Wisconsin, and it is
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting because they've got a copy
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  Speaker 2: of Fauci's phone, and I think we're just starting to
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  Speaker 2: understand all the horrible stuff that's in there. So this
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  Speaker 2: is going to continue. He'll remain the news cycle and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully one day he'll go to prison. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna hold my breath on that because it
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  Speaker 2: never happens. But I would love to see it. Would
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  Speaker 2: you love to see it? He deserves it. Bad guy,
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  Speaker 2: bad guy fauci in a deep, deep ler. Next thing,
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  Speaker 2: we got jobs claims out the Big Job's Day tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of jobs data, but jobless claims, which we
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  Speaker 2: get Thursday before the Big Jobs Friday, stayed below two
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand and third week in a row. For this,
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  Speaker 2: We've never had a streak like that in fifty seven years.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred and ninety nine thousand people filed new unemployment
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  Speaker 2: claimed claims this week, and that is beating the tooth
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  Speaker 2: a two hundred one thousand consensus forecast, so first time
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  Speaker 2: in three consecutive weeks since nineteen sixty nine. This is
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  Speaker 2: especially notable given that we have a much larger workforce.
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  Speaker 2: So if you think about nineteen sixty nine, we had
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  Speaker 2: half the workforce that we have now, and also then
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of war jobs due to the
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  Speaker 2: Vietnam War where there was a massive draft member call that.
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  Speaker 2: So this also put a four week moving average at
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety eight thousand, seven hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 2: We hadn't seen a level like that in several years
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  Speaker 2: as well. And this is a really sustained period of
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  Speaker 2: very low unemployment claims. So America is working. And it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting because there's a lot of debate raging online about
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  Speaker 2: this twenty dollars brito. Have you guys seen this one
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  Speaker 2: where Andrew Colvit, my friend at Turning Point USA runs
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk Show, was saying that a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: kids that he talks to you were complaining that the
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  Speaker 2: burrito prices are too high. And I thinks a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the people in the boomer generation in particular, but
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  Speaker 2: also a lot of people who are extremely online in
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  Speaker 2: the old school conservative movement, are being very dismissive of
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  Speaker 2: the fact that a lot of younger people feel like
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  Speaker 2: cost of living is way too high. And then a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are finding their own solutions. They're finding
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  Speaker 2: that this fact confirms their worldview, Like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people who really hate the Iran war are blaming this
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  Speaker 2: entirely on the Iran War, which is not true. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of this is based off of government spending and
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  Speaker 2: massive inflation due to the printing of money that was
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  Speaker 2: done during the Joe Biden years. And we've all completely
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  Speaker 2: moved on from this. And it's hard for me because
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  Speaker 2: I wrote an entire book on Joe Biden, because he
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  Speaker 2: has been a singular menace in American society. Maybe not singular.
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  Speaker 2: Obama's up there, but he is up there among the
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  Speaker 2: biggest menaces of the last fifty years in this country.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't give him his due as being one
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  Speaker 2: of the historical bad guys. But recall that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: printed a bunch of money. We had the American Recovery Plan,
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  Speaker 2: which over a trillion dollars, when we were already well
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  Speaker 2: on our way to recovering from the pandemic. We were
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  Speaker 2: well underway. We'd never seen data like we've been seeing
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  Speaker 2: in terms of our trajectory, in terms of America becoming
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  Speaker 2: a more prosperous place, and we were at a rapid
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  Speaker 2: rate of GDP growth from the pandemic lows and he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're still going to print a trillion dollars And where'd
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  Speaker 2: that money go went to a lot of his buddies,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Democrat donors, a lot of Democrats special interests.
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  Speaker 2: They were the ones who got all that money. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's going to create a massive level of inflation,
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to lead things to get more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is where I get unsympathetic to the
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  Speaker 2: people want to pin this singularly on the Iran War
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  Speaker 2: that said, the Iran War is a major factor. And
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  Speaker 2: this is a political I don't want to say noose
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  Speaker 2: around our neck, but it's certainly something we've hung on
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  Speaker 2: our neck which is very heavy, and that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: ran specifically to get us out of form wars and
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  Speaker 2: to try to focus on making life more affordable for Americans,
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  Speaker 2: more jobs for Americans, making America great again. And I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of the Iran War has been righteous
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  Speaker 2: because setting back around's nuclear prog fifteen twenty years whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is already, that's a good cause. And I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the world is quietly very happy about
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  Speaker 2: this because if you think about Arama's basically holding the
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  Speaker 2: entire Middle East hostage, they have more people, they have
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  Speaker 2: more oil, they had more weaponry, and they're also more
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  Speaker 2: fundamentalist than a lot of those other nations in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. This is the potential to make the world,
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  Speaker 2: they much say, for a much more prosperous place in
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  Speaker 2: the long run. But as of now, we've not gone
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  Speaker 2: out and finished the job. And because of that, energy
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  Speaker 2: prices are higher, and that makes everything else it's more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: That adds to the inflation. And so inflation is lower
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  Speaker 2: and better than it was under Biden, but it is
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  Speaker 2: still too inflationary relative to what our best expectations were
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  Speaker 2: before the Iran War. Again, I talked to Scott Bessant
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  Speaker 2: in December of last year and he was optimistic we'd
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  Speaker 2: see two percent or less inflation. We're not there. He
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  Speaker 2: thought we could have inflation that's almost zero. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to dismiss either side of the argument.
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  Speaker 2: And yet we're seeing NonStop and go get your social
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  Speaker 2: media feed. If you've someone who hates war, they're blaming
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  Speaker 2: the twenty dollars burritos on the Iran War. If you
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  Speaker 2: see someone who loves war, they're blaming it entirely on
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  Speaker 2: the Biden Inflation, too much government spending, etc. And they're
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  Speaker 2: also acting like a bunch of people are being inappropriate
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  Speaker 2: with money when they're going out to buy burritos. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell you one of the reasons to buy burritos,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, is actually convenience. I know this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be a shock to people, but if
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  Speaker 2: you spend your whole life in the kitchen. I was
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  Speaker 2: just talking to missus doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Marlow the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm an amateur chef. I'm not a chef fluentzer yet,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll post all my food online, but I do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the cooking, a lot of dinner cooking,
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  Speaker 2: in particular for the family. And I was saying to
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  Speaker 2: missus doctor Marlowe the other day that if something happens
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  Speaker 2: to me and this is the beginning of the end
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  Speaker 2: for me, I don't have any bad news. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: being morbid. I get that way. Sometimes there might be
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  Speaker 2: one regret that I have which I've spent a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time in the kitchen. If I could do it
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  Speaker 2: all again, I don't know if I'd spend quite so
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  Speaker 2: much time in the kitchen. I pretty much feel like
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  Speaker 2: once I go off the clock from work, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen until i'm back on the clock. And
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  Speaker 2: that to me is a lot of kitchen time, and
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of younger people who need to be
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  Speaker 2: grinding it out at their job, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who need to be trying to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Then they really not necessarily should be making a burrito.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what goes into making the burrito. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a burrito maker, but I am a taco maker.
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  Speaker 2: But if you go in there and you're making the
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  Speaker 2: homemade walk, I like to also have a more thin
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  Speaker 2: salt soaks for more of a drape. Sometimes I'll do
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  Speaker 2: the meat. Sometimes the meat is quick, like you do
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  Speaker 2: like a ground beef. It's quick. But sometimes we'll do
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  Speaker 2: the carnita. It's like a two to three hour process.
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  Speaker 2: You don't got all that kind of time if you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get ahead in life. So you go when
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  Speaker 2: you get the burrito, And I got news for you,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty dollars burrito. Where I live, there like twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven bucks, so I yearned for the twenty dollars burrito.
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  Speaker 2: That must be a discount burrito. All right, more burrito
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  Speaker 2: content later on in the show, But everyone's get this
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  Speaker 2: one completely wrong. Lee Greenwoo is in the building. I
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  Speaker 2: just saw him walk by, so we'll talk to him
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I'm Alex Marlow, will be right back.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We got a special pree for you. Lee
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  Speaker 2: Greenwood is in the studio with me, mister. Really nice
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  Speaker 2: to meet you. Thank you for making time for me
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  Speaker 2: on the Alex Marlow Show. It has been an unbelievable run.
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  Speaker 2: But when did Donald Trump latch onto you and your song?
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  Speaker 2: God Bless the USA? When did that moment come? Were
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  Speaker 2: you sitting in your kitchen? Were you drinking a beverage
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  Speaker 2: with a tiny umbrella in it? And Trump just says, Lee,
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  Speaker 2: I need you, I need you to come on the
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  Speaker 2: road with me. I love this song. So what was
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  Speaker 2: the moment? Give it to me.
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  Speaker 5: You're closer than you think. But let me give you
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  Speaker 5: the backstory. Sure, my wife and I've been married thirty
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  Speaker 5: four years, and so for thirty three years of her
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  Speaker 5: career she worked for Miss Universe. As you know Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump this year, so she worked directly with him, and
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  Speaker 5: we would have an occasion to meet several times during
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  Speaker 5: her tenure and before he sold it to William Morrison
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  Speaker 5: and it moved on and she finally decided to resign
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  Speaker 5: from it. And that's how we became associated, so not
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  Speaker 5: on a personal level necessarily.
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  Speaker 4: But at a business level.
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  Speaker 5: But then when, as you pointed out, when did he
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  Speaker 5: first start using my song? And it's point where we
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  Speaker 5: were at home in that first campaign and my feet's
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  Speaker 5: up on the couch and we were watching one of
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  Speaker 5: the rallies on TV and sure enough, they're playing my
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  Speaker 5: song when he enters the stage. I'm like, all you know,
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  Speaker 5: and I never I never read. I talked to my
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  Speaker 5: team and my wife, and we considered the possibilities of
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  Speaker 5: what that meant for my career that he's using that song.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a conservative Christian first of all, and I had
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  Speaker 5: to consider, how does that affect my career? Is that
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  Speaker 5: good or bad? And I said, let's just stay in
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  Speaker 5: the middle. I'm not going to call him. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: going to call out. And a lot of artists when
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  Speaker 5: he started using his music there on the left or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and they said, no, you can't use my music, and
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  Speaker 5: they made a big deal about that. We'll just go
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  Speaker 5: away because it doesn't matter. He's the president United States
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  Speaker 5: and so. And then eventually, did you think.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of cool?
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  Speaker 4: Though? It was really cool? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: And not the first president I've worked with right away.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a Reagan knight.
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  Speaker 4: I go back to the Reagan days, UH and both
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  Speaker 4: Bush presidents.
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  Speaker 5: But but then then after the call came, they really
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  Speaker 5: wanted me to sing on stage with him and UH
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  Speaker 5: and then work the campaign.
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  Speaker 4: And I was thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, how long had you been using the song
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  Speaker 2: when it started to become you performing live with him?
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  Speaker 2: Which is which is a constant? How many? How many
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  Speaker 2: times would say a year? At this point, you.
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  Speaker 5: Perform maybe a year or so before then I started
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  Speaker 5: working with him on campaign.
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  Speaker 2: And then how many dates would you do with him?
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  Speaker 5: During numerous I mean they I would get a call
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  Speaker 5: just days before we'd have to go somewhere and be
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  Speaker 5: where he was. And he was very casual about that.
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  Speaker 5: The first Nashville appearance, when he was in Tennessee after
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  Speaker 5: winning the election, he said, go out, sing song, and
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  Speaker 5: he said, just choose the point in the song and
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  Speaker 5: introduce me. I didn't realize at the moment he was
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  Speaker 5: so smart about He knew how long the song was
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  Speaker 5: three and a half minutes, and so he would use
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  Speaker 5: that time rather than just as an entrance, he used
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  Speaker 5: me as a way so people would focus on what
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing. He would give me the respect to stand there.
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  Speaker 5: But he was also using that next two and a
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  Speaker 5: half minutes to look at the audience.
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  Speaker 4: So now he's.
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  Speaker 5: Live on stage, he can see who he can address
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  Speaker 5: and what are the people he can have interaction with, and.
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  Speaker 2: So he's getting information. He's just he's just not doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't just pageantry that he's doing here. No, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: looking the audience, absolutely reading people in the audience, and
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  Speaker 2: he gave.
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  Speaker 5: Me that respect, and I thought, no, this is so wonderful,
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  Speaker 5: you know, And of course I must tell you he
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  Speaker 5: really elevated my career. I mean I'd have been gone
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  Speaker 5: as a country artist.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I have thirty six albums.
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  Speaker 5: I'm embedded in the country music male vocalists four or
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  Speaker 5: five times. But God bless usab an umbrella from my career.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a parachute eyes, but an umbrella because I'm
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  Speaker 5: still recording and a still touring.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing and how old are you now?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be eighty four in October.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable. You look incredible and thank you. It's a So
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  Speaker 2: what's the routine because you're on you gotta be on
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  Speaker 2: the road, So what's the routine, like the day to day.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I'll be tomorrow outside of Eureka with Rumble in
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  Speaker 5: the Redwoods as a solo performance. So this happened to
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  Speaker 5: be a single California performance this year. I'm from California,
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  Speaker 5: born in Los Angeles, raised in Sac.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that. I knew that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nineteen forty two Lay Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I remembered the ask from an interview that I
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  Speaker 2: heard of you like I had to be two decades ago.
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  Speaker 2: I remember telling this story.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a common common theme, but it took a
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  Speaker 5: little bit to get accepted in Nashville as a West Coaster,
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  Speaker 5: to tell you the truth. With my background and rhythm
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  Speaker 5: and blues and jazz and rock before my interest into
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  Speaker 5: country music, I had actually twenty years in Nevada performing
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  Speaker 5: next to Elvis and at rat Pack. I had several
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  Speaker 5: bands worked as a solo act sometimes I doubt cards
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  Speaker 5: and the casinos, at the Tropicana and at the mid Downtown.
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  Speaker 5: So I have really have an interesting diverse background before
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  Speaker 5: getting to Nashville and Nashville now is even leaving more
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  Speaker 5: to where those people are from Texas and Alabama and
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  Speaker 5: Georgia who have a country accent. That's what makes country
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  Speaker 5: driven now is a country singer who has an accent.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have that, but but.
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  Speaker 5: Traditionally I'm from Farmland. I am country, So you just
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  Speaker 5: have to figure out how that applies.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of country out in California. We have
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  Speaker 2: this whole city we call Fontana, but that's actually fond Talcke.
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  Speaker 2: People used to call it that. We are to take
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  Speaker 2: a break and he Lee green One is with me
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  Speaker 2: in studio. We'll be right back with a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make him do a day in the Life
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  Speaker 2: of torn with Trump right after this. You green One
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  Speaker 2: is here and your song God Bless You USA. It's iconic.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a word that's thrown around, but it's it's
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: an icon and that when you hear that song, it
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: evokes something. It's gotten greater than you. It'll outlast most
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: everyone listening's legacy in any one way. When did you
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: know I would been fascinated by this concept? When did
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: you know that you had something here? And I want
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: to go back, go all the way back to when
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you wrote it, and I want to hear the moment
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I think about this stuff with just you know, iconic movies,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: iconic songs. When did the author of the artist who
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: created it know that this thing is bigger than I
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: could ever have imagined.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: First time I put it on stage with my touring
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: shoe and give me the year and all the and
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: all of the artists who ever released a single, it's
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: your new baby, and you want it to be accepted.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: And we had four or five hits before I wrote
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: God Bless USA, who are all major country hits. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: and every time you come with a new song, you
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: put it in your show somewhere in the middle of
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: you know, or the beginning or whatever to get the
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: audience's attention, and they would always acknowledge, oh, your new song,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: I love that, and they applaud it. The first time
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: I put God Bless You was on USA on stage,
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: was in the middle of my show. I said, there's
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: a new song. I'm going to release it shortly, and
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: the and the audience stood up, and I'm like, that's different.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: We did a couple more times, and there's no way
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: I could follow it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Once I'd done that song in.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: The show, it was over. Even if I had more
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: hits to follow, and we did. We want to Grammy
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: for IOU. I had, you know, fourteen fifteen number one songs,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: but USA was just so different, and it became so
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: when they stood up, I'm like, why are you standing?
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: This is not the national anthem? And so the audience
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: is the one that told me what I had.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of most popular songs. The lyrics are
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: incomprehensible these days. You can even hear them on the radio.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: You don't know what anyone's talking about. And I've being charitable.
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  Speaker 2: They're subtle. This is not a subtle song. This is
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: in your vase. No, I'm proud to be an American
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: because at least I know I'm free. This is you
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: make perfectly clear where you stand, and that's indelible to
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: anyone who's heard it. A conscious decision. What was motivating
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: you to write it?
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Love of country? My father was in the Navy, joined
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: the neighbord after a bombinge Pearl Harbor. It was here
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: in Los Angeles. That's why I was born here, and
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: so I don't know until I was seventeen years old.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Not that necessarily, I'm a patriot, and I wrote USA
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: because of his service. But in nineteen ninety two I
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: did two great things. I'm erb my wife Kim. We've
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: been married thirty four years now, and I released the
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: album American Patriot. American Patriot finally established God Bless the
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: USA alongside the national anthem, God Bless America, America, the
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: beautiful this land is Jeri Lamb battle him to the Republic.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I sing all of those songs, but it put God
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: bless usay.
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  Speaker 5: Alongside of them, after the public had already done that,
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  Speaker 5: after they had already acknowledged this is a song that
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: represents who we are. If tomorrow the things were gone,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I'd work for all my life. That was about my
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: grandparents in Sacramento, California, where I was raised, and I
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: was a sharecropper and worked with my grandparents. They could
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: not make a living being a farmer, and that's why
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: I wrote that first line the second part of the song,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: I'm proud to be an American. I hadn't heard people
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: say that since World War Two. And sure, you're an
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Italian American, you're a French American.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: That's fine.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Only I think an African American or an Indian American
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: has the right to say that prior to saying we
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: are just Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Alics.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: That was the second part and the third part, I
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: won't forget the men who died. It's been my mission
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: over the past forty years to really support our military.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: My first us SO tour was when I was seventeen
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: years old. I went from Sacramento to Alaska and I
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: played at Almondorf Air Force Base. And since then we've
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: done fourteen USO tours worldwide in combat zones I got
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: shot at and Panama, and it's just it's been my mission.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: We built homes for wounded warriors now over with a
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: charity called Helping a Hero, and we have a lot
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: of partners who help us with that financially. Bess Pro
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: is one of those, Johnny Morris of Bass Pro, Lenar Holmes,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: and the Breeden family in Alabama. But we're going to
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: continue to build more homes. We have a one hundred
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: homes so far. We've built one hundred and fifteen homes
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in fifteen years.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It's such an important line that you won't forget the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: men who died, because we do forget. And I think
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: about this a lot recently, with nine to eleven in particular,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: about how we were always we said never forget. We
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: had this thing. I was part of the Young America's Foundation,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: a great group life. Yeah, it's a great group. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: we did something called the Never Forget Project. And now
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we've got a guy who just got nominated by the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Democrats in the Senate in Michigan who hangs out with
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: a guy who thinks that nine to eleven was a
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: good thing. And the mayor of New York hangs out
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: with the same GUYAPI or a guy who thinks that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: nine to eleven was We deserved it, And so we
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: do forget. And that's the whole thing, is that all
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: of our freedom, the fact that I get to talk
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: into a microphone for a living, is because of all
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: these brave men and a few women who gave their
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: life for this country. And we do forget all the time,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: all the time. And that's why I love that the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: lyrics are not subtle. They're on the nose, and it's
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: on purpose as necessary.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and make no mistake.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: When I wrote the line I won't forget the men
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: who died, it was about early military service. Women were
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: not in combat. I recognize many women have died in
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: the service of our country. People could hear the tongue
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: of my cheek. I'm not going to forget. And I've
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: answered that question more than once.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Really, oh oh, but it earlier. I'm making jokes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: But no, for a woman who have asked me, why
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: didn't you write the men were Well, it wasn't poetic,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: first of all. Yeah, and it was written about a
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: time when only men served in the military, So forgive
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: me for that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: And also the fact that it's not poetic is a
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: big deal because it's it is a song, it is
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: art and people had to flow. Yeah, I had to flow.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: And that's that's my writer as an artist.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And yes, absolutely, But these people that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Think America needs to be torn down and rebuilt, think
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: about the immigrants who have come here for so many
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: years and recognized they wanted to be as simulated. They
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: want to be part of what America is. So you
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: have to answer the question, what is America? America is
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: the last standing country for freedom. You want to tear
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: America down, We're going to be just like those people
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: in the Middle East or anywhere else who don't recognize
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: freedom or the rights of people.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Okay, so I tease before the break, I really
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: want to hear this. Give me a day in the life.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: When you're with President Trump, you've got a huge event.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: And this is big because the song is three and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a half minutes, but it's it's a whole day commitment.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's multiple day commitments because you've got to travel.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: So where are you based now? And give me I
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: want the whole arc from Trump, says Lee Lee. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: need you. We're hitting the road. We'll go. We're going
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: back to Butler, We're going to Pennsylvania and I got
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to be here with me and it's going to be unbelievable.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It's going to be unbelievable.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: We have a team that'll take care of that along
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: with the White House. And as you know, I'm appointed
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: now as a trustee to the Kennedy Center, so we
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: talk more than often. But for instance, America to fifty,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I had to be there three days prior to the performance.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I had other things I did also to acknowledge America's
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty years as a republic. But my
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: performance there with the President was anticipated to be this
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: huge moment and we had like sixty thousand people out
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: and we had an announcement I was going to make
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: announcing another artist was gonna be on before I actually sang,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and we had this wonderful orchestra with all branches of
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: the military, and the President had orchestrated this along with
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: the people in the White House that were going to
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: construct the entertainment for the evening. Then the lightning hit
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: and we had to disband the people. And I don't
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: know if you know that or not, but we were
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: very possible he wasn't going to be even appearing because
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: they cleared the crowd. So we were so questioned with
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Secret Service and said, well, the produce sure, the show
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: came said well we're done, everybody, We're not going to continue.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I said, just give it a minute, Let's see what
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: the President thinks. And within three minutes I get a
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: text from the White House the motor car and the
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: motor cad is on its way. The President is not
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: going to let the fireworks go without him speaking. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: so we assembled. Everybody rushed to get back into the
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: into the place and and uh and the conductor of
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: the van, David Hamilton, who is a pianopleer at my
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: church in Nashville, Brentwood Baptist.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Uh. He said, get ready, we're going to do this anyway.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: And I and I got my my my, I changed
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: my clothes in a tent where there were one hundred people.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I said, stop, I drop my doors.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: I said, I got to get dressed, and ran on stage,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: and sure enough, the downbeat came out and we sang,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: and the President acknowledged me, and we got great eye contact,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: and he would acknowledge things. It's like at the Kirk funeral,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: not the funeral, the tribute to him back in Phoenix,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: and and the producer of the show said, don't look
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: at the president. I said, that's not the way it's
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: going to go, you know. And I'm on stage singing
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: and I can see how perperipheral vision he's going to
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: walk on stage and we communicate that way. So I
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: backed up and I made sure I faced him, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: we gave a nice, big embrace because reverently, we were
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: saddened by his assassination. I wanted the nation to know that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: And so I'm proud to be part of that. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: when the President caused me to come, I will respond.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Immediately amazing, amazing. And by the way, the people just
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: tuning in, this is the iconically Greenwood on the air
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: with me today. Tell me about your interaction with the president.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I want the audience to hear what he's like from
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: your perspective in person.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I've been with him several times in mar Largo for dinner,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: just hanging out. He's very charming, he's disarming. He's a
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: big fellow. I mean, if he gives you a hug,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: you get a bear hug and jovial, sarcastic.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, And.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Although when he speaks to you or me, I don't believe, well,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: you're media, but some it's not media.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I think basically he just talks in normal terms.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: You know, he still does with me. He'll tell me
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: stories about you know, opera singers and other reality stars.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: And loves music. He's got a playlist let mar Largo.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I'm on it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So cool. I'm not surprised. No, but he really does
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: want to relate to people as normal people. But this
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: is where I find him to be pretty much the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: same guy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: You know what I loved about the God Bless the
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: USA Bible, for instance, he has his own version of
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: that God Bless You USA Bible dot com is in
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: plast you might find this Bible. It's a King James version.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: And when we talked about that, he went ahead and
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: told the nation with a video about a month after
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: we began putting this Bible on sale. And there's a
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: lot of Bibles on sale, you can buy one anywhere,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: but this God bless Husay Bible dot com. It became
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: very apparent that he told the nation and very blatant terms,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I am a Christian, I am God fearing, and I
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: love this country. And I think maybe that is inspiration
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: came just for the fact that we both had a
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: version of the God Bless they say Bible, which has
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Declaration Independence, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: the Pledge of Allegiance in it, by the way, So
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: it's kind of cool.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I like it because we need to commune with those
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: documents as well. So you're very busy to tell remind
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: me where to get the Bible, but also you're doing
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of other things to you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: You got gates, you got a bourbon get Oh my gosh, Yeah,
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Bibles and bourbon. What's wrong with that now? So God
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Bless you usay Bible dot com.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That's where you find that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: If you go to Soldier Valley Spirits dot com or
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Lee Greenwood Whiskey dot com, you're going to find the
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  Speaker 5: best bourbon that you've ever tasted. And a lot of
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  Speaker 5: our veterans love that. It was started by a veteran
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  Speaker 5: in Omaha, Nebraska, and we dedicate to many patriotic and.
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  Speaker 4: Charities.
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  Speaker 5: Folds of Honor, which is a scholarship program, wonderful program
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  Speaker 5: for veterans children. Tunnels to towers where whose son was
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  Speaker 5: So tunnels to towers and helping a hero, which is
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  Speaker 5: we built homes the voyeurs. But you can get this
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  Speaker 5: bourbon and it comes in a in a glass bottle
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  Speaker 5: that's representative of a canteen. The soldiers used to carry
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  Speaker 5: a metal a canteen for water. But it's clear. We
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  Speaker 5: got vodka, whiskey and bourbon.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I gotta try them. I gotta try them, Lee, will
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  Speaker 2: but first we got to save some babies here. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: Bag my luckies thus to be living here today because
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  Speaker 2: Then they can't take that away. And a cloud to.
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  Speaker 2: That is the iconic Lee Greenwood is in the studio
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  Speaker 2: I want to hang out with Lee because he's here
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: in studio, which is very fun. Songs so good. The
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: first time I heard it, I was probably seventeen or eighteen,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: so that's, you know, twenty two years ago. The song
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: had been around twenty years already, and it's got this
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: new life. Trump gave it this new life. It's the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It's an amazing arc for you. But tell me what
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you're doing now and update me on all the things
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that everyone needs to know where they need to go to.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: So I'm still a.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Truing artists I mentioned earlier than I'm you got dates
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: Rumble in the Redwoods tomorrow on the next day, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I have dates that I play all oady line, some
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: with the band, some solo performances. I have to keep singing.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, if I don't keep singing, I'll lose my voice.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: And I'm prideful about that. And when I have a
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: date coming up and I have him sang in a
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: week because we're on vacation in Florida or whatever, I
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: go down in the basement and I just scream and
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: sing for about an hour or two in order to
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  Speaker 5: keep the chops, you know, I mean that's important because
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I'm an artist and I'm a sax player and a
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  Speaker 5: piano player. You know, my background is all music, music, music,
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  Speaker 5: So I never want to pass. I think if I retire,
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  Speaker 5: I'll never sing again. I mean it's just like at
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  Speaker 5: that moment, I'm done, you know, And because the vocal
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  Speaker 5: chops will, I'll lose them.
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  Speaker 2: So what motivates you right now? What are you most
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  Speaker 2: excited to deal?
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  Speaker 5: I love what I do when I go on stage
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  Speaker 5: and I sing, not just God bless you say, I
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  Speaker 5: do a whole show. I'm going to do an hour
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  Speaker 5: show tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: I make people happy.
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  Speaker 5: I make people like engaged in my phone. I've always
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  Speaker 5: thought that I spent twenty years in Nevada learning my trade.
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  Speaker 5: I worked alongside Elvis in the same hotel, the Hilton Hotel,
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  Speaker 5: which is now the West Gate, and I had my
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  Speaker 5: own band called the Lee Greenwood Afair and we were
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: in the lounge. Bill Medley is a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 5: right Vegass.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: This is a massive hotel. Oh it is is just
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  Speaker 2: sitting there. These one of the biggest buildings that you'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: notice it now that we've mentioned it. We had fright
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  Speaker 2: off stripped by a block. Yeah, we had.
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  Speaker 5: Fifteen hundred seats in our lounge. Elvis had eight hundred seats.
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  Speaker 5: We had a bigger lounge than the main room.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: But in all of the places I performed, and I
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: also dealt cards in those casinos way. Yeah, the dealer
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: for five years at the Tropicana and the Mint Downtown
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  Speaker 5: dealt the graveyard shift, which is rather interesting. But I
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: never gave up my music. So I work round the clock.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's kind of a test of your fiber.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you can work round the clock for
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: a while.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get any hate? Oddly, No, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let me just say this. I have a social
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: media guy who cuts out anything that is really bad
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  Speaker 5: for me not to hear. I'm sure there's some that
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  Speaker 5: comes to me. My wife, Kim also does that. He
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: protects me from some of the bad stuff I'm really
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: affected with. Somebody would say you're a jerk. You know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: you're working with a president that I hate. I don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: want to hear that. I'm a very positive guy. I
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: try to keep on a positive track. I don't want
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: to be influenced emotionally and have to make that decision
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  Speaker 5: in my head. I don't want to hear that crap,
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: so I have people protect me from that. But I
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: think in live all I get is positive stuff. People
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: who walk up, just citizens who walk. Yesterday, when we
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: flew into to Lax, I had three people come up
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  Speaker 5: to me and asked for an autograph and a picture.
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  Speaker 5: One was a woman about forty years old I'd say
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  Speaker 5: thirty eight to forty, with a child and the child
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  Speaker 5: was like eight seven and just thrilled to meet the
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  Speaker 5: writer and the singer for God Bless You Usay. The
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  Speaker 5: second was a Chinese gentleman, Chinese American who took a
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  Speaker 5: picture with me and said.
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  Speaker 4: We love America.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like, oh my gosh, you know, and these
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  Speaker 5: are people that we don't ask for that kind of adoration.
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  Speaker 5: I don't need that, but it's just cool.
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  Speaker 2: It tease me up. A perfect last question, is the
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  Speaker 2: song more relevant now or forty years ago when it
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  Speaker 2: first came out.
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  Speaker 4: You'd have to live the forty years with me.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: It's apples and oranges because at the height of God
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  Speaker 5: Bless Usa, when I won Song of the Year in
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  Speaker 5: Nashville at the Country Music Association and all of the
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  Speaker 5: other artists of my era were singing the same song
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  Speaker 5: behind me. It was as powerful as ever get. And
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: then I sang for Reagan and he quoted my song
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  Speaker 5: at the nineteen eighty four convention. If tomorrow the things
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  Speaker 5: were gone on, work for all my life, if you remember,
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  Speaker 5: he quoted the entire chorus. It couldn't get bigger than that.
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  Speaker 5: And then after I toured with forty three and we
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  Speaker 5: went all across the nation. I did his last event
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  Speaker 5: in Vegas and it was as big as it's ever been.
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  Speaker 5: He was there for us at nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 4: And now President's an amazing run.
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  Speaker 2: We got to run though, look of anything. Lee Greenwood
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  Speaker 2: does find his dates. Guys, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: being here.
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  Speaker 5: Lee Greenwood dot com. You'll find it all Lee Greenwood
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  Speaker 5: dot com. So you, guys tomorrow the past eleven, serve
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  Speaker 5: the lord next to you when it been personell today
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  Speaker 5: to go down.
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  Speaker 2: I love this
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  Speaker 4: Dots