Try That in a Small Town Podcast
In 2023, Jason Aldean's groundbreaking song and video "Try That In A Small Town" resonated with a resurgence of conservative values in America. The writers of the song, Kurt, Neil, Tully, and Kelley, took the opportunity to launch the Try That In A Small Town Podcast. This platform allows them to reveal the true inspiration behind the song and discuss the importance of common-sense values. With a lineup of influential guests, the hosts will entertain you with the stories behind their music, while also addressing challenging topics affecting our communities and country.
Try That in a Small Town Podcast
DC Draino: From Hollywood to Hushed Hashtags :: Ep 48 Try That in a Small Town Podcast
When DC Draino (A.K.A. Rogan O'Handley) walked away from a prestigious Hollywood entertainment law career and a $500,000 salary offer, he wasn't just changing jobs – he was answering what he describes as a divine calling to join a battle for America's soul.
This captivating conversation reveals the extraordinary personal costs of standing up for conservative principles in hostile territory. As a successful attorney representing major entertainment clients, Rogan created an anonymous Instagram account called @DC_ Drano to express his political views while maintaining his professional facade. What began as a secret outlet transformed into a life-altering mission that led him to sell his California home, end relationships, and move across the country with no guarantee of success.
"I truly believe God is calling up the officers of his army to lead the troops into this biblical battle," Rogan explains, framing his dramatic life change as part of a larger spiritual purpose. His story resonates with anyone who's faced the difficult choice between comfortable conformity and speaking their truth.
The conversation takes fascinating turns as Rogan shares intimate details of dining with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, including Trump's special pretzel bread "with a layer of frosting" of salt, his role as DJ for the dining room, and how he introduces guests. Rogan also recounts his surreal experience being handed the Epstein files in the White House and meeting with officials in the current administration.
Beyond personal anecdotes, this episode explores significant cultural shifts like the surprising conservative tilt among younger generations and the judicial resistance facing the Trump administration. For anyone interested in the intersection of personal conviction, politics, and America's cultural evolution, this conversation offers extraordinary insights from someone who left everything behind to follow his principles.
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That's what a lot of these country artists need to realize. Like guys, if you actually have the courage to do this stuff, you'll rock it to the top. So take that one to the bank. That's what.
Speaker 2:John Rich has been saying forever when are the?
Speaker 1:conservative country people.
Speaker 4:I know John's doing a great job.
Speaker 2:I think I've heard that you've been to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner or something.
Speaker 1:I've had dinner with him twice during the primary. He's like you gotta try the pretzel bread. He's like get the pretzel bread right. And he, you know, in between he's on his ipad picking songs playing for the whole. Oh, he's playing dj, uh, dj right the whole mar-a-lago dining room and you have billionaires just eating. And then he'll be like listen to this part, listen.
Speaker 1:And he ranks it up and it's like Pavarotti belting out like the loudest part of the song and he's got it probably on 10. And it's like I posted a clip of that song on my page and it got over 300,000 likes. Go support this song. Everyone's coming after it. This is our anthem because when the night was darkest when Biden stole it I don't know where this is being aired, but that's true that song gave people hope.
Speaker 6:The Try that in a Small Town podcast begins now. Try that in a Small.
Speaker 2:Town. All right, y'all. Welcome back to another episode of the Try that in a Small Town podcast Coming to you from the Patriot Mobile Studios Honestly Got all of our friends here tonight Got K-Lo. It's fake. Oh wow, we're getting there already.
Speaker 3:We got.
Speaker 2:Thrash. We got TK and pretty awesome guest tonight. He is a former Hollywood attorney. He became one of the leading voices for Christian conservatives. What does he got About? 5 million followers or so. You might know him as Rogan O'Hanley, but we know him as DC Drano as well. Come on, drano, thank you. Thank you, which is leading? I think it's the leading question. Your mom probably calls you Rogan. Who calls you Drano? Who calls you Rogan? Where is that? Where is the line?
Speaker 1:Everyone except my parents.
Speaker 2:Really so everybody calls you Drano.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even my brother a little bit these days, only when talking about me in my work mode. But, yeah, my closest friends, they just call me Drano, now I like it. Yeah. No, it's an honor to be here, boys. It's crazy to even hear you say that I was a Hollywood entertainment attorney.
Speaker 4:It is very crazy. How did you West Coast coast?
Speaker 1:yeah, how did you? Well, I moved to the other west coast, so I'm on. I'm in tampa now yeah, thank god which I love. It's got the palm trees just like la, but without the wacko libs you know what? Happened is when trump got elected the first time, the first of three times. California lost its mind and I was an entertainment lawyer out there already. I was working on the biggest movie deals Harvey Weinstein movies oh don't worry, I was going to say.
Speaker 1:I wasn't his type, thankfully, and yeah, it was actually a really good life I watched a lot of entourage and college it was like that made it. I was like that's the dream, you know, and I was like I'm going to go out there and do that. So I did, and it was. It was pretty cool. But then, once the election started happening and everyone started to just look at me a little different, they're like hey, you're not really cheering for hillary like we all are, and I'm like I'm just neutral, you know you were the silent majority.
Speaker 1:I had a maga hat at my house, uh. But I kept it quiet because I was like you know, I've got a, I got student loans, you know I got a mortgage and eventually I just couldn't take it anymore and so I made dc drano like anonymously on Instagram, like a burner account or yeah, yeah, completely. I was like I need to get my voice out there and I recognize, especially being in LA, that memes are the most effective form of mass communication out there. Probably the only thing that beats that is country music. I'm not even just saying that, but like that is literally the soul of America. If you didn't have country music, people would kind of disperse right, it, it, it. Religion is number one. I would say country music is number two, amen. And then, uh, I would say number three is memes. And now the memes are so intertwined with country music. I mean that's a whole other topic, but but yeah, that's, that's uh, that's kind of how it all all began.
Speaker 2:Well, let's you know. I want to get back to that thing because that's super interesting. But since you brought up music, let's say that I know that you've been out to an Aldine show. We know you from there. Do you enjoy country music?
Speaker 1:I love country music. I listen to the saddest country songs every day. My ex-girlfriend would be like you sound so depressed with all the music you listen to.
Speaker 3:And I'm like this is real music.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's a few guys I love that are on the radio Al Dean's one of them but for the most part I like a lot of country music that doesn't make it to the radio. So I'm a big Steelwoods fan, big Aaron Lewis fan. So I you know Steel Drivers, rush Lowe.
Speaker 4:Okay, wow.
Speaker 9:He just threw a dagger right here, when you said you like a lot of music that didn't make it to radio. The first thing I thought of was Telly. I don't know why.
Speaker 8:We made it to the radio.
Speaker 2:We made it to the radio I'm just kidding with you and then right off, okay. So then the next obvious question is uh, you heard try that in a small town. Did you hear the song before the controversy sparked up, or did you only hear it when cmt did their I?
Speaker 1:posted a clip of that song on my page and it got over 300 000 likes and I put the link in my bio for people to go buy it and I was like go support this song. Everyone's coming after it. This is our anthem, because when the night was darkest when Biden stole it I don't know where this is being aired, but that's true, um and it's not going to be on YouTube anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm kidding, but by you know it was a very dark time and people were looking for hope, and that song gave people hope. It was like you know what People were looking for? Leadership, right. And not only did that song speak to what we were seeing, with our towns being burned down, with innocent people being attacked and with a bunch of good old boys looking around saying are we supposed to?
Speaker 1:we should be doing something right now right, Like what's going on, but but a lot of us couldn't do anything because it wasn't happening in our towns. It was happening in these big blue cities where the Soros DAs don't prosecute people, and so it was very frustrating because it's like should we, you know, roll into these towns? Should we, you know? But it but it. But it spoke to us and and there's so few people at that time that had the courage to to speak out against it. It's like oh you, you don't like BLM riots burning down neighborhoods, what are you a racist?
Speaker 1:It's like like no I am actually trying to help these neighborhoods by stopping these fires. And blm turned out to be a big scam. They were buying mansions in the whitest parts of southern california and even blm. People now don't even like blm. So you guys were right and you had the courage, you had the balls to do that and you inspired people and you literally helped save the country, because now look who's in power well, you know we talk about this a lot and I don't even know if how many people know this we've talked about before.
Speaker 8:But you know, writing the song, and when we sent it to aldine, you know he immediately like this is what, what we wanted, but to for aldine he he's the one, I mean everybody the label pushed back. They didn't want to do anything, they didn't want to put it out. No one wanted to put it out and it was Jason said no, I'm putting this out. So it's that kind of thing where he was that vehicle for the song, the voice and his fought, the industry, and it really spoke to everyone, like you said, but it was a hard thing for him to do.
Speaker 8:Well, and you know, Because, they're saying don't do this, Don't do this, this is going to sink. And he's saying I know my people.
Speaker 4:We almost didn't write the song. I mean it was like, yeah, because we thought nobody's gonna cut. When he, when he came in with with the title and the idea and I was like, well, that's fantastic, you know, we have to write it. And and it opened when it came out and the video did what it did, it made some other artists started, it started floodgates started opening a little bit, with people like aaron lewis coming out with am I the only one you know? And things like. Then people started getting a little bit um, feeling a little bit, you know like, yeah, screw it, I'm gonna start saying what I want to say and what needs to be said. I feel like it was our song was kind of at the forefront of that it really was.
Speaker 1:Courage is contagious and the butterfly effect of what that song did to help wake people up and and I give jason and britney especially, huge, huge props they have gone through hell, yeah, a hundred yeah, with no guarantee of redemption. And we didn't know Trump was going to win. We didn't even know if he was going to run again. And they stood up first for the children and then for the American people. And you know, jason, y'all, y'all can ride off into the sunset. You've done everything you need to do to help save this country. You've forever made a mark and the great thing is we can still listen to the song.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, it's funny, I, I, when people hear that song for the first time, that haven't heard it, which is a little crazy at this point. But, uh, I know people and I'll just like get in their car and they'll be playing it and I'll be. I'm like, yeah, you're about three years late, but that's good, you know it has staying power and it just it hits you, it's, it's, it hit the moment and I wish more artists had the courage. It's hard, man, it's, you know tully alluded to this.
Speaker 2:It's, you would think, country music. The business of country music would be a conservative business, but it is not complete opposite yeah, you know.
Speaker 8:So when jason puts it out, this town, this music industry, this machine is left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even though the demographic is you know very common sense demographic.
Speaker 8:They want to go listen to music, drink a beer, have a good time. The hard-working people, the labels, they don't. You know, jason fought literally. No one would do what he did, and even those who maybe want to now won't be allowed to do what they did what he did, you know. So it's, it's. I don't think people we've talked about before, but I don't think people realize, uh, that this is, this industry is the opposite, it's, it's left, it's tough, you know it's, it's the people that kind of pull the strings at the top.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of the artists, a lot of the inspiration for the music, but listen, I worked at one of the biggest entertainment law firms. We represented carrie underwood, who was amazing and conservative, uh. And then I remember I was talking with one of our Nashville partners and I did movies, but we worked closely with the music people too. And she's like, yeah, you got to hear this guy, he's coming up, he's like one of our new clients. We think he's, we think he's going to do all right. I'm like, oh, what's his name? They go Chris Stapleton.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll, oh, yeah, okay, I'll check them out and like, yeah, send me a song. Yeah, this is like 2015, 2014, but I get it. I get it. And these are the people that I was hiding from in terms of my political views and I, frankly, didn't have as much courage at that point to come fully out. I was posting these memes on Instagram anonymously and it started to grow. I got like 10,000 followers in the first month and I was like somebody said your first post went viral.
Speaker 2:It was that you that I heard say that.
Speaker 1:Twitter, but that was. That was a couple of years later. But Instagram, you know it's a grind. People ask me like what's the most viral thing you post? I'm like it's just like a little bit every day, you know.
Speaker 1:Um, and I uh ended up making a custom t-shirt that said Hollywood sucks and I would go out on the weekend to Hollywood Boulevard, to Trump star on the on the walk of fame, you know, and they'd be like there's going to be Antifa protests and all that. And so I'd be like you know what? I'm going down there and I'd wear a Hollywood sucks shirt and there'd be people getting like pepper sprayed. There'd be like pushing and shoving Cops come and arrest the Antifa guys, and you know I'd just stand there and then I'd see myself on video on like tucker carlson, right, because he'd be showing look what they're doing to trump's hollywood star. And then I walk in monday morning in like a suit in a hollywood law firm and I'm like I really hope no one watches tucker carlson because they would have seen me with a hollywood suck shirt so I was living a double life for a little bit and I was like this is not sustainable.
Speaker 1:Thankfully no one did watch tucker so it didn't get bad, and I'm sure they would have been like no, that's, there's no way that could be our guy like me, yeah, nobody hollywood.
Speaker 1:Lawyers were in hollywood, um. But what pissed me off is these award shows which ended up being political rallies for these guys. They go out there and they'd be like you guys driving your big diesel trucks you're ruining the environment and then they go fly on their private jets and in their yachts Don't get me started. You want to close border, you xenophobes. And then they go into their gated communities. So I was just and I grew up in a middle class. My dad's a fireman, my mom's a teacher both democrats.
Speaker 8:But we don't need to go there a different kind of democrat, maybe back in there.
Speaker 1:Actually, kennedy, that's true, yeah, so they're, it's it's if they were really, you know, with it. They be like Trump is kind of the same as Kennedy, but um, but yeah, so I, I just I had to kind of make a decision and I said you know what? I had visited Florida once for a friend's wedding. I was like dude, I think I'm just moving out here. He's like, ah, we don't really have like Hollywood movies stuff. I was like I think I'm going to do this Instagram thing, you know. That's so funny though.
Speaker 9:And it was like it was a little bit under, not not duress, but you had an amazing offer. Right before you were thinking about making that jump you know going to be, you know on social media and be an activist and everything, you got a $500,000 offer and partner within a year. That made you second guess for a minute, right, that's exactly right, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, um, once I put in my notice word spread, it's very small town. Once you're at a certain level and I people call me like hey, are you looking? You're like are you, you know, can't believe you're leaving this place, just chat about it. And one of them was a very big partner in the town, um, and she's like let's just grab lunch. And I was like all right. And she's like where are you going? I'm like I'm going to Florida and they're like Miami you're not old enough to go to Florida, uh, Tampa.
Speaker 1:They're like what? Like that is just crazy. It's crazy to go from California to Florida yeah, you know, liberal land to conservative land. And she was like how about this?
Speaker 1:500,000 bucks and we make you partner in a year, wow, and she had no idea about DC Drano. But I had been doing this six, seven years and I told her I was like let me think about it. And that was I was literally going to make no money, live off savings with absolutely no expectation of making any money, hoping I could or half a million dollars and be ari gold entourage. And um, I sold my town home, broke up with my liberal actress girlfriend, sold my bmw, bought a truck oh yeah, packed it up with whatever I could, left the rest and just drove across and and you are a country song I know yeah alder and
Speaker 1:didn't have a dog at that time, but um yeah, just he's literally gone country alan jackson it called me.
Speaker 2:Hey, before we get any further, let's, let's take. I know we have some fan questions and I don't want to step on any of their questions, so let's, let's listen to a couple of these, if you don't mind. Or you see what they got. I recognize his first name. You guys might too.
Speaker 5:Ed Frankovic from Maryland and yes, I know the swamp well, rogan, you were in California as an entertainment lawyer during the time. Robbie Starbuck, who's featured in episode 21, was a Hollywood producer. Did you two ever cross paths there? Do you communicate with him now on his efforts, given that both of you are strong influencers for the conservative movement?
Speaker 2:Ed's like our super fan.
Speaker 1:That's a good question Great question.
Speaker 1:Great question, ed. I did not know Robbie at the time when I left LA, when I put in my notice to quit. I had about 50,000 instagram followers. Um, and you know there, I don't even know if robbie was doing the activist stuff back then. He was like a hollywood director, I think. Yeah, um, and we do communicate. Now I've met him. He's awesome guy. I am very supportive of what he does with the dei exposure. Uh, anytime he has a new company he takes down, he sends it to me and I happily post about it he is a one-man wrecking ball it's actually extremely impressive.
Speaker 1:Just shows the power of of x too, I mean, but it shows the power of free speech. You know, that's why they censored us for so long the power of words. The pen is mightier than the sword, it really is. So, uh, robbie's doing incredible, incredible work. He's another one he could retire today and he's, he's done his part.
Speaker 2:You know, he was so great to us he came on as well. Um, speaking of censorship, did you ever get banned during that whole thing?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I got banned off Twitter. You did For saying a rigged election was rigged. Yeah, they gave me five strikes and then I got banned, but I was banned for two years. Elon brought me back Two years. Yeah, wow, yeah, two years. Elon brought me back two years. Yeah, wow, yeah, two years. Uh, right after Trump got pushed out yeah, that was basically when I got banned and, um, yeah, so I had about 350,000 followers at that point, so they shut me down. Elon brought me back. I'm now over 2 million on X uh causing back. I'm now over two million on x uh causing a ruckus. So continually saying the things I was saying, that got me banned exactly let's, let's hear one more.
Speaker 2:I definitely recognize that's me what's up guys and rogan? Hey, what's up rogan?
Speaker 3:what's up, boys?
Speaker 10:this is jason aldean and britney aldean. Right here we have a question for you, so we wanted to know what made you dedicate your life to politics, even though you were such an amazing attorney prior. For sure.
Speaker 10:And just kind of calling out all the bullshit stuff Like what made you kind of switch and go hey, that's what I want to do, that's what I really want to focus on. What was the thing? Man, we love you, glad you're on the podcast with the boys and I don't know, just firing you a question your way. Yeah, miss and love you guys. Wow.
Speaker 4:They took time from their.
Speaker 2:I had a double play we're recording on their anniversary night, so they took time during their anniversary to send in a question. They call you Rogan, by the way, Yep yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1:They know me pretty well at this point. Happy 10-year anniversary, Jason and Brittany.
Speaker 7:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:America's favorite couple, literally? You know, that's a great question and I think it's the same answer as a lot of people, including everyone at this table, including people like Candace Owens, charlie Kirk. I truly believe God is calling up the officers of his army to lead the troops into this biblical battle. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. I was sitting at work making a lot of money typing on a computer and I I almost like threw up. I was like I cannot do this anymore. I have to go do this other thing, which is crazy.
Speaker 1:I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, almost 10 years of my life, studying legal, doing all this and I just like I have to go post on the internet and support Trump and I don't care if I don't make any money, I don't care if I get attacked, I don't care what happens. This is the moment that people have to come up and I tell people. I was like I don't feel like I'm in control. I feel like I'm just kind of on a path that I was supposed to be on and I can talk to someone for just a couple minutes. Talking to you guys, I already know God calls you in your heart and there are moments you didn't know you were gonna do this in your life.
Speaker 1:No one told you. But you look at the first Revolutionary War, the Founding Fathers. No one told them either, but they recognized that moment and they put their ass on the line, they put their signature on that declaration of independence, knowing that if that didn't succeed they were dead. Yeah, and frankly, that's kind of what we were up against. If that song you know, you guys put that out there if trump didn't win, your careers were probably gone at a certain point. I mean it's.
Speaker 2:but you did it because you love america and you did it because you love her people, and it can only be god that gives us this courage and strength amen so that's why I love it was there an actual like breaking point when you were talking about like, oh, I got a post, or was it just a buildup of like having to keep quiet through that time?
Speaker 1:I distinctly remember the moment, december 28th 2016. I was sitting in a chair and it was a couple of days after Christmas and I just remember looking on Instagram and I was like I like these memes, you know, like these guys are kind of got uh, this is kind of a good. You know cause, cause memes. You followed the comedy meme accounts, right, and you know the fat Jewish and Daquan and you know, and you're like this is fun, like you know it's entertaining. And then I saw these like political accounts and I just wasan and you know, and you're like this is fun, like you know it's entertaining. And then I saw these like political accounts and I just was like you know what, I think they got something good, but like I think I could do it better. I don't know, you just gotta tweak a few words here and there, like I think you'd really take off. And so I it literally just popped in my head like I'm gonna make an account called dc drano.
Speaker 1:And the next day I started posting while I was at work, like on my lunch break. You know, undercover, undercover, anonymously, couldn't use my real name, Didn't have my real face, and I got 200 followers the first day and I came home and I was like jumping up and down. I was like to my liberal girlfriend, who hated it, and I was like I know, I'm onto something, yeah, you know. And and I was we were talking a little bit for the show like how do you know when you, you you nail a song, you, when you're writing a song, you know? Like I just knew, I was like I'm on to something here and she hated, she blocked me, she lived with me, your girlfriend, just just online, or she blocked you in all kinds of ways.
Speaker 4:Fully blocked. Fully blocked.
Speaker 6:We didn't last too long after that.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know she blocked me and it was after.
Speaker 8:Christmas, so you just paid for a gift, I'm sure. Oh yeah, terrible timing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's a nice girl. I hope she's doing all right. But yeah, she's doing all right, but uh, yeah she, she did not like it. I remember she came home one day and she goes and I had like two or 3000 followers at that point and she goes. All my friends hate you, by the way, and I'm like, really, I'm like all the people that we've hung out with for years that, like that, had no issues, had dinner parties, had no issues, but now I say, hey, I like the president, and they hate me.
Speaker 8:How dare you like the president?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how dare I like the guy that just got elected, but, honestly, it's a good thing. If you are in the wrong place, the universe, god, they will make it very clear that you are in the wrong place. You will get warning after warning after warning. Things will be brutal and when you're on the wrong place, you will get warning after warning after warning, things will be brutal and when you're on the right path, it will flow like water and there will be adversity, there will be challenges, but you will have things come into your life that save you at just the right moment.
Speaker 1:I have had this complete sense of calm about money or being okay. I just say I mean, it's in God's hands and anytime I need a deal will come through and it'll like give me a break. You know like it'll. It'll be what I need and you know, to be honest, at this point, making more money than I need to stay afloat. But for years it was, it was, it was difficult and I would just lay there sometimes, look at the ceiling, like what the hell am I doing? Like did I really just quit and sell everything and move to a new city where I barely know anyone to post memes on Instagram? Like as a 32 year old man with a law degree. I know right, law degree.
Speaker 4:I just turned down half a million dollars. With a law degree, I know right law degree.
Speaker 1:I just turned down half a million dollars in a partnership and I just was like I can't help it, I gotta keep going. I don't know, I just couldn't.
Speaker 9:It's psychotic crazy enough to work right yeah, but I just I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't care about money. I was like we gotta save this country. That's what's interesting to me, I think when. But I just I was like I don't care.
Speaker 8:I don't care about money. I was like we got to save this country. That's what's interesting to me, I think, when you meet people and some people have the ability to just accept the terrible norm and just let it beat them down and then people like yourself, it hits enough. It means enough to say you know what, this is bigger than me, and that that's that's what always inspires me and us is just people that, like an aldine who can say you know what this could hurt, people are saying it's going to kill my career, but it means enough where I need to do it, and that's what you did, which I think is is for people listening. I think that's what you did, which I think is for people listening. I think that makes a difference, you know 100%.
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Speaker 1:Like, this is who I am uh, yeah, once I left california, yeah, once I left my career, I I put my name out there because at the time I owned a house and, um, that's public record when your name's on there and I didn't know in advance I was gonna be doing this or put in a trust or whatever. And I had a friend that left a Trump rally in the LA area, got stabbed nine times and he almost died. And ever since that night that was like early days, drano and I've, you know, slept with a gun nearby ever since. And it's, it's just that's. That's kind of part of the risk you take. And now we're seeing a bunch of MAGA voices are getting swatted. It's unbelievable. You know that's attempted murder, yeah, yeah, um, and I had to talk with my family say, hey, cops, show up, play it cool. You know it's the cops, it's not someone else with a bunch. You know, because, like, they're going after their families too. So, I mean, and trump got shot in the ear and almost in the head.
Speaker 8:We're an inch away from a completely different historic path just a turn, just a random turn of the head and time out of the head one inch one inch, and he don't even try and convince me.
Speaker 1:He's not, you know, blessed by god. I mean it's, it's, it's. We watched. That's when I knew we were gonna win. God wants to save this country, that's right we were watching that live.
Speaker 2:We were on the road. We're about to yeah, we're about to go do this vip thing where we play acoustic for 15 minutes and fox was on, so we're watching the rally, saw it live go down and unbelievable. Which reminds me. I saw one of your tweets and this is interesting to me. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes people you have to go. Hmm, you tweeted, I should bring it up, but it's something like in five years, cnn has never shown a live president. I saw that, yeah, and then you can do.
Speaker 1:Ask Grok the AI. Yeah, and I said, yeah, that was the only one they showed live, Like most of it showed it live and they use high def cameras. And CNN says, well, because we were thinking he was going to potentially announce his vice presidential pick, and I'm like he makes big announcements every other speech yeah, what are you talking about? You know?
Speaker 1:uh, cnn was also there when roger stone was arrested early morning raid by the fbi if you think that the inner workings of our government is not communicating with these media outlets to coordinate things, then you don't know what's going on. Um, so the question is, what did they know? And I said subpoena their records, right, because we know almost nothing about this shooter. They didn't even they went to his house. The silver was gone, what? And then the parents. They come from a very middle class background. They have the most high-pric, priced attorneys in Pennsylvania. Trump even calls it out. He's going how do they have these? You know $1,000 an hour attorneys and they're just regular, you know. So we still don't have a lot of answers. And he had foreign messaging apps on his phone, right, right, how the hell did he get up on that roof with the gun? People are yelling. He's got a gun, the cops didn't do anything. I mean, it reeks and yelling. He's got a gun.
Speaker 1:And secret service still lets Trump come out on stage, right, one thing after. And then you look at half the secret service agents protecting them. There are five foot five women ducking. Five foot five women ducking right. Five foot five and ducking. You know it, it just it just reeks of. And then, oh, we didn't have enough secret service assets. But they got 16, 12, 12 secret service agents protecting hunter biden over in south africa on vacation and his sister.
Speaker 1:You know, trump just cut, canceled that. So everything reeks, everything reeks and but we have the dream team. We got cash patel in, I would love cash. We got dan bongino in right, uh, pam bonnie, I know, is doing a good job. I know people are frustrated. It takes time to to clean out the rot and to build airtight and uh, uh prosecutions, because the people that she's going to be going after are the most powerful people in the country and they do pay for those thousand dollar an hour attorneys. So, uh, I would say I just read an article today. You know, I don't know. Know the Epstein files, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was getting ready to ask. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I was getting ready to ask.
Speaker 9:What's your first try?
Speaker 4:Anything you can share.
Speaker 8:Do you have it with you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't bring it because unfortunately there was nothing good in there, uh, which we didn't know at the time. So, yes, the epstein files. I was there for that. Uh, we'll call it a debacle.
Speaker 4:When you say nothing, good, what do you mean?
Speaker 1:nothing there was. There was no list of you know clients per se. They had the flight logs. It was stuff that had been out over 10, 15 years, right, which I had it for less than an hour and didn't even, you know, wasn't able to like, assess and go through 300 pages cross-reference with everything over the last 12 years. But, uh, I was handed that binder by the attorney general of the united states, with the fbi director sitting across from me, after I just met with president Trump in the oval office. I was shaking, I was like giddy uh, not giddy, I was, I was, I was, I was literally lightheaded, cause we were there to meet with vice president JD Vance, and we did, and and there was 10 of us there, it was like, uh, jack Posobiec, libs of TikTok, mike Cernovich, some big influencer types, and JD Vance came in. We met with Caroline Leavitt, who's doing a great job.
Speaker 1:Jd Vance is the man by the way he would be even more down to earth than me. Like he's, he's a. He's a good old boy from Ohio.
Speaker 2:He was supposed to come to a show and of course this was during the when they were doing rallies and he couldn't.
Speaker 8:But everything I've heard is he's awesome even since his first book came out years ago. Like I, was a fan of his.
Speaker 1:It was amazing. He's as real as it gets. And the one thing I really he's brilliant he's super down to earth is he is curious. He's intellectually curious because you remember, back in like 2016, he was not a big trump guy and part of a lot of people were hesitant. They're like this guy wasn't. He's all trump, he's all maga and he's constantly like learning and like he's like Trump. He's all MAGA and he's constantly like learning and like he's like yes, yes, actually. So there's. I really liked that. No, we don't need to be perfect, but you know, as long as you're on the right path, so he's. He's amazing.
Speaker 1:They brought in Marco Rubio, secretary of state. We're sitting in the Roosevelt office, right and it's just, and they never told us who was even coming. Opens the door. Trump walks in. Hey, everybody, how you doing? We're like yes, sir, standing up. I'm just trying to not like you know, mess up. He's like why don't you guys come into the oval office? I gotta take a call. Secretary general of nato. But after that, come on in, you guys bring him in yes sir.
Speaker 1:Yes sir, we'll bring a diet coke okay, yeah, literally um, and, and there's just something about talking with the president in the white house. It's, it's just no, it's historic, uh, and I'm sure you guys have met trump at this point. It's, he's as the same on TV as he is in person.
Speaker 2:We say that all the time. It's like people ask what's Trump like? He's exactly what you think he is. He's exactly.
Speaker 1:He's such a good guy, so down to earth, crazy that he's a billionaire. But he's as if he's like shoveled dirt growing up. But there's just something about being in that White House and I had never personally been in the oval office before. I've been to the white house a few times, never been there. So we go in there, you know, we meet with him, take a picture behind the resolute desk. I mean it's, it's everything is. It's. In that room was almost his entire cabinet cia director, nsa mike waltz, k Kash Patel, pam Bondi, all these people right. And then we go back in the room and you know Pam and Kash came in and they come in with a box full of binders. She goes we have a surprise for you guys and she pulls out these and says Epstein files. And I'm like huh.
Speaker 9:What Party favors?
Speaker 1:10 minutes away from that part, Hands them out and I'm just like, I just want to be like yeah right, no kidding. But they're talking, and then RFK Jr comes in oh man, marco Rubio. And then they let us. They're like, all right, we're going to leave. And I'm like, oh, thank God, like I really want to. And as we walk out the door, 50 reporters right there, cameras like, lined up like the Revolutionary War soldiers.
Speaker 1:Like three rows and it's just like click, click, click, click and they, they saw everything right and I was just like yeah this is what's coming out because pam bonnie had said the night before and jesse waters were releasing the epstein file smile, I can't believe what we got on my desk and I'm like here it is Ended up going a little bit viral and then one time he didn't want it to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I I do try to keep a lower profile, to be honest. And and what we underestimated was how it appeared to other people. And what it appeared to other people is that we were given early access to this. We were the one we coordinated this weeks in advance, all this stuff. No, this was a complete surprise. And what was public information? Is that the information was going to be released. At noon it was already like 1215. At that point I thought it was already out. I was like, yeah, we got a, we got a printed copy of what everyone already is seeing, um and and so you know. And then it turns out there is a bunch of documents hidden in the New York office and she sent a letter saying and then they came the next day at 8 am in a big truck. So it's just kind of, and they're still investigating at this point. I read an article today said they have close to a thousand fbi agents going through all the f the epstein documents right now to figure out, like, what's going to be released.
Speaker 1:And you know, I, I, I mean, I don't know why they don't just release it all but um. But I do think you know this administration is moving at lightning speed. They know they got four years and counting right and mistakes are going to be made. Things are gonna get. They're not going to go as exactly as planned, so I still give them a lot of credit. I think they're doing a phenomenal job. If I have to take a little heat in the short term to help be transparent against the most evil, powerful sex trafficking client lists ever, that's fine. It's messy. The deep state is going to come after anyone trying to take it down. So that's just part of the part of the game wow, um, we didn't get our, our copy.
Speaker 9:No, I didn't get my vendor I think did that come in? But we don't go to the po box every day.
Speaker 2:They get lost with some merch I know, I think it's it's fascinating to me that, like your job I mean, this is how you make money is to post and do all this, right it's, do you? Don't get sundays off? You don't get christmas off? You don't take a vacation this year, every day, right? Do you ever take a mental health?
Speaker 1:break. Honestly, I say I tell people work is my vacation and vacation is my work. Um, I just I don't know if anyone watches this has a belgian malinois. It's a working dog. It's gotta work, otherwise it'll just tear stuff up. I need to be working and it's a little bit of a personality flaw, probably. You know I don't spend as much time on, you know, smelling the roses, and I can always spend more time with family. I love my family and my friends, but I just am built to do this, so is it literally like you're.
Speaker 2:It's every day right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean that's what you got. My employee over here, my amazing operations manager, I mean, yeah, it's seven days a a week, but it's just what I want to do. Yeah, and I mean we kind of all do it anyway. Right, like, yeah, name a day that you're not on your phone. Yeah, right, you know, I mean maybe you do maybe you guys are good about that.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, I don't it?
Speaker 1:uh, I've noticed I get the same amount of likes on saturday and sunday as I do monday through fr. Monday through Friday. People are on their phones. It's a little less urgent now that we got Trump in, we got the House, we got the Senate. We still got a lot of work to do, but I felt like I kind of had to help save the country, otherwise I was going to end up in the gulag.
Speaker 8:There is one thing I miss about Biden. I really miss the clips of him trying to run in those special shoes. I want a pair of those shoes, man. I miss that about Biden. I miss him trying to run and move quick.
Speaker 4:I know I started feeling guilty, though I really did you did yeah, no you don't feel guilty, I went from laughing at him to like I really feel sorry for the guy now, and then I felt bad about making fun of him. I'm like that's going to be me one day. I can't do that.
Speaker 9:It'll be all of us one day. If we live that long, that'll be all of us, I know.
Speaker 4:But it was really pathetic. I just hope the libs keep talking.
Speaker 2:I hope they keep behaving the way they keep behaving, because we're just going to maintain power as long as they keep showing their ass like they do. Neil, it's so funny you say that, because it felt like there was a week, maybe a week after the election, where there was some self-reflection, like, oh, maybe we shouldn't have been preaching these points. But then they just went back to their old ways and I keep saying the same thing Are they really this dumb? Are they really going to hammer? They really?
Speaker 4:gonna, I don't hammer these 20 80 issues I don't know, we would be out of a job if they all turned. I mean we would so boring?
Speaker 1:yeah, I mean it's, it's uh, I think if you're really paying attention, you know that these 2080 issues are not organic and I truly believe that this is a battle of good versus evil and god versus satan, to be honest, and everything that they're pushing. If you look at it, it's the opposite of what god wants for us and what's in the Bible. And God wants families, he wants a mother and a father, he wants boys and girls. That there's, you know, it's written in the Bible. There's two genders. I mean it's um, wow, you just really upset them. Yeah.
Speaker 8:I don't know. That's definitely not going to make it.
Speaker 1:All it does is boost my revenue.
Speaker 6:And your guys too, yeah, right.
Speaker 1:That's what a lot of these country artists need to realize. Like guys, if you actually have the courage to do this stuff, you'll rock it to the top.
Speaker 2:So take that one to the bank. That's what John Rich has been saying forever. Where are the conservative country people? John's doing a great job.
Speaker 1:God bless him.
Speaker 9:That song Revelation so good.
Speaker 1:I helped him. He asked me to help release it. You know Just kind of retweet it a little bit. I love it, the video it's so good, but that's what's going on.
Speaker 4:He's got a new one, but we can't say what it is oh really. Oh yeah, it's probably going to be his best.
Speaker 2:Let's pivot. We got one last question here, oh, he changed his subject real quick, didn't he? We got one last question. Let's see what it is.
Speaker 7:Hi, my question's about all of the district judges trying to place these injunctions, judge Boasberg, among many others. Trump admin is obviously going to face a lot of this over the course of his administration and, although it's great that they've come prepared yes, stephen Miller is my spirit animal but what's it going to actually take to put an end to all of these radical left justices exerting power that they simply don't have? Also, I'm from Minnesota, a state that used to be great, now ruined.
Speaker 4:Do we?
Speaker 7:have a chance of getting back to normalcy, or is it time to just move to Florida? What part of Florida do you recommend?
Speaker 2:Thanks, you notice we have a lot of Minnesota followers Because they're sad.
Speaker 8:They're living in hell. They're sad. Waltz is up there. It's so depressing.
Speaker 2:He's the worst it is how do you live there? That's my question. Minnesota what do you think about the question there?
Speaker 1:Well, I'll take it in reverse order. Anywhere in Florida is a good place to live, except maybe Miami.
Speaker 2:I was going to say maybe not Miami.
Speaker 1:The great part about Miami is how close it is to America. So it's just a short drive.
Speaker 3:That's amazing. It's just a short drive so you can get to where you need to go.
Speaker 1:That's no border patrol. Um, so, uh, the judges. That is the the billion dollar question. So right now, what we are experiencing is a judicial coup and what these judges do. You would need five Supreme Court justices to create a national injunction, and these federal district court judges, who control just a little area, are able to do a national injunction against the president. Obama had, on average, one to two per year of his entire eight years. Bush had less than one on average per year national injunction. Biden had about two per year. Right, he was forcing vaccines into people's arms. He was forcing masks on planes. He was forcing soldiers to get them. He was forcing firemen planes. He was forcing soldiers to get them. He was forcing firemen, nurses, employers all that and barely any national injunctions. Trump is just like, hey, we shouldn't send billions of dollars overseas to these random NGOs. And the judge is like, nope, national injunction, send 2 billion now. Oh, by the way, I was born in canada, deal with it, you know? Um? And then judge boesberg, oh wait, you're sending these ms-13 and trenda ragua cartel guys back to where they came from. Uh, no, bring them. Bring them back to america, like crazy trump has had in his four years and two months, over 80 national injunctions, on average 20 per year.
Speaker 1:An absolute abuse of power, effectively a judicial coup. What do we do? First off, we try and impeach these bastards. We know who they are and what they're actually doing. They're Marxist activists in black robes.
Speaker 1:Second, judicial reform. We try and pass laws to say you cannot make a national injunction as a single district court judge. You can only make a ruling that affects the people involved, right? So instead of yes, we may have those Trenda Ragwa guys, okay, you can't send those particular people, but you can send all these other ones, right? That's kind of the reform they'd be looking for. Or a three-judge panel to make those rules, not just a single random Obama judge. And then the third thing and I actually tweeted this the other day is stop announcing everything we're doing publicly. Just do it. Then announce it three, four days later, because all these judges can do is stop you. They can't make you go and rebuild what you broke, and we're trying to dismantle this corrupt government. So let's just do it, because with these Trend Aragua guys, the reason why it was actually successful is because they didn't announce it.
Speaker 3:They sent them and then by the time people found out and then you have to write a brief and send it to the court exactly it takes.
Speaker 1:It takes some time you got to write, especially if you do it on a friday or saturday night. Guess what, right you know? So, oh, sorry, they're already in el salvador next. You know I sent that tweet and they already did that, right. But I was like, hey, even with these executives, oh, you want to abolish it, a part of education, start abolishing it and then do the executive order and the signing and the da da da. And I said I literally sent that to trump's people and one of the responses was I'm not against this, so we have to adjust our tactics. These guys are battling us. Let's adjust our tactics. You know it's like Braveheart right, when you're kind of like outgunned and outmanned. You know they lure them in on the horse and they lift up the giant spikes.
Speaker 1:You know it's like you got to play a little dirtier, but within the bounds of the Constitution.
Speaker 9:You're way smarter than we are by the way, yeah, yeah, you're the coolest lawyer I know. That was before he got here.
Speaker 4:That was, I think I think judge drano has a ring to it.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's actually pretty good, judge drano I like that right I don't know, so don't drink as many margaritas.
Speaker 9:I want to ask you actually my wife wanted to ask you. This huge fan of yours. She was curious about the difference between X and truth social. Now that Trump's in and everything, is there a big difference between X and truth now?
Speaker 1:I think it helps boost Trump's poll numbers that he's not on Twitter as much and fire and tweets at Rosie O'Donnell and you know, like, yeah, like I. I think that has been a big boost in a way, like he's got a lot more kind of discipline than before. Right, you'd wake up and be like you know she was bleeding from everywhere and you're just like, ah no, that's tough.
Speaker 9:That's really funny and true.
Speaker 1:And now you get these press releases on his true social and then they make their way to twitter and trump's polls are the highest they've ever been right like he's.
Speaker 1:He's doing great and I think he just he just really has a grip on the controls right like. He knows everything about being president. He knows all the players, he knows what to say, what to do, he's an absolute 10 out of 10 this time around and he's the most aggressive he's ever been. I mean, we're really blessed. So both of them have pure free speech. X is just the biggest digital platform in the world, but Truth Social is great. Everything I post on truth social is great. Everything I post on x. I pretty much always post on truth and very high engagement there cool you were talking about.
Speaker 2:You know, of course, being in the oval office with trump, but have you, have you had any like time with him? That isn't that like. I think I'd heard that you've been to mar-a-lago for a dinner or something when you get him like off time. Can you talk to that a little?
Speaker 1:bit. Yeah, I'm uh feel extremely fortunate. I've had dinner with him twice, uh, during the primary, when he was running, you know, against desantis best governor in the country, and um, but I support trump in the primary and uh, he brought me to dinner anyway, great, that's fine, I was gonna support you but sure, um, so a couple funny stories. But, like he said, I mean he's as he is on tv. If anything, he's almost even better because he's.
Speaker 2:He's such a gentleman.
Speaker 1:He's super engaging, he's funny, he's actually inquisitive, he asks a lot of questions, but if you, if you're with a attractive girl, oh, she, she's gonna get the compliment first. But like they eat it up, they girls love him, like he's, he's the lovable grandpa, you know, uh, but a couple funny stories. So, um, when we he's like you gotta try the pretzel bread, okay, he's like, get the pretzel bread right. And he, you know, in between he's on his ipad picking songs playing for the whole. Oh, he's playing dj uh dj right, yeah, the whole mar-a-lago dining room and you have billionaires just eating.
Speaker 1:and then he'll be like, listen to this part, listen and, and he cranks it up and it's like Pavarotti belting out the loudest part of the song and he's got it probably on 10, and it's like and then it ends and everyone just starts clapping. Sir, mr President, that was amazing.
Speaker 9:Good call, mr President, great performance, good call, good call.
Speaker 1:But anyway. So he's like, wasn't that good call, mr, great performance, good call, good call um. But anyway. So he's like you gotta try the pretzel bread. I'm like, okay, I'll have the pretzel bread please. And and they bring it and it's, you know, it's a you know bread stick, right, it's got the uh, salt on top the crystals right.
Speaker 2:Is there a dipping sauce?
Speaker 1:or no, there probably was, I don't remember. I honestly you're you. It's a little nerve wracking.
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he gets his, and he gets a very special pretzel bread. It looks like it's frosted. Hold on, it's different, so much salt.
Speaker 8:This is my favorite part we've ever had on the podcast. It's his own, his own special pretzel bread.
Speaker 2:Very special pretzel bread he recommends a pretzel bread, but his is different.
Speaker 1:It looks like a layer of frosting on top. Is it more salt? It's got so much salt on it More salt. And he goes. My doctor says I'm healthy as a horse. I need more salt than normal.
Speaker 6:Of course, that's what he says.
Speaker 1:And I was like unreal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great it is really good pretzel bread, and so you're having dinner and he'll just for three hours. He's just asking me questions about policies, politics, people, everything. And, um, you know, we didn't agree on everything. I I tried to advocate what I thought was what his voters wanted, you know. And he's, he's busy, he's doing stuff. I was like, hey, this is what I'm thinking. I'm not saying I'm right, but I remember one. You know I slipped in a couple of things that I was like you know, let's just see what happens. And he we're talking about, uh, the Ukraine war, and he's obviously, you know, doesn't want that war to keep continuing. And I was like, you know, I think we should pull out of NATO. You know, he's like I like NATO. And I was like, all right, all right, just, throwing it out there.
Speaker 9:Just pull out of that 60-year tree like yeah, let's just see what happens um and uh what was the?
Speaker 4:story he needs to ask a bunch of songwriters what do you think about that?
Speaker 1:he's genuinely curious he's constantly like what do you think about this? How, how's truth doing? How's truth is truth, good, truth, good, yeah, he's, he's, he's, he's very intellectually curious. And then I remember at one point it was like midnight and all the people oh, actually, so people come up to the table, right, so you're at the only table with the stanchions around it, right, and the secret service and, but, like, the owner of, like Marvel comics will come over. You know, 85 years old, hey, bob, bob, everyone say hello to Bob. He invented Marvel comic. Billionaire, great guy. Comment billionaire, great guy, great guy. And he goes see this guy, he's an influencer. He's just pointing at me and I'm like, yeah, I tweet like, and bob's like oh yeah, nice to meet you. You know every person I came to see, he's an influencer, it's just it's very innocent in a way like, yeah, he's just you know, um, and then it's, it's midnight, everyone's gone home, it's empty.
Speaker 1:The secret service agents are yawning. They're great guys, but they're you know. And then trump looks around and he's like, yeah, I guess we should go to bed, and we're like and and I was like, oh, thank God.
Speaker 7:I'm so tired.
Speaker 1:It's tough to keep up with him and he just gets up, poof, goes away and he probably wakes up in four hours and goes golfing and runs the world the next day. So I mean the guy and this is at 77, 78, sharp as a tack he's got four indictments, he's got the fbi right in his house and he's in the best mood ever. It's. He's off the charts in terms of how he's built, built different. We're so lucky to have him for sure. Big part of why they hate him too. Yeah, because they're all fat, lazy idiots. And there you go. Well, biden was sharp as a tack.
Speaker 1:Well, right, he was with it. As Trump says, I went to one of the best schools. I'm actually really smart, he is, though, but he's like it's clearly results are in the. Did you eat Baron while you were there? No, I have not met Baron. I had a reporter call me a couple of weeks ago. Be like hey, someone said you knew Baron and Baron. Uh, I had a reporter call me a couple of weeks ago and be like hey, someone said you knew Baron, and I'm like I don't know Baron. He's a teenager. Like yeah, it's not really. I was like I think he's doing a great job. He advises dad brilliantly. Put him on these huge podcasts in the election, right, uh, but Trump talks about him. He only talked about like once and he talks he's just like a regular dad. He's like oh yeah, barron's up at his room playing video games Like he doesn't want to come down. You know, I was like all right, it's fine, barron's out dunking the basketball. He's dropping it.
Speaker 8:He's so tall, what did he?
Speaker 2:get. What did they?
Speaker 8:I mean he just sprouted. I love the pictures he's bare and just looming in the background, five feet taller than everybody else.
Speaker 2:And then they made those fake videos where he's like 20 feet tall and he just keeps getting bigger.
Speaker 1:What did?
Speaker 8:he whisper in Biden's ear.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but that was badass, it was like gangster stuff.
Speaker 4:Nobody ever said what he said. Whatever it was, it was my favorite video I've seen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was mafia-esque, it was Biden was like Biden had a shimmy here. Yeah, look at the old shimmy. Biden thought he was about to get a good sniff in.
Speaker 9:And his mood changed.
Speaker 4:That's probably what he said Baron, you're not sniffing, he's got to sniff up for.
Speaker 2:Baron, though he was gearing up for it, and then Baron's like you were mentioning, like you know, the podcast and stuff he was recommending for Trump. Do you think? I mean, I'm sure you do, you're biased, I'm sure, on this opinion, but he, you know, he's had such a huge favorability rating, and especially with the younger audience, and he took that route right and you got people like doing the podcast. You got theo von, you have joe rogan, you got, you know, charlie kirk, who we've talked about earlier, going around to colleges, you yourself and people doing all the influencing you.
Speaker 1:I feel like that had the major effect on the election I think there's a paradigm shift in this country that people are only starting to realize, and the data just came out, I think yesterday, that showed men in their 20s are more conservative than white men in their 70s, which has never been the case, right, it's always been the older you get, the more conservative. And the young kids are the hippies and the whatever there is a like, and it's white men. It's not women yet, but Gen Z is the most conservative generation of our lifetimes and I think it's because they grew up purely on the internet. And the internet, as censored as it is, you're still free to pursue whatever topics you want, to go down right, and when you've got Theo Vaughn, joe Rogan, charlie Kirk and so many others, the Nelk boys, aiden Ross, you've got these, even if they're censoring themselves, they're still right of center, whereas people like us, we grew up with whatever came on the TV is what we ingested.
Speaker 1:You know it was MTV, it was what was in the movies, it was what was in magazines, and so they kind of have a true, like free approach to what they're going to ingest. And men are naturally drawn to facts and logic and, and I think that's just, uh, what's what's happening and and I'm very optimistic about it, to be honest, and I hope these guys become the next round of influencers right, like I'm a boomer compared to these guys. You know, I'm in my late 30s, so it's very fascinating and it's happening in real time. We're all kind of learning about it.
Speaker 8:We talked about it a little bit last year, touring before the election all last summer and even on our on our scale with with the song right in a small town, like. So we started the tour and from show one, we're like, did you notice all the young guys out there, like we've been out a long time, over 20 years, like in the crowds were young and we played try that in a small town and it went crazy and we're like, wow, this market's really good for this song Every night and so we talked about it. There's something going on, even on our little sample size, that we see every night. So it was interesting. The patriotism. It was like this is interesting Young guys, young girls too. But it was was young and they were there to hear that song aldine is like traverses across all age groups.
Speaker 1:I mean, his stuff is.
Speaker 8:He's still just literally one of the hottest country singers like it's, but from year to year it was a, it was a difference, it was like a like from I think three years ago.
Speaker 4:looking, though huh, he's not the ago. I think Luke Bryan's better. Looking, though Huh, he's not the hottest. Luke Bryan's better looking, I don't know.
Speaker 8:Your phone's about to ring, bro. That was a joke, boss.
Speaker 4:Joke boss.
Speaker 9:So did Trump give you his new watches or his gold sneakers that he's been advertising since before the election and did that make you nervous, when he advertised that on tv and radio before the election like please, god, stop selling sneakers.
Speaker 1:You know we want you to be president it's interesting because sometimes people give me uh crap for posting ads on my page, which you know. It's how we make money and I say the only difference between me and fox news and newsmax is that my ads have a comment section, which is not ideal for me, but you know we got to do them every now and then. But, um, and sometimes I'm like guys trump is selling sneakers, like you know, like in meme coins, like come on, I'm telling you, pocket knives, like relax it's fine, just thumb scroll a little bit past it and the pain is over.
Speaker 1:But no, trump did not. Well, he, actually he does. Every time you meet with Trump, he will give you a gift. Like, anytime you are in his presence, he will like give you a gift. He signed his picture book that has all the letters from all these famous celebrities that loved him before he ran for president letters from oprah, letters from, like, rosie o'donnell, you know not, before they got into their fights. Um, like you know. Uh, other, you know, presidents from reagan, like I mean, it's a really cool book. Yeah, like, who do you want this made out to Like, and he's like get some hats, get some hats. He's like, which hat do you want, you know? And I'll be like save America. He's like, all right, signed hat, you know. And then, when we were in the oval office, I didn't bring it with me, but he has these challenge coins. You know the challenge coins like the veterans hand them out mostly.
Speaker 1:And he has the biggest challenge coin. It's literally the size of that button and it's heavy. It weighs like three pounds. It's like a weight that you put on the you know the bar and uh, it's, it's like the biggest challenge coin you'll ever. You, and if you come into the Oval Office you meet here you go. Here's a coin. He's always given gifts in merch.
Speaker 8:He's a constant salesman, he's got the best merch. I like that. Watch commercial Trump time. It's Trump time.
Speaker 9:It's Trump time. It looks good on your wrist.
Speaker 2:We can't thank you enough for coming to Nashvilleashville. By the way, when are you going to get a place in?
Speaker 1:nashville, man, as soon as I can. You like it here, right, I love it. I, I absolutely love it. There's only I was telling uh, someone earlier there's only two places that I, uh, my soul wants to live, and it's Tampa and Nashville. I love Florida, it's it's, it's my home, but Nashville is, or at least outside of Nashville, yeah, yeah, you don't want to go to Davidson County, I don't think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no. Well, you might visit the Honky Tonks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, we have bigger deer in Nashville than you do in Tampa too.
Speaker 1:Oh way, bigger yeah we have dogs with antlers down there. I like hunting the pigs more than the deer down there, um. So yeah, I love it and there's it. It feels like florida and tennessee have a connection in so many ways. They're both very freedom oriented States, no state income tax. But yeah, I noticed when DeSantis would do something in COVID, governor Lee was right behind them and it was. They were like the bash brothers. So I just love Tennessee. It's, it's, it's, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:Tennessee loves you. Thank you, Listen, this is. There was a lot of things that you could have done tonight, and I'm sure this was low on your list, but we are very appreciative of you. Seriously, it's been incredible for us. Hey, if you're watching on YouTube, leave us some good comments, right? Give us that five-star review.
Speaker 4:We've got to wish our business associate Wade a happy birthday. Oh say Wade's birthday. I don't use the word partner, so I have to say business associate.
Speaker 8:Hey, and we're coming to Tampa. Oh yeah, we'll be playing Tampa this year.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah.
Speaker 8:Are we finishing the tour there last weekend? That's actually right. Yeah, really Finishing the tour. It's like the last three shows in.
Speaker 1:October.
Speaker 6:I think, Well.
Speaker 1:I guarantee it's going to be sold out. Yeah, I'll be there, I'll be there. Florida loves country music yeah.
Speaker 2:Florida's been good to us Absolutely. Like I said, we're thankful for you, we're thankful for everybody for watching, listening, downloading, doing all that stuff from the Patriot Mobile Studios.
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