The Write Path #44 - Faith-Driven Candidate and Multi-Talented Author, Gary Barve!!!

Worldwide Successful Musician With 50 Million Listeners & 18,000 Radio Station Song Spins In Previous 13 Weeks In The United States Of America And Across The World Based On Official Industry Standard Digital Radio Tracker Reports  Hollywood Actor Having Written The Crux Of The Script For My Hollywood Movie GOD Myself And In The Process Of Recording The Movie Trailer For My Hollywood Movie GOD.  Published Worldwide Author Of My Book One Nation Under God Available On Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Apple iBooksRepublican Gary Barve For The 48th Presidency Of The United States Of America, Worldwide Successful Musician With 25 Million Listeners & 12000 Radio Station Song Spins, Hollywood Actor, Published Worldwide Author Of My Book One Nation Under God, Entrepreneur, Most Courageous One On The Planet On The Political Stage, Best Candidate Media Interview In The World, America First Patriot And Above All A Believer In JESUS CHRIST As LORD AND SAVIOR.  

His website:  https://youtube.com/@garybarveforusa?si=JDsG-3oTKFbRqYqc

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

And hello everyone and welcome back to the Right Path Podcast. We're being an author, an actual author still matters. This is the podcast. It's for authors, it's about authors, and it's done by an author. It's where we share our journeys, we explore our creativity, and most of all, we examine the ever elusive why behind it all. I've got an incredible guest with me today. Uh, this guy is electric. He has been uh just insane since he's been on the show. He's doing a million things, and I can't wait to hear about all of them, including his book, uh, the author of One Nation Under God. Please welcome to the show, Gary Barv. Gary, how are you doing, brother?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Hey, how are you, my friend? Rory. Uh, am I saying your last name right, my friend? Back Quent, is that right?

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Pretty close. Yeah, we just go with Paquette. We keep it real simple.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Okay, all right, all right. Uh I'll just say Rory. I think that'll be a little bit easier.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

That's that's how most people know me. Most folks who know me don't know my last name, so it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right, all right. Very cool, very cool. Hey, uh Rory, thank you so much again for giving me the honor and opportunity to interview with you. I know we connected through the uh podcast website, and I really appreciate you giving me the honor and opportunity to interview. Uh, as I was saying to you off air, my friend, uh obviously I have now relocated to Alabama, the great state of Alabama, early this uh afternoon. And uh I this is probably the first time that I was delayed on the interview by probably on any interview that I've done. I've done probably like 50, 60 interviews. But uh Rory very kindly agreed to push forward the interview by about 15 minutes, and I really, really appreciate you for that, my friend. I know you're a very busy professional, and I know you've got other podcast interviews after this as well. Truly appreciate you taking the time to interview me in spite of the slight delay that I've done. I apologize for it. And thank you very much for giving me the honor and opportunity to interview with you, my friend.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Yeah, of course. I uh I have you have been all over the place, my friend. You've been uh I mean, I listened to I don't even know how many different podcasts you were on. Um catch checking some clips and just kind of that, you know, seeing what you were up to. But uh you have a million things happening. Um, do you want to just kind of tell everybody a little bit about who is Garrick Barve and what do you have going on right now?

SPEAKER_00 2:09

Sure, definitely. Uh so let me start by uh quickly making a quick introduction. Obviously, uh, as most of your viewers and listeners hopefully would know, uh I'm officially running for the 48th presidency of the United States of America. I'm a Republican, I'm a believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and for a fantastic start to the presidential campaign. I have interviewed uh, like I said, with about 50, 60 media networks across the country in the last about close to two years now, actually. I Rory, I think I uh it's almost two years now. I filed my paperwork with the FEC on September 5th, 2024. And so almost two years, uh, I've been uh official presidential candidate, massive support across the country. And there's a lot happening on the political spectrum, obviously. And obviously, the focus of this particular interview is to focus on my creative side, my artistic side, my uh author, obviously, I'm the author of the book One Nation Under God. And uh, you know, while I was driving today, my friend, from uh from uh Tennessee to Alabama to relocate to Alabama, I said uh I want to prepare a little bit for my interview with Rory, and uh I said to myself, I want to share a few things with your viewers and listeners. And I know we have a 45, 50 minute approximately interview. And uh, if you're okay with it, since you have given me the floor, and I think a lot of media hosts across the country would agree that I kind of like that. And so uh if you don't mind You seem to be doing just fine.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

So yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Thank you, thank you, thank you. So if you don't mind, thank you, thank you. So if you don't mind, I just want to give a very inspirational, motivational uh message to the American people. Uh before that, I just want to uh sort of say this. Uh I respect all religions. I want to say that very, very strongly. I, Gary Barr, respect all religions, but I'm Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I believe the Bible is the word of God, and I genuinely believe that Jesus Christ is with the United States of America. And uh I'm gonna talk a little bit, I'll give you a little bit of context to what I'm gonna say in probably about the next five, ten minutes. And uh I'm gonna end the particular this particular part of the discussion for the interview with a baseball analogy, all right? And I've never really played baseball. I would I think I would have been a pretty good baseball player, but I want to give that analogy and we'll see how it goes. Uh obviously, since I was delayed, I have not been able to think about what I'm gonna say very carefully, but I think we'll give it a try. I think it'll come off pretty well, all right? We'll hit the home run, we'll hit the home run uh right at the very end of this particular discussion. How about that? Sounds good. I'm ready, man.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Give it to me.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Thank you, thank you. So let me start off by saying this. The first thing I'll say is, you know, I started off by saying I'm a Christian, I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, I believe the Bible is the word of God, and I respect all religions. And I have identified, I'm gonna take it the other way around, I have identified what, in my opinion, is definitively the key to success. And there are a lot of things that result to success in life, and I'll talk about some of the success that I've enjoyed, but I want to first talk about the inspirational key to success that I feel from my perspective is the key to success. Definitively, I say that without an iota of doubt in my mind. And the key to success, my friend, especially I say this to all the Christian people in the United States of America, and to be really honest, all the Christian people across the world. The key to success, in my opinion, at a very high level, generic level, all-encompassing level, my friend Rory, is this to the best of your ability, always and forever make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and he, Jesus Christ, will bless you in a way that is so profound and so fantastic and so so incredible and so to a large extent unimaginable that you will be blessed by Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to see success after success after success in a way that is right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ is perfect. Jesus Christ is the definition of perfect, and so making decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who, as Christians we believe is perfect, is, in my opinion, at least, in my experience as well, will lead to tremendous happiness, joy, and success that you will enjoy across the United States of America. And I'll say it to all Christian people, obviously, across the world, and I will say this I respect all religions, I want to say that very strongly. And uh I wanna, you know, so people probably some of the people listening in will say, Okay, so Gary has given his perspective on the key to success, right? And I don't know if you agree with me or or not, Rari, but that is my key to success, right? But I'm sure there are some people who are listening in who maybe have never even heard about me yet, and they're thinking, okay, well, that's his key to success. It's inspirational, it's very nice to hear. But does he have anything to back it up, right? Can he back it up with gravitas to what the statement that he made? And so I'm gonna say this. I'll give a little bit of detail about me, and then uh I think I'll end it with that baseball analogy, which I think will knock it out of the park, all right, my friend. You ready?

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

All right, so let me start off by saying this. Uh I was obviously born in Summit, New Jersey in 1984, so I'm 41 years old. And uh, you know, I uh right after my undergrad, uh I relocated back home to Massachusetts. When I was four and a half years old, my family relocated to India. And uh as soon as I completed my undergrad, I relocated back home to Massachusetts. I'm American, obviously, born in Summit, New Jersey, but uh 2007, I think it was late 2007, I relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, and then worked there for a financial technology industry in the financial technology industry as a business analyst, and then uh relocated to Dallas, Texas to pursue my full-time MBA at uh SMU, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. I got my MBA in uh marketing and entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial strategy. And uh what happened, my friend Rory, was uh I was diagnosed, I think it was in uh 2012, if I'm not mistaken, I was diagnosed with a former clinical depression-related illness. I call it the former clinical depression-related illness because I've obviously, with the grace of blessing from Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, my mom and my dad as well, supporting me during the time when I went through the tremendous trials and tribulations and the battle that I faced because of my former clinical depression-related illness. Uh, I was able to conquer this battle with the former clinical depression-related illness. But my friend Rory, I went through some real struggles in life. And I think everyone can relate to struggles in life. I'm obviously 41 years old. Uh, you're probably of the same age, I'm assuming, but uh, I'm being a little bit kind when I say that, is it?

SPEAKER_01 8:47

We'll we'll go with that for now. But uh, yeah, no, I'm much older than that, brother.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

All right, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Yeah, that's all right.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

So, all right, all right. So uh so the point I'm trying to make is everyone who is, let's say, 41 years old, I'm 41, has gone through struggles in life. I don't think there's anyone who is 41 years old who will say, Well, you know, I've never seen any struggles in life, right? So people will relate to what I'm saying, but you know, I saw the depth of darkness, I saw the depth of depression, and I was able to conquer it for, you know, because of the reasons I mentioned. Uh many years back, I conquered my uh, you know, battle, successfully battled the uh former clinical depression-related illness. And I ran for city council in the 2020 election as a Republican and uh did really, really well. It was in Santa Clara, California. Uh got 23% of the vote in a three-person race, and there were about 17% Republicans in the district that I ran in. So it was an incredible, outstanding result that people around me just could not believe at that time. And it was just a fantastic campaign as well. And sorry. Uh then I relocated, I'm getting out of breath a little bit, but uh fortunately I have my water here. So then uh Rory, my friend, I relocated to Lynchburg, Virginia and uh became a student at Liberty University, which uh I'm sure you've heard of Liberty University. It's a Christian school, and I think it's one of the largest Christian schools in the country, and hence the world. America is and always will be the greatest country in the world. And uh I was the student there for a little while. Uh I'm gonna uh cut it short. Uh I then relocated to uh Florida, ran for US Congress in the 23rd district in Florida, Republican believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, had a really good result there as well. But here's where the uh crux of the story starts right here. So I decided that I wanted to run for the 48th presidency of the United States of America during the time in Florida when I was a candidate for the US Congress 23rd district election in the 2024 election cycle. And I relocated to Iowa and I filed my paperwork with the FEC, the Federal Elections Commission, to become to become officially a presidential candidate on September 5th, 2024. And here's where the inspirational story that I'm gonna tie with the first message that I give gave from my perspective about the key to success. I'm gonna give you the track record of success. I'm gonna end it with a baseball analogy that I thought about and uh then uh tie it back to the first part that I mentioned as well. So let me say this. When I filed Rory for for the presidential uh campaign on September 5th, 2024, I had just about a 0% name recognition across the United States of America. Probably 1%, right? 700,000 people in the congressional district that I ran in, and 20,000 people in the in the city council district that I ran in. And I did some media interviews, maybe four or five media interviews during the US Congress election as well. And so let's say it was one million people name recognition at that time, September 5th, 2024. There are 330,000, 330 million uh patriotic American people in the United States of America. And so it's you know, it's 0.3%, right? That was the name recognition in the United States of America approximately at that time. And then here's what happened after that. And I'm gonna skip some of the uh controversial uh negative things that have happened to me. I'm gonna try and try and stay to the positive. And I want to keep this message inspirational. The negative part of it we will get to at the right time during this presidential campaign. I believe in an eye for an eye, and I think it's a very important thing that I've written about that in my book, One Nation under God as Will. But eye for an eye in a righteous way, in a way that is right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, within the bounds of law and order. And so let me say this. When I filed my paperwork September 5th, 2024, I went from interview after media interview after media interview after media interview, fought against MS-13, Trendy Aragua, Sinola, Cartel gang members in a way that is stronger and more courageous than anyone else on the planet on the political stage. And no one has doubted me on this. None of the media hosts so far have doubted me on this, and because I think it is it is most definitely the truth. And I'm gonna come across, just to all the great viewers and listeners listening in, I'm gonna come across probably as a little bit pompous during this phase of what I'm about to say. I would encourage you to wait till the uh baseball analogy, and I think it'll make a lot of sense. So uh, and keep in mind that I went through the former clinical depression related in this, right? For about seven, eight years, whatever it is. Real, real tough times. And so here's what happened. Uh, I'm gonna take some names. Uh, there are some media organizations who saw a little bit of spark in me. This is my opinion. I'm not speaking on behalf of these media organizations. And I'm gonna take some names. The Good Morning Keys radio show, Michael Stapleford, one of the most fantastic people that I've interviewed with, I've done like six interviews, seven interviews with his Good Morning Keys radio show. He gave me a shot right at the start when I did not have the massive name recognition and the massive success that I've enjoyed at this time of UA having this interview on whatever it's like June 16th or June 17th today, or 2026. And then I interviewed with Annie Ubilis and Curtis Bennett from the uh from the Southern Sense show. Annie Ubilis is obviously a uh a retired law enforcement officer. Curtis Bennett is a great American veteran. I want to thank them both for their service to our country. And uh I interviewed with a lot of other networks, uh, Joe Thomas uh from the Joe Thomas show in Virginia and multiple times. And Joe Thomas has like two million listeners per show that he does sometimes, right? So, like a lot of people. And uh Joe Thomas, I will say this. I don't know if you know, if you have seen his show, uh Joe Thomas Show, but I would say he's probably one of the definitions of the hardworking, patriotic, exceptional, grassroots, salt of the earth American patriot, in my opinion. He's a fantastic guy. And uh a lot of other people, Dan the Ox auctioner came into the picture, and uh then I went to the CPAC 2025 event, right? Which is, I think it was in February 2025, interviewed with some more networks. Now remember this there are hundreds of thousands, of in some cases, millions of people watching some of these interviews. The point I'm trying to make through this is that loyalty is very important to me at least, because when someone comes in early to support a particular candidate, I'm not necessarily talking about the media organizations, I'm let's just say I digress and I'm sort of speaking generically. I appreciate the fact when someone comes in because they believe in me, on the potential that I have, come in early and support me instead of supporting me when I it is a very easy business decision to make to support me. And I appreciate that as well on most occasions, don't get me wrong. But what I'm trying to get at is loyalty is an attribute that is extremely important for a presidential candidate. Loyalty towards the United States of America, the country that I'm ready to take a bullet for. And so circling back to the story that I was uh sort of uh sharing with you, my friend Rory. Uh I interviewed with RSBN, Right Side Broadcasting Network. I'm sure you've heard of their network. They have like millions of listeners on a daily basis. And uh Christina Loren interviewed me. Uh, she's a big believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior Israeli. I think she interviewed me January 2025. Robert McNeely did a sit-down interview with me, a two-part sit-down interview with me. Again, millions of people listening in live. And again, uh, some of these networks have their own perspectives on things. Most networks do, obviously. And I do not agree with every position that a media network has. What I'm trying to get at is that loyalty is a very important thing. Again, I say this as a digression, but I think people understand what I'm saying. And so the point is, I then interviewed with Jen Garcia with the Epoch Times. I then interviewed with uh the Salem Media Network and so many different networks, and the name recognition across, and I'm just taking, I did like 60 interviews, the name recognition grew to a tremendous level, right? It it was fantastic to see that name recognition happen in the United States of America. I started off with zero, having won, I will say it, zero elections in my life. And I'm dominating the 2028 presidential election cycle. But coming back to what I was saying, this is the interview part from the presidential campaign perspective. You obviously, Rory, I asked to, you know, asked me a little bit about me. So what happened was I'm a very creative guy, right? I love creativity, I love artistic art form, which is obviously something you enjoy as well, and as an author and as a podcast host as well, tremendous podcast host as well. And in about I think February, March 2025, a little more than a year back, I said, I think I'm a decent singer and I love singing, right? And I don't know if you enjoy singing, but like music, right? And I have you heard of this app, the SMUL app, my friend? Uh no. So the SMUL app is basically an app that anyone can download on like an Android or an iPhone app. Okay. And it has it's like a karaoke app, which also records the video of the artist singing in front of the SMUL app, right? And I said, let's give it a try, right? If you don't try, you don't get, right? I know that for a fact. And so let's record Metallica's song, nothing else matters. And I recorded it, put it out on social media, the video of it, of me singing just a karaoke, right? And I sort of enjoyed it a lot. And I said, Alright, I'm gonna keep moving forward and see what happens with this. And I recorded probably 15-20 songs on SMU. These are cover songs, obviously, from some of the greatest artists in the world. And in October 2025, I went to a recording studio in Iowa and recorded my first song, cover song, in a recording studio. I have, dude, my friend, I have no formal training in music. I have no idea about I did not even know what a cappella means. I really like until a few days back. No, I'm serious, man. Until a few days back, I did not even know what a bass guitar exactly means. I still don't know exactly what a bass guitar means, other than the fact that there are four strings to a bass guitar and an acoustic guitar has more strings, right? So the point is so the so the message here is if you make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, He blesses you in ways that completely transcend what on an earthly basis makes sense to a lot of people. And I say that with a lot of encouraging, respectful meaning towards what I'm saying to all the Christian people listening in. So I sang Perfect from Ed Sheeran. Have you heard that song? Uh not my version of it, but Ed Sheeran obviously I've heard of, right?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

So I covered his song Perfect, I think it was in October or November 2025, released it worldwide. Then I covered uh Hero from Enrique Iglesias, and Hero is a fantastic song. I've heard that song for about 20, 25 years, and then I went ahead and covered the one and only king of music and the American music legend, Elvis Presley's song, Can't Tell Falling in Love. Tell me you've heard that song, dude.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

Okay. I love Can't Tell Falling in Love. It's the greatest song that Elvis Presley has sung. And I'll quickly share this with you, my friend. That song from Elvis Presley, I feel is a Christian song. And I feel it's a Christian song. Obviously, a pop song, romantic song, obviously, right? I feel it's very strongly it's a Christian song. And so what happened was uh I started releasing these songs and you know, reached out to radio stations. This is one-man show at this point, right, with the music. Reached out to radio stations, reached out to PR companies and said, Hey, I'm the singer, I'm singing. Can you please play my song on your radio station? And a lot of radio stations were very receptive to the music. Some said they're not gonna play it, but a lot of them did. And this is I reached out to radio stations across the United States of America, some in Sweden and different countries, right? And what happened was I not only did my music singing improve, but the music industry realized that I'm a really good singer. And that is my opinion at this time, and I'm very confident about it. A lot of the music industry realized this. And uh I met my friend DJ Rampage. Uh, I don't know if you've heard of DJ Rampage. He's a fantastic. You have, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

So he's so he's a fantastic guy. He has worked with Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Buster Rhimes, Flavor Flav, a lot of people, tremendous guy, very capable guy, tremendous businessman, very intelligent guy. And he and I talked and he said, Gary, and by that time I had sung probably like 10, 15 cover songs, released them worldwide, right? So he c he comes to me and says, Gary, I want to share your songs to 5,000 radio stations across the United States of America mainly, but many across the world. And I said, It'll be a great honor for me. Let's do it. And so it was a business decision that he and I made to send first uh, you know, so we officially, in the sense we officially started working together, he sent my song Lonely, originally sung by the music sensation Justin Bieber. And uh, you know, I'll say that I'll say this. Hopefully, Justin Bieber will be okay with it. But so I said to someone, uh, a friend of mine recently, I said, Elvis Presley is eternal, and Justin Bieber is almost eternal, I said, right? Because I'm just sort of saying it tongue in cheek, but Justin Bieber is a Christian as well, right? He's a believer and So the point being, these two songs, Cantel Falling in Love from Elvis Presley, my cover song, my cover song Lonely from Justin Bieber, and my uh original song, Love Heartbeat, these three songs DJ Rampage sent to 5,000 radio stations for their consideration for airplay over a probably 15-16 week time period. My friend, these three songs, cumulative, have had about 50 million. That's 50 million, 5000000 million listeners or listens in the last approximately 15 to 16 weeks via about 18,000 one eight zero zero zero uh airplace, radio station airplace, prominent awesome radio station airplace. I have the DRT reports and I have the digital radio tracker reports, industry standard, to back this up. Now I will quickly say this, and I don't want to go too much into detail on this. If you look at my Spotify account, there are probably like 50, 40, 60, whatever it is, monthly listeners on my Spotify. It's a complete fabrication and it's a complete lie, in my opinion, and that relates, in my opinion, to the presidential campaign that I'm in. But we don't have to get into that at this time because obviously this is a uh creative artistic type of interview. But the point I'm trying to make again is never give up. I have no business being alive after the horrific former clinical depression-related illness that I went through. I decided at some point that I'm gonna make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and He has blessed me in ways that people across the United States of America and across the world, in my opinion, cannot even believe it. And now my songs, you know, I've released more songs. I think we're gonna get a lot of airplays going forward based on the current trajectory of track record of success. But what happened was this is the best part of it, right? So I visited the Graceland, you know, Graceland, right? Obviously, Elvis Presley's home. And I met with some people there, and by that time I had recorded a music video for my cover song, Cantel Falling in Love. And I went there and I just felt very nice there. And I met with the lady there, and I said, who works with the Elvis Presley team, and I said, Can I please show you my music video? I love Elvis Presley, like you would not even believe it. And can I show you this music video? And she said, Yeah, show me the music video. And she saw probably like a minute of it. She was very busy, obviously. It was a busy day. A lot of like millions of people visit Graceland, right? And so uh she still took a minute to approximately to see my music video. She said she loves the music video, and then I met another guy, friend of mine now, Michael, who works with uh the Elvis Presley team. And he and I got to talking while I was at Graceland a few weeks back. This is uh, you know, I had talked with uh DJ Rampage a long time back that I'm gonna visit Graceland, and uh I had already released Cantel Falling in Love cover song in December, I think, 2025. And the video that I showed to the lady at Graceland that I just talked about was my second version of the Cantel Falling in Love, the piano-based version. And uh I talked with Michael, I said uh, you know, Michael and I got to be friends, and Michael, who obviously is with the Elvis Presley team, and uh, he and I met for uh I think it was like breakfast a few days or whatever, like a lunch breakfast thing. And then we got to be friends and we met again a few days back. And by that time, I had received like 50 million listens or listeners across the world on my music. And I'm gonna share with you a couple of discussions that I had with Michael, all right? And this is going to be interesting, hopefully inspirational, but if not, at least interesting, right? So Michael and I were talking, and I said to him, Michael, do you feel that can't tell falling in love is a Christian song? And Michael said to me, Yeah, it could be a Christian song. Obviously, Elvis Presley started singing as a gospel singer, and it could be a Christian song, it's also a pop song and a romantic song. And I said, That's uh that's fantastic. And uh then I asked him, Michael is about 58 years old, right? And I am 41 years old. So I said, What was the emotion that the people shared with Elvis Presley during the 50s, 60s, 70s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s? And he obviously said, you know, obviously Elvis Presley is the biggest star that has ever star in the sense biggest mega star, euphoric megastar that has ever raced planet Earth. And he said, and I asked him specifically, what was the passion that the people shared with Elvis Presley from an emotional perspective? It's a fantastic conversation Michael and I had. Michael said, Gary, I want you to, not not quote unquote, but he said, I want you to visit the Graceland Elvis Presley team marketing team and the HR team tomorrow. Would you do it? And I said, Yes, I would love to do it. And what we were having some fantastic uh barbecue uh ribs and some incredible barbecue sauce uh during this dinner. It was a it was a surreal experience, my friend. I mean, it's very hard to describe it, but it was fantastic. And uh then, so I visited Graceland the next day. I'm gonna I emailed some people, and there's gonna be a follow-up meeting very soon as well. And I think, in fact, Mike, today's uh Tuesday, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:10

I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

Okay, so I think Michael had asked me to email them and follow up with them yesterday. I was supposed to email them yesterday, I'll email them maybe after this.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Well, you're moving, so you know they have to give you a little grace on that.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Well, hopefully, hopefully you like uh you're enjoying the interview, right? I mean, you're enjoying what I'm saying, right? Hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

I'm just along for the ride right now, man. I mean, this is your interview.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

So all right. So here's what happened. So so I come home to, I was in Nashville at that time, right? I was living in Nashville, and I think it was two days back. I said to myself, I want to record an entire music album in one recording session, non-stop, entire every song, and I will do every song in one take, meaning start to finish, the song will be recorded in one take, not through multiple recording stints, right? And I said, I'm gonna record it on my own basic microphone, and I'm gonna record it on my uh own DAW system, which is like Garage Band, right? Which is like a it's like a software, right? And I learned the sound engineering, I learned the mixing, I learned the mastering part of it to a basic level at least. And I spent six hours from about 5 p.m. Central Time to 11 p.m. Central Time. I think it was like end of day Sunday, June 14, 2026, I think it was. And recorded the entire album. It's gonna be released in the next 10 days. So that's the music aspect. The point being, the success trajectory that I've had is obviously because I'm very focused on my goals, very focused on the art form that I'm involved in, not on the parodies and the celebrity status that comes with the success in some of the art forms. That is not and never should be the focus of any music artist. The focus should be the art form, the singing, the actual, if you're in movies, for example, and I'm gonna pivot to movies now, the script that you know an actor would read, or the camera angle, or the screenplay, that is what the focus should be. The focus should not be on the peripherals that come along with that celebrity status. If you do that, you are bound to fail. There might be one or two exceptions, and I want the hardworking, exceptional artists in the United States of America and across the world to succeed. And the way to do it is make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I say that to all the Christians, but also focus on the earthly basis, hard work, determination, focus. I put in about 90 hours a week, every week, consistently, on average at least, for the last two years. And so, pivoting now to movies, I wrote a crux of the script for my movie God. And dude, it's it's a fantastic script. I put out some music, some uh movie videos as well. We're gonna record a uh movie trailer for this movie God. Sometime I've partnered with an organization for this, sometime in the next week. Hopefully, maybe even in this week, if not, hopefully the next week. But uh the crux of the movie is fantastic. I think it's gonna be a fantastic movie. My gut feel is that there's a lot of people in Hollywood who are interested in this movie. We'll see what happens, right? And I know who's gonna play in the movie. It's gonna be someone who is in the movies all the time and uh someone else as well. It's gonna be three main characters in the movie. And uh, so that's the movies. Then my book, One Nation Under God, obviously. I started writing it, I think, in probably about I don't know, September 2024 or something like that, October 2024, something like that. Published it March 2025, published a, or I'm in the process actually of publishing a 2026 edition with only one change in it, the initial paragraph or initial part of the book, which I have released on my uh social media in the form of audiobook as well. And uh, I'm a stand-up comedian as well, uh love stand-up comedy, and uh have done probably three or four stand-up comedy shows. And uh, I think I'm missing out on some other industry that I'm in. Uh I'm an entrepreneur, believe it or not. I'm an entrepreneur now, and uh I'm releasing my uh luxury sweet perfume for women and strength alone for men line sometime in the year 2026. It's titled Gary Barf. I was gonna title it The President from Gary Barf. Now I decided to title it Gary Barf with the United States of America flag on it. And so the point I'm trying to make very simply is this make decisions irrespective of the despair that you might be facing. I mean, I know a lot of people go through tough times in life, and maybe my former clinical depression-related illness that I went through is one of the tougher things that anyone can go through. I mean, I don't want to even revisit some of the memories that I have from that time period. It was a horrific, horrific time in my life. But to be able to make this comeback and now become, in my opinion, if the dollar amount that I have in my bank is not the uh yardstick for determining how successful one person is, I feel I'm one of the most successful people on the planet, and I'm now in a position to be a fantastic motivational speaker. I've talked in the recent days with Tony Robbins team. Uh Tony Robbins, obviously, I'm sure you've heard of one of the greatest motivational people ever, motivational people, and in the sense, with the track record of success, I think he owns like a hundred organizations, and uh obviously uh he is uh a billionaire, self-made, right? Self-made. He started off with zero. I've heard some of his stories. He had zero, no food on the table at times, and now he's one of the most successful people on the planet as an American, patriotic American, right? Yeah, uh, and I recently connected with uh Damon John from Fubu, his team, not him personally, Kevin Harrington's team uh from Shark Tank, obviously, and a lot of people. And and and so the point is again, the point I'm trying to make is for anyone who is going through a really, really tough time in life, especially in the United States of America, I'm talking about. My responsibility as an American and as a obviously a candidate for the 48th presidency of the United States of America, as a Republican and as a believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, is to serve the American people. And I saw a talk on behalf of our country right now. If you are American, on 99.99999% of the people in the United States of America, there is no excuse. There is no excuse to not succeed for the 0.000001% of the people, and I will I will first say this when I become president of the United States of America, my government, in the sense the American people's government, the people I'm firing for, will take care of these people. These are people, and I probably draw on some of my former clinical depression-related illness experience. Some people, I'll give you an example, right, my friend Rory. If someone is completely bedridden, in the sense that completely paralyzed from the neck down, for example, I'm giving a really bad example, but right, that person still actually I've read a story where a person who was completely paralyzed from the neck down became very successful. But the point I'm trying to make is there are certain people who just have an illness or medical situation where there is just no way to be very successful. And I don't even want to say that, but there are there's a small percentage. And I feel the government of the United States of America should take care of these people who have no shot at life. And I that's a very harsh and a tough thing to say, but I feel they should be taken care of in that situation. But that's a very, very small percentage of people. 99.999% of the people, if you make decisions, again to the Christian people, especially, if you I respect all religions, but if you make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the perfect one, he will bless you and you will transcend the earthly dynamics, which you should pursue as well if they are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But you will see that success and that happiness. And I'm gonna now say this, all right? I want to end it with the baseball analogy, right? Before I say that, I want to say this. The success that I'm talking about right now is not just from the perspective of monetary success or success from a professional perspective. Some of the most happiest people that I have seen in my lifetime are in Iowa. And I lived in Iowa for a long time, right? Like whatever, six months, seven months. The people in Iowa, let me say it this way: most of them are not multimillionaires or anything like that, right? They are hardworking, patriotic, salt of the earth people who love the country and love Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Not 100% of Iowa I'm talking about, but a large majority. And that is their focus. And some of the happiest people you can see the happiness on their face are the people in Iowa. And they are, in my opinion, if someone comes to me and says, Gary, I'm the happiest person on the planet, and if that person is not lying, then I will say you are the most successful one on the planet, right? If you're happy all the time, which is actually something that Tony Robbins said in the first video that I saw of him, way back when I was fighting for my life from a former clinical depression-related illness, I was watching a lot of inspirational videos just to get myself up in the morning. And I saw this Tony Robbins video where he said, in an interview, he said, I don't remember the exact interview, but he said, I'm not happy all the time, but I'm happy most of the time. And that that phrase has stuck with me for like more than a decade now. So the point I'm trying to make is if happiness is something that you have 24-7-365, which is very hard to achieve, then in my opinion, you're the most successful one on the planet. But what I'm trying to say is I'm including that when I say make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and He will bless you. And so finally, I want to say this, all right? And I and I respect all religions, I want to say that very strongly, my friend Rory. I, Gary Barr, respect all religions. But I am Christian, I believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I believe the Bible is the word of God. Here's the baseball analogy now, and hopefully I'll get the punchline right, right? We'll see. I've practiced it a little bit during my drive, we'll see what happens. My campaign slogan is this we have already won and saved America. They just do not know it yet. And it's from a Christian biblical perspective. And I will give you the context to it as well, right? I don't I don't know if you're a believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but let me let me just say this, right? As Christians, we believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross, rose from the death, and human beings, our sins, believers, sins, human beings, believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, their sins are forgiven. And believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior also means that we get eternal life, which in my opinion is the ultimate victory. In fact, a lot of it from a biblical from a biblical Christian perspective, a lot of it is about eternal life. And so we believe these two things, and we believe Jesus Christ is perfect. We believe that. My campaign slogan is we have already won and saved America, they just do not know it yet. And the context to that is this see, my friend Rory, if we believe that eternal life is the ultimate victory, and that Jesus Christ has already achieved it for us, and all we have to do to get eternal life is to believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then we already have the ultimate victory. Which means we have already won, because that's the only victory that matters from a biblical Christian perspective. I'm talking about I respect all religions. I want to say that very strongly. But if you have already achieved the ultimate victory as believers in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we have already won. We have already won. America has already been saved. I say it in that biblical Christian context. And my campaign slogan is we have already won and saved America. They just do not know it yet. And now we get to the baseball, right? Let me say this. I'm gonna paint this picture for you, right? This is uh this is a movie scene, right? Let's see, uh let's see what happens, alright? You ready? Let's do this. Imagine this game seven baseball championship game championship game, right? The best pitcher in the world ever is going to pitch the ball, and maybe I'm getting the terminology right wrong, right? Maybe I'm not getting the terminology right because I'm not exactly a baseball player, but bear with me, right? So far so good. So far so good, alright. Let me take it from the top. Game seven, championship game, uh, baseball season ending, right? The pitcher is the best pitcher ever, right? He pitches like you wouldn't even believe it. The batter is on stage, he's there. All bases are loaded, right? Base one, base two, base three, and the battery. All bases are completely loaded. The batting team is down, and the only way to win is to hit a home run. Right? You get four runs, you win. That's it, you win the championship, that's it. And you finish the game, right? So let me say this. I'll paint this picture for you. The it's two strikes, right? You're on the third strike. This is it, now or never, right? The pitcher pitches the best curveball or the best fastball or the best ball that the best pitcher in the world has ever pitched on that final uh pitch, right? For that championship game. The batter is me, Gary Barr. I am the batter. I see the ball come in, it's a very, very tough ball to hit. My campaign slogan is, and I'm sort of drawing an analogy to my campaign now. My campaign slogan is we have already won and saved America, they just do not know it yet. And here's what believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior means at a much analogy example, at a much basic analogy example. Before the I'm watching the ball, right? I see the ball come in. I'm with you know the bat, right? And I see the ball almost come close to me now, it's very close to me. And the only thing that I see at that time is that ball. I see nothing else, I hear nothing else. There's complete focus, and it's not a focus that has come because I'm determinedly trying to focus, it's a focus because I'm completely, completely in the present with the complete, total 100% would be an understatement. Complete, total belief that irrespective of how tough the pitcher has pitched the ball towards me, that ball is going to hit the sweet spot of my bat, and that ball is going to sail out of the stadium, and we are going to get that home run. And the belief is to an extent that I already have hit that home run. We have already won the game, we already have the championship, analogy-wise, we already have the eternal life, and the ball is going to sail outside the stadium, meaning that we will get the home run and we will get the four runs, or you know, to get that victory. And so the ball comes in and I hit it, right? I am the ball, I am the bat, I am the game, I am the batter, and I am the home run. And the ball sails out, and we win that particular game in a tremendous way. The baseball game is one, and baseball game is a sort of analogy metaphor for eternal life in this example, and that is the level of belief that you should have. And I will extend it by saying this. I will say it in this way the belief should be so strong that even before the championship, not just the championship game, the league starts. You already know. And league start could be you can take it back in time to the start of the baseball in itself. You already know that the only championship that matters is the championship where you hit the home run, you are the home run, you are the ball, you are the bat, you are the game, and that is the level of belief that you must have in Jesus Christ. As Lord and Savior, in my opinion. And that, in my opinion, is the belief that I have in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. And I respect all religions. I want to say that very strongly. But I wanted to give this baseball example. I think it makes a lot of sense so that people understand what I'm trying to say at a 1% importance level from the perspective of the baseball game as compared to eternal life. 1% would also be in whole numbers, it would be 0%. But I'm just saying, so sort of not comparing eternal life with anything. But I'm saying that is the level of belief that you must have. And now I'm tying it back to the first thing that I said make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior consistently over a long, long, long period of time. And he blesses you because he is the perfect one. He wants you to make this in the sense Jesus Christ wants you to make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. And the worry and all the tension and all the anxiety and all the fear starts going away. Earthly basis, you may or may not be able to explain it. Some doctors, scientists might be able to explain it. I will say this I have zero fear. It is impossible for me to be fearful. I lost the feeling of fear a long time back, and I've proven it now. If I would have said it without proof, people would have doubted it, right? So now I have the proof. I have fought against MS-13, Trend de Aragua, Sinola Cartel on the political stage, unequivocally stronger than anyone else on the planet on the political stage, with no personal security protection, no secret service protection, and a lot of things have happened against me, which I don't want to get into at this time. That's a you know, that's a conversation for another time. But the anxiety also starts going away. I feel very few moments in time during a day or a week where I'm anxious about anything, and I'm completely, completely in the present. 99% of the time, I have, you know, I go from a mindset perspective, I go into the past and into the future, into the past to learn from what has happened so that in the future I'm better positioned to succeed on an earthly basis. And so that is the crux of what I'm what I'm trying to say. Do the earthly things right. Don't get me wrong. Work 90 hours a day, or 90 hours a week. 90 hours a day would probably be a little bit hard, but uh 90 hours a week, do all those things, and you will see. But but primarily, as Christians, I will say to the Christian people, make decisions that are right and correct in the eyes of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Finally, I want to say this, and then I'm happy to answer any questions that you have for me during this media interview. I think I've covered a little bit of my book, One Nation Under God through this as well, my friend. Let me say this. Elvis Presley, my friend, you are the one and only king of music and the American music legend. I love you. And Elvis Presley is eternal, as Elvis Presley says during his interviews. Uh, I will say this I just do as I feel. And uh I'll hand it back to you, my friend, and uh happy to answer any questions that you have from the open book, my friend.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

I appreciate it. All right. Um, well, that was one heck of a campaign speech, brother. So uh you were definitely prepared. You didn't need me for that. But uh, glad you were able to get that done.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

Thank you, thank you. I will say this. I actually do uh get inspired by just seeing you on screen, my friend. Because, like I said, you know, even before we started the interview, I said to you, I don't know if you were recording the interview at that time or not, but just the 30 seconds we had prior to the interview, I said to you, I think your personality is fantastic, and uh the beard is uh fantastic as well. I I there is a certain positivity that comes out of you, even through the video screen. I feel that's my perception, that's my, you know, we've never met before, but just from the interaction that I've had with you, it helps when there is a positive uh energy person on the screen interacting with me. And I certainly think that uh even though most of the viewers might think this was a one-man show for this part of the interview, that's not the truth at all. I think uh you played a more important part in this interview than uh you might imagine.

SPEAKER_01 47:59

Well, I appreciate that. Uh thank you, thank you, thank you. No, I I I wish that we had more time, unfortunately, to get and get you some more questions. But uh you uh I I'm very glad that you were able to just talk about all the different things you have going. Uh you know, I think it's gonna be very, very interesting to follow your campaign. And you know what, man? I'm I'm rooting for you. So thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Appreciate it. Rory, thank you so much, my friend. I appreciate you. Let me ask you a quick question. Uh, when will you post this interview on uh your media channel? Uh the video interview. Uh, and could you email the video file to me so that like I said, I could share it on my social media. I get a lot of hits on my social media, more than are displayed on the social media, let's put it that way for now.

SPEAKER_01 48:40

And uh like I said, uh sorry, go on. I was just gonna say let's cover that when we get done uh with the show for security. Uh let's go ahead and close it up.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

All right, thanks so much. Appreciate you, my friend Rory.

SPEAKER_01 48:51

Where can people reach you, brother? How can they reach out and contact you, help you with the campaign, anything like that?

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Again, uh, feel free to uh do an internet search on me. Like I said, I've done about 50, 60 media interviews across the country. And uh just to Gary Barf. Again, my first name is Gary. I'll spell it for your great viewers and listeners, uh G-A-R-Y, and uh my last name is uh B-A-R-V-E.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

And uh looking forward to uh getting your vote, looking forward to getting your support. I think my friend Rory has said he's gonna uh vouch for me and uh uh give me a uh give me a positive uh recommendation as well. And uh thank you very much. Appreciate you giving me the honor and opportunity to interview with you, my friend, man. A fantastic day.

SPEAKER_01 49:30

Thank you. All right, of course, absolutely. All right, thank you for being on. Uh, folks, one nation under God, author Gary Barve. You got it right here. And uh that's been another episode of the Right Path Podcast, uh, where every single page is another step towards finding your right path. All right, you folks, be good. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks so much.