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We're back with another edition of The
Federalist or Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jashinski,

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culture editor here at the Federalist.
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joined once again by one of our
very favorite repeat guests, and that would

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be John Androssik, a Grammy nominated
singer and songwriter A five for Fighting,

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who is out with a new song
and video. It's been out for a

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while now. A lot of people
have probably seen it and heard it.

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It's called Okay. If you haven't
watched the video, head over to YouTube

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and watched the video at John,
I have a lot of questions for you

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about the video, in particular because
it is very powerful. But thanks for

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coming back on the show. Out. Thanks, Emily, always a pleasure

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to talk to you. Yeah,
of course, Now tell us a little

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bit about like the video has footage
from October seventh in it and is very

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point. Can you tell us a
little bit about your decision to use some

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of that real raw footage from October
seventh in the video to go along with

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the song. Yeah. I think
it was very hard to make that video,

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as you can imagine. I think
we're all horrified by the events of

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October seventh. Reminded me of nine
to eleven, the Afghan withdrawal, all

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that shocking just atrocities again, and
then the aftermath of all our institutions morally

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collapsing in the media and the academia
and on the hill. Frankly, so,

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I thought it was important to make
a video that kind of documented what

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happened, you know, and what's
continuing to happen, not just my opinion

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or something I think. You know, I'm not in the video. And

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I also think it was important to
at least show some footage of the atrocities,

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not graphic, but but but just
for the sake of the victims and

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the families. I think similar I
had the same the same challenge with the

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Afghanistan video of how, you know, how graphic do you want to put

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it in there, because of course
you're going to get all the warning signs

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from from the youtubes, which which
is appropriate, but I think you have

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to tell it like it is and
to a certain degree, so I think

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putting the images of some of the
concertgoers being you know, taken hostage,

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some of the cars driving down the
street being basically shot up by Hamas terras,

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I think it's important for us to
not put our heads in the sand.

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And I don't think you need a
lot of that, but I think

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we needed some of that as well
as as well as some of the other

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events, you know, the President's
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some of the death culture that you
see in Gaza and some of the terrorists.

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You know, countries that that that
support that. So we try to

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get it all in. But it
was really tough to make and it's still

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hard to watch. But I think
the one reason it's resonated is because we

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have, i think, kind of
said in music and in images what happened,

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and many folks in Israel have not
seen that from the arts, so

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I think they were grateful for that. The title of the song again is

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okay, And I found that so
interesting because on a lot of levels,

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I know that resonates with people across
the political spectrum. Right now, things

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don't feel okay, not just in
foreign policy, but in domestic affairs,

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and the video touches on that as
well. You talked about some of the

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presidents of Harvard Penn MIT testifying before
Congress. John, could you just take

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us a little bit into your writing
process here? How you landed on this

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theme of we are not okay?
Well, it was started by Mayor Eric

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Adams of New York. You know, I know a lot of people have

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critical things to say about him,
but he I think stood tall after October

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seventh, you know, he came
out and made a speech saying, you

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know, when you have within twenty
four hours thousands of people in Times Square

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celebrating beheadings of babies, raping of
women, kidnapping of grandmothers, something is

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wrong. We're and he said in
his speech, you know, we're not

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all right, something's deeply wrong in
the culture. And that resonated with me,

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and it certainly over the next few
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seeing what was happening in our colleges, seeing the un basically become a Homas

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you know, sycophant, you know, seeing Rashida Talib and the Homas Caucus

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on the Hill basically become hamas spokesman. Seeing the media very quickly the BBC,

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the AP again take up this kind
of harmas you know, moral relativity,

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anti Semitic narrative. I think that
all was overwhelming and stunning and unlike

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Blood on My Hands or can One
Man Save the World? When I thought

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when I sat down to write this, it was a different process because I

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knew the tone had to be right. Those songs were basically just kind of

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screams of you know, for Afghanistan, just anger and shame at our government

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and can one man save the world? More of kind of inspiration of this

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little guy, this little country saying
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to evacuate my people, probably dead
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but I'm going to stay here and
fight for freedom. So but this one,

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I knew it needed the right tone. So I spent some time listening

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some some classical classical funeral marches,
you know, spent a lot of time

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kind of dabbling on the piano of
trying to get get the tone right.

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And it's interesting. Initially it was
just a piano vocal with me singing,

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but I also wanted to add kind
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human context, and if you listen
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to Fiddler on the Roof, Right, there's like a string, you know,

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there's kind of a string instrument kind
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representing the human side of it.
So I call my buddy Dave, who's

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a virtuoso cello player, and we
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interesting because he's such a beautiful player. He would play to it and it

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would be wonderful to listen to.
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beautiful, it was, and so
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we need to like we need the
pain, we need the like, the

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insanity, the mania, the family. And so I actually showed him some

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pictures of some of the family members
of the hostages, and as soon as

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he saw that, he played the
part that you hear. So it was

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really kind of a fascinating, you
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Right. The lyrics came very quickly, you know, the first the first

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line, this is the time for
choosing That was easy. That you know,

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we're not okay, as you said, that applies to things way beyond

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Israel and Almas. So the lyrics
came pretty quick, you know, calling

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out Harvard by name, that was
easy to do so, but the music

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I think was really important, and
I think that's why again, why it's

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resonating around the world, because I
think the tone kind of reflects, you

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know, kind of the darkness of
our society, you know, of the

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fact that this is really is a
battle for civilization against those who want to

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turn down, to tear it down. And on the surface, it's about

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Israel Hamas, but it's really not. It's about the rest of us and

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the decline of our cultures and how
we're losing a generation of children as well.

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Yeah, and I know John that
you have a lot of thoughts about

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policy, but the song's not really
about policy. You described earlier the death

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culture that we see in Hamas,
and obviously we see it in other places.

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You've worked so closely with people who
are desperate to leave the death culture

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of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Can
you talk a little bit more, a

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little bit more about what you've seen, what you mean when you describe death

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culture. Yeah, you know,
the last thing we put in the video

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was the images of you know,
gods and boys at five years old,

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you know, with guns in their
hands, and then at ten years old.

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No terrorist training, you know,
at a fifteen years old, you

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know, kind of growing up in
this culture where you're taught that you know,

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you're you know, to reach kind
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is to kill Jewish people or kill, just kill and murder. And I

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think, you know, one point, you know, one reason to make

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this video is say this is happening, this is bad. But I think

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we also have to talk about what
do we do? You know, what

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are some action items we can do? And I think if we don't address

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the death culture that is in many
of these societies, there is no long

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term solution. But I also think
we have to recognize the heroic Palestinians and

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voices who are calling for change.
You know, Emily, the hero of

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this video is a Palestinian woman.
You know, I have a line in

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the song we need every good woman, every good man, and I thought

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a lot about who do I put
there? You know, you can put

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so many people there, and I
put a Palestinian woman who was calling out

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Hamas for stinging all the humanitarian aid. You know, I'm like, this

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is the most courageous woman I've ever
seen. Because she'll probably I don't know

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if she's even with us anymore.
You know, I'm sure Hamas did not

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appreciate that, and also put in
the son of the Hamas leader who's calling

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out the deaf culture. So I
think unless we and it's a generational battle,

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unless we address this culture, there
is no kind of way to turn

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the tide. And I think it's
not the real scary thing is you're not

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just seeing it in Gaza, You're
not just seeing it in Kabul. You're

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seeing it on TikTok. With American
kids and our colleges, we're over half

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of our kids side with Hamas over
Israel. Twenty percent believe the Holocaust never

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happened, and seventy percent call Israel
an oppressor. So if that doesn't scare

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the hell out of it everybody and
force us to wake up and address this

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head on, I don't know what
will. That was the perfect segue into

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one question I wanted to ask,
which was what surprised you most? You

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have a lot of stuff in the
video and in the song. What surprised

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you most? If anything? I
mean, you've been working in this space

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for a while, so maybe you
weren't surprised. I wasn't particularly surprised,

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although the depths of some people's depravity
when it came to commentary and reaction.

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You know, it's always shocking.
But for you, was there anything was

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at the college presidents? Was there
anything that was especially a standout? You

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know, it's all those things,
and this this almost sounds minor, but

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but this really, this really still
sticks with me. You know. I

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you were probably like five years old, but you know, we had the

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concert for New York in you know, in New York City after nine eleven,

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and I remember walking down six sixth
Avenue and you saw, you saw

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a missing host of people who were
in the towers, and it broke your

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heart because it said missing, but
you knew they were never coming home.

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And you come on every store window, every you know, every trash can

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there are these missing posters, and
cant imagine people walking down the streets and

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ripping those down, ripping those down, and you know, tearing them up

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and throwing them in the trash.
And that really sticks with me, you

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know. And and and again it
was it wasn't like Muslim activists. It

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was white college girls at USC,
you know, it was it was just

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everyday people just ripping these posters of
two year old babies who are hostages down

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and I thought, you know,
you know, you expect to have a

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few nut jobs in Congress. We
know that the college you know, academy

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has been you know, rotting for
decades. We know the UN is a

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corrupt entity, and we know there's
you know, idiot politicians and nations.

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But to see society and it wasn't
one or two people, just just this

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depravity that really scared me and made
me depressed. And I know it sounds

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like a small thing and all these
big, you know, global things,

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I don't want to call them little,

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talking, I wonder, you know, how do you think about the connections

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between Afghanistan and the attack on Israel
in October seventh. A lot of people

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have said, you know, the
failure and the display of failed American leadership

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in Afghanistan emboldened our enemies in Iran
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East, to who saw weakened American
state and realized that Russia as well.

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Maybe you can talk about this,
John two lifting sanctions on the North Stream

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pipeline, total total display of weakness
on Biden's behalf. Is there a common

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thread through all three of these tragedies
that you've now written songs about. I

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think anyone who denies that is either
just blinded by their tribalism or just incredibly

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foolish. Of course, when you
abandon your citizens to terrorists, and you

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call it an extraordinary success. And
there's no accountability in your government, especially

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to your leaders who told you that
it would take four months for Afghanistan to

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for Kaboula fall and it fell in
a week. Of course, that's not

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going to put a pause on Putin's
ambition. And when you tell Putin,

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well you can, you know,
you can have a little invasion, just

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don't make it a big one again. I think you know, the evil

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actors in this world have been looking
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the evil I said, evils in
the march. It's all connected. I

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have Hamas, I have Komani,
I have Putin, and I frankly have

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the General Secretary of the UN because
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with with with their actions, and
of course Putin knew there would be

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no pushback. And then as soon
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Ukraine and and you know Putin now
in the stalemate. I'm sure he had

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to say in this attack on Israel
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And it worked, it worked.
Ukraine has kind of fallen off the page.

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You know, who knows that we're
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all connected. But it really gets
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is weak, the world blows up, and certainly Afghanistan. You can go

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back to prior presidents who made mistakes. But I you know, and and

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and to me, all these songs
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They'd be the same songs if there
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ignore the fact that kind of the
weakness of this administration and now trying to

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basically stab Israel in the back by
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disgraceful and frankly, Emily, I
think the way it's going, the next

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Domino will be Taiwan because if you're
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a moment, you know, you
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year from now, but you know
what you've got now. So I think

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it's probably been you know, never
more likely that the China will move on

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Taiwan because we have this paralyzed,
feckless leadership that you know, that goes

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back and forth every day on these
issues, and the evil actors know,

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you know, they call the accesses
evil and people are like, oh,

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that's kind of dramatic whatever. But
if we don't understand that that is exactly

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what's happening and it's all connected,
then I think we're going to lose this

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thing. So so again, it's
a long answer to your question, and

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I hate to use, you know, to call out one side or the

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other, but I think if we
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can't prepare for what's coming next.
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intensely for using the phrase access of
evil, although he was always very careful

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to distinguish between Soviet leadership and the
Soviet people. But you being, having

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that sense of moral clarity is partially
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the West to finally take the stand
that undid unraveled the evil empire of the

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Soviet Union. You know, I
put you know, when I was writing

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the lyric, you know, I
had to line evils on the march,

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and I'm like, well, that's
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cheesy, and that's a little you
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is it is. And again,
I think that's why so many people,

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especially in Israel, have have appreciated
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shared the video on their social media, I got a very quick sense within

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hours of what Jewish people around the
world deal with every day, the vitriol,

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the death threats, all that stuff. And I think this kind of

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desire in the culture to have context
for everything, you know, but you

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know context, you know, if
if the homositrocities, you know, as

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we talked about, you know,
and just lately you heard about some of

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the rape atrocities in front of families. And I don't want to get too

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graphic, but if that's not evil, nothing is. And if we can't

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call that evil, then we're moral
cowards and and we we can't stand up

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to this, this global threat.
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going off tangent here, but but
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has to be there has to be
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it's now. Uh, we can
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We can't be afraid to be canceled. The fact that the music industry has

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been deathly silent on this is a
historical shame to our industry that likes to

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pride itself on standing on a soapbox
and lecturing everybody about human rights. You

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know, this is the music industry
of Live Aid, of Sun City,

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of the Concert for New York,
and so many musicians like to lecture us

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on the moral issues of the day, and the fact that we've been so

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silent as an industry is incredible.
That has surprised me, if maybe it

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shouldn't have. That has probably been
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To see the silence of the artists. It was any other group besides

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Israel, we know everybody would be
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to see the actual anti Semitism that
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that has been incredibly, credibly depressing. But it is what it is,

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and we have to stand up to
it. And we're creating further artistic

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efforts to use the arts to get
to the kids, because that's the only

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way we change the narrative and change
their minds is through the arts. No

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speech, No politician can do that. John tell us what the response has

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been actually within the music community,
and maybe not people reaching out publicly,

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but maybe privately. How have people
responded since you released. Okay, Yeah,

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it's interesting. The music press has
shunned it like they did Afghanistan,

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which is not surprising but shameful.
Many of these people who run the Rolling

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Stones of the world are Jewish,
and it's not just my song. I

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did get many emails and texts from
top executives in the industry, top ten

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executives in the world, who were
very grateful, and some of them have

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been outspoken to a certain degree with
some letters. There's a group out here

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called Sorry, I'm trying to voices
for conscience that are music industries folks that

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have said stuff. And I got
a lot of folks saying thank you for

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saying that. I agree with you. But my question was, why can't

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you say that on your social media? And I talked to some folks,

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you know, who are work with
iconic artists, and I'm like, what's

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going on, and they're like,
well, they're scared for themselves, they're

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scared for their families. They don't
want their concerts protested, which is all

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true. I see that with kind
of what I'm doing. But my response

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to them was, you understand those
were the same arguments as nineteen thirty eight,

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you know, that's how we got
here in the first place, and

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every voice makes us all stronger.
So so it's been it's been kind of

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a frustrating response from the endian because
I'm like, if you believe Hamas is

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evil, can't you say that?
Why is that so hard? I saw

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a speech. I'm not going to
mention her name because I don't want to

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start calling names. An iconic Jewish
singer who called out anti Semitism the other

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day, which is great, but
she couldn't mention the word Hamas. She

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couldn't mention the word Israel. You
know the Grammy statement. Everybody was so

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excited about the Grammys recognizing the Nova
concert and I'm like, I'm like,

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okay, But basically the message was
don't rape and pillage and murder people at

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a concert. A concert a safe
space. I'm like, well, shouldn't

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your home be a safe space?
Shouldn't driving down the street be a safe

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space? If you border a country, shouldn't you know, shouldn't your community

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be a safe space? So all
these statements are so lawyered and and constructed

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to not offend, and all that
does is prop a Hamas and the evil

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actors. So it's been very frustrating, but hopefully, hopefully we're starting to

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see a tie change. You know, today the cover of Time magazine,

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not a conservative outlet by any means
a has a picture of the rise of

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anti Semitism, so, you know, and we're working on some projects to

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use the arts on a global scale, so hopefully things might be changing.

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But yeah, Emily, again,
sorry for the long answer, but it's

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been incredibly frustrating. And I have
to imagine that's different from when you got

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into the industry. You know,
you mentioned Live Aid the concert for New

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York. It seems like a change. Well, it's a fascinating cultural study

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to see what's happened to our country
in the last twenty years with social media

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and the cancel culture and the woke
culture and the oppressed culture. How all

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of a sudden, everybody's scared to
hell. You know, they're scared to

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death. They're scared to say anything, they're scared to stand for anything.

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Their agents and managers are saying,
you can't say anything unless it fits the

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narrative of the times where you get
invite it to every party. Now you

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know, you're part of the virtue
signaling crew. And here's what you can

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talk about. It's almost like a
career move. It's like, Okay,

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we're gonna we're going to talk about
these issues that are very socially acceptable within

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you know, within the woke world
or the the world that that that people

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like to virtue signal in. But
don't you dare condemn hamas about you know,

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beheading babies in front of their present, their parents, or you know,

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God forbid what might happen. You
know, there's a few, you

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know, Michael Rappaport, I know, Mike pal Patty Heaton has been amazing.

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I'm actually going to see Deborah Messing
this Saturday at an event here.

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So there's been a few. But
of Jesus Christ, it's point oh two

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percent, you know, of the
industry, and and again, I think

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that just speaks to what we're talking
about. In all aspects of our culture,

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we are not okay, something's deeply
broken, and of course we that

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in our politics as well. You
know, we talked a little bit before

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going to air about the songs that
you've now written, and you know,

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they're not political, they're moral,
but they're on big political topics, broad

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political topics, and Jike, you
just talk a little bit about how unexpected

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that was for you. You know, It's so funny. I sit here

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and I like talk about how I
disdain these celebrities who get on their soapboxes

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and lecture us about world issues and
moral issues. And here I am with

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my third song on this. So
I certainly understand. I'm you know,

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I'm a hypocrite to a certain degree. But you know, I have a

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lot of dribble. Yeah, you
know, thank you. You know.

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I've always had a worldview that kind
of you know, I had a song

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called what kind of World do you
want? You know, and it wasn't

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it wasn't sane, this should be
the world, but it was talking about,

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you know, the world that we
have, the world we're leaving our

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kids. So I've always had kind
of a larger view on these things.

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Of course, after the Iraq War, you know, Superman became very important

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for our soldiers and one hundred years, and I've spent the last twenty years

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kind of doing stuff with the USO
and Garysonese Foundation, and so I've had

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a great kind of relationship and honored
to meet our troops. So I've always

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cared about freedom and all these things, and I wrote songs like freedom Never

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Cries. I wrote songs about Note
to an Unknown Soldiers. So I was

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talking about freedom, and I was
talking about, you know, our troops

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and just kind of ways that there
wasn't kind of any argument to it,

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you know, at least for me. So support our troops and freedom's good.

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But the Afghanistan song really just came
out of nowhere. I think I

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was just so angry and disgusted,
and my whole mindset of my kind of

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adult life was that politicians can do
crazy things, you know, they can

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do things that are moral, they
can do things that are you know,

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in saying, but our military leaders
are the adults in the room, you

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know, when things get really bad, we can count on them to do

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the right thing. And I think
when Million Austin and those guys came out

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after Afghan Matral and started saying this
is an extraordinary success and there's no you

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know, boy, you know,
even Kirby you know, you know,

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a few months ago saying what chaos
in Afghanistan? When they started playing the

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political line, I think it was
a shell shock to my world that this

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safety net that I always expected to
be there was not there. And that

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many of our military liary leaders are
just political actors like the politicians themselves,

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so that really scared me. And
the fact that some of my friends were

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going down in Afghanistan risking their lives
to rescue our citizens. That basically created

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this primal yell, which was that
song. You know, I typically don't

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write, you know, those kinds
of songs with the guitar. Those are

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not you know, I'm the guy
writing the piano ballot, so that one

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was just a primal yell. And
then to see the response for veterans who

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were frankly felt so alone that nobody
was feeling their pain. That made me

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think, Okay, there's there's important
reason to do this. It's not gonna

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be a hit song. It's not
gonna sell any records. It'll probably cost

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me, you know, with some
opportunities in the business. I certainly lose

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money on it, but I saw
it it make a huge difference with a

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select group of folks that I love, which are veterans, especially our Special

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Forces veterans. You know, Emily, I'm saying seeing the exact same thing

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with this Israel song. I've gotten
thousands of emails from Israelis and Jewish people

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around the world saying thank you.
I felt abandoned. Where are the artists?

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You know, we've staned, we
marched for civil rights, we stood

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with everybody. So when we're attacked, where is everybody? Thank you?

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Thank you for writing the song,
and that we're not crazy, you know.

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So I think these songs have a
unique way to make a difference,

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even though again I hope I never
had another one. I take no joy

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in it, but I do see
why they matter. And I also think

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for history's sake, you know,
twenty years people can listen to these songs

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and maybe get a different slice of
what they're being taught about the Afghanistan withdrawal,

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about the Ukraine War, and about
Hamas and Israel. So I guess

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that's kind of why I felt the
need to do it and continue to try

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to talk about these things that I
think willly affect the future for everybody,

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and particularly our children. You know, I keep talking about our children,

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and I so worry we're losing our
children. Inflation's not going anywhere. The

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unpack the connection between politics and the
economy and how it affects your wallet.

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Major companies are continuing to lay off
thousands of workers. Wholesale and retail prices

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went up in January. You can't
believe the government's job numbers. The spin

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will be out there, whether it's
happening in DC or down on Wall Street,

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it's affecting you financially. Be informed. Check out the Watchdot on Wall

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Street podcast with Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your

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podcast. Speaking of which, John, you're going on tour, and you

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also have the National Music in the
Schools program that you're working on. Yeah,

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tell us a little bit about that
project. It sounds excellent, It's

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very exciting. Yes, we'll be
on the road end of March and through

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April with the amazing Fire for Fighting
String Quartet and we will be playing Okay

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as well as as well as the
one hundred years in Superman songs. About

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a year and a half ago,
me and a friend, philanthropist from Chicago,

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Kaylee Tullman, decided to go into
an inner city Chicago school called Farragut

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Career Academy that didn't have an music
teacher. They'd lost their music teacher and

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when I was in fifth grade,
we lost our music funding, and my

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mom volunteered at our Vang Elementary and
started putting on musicals, and fifty years

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later, all the kids in those
musicals still talk about how that made a

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huge difference in their lives. And
me and Kayley went into this school because

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they'd lost their music teacher, and
we wrote a song together. I wrote

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a song with the kids called let
Music Film My World. And the idea

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was to write a song, record
a song, give them a whole experience

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about what it takes to create a
song, and raise money for a music

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teacher for that school, which we
did. We have quarter million dollars for

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a teacher at Argut Career Academy for
three years. And I was just there

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filming a week or two ago,
and it's just wonderful to see a teacher

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coming back into that classroom. And
we wanted to take that to a bigger

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national level, and that's what we're
doing. We haven't announced it yet,

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but because it's just you and me
here, Emily and all the federalists listeners,

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so I love I can't think of
a better place to kind of go

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break the news. But we are
in a few weeks you'll start hearing about

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it. We have an entity called
that Music Film My World, which supports

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getting a music teacher in every school. We have four million kids that have

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no music teacher, and we're having
a Music Matter Challenge and it's going to

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be like the Ice Bucket Challenge,
where people can tell a story about a

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music teacher or someone who matter in
their life, perhaps sing a little bit

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of the song, upload it,
and we'll have winners. We'll have a

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school winner, and we'll have a
Grand Prize winner and we'll work with them

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to find a school that needs a
music teacher and have another music teacher in

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a school. And it should be
a lot of fun. Emily, I

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see your guitar back there. I
look forward to you your entry into the

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Music Matters contest. But it'll be
a lot of fun. Certainly people have

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to be singers, but you'll be
hearing more about that in the next in

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the next few weeks, and I'm
excited to do something fun. You know,

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we're still working on this Israel song. We have some big projects that

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I think will impact globally, so
at the same time, to work on

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something where we're singing and we're getting
music teachers for kids, and we're putting

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a highlight on how music is magic
that also brings you know, that'll bring

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some joy to my to my days, and it should be a lot of

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fun. John, I'm really honored
that you talked about that here because it's

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just such an incredible project, really
really special. It's true. I mean,

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my high school band teachers, they
created such a space for creativity that

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you don't get into math class and
that you know, when you're a teenager,

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you don't get with your parents.
You know, you can sort of

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just have fun and you know,
bang on the drums and do whatever you

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want. So it's I'm really excited
to hear other people's stories because they they

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can. Music teachers can shape your
world in really powerful ways. What an

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awesome project, John, We're very
excited. Let music film my world.

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Let music film my world. With
music in the world, it's a better

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world. Amen to that. John
on Rassic going out on tour. Make

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sure that you check out what's the
website. John. Five for fighting dot

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com for fighting dot com, John
on Rassic on Twitter, five for fighting

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music on Instagram, five for fighting
Facebook. And I really appreciate you know,

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folks can find the Okay video everywhere
and every everybody who shares it.

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You know, your help move the
needle and I'm grateful for that. Don't

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take a look, folks. All
right, John, thank you so much

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for coming back on the show.
Thank you, Emily. You've been listening

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to another edition of the Federalist Radio
Hour. Emily Drshenski, culture editor here

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at the Federalists. We'll be back
soon with more. Until then, be

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lovers of freedom and anxious for the
friend, earn the Faber reason. Then

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ain't it away? M