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Speaker 2: Con who happens to be the Minister of Culture at
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Speaker 2: do every week at this time with one of the
Speaker 2: representatives from Breitbart Today. Singer songwriter John Conn joins the
Speaker 2: program to talk about and congratulations on number one, the
Speaker 2: fight the Fighter song that you wrote. Welcome to the
Speaker 2: morning Show.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure, Thank you, Brian, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 2: Now you're you're used to hearing your own voice and
Speaker 2: hearing your songs. I remember when I first started on radio,
Speaker 2: it was kind of weird to get used to the
Speaker 2: idea of hearing your own voice, and after a little
Speaker 2: while this doesn't register anymore. But having a number one
Speaker 2: song in America, that's quite an accomplishment. Is it a
Speaker 2: different are you? Does it have a different feel to
Speaker 2: it with this the Successive Fighter?
Speaker 1: One hundred percent?
Speaker 3: I mean, And you know, for me, I never get
Speaker 3: used to hearing my own voice, and even when you
Speaker 3: just played it in the intro, it's like.
Speaker 1: Is that mean? But it's it's uh.
Speaker 3: You know, anytime you write a song, Brian, you hope
Speaker 3: it reaches you know a handful of people and hopefully
Speaker 3: it'll move a few. And that's a gift in and
Speaker 3: of itself.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: For this song to do what it's done and reach
Speaker 3: so many people is almost beyond my comprehension.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean considering you know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: say the talent that you beat out, but you know,
Speaker 2: big big names and the music industry and you know,
Speaker 2: little old John con seemingly out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: You've been around for a long time.
Speaker 2: I know you met Andrew Breitbart back in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight and you went on tea party tours with him,
Speaker 2: and after he passed aways when you joined Breitbart, and
Speaker 2: it actually came out because you used to you used
Speaker 2: to kind of use a fake name. My understanding in
Speaker 2: your early days.
Speaker 3: Well, my entrance into the media political world was pretty
Speaker 3: pretty unusual. I had met Andrew at a conservative speakeasy,
Speaker 3: I guess you could say in Los Angeles, which was
Speaker 3: it was a group called Friends of Abe and it
Speaker 3: was it was designed for anybody in the entertainment business,
Speaker 3: whether it be you, film writers, directors, actors, musicians, to
Speaker 3: have a fellowship in a safe place to talk about
Speaker 3: their views. This is I think in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 3: and it was just a place where, you know, you
Speaker 3: could talk about it without the fear of losing work.
Speaker 3: And I made a joke or something, and guy comes
Speaker 3: up to me. He's got a McCain hat on, holding
Speaker 3: the laptop, and he says, I'm starting this new site.
Speaker 3: I want you to write the court and I said,
Speaker 3: not under my real name. I can't and he said, well,
Speaker 3: that's all right. And I began a comedic column and
Speaker 3: out of that column came a song called American Heart.
Speaker 3: And then Andrews said to me, Hey, do you want
Speaker 3: to play your song at a tea party?
Speaker 1: Was right at the very beginning of the movement. I said,
Speaker 1: what's the tea party?
Speaker 3: He goes, I don't know, And so that was, like
Speaker 3: I mean, it was the very first one. And then
Speaker 3: he and I began't you know, just sort of toured
Speaker 3: the country.
Speaker 1: He would speak, I would play.
Speaker 3: And then shortly after that I kind of came out
Speaker 3: of the conservative closet. And the rest is a little
Speaker 3: bit of history. I joined Bridbart when he passed away.
Speaker 3: He was a dear friend of mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what a great man and what a legacy
Speaker 2: he has left. And I as the host of the
Speaker 2: morning show, I regularly, and I pointed out all the
Speaker 2: time rely on a lot of the news I find
Speaker 2: on Breitbart, because well, you're not going to find it.
Speaker 2: And he's so called legacy or mainstream media. You report
Speaker 2: on topics that they really wish nobody would report on.
Speaker 2: But you're you're the minister of culture. There can you
Speaker 2: just what if you could explain that role?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I came from as you mentioned, I
Speaker 3: came from the film world, and I came from the
Speaker 3: music world. And when Andrew passed away, Larry sold off
Speaker 3: the current CEO, and Steve Vannon at the time said,
Speaker 3: you know, Andrew always wanted you to be part of
Speaker 3: the company, but didn't know how to fit me in.
Speaker 3: You know, because of my background, they knew, they knew
Speaker 3: it made sense somehow because I was I was so
Speaker 3: part of what everything, what everybody was doing at that time,
Speaker 3: and and and the title was given to me, and
Speaker 3: it was pretty vague, and I just started helping out.
Speaker 3: And here I am twelve thirteen years later.
Speaker 2: And obviously spreading the word through the song fighter number
Speaker 2: one song on Billboard Digital Sales, what else a Billboard
Speaker 2: Top five. I mean, it just blew up and you had,
Speaker 2: I mean, Greg Guttfeld, I tweeted the song out about it.
Speaker 2: You featured it on the program. Were you actually on
Speaker 2: Gutfill's program with this?
Speaker 1: I wasn't.
Speaker 3: I did a couple of Fox hits. I did Trace
Speaker 3: Gallagher's show last week. The song was featured on Fox
Speaker 3: and Friends on Sunday, and yesterday I did a segment
Speaker 3: with Martha McCallum. But I think I think the pinnacle
Speaker 3: for me so far was hearing it played at the
Speaker 3: Butler Rally yea, and watching the video and that was
Speaker 3: sort of I mean, that was a goosebump moment for me.
Speaker 2: Oh I imagine now I got to ask you this
Speaker 2: because you know, practically speaking, if you have a number
Speaker 2: one song, presumably there might be some sort of remuneration,
Speaker 2: might get some compensation for that. Is that the case
Speaker 2: with with Fighter? Are you able to make any money
Speaker 2: off of it, whether or not you donate the proceeds
Speaker 2: or anything else. I'm just wondering if it's if it's
Speaker 2: lucrative at all, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I don't know the for songwriters. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: why they're always on Capitol Hill. Yes, with streaming and
Speaker 3: all that, they don't make, you know, a ton of
Speaker 3: money on songungs. I'm actually not focused on that because
Speaker 3: it really was something that came from a place of
Speaker 3: wanting to show a side of President Trump that the
Speaker 3: mainstream media wasn't showing. And so I'm really just focused
Speaker 3: on November and hopefully getting a song out there and
Speaker 3: shared because I think it it could be helpful in
Speaker 3: confirming the fact that there's so many people that are
Speaker 3: looking at this gaslighting machine that we're facing.
Speaker 1: Yes and thinking that's not who he is, that's not
Speaker 1: my guy.
Speaker 3: And then hopefully, you know, if a few people see this.
Speaker 3: The video that accompanies the song they think, Man, I'm
Speaker 3: not alone. That's my guy. And so that's sort of
Speaker 3: what I'm focused on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm sure you've observed, as I mean, you
Speaker 2: can't if you're paying attention to politics, John, that this
Speaker 2: evil orange man, it's baked in the cake. You've got
Speaker 2: a Pavlovian response from such a sizable chunk of the population.
Speaker 2: If his name is mentioned, they go crazy, you know, aside,
Speaker 2: you know the litany. And as we drive around town,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll see a lot of Harris Wall signs,
Speaker 2: not that many Trump signs. And I think part of
Speaker 2: it is it's not that there aren't Trump supporters out there,
Speaker 2: It's just that this, this Pavlovian response is inevitable. And
Speaker 2: so why put my you know why I put Trump's
Speaker 2: name in my front yard. I'm voting for the man,
Speaker 2: but I just don't want to, you know, get deal
Speaker 2: with the slings and arrows of outrage that the left
Speaker 2: keeps throwing at people. I mean, do you get a
Speaker 2: reception of that? It's like the silent majority we used
Speaker 2: to talk about back in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean I'm from im I live in LA. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you mentioned if you mentioned the name Trump. You get,
Speaker 3: you get exactly what you're talking about. But I'll tell
Speaker 3: you it's interesting. When I put this song out, you know,
Speaker 3: I did lose a couple of friends when they saw it,
Speaker 3: who who actually knew where I worked prior to releasing
Speaker 3: the song. But when the song started to get attention,
Speaker 3: that was a bridge too far for them. But what
Speaker 3: was interesting is I did get a lot of private
Speaker 3: messages from people in la that I never.
Speaker 1: Thought would be on our side of the political.
Speaker 3: Football and saying, hey, listen, I'm not at a place
Speaker 3: right now where I can discuss it again going back
Speaker 3: to working in Hollywood and being a Trump supporter, but
Speaker 3: they said I'm with you and thanks for writing the song.
Speaker 3: And when you get those notes, it does a lot
Speaker 3: for your spirit, because you know there are those silent
Speaker 3: folks out there.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. And I guess you were you
Speaker 2: wrote it for Donald Trump. I mean the lyrics are
Speaker 2: great lyrics and I particularly I particularly like that. So
Speaker 2: take your shot. Is that all you got? But you
Speaker 2: obviously were thinking of Donald Trump and writing this sort
Speaker 2: of as as an ode to him.
Speaker 3: Well, it was actually a lot of people think the
Speaker 3: song was written in response to theation attempt, when in
Speaker 3: fact it was written before and it was just a
Speaker 3: response to I think everything we have witnessed that's been
Speaker 3: thrown at Donald Trump since he's elected in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: and you know, I was just watching it and it
Speaker 3: culminated for me after that bogus conviction of that bogus
Speaker 3: New York case. You know, the way he handled that,
Speaker 3: the way he could walk up to the microphones, you know,
Speaker 3: after that conviction, and I was just I was just
Speaker 3: watching the news and the way he sauntered up to
Speaker 3: the microphone, it just was there was something about his
Speaker 3: unflappable demeanor that you that for me, I just said,
Speaker 3: nothing can stop this man. I mean, he doesn't need
Speaker 3: to have this life. I mean what man could withstand
Speaker 3: more than he has? And that was before two assassination
Speaker 3: attempts and the debate that was three on one, and
Speaker 3: that's that was the impetus for the song. And I
Speaker 3: started to write the song, and then I realized I
Speaker 3: was going to go write with somebody in Nashville who
Speaker 3: I had never written with, a guy named Chris Wallen.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible songwriter, and.
Speaker 3: I took the idea into him and he was like,
Speaker 3: we got to do this, and so that's how the
Speaker 3: song came to be.
Speaker 2: Well, it's worthy that, you know how much Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has had to endure throughout his entire presidency, and since
Speaker 2: very few people out there in the world could could
Speaker 2: ever hope to handle that kind of thing. The pressure
Speaker 2: was just just unbelievable, from the Russian collusion, helks and
Speaker 2: the Steele dossier, all the way through these ridiculous real
Speaker 2: estate allegations where the bank even said it got all
Speaker 2: its money back, it didn't lose anything. Why am I here?
Speaker 2: Why is he being prosecuted just one thing after another?
Speaker 2: And he stands proud, and he stands tall, and that
Speaker 2: takes a man with some some spine and some backbone.
Speaker 2: So I can see how you would be inspired by
Speaker 2: him as a human being capable of dealing with these challenges.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, it's the song developed we realized
Speaker 3: it was it was not just for President Trump. It
Speaker 3: was sort of supporters in the same way that we
Speaker 3: were talking about that there are people that are the
Speaker 3: social intimidation, all those people that are.
Speaker 1: Fighting alongside them that are quiet.
Speaker 3: And the song is also for them, but even broader,
Speaker 3: you know, I think the song speaks or hope I
Speaker 3: I hope it speaks to those folks that are just
Speaker 3: dealing with their daily battles in life. You know, whether
Speaker 3: it be fighting illness, or fighting financial instability, or recovering
Speaker 3: from a hurricane, or whatever it is. You know, if
Speaker 3: the song inspires anybody to get up off the mat
Speaker 3: and keep swinging, then that's truly a gift.
Speaker 2: Well, you've done it. It's a gift for the entire
Speaker 2: United States. I appreciate your being on the Bright Bart
Speaker 2: Inside Scoop here on the Morning Show today, John conn
Speaker 2: author of a rather writer and singer A Fighter. You
Speaker 2: can find it online. Everybody else has it's number one. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: wonderful job. Keep up the great work as the Minister
Speaker 2: of Culture, John, and I'll look forward to having you
Speaker 2: back on the Morning Show someday for another Bright Bart
Speaker 2: Inside Scoop.
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