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r r oe dot net. Good morning, Lee. How are

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you doing today?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Good morning Arrow. I'm doing great.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before we even get started, I want to congratulate

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you on your many, many many years with Kimberly Dalton

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and Parker, because not enough people are talking about how

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long love really does last and it blossoms every single day,

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and I swear we could be changing the future if

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we would just talk about our marriages and how strong

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we can be together.

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Speaker 2: Well, I thank you for saying that. Kim and I

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met on a USO tour. She was Miss Tennessee at

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the time. What a knockout, and she still is with

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our two boys thirty and twenty seven. Dalton is now

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married and just announced he's and his wife are pregnant,

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oh for first grand trial. And Parker's finished his Masters

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and music at Miami. He's now home in Nashville starting

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his musical career. And I embrace family. Kim and I

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married thirty four years now. So it's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: It is a beautiful thing, especially when you start having

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grand babies, because I mean, the thing about it is

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is that that's the next generation and to inspire them

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and to influence them to really take over with the

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love that you have in your heart for not only

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this nation but all people.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many videos I get from

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like a six or seven year old waving a little

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American flag going proud to be an American. Mary Vat

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then I know I'm free, you know, And they can

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sing every line of the song. You know what. That's

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where patriotism starts. And those little kids, yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well look at what you're gonna be doing with

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this song. Start the world over again. This is one

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that I have got to see live in concert because

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I want to watch the people as they sing it

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with you. This is another one of those songs that

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is going to become an anthem.

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Speaker 2: Sir, Yeah it is. I was pleased. Actually, Mark Joseph,

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the producer for the film Reagan, brought it to me

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about two years ago. I drug my feet, I drugged

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my feet. I have so much to do and and

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he said, please you know, look at this and I

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could not find a song in it. And I said, Okay,

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the only way I'm going to be able to do

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this I can't. I can't piece the puzzle together. I said.

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There's a lot of larric here and the meaningful stuff.

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I said. I knew Mike kurb I was on his

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label for four years. I knew Ronald Reagan. I worked

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on his campaign. I thought Dennis Craid did a great

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job in the film. And I said, but let me

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rewrite it. So into an original song, the only one

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off the album songs inspired by the film, and it's

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the only original that is by the singer. And so

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I got to write it and sing it and it's

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released as a single this week off the.

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Speaker 1: Album Please Do Not Move. We'll be right back with

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Lee Greenwood, the name of the song start the World

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Over Again, from the movie Reagan, We're back with Lee Greenwood.

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I'm just so glad that that that you're so open

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to talk about that Ronald Ray was part of this,

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and it comes from the movie, because I don't think

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that movie got as much justice as it deserves. Because

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people they need to put it back in the theater,

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and we all need to go back in there, and

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I think this song could do that. Just get it

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back in there so we can experience it.

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Speaker 2: My older son, Dalton's thirty, is a historian. Yeah, And

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when you talk to a young person like that about

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remembering the Reagan era, I remembered extinctly, well distinctly because

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I lived it. And how inspiring he was for the country.

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He swept the nation, I mean, and it wasn't just

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because he knew how to tell a joke now and

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then his altruistic point of view about remember mister Gorbachev

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terardoun on that wall. I mean, freedom came, freedom came

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alive and well during his presidency. And so you have

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to remember the Reagan era. I don't know that even

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the film can drag us back to that era. And

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that's what happens with every president, and every president will

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have his challenge, just like in forty three when we

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had the attack on America, President Bush stood on the

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rubble and said, we will find you wherever you are

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in the world. Thank god he was the president at

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that time. And so now we have President Trump, who

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should have won the Nobel Priest Prize for his arbitrating

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in the peace agreement in Israel at the Egypt Accord,

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and every president will, but I've been tied to four

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of them now over four decades. And so what a

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great privilege to be able to be known for writing

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this song which again ties Reagan to me to Trump

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and four decades.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, it was such an interesting time period because

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that was my very first election. I was an eighteen

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year old punk kid who got married at the age

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of eighteen and took on Reagan's America. And then I'll

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tell you what, if I would have had a different president,

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I don't think I would have the foundation that I

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have today.

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Speaker 2: Well there you go. You know, it's lead from the

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top down in many instances, and we do what we're told.

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But in the new generation, at least in the last

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fifteen or twenty years, young people are going to question

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the government. They're beginning to question like what we do

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and how we tell them to do things, and rightly. So,

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I mean, that's how you form a democracy. And so

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from the founding fathers to today, I hope this country

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can resolve its issues and move forward.

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Speaker 1: When people start seeing the titles starting the world again,

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or when radio says here's that song from Lee Greenwood

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starting the World Again. You know, we're all going to

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have our own interpretation of that. But there's more to

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this song than just the title, isn't there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, there is. Yeah, it's a reflection of time gone by,

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but it's a promise of what's to come. And that's

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the way I penned the lyrics. And when I wrote

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the law, the one line that came from Reagan the

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beacon of hope. I still want this country to be

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a beacon of hope for people who come here. I

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know that there's a rash leaving of young people who

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have been given grants for colleges because they get a

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free ride and they're going back to other countries again.

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I hope that we can build once again that institution

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of education. The people will start coming back and bringing

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their talent back to the United States. But it's going

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to take a bit. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Well, they got to have your attitude, because I'll tell

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you what. When you first appeared on the country music scene,

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our industry was in big trouble. The urban cowboy movement

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hadn't really happened yet, and all of a sudden, country

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music was that thing that I think I listened to it,

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and then here comes Lee Greenwood, and all of a sudden,

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you put some fuel in that fire. And look at

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where you're growing today.

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Speaker 2: Everywhere. Yeah, it's exciting, and it was exciting then and

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it still is now.

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Speaker 1: It sure is. You've got to come back to this

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show anytime in the future. Seven minutes with you, Lee

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is just not enough.

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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that, and I like iHeartRadio. I like

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what you do. And for you folks there in Charlotte,

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I hope I get to come see you soon.

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Speaker 1: You will, You'll be here because that's just you. I'll

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see you when you get here. All right, my friend,

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be brilliant today, Okay, Lee, yep.