Speaker 1: Edition of Sunday Night Line for me Garry jump Walker,
Speaker 1: I guess in for Mike Allen Junior. This is his
Speaker 1: regular slot on a Sunday evening. It's a pleasure to
Speaker 1: be with you anytime I get the chance. I'm jomping
Speaker 1: at the bid, believe me, and I hope it's been
Speaker 1: as great a day for you as it has been
Speaker 1: for me. I got to spend a good couple of
Speaker 1: hours in how now Brown County with my friends at
Speaker 1: Brookies Saloon there in Ripley, playing music with my good
Speaker 1: friend Chris Cohens. We've done this now for twenty years
Speaker 1: together on and off at different places around town, and
Speaker 1: today we were stopping at Brookies on the Farewell tour
Speaker 1: and it was a fantastic show. Love to see the
Speaker 1: folks out there, had a great time, a great crowd
Speaker 1: of people, just good people, you know, just good Downder,
Speaker 1: the Reds good at the broom work this weekend over
Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondback swept the series with another win today
Speaker 1: and now of even their record once again at five
Speaker 1: hundred for the season. As Austin Nolmore mentioned, still seven
Speaker 1: and a half games out of first four and a
Speaker 1: half games out of a wild card position. But nonetheless
Speaker 1: they're back to break even, where they've been so many
Speaker 1: times already this season. I predicted at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season that they would break even on the year
Speaker 1: at eighty one and eighty one, and so far they
Speaker 1: are upholding my prediction. There's a lot going on. There's
Speaker 1: always a lot going on. It's kind of a stupid
Speaker 1: thing to say there's a lot going on. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that is going on is the continued
Speaker 1: spying by the Communist Chinese Party. Of course, last week
Speaker 1: we had two people arrested for agro terror, trying to
Speaker 1: smuggle fungus into our country to infect American crops. The
Speaker 1: Communist Chinese Party has a long plan, a long term plan,
Speaker 1: a year plan, or at least one hundred year plan,
Speaker 1: and we're kind of late to the.
Speaker 2: Party in many ways.
Speaker 1: Also significant this weekend the ice protest in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: that have led our President Donald Trump to send the
Speaker 1: National Guard to California National Guard out to LA to
Speaker 1: defend federal buildings and law enforcement ICE officials who are
Speaker 1: simply obeying, upholding the law, doing their job, doing exactly
Speaker 1: what President Trump has commissioned them to do, which is
Speaker 1: follow the law and get illegal criminals out of our country.
Speaker 1: But there is this protest and who's funding it and
Speaker 1: why they're funding it, and who the people are who
Speaker 1: are in many cases assaulting law enforcement officials, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, is not expression of freedom of speech. Is
Speaker 1: not defending your First Amendment right when you are trying
Speaker 1: to breach federal buildings, when you are assaulting federal law
Speaker 1: enforcement or local law enforcement, that's not First Amendment stuff.
Speaker 1: To talk about all that and more. Is our first
Speaker 1: guest tonight. He is Douglas Ernest. He's a retired captain,
Speaker 1: but a lot more than that, and has a book
Speaker 1: out we've talked once or twice before, called The Spirit
Speaker 1: of a True Patriot, The Inspiring Story of Retired Captain
Speaker 1: Douglas j Ernest, and he joins us on the telephone
Speaker 1: right now for the next few minutes. Doug Arnest, good
Speaker 1: evening and welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Gary. It's a pleasure to be with
Speaker 3: you and your listeners this evening.
Speaker 1: So how many years were you in the military and
Speaker 1: serving our country.
Speaker 3: I was in for twenty years.
Speaker 4: I served as an enlisted infantrymen and later became an
Speaker 4: armor officer in the US Army. All in total, I
Speaker 4: did about twenty years of service before I retired back
Speaker 4: around seven eighth nine.
Speaker 3: Somewhere in that era, I had.
Speaker 4: Pulled the plug and gone into the full civilian workforce
Speaker 4: full time.
Speaker 1: You're an Operation Desert Storm, and thank you for everything
Speaker 1: you've done for our country and continue to do through
Speaker 1: your work. And you have pretty amazing story too, because
Speaker 1: you fell in love with corvettes at a certain point,
Speaker 1: as many people have, and you thought, you know, more
Speaker 1: people ought to experience how cool this is riding around
Speaker 1: in a corvette with the top down. And after you retired,
Speaker 1: you decided, you know, maybe I'll just go to work
Speaker 1: at car dealership because this turns me on so much.
Speaker 1: And you were a salesperson, and then you thought you'd
Speaker 1: take that to the next level. Tell me how you
Speaker 1: did that taking it to the next level.
Speaker 4: Well, great crushing, Gary. Well, it started out when I
Speaker 4: was a kid, about ten eleven years old. My uncle Bob,
Speaker 4: who was a Vietnam vetterner and had the seventy nine
Speaker 4: sober On Red at Lady two four speed coop and
Speaker 4: he showed up one day at my grandma's house in
Speaker 4: this corvette, and back then they only cost about ten
Speaker 4: thousand bucks. I remember everybody in my family thought how
Speaker 4: great it was that my uncle had come back from
Speaker 4: serving his country and he had saved all his.
Speaker 3: Money and bought a corvette.
Speaker 4: And that just left a major impression on my mind
Speaker 4: and kept help me catapult myself into what I wanted
Speaker 4: to do with my life.
Speaker 3: So I joined the military at the.
Speaker 4: Age of seventeen, and when I was in the military,
Speaker 4: I started tinkering with corvettes. I started playing with them,
Speaker 4: taking them apart, putting them together, selling them on the side,
Speaker 4: selling parts, just because I was very passionate about the
Speaker 4: car and I actually enjoyed it something I did most
Speaker 4: of my free time. I spent as a hobbyist playing
Speaker 4: with these cars. And then when I was in the military,
Speaker 4: I actually started my business in ninety four or ninety
Speaker 4: five while I was serving simultaneously in the military. Because
Speaker 4: I did it as a side, I did it as
Speaker 4: my free time. I always rented a building, kept my parts,
Speaker 4: kept my shop, kept everything. They're very small, very very humble,
Speaker 4: three four or five cars, and over time it just
Speaker 4: grew and but you know, I've been so fortunate and
Speaker 4: blessed by the Lord that I've put my mission in
Speaker 4: life is to serve my customer, Serve my family, serve
Speaker 4: my community, do a plesoura of different things. But my
Speaker 4: most important thing was I was doing something I love,
Speaker 4: I enjoyed, and I believe that people do do things
Speaker 4: in life that they love and enjoy. You can be
Speaker 4: successful at it, especially when you get up and go
Speaker 4: to work every day. It's not work if you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I've been in radio now for forty
Speaker 1: five years as of this month, somewhere on the air
Speaker 1: consistently since June first of nineteen eighty and You're right,
Speaker 1: it's never been like work for me doing this, talking
Speaker 1: to people, play music, whatever it was. So I can
Speaker 1: absolutely concur with that passion and that philosophy on life.
Speaker 1: So let's get down to some issues here. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the Chinese spies who are here in
Speaker 1: droves actually in this country. They're hiding in plain sight
Speaker 1: in many places in our universities and our research labs
Speaker 1: as scientists. As the woman was who was arrested last
Speaker 1: week for smuggling a crop killing fungus into the United
Speaker 1: States from China. Her cohort also was found. But how
Speaker 1: many more of these are there out there?
Speaker 2: Doug?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is insane because we're being
Speaker 1: attacked from all kinds of different angles. And you consider
Speaker 1: that the Chinese, who in many cases before for at
Speaker 1: least the Trump administration, we're buying up great swaths of
Speaker 1: American farmland, especially near military bases. And now you find
Speaker 1: that they're trying to mess with us again our food
Speaker 1: supply by smuggling dangerous fungus into this country and again
Speaker 1: doing it basically in plain sight.
Speaker 4: You know, great question, and we see this as the
Speaker 4: agricultural terrorism has increased over the last well three to
Speaker 4: four years. It's actually hyper increased since the Biden administration
Speaker 4: took over and they started doing these student visas and
Speaker 4: these B one twenty one visas where they allow to
Speaker 4: plafore different people to come into this country illegally and legally.
Speaker 4: And when these people come into our country, these people
Speaker 4: are coming through Customers Border Patrol, they're very confident that
Speaker 4: they can get these bioterrorism weapons through to us. Now,
Speaker 4: these just aren't you.
Speaker 3: Know, something that can make somebody sick.
Speaker 4: These are things that if you read the articles that
Speaker 4: were put out on the news of the last few days,
Speaker 4: this is stuff that kills the fetuses and women. It
Speaker 4: will cause a new baby feet is to explode inside.
Speaker 3: The woman's body.
Speaker 4: This is some pretty nasty stuff. And this is stuff
Speaker 4: that's created in the lab in Wuhan. It's something that's
Speaker 4: created overseas that these China nationals have created in.
Speaker 3: Order to destroy our country.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a way that they conduct their warfare
Speaker 4: from secret terrorism. Now, if there's something another counterpart to that,
Speaker 4: how many how many US operatives do we have in China?
Speaker 4: Would I would argue you have a handful of them
Speaker 4: because you can't get into China. If you try to
Speaker 4: cross into China illegally, you'll get shot and killed. But
Speaker 4: for the last four years to come to our country,
Speaker 4: that left the door wide open. They gave you a
Speaker 4: VVA and I'll let you come right across the river.
Speaker 4: They gave you a cell phone, they gave you a stipend.
Speaker 4: So it's been a sad state of affairs for the
Speaker 4: last four years in our country. But the good thing
Speaker 4: is that the Trump administration is taking a wholehearted approach
Speaker 4: to be able to ring in the realms of these
Speaker 4: terroristic cells and be able to bring us back to
Speaker 4: what we would consider as a Americans normalcy. And right now,
Speaker 4: they did catch these perpetrators. It's not like they got
Speaker 4: in like there's thousands out there, but they are.
Speaker 3: Going to catch it.
Speaker 4: And these investigators will work hard and diligently to find
Speaker 4: these networks, cramp down, find out where they come from, and.
Speaker 3: Make sure it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of work going on behind the
Speaker 4: scenes that the people don't see that is going to
Speaker 4: make it harder to get these these products into our
Speaker 4: country that can destroy Americans' lives.
Speaker 1: Well, I think this illustrates too Douglas, why it's so
Speaker 1: important that the President has re imposed these travel bands
Speaker 1: on these countries that we know are not only hostile
Speaker 1: towards us, but contain all kinds of unvetted people who
Speaker 1: have been heretofore allowed into our country, and imposing further
Speaker 1: travel restrictions on people coming in from communists China. It's
Speaker 1: very important that we do this and get ahead of
Speaker 1: the game, and when we've been behind the eight ball
Speaker 1: for so long because of what the Biden ad Ministry
Speaker 1: did or didn't do to protect this nation. And don't
Speaker 1: you think that the travel bans and the restrictions are
Speaker 1: going to help a lot as we try and get
Speaker 1: a handle on this.
Speaker 3: The travel ban is an absolutely necessary.
Speaker 4: Thing that needed to be done by the Trump administration
Speaker 4: to again real in the realms of what's going on
Speaker 4: with the open just wide open, full frottle to the metal,
Speaker 4: to to let people come into this country. You can
Speaker 4: see what that brought us with the Egyptian national that
Speaker 4: couldn't get a gun because he didn't have the permission
Speaker 4: and he was out, he was out of turn for
Speaker 4: his temporary visa, so he couldn't get a weapon. He
Speaker 4: couldn't go buy a weapon, so he decided to use
Speaker 4: a frame flower to destroy people and to destroy American lives.
Speaker 3: So absolutely this is something that has to be done.
Speaker 4: And the Trump administration has been doing a fantastic job
Speaker 4: since they took over to number one close the border.
Speaker 4: Border crossings illegally are down about ninety seven percent. They'd
Speaker 4: done a great job of throwing the border, increasing the
Speaker 4: funding and the personnel for Customs border patrol, and also
Speaker 4: just clamping down and attempting to clamp down. Now there's
Speaker 4: another thing that is the paradox of this, as we
Speaker 4: have these American judges who, at every which way we turn,
Speaker 4: we see on the legacy media that they are turning
Speaker 4: the orders of the president around and attempting to contradict
Speaker 4: what the President of the United States does and acted
Speaker 4: these orders to keep our citizens safe.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be a tug of war.
Speaker 4: It's going to be this back and forth, this tension
Speaker 4: between the Trump administration and these judges, these small judges
Speaker 4: and these small jurisdictions that are trying to override the
Speaker 4: policy of the presidency.
Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the flame throwing terrorists from Colorado. The
Speaker 1: Egyptian national who has now been arrested and will face
Speaker 1: trial and his family being deported or they're making the
Speaker 1: effort anyway, couldn't get a gun because of his status,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't get him out of the country.
Speaker 2: He was here.
Speaker 1: Illegally, and there are so many others that are here illegally,
Speaker 1: and there is a contingent of people in this country.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're unpatriotic. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they care. I don't know if they're just misguided or
Speaker 1: misinformed who are protesting the efforts of President Trump, of
Speaker 1: Immigration Ice and federal law enforcement officials to round them
Speaker 1: up and get them out of here, because the first
Speaker 1: thing they did when they entered this country or stayed
Speaker 1: or overstayed their visa was break the law. And now
Speaker 1: we find out that many of them are involved in rape,
Speaker 1: in child pornography, in murder, and of course the attempted
Speaker 1: murder of all those people in Boulder last week at
Speaker 1: the protest by people who were trying to get the
Speaker 1: hostages out of Hamas. What is the mentality you think
Speaker 1: of those people is there? Is it brainwashing, is it misinformation?
Speaker 1: Or are they part of a broader plan to divide
Speaker 1: and cause chaos here in the United States?
Speaker 2: What's your view?
Speaker 4: You know, very that's a great question, And over the
Speaker 4: last three years, I've done hundreds of these interviews, and
Speaker 4: that's a very common question. Now, just to give you
Speaker 4: a quick backdrop, when I grew up, my grandfather on
Speaker 4: one side was a Democrat and my grandfather on the
Speaker 4: other side was a Republican, So I was able to
Speaker 4: see both sides of the spectrum, and my grandfather's Democratic
Speaker 4: party was quite different than what we see with the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party, you.
Speaker 3: Know, JFK and so exactly.
Speaker 4: So I've been able to grow up and see both sides.
Speaker 4: And as a kid, I didn't know which way to go.
Speaker 4: I didn't know whether which side to lean to because
Speaker 4: I was more.
Speaker 3: Interested in chasing, chasing, you know, chasing.
Speaker 4: My dream and you know, opening up a Corvette dealership
Speaker 4: and drinking beer all the time. That I didn't really
Speaker 4: become involved in politics until my late forties, early fifties,
Speaker 4: when I saw what was happening to my country in
Speaker 4: the last three to four years under the Biden administration,
Speaker 4: when I decided to you know, not keep my mouth
Speaker 4: shutting more and take the stand and the way I
Speaker 4: take my standards through my street speech into you know,
Speaker 4: and talk on these radio shows and express my views
Speaker 4: that are good for my country. But I would think,
Speaker 4: you know, when I had this discussion with people over
Speaker 4: the years, you know, I think it starts with the money.
Speaker 4: And you know, if you if you lean left, you
Speaker 4: and you side with the Democrat, you know.
Speaker 3: There's profit in that. There's a lot of money in that.
Speaker 4: And when I was in military training school for lieutenant
Speaker 4: school back in ninety six and Fort Knox, we had
Speaker 4: this great military professor who was teaching us about political idealologies,
Speaker 4: and he put it really simple for me back in
Speaker 4: ninety six ninety seven era, and he said, the Republicans
Speaker 4: are a group of people that believe that you are
Speaker 4: in control of your own destiny, that you don't have
Speaker 4: the right to implict your views and implict.
Speaker 3: Your your ideologies on other people's lives.
Speaker 4: Everybody has a right to be free and make your
Speaker 4: own decision, and you can't control other people's environment. Well,
Speaker 4: the democratic view or the liberal view is the opposite.
Speaker 4: They believe that you cannot control yourself and within that
Speaker 4: you have to control.
Speaker 3: Everybody else from the outside.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to just control things that are usually
Speaker 4: from you know, a common sense perspective, something that would
Speaker 4: be uncontrollable.
Speaker 3: And you know, we we do need both parties.
Speaker 4: You can't have one party, otherwise our country would be diminished.
Speaker 4: And we are the longest running countries, the greatest nation
Speaker 4: and the planet. And you'll realize that once you travel
Speaker 4: the world and serve in other nations and see how
Speaker 4: good we got and how great we got in this country.
Speaker 4: Why we've been around for almost, you know, two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty years. So I would think number one is
Speaker 4: the money. Number two it's the teaching of the political
Speaker 4: idealology that a got gaged. It's in just brought to
Speaker 4: you through cultural reasoning and people bring it with them.
Speaker 4: And then number three it's once you're in and you
Speaker 4: get the inertial forces, it's hard to go back once
Speaker 4: you start taking on you know, Democratic voder you know,
Speaker 4: these judges start taking money from the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: You know, they get a lot of money.
Speaker 4: They get a lot of money, and there's billions of
Speaker 4: dollars raised to support these groups, and a lot of
Speaker 4: that money comes from overseas and for people that you
Speaker 4: wouldn't want to be investing into our elections and to
Speaker 4: our government bodies. So I think it's that tryad of
Speaker 4: where these these these what you would call, you know,
Speaker 4: crazy idealolities and people that would you know, and fight
Speaker 4: to the death and harm our fellow American citizens and
Speaker 4: put your fellow brothers and sisters that are our neighbors
Speaker 4: ahead of other people that come to this country to
Speaker 4: hurt us and come to this country illegally and come
Speaker 4: to this country to harm our citizens. It just doesn't
Speaker 4: make common sense. But you know, I've heard that, you know,
Speaker 4: years ago. If you tell a lie enough, sooner or later,
Speaker 4: people are going to start to believe it.
Speaker 1: Well, I agree with you, Douglassers, that it's important to
Speaker 1: have more than one party, because we see what a
Speaker 1: one party system does in states like California, in Illinois,
Speaker 1: in New York, in Massachusetts, and just tick off all
Speaker 1: of the blue states in this country that are essentially
Speaker 1: one party states. But is it you know, the thing is,
Speaker 1: do we want the second party to be the communist party?
Speaker 1: Because that's the way it looks right now because of
Speaker 1: what's happened to the Democrat Party.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Democratic Party is on it. They're in shambles.
Speaker 4: If you look at that if you look at that
Speaker 4: map from November when President Trump wung the election, it
Speaker 4: was bright.
Speaker 3: Red all the way across. Oh yeah, on the left
Speaker 3: and right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you go, if you go county, if you go
Speaker 1: county by county, you're absolutely correct. Listen, I'm sorry our
Speaker 1: time's up, but I appreciate your time so much. The
Speaker 1: spirit of a true patriot. Douglas Ernest, thank you again
Speaker 1: for joining us tonight.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: It was my pleasure, Geary, take care and thank you.
Speaker 4: For agadud to keep putting out the message for our country,
Speaker 4: for a party and to keep America safe and helped
Speaker 4: America come up with another.
Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: God bless you, Ryan Wood, you too.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sir Ryan Wood on the grooming of America
Speaker 1: as it continues, Lady Maga Usa, right after the news.
Speaker 1: I started talking to Jeez on nightcaps probably six seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Maybe our first conversation was way back then
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. He is a I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing currently. He is a former performer, entertainer.
Speaker 1: He did a mean Britney Spears at one point. I
Speaker 1: know that I've seen the photos, and he is very
Speaker 1: strongly opinionated about the continued efforts to groom young children
Speaker 1: into lifestyles that they shouldn't be exposed to a certainly
Speaker 1: at the ages of two to five years old, much
Speaker 1: less any time before you know, before adolescence at the
Speaker 1: very very earliest. And to talk about what's continuing to
Speaker 1: go on in this country even after the election of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the the end of the woke movement movement,
Speaker 1: Ryan would Lady Maga USA formerly how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Ryan?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 4: Gary.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's such an honor to talk to you. I'm
Speaker 5: so grateful to have this opportunity. And yeah, like you said,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a drag performer. I play the character
Speaker 5: of Lady Maga to troll the left and I've had
Speaker 5: a lot of fun. But the LGBTQ they took drag
Speaker 5: and for some reason, they decided to take their most
Speaker 5: sexual performances and do it in front of children like
Speaker 5: my nieces and nephews, and the entire focus of the
Speaker 5: LGBTQ movement, which I had nothing to do with me
Speaker 5: as a gay dude. I don't know what the hell
Speaker 5: they represent anymore. But everything they do is child focused
Speaker 5: and I find it predatory.
Speaker 3: I find it creepy.
Speaker 5: And you know, we're not talking about drag queens doing
Speaker 5: Dolly Parton or Aretha Franklin at the State Fair. That
Speaker 5: could be funny, nobody would really care. They're deliberately doing
Speaker 5: the most explicit, the most sexualized things like a Trappie's
Speaker 5: and a song in front of children. And I believe
Speaker 5: the LDBLGBTQ agenda, the queer movement, which they call it
Speaker 5: now is it's truly meant to corrupt the minds of
Speaker 5: children and normalize the most deviant things possible. So I've
Speaker 5: stepped away from it, and I've fought it because I
Speaker 5: dressed up as Lady Maga and I sort of bend
Speaker 5: the mold so to speak, you know, dressing up and
Speaker 5: playing a female character. You know, the legislature here in Utah,
Speaker 5: they asked me to testify to help get Senate Bill
Speaker 5: sixteen passed, which it did, thank god, and we made
Speaker 5: it illegal to mutilate little children. And my message was, look,
Speaker 5: if you're wearing a dress, if you're wearing makeup, no
Speaker 5: matter how fabulous you look, you are not a woman.
Speaker 5: You can never become a woman. And so yeah, I've
Speaker 5: tried to I've tried to speak out for common sense,
Speaker 5: and the woke mod came for me and got me
Speaker 5: fired from my job as a flight attendant, lost me
Speaker 5: eight year career because they labeled me trans pulbick and
Speaker 5: islama pubic and all the rest.
Speaker 3: So it's been a rough road.
Speaker 1: Well, many people, many people, Ryan would consider this hateful
Speaker 1: talk we're having right now, just because we're pointing out
Speaker 1: the obvious grooming and pedophilia that I believe is going
Speaker 1: on within the LGBTQ plus community because of the month
Speaker 1: we're in. And I said, well, what month are we in.
Speaker 1: We're in June. Uh, And that's that's all it is
Speaker 1: to me. This is June, which is a month of
Speaker 1: on the calendar. It's not any special month. It's it's summertime.
Speaker 1: It's Donald Trump's birthday month, it is father Father's Day
Speaker 1: is a week from tonight.
Speaker 2: It's Father's Day month.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't know why June would
Speaker 1: be any more significant or special for the lgb two
Speaker 1: t Q plus crowd than any other month of the year.
Speaker 5: You can call them the LGBTQ mafia if you want,
Speaker 5: because that's what they are. They're a militant political mafia.
Speaker 5: They're not out for inclusion, they're not out for tolerance,
Speaker 5: they're not out for integration. They're off for cultural dominance.
Speaker 5: They want it to be illegal for you and I.
Speaker 3: To call out what they are.
Speaker 5: And they get so offended when we call them groomers
Speaker 5: and pedophiles, but they never say, how dare you call
Speaker 5: us that? We're not that? Well, yes you are.
Speaker 1: Well here here's the thing too, when I saw just
Speaker 1: a story this past week about a drag queen's story
Speaker 1: hour in a public library. I think it was in Vermont,
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure. But for two to five year
Speaker 1: olds to be exposed to this, I don't know anybody
Speaker 1: who's a parent or anyone who has a lick of
Speaker 1: sense about them and cares about kids who would want
Speaker 1: to expose two to five year olds to any kind
Speaker 1: of sexual uh heterosexual uh training or anything else. That
Speaker 1: These are children, right, These are precious children. It's not
Speaker 1: time for them to have sex ed thanks to a
Speaker 1: drag queen or anybody else at that age.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely not. And what I don't understand is, you know,
Speaker 5: I do not promote homosexuality. I don't think it's the
Speaker 5: equivalent of the American traditional family. My fight is to
Speaker 5: defend my Christian brothers and sisters and their families because
Speaker 5: that's the back point of our society. It's not homeost.
Speaker 5: No offense to us homeold you know, got exists. Secular
Speaker 5: freedom is great, But these people, I don't understand their
Speaker 5: obsession with other people's children and validation from children, especially
Speaker 5: in a public library. Look, it's some drag queen. If
Speaker 5: you know if they're doing something tasteful or glamorous and
Speaker 5: they want to do it privately for their friends and family,
Speaker 5: I really don't care, and I'm not going to try
Speaker 5: to shut them down and will shut them down when
Speaker 5: they invade our public spaces and they push it on children,
Speaker 5: and especially in a taxpayer funded venue.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 5: How dare you go into that public library where my
Speaker 5: family could be, you know, my my Mormon family and
Speaker 5: my nieces and nephews could be in then, and they
Speaker 5: could see that by force. See they're they're they're forceful,
Speaker 5: they're militant, they're a mafia. We will invade your children's library.
Speaker 5: We will groom then we will uh you know, in Disneyland,
Speaker 5: we will have a man with a beard at the
Speaker 5: vivity Bobbedy boutique, dressed as a woman doing your little
Speaker 5: girl's hair. Go to hell, all of them. So that's
Speaker 5: the good news is I think I think America spoke
Speaker 5: when we voted for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 5: And I also think that your average white gay guy
Speaker 5: doesn't align with this. Lesbians especially don't align with it
Speaker 5: because all of us are being told it's so funny,
Speaker 5: you know, they all scream about conversion therapy to become straight.
Speaker 5: But they're literally telling gay men and gay women that
Speaker 5: if you're not attracted to a trans person, you're transphobic.
Speaker 5: In other words, if I'm not attracted to a woman
Speaker 5: because she identifies as a man, I am transphobic. And
Speaker 5: if a lesbian is not attracted to a Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: getting all confused. A man who identifies as a woman,
Speaker 5: right with males general, they are transphobic. Tell me that's
Speaker 5: not conversion therapy, and force like they're disgusting. So I
Speaker 5: just don't hold back. I just call them for what
Speaker 5: they are. And I will say this, this sounds very harsh,
Speaker 5: but I'll explain why I believe this. You heard of
Speaker 5: Elizabeth Smart right from here in Utah.
Speaker 1: Sure, the woman who the girl who was kidnapped and
Speaker 1: held captivity, rape, all of that for years. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then finally finally was found and freed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: And she so this woman I when I worked in
Speaker 5: the airline, I had her on my flight.
Speaker 3: She's a lovely.
Speaker 5: Woman, full of light and positivity, and she does ted
Speaker 5: talks and her messages. You know, I'm not going to
Speaker 5: let them ruin my life and.
Speaker 3: She's moved on.
Speaker 5: The point is Elizabeth Smart is able to move on
Speaker 5: because her abuse was temporary. If you permanently alter the
Speaker 5: sex organs of a child by giving them puberty blockers
Speaker 5: or cut off her girl's breasts or shrink of boys testicles,
Speaker 5: and then inhibit their ability to have intimate sensations later
Speaker 5: in their lives, and you get them hooked on drugs
Speaker 5: because it involves their sex organs, it is a form
Speaker 5: of sexual abuse. And I will say those doctors and
Speaker 5: those parents who do this to children are worse than
Speaker 5: child molesters because at least the caterer's molested can move
Speaker 5: on later. Sexual abuse is permanent, and we need to
Speaker 5: call them that. We need to call them the worst
Speaker 5: form of child abusers, on par with child molesters, same
Speaker 5: same game. And yet we normalize it and we argue with.
Speaker 2: You have to register as sex offenders. I'm serious.
Speaker 5: They should go to prison. They should go to prison.
Speaker 5: You know uh ihan omar uh uh. Female genital mutilation
Speaker 5: is rampant in Somalia and Michigan.
Speaker 3: Of course it is uh.
Speaker 5: You know where they where They remove the part of
Speaker 5: a group anatomy, So you can't have a sexual sensation.
Speaker 5: It's the same thing they're doing to these children. I
Speaker 5: just I'm still in shock that we're even like having
Speaker 5: this conversation, that our fellow Americans are are condoning this
Speaker 5: and saying it's okay. And also, like my allegedly Republican
Speaker 5: Mormon Governor Spencer Cox, he's an evil, evil man. He
Speaker 5: vetoed the bill to protect women in sports, he vetoed
Speaker 5: the bill to stop child mutilation, He panders to the
Speaker 5: lg BTQ, and he was named person of the Year
Speaker 5: by Queer Salt Lake magazine, the most far less you
Speaker 5: know groomer magazine. He was named person of the Year.
Speaker 5: So enemies are not just the obese, purple haired women's
Speaker 5: screaming for trans rights. It's people on the right who
Speaker 5: act as if it's just a political disagreement and we
Speaker 5: can talk about it. No, we can't talk about it. Well,
Speaker 5: you're going to hell for what you're doing. You belong
Speaker 5: in prison for what you're doing. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 5: I call it out, and then I'm called transphobic, and
Speaker 5: I've been blamed for suicides of trans youth. Literally, people
Speaker 5: have screamed, and.
Speaker 1: They're starting to get the facts in and the research
Speaker 1: is being done, Ryan, it leads to more suicides of
Speaker 1: these kids who've been subjected to these therapies than just
Speaker 1: being able to grow out of it and find out
Speaker 1: who they are without this being forced upon them, or
Speaker 1: being told that the body that they were born in
Speaker 1: isn't the body that they belong in.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 5: To me, like, look, I was an a feminine little kid.
Speaker 5: I love Barbie, Princess Pink, my little Pony, all of it.
Speaker 5: Had I been born today, I would have believed them
Speaker 5: when they said.
Speaker 3: You like girl things, you're a girl. You'll be happier
Speaker 3: if you're a girl.
Speaker 5: I would have believed them. I would have gone along
Speaker 5: with it. And to me, nothing, absolutely nothing could be
Speaker 5: more traumatizing or mentally damaging as a child to believe
Speaker 5: there's something fundamentally wrong with my body, with my biology,
Speaker 5: with my with my actual body. What does that say
Speaker 5: to a child?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: If I had, let's say me, if I dealt with
Speaker 5: me as dad today and I had a little boy
Speaker 5: like me, I'd say, hey, you know what, you're pretty creative,
Speaker 5: aren't you. You love Pink? You love Barbies? Yeah, Barbies,
Speaker 5: I find they're pretty play with your dolls. You're not
Speaker 5: a girl, and you're going to go up and be
Speaker 5: a strong man. And and you know, I wouldn't villainize
Speaker 5: me or insult me or spank me like I was.
Speaker 5: And I well, probably why I ended up doing dragons.
Speaker 5: But you know, just don't make a big deal out
Speaker 5: of it, and then balance the kid with good, you know,
Speaker 5: masculine activities as well, some horseback riding, and say what
Speaker 5: it is. But to tell the child you are in
Speaker 5: the wrong body, it's satanic, it is demonic. And hearing you,
Speaker 5: I've been posting videos of when they went to Pride
Speaker 5: and such. The Satanic temple was there and they were
Speaker 5: unbaptizing Christians by putting blood on their forehead. There was
Speaker 5: a topless woman, there were children, people saying hailed Satan
Speaker 5: and this is in Utah, and that is who is
Speaker 5: behind the LGBTQ movement, that it is demonic, it is satanic.
Speaker 5: We don't have a political battle, we have a spiritual battle.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm a home all or whatever, but I
Speaker 5: know God and i know light, and I'm sober because
Speaker 5: of Jesus Christ, and so I reckon nice evil And
Speaker 5: when you go after the little ones. I mean, adults
Speaker 5: doing what they do consensually, who cares. But when you
Speaker 5: go after the little ones and kids like I was,
Speaker 5: you're there's just nothing more evil.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's there's there's a famous scripture that whoever,
Speaker 1: whoever would harm and I'm paraphrasing here the scripture. I
Speaker 1: don't have it out in front of me, it would
Speaker 1: be better better to have a millstone thrown around their
Speaker 1: neck and be thrown in the ocean, or better than
Speaker 1: that if they'd ever been born.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly right, that's exactly right. But we've normalized
Speaker 5: because here's the thing. What they're trying to do with
Speaker 5: this trans normalization, that a child knows who they are
Speaker 5: when they're born. It's a step toward normalizing the idea
Speaker 5: that children are capable of adult consent. And we all
Speaker 5: know what that means. Ye see, they're they're getting us
Speaker 5: used to this idea that children know who they are,
Speaker 5: children know what's best for them, They're just as capable
Speaker 5: as an adult. They fully understand the world.
Speaker 1: And changing changing the language from pedophile to minor attracted person.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's totally what's next. That's totally what's next, And
Speaker 5: in my opinion, that isn't even as bad as mutilating kids,
Speaker 5: like they're on the same level. Does that make sense
Speaker 5: that it's the same level of evil. People act as
Speaker 5: if mutilating children in the name of trend is not
Speaker 5: as bad as minor attracted person when we say, oh,
Speaker 5: that's next. No, this is just as bad as what
Speaker 5: could potentially be next. We are in the clagmire of
Speaker 5: evil and demonic abuse.
Speaker 3: We're already there.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. I'm sorry we got to cut
Speaker 1: it off there, Ryan.
Speaker 5: Well, God bless me. I hope people. I hope people
Speaker 5: stand up more militantly.
Speaker 3: Like I do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: Happy, yes, happy June, and God bless America.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lady Maga USA. Ryan Wood with us on
Speaker 1: this special edition of Gary Jeff Walker on your Radio.
Speaker 1: We will be switching gears completely after the news at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, when John Willis will be our guest as
Speaker 1: we talk Newport Italian Fest this September.
Speaker 2: Our iHeart radio, New music.
Speaker 1: Come to everyone who's not watching the Tonys or something
Speaker 1: actually interesting, like maybe the NBA playoffser it's the Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. Speaking of Major League Baseball, the Reds actually
Speaker 1: swept somebody again. The sweep was on today against the Dbacks,
Speaker 1: after the incredible comeback after the rainout on Friday night,
Speaker 1: whether it was tied and the Reds of course walked
Speaker 1: off for the first of two finished games on Saturday,
Speaker 1: as you well know, and then the pounding that they
Speaker 1: gave Arizona yesterday, and then today another victory at GABP.
Speaker 1: The Reds back to thirty three and thirty three on
Speaker 1: this season, and you know, right up equaling what I say.
Speaker 1: My prediction is for the team for the year, which
Speaker 1: is eighty one and eighty one, which may be good
Speaker 1: enough for a wild card.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know at this point if they'll make eighty
Speaker 1: one and eighty one. Maybe they'll do better. They've shown
Speaker 1: no signs that they're capable of doing better. But you know,
Speaker 1: take the victories where you can get them. Today was
Speaker 1: one of those days, and this weekend was a great
Speaker 1: weekend if you're a Reds fans. This season continues nine
Speaker 1: minutes after the hour Gary Jeff Walker in a special
Speaker 1: edition of Sunday Night Live, looking forward to a very
Speaker 1: special week ahead because on Thursday night it officially begins
Speaker 1: the thirty third annual Newport Italian Fest. And there's some
Speaker 1: new things this year which we will go over and
Speaker 1: a new person who's going to be joining me on
Speaker 1: stage during the weekend to do MC work. And we
Speaker 1: have him on the telephone right now. His name is
Speaker 1: John Willis. John, welcome to the show. How are you, Paison?
Speaker 3: Thanks? Gary, appreciate you having me on. I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Doing fantastic? Now? How long? How long you have been
Speaker 2: with Newport City? You're you're a new hire.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I've been with the city at Newport for about four months. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and it's it's been a great experience. I've lived in
Speaker 6: the city for about a year and you know, they've
Speaker 6: thrown me into things.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a great team to.
Speaker 6: Be a part of and I'm excited that I get
Speaker 6: to be more involved with Italian Fest.
Speaker 2: What what did you do previously before you're with the city, John?
Speaker 6: So, before I worked for the city, I worked on
Speaker 6: political campaigns. Oh so, I was managing campaigns over and
Speaker 6: over in Hamilton County and I decided I wanted to
Speaker 6: work for the government, so I went over and got
Speaker 6: a job with the city at Newport, and I'm working
Speaker 6: in economic development for the city, so I work with
Speaker 6: our business owners and I help them in any way
Speaker 6: the city can. And then we're also looking to fill
Speaker 6: empty spaces and attract new businesses as well well.
Speaker 1: I mean with a background with a background in politics,
Speaker 1: at least you know you don't have to get down
Speaker 1: and dirty with all of the things that go on
Speaker 1: during political campaigns. But it gives you a great insight
Speaker 1: and experience on how to maybe get things done working
Speaker 1: for the city. And as you mentioned, in economic development
Speaker 1: and the like. So and like I said, you don't
Speaker 1: have to you don't have to be involved in politics necessarily.
Speaker 1: You can kind of enjoy the periphery and do some
Speaker 1: positive things for Newport. I think that's a great thing
Speaker 1: now exactly.
Speaker 6: I was just going to add the biggest things communication,
Speaker 6: and that's why I'm excited to come out here and
Speaker 6: talk to your audience about Italian Fest, because we want
Speaker 6: everyone to know that it's coming and it's going to
Speaker 6: be here this week.
Speaker 1: Well, unofficially starts at four o'clock Wednesday at Pompiglio's where
Speaker 1: they have the annual Mayor's Bochi Ball Tournament, which I've
Speaker 1: been to actually one year. John, I've been involved with
Speaker 1: the Italian Fest. I've been humbled and honored enough to
Speaker 1: be involved with Italian Fest in Newport since about twenty
Speaker 1: ten or two thousand and nine. So, and this is
Speaker 1: the thirty third annual, which originally cooked up by Thomas
Speaker 1: Godooley Senior, whose son is now mayor. And we have
Speaker 1: a new city manager in Newport, John Hayden, Who's you know,
Speaker 1: off to a head start, a running start, I would say,
Speaker 1: But then on Thursday night the ball really gets rolling.
Speaker 1: After the bochi balls are done, the ball really gets rolling.
Speaker 1: On Thursday night. The festival grounds will open at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: Pete Wagner and Nancy James, who have been a part
Speaker 1: of Newport Italian Fest for as long as there's been one,
Speaker 1: I believe. I don't know if you've met any of
Speaker 1: those people yet, but they're great folks, and Nancy James
Speaker 1: in particular, it has been a personality, a media personality,
Speaker 1: a TV personality, a radio personality in this town for
Speaker 1: longer than I've been here, which is thirty one years
Speaker 1: at this point. And I swear she gets younger every year.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. But you'll see if
Speaker 1: you meet Nancy James, and you will this weekend. She
Speaker 1: seems to get younger and more vibrant every She's a
Speaker 1: beautiful lady, an incredible singer, incredible entertainer, and she's been
Speaker 1: a part like bread and butter with Italian fest along
Speaker 1: with Paul Wagner and the Pete Wagner Orchestra. That happens,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Thursday at five o'clock six point thirty,
Speaker 1: the opening ceremony, and that's all the muckety MUCKs, the
Speaker 1: mayor and the city commissioners and everybody out on stage.
Speaker 1: And I know you're gonna be there too.
Speaker 2: And then and then John.
Speaker 1: This is so integral to what Italian Festas brings, as
Speaker 1: far as the heritage of Italian legacy and footprint in Newport,
Speaker 1: the Italian American Sons and Daughters Award. Every night there
Speaker 1: is some honoree at seven o'clock Thursday, we'll do that.
Speaker 1: And then Marino Frizzetti, who you gotta meet, man, and
Speaker 1: you will. He is incredible. I call him the Italian
Speaker 1: Tom Jones been anyway, any thoughts or comments on any
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 6: Well, no, absolutely, Like you said, it's it's amazing to
Speaker 6: celebrate an important part of the city's heritage, and it's
Speaker 6: great to honor some of these families that have been
Speaker 6: instrumental in founding Newport and making it what it is today.
Speaker 6: And you know, I've heard a lot about Marino Frizzetti
Speaker 6: and I've seen him perform online, but I'm so excited
Speaker 6: to watch him in person and hopefully get to meet
Speaker 6: him too, at least I'll be there when you're introducing
Speaker 6: him on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Well, you've got a taste from watching a video, but
Speaker 1: there is nothing like seeing Moreno live, believe me, and
Speaker 1: I believe it. And we got Vinyl, then we got
Speaker 1: Vinyl Countdown closing things out on Thursday night at nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: And Thursday's kind of a short schedule because it's the
Speaker 1: opening ceremonies and that is the main enchilada there or
Speaker 1: the main fas old as we probably ought to say.
Speaker 1: And that's five to eleven on Thursday night there at
Speaker 1: Festival Park down below the Levee for the first time.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned at the top of this, you're going
Speaker 1: to be doing some MC work and I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see you on stage. I know you'll have a ball
Speaker 1: because it's such a great time and the people who
Speaker 1: attend Italian Fest are so welcoming and it's just great.
Speaker 1: I mean, you'll get you'll get a buzz being up
Speaker 1: there on stage. I guarantee it.
Speaker 3: That's what I hear.
Speaker 6: And you know, I know that every year over one
Speaker 6: hundred thousand people come to Newport just for Italian Fest.
Speaker 6: So I'll definitely have to get with the mayor and
Speaker 6: some of the other folks that have been involved for
Speaker 6: a long time so that I have some material on
Speaker 6: stage and we're working with the bands. But I've heard
Speaker 6: it's electric and intoxicating. I'm excited to be a part
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 1: Friday night again at five o'clock late gates opening on Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday, your kind of all day events. The
Speaker 1: festival grounds open again Friday on the thirteenth. Pete Wagner back,
Speaker 1: You'll be there for that. I'm planning on being there
Speaker 1: for the Honored Italian American Sons and Daughters Award on
Speaker 1: Friday at six forty five. Jennifer Marie Marianni is going
Speaker 1: to be honored and Marino Frizzetti is back, and then
Speaker 1: you'll take it the rest of the evening on Friday
Speaker 1: with Pete Wagner and the Matt Tolentino Band. And this
Speaker 1: is something that's new this year, announcement that I just
Speaker 1: got with the program, and we will see throughout the weekend.
Speaker 1: On Thursday and Friday night, both nights at Italian Fest
Speaker 1: in Newport, we'll have strolling accordion players performing throughout the crowd,
Speaker 1: which is just great. I mean, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about a taste of Italy.
Speaker 2: London.
Speaker 1: Shoal and the aforementioned Matt Tolantino will be there from
Speaker 1: five thirty to eight pm strolling the grounds and entertaining
Speaker 1: the folks as they go to the food booths and
Speaker 1: visit some of our other vendors and participants. Now, Saturday
Speaker 1: is going to be your day man. Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: the keys are yours. I'm handing the keys over to you,
Speaker 1: John Willis. And the festival grounds open at noon both days,
Speaker 1: and there's some incredible performers once again, Marino Frizetti, Swan
Speaker 1: which I've never heard that one party band and doctor Zouit.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about any of these performers yet?
Speaker 6: So at this point I don't know anything about the
Speaker 6: bands on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Now looking ahead, I don't want to.
Speaker 6: Get ahead of ourselves that I'm excited for the naked
Speaker 6: karate girls on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: I knew you. I knew, I knew you were gonna
Speaker 2: be a big favor. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: I've been to a show there and they and they rock,
Speaker 6: and all these bands are great, you know they it's
Speaker 6: it's competitive to play at the festival that gets one
Speaker 6: hundred thousand attendees, like Italian Fest, and we're excited to.
Speaker 3: Have them all come in. So yeah, I remember, no
Speaker 3: one will be disappointed.
Speaker 1: Honestly, the first time I interviewed somebody with the naked
Speaker 1: karate girls for this event, mind you, I asked the
Speaker 1: stupid DJ questions like, so you're not naked, you don't
Speaker 1: do karate, and you're not girls. It's like a question
Speaker 1: everybody asked. But give us, give us a little taste
Speaker 1: of what people will see when they see the naked
Speaker 1: karate girls perform Sunday night at six o'clock.
Speaker 6: John, Well, they're going to see a couple of guys
Speaker 6: who are given that they're all on stage, and uh,
Speaker 6: you know they rock, so you know, anticipate some some
Speaker 6: great music, some some great performers as well on stage,
Speaker 6: and you know, to be completely entertained.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to mention for people if
Speaker 1: you've never been to Italian Fest in Newport before, is
Speaker 1: there is a tent on the festival grounds every year
Speaker 1: that has families the different Italian families that settled in
Speaker 1: northern Kentucky and helped make Newport such a special place
Speaker 1: that it is today. And you see the family pictures,
Speaker 1: the lineage of each one of those families as you
Speaker 1: go through the photo arrays, and I highly recommend, since
Speaker 1: this is your first Italian Fest, that you take some
Speaker 1: time while you're there to check them out. And the food,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody, everybody always wants to know, did you
Speaker 1: get your Italian sausage. Somebody that I used to talk
Speaker 1: to on the radio, Tracy Jones, used to say, oh,
Speaker 1: you're going to Sausage Fest. No, it's not sausage Fest,
Speaker 1: it's Italian Fest. But yes, they have Italian rope sausage
Speaker 1: with peppers and onions and marinara and it's wonderful, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I will get one of those. Do you have any
Speaker 1: specific kind of taste for anything food wise this weekend.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite Italian food?
Speaker 6: John, You know, I'll tell you Gary, the thing that
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to the most is piganos stuffshells.
Speaker 3: It's made with three cheeses.
Speaker 6: It's one of my favorite dishes and I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 6: get some this weekend, all right.
Speaker 1: And there are so many people being paid tribute to
Speaker 1: this weekend at Newport Italian Fest as well, those those
Speaker 1: who have passed and those who are still with us,
Speaker 1: And it's a time to treasure those incredible people who
Speaker 1: have made Newport such a special place over the years.
Speaker 1: We only missed twenty twenty, and that was the year
Speaker 1: that everybody missed everything because of COVID. I still say
Speaker 1: under false pretenses, but that's just me. But I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it again Thursday night. I'll be there you,
Speaker 1: John Willis will be there and you will experience, for
Speaker 1: the first time in person, the magic of what it's
Speaker 1: like to be at least an honorary Italian.
Speaker 6: And I'm excited for it. And you know, Gary, you've
Speaker 6: been great. You've given me so much advice. I know
Speaker 6: We've got to talk a few times leading up to it.
Speaker 6: And you know, You've answered some of my questions, but
Speaker 6: I've got a question for you that I want you
Speaker 6: to answer.
Speaker 2: All yes, sir.
Speaker 6: What was the biggest surprise when you the first time
Speaker 6: you m see the Italian Fest? What shocked you when
Speaker 6: you got behind the mic up there?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if anything shocked me behind the mic.
Speaker 1: I've been em seeing stuff for a long time before
Speaker 1: I started doing Italian Fest. But I think the thing
Speaker 1: that was special to me, the most special thing standing
Speaker 1: up on stage, was the acceptance and the welcoming of
Speaker 1: the crowd to somebody who number one not Italian heritage.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I always say that the city of Newport makes me
Speaker 1: an honorary Italian once a year for a whole weekend,
Speaker 1: and it's so nice to be welcomed in the family.
Speaker 2: And I guess that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's the embrace of that whole community to someone who
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't live in Newport all my life.
Speaker 1: I moved to Newport in two thousand, so I've been
Speaker 1: there for a quarter century now. But a lot of
Speaker 1: places you go if you're not from there, if you're
Speaker 1: not originally from there, you always kind of feel like
Speaker 1: an outsider, no matter how nice people are. But John,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, once you were embraced by these people
Speaker 1: and you're welcomed in like family, you're always family, and
Speaker 1: they make you feel like it. You're never you're never
Speaker 1: an outsider. So once you once you get it, and
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like anything nefarious, like you're not
Speaker 1: going to be made to kiss anybody's ring or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But what I'm saying is you get in
Speaker 1: and you're in man as long as you want to
Speaker 1: be in, and you feel that warmth. And that's what
Speaker 1: a new Newport Italian Fest. You think it's only a
Speaker 1: celebration of Italian heritage, but it's the Sons the Italian
Speaker 1: American Sons and Daughters Awards, so's it's a truly American
Speaker 1: festival as well, because only in this country could an
Speaker 1: entire ethnic group be welcomed and assimilated into it and
Speaker 1: made a part of it. And the people who are
Speaker 1: involved with Newport's Italian Fest except everyone, no matter what
Speaker 1: their walk of life, no matter who they are, and
Speaker 1: no matter what other beliefs they may have or don't have,
Speaker 1: And it's just it's a big family. So I think
Speaker 1: that's what you're about to walk into. I hope you're
Speaker 1: ready for.
Speaker 3: That, absolutely.
Speaker 6: And you know it's Newport's a great city to live in,
Speaker 6: It's an even better city to work for.
Speaker 3: This is a great team. I felt welcome since day one.
Speaker 6: And you know, we want everybody to feel welcome an
Speaker 6: Italian Fest.
Speaker 3: And I and yes, and I and I think I
Speaker 3: think they do. And we make a big effort to
Speaker 3: get the word out there.
Speaker 6: And I am excited for everyone to come to Newport
Speaker 6: this weekend.
Speaker 3: And and yeah, I look forward.
Speaker 6: To experiencing Italian Fest with h from from my perspective,
Speaker 6: I've heard so much about it.
Speaker 3: I think I'm.
Speaker 6: Excited to go, and I hope everyone else is excited
Speaker 6: to come to.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to witness your a moment in the spotlight.
Speaker 1: John Willis, right, well, thank you, Dary, all right, brother,
Speaker 1: excuse me, and thank you so much. And uh, Festa Italiana.
Speaker 1: We'll see you there on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Capeche yes, sir choo, I'll see you soon, all.
Speaker 1: Right, chow bela uh John Willis, who will join us
Speaker 1: on Thursday Friday