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32:21After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and let them know that we sent you. Wrap yourself in luxury with Lola Blankets. All right, listener, now it's time for a guest. I'm going to say hello to him and then Pumps is going to engage in one of her hard-hitting interviews and I'll dismiss myself, but I want to make sure I say hello to him. You've seen his videos all over TikTok and Instagram amassing billions of views and building one of the most engaged audiences in country music with 3.6 million TikTok followers and 1.3 million on Instagram, which is more than us, which really pisses me off because we're old and competitive.

33:00Brian has captured the attention of major media from Rolling Stone to Don Lemon to none other than I've Had It. And we would like to welcome Brian Andrews to I've Had It. Brian, how are you? Good. How are you guys? Good. I am so excited to be here. I'm so happy to have you. So excited to have you. You know, you're really kicking ass on social media yeah trying trying let me ask you that so you're a country singer yeah there was a country song that they they sang at the um other the maga super bowl yeah that it was like i got it kiss my fish yeah

33:46oh yeah i know what you're talking about i've had it with that fucking bullshit too yeah absolutely that it's like i want to mow my yard yeah drink my beer yeah the whole the whole premise of the song really is not like that crazy it's basically just saying you know i want to be left alone but my problem with that is like you know you don't get to say i just want to be left alone and wipe my hands clean when you see all this is going to finally you know what i mean Like if, you know, the premise of I just want to be left alone is what everybody wants. But you don't get to say, I just want to be left alone when you see and support the people who are now intruding on other people's lives.

34:29So when you see them not being left alone, you ought to be able to stand up and say, hey, that's bullshit. Well, and I would argue before I kick this interview to pumps, Brian, because I've got to bounce. but they say they want to be left alone but they want to jump all up in trans people's lives gay people's lives queer people's life drag queens people's lives what books people can check out from the library so they actually don't want to be left alone they just want to be all up in other people's shit and that's what pisses me off about the hypocrisy of that type of white person yeah exactly it's a it's the uh you know like i said you you don't get to just wipe your hands clean and be like, oh shit, they're really messing with other marginalized communities and everything.

35:13I didn't really want that, but this looks a lot worse than I thought it was. So I'm just going to pretend like I didn't have nothing to fucking do with it and stay over here in my lane. And that's bullshit. You don't get to do that when you ask for this. Right. Okay, Brian, you and I, I feel like we're separated at birth. Our backstory is so similar in our journeys, growing up. So, and I'm in Oklahoma, you were raised in Missouri. Both my folks are from real small towns and my grandpa on my mom's side worked for General Motors for 30 years. So he was a union Democrat. And my dad grew up in a household where they were farmers and worked and stuff.

35:56And a lot of farmers back in the day were always Democrats because they, you know, Democrats helped out the farm. So they, they, I come from democratic family, but I just grew up in a town where pretty much nobody is a Democrat. You know what I mean? Like, especially in the last 16 years, I mean, it's like, I know, I know people that agree with me on a lot of things and like pretty much everything really. And when, if you were to ask them point blank, like, hey, would you consider yourself a liberal or a Democrat? They'd say, oh, no, I'm an independent. Even though everything they stand for and like their values align with being on the left, they will still say I'm an independent because they just do not want to be associated.

36:41It's so taboo to be associated with being a liberal or a leftist or a Democrat in a small town that, you know, they just won't say I'm a Democrat. Well, people, I feel like on the coast don't understand how much religion is tied up with being a Republican in a place like Oklahoma or Missouri, like Bible Belt area, it would be like a sin almost to be a Democrat. I mean, I was raised super conservative, super Republican, super, super churchy. and what i what i have found out is all the teachings that i was taught about jesus and how he handled people and how he accepted people and did for everyone what i grew up with was that was the message but we do the opposite yeah and we're able to sit and judge other people and the dissonance that I had.

37:39And I think it's so important to have a MAGA-coded person like you, like I'm MAGA-coded. It's, I mean, you know, a person like you that comes in and talks about that so openly and with such conviction. So I've seen several interviews with you and I was just blown away. So if you'd kind of address that for me. Yeah, I think, I mean, you would, like, even in a small town now, you run across people, especially in my hometown, I'm sure that if you ask them, I'm like, you know, why do you vote Republican? And, you know, one of their deep rooted issues is like I vote Republican because I'm supposed to because I'm a Christian.

38:13Right. So like Christianity is very closely correlated with the conservative party, which for me is weird because it seems like the further. It's it's true for both ways, the further I get into my faith, the further left I get and the further I get into like my values, the more religious I get. Right. So, I mean, because I think to me, Christ was a brown skin socialist who loved immigrants and, you know, was feeding the poor, healing the sick, you know, I mean, like the whole, the whole premise of Jesus was that like, everybody's supposed to be taken care of. Right. But, but you see in the Republican party specifically, I think in the United States is that like, it's very individualistic.

39:02So in their mind, it's like, well, well, why should I have to pay more in taxes if somebody else that's lazy and doesn't want to get a job just needs health insurance or SNAP benefits or whatever? Why should I have to pay for that out of my check when I get up and go to work for 60 hours a week? And on the paper, that seems like logical, but it's not. I mean, like these people are willingly paying more for privatized health care and private health insurance and things like that so that people can't get access, right, to health care. So that's what I'm saying. Like they're willing to pay more out of pocket so only they can have health insurance when if they just would pay for or if we just had a program like single pay health care, they would end up paying less for insurance or in taxes for insurance, you know, like for health care.

39:48And everybody else would be able to have access to health care, too. so the the mindset is really backwards to me because it's like i just don't understand how you're willing to actually pay more so people will be able to die versus paying left or less and have the same access to all the health care you need and people will still be able to go to the emergency room and not have to file for bankruptcy you know yeah here's the thing the person that you describe like lazy why should i have to pay for it that was how i grew up but in a very very religious household and that screws with your mind all the mixed messages okay i have to ask you i forgot because jennifer always does it brian andrews phenom what have you had it with i have had it oh i sent these i can't remember um i've got them here yeah let me christians and country music yeah that's that's a big thing for me because like i feel like i'm you know i'm a christian myself and i feel like as a christian it's my responsibility to call things out when i see them you know so like especially in country music it's like this so close correlation and you see it all the time like a vote against donald trump is a vote against god and shit like that to me is just it's blasphemous right i mean like you're you're not first of all like the conservative party is ultra good at being like oh a vote against or a vote against donald trump is a vote against god and then they'll come out and say well jesus doesn't have a political party right and it's like yeah but you just used him as a weapon to prop your political party up.

41:35So like when I feel that's what people come at me all the time, they're like, oh, well, you're using Jesus for your side too. And I'm like, no, dude, I'm just using Jesus as a defense because you used him as a weapon first. So I'm just using them as a, as a way to say, hey, if you're going to use Jesus as a weapon, Jesus wouldn't do this. You know what I'm saying? So, I mean, for me, like that's where, especially like in country music, it's ultra conservative and ultra, like the, not just the audience, but even some people in the industry and everything are very, very religious and that's okay.

42:07I don't have a problem with people being Christian. I have a problem with people like using Christianity to shield them from accountability or to bury their head in the sand when it comes to like what's happening in the world and things like that. I think, um, that's the big thing right there. Like you see, uh, not just in country music, but everywhere, like in the Pam Bondi or the congressional hearing she just did. Right. Jared Masco has asked her, you know, like, you know, what are you doing with the Epstein files and all this stuff? But then he goes on a tangent or he goes on to describe like the Trump Bible and holds up the Trump Bible and it gets a laugh and stuff like that.

42:45And so what she does is she doesn't all while wearing a big cross around her neck, she says, well, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response because you just made fun of the Bible. And so in that moment, that's why people don't like Christians, right? That's why they have a bad view of Christians, because she used her Christianity right there as a shield to hide herself from accountability. No, I completely agree. And I also like, for me, having grown up that way, lived that way as an adult for a long time i was able to take the entitlement of i'm special i'm judgmental wrapped in being white wrapped in being upper middle class and say well that doesn't apply to me i don't have to think about those things i can i get to bury my head in the sand yes i get to claim no responsibility because i have a personal relationship it's kind of like Christian narcissism.

43:43And so do you see that a lot? Because I was that person, Brian. Yes. Yeah, it's absolutely. You see it all the time. And like, that's the that's the thing, like a lot of people, even if they're just like voting for Donald Trump, or like, propping up some of the ideologies or policy or whatever like that, but they don't really they don't really like support that guy, or they're not really that in tune with politics or anything like that, or they don't pay attention to politics that much, they'll literally say that, you know, like, well, all I know is Jesus is the way, right? And I have a problem with that because it's like, yeah, okay, you can say Jesus is the way all you want, but Jesus calls you to be interactive with the world around you, right?

44:28You know, so like he calls you to like call other people out when they're using certain things to be weapons against people, enact bad policy, or to feed the poor and heal the sick and things like that. So Jesus literally doesn't want you to bury your head in the sand and say, oh, well, he's the way. And I know so many people that are like, well, if people would just accept Christ into their heart, this world would be so much better off. And I'm like, if everybody buried their head in the sand the way that you do, it would be a lot more of a shitstorm because they'd be able to do it. That's the problem we're in now.

45:03is that people don't care about politics enough that they're able to just enact whatever policy they want and people are not paying attention. Right. So like marginalized communities are being hurt first and then eventually it comes for everybody. And it's too late to speak out because there's no one left to tell. OK, so I have to ask you, OK, here's your Brian Andrews, your you're a country music singer. your views a lot different than what the stereotype is for country music you come out and say this is how i feel you write songs about it you had to be scared that you were putting your career at risk my guess yeah yeah i definitely was i mean especially being like when i've i mean even now but especially when i first started talking about it you know three months or four months ago.

45:56Like I had never really talked about politics before. I mean, I had touched on it really, but nothing crazy. And so when I, when I really started diving deep into it, I was very, I guess just, I knew it was a risk. Right. So I knew that like, but I also knew that I felt this way and, you know, like I didn't want to alienate anybody that I already had in my audience but at the same time like who am I gonna alienate people that already don't listen to my music you know I mean I was a small enough artist that it was like I can I can pave the road that I'm building right now and so for me I think it was a little bit easier than maybe you know like some of the bigger artists if they feel this way and stuff like that because they really have built these giant fan bases and everything and they actually will be alienating people but I knew that if I felt this way I wasn't alone right from a small town and things like that and you know you see the blue dots and red states and stuff like that everywhere.

46:54And, you know, even in my small town, there's a lot more Democrats than you think there are. So, you know, I mean, it's, it was weird, but at first, but as soon as I got into it, I was like, you know what, fuck it. I don't care no more because I mean, I can't, I can't, it was too late for me to start speaking up anyways. Right. You know what I'm saying? So like, I can't, you know, if I would have, if I would have cared, or if I had spoke up like I do now before the election, maybe we'd have had a different result. And so like, that's a guilt that I bear. You know what I mean? And I'm not going to make that fucking same mistake twice in a lifetime.

47:31Well, so what's interesting to me, it's quite the contrary. You have blown up like every corner of the internet. You, it's your face with your views. so when you i'm sure you have trolls and haters of course you do yeah but how when you found out that then now you have i think your song went like number one on every platform it was an i can't charge by the reaction yeah i was i mean it was uh it's a pleasant surprise right and that was like the first time i'd ever made billboards so i mean it was it was pretty insane but i mean with every that was a very weird moment because I hadn't experienced like like mass scale like cheers but I also hadn't experienced mass scale like hate right so like at the like for all the you know I had an NBC article and HuffPost did an article and like you know billboard and everything like that it was all good and then I turned my face and it was you know Fox News doing an article and you know some of these huge talking or talking heads on twitter and and uh stuff like or x or whatever and and uh so seeing that it was like it was just very um eye-opening because i also started getting the dms and everything like that and it's hard to not look at the not look at that stuff right and but um now that we're getting into it more like i'm about to drop the song on um friday called are we great yet so uh i don't give a fuck no more you know what I mean if they're gonna talk their shit they're gonna talk to you because here's the thing I you know I used to think like damn these people really are some of these people really are coming for me you know I mean and like it sucks because like I want music to feel like an inclusive thing but for so long country music hasn't been inclusive right so that that was my main goal you know anyway it's like if they're gonna fucking cut the gate off fuck you I'll be able to fucking gate right next to it you know what i mean so for me it was uh you know i just had it's something i had to do and like i don't give a shit like i said when i come out with this song uh are we great yet i've been in nashville for the last week and a half writing protest songs so i don't give a fuck you know i mean it's it is what it is and and i think like i said it's too loud for me to ignore and this is my road in country music i'm gonna build this bitch brick by brick because country music used to stand up to injustice and like i think that's why you've seen such a positive reaction to like this whole movement anyways is that you know there's there's people that have stopped listening to country music as a whole because right that you know the artists in it or whatever like the ideology behind it and everything like that that are now coming back to it and you know because they're like oh shit not everybody's like that in country music you know i mean so i don't know for me it was a a cool experience because i was like well fuck them you know i mean it was just like finally like cuffs off like who gives a shit we're just gonna fucking say how we feel and it worked and like that's what i'm most proud of to be honest is that you know i was able to take a chance on something and it worked you know and it was able i was able to just authentically be who i am you know and how i was raised and everything like that and you know the parents i had you know were just great and they've been there 100 of the way like I think when I was first putting out the older I get, I was like talking to my dad and he was, I was like, I don't know if I should put this out.

51:02And he was like, well, would you rather not make it because you just weren't good enough and people just didn't like your music or whatever? Or would you rather not make it because you said something like you spoke the truth and people just weren't ready to hear it yet. And I chose the latter and it worked out because people were ready to hear it and they've been begging for it, to be honest. Okay, I have had it. I've had it with people using religion as a hall pass to control everyone else's lives. I've had it with politicians pretending the Constitution is optional when it comes to church and state.

51:35The First Amendment is actually very clear. The government does not get to pick a religion or force one on the rest of us, period. But right now, Christian nationalists are trying to shove their beliefs into public schools, into laws, into courts, and we are not doing this. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is one of the few groups actually fighting back. They take these cases on, they enforce the Constitution, and they protect everyone's freedom of conscience, not just one group. This isn't anti-religion. It's anti-forced religion. If you're also done with this nonsense, join them. Visit ffrf.us slash fight or text the word fight to learn more and join.

52:26Text fight to 511-511 and help protect a country that belongs to all of us. Because honestly, enough is enough. Go to ffrf.us slash fight or text fight to 511-511. Message and data rates may apply. Okay, we're going to play our world famous game. Had it or hit it. Oh my God. Welcome to had it or hit it. I would hit it. Had it. I hit it every day, sometimes twice a day. so the first thing i'm going to ask you about is and this is i know the answer to this but ice uh yeah had it had it up to fucking here it's unbelievable like we're breaking our own laws yeah no it's insane i mean to see to see even people condoning it that's this is what fucking rubs me so raw is that I'm from a small town and I see like all these like oh don't fucking touch my guns like don't tread on me guys all the fucking time but when they see the federal government shooting people in the fucking streets of their own fucking cities they ain't got a fucking thing to say again it's the the hypocrisy so it basically it boils down to as long as it's our guns and we're shooting the people that we hate, then we're for it.

53:54But if it's your guns, and you're one of the people we hate, you don't get to have the same rights. I mean, that's at the end of the day. And here's the deal, Brian, I believe for me, and I, as a Christian, I was able to, you know, growing up until I deconstructed my faith. I was able to do that to people. It doesn't look pretty on you, but it looks pretty on me. And I'm entitled to have more. And I look back on that and I am so ashamed of that behavior and the lack of empathy. But it just, it's jarring to see so many people that support an agency that let's take out the murdering of U.S. citizens.

54:42They're piling people up. They're taking them to concentration camps. You hear story after story. They're not getting medical care. They have kids. Shitting in buckets. Shitting in buckets. They're on alligator Alcatraz. Yeah. they're selling merch so it's like this movement is feeding cruelty and hatred in people yeah it's the it's the it's the point like that's what i'm saying we call these people bootlickers all the time right but they don't feel like bootlickers they feel like they're the fucking boot and they like it right yeah that's what i'm saying i'm trying so hard to get people in small towns to be like dude this is your fucking moment like this is what you've been saying, don't tread on me for, you know what I'm saying?

55:30Your grandparents didn't go run shining these hills to say, yee-haw, fuck the law so you could get down on your fucking knees and fucking kiss their boots. You know what I mean? Like, it's insane to me that these people are like condoning all this bullshit. But like I said, they feel like since they voted for it, they feel the power. And they finally like being able to feel like they're higher up on the fucking totem pole than somebody. But what I'm trying to drill into their head is that they ain't going to right don't kill trump voters on the bullets they used to shoot us with right yeah so you're right on that okay how did her hit it the maga takeover of mainstream media uh fucking had it yeah i mean like that's that's how i feel like how how it feels watching mega take over um media and like spaces like the manosphere and things like that is how i felt watching like this ultra conservative movement and christian nationalism take over country music for the last 20 years you know i'm saying so i mean like watching it happen everywhere now it's like okay everybody's kind of finally seeing what the fuck i'm seeing right you know because i mean in country music and i don't think it was necessarily all toby keith's fault but like he wrote these very ultra patriotic songs after 9-11 and things like that you know we'll stick a boot up your ass to see american way type shit and i love those songs and i because i mean after 9 11 everybody was so unified and everything like that and um it was just this moment where everybody could be like we're strong you know i mean they might have got us that day but we're gonna come back and beat their ass right you know but like the the whole premise of like that movement has just been feeding this like and stoking the flames of this movement that's like now we can control everything we can have it all and we can make everybody do what the fuck we want you know what i'm saying so like with with country music i think it's gotten really like that's why you see the you know the al deans of the world's waving that american flag at these shows and saying if you don't like the way this country is get the fuck out of here you know or just leave and shit like that when in reality the reason i speak out about like the most american thing you can do is use your first amendment right to speak out against the injustices and things like that that you see in america right so i mean i'm right like i'm i feel like a patriot because i'm speaking out i feel like a patriot because it's my responsibility as an american to hold up the idea of a land that was free for everybody in it that's why i always say america 250 years ago made a deal with us that this land would be the freest place on the earth and i'm here to make sure she holds up her end of the fucking bargain i love it i love it okay how did her hit it billionaires fucking had it i Like, that's my number one fucking public enemy.

58:22Eat the fucking rich. Is it amazing to you when you get in the Epstein files and then you hear shit like Peter Thiel says and Elon Musk, the shit he posts? I'm like, what is it with being a billionaire that just makes you fucking sociopathic? They're the worst fucking people on the planet. To have that much money and power and to fucking not help anybody with it is fucking insane. And they'll go on these fucking tenets, like Elon Musk will be like, oh yeah i sent starlink to ukraine or whatever to help people it's like great you did one fucking thing you could end world hunger right now yeah you know i mean like that that's that's the like people don't understand that's what i mean like people like conservatives like even in my hometowns and stuff like that they'll be like well you know they do work there for their money you don't think they should be fucking compensated for their money and i'm like maybe they should just work be worth like two or three billion dollars not fucking 700 like do you understand how much like that's what i'm saying to these people do you understand how much a trillion fucking dollars is you could buy every nfl team nhl team mlb team and nba team twice and still have 200 billion dollars left over yeah it's crazy it's like at first i just thought it was uh you know like the submersible guys i was just like billionaires just get bored but then they just get into this thing where they think they're smarter than everyone And they think everybody should be subservient to them and their ideas.

59:47Jennifer makes a great point all the time is that in the United States, we equate like smart and all the positive attributes to a billionaire. And, you know, I was guilty of that with Elon Musk. Like before, you know, like 15 years ago, I would have said he's really smart because I didn't know. i knew he had a you know a green car company so i was like okay great and now i'm like this is one of the most diabolical fuckers on the planet yeah literally all he does is fucking hoard his money fucking he's a white supremacist and totally hit sig hiles on a fucking inauguration stage and then tells you it's a fucking roman saluter autistic sim it's crazy what do you think about him showing up with it with the black guy in the oval office i mean i didn't even see that to be honest with you i've pretty much tried to tune out elon musk as soon as i saw the uh the first post he made not too long ago about um he re he reshared somebody's tweet that said something about like um when minorities become the majority white people will be like enslaved or some shit like that i was like this fucking idiot is literally out here just fucking peddling shit so that white people feel empowered to hate people of color even more.

1:01:10Totally. Here's my thing. What I want to scream about is when Donald Trump calls people of color racists, and this whole regime is the most racist. You have a judge saying you cannot pull historical facts from federal buildings and parks because you don't like them. Yes. It's the whitewashing of history. That definition has never made more sense to me now. And I'm it just it enrages me that people actually defend it. Yeah, I mean, let's just go through the fucking timeline here. Like Donald Trump was found guilty of like not renting to people of color in his apartment buildings. This is before he was even president.

1:02:00Then while he becomes president, says that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is bad for white people, shares a meme of the first African-American president and his wife on monkeys that is AI generated, and then tries to remove history from Philadelphia parks and museums talking about slavery. and you're trying to tell me this motherfucker ain't racist this is what i mean people are like oh well racism doesn't exist anymore it's 2026 bull fucking shit i think it's worse yeah and like people that's what i'm saying people people don't want like people of color don't want you to be like a white apologist they don't want you to come out here and like when jd vance says that dumb shit like oh you don't have to apologize for being white anymore nobody has fucking asked you to apologize for being white they just want you to acknowledge that you are and that they might have a different experience in America than you have based on one thing, their skin color.

1:02:50Yeah. No, I, and I'm super guilty of being raised in like, I'm sure Missouri is the same way. It's very homogenous where I live. It's segregated. Growing up, I didn't realize how the difference in the treatment, like police lawful, you know, like police stuff, like over arresting, overcharging, all of those things of the black community, because I was surrounded by the privilege of being white. And I, again, I'm ashamed of that. I'm ashamed that when those, those things came to my attention as an adult, that I didn't stand up immediately because I just let it slide or didn't want to offend anybody, that kind of stuff.

1:03:41And it's like, we're never, ever going to fulfill our goals as a nation if we don't acknowledge and attempt to repair the kind of racism that the Black community has faced forever. Yeah, exactly. And it's really just like, this is why I have an extreme problem with people who are willing to ignore history like or just like be like oh it's not like it was back then or whatever like the similarities aren't really there well and it's like yeah they fucking are and the problem with you not acknowledging that they are is that you're leading us right down the fucking path that led them there back then you know what i'm saying and so like for me you know i watched one of my creator friends um his name is judah on tiktok all the time uh his handle is both of these but he is uh great he's an african-american creator and he said something right after the Alex Pretty shooting that really resonated with me because it's true.

1:04:37And I'm guilty of this as well. He said, you know, I just can't help but think that because there was mass outrage, obviously, after the Pretty shooting and the Renee Good shootings and stuff like that, as there should have been. But he's like, I can't help but think that if we just would have cared this much when the victims were only black and brown, agree and none of this would have happened and he's 100 right about that and i think about that quite a bit because i'm like dude that's so fucking true and like for me that's why i speak out on like it's especially during like black history month and things like that because the current president obviously doesn't think that we even need a black history month you know what i'm saying so what i'm like when i'm trying to educate myself about those things i have to be able to speak out about the injustice that i see now because i have to believe before i go to sleep at night or I won't sleep at night that I would have stood up back then during the Jim Crow era.

1:05:32Or, you know, when I watched if I was alive during Rosa Parks or things like that, I have to believe that I would have stood up then, too, and stood in solidarity with those people so that they could have the freedoms that they wanted and needed and were they should have been given right from the inception of this country. Right. You know, and so that's what I'm saying. Like when I when I think of things, I have to be able to reconcile it with myself that I would have stood up back then. Because the truth is, if I don't say nothing now, when they're like trying to find a legal way to sit around these things and like trying to fool the public and stuff like that, if I don't speak up now, then I don't think I would have been, you know, so I'm like, God.

1:06:14Yeah, I agree with you how old are you 29 see i was not near as smart or wise or insightful i'm 56 and i came to all of these things like so late in my adulthood and i'm listening to you thinking how much better of a person would i've been if i would have pulled my head out of my ass at 29 but no it was just shoved right up in that ass okay last time brian adams and then i want you to talk about your uh new song how did her hit it the united states of america um that's a hard one because i still have a lot of pride for this country i think i've i've hit it because i think i think we're going to start seeing real patriots stand up and I think we're going to start seeing people fight for the idea, like I said, of a land that is free for everybody in it.

1:07:14I think that, you know, as bad as this movement is, I think that we, our story doesn't stop here. You know what I mean? And like, it certainly doesn't stop for me, you know? So I think that when I think about if people are going to start rising up and voting, we've already seen that in some special elections, you know, and things like that. So I think the the pendulum is obviously going to swing regardless because it always does. But I think you're going to see one of the massive, most massive swings you we've seen in the last, you know, 40, 50 years, because this shit is so crazy. Right. I mean, we just, we just bombed Iran to, you know, less than a week ago.

1:07:53And I know people in my hometown that were like, we don't need wars. You know what I'm saying? We don't need endless wars. We need to fix ourselves and stuff like that. So I think you're starting to see even like Republicans in small towns that are starting to go. Yeah, maybe this isn't the vibe. And, you know, not only that, but doing other countries bidding for them. Right. So, I mean, like, I think that's a big problem for a lot of conservatives. conservatives yeah so i mean stuff like that i think that i've i've hit it with america because i think or the united states because i think we're going to come back from this and i think it'll take a lot of work but for me like the way that i've been feeling shut out and things like that and and also in country music is that it's our time and i feel pride in the fact that i'm going to be able to use my platforms and, you know, try to organize people and get people together and unite together around the one common goal of a land that should be free for everybody in it.

1:08:57I love it. Okay. Tell us where we can find you people that are new to you. How do we find you? Yeah, you can find me anywhere you listen to music at Brian Andrews, like Spotify, Apple Music, all that stuff. But on social media, all my handles are at Brian Andrews Music. So just anywhere you get all your information or do your social media, you know, I know that TikTok is kind of, you know, on a downhill bible. It's been taken over by MAGA. Yeah, yeah. So, which is so heartbreaking, to be honest with you, because, I mean, TikTok used to be like the video town square, I guess, you know, like where people could just come on and like just literally just put a camera to your face and you're you're making content that somebody hasn't seen before, you know, and you can find your niche audiences and really build a community and stuff like that.

1:09:50But it feels like now it's so MAGA adjacent that it's hard. It's hard, you know, especially as a liberal country artist, you know, it's hard to make content on there. But I mean, Instagram, I think, is doing a lot better. The problem is all these companies are owned by billionaires who have given money or support Donald Trump. Yeah. No, it's really scary. When you see the list of it, it kind of takes your breath away. Well, good luck with your new song release. I wish you nothing but the best in the future. I think your voice is so important. Thank you for coming on. We appreciate it. And I just best of luck on everything.

1:10:30And listener, we will see you next Tuesday and Thursday.

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