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Today is Wednesday, August 16th, 2023, episode number 392.
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You're in the litter box with Jules and Cat Turd.
Hey there, Cat.
How are ya?
Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, what's going on today?
Ah, it's just another day in paradise.
The day in the banana republic we're living in.
Well, that's okay.
We have a fabulous guest that's going to break up the monotony.
Honestly, we have got John Rich who is going to join us at the half hour and we are so excited to have him.
I know you especially are.
This is your good buddy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love John.
So we're going to talk all things turd stock and music and all that fun stuff for a change instead of everything that we've been through this week.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
So it'll be a nice break.
All the BS is stacking up high.
Isn't it though?
So we named today's show John Rich in the litter box because he will be joining us shortly.
That was an easy one.
It was an easy one.
I didn't have to call you and say, hey, Kat.
I kind of figured we were just going to stick him right in the litter box.
But there is so much that is going on right now with President Trump.
And I'm just so happy that he is not being silent.
He's out there talking about it all.
And so is everybody else.
This is Rudy Giuliani.
He slammed the use of RICO charge against President Trump.
So ridiculous.
It is.
It is.
As a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute he used to take down the mob.
It is.
They're grasping at straws.
Anything that will stick.
Anything.
Let's charge them a thousand times and all we gotta do is get one to stick.
You got it.
And you know what this really is, honestly, when you start thinking about it?
This is a rich man's sport.
To put somebody in court and to go after somebody.
And they're using our money, okay?
The opposition is using our money in order to fund it, but President Trump is having to use his own money.
This is when you start talking about the dregs of society.
And it is.
To pull somebody into court with all these depositions, these motion wars, all the different things, you can't even imagine what those bills are going to look like as a result.
They are doing everything they can to break Donald Trump.
They are.
But he can't be broken.
He just cannot.
He is an absolute fighter.
There's not anybody in this primary in Washington, D.C., anybody that can take one one-hundredth of what this man has had to take for the last six years.
They couldn't hold up.
Nobody could.
I couldn't do it.
You got it.
I mean, it is really one of those situations where you go, okay, so who do you want fighting for you at the end of the day?
Honestly speaking, who would you rather have?
One of these backstabbers that are standing up there still running for office when there is a landslide win and you've got somebody that's being attacked at all angles?
A duly elected president?
I mean, these people are really ridiculous at this point, just to even think that they have a chance against Donald Trump.
I mean, Bravo.
I guess, hey, you know, more competition, whatever.
But in a situation like this, this is different.
And it's rubbing everybody the wrong way.
I think his support is growing as a result of all of this.
And I don't think it's going to stop.
So you have everybody that's speaking out about it.
You've got, you know, an ex-mafia hitman, even, who's talking about it.
And he says, and he says, Trump and Giuliani shouldn't face RICO charges because they aren't real criminals like I am, meaning him.
So this is from Business Insider.
You got them all.
He's saying an ex-mobster called it disgusting that Donald Trump is facing RICO charge like the one he pleaded guilty to.
He said, I was a menace to this country.
I was a criminal.
And this is a former Gambino associate, John Alight, who told Insider, Trump and allies like Rudy Giuliani have been indicted on RICO charges, famously used against the mafia.
The wild thing is, is that according to this new rule that was passed in Georgia, you could easily turn the tables and charge this malicious prosecutor, Phony Fanny Willis.
But you've got Rapsenberger, or whatever his name is, and you've got Kemp up there.
They're rhinos.
They're worse than rhinos.
They're no different than Nancy Pelosi.
They're way, way far leftist, all of them.
Mm-hmm.
They are.
Indeed, they are.
He just went to a meeting that was run by George Soros.
Mm-hmm.
That's these guys.
He was caught right there and you know who did that?
Laura Loomer.
She was the one that tracked that whole thing down.
She's been doing amazing things too.
It's great to see the people in this movement that are coming out and doing what they do best and she is nailing them one after another.
So of course you got the Breitbart that's reporting Georgia indictment joins totalitarian tradition of mass trials of political opposition.
And that's exactly what we have.
And we're the ones that are funding it.
I really just am shocked that we are here and that the Democrats are going full steam ahead.
But they know he's going to win in a landslide, Kat.
They also know the Republicans won't do anything.
Half of them are in on it and half of them are tweeting.
That's it.
That's the Republican Party.
This is just the most ridiculous situation.
They have the power of the House.
They have the power of the purse strings.
They can cut off anybody's funding.
They can cut off the lights in any business.
They have the power of impeachment.
They have the votes.
There's nothing the Democrat can do if they stick together.
And they won't do anything.
McCarthy did a little secret deal with Schumer and came up how to fund the government for another two months.
That's right.
Blank check.
Mm-hmm.
You know, I'm not as concerned about us, right?
Because they're going, our children and our grandchildren are going to be funding this disaster forever.
It's going to go on and on and on as a result of this whole situation.
They're never going to be able to pull it back in.
I mean, it's going to take so much time.
We'll never see it.
He gave him a blank check.
I don't understand why we are not getting rid of McCarthy at this point.
Vacate the chair.
There's like three Republicans that want to, is why.
Of 200.
Because they're all in on it.
They're a bunch of coward, worthless, useless, do-nothing, ball-less, spineless, nutless cowards.
All of them.
God, all they do is talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
McCarthy's a slime ball.
We tried to warn everybody.
We just got to get rid of them 87,000 IRS agents, which was never going to happen anyway.
Anybody who said that was lying to you.
Knew they were lying and didn't care.
They want to get them across the finish line so they can have another Paul Ryan, another John Boehner, another Mitch McConnell.
And what good has any of these people ever done the Republican Party?
They're not going to fight when it comes down to it.
They're going to surrender to everything because they're in on it.
He's worthless, folks.
The dude is worthless.
We have to take it to the primaries, is what we really have to do.
Everybody needs to get involved locally, and they really need to get involved.
We can't get them out.
The Republicans put them back in over and over.
That's why everybody needs to stop donating to the Republican Party directly and making sure that they donate to the candidate of their choice.
This cannot stand.
You've got donors that are running the show here.
How do you think it's working out for DeSantis and everybody else?
Ronna McDaniel we got as a result of that.
And what good is she?
None.
Zero.
She's made millions of dollars doing nothing.
Yes, she has.
And when I say nothing, I mean nothing.
She's like that dude that got the...
Twitter, between Elon Musk and...
Yeah.
You know, he's on Twitter.
Just, what have you done?
Nothing.
What are you going to do different?
Nothing.
What's your new ideas?
Nothing.
No, you've got people like Scott Pressler that have had to really step it up.
I mean, and he's got a team of people surrounding him.
A lot of people are donating directly to him.
And yet, here you've got rhinos that expect us to just show up and hold our nose like we always have and vote for them anyway.
I don't know what's worse, somebody that stabs you in the back or somebody stabs you in the eye.
The Republican rhinos stab you right in the eye.
I mean, we're at a crossroad here.
They're so worthless.
Yeah, they really, really are.
I'm living in Florida.
I can smell Washington, D.C. from here, both parties.
It's terrible.
I mean, but, you know, here we go.
We're going to have to go through the motions of all of this.
The good news is President Trump is in the news every single day, which will help him, because anybody that's been paying attention knows exactly what they've been throwing at him.
Everything, by the way.
His poll numbers are just...
They're just out of sight.
They're out of sight.
If you've got eight, ten people in a race...
And you're 40 points up?
That's hard to do with that many people in the race.
It's not like there's one person.
That's hard to do with one person, but with eight people?
I mean, that means you're up a mile.
Every state.
You got that right.
We have got a uniparty, an establishment that is running the show, and it is a two-tiered system, just in class, alone.
I mean, when you look at what's going on in Hawaii, and I am praying for those people, and the ideas that they have going on in that state and everything else that they're doing, it goes to show you, here at LAX Airport, they have got a whole wing that they are going to commit.
They're already building it.
For the elites to fly their private jets in and out.
Yeah, so much for climate change.
Yeah, they don't care about it.
No, no, no.
They're going to make sure that they don't have to sit by you, see you, or even know that you exist.
Talking about the working class.
They're going to have their own portal.
They have two summits a year now.
Two summits a year, and it's always in some resort, uber, uber, mega-rich town like in Switzerland.
You ever notice that?
Of course.
In the Swiss Alps, in the most beautiful town.
And no, they care so much about the environment that they all get their private jets, and they get their limousines, and they go out and eat all this food with gas stoves, and then they fly back their private jets, and then they tell you to live in a damn tent and ride a bicycle.
In the meantime, they...
And I don't even want to know what they're doing in the after parties over there.
Remember when they said that they had like 3,000 hookers came to town for the last one?
3,000 hookers came to town.
Oh my gosh.
Well, they say one of the biggest human trafficking and prostitution rings generally happens at the Super Bowl.
I mean, that's just common knowledge.
Those that can afford those tickets, see?
It's that class of people.
And so when you really start looking at this, of course it makes sense.
Absolutely it makes sense.
There's not no regular fans at Super Bowl, believe me, because nobody can afford those tickets.
No.
Or get them.
Or you've got to be connected to even get them.
That's exactly right.
People that can afford them that can't get them.
That's how hard they are to get.
No, nothing has changed with the whole Epstein thing, and that's what I try to reemphasize.
Okay, so maybe we all found out about the island, but if you don't think that there are 20, 30, 40, 100,000 Different locations where these people can do whatever it is that they do.
Rape Island is a real thing.
And the government covered it up in front of the American people.
That's a fact, Jack.
I mean, that's just the way it goes.
They know exactly who went there and raped.
Sure.
They were there to cover it up.
They work for them.
They work for the establishment.
They don't work for the American people.
Absolutely not.
So here they are.
They're rolling this snowball down the hill just to see what kind of traction it gets.
And you've got Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, an alleged co-conspirator, calls for Georgia election case to be moved to federal court, which would be fantastic.
You can take all the emotions out.
They look at the laws a lot more seriously to see if any of this qualifies.
And we'll toss it out.
Just read it.
Read it and start laughing.
It's ridiculous.
They could tweet anything and they added it to the charge.
I mean, he tweeted, go watch...
O-A-N-N. Amazing.
And that was in their RICO chart.
That's just ridiculous.
And then one more thing about the climate change before we go to something else, but if any of those people cared about climate change, if they really cared, they would Skype it.
They could all just Skype it in and talk to each other.
What's the difference?
What are you going to say differently?
No, they want the party and they want the hookers.
They want the musicians.
They want the fancy dinners, the flying private, the red carpet rollout.
That's what they're there for.
They don't no more care about the environment or believe climate change is real no more than anything.
If they did and it was threatening everybody's life and everybody's going to die in five years.
Like they said, they would Skype, but they don't, and that proves it's all fraud.
It's a hoax for idiots.
Well, hey, here's the thing, though.
They're going to get this check, the Hawaiians, that were deeply affected, right, for $700, which will give them a ticket to L.A., right, so that they can't return home.
That's what it will buy them.
Absolutely nothing.
And here is all of our money going over to Ukraine, right?
To go ahead and fund their...
A household.
Not even a person.
Not even a person.
Exactly.
So if you're a parent and a wife, if you're a man and a woman, you've got five kids, they get $100 a piece while they send $200 billion to...
I know.
I mean, think about it.
When you divide that up, if you have, like you said, a big family, forget it.
What's your cut?
If you live alone, okay, so you have $700, but what is that going to get you?
Thanks for groceries for a week.
One way off the island, and that's really what they want.
In the meantime, BlackRock, the billionaires, and the government are fighting over all them poor people's land.
They certainly are.
And then they're like, well, stop the conspiracy theories.
Why wouldn't we think somebody set the fire?
It only happened where the more poor people have, and the most premier land in Hawaii, where the poor people own, and it didn't burn the millionaires' houses down, did it?
Not at all.
And then now, you got two days after it, you got BlackRock and the government fighting over who gets the land and not even mentioning those people.
What do you think we're going to think?
Right, and then they try to act like, hey, we're really doing something for the people, right?
We want to make sure that there aren't foreigners that buy up this property.
No, this is their property, okay?
Pause off, and you can have a pause here.
Stop sending all this money to Ukraine.
This looks worse than any picture I've seen out of Ukraine.
And these people had no place to run, no place to hide, except for the ocean.
And thank goodness they had that.
Because while things were burning around, all around them, while their homes, their neighborhoods, everything, people, I mean, you've got up to a thousand people that are still missing, and that number is only going to increase.
Did you say we're Zelensky?
Zelensky mentioned all them videos everybody's been posting to Ukraine, pool parties and nightclub parties.
I guess we're finally getting to him because he's like, you have to do business partying while we're at war.
Remember, he came out yesterday.
All them videos you put online, all that stuff affects policy.
This is just as crooked as the day is long, you know, and they're not even good at it.
That's the thing.
It's not that we've gotten better.
It's just that they're horrible at it.
I mean, when you've got somebody like a, you know, somebody like Biden, who isn't all there, everything shows through, especially when you steal an election.
And that's exactly what happened.
They know it.
They cheated like hell.
Sure they did.
One of the biggest places they cheated in Georgia.
Oh my gosh.
I know.
Well, and when you start looking at how strategic they've been in flipping some of these areas, California, Georgia, you've got a lot of these different places that are coming out that really make a difference.
They were using these maps and maps like these to make sure that they stole the election to begin with.
They knew they only needed a few states.
And that Kemp, he's such a slime ball.
Oh, gosh.
His whole staff is just slime.
It is true.
Let me tell you something.
If that dude decides to run to president in 2028, the first thing he's going to do is changing all the mail-in ballots, all the ballot harvesting, all the drop boxes.
The first thing he'll do is guarantee it.
Oh my gosh.
Well, I mean, and this is the problem, too.
You've got nothing but Soros, right, people that are on these cases with President Trump.
You've got the judge who's overseeing President Trump's bogus Georgia case, Scott McGaffey, once worked under Soros, funded Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis.
Snakes in the grass.
This is why these areas were picked.
This is why Soros has been so deeply engaged and involved in appointing these DAs.
Because he predicted another landslide victory by President Trump.
And they're trying to take him out.
In any means possible.
That's what they're doing.
It's just frightening to see what is happening here.
Everybody should be worried.
I don't care what side of the aisle that you are on.
You should be very concerned with the way things are going with this whole thing.
Because if you think that you're going to be excused that you're going to get a pass, you won't just because of your political ideology.
No, they are all in it for them and that is all.
You got the wife of the judge overseeing Trump's Fulton County case donated to Obama, Hillary and Biden.
Come on.
Wake up.
Understand what this is.
And the Republicans need to understand that we the people know what this is.
This is life or death for our country.
Our country's about to be gone, folks.
And the Republicans are sitting on their hands.
They're just sitting there fiddling while Rome burns.
Well, that's...
And about how great principles they are.
And how...
We better not do this.
It's bad for the nation to impeach Obama.
It's not good for the nation.
Is it good for a nation, Mitch, I froze for 30 seconds, McConnell need to retire?
Is it good for the nation for them to arrest a political opponent that's leading for the Republicans on bullshit charges in four different areas?
Is that good for the nation, Mitch McConnell?
Who's been in Washington, D.C. since most people listening to this have been alive.
And what has he done?
Name one thing he's done.
Nothing!
They're like, well, he did help get the judges.
Anybody would have done that.
Any House Speaker and Republican in the last year, if they own it, would not have let them vote for it.
It doesn't matter if it was him or anybody else.
He didn't do nothing special.
Anybody that was a Republican, the Senate leader, if they had the gavel and it was nine or eight months left before giving a Supreme Court pick, any of them would have done it.
If there was 100 different people, every one of them would have done it.
He's done nothing.
He's a sellout.
He's just another one that's been a bear for 40 years and worth $100 million.
Just him, Nancy Pelosi, all of them, they're all rich.
Are you supposed to go for service or to get filthy rich?
And that's what happens.
They get filthy rich.
Filthy rich.
I mean, they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars when they come out.
On $187,000 a year, and after taxes, that's $100,000 a year for 30 years.
That's $3 million minus your living expenses.
And somehow, they all come out of there with $250 million damn dollars.
Isn't it incredible?
All of them.
I know it.
I mean, look at Piglosie.
She's living high on the hog.
She's a relic.
I mean, seriously.
The crypt keeper.
There she is.
I mean, you would have to pry that gavel out.
That's what I thought of her cold hands.
Because she wasn't going to let that go.
Nobody else in the world, in the private sector, in this United States does that.
Mm-hmm.
Ask a plumber.
How much do you make a year?
I make $100,000 a year.
Okay, and I work 30 years.
Okay, well, how much do you retire with?
Well, $157 million.
Well, where did you get it?
I mean, does that happen in any other work where you make $100,000 a year for 30 years and then you retire?
Man, what a great man.
I got $267 million in the bank.
Well, how'd you do that?
Well, how do they do it?
They have a full-time job, right?
What's their other job?
They've been selling us out.
It's all crooked money coming in.
They're the damn mob, I'm telling you.
Speaking of RICO. Well, that's exactly right.
That's how our government is being run like some kind of cartel.
We're going to get a handle on it, but my gosh, it is going to take a serious housecleaning.
And those that know that they're going to be, you know, that they're going to be primaried are going to be starting to retire, I imagine.
Because after this whole thing, the country isn't going to vote for them.
I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
A lot of the Republicans think that, ooh, they will be accepted on the left.
They've never been accepted on the left.
They're a pariah.
They always will be.
They're never going to gain it.
No.
They want to get an article written about them nice in the New York Times.
That's more important than saving the country.
And they're not going to get it anyway.
No!
And that's why they're going against freedom of speech, because they don't like the fact that we call them out on it.
They want to take away that right so we don't make We don't have clips to show where they were speaking a whole different talk, you know, a couple of years ago to get elected.
They don't want any of that stuff to come back and haunt them.
So we're just going to have to continue to work to make sure that we clean out this party.
We're going to have to gut it.
We're just going to have to gut it.
Just one by one.
And here I am over in California, which is great in a way, because at least it will lend me to be able to work on other races, right?
In close ones where I can donate to that candidate in hopes of putting them over the top of somebody in the Republican Party that's a rhino that isn't doing us any services.
And then you get rid of a rhino, our problem is, and we put somebody that sounds like The best possible just regular man or woman, country person or average Joe, and we put them in there and in two years they turn into Joni Ernst with a helmet head and pearls and look like a mannequin.
You know.
They're totally unrecognizable.
Yeah.
Completely.
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I know personally, with my experience, and I cannot wait to hear about John Rich's, his bank that he's got going on, because as a lot of people know, our bank, we were with Bank of America, and they completely shut us down.
100%.
Worm boy is what we call him.
And he shut us down because we're conservatives.
And so when I was trying to wire things back and forth to Cat Turd, they figured out who we were.
I tried to make a transaction.
They completely froze our account.
I didn't get our money back for like a month and a half.
And that's when we were just starting out this show.
That was the sad part.
We didn't have anything.
I mean, thank goodness I was working full-time at the actual time of that happening because I don't know how we would have funded it.
And for people that actually use a podcast or something like that to put food on their table and feed their families, right, when they're of that caliber, can you imagine something like that happening to them?
It's no different than what you saw with the truckers and everybody else.
They want control, complete and absolute control of your every single day life so that they can control you.
That's it.
So I'm looking forward to talking to him about all this stuff because I know he's got a lot going on.
And I know that you two are really busy with that turd fest.
I mean, that's a big deal.
I get that question every single day, multiple times a day.
I kid you not, Kat.
It's really something.
But speaking of turds, look who's there.
Turd, Stacey Abrams.
She denied the election results of 2018 election over 30 times, Kat.
Yeah, 30,000.
Did she ever concede or anything?
No, she never conceded.
Nope.
They introduced her on talk shows and MSNBC is the real governor of Georgia.
Here she is.
Oh my gosh.
Her and Beto...
And they're professional election losers.
You ever notice that?
They run for something every year.
Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams, their job is losing elections and pocketing whatever they can of donations.
Well, it's a big moneymaker when you think about it.
Beto, he's running for senator, president, governor, mayor.
He can't win anything.
It's so ridiculous.
Oh my gosh, it is so ridiculous.
But sure, under the new rules, shouldn't Stacey Abrams be prosecuted?
You would think.
We should.
Yep.
So you have her denying it.
And what's so great, again, this is where social media becomes our friend because you've got her on video and you've got up to five minutes on one that RNC Research released.
I'm not going to play that here because you've heard it all before.
But over and over again, denying that President Trump won.
Hillary Clinton was one of them.
So lock them all up.
Let's go ahead.
You know, if it's going to apply to President Trump, then it should apply to all of them.
And they should have to spend their hard-earned dollars, I'm laughing about that, and defend themselves.
It's ridiculous.
Unbelievable.
I know.
The whole thing.
But they could.
That's the only way to beat this, by the way, is Republicans, DAs and stuff, start charging them for the same thing.
Start hitting them.
And Congress start impeaching them.
Impeaching this guy and this guy over and over.
The only way to fight this back is to do the same thing back to them.
The Republicans don't understand that.
And the mud principles, all these people, and that's bad for the country.
That's over.
The country's gone if you don't step up and do this.
You got that right.
I mean, what is this country worth to you?
It's not going to be worth anything with the way we're going here.
I mean, it's bad news.
We were talking a little bit about merch and trying to find something in this country where it's manufactured in this country, and it's an impossibility.
Our jobs are going to foreigners.
They absolutely are.
You've got people that are coming across the border and all of these other things that are happening as a result of the Biden administration.
Stolen elections do have consequences.
Okay, so I think I'm getting a knock on the door over here in the lovely green room.
Real excited about John Rich joining us today.
This is going to be great.
He's got a new album that's out.
I know that that's happening.
And so we are just delighted to welcome him to the show.
Hello, John Rich.
Are you there?
Can you hear us okay?
It looks like he is connecting.
There he is.
He looks great.
He's got his cowboy hat on.
He's ready to go.
Hello!
John, can you hear us?
Can you hear us, John?
I've got video, but I don't have audio for some reason.
So we'll let him figure that out.
So that's just a teaser, okay, everyone?
Until we get his voice on here, that's going to be a teaser for you to know that the John Rich is going to be joining us in just a few minutes.
So we're working on the audio right now.
I think I've got him.
Hey, John, you there?
I think I've got it.
You certainly do.
There you are.
Hi.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
How are you?
What's up, buddy?
What's up, man?
How you been?
Good.
You looking good, bro.
I appreciate it, brother.
Thanks for having me on.
I'm bad for 68 years old.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
I'm pickled, man.
I'm good.
Oh my gosh.
Welcome to the Litter Box, John Rich.
We are just huge fans of yours here.
I know you and Cat Turd go back and forth all the time.
You have a great relationship.
We're hearing all about Turdstock.
I'm thrilled that you're here so that we can go ahead and give some of the details to our audience because they have been on the fence ready to pounce saying, okay, so when is this event?
What are we doing here?
You want to give us a little update on what you all are thinking?
We don't have a set date yet.
Oh, really?
Yeah, we're looking at dates, and every time we find a date, Nashville is just absolutely body slammed with other stuff going on.
Cat, I think we're pretty much intent that we're trying to get the month of October.
We're trying to nail something down that month.
I think you had told me there were literally thousands of people that reached out to you going, I'm coming to turd stock.
Oh, yeah.
But I think on this first one, we may go small and really make it more like a big live stream event with obviously live fans and guests as well.
But then next year, depending on how it goes, maybe you go somewhere really big.
Because I think you could have 10,000 plus people at something like that, honestly.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, to make it happen, I mean, we couldn't throw something together like that.
And I'd be leaning heavily on him because, you know, one of us does 10,000 people events and one of us doesn't.
So I'll get you guessing which one it is.
Oh, it'll happen before you even know it.
I get calls and DMs all the time where people just are so excited about this idea because, you know what, we need it.
We need, we're having a culture war right now.
And if you look at the reaction to what just happened with that last song last week, oh my gosh, Oliver is incredible.
Oliver Anthony.
And I know you've been working a little bit with him.
I'd like to ask you if it's okay to tell us a little bit about what you've learned about him because he took everybody's breath away.
I'm not kidding.
Yeah.
So, I would say first things first, let's just talk about why did that take everybody's breath away?
Why that guy and that song in particular?
And the more I've listened to the song, When you see how he looks and you hear how he sounds when he's singing, he sounds wore out, shredded, pissed off, sad.
I mean, a lot of emotions going on right there, which to me is like a mirror image of how the United States population feels.
We feel shredded, wore out, upset, mad, sad, all those things wrapped up.
And here comes this guy standing out in the woods on a flatbed trailer Singing at the top of his lungs and that, listen, Cat will tell you, Cat Turtle will tell you, that is not something you teach somebody.
You don't go out and practice how to do that.
That literally is this guy just ripping himself open and pouring it through that microphone without any second thought as to what somebody might think about it.
And when you get hit with something that pure that hits the nail that hard, You get a result like this.
So, yes, I've been talking to him pretty much daily.
We'll get on the phone and talk about it.
I said, well, what's going on today?
Oliver, and he goes, well, I've had X amount of record labels calling.
I've had...
Everybody's trying to blow it up, you know, blow me up.
And he says, I just don't really know what I'm supposed to do, so I'm just not going to do anything right now.
What do you think about that, John?
And I said, I think that's the smartest thing you can do.
The smartest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Absolutely.
Yeah, he said, you know, people are making these insane offers to him, you know, big time money deals and stuff.
And his answer to them is, in exchange for what?
I don't want to answer in exchange for what?
Because the answer to in exchange for what is in exchange for your career, in exchange for your life, everything.
Yes.
And I explained to him that, Oliver, what you've accomplished with no record label, It will no publishing company or anything.
If the biggest record label on earth spent every last penny they had, they wouldn't get 5% of what you've got.
And on top of that, had he had a record deal and wrote and recorded that exact same song, none of us would have ever heard it because the labels would have buried it.
There's no way in hell a record label is going to let that song ever come out.
So he's sitting in a really interesting position right now.
I hope he stays as independent as possible.
He does need some people around him that are pros that he can trust.
It's a minefield, man.
You've got to make sure you've got really good people handling your stuff.
And I've talked to you before about I wish I could get 15 minutes with them for another reason is because I kind of know what it's like to suddenly hit on Twitter.
You know what I mean?
And then I know what it's like for everybody to come at you with money.
They were coming at me with fistfuls.
They still do.
And then the bad part, and then they're going to start, I mean, Rolling Stones hires, you know, private investigators go through every person.
They've talked to every person I've ever known, every person I ever, for 40 years ago.
Last week I had a reporter crawling all over my house, trying to take pictures of me, trying to drive up my driveway.
So, That's not smart in your neighborhood, I have a feeling.
Definitely not.
Puppies and all.
When I saw that dude, I mean, that's my people, you know.
Of course, I'm a jazz and blues guy when I was a musician, but I love country music.
I love the old country music that was just like that.
I think the Babylon Bee did the funniest thing.
Headline on that, and they say the country music industry stunned or something like that, that a guy from the country is actually singing a song, a real guy.
They don't know what to do.
Listen, man, I am so happy about the fact that this guy, Oliver, has broken this song without the industry.
The country music industry, not all the artists in it, some of them, not all of them.
Matter of fact, there's a lot of them that are straight ahead, America-loving, freedom-loving people.
But the industry itself, the big companies, is as woke as anything you've ever seen in your life.
They're as woke as Hollywood ever thought about being.
And people are always stunned when I say that.
They go, Nashville, Tennessee, the home of country music?
Go, yeah, the people running these companies They are part of the whole system that's out there.
And so knowing that had somebody snatched him up and then he said, OK, well, here's here's a song I want to put out.
The rich man north of Richmond.
He'd sing that one time in somebody's office.
And I promise you that song ain't going to see the light of day.
They'll say, brother, if you ever sing that, you're done.
They'll cancel you.
They'll blow you out of the water.
You know, they would have they would have not allowed it to happen.
So This is the purest form of artistry that there can be, where a guy has a song that hits him, he writes it, he sings it, the people respond.
That's a beautiful thing.
It gives me a lot of hope that that's still possible in this world.
It is.
And when you get up there, and there's a lot of people that get up there in his shape, in your industry, and they get eaten alive after an album or two, and then they can't write anymore because they don't feel the same way anymore.
They've got money now and this, and it's...
It's awful, but you're one of the few people that's been able to, you know, year after year, hit after hit after hit, and keep your soul.
And that's mainly because you do it everything yourself, don't you?
Yeah, I mean, I've got people that I work with, but I don't answer to them.
You know, they help me with stuff when I have a project like the one I'm about to put out.
You know, I've got a manager, but I've had him for 22 years.
I've got a booking agent.
I've had him since Lone Star back in the 90s.
I mean, I know these guys like Family members, if they were shysters, trust me, I would not be working with them.
So you've got to have people that you trust around you.
You have to have people that are experts and have the time to do what all happens after you put out a piece of music.
I mean, you just do.
One guy can't cover all the bases, and if he tries to, it'll burn you out on the creative side, just like you were talking about.
You don't want that.
So, you know, a guy like Oliver, he's going to have to find a few key people that he can trust right now.
I think I'm a guy that he trusts, and he's asking me everything from, you know, what do you think about this record label person or this manager?
And then he goes, hey, what do you do when your voice is really tired?
He goes, my voice is so tired.
I said, I bet.
You know, how many people have you talked to in a week?
You know, he goes, yeah, I'm not used to it.
What do you do for a voice when it's tired?
So I'm telling him what I do when my voice gets tired.
All the way down to stuff like that.
I'm just trying to look out for him, big brother him a little bit, and give him any advice that he asks for.
I'm so glad you're there.
Me too.
I mean, I heard that and I just had chills.
And the thing about it is, it struck such a chord with me that it just keeps replaying in my head.
And it's exactly like you described how I felt, just like surrendering.
That's how you truly felt.
Like, oh my gosh, this person is speaking from my own soul.
I have a kindred spirit here.
And it's just how we have all felt.
And the timing could not have been more perfect, especially what's happening with the Biden administration.
We are all feeling this way.
We are down and out.
We're looking for hope.
We're looking for heroes.
We're looking for options.
And it's a terrible time in our history to actually feel this way.
But everybody that you talk to feels it.
I actually live in Hollywood, John.
I live right in the center of all of this stuff and it doesn't matter who you are.
We're all being affected.
It doesn't matter.
Whether you're high up on the scale or low.
Nobody's happy right now.
It doesn't seem like.
We need hope.
We need faith.
We need all of those things that make people great.
And I feel like this administration has really taken away much more than people actually realize.
So in saying that, I know you've got yourself involved in a whole bunch of stuff, including a bank and different things.
I was talking about it before the show.
Cat Turd and I had our bank frozen because we're conservatives.
We were at Bank of America and they shut us off completely.
And yeah, you didn't tell them the story, Cat?
Oh, this is a bad one.
Yeah.
I don't know if I've mentioned it or not to them.
Absolutely.
They certainly did.
I'm trying to wire Kat money one day, and I'm like, okay, this is from the show.
Here you go.
No big deal, right?
When they saw Kat turn, it was over.
That was it.
Frozen.
What did they do?
Did they just shut down all your transactions, or what did they do to you?
Everything.
It froze the money.
Everything.
And I couldn't understand.
No, I could not understand why.
I could not get into my account.
And so I'm calling Kat and I'm like, hey, guess what?
I can't get this money to you.
I don't know what's going on.
Let me try it.
And he's like, oh, it's probably my site.
I said, no, this is different.
So then I waited.
I had to make an appointment.
Walked into the bank.
Because, you know, COVID, nobody's at the banks anymore, right?
I mean, you can't get a person on the phone.
So I go into the bank, and they put me with Worm Boy, who was delighted to tell me that they didn't have to offer an explanation as to why they shut down my account, but that they just will not be doing business with me in the future.
Well, Cat freaked out.
I freaked out.
And he just blasted him.
I blew him up.
I blasted them on Twitter until they were number one.
And then as soon as that happened, the next day, they were calling her every five minutes.
Ring!
Ring!
And she never answered their phone.
Oh, I don't go in reverse.
Oh, no.
That happens one time and that's it.
And he had trending Bank of America is Commie Trash on there for two days in a row.
I was dying laughing.
I was dying laughing.
Bank of America has caught me track.
That was our silver lining to that story because it was just awful.
We had never experienced anything like that before.
So the fact that you have a bank out there, why don't you tell us a little bit about it?
Because we don't know.
I mean, these are the things that people need to know going forward.
The story you just laid out is why we have a bank.
Ben Carson, Dr.
Ben Carson, who I think a lot of.
Oh, yeah.
Really great guy, great man, great thinker, great patriot.
Him, Larry Elder, you know, from California.
Some guys that come from the banking industry, been doing it a long time, that are all patriots.
We had this conversation after watching what Justin Trudeau did to the truckers up in Canada when the truckers piled up in that town.
They couldn't get them to leave, and so Trudeau told the banks, hey, If these truckers don't leave, I want you to freeze their bank accounts and freeze the bank accounts of whoever they're driving for.
And if a tow truck company refuses to tow the trucks, freeze their bank accounts and just keep freezing bank accounts until they disperse.
Okay, so that's what they did.
And I'm looking at that going, how far are we away from that in the United States of America with who's currently in control of things?
I would say we're at it right now.
And Kat Turd, you just said, yeah, it's already happened to you.
So we decided to build a bank, a banking platform.
It's a physical bank in Oklahoma.
There's going to be more of these around the country.
Like any other bank, you know, you've got an Old Glory card so you can get money out of an ATM. Your boss can wire your money right into your account, which is, you know, direct deposit stuff.
Works just like any other bank would.
But it's got one big underlined in red credo, and that is, you will never be penalized for exercising your constitutional rights.
At Old Glory Bank.
Now, how pathetic is it that that has to be a foundation of a bank, that you actually have to say that?
People would assume, well, banks aren't going to do that.
That's illegal.
And so a lot of people that have come to Old Glory Bank, it's now tens of thousands of accounts that have been opened and now doing small business accounts, too, as of July.
But they think that if the federal government Tells the bank, freeze cat turds account, that the bank has to do it.
That's not true.
Banks are not owned by the government, at least not yet.
And so the bank then has a decision to make.
They can say, yes, sir, Mr.
Federal man, I'm going to freeze cat turds account, or They can look at you and go, he hasn't broken any laws.
He hasn't done anything.
He hasn't done anything.
He's not a criminal.
There's nothing going on in his account.
So I tell you what, Mr.
Federal man, take two of these and call me in the morning, okay?
We'll see you in court.
That's what will happen if you have an Old Glory bank account and they try to...
Love the name.
That's what will happen.
So, listen, it's as simple as this.
People want to run for the hills in this country.
We see what's going on.
The bad guys have taken everything.
They own every platform.
They own all the banking.
They own all the media.
They own everything.
And so people are like, I want to run for the hills.
But what hill do I run to?
Because the bad guys already bought them all.
They own all the hills.
And so we said, you know what?
We got to build new hills for people to run to.
We have to be Americans and stand up and be innovators and use our skill and our influence and go out here and build new hills for Americans to run to.
That's what Old Glory Bank is, and that's why people are flooding over there right now.
It's, I think, an extremely important thing to have options like that for regular old American people.
This is not a billionaire bank.
This is blue collar accounts.
This is small business.
You know, it's just for regular Americans like a lot of the folks watching right now, and I'm proud to be a part of it.
I think it's important.
Well, I mean, you're again tackling something else that we have going on in this country because they're hitting us on every single front.
It's a real, real problem that we're facing right now.
And that's why we're middle America, right?
We're middle of the road.
We're the builders.
We're the busy bees.
We're the ones that come up with all of these solutions.
And I'm so glad that someone like you of your caliber and your status, because truly you are up there.
You're able to do things that we're not able to do.
And that you've introduced this because there is a need.
I mean, they want to control everything.
I've been kicked off of every single platform there is.
And so as a result, what do we do?
We have to respond.
We go to truth.
We create Getter.
We create all these different platforms where we can be present, where we can have a presence.
And I never thought that we were going to enter socialism, communism 101, but that's exactly where we are right now.
So it's wonderful to see that we have solutions.
I pulled up the website and I'm going to drop it into the chat room so that other people...
Love the name.
Yes.
Old Glory Bank.
Absolutely.
But that's not all that you're into.
Tell us about this new album that you have going on.
What is it?
We've been talking about Oliver Anthony.
We just had Jason Aldean.
We'll try that in a small town.
It's interesting how I don't see anything funny.
See what kind of crazy stuff he's saying.
That always puts a grin on my face.
This is what I love about you, Cat Turdman.
You say some serious stuff, but you always throw some humor in there.
That's an important thing.
There's nothing funny going on in our country right now.
So as a country songwriter, I thought, you know what?
I'm going to put something out there that makes people...
We'll laugh for about three, three and a half minutes.
So as I looked at our culture, everybody's offended all the time at something.
I mean, I'm offended.
You're offended.
Everybody's offended.
I said, I'm going to write a song called I'm Offended.
And I'm a fan of an old country artist named Roger Miller from way back in the day.
And he had Dang Me and, you know, Chuggalug, Chuggalug and all these hilarious songs.
I grew up listening to Roger Miller.
I said, I wonder what Roger Miller would say in 2023 with all this going on.
So that's kind of the vibe of the song.
You can pre-order it now.
It's actually a whole record, Kat.
It's actually, and Jules, it's actually a 10-song record.
I included Earth to God on there.
Progress is on there.
I did one with Mike Rowe called Santa's Got a Dirty Job.
It's on there.
And then a bunch of new songs, too.
And it's called The Country Truth.
You can pre-order it or you can wait till Friday and it'll be available everywhere.
So I'm pretty excited to get it out there.
Okay, so I have your LinkedIn, just so you know, I have that up here so that everybody can see it, and that way everybody can see what you have going on here.
And you can pre-order it right here, and I'm going to drop this into chat as well so that everybody can get ahead of the curve, because I know how quickly these things go.
You have a video already, too, for I'm Offended, right?
I certainly do.
I've got it all ready to go here.
Let's check it out real quick.
I'm Offended.
You're offended.
Let's all get offended tonight.
I'll order us a beer.
We can sit down right here and scream and yell at us and puss and vines.
I love that!
Oh my gosh, that's perfect.
That's about how it goes too, isn't it?
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that's a good one.
That's going to be a big hit.
It is.
I mean, I hope people like it, man.
Listen, things are absurd and I wanted to point that out.
How absurd things have gotten.
It's ridiculous how absurd things are.
And you know, it's good to have an Oliver Anthony singing the serious stuff.
And Al Dean's dropping what he dropped, and then I'll come in with something kind of funny.
And, you know, I guess it's left up to the country boys and girls to get out here and speak what's on the mind of America.
That's fine with me.
Country music has that reputation anyway.
Haggard sang about America all the time.
Oh, we're rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell.
Remember that one?
I mean, that nailed it, man.
So hopefully this I'm Offended song is one of those kinds of songs.
Oh, it's perfect.
See, I'm originally born, raised, and forever indebted to Mississippi.
So when you start talking about fussing and fighting, I know all about that.
Where's your accent?
Oh, because, see, I've been away for so long.
I can't hide mine.
You can't hide yours, Kat.
I'm country all the way through.
I can't do it.
That's just the way I talk.
I know.
Mine comes out whenever I'm around you or my parents every once in a while.
I'll bring that twang out in you.
You do in so many different ways, and it's wonderful.
I absolutely love it.
But my parents can't get around California when they say, you know, we need to get to La Jalla.
The cab driver will say, where exactly is that?
You know, because they're Southern.
I mean, they don't know El Camino Real.
I mean, they'd say El Camino Real.
Yeah.
So they have a horrible time getting around, but...
I'll have people like, you know, you meet out and stuff, and they'll say, man, you got a real accent.
And I say, well, I'm in the South, so you're the one with the accent, buddy.
Right.
Oh my gosh.
So I've got this link out.
I'm going to drop it into chat because a lot of people are asking for it.
Oh, wow.
And then you also have Redneck Riviera.
Tell me a little bit about that.
I don't know anything about this stuff.
So you're going to have to enlighten me about Redneck Riviera.
What is that?
Well, so that phrase has been around since the early 60s.
I'm sure Cat Turd's very familiar with that phrase.
It's kind of the tongue-in-cheek way of saying, we can't afford to go to the French Riviera, so where are we going to go?
We're going to go to the Redneck Riviera.
We're going to go to the one we can afford to go to.
But when you get down there...
You get in that frame of mind, man.
The beaches are beautiful.
The people are great.
The music's awesome.
The food is great.
You can afford to go there.
So back in 2008, I started this brand, Redneck Riviera.
I've got a big honky tonk down here in Nashville, which we may actually incorporate that into turd stock as we're talking about our plans for that.
But it's also...
It's Redneck Riviera whiskey, which is the America's answer to Crown Royal.
I was always a Crown Royal guy.
Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy says, buy the bar a double round of Crown.
Lord knows how much Crown I help those guys sell.
But that's Canadian blended.
I said, I want an American blended.
I want something that beats Crown that's all American.
So we're in like 10,000 stores now across the U.S. We're in all the Walmarts, Safeways, Albertsons, Publix, and then a bunch of your mom and pop stores, ABC stores.
And we give 10% of our profits back to the Folds of Honor, which is an organization putting kids through college who lost a parent in combat.
And so Redneck Riviera, as a brand, all in across all the different things that it's doing, since 2018, we've now sent back $1.6 million back to the Folds of Honor.
So anybody out there that has supported the brand, you're a part of that, and we're sure to appreciate it.
It's just incredible.
Now, I have a serious question for you.
Very serious one.
And a lot of people have been talking about what's going on with red flag laws over there, especially in Tennessee.
And especially with when you start talking about some of the tragedies.
I mean, we're still waiting for the manifesto and all of the things that happened in Tennessee.
We're not getting any answers on what happened with all of that.
So why is the Republican governor working with an ultra-leftist gun ban group?
Do you have any clue as to why that's going on?
Well, there's no good answer to that.
I can promise you that.
So let's talk about red flag laws for a minute.
So on its face, a red flag law sounds like a great thing.
We're going to get the guns out of the hands of crazy people before they can do something.
Everybody would go, sounds good to me.
Let's do that.
But when you dig down into what a red flag law actually does and how it can be abused and manipulated, your next door neighbor could decide that they think you're a danger to society.
And they could call law enforcement and say, hey, Joe over here, I heard him yelling out in his yard.
He doesn't seem stable and I'm pretty sure he's got a gun.
I'm calling in a red flag.
And if they decide to move on Joe, they can go to Joe's house, kick his door in, take all of his weapons and then force him to undergo mental evaluation by the state he lives in.
And if he proves he's not crazy, according to them, then he can get his guns back.
Now, does that sound like America to you?
Not even close.
Just think about the couples and divorce disputes.
You can use that against you.
100%.
And that's not theoretical, Kat Turd.
That's not theory.
That has happened a lot.
Oh, yeah.
And if you want to know how effective red flag laws are, guess what state has one of the toughest red flag laws in the whole United States?
The state of Illinois.
Do you think red flag laws have helped Chicago?
I mean, of course not.
So we have a Republican governor, Bill Lee, who talked the talk, sounded good when everybody voted him in.
And now, yes, you're correct.
He's working with...
Gun-grabbing groups to go in here and try to pass a bunch of stuff in the state of Tennessee that the people that voted for him do not want.
So they're actually doing it in special sessions behind closed doors in small groups, not an open debate, to try to keep this from the public in Tennessee.
And so I've been a part of an initiative called Red Flag Down.
I actually came up with that name, hashtag Red Flag Down.
And people can go to redflagdown.com if you live in Tennessee and go read about it and find out who your representatives are.
The best way to stop it is to let your representative know if you vote for this, that's your last time in office.
You know, we'll primary you, we'll run you out.
It's pretty pathetic and sad that we cannot trust people in the Republican Party anymore to do the right thing.
A lot of people think I'm a hard partisan.
Oh, if it's a Republican, John Rich is for him.
Absolutely not.
Lindsey Graham turns my stomach, okay?
We got a lot of Republicans out there that are just as bad, if not worse, than a lot of the Democrats.
That's why they call it the Uniparty.
So we have to be awake and aware, and when we see a problem, we have to move on it.
They can also say, if you go to a psychiatrist for any reason, let's say he just subscribes you to Xanax, they can use that.
Oh, no, we can't have him.
I mean, it's just a slippery slope.
They can make an excuse at that point.
If they want to take your guns, they have an excuse.
They'll find a way to take them at that point.
Yeah, I mean, think about veterans who have suffered an injury or something like that, and they're on painkiller or they're on whatever they're on trying to get through an injury, and they've got a firearm.
They served the country, obviously.
They took a hit for us.
Are they also susceptible to having their weapons taken away?
The answer is yes.
Yes, they are.
So it's a dangerous time, and it's hard to know who to trust anymore.
I would say the percentages keep dropping as to how many politicians you can actually trust.
Oh, it is so true.
We hammer the Republican Party probably harder than the Democrats here.
They've been such a disappointment.
I don't care about the parties.
I'm just trying to find honest people.
And we were talking before you came on.
They can seem like the best to the right of George Washington.
And have the best record and something about when they get up there in D.C. and get elected.
Two years later, they become Joni Ernst.
Joni Ernst ran as this...
She was quail hunting with a flannel shirt and jeans and cowboy boots.
And then now she's standing beside Mitch McConnell doing all the stuff with the hair and the pearls.
They just change.
It just changes them.
But I do think that we've seen in the past couple of years.
Conservatives waking up to the fact that that's what's going on.
I mean, we saw Lindsey Graham get booed off the stage.
We saw Mitch McConnell get booed off the stage.
Mitt Romney can't walk through an airport.
You know, I mean, these guys that we thought were straight up, we now know that they're not.
So I think there's such a critical eye now in a good way from the populace out there looking at these politicians going, we don't believe you just because you said it anymore.
That's a big deal to happen in our country.
It needs to happen on both sides of the aisle.
Everybody needs to wake up and realize they're playing a big old game, and we're the pieces on the board.
We've got to flip the board upside down.
Well, it's really true, and a lot of people are talking about that manifesto, and we're talking about the Covenant School in Nashville, just so everybody knows, where you had a crazed gender dysphoria-afflicted Aubrey Hale, who penetrated that horrible Horrible crime where she killed all of those little students.
She went hunting for Christians.
That's exactly what happened.
Don't sugarcoat it.
That's exactly it.
And it was horrible.
And then they've kept all of the details out of the news.
They're protecting this person.
What do you think would have happened if that would have been an obvious right-wing, conservative-style person that would have done the exact same crime?
Do you think we'd have the manifesto by now?
Of course.
It would have been leaked to the New York Times an hour after they had it.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, Megavoltz001 does a lot of work in this department, and he wanted me to ask you that specifically because he knew about the bills and everything that you've been working on.
It's going to take that.
A lot of these people need to recognize whether they're in office or not, they're going to be primary.
If we're not happy with what we see, it's not like this undying loyalty to them.
I think mainly that happens with President Trump because he earned it.
He absolutely earned our respect.
He has been consistent.
He delivers.
All of these other people, we see right through them.
Yeah, he fights.
They don't fight.
It's true.
John, you know what you need?
What's that, man?
You need a few more projects.
Oh, yeah.
You know what?
We gotta do a cat turd record one of these days, man.
We gotta get in there and record some stuff.
Let's do it.
You know, I was a musician and my fingers are gone.
You know, one of the worst things that happened in my life.
And if you want to know how life can change, you know, because, I mean, the last 10 years before I kind of lost my fingers to arthritis, probably from mid-40s to around 54 years old, I mean, I played guitar probably.
That's when I was writing my good stuff.
I probably wrote four to five hundred songs.
But nobody ever heard them.
I was playing live before then all the time.
But I just sat in my room.
It was therapy, man.
And I didn't need anybody to hear me anymore.
I was sitting there.
I got a Taylor, a Doyle Dykes Taylor guitar.
It sounds unbelievable.
And a little Bose system, and I was just sitting there, and I just played.
Anytime, that's all I did.
I lived and breathed playing guitar and singing and writing.
And then when that, just one day, I woke up and my index finger swollen up, and then my other one.
And then I lost like three, just started swelling up.
I mean, I couldn't, I went to doctors, I couldn't get it fixed.
And I just, it was like a month later, I couldn't play guitar anymore.
And after, you know, been playing since I was 10 years old, every day lived and breathed playing a six-string.
And so I just said, I have to have an outlet.
I have to do something.
And it was just depressed.
I was kind of where Oliver was at that point.
You know, that's why I think I kind of jive with him.
And I'm just like, well, I'm just going to get on social media and try, you know, and I come up with this name, Cat Turd.
And then, you know, four or five years later, you know, what's happened to that?
And I wrote a science fiction novel, and it's sold tens of thousands of copies, and now I'm into writing books.
So it really is the old story, you know, when God closes the door, he opens the window, as I'm living proof of it.
Yeah, I mean, that's the American spirit, Cat Turd.
You know, we have this thing that the Founding Fathers recognized early on that they called inalienable rights, meaning rights that are not given to you by the government.
You're born with the rights, and they were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So we don't have the right to be happy.
We don't have the right for things to be perfect, but we have the right to go pursue happiness.
And so you're exactly right.
As life changes, and it always does, you're still in the ballgame if you want to be.
You know, you can go find something else to go do and go excel at that.
The game is not over till you're over, till you're done.
I love that about our country, that we're the only one in the history of written history that has told its citizens, hey guys, you have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I think that's what keeps me driving and I feel so fortunate to be an American.
Even though it's upside down and inside out, I wouldn't trade our country For any other country on the face of God's green earth.
I'll stay right here, and we'll keep battling and try to straighten this thing back out.
But in the meantime, keep a smile on your face and your fists up.
That's kind of my attitude these days.
Yeah.
And I've got to say one thing before we let you go, because the one thing Cat Turds allowed me to do is, man, I've got to meet all these people in politics and talk to them on the phone and have conversations with them.
And meet people like you.
And I've met so many hundreds of celebrities now that talk to me.
And I mean, you wouldn't believe the phone numbers.
And I have to say that John Rich is one of the most genuine people, kindest, just down to earth, just the real deal.
You are.
And of all the people I've met, I'll have to put you number one as just the most genuine person I think I've met during this whole thing.
That's the best compliment I could ever have, man.
There's enough bakery in this world.
We're up to our eyeballs in it.
Just be real.
Let the chips fall where they may.
That's what I'm doing as a dad, as a singer, as just a guy out here in the world.
I know that's what you're doing, too.
I hope people get inspiration from that.
It can be done.
Yeah, you're gonna get a lot of hate.
That's part of it.
You know, if the enemy likes what you're doing, you ain't doing it right.
You should be getting some pushback.
You should be getting some hate mail.
I mean, that's validation that you said it correctly.
And people need to adopt that attitude.
And once you do, man, you'll have a smile on your face.
You'll come out with silly songs like I'm offended and go, hey, what's so funny about that is when I drop that song, when that comes out on Friday and everybody sees it, the hate I'm gonna get.
They're going to be offended.
Oh, sure!
That's the irony of the song.
It's perfect.
I'll go, this is the worst song I've ever heard in my life.
I go, I'm offended.
That's all I have to say.
I'm offended.
You're offended.
It's so hilarious, man.
I can't wait.
When they fight you, you know, when the trolls fight you and they come after you, the best thing to do is just make fun of them.
That makes them even more mad.
Absolutely.
And you're the best at it, Cat Turd.
You're the champ.
I told them today, I said a big shout out to all my trolls for getting me all this money and ad share.
I appreciate it.
I saw that.
I said you're all like my little troll employees now.
I saw that, man.
It was so good.
So good.
Well, I will say something about Kat, and it is that I'm one of the few people that has heard his music, and he's absolutely fantastic.
I don't know if he sent you anything of his in the past, but I have been fortunate enough to hear some of it, and it is wild.
It is so good.
And I remember when you first sent it to me, I was shocked.
I was like, I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting that, Kat.
And as soon as I started playing it, I was like, this is unlike anything I listen to completely.
Yeah, John hadn't heard any.
This is the new stuff that we've been working on.
I had a little recording studio for years and working on some of the tracks we did and some of the live musicians.
It's kind of a music nobody's ever heard before.
It's really weird, is the best thing I can say.
Yeah.
You know what, Kat?
What we could do is, someday if you ever wanted to, is pick out your favorite 10 or 12 and bring those files, man.
Come up to Nashville and, you know, mix them things up and do whatever you want to do and put that thing out, man.
You know everybody's going to do it.
That's fun!
That sounds great.
I got this old guy that didn't start writing, pick up a guitar.
He reminds me of Oliver a lot because his songs are exactly like that.
And he's the guy I'm going to bring to Turdstock.
And he didn't even pick up a guitar until he was in his 60s.
I met him.
I was in construction.
He was my inspector on the road years ago.
And man, he's probably written a thousand songs.
This guy, he writes five, six songs a day.
And I'd love to take him as a writer, me, and maybe come up there and let's just write some songs and put it out.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
I'm ready.
That is awesome.
Okay, so now the chat room is completely going wild.
Okay, so we've got that figured out.
Turn rich.
I know, everybody's like, Jules, would you please release cats?
Turn rich.
Turn rich instead of big and rich.
There you go.
Yeah, Big Kenny will love that.
Oh, he'll be so happy.
I've got to answer a few questions here real quick.
I can't release Cat Turd songs that I've heard because that's for him to do, just so everyone knows, because I'm getting a lot of text and everything else.
You mean you have his music and you haven't really?
No, that's for him to do.
And now that you two are going to be working on a project, we've got a lot of things to look forward to.
Yeah.
Music's been hard for me.
I can't explain it, but when you've played guitar since you were 10 years old, and it's not about...
And of course, I've played live for years, but it's just everything that there is to you is to sit down and play guitar.
It's therapy for me.
I didn't do it for anybody else at the end except for myself.
But when you're used to having a guitar on your lap your whole life, and you're getting old, and then you can't even go in there.
So it's so hard for me to even...
For years to even think about music or to even open up my guitar case and look at my guitar.
It was hard for me.
I'm just getting over it now.
So I'm ready to do something.
That's great.
I'm standing by, man.
Anytime.
We love you.
Hey, thanks for the courage you have, man.
Because I know from you and I talking behind the scenes that there's a lot of nastiness comes your way that people don't even see.
It's not on Twitter.
It's bad.
We appreciate you and what you stand for.
All right, brother.
He does an amazing job.
John Rich, thank you so much for joining us today.
And I'm going to make sure that I've got all of these links out there in our chat room.
Do you want to do a final shout-out and let everybody know where they can find you?
Sure.
You can follow me on Truth at John Rich.
You can follow me on Twitter at John Rich.
I will be posting all the links, too, this Friday.
I'm actually doing a big live stream with Dan Bongino on Saturday from...
The Redneck Riviera downtown.
I'm going to play every song on the record acoustically for everybody out there.
So watch for that.
And I'm Offended, You're Offended, The Country Truth, my brand new record.
I hope you guys check it out.
I appreciate the time.
Fantastic.
Well, I'm going to go ahead and play that little clip one more time on your way out so that everybody can get excited about it.
Check it out.
I'm Offended, John Rich.
Thanks, buddy.
You're offended Let's all get offended tonight I'll order us a beer We can sit down right here And scream and yell and cuss and puss and fire Alright, there we go, everyone.
Well, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
Be safe, be kind.
Isn't he fabulous?
I know, he's wonderful.
He really is.
I hope you are able to get him back on here, and I cannot wait for you to get to Nashville, Kat.
When we decided on the final day to turf stock, like he said, to find a venue like this, it's hard to do.
I'm busy.
Think about how busy he is.
We've got something where we're going to do a lot of live streaming, and people are definitely going to be able to come, but we're not going to be able to...
We're not going to be able to fit so many the first time, but we're going to put it out, and if you want to come, we'll do whatever, but it's going to be in Nashville, and we're going to do the best we can, and then if it's a hit, then next year hopefully we can go to a big venue, like a 7,000-person arena or something, so we're going to kind of build on it and put our fillers out and see what we can do.
Oh, Kat, I'm just so thrilled.
I'm so glad that you've had this opportunity to meet people like John Rich, and me too.
I mean, as a result, this is incredible.
And this is really such a positive thing for the country, for everybody.
It gives us so much hope and so much to look forward to.
We're not alone, and I know everybody has to go, so I'm going to go ahead and cut this off quick, but I just wanted to say, Kat, awesome.
Do the thing in Nashville.
You are an incredible musician.
I mean that.
I am surrounded by talented people in Hollywood, and guess what?
You've got talent like nobody's business, so I really hope you will consider doing that.
I mean it.
I'm going to.
It just took me a while to come to this acceptance.
People just don't get it that I'm bad.
This hurts me every day to lose my ability to play guitar now for four years.
I know.
It's something that I lived and breathed my whole life.
It's all I really cared about.
So it's a hell of a thing.
And then you try to, you know, to do something else, which I have.
And I love writing novels now.
I mean, I just had to start all over and do something different.
So, you know, no matter what happens, you just got to, you trudge on.
Well, you're trudging right along.
And you're doing quite a great job of trudging.
Let me tell you something.
With everything that hits you in a day, in an hour, in a minute.
Turd and rich.
That's funny, though.
I love that.
Don't kill me, big.
I'm just kidding.
I think there's something in the future for sure with that whole thing.
That'll be fun.
So anyway, I'm so proud of you, Kat.
All right, everyone.
You be safe.
Be kind to everyone.
And we will see you later.
Bye.
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