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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yea, thank you number.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You're twenty twenty four election your headquarters.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Wow, she's got a lot of accents.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Fifty five krs he talkstas run, I was born to
be to die. He'll fight right, don't thrown.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Fifty five krcy talks station. Sure my listeners are familiar
with this tune. Happens to be, uh well, number one
all across the charts in America. Welcome to the fifty
five krs Morning Show. Singer, songwriter, scriptwriter, film director John
Con who happens to be the Minister of Culture at
Breitbart Breitbart dot com book market. Folks should be glad
you did. It's time for the inside scoop, as we

(00:48):
do every week at this time with one of the
representatives from Breitbart Today. Singer songwriter John Conn joins the
program to talk about and congratulations on number one, the
fight the Fighter song that you wrote. Welcome to the
morning Show.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's a pleasure, Thank you, Brian, appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now you're you're used to hearing your own voice and
hearing your songs. I remember when I first started on radio,
it was kind of weird to get used to the
idea of hearing your own voice, and after a little
while this doesn't register anymore. But having a number one
song in America, that's quite an accomplishment. Is it a
different are you? Does it have a different feel to
it with this the Successive Fighter?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
One hundred percent?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I mean, And you know, for me, I never get
used to hearing my own voice, and even when you
just played it in the intro, it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Is that mean? But it's it's uh.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
You know, anytime you write a song, Brian, you hope
it reaches you know a handful of people and hopefully
it'll move a few. And that's a gift in and
of itself.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
For this song to do what it's done and reach
so many people is almost beyond my comprehension.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I mean considering you know, I don't want to
say the talent that you beat out, but you know,
big big names and the music industry and you know,
little old John con seemingly out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
You've been around for a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I know you met Andrew Breitbart back in two thousand
and eight and you went on tea party tours with him,
and after he passed aways when you joined Breitbart, and
it actually came out because you used to you used
to kind of use a fake name. My understanding in
your early days.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, my entrance into the media political world was pretty
pretty unusual. I had met Andrew at a conservative speakeasy,
I guess you could say in Los Angeles, which was
it was a group called Friends of Abe and it
was it was designed for anybody in the entertainment business,
whether it be you, film writers, directors, actors, musicians, to

(02:46):
have a fellowship in a safe place to talk about
their views. This is I think in two thousand and eight,
and it was just a place where, you know, you
could talk about it without the fear of losing work.
And I made a joke or something, and guy comes
up to me. He's got a McCain hat on, holding
the laptop, and he says, I'm starting this new site.

(03:07):
I want you to write the court and I said,
not under my real name. I can't and he said, well,
that's all right. And I began a comedic column and
out of that column came a song called American Heart.
And then Andrews said to me, Hey, do you want
to play your song at a tea party?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Was right at the very beginning of the movement. I said,
what's the tea party?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
He goes, I don't know, And so that was, like
I mean, it was the very first one. And then
he and I began't you know, just sort of toured
the country.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
He would speak, I would play.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
And then shortly after that I kind of came out
of the conservative closet. And the rest is a little
bit of history. I joined Bridbart when he passed away.
He was a dear friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, and what a great man and what a legacy
he has left. And I as the host of the
morning show, I regularly, and I pointed out all the
time rely on a lot of the news I find
on Breitbart, because well, you're not going to find it.
And he's so called legacy or mainstream media. You report
on topics that they really wish nobody would report on.
But you're you're the minister of culture. There can you

(04:09):
just what if you could explain that role?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, you know, I came from as you mentioned, I
came from the film world, and I came from the
music world. And when Andrew passed away, Larry sold off
the current CEO, and Steve Vannon at the time said,
you know, Andrew always wanted you to be part of
the company, but didn't know how to fit me in.
You know, because of my background, they knew, they knew

(04:31):
it made sense somehow because I was I was so
part of what everything, what everybody was doing at that time,
and and and the title was given to me, and
it was pretty vague, and I just started helping out.
And here I am twelve thirteen years later.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
And obviously spreading the word through the song fighter number
one song on Billboard Digital Sales, what else a Billboard
Top five. I mean, it just blew up and you had,
I mean, Greg Guttfeld, I tweeted the song out about it.
You featured it on the program. Were you actually on
Gutfill's program with this?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I did a couple of Fox hits. I did Trace
Gallagher's show last week. The song was featured on Fox
and Friends on Sunday, and yesterday I did a segment
with Martha McCallum. But I think I think the pinnacle
for me so far was hearing it played at the
Butler Rally yea, and watching the video and that was
sort of I mean, that was a goosebump moment for me.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh I imagine now I got to ask you this
because you know, practically speaking, if you have a number
one song, presumably there might be some sort of remuneration,
might get some compensation for that. Is that the case
with with Fighter? Are you able to make any money
off of it, whether or not you donate the proceeds
or anything else. I'm just wondering if it's if it's
lucrative at all, you.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Know, I don't know the for songwriters. I mean, that's
why they're always on Capitol Hill. Yes, with streaming and
all that, they don't make, you know, a ton of
money on songungs. I'm actually not focused on that because
it really was something that came from a place of
wanting to show a side of President Trump that the
mainstream media wasn't showing. And so I'm really just focused

(06:15):
on November and hopefully getting a song out there and
shared because I think it it could be helpful in
confirming the fact that there's so many people that are
looking at this gaslighting machine that we're facing.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yes and thinking that's not who he is, that's not
my guy.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
And then hopefully, you know, if a few people see this.
The video that accompanies the song they think, Man, I'm
not alone. That's my guy. And so that's sort of
what I'm focused on.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, and I'm sure you've observed, as I mean, you
can't if you're paying attention to politics, John, that this
evil orange man, it's baked in the cake. You've got
a Pavlovian response from such a sizable chunk of the population.
If his name is mentioned, they go crazy, you know, aside,
you know the litany. And as we drive around town,

(07:03):
you know, I'll see a lot of Harris Wall signs,
not that many Trump signs. And I think part of
it is it's not that there aren't Trump supporters out there,
It's just that this, this Pavlovian response is inevitable. And
so why put my you know why I put Trump's
name in my front yard. I'm voting for the man,
but I just don't want to, you know, get deal
with the slings and arrows of outrage that the left

(07:24):
keeps throwing at people. I mean, do you get a
reception of that? It's like the silent majority we used
to talk about back in the day.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Absolutely, I mean I'm from im I live in LA. Yeah,
if you mentioned if you mentioned the name Trump. You get,
you get exactly what you're talking about. But I'll tell
you it's interesting. When I put this song out, you know,
I did lose a couple of friends when they saw it,
who who actually knew where I worked prior to releasing
the song. But when the song started to get attention,

(07:52):
that was a bridge too far for them. But what
was interesting is I did get a lot of private
messages from people in la that I never.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Thought would be on our side of the political.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Football and saying, hey, listen, I'm not at a place
right now where I can discuss it again going back
to working in Hollywood and being a Trump supporter, but
they said I'm with you and thanks for writing the song.
And when you get those notes, it does a lot
for your spirit, because you know there are those silent

(08:24):
folks out there.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
No doubt about it. And I guess you were you
wrote it for Donald Trump. I mean the lyrics are
great lyrics and I particularly I particularly like that. So
take your shot. Is that all you got? But you
obviously were thinking of Donald Trump and writing this sort
of as as an ode to him.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, it was actually a lot of people think the
song was written in response to theation attempt, when in
fact it was written before and it was just a
response to I think everything we have witnessed that's been
thrown at Donald Trump since he's elected in twenty sixteen,
and you know, I was just watching it and it
culminated for me after that bogus conviction of that bogus

(09:07):
New York case. You know, the way he handled that,
the way he could walk up to the microphones, you know,
after that conviction, and I was just I was just
watching the news and the way he sauntered up to
the microphone, it just was there was something about his
unflappable demeanor that you that for me, I just said,

(09:27):
nothing can stop this man. I mean, he doesn't need
to have this life. I mean what man could withstand
more than he has? And that was before two assassination
attempts and the debate that was three on one, and
that's that was the impetus for the song. And I
started to write the song, and then I realized I
was going to go write with somebody in Nashville who
I had never written with, a guy named Chris Wallen.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's an incredible songwriter, and.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I took the idea into him and he was like,
we got to do this, and so that's how the
song came to be.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, it's worthy that, you know how much Donald Trump
has had to endure throughout his entire presidency, and since
very few people out there in the world could could
ever hope to handle that kind of thing. The pressure
was just just unbelievable, from the Russian collusion, helks and
the Steele dossier, all the way through these ridiculous real
estate allegations where the bank even said it got all

(10:18):
its money back, it didn't lose anything. Why am I here?
Why is he being prosecuted just one thing after another?
And he stands proud, and he stands tall, and that
takes a man with some some spine and some backbone.
So I can see how you would be inspired by
him as a human being capable of dealing with these challenges.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Absolutely, And you know, it's the song developed we realized
it was it was not just for President Trump. It
was sort of supporters in the same way that we
were talking about that there are people that are the
social intimidation, all those people that are.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Fighting alongside them that are quiet.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
And the song is also for them, but even broader,
you know, I think the song speaks or hope I
I hope it speaks to those folks that are just
dealing with their daily battles in life. You know, whether
it be fighting illness, or fighting financial instability, or recovering
from a hurricane, or whatever it is. You know, if
the song inspires anybody to get up off the mat

(11:16):
and keep swinging, then that's truly a gift.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, you've done it. It's a gift for the entire
United States. I appreciate your being on the Bright Bart
Inside Scoop here on the Morning Show today, John conn
author of a rather writer and singer A Fighter. You
can find it online. Everybody else has it's number one. Congratulations,
wonderful job. Keep up the great work as the Minister
of Culture, John, and I'll look forward to having you
back on the Morning Show someday for another Bright Bart

(11:39):
Inside Scoop.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
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