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(00:00):
It's hotter than a never mind,I can't say that. I am in
a mixed company. It's hot,but inside it's nice and cool, and
I am joined by a fan favorite, Nick. I don't know if I
ever told you this. When you'reon my show, I get all these
text messages on our text line likehe just sounds so smart. Anybody with
an accent you already get like you'reyou're already up here and an Australian accents.
(00:21):
Super cool. Well, Mandy Connell, thank you for having me on.
I'm glad that your listeners have gotsuch impeccable and unimpeachable taste. If
only it was the visual medium,and then they might even be bigger fans.
And the heat you're talking about isnot only outside, it's now inside.
But you know, look it's it'shotter than Haydi's. If I can
(00:42):
finish your well, I was goingto say something else, I know,
I know, well, I'm justtrying to clean it up for you.
It. I was gonna go hookerin church. I'm so like a hooker
in church right now. That's MandyConnell going on you than I know.
I thought I'd just go there.No, look it is hot. But
I tell you what, in allseriousness, the passion and the fire is
(01:03):
in here right now for the president. I want to ask you this because
you're an official surrogate for the Trumpcampaign, and a lot of my listeners
don't know there are people who areactually kind of asked to be the guy
who comes out and Trump can't beon the radio with me, so you
come out and talk about his policypositions. How did that come about?
Look, I've been very blessed tolive the American dream and be able to
(01:27):
have a relationship with the president.It began. I supported him from the
sixteenth of June twenty fifteen, ninetywhen he came down the escalator, and
it was a difficult choice, notso much in not wanting to support him,
but I knew Governor Perry personally.Doctor Ben Carson blurbed my first book,
(01:48):
Governor Huckabee. I was a regularon his radio show at the time,
so I had a connection to atleast five or six of the seventeen
candidates. But something just told mein instinctually that no matter how good a
political candidate was, the United Stateshad reached the point where it really needed
a sledgehammer. It needed somebody thattranscended politics, and I immediately identified that
(02:15):
in President Trump, and so Iagain supporting him. He saw me on
television. He would repost my opinionpieces that I was writing. That's kind
of how the love affair between meand him, and that's how it's been
described in the Washington Post and elsewherebegan. On the third of March twenty
seventeen, not even five weeks intohis presidency, he saw me on Fox
(02:38):
and Friends. He went on Twitter, he declared my book Green Card Warrior
and must read, and said thatI was a great American. At the
time, it was the first timein the history of the country that a
sitting president had ever endorsed a book, and of course it was the first
of many first with this president.He did the same thing six months later
on the twenty fifth of August.And then when my book Trump and Churchill
(03:02):
Defenders of Western Civilization was released intwenty twenty, I think one of the
Times week that's a great book.By the way, I'm not gonna lie.
I was like, okay, Nick, I mean I opened that book
and I was like, Okay,give it your best shot. You're now
comparing a man who guided civilization throughWorld War Two with Donald Trump. And
(03:24):
I wasn't buy what you were selling. But it's a great book, and
you did a really good job makingthat case. Well, thank you.
I appreciate new Gingrich wrote the forward, and the short story is Mandy that
President Trump absolutely fell in love withthat book. Oh, I bet it
was on the resolute desk. Youtook it up with him in to the
residence, and so that is reallywhere the relationship began. We had a
(03:49):
call, and then I was appointedto the border of the Wilson Center,
which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It's a six year appointment. And
then, to be honest with you, relationship blossomed even more once he was
out of Washington, and he justwrote the forward to my most recent book,
which is Alpha Kings, the roadmapfor every young man to unlock their
(04:13):
full potential. So I've been veryblessed. The President asked me to be
a surrogate in February of last year, and I immediately said yes because I
truly do believe that he is aChurchilean type figure. I do believe that
he is one of the greats.This is a one in a century type
(04:34):
guy here. Many This is notjust the irregular garden variety candidate. This
is a man that has clearly ahedge of protection around him, a sense
of destiny, a sense of callingstrength and resilience and defiance on a level
that I don't think we've ever seenbefore. Well, we certainly saw it
(04:56):
on Saturday, and we talked earlierabout the photograph that I think probably as
of right now, the most iconicimage of the twenty first century. I
want to ask you, do youhave any reservations or do you give any
credence to the criticisms that people haveof him being a little too rough and
tumble of him, you know,being braggadocious about things that don't really matter,
(05:19):
and sort of the more bombastic partsof his personality that are highly criticized
by people who don't like the manand also don't like his policies. If
it wasn't for chur Chilean type leadership, I would be speaking Japanese and eating
sushi. Yeah, And ultimately,at the end of the day, if
(05:42):
people can't see and by the way, those very kind of criticisms that are
often made about President Trump that yououtline, being braggadocious, being rough,
being all of that kind of stuff, exactly the same things we said about
Churchill's why I wrote the book hada popular round his practical career, the
establishment. He had all the sameenemies. If I if I gave you
(06:06):
a newspaper article written in nineteen fortyone in the British Press, and I
took out or I sharpied the names, and I said, Mandy, who
is this article about? You wouldprobably say Donald Trump. I mean,
it is so identical the criticisms,the unrest that people had about him being
(06:31):
the leader, the threat to democracyis a dictator doesn't listen to anyone.
He only listens to himself, allthat kind of stuff. So look,
I mean, I believe that allthe truly greatest people in our history,
Mandy, are imperfect. That's justthe way we'rect We're only perfect. But
(06:55):
listen, God had a very specialday when I was born the fifth of
September in eighty four. But no, look, you know, I think
that he is someone that is trulyvery special President Trump, and Saturday,
I think probably made that even moreclear for people across not only the country,
(07:17):
but the world. Someone sent mea friend of mine in Australia sent
me a banner that had been putup on the side of a high major
highway in Australia and had said,Trump is taking bullets for us, for
all of us, wake up Australia. Wow right, I mean, do
you think that's it. I justheard someone to make this statement a little
(07:38):
while ago that I thought was kindof an interesting take that Trump brings people
to the political sphere that were notnecessarily political people, and they almost have
a paternal view of him, likehe is kind of the paternal like leader
that they've been looking for to guidethem through this morass that is politics.
Mandy, Homia, Mandy, I'mgoing to let you in on a little
(08:01):
bit of a sick and I wouldonly do this on the Mandy Collins shop.
By the way, my brand isobviously OURPHA Male tough guy and Olpha
Males Tough guys don't cry. ButI had something in my eyes. Well
that's on Saturday there. Something gotin there. I mean, I don't
know what I want. Well,the shop though, neck and really waiting
(08:22):
to find out what's going on.He's down on the ground for a minute
and a half or so and thenall of a sudden, he comes up
and puts that fist up, andit was like you're almost it was like
a visceral physical reaction. It was, it was And that's and I just
want to say to you that Ifelt I lost my father three years ago,
and Donald Trump to me, isa fatherlike figure. I mean,
(08:46):
I really seen that way, andin that moment, I kind of saw
my dad up there, because againjust a similar man to Donald Trump in
many ways. And and it wasjust it was I was sobbing. I
was so horrified. But what reallygot me, Mandy, not so much
the shooting, and in that firstmoment there, I didn't even really know
(09:07):
that it was a shooting. Butwhat got me was, like you say,
his reaction when he stood up andhe had discussed I mean, the
askew. You know, you're usuallyused to this immaculate, permanently immaculately dressed
person, and I just thought,wow, this is it hurt me seeing
a man of that size on theground getting back up, pumping that fist,
(09:31):
it really moved me. Well,Nick Adams is my guest, you
got a new book coming out.Are you just surrogatting now or what are
you doing. Oh, I'm justsurrogetting now Mandy Connell. But people can
follow me on Twitter at Nick Adamsin USA, Facebook at Nick Adams in
America. You can go to mywebsite, Nick ADAMSUSA dot com. We're
(09:54):
doing our best to get the presidentelected. All right. That is Nick
Adams, a fan favorite. Youcome back anytime you got it their book
there, Nick, We will beback
It's hotter than a never mind,I can't say that. I am in
a mixed company. It's hot,but inside it's nice and cool, and
I am joined by a fan favorite, Nick. I don't know if I
ever told you this. When you'reon my show, I get all these
text messages on our text line likehe just sounds so smart. Anybody with
an accent you already get like you'reyou're already up here and an Australian accents.
(00:21):
Super cool. Well, Mandy Connell, thank you for having me on.
I'm glad that your listeners have gotsuch impeccable and unimpeachable taste. If
only it was the visual medium,and then they might even be bigger fans.
And the heat you're talking about isnot only outside, it's now inside.
But you know, look it's it'shotter than Haydi's. If I can
(00:42):
finish your well, I was goingto say something else, I know,
I know, well, I'm justtrying to clean it up for you.
It. I was gonna go hookerin church. I'm so like a hooker
in church right now. That's MandyConnell going on you than I know.
I thought I'd just go there.No, look it is hot. But
I tell you what, in allseriousness, the passion and the fire is
(01:03):
in here right now for the president. I want to ask you this because
you're an official surrogate for the Trumpcampaign, and a lot of my listeners
don't know there are people who areactually kind of asked to be the guy
who comes out and Trump can't beon the radio with me, so you
come out and talk about his policypositions. How did that come about?
Look, I've been very blessed tolive the American dream and be able to
(01:27):
have a relationship with the president.It began. I supported him from the
sixteenth of June twenty fifteen, ninetywhen he came down the escalator, and
it was a difficult choice, notso much in not wanting to support him,
but I knew Governor Perry personally.Doctor Ben Carson blurbed my first book,
(01:48):
Governor Huckabee. I was a regularon his radio show at the time,
so I had a connection to atleast five or six of the seventeen
candidates. But something just told mein instinctually that no matter how good a
political candidate was, the United Stateshad reached the point where it really needed
a sledgehammer. It needed somebody thattranscended politics, and I immediately identified that
(02:15):
in President Trump, and so Iagain supporting him. He saw me on
television. He would repost my opinionpieces that I was writing. That's kind
of how the love affair between meand him, and that's how it's been
described in the Washington Post and elsewherebegan. On the third of March twenty
seventeen, not even five weeks intohis presidency, he saw me on Fox
(02:38):
and Friends. He went on Twitter, he declared my book Green Card Warrior
and must read, and said thatI was a great American. At the
time, it was the first timein the history of the country that a
sitting president had ever endorsed a book, and of course it was the first
of many first with this president.He did the same thing six months later
on the twenty fifth of August.And then when my book Trump and Churchill
(03:02):
Defenders of Western Civilization was released intwenty twenty, I think one of the
Times week that's a great book.By the way, I'm not gonna lie.
I was like, okay, Nick, I mean I opened that book
and I was like, Okay,give it your best shot. You're now
comparing a man who guided civilization throughWorld War Two with Donald Trump. And
(03:24):
I wasn't buy what you were selling. But it's a great book, and
you did a really good job makingthat case. Well, thank you.
I appreciate new Gingrich wrote the forward, and the short story is Mandy that
President Trump absolutely fell in love withthat book. Oh, I bet it
was on the resolute desk. Youtook it up with him in to the
residence, and so that is reallywhere the relationship began. We had a
(03:49):
call, and then I was appointedto the border of the Wilson Center,
which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It's a six year appointment. And
then, to be honest with you, relationship blossomed even more once he was
out of Washington, and he justwrote the forward to my most recent book,
which is Alpha Kings, the roadmapfor every young man to unlock their
(04:13):
full potential. So I've been veryblessed. The President asked me to be
a surrogate in February of last year, and I immediately said yes because I
truly do believe that he is aChurchilean type figure. I do believe that
he is one of the greats.This is a one in a century type
(04:34):
guy here. Many This is notjust the irregular garden variety candidate. This
is a man that has clearly ahedge of protection around him, a sense
of destiny, a sense of callingstrength and resilience and defiance on a level
that I don't think we've ever seenbefore. Well, we certainly saw it
(04:56):
on Saturday, and we talked earlierabout the photograph that I think probably as
of right now, the most iconicimage of the twenty first century. I
want to ask you, do youhave any reservations or do you give any
credence to the criticisms that people haveof him being a little too rough and
tumble of him, you know,being braggadocious about things that don't really matter,
(05:19):
and sort of the more bombastic partsof his personality that are highly criticized
by people who don't like the manand also don't like his policies. If
it wasn't for chur Chilean type leadership, I would be speaking Japanese and eating
sushi. Yeah, And ultimately,at the end of the day, if
(05:42):
people can't see and by the way, those very kind of criticisms that are
often made about President Trump that yououtline, being braggadocious, being rough,
being all of that kind of stuff, exactly the same things we said about
Churchill's why I wrote the book hada popular round his practical career, the
establishment. He had all the sameenemies. If I if I gave you
(06:06):
a newspaper article written in nineteen fortyone in the British Press, and I
took out or I sharpied the names, and I said, Mandy, who
is this article about? You wouldprobably say Donald Trump. I mean,
it is so identical the criticisms,the unrest that people had about him being
(06:31):
the leader, the threat to democracyis a dictator doesn't listen to anyone.
He only listens to himself, allthat kind of stuff. So look,
I mean, I believe that allthe truly greatest people in our history,
Mandy, are imperfect. That's justthe way we'rect We're only perfect. But
(06:55):
listen, God had a very specialday when I was born the fifth of
September in eighty four. But no, look, you know, I think
that he is someone that is trulyvery special President Trump, and Saturday,
I think probably made that even moreclear for people across not only the country,
(07:17):
but the world. Someone sent mea friend of mine in Australia sent
me a banner that had been putup on the side of a high major
highway in Australia and had said,Trump is taking bullets for us, for
all of us, wake up Australia. Wow right, I mean, do
you think that's it. I justheard someone to make this statement a little
(07:38):
while ago that I thought was kindof an interesting take that Trump brings people
to the political sphere that were notnecessarily political people, and they almost have
a paternal view of him, likehe is kind of the paternal like leader
that they've been looking for to guidethem through this morass that is politics.
Mandy, Homia, Mandy, I'mgoing to let you in on a little
(08:01):
bit of a sick and I wouldonly do this on the Mandy Collins shop.
By the way, my brand isobviously OURPHA Male tough guy and Olpha
Males Tough guys don't cry. ButI had something in my eyes. Well
that's on Saturday there. Something gotin there. I mean, I don't
know what I want. Well,the shop though, neck and really waiting
(08:22):
to find out what's going on.He's down on the ground for a minute
and a half or so and thenall of a sudden, he comes up
and puts that fist up, andit was like you're almost it was like
a visceral physical reaction. It was, it was And that's and I just
want to say to you that Ifelt I lost my father three years ago,
and Donald Trump to me, isa fatherlike figure. I mean,
(08:46):
I really seen that way, andin that moment, I kind of saw
my dad up there, because againjust a similar man to Donald Trump in
many ways. And and it wasjust it was I was sobbing. I
was so horrified. But what reallygot me, Mandy, not so much
the shooting, and in that firstmoment there, I didn't even really know
(09:07):
that it was a shooting. Butwhat got me was, like you say,
his reaction when he stood up andhe had discussed I mean, the
askew. You know, you're usuallyused to this immaculate, permanently immaculately dressed
person, and I just thought,wow, this is it hurt me seeing
a man of that size on theground getting back up, pumping that fist,
(09:31):
it really moved me. Well,Nick Adams is my guest, you
got a new book coming out.Are you just surrogatting now or what are
you doing. Oh, I'm justsurrogetting now Mandy Connell. But people can
follow me on Twitter at Nick Adamsin USA, Facebook at Nick Adams in
America. You can go to mywebsite, Nick ADAMSUSA dot com. We're
(09:54):
doing our best to get the presidentelected. All right. That is Nick
Adams, a fan favorite. Youcome back anytime you got it their book
there, Nick, We will beback
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