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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to head to Tennessee right now, and welcome
to the show. Gloria Giarno.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How is that possible? Do you live in Tennessee?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yes, I do live in Tennessee. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And your last name is like a Vinnie Giarno.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How is journo? Yes? How yes, we are well, I'm
originally from Illinois.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is that your married name? Is that your your husband?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's my married name, but yes, my family is also
Cruatian and Italian, but it is my married name.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, you sound quite eloquent. I just think at Giarno
in Tennessee. Uh, not common? There are There probably are
not a lot of Giorno's in Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, there's not. They don't know how to pronounce My
last name is also no, you're correct.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, author of Outcast, How the radical left tried to
destroy a young Conservative. What I really find intriguing, too,
is you're the founder of the Reagan Society. I went
and look that up and it's an educational organization dedicated
to bringing conservative speak to Tennessee. You know, I didn't
(01:03):
think it would be Tennessee centric, the Reagan Society, and
I think that's just such a great Uh, effort. How
long have you been How long is the Reagan Society
and it's the Reagansociety dot com if you want to
check it out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
How long have you been doing that? How long has
that been around?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We started this year with borderstar Tom Homan and we've
brought in a few speakers. We also do panel discussions
with young people who it's important for young people to
be engaged in politics because they are of the next generation.
And the Reagan Society the whole goal of it is
(01:39):
to educate, but we do it at an affordable price.
So three hundred and fifty people who came to hear
Tom home and speak paid either twenty five dollars or
fifty dollars depending under age. If they're under vh of forty,
they pay twenty five, if they're over forty, they pay fifty.
I mean, politics is an amazing tool we have at
(02:03):
our disposal. However, we cannot expect everyone, every Republican, every Conservative,
to be able to pay hundreds of thousands dollars or
even one thousand dollars to be able to hear a
politician speak. So but Reagan Society makes it affordable for
everyone to be a part of a conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's fantastic. And you know, I'm fifty eight years old.
You sound like I've got a few years on you.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, I'm fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh all right, So then you know, like I remember
vividly remember when Ronald Reagan won that presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I remember that day. I remember the day it was.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it was the day he was sworn in
that it was announced that the hostages and I ran
were coming. I think it was the same day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, it was. It was right after he was sworn
And that was my first campaign in nineteen eighty four.
I was in high school going into college. Yeah, and
I had just started college at Iola University. So yes,
it was right after he was sworn in. It was, Yeah,
it was. It was a very interesting, defining moment in
our country's history.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And I remember both of those terms, and sure towards
the end of that second term, you know, he was
getting up there in age.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But what have you?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
One thing I'm struggling with right now, and then we'll
get into what's happening today in Illinois and district the special.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Election and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But you know, at first I was okay with the
Trump he's like a reg and he's I'm not really anymore.
It's not a slam on Trump, but Reagan spoke and
people both sides of the aisle paid attention. It was
a fantastic speaker, and I just don't want to be
flip with the legacy anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I think that they're alike in many ways, but
they're also very different. I mean, Ronald Reagan was an
actor before he became governor of kilse with.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A monkey on his shoulder moral.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Exactly. So I think he knew how to you know,
how to play a role very well. And I think
at times he probably drew upon his you know background
as an actor, which is an amazing thing. President Trump
is a New Yorker and being a former Chicago and
I understand what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean he's a New Yorker, and I mean Northerners
are not known for, you know, being you know, we're
not all touchy feely, you know nice, but we're good people.
We're the right people, but we're not known as being
you know, the most compassionate all the time. And I
think President Trump speaks at this time in our back
in the day, let's go back to that back in
(04:43):
the day President Reagan. You're right, he's an eloquent speaker.
He's an excellent speaker, but at this time in the
world we're living in today, he would not perhaps have
been able to be as effective as President Trump, only
because President Trump is able to deal with the people
who are viewing such hate against him. And I don't
(05:05):
know that we were a kinder nation years ago, and
we were a kinder world and we're not anymore. So
I think President Trump is under a lot of fire,
and I think that's why, perhaps, you know, he doesn't
speak as eloquently as other presidents in the past.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Half yeah, I mean I'm hearing in my head like
the Juxta positioning of they counted on America to be passive,
they counted wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And are you a stupid person?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You must be a stupid person, And it's like they
kind of don't go together. But once you say, well,
you got a New Yorker versus a Californian who was
the president of zag did hold another office before becoming
you know, Trump never did. He went from reality TV show,
you know, host and realtor you know, a manhattanite. So
(05:58):
I guess it and it is a different time. It's
almost as if you're saying, if you don't mind my
saying it, you know the growth Reagan would have to
growl were it today. The growl is necessary to justified.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You're exactly correct. I mean, conservatives are no longer but
we're not. We're of a silent majority, but we are
no longer silent. You actually speak out now, and that's
the way we have to be to be able to
fight the radical left. Otherwise we will not be able
to prevail in any election.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And speaking of elections today, District seven, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I think we're going to deliver a win. Matt
van Apps is an excellent candidate, dear friend of mine,
and he's a true conservative who wants to serve Tennessee.
He has served our country. He is a normal person
as opposed to his opponent, who is anti prayer. She
(06:53):
doesn't even like the city she lives in. I mean
she's been a Tennessee in all her life, but evidently
she doesn't like the city she lives in. But she
wants to represent them and she does right now. But
we have a candidate who was a conservative, who is
an America first leader who wants to help President Trump.
And we do have such a thin margin in Congress
that we don't We have got to win this race.
(07:17):
We don't have a choice. We need every Republican in
Tennessee in the seventh Congressional District to get out and
cast their vote. Take for neighbor with them, take for dog.
I don't care how you get there, Just go vote.
Oh yeah, the polling places are open now. It's after
seven am here, so we need to get math there
because President Trump does need all the help we can get.
(07:37):
I mean, otherwise, you and I I grew up in
a communist country. You and I'll be living in that
communist country.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But I grew up in Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Communisty? With Slavia?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How many years were you there?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was born in a suburb of Chicago, and I
lived overseas primarily until I came back for second grade.
So I actually attended school first grade in Zagreb. I
went to a U a Sumbasy school.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's well, and you have memories of that, like fairly
vivid memories of that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, the reason I have memories is because I was
six years old when.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I went to firstrate I remember six, sure.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, I had a thousand US dollars with me in
nineteen seventy two in my backpack every single day because
my parents taught me in case of a civil war,
you get out of the country, You get into this
cab and you get to Italy and one of your
aunts will find you. And I knew every police officer
on the corner. They weren't there to take care of
(08:33):
the population. They weren't very to take care of citizens.
They were there to make sure that no one spoke
out against theostubros Tito, who was a dictator at the time.
So that's why I have vivid memories because I lived
through it and had a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But when I was six years old, I had four
quarters and my instructions. You know, if anything were to
go down, I had an ad who lived about five
houses away from the grade school had tended. And if
I can remember that, I would imagine you do remember
get to Italy. Family members will find you there. Let
me ask you this and again are I'm with Gloria Giarno,
(09:10):
founder of the Reagan Society. I implore you to check
that out online, author of Outcast, How the Radical Left
Tried to destroy a young conservative Marjorie Taylor Green's retirement announcement.
I know they say it elevates the stakes, but I
mean that's Georgia. Do they go that hand in hand?
Is it that key to this race having to go
(09:31):
a certain way? And what do you make of what
happened to her in the final stretcher? I had her
on the show before. I mean it was a great interview.
I only had her on once, but I mean there
were times did I reported on some Marjorie Taylor Green
takes that were a little okay? That doesn't sound like
(09:52):
you're necessarily on solid ground right there on that one.
And her and Trump are not ending on great terms.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They're not ending on great term. To your first point, No,
I don't think that what happens in Georgia is going
to impact anything in Tennessee. Tennessee is definitely Trump country,
and I do not see it affecting us at all. Second,
she and President Trump did have a falling out. I
(10:18):
respect her, but I do not I do not you know,
I don't like quitters, but I also feel that she
was in America first person. She was a supporter, and
I don't know if it will ever know exactly what
happened with her and I at this point, if she's
not going to she's not going to help President Trump.
(10:40):
I guess we don't need her. But it's a good thing.
She'll be able to get her pension when the time comes.
That's good for her. So for me, I'm not very
keen on people who support our president and then decide
to walk away and turn away from him just because
they may disagree on a point. And you and I
will never know exactly what happened. But yeah, I think
(11:01):
it's weak people that walk away. We need I mean,
are there are so many radicals in this country right now.
And I'm not talking about people just from you know,
illegal immigrants. I'm talking from a Democrats standpoint as well.
There are Democrats here too, So we need everyone to
be playing ball with us. If you're a Republican, you
(11:23):
side with us. Do you have a falling out with
the president. You're not going to agree with anyone. I mean,
we go back to Ronald Reagan, the eighty twenty rule.
You're not going to agree with everyone all the time,
but you don't give up on a president who has
worked with you and who has I mean She's been
welcome at mar A Lago, She's been welcomed everywhere. So
I'm not sure why she did what she did, but
(11:45):
I'm not happy with it. But I'm sure that conservatives
will continue to support President Trump. He's the best we've got.
He is an amazing human being. I had the pleasure
of meeting with him personally at the golf club, and
I will always stand with President Trump. I was proud
to serve on platform. I served on the platform as
an elected delegate from Tennessee, and I'm very proud to
(12:08):
have done that for our president and I would happily
do it again.
We're going to head to Tennessee right now, and welcome
to the show. Gloria Giarno.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How is that possible? Do you live in Tennessee?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yes, I do live in Tennessee. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And your last name is like a Vinnie Giarno.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
How is journo? Yes? How yes, we are well, I'm
originally from Illinois.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is that your married name? Is that your your husband?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's my married name, but yes, my family is also
Cruatian and Italian, but it is my married name.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, you sound quite eloquent. I just think at Giarno
in Tennessee. Uh, not common? There are There probably are
not a lot of Giorno's in Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, there's not. They don't know how to pronounce My
last name is also no, you're correct.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, author of Outcast, How the radical left tried to
destroy a young Conservative. What I really find intriguing, too,
is you're the founder of the Reagan Society. I went
and look that up and it's an educational organization dedicated
to bringing conservative speak to Tennessee. You know, I didn't
(01:03):
think it would be Tennessee centric, the Reagan Society, and
I think that's just such a great Uh, effort. How
long have you been How long is the Reagan Society
and it's the Reagansociety dot com if you want to
check it out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
How long have you been doing that? How long has
that been around?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We started this year with borderstar Tom Homan and we've
brought in a few speakers. We also do panel discussions
with young people who it's important for young people to
be engaged in politics because they are of the next generation.
And the Reagan Society the whole goal of it is
(01:39):
to educate, but we do it at an affordable price.
So three hundred and fifty people who came to hear
Tom home and speak paid either twenty five dollars or
fifty dollars depending under age. If they're under vh of forty,
they pay twenty five, if they're over forty, they pay fifty.
I mean, politics is an amazing tool we have at
(02:03):
our disposal. However, we cannot expect everyone, every Republican, every Conservative,
to be able to pay hundreds of thousands dollars or
even one thousand dollars to be able to hear a
politician speak. So but Reagan Society makes it affordable for
everyone to be a part of a conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's fantastic. And you know, I'm fifty eight years old.
You sound like I've got a few years on you.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, I'm fifty nine.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh all right, So then you know, like I remember
vividly remember when Ronald Reagan won that presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I remember that day. I remember the day it was.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it was the day he was sworn in
that it was announced that the hostages and I ran
were coming. I think it was the same day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, it was. It was right after he was sworn
And that was my first campaign in nineteen eighty four.
I was in high school going into college. Yeah, and
I had just started college at Iola University. So yes,
it was right after he was sworn in. It was, Yeah,
it was. It was a very interesting, defining moment in
our country's history.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And I remember both of those terms, and sure towards
the end of that second term, you know, he was
getting up there in age.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But what have you?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
One thing I'm struggling with right now, and then we'll
get into what's happening today in Illinois and district the special.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Election and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
But you know, at first I was okay with the
Trump he's like a reg and he's I'm not really anymore.
It's not a slam on Trump, but Reagan spoke and
people both sides of the aisle paid attention. It was
a fantastic speaker, and I just don't want to be
flip with the legacy anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I think that they're alike in many ways, but
they're also very different. I mean, Ronald Reagan was an
actor before he became governor of kilse with.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A monkey on his shoulder moral.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Exactly. So I think he knew how to you know,
how to play a role very well. And I think
at times he probably drew upon his you know background
as an actor, which is an amazing thing. President Trump
is a New Yorker and being a former Chicago and
I understand what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I mean he's a New Yorker, and I mean Northerners
are not known for, you know, being you know, we're
not all touchy feely, you know nice, but we're good people.
We're the right people, but we're not known as being
you know, the most compassionate all the time. And I
think President Trump speaks at this time in our back
in the day, let's go back to that back in
(04:43):
the day President Reagan. You're right, he's an eloquent speaker.
He's an excellent speaker, but at this time in the
world we're living in today, he would not perhaps have
been able to be as effective as President Trump, only
because President Trump is able to deal with the people
who are viewing such hate against him. And I don't
(05:05):
know that we were a kinder nation years ago, and
we were a kinder world and we're not anymore. So
I think President Trump is under a lot of fire,
and I think that's why, perhaps, you know, he doesn't
speak as eloquently as other presidents in the past.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Half yeah, I mean I'm hearing in my head like
the Juxta positioning of they counted on America to be passive,
they counted wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And are you a stupid person?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You must be a stupid person, And it's like they
kind of don't go together. But once you say, well,
you got a New Yorker versus a Californian who was
the president of zag did hold another office before becoming
you know, Trump never did. He went from reality TV show,
you know, host and realtor you know, a manhattanite. So
(05:58):
I guess it and it is a different time. It's
almost as if you're saying, if you don't mind my
saying it, you know the growth Reagan would have to
growl were it today. The growl is necessary to justified.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You're exactly correct. I mean, conservatives are no longer but
we're not. We're of a silent majority, but we are
no longer silent. You actually speak out now, and that's
the way we have to be to be able to
fight the radical left. Otherwise we will not be able
to prevail in any election.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
And speaking of elections today, District seven, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, I think we're going to deliver a win. Matt
van Apps is an excellent candidate, dear friend of mine,
and he's a true conservative who wants to serve Tennessee.
He has served our country. He is a normal person
as opposed to his opponent, who is anti prayer. She
(06:53):
doesn't even like the city she lives in. I mean
she's been a Tennessee in all her life, but evidently
she doesn't like the city she lives in. But she
wants to represent them and she does right now. But
we have a candidate who was a conservative, who is
an America first leader who wants to help President Trump.
And we do have such a thin margin in Congress
that we don't We have got to win this race.
(07:17):
We don't have a choice. We need every Republican in
Tennessee in the seventh Congressional District to get out and
cast their vote. Take for neighbor with them, take for dog.
I don't care how you get there, Just go vote.
Oh yeah, the polling places are open now. It's after
seven am here, so we need to get math there
because President Trump does need all the help we can get.
(07:37):
I mean, otherwise, you and I I grew up in
a communist country. You and I'll be living in that
communist country.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But I grew up in Where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Communisty? With Slavia?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How many years were you there?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was born in a suburb of Chicago, and I
lived overseas primarily until I came back for second grade.
So I actually attended school first grade in Zagreb. I
went to a U a Sumbasy school.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
That's well, and you have memories of that, like fairly
vivid memories of that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, the reason I have memories is because I was
six years old when.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I went to firstrate I remember six, sure.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, I had a thousand US dollars with me in
nineteen seventy two in my backpack every single day because
my parents taught me in case of a civil war,
you get out of the country, You get into this
cab and you get to Italy and one of your
aunts will find you. And I knew every police officer
on the corner. They weren't there to take care of
(08:33):
the population. They weren't very to take care of citizens.
They were there to make sure that no one spoke
out against theostubros Tito, who was a dictator at the time.
So that's why I have vivid memories because I lived
through it and had a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
But when I was six years old, I had four
quarters and my instructions. You know, if anything were to
go down, I had an ad who lived about five
houses away from the grade school had tended. And if
I can remember that, I would imagine you do remember
get to Italy. Family members will find you there. Let
me ask you this and again are I'm with Gloria Giarno,
(09:10):
founder of the Reagan Society. I implore you to check
that out online, author of Outcast, How the Radical Left
Tried to destroy a young conservative Marjorie Taylor Green's retirement announcement.
I know they say it elevates the stakes, but I
mean that's Georgia. Do they go that hand in hand?
Is it that key to this race having to go
(09:31):
a certain way? And what do you make of what
happened to her in the final stretcher? I had her
on the show before. I mean it was a great interview.
I only had her on once, but I mean there
were times did I reported on some Marjorie Taylor Green
takes that were a little okay? That doesn't sound like
(09:52):
you're necessarily on solid ground right there on that one.
And her and Trump are not ending on great terms.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They're not ending on great term. To your first point, No,
I don't think that what happens in Georgia is going
to impact anything in Tennessee. Tennessee is definitely Trump country,
and I do not see it affecting us at all. Second,
she and President Trump did have a falling out. I
(10:18):
respect her, but I do not I do not you know,
I don't like quitters, but I also feel that she
was in America first person. She was a supporter, and
I don't know if it will ever know exactly what
happened with her and I at this point, if she's
not going to she's not going to help President Trump.
(10:40):
I guess we don't need her. But it's a good thing.
She'll be able to get her pension when the time comes.
That's good for her. So for me, I'm not very
keen on people who support our president and then decide
to walk away and turn away from him just because
they may disagree on a point. And you and I
will never know exactly what happened. But yeah, I think
(11:01):
it's weak people that walk away. We need I mean,
are there are so many radicals in this country right now.
And I'm not talking about people just from you know,
illegal immigrants. I'm talking from a Democrats standpoint as well.
There are Democrats here too, So we need everyone to
be playing ball with us. If you're a Republican, you
(11:23):
side with us. Do you have a falling out with
the president. You're not going to agree with anyone. I mean,
we go back to Ronald Reagan, the eighty twenty rule.
You're not going to agree with everyone all the time,
but you don't give up on a president who has
worked with you and who has I mean She's been
welcome at mar A Lago, She's been welcomed everywhere. So
I'm not sure why she did what she did, but
(11:45):
I'm not happy with it. But I'm sure that conservatives
will continue to support President Trump. He's the best we've got.
He is an amazing human being. I had the pleasure
of meeting with him personally at the golf club, and
I will always stand with President Trump. I was proud
to serve on platform. I served on the platform as
an elected delegate from Tennessee, and I'm very proud to
(12:08):
have done that for our president and I would happily
do it again.
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