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Huckabee | Huckabee - May 28, 2022 | May 29, 2022
- Keith Bilbrey: Tonight on "Huckabee": Mississippi Governor
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- Tate Reeves; international sleight-of-hand magician Kostya
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- Kimlat; "Engage Your Destiny" founder Ben Peterson;
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- former Rare Earth lead singer Peter Rivera.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Keith: That's Tre' Corley and The Music City Connection.
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- And I'm your announcer, Keith Bilbrey.
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- And now, here's Mike Huckabee.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Mike Huckabee: Welcome, everyone.
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- We are so very happy to have you with us.
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- We've got a great audience here in our theater.
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- One of these days, why don't you come and be part
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- of the studio audience?
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- I promise you will have a wonderful time.
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- You really will.
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- Now, I don't know if you know this, but we are just hours away
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- from the annual observance of Memorial Day.
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- That's when we honor those of our nation's military who went
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- to war to fight for our families and our freedom but who never
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- came home to their families nor got to live their lives in the
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- very freedom that they provided for the rest of us.
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- Let us never forget their sacrifice, even amidst this long
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- weekend of baseball, barbecue, and the beach, but instead take
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- a few moments to soberly reflect on what they gave up.
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- And yet it's precisely because they gave the last full measure
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- to protect and preserve our great nation that we have to
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- demand that those who violate the freedoms that we hold dear,
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- if they violate them, they've got to be held accountable.
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- Because to do any less would dishonor the sacrifice of our
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- service members.
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- In the course of the past few weeks, a very important trial
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- has been held in Washington, D.C., right in the shadow of the
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- major media of the world but, quite frankly, very few have
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- even mentioned it, much less actually covered it.
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- And why would they?
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- It actually reveals just how complicit the media has been in
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- lying to you, to me, and the entire country and it affirms
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- that journalism is indeed dead and the major networks and the
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- newspapers have ceased to be fact-seekers.
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- They've tragically become fact-deniers.
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- You know, they reacted pretty harshly when they were called
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- the "enemy of the people," but to know the truth, however
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- painful and inconvenient it may be, and to fail to tell the
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- people the truth and instead knowingly perpetuate a lie,
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- well, that is to become the people's enemy.
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- It's what they are.
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- And certainly to become the enemy of our great republic.
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- And with the exception of a few outlets, the media has pretended
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- that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians
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- to subvert our country.
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- But as the sworn testimony in the trial of Hillary Clinton
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- lawyer Michael Sussmann has uncovered, the collusion was
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- from those who intentionally lied about Donald Trump and who
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- knowingly fed false information to the FBI which led to millions
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- of tax dollars of investigations, chest-pounding
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- politicians like Adam Schiff flagrantly lying about having
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- evidence that never existed, and the collapse of confidence in
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- the FBI.
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- It became clear that the media were willing participants in the
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- crime of defrauding the FISA Court
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- to investigate Donald Trump.
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- But the preponderance of evidence against
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- Michael Sussmann may not mean conviction.
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- Hate to say it.
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- I mean, let's look at some things.
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- The judge in the case is a long-time Democrat operative.
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- His wife is the attorney for former FBI agent Lisa Page,
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- whose sordid and unethical love affair with fellow FBI agent
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- Peter Strzok produced thousands of revealing text exchanges.
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- Now at least one of the jurors was a financial contributor to
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- Hillary Clinton, yet still got seated on the jury.
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- A couple of others expressed their absolute disdain for
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- Donald Trump, and at least one of the jurors is said to have
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- only pledged to "try" to be objective.
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- But the truth coming out of the trial is gonna leave little to
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- the imagination.
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- Even former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified
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- under oath that Hillary herself did, in fact, know about the
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- attempt to smear Trump and personally okayed it.
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- So much for the nonsense that she didn't know
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- anything about it.
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- Also kudos to Special Counsel John Durham.
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- His methodical albeit slow approach is beginning to pay off
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- as new information continues to surface as
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- to just how corrupt the D.C. sewer really is.
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- The brave men who gave their lives in the battlefield didn't
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- die so that taxpayer-funded officials would betray the trust
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- of the people by trying to prevent a candidate from being
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- elected and once elected then trying to destroy
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- and discredit him.
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- No, these are the folks who died to sustain a nation of laws,
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- not a nation of lawbreakers.
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- You know, there are really two battlefields we need to remember
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- this Memorial Day weekend: the one on which our heroes died
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- defending our freedom, and then the other one, the one in the
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- courtrooms, Congress, and in our state and US Capitols
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- where the battle for the soul of our nation is raging.
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- Our servicemen and women have given their lives to protect the
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- rights of the rest of us to make sure that we don't lose on the
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- battlefields that we're fighting here at home.
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- I say to all those who serve us in uniform, God bless you and
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- God bless America!
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- Mike: Coming up, we're gonna be talking with Governor Tate
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- Reeves of Mississippi.
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- A historic decision is gonna be coming down from the Supreme
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- Court in a matter of weeks.
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- It could strike down Roe versus Wade and send the abortion issue
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- to the states.
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- Governor Reeves will tell us what that means for Mississippi
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- and America.
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- So don't go away. We'll be right back.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Mike: And welcome back.
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- Tate Reeves was first elected to public office in 2003.
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- He was the youngest state treasurer in America, and the
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- very first Republican to hold that office in
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- the state of Mississippi.
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- He's now the 65th governor of Mississippi.
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- He just signed the largest tax cut in that state's history,
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- into law.
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- And he says this comes as President Joe Biden and his
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- administration are fundamentally out of touch with reality, as
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- their policies continue to hurt everyday Americans like you.
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- Tate Reeves is fighting back.
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- I want you to welcome to the show, a wonderful governor,
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- somebody who is setting a high standard for how
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- it ought to be done.
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- Please welcome Governor Tate Reeves of Mississippi.
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- Mike: Governor, great having you here.
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- Tate Reeves: Well, thank you, Governor.
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- It's great to be on today.
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- Mike: I want to talk about the fact
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- that your state very well may be the lynchpin of
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- the Supreme Court decision that will finally reverse after all
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- these many years the hideous decision that abortion is some
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- kind of a federal right and that is a piece of legislation that
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- happened in Mississippi, got challenged in the court.
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- It's now bubbled all the way to the Supreme Court.
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- What's at stake here?
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- Tate: Well, what's at stake is literally saving babies'
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- lives and it's a fascinating time to be governor of the state
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- whose case is there, but Governor, I will tell you, I was
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- lieutenant governor and president of the senate when we
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- passed this particular bill, giving us this opportunity to
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- get before the Supreme Court and asking them at a minimum to
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- uphold our law, but also to overturn Roe because if you read
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- the United States Constitution, there is no right to an abortion
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- in our Constitution.
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- In fact, there is nothing in our Constitution that prevents
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- states like Mississippi and others from providing
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- restrictions on abortions and we're just very hopeful that
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- that draft opinion that was floated which is another topic
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- in and of itself, but we're just very hopeful and we pray every
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- day that that actually is where five of the nine justices land
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- on our case.
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- Mike: It's gotta make you feel very, very fulfilled,
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- knowing that a case that started in your state, that you had a
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- hand in, and that you've continued even as becoming
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- governor, pushing for it to go to the Supreme Court, that this
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- could be what many of us would say would be the moment to
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- finally bring some justice to this issue.
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- You know, I just think it's historic and you have to feel
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- good and the people of Mississippi who are very
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- pro-life overall, have to feel good that you're serving them in
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- this capacity and I mean we're praying hard
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- that this would come about.
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- Tate: Well, that is exactly right.
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- We are praying hard and we're hopeful and we--every day since
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- the oral arguments were made before the US Supreme Court, we
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- listened to the questions that were asked, we knew that there
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- were a majority of justices that could make a simple reading of
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- the Constitution and recognize that there is no guaranteed
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- right to an abortion.
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- There is no guaranteed right to kill another American being in
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- our US Constitution.
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- And so we were hopeful then, and we became even more hopeful when
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- the leaked draft opinion occurred which, by the way, is
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- in and of itself an internal attack on the institution that
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- is the Supreme Court, but we've become even more hopeful, but it
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- is just a draft opinion at this time, and so we don't wanna get
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- too far out in front, other than to pray and just pray that a
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- majority of those justices stick with their guns, are not
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- intimidated by the far left because you've seen what's
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- happened in Washington, D.C.: the picketing outside their
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- homes, the just--really, the craziness of the far left on
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- this issue and so many others.
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- We just pray.
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- Mike: You were one of the governors who was heralded for
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- your handling of the COVID issue.
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- You didn't lock everybody down and tell 'em where they could go
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- or not go.
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- Republican governors had a very different approach than many of
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- the Democrat governors.
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- But you, in particular, I think really came through as a real
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- leader in saying, "Look, we're gonna make these decisions at
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- the local level."
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- Just share with us the process that you had to go through
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- as a governor.
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- A lot of pressure coming down from the federal government for
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- you to bend and shut down churches
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- and all sorts of things.
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- How'd you handle that?
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- Tate: Well, there's no doubt that there was a lot of pressure
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- from the top down, if you will, from the federal government.
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- There was also a lot of pressure from local governments, and
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- particularly the Democrat elected officials who wanted us
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- to make those tough decisions to do things that
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- just didn't make sense.
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- And it really--when you think about the way in which we
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- approached COVID from a Conservative Government
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- standpoint, it really highlights the differences between the way
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- Democrats believe and the way Republicans believe.
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- Democrats believe in centralized decision-making.
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- They believe that all decisions are better if they come
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- from Washington, D.C.
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- We, on the other hand, as Conservatives, believe that it's
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- the individual that has the right to make decisions based
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- upon what's best for them and their families.
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- And so, as we approached it, we tried to recognize the need for
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- freedom and for opportunity.
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- We tried to provide information to every single Mississippian.
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- We tried to point them in the right direction so that
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- they could get the facts.
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- And we encouraged them to talk to their doctors,
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- to talk to their neighbors.
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- But at the end of the day, we believe in personal
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- responsibility, and people have to step up and make decisions
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- based upon what is in their best interest.
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- I, as a governor, I don't know the individual scenarios of each
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- and every family across Mississippi.
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- My job is to provide information, recognize that
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- we've got to protect lives, but also we have to protect
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- livelihoods, and that's the approach that we took every
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- single day, and I will tell you, the reality is my family's
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- in a small business.
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- My dad started his business in the early 1970s and has been in
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- business every day and I guarantee he went to work today
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- and will go to work tomorrow and probably--and yesterday as well.
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- But having that background, coming from someone who knows
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- what it's like to sign the front of a paycheck, knowing what it's
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- like that when you think about this definition of an essential
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- business, the reality is every small business is essential, and
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- the reason it's essential is because every employee depends
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- on it to provide food for their family and shelter for their
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- family, and so that's the approach that we took.
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- And what you see now here, some 2½ years later, is the
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- dichotomy, the difference between how well Republican-led
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- states are doing economically, and how poorly Democrat-led
- 00:14:09.170 --> 00:14:12.740
- states are doing economically.
- 00:14:12.740 --> 00:14:14.676
- I think it shows you very clearly that we were making the
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- right decisions, even though those far left outlets like "The
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- New York Times" and "The Washington Post" didn't
- 00:14:23.451 --> 00:14:25.286
- necessarily like it the way we were doing it.
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- Mike: You know, I have a special place in my heart for
- 00:14:27.388 --> 00:14:29.824
- obvious reasons.
- 00:14:29.824 --> 00:14:31.392
- I think governors are on the forefront of, really, leadership
- 00:14:31.392 --> 00:14:34.228
- but the country.
- 00:14:34.228 --> 00:14:35.730
- Nothing happens in Washington, virtually nothing.
- 00:14:35.730 --> 00:14:37.832
- They make a lot of speeches, but very few decisions.
- 00:14:37.832 --> 00:14:40.802
- You, on the other hand, leading a state, you have to balance
- 00:14:40.802 --> 00:14:44.539
- your budget, you have to make things work.
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- And a lot of people may not fully understand that.
- 00:14:47.408 --> 00:14:50.345
- Look at the landscape now.
- 00:14:50.345 --> 00:14:52.580
- We're entering into an election season.
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- What do you think will happen in the 2022 elections, in the
- 00:14:54.916 --> 00:14:58.820
- Congress, the Senate, the governorships?
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- What happens this year?
- 00:15:01.122 --> 00:15:02.690
- Are the people sort of saying, "Maybe this left-wing leadership
- 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:05.526
- is not working"?
- 00:15:05.526 --> 00:15:07.428
- Tate: Oh, I don't think there's any doubt that across
- 00:15:07.428 --> 00:15:09.897
- the country, there is buyers' remorse from the voters.
- 00:15:09.897 --> 00:15:15.069
- Specifically, those voters in the middle, even those that
- 00:15:15.069 --> 00:15:19.640
- maybe are left-leaning on certain issues, will recognize
- 00:15:19.640 --> 00:15:22.977
- that the mistakes that were made in the 2020 election, electing a
- 00:15:22.977 --> 00:15:27.749
- Democrat-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate and
- 00:15:27.749 --> 00:15:31.519
- with this particular president in the White House, it has led
- 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.056
- to far left policies that hurt everyday Mississippians and
- 00:15:35.056 --> 00:15:40.561
- everyday Americans.
- 00:15:40.561 --> 00:15:42.263
- When you think about the fact that every single announcement
- 00:15:42.263 --> 00:15:47.001
- that the president makes with respect to the oil and gas
- 00:15:47.001 --> 00:15:49.904
- industry is an attempt to constrain supply.
- 00:15:49.904 --> 00:15:53.574
- When you constrain supply with a fixed level of demand, guess
- 00:15:53.574 --> 00:15:57.278
- what happens?
- 00:15:57.278 --> 00:15:58.980
- Prices go up.
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- We're in a state like Mississippi, we're in a state
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- like Tennessee and Arkansas, where people drive a long way to
- 00:16:02.450 --> 00:16:04.752
- work every single day, doubling the price of gasoline makes it
- 00:16:04.752 --> 00:16:08.656
- harder for them to put food on their table.
- 00:16:08.656 --> 00:16:11.726
- And oh, by the way, not only does it make it harder simply
- 00:16:11.726 --> 00:16:13.795
- because they're paying more at the pump, they're also when they
- 00:16:13.795 --> 00:16:16.631
- get to the grocery store to put food on their table, they're
- 00:16:16.631 --> 00:16:18.900
- paying more for bread and milk because the costs to move goods
- 00:16:18.900 --> 00:16:23.371
- and services around the country are going up.
- 00:16:23.371 --> 00:16:26.541
- This inflation is really hurting everyday Americans and I think
- 00:16:26.541 --> 00:16:31.212
- there's gonna be a major backlash against the far left
- 00:16:31.212 --> 00:16:34.282
- Democrat Party because of it.
- 00:16:34.282 --> 00:16:36.384
- Mike: Well, let's hope so, and I tell you what I hope, that
- 00:16:36.384 --> 00:16:38.519
- more states will elect governors like Tate Reeves.
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- You have been an exemplary governor and I'm just so very
- 00:16:41.789 --> 00:16:45.126
- grateful for the leadership you've shown, not just through
- 00:16:45.126 --> 00:16:47.695
- COVID, but tax cuts, you've managed this state effectively
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- and resourcefully, and it's just an honor to have you here.
- 00:16:52.133 --> 00:16:55.570
- And I think all of our audience appreciates being able to see
- 00:16:55.570 --> 00:16:58.639
- good government in action which is exactly what they see when
- 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.909
- they see Tate Reeves for Mississippi.
- 00:17:01.909 --> 00:17:04.278
- Tate: Thank you.
- 00:17:04.278 --> 00:17:06.080
- Mike: Now, for our audience, we'd love for you to keep up
- 00:17:06.080 --> 00:17:08.649
- with Governor Reeves, heading to HUCKABEE.TV, we'll have all his
- 00:17:08.649 --> 00:17:12.720
- links so that you can find out more about what he's getting
- 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.523
- done in Mississippi.
- 00:17:15.523 --> 00:17:17.158
- And I say that as the guy next-door, over in Arkansas, so
- 00:17:17.158 --> 00:17:19.961
- it's all I can do to really commend him for doing
- 00:17:19.961 --> 00:17:22.930
- the great job he's doing.
- 00:17:22.930 --> 00:17:24.398
- But he's doing it, and I'm grateful for it.
- 00:17:24.398 --> 00:17:26.434
- Speaking of doing a great job, Keith Bilbrey is doing a great
- 00:17:26.434 --> 00:17:29.237
- job as our reliable link to the rest of the show.
- 00:17:29.237 --> 00:17:31.873
- He's standing over there right now, wanting to tell us
- 00:17:31.873 --> 00:17:34.308
- what's coming up.
- 00:17:34.308 --> 00:17:36.077
- Keith: Well, up next, hilarious news stories on "In
- 00:17:36.077 --> 00:17:39.080
- Case You Missed It."
- 00:17:39.080 --> 00:17:40.648
- Then the amazing magic of Kostya Kimlat,
- 00:17:40.648 --> 00:17:44.785
- still ahead on "Huckabee."
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Mike: Ah, welcome back.
- 00:18:08.009 --> 00:18:12.847
- Tre' Corley and The Music City Connection playing a little song
- 00:18:12.847 --> 00:18:14.982
- from The Monkees called "Daydream Believer"
- 00:18:14.982 --> 00:18:17.552
- to bring us back.
- 00:18:17.552 --> 00:18:18.953
- Keith, that's a song you and I both know.
- 00:18:18.953 --> 00:18:20.888
- Keith: Oh, yeah, I know every word.
- 00:18:20.888 --> 00:18:23.991
- Mike: It amazes me but Tre' and this band, they can play
- 00:18:23.991 --> 00:18:27.962
- music from basically any genre, any generation.
- 00:18:27.962 --> 00:18:31.766
- They're the best in the country.
- 00:18:31.766 --> 00:18:33.234
- Give 'em a big hand, would you?
- 00:18:33.234 --> 00:18:35.036
- Keith: Absolutely fantastic.
- 00:18:35.036 --> 00:18:40.908
- Mike: Well, from the worm patriarchy to sheep
- 00:18:40.908 --> 00:18:44.679
- behaving baaaaaaa-adly.
- 00:18:44.679 --> 00:18:46.514
- Keith: That's good.
- 00:18:46.514 --> 00:18:47.848
- Mike: That was bad. That was baaaaa-ad.
- 00:18:47.848 --> 00:18:50.418
- Well, folks, we've got the news that proves that the world is a
- 00:18:50.418 --> 00:18:53.988
- zoo on this edition of "In Case You Missed It!"
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- ♪♪♪
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- Mike: Well, according to the old song about divorce,
- 00:19:04.699 --> 00:19:07.201
- "You'd Better Keep Her, I think It's Cheaper."
- 00:19:07.201 --> 00:19:11.906
- Well, wealthy industrialist George David is learning
- 00:19:11.906 --> 00:19:14.475
- that the hard way.
- 00:19:14.475 --> 00:19:16.644
- Thesmokinggun.com reports that his estranged wife, Swedish
- 00:19:16.644 --> 00:19:20.881
- countess Marie Douglas-David, told the court that she needs
- 00:19:20.881 --> 00:19:25.586
- more than the $43 million in their prenuptial agreement.
- 00:19:25.586 --> 00:19:31.892
- I mean, that's just pittance of money, because she spends,
- 00:19:31.892 --> 00:19:36.364
- get this, brace yourself, $53.823 a week.
- 00:19:36.364 --> 00:19:43.471
- A week.
- 00:19:43.471 --> 00:19:44.905
- Keith: On what?
- 00:19:44.905 --> 00:19:46.407
- Mike: Whoa.
- 00:19:46.407 --> 00:19:48.009
- I mean, I don't know if she's a Swedish countess,
- 00:19:48.009 --> 00:19:49.377
- but she's spending money like a US Congressman.
- 00:19:49.377 --> 00:19:51.512
- That's what she's doing.
- 00:19:51.512 --> 00:19:54.682
- Keith: Tre''s got a few things he wants to sell her.
- 00:19:54.682 --> 00:19:57.418
- Mike: All right, here's some of her expenses: $8000 a week
- 00:19:57.418 --> 00:20:01.622
- for travel, $4000 a week for clothes.
- 00:20:01.622 --> 00:20:06.060
- What kind of clothes do you need $4000 a week?
- 00:20:06.060 --> 00:20:09.230
- And $1000 for hair and skin care every week.
- 00:20:09.230 --> 00:20:13.067
- Keith: I could use that.
- 00:20:13.067 --> 00:20:14.835
- Mike: Yeah, but, you'll love this.
- 00:20:14.835 --> 00:20:16.804
- She only spends 30 bucks a week for reading materials.
- 00:20:16.804 --> 00:20:20.374
- I think mostly she reads the Neiman Marcus catalog.
- 00:20:20.374 --> 00:20:23.077
- That's about it.
- 00:20:23.077 --> 00:20:24.545
- But she must have figured out how to scrimp because she did
- 00:20:24.545 --> 00:20:26.947
- file an update stating that she'd slashed her spending down
- 00:20:26.947 --> 00:20:30.451
- to only $30.000 a week.
- 00:20:30.451 --> 00:20:34.488
- A real pauper I say.
- 00:20:34.488 --> 00:20:36.691
- Anyway, the supply chain shortages must really be bad.
- 00:20:36.691 --> 00:20:40.961
- Maybe she traded her Rolls Royce in for a Tesla so she could save
- 00:20:40.961 --> 00:20:44.598
- on gas.
- 00:20:44.598 --> 00:20:47.201
- I got to tell you, this story reminds me of the old joke about
- 00:20:47.201 --> 00:20:49.403
- the guy whose credit card got stolen, but he didn't call the
- 00:20:49.403 --> 00:20:52.873
- police because the thief was spending less than his wife.
- 00:20:52.873 --> 00:20:56.644
- Keith: There you go.
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- Mike: This week's "Huck's Criminal Mastermind" is a
- 00:21:00.348 --> 00:21:02.183
- suburban Tampa man who kept repeatedly calling 911 to tell
- 00:21:02.183 --> 00:21:06.854
- the police that "President Biden needs to be placed in prison."
- 00:21:06.854 --> 00:21:11.892
- And no, I was nowhere near Tampa.
- 00:21:11.892 --> 00:21:14.095
- I was not there, wasn't me.
- 00:21:14.095 --> 00:21:17.565
- He got in trouble, though.
- 00:21:17.565 --> 00:21:18.933
- He got charged with abusing the 911 line by calling about
- 00:21:18.933 --> 00:21:21.369
- something that's not an emergency.
- 00:21:21.369 --> 00:21:25.106
- I don't know about that.
- 00:21:25.106 --> 00:21:26.574
- I mean, have you seen the news lately?
- 00:21:26.574 --> 00:21:28.209
- Maybe it is.
- 00:21:28.209 --> 00:21:29.844
- Anyway, you'll love this line: police believe alcohol
- 00:21:29.844 --> 00:21:33.280
- was involved.
- 00:21:33.280 --> 00:21:36.183
- You always know when the last line of the story says,
- 00:21:36.183 --> 00:21:39.186
- "And it's believed that alcohol might have been involved."
- 00:21:39.186 --> 00:21:41.956
- Yeah, I think that's probably a given.
- 00:21:41.956 --> 00:21:44.058
- Anyway, he must have seen the price of booze.
- 00:21:44.058 --> 00:21:46.861
- That's what really put him over the top.
- 00:21:46.861 --> 00:21:50.164
- Next, we go to the latest battlefront of the gender wars.
- 00:21:50.164 --> 00:21:52.600
- Parasitic worm names.
- 00:21:52.600 --> 00:21:54.468
- You ever thought about that?
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- Keith: Never.
- 00:21:55.803 --> 00:21:57.171
- Mike: Me neither.
- 00:21:57.171 --> 00:21:58.706
- But in New Zealand, researchers have found that over the past 20
- 00:21:58.706 --> 00:22:00.307
- years or so, nearly 600 newly discovered species of parasitic
- 00:22:00.307 --> 00:22:05.079
- worms were named after scientists, but only about 19%
- 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:10.284
- of them were named after women.
- 00:22:10.284 --> 00:22:13.220
- I mean, let's have some, you know, gender parity here.
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- Keith: Absolutely.
- 00:22:15.489 --> 00:22:16.891
- Mike: I mean, 'cause every woman would love to have a
- 00:22:16.891 --> 00:22:18.559
- parasitic worm named after her, wouldn't they?
- 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.028
- Keith: I can't imagine that being a life goal, but--
- 00:22:21.028 --> 00:22:23.097
- Mike: I can't either but, you know, even the hookworm was
- 00:22:23.097 --> 00:22:25.399
- named after Captain Hook, yeah.
- 00:22:25.399 --> 00:22:30.971
- Keith: Pray he's gone over the--
- 00:22:30.971 --> 00:22:32.306
- Tre' Corley: I don't know if that's a joke or for real,
- 00:22:32.306 --> 00:22:33.908
- I don't know.
- 00:22:33.908 --> 00:22:35.342
- Mike: I might know that guy from Tampa, you know,
- 00:22:35.342 --> 00:22:36.811
- I don't know.
- 00:22:36.811 --> 00:22:38.312
- The researchers blamed this on "consistent gender bias" in
- 00:22:38.312 --> 00:22:40.114
- parasitic worm naming, 'cause I'm sure that's a subject.
- 00:22:40.114 --> 00:22:43.617
- Now to be fair, "parasitic worm" does truly sound like something
- 00:22:43.617 --> 00:22:47.021
- that a woman would call a man.
- 00:22:47.021 --> 00:22:49.190
- Personally, I think people who hunt for dumb stuff like this to
- 00:22:49.190 --> 00:22:53.427
- be offended by, I think they are the parasitic worms.
- 00:22:53.427 --> 00:23:00.367
- I do.
- 00:23:00.367 --> 00:23:03.637
- Finally, my favorite word, finally.
- 00:23:03.637 --> 00:23:06.774
- Keith: Finally!
- 00:23:06.774 --> 00:23:08.175
- Mike: Let's stay in New Zealand, where the term
- 00:23:08.175 --> 00:23:09.877
- "battering ram" has a whole different meaning.
- 00:23:09.877 --> 00:23:12.413
- There was a store owner over there who arrived one morning to
- 00:23:12.413 --> 00:23:14.915
- find his front window smashed.
- 00:23:14.915 --> 00:23:16.984
- He thought he'd woken up in Los Angeles.
- 00:23:16.984 --> 00:23:19.320
- But it was still New Zealand.
- 00:23:19.320 --> 00:23:21.188
- Security footage revealed that an escaped sheep had gotten into
- 00:23:21.188 --> 00:23:25.826
- a head-butting contest with his own reflection.
- 00:23:25.826 --> 00:23:30.531
- You know what this is like?
- 00:23:30.531 --> 00:23:32.099
- This is like watching "The View."
- 00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:33.601
- That's what that's like.
- 00:23:33.601 --> 00:23:35.703
- That's what that is right there, yup.
- 00:23:35.703 --> 00:23:40.641
- Tre': That was good.
- 00:23:40.641 --> 00:23:42.142
- Keith: C'mon, sound effect, sound effect.
- 00:23:42.142 --> 00:23:44.011
- Mike: Well, before you get sheepish about these jokes and
- 00:23:44.011 --> 00:23:46.814
- flock to the exits, we're gonna end it all here.
- 00:23:46.814 --> 00:23:49.950
- But remember, we read the news.
- 00:23:49.950 --> 00:23:52.920
- audience: So you don't have to.
- 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.923
- Keith: Well, he fooled Penn & Teller,
- 00:23:55.923 --> 00:23:58.425
- but can he fool Mike and me?
- 00:23:58.425 --> 00:24:01.328
- Prepare to be amazed by magician Kostya Kimlat,
- 00:24:01.328 --> 00:24:04.765
- next on "Huckabee."
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Keith: Go to SHOP.HUCKABEE.TV and represent your favorite show
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- Mike: And welcome back, everyone.
- 00:24:45.608 --> 00:24:46.943
- My next guest is a native of Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 00:24:46.943 --> 00:24:49.579
- He's both a master magician and an expert on perception.
- 00:24:49.579 --> 00:24:54.150
- In fact, he's taught business people all over the world how
- 00:24:54.150 --> 00:24:57.653
- to "think like a magician."
- 00:24:57.653 --> 00:25:00.489
- He's also performed on five continents, he's fooled
- 00:25:00.489 --> 00:25:03.626
- Penn & Teller, but can he fool Keith and me?
- 00:25:03.626 --> 00:25:07.363
- We're about to find out.
- 00:25:07.363 --> 00:25:08.864
- Would you please welcome the amazing Kostya Kimlat.
- 00:25:08.864 --> 00:25:14.704
- Kostya Kimlat: Thank you.
- 00:25:14.704 --> 00:25:18.841
- Thank you.
- 00:25:18.841 --> 00:25:20.910
- Thank you very, very much.
- 00:25:20.910 --> 00:25:22.244
- My name is Kostya.
- 00:25:22.244 --> 00:25:23.713
- I am originally from Kyiv, Ukraine,
- 00:25:23.713 --> 00:25:25.281
- and I'm a professional magician.
- 00:25:25.281 --> 00:25:26.816
- So, when people ask me where my magic powers come from,
- 00:25:26.816 --> 00:25:29.852
- the answer's pretty simple: Chernobyl.
- 00:25:29.852 --> 00:25:33.889
- I know, you all laugh; I'm the one that glows in the dark,
- 00:25:33.889 --> 00:25:36.692
- okay?
- 00:25:36.692 --> 00:25:38.094
- True story.
- 00:25:38.094 --> 00:25:39.629
- So I grew up in the Soviet Union, waiting in line for
- 00:25:39.629 --> 00:25:41.430
- rations of milk and bread, and my family left for America
- 00:25:41.430 --> 00:25:44.834
- when I was 9 years old.
- 00:25:44.834 --> 00:25:46.535
- Now, thankfully, we were not fleeing bombs and bullets.
- 00:25:46.535 --> 00:25:49.138
- We came for freedom and opportunity, and boy,
- 00:25:49.138 --> 00:25:52.241
- did we get it.
- 00:25:52.241 --> 00:25:53.843
- I've been living the American Dream as a professional magician
- 00:25:53.843 --> 00:25:57.380
- for 25 years.
- 00:25:57.380 --> 00:25:59.048
- I mean, I get to bring joy and wonder to people for a living.
- 00:25:59.048 --> 00:26:02.351
- I love it.
- 00:26:02.351 --> 00:26:03.753
- But when Russia's war in Ukraine started this February, doing
- 00:26:03.753 --> 00:26:06.789
- magic became rather meaningless.
- 00:26:06.789 --> 00:26:08.858
- I couldn't perform for weeks.
- 00:26:08.858 --> 00:26:10.760
- Until I heard that there was a magician in Ukraine, Dmitry
- 00:26:10.760 --> 00:26:13.896
- Mosin, who was performing at shelters and hospitals and
- 00:26:13.896 --> 00:26:17.533
- schools, bringing people together, bringing them relief
- 00:26:17.533 --> 00:26:20.569
- and joy when they need it the most.
- 00:26:20.569 --> 00:26:22.838
- Now, I heard he was performing a magic trick, a trick that I
- 00:26:22.838 --> 00:26:25.474
- absolutely love, and that's been around for centuries.
- 00:26:25.474 --> 00:26:29.011
- It is a simple trick, one that I'm gonna do for
- 00:26:29.011 --> 00:26:31.714
- you all right now.
- 00:26:31.714 --> 00:26:34.250
- I'm going to break this thread into little pieces and I'm going
- 00:26:34.250 --> 00:26:37.219
- to put it back together.
- 00:26:37.219 --> 00:26:38.721
- That's it.
- 00:26:38.721 --> 00:26:40.222
- But imagine what a Ukrainian child sees
- 00:26:40.222 --> 00:26:42.858
- when she sees this trick.
- 00:26:42.858 --> 00:26:45.294
- At a moment when her life feels broken.
- 00:26:45.294 --> 00:26:49.498
- At a time when she's had to flee from her homeland, under the
- 00:26:49.498 --> 00:26:53.169
- fire of bombs, and there she is, leaving her father alone to
- 00:26:53.169 --> 00:26:57.306
- defend the land, and she's there with her mother, scared,
- 00:26:57.306 --> 00:27:01.711
- anxious, amongst the unknown of life.
- 00:27:01.711 --> 00:27:05.047
- It is at this time that she needs magic the most, to remind
- 00:27:05.047 --> 00:27:09.085
- her that she is not alone.
- 00:27:09.085 --> 00:27:12.521
- And she sees that when the magician comes to the shelter to
- 00:27:12.521 --> 00:27:15.391
- do a little magic to break this thread, when people volunteer
- 00:27:15.391 --> 00:27:18.861
- they bring food to feed her family, when countries send
- 00:27:18.861 --> 00:27:21.931
- medical supplies to save her father, when all of us travel we
- 00:27:21.931 --> 00:27:26.469
- help in any way we can, people come from all over the world to
- 00:27:26.469 --> 00:27:29.271
- support Ukraine, and America stands united with Ukraine in
- 00:27:29.271 --> 00:27:33.442
- this fight for freedom.
- 00:27:33.442 --> 00:27:35.544
- At this time, this little girl doesn't see broken threads; she
- 00:27:35.544 --> 00:27:38.547
- sees a little fluffy ball, Earth.
- 00:27:38.547 --> 00:27:41.417
- Look, there's Ukraine, there's America.
- 00:27:41.417 --> 00:27:44.186
- And at this point, this child doesn't just see a magic trick.
- 00:27:44.186 --> 00:27:46.989
- She sees that with the help of others, it is possible to put a
- 00:27:46.989 --> 00:27:52.261
- broken life back together.
- 00:27:52.261 --> 00:28:01.604
- Mike: Wow.
- 00:28:01.604 --> 00:28:04.707
- Kostya, that is a very powerful illustration.
- 00:28:04.707 --> 00:28:08.210
- You know, during this time, I'm guessing a lot of people have
- 00:28:08.210 --> 00:28:11.847
- reached out to you, knowing that you're Ukrainian.
- 00:28:11.847 --> 00:28:14.683
- What have people said to you?
- 00:28:14.683 --> 00:28:16.318
- Kostya: You know, the support from Americans has just been
- 00:28:16.318 --> 00:28:18.320
- remarkable because people from all over the world help, but the
- 00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:20.756
- very first phone calls I got were from American veterans.
- 00:28:20.756 --> 00:28:23.359
- Mike: Really?
- 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:24.693
- Kostya: They were the very first ones to call, on the first
- 00:28:24.693 --> 00:28:26.295
- day of the war and to say, "We have to be fighting this,
- 00:28:26.295 --> 00:28:28.330
- because helping to fight this means saving America, it means
- 00:28:28.330 --> 00:28:31.634
- preserving the freedom and security we have here as well.
- 00:28:31.634 --> 00:28:34.670
- They knew the seriousness of the situation then.
- 00:28:34.670 --> 00:28:36.605
- Mike: I'm not surprised in many ways that the first people
- 00:28:36.605 --> 00:28:39.975
- that understood what Ukraine is going through are our own
- 00:28:39.975 --> 00:28:43.045
- veterans here in the United States.
- 00:28:43.045 --> 00:28:45.347
- Now, let me ask you a question because it's got to be difficult
- 00:28:45.347 --> 00:28:48.083
- to perform, especially after a pandemic and now a war.
- 00:28:48.083 --> 00:28:51.587
- Are you finding maybe ways to do it virtually?
- 00:28:51.587 --> 00:28:55.658
- Is that what you've done?
- 00:28:55.658 --> 00:28:57.226
- Kostya: For the last two years, I've been home performing
- 00:28:57.226 --> 00:28:59.061
- more magic for more people around the world, right there,
- 00:28:59.061 --> 00:29:01.931
- from my studio at home.
- 00:29:01.931 --> 00:29:03.732
- I've got two daughters, one and three, so raising them.
- 00:29:03.732 --> 00:29:06.268
- I get to finish my show, bring people together, do amazing
- 00:29:06.268 --> 00:29:08.437
- things right from home, and it's been an incredible time, despite
- 00:29:08.437 --> 00:29:11.907
- the difficulty during the pandemic, to bring joy and
- 00:29:11.907 --> 00:29:14.944
- connect people who are working remotely.
- 00:29:14.944 --> 00:29:16.812
- Mike: Well, I think it's pretty cool that you're doing a
- 00:29:16.812 --> 00:29:19.548
- lot of things remotely, but you still came here tonight because
- 00:29:19.548 --> 00:29:22.751
- you wanted to show us some special tricks.
- 00:29:22.751 --> 00:29:25.354
- Kostya: I did, I did.
- 00:29:25.354 --> 00:29:26.822
- So I've been traveling all this week, doing shows, raising funds
- 00:29:26.822 --> 00:29:28.324
- to help Ukraine, and I thought I would show you kind of a
- 00:29:28.324 --> 00:29:30.526
- virtual, kind of a mixed virtual magic trick.
- 00:29:30.526 --> 00:29:32.962
- Because what I was, I was online, talking with my new
- 00:29:32.962 --> 00:29:35.331
- friend, Dmitry, who I'd met during this war, and I asked him
- 00:29:35.331 --> 00:29:38.133
- to show me a trick on Zoom, and he did a really great trick and
- 00:29:38.133 --> 00:29:40.436
- I thought, "This is the one I've gotta do for you."
- 00:29:40.436 --> 00:29:42.838
- So I've got a little video.
- 00:29:42.838 --> 00:29:44.240
- Now, we recorded this, not live 'cause he's sleeping right now
- 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.908
- in Ukrainian time.
- 00:29:45.908 --> 00:29:47.476
- Mike: We hope so.
- 00:29:47.476 --> 00:29:49.044
- Kostya: Ha, ha, but we're gonna play this little video and
- 00:29:49.044 --> 00:29:50.579
- you're gonna follow along.
- 00:29:50.579 --> 00:29:52.014
- Now, he's gonna speak Ukrainian. I will translate for you.
- 00:29:52.014 --> 00:29:53.349
- Mike: I'm so glad to hear that because I was gonna be
- 00:29:53.349 --> 00:29:55.451
- really in trouble trying to do that.
- 00:29:55.451 --> 00:29:56.919
- Kostya: I'm here to help. Mike: Thank you so much.
- 00:29:56.919 --> 00:29:58.387
- Kostya: So first, we have diamonds, clubs,
- 00:29:58.387 --> 00:29:59.955
- hearts, and spades.
- 00:29:59.955 --> 00:30:01.290
- I'm gonna ask you, please, take those cards for me,
- 00:30:01.290 --> 00:30:02.625
- if you would.
- 00:30:02.625 --> 00:30:03.959
- Look through them, make sure you see that they are,
- 00:30:03.959 --> 00:30:05.327
- in fact, diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades.
- 00:30:05.327 --> 00:30:06.929
- Mike: Looks like a pretty standard deck of cards.
- 00:30:06.929 --> 00:30:08.464
- Kostya: Perfect.
- 00:30:08.464 --> 00:30:09.865
- And we're gonna play a little video and you'll see Dmitry's
- 00:30:09.865 --> 00:30:11.367
- right over here.
- 00:30:11.367 --> 00:30:12.701
- Dmitry Mosin: Kostya. Kostya: Kostya.
- 00:30:12.701 --> 00:30:14.036
- It's how my name--everyone says it differently.
- 00:30:14.036 --> 00:30:15.371
- He says--
- 00:30:15.371 --> 00:30:17.139
- I'm gonna show you a very special magic trick.
- 00:30:17.139 --> 00:30:18.774
- He's got cards. He's in Ukraine.
- 00:30:18.774 --> 00:30:20.542
- We're here in Nashville, you've got your cards.
- 00:30:20.542 --> 00:30:23.379
- Shuffle them up.
- 00:30:23.379 --> 00:30:25.347
- You can do a riffle shuffle, an overhand shuffle,
- 00:30:25.347 --> 00:30:26.982
- whatever you like.
- 00:30:26.982 --> 00:30:28.417
- Give 'em a nice little mix.
- 00:30:28.417 --> 00:30:29.752
- Here, you can use my hands if you'd like a little table.
- 00:30:29.752 --> 00:30:31.387
- That might make it easier for you.
- 00:30:31.387 --> 00:30:32.721
- And then, give it a little overhand shuffle too,
- 00:30:32.721 --> 00:30:34.056
- if you want.
- 00:30:34.056 --> 00:30:35.391
- Give it a little--that was a little mix too.
- 00:30:35.391 --> 00:30:36.725
- You see the cards mixed.
- 00:30:36.725 --> 00:30:38.060
- Mike: Like Maverick on TV.
- 00:30:38.060 --> 00:30:39.395
- Kostya: There you go. Now, I know you can see him.
- 00:30:39.395 --> 00:30:40.863
- Can you separate the cards in half?
- 00:30:40.863 --> 00:30:42.197
- Mike: Yes.
- 00:30:42.197 --> 00:30:43.532
- Kostya: And then take either half and toss it over
- 00:30:43.532 --> 00:30:44.867
- your shoulder.
- 00:30:44.867 --> 00:30:46.201
- Just toss 'em. Get rid of them.
- 00:30:46.201 --> 00:30:47.870
- Mike: Always wanted to do that.
- 00:30:47.870 --> 00:30:49.204
- Kostya: That's it, yeah, just like him.
- 00:30:49.204 --> 00:30:50.539
- That's it. Shuffle the rest.
- 00:30:50.539 --> 00:30:51.874
- Shuffle the rest. Then more mix.
- 00:30:51.874 --> 00:30:53.208
- Separate them again in half, and then take the two halves in your
- 00:30:53.208 --> 00:30:55.077
- hands and, once again, whichever half you want, just toss it over
- 00:30:55.077 --> 00:30:57.913
- your shoulder for me.
- 00:30:57.913 --> 00:31:00.249
- Kostya: Done! That's it.
- 00:31:00.249 --> 00:31:01.984
- Mike: I love making a mess.
- 00:31:01.984 --> 00:31:03.719
- Kostya: Right here. How many have we got left?
- 00:31:03.719 --> 00:31:05.387
- We've got about a quarter left. I'll go through like this.
- 00:31:05.387 --> 00:31:07.356
- Say "Stop" anytime.
- 00:31:07.356 --> 00:31:09.391
- Mike: Stop.
- 00:31:09.391 --> 00:31:10.826
- Kostya: Right there, are you sure?
- 00:31:10.826 --> 00:31:12.161
- Mike: Yup.
- 00:31:12.161 --> 00:31:13.662
- Kostya: Can you place your hand on--hang on to it.
- 00:31:13.662 --> 00:31:15.164
- Don't look at it just yet.
- 00:31:15.164 --> 00:31:16.699
- Mike: Okay.
- 00:31:16.699 --> 00:31:18.400
- Kostya: 'Cause--oh, it's okay, it's okay.
- 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.835
- Mike: I'll look at another-- Kostya: It dropped face down.
- 00:31:19.835 --> 00:31:21.170
- Go ahead, grab it for me, if you would--right there.
- 00:31:21.170 --> 00:31:22.504
- Hang on to it real tight. Mike: Don't look at it?
- 00:31:22.504 --> 00:31:25.140
- Kostya: I wanna show you.
- 00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:26.608
- Look, they're all gone.
- 00:31:26.608 --> 00:31:27.977
- Mike: Okay.
- 00:31:27.977 --> 00:31:29.311
- Kostya: He ended with the three of spades in Ukraine.
- 00:31:29.311 --> 00:31:30.646
- If, after all of this, in your hands, you've narrowed down to
- 00:31:30.646 --> 00:31:32.247
- the three of spades, what do you think?
- 00:31:32.247 --> 00:31:33.582
- Mike: It'll be a miracle.
- 00:31:33.582 --> 00:31:34.917
- Kostya: Let's take a look. Mike: Three of spades.
- 00:31:34.917 --> 00:31:36.251
- Kostya: Yes. There we go.
- 00:31:36.251 --> 00:31:37.886
- Very nicely done, that's--there you go.
- 00:31:37.886 --> 00:31:39.588
- A little Ukrainian magic for you.
- 00:31:39.588 --> 00:31:41.757
- Ha, ha, ha.
- 00:31:41.757 --> 00:31:43.392
- Mike: I don't know how you did that.
- 00:31:43.392 --> 00:31:44.760
- Kostya: You did it.
- 00:31:44.760 --> 00:31:46.128
- Mike: Yeah, I did that. I'm really magic.
- 00:31:46.128 --> 00:31:47.796
- I'm amazed. That is crazy.
- 00:31:47.796 --> 00:31:50.099
- Well, you can see more of the amazing magic of Kostya Kimlat,
- 00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:54.336
- as well as the great work that he's doing to help Ukrainian
- 00:31:54.336 --> 00:31:56.739
- refugees, by going to HUCKABEE.TV.
- 00:31:56.739 --> 00:31:59.308
- We've got all the links that you're gonna need
- 00:31:59.308 --> 00:32:01.944
- and they will magically appear when you go there.
- 00:32:01.944 --> 00:32:05.381
- Right now, Keith Bilbrey, he's gonna do some revealing.
- 00:32:05.381 --> 00:32:07.950
- He's gonna reveal what's in store for us on the show.
- 00:32:07.950 --> 00:32:11.220
- Keith: Well, coming up, meet a Huck's Hero.
- 00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:13.655
- Then get ready for the music of Rare Earth's Peter Rivera,
- 00:32:13.655 --> 00:32:17.760
- on "Huckabee."
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:32:19.328 --> 00:32:27.003
- ♪♪♪
- 00:32:27.003 --> 00:32:28.171
- Mike: Well, the good work of Samaritan's Purse continues all
- 00:32:28.238 --> 00:32:31.241
- over the world and right here on the home front
- 00:32:31.241 --> 00:32:33.877
- because of the generosity of people just like you.
- 00:32:33.877 --> 00:32:38.214
- Now I hope you'll consider going to the Samaritan's Purse
- 00:32:38.214 --> 00:32:41.217
- website or calling them.
- 00:32:41.217 --> 00:32:43.219
- Doing it today, partnering with them in all the good work that
- 00:32:43.219 --> 00:32:46.689
- God is doing through Samaritan's Purse.
- 00:32:46.689 --> 00:32:49.225
- Thank you and God bless you for helping Samaritan's Purse.
- 00:32:49.225 --> 00:32:54.064
- Mike: Well, our next guest is an eight-year Army veteran who
- 00:32:54.130 --> 00:32:56.599
- served two years in Iraq, so he knows firsthand the trauma that
- 00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.737
- war can inflict on our troops.
- 00:33:00.737 --> 00:33:03.206
- But when he came home, he realized that most Vietnam
- 00:33:03.206 --> 00:33:06.176
- veterans never got the warm embrace
- 00:33:06.176 --> 00:33:09.112
- and the help they deserved.
- 00:33:09.112 --> 00:33:10.980
- So he founded a nonprofit called Engage Your Destiny
- 00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:13.950
- to help them heal.
- 00:33:13.950 --> 00:33:15.452
- That's why he's this week's Huck's Hero.
- 00:33:15.452 --> 00:33:19.089
- ♪♪♪
- 00:33:19.089 --> 00:33:29.499
- Ben Peterson: When I was 13 years old, I'll never forget
- 00:33:33.670 --> 00:33:37.807
- seeing those planes fly into the buildings in New York.
- 00:33:37.807 --> 00:33:42.445
- I sensed in that moment when I saw it that I was called
- 00:33:42.445 --> 00:33:45.081
- to be a part of the military.
- 00:33:45.081 --> 00:33:48.618
- I travel this nation and go where God leads me.
- 00:33:48.618 --> 00:33:56.025
- I go into active duty military bases.
- 00:33:56.025 --> 00:33:59.896
- We train soldiers, we train airmen, marines, and sailors,
- 00:33:59.896 --> 00:34:03.967
- on resiliency, how to recover from combat,
- 00:34:03.967 --> 00:34:08.438
- from difficult experiences.
- 00:34:08.438 --> 00:34:10.273
- How to prepare for what the military demands of them.
- 00:34:10.273 --> 00:34:15.345
- There are bases where the divorce rate is over 80%.
- 00:34:15.345 --> 00:34:20.650
- Engage Your Destiny exists to reach the lost,
- 00:34:20.650 --> 00:34:23.186
- the broken, and forgotten.
- 00:34:23.186 --> 00:34:25.321
- And because of my story and what God has brought me out of
- 00:34:25.321 --> 00:34:27.690
- through my time in Iraq and my time in the military, I'm able
- 00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:31.027
- to relate and communicate a message that brings hope and
- 00:34:31.027 --> 00:34:34.397
- healing into the lives of combat veterans, military,
- 00:34:34.397 --> 00:34:36.799
- and their families.
- 00:34:36.799 --> 00:34:38.635
- We are seeing hundreds of our military coming into a
- 00:34:38.635 --> 00:34:42.972
- relationship with Jesus Christ.
- 00:34:42.972 --> 00:34:45.375
- We are partnering with chaplains across this nation who wanna see
- 00:34:45.375 --> 00:34:49.779
- an awakening, who wanna see a move of God.
- 00:34:49.779 --> 00:34:54.284
- We are partnering with churches that wanna be a part of the
- 00:34:54.284 --> 00:34:57.353
- followup, that want to disciple, that want to be
- 00:34:57.353 --> 00:35:00.023
- a part of this mission.
- 00:35:00.023 --> 00:35:02.258
- Let's find a way to pierce the darkness with the message
- 00:35:02.258 --> 00:35:06.229
- that we know will bring light.
- 00:35:06.229 --> 00:35:09.032
- ♪♪♪
- 00:35:09.032 --> 00:35:17.440
- Mike: Please welcome eight-year Army veteran and the
- 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.576
- founder of Engage Your Destiny, Ben Peterson.
- 00:35:19.576 --> 00:35:22.278
- Ben, great having you here, my friend.
- 00:35:22.278 --> 00:35:24.414
- Ben: How you doing, sir?
- 00:35:24.414 --> 00:35:26.115
- Mike: You know, I'm very much touched by the fact when you
- 00:35:26.115 --> 00:35:28.885
- came home, you'd been a chaplain and worked with chaplains in the
- 00:35:28.885 --> 00:35:33.189
- military, yet that didn't completely give you some
- 00:35:33.189 --> 00:35:38.661
- insulation from having PTSD yourself.
- 00:35:38.661 --> 00:35:43.366
- Ben: Yeah, I mean, when you're in combat, I mean, even
- 00:35:43.366 --> 00:35:47.237
- in on the sixth day of our tour, we lost seven of our guys
- 00:35:47.237 --> 00:35:50.206
- in a helicopter crash.
- 00:35:50.206 --> 00:35:52.842
- And so, being a chaplain's assistant and assisting in all
- 00:35:52.842 --> 00:35:56.412
- the things in the military, not only was I the infantry
- 00:35:56.412 --> 00:35:59.449
- bodyguard of the chaplain, but I was also his ministry assistant.
- 00:35:59.449 --> 00:36:02.619
- So we had, you know, soldiers that were struggling with the
- 00:36:02.619 --> 00:36:06.155
- death of other fallen comrades.
- 00:36:06.155 --> 00:36:09.225
- We had so many traumatic things happen throughout that year and
- 00:36:09.225 --> 00:36:12.095
- so you're in the thick of not only the physical trauma of
- 00:36:12.095 --> 00:36:15.598
- combat but the emotional trauma of all the soldiers and what
- 00:36:15.598 --> 00:36:18.101
- they're going through.
- 00:36:18.101 --> 00:36:19.902
- Mike: Ben, I understand that there was a point at which you
- 00:36:19.902 --> 00:36:21.738
- were so desperate that you literally considered taking your
- 00:36:21.738 --> 00:36:24.874
- own life and becoming one of those 22, 23 veterans
- 00:36:24.874 --> 00:36:28.211
- every day who commit suicide.
- 00:36:28.211 --> 00:36:31.080
- Ben: Yeah, I hit a point, it was about 3 o'clock in the
- 00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:33.850
- morning and I was at that critical decision and I called
- 00:36:33.850 --> 00:36:37.720
- my mentor, and he answered the phone and I said, you know,
- 00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:42.859
- "Why is this happening?"
- 00:36:42.859 --> 00:36:45.762
- And he said, "Ben, you are exactly where the disciples were
- 00:36:45.762 --> 00:36:51.334
- when they lost Jesus."
- 00:36:51.334 --> 00:36:53.870
- And I got pretty annoyed with him 'cause I didn't want a Bible
- 00:36:53.870 --> 00:36:55.805
- lesson at 3 o'clock in the morning.
- 00:36:55.805 --> 00:36:58.041
- But he said, "What you can't see, just like the disciples
- 00:36:58.041 --> 00:37:02.011
- couldn't see, was the greatest victory the world had ever known
- 00:37:02.011 --> 00:37:05.048
- in Jesus dying for our sins."
- 00:37:05.048 --> 00:37:07.550
- They just saw Jesus die.
- 00:37:07.550 --> 00:37:09.352
- They didn't see the victory.
- 00:37:09.352 --> 00:37:11.254
- But three days later, they had a resurrection day and they knew
- 00:37:11.254 --> 00:37:13.556
- why they went through what they went through.
- 00:37:13.556 --> 00:37:15.825
- And he said, "Ben, a resurrection day is gonna come
- 00:37:15.825 --> 00:37:18.895
- for you, and you're gonna know why."
- 00:37:18.895 --> 00:37:21.764
- And the thousands of soldiers we've seen come to Jesus on
- 00:37:21.764 --> 00:37:24.400
- bases and the work we've done to heal veterans
- 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.569
- has been my resurrection day.
- 00:37:26.569 --> 00:37:28.438
- Mike: What a beautiful thing.
- 00:37:28.438 --> 00:37:30.173
- I mean, if you'd taken your life, this entire ministry would
- 00:37:30.173 --> 00:37:32.408
- never have happened.
- 00:37:32.408 --> 00:37:33.943
- God really called you to it.
- 00:37:33.943 --> 00:37:35.912
- I'm so impressed that you have made a focus to help the Vietnam
- 00:37:35.912 --> 00:37:40.249
- veterans because I think our country did them wrong,
- 00:37:40.249 --> 00:37:44.554
- did not honor their service as we should.
- 00:37:44.554 --> 00:37:46.956
- These are heroes, and they went through an enormous level of
- 00:37:46.956 --> 00:37:51.160
- difficulty and when they came home, they did not
- 00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:54.864
- get the warm welcome.
- 00:37:54.864 --> 00:37:56.499
- What led you to say, "I want to especially help
- 00:37:56.499 --> 00:37:59.569
- these Vietnam veterans"?
- 00:37:59.569 --> 00:38:01.738
- Ben: Yeah, well, I came home in 2009 and it was at that time
- 00:38:01.738 --> 00:38:05.641
- that protesters had begun showing up
- 00:38:05.641 --> 00:38:07.543
- at Iraq veteran funerals.
- 00:38:07.543 --> 00:38:09.479
- And so you've got to imagine a family is trying to mourn the
- 00:38:09.479 --> 00:38:12.548
- death of their son and protesters are showing up.
- 00:38:12.548 --> 00:38:16.519
- And I got off the bus and the first thing that I saw was over
- 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:20.223
- 100 Vietnam veterans lined up, shoulder to shoulder, holding
- 00:38:20.223 --> 00:38:23.326
- the American flag and guarding my welcome home.
- 00:38:23.326 --> 00:38:27.196
- And it was at that point that I had a very, you know, just Jesus
- 00:38:27.196 --> 00:38:32.435
- clear moment where I just had a vision of seeing a stadium
- 00:38:32.435 --> 00:38:36.406
- filled with Vietnam vets getting healed and getting honored.
- 00:38:36.406 --> 00:38:39.809
- And that's what we're doing.
- 00:38:39.809 --> 00:38:41.677
- Mike: Ben, you've got a very significant festival coming up,
- 00:38:41.677 --> 00:38:44.680
- the Heroes Honor Festival, with a guy that a few people
- 00:38:44.680 --> 00:38:48.050
- may have heard of: Toby Keith.
- 00:38:48.050 --> 00:38:49.619
- Tell us about that.
- 00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:51.554
- Ben: Yeah, so we went and we rented out the Daytona Speedway
- 00:38:51.554 --> 00:38:53.523
- in the middle of COVID.
- 00:38:53.523 --> 00:38:55.224
- The timing was great, not a lot of people wanted to do events in
- 00:38:55.224 --> 00:38:58.261
- 2020, so we thought, "Well, let's go for it."
- 00:38:58.261 --> 00:39:01.798
- And we rented out the Speedway and, you know, Governor
- 00:39:01.798 --> 00:39:04.867
- DeSantis, Toby Keith, Justin Moore, Ann-Margret, all these
- 00:39:04.867 --> 00:39:09.238
- incredible--Oliver North--all these incredible people came
- 00:39:09.238 --> 00:39:12.408
- around this and said, "Yeah, we wanna be a part of this too."
- 00:39:12.408 --> 00:39:15.244
- So we currently have over 22.000 veterans that are gonna fill
- 00:39:15.244 --> 00:39:17.847
- that stadium and we're gonna have an incredible
- 00:39:17.847 --> 00:39:19.715
- Memorial Day weekend.
- 00:39:19.715 --> 00:39:21.317
- Mike: That is going to be fantastic, and you know, I also
- 00:39:21.317 --> 00:39:24.287
- wanna ask you about you were one of the people that was
- 00:39:24.287 --> 00:39:27.757
- interviewed for "I Am Second," a wonderful film series, where
- 00:39:27.757 --> 00:39:31.027
- people share their stories.
- 00:39:31.027 --> 00:39:33.930
- How can people access your story, 'cause I think it's a
- 00:39:33.930 --> 00:39:36.065
- story worth hearing.
- 00:39:36.065 --> 00:39:37.767
- Ben: Yeah, go to Iamsecond and it's the "War on Rage."
- 00:39:37.767 --> 00:39:41.604
- And one of the elements of my story that really hit home was
- 00:39:41.604 --> 00:39:45.708
- when you're in combat or you go through traumatic experiences,
- 00:39:45.708 --> 00:39:49.378
- you learn that helplessness in these helpless situations
- 00:39:49.378 --> 00:39:52.482
- produces a rage in you.
- 00:39:52.482 --> 00:39:54.684
- And in order to heal the rage and the anger that is in so many
- 00:39:54.684 --> 00:39:57.353
- veterans, we need to confront the helplessness that
- 00:39:57.353 --> 00:39:59.522
- we were a part of, and let Jesus heal that.
- 00:39:59.522 --> 00:40:02.658
- So that's a lot of the work that we've been doing.
- 00:40:02.658 --> 00:40:04.360
- Mike: Ben, you've been getting it right and I cannot
- 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:06.128
- tell you how grateful we are for your service.
- 00:40:06.128 --> 00:40:08.498
- It's why we wanted to name you our Huck's Hero of the Week for
- 00:40:08.498 --> 00:40:11.334
- the things that you're doing, and if you wanna see Ben
- 00:40:11.334 --> 00:40:14.270
- Peterson's "I Am Second" film, or learn more about the Heroes
- 00:40:14.270 --> 00:40:18.274
- Honor Festival, or more on the work of Engage Your Destiny, all
- 00:40:18.274 --> 00:40:22.245
- of which, very, very significant, if you'll visit
- 00:40:22.245 --> 00:40:25.414
- HUCKABEE.TV we will give you links to all of those things
- 00:40:25.414 --> 00:40:29.018
- that Ben is involved in.
- 00:40:29.018 --> 00:40:30.753
- Now, believe it or not, there's still more to come on this show.
- 00:40:30.753 --> 00:40:34.190
- Keith Bilbrey is just dying to tell you about it, and I don't
- 00:40:34.190 --> 00:40:37.460
- want him to die on us.
- 00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:38.895
- I want him to tell you about it instead.
- 00:40:38.895 --> 00:40:40.897
- So, Keith, let us in on the secret.
- 00:40:40.897 --> 00:40:43.032
- Keith: Well, I just wanna celebrate because Peter Rivera
- 00:40:43.032 --> 00:40:46.936
- of the classic rock band Rare Earth is up next on "Huckabee."
- 00:40:46.936 --> 00:40:52.241
- ♪♪♪
- 00:40:52.241 --> 00:41:02.285
- Keith: Don't miss "Huckabee" next week with Conservative
- 00:41:03.935 --> 00:41:06.404
- journalist Savanah Hernandez and comedian Jeff Allen.
- 00:41:06.404 --> 00:41:10.975
- ♪♪♪
- 00:41:10.975 --> 00:41:18.382
- Mike: And welcome back.
- 00:41:18.449 --> 00:41:19.851
- I gotta tell you, I'm pretty amped up
- 00:41:19.851 --> 00:41:21.652
- about this next segment.
- 00:41:21.652 --> 00:41:23.521
- As lead singer and drummer for the classic rock band Rare
- 00:41:23.521 --> 00:41:25.790
- Earth, my next guest helped blend rock and R&B into a
- 00:41:25.790 --> 00:41:30.661
- hard-driving sound that topped the charts with unforgettable
- 00:41:30.661 --> 00:41:34.599
- hits like "Get Ready," "I Just Want to Celebrate,"
- 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.802
- many, many others.
- 00:41:37.802 --> 00:41:39.871
- 'Cause the music of Rare Earth was very much a part of the
- 00:41:39.871 --> 00:41:43.307
- fabric of my life in the '60s and '70s, and as a bass player
- 00:41:43.307 --> 00:41:47.278
- in a rock band back in those days and a radio disc jockey,
- 00:41:47.278 --> 00:41:51.082
- I was just a fan of their innovative sound.
- 00:41:51.082 --> 00:41:53.818
- Well, tonight, I'm celebrating having him back on the show.
- 00:41:53.818 --> 00:41:57.054
- Please give a very warm welcome to the one
- 00:41:57.054 --> 00:41:59.090
- and only Peter Rivera.
- 00:41:59.090 --> 00:42:06.764
- Mike: Yeah, you know, Peter, when you were here before,
- 00:42:06.764 --> 00:42:09.467
- I think when you left, you said, "That Huckabee's a dud, but I'm
- 00:42:09.467 --> 00:42:12.870
- gonna give him one more chance.
- 00:42:12.870 --> 00:42:14.639
- I'm gonna give him one more chance to come back."
- 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:16.507
- Peter Rivera: You're gonna play bass tonight.
- 00:42:16.507 --> 00:42:18.042
- Mike: I am.
- 00:42:18.042 --> 00:42:19.443
- Peter: Okay, we'll be listening.
- 00:42:19.443 --> 00:42:21.112
- Mike: Oh, don't do that.
- 00:42:21.112 --> 00:42:22.747
- You know, you've been doing this since 1960.
- 00:42:22.747 --> 00:42:26.450
- I'm blown away.
- 00:42:26.450 --> 00:42:27.852
- I mean, you still love it.
- 00:42:27.852 --> 00:42:29.520
- Peter: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
- 00:42:29.520 --> 00:42:30.988
- I really do.
- 00:42:30.988 --> 00:42:32.590
- It's the--probably the main thing in life, you know?
- 00:42:32.590 --> 00:42:35.426
- That and a family.
- 00:42:35.426 --> 00:42:37.128
- Mike: What first motivated you in music 'cause you preceded
- 00:42:37.128 --> 00:42:38.796
- the Beatles.
- 00:42:38.796 --> 00:42:40.464
- For many of us, the Beatles is what turned us
- 00:42:40.464 --> 00:42:41.899
- on to rock 'n' roll.
- 00:42:41.899 --> 00:42:43.701
- Peter: My dad taught me spoons 'cause I got hit by a car
- 00:42:43.701 --> 00:42:45.770
- and shattered my leg, so he felt bad so I played spoons.
- 00:42:45.770 --> 00:42:49.774
- I was five.
- 00:42:49.774 --> 00:42:51.442
- And then when I was ten, a guy--a door-to-door salesman
- 00:42:51.442 --> 00:42:54.211
- sold music lessons, and he said, "I'm gonna test your son.
- 00:42:54.211 --> 00:42:58.282
- Tell me which note is lower," and he goes, "Ah, ahh."
- 00:42:58.282 --> 00:43:01.552
- I said, "The lower one."
- 00:43:01.552 --> 00:43:03.287
- He looked at my mother and he goes, "Your son has a remarkable
- 00:43:03.287 --> 00:43:05.823
- aptitude for music."
- 00:43:05.823 --> 00:43:09.727
- True.
- 00:43:09.727 --> 00:43:11.162
- Mike: What a salesman, yeah.
- 00:43:11.162 --> 00:43:12.697
- Peter: So I took three lessons because they were
- 00:43:12.697 --> 00:43:14.265
- teaching me all this stuff and the fella was from another
- 00:43:14.265 --> 00:43:17.668
- country, broken English.
- 00:43:17.668 --> 00:43:20.037
- And all he's teaching me, I thought, "No, no, it's Chuck
- 00:43:20.037 --> 00:43:23.274
- Berry and Duke Ellington," and "I wanna get back to my dad's 78
- 00:43:23.274 --> 00:43:27.511
- records," you know?
- 00:43:27.511 --> 00:43:29.246
- So I quit lessons and then just went from there.
- 00:43:29.246 --> 00:43:31.949
- Mike: Just a failure, Peter.
- 00:43:31.949 --> 00:43:33.451
- It just didn't work out for you, that music thing.
- 00:43:33.451 --> 00:43:35.286
- Peter: Well, you know.
- 00:43:35.286 --> 00:43:37.054
- Mike: I think it worked out pretty beautifully.
- 00:43:37.054 --> 00:43:38.789
- Peter: It worked out okay, yeah.
- 00:43:38.789 --> 00:43:40.124
- Mike: Did your parents ever say, "Now, Peter, this music
- 00:43:40.124 --> 00:43:41.792
- thing is okay, but you gotta have something that--make
- 00:43:41.792 --> 00:43:43.728
- a living out of it"?
- 00:43:43.728 --> 00:43:45.062
- Peter: No, well, my dad was a little skeptical about it but
- 00:43:45.062 --> 00:43:47.932
- when I was playing in the best night club in Detroit and
- 00:43:47.932 --> 00:43:50.601
- I brought my mother and father down, I told the waitress,
- 00:43:50.601 --> 00:43:53.471
- "Anything they want, give it to 'em."
- 00:43:53.471 --> 00:43:55.806
- My dad went, "Hey, this music's pretty good stuff."
- 00:43:55.806 --> 00:44:00.411
- Mike: Tell me why Detroit, Michigan, has been such the
- 00:44:00.411 --> 00:44:05.883
- center of a lot of American both rock 'n' roll as well as R&B.
- 00:44:05.883 --> 00:44:11.455
- You're from Detroit.
- 00:44:11.455 --> 00:44:12.990
- I mean, you go through the list.
- 00:44:12.990 --> 00:44:14.525
- It's Aretha Franklin, it's you know, The Funk Brothers,
- 00:44:14.525 --> 00:44:17.028
- Hitsville, but it's Mitch Ryder and The MC5 and Ted Nugent,
- 00:44:17.028 --> 00:44:22.166
- and you start, "Why Detroit, Michigan?"
- 00:44:22.166 --> 00:44:25.736
- Peter: Well, I don't know how they all got there but I think
- 00:44:25.736 --> 00:44:29.240
- that the fact that our fathers were mostly factory workers and
- 00:44:29.240 --> 00:44:33.644
- we didn't have a lot to go on so what we had was our practices
- 00:44:33.644 --> 00:44:38.482
- and we liked to get together and practice and practice and
- 00:44:38.482 --> 00:44:40.317
- practice, and that's how we came out of Detroit, you know?
- 00:44:40.317 --> 00:44:44.588
- Just playing all the time.
- 00:44:44.588 --> 00:44:46.490
- You know, in the wintertime, it's not a fun place to be
- 00:44:46.490 --> 00:44:48.993
- around so you just go to rehearsals and you stay there
- 00:44:48.993 --> 00:44:52.296
- and you just kept going.
- 00:44:52.296 --> 00:44:54.331
- And then we got a job playing at a bar mitzvah and then we did a
- 00:44:54.331 --> 00:44:58.002
- wedding and finally went into the club thing and built our way
- 00:44:58.002 --> 00:45:02.473
- up to the top club in the city.
- 00:45:02.473 --> 00:45:04.642
- And then we were lucky that Motown was in Detroit so it
- 00:45:04.642 --> 00:45:08.045
- wasn't too hard to have them hear what we were doing.
- 00:45:08.045 --> 00:45:12.083
- And they invited us into the studio for five days
- 00:45:12.083 --> 00:45:14.585
- and we recorded.
- 00:45:14.585 --> 00:45:16.187
- And at the end of the five days, we had an album done
- 00:45:16.187 --> 00:45:19.423
- and nobody played it.
- 00:45:19.423 --> 00:45:20.825
- Six months later, it took off and sold millions of records.
- 00:45:20.825 --> 00:45:23.694
- There's reasons for that.
- 00:45:23.694 --> 00:45:25.129
- It's a long story but they eventually played it.
- 00:45:25.129 --> 00:45:27.231
- Mike: Well, I'm glad they did because I would have missed it.
- 00:45:27.231 --> 00:45:29.266
- Peter: Motown didn't know how to promote albums.
- 00:45:29.266 --> 00:45:31.635
- They just had singles.
- 00:45:31.635 --> 00:45:33.070
- Mike: Singles, yeah.
- 00:45:33.070 --> 00:45:34.538
- Peter: Yeah, and so we kinda had to educate them into that
- 00:45:34.538 --> 00:45:37.475
- and then it took off, so.
- 00:45:37.475 --> 00:45:39.276
- Mike: Boy, did it ever.
- 00:45:39.276 --> 00:45:40.711
- I mean, the music of Rare Earth is very, very central to a lot
- 00:45:40.711 --> 00:45:44.615
- of the innovative music that came out of the '60s and early
- 00:45:44.615 --> 00:45:47.685
- '70s and, you know, I mean, you hear a Rare Earth tune and
- 00:45:47.685 --> 00:45:51.288
- immediately you know what it is, so there was a certain
- 00:45:51.288 --> 00:45:53.157
- artistry that you guys had.
- 00:45:53.157 --> 00:45:55.292
- Peter: Well, you know, we just worked hard and, you know,
- 00:45:55.292 --> 00:46:00.030
- had producers and engineers and we just played--our first album
- 00:46:00.030 --> 00:46:03.434
- was just the most favorite songs that we played in the club.
- 00:46:03.434 --> 00:46:07.738
- That's it.
- 00:46:07.738 --> 00:46:09.240
- We didn't have songs we had written.
- 00:46:09.240 --> 00:46:10.741
- We just did the songs from the club.
- 00:46:10.741 --> 00:46:12.443
- We didn't know any better, you know?
- 00:46:12.443 --> 00:46:14.078
- We're just so new, and the--just clicked.
- 00:46:14.078 --> 00:46:18.582
- Mike: You know, I'll tell you what is about to click.
- 00:46:18.582 --> 00:46:21.018
- You're gonna go on the stage and perform.
- 00:46:21.018 --> 00:46:23.587
- I'm gonna get to perform with you, and I am
- 00:46:23.587 --> 00:46:25.322
- so very excited about that.
- 00:46:25.322 --> 00:46:27.224
- Peter: Bass.
- 00:46:27.224 --> 00:46:28.692
- Mike: Yeah, absolutely.
- 00:46:28.692 --> 00:46:30.928
- So we're gonna have some fun and while I join Peter and the band
- 00:46:30.928 --> 00:46:34.598
- to get ready to rock the house, Keith Bilbrey is gonna tell all
- 00:46:34.598 --> 00:46:38.002
- of our viewers how they can hear and get Peter Rivera's great,
- 00:46:38.002 --> 00:46:42.072
- and I mean great, music.
- 00:46:42.072 --> 00:46:44.175
- Keith?
- 00:46:44.175 --> 00:46:45.576
- Keith: Well, you can find Peter's tour dates and get
- 00:46:45.576 --> 00:46:47.178
- signed copies of his latest album and see a digital
- 00:46:47.178 --> 00:46:50.548
- exclusive performance of "Trust" by going to HUCKABEE.TV.
- 00:46:50.548 --> 00:46:54.952
- Now, performing a Rare Earth classic with Tre' Corley and The
- 00:46:54.952 --> 00:46:58.956
- Music City Connection, with Mike on bass, here's Peter Rivera.
- 00:46:58.956 --> 00:47:07.364
- ♪♪♪
- 00:47:07.364 --> 00:47:20.911
- ♪ Hey, yeah. ♪
- 00:47:17.374 --> 00:47:23.414
- ♪♪♪
- 00:47:23.414 --> 00:47:28.519
- Peter: All right.
- 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.621
- ♪♪♪
- 00:47:30.621 --> 00:47:34.892
- ♪ I never met a girl could make me feel the way that you do. ♪
- 00:47:34.892 --> 00:47:39.630
- ♪ You're all right. ♪
- 00:47:39.630 --> 00:47:41.799
- ♪ Whenever I'm asked what makes my dreams real, ♪
- 00:47:41.799 --> 00:47:44.768
- ♪ I tell 'em you do. ♪
- 00:47:44.768 --> 00:47:46.503
- ♪ You're outta sight. ♪
- 00:47:46.503 --> 00:47:48.505
- ♪ Well, tweedley dee, tweedley dum. ♪
- 00:47:48.505 --> 00:47:52.309
- ♪ Look out, baby, here I come. ♪
- 00:47:52.309 --> 00:47:55.813
- ♪ I'm bringin' you a love that's true, ♪
- 00:47:55.813 --> 00:47:59.483
- ♪ get ready, oh yeah. ♪
- 00:47:59.483 --> 00:48:03.053
- ♪ I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready. ♪
- 00:48:03.053 --> 00:48:07.858
- ♪ Get ready, get ready. ♪
- 00:48:07.858 --> 00:48:09.426
- ♪ Oh, don't you know I'm comin'? ♪
- 00:48:09.426 --> 00:48:11.562
- ♪ Get ready, 'cause here I come. ♪
- 00:48:11.562 --> 00:48:12.930
- ♪ On my way. ♪
- 00:48:12.930 --> 00:48:14.698
- ♪ Get ready, 'cause here I come. ♪
- 00:48:14.698 --> 00:48:16.233
- ♪ You wanna play hide and seek with love, ♪
- 00:48:16.233 --> 00:48:19.536
- ♪ let me remind ya. ♪
- 00:48:19.536 --> 00:48:20.938
- ♪ It's all right. ♪
- 00:48:20.938 --> 00:48:22.940
- ♪ Lovin' you're gonna miss, and the time it takes to find ya. ♪
- 00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:27.511
- ♪ You're outta sight. ♪
- 00:48:27.511 --> 00:48:30.180
- ♪ Well, tweedley dee, tweedley dum. ♪
- 00:48:30.180 --> 00:48:33.384
- ♪ Look out, baby, here I come. ♪
- 00:48:33.384 --> 00:48:36.887
- ♪ I'm bringin' you a love that's true, get ready. ♪
- 00:48:36.887 --> 00:48:41.325
- ♪ Get ready, get ready, oh yeah. ♪
- 00:48:41.325 --> 00:48:44.395
- ♪ I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready. ♪
- 00:48:44.395 --> 00:48:47.965
- ♪ Get ready, get ready. ♪
- 00:48:47.965 --> 00:48:51.168
- ♪ Get ready, 'cause here I come. ♪
- 00:48:51.168 --> 00:48:53.404
- ♪ On my way. ♪
- 00:48:53.404 --> 00:48:54.738
- ♪ Get ready, 'cause here I come. ♪
- 00:48:54.738 --> 00:48:57.041
- ♪♪♪
- 00:48:57.041 --> 00:49:09.753
- ♪ If all my friends shouldn't want me to, ♪
- 00:49:07.051 --> 00:49:13.891
- ♪ I think I'll understand. ♪
- 00:49:13.891 --> 00:49:15.592
- ♪ You're all right. ♪
- 00:49:15.592 --> 00:49:17.728
- ♪ Hope I get to you before they do ♪
- 00:49:17.728 --> 00:49:21.065
- ♪ 'cause that's how I planned it. ♪
- 00:49:21.065 --> 00:49:22.533
- ♪ You're outta sight, yeah. ♪
- 00:49:22.533 --> 00:49:25.102
- ♪ Well, fee-fi-fo-fo-fum, ♪
- 00:49:25.102 --> 00:49:28.172
- ♪ look out, baby, now here I come. ♪
- 00:49:28.172 --> 00:49:32.176
- ♪ I'm bringin' you a love that's true, get ready. ♪
- 00:49:32.176 --> 00:49:36.680
- ♪ Get ready, get ready. ♪
- 00:49:36.680 --> 00:49:38.415
- ♪ Oh baby. ♪
- 00:49:38.415 --> 00:49:40.084
- ♪ I'll stop makin' love to you, get ready. ♪
- 00:49:40.084 --> 00:49:42.686
- ♪ Get ready, get ready. ♪
- 00:49:42.686 --> 00:49:45.022
- ♪ Get ready, 'cause here I come. ♪
- 00:49:45.022 --> 00:49:58.902
- ♪♪♪
- 00:49:49.126 --> 00:50:09.012
- ♪ Yeah, now. ♪
- 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:10.781
- ♪♪♪
- 00:50:10.781 --> 00:50:21.225
- Peter: Thank you very much.
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