I still believe So there you go. That is the voice of Kyle Koolihan. He wrote the song. He's singing the song. He's in studio.
The name of the song is Still Proud to be an American. I'm just like everyone else. I'm on Instagram. I'm looking at this and I said, okay, this guy is a big guy. He's got something to say. I listen to him. He said, just want you to hear the song if you like it, like it and download it.
And almost everybody is. Kyle, welcome. Thanks, man. What kind of response did you get?
I discovered just like anyone else, just going scrolling through Instagram. What kind of response did you get? Phenomenal.
Phenomenal response. I think we had the first couple weeks like 30 million views 30 million views how many downloads I? Would probably say close to 100,000 Wow yeah, so you you prompted to write this song why well? I just wanted to give back to my country my dad my dad was in the Air Force for 22 years my granddad 34 Air Force outstanding military careers and I There was a part of me that felt like I was missing like I needed to give back and I said well I'm a songwriter.
Let's do that and so uh and I felt that You know I turned the TV on I see kids burning the flag and I and I see our country that isn't what it was Statues being yeah awful awful stuff, and it's like I got to do this. I got to do it and in the music industry, that's a really hard thing to do because There's a lot of left in the industry and even in country almost canceled for doing it right and I said I'm gonna do it anyways because this is what God was calling me to do you were playing football at Auburn Yeah, always love music. Yeah, when did you realize you were gonna be a musician?
Did you always know man? I moved to college. I I would say my freshman year started really writing like for real songs like I'd always wrote ditties and stuff like that and and So I would say my probably my freshman year college I was like okay, there's something here kind of got recruited to play football. I kind of got recruited to go to Nashville I did yeah, yeah used to be wanted. Yeah, absolutely I've I looked into meeting this guy named chips moment who he produced the highwayman Willie Nelson Johnny Cash Elvis Presley Rita Franklin and He he came out of retirement to bring me to Nashville to start recording so there was this you know Do I do I finish football do I move to Nashville to do music so it was not like your music or like your voice?
Both yeah my writing and he loves that you could write Yeah, I love that I could write but my voice he really loved so you go back and forth you finish college and you go Yeah, but one thing about it. I was shocked and I know this for a fact that you're right the country music is not this It's not where Charlie Daniels had right, you know if they were on way to the right They aren't red white and blue like they used to they're very Hollywood. Yeah, absolutely So there you and you're not when you're writing these great songs Did you get pushback like John Rich has gotten a lot of people don't want to hear his songs now Yeah, and other people will take a bullet for him because they think he's so valuable to the country like I do Absolutely.
I mean hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of hate comments I mean death threats Everything like, you know, you suck. You're horrible I don't ever want to hear this song again But the upside is that most of America on the right side wanted to hear this stuff So, you know, I got both I got both of them coming at me. Yeah, I don't believe boys should be in women's locker rooms No, this is a lot of our talking about you put the music. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so you wrote it another song Yes, and it is It's called Jesus and Trump Jesus in China. Can we hear a little absolutely? Yeah, this is Ivan's to you This is not a recording studio. So you just know yeah, Kyle recorded.
We sound a lot crisper. Yeah Yeah. All right. So this one's a little funny. This one's got some comedic value to it See so voting blue at this point is basically murder They're gonna keep the gates wide open down at the Mexican border while the drugs and the drug lords just wave as they roll on by They're gonna send all our money to some other country somewhere just to save somebody else's poor little polar bear because their weather change a Couple of degrees and that makes sense, right?
An LGBTQ RST sounds a whole lot like Chinese math to me man You're either born a boy or a girl and definitely not a damn cat So hold on to your Bibles your guns and your cash Jesus and Trump coming back Love it. There you go. When can we get how can we download that? So that just came out today today? Yeah today You can get it on Apple music.
I to Spotify Amazon wherever you listen to music You can get it and tick tock flagged it. Why? Yeah, they called it hate speech and it was saying that it was unfair So, yeah, you feel great because not only you'll give up some money and some fame for doing things that you've Did you care about and that's this country? Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely 100% we need it We need people standing up. We need people. I think that people out there need Anybody can be a patriot right and everybody has a voice, you know, Kyle cool hand follow him wherever you can download all the music You you were able to Last name co ula han Kyle great to see you. Congratulations on everything. Absolutely And if you don't mind we're gonna listen to your song of the way out. Come on From the Fox News podcasts network subscribe and listen to the Trey Gowdy podcast former federal prosecutor and four-term U.S Congressman from South Carolina brings you a one-of-a-kind podcast subscribe and listen now by going to Fox News podcasts.com Listen to the show ad-free on Fox News podcast plus on Apple podcast Amazon music with your prime membership or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts
