Mike Rowe Tells The Rest of the Story

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Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Joining us now is the legendary Mike Rowe. Mike has a very important announcement to share with us. Mike, welcome back to the program. Charlie, thanks for having me back. And once again, I will try to live up to the legendary status.

It gets harder with every passing day. I'm putting the pressure on you to do that. So, Mike, tell us about your new project here, Something to Stand For. Tell us about it. It's a movie.

It's about two hours long. It consists of nine short stories that I've written over the years in the style of the late great Paul Harvey, who, as you know, had a great radio program in the 70s and 80s called The Rest of the Story. They were mysteries and history combined.

So you'd learn something you didn't know about somebody you do and try and figure out who Paul was talking about over the course of the tale. So I've written a few hundred of those stories from my podcast. And for Independence Day, we cherry picked nine of the most aggressively, unapologetically, and shamelessly patriotic tales we could find. And we stitched them together with a trip to DC, where I visit some of the statues and memorials and monuments that have been built to honor the people that we feature in the movie. So it's not a documentary, and it's not quite Saving Private Ryan.

It's something in between. And we're super proud of it and think it's just what the country needs to see during these extraordinary times. I love it, and it's beautifully shot.

The cinematography is awesome. Let's play the trailer. It's about a minute long. It is Something to Stand For.Movie.

Let's play Cut 19, please. My name's Mike Rowe, and this is Something to Stand For. A film that celebrates a few extraordinary Americans who risked everything to build the nation we call home. Americans who gave us something to fight for, something to be grateful for. And today, all these years later, something to stand for. I thought I'd take a trip to our nation's capital, not too far from where I grew up, to reacquaint myself with the memorials and monuments built to honor the people in this film. In other words, it's a field trip, and I'm glad you're along for the ride, assuming the old truck makes it.

It's going to be fine. It looks terrific. So Mike, tell us more about the project and give us a little teaser of some of the stories you highlight here. So the project happened, honestly, because the headlines a few years ago seem to indicate that our country was struggling, or at least confused, about when to stand and when to kneel and what to feel good about and what to feel grateful for and what to feel guilty about, etc., etc. And one of the stories in the film is called Something to Stand For.

In fact, it's the last story. But all of them really redound to a rumination on gratitude. Because honestly, Charlie, I didn't write this for liberals or conservatives or Democrats or Republicans. I wrote it mostly for people who see themselves as Americans first and foremost. And the challenge was, well, what can all Americans agree is still within our grasp?

What can we do that is still inherently apolitical? And my feeling is gratitude. Gratitude, like work ethic, is a conscious choice. You're not born with it.

It's got nothing to do with the color of your hair or your skin or your eyes or your star sign or your blood type or any of that other stuff. It's a thing we can all choose to be. And I think that we have a much easier time as a species when we're fundamentally grateful. It's not always easy, but it's always in our best interests to try and come together through some shared commonality.

And being Independence Day, I thought that that was the thing that I wanted to lean into. As far as teasing the stories, it's tricky, Charlie, because they're all mysteries. They all have a surprise at the end. But by way of example, I'll tell you, I write about a guy who you know, a pretty famous guy, who was challenged to a duel one morning, pistols at dawn, over a question of honor. And what this guy did was he understood that if you're challenged to a duel, it's up to you to accept or not. He had to accept, but it's also up to you to choose the terms. So he said, okay, if we're going to do this, let's do it, but not pistols at dawn.

Let's do it like men. Let's do it with broadswords in a pit. And so a pit was dug, and hundreds of people showed up to watch these two men enter this pit and hack each other to bits with broadswords. But what happened instead is one of the most extraordinary moments in our history that very few people talk about, that ultimately saved the union. So that's one example of telling a story in an inside out way that will hopefully keep people entertained, and at the same time, make you want to know more about the subject at hand, and hopefully instill a measure of gratitude that wasn't there before the movie started. When you do projects like this, I'm sure you're constantly learning and absorbing. What did you learn about the country or history that you didn't know before you embarked on this project?

That's a great question. I would first say that one of the great virtues that I know you've experienced firsthand going to colleges as you do and doing what you do, is a sense of curiosity. You either have it or you don't. And you can develop it, for sure.

Like gratitude is also a choice, but it's so lacking today, Charlie. And we're so long on certainty, short on humility, and short on curiosity, too. My point is, it's a lot easier to be humble if you're fundamentally curious.

Because to be curious is to say, I don't know, let's go find out. And what I found out in shooting this movie was actually very personal. It's not that I learned a bunch of things I didn't know about the people in it or about our country. I learned some things about myself. I learned that going back to D.C. and spending some time on the National Mall and talking with park rangers who wake up every day to clean the graffiti and the filth off of our statuary.

That's powerful. That's a kind of public service that you don't see much in the press. I also learned that it's funny, most of my career in TV was all about unscripted moments. We didn't have a script on Dirty Jobs.

We never did a second take. Movies are different. They're very, very intentional, and they're super deliberate. And I was filming a scene at the World War II Memorial about halfway through this process. And it was a very specific moment.

I had to hit a very specific X on the ground and look into the lens and say a very specific thing. And as we were preparing, we were preparing for that very intentional act, out of the corner of my eye, I saw an old man in a wheelchair being wheeled in with a few other old men in wheelchairs. His family was there and volunteers. It was an honor flight. And they were all parked in front of that wall of stars.

And they were crying, sitting there. And I said to the director, hey, man, let's go over here for a minute. Bring the camera, which is crazy if you're making a movie.

You don't have any time to waste. And that's not how you make a movie. But we went over and the cameras followed me. And I met a guy named Andy Michael, who told me a story about his service in the Korean War.

And as he sat there, contemplating all the sacrifice that had been paid on his behalf, tears streaming down his 91-year-old face, I learned that he and my dad had fought at the same time in the same battle. Now that, that's just weird, Charlie, and that is utterly unscriptable. And when it happens, when it happens, you have to decide, you know, are you going to put that in your movie or not?

Are you going to let something random replace something you wanted to do on purpose? For me, the answer is you better believe it. So an old man named Andy Michael pops up in this movie. We have that picture, actually. We could throw that picture up on screen. It's amazing.

And we actually see you kneeling down. I think that's the dialogue you're mentioning. That's exactly it.

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I go over and start talking to him the film crew follows me 20 minutes later We're still talking and I learned that that old guy Fought with my dad in Korea same time and Here he was for the first time in his life with his family at the World War two memorial Searching, I think for the same thing Charlie that we're all Searching for on on some level, you know a more meaningful connection with our past a better understanding of our present and just an opportunity to be truly grateful and Reflective and That's the goal of this whole movie and and the fact that we were able to To find it in a totally unscripted moment with that guy Just goes to show that sometimes sometimes the biggest enemy, you know of a good plan is a perfect plan Best to play the cards you get I love it. It is something to stand for dot movie Mike I want to just get a quick thought here as you know I visit colleges and I get asked a lot about my stance on colleges and I still the number one question I receive from parents of high schoolers is but Charlie my child will not be able to find any good job or a paying job and employers will not hire Them if they do not go to college. I know you've addressed this so many times. I think it's important to you know, really Stay on this. What is your best answer to that objection micro?

Those parents are scared and they're scared for good reason nobody wants to screw up their kids and Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all playbook for how to raise your kid and which direction to encourage him or her to explore The biggest enemy that we face in my opinion regarding our educational system is the one-size-fits-all Policy and for 40 years we've been told that the best path for the most people is the path of a four-year degree Unfortunately, it's not only untrue It's the most expensive path and the reason we've got 1.7 trillion in debt on the books right now is because we have Promoted that path at the expense of all the others and now we're forgiving billions of dollars in student debt Which will do absolutely nothing to incentivize the universities to lower their obscene tuition And so we're living in a time when we don't know what to stand for vis-a-vis education And why would we because in 1955 a degree from Harvard the average GPA was 2.5 Today, it's 3.9 and yet There they sit on top of a 52 billion dollar endowment watching Watching as plumbers and steam fitters and pipe fitters and electricians pay off the debt of their graduates it's an affront to common sense and Americans are seeing it so to answer your your question My advice is don't give cookie-cutter advice make sure your kid looks at all the options make sure they understand the consequences of crushing student debt Well, and it's far too often parents will say yeah, you know, no, no two kids are the same But every one of my kids must go to college. It's uh, it's a walking contradiction something to stand for dot movie mike roe excellent work Thank you so much. It's only in for a week starts on uh, the 27th through the 4th of july. Appreciate it charlie Terrific. Thank you. This is really important.

I can go through this later in the hour the need to run up the score in the rules I spent a couple hours not on shabbat yesterday. I had some time traveling back and forth from the whatever podcast It would you would be amazed When you hear that donald trump Could do even better in the rural parts of the country if I said if I asked you in the ruralest part of arizona You have a pi county what percentage of the vote does donald trump get? you'd say Um 60 70 percent. Yeah, it's like 60 percent. Do you know that the the democrat areas?

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What a what a privilege and honor to be here with you. I really appreciate it Yeah, so we are utah second congressional district. Our primary is actually tomorrow and voters in utah have their mail-in ballots in hand right now They've had them for just over two weeks And so anyone within the sound of my voice who has a family member living in utah specifically the second congressional district Please call please text them and encourage them one to vote And two to vote for me for us colby jenkins for utah.com So tell us about your race. What are you standing for? What type of leader will you be in dc?

Uh, and what do you think is the main problem? Are you going to be more in the kind of transactional republican wing of the republican party or more liberty focused about? Uh curtailing the size and scope of the federal government Yeah more of the latter charlie what what you're going to get and what my voters will get for me is what they've gotten for 31 years already And that's service to this nation.

I am a combat veteran green beret. I swore an oath to support defend our constitution More than three decades ago, and no one has relieved me on that oath And I look forward to now continuing that service to defending our constitution Not compromising on it, but actually standing up and defending it like senators mike lee ran paul Thomas massie chip roy and others are doing in congress And i'm looking forward to reinforcing their efforts and not being a republican Who steps away from the republican party like my opponent celeste. Malloy has done time and time again and joined the democrats In voting to pass omnibus out of control spending bills that do nothing more than support the joe biden Chuck schumer policy agenda that's not what my constituents are hiring me to do. They are hiring me to control spending Not to fund everything that the government comes asking for and so that's what i'm looking forward to doing standing up defending the constitution Controlling spending and actually voting like a republican should that's what we're looking forward to doing So so colby, let's take the vote for money for ukraine would you be in favor of more money for the ukrainian war effort or Slowing down the amount of money we spent to ukraine Zero, that's an easy answer zero. I would vote for america first before we have any supplemental spending bills on the floor I would look to america first. What are we doing to close our border? What funding are we are we sending to close our border not funding more processing facilities? Which is what this last omnibus bill did and my opponent supported I'm going to actually fund to close the wall to close the border build the wall Turn off those incentives that are attracting such mass illegal immigration to our country We need to put america first not just in word, but actually indeed and that's where you'll find me Falling on the side of america first before sending another dollar to the black hole the money laundering that's happening in ukraine Well, I I love that. Why do you think that republicans are so Cautious at slowing down the funding of foreign wars and foreign conflicts and thank you for your clear stance on that But why do you think that is? It's business as usual, you know, the establishment wants to protect that business as usual and we are seeing it just in my race We've seen the speaker of the house. We've seen the other three members of congress not senator d But the other three house members circle the wagons around my opponent because she's a pliable vote She's gotten in line and voted as the speakers demanded that she votes every time We want to spend more money for everyone else get in line and i'll vote that that's what my opponent's been doing And that's what too many republicans have been doing and we wonder why we find ourselves marching towards 35 36 trillion dollars in debt It's it's very interesting that the the the the biden administration could not wait to get out of afghanistan And before the dust has even settled that we're already running to a new conflict.

We're already spending hundreds of Billions of dollars into a black hole. That is the ukraine and and don't even pause to understand What did we just come from in afghanistan? What fraud waste and loss of human life happened there?

Now we're already running to get ourselves in another mess. So that's not where you're going to find me You're going to find me there asking questions And asking why and and talk about your military service. I mean you love the country and you've served it A lot of veterans when they go to dc. They have a different approach than what you have They actually want to fund the next war. They want to get us into another conflict You've been endorsed by mike lee ran paul vikramaswamy senator, tubberville the house freedom fund And I think having a veteran's voice to slow down this foreign adventurism is critical Right now. Yeah, you bet who who better than to sit in the chair on the other side of of the dais Looking down at those in uniform or those in in suit and tie and asking why? Why are we sent marching to the sound of guns again? I i've actually so i'm a combat veteran green beret I've served in combat. I've led a team of green berets in afghanistan And in south america doing counter drug and hostage rescue operations I actually worked in washington dc as a green beret liaison to congress I worked in the senate for a while and then the house before being a senior advisor in the pentagon for more than four years So this will not be my first rodeo. I i've seen how the sausage gets made in the pentagon bureaucracy So i'm excited to have the opportunity on behalf of my constituents to ask the questions.

Why? And to say I don't think so or even better to say that sounds great. That's solid policy that aligns with what we as Conservative republicans should support or to say no, that's not okay And so for me, you're not going to get the rubber stamp vote that you're seeing from the establishment from the uni-party And that's why senator lee senator ram paul and others like them who who who've scored a lot of goals They're looking for someone else to reinforce them to to not just send the same old republicans That will fall to the establishment like my my opponent has and be a rubber stamp And just send it on down the line business as usual. That's that's not what you're going to get from me Well, I think that's terrific I think that's a really good point I think that's a really good point I think that's a really good point I think that's a really good point I think that's a really good point It's not what you're going to get from me.

Well, I think that's terrific. Another crisis looming right now is the southern border talk about Your focus on what's happening with the illegal immigration in this country and what you would fight for in dc to help slow down the invasion Well, we all we all agree that we need legal immigration at the end of the day We're all immigrants in some way shape and form so we need legal immigration But what we don't need is what we've had for the last three years And the solution for the border begins with re-electing president trump Leadership matters and then having legislators who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the new trump administration And remove those legislative obstacles that are impairing us from turning back on remain in mexico Ending the catch and release program stop funding new processing facilities that that's what the last omnibus bill funded It didn't fund closing the wall chip roy even called that out saying this bill does nothing to secure our wall Or our border. In fact, there was actually a 500 million dollar earmark That supported the government of jordan and their border and their national security Imagine what we could have done with 500 million dollars going to our border Those would be the kind of questions that I would be asking and actions that I would be pursuing Not being a rubber stamp like my opponent was and that she joined every democrat passing that 1.2 trillion dollar omnibus bill That's not where you're going to find me. So i'm going to be funding resources to close and build our wall actually and then support president trump in the executive action that he will Put back in place that we've already seen be successful earlier Colby, uh, how can people support you and your website here and the the call to action? And do I hear this right that utah has universal mail-in voting you guys no longer have polling places.

Is that right? We we do have polling places. You can actually go and vote in person tomorrow But yeah, we have mail-in ballots and they've been out for almost three weeks now It's definitely a system that needs revisiting to have ballots sitting out germinating In in the general populace for more than two weeks is is just asking for fraud waste and abuse But so we're we're asking for anyone within the sound of my voice who has friends or family or who may already be In the second congressional district of utah our district, please vote for us. The ballots are out now They can vote in person tomorrow They can go to their county website and find where those those locations are But please vote now and our website is colby4utah.com Colby f-o-r-utah.com.

Let us not be fooled. I am running against the establishment Speaker mike johnson had a fundraiser for my opponent not too long ago in washington dc Rolled out all the usual suspects circled the gravy train circled those wagons But we are still fighting and and let it let us not forget. I've actually beaten my opponent twice Head to head here in southern utah. I beat her by 12 at our state convention. I beat her by 14 So the voice in my district has spoken and is continuing to roll now We just need that final push to get us across the finish line tomorrow. We welcome everyone's support We are the grassroots are mobilized phone calls are being made. It's just been exciting and just i've been in combat before With real teams, but boy the teammates and the teams that i've seen now on my campaign side are comparable To those brothers and sisters who I actually fought in combat with i'm looking forward to having others. I love it join our a team As we go to the congressional battlefield tomorrow is the election in utah everyone choose wisely colby. Thanks so much Thank you charlie You might have heard mike lindell and my pillow no longer have the support of their box stores or shopping channels The way they used to they've been part of this cancel culture So they want to pass the savings directly onto you by having a 25 extravaganza when mike started my pillow It was just a one product company with the help of his dedicated employees They now have hundreds of products and some of you may not even know about it to get the word out I want to invite my listeners to check out their 25 extravaganza two-pack multi-use my pillows just 25 My pillow sandals 25 dollars their six-pack tile set 25 dollars brand new four-pack dish towels You guessed it just 25 dollars for the first time ever their premium my pillows with the all-new geeza fabric just 25 dollars Orders over 75 dollars will receive free shipping too this amazing offer won't last long go to my pillow.com And use promo code kirk or call 800-875-0425 today. That is promo code kirk at my pillow.com promo code kirk So tonight we have an amazing event with matt gates Eli crane, which is it's his event paul gosar And andy biggs.

It's an all-star lineup. Let's put let's put 24 up on screen. Eli crane for congress rally in preskitt, arizona matt gates andy biggs paul gosar and eli crane And we're going to be I think I don't know if i'm allowed to share the address because of all the haters That's right. There are some liberals up there, but If you guys, uh want you can follow the qr code there.

I think we're still taking tickets. Eli's running the logistics on this So let's so let me just reiterate the point philadelphia county in pennsylvania voted 81 for joe biden Do you know that there is not a single county in pennsylvania or arizona that voted 81.4 for trump? not a single county and it's the the the the major issue is that joe biden receives major margins out of these areas so it's not just that he wins 81 of the vote It's that there is 600 000 ballots.

He gets out of that. So it's not just the margin. It is the delta that we have to overcome So we start looking at the state of arizona the reddest county in the state of arizona is mohavey county That includes lake havisu Amongst many other wonderful parts of the beautiful part of it beautiful Terrain of arizona bullhead city kingman fort mohavey And many others that is the reddest county in arizona 75 votes for donald trump.

Let's play cut 20 27 up there. That is the reddest county in arizona Now tonight we'll be doing our event in yavapai county, which is reliably conservative It voted 63.9 percent for donald trump and 64 percent for carrie lake almost identical by the way But yavapai county is the most popular county in the state of arizona 64 percent for carrie lake almost identical by the way, but yavapai county is very Red it is bright red There is no reason why yavapai county should not be 67 68 percent in trump's favor We are so focused at times on swing voters in swing districts in suburban areas that we forget That we can actually go to the lower prop areas in the bright red Portions of america and run up the score. In fact, that is the forgotten area And if you look at the voter registration numbers in arizona the places that are getting redder the quickest Are the rural counties Now thankfully rural voters actually show up in very high numbers It's a very responsible culture people that own property.

They take care of their kids. They vote in high numbers. However, not high enough if we want to cancel out the Urban superpower that they have built in downtown phoenix or in downtown pima We need to do events like we're doing in yavapai county and run up the score So take it let's put up another cut this uh cut 28.

This is gila county the home of beautiful Payson, arizona one of my favorite parts of arizona and pine arizona and strawberry arizona really amazing folks up there. It's super gorgeous So donald trump wins 66 percent of the vote you see this doesn't get a lot of examination Because we just consider it to be normal trump wins 63 trump win 64 what difference it makes a huge difference If we were to pour money and resources, which we are doing at turning point action say Why can't we get to 70 percent? Why can't we get to 70 percent? Why can't we get a single county in arizona or pennsylvania? That is as red as philadelphia is blue That should be the goal and that is 81.4 Philadelphia voted for biden at 81.4 Now mind you there's a lot of fraud a lot of nonsense a lot of ballot chasing a lot of stuff that happens there But why can't we have gila county? Get up to 70 Mojave county is close to form to be perfectly honest put 27 up the fact that mohave county goes up to 75 It's good Now if you're looking for a task or a purpose Maybe you should drive up to pine arizona Go into a diner Put on a mega hat a lot of hunters there in the fall And go register low prop voters. You want to talk about fish in the barrel go into Payson arizona Go to presgate arizona go to lake habasu with a mega hat and that will be a lot better territory Easier harvest if you will than scotsdale or glendale which are all very important What i'm getting at is we have been propagandized to believe that swing voters are the only thing that matters in these elections And i'm here to tell you that they matter but not nearly as as much As people would would act as it actually does in the final election result So tonight we have this great event with eli crane in yavapai county Where we need to win by more in the bright red areas. We need to run up the score We should pursue a dual approach not forget the swing voters, but also The rules need to roar Run up the score in the rules Thanks so much for listening everybody email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and god bless God bless for more on many of these stories and news. You can trust go to charliekirk.com