00:00You know, it's funny, I was like, Donnie, he's like, I don't want to say we created a monster, but by chance it sort of happened, almost, I mean, it'll be a year ago in two days, I was with her on July 13th when my father was shot, and I got the unusual call from my daughter that morning saying, hey, I want to go fishing, which, you know, if you have a teenage daughter, you guys are teenage daughters, you're not often calling dad to go do something.
00:29So when you call dad, she's nodding, she's like, yep, when you call dad, he's going to do it, right, it doesn't matter, so it wasn't even the perfect day, I was like, yep, I'm going to go get bait, we're going to go deal with it, we're going to go fishing, and, you know, we were out probably 13, 14 miles offshore, having a great day, catching fish, and we got the call, and, you know, I picked up my phone, it's like, your dad's been shot, and I'm like, and, well, we don't know anything, I'm like, oh, that's wonderful, you know, there's calls that are good and bad,
00:58that's only a call that has degrees of bad, right, and we didn't know anything, and we're frantically kind of calling, I guess the only thing that, I guess they did right that day was shut down other communications,
01:11and so we, I think we set the sea speed record from offshore into Jupiter where we live, and, you know, finally we're able to get my dad on the phone, and, you know, it was sort of a harrowing thing,
01:23by then we had seen some of the videos of him coming back up with the sort of fight, fight, fight, and I just got on the phone, yeah.
01:35Yeah, I'm not usually at a loss for words, but that was one of those where I was like, I got nothing, but I was like, that's the most badass thing I've ever seen.
01:42I was like, I'm not sure if it's like the tactically the most intelligent thing I've ever seen either, you know, like, you know, yeah, just, just stand up again, what could go wrong?
01:50You know, so I was like, but, you know, it was this sort of somber moment, and finally it was just, again, it got awkward enough, I was like, okay, so we got to ask the most important question, which is, how's the hair?
02:03And, and it gave me the, you know, Don, Don, Don, the hair is fine, it's a little bloody, there was a lot of blood, a lot of blood, Don, but, but the hair is fine, it'll be good, gonna have to wash it.
02:18And, and, you know, it sort of broke the ice, and, you know, I'm not gonna say it got normal again, but it, it, it normalized the situation, and my daughter was with me, and Kai has probably spent more time with my dad one-on-one than, than I have, and I'm a lot older than her, largely because of golf, and she's like his golf buddy, and she plays with him every weekend when she, when he was around, and that was all the time.
02:42And, uh, she called me that next morning, and she's like, you know what, I want to speak at the RNC.
02:49It wasn't, and, to be clear, it's my daughter, so it wasn't exactly, I want to, like, it wasn't a question, it was like, I'm going to.
02:55And I'm just like, ugh, like, I guess I'll bump some governor, like, just, you know.
03:01And you did.
03:02And we, well, I didn't do anything, I, I called my dad, uh, this was like a six o'clock in the morning call, he picks up on the first ring, I'm like, hey, you doing good.
03:11By the way, Kai wants to speak at the RNC, and he just goes, whoa.
03:14Well, listen, when you do this every day, by the way, we've seen guys that do this every day and still blow that, right, when there's 40,000 people and you're, you're in a stadium and there's 10 million, 20 million people watching on television, and you've never given a speech in your life, that is not easy.
03:32It, it's hard for most people, again, who do it, it's like they're used to a small crowd and that's easy, it's a lot of pressure.
03:38And he's just like, that's a big one, that could go wrong really quickly, and we understand, uh, how bad that can go, but he just thought about it for a sake, he goes, you know what, that kid's a winner, uh, she'll do great.
03:50Like, that, that was it, like, congratulations, she'll open for you and, like, we'll bump someone and make it happen, and she's done a pretty good job since then, so, uh, yeah, she's amazing.
04:00So, so then, and, and President Trump deserves so much credit, making sure men are not going to be in female sports, which is the kind of connection, so, she, she's a great golfer, how do you interpret the Democrat Party continually embracing this men and female sports issue, what, what is their reluctance to just moderate on this issue?
04:25You know what, I love it, uh, you know, I, I think it's such a top issue, especially for, like, a lot of the demographics that, you know, men sort of understand it intrinsically, I, I, I think, you know, a lot of soccer moms around America, uh, sort of, you know, their, their entire currency, you know, their, was virtue signaling, right?
04:44And, like, they, they, they latched onto this thing, and I think it was one of the guys from Daily Wire actually gave me credit a couple months ago, they were like, wow, Don Jr. was on this issue in 2017, because before it was really a thing, you'd see it, like, some dude would win a high school girls, like, track championship, and they're getting a scholarship to the finest university for track, and I'm like, yeah, but it's a dude.
05:05And this was Twitter, Twitter 1.0, so let's just say, guys like you and I, and probably everyone else in this room, you know, we were definitely in the minority there, it was 95.5, 90.10, you know, conservative to, you know, raging libtard, and, and even then, though, I, I'd put it up, be like, this is insane, and I'd read the comments, and it was, you know, just people who were just waiting to comment on anything to hate on me, whatever it is, and I feed off the hate, it's great, it's fine.
05:34But I remember reading the comments and being like, wow, this is a losing issue for them, because even the people who hated my guts were like, oh, oh, oh, I hate Don Jr. so much, but he's right.
05:46You know, next comment, oh, I can't believe I agree with Don Jr. on something.
05:51That's how ridiculous it was, like, before it became a thing, and then, you know, the trans mafia, which was, you know, the, the most beyond reproach organization in the history of the world, I've, like, I've never seen
06:02a group of people that probably comprise, like, 0.02% of a society that could, they were infallible, right, they could do no wrong, they were obviously right, and the Democrats fed into every, I mean,
06:14even against, like, you know, gay liberals who were like, wait, wait a second, we fought for decades to be able to get, you know, equality, and they don't want equality,
06:22they want equality plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, this is insane.
06:26So, you know, I think it's asinine, I think it was a great issue for people across the board, for reasonable people who weren't sort of politically entrenched for independence,
06:37and I love that even knowing this now, even years later, even when it's an abject fail, they literally can't help but continue to go all in on the issue.
06:48It's a 90-10 issue, and, you know, if Trump is in the 90, they just got to take a hundred, the, the 100% of the other 10, uh, and back it a thousand percent.
06:58So, uh, you know, I'm glad to see that they're still doing it, uh, because I think it helps us in the long run.
07:03It's bad for the country, but it, but it, but it is a disaster for the country, it's a disaster for our daughters, uh, it, it's an absolute embarrassment.
07:10I mean, again, as a father of, you know, a girl athlete, uh, to say that, like, hey, you're just gonna have to deal with it because that guy's,
07:1780 inches taller than you and stronger.
07:19Have you had to deal with that?
07:21Not yet.
07:21How would you?
07:23Oh, I'd be vocal.
07:24I, I, I, I'd be loud.
07:26What's your advice for parents that have to deal, I mean, I think it's, I think dads need to start rising up and saying,
07:30we're not gonna put up with this stuff.
07:32I mean, what is this?
07:34No, I, well, hey.
07:37Because I know you, I don't think you would put up with this.
07:39No, I, not even, like, and, and this will get me into trouble, but, like, we, you have to call it out.
07:44Yeah, you, you know, enough of the nonsense, like, there, there, there's no political capital in destroying your child's future,
07:51uh, to be woke, to be able to get the applause, you know, like, from, you know, that crowd who hates your guts anyway.
07:59And so, you know, I, I think it's so fundamentally important that we all have to become unafraid to speak up on these kinds of issues.
08:06And when you do, you realize there's actually a lot of us.
08:09It's the vast majority.
08:11But again, for years, we've been put into these corners.
08:13There was a time where if you said these things, you'd be canceled, you'd be thrown off social media, you'd be thrown out of the PTA meeting.
08:20Uh, you know, you, you couldn't do that.
08:22So, we have to stand, uh, strong for this.
08:25I, I've gone through enough of the, you know, the child athlete sports thing.
08:28I have five kids.
08:30I, I'll get in trouble as a dad again for saying this, which is like, you know, there's nothing quite as painful as, like, a three-year-old's, like, triple header in softball.
08:37Like, if you're going to put in years of that kind of time, and then your daughter or your, you know, your kid becomes a great athlete, and you're just like, well, I guess it was a good run.
08:47They're better than the other girls, but there's three dudes that just took their spot.
08:51I guess we're just going to take it.
08:53You know, that's not going to work.
08:54That, that's the way society fails.
08:55So, in closing here, Don, because I, I know that.
