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CTP (S4ENovSpecial4) A Sixth Generation Texan Turns Family History Into Fiction
We sit down with author and lifelong upholsterer Linda Kennedy to trace how a sixth generation Texas upbringing turns into historical romance, western fiction, and big, brave heroines. We talk craft, publishing realities, and the small practical steps that take a bucket-list dream from “someday” to finished books.
• Growing up in Texline and Amarillo and traveling for her husband’s business
• Sixth generation Texan family roots and how real history shows up in fiction
• Building a 54-year upholstery career and the stories embedded in handmade work
• Learning computers later in life and finally writing the first novel
• Writing strong women protagonists without apology
• Fallen Woman, Lone Star Lady, and Mayan Moon and what drives each story
• Self-publishing lessons, keeping your name on the book, and protecting rights
• Where to find the books and how readers can listen on audio
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We sit down with author and lifelong upholsterer Linda Kennedy to trace how a sixth generation Texas upbringing turns into historical romance, western fiction, and big, brave heroines. We talk craft, publishing realities, and the small practical steps that take a bucket-list dream from “someday” to finished books.
• Growing up in Texline and Amarillo and traveling for her husband’s business
• Sixth generation Texan family roots and how real history shows up in fiction
• Building a 54-year upholstery career and the stories embedded in handmade work
• Learning computers later in life and finally writing the first novel
• Writing strong women protagonists without apology
• Fallen Woman, Lone Star Lady, and Mayan Moon and what drives each story
• Self-publishing lessons, keeping your name on the book, and protecting rights
• Where to find the books and how readers can listen on audio
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:25Hello! Joining me today is Linda Kennedy.
00:31She is an author, and we'll get to that in a bit.
00:36But first, where were you born and raised?
00:40Were you now significant places you may have been in between?
00:45That sort of thing.
00:47Okay.
00:49I came from Textline, Texas, which is a little bitty town of about 300.
00:54And moved to Amarillo when I was six, which is a bigger town.
01:01And I've lived here since then.
01:03I haven't gone too far.
01:05I've been to Bangkok, Thailand, and Hong Kong.
01:08Interesting.
01:09Yeah.
01:10And that's about as far as I've gone.
01:12Came back.
01:12And what took you over there?
01:18My husband's business.
01:21Okay.
01:22We'll get into that in a little bit then.
01:24Okay.
01:27But besides that, that's as far as I've been and came back, and I'm good.
01:32So, sometimes, you know.
01:36One thing I've seen, again, you're an author, and we'll get to that in a bit, of course.
01:42But one thing I saw in your profile, it said sixth-generation Texan.
01:49Yes, sir.
01:50Well, that's something I've never talked about anyone about.
01:55I guess I started doing the math, and I'm a sixth-generation Michiganian.
02:01I never really thought about it before, right?
02:06So, do you know what motivated your great-great-great, maybe another great-grandparents or whomever,
02:18to motivate to Texas, and where did they motivate from prior to that?
02:26Well, they were German, English, and Irish, so I think starvation.
02:33So, yeah, I think they came over here because they needed to eat.
02:41So, yeah.
02:44Yeah, and one of my great-grandfathers had a great big ranch down in Ashtola, Texas,
02:52which is by the 4-6s, until he got cut on a barbed wire fence and died of tetanus,
02:59which is not a good way to die.
03:00Oh, my.
03:02Interesting.
03:03Yeah.
03:04Yeah.
03:04Well, you hear about things like that, but it's not often that you know of anyone that
03:11anything like that actually has happened to.
03:15Yeah.
03:15That was, of course, ages ago.
03:18Today, you wouldn't expect anyone to die of that.
03:23We have the tetanus shots and all that.
03:28Recovery would not be fun either, but it's not a death sentence today.
03:35It's not a death sentence like it was then.
03:37No.
03:39Exactly.
03:40So, that's interesting.
03:42Have you worked that into any of your books?
03:46Yes.
03:47Oh, okay, cool.
03:48All right.
03:49We'll put a pin in that and get back to that later, too, because I wanted to next.
03:56I've never had anyone who's been an upholsterer on before.
04:02Okay.
04:02It's like, okay, well, that'll make for a different show.
04:07What in the world got you into the upholstery business, and how long were you in it and that sort
04:18of thing?
04:19Well, I'm still in it.
04:20I've been in it for 54 years.
04:22So, my mother and father started out with, we had cattle and stuff, but my mother and father had rent
04:30houses.
04:30So, I started taking stuff apart, putting it together, and I was going to an upholstery shop in town and
04:37buying buttons and supplies and stuff, and he saw some of the stuff I was working.
04:41He goes, you come to work for me.
04:42And my husband said, why are you working for him?
04:45You work for us.
04:48So, I opened my own shop.
04:50So, but, yeah, I decided I would retire a couple of years ago, and that didn't work well.
04:55All of my customers are going, no, just one more, one more.
04:58Where I'm going, oh, my God.
05:00What kind of upholstery do you do chairs and that, or do you mainly do rugs or drapes?
05:10No, no, no.
05:11I do chairs and sofas, and a lot of my stuff is, I do hair on hide stuff for.
05:18Is that an original design behind you over your head for those viewing on video?
05:26That rug behind me is over 100 years old.
05:31It was in my great-grandfather's house.
05:33My grandfather gave it to them the Christmas he married my grandmother in 1921.
05:40Of course, that won't mean much to anyone listening on audio, and especially will be meaningless to anyone reading in
05:49a transcript, but it's interesting for those who are catching on video.
05:55It's a Navajo rug from 1921.
05:58So, yeah, all the stuff behind me is Indian art, and which everything in my house is, yes.
06:05So, Westerns are really easy for me to write.
06:10So, that's the natural segue, then, I guess, to the writing.
06:15You decided that now, as part of winding, well, I don't, I want to be careful how I say this,
06:26winding down in life.
06:28I don't want to make it sound like you got one foot in the grave.
06:31Well, I hope not.
06:34But I think you know what I mean.
06:36As a later-in-life kind of project, what moved you to writing now?
06:44This has kind of always been my bucket list.
06:47Since 2001, one of my customers said, you know, we were talking about burying the czar.
06:53And she goes, every time I talk to you, you know what, all the history stuff.
06:57She goes, why don't you put this down?
06:58I go, I don't know how to work a weird computer.
07:01She goes, you've got to be kidding me.
07:03She goes, you've owned your own business for 25 years.
07:05You've got two daughters that run businesses.
07:07I go, I've got two towers in my spare room.
07:10And she goes, hook one of them up and learn how to use a computer.
07:14And so I did.
07:15And then I had a book.
07:16So, and I am a history nut every time I read.
07:21And I've got a book this thick on the royal families and all that kind of stuff.
07:26So, my first-
07:27The royal families of what nation?
07:30England.
07:31Okay.
07:31Yeah.
07:32So, the first one I wrote was a historical romance of 1630 England.
07:39So-
07:39Yeah, I was going to get into that, into the whole file.
07:43I see.
07:43I was going to, I'm going to make a joke.
07:47Ah, let me see if I can find it.
07:49I published my debut novel, Fallen Women, in 2016.
07:54And I'm now sharing my second novel, A Dream Made Possible Through.
07:58Oh, where'd it go?
08:00Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
08:02Oh, there it is.
08:04People inspired me to write hysterical romance novels.
08:09I mean-
08:10Oh, God.
08:11Historical.
08:13Joke.
08:13Joke.
08:14Joke, right?
08:16Hysterical romance novels.
08:16But we may be hysterical, I don't know.
08:21Is there indeed any comedy mixed in the historical nature of the book?
08:27It depends on how you read them, so.
08:30Exactly.
08:31Depending on your own sense of humor or not.
08:34There's a little humor in there, so.
08:36Yeah, because I, I, my first international novel is Terror Strikes Coming Soon to a City Near You.
08:45And there, even though it's about terrorism, it's really about life and living, not death and destruction.
08:52But we're not here to talk about me.
08:54But there's a comic relief chapter in there because, indeed, things are so darn serious these days.
09:04You've got to laugh a little or you're going to go nuts.
09:06Exactly.
09:07Oh, yeah.
09:08Cypress Hill.
09:09I don't know if you're familiar with ever hearing of that group.
09:12They do a song, Insane in the Membrane.
09:15Yeah, if we don't have a sense of humor, we'll go insane.
09:19But, yeah, my terrorism book is historical fiction, or as I call it, faction.
09:27You could borrow that term if you like, right?
09:30Part fact, part fiction, rather than calling it historical fiction.
09:36And, of course, you can borrow the joke.
09:38It's hysterical fiction going forward, too.
09:45Just remember where you heard it first.
09:48Okay, all right.
09:49Just as long as I get proper accreditation.
09:53Exactly.
09:54I love people quoting me or using, you know, my stuff.
09:58Just remember where you found it.
10:04So that first novel was inspired by friends is what you're saying.
10:12Saying, you know all this stuff.
10:14Why don't you put it in a book?
10:16Why don't you make a book out of it?
10:17And I'm going, well, okay, let's see what I can do.
10:20And I did.
10:21And then I got it published.
10:23And then I grew up on ranches, working cattle, riding horses, doing all this kind of stuff.
10:30And my mother's going, you've got all these family stories.
10:33Why don't you do a book about them?
10:35I'm going, well, okay, I could probably do that.
10:38So, I mean, I grew up riding a cutting horse and doing all this stuff.
10:43And so then I got a fictional woman, tied her together with all the family stories.
10:48And there's a whole lot of family stories in there.
10:51And I'm going, okay.
10:53That's what I say all the time, including in my how to write a book and get it published.
10:59Oh, I needed that.
11:03That's why I wrote it.
11:05A lot of people need that to start.
11:07Because they've got stories in them.
11:10They just don't know where to start or where to finish.
11:13But indeed, write about what you know.
11:17Now, you don't want to have the memoir of Linda Kennedy.
11:21Because people would say, who the hell is Linda Kennedy?
11:27And why should I give a bleep?
11:30Right?
11:30So, you write a fictionalized version of the interesting aspects of your life.
11:38And it can be very interesting and important.
11:42Telling of tales.
11:44Sharing of values and principles.
11:47So, you've discovered that.
11:50And that's what you're doing.
11:51Yes?
11:52And you write about a lady that when she gets, when people are hunting her,
11:58she changes into a lady that has no problem killing her,
12:03the bounty hunters that are after her.
12:05And she can kill with no problem at all.
12:10Oh, great.
12:11So, this is one of those fifth wave feminism empowerment.
12:15Oh, yeah.
12:16Yeah.
12:18I knew I'd get a laugh out of you from that.
12:21Yeah.
12:22No, this is not woke garbage.
12:26Right?
12:27Am I right?
12:28My ladies are very strong.
12:31And they take care of themselves.
12:34They're strong women.
12:35But they're still, they know what it means to be a woman still.
12:40Yes.
12:41But, you know, in today's, there are a lot of women that don't know how to take care of themselves.
12:48And they put up with a lot of crap.
12:50So, maybe they need to read about a woman who doesn't.
12:56So, yeah.
12:58And one of my, in fact, being a man, I took a crack at a female lead in my, the
13:09book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem about a strong young lady too.
13:14Because, indeed, we need books about strong young women, but not fifth wave feminist wokest idiots.
13:27I take it you, you are in an agreement with me on that.
13:32Yes.
13:33Yes.
13:34We don't need them to go, oh.
13:36So.
13:37Yeah.
13:38Wilting violets.
13:40But, yeah.
13:40Yeah.
13:41Strong one minute, but crying, wilting in the corner the next.
13:45No.
13:46No.
13:46We just need them to know how to take care of things.
13:51Or at least I think they need to do.
13:53Yeah.
13:54What is the title of that first book?
13:57The first book is called, let me find it.
14:01For the benefit of the transcript, she's going to hold up the book, Fallen Woman, which I mentioned.
14:11That is the title.
14:12She's showing the book on the behind-the-scenes video, which is why you should be watching the show on
14:18video, not listening on audio.
14:21Just to hear lovely face.
14:23Yeah, well, that's a downside.
14:26Yeah, wanting to look at me is the negative.
14:30But it's good to see the guests.
14:34And you are writing the second book, or you've released or are about to release?
14:41No, I've got three books out.
14:43I'm writing the fourth book.
14:44Oh, okay.
14:45Now, is this a continuing series, or are these?
14:49These are all standalones.
14:52So, and the second book is the Western that I wrote about the family, and it's called Lone Star Lady.
15:01And she's walking down that staircase with a Derringer in her dress.
15:07She's wanting to shoot her sick father to get her sisters back.
15:12Uh-huh.
15:13Those viewing on a full screen are probably able to see the book cover pretty good.
15:19But us recording, I don't quite see that.
15:22Well, I'll go to the website, and they can go to the website in a little bit, and then they
15:27can see pictures of it and little videos of it and of the books.
15:31Great.
15:32We'll get to the website at the end of the interview.
15:38So, book number three, then, is?
15:41Is called Mayan Moon.
15:46Mayan as in the?
15:48As in the Mayan people.
15:50Oh, yes.
15:50Tribes.
15:51Yes.
15:52And I wrote it.
15:54I always liked the Aztec and the Maya, the Inca.
15:57I not got into them yet.
16:00But the Mayan people, this lady was in Texas, and she had, it was right at the end of the
16:06Civil War, and she had a husband that, well, she had a husband that married her.
16:12He was gay, which they didn't call it gay back then, but he married her to protect her from another
16:17man that wanted her real bad.
16:20And when he found out the husband was dead, he beat her half to death to prove his love for
16:25her.
16:26And so she ran just as far as she could.
16:31So she wound up in Mexico.
16:35Who is this trying to steal the show now?
16:38I don't know.
16:39The kitty cat right next to you.
16:42Oh, good lord.
16:44Maddie, get down.
16:47How adorable.
16:48So that's Maddie the cat.
16:50Yeah.
16:50That's Maddie the cat, and I've got another one on top of the chair just looking at me like, what
16:54the hell are you doing?
16:57I love it when the fur babies decide to get in on the air.
17:01The fur babies are going to take over the show.
17:03Yeah.
17:04So that's cute.
17:06Maddie, we've had some black cats, so that's cute.
17:10Does Maddie have gold eyes?
17:13No, does she?
17:15I think she's got green eyes.
17:17Green, yeah.
17:18Black cats, either gold or green are the usual.
17:22Well, yes, that's the last.
17:24We found her on the parking lot.
17:26Oh, so a rescue then.
17:29That's good.
17:30Yeah.
17:31That's good.
17:32Yeah, but Mayan Moon was about, I like the Mayan people and stuff, and this lady ran all the way
17:37to Central America to get away from this man, and he followed her anyway.
17:41So she saved a Mayan chieftain's son, and she's got blonde hair, and they think blonde and redheaded people are
17:47kind of gods, and she kind of winds up turning into one.
17:51Right.
17:51Yeah, that's why the Spaniards, based on their legends, they at first thought they may have been deities rather than
18:03just colonizers.
18:05Yeah.
18:05And it's a little late now, of course, but people have finally learned the Mayan calendar did not end on
18:152012.
18:16You're right.
18:17It's a circular calendar, and it rotates.
18:21One of my favorite movies is 2012, Roland Emmerich.
18:25Oh, mine too.
18:26Yeah, isn't that a great movie?
18:27I love that.
18:28Wonderful.
18:29I'm a former IT guy, so I went through the, you know, the year 2000 stuff, the Y2K hysteria, too,
18:39or the clocks rolling over then, too.
18:42There's all three ends in the world is going to end the next.
18:44Yeah, oh, my God.
18:46Oh, God, yes, I'm a nerd from way back.
18:50So what's the next hysteria, right?
18:54Whose calendar is going to supposedly end the world next now?
18:58But so now the fourth book is out or being worked on?
19:03No, it isn't quite out.
19:04I've got a couple.
19:05It's going to be another historical romance.
19:07Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are in it.
19:11So, yes.
19:13Interesting.
19:14I had to go back a little bit.
19:18So it sounds to me like you're having a lot of fun with these.
19:23I enjoy them immensely.
19:25I work in my shop to pay for my other career.
19:29So I hear you.
19:33Yeah, I'm by no means becoming rich like J.K. Rowling or Stephen King based on my writings either.
19:42And down here it's Cody Thomas.
19:44So she's from Amarillo.
19:46So I'm going.
19:47And I met her sometime back.
19:49Oh, okay.
19:50But, yeah, I mean, it's a passion.
19:53You should do it because you love it.
19:56And stories are always worth sharing.
19:58Again, hey, if you get rich off of one, that's great.
20:03That's wonderful.
20:04That's bonus.
20:05But as I say in how to write a book and get it published, hints, ticks, and techniques, if you're
20:12thinking you're writing with the intention of getting rich, you're in it for the wrong reason.
20:21The one thing I recommend, if you want to self-publish one, put your name on it.
20:28Don't let them put their name on it.
20:31Absolutely.
20:32First rule.
20:33Yeah.
20:33Because you'll never be able to sell it to anybody.
20:36You've got to have your name on it.
20:38And that was something I learned the hard way.
20:41Yeah, a lot of people do.
20:43I go into that in how to write a book and get it published, a degree.
20:51Most of the main publishing firms, why most people avoid them, like the plague now, they want to own your
21:00book.
21:00They own the rights to your book.
21:02There is self-publishing, and most self-publishers, or as I call them, assisted publishers.
21:11Yeah.
21:12Those are the ones you want that help you, assist you to publish.
21:17But indeed, you retain the rights to your books.
21:22They don't take it.
21:23They don't have it.
21:25Yeah.
21:26And you really need a literary agent if you can find one.
21:30Fortunately, they came looking for me.
21:32Thank you, God.
21:34If you could find one and afford one, because they can be expensive, too.
21:40So, yeah.
21:41They came looking for me.
21:42A publicist, a PR agent, all those sorts of things.
21:47You've got to do as much of that yourself as you can.
21:51As you can.
21:52Yep.
21:53So, but fortunately, so far, so good.
21:58So, but I'm, we'll see what happens.
22:03So.
22:05Well, the time has flown by already.
22:08So, indeed, let's move on to that last question.
22:12The website.
22:13Where do people find out more about you and more about your books?
22:19And let me write it down so I can make sure I write it on the scroll.
22:24Where do, what is your website?
22:31LindaKennedyBooks.com.
22:33That's not very imaginative.
22:36No, it's not.
22:38But it's quite simple.
22:40Right.
22:41Right.
22:41It's functional.
22:43It is functional.
22:45It'll take you to the books.
22:46It's got little videos.
22:48It'll take you where to buy them.
22:52And you gave the right response to my teasing you.
22:56You laughed.
22:57Again, this is jokes, people.
23:00This is needing to keep a sense of humor.
23:05Life is too short.
23:07Yep.
23:08Yep.
23:09It's LindaKennedyBooks.com.
23:12And I take it they're all available on Amazon because most books are sold through Amazon.
23:19Yes?
23:19Yes, sir.
23:20They are.
23:21Are they available in Kindle as well as print?
23:25And do you have them in audio form also?
23:29Yes, sir.
23:30That's good.
23:31That's good.
23:32Yeah.
23:33I'm I've still got a few of mine in my collection that I need to convert to audio version.
23:39But thank God with Amazon now, the Amazon Audible system, the virtual voice, AI, it's easier to do that.
23:52You don't have to go out and hire actors to do it.
23:56So you could do it a lot more affordable because most books used to not come out on audio because
24:04it would cost too much to make the audio book.
24:08You would never make that money back.
24:10Well, my sister says they sound real good because she travels a lot and she puts it on audio and
24:15just listens to them.
24:16So I guess they're good.
24:20It is very functional.
24:22There was a while when I I'm on disability now.
24:26That's why I write.
24:27What can I do from my I'll joke out my ugly couch.
24:33See all the junk.
24:34I'm not.
24:35I'm not a hoarder.
24:36I'm not.
24:37But I am a slob.
24:39You could see all that stuff.
24:40Well, my desk looks just like that.
24:42Yeah, under the green screen there.
24:45I'm going, if it's not dysfunctional, I don't I'm not working.
24:48So that's right.
24:50That's right.
24:51So but what can I do from my ugly couch?
24:54Well, I could do a show.
24:55I'm doing that.
24:56I can write books.
24:58I'm doing that.
24:59I can write and record music again.
25:02So I'm doing that again.
25:04In fact, since we joked about sixth generation Texan, I will tack on one of my songs called States of
25:13Confusion, only because it's the only song I have that remotely relates to the discussion we're having because there's poking
25:23a little fun at Texas as well as my own state and the state of California and all that in
25:31there.
25:31Oh, I like old country.
25:34Oh, yeah.
25:35I've got a bunch of folk songs and country songs as well as gospel.
25:42And I've even got an instrumental.
25:45I have a couple pop, rock and thrash metal.
25:50I like to dabble in a little bit of everything.
25:54So we know one of the cats is Maddie.
25:59Hey, make sure you give Maddie a hug for us.
26:02What's the other cat's name?
26:05Gracie.
26:06Gracie.
26:07OK.
26:08After Grace Kelly.
26:11What did we name her after?
26:14By the grace of God, she survived.
26:16By the grace of God, she survived.
26:17Because my daughter brought her to me and she was three days old and we didn't know if we were
26:22going to get her to survive or not because we were feeding her with a syringe.
26:28Oh, so she was a preemie then.
26:31Oh, she was.
26:32Her mother abandoned her out in a field where we had a colt.
26:36Oh, boy.
26:38Right.
26:39Oh, it was meant to be.
26:42So, yes.
26:43Give Maddie and Gracie a hug for us all.
26:47Thank you, Linda Kennedy, for coming on today.
26:51And again, that's lindakennedybooks.com.
26:55Take care.
26:56God bless.
26:58You too.
27:02Welcome to the States of Confusion.
27:07U.S. of A United we sit where once we used to stand, are playing different tunes, no longer the
27:20same band.
27:23Oh!
27:29Woke up in Massachusetts, land of the free and the tax.
27:32Harvard elites sipping lattes, telling us how we should act.
27:36From Boston to Cambridge, it's all mass hysteria.
27:39Protests in the streets while they're counting their hysteria.
27:42Yelling about tolerance.
27:44But cancel you quick if you disagree.
27:47Welcome to the people's republic of doers.
27:50I say, not as we, we're living in the states of confusion.
27:56Coast to coast it's the same.
27:59Red states, blue states, everybody playing the blame game.
28:06From sea to shine, see it's one big comedy.
28:09States of confusion.
28:13Lord, have mercy on me.
28:17Drive through Missouri, show me state-turned state of misery.
28:21Gateway Arch standing tall over meth labs and barbecue misery.
28:25Kansas City steaks.
28:27But the heartland's feeling the squeeze.
28:30Fly over country getting forgotten.
28:33While the coats do as they please.
28:36Show me the money, show me the job, show me where the hope went.
28:39Cause right now, Missouri's just one long state.
28:44A misery lament.
28:48Then there's California.
28:49Sorry, I mean, California dream.
28:51Where the stars all glitter and the taxes make you scream.
28:54Silicon Valley billionaires preaching save the planet from their jets.
28:58While homeless tents line the sidewalks and the middle class just forget.
29:01Legal weed in the morning.
29:04Illegal everything by night.
29:06California, where the sun shines bright.
29:11But the future ain't right.
29:15Now back to my own backyard, the great Michigan.
29:19Once mowed a city muscle, now rust and regret on the brain.
29:22Detroit went bankrupt, but the taxes still keep on rising.
29:25Politicians promise jobs while the factories keep on closing.
29:29Great lakes to blisten.
29:30But the economy's in the tank.
29:34Yeah, we're trying real hard, but we just keep falling back.
29:40And don't get me started on Illinois.
29:42The state of Illinois.
29:43Chicago corruption running deep like that deep dish void.
29:47Politicians grinning while the taxes keep on rising high.
29:50Windy city blowing smoke making honest folks want to cry.
29:53Springfield to the suburbs, everybody's getting fleeced.
29:58Ill, ill, ill, ill, Illinois it is hell.
30:01Yeah, this state's a straight up beast.
30:04Now we hit Texas, Lone Star, state of Texas pride.
30:07Oil barons riding high while the grid fries nationwide.
30:11Austin weirdos dancing with cowboys in the heat.
30:14Border talking ballads can't keep the chaos off repeat.
30:17Big trucks, bigger hats and politics that bite Texas.
30:20Yee-haw freedom, but the power's out tonight.
30:25We're living in the states of confusion.
30:28From mass hysteria to California, sure.
30:31State of misery in the middle, Michigan and in Illinois forevermore.
30:38Red, blue, purple, we're all confused as can be.
30:43States of confusion, but it's still the land.
30:49Of the free, Lord have mercy.
30:54States of confusion, yeah, that's now status of the people we.
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