Our troops, our national security, our allies, the laws of war, human rights, civil rights, equal rights, free speech, a free press, democracy.

None of that is a priority frame.

And it ain't never going to change because he's on a mission to be the flag bearer for the culture war in America and from America to the world.

It's like nothing we've ever seen and nothing like anything we should accept because we are all less safe because of it and our enemies are celebrating. Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to episode 475. I am your host, Paul Reikoff. It is Wednesday, March 25th. Opening day for baseball is here. And I am coming to you from New York City, USA. Of course, the home of the mighty New York Yankees.

And the weather here today is still gloomy, high in the 40s.

But it is opening day today and tomorrow, technically, and it's going up to 70 degrees.

And since its opening day, today's artist is, of course, John Fogarty, because he, of course, did Centerfield, maybe the best

baseball song of all time. And it comes off his album, Centerfield, which was the third studio

album by Fogarty, his third solo album. It was released in January of 1985, an album that also had

the old man down the road and rock and roll girls.

And the song, of course, mentions lots of baseball references,

including center fielder's like Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb.

Fogrety, of course, also founded Creedence, Clearwater Revival.

Hard to say, but important to remember one of the greatest bands of all time with Doug Clifford,

Stu Cook, and of course his brother, Tom Foward.

If you don't know, Fogarty was actually drafted for Vietnam in 1966.

The same day he got the draft, he went into the recruiter office for the U.S. Army Reserve,

who signed him up immediately for training as a supply clerk. He did some time in the U.S. Army Reserve, who signed him up immediately for training as a supply

Kirk. He did some time in the reserves, and after being faced with four to five years

of more duty, he tried to sabotage his fitness by not eating, smoking some weed, and planting

a syringe in his belongings.

But he was granted an honorable discharge and got out in 1968 and went on to write Fortunate Son, a song about war, maybe the most classic Vietnam anti-war anthem.

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