The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Creative Vets, WWII Hero Irving Locker, and Country Music’s Future
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.3 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On this episode of The Tudor Dixon Podcast, Tudor sits down with Johnny and Heidi Bulford of Creative Vets, a nonprofit that uses songwriting and music as a powerful tool to help veterans heal from trauma and reclaim their stories. They share the emotional journey behind their work, including the unforgettable story of World War II veteran Irving Locker, whose life inspired a song that continues to educate younger generations about sacrifice, service, and American history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | If freedom was free, where would it be? |
| 0:12.0 | A loud in a battle. |
| 0:14.7 | What you're listening to right now is a song that we talked about just a few podcasts ago. |
| 0:21.3 | If Freedom was Free. |
| 0:22.6 | And you guys probably remember the World War II hero that we spoke to about this song, Irving Locker. |
| 0:28.7 | He is the inspiration behind us. |
| 0:30.9 | He told his story to a singer-songwriter couple. |
| 0:35.5 | Their names are Johnny and Heidi Bulford. |
| 0:38.5 | They took his story and they worked with him to create the song. |
| 0:42.8 | They went out there and they released the song. |
| 0:44.9 | It's a huge hit and we have them here to talk about it. |
| 0:47.6 | You might remember they kind of peeked in on that podcast with Irving. |
| 0:52.2 | Johnny and Heidi, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:55.3 | Hi. |
| 0:56.3 | So glad to be here. |
| 0:57.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:58.4 | Well, I'm so glad you are here, but I'm so glad that you have been able to do this kind of |
| 1:02.9 | work, such a unique position to be in. |
| 1:05.6 | We hear about a lot of nonprofits, a lot of nonprofits that work with veterans. And you have this amazing ability to work |
| 1:14.2 | with veterans and music. And I think that's so unique because we hear so often that we work |
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