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Ben
My favorite punk band, the Drop Kick Murphy's been making headlines across the country as they are touring and they are not afraid to call out MAGA when they see that occasional maga hat that's still in their crowd. Look, the Dropkick Murphy's has been making music for working class fans now for about three decades. And I think they're seeing firsthand though what Donald Trump and what MAGA has been doing to some of these people. I want to share with you this video that we exclusively broke at the Midas Touch Network. This happened on stage in the past day or so in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphy's concert. Watch this Chinese fucking red that they.
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Ken Casey
All wear and I think it's dying in their brains. You got the black on black Elon Musk True Nazi edition. And then my man here, he's getting ready for summer with a nice light white one. All right, no, bro, listen, I admire your dedication, but I will ask everyone. If you're in a room full of people and you want to know who's in a culture, how do you know who's in a cult that been holding up a hat the whole night to represent a president.
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Ben
This is America.
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Ken Casey
There's no kings here. Anyway, anyway. Do you mind, sir? We're going to. We're going to play a song about our grandparents and people who, like, fought Nazis in the war and, you know. So if you could just shut the up for five minutes.
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Ben
Let me show you another incredible moment from another show recently where the lead singer, Ken Casey, just showed the crowd and an audience member who was wearing a MAGA cap the difference between made in America versus made in foreign countries. Here, watch this.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Where the.
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Ken Casey
Are all the other punk bands the reason we speak out? We don't care if we lose fans, because when history said and done, we want it known that Dropkick Murphy stood with the people. We stood with the workers. Okay? And.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
And.
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Ken Casey
And it's all a scam, guys. Okay, I want to propose in the. In the name of decency and fairness, sir, I'd like to propose a friendly. A friendly wager. You can't lose this wager. Would you, in the name of dialogue and discourse and I appreciate being here, would you agree to a friendly wager?
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Ben
He says, sure.
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Ken Casey
That's a good sport. Well, first of all, do you. I do you support American workers? Of course you do. Of course you do. Okay, so you support American businesses, Obviously. Okay, so I don't know if you guys are aware because we don't go around bragging about it, but Dropkick Murphy's always sells proudly Made in America merchandise only. And. And here's the bed I'd like to make. If you lose the bet, we switch. We switch shirts.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Okay?
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Ken Casey
If you win the bet, I give you a hundred dollars in the shirts. Right? That's why I said you can't lose. Right. All right, Matt, can we get a little drum roll, please? This is high drama here, American mate. Sir, could you both turn backwards? Don't worry, no one's gonna. He just needs to check your tags on your shirt and your hat. Just need to see where they're made. No, no, no, no. The MAGA shirt. The MAGA shirt. Let's see where that's made. It's made in Nicaragua, so he is a good sport. He's taking the shirt off. We're taking crime off the street. God. Bl. Hot. That's a good sport. You get one. Proudly Made in America Drop Kick Murphy shirt.
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Ben
A proudly made in America Drop Kick Murphy's shirt. Let's bring in the lead singer of Dropkick Murphy's Ken. Casey. Ken, how you doing? Tell us about. Tell us about your tour. We're big fans of Drop Kick Murphy's here at the Midas. Tell us about the tour, what you're seeing with your audience and your ability just to call out MAGA for what it is.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Yeah. So, you know, obviously being around as long as we have, and since our very first album, you know, when we started in 96, we've always kind of been this, you know, pro, working class, pro union band. And a lot of our politics have been about our experiences in the workforce before we started the band and, you know, family history and unions and union politics and union organizing. So it's always been there and dear to our heart. And our fan base was lockstep with us, you know, and we have. We had a lot of military support, first responders, you know, rank and file, union people. And once that guy came down the escalator, man, and started telling everyone the lie, you know, all of a sudden, you know, a big portion of our fan base is like, what's with this politics all of a sudden? I said, all of a sudden we. One thing I can say is we have not changed our message from the beginning, beginning in 1996 till now. Unfortunately, a lot of people, you know, that. That are in all those categories I mentioned have been, you know, tricked to think that a grifter billionaire who wouldn't know how to, you know, sit in a room full of regular people, you know, is. Is looking out for their best interest. So, you know, my. My goal is not to come out on stage and berate our fans. Those. Those two instances you just showed were. But the first one in, the second one that you showed in Florida, when I did the wager with the guy, he was actually a very good sport, you know, and, you know, he lost the bet, and he took off his shirt and it was good. And after the show and I was talking to fans down front, he was there, and I said, hey, thanks for being a good sport. And he said, I've been coming to see you for 20 years, and I don't let politics. And I consider you family, and I don't let politics come between family. And I was like, man, that gave me a lot of hope, you know, that. That we can come back together. Because ultimately, you know, if it's just that by. By an uprising or whatever it is, we, you know, gain, you know, power backwards, a general strike, whatever it might be, you know, we're still going to be a divided country, you know, so I'd Love to have the hope that someday we, you know, politics might be boring again and we can all be friends again. You know, the other guy, the first clip you showed with the hat, he was coming in more of a, you know, he had held the hat up all night putting it in people's faces and, you know, he was looking for the attention. So, like, I, I'm not really looking to, you know, stop. I'm looking to play music and I oftentimes will comment before a song, you know, something about our beliefs. But I'm really not looking to stop the show and, and turn it into a political rally. But, you know, I do have to call out the hypocrisy when I see it, especially if it's being put in my face at a show, you know.
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Ben
Yeah, look, in this particular moment, too, we're seeing with Project 2025 and Trump's other agenda, how, you know, these billionaires are gutting our government. We're seeing veterans being fired at Elon Musk calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme while destroying government agencies and then kind of just mocking working class people. I think Elon Musk says that. And Trump has said before, I think that they don't even believe in the concepts of unions or. Trump's laughed when Elon Musk, you know, fired striking workers and Trump found that hilarious. And so, look, this is a major topic of conversation right now. Are you seeing, though, at your shows a different reaction now than maybe you saw even a year ago or two years ago? Right now, specifically with all of the things that Doge and Musk are doing?
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Yeah, well, people will say to us, like, yeah, we know this is your politics, but why you, like, you know, they want to. The right that follows us wants to be able to just kind of know our politics but not have to be faced with it, you know. And why, well, why all of a sudden so much? I said, well, we always have. If it's more now, it's because we're in a crisis and if we don't speak up now, we're going to lose the opportunity to speak up. And, and all the things you mentioned, especially, you know, like organized labor. And I get it, I get the anger and people feel like the Democrats have let them down as well. But if you want to look at the voting records and you want to look at, like you said, the two guys in charge, whoever you want to call the president, I'm not sure which one really is, they literally laugh at people. How you can vote with that. I don't know, and I do see a change because I think that especially like in the online world that, you know, the bullies will always bully, but like, MAGA had dominated that. They almost had scared people into submission. And people would, even a lot of other bands, it just kept their head down because they didn't want it to affect their business. They didn't want it to, you know, put the bullseye on them. But listen, they're coming for everybody eventually, right? So you better speak up now and don't be afraid. And if you be silenced because you think it's going to be better for your business, it's like in the long run, there's only a few ultra, ultra wealthy people that this is going to benefit. Everyone else is going to suffer. And someday you'll also carry the shame if you're a band or whoever that you didn't speak up when the time was called for. So that's why we do it now. And, you know, we've just. It's what we've always been about, you know, And I think that, you know, working class people on the left in particular need to, you know, stand up because there's this whole, like, mentality that Maggot has painted that like, you know, you're either MAGA or you're, you know, drinking soy lattes, you know, whatever, you know, and there's a. There's a lot of people that are just like, we're just regular people, but we don't want a dictator. We don't want to see people rip people's benefits ripped away, especially veterans and people who work their whole life to pay into Social Security. I just don't understand, you know, if someone was going to trick Americans into what has happened, I would, I would have like, thought it might have been like a Brad Pitt or someone a little bit cooler or whatever. Like the fact that Elon Musk, the guy looks like he's. He's literally seems like a villain from a movie meet mixed with the guy that's like mid nervous breakdown. And Donald Trump's just a clown. I just can't believe how they've been. The two that have that are swaying people's views. It's crazy. And I'm 100% convinced that Donald Trump is a Russian asset, you know, and because his behav and the things he's done. And one other thing Dropkick Murphy's has always been about is like a lot of songs about standing with your friends and family and the things you believe in, whether it's politics or just how you were raised. And Donald Trump is the exact opposite of everything we sing about. You know, he's turned on his friends. He's turned on his. He's turned on America's friends and our allies, and he's a rat and a coward. You know, when you think of it that way, America shouldn't be turning on our allies, you know, so that's. That's how we feel.
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Ben
One of the things that they do, though, to try to ingratiate themselves in the culture, as you say. Like, how do people buy into what they're saying, though, is they take a lot of cultural moments and songs and music, and they pretend that they're endorsements of them. You've seen this recently as well, where someone like Don Jr. As of what last week, was posting your music. He was posting your song returning to Boston. And then you responded as follows to him, this was the dm. This is a cease and desist letter if I've ever seen one right here. He posts your music and you go, take down our music, you nepo dictator crackhead. And he was posting, I'm shipping up to Boston. He was playing the music. So tell us about your version of a cease and desist letter and what went through your mind when you heard him playing your music.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of stupidity. It is not, you know, it's like, you know, these people just don't read the room, you know, And, I mean, Don Jr. Don't even get me started, you know, they're definitely not welcome to play music. They have a very limited amount of musicians that want them, will allow them to play their music, you know, and, yeah, I just don't want. Nobody wants, you know, their work associated with this regime, you know, and it's, it's sickening. But it also shows how, like, little they're reading the room, you know?
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Ben
Absolutely. I want to tell everybody about your live show this evening. You can go find the live show right there. It's at veeps events/dropkickmurphys. Veeps dot event. Dropkick Murphy's starts 9:00pm Eastern Time, 6:00pm Pacific. So tonight the Midas Touch podcast goes live at 5 Eastern, or rather 5 Pacific, 8 Eastern. And so right after the Midas Touch podcast ends, you can go and tune right into the Dropkick Murphy's concert. We didn't plan it that way, but as soon as our show ends, go and watch it. Anything else you want to say before we go, Ken? Just to your fans and to the American people in general.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Yeah, I just like that the American people, like I said, we started to touch on it, but I got a little sidetracked to say that I now see that I think that people are starting to, you know, take back the airwaves, starting to rise up, you know, the maga, cancel culture and all that. Like, go woke, go broke. That's over, man. You know, and like, we've been around doing what we do before the word woke existed, you know, so, like, whatever that, whatever you're trying to do with the go woke, go broke is, it's not. You know what I mean? It's not working. And where we appreciate all the people that have supported Dropkick Murphy's and our message and our music and, you know. Yeah, cool. If you tune in tonight. It's the final show of our tour, the final show of four shows in Boston. We do a little special thing tonight where we play like all the old school music back from a lot of the songs from the 90s and stuff. And yeah, it's a special night to wrap up on our hometown on St. Patrick's Day. Like to wish everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day. And, you know, thank you guys for all you do do on behalf of democracy. And it's awesome to have your platform reaching so many people.
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Ben
Well, appreciate you. We got Ken Casey from the dropkick Murphy's on St Patrick's Day on the last day of the Dropkick Murphy's tour. Ken, great to see everybody. Check it out. Veeps event slash Dropkick Murphy's. As soon as the Midas Touch podcast ends tonight, go check out the Dropkick Murphy's concert. Thanks, Ken.
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Dropkick Murphy's Fan
Thanks, Ben.
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Ben
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