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"Politics sucks, especially when it sneaks into places where it shouldn't be," Gutfeld told viewers when he introduced Rich as a guest on Thursday's show.

"Decades ago, our reliance on politics got out of hand when the political is now personal and vice versa," he declared. "Now politics rears its ugly face at football games and superhero shows and we're sick of it!"

"Shut up about politics / Ain't nothing but a big pile of dirty tricks / I'm tired of all the fighting and the b***hing fits / So shut up about politics," Rich sings.

"We had the chat about, it would be fun to come up with a song when you guys came to Nashville," Rich said during his appearance, explaining how the song came to be, "and [Gutfeld] said, 'I'll send you some ideas' … and you had some really good lines, and 'Shut up about politics' was in there, and so I pulled that one out and built the song."

Proceeds from "Shut Up About Politics" will benefit Folds of Honor, an organization that offers scholarships to children and spouses of disabled or deceased military service members.

John Rich (born January 7, 1974) is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist. After departing from the band in 1998, he embarked on a solo career on BNA Records in the late 1990s, releasing two singles for the label and recording Underneath the Same Moon, which was not released until 2006. In 2001, he self-released Rescue Me, an album he was inspired to record by a cancer patient named Katie Darnell. By 2003, he joined Big Kenny to form the duo Big & Rich, who released three albums on Warner Bros. Records as well as ten singles, including the Number One "Lost in This Moment". After Big & Rich went on hiatus in 2007, Rich began work on a third solo album, Son of a Preacher Man, which has produced two more chart singles. In 2011, Rich released two extended plays, Rich Rocks and For the Kids, before re-establishing Big & Rich in 2012.

John Rich was born in Amarillo, Texas; the son of Jim, a Baptist preacher, and Judy Overton Rich. John graduated from Dickson County Senior High in Dickson, Tennessee and after graduation moved to Nashville where he worked as a singer at Opryland USA. He wanted to be a professional team roper. Not long after, he met up with the group Texasee, which eventually changed its name to Lonestar. While in Lonestar, Rich was the bass guitarist and, on some occasions, the lead singer (one of the band's singles, "Heartbroke Every Day," featured his lead vocals). Rich also co-wrote two of the band's singles: "Come Cryin' to Me" and "Say When", the former being a number-one single for the group. In January 1998, Rich departed from Lonestar. Afterward, Rich became a solo artist with BNA Records, the same label to which Lonestar was signed. He charted two singles for the label and recorded an album which did not see release until 2006. In 2001, he recorded and self-released Rescue Me, an album he was inspired to record after meeting cancer patient Katie Darnell.