WEBVTT - Superman, Service and America 250 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.240 I'm Jason chaff it's filling in for Sean. Honored to 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.360 do so, truly appreciate it. We're gonna be taking calls 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:08.880 here at the bottom of the hour. You need to 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.239 get in that line because I'd love to hear from 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.720 you and talk about talk about what's going on in America. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.480 Eight hundred nine one Sean the numbers eight hundred nine 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.720 one seven three two six eight hundred nine four one Sean. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.360 This get in line. We've got a lot to talk 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.360 about and look forward to taking your calls. But until then, 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.159 we're gonna kick things off this hour by talking with 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.880 somebody I'm excited to talk with. I've never met the man, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.800 but I'm excited to have a conversation with him because 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.559 on July fourth, we're all going to be treated to 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.920 his talents. It's John on Drastic and he is. He 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.760 has a band it's called Five for Fighting, and I 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.600 want him to explain what he's going to be doing. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.000 But maybe the way to kick off our conversation with 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.680 John is to listen a little bit out some of 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.960 the things he's going to be doing. Let's have a listen. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.160 This is far alone. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.000 All the hostages and their families. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.720 May they be home soon. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:26.720 I can't stand fly. I'm not that niggy. I'm just 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.920 stun to find. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.240 The better part of me. How more than a pair, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:42.080 more than a play, more than some pretty face facade 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.560 a track, And it's not easy to. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.800 Me be me? 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.080 Wish there are cried. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.000 Fall upon man needs. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.600 Fan with fly. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:05.760 To a home? 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.720 Will soon see you miss out of sir, don't be 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:17.519 in a even he who ros heir the protty plead 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:24.720 and maybe this won't you even see even heroes hair 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:31.600 of the pott of dream And it's naughties to be me. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.960 That's Uh, that's the band UH five for fighting And 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.200 we're thrilled to have John on rassic of that band 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.240 joining us on Sean Hannity Show. John, thanks so much 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:47.919 for joining us. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.480 Jason, great to talk to you. I'm a fan of yours. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.680 Oh well, hey, thank you. We're off to a good start. John, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.200 So thank you, very kind of you, very kind of you. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.600 Look beautiful song. This is a skill set and talent 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.960 I wish I had, but I don't. My job in 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.280 music is to listen. All of my family has told 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.240 me that that is my role. But that was a 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.840 preview of I think what we're going to hear the song, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.280 right Superman they're talking about there is Superman. Tell us 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.320 about what you're doing on July fourth, and because you're 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.640 an incredible performer and you know, Grammy nominated and just 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:30.760 I'm thrilled to talk to you. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.680 Well, thank you. It's it's a true honor. We will 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:42.120 be actually on the limits in New York Harbor. I 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:47.440 will be surrounded by sailors and first responders, NYPD, New 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:53.400 York Firefighters, gold Star families, wounded warriors, the heroes of 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.880 nine to eleven. Actually, there'll be a few firefighters that 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.600 were on the stage with me at the concert for 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.640 New York almost twenty five years ago will be joining us. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.960 And we will be playing that song Superman, and the 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.440 song that recognized the heroes of nine to eleven. And 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:16.719 I'm honored that Alona Well, the hostage from Gaza, will 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.920 be playing piano for me. And if you had told me, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.480 Jason a year and a half ago, that I'd be 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.680 on the Mimics with the Lone playing piano, singing Superman 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.359 for our great wonderful nation, I would have said, you're crazy. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.839 But you know what miracles happen in America has a 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.680 history of making miracles, that is, And what. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:40.120 An honor, what a privilege. And I take it you're 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.200 going to be playing more than just the one song. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.920 Will we hear Superman? Or you can also play some 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.240 other songs as well. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.240 Yeah, it's part of the main kind of navy package 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.240 for that day. It's part of Fleet Fleet New York City. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.600 How they have this incredible like five day pageantry of 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.000 fifty ships, but this will be kind of the main one. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.760 They'll be back bouncing back and forth from the curse 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.039 Arge to the nimits. The Vice President will be giving 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.560 remarks on the curse Arge, and they'll be kind of 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.760 festivities along the way, you know, of course air and 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.800 naval and just pageantry. And we're going to play Superman 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.720 with the loan standing with our heroes and our sailors 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.240 and our and our military families. And then there'll be 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.960 some other performances and speeches, and then I will close 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.159 out this piece of the program with God Bless America 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.119 probably singing with two thousand sailors, which will be pretty epic. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.719 Well, thanks, I mean, we're honored to have a preview 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.440 of what's going to happen. There in New York Harbor 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.880 on July fourth, two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.160 of this great country of ours. Truly amazing. Now you 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.560 have quite the reputation of writing about like important things, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.680 key events things. You know, it's got a very humanistic 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.000 approach to it. Where talk to me about that writing 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.359 process and how you're coming up with the music that 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:06.720 you end up playing. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.120 Well again, you know, you know, I wish, I wish 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.040 I had the secret. I truly believe there right in 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.839 every room if I could just hear it. But certainly 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:21.760 you write about things that inspire you, frustrate you. You know. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.159 The last few songs I've written have to do with 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:29.160 world events. You know, Sean was very helpful in rescuing 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.360 folks from Afghanistan that we abandoned. I wrote a song 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.800 called Blood on My Hands when Ukraine, performed a song 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.080 with Mean Orchestra, and more recently wrote a song called 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.719 Okay supporting Israel after October seventh and performing at Hasha Square, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.039 and that's where this new version of Superman came for 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.120 the hostages. So again, I think it's a role of 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.600 musicians to talk about the world and speak about what 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.120 matters to them, And the honor of my career has 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.920 been performing for our troops and writing songs about their 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.800 experience and telling their stories. So I just look at 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.000 my kind of role as to shine the spotlight where 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:08.320 it belongs, whether it's our veterans, our allies, or are 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.720 our soldiers, and it's been an honor to do. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.040 So how do you how do you start that? You 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.559 just do you hear it in your head? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:16.920 Like? 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.720 How do you what? You may be inspired by something 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.840 like oh I should I should say something about that. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.440 In fact, the way that I'm going to communicate is 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.800 through music. I'm going to do that with with lyrics 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.200 and music, and but how do you how does that 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.640 come together? I'm fascinated by this how people have this 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.800 incredible talent of being able to almost do you hear 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.840 it before you actually write it? Or do you do 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:42.480 the lyrics? 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:42.600 Like? 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.880 I don't know, so tell me how you do it? 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.640 Well, there's no secret, thoughts, I think you know, there's 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.840 many strategies. You know, you can start with a lyric. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.080 That's what Elton John used to do. Berning Tappan would 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.760 write a lyric for him, leave it on the piano 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.840 and he'd come down in the morning and write epic, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.880 iconic songs, which I can. Or you can start with 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.480 a melody, or you can start with kind of a 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.160 concept or a feeling. My song one hundred years, you know, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.800 really kind of comes from that cliche of living in 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.880 the moment, appreciating the moment, which some of us have 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.240 a hard time doing. And when you have two little 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.920 kids kind of looking at you and and giving you 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.440 perspective that puts the idea in your head, then you 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.600 have to write it. Two more recent songs examples, The 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.720 song for Afghanistan, Blood in My Hands, was inspired by 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.800 the rage of that we abandoned our allies, and then 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.760 General Millie told us that we had extraordinary success. That 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.960 made me very angry, and that song basically became you know, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.679 I wrote that in twenty minutes. The more recent songs, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.640 for example, the song Okay for Israel, that really evolved 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.560 over months when we saw the collapse of so many 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:57.280 moral institutions. The media are college campuses across the world, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.760 the kind of raging anti Semitism, so that one kind 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.520 of germinated. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:01.439 For a while. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.720 But you know, you never know where they're gonna come from. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.720 But you know, Superman, I wrote in forty five minutes, Jason, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.880 and I've been looking for that forty five minutes ever since. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.480 That's that's amazing that you can crank that out when 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.640 you're really inspired like that, and you can do that now. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.959 The band is five for Fighting, and so I assume 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.559 we can go online and find that right five for Fighting. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.360 Yeah, it's all there five for Fighting dot com. You know, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.360 we have all the information about this fourth third July. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.319 We're on tour right now. I'm sitting in the dressing 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.480 room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We're out with Edwin McCain and 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.840 we're in Dallas last night, so we're wrapping up our 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.520 tour and having a lot of fun and talked a 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.760 lot of veterans military families out here on the road. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.880 And then July second, I'll leave the bus, so I'll 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.920 hop on a plane and come to New York and 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.960 see you guys and hop on board with the Sailors 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.040 and sing a few songs. So it's going to be busy, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.319 but we're gonna spend the night on the Nimitz, which 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.480 is gonna be awesome, and I imagine that bunk might 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.480 be a little more comfortable than my tour bus, but 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:02.560 I'm not sure about that. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.600 Well, having spent time on an aircraft carrier, don't don't 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.240 get your ups hopes up to too high. And let 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.040 me give you some advice. If you're going to sleep 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.240 on an aircraft carrier, figure out how to get to 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.040 the bathroom in the pitch black because they have those 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.240 red lights that But if you wake up like I 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.440 do in the middle of the night and you got 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.040 to take a leak, you better figure out where that 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:32.640 bathroom is in advance, because it's not it's not logical necessarily. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.240 And I learned that the hard way on the USS 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:39.120 Eisenhower out in the in the Arabians golf or whatever 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.720 you're called Persian golf, and I paid the price having 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.520 getting a little bit lost at three o'clock in the 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.800 morning on the aircraft carrier. Just just word otherwise, last 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:57.959 last question for you here, John, what is what does 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.360 America mean to you? You know, it's got such a 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.120 special place in my heart and the freedom and liberty 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.240 and I just I stand in awe of all the 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.360 people that have come before me and made our life 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.439 and our country so great, and I get infuriated by 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.120 those that want to tear it down and turn it 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.640 into something other than the great country that it is. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.319 But what does America mean to you? 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.800 Well, that's a good question. It's a long answer, but 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.640 I would have to say it really means hope. It 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.000 means hope for the world. And I think the best 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.200 way to understand it is imagine a world without America. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.320 Imagine a world right now with what we're seeing in 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.280 the Middle East, what we're seeing in Europe, Imagine a 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.880 world without the United States. Certainly we're not perfect, both 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.720 you and I were not blind patriots. Certainly we make mistakes, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.560 but there's never been a country a group of people 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.480 in the world that has done more good, stood for 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.480 human rights, for liberty, and I don't think we should 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.320 be ashamed to say that. I think it's very clear. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.480 And we're at a time, as you mentioned, where we're 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.400 facing forces both outside the nation and inside the nation 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.120 who would love to tear this whole thing down. But 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.400 I think as long as we have patriots who understand 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.720 the values of the founding fathers and understand the value 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.079 of our troops and freedom that is not guaranteed. By 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.560 the way, it is not guaranteed I think we will 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.040 lead the world through what I believe is a battle 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.400 for civilization right now. And you know, thank goodness, you know, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.280 thank goodness for our soldiers, thank goodness for our veterans 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.439 and all who you know pay the ultimate price. But look, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.400 we're not perfect. But boy, I love America. I love 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:52.280 our country. I love everything about the Blue States, the 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.680 Red States, the Purple States, because I see them every 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.439 day on the road. And I'll tell you this. You know, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.400 the media loves to divide us, but I see it 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.120 first an when we're all seeing a hundred years when 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.160 we're singing Superman. You know, there's no politics. It's just 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.800 people singing together. And there's much more that brings us 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.880 together than divide us in this nation. And I see 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.319 it every night, and I hope to celebrate that with 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.120 you and everybody else on July fourth. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.000 Well, John Andrassic, honored to talk to you. Really looking 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.080 forward to your performance New York, Harver July fourth. That's 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.960 going to be a special special moment aboard the USS Nimitz. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.000 Thank you so much for joining us here on the 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.320 Sean Hannity program, and thanks for sharing that preview of 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.719 Superman and what we're going to hear and see and 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.560 really looking forward to to watching that. Thanks again for 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.960 joining us. Remind everybody call in eight hundred ninety four 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:53.040 one Sewan eight hundred nine one Sean. That's eight hundred 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.199 ninety four one seven three two six. We're going to 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.080 be taking some calls. Do with us. We'll be right back. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.200 The Dems want to stand on the step singing terrible 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.280 songs and cursing out Trump. You know you have one 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:13.440 guy over the shout and. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.920 Ever wonder if these people ever. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.480 Go to work me too? 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:28.640 Throughout This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.360 Jason Chief, it's filling in for Sean. And I got 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.120 to tell you we've been talking about how great the 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.320 United States America is, and you know it, there's nothing better. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.000 And I feel for the men and women who are 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 serving our country right now. News of the day in 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.360 part the United States is having to use kinetic action 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.120 force as the United States Military cares carries out more 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.000 strikes against Iran near the Strait of Horn moves. Guess what, 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.080 our audience, you decide you're gonna till it take people out, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.840 gonna kill, going to try to blow up ships. Well, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.760 we're gonna We're gonna decimate you. It should be that simple. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.680 And Donald Trump understands this and he's going to drive 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.480 home that message. But more importantly, to the men, the women, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.880 the families that are there involved and engaged in that fight, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.640 thank you. Thank you for protecting the United States of 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.720 America and doing what needs to be done in order 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.200 to help protect the world and most importantly the United 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.360 States of America. It isn't our best interest and we 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.120 can't thank you enough for doing it. All right, you 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.680 need to write this number down eight hundred sewan, eight 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.480 hundred one Sean, because we're going to be taking calls. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.320 That's eight hundred nine two six. We want you to 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.320 be able to call in and ask your question. Who 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.320 knows where this is going to go? I love this 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.080 part of the program. One eight hundred nine one Sean. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.720 And we'll be taking those calls and to those men 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.440 and women doing what they do best, doing what they've 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.880 been trained to do. God bless we need you and 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.080 thanks for doing it. We'll be right back. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.320 Breaking news straight from the source. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.840 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.960 And I'm Jason chaff It's filling in for Sean. A 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.760 lot's happening in the world as we come up here. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.080 What an incredible week. Next week is going to be 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.440 celebrating July fourth. But right now, right here, today, we're 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.479 going to take your call. So you can call in 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.520 eight hundred nine four one sean eight hundred and nine 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.840 four one sean. That's seven three two six if you 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.720 can't spell sean eight hundred nine one seven three two six. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.760 I want to take your calls. I also want to 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.760 talk a little bit about drones because I do think 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.000 they pose an incredible threat to the country. I also 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.840 want to talk about AI and AI glasses. So we're 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.600 going to work those two subjects in. Well, let's get 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.880 to the phones and uh, let's go to line two. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.480 We got Bob in North Carolina. Bob, what's up? 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.320 Hi, Jason, thanks for Karen the torch conservatism, even though 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.080 you're not in Congress anymore. Really appretia, Well, thank you, 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.359 thank you. All right, So my question concerns John Soon. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.440 He has not allowed President Trump to have even a 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.840 single recess appointment, and that's bizarre. This is the first 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 time it's ever happened. So one, why has he done it? 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.560 I don't expect you'll know, but and I also wont 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.560 to know why nobody's asked him about it. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:19.160 It's weird. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.760 Yeah, you're right about the lack of questioning of this. Look, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.760 I John Thune, he was elected by This is why 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.000 I started the program right. It started by saying, Look, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.800 Republicans need to do what Republicans said they were going 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.520 to do. He is the majority leader because Donald Trump 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.560 put together a successful campaign and had a mandate given 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.480 the overwhelming vote that he got from coast to coast, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.800 winning by millions upon millions. And part of what they 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.000 wanted to do is to restore common sense and to 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.520 do certain things like protecting our border and making sure 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:05.720 life is simple and secure. And guess what, in part 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:10.320 of delivering that, you have the Save America Act, which 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:15.679 would just a simple thing require voter identification. And yet somehow, 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.240 some way, he can't figure out how in the world 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.639 to bring this up, and if it fails, bring it 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:26.640 up again and again and again. And it's so frustrating 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.639 because we have a majority leader that needs to figure 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.480 out creatively how to actually do this. The House of Representatives. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.879 Give credit to those House Republicans for actually passing it 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.360 multiple times, and then when it comes to actually getting 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:48.960 people on the president's appointments list, to getting them You're right, 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.960 whether they're recess appointments, or remove them through faster and quicker. Yeah, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.199 there are democratic tools that they can do in the 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.680 minority to slow the process down, I think. But Bob, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.000 I think you bring up a great question. Why not 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.320 go into recess and allow the recess appointments to happen. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.720 I don't understand it's a legitimate question. The media needs 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.439 to ask him that, I really do. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.160 Thanks you, Thank you, Jason. I appreciate you at least 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.920 thinking about it. If you would pass that along to 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.840 some reporter boy so they can shoot soon that question, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.879 I'd really appreciate it. I want somebody to put them 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:24.960 on the spot, that's all. 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.080 That would be great. Thanks Bob, and good luck. They're 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.720 in North Carolina. All right, Uh, let's go to line 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:41.240 in one. We got Jim in Florida. Jim, We're in Florida, Jacksonville. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.960 Oh nice, Well, thanks for calling in to the Handity program. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:46.400 What's on your mind? 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.600 I'd like to stair away from politics for just a 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.840 minute so I can gay talk about I want to 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.439 get you to talk about something that a lot of 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.359 people probably don't know about you your days is a 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.200 kicker with the BYU Cougars. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.560 Oh gosh, it's going to be a little while ago now, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.680 but it's true. I was a placekicker back in eighty 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.800 eight eighty nine. This is my junior senior year. Was 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.760 the freshman sophomore year with Ty Deptmer, who went on 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.480 to win the Heisman Trophy. It was a great time. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.920 I'd like to remind the people of Utah that we 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.840 never lost a game by the margin of my missed kicks. Otherwise, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.439 you know, I'd be living in Arizona or Florida or 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.440 somewhere else, but I couldn't live in Utah. But yeah, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.760 what a great way to go through college. When I left, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.360 I had five school records. They were all extra point records, 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.760 which was much more of a testament to the quarterback 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:49.360 than it was because we scored so many touchdowns back then. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.440 I mean, we just racked up the scores. Lavelle Edwards 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.199 was the coach. And you know, the one position on 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.560 the field that would work for me is if they 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.320 touched me, they threw a flag. And uh, I thought, yeah, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.480 I could do that because I was I played a 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:07.199 lot of soccer, and I could kick a ball and 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.960 kicking it between those two posts. That seemed easy to me, 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:11.800 and I loved it. It was a great, great time in 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:12.200 my life. 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.040 Could I ask you, what was the longest field goal 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.480 you ever made? 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.399 So in the spring game it was fifty three yards, 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.400 but I remember Lavell Edwards he said, listen, thirty five 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.879 yards and in you cannot miss. You've got to be 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:30.359 one hundred percent forty five and out. Yeah, you know, 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.520 you got to make about seventy five percent of those 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.960 fifty in out. Yeah, make half of those and you'll 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.560 be good. So everybody always asks what's your longest I 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.239 think the one I'm I'm the most proud of is 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:47.719 the consecutive streaks of you know, extra points and as 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:49.880 like I said, I said, some school records there. So 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:51.040 that was that was fun. 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.199 I saw you a few times, but the only problem 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.880 is here where I'm at in Florida, I didn't get 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.600 to see you till like midnight when you're games would 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:01.240 come over here. 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:06.560 Yeah. Well, my best game is we beat the Colorado 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.560 Buffaloes in the Freedom Bowl. I kicked two field goals 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.800 in the last four minutes and eleven seconds, and who 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.320 was named the most valuable player of the game. Ti 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.600 Depmer and I'm like, you get this big, huge, ditch 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:22.960 huge trophy. You threw for no touchdowns. You didn't run 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.320 for a touchdown. I had to come in because you 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:29.159 threw two incomplete passes. I kicked two field goals and 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.960 we win by three, and you're the most valuable player. 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:33.879 Then he went on to win the Heisman Trophy. But 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:37.919 you know, as a kicker, you gotta get used to it. So, Jim, 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.600 thank you for the question. I do appreciate it, and 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.400 good luck there in Jacksonville, Florida. Love it out there. 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.920 All right, let's go to line four. Remind you the 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:51.479