WEBVTT - Charlie Daniels Rides Again 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.800 A news roundup and information overload hour this Friday, toll free. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:05.560 It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.800 want to be a part of the program. I've not 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.600 made a lot of announcements yet about plans that I 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.720 have for America's two fiftieth uh fairly exhaustive, fairly extensive, 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.160 really cool stuff places were going to be. And you know, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.680 I just think that this is a moment I hope, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.600 you know, patriotic Americans just stop and reflect and celebrate 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.440 the great blessings of liberty and freedom and you know, 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.280 freedom to celebrate you know, fun and you know, and 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.400 and just ponder what a great gift that God gave us. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.440 I think it's the greatest country God gave man. You know, 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.479 Throughout the course of my life and career, I've had 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:52.000 some so many great, amazing experiences. Maybe maybe nothing tops 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.320 the Freedom Concert series that we had done summer after 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.240 summer after summer, and you know, all these great performers, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.920 but you know, more often than not are good for 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.800 on Charlie Daniels was a part of it. And I 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.400 don't think there's anything funnier than me getting on stage 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.840 as often as I did, and singing and wrecking the 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.760 song The Devil Went Down to Georgia, but trying my 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.480 level best and making Charlie laugh his head off on stage. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.840 It's been six years since we lost Charlie, and in 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:24.440 his heart, in his soul, he bled red, white and blue. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.120 This was who he is. These are the songs that 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.640 he wrote. That's the passion talked about on stage, off air, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.000 on air, doesn't matter. It was who he is. It 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.800 defined him and even up till his last days. I mean, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.039 this guy was doing one hundred plus concerts a year 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.880 and just traveling the country. And I can't tell you 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.680 how many hours I'd spend with him and his beautiful 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.520 bride on his bus. And his son is going to 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.880 join us in a second. But anyway, there's a hologram 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.240 of Charlie Daniels that is set to perform at a 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.160 two hundred and fiftieth celebration on July fourth. This one 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.160 is going to take place Fort Campbell in Kentucky, where 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:07.000 Charlie daniels likeness will recreate. You know, hits like The 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.919 Devil Went Down to Georgia. You know, a patriotic in America, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.120 you know, for attendees, members of the one hundred and 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.520 first Airborne Division, and they're billing this one as the 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.880 Legend of Charlie Daniels a tribute concert, and the production 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.520 is going to feature a live band performing behind Charlie's 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.680 image on the parade field of the US Army Installation. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.959 I mean, this is going to be very special. Singer 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.239 country singer Aaron Tippin is there. Eric Lee Bettingfield is 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.960 going to be there also. Again, the hundred and first 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.000 air Force Airborne Division Band is going to be there. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.160 It's gonna be really cool, and there's just a lot 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.920 of fun stuff. And if you're in the area, by 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.000 the way, admission is free. Everybody's welcome. They've got a carnival, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.240 a day's worth of activities that will take place. They 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.800 got an opening ceremony, command remarks, and then the concert 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.760 will start at six o'clock. Then they'll follow that up 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.320 with some fireworks, some fun. I hope you, when your 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.000 family will take time this year, I hope that you 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.000 will reflect on the great gift that so many had sacrificed, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.160 bled and died for that we take for granted. We 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.120 don't think about it every day, and I don't think 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.560 God really intends us to open our eyes every morning 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.920 and say, uh oh, thank God I live in America, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.720 Thank God I live in freedom. It's you know, it's 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:26.680 more of our quiet, reflective, meditative, prayerful moments where we 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.240 get a little bit more calm and still that those 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.000 thoughts tend to come. And I think this is appropriately 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.080 coming for a lot of us. I think Americans instinctively 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.880 will reflect on this, get a little time off of work, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.280 just wind down a little bit, freedom and fund celebrating 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.240 with family and then being reminded of the greatest country 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.560 God gave men. Anyway, joining us now is a really 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.840 good friend of the program. Where we're so honored to 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.640 have him back here is Charlie Daniel's son is with us. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.960 And you really are keeping the legacy of your dat alive. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.120 We love you, how you been and spent a long time. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.920 I'm doing great, Sean, You're a great American and a 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.920 great Floridian. And yeah, we're we're doing good. You know, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.120 it felt like a couple of years I felt like 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.080 I was kind of spinning my wheels, and now it 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.440 seems like I'm running with my hair on fire. We 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.800 got so many different things going on, but but yeah, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.200 the the Legend and Charlie Daniels show. There was there 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.919 was one other act I think was added since the 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.280 information you had, but the frontman Tim Rushlo from Little Texas, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.680 Larry Stewart from Restless Heart, and Rachie McDonald from Lone Star. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.960 They're also on the bill, and they will be sharing 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.919 some of the vocal uh you know, they'lda sharing some 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.960 of the vocal chores on stage. Because what this is 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 really leading up to, And let me kind of give 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.520 you a little bit of a back history on this. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.719 After Dad. The week after Dad left us, I thought 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.240 that it would be great to try to get the 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.039 band together and do what I kind of called a 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.520 touring celebration of Dad's life, a farewell tour. Well, we 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.440 were still in the middle of COVID and it was 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.720 really basically impossible for that to work out. So kind 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.400 of sat on it a couple of years, and then 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.120 I reconnected with a guy that I've known for a 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:16.800 long long time who's he got the idea and he 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.080 mentioned the hologram aspect of it, which I was. I 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.560 was kind of unsure about it first because I, you know, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.080 and I always said, I said, I'll agree to this. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.039 If it doesn't look creepy, strange, unnatural. It has to 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.040 be realistic and it has to be respectful. And so 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.200 that's what we have been working towards and it's it's 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.200 going to be mind blowing. So it's going to be 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:46.240 mostly a tribute concert with with Aaron, with Larry Tim 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.560 doing most of the vocals. I'm going to try to 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.200 get out there and not screw up a song too badly, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:52.279 So pray for me. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.440 Please wait a minute, are you singing the Devil like 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:54.880 I did? 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.560 No, but we're going to have a hologram of you butchering. 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:04.159 I don't think I ever saw your dad laugh so 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.400 hard as one of my appearances was so bad and 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.080 my timing so off that he just lost it laughing 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.440 on stage because he was trying to give me cues 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 and be very helpful. Well, we'll play a little bit 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.200 of it, maybe one of my better ones. I think 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.000 one of the better ones was Orlando will pull that 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.840 one up. But I just enjoyed all of it. And 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.080 first of all, when your dad passed and we haven't 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.960 had conversations recently, but we had conversations at the time, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.000 and I know how proud he was of you and 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.360 how proud you were of your dad and are of 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.960 your dad rightly so. But I want people to know 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.280 the real Charlie. The person that I spent time in 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.279 the bus with, the person I spent time at the 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.120 concerts with, the guy I spent time on stage with, 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.000 this was him. And I mean he loved sports. He 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.880 loved his Tennessee volunteers, if I remember correctly, and he 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.960 loved football, and he loved loved politics. I mean, and 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.640 he was conservative as all get out. He's a great guy, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.480 as smart as. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.440 Hell, very much so, very well read. A lot of people, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.760 you know don't realize he read uh constantly, he was 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.720 He was always uh, you know, getting his hands on 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.880 something to He liked a lot of nonfiction, a lot 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.400 of the you know Brad thor the you know, the 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.400 Tom Clancy was one of his favorite authors. But yeah, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.000 he was a smart guy, a very smart guy. And 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.480 he uh, I, like you said, patriotism just you know, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.840 he bled it. And that's you know, that's one of 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.800 the things that if if our country needs right now, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.640 is that Charlie Daniels. That's why I'm bringing him back 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.680 in this you know, in this way it's just you know, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.800 we need him. We need his patriotism, we need his faith, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.920 we need we just we need him. And he's he 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.600 was such a great spokesperson. Uh loved the military, and 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.520 he always said that we end we owe them an 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.800 unpayable debt of gratitude, which we do. And he said 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.800 that only two things protect America, the grace of Almighty 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.480 God in the United States military. And so being able 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.440 to bring this show directly to our active service you 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.920 people and you know, veterans and just the general public. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.960 But to do it on this base, the way I 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.160 understand it is that there was some hiccups with the 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.280 budget at the base this year, so and this was 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.400 such a huge anniversary two hundred and fifty years, so 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.240 we were able to come in and bring the entertainment 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.640 to the Bass and it's it's going to be amazing. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.839 And it's an official America to fifty event. So there's 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.800 talk about it cutting into one of the TV specials 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.280 that they're you know that they're in the works. So 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.360 it's very exciting where you know, I know, this is 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.640 going to be amazing. And one other thing that we 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:59.959 dusted off, Dad did a song from Macy's Macy's Are 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.680 Works Fourth of July special back in twenty fourteen. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.080 Yeah, I know the song you're talking about, isn't it 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.199 called My Home, My Home? 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.160 And it was never released, and as we were gearing 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.320 up for America two fifty, I was like, you know what, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.360 we need to try to get this out. So I 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.160 had to kind of jump through some hoops to find 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.640 track it down through one of the songwriters on it, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.200 and I kind of did a little bit of a 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.439 you know, and in that amateur with an AI is 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.960 a dangerous thing. So I also did a lyric video 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.240 that went along with it. And so the song drops 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.120 on the sixteenth, and the lyric video will drop a 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.160 few days two maybe a week after that. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.520 But it's are you watching, Charlie? What's going on with 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.920 AI and how they're reviving? First of all, I don't 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.640 know if you've noticed how many songs have gone to 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.040 number one on the charts that are AI generated? Have 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:55.640 you noticed that? 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.880 It's that crazy stuff? But I will tell you that 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.480 there there are things that I would like to do 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:08.000 with AI that I think that are for for my purposes, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.360 for keeping Dad's legacy going. It has to be authentic. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:11.920 Uh. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.880 You know, I wouldn't want to do an album of 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.760 Dad doing Sinatra covers or anything, you know like that. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.600 But there's some unfinished songs that Dad recorded music for 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.000 but never recorded the vocals on. Something like that I 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.720 think is acceptable for our purposes. But no, we're not 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:32.520 going to do some completely uh you know, completely out 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.160 of left field, you know Dad, you know, doing disco 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:36.079 songs or something. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:36.840 You know. No, we're not. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.440 You know, that's it's it always going to have to 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:40.520 have integrity for us. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.160 I totally agree. And there is a line that you know, 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.400 you're going to have to figure out every everybody's gonna 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.120 have to navigate that. Like I know people in the 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.160 radio businesses that have talked about there is enough tape 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.280 of Rush Limbaugh doing a radio talk show that you 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.559 could take the news of the day, feed it into AI, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.640 have his voice, and it will sound just like Rush, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.360 you know, booming out of that golden e ib Mike 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.040 and his take on what the news of that day 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.520 would be, based on the library of work that he 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.720 built over his life. I mean, that's crazy to me, crazy, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.560 And I'll be honest, I'm interested in it. I'm very 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.720 interested and I think there would be interest. Maybe not 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.600 on airwaves, but certainly I think a website that people 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.240 could could put that together in a way. It's sincere 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.880 because it's really him, it's his thought process and you're 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.240 just filtering it through the news of today, and you're 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.680 using you know, this amazing new technology called artificial intelligence. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.480 Yeah, I'll tell you what. We lost Rush and Dad 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.560 in the same boy. We could certainly use both of them. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.120 Yeah, you're right, all right, let's play a small part 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.800 of this. It never aired, it never got out, and 0:11:51.440 --> 0:12:02.320 it's called my Home Charlie Daniels. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:08.640 If this starts thirteen strikes, we will for some move freeze. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.000 I works light on Thursday and books to it as 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.080 he please. This is a time share you get that. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.559 This is a time to cry to see let it be, sister. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.840 Look gracial, you can't be do you with. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.319 Fifty starts, thirteenth stripes or weever gets the immense sky, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.000 We look up you freed wide in fruit Pass, we 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.599 pass around the album high. It is time you you 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.760 get that this is a time I don't want to 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.360 sing by God. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:48.760 Chris. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.760 This man the freedom and it joins those freedom freys. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.440 So pleased when I am free. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:02.600 To read. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:05.000 To me. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.720 I mean that that just to find your dad. This, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.280 this is the guy that we both knew and and 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.400 honored so much, and it's really cool to hear his 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:26.000 voice again. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.760 We miss him absolutely, yeah, And I'm hoping that there's 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.760 a there's a lot more stuff that's in the vault 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.400 that we just got to, you know, figure out how 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.400 to get it all out there. But this was We're 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.680 excited to be able to to do this. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.720 Well. I know, Charlie Jr. I know your your dad 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.920 is looking down on all of us, and I know 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.760 we'll see him again. I I do believe in our 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.120 Lord and Savior. I do believe that there is life 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.720 after this life. And if there's any one person that 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.960 I know had a gracious heart and a pure heart 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.320 and a love of God and family and country, it's 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.280 your dad. He personified it and in everything he did, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.400 and I learned so much from him, and like you, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.079 I miss him. I miss Rush, I miss all of 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.920 these guys. Yeah, And I know what they'd want. Though 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.120 they'd want us to stay in the fight. I know 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.960 that they would not want us to give up, and 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.400 we're not. We won't do that. Anyway, we'll put the 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.720 information on Hannity dot Com. It's for Campbell July fourth, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.160 Free Admission America two fifty the Legend of Charlie Daniels 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.920 and it sounds like a special day. And Charlie Junior, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.080 we appreciate you. We miss your dad and hope to 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:30.760 talk to you soon. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.760 Well, miss miss him too. Great talking with you, and 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.280 please give my best to your boss Linda. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.680 Okay, with all due respect, I am the boss around here. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.240 Linda is not the boss. Linda is not the boss. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.680 But anyway, we appreciate it. Charlie, thank you. Eight hundred 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.440 and ninety four one Seawn our number. If you want 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:52.600 to be a part of the program. We'll get to 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:59.960 your calls. Coming up this Friday. Straight Ahead Fighting answered 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.240 one hundred questions in six months. Trump answered one hundred 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.520 questions this morning. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.800 So fast America is so bad. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.720 You're on the Sean Hannity Show. All right, let's get 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.760 to our busy telephones this Friday. Let's say hi to Mike. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.960 Mike is in Live, Free or Die, New Hampshire. Mike, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.720 how are you glad you call? Happy Friday? 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.160 Hey, thank you? I got I can't lie to you 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.680 I didn't realize it was Friday. I thought it was Thursday. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.320 Well, these weeks fly by, the days along, the weeks 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:33.840 are short. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.160 Yes, I hear you. So the reason I wanted to ask, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.800 and maybe you can answer this question for me, why 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:48.800 does President Trump's administration go in front of Congress for 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.040 all these hearings and have to sit there and just 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.880 take that berating from those you know, the the Jamie 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.000 Raskins and you know what I mean. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.640 I'm going to give you the technical answer and then 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.000 I'm gonna give you the upside. The technical answer is 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:11.200 Congress has powers of oversight of an administration. That is 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.560 called the check and balance. That's part of the process. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.560 We do it to them when we are in the minority. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.200 The second thing is, people like Marco Rubio and Mark 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:27.200 Wayne Mullen and Scott Besson have decimated all of these people. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.840 They have decimated them. And I'm so proud of all 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.600 of them, to be honest, because they don't take their 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.680 crap and they give it back harder than they could 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.080 ever dream of giving to them, and they look stupid. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:44.119 I enjoy watching them. I find it very high quality entertainment. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.680 Oh you know, I gotta be honest with you. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:48.040 Show it. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.720 I do too. I love watching love it. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:51.240 It's great. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.480 Oh oh, some of them people, I mean Hagenman, I 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.480 love listening to her talk. But I love it when 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.560 Rubio invest and all them, you know, kind of charge 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.960 back some of these people. You know, what's her face 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.600 there with the purple hair? Oh, I can't think of 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:08.000 her name. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.960 Is this the Foreign Affairs Is this far to the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.359 that's Lauro, the lunatic with the purple hair. You know, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.359 look at Marco Rubo. Is this the Foreign Affairs Committee? 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:19.800 Really? 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.000 Or is this a clown show? Is this a circus? 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.960 I mean he gets to hit him with those lines 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.479 all the time, and they look stupid, and they always 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.320 looked dumb, and it always backfires. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.240 But I guess my point is, John, at what point 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.920 cann't they do what President Reagan did to Welker two 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.480 days ago? Just said, you don't. I've had enough. It's lying. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.040 It's just I'm here, I'll explain my budget. Ask me 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.639 a legitimate question. But I don't have to sit here 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.080 and take this just so you can. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.280 I flew all the way to Wisconsin and everything, and 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.840 you're gonna send me home and I've been sitting with 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.040 you in the rain for an hour, and the best 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.880 thing he said to Kirsten Welker was when he said, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.280 you guys have no influence. If you did, I would 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.720 have lost all of the media mob, the legacy media 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.639 mob as I refer to it, fake news as he 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.240 refers to it, if they had the influence they think 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.080 they still have. And trust me, I know these people. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.120 Their egos are massive. If they had it, he would 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.920 have lost because they threw everything they had at him, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.200 every conspiracy theory, every lie at him, and the American 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.440 people didn't listen to them. The American people didn't listen 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.320 to Hollywood. The American people didn't listen to you know, 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.240 pop stars and singers. They listened to their hearts. That's 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:37.760 a good thing. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.800 Yeah, well, yeah, no, I totally get that. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.480 I just it's just, I do you think these people 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:45.800 like me? They hate me? 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.000 I thought they had to sit there and take it. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.040 That was my thing, and I was sinking it. Well, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.360 that's wrong if they have to just go there and 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.960 be a whipping post for all those batistical idiots that 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:56.760 are sitting there. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.080 No, well, I mean I hear saying you're saying they can't. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.679 It's not worth the time, effort, money. But you know 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.960 it is constitutional. They have right to oversight, and we'll 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.119 do it to them. If you know, God forbid they 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.879 ever get back in power. Please not this year. Please, 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.359 everybody listening to my voice, please commit in your heart, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.520 mind and soul you'll vote in this midterm because it's 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.520 so important. Mike, listen, man, have a great weekend. Appreciate 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:22.720 you checking in. Thank you, sir. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.840 Yes, hey, send Welker a cheese hat. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.280 Well not at but by the way I did. I'll 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.120 tell you what I did with Welker. I ran into her, 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.320 maybe at one of the conventions, maybe at one of 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.680 the debates, I don't remember. She was right behind me, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.159 I was getting magged, and you know, we had a 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:48.000 very friendly conversation, and I explained to her that I 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.840 was friends with Tim Russer, and I explained my relationship 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.800 with Tim Russer. Tim Rusher used to call me regularly 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.200 to get my take on the issues of the day. Well, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.600 why do you think that way? As a conservative? He 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.560 would ask me straight up, listen to my answer. Wanted 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.159 to hear my arguments. Now, don't I think he was 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.080 more of a blue collar Buffalo, New York. You know, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.720 Bill's loving Democrat. However, I did many debates and he 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.960 would moderate between me and Carvil when Carvo wasn't totally insane, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.240 and we had good times together. But I had a 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.160 good relationship with Peter Jennings. I had a good relationship 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.240 with Tom brocall. I don't have a good relationship, but 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.719 I don't think with anybody in the media now, and 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.280 I'll be honest, I don't even want one. I want 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.959 nothing to do with him. My record is perfect, it's intact. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.719 I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner. Anyway, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.440 I'm gonna move on. Appreciate the call, Mike, God bless you. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.720 Let us say hi to Tom in Saint Louis, Missouri. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.840 What's up, Tom, show me what's happening. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.080 Well, first of all, thanks for taking my call. But 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.560 and I know there's been a lot of discussion in 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.680 the media and everything about the primaries and how it's 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.480 going to influence the terms. But there's been a lot 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.920 and I know there's been a lot of discussion about 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.359 you know, Planter and Tela Rico and the guy from 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.720 Michigan and and how they're not really qualified and they're 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.879 just way too far to the left comedies, But in 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:23.560 my opinion, it's all correct. But for these midterms, Republican 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.960 Party needs to focus on the economy and they need 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.480 to get this inflation while it's not crazy out of control. 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.159 That is the button, in my opinion, that the Democrats 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.480 are going to harp on. So I know Iran plays 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.720 a piece in this. Once we get that squared away, 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:42.959