1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Right our two Sean Hannity's show Gladual with US eight 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four one. Sean, you want to be 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: a part of the program. More bad economic news today. Now, 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: one thing that's not really being reported widely is the 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: housing market is now in a full on recession. Except geographically, 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: there are some exceptions. Florida is an exception because the 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: migration to Florida has been so tremendous, the same as 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: happening in the Carolinas, in Tennessee and in Texas. Those 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: states are faring much better than every other state in 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: the country. But for the rest of the country, it 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: is a full on housing recession that has taken place. 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: And inflation, you know, here we go once again the 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: idea that liberal Democrats are celebrating, you know, a seven 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: and eight percent inflation rate or gross domestic product rate 15 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: is just kind of amazing to me. The CPI rather 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: a broad measure of prices, etc. Etc. It went up 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: zero point one percent in November. Prices climbed seven point 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: one percent on an annual basis. These are not good numbers. 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: Inflation is still about three times higher than pre the 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: pre pandemic average. Joe Biden became president, and it was 21 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: one point four percent anyway, you know. But Biden, of 22 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: course inflation is zero when it's nine percent, he says 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: inflation is zero. No, not true. Now he's saying inflation 24 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: is coming down, but prices are still too high. I mean, 25 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: does he even know what he's saying? Listen, there's it 26 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: provides a reason for some optimism for the holiday season, 27 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: and I would argue for the year ahead. Can we 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: learn last months inflation rate came down down more than 29 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: experts expected in a world where inflation is rising at 30 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: double digits in many major economies around the world, inflation 31 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: is coming down in America. In fact, this new report 32 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: is the fifth month in a row Andrew inflation has 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: fallen in the United States food. This is straight on spin. 34 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: And then he goes on to talk about wages have 35 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: gone up more than than prices. What he's not telling 36 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: you is seventy percent of Americans are now living paycheck 37 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: to paycheck. What he's not telling you is fifteen percent 38 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: of the elderly or skipping meals because because they can't 39 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: afford it. What he's not telling you is the stuff 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: that people can no longer buy because they can't afford 41 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: the on average seventy two seventy two hundred dollars it's 42 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: cost in the average household per year because of the 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: inflation that he's caused. He's acting as all this is 44 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: the greatest news in the world. There's nothing great about 45 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: these numbers, not a single thing. Listen, and all of 46 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: this means that for the last several months, wages have 47 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: gone up more than prices have gone up. Wages have 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: gone up more than true. I want to be clear, 49 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: it's going to take time to get inflation back to 50 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,839 Speaker 1: normal levels as we make the transition to a more 51 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: stable and steady growth, but we could see setbacks along 52 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: the way as well. We shouldn't take anything for granted. 53 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: What is clear is the my economic plan is working 54 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: and we're just getting started. American households lost about six 55 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: point eight trillion dollars in wealth, and only the first 56 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: nine months of the year since he's been president over 57 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: thirteen trillion dollars in wealth. When you add it all 58 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: up together, US household wealth fell a whopping four hundred 59 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: billion dollars in the third quarter of twenty twenty two. 60 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: That's that's everybody's safety net. That's their retirement plan. Now 61 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: you add to that the decline in home value because 62 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: of the housing recession, which I told you would happen 63 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: with rising interest rates, the Fed, we expect to moral 64 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: will raise interest rates another fifty basis points, another half 65 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: percent increase, and that's going to mean we're pretty close 66 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: to an eight percent thirty year fixed rate mortgage. At 67 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: the beginning of this year, a thirty year fixed rate 68 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: mortgage was only three percent. You know. No, Look well, 69 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: first of all, new home construction has come to a 70 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: screeching halt. Sailor pre existing homes. Nobody's going to sell 71 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: their home and give up their two point seven three 72 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: point seven percent thirty year fixed rate mortgage, you know, 73 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: and get an eight percent thirty year fixed rate mortgage. 74 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: So that's that's come to a screeching halt. And now 75 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: you have home values naturally declining as a result of 76 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: the decreased demand that exists out there anyway. Joining US 77 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: Heritage expert Joel Griffin is with US Steve Moore's back economists, 78 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: author of Trump and Omics, Inside the America First Plan 79 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: to Revive our economy? Steve, did you ever think you'd 80 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: get numbers this bad? And people will be saying how 81 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: great it is. Yeah, talk about irrational exuberance exactly. Uh. 82 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: You know, I'm on the board of four charitable foundations, 83 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: and we give our money at the end of the year, 84 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: and we give our money to everything from soup kitchens 85 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: to orphanages to homeless shelters, you know, real charitable groups. 86 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: We had to cut twenty five percent on average of 87 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: our giving because the stock market has been so bad 88 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: under Biden over the last eighteen months and because of 89 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: the of the inflation. And so that's just one little 90 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: example of how this Biden inflation has just crushed, crushed 91 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: the economy. You are so right about the mortgage rate. 92 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: That is something that is I'm very, very worried about 93 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: the housing market. It feels like if you look at 94 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: almost every statistic, housing starts, new home sales um you know, 95 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: all of these things, new construction permits for for homes 96 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: down down, down, down down. And that's because when you 97 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: have these higher mortgage rates, it's bad for the buyer 98 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: and the seller. If you're buying home, you know, you 99 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars more than 100 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: thirty year mortgage rates. And if you're selling a home, 101 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: it depresses the value of the house because the people 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: have to pay more. So that is something that is 103 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: quite problematic as well when you have a situation or 104 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: the average family over the last twelve months has lost 105 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: somewhere between and four and five thousand dollars of purchasing power, 106 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden's celebrating how well he's handled the economy. 107 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: On top of the one thing you left out, Sean, 108 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: that I want to add to your litany of policy 109 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: failures is that the national debt in the last two 110 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: in less than two years, has increased by over four 111 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: and a half trillion dollars. It's now thirty one trillion. Yeah, 112 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: no president in your in my lifetime ever even comes 113 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: close to that level of financial incompetence. Well, there's one 114 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: other thing I left out of the equation, only because 115 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: I've discussed it so often, as the price of energy 116 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: and its impact on inflation, it's impact on everyday life. 117 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: People are going to be feeling it more than they 118 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,119 Speaker 1: ever have. This winner with anywhere between thirty and forty 119 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: five percent increases in heating your home, This winner, which 120 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: is going to be awful for people, But I'm still 121 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: listening to the same Oh this is this is great news. 122 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: It's not that there's nothing here that's great news. Joe Griffith, 123 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: if you hear great news here, share it with us, 124 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: because I don't see it. Well. What I heard was 125 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: an outright lie from the president. The President claimed that 126 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: wages are rising relative to inflation and actuality. The government's 127 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: own numbers show that American families have seemed their real 128 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: wages decline each and every month for the past twenty 129 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: months in a row. So it's ludicrous for him to 130 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: make such a claim to the contrary. And in terms 131 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: of overall inflation, we are on track to eat a 132 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: year over year inflation at the highest level since nineteen 133 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: eighty one. I would say, I think millions of your 134 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: listeners weren't even working in nineteen eighty one because they 135 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: are too young to be doing so. And you mentioned 136 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: to the energy situation. If you look at that or 137 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: the price of fuel oil for this winter in the Northeast, 138 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: fuel oil for those homes is going to be sixty 139 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: five percent higher than it was just one year ago. 140 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: And you and Steve nailed it on housing. If you 141 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 1: look at what it costs a typical family each year 142 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: to make a mortgage payment. I'm just a middle class home. 143 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: That payment is ten thousand dollars more a year this 144 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: year than it was just one year ago. So I've 145 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: said this on the year before. And I'm not patting 146 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: myself on the back at all, Steve. I'm just describing 147 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: a scenario, a situation. This is. You know, I live 148 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: in an area where you have very middle income communities, 149 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: maybe a little more uper middle class. Then you have 150 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: more expensive areas of town. It's a mixed neighborhood financially, 151 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: you have people of all economic backgrounds here. And what's 152 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: amazing to me is a very close friend of mine, 153 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: well actually a whole family. They participate. We have a 154 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: food bank in town. And you know, I tell them 155 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: all the time, I said, if you if you need something, 156 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: if you run into trouble, just give me a heads up. 157 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: I'll be glad to help. And they they've called me 158 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: a couple of times because they really, they really are 159 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: in need like never before. And it's interesting. You would think, 160 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: you know, why are all these people waiting on lines? 161 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: But they have a lot of nice cars, Like sometimes 162 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: you'll see a BMW. Sometimes you'll see even people in 163 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: the like of Mercedes or a nice suv or pickup 164 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: truck or whatever it happens to be, and you sit 165 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: there and you scratch your head and say, well, wait 166 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: a minute, why do these people need to be online 167 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: to get food? The problem is is they got locked 168 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: into these cars and homes at a point when when 169 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: they thought they'd be able to afford it before the 170 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: economy went south in literally less than twenty four months, 171 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: and they didn't factor in the seven thousand, two hundred 172 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: dollars average according to the Heritage Foundation, that Biden inflation 173 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: would be costing them, and it's impacting them. They're not 174 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: gaming the system. They're desperate. And that's what I learned, 175 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: you know, just by seeing the lines, you know, once 176 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: twice a week when they open up. I can't believe it. 177 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: How many people are really really struggling out there. So 178 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: at the same time, you have people needing the charitable help, 179 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: you know, in shelters and food kitchens and things. You know, 180 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: That's why I brought up at the start of your 181 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: show that you know, the foundations don't have the money 182 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 1: they give as much as they used to, so you know, 183 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: that's really pinching the charities too. That's match that's why 184 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 1: they may come and come calling to you, Sean, because 185 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 1: you know, you just don't have as much money to 186 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: give when the economy is lousy, when the stock market 187 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: is lousy, when inflation is so high. I would. And 188 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: by the way, it's not like they can sell their 189 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: car either, because they still got to use that car 190 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: to get to work, so they can still make some money. 191 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: So the other thing that I mentioned on your TV 192 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: show I think of about a week ago that I 193 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: want to repeat because it's so important and so frightening 194 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: to me. Sean. Have you looked at what is happening 195 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: to consumer debt? Look at what's happening the credit card debt. 196 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: People are trying to maintain their level of you know, 197 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: their living standard and their normal purchases, but everything is 198 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: more expensive. And as Joel just said, guess what your 199 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: paycheck isn't keeping up with your you know, normal buying habits. 200 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: To what are people doing. They're going further further into 201 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: debt and you can't you know, come January, in February, people, 202 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: I think you're going to start to see people having 203 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: to you know, be in big, big financial trouble, and 204 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: by the way, that's the worst that to take on 205 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: because in some cases you're paying twenty twenty one and 206 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: a half percent interest rates. YEP, one of the major 207 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: financial firms, found that consumer credit card debt is up 208 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: almost twenty percent this year. Wow, that's dramatic. Quick break. 209 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: More on the economy not looking good for most Americans 210 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: heading into twenty twenty three will continue with Joel Griffith 211 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: with the Heritage Foundation, Steve Moore and your Calls coming up. Look, 212 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: if you're tired of overpaying, you know woke wireless companies 213 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: for services that you're never gonna use, never gonna need, 214 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: there's a great veteranome company that's offering you the exact 215 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: same cell towers as AT and T, Verizon and T Mobile. 216 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: They're offering the same five G network. They're offering the 217 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: same exact coverage on your phone cell coverage. You keep 218 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: your phone, you keep your phone number, and you're paying 219 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: about half the price. The average family is saving close 220 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: to a thousand bucks a year, and many families are 221 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: saving so much more. By the way, right now, you'll 222 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: get unlimited talk and text and blazing fast data for 223 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: just thirty bucks a month. There's no big carrier that 224 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: offers this deal, and it's a veteran owned business and 225 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: they have the best customer service that you'd ever want. 226 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: There's literally been hundreds of thousands of us now that 227 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: have made the switch. So you can join the stampede 228 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: and save money, especially in these tough economic times. All 229 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: you have to do is dial pound two fifty say 230 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: they you know, Joe abandon are men and women in 231 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Afghanistan and he checked his watch when the bodies came home. 232 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: Is this really the Americo we want? This is important here. 233 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: You're on the Sean Hannity Show. All right, we continue. 234 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 1: The bad news on the economy just goes on and 235 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: on in spite of what Joe Biden might tell you 236 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 1: about it. We continue with financial experts Joel Griffith and 237 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: Steve Moore. The loss of wealth, Joel, is really profound. 238 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: I mean, in the first nine months of this year 239 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: six point eight trillion. Over the course of Biden's presidency, 240 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: over thirteen trillion dollars on top of that, now people 241 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: are beginning to see as the housing recession fully kicks 242 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: in and sal sale of new homes has stopped because 243 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: home building has come to a screeching halt. Sal a 244 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: pre existing homes is non existent. Nobody wants to give 245 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: up their lower rate mortgage, fixed right mortgage, so they're 246 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: not selling. That means home prices are going down and 247 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: going down significantly, and that is for most people, the 248 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: biggest investment, retirement investment that they have. And if you 249 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: live in certain states, it's going to be way worse 250 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: than living in Florida or Tennessee, or the Carolinas or Texas. 251 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: So let me ask you both this exit question. So 252 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: every economist that I'm reading is predicting twenty twenty three 253 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: economically to be a horrific year. Steve Moore, what do 254 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: you see? I still think there's time to skate around 255 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: own of recession. I think Republicans in Congress are going 256 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: to have to take this pull by the horn. We're 257 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: gonna have to dramatically increase our oil and gas drilling 258 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: and we could put one hundred billions, but they don't 259 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: have the power to make that happen on their own. Well, 260 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. I mean, you got a president 261 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: who's against these policies. They've got to cut spending, government spending, 262 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: because that's what caused the inflation. If they're not going 263 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: to cut government spending. I hate to be the naysayer here, 264 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: but I don't see it. Well. If you are right, 265 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: then we're headed for some very tough times. And just 266 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: one last point to what Joel was saying. You know, 267 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: savings rates are at an all time low. And if 268 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: you notice, every time Joe Biden is a speech, he 269 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: talks about how high the savings rate is, well, does 270 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: he just outright they have no respect to the truth. 271 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: Unbelievable last word, We'll give it to you, Joel. Look, 272 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: even if inflation rates were to come down, and I 273 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: don't think they will, there's no way that American family 274 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: next year are going to make up for the fact 275 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: that they've lost six thousand dollars per year in real 276 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: income because of these sky high rights government caused the problem. 277 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: And yet, sadly you don't hear, Congress, do not hear 278 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: are central bankers admitting responsibility for the damner states caused 279 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: over the past years by putting these printing presses on 280 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: full speed. Unbelievable? And you know what, it's sadly that 281 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: it's this is gonna be paid for. The pain is 282 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: going to exist. And in Middle America, they're gonna they're 283 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: gonna bear the brunt of all of this. And the 284 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: people impacted the most by inflation happened to be the poor, 285 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: the middle class, people on fixed incomes, and they're the 286 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: ones suffering the most because of these policies. And I 287 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: don't see any end in sight because I don't see 288 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: them changing their ways in any way, any significant way. Anyway, 289 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: Thank you anyway, Joel Griffith, thank you. And Stephen Moore, 290 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: thank you. Eight hundred and nine four one Sean our number. 291 00:16:47,360 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: We'll get to your calls when we come back. You 292 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: can't always get what you want, but you can get 293 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: Sean Hannity online at Hannity dot com at twenty five 294 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: to the top of the hour, eight hundred and ninety 295 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,239 Speaker 1: four one Sean. If you want to be a part 296 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: of the program, Linda, this will be of great importance 297 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: to you. The Cambridge Dictionaries now being criticized all over 298 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: social media for altering the definition of the words man 299 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: and women to include people who identify as a gender 300 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: other than their biological sex. Did you think that we'd 301 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: ever talk about these topics when we started on this 302 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: radio journey whenever you whenever you join me, however many 303 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,239 Speaker 1: decades ago, too many decades ago. Actually, you know, all right, 304 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: thanks a lot. You just send Christmas and complaint. You 305 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: should be happy to be. Hey, boss, thank you for 306 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: a great Christmas bonus. I really appreciate it. Thanks for 307 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: recognizing if it makes you, if it makes you feel 308 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: any better. I didn't see my Christmas bonus until this morning, 309 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: and I was going to write you a very nice 310 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: private message about it, but unfortunately you jumped the gun 311 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: yet again, which is your way. So having said that, 312 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't done what I was going to say, which 313 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 1: is that you've been stuck with me for two decades long, 314 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: I actually wasn't done. It's just that the Hannity you know, 315 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: interrupter didn't let me finish my sentence. So I have 316 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:22,959 Speaker 1: James who hangs up on me when I'm in bed 317 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: mid sentence, and I have you, who interrupts me when 318 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking mid sentence. So either way I can get 319 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: to the point. Actually not whining. It's kind of an 320 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: aggressive tone. It's less whining Moore aggressive. No, I honestly, 321 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, man, I'm over it. I had a 322 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: conversation with someone the other day about this, and it 323 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: was interesting because I had said that I didn't feel 324 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: that certain things should be taught in schools, and the 325 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: person assumed that because I said I didn't believe that 326 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: it should be taught, that that meant that I was 327 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: anti gay or anti trans or whatever. And I said, 328 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: you misunderstand me. Just like I don't want my son 329 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: to be at a drag queen library reading, I don't 330 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: want my son to beat a strip bar reading. I 331 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: don't want my son to be seeing any of this 332 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: at the age of seven. I don't think he wants 333 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: to go to a strip bar. Whatsolutely not. You know 334 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: people in Hell one ice water, tough, Noogie's buddy, you know. 335 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: I mean, it's this is the way it is. Nothing 336 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: good is ever going to come out of big going 337 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: on a strip bar. Nothing ever, No, and and and 338 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: I will. But I mean, Sean, do you know what 339 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, if somebody said to you, oh, yeah, 340 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: we're gonna take a bunch of a second grade boys 341 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: over to the strip bar, you'd be outraged. You know, 342 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: there would be toxic masculinity. But you know now, you 343 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: know that would be toxic masculine. This one, let me 344 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: give you this one. So an author and professor Sophie 345 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: Lewis spoke at you masked Boston to discuss her book, 346 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: Abolish the Family, a Manifesto for care and liberation. Faculty 347 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, she teaches 348 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: courses on feminists trans I'm not I never thought you're 349 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: allowed to use the Q word, but it's used by everybody. 350 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: Q politics philosophy. Abolish the Family suggests that the nuclear 351 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: family is racist and sexist, and her scholarship argues that 352 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: children should have more say in their healthcare choices, as 353 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: for example, an issue like gender transitions. But Abolish the Family, 354 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: you know, is stems from this utopian socialist and sex 355 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: radical a guy by the name of Charles Fourier, communist, 356 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: family abolitionist, feminist, Marxist bringing family. What does this abolish 357 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: the family thing? You know? I really do believe that 358 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: there are people on the left that think that they 359 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: know better how to raise our kids, and they think 360 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: that maybe we should. You know, the moment a child 361 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: is born, you could say hello to it and then 362 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: hand it over to a government official for full complete indocrination. 363 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: Because there's all these people from kindergarten on up that 364 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: actually think that they know better than these other creatures 365 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: known as parents, and have the right duty and moral 366 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: responsibility to instill their values, even if they conflict with 367 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: the values of the parents who should be the ones 368 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: instilling the values in their own children, the ones that 369 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,120 Speaker 1: they the ones that they believe that are most important. Now, 370 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: schools want to reinforce the Golden rule, treat others the 371 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: way you want to be treated, or God forbid you 372 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: mentioned God, love God, and your neighbor as yourself, and 373 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: go from there and teach reading, maths, science, writing, history, computers. 374 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: Then I'd be fine with that. But they don't want 375 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: to teach just the Golden rule. They want to indoctrinate 376 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: these kids, and they feel like it's their responsibility to 377 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: do it, as if parents have no role in the 378 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: raising of their kids anymore. Well, you know, it's funny. 379 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: He was saying this to somebody the other day, and 380 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: it is so true, But you don't know it until 381 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: you become a parent. You know when you when you 382 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: have a child and you have a family, and whether 383 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: you adopt or you become a stub parent, or you 384 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: know you give birth or whatever it is, but you're 385 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: a parent. You know you're responsible for another living thing. 386 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: The love you feel for that thing, it is your 387 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: achilles heel. You say this all the time, right, your 388 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: kids are your achilles heel, because it's the one way 389 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: that people can get you. Right. And then you have 390 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: all these people making decisions and rules, and I would say, 391 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: I would I would hazard to guess that a lot 392 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: of them don't have kids because the way that they 393 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: discuss children as it's as if they're not human. It's 394 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: as if they have you know, no heart, no no humanity. 395 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 1: It's I truly think that when you are speaking from 396 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: where you do not know, you are not from. You 397 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: have no experience, Like I wouldn't say, you know, I'm 398 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: gonna go fly that plane because I think I can. No, 399 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: you can't. You have no experience, you have no training, 400 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing. It's the one job, 401 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: it's our most important job that we can just jump 402 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: into both feet no experience, and we do the best 403 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: we can for the next eight years until we put 404 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,360 Speaker 1: them out into the real world. And even then it's 405 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: not over. As you well know, you're a parent forever. 406 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: But these people are actually foolishly I'm somewhat ashamed to 407 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: actually admit this, but I kind of thought, and maybe 408 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: it's because of the way I was raised. By the 409 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: time I came along, I was the youngest. My parents 410 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: were done raising kids. They were tired, they were working 411 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: sixteen hours a day, they weren't around raising me. It 412 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: ended up being the best thing to happen to me 413 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: in my life because I just I lived my life 414 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: the way I wanted and I always made my own money, 415 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: so I always, you know, i'd go to the local Delhi, 416 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: I get a huge hero of roast beef and lettuce, 417 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: tomato of mayo, or I get eggs and bacon and 418 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: hash brown potatoes on a big roll. Or i'd get pizza, 419 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: or i'd you know, go buy the local you know, diner, 420 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: and I'd have a breakfast or whatever whatever, or hamburg 421 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: or whatever I felt like eating. And I always had 422 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: money to pay for this because I worked for it, 423 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: and it ended up being the best thing in my life. 424 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: But I don't think I could never raise my kids 425 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: that way. But I foolishly thought that once my kids 426 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: were done with college that it was over. I'm like, 427 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: uh no, that's not how it works. But I will 428 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: tell you, Sean, if you then turned out that I 429 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: became a helicopter parent on top of him, I was awful. 430 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: I don't know that you were a helicopter parent so 431 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: much as you were involved. I think there's a lot 432 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: of parents that are not involved. For example, you know, 433 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: if I take Liam to the park, I'll be the 434 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: only parent not on my phone, Like the only time 435 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: my phone is out is to take a picture of 436 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: him or a video of him, and there's parents. Or 437 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: when you're texting me three hundred times when I have 438 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: my super a loud Sean Hannity sound on my phone 439 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: and even Liam knows up. The boss is text and 440 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: everybody knows the sound, so it's very helpful. But you know, 441 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: I'm with him, I'm at the park. Right. Wait a minute, 442 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: I got a character. We gotta play the we gotta 443 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: play the Hannity Hold on, hold on, I gotta turn 444 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: my ringers off. Almost acond, you can't text me. I 445 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: want to know the Hannity sound is. Go ahead. Are 446 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: you ready? M I'm ready? That's it? Are you for me? 447 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: I have I thought it would sound something like this. 448 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: I think you might want to switch it to that. 449 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,959 Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Listen, can't go Roma Cormida Verona. 450 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: But you know the star wars fine, you know. And 451 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: the only one on the staff that gets away with 452 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: not answering me is uncle James. Yes, baby James. You know, 453 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: he just doesn't do phones like the rest of us. No, 454 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: I know, but he does hang up better than anybody. 455 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: I don't know anybody hangs up. Need one? Okay, got it? Click? 456 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: I know, all right, James. I I said I needed 457 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 1: three things. All right? That get the first thing? Now? 458 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: The second thing? Is this? All right? Got it? Click? 459 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: I said three, I need three things. I don't have 460 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: time to make three calls. He is. He is the best. 461 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,959 Speaker 1: There's nobody like sweet baby No, and he's gonna sit here. 462 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: You'll you're gonna lie, I could. I know you're gonna 463 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 1: lie and act like, oh, I answer my phone all 464 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: the time. He never answers his phone. I have to 465 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: text it hello hello sun. True. I mean I don't 466 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that anyone answers in the 467 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: nanosecond that you expect us to. We're all doing our best, 468 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: but actually it's pretty good. People do because I just 469 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: know they have special ring things. They don't want to 470 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: hear what I mean. News happens twenty four hours a day. Yes, 471 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: and I don't care if it's three o'clock in the morning. 472 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: If I'm up, my staff has to be up. That 473 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: is very true. And typically we all are, which is 474 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: which is a lot of fun. You know. I enjoy 475 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 1: those three o'clock in the morning wake ups. They're very 476 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: They're helpful. They keep me on my toast, you know. 477 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: Eight hundred ninety four one sean. If you want to 478 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 1: be a part of the program. 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Sir? Thank you? I called about 504 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. But listening to your last segment on economy, 505 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a disabled combat veteran from Vietnam. But it 506 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: was a delayed kick in in two thousand and eight, 507 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, my whole life crashed and now 508 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm on disability. So did you have PTSD? Well I 509 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: have PTSD, but Agent Orange, oh no, in my heart, 510 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: my lungs and all that stuff. Are you getting the 511 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: treatment you deserve? Absolutely? The VA has been absolutely wonderful. 512 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: I'm so glad to hear it. By the way, Donald 513 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: Trump cleaned up the BEA and and he did more 514 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: than any other president in our lifetime. I'm glad. I'm 515 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: sorry you have it, but I'm glad you're getting the 516 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: help that you deserve. God is good, you know he 517 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: When when this happens, you really look at your blessings. 518 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: You can sit there and grape about your life and 519 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: what's going on, or you just say, God, you gave 520 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: me so much. I can handle this too. So that's 521 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: where you got to work at it, or you'll go crazy. No, 522 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: it's listen. You know what. I get caught up. We 523 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: all get caught up in that. We get caught up 524 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: in the things that we wish we had or the 525 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: things that aren't perfect in life, and we forget about 526 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: all the great things we have in life. I think 527 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: that's just being human. But recognizing that, I think is 528 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: critical for one's personal happiness. If I'm going to spend 529 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: all day focused on the things that that I don't 530 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: like in my life and forget about all the things 531 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: that I'm blessed with, that I'm making a big mistake 532 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: in my opinion. And I'm happiest when I recognize and 533 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: am a appreciative of and grateful for the gifts that 534 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: I have. Yep, what I called about was, you know, 535 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: in the Republican Party, and like right now Donald Trump 536 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: has announced now he you know I would, I would. 537 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: My greatest gift, I mean wish for him is he 538 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: counts his successes and then the problems we have and 539 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: how he's going to solve those instead of attacking other people, 540 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: because that's anybody I know, that's what they criticize. But 541 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: the big thing is we need to have one candidate 542 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 1: after after the primaries. I think the primaries will be great, 543 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: but after the primaries and then and then single messaging, 544 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: and the Republican Party hasn't learned to do that. The 545 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: Democrats are great at it. I tend to agree with 546 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: you up until yesterday the battle over the House Speaker, 547 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: and I'm I'm giving you inside of information because I've 548 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: been in contact with my sources had not been going well, 549 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: and yesterday is kind of a breakthrough day. And you know, 550 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: the good news is, with the majority that they do 551 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: have in the House, I think they've come up with 552 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: an agenda that's really balanced, very well positive agenda. The 553 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: things that they said that they were going to do, 554 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: they're going to vote on. They don't have the luxury 555 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: of having the usual circular firing squad that Republicans are 556 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: known for. And you're right, there's there's enough things that 557 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: we all agree on that we should We should go 558 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: after those things first and then we can you know, 559 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: they can have internal arguments and debates. They should keep 560 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: it private and then come out with their agenda and 561 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: fight hard for it. And they're going to have to. 562 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: You know, they got two weapons at their disposal, the 563 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: power of the purse and the power of subpoena, and 564 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: they need to use it. But we're not going to 565 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: do anything with these hearings unless we can get our 566 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: Republican president and the new Justice Department, because they're the 567 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: ones that prosecute. The Congress finds out. But you know what, 568 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: in two years, we may have all that. I listen, 569 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I don't know whose we know 570 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is running, I don't know who else might 571 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: get in this race. I can't tell you the outcome. 572 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: I can't you know. All I can say is Republicans 573 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: better change their outlook and how they manage elections because 574 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: Democrats have been running circles around them in terms of 575 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: they're playing a very different election game than Republicans are. 576 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: Republicans are doing it the old fashioned way. They're they're 577 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: kissing babies, they're taking selfies, they're holding rallies, they're they're 578 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: giving media vails. They're they're out there on social media. 579 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: They're trying to, you know, shake hands with every single 580 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: person they can. And Democrats they're not kissing babies. They're 581 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: they're hiding in their basement. They're getting hundreds of millions 582 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: of dollars, they're running negative ads, and then they're playing 583 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: the ballot game. And the ballot game in most states 584 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: is making sure that every Democrat that they can ide 585 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: if I gets a ballot, and making sure that that 586 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: ballot is handed in. In some states you're can have 587 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: a family member do it. Some states you're gonna have 588 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: a stranger do it. And they're playing that game way 589 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: better than the Republicans are. And that's why Republicans, you know, 590 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: they've got they've got to get rid of the reluctance 591 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: and the resistance to mail in balloting and early voting 592 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: because you can't start these you can't start election day 593 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: out by hundreds of thousands of votes down. You can't. 594 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: It's mathematically too heavy a lift. And hopefully they're going 595 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: to learn that lesson and they'll get their act together. 596 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: If it happens one more election, it's on them. I 597 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: blame them next time. So we'll see, we'll see what 598 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:42,479 Speaker 1: they do, We'll see what happens.