Speaker 1: Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2: Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
Speaker 2: to be a part of the programs eight hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety four one Sean if you want to join us. Ah,
Speaker 2: look at this, Linda, What am I telling people in
Speaker 2: the Northeast? What have I been telling people around the country?
Speaker 2: Bye bye New York and New Jersey and Chicago. I
Speaker 2: know you hate to get rid of the hot dogs,
Speaker 2: but you can buy them online and make them at
Speaker 2: your own home. They'll be just as good, I promise you.
Speaker 2: In California, you know, with your nose show useless governor,
Speaker 2: the worst governor in the country. Exxon now plans to
Speaker 2: leave high tax, democratic run New Joyse and they are
Speaker 2: relocating to the great state of Texas. God bless Texas.
Speaker 2: Now gas and oil giant Exan Mobile will likely move
Speaker 2: their legal home from New Jersey to Texas after shareholders
Speaker 2: approved a proposal to do so. According to a preliminary count,
Speaker 2: they'd be fullish not to Exon Mobiles board of directors
Speaker 2: unanimously recommended the legal relocation, in mart saying Texas is
Speaker 2: legal and regulatory environment is much more business friendly, aligning
Speaker 2: our legal home with our operating home in a state
Speaker 2: that understands our business and has a stake in the
Speaker 2: company's success is important, said Darren Woods, Exon Mobile CEO.
Speaker 2: The state in which a company has its legal domicile
Speaker 2: is important because it determines their taxes and what laws
Speaker 2: they have to follow. Exon headquartered in a suburb of Houston, Texas,
Speaker 2: but has been incorporated in New Jersey since eighteen eighty two,
Speaker 2: when the company was still Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Speaker 2: According to the company, the company moved its headquarters to Irvine,
Speaker 2: Texas in nineteen eighty nine, and says about seventy five
Speaker 2: percent of the company's US employees now are in the
Speaker 2: Free State of Texas. James Lee, CEO Dallas based Texas
Speaker 2: Stock Exchange, lauded the sharehold to vote in a statement.
Speaker 2: Exxon's move is also a watershed moment for America's capital markets,
Speaker 2: the direct result of Governor Abbott the legislature transforming Texas
Speaker 2: into the top jurisdiction for business in the US. I'd argue,
Speaker 2: my Free State of Florida's right out there, but so
Speaker 2: is Tennessee, so are the Carolinas, and they're seeing massive
Speaker 2: economic growth and this migration doesn't stop out of these
Speaker 2: high taxed, highly regulated states, you know, with their sanctuary
Speaker 2: cities and state policies and the insanity that they're not
Speaker 2: going to help ice arrest people. And we'll get to
Speaker 2: that later in the program today and so on, and
Speaker 2: so can you blame them? Can you blame them? Here's
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. By the time we get to
Speaker 2: the twenty thirty census. You're going to see states like
Speaker 2: New York and New Jersey and Illinois and Minnesota and California,
Speaker 2: They're all all going to be losing congressional seats. Why
Speaker 2: because people can't take it any more. And all these
Speaker 2: companies that represent trillions of dollars in market capitalization on
Speaker 2: now ploys to make similar moves. I've been talking about
Speaker 2: what's happening in Florida.
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 2: I see it with my own eyes. And I love
Speaker 2: the fact Mamdati had to admit that he reached out
Speaker 2: after he after he basically I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: he kind of docked Citadel's Ken Griffin. I don't know
Speaker 2: Ken Griffin. Never talked to Ken Griffin, but he's a
Speaker 2: multi multi billionaire, highly successful. He runs Citadel. And I
Speaker 2: love the fact that after Mamdani pulled that crap on
Speaker 2: him and targeted him and went in front of his
Speaker 2: house in New York City, a very very couple one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar penhouse apartment overlooking park I'm sorry, Fifth
Speaker 2: Avenue in Central Park in New York City. I mean,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure he pays in an enormous amount of
Speaker 2: property taxes on every year.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Mam Donnie, oh.
Speaker 2: I'd like to have a meeting with you, Ken Griffin,
Speaker 2: because Ken Griffin said, you know what, I was going
Speaker 2: to invest six billion dollars in New York City. Now
Speaker 2: I'm not investing that money in New York City. I'm
Speaker 2: going to invest it in Wall Street South, and why
Speaker 2: give New York City the money? And then Mamdannie wanted
Speaker 2: to meet with him, and to his ever, you know,
Speaker 2: to his credit, I don't know the guy. I have
Speaker 2: no idea what his politics are. I don't care what
Speaker 2: his politics are. But he said, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not putting up with his crap. No, I'm not meeting
Speaker 2: with this dopey mayor. I would not be surprised if
Speaker 2: you're looking for a very expensive park view Central park View,
Speaker 2: Fifth Avenue, Penthouse probably one is going to be for
Speaker 2: sale soon. Now I can tell you this that all
Speaker 2: of these Wall Street firms, all of these private equity firms,
Speaker 2: all of these investment firms, all of these big banks,
Speaker 2: they already have a very strong presence everywhere from West
Speaker 2: Palm be Each in the North all the way down
Speaker 2: to Miami, Florida. Miami is going through a boom. Now,
Speaker 2: historically Miami's been a little bit of a boom bust
Speaker 2: real estate market.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure it goes bust. You know.
Speaker 2: I was talking to the other day about this very question.
Speaker 2: Was our friend Keith Linda, you know who that is,
Speaker 2: the inventor, Keith my friend, and he was asking what
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, because he knows I know real estate,
Speaker 2: and I've been a passion of mine for a long time.
Speaker 2: And I said, you know, I'm not sure because historically
Speaker 2: Miami's been a little boom bust and you get a
Speaker 2: lot of money outside investment. All these condos go up,
Speaker 2: they overbuild, and the prices tank and then people get
Speaker 2: bargains and they sell them. Then the market comes back.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, its growth has been so astronomical. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure that that happens this time. All the way looking
Speaker 2: at the stock market today, another record here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oil prices are down like twenty bucks the barrel of oil.
Speaker 2: But that'll never get reported by the news. But you know,
Speaker 2: one of the most interesting things that I read today
Speaker 2: that ought to really anger every single solitary American is
Speaker 2: what Joe Biden is now saying to sell her book.
Speaker 2: And it's a it's a revelation in her memoir, the
Speaker 2: view from the East Wing, in the East Wing, the
Speaker 2: one where the one big, great, beautiful ballroom is going
Speaker 2: to be, I'm pretty sure. So she writes that on
Speaker 2: the on their bathroom mirror. She would at times leave
Speaker 2: inspirational messages like you are my hero, Linda, What have
Speaker 2: you ever said, I'm your hero? Never do you say
Speaker 2: that to Anthony? Do you leave messages like that to Anthony?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, you are my hero?
Speaker 4: I think that's a little weird.
Speaker 2: Get up, Champ, Get up, he leaves. Those are the
Speaker 2: messages she's acknowledging she left for you. Get up, Joey, Joey,
Speaker 2: time to sit and eat, Joey. We have a meeting
Speaker 2: we're going.
Speaker 4: To lead you the babysitter. Didn't he like marry the babysitter?
Speaker 4: Isn't that? I mean, the whole thing's kind.
Speaker 1: Of weird, right, Everything about this family is weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm out anyway they talk to each other.
Speaker 1: It's weird, all right.
Speaker 2: Sometimes she would sneak in messages on policy, relying on
Speaker 2: her ability to be frank and open with the leader
Speaker 2: of the free world in ways that others could not.
Speaker 2: You know, one thing I've known about Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: you could always be honest with Donald Trump. I've known
Speaker 2: the guy for thirty years. I can tell him anything.
Speaker 2: You know, I did Sage Steele's podcast. Do you like
Speaker 2: Stage Stage Steal as much as I do? I love
Speaker 2: Stage Steel? You I know why you would love her
Speaker 2: because of her courage during COVID and she just, you know,
Speaker 2: questioned why her company was forcing her to take an
Speaker 2: experimental shot, and you know, she ends and then she
Speaker 2: made one controversial comment which is really controversial on a
Speaker 2: trans issue, and she got fired.
Speaker 1: I mean, and she was willing to do it. So
Speaker 1: I admire so much.
Speaker 2: So she made she made me say things I never
Speaker 2: thought i'd ever because you know, me I'm more of
Speaker 2: a private person than people know. I just I don't
Speaker 2: like to give up too much. I hate I was
Speaker 2: telling her some of the stories about me as a
Speaker 2: kid getting in trouble, the incorrigible Sean Hannity, and she
Speaker 2: was like eating this, halt up.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious.
Speaker 2: And then at one point Ainsley calls me, I don't
Speaker 2: think that part's aired yet, and uh, and we aired
Speaker 2: that call.
Speaker 1: We aired, we.
Speaker 2: Aired my conversation. Then they these two start talking and
Speaker 2: I'm like, kept out of the conversation.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? I think it's great.
Speaker 1: I think it's fun, funny.
Speaker 4: You know, that's more real than what a lot of
Speaker 4: people would have done. So it's kind of fun that
Speaker 4: you and Ainsley get to be a part of that
Speaker 4: conversation and people get to be a part of just
Speaker 4: being a normal person. Like, hold on a second, my
Speaker 4: wife's calling. I got to answer the call. You know.
Speaker 4: That's cool, all.
Speaker 2: Right, everyone's gonna take from that comment that I'm married.
Speaker 2: There are all these images online of my wedding that
Speaker 2: has not taken place.
Speaker 1: Have you seen them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's also pictures of you with I've seen twins, triplets, quadruplets.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you you're very busy twins.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you fit it in Sean, It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're loving every minute of this p I make
Speaker 1: these ar Wait.
Speaker 4: The best one, I'm sorry, hands down is the one
Speaker 4: where you're crying at the altar.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, me crying and she's singing a song to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, give me a break, I'm crying. Oh man,
Speaker 2: that goes my man card. People are gonna and they
Speaker 2: comment on it, and people believe this. I've had some
Speaker 2: of my best friends call me and say, well, you
Speaker 2: didn't have to invite me, but you could have at
Speaker 2: least told me. And I'm like, it's not real. It's
Speaker 2: a I And they're like, no, no, no, I saw
Speaker 2: the pictures. You don't have to lie to me. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not lying to you. It's crazy. I mean to
Speaker 2: be in the public eye, you know. And we'll talk
Speaker 2: about this another anyway. So Joe Biden writes that she
Speaker 2: puts all this stuff. And here's the worst part of
Speaker 2: all of this. The moment after the debate, as the
Speaker 2: president walked off the stage the debate, he whispered, I
Speaker 2: really effed up, didn't I? She writes, Yes, you did.
Speaker 2: I whispered back. But that's not even the worst part
Speaker 2: of it. Jill Biden thought her husband was having a
Speaker 2: stroke on the debate stage, but she didn't make him
Speaker 2: step down. I've only that's the only time I've ever
Speaker 2: seen him this way, and he's never been like that since,
Speaker 2: and he was never like that before. I am calling
Speaker 2: complete bs on all of it. And when I think
Speaker 2: of all of the grief that I took starting in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen before the twenty twenty election and pointing out
Speaker 2: his obvious and significant cognitive decline, you know, I took
Speaker 2: so much crap for this, And meanwhile I was more
Speaker 2: right than I ever knew. And for her to say, oh,
Speaker 2: I never saw it before, I haven't seen it since,
Speaker 2: and I thought he was having a stroke. If you
Speaker 2: thought your husband was having a stroke, why didn't you
Speaker 2: walk out on the stage. Why did you let him
Speaker 2: Why didn't you let him step down? Why were you
Speaker 2: fighting for him to stand stay in this race as
Speaker 2: hard as they did. Anyway, here's this a reminder of
Speaker 2: how bad he was, you know, during his presidency.
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Speaker 5: Some of the political players and some of the.
Speaker 1: Let me ask rhetorical questions.
Speaker 2: No, anyway, I don't believe what she's saying. I've never
Speaker 2: seen it before. I never saw it after. And meanwhile,
Speaker 2: we were playing it pretty much every day on this
Speaker 2: radio program, we were playing it on TV, playing it
Speaker 2: all the time. You know, and you know, oh he
Speaker 2: he may have actually been drugged is a recent excuse.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean there were times, you know, he would disappear
Speaker 2: before any big moment for like a week, week and
Speaker 2: a half. Remember that, I don't know what the hell
Speaker 2: they were infusing with. Who knows what was going on.
Speaker 4: It's all such an because remember kjp's famous line. I mean,
Speaker 4: I could barely keep up with him. I just can't
Speaker 4: even keep up with him.
Speaker 1: So he could get about petrol and Patty. That was
Speaker 1: Jen Saki, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: No, it was both of them. But KJP said it
Speaker 4: all the time. Oh he's so active.
Speaker 1: Give me a break, said it to Jen Saki. Circle
Speaker 1: back about.
Speaker 6: The Preston's health regime. We hear he's lifting weights. What
Speaker 6: sort of weights is he lifting? Does he have a
Speaker 6: personal trainer? And what happened to his pedoton bike? Did
Speaker 6: he bring it to the to the White House.
Speaker 3: I didn't know where this was going, but I'm intrigued
Speaker 3: by it. I will say I have nothing to read
Speaker 3: on on the president's private exercise, but I can tell you,
Speaker 3: having traveled with him a fair amount, sometimes he's.
Speaker 1: Hard to keep up with. Hard to keep up with,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Circle back, Peppermint Patty probably is in really bad shape, Linda.
Speaker 2: By the way, we have a new poll out today.
Speaker 2: Karen Bass Spencer Pratt are locked at a very tight
Speaker 2: battle for la mayor. Bass has twenty six percent of
Speaker 2: the vote and Pratt twenty two percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: He's down by four points that that's within the margin
Speaker 2: of error. You know, if people want change in LA
Speaker 2: and he's sick and tired of it. He got a shot.
Speaker 4: Leave, didn't you?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 4: Newsome today endors Bass. But when he did, he announced
Speaker 4: that he is not letting any police, any ice, anybody
Speaker 4: near the polling stations. Nobody's going to be.
Speaker 1: Able to said something else yet, I need yesterday. That
Speaker 1: was stupid. Do you remember what it was?
Speaker 4: His mouth was moving, so anything he's that was stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No show governor, worst governor in a country?
Speaker 2: Watching Fox News, a man accused of wanting to kill
Speaker 2: threatening to kill Erica Kirk. What the hell is wrong
Speaker 2: with people? This woman, this family has not suffered enough.
Speaker 2: He lost her husband, he was assassinated before the country.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to weigh in and can we just leave
Speaker 2: this woman alone? And just ah, what is wrong with people?
Speaker 2: There's so much evil and sickness in this world.
Speaker 1: Exposing left wing media bias. No stone left unturned. The
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Speaker 2: By twenty five now till the top of the hour,
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Speaker 2: I guess who we dropped on the podcast today? Yeah,
Speaker 2: to take a take the great one. Mark Levin, Oh.
Speaker 4: You know what's funny? Were you on his show last night?
Speaker 2: I was on a guess what I was on his
Speaker 2: show last night? We were talking together.
Speaker 4: Soah, his producer, his executive producer is Rich Semester, the producer, Yes,
Speaker 4: who is a dear friend. Love that guy. And he
Speaker 4: texts me last night and he goes, guess who's on
Speaker 4: right now? And I said, I have no idea who's on.
Speaker 4: He goes, mister Hannity. I started laughing. I said, oh
Speaker 4: my god, you got the two of them on the
Speaker 4: air together. I said, forget about the show's done, Go
Speaker 4: go get lunch. You're good.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how it goes between us. You know,
Speaker 2: it's so and you know, we didn't even get into
Speaker 2: this in the pod, but we did talk a lot
Speaker 2: about We did talk about our love of Rush, how
Speaker 2: hard it was when we lost, and we talked about
Speaker 2: that last night, and you know how he can never
Speaker 2: be replaced. I tell a funny story about me Mark
Speaker 2: and Rush on the podcast is very very you know,
Speaker 2: the story about the wine and the lunch.
Speaker 4: I actually do know that story, and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It is so Mark Levin. It is so funny because
Speaker 2: it's just him being him and it's hilarious, and you know,
Speaker 2: he you know, and we just talk about we all
Speaker 2: know that all of us that are in the opinion business,
Speaker 2: whether they want to acknowledge it or not, but those
Speaker 2: of us that do acknowledge it and appreciate the path
Speaker 2: that he forged for all of us. You asked me today,
Speaker 2: is Catherine Limbaugh coming on the show? Told me she
Speaker 2: might come on.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was going to be a little surprise for
Speaker 4: the audience, but hey, let's start now. Why not? Yes?
Speaker 4: I got an email from someone and our friend Jen Robinson,
Speaker 4: and she said that Catherine Limball is doing a.
Speaker 1: Series from Jennen Forever love her.
Speaker 4: Well, she's my friend now I stole her, but she's amazing.
Speaker 4: And she reached out. No, she says, hi, and she said, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, Catherine Limball is doing a limited interview circuit
Speaker 4: on this new release that she's got coming up on
Speaker 4: the anniversary of the two hundred and fiftieth of our nation,
Speaker 4: specifically geared towards children. So I was like, Oh, that's
Speaker 4: very cool.
Speaker 2: Remember they did that series of books together. You know
Speaker 2: who who's very close to them loves them a lot
Speaker 2: is Laura and Eric Trump very close And no, I
Speaker 2: get updates. I mean, I can't believe it's been five years.
Speaker 2: You know, I said it at the time, and I
Speaker 2: said this last night to Mark, and I think I
Speaker 2: say it on the podcast too, is I can't believe
Speaker 2: it's been five years. I just can't. And I remember
Speaker 2: saying at the time, is this whole story? And I
Speaker 2: went into it with Mark last night on I got
Speaker 2: David Limbaugh, Russia's brother. He's maybe one of the most
Speaker 2: dynamic Christian apologetic authors in the country. He writes amazing
Speaker 2: best selling books, and he's been my agent my whole career,
Speaker 2: going back to my first radio contract for Crying Out Loud.
Speaker 2: And he's a dear, dear friend of both me and Mark.
Speaker 2: He also represents Mark. I'm not I don't think this
Speaker 2: is any surprise that I'm revealing here. And we've had
Speaker 2: David on the program many times and love David. He's
Speaker 2: got a heart of gold. And Russia's niece, Kristen was
Speaker 2: my assistant for a while until you know, she had
Speaker 2: a bunch of kids. Since she's now raising them all
Speaker 2: and we stay in constant contact. We think the world
Speaker 2: of her. And anyway, we were just talking about what
Speaker 2: I said. Well, first of all, the day I got
Speaker 2: a heads up just moments before Rush was about to
Speaker 2: announce that he had been diagnosed with stage four advanced
Speaker 2: lung cancer.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, it hit.
Speaker 2: Me like a ton of bricks, and he said, I
Speaker 2: couldn't tell you. Obviously, I'm scorn to secrecy for my brother. However,
Speaker 2: I am aware that he's going to make this announcement.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be that long, and then this
Speaker 2: is now you're going to be on the air, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that this is you know you. I wanted
Speaker 2: you to give you at least a little heads up
Speaker 2: to prepare. And I listened to that announcement by Rush
Speaker 2: with Mark on the phone. We were both crying. I mean,
Speaker 2: because he's had such a profound influence on all of
Speaker 2: us and there's nobody that could ever replace him as
Speaker 2: which is what I said at the time. But you
Speaker 2: knew when you heard it that it was a death sentence,
Speaker 2: and you know, and people I remember, remember sweet baby
Speaker 2: James would always bring me in the commentary of people
Speaker 2: like on on chapboards and Free Republic back of the day.
Speaker 1: Now it's x and people are vicious.
Speaker 2: You can't read this or else unless you really want
Speaker 2: to feel bad about yourself. And that's the danger for
Speaker 2: kids because they read this stuff and they get impacted
Speaker 2: by it. But I've had, you know, thirty five years
Speaker 2: in the public eye of practice, and I don't give
Speaker 2: a fly and rip what any of these people say.
Speaker 2: And they do it often, and I'm like, good, I'm glad,
Speaker 2: you know who I am.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that day, we're listening and we're both upset,
Speaker 2: We're both you know, we couldn't believe it be was
Speaker 2: pretty much anybody who knows anything about stage four advanced
Speaker 2: lung cancer. That's kind of admitting that you're gonna that's
Speaker 2: a death sentence. And I look up at the clock
Speaker 2: and I know you were there. I know you were
Speaker 2: working that day, and I think I even said to you,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: I you know, I was trying to get my act
Speaker 1: to get a white minds.
Speaker 4: Well we found out it was it was two fifty four,
Speaker 4: so we literally had I mean six minutes before three,
Speaker 4: and then you know, another five before we went live,
Speaker 4: and I just think the whole studio, all of us
Speaker 4: were just like, uh, all right, what do we do now?
Speaker 1: It was awful, And many of his staff were still
Speaker 1: in New York and we're from Yeah to this day,
Speaker 1: Mike Mike Mamone works for what a rush called Mike
Speaker 1: Both Snardley. I still love both Snardley.
Speaker 2: I mean, how could you not love the greatest call
Speaker 2: screener in the history of call screening in terms of
Speaker 2: he would fight with callers and be doing his own
Speaker 2: separate show, yelling at them, hanging up on them, screaming
Speaker 2: at him, cursing, Adam. It was it was a show show.
Speaker 2: It was the entertainment at the highest level. And we
Speaker 2: lost Kick Carson a lot of years ago. He's a
Speaker 2: great guy and he just had a wonderful team and
Speaker 2: Mike Mamone, who ran you know, his board the entire
Speaker 2: time he was syndicated, and anyway, he's just had a
Speaker 2: profound impact on all of us. And then I just
Speaker 2: remember I listened to the tone, the cadence, the pitch,
Speaker 2: the tenor that he had that day in making that announcement.
Speaker 2: Which is probably one of the most challenging things anybody
Speaker 2: would ever have to do. And I just in my head,
Speaker 2: I just said, follow that, Cadence. I didn't know what
Speaker 2: I was going to say. I never went back to
Speaker 2: listen to it. I never will listen to it. I
Speaker 2: don't want to listen to it. But I did say
Speaker 2: that nobody can ever replace him. I knew, you know,
Speaker 2: And I said that after he passed. I can't believe
Speaker 2: it was five years. I was so glad the President
Speaker 2: gave him the Medal of Freedom and that was such
Speaker 2: a special day and enormous that he wasn't feeling well.
Speaker 2: And then here's the great thing. And I want everybody
Speaker 2: in this audience to know, because many of you that
Speaker 2: listen to talk radio, you know, obviously you knew Rush. Yes,
Speaker 2: when sweet Baby James would ham me, you're no Rush Limb.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, you're right, You're absolutely right. There's only
Speaker 2: one Babe Ruth, and to be in the same lineup
Speaker 2: as Babe Ruth is a pretty cool thing. That's all
Speaker 2: I would say. And I said, I know what he
Speaker 2: would want from all of you, and that would be
Speaker 2: that we all doubled down quadruple down and fight for
Speaker 2: all the things that he believed deep down in his
Speaker 2: heart and in his soul. And that's what we try
Speaker 2: to do on the show every day, do our part
Speaker 2: and up our game and do our best. And there
Speaker 2: are crazy people even within our movement that are saying
Speaker 2: the most insane things that I know Rush would never
Speaker 2: agree with, ever under any circumstances. But putting that aside,
Speaker 2: here was the most amazing part of that story. Is
Speaker 2: what people didn't know is when he would fly and
Speaker 2: get his treatments. When you have cancer that severe, they
Speaker 2: have maybe three quarters of the way kill you to
Speaker 2: try to save you or to extend your life. And
Speaker 2: Rush went through brutal, brutal treatments, and we learned something
Speaker 2: about Rush. Rush could have retired, had enough money for
Speaker 2: the rest of his life, and then some it wasn't
Speaker 2: about money for Rush at all, and then whether he
Speaker 2: was feeling well or not. As soon as he was able,
Speaker 2: we learned what Russia's bucket list was. To get back
Speaker 2: on the air, to be with his audience, you know,
Speaker 2: to express his views, to do as he would say
Speaker 2: what he was born to do. With talent on loan
Speaker 2: from God, tell him a loan from God, I mean,
Speaker 2: in his booming voice. And then Linda loves to tell
Speaker 2: the story the day I filled him once, the first
Speaker 2: time I filled him for Rush, it was the disaster.
Speaker 4: I don't know why you don't like that story. That's
Speaker 4: a great story.
Speaker 1: And don't you dare play the tape.
Speaker 4: I'm not playing it. I know, I know I have
Speaker 4: the trust me. I know I'm not allowed to play.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying in the middle of the opening
Speaker 2: monologue and I'm beginning to finally feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: I don't get I don't get nervous doing radio. I
Speaker 2: don't get nervous doing TV. I don't get nervous doing
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 1: I just don't. Some people do.
Speaker 2: Some people on stage fright and they fight through it.
Speaker 2: Some people throw up before they ever have to give
Speaker 2: a public speech. It's just their routine. But I never
Speaker 2: had that. But I did feel it that day. I
Speaker 2: remember in the middle of the opening monologue of that
Speaker 2: show and I'm thinking, oh my gosh, six hundred stations.
Speaker 1: Are hearing me right now.
Speaker 2: And I wasn't syndicated at the time, and I just
Speaker 2: couldn't believe the microphone the golden EIB mic and it
Speaker 2: was gold It just dropped off the mic stand just
Speaker 2: dropped and I'm like, I put my head down and
Speaker 2: on this distorted position, just kept pushing through. Finished the
Speaker 2: monologue and I'm like, oh my gosh, what did I do?
Speaker 2: Rush didn't miss a beat. Here's about a comn Hannity
Speaker 2: dented the golden EIB microphone.
Speaker 1: I mean, just tongue in cheek. Rush. It was just great.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe people were so stupid they thought it
Speaker 2: was sacrilegious when he said talent alone from God. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, think of the humility behind that statement.
Speaker 2: He's saying that if he has any talent, it comes
Speaker 2: from God. Do some people are so humorless and dumb
Speaker 2: and it just cracked me up. Or the people that
Speaker 2: would come to New York and be looking for the
Speaker 2: EIB building in New York City in Midtown Manhattan, it
Speaker 2: never existed.
Speaker 1: There was no EIB building.
Speaker 2: We broadcast from the quote EIB Building, which was two
Speaker 2: Penn Plaza abo Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: That's where it was at the time. Not there anymore.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Uh, I just I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 2: you wondered, I'm sorry, what are you saying? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I forgot that anyway, So Levin's on the podcast. We
Speaker 2: do talk about that and a lot of other stuff,
Speaker 2: and you know, what does it really mean? Where did Levin,
Speaker 2: you know, get this this this knowledge, this desire to
Speaker 2: study our framers, our founders, and the great philosophers you
Speaker 2: know that influenced the thought of these amazing people, which
Speaker 2: is kind of appropriate considering it's the two hundred and
Speaker 2: fiftieth anniversary of our great country. And I can tell
Speaker 2: you this, and it's one of those things in life
Speaker 2: like we maybe some of us thought that rush would
Speaker 2: be there forever, and maybe you thought your parents would
Speaker 2: be there, your grandparents would be there forever, or the
Speaker 2: things that we take for granted every single day in life.
Speaker 2: I believe this is the greatest, single, best country God
Speaker 2: ever gave man. I really believe that. I know that
Speaker 2: to be true, and it is. You know, this is
Speaker 2: why we're in this battle over you know, statism, socialism, communism,
Speaker 2: whatever you are, knew green deal ism, and the Democrats
Speaker 2: want to shove it down our throat with false promises
Speaker 2: of cradle to gray, womb to the twob it has
Speaker 2: been tried, and whatever form, whatever name, whatever manifestation it
Speaker 2: has taken on, it always ends the same way, always
Speaker 2: without fail and that is unfulfilled promises, more poverty than
Speaker 2: when you started, and a loss of freedom in the
Speaker 2: name of false security. And I say it often, how
Speaker 2: are your government schools doing? Not too good? More per capital?
Speaker 2: We spend on kids in education than any industrialized country
Speaker 2: in like forty eighth and results.
Speaker 1: You can't screw up that bad in life? Or you know.
Speaker 2: How's the lock box, the Social Security lock box doing.
Speaker 2: They squandered it, they rated it. You know how's government
Speaker 2: healthcare doing a disaster? Every promise keep your doctor, keep
Speaker 2: your plans, save money. Well, okay, millions lost their doctors,
Speaker 2: millions lost their plans, and the average Americans saving over
Speaker 2: three US paying over three hundred percent more.
Speaker 1: It's madness, you know. Now, I do.
Speaker 2: Love our Department of War and we need the biggest, baddest, toughest,
Speaker 2: meanest military on the face of the earth to protect
Speaker 2: and preserve freedom for future generations. You know, just like
Speaker 2: I have no desire to argue with idiots that don't
Speaker 2: understand we can't pass on to our children and grandchildren,
Speaker 2: a new durant and say it's going to be easy.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump doesn't know what it means to take on
Speaker 2: something easy. He does what no other president and our
Speaker 2: lifetime has ever done. He takes on everything that is challenging, difficult, hard,
Speaker 2: but also the right thing to do. That makes him
Speaker 2: consequential and transformational, and I believe that will define his presidency.
Speaker 2: Now we'll get into the latest the updates that we
Speaker 2: have as it relates to Iran coming up. You know,
Speaker 2: and look at where we're look at the Democratic Party,
Speaker 2: look at James tell Rico. We'll play this later, trying
Speaker 2: to back off every crazy. There are six genders. I'm
Speaker 2: running a vegan campaign. Let's put a welcome Matt on
Speaker 2: the southern border. God is non binary, good luck in Texas,
Speaker 2: not going to work? Or the lunatic you know, Nazi
Speaker 2: tattooed moron in Maine, or the idiot that's running in
Speaker 2: Michigan for the Democrats, or AOC or Mamdani or the
Speaker 2: squad or Bernie, Grandpa Bernie, or you know Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 2: The party has been taken over by nutcases. They're crazy.
Speaker 2: In Seattle, the socialist mayor declared that you won't investigate fraud.
Speaker 2: Of course, they're gonna have a wealth tax out there too.
Speaker 2: And then you know what, The net result is more
Speaker 2: mass migration out of blue states into free states. And
Speaker 2: wait till I tell you the story what Exon's doing
Speaker 2: out of They're leaving New Jersey, going to Texas.
Speaker 1: That's the headline. We'll give you more on that.