WEBVTT - Best of Hannity: Learning from Teddy 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.680 To Sean Hannity Show. Eight hundred and nine to one, 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:04.840 Shawn is a number you want to be a part 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:09.000 of the program. We welcome to the program. Welcome back 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.119 to the program. Our friend Brett Barr. He's the host 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.720 of Special Report on the Fox News Channel. And by 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.640 the way, he's written an amazing new book. It's called 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.800 to Rescue the American Spirit Teddy Roosevelt, The Birth of 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:27.120 a Superpower. I think there is a lot of relevancy 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.680 and a lot of similarities to what we are seeing 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.919 unfold in terms of the re emergence of American strength 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.240 on the world stage now under President Trump. But Brett 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.080 Bhar always a pleasure to have you back, sir. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.760 How are you hey, Sean? It is a crazy time. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:42.960 Thanks for having me back. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.480 I think I'm more often a guest with you, though. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.879 I mean, I like when you're hosting election nights. I 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.600 get to go on and give my commentary. And I 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.680 think the last election, I think everybody on that panel, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.960 there might have been twelve people on that panel. We're 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.880 looking at me like, Okay, he's really over his skis. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.080 And I even said, well, if I'm wrong, you can 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.760 print Hannity's wrong. T shirts, and I laid out what 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.880 was going to happen the rest of election night about 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.679 nine thirty in the evening, and I said, at this point, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.400 for Kamala Harris to win the race, she's gonna lose 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.360 North Carolina Georgia, which you called shortly thereafter, and she 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.440 had no chance in Arizona, and she would likely lose Nevada, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.480 which meant she would have to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, in Wisconsin. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.840 And then I explained why she was she had a 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.560 math problem because her numbers were weighed down from where 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.600 Joe Biden had been four years earlier. I think everybody 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.560 on that panel, I don't know about you. I don't 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.040 know what you would think. And you kind of was 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.080 Stoic was looking at me like he's nuts. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.400 He's got the roadmap. Bill Hammer and I were like 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.840 trying to keep up. But it turned out everything that 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.200 you said early on nine thirty, I think it might 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.680 have been before nine thirty, it turned out to be right, 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.640 you know, only within within an hour a hour and 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:57.040 a half. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.000 You know, it was an amazing night in the historic night. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.640 And and this is what we live for in this business, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.440 isn't it. I mean, those nights that are big news nights. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.360 You love it. I love it, you know, traveling with 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.520 the President of the United States, interviewing presidents and vice 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.800 presidents and secretaries of States and foreign leaders. You know, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.440 to me, it's it's an honor to be able to 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.920 do all of it. And and we both have had, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.960 you know, successful careers, and it's it's a lot of fun. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.720 And I'm honored that people give us that opportunity every. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.760 Night one percent. And those elections are like our super Bowl, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.520 and those big moments when you're traveling with the president 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.440 or interviewing a president is there's nothing like that. You know, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.840 Teddy Roosevelt gives the speech in Paris that eventually becomes 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.240 known as the Man in the Arena, And you could say, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:56.400 in this job, you're in the arena. You're covering stuff 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.400 that is historic and moving the needle and actual a 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.760 lot of people. So you know Teddy Roosevelt's words, it's 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.000 not the critic who counts. Not the man who points 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.760 out to the strong man stumbles or where the doer 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.280 of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.560 the man who is actually in the arena. And he 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.320 goes on and it's one of his most famous speeches. 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.560 I want to get to your book in a second. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.320 I would argue, in the last presidential cycle, you had 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.120 the most consequential interview of anybody. And that's when Kamala 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.280 Harris agreed to sit down with you. And if I'm 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.720 I'm mistaken, tell me he was supposed to be there 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.680 and correct me if I'm wrong. Your show's on at 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.400 six eastern and she was supposed to show up at 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.120 five point fifteen. Am I wrong about that? 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.040 Yeah? So what happened was she wanted to do a 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.600 pre tape and her event was going to end at 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.480 four thirty, and I said, we will be ready at 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:57.160 four thirty, but we have to be done by five 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.600 point fifteen because we have to cueue the tape up 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.880 and we were planning on doing half an hour and 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.160 we had to run it at the top of six, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.480 so at the last possibility, we have to start taping 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.880 at five point fifteen. And she finished her event at 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.720 four twenty. She went to a holding room right outside 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.760 where our interview was set up, and we didn't hear 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.839 from her, And so it was four point thirty and 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.279 four forty four forty five four fifty five o'clock, five 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.919 oh five. Now my producers are pacing, people are pulling 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.320 their hair out. Five ten. Again, the cutoff is five fifteen. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.840 The Vice president walked out of that door at five 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.359 fourteen thirty and walked to the seat and sat down 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.200 and I said, mad and Vice President, it was an 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.160 interesting event outside, thank you for being here. And she 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.440 looked at me and said you ready. And that's the 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.520 two words she said when we started the interview. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.640 So what's fascinating about it? She had done very few 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.600 real interviews, I would argue up to that point, maybe none, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.640 And I thought it was it was a consequential moment. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.080 And and that's a tough position, I think for you 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.719 to be in, because I'm on the opinion side of 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.920 Fox News. You're on the news side of Fox News, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.400 and there is a delineation and people sometimes don't understand that. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.599 But I think I have a lot more flexibility, which 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.520 I prefer. I think your job is a little bit 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.280 harder in that respect. But there were so many unanswered 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.160 questions that that had had been hanging out there, and 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.600 you had a very small window to get them in, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.919 and that it made that interview that much harder. And 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.840 I give you a lot of credit in that interview 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.880 because you did press her and when she tried to filibuster, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.880 you know, you understood the time was short and you 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.440 really needed to get some questions in here. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.000 Yeah, and you know it is a balance, and you 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 know you can follow up up again and again, and 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.279 you know my rule is three times and the audience 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.440 knows she's not answering the question. But there were a 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.359 couple of times where she stopped and said, Brett, you 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.800 know what I'm talking about, and I said, matter if 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:15.840 I president, No, I. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:21.120 Don't, not really. And you know, I don't think anyone 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.400 still ever got an answer to the question, do you 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.479 still support taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegals and 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.080 for convicts. I don't think anyone ever got that question, in. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.679 Which arguably was the most effective commercial that ran during 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.279 football games in the NFL. Leaving up it was huge. Yeah, well, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.840 well it's coming to fight, I think, and she wanted 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.480 that fight. And believe it or not, when we wrapped up, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.719 and there was a hard wrap by their people, you know, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.400 saying you've got to finish, which is why we I 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.160 was going to say at the end, if you win, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.200 how can you bring the country together? I could never 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.760 get there because they were wrapping me so hard. But 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.240 at the end, her people said, that's what we wanted. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.120 We wanted it to be tough, we wanted her to 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.600 push back. I just didn't think that that was the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.880 best look in the in the interview itself. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.320 And I think, what did they cut it down to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.680 that eighteen minutes instead of a half hour, you weren't 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.160 able to go the time that it had been promised. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.040 An allocator for you, if I recall. So, I've been 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.000 reading your book and I'm fascinated by Teddy Roosevelt, and 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.760 I'm fascinated like you are, by history, and it's it's 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.840 kind of amazing. I was amazed at the parallels of 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.200 Teddy Roosevelt's time in the birth of a superpower, and 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.120 I felt America in terms of its stature in the 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.840 world declined dramatically. Again, this is my opinion during Biden, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.720 especially the disastrous pull out in Afghanistan. And I think 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:57.640 that President Trump has reasserted American leadership and dominance and 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.320 strength as a superpower since he's gotten back into office 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.280 in a way that I don't think anybody anticipated. Or imagined. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.080 You know, the Iranian nuclear strike would be an example, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.560 you know, working so hard to get peace in the 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.760 Middle East and the release of the hostages. I saw 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:19.560 China today had had bought into not exactly a boycott, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.960 but they're pulling back on the purchasing of Russian oil 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.240 because of the terriff issue that's now associated with it, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.280 which is Trump exerting, you know, economic strength of the US. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.160 But I saw a lot of parallels between Teddy Roosevelt 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.600 and President Trump and what he's doing. Now do you 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.720 see those parallels and how would you describe them? 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.840 Yeah, I see the direct parallels. I mean, it's not 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.640 one to wan across the board on ideology, on everything, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.640 but it is first of all a force of personality 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.120 and a figure that's larger than lives, but one who 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.000 one wants to reach forward and be active in the world. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.480 You know, for all of the people who say President 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.680 Trump and who's administration and America first was going to 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:07.880 be isolationist, it's exactly opposite of that. It is America 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.840 thinking about America, what's good for America, but also being 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.240 forceful in the world. And you look at how some 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.480 of these leaders are reacting to President Trump. You know 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.600 the Gulf States, how that first trip, you know, they 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.280 all put out the red carpet in a way that 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.040 they had never done before. And now we're integral in 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:34.600 making the ceasefire work and hopefully hold between Israel and Hamas. So, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.800 you know, Roosevelt, this book kind of is centered on 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.560 his legacy to position the United States as this world power, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.680 and his most significant one of them was brokering this 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.360 peace deal between Russia and Japan, and he arranges for 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.240 the two sides to hold a peace conference in Portsmouth, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.040 New Hampshire, and he really works behind the scenes, as 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.400 President Trump did in a lot of these different peace 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.040 negotiations that he's done. He works behind the scenes to 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.160 kind of reach an agreement, and Roosevelt the result of 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.560 that is a nobel pras he later, when Japan gets 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.600 a little ornery and things are strained, he comes up 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.880 with the idea to show American force and ships of 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.640 the American fleet all painted white from battleship Gray and 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.560 he creates the Great White Fleet, and he sails the 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.319 fleet around the world in a peaceful demonstration of kind 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.840 of American might and the reminder of its power. And promise, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.040 and I just think that that has similarities about our 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.400 strength around the world and what the president, President Trump 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.120 is trying to do. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.680 Let me ask you, I think i'd be negligent because 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.680 I mean, there's so much history in this book, which 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.560 is pretty amazing, and I urge people to get a 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.760 copy of it. And it's called to Rescue the American 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.200 Spirit Teddy Roosevelt, The Birth of a Superpower. It's on 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.280 Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com, bookstores around the country. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:07.000 I often criticize the media. I think the media generally speaking, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.160 I've made the argument that I believe legacy media is dead. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.600 I think it died in this election. I think Donald 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.920 Trump has forever tattooed the words fake and news into 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:23.280 the forehead of CNNMSDNC and the three major networks. I 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.880 think people are more skeptical than ever before. Do you 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.640 have an assessment of where they've gone wrong? I thought 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.840 it was interesting Barry Weiss asking the sixty Minutes team, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.960 why does the country think you're all biased? That's an 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.360 interesting question because most people I know believe they're very biased. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:49.240 Yeah, and clearly the Paramount Purchase is interested in finding 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:54.800 more balance and an effort to get back to some 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.760 semblance of coverage that's there. Listen, We've talked about this, Sean, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.440 you and I and you know, I'm not where you 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.640 are as far as giving up. I think that there 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.760 are still some good reporters out there and some good folks. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.480 But I do think that President Trump in the first 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.040 term and the second term broke the minds of some 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.000 reporters that were normal, straight down the middle guys and women, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:25.199 and the emotion that came with their pushback became Trump 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.040 derangement syndrome, and it showed in almost every story that 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.040 they did. And so then we got years of Russia, Russia, Russia, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.640 and to your credit, you, you know, you really pushed 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.600 back with substance and were one of the leading people 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.720 on you know, pushing back on all the narratives. Eventually 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.360 it all came much like your election night predictions came 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.640 to be, and you know, the coverage of that was 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.280 not to be seen around the country. So I think 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.720 people got set up and looked at a lot of 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.079 this and said I'm sick of it. Now. I will 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.720 say that six to seven Special Report, we're trying to 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.600 do all sides, and we're trying to give it. You 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.360 know that people have a sense of what's happening in 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.760 the US and around the world with some analysis at 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.280 the end. It's a different animal, you know than an 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.520 opinion show. But I think it's one of the only 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:27.000 places left that is kind of trying to do it. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.360 I'll be honest. I think it's it. I don't see 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.440 it anywhere else. I just don't, which is a credit 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.280 to you and Fox in my view. Yeah, anyway, the 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.520 book is great. A lot of kudos to you. I 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.360 urge everybody to get a copy of it. To rescue 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.559 the American Spirit, Teddie Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.640 We have a link on Hannity dot com or you 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.240 can go to Amazon dot com or bookstores now all 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.040 across the country. My friend colleague Repbaer host a special 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.480 report six pm Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Sir, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.040 thank you always a pleasure and we appreciate you coming 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:01.480 on with us. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.480 Thank you for having me. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.079 Sean, We'll see you eight hundred nine four one, Sean 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.880 our number. You want to be a part of the program. Listen, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.480 we all need a better night's sleep. It's just a fact, anyway. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.199 Eight hundred and nine to four one, Sewan. If you 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.760 want to be a part of the program, Linda, you're 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.520 not a sports person. I don't know if I can 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:17.800 bring this. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.120 I am a sports person. I just you know, I'm not. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.240 It's crossing the plane. What's crossing the plane? 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.920 That is when you take your football and it goes 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.600 past the pylons into the goal line and you get 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.160 a touchdown. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.120 It's only taking you nearly a decade to get it 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:37.600 mostly right. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.640 Listen, all right, I'm standing by my field goal equaling one, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.840 two or three. We had a coach come in. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.360 The field goal does not equal one to two or three. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.280 The field goals is three points. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.320 Depends on the situation. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:57.360 No, okay, there's no situation in NFL football or college football. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.760 We're a field goal football. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.680 I'm not doing anything with NFL. And they're bad bunny bs. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.040 They can stick it up there, you know where I'm not. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.200 You know they're talking about having an alternative. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.320 They're not talking about it. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.080 They're having it. Oh, it's real going to happen. John 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.960 Rich and a bunch of other people are getting together 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:15.800 and John. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.680 Rasa gets in on it too. Would be fantastic. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.960 Yeah, he'd be great. I agree with you, it'd be very. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.440 Anything's better than this demonic. You only can speak Spanish 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:24.160 in halftime. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.120 It's crap. I don't know anything about this guy. Nothing. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.080 Well, that's what you need to learn to speak Spanish 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.560 one then he can communicate with you. He's an idiot 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:38.280 a studio Espanol on a squoiler like, well, you did 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.040 pretty good there. I'm glad you can speak a little 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.920 bit after studying in school for three years. But at 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.120 the end of the day, we don't. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.640 We don't. We don't need to all speak English. Those 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.280 todays I can do that, I can count. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.320 And then that idiot Roger Goodell saying, oh I'm not 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.640 I'm not removing bad bunny, blah blah. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.200 Shut up. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.000 It's such utter not. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.400 They don't care apparently the guy. They're woke. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.800 So it's an either end zone. But you can't wear 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.920 a cancer or an American flag on your helmet. You 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.480 can't wear anything positive on your body. But you can 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.720 put like, you know, whatever their unity signs or they 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.240 have five slogans and they have to be in the 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.640 end zone of every single team in the NFL. It's 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:15.640 utter nonsense. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.560 So let me tell you what's happening with sports betting 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.960 and betting in general. So I have a friend of mine, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.720 and this guy's brilliant and he's great at what he does. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:30.600 He's an addiction specialist and he helps people all kinds 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:37.360 of addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction. You know, he 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:42.800 runs the Gambit and we had a conversation about gambling addiction. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:50.280 And now the sports betting world and betting online has 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.120 now made it possible that basically anybody that wants to 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.920 bet can bet twenty four to seven, and it's become 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:03.280 a real problem. He said. The dopamine hit that betters 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:08.040 get is so powerful you can't overcome it. And he's 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.720 describing the most heart wrenching scenarios of case. He doesn't 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.160 tell me who, obviously, he said, Sean, they're people committing 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.600 suicide because they're in debt up to their eyeballs and 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.119 they don't see any other way out. He said that, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:28.960 you know, you have successful people, financially successful that blow 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.159 up their lives and they spend every dollar and they 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.000 lose their family home and their cars are being repossessed, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.680 and they literally are in debt now up to their 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.200 eyeballs and they don't like there's nothing he can do 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.040 for them except tell them, you know, try and get 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.320 them to, you know, stop. And he said that in 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.240 and of itself, is hard to do. He said, it's 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.240 easier to treat This is what he said to me 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.000 that really stood out to me. It's easier to treat alcohol, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:05.080 holism and drug addiction then people that are that are 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.400 addicted to gambling. Can you imagine that that's that's how pervasive. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.120 Listen, it's very scary. But you know, there is such 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.600 a thing as free will, and if people want to 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.560 go and it's all. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.160 About free will, at the end of the day, you're 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.800 gonna have to make a decision. You don't want any 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.320 more pain in your life, and you're just gonna have 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.400 to give up the dopamine hit that you get when 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.320 you know in the charge you get when you're you're 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.879 you're betting and looking for an outcome, and you know, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.399 and you're waiting for that field goal to be kicked 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.159 for three points, not two, not one, but three at 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.000 the end of the game, and and everything's writing on it. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.239 And if you hit it, you're in happy land. If 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.240 you lose it, you may be lost one hundred grand. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.760 I mean people are spending that kind of crazy money. Now, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.919 these companies are not stupid either, because they will have 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.159 a profile on every one of their customers, and they 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.479 build out these algorithms and they can literally fine tune 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.560 exactly the type of thing you're going to be most 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.720 interested in betting on, and they will they will right you, 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.200 and they will incentivize you to bet if you haven't 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:08.240 bet in a while. And it's like wow. Anyway, Cash 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:13.439 Pattel detailed massive sports rigging, a sports rigging operation with 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.399 ties to the mafia that led to the arrest of 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.000 an NBA player and a coach, The Portland Trailblazer coach 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.800 Chauncey Billups his name and Miami Heat guard what's his name, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:30.760 Terry Rosier arrested and charged in connection to this illegal 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:36.040 game gambling schemes. UH. In the case of this this 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.160 Miami heat guard, his case related to suspicious betting activity 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.560 during a game. I mean these you can bet on 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.919 whether or not a pitch is going to be a 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.480 ball or strength. We had the case of this one 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:53.080 pitcher that so much money was waged on two specific 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.760 pitches that he threw in the dirt in one case, uh, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.840 and that they they literally can can fine tune whether 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.480 or not that that bet was way out of line 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.439 with normal and whether or not there's some type of 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:12.679 collusion anyway, one FBI agent saying the FBI supervisor agent, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.960 you know, marveling at the apparent resurgence of the American mafia. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.040 Fox News covered this today. Interestingly, ESPN blew off this 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:27.840 massive FBI presser on NBA gambling indictments. All other major 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.399 cable news networks aired it because if you can't watch 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.080 a sporting event today without you know, reading about the 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:40.080 odds and watching ads for sports betting apps, I you know, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.359 I might like hit around and say to Clay Travis, 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.679 all right, I'll bet you five hundred bucks that this 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.720 team is gonna win this. By the way, every bet 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.000 I've ever had with Clay Travis, I've won everyone I've 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.520 never asked to collect. But he like, he can't believe 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.480 it because he's way more into you know, that world 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.800 than I am. I mean, I look at the stuff 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.800 they Portnoid does. I'm like, my gosh, he bet like 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.800 a million dollars on some stuff. I mean, but he's 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.840 also got them as advertisers. I'm sure he gets I'm 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.840 sure he gets a lot of consideration there. But put 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.720 it off on the side. This has the potential of 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.840 ruining potential sports. But it's even bigger than that. It 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.600 is the potential to ruin lives. That part scares me 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.520 because people aren't They're not going to be able to stop. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.520 You're not at all interested in the sports topic, are you? 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.280 No, it's interesting. I mean, I don't know who any 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.680 of the people are what you're talking about, but you know, sure, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:37.560 I'm learning. 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.200 All right, Explain to this audience how a field goal 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.760 can be for either one, two or three points. Explain 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.480 that I can't right now. We're talking about basketball. That's 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.719 the that's the sport that I'm focused. Now we're switching 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.200 to you want to step up, you know, like, okay, 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.439 so now you explain how you can because you can't 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.480 get one or two points from a field goal. 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.120 We're doing basketball. It's round, it's orange, has a lot 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.280 of black stripes. Katie and and Jason argue about it and. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.480 How many how many points do you get for three 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:06.600