Speaker 1: All right, news round up in Information over Load Hour.
Speaker 1: Here's a toll free telephone number. It's eight hundred and
Speaker 1: nine four one sean if you want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the program. So, really the countries on pins
Speaker 1: and needles. You know, we have forty two million Americans
Speaker 1: dependent on government benefits for snap that are, you know,
Speaker 1: now desperate. It's probably time if you have time, and
Speaker 1: you have a local food bank, maybe to help them
Speaker 1: out if you can afford it. I'm not asking people
Speaker 1: to do something that they can't afford to do. I
Speaker 1: remember it was a big deal to me during COVID,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to get in touch with my local
Speaker 1: food bank today and see if I can't help them out.
Speaker 1: But it looks like if Democrats don't get that aggressive,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of Democrats want to go home,
Speaker 1: that there probably is just enough boats to actually get
Speaker 1: the government open again. And we'll watch this very very closely,
Speaker 1: Dick Derbin, I want you to hear the comments that
Speaker 1: he made about this.
Speaker 2: The fate of this effort depends on both the Senate
Speaker 2: and the House of Representatives. After a seven week absence,
Speaker 2: the Speaker Johnson needs to call his members back and
Speaker 2: join us in the hard work that lies ahead. Many
Speaker 2: of my friends are unhappy. They think we should have
Speaker 2: kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies of
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. I share their opinions of this administration,
Speaker 2: but cannot accept a strategy which wages political battle at
Speaker 2: the expense of my neighbor's paycheck or the food for
Speaker 2: his children.
Speaker 1: Okay, and John Fetterman, Senator Angus King, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just have just barely enough Democrats, and I think
Speaker 1: the House vote is going to be like a one
Speaker 1: vote margin.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Here to break down where we are in all of this,
Speaker 1: Carol Roth, two time New York Times bestselling author You
Speaker 1: Will Own Nothing and recovering investment banker. Also Mark some
Speaker 1: own host of the number one morning show on our
Speaker 1: affiliate it in New York AM seven ten wo R
Speaker 1: like Curtis Leewa. He is, you know, born and raised
Speaker 1: in New York, born and bred, and when he dies,
Speaker 1: there'll be New York dead. And he ain't ever given
Speaker 1: up on New York City? Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 1: Mark Simone?
Speaker 4: Well, Actually I was born in the Midwest. I'm from Michigan,
Speaker 4: but I always wanted to come to New York. It
Speaker 4: was like the ultimate place to be.
Speaker 3: You're never leaving, are you?
Speaker 4: And you'll you want.
Speaker 1: To go back on your prediction after I left two
Speaker 1: years ago when you said I'll be back. You think
Speaker 1: I'm really ever coming back.
Speaker 4: One day you'll all be back here.
Speaker 1: No, well, no, no, there won't be that day. You're
Speaker 1: you're getting worse by the hour. But look, this shutdown
Speaker 1: continues and it's a disaster. Let me let me play
Speaker 1: for both of you before we really get into Let
Speaker 1: me play the Southwest Airline pilot. Listen to this. This
Speaker 1: is how desperate things are. I mean, things are so
Speaker 1: bad in the skies because we can't It's been fifteen
Speaker 1: times Democrats have rejected a continuing resolution that which they
Speaker 1: themselves have advocated for regularly throughout the decades.
Speaker 3: And now all of a.
Speaker 1: Sudden, the Schumer's shut down for the first time in
Speaker 1: his career. No, he's gonna hold the line and they're
Speaker 1: going to use the American people as leverage. How do
Speaker 1: we know because they keep saying it.
Speaker 3: Listen, I don't.
Speaker 5: Really care what your let im come persuading is. And
Speaker 5: you should really call your senator because I'll tell you
Speaker 5: this is costing the airlines millions of dollars and just
Speaker 5: take up thirty airplanes with one engine running, it's going
Speaker 5: to take us at least ninety minutes to take off.
Speaker 5: So it's frustrating. It's really frustrating for me because right
Speaker 5: now it's going to cost about two hours of our
Speaker 5: lives on the ground before we even take off, spend
Speaker 5: all that gas, all that money, and it just rolls
Speaker 5: into the rest.
Speaker 4: Of the system.
Speaker 3: So right now we're at a four.
Speaker 5: Percent reduction in light capacity. Next week we go to
Speaker 5: ten website. I had a six hour delay in Houston.
Speaker 3: And the weather was perfect.
Speaker 5: It's because they're traffic controllers market paid.
Speaker 1: So wee today alone five thou three hundred delays and
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred cancelations alone so far today. Carol, your thoughts
Speaker 1: on you know, what is the Democratic strategy been here?
Speaker 1: What's the point.
Speaker 3: Of all this?
Speaker 6: I mean, they are basically holding Americans hostage for no reason,
Speaker 6: and for people who you know, keep saying how concerned
Speaker 6: they are about getting air traffic controllers paid and making
Speaker 6: sure that Americans have access to snap benefits and don't starve.
Speaker 6: They don't seem to be willing to do anything about it.
Speaker 6: So it's a bit frustrating that an original spot that
Speaker 6: you've played from Dick Durbin is the biggest ad I've
Speaker 6: ever heard for term limits because Dick Durbin, who is
Speaker 6: my senator here in Illinois, has announced that he is
Speaker 6: not running for reelection. So if he was running for reelection,
Speaker 6: I can guarantee you Sean, based on his voting history,
Speaker 6: that he would not have made the right decision. But
Speaker 6: because he does not have to worry about being reelected,
Speaker 6: he is able to do what's right, and that tells
Speaker 6: you everything that is wrong with our system today.
Speaker 1: I think that's well stated. Let's get your take, my
Speaker 1: friend Mark Simon.
Speaker 4: Well, shutdowns accomplished nothing. Neither party, nobody's ever achieved anything
Speaker 4: with a shutdown. You shutdown caucuses zero for fourteen. This
Speaker 4: will get settled at you know, ten hour air traffic
Speaker 4: delay is ridiculous. We get down to the usual three
Speaker 4: hour delay that we have at most airports, and we
Speaker 4: still got to settle this whole Obamacare crisis. And the
Speaker 4: media has never asked the real question, which is if
Speaker 4: it's called the Affordable Care Act, if it's affordable, why
Speaker 4: would you need subsidies to pay for it. That's got
Speaker 4: to be fixed.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great line. I'm going to steal
Speaker 1: that and not give you attribution if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I think that's really well. Said Liberal Joe this morning,
Speaker 1: urging Democrats to take the win on the shutdown. Diolo,
Speaker 1: what's the win? American people have suffered needlessly? Democrats proved nothing. Okay,
Speaker 1: they'll get their vote. And you make the great point,
Speaker 1: which is, Okay, the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you wouldn't need subsidies, which, by the way, Democrats voted
Speaker 1: to be temporary.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 7: So all this fear and loathing and all this whining,
Speaker 7: I wish Democrats for once, just once could take a
Speaker 7: win and then understand the Republicans they were never going
Speaker 7: to help working Americans.
Speaker 8: They learned that through this process. So you know who
Speaker 8: else learned that through this process?
Speaker 3: The American voter.
Speaker 8: Donald Trump was exposed and the administration was exposed, and
Speaker 8: Republicans were exposed as the party that fought like hell
Speaker 8: to give tax cuts to billionaires, to multinational corporations, to
Speaker 8: the richest of the rich. And we learned just last week,
Speaker 8: they were trying to extend those tax cuts to even
Speaker 8: more billionaires to give them even bigger tax sets. At
Speaker 8: the same time, they were fighting like hell to stop
Speaker 8: working Americans from getting basic food assistants and just a
Speaker 8: helping hand, just a little helping hand with their healthcare costs.
Speaker 1: Just a little helping hand, you know, okay, even for
Speaker 1: people eight hundred percent above the poverty line. Carol Roth
Speaker 1: again Mark said it perfectly. The Affordable Care Act need subsidies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unbelievable. The Democrats like to engage in their
Speaker 6: favorite hobby shown, which is gaslighting. That's all they do.
Speaker 6: They go in on TV, they go in the radio,
Speaker 6: and they gaslight. But you know what's happening is that
Speaker 6: the American people are not buying that. If you look
Speaker 6: at the polls and you look at you know who
Speaker 6: is to blame for the shutdown. It's very transparent, and
Speaker 6: the American people know that it's the Democrats who have
Speaker 6: been responsible for this, and Main Street has been the
Speaker 6: one who's been helped over and over again. However, the
Speaker 6: Affordable Care Act is one of the things that is
Speaker 6: creating the unaffordability in their life, and they were the
Speaker 6: ones that told us that, oh it's going to be affordable,
Speaker 6: you could keep your doctor, all these wonderful things, and
Speaker 6: I don't know any of them coming up with any solutions.
Speaker 6: So we need to actually solve this issue, and just
Speaker 6: kicking the can down the road like they like to
Speaker 6: do and them gaslighting us about it is not going
Speaker 6: to achieve that.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what do they stand for now? I mean,
Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing to me, And let me play
Speaker 1: for you. Mark Simone, you're soon to be new mayors
Speaker 1: Zoron Marxis Kami Mamdani.
Speaker 3: I know you voted for him, right right.
Speaker 4: We're lucky he was available.
Speaker 3: We're lucky he was available.
Speaker 1: He made this comment, which is really really government will
Speaker 1: confiscate privately owned buildings if landlords don't pay fines or
Speaker 1: make assessed repairs that he determines they must make.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 9: That's why I'm announcing a plan to overhaul the Mayor's
Speaker 9: office to protect tenants, bringing code enforcement under one roof
Speaker 9: and making sure that agencies are working together to hold
Speaker 9: bad landlords accountable. Starting on day one, we will expand
Speaker 9: the city's special enforcement programs, doubling fines for HAZARDUS violations
Speaker 9: and tripling them for conditions that are immediately dangerous. And
Speaker 9: when a really bad landlord like this guy refuses to
Speaker 9: fix it, the city's going to step in, make the
Speaker 9: repairs and send them the built. If that doesn't work,
Speaker 9: the city's taking over the building. We're putting the worst
Speaker 9: landlords out of business, and we're going to transform three
Speaker 9: on one by bringing the latest in cutting edge technology,
Speaker 9: scheduling appointments with inspectors so you actually know when they're
Speaker 9: showing up to your market. And the best part, you're
Speaker 9: gonna pay for this. But actually, bad landlords are going
Speaker 9: to pay for this. We're going to fund this expanded
Speaker 9: enforcement in the most obvious way by actually collecting the
Speaker 9: fines and enforcing the violations.
Speaker 1: Wow, let's just confiscate your house mark, simone. I think
Speaker 1: you know it should be given a homeless people.
Speaker 4: Well, if you take all the buildings that have the
Speaker 4: worst problems, the worst conditions, that are most need to repair,
Speaker 4: you'll find it's the city housing project. So they're going
Speaker 4: to be seizing their own buildings. So good luck with that.
Speaker 4: He's just going to spend his whole life in court.
Speaker 4: You know, he can't seize anything all this stuff free buses.
Speaker 4: He has no control over the price of buses. He
Speaker 4: has no control over taxes, maybe property text, but he's
Speaker 4: just going to spend his whole life in court fighting this.
Speaker 4: We went through eight years of build of Blasio. He
Speaker 4: was our last socialist mayor. We got through that. It
Speaker 4: wasn't easy, but we got through it, and we'll get
Speaker 4: through this guy.
Speaker 1: You're so optimistic. Good luck with that, you know, sending
Speaker 1: in the soul to workers. So there's going to be
Speaker 1: a conflict. And let me ask you. Do you avoid
Speaker 1: the subways?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 4: I take them now and then I mean they're pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well, whoa now? And then? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Like, if it's an emergency and you can't get an
Speaker 1: uber or a cab, well, it's New York.
Speaker 4: You can walk most every place, and if it's way
Speaker 4: downtown you don't want to sit in traffic, you take
Speaker 4: the subway.
Speaker 1: But you do it only in case of an emergency.
Speaker 1: Mark marks them all. And that's what I'm hearing out
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not cure to see you. I don't take
Speaker 4: it at four in the morning on the.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. And you do know what do
Speaker 1: you think about sending in the social workers.
Speaker 3: You like that idea.
Speaker 4: I was talking to our greatest police Commissioner, Ray Kelly,
Speaker 4: Commissioner about twenty years. He said, the NYPD has tried
Speaker 4: that program twelve different times over thirty years. It never works.
Speaker 4: Nobody hates it more than the social workers because the
Speaker 4: half of them get injured, killed. It's been tried, it
Speaker 4: doesn't work.
Speaker 3: It's not going to work.
Speaker 1: Quick break more with Mark Simon, Carol Roth, and then
Speaker 1: your call's coming up on the other side, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety four one Sean. As we continue this Monday,
Speaker 1: I would continue with Carol Roth and Mark Simone. Carol,
Speaker 1: there is a part of me that feels bad for
Speaker 1: people like Curtis and Mark and some of my colleagues
Speaker 1: that work out of New York City. I've been blessed
Speaker 1: to have been able to get out of there, and you know,
Speaker 1: some people you know, chastise me, Well, why'd you give up?
Speaker 1: I'm like, because there's no more hope. And the same
Speaker 1: with Chicago, same with Illinois. I'm not sure why you
Speaker 1: stay there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, we please pay the stupid family tax because
Speaker 6: our family wants to be here, and that's what's drawn
Speaker 6: us to the center. But I can tell you, having
Speaker 6: lived through Lorie Lightfoot and barely survived the Brandon Johnson regime,
Speaker 6: it's very, very challenging. This idea that you're going to
Speaker 6: get all this free stuff and that you're going to
Speaker 6: live in La La land. You know, you might as
Speaker 6: well count on getting a unicorn because it's not going
Speaker 6: to happen. And it makes the city less safe. People
Speaker 6: want to spend less time here. It makes everything more expensive.
Speaker 6: And the biggest issue, going back to where you started with,
Speaker 6: you know, seizing private property, is that businesses don't want
Speaker 6: to make investments. And this is what they don't understand.
Speaker 6: There's a shrinking tax base. You don't get the businesses
Speaker 6: making investments. If you don't get that, you don't get
Speaker 6: the employment, and you don't get the money that then
Speaker 6: gets spread around the economy. And you know, I just
Speaker 6: kind of I imagine there's going to be a big wake
Speaker 6: up call, Sean. It was funny at the Zor and
Speaker 6: Mom Donnie victory party. One of his supporters was lamenting
Speaker 6: that there was a cash bar and it costs thirteen
Speaker 6: dollars for a bud.
Speaker 3: Lfe, thirteen bucks for a beer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so imagine what they're going to think when
Speaker 6: they find out how much all the other free stuff
Speaker 6: is going to cost them thirteen bucks?
Speaker 1: Were you at that party, Mark Simone? You usually MC
Speaker 1: every party in New York?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a little I'm busy that night. Listen,
Speaker 4: he's already done some good for New York. He got
Speaker 4: rid of Andrew Cuomo. I think, once and for all,
Speaker 4: we'll never have to see that guy again.
Speaker 3: So he say he's talking about moving to Florida.
Speaker 4: Oh good, good, Let him be your problem, let him
Speaker 4: run for stuff down there.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's running for anything anymore. And I
Speaker 1: don't think you can win anything in the Free State
Speaker 1: of Florida. Not going to happen? Is I just let
Speaker 1: me ask you. Do you worry that there is an
Speaker 1: appeal that is growing in the country now that Aoc Mamdani,
Speaker 1: the Squad, Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas have taken over the party,
Speaker 1: that this is going to grow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll grow for a while. George will if you
Speaker 4: have pardoner the expression actually said the other day, we
Speaker 4: got to go through this every twenty five years because
Speaker 4: younger people don't know how bad socialism they got to
Speaker 4: see it with their own eyes. The Democrats have been
Speaker 4: through this before. They go way too far the left,
Speaker 4: and then somebody of Bill Clinton, somebody rises up and
Speaker 4: leads them back to the center. So we haven't seen
Speaker 4: that person yet, but they'll show up in another year
Speaker 4: and lead them back to the cent.
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, Simoon krol Raw, thank you both. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine to four, one show on our number.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: By the way, Linda, you didn't tell me if you
Speaker 1: watched the Patriot Awards.
Speaker 11: I watched a lot of the Patriot Awards actually, and
Speaker 11: I actually have some snippets in case anybody else missed it.
Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know if I want to play the snippets. Well,
Speaker 1: these are that you have on my cart tout sheet. Well,
Speaker 1: I see the snippets.
Speaker 11: I think you singing is a highlight. You know, I've
Speaker 11: told you for years you're a closet rock star, and
Speaker 11: that's fine.
Speaker 3: Okay, but you let a finger on this show. You
Speaker 3: are you let that flag fly, and I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3: Good for you. Let's play that'll be fun.
Speaker 11: Let's play that part.
Speaker 12: But because I can't sing to save my life. So
Speaker 12: we're going to put the words on the screen here,
Speaker 12: so Stan, if you don't mind, please Stan. And this
Speaker 12: is just a small, little itsy bitsy sample. This is
Speaker 12: what Sean Hannity does at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: And I wasn't even drinking.
Speaker 4: But bu.
Speaker 12: Bu bu but uh, but but we'll put it up.
Speaker 12: Start spreading the news.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving today.
Speaker 13: No longer want.
Speaker 12: To be a part of it, high tax New York.
Speaker 12: These commie Mamdani blues are.
Speaker 1: Longing to leave right to the very heart of it
Speaker 1: by by New York.
Speaker 3: All right, that's enough, man, that's enough.
Speaker 11: I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: The reason I didn't play the Joe Pegg's version is people. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not that they didn't let me. I
Speaker 1: just thought about there are people in that room that
Speaker 1: are depressed over what happened with wood zoron Kami mom Nani.
Speaker 3: By the way, I wrote that weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I know you did.
Speaker 3: You sent it to me.
Speaker 1: I sent it to you. Joe Pegs, we sat on
Speaker 1: him for a couple of weeks. Joe Paggs cut it
Speaker 1: in record time. He sings it great. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: amazing and I had a cue in and I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna upset people if I play the whole
Speaker 1: thing because they're freaking out.
Speaker 11: Well, let's play something that you said that I thought
Speaker 11: was really beautiful, which was cut twenty eight J.
Speaker 3: This is perfect what you said here.
Speaker 6: You hear him, happy to be back.
Speaker 1: I was born and raised in Long Island, New York.
Speaker 12: I was here, and we are here tonight as a family.
Speaker 12: This is unlike any other award show that ever takes place.
Speaker 12: We're not patting our soul little back like Hollywood and
Speaker 12: the Grammys and the Oscars. Although all of you look
Speaker 12: great on the red carpet tonight, we are here to
Speaker 12: honor a Erica's true patriots.
Speaker 3: We are here.
Speaker 12: To honor the US service members around the globe and
Speaker 12: in our country, the first responders, other heroes that put
Speaker 12: their lives on the line for us and our liberty
Speaker 12: and our freedom every single day. They protect all of
Speaker 12: us because they love us, and they sacrifice for us.
Speaker 3: That's why we're here tonight.
Speaker 11: I mean, that was incredibly you know, you did a
Speaker 11: great job on that. You got to the point you're
Speaker 11: definitely losing your voice because I'm sure you talked for
Speaker 11: hours and you're like.
Speaker 1: I have no voice Friday. It was all bad. I
Speaker 1: was going to I was gonna work Friday. There's no
Speaker 1: as you know.
Speaker 3: This is impossible. You're not going to have any voice.
Speaker 13: Law.
Speaker 1: When you're on you have to project at a whole
Speaker 1: different level. I mean, it took me all week and
Speaker 1: to get my voice back.
Speaker 11: And I saw the white jacket, well done?
Speaker 3: Did you see?
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was where he was sitting
Speaker 1: because you can't see anything from the stage.
Speaker 3: The lights are so bright. Oh Don from Lake Warren Conquerment?
Speaker 3: Were you there? Done?
Speaker 8: Josh?
Speaker 13: And I definitely was there, and my friend, I got
Speaker 13: to tell you you certainly did under promise an over delivered.
Speaker 13: I was at that a patriot wards and it was
Speaker 13: absolutely the best medicine for those who endured or have
Speaker 13: endured the government shut down in an unmploysant election day.
Speaker 13: I got to tell you, the audience certainly got their
Speaker 13: aerobics and with the voluminous standing ovations, it.
Speaker 3: Was you know, I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, for example, DJ Daniel, remember he was
Speaker 1: honored at the Joint the Joint Session of Congress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all these heroes. You know, whenever I see people that
Speaker 1: have these unbelievable challenges and they gave up so much
Speaker 1: for us, I'm embarrassed that I think in my heart
Speaker 1: and mind that I have problems at times.
Speaker 3: It's embarrassing. Well because compared to them, you don't.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 13: I goes to kick out Eden Alexander the New Jersey
Speaker 13: Jewish idea of soldier captured for five four days and
Speaker 13: he goes back to his unit. What a tremendous guy
Speaker 13: in a Skyler Dearrington, that twelve year old Texas flood
Speaker 13: surviber of the Mystic Camp.
Speaker 3: I mean, unbelievable goods.
Speaker 1: You can't like look at this and then not look
Speaker 1: at your own life and say, wow, I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: that people like that exist in our country that I
Speaker 1: will tell you it is the greatest honor of my
Speaker 1: life to be able to host those awards MC those awards,
Speaker 1: And it kind of just fell into my lap because
Speaker 1: like two weeks before last year's awards, Pete Hegseth was,
Speaker 1: you know, ripped away from us to be the head
Speaker 1: of the Department of War. So and you know, I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, I write every word of it myself.
Speaker 3: For good or for bad?
Speaker 1: Did I make the right call just doing a shorter
Speaker 1: version of New York, New York? What did I make
Speaker 1: the right call and not do the three and a
Speaker 1: half minute version of New York New York.
Speaker 13: Yes, that was wonderful, Thank you very much, Sean. To
Speaker 13: tell you, I'm the drive home after that event, I
Speaker 13: thought about other award shows whose hosts and artists, you
Speaker 13: know half for years used the exposure despout for political activism,
Speaker 13: and they try to do each other with Volger presentations.
Speaker 13: This award show was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I can't I'm I'm glad you were there. You've been
Speaker 1: such a good friend and supporter of the show for
Speaker 1: so many decades.
Speaker 3: Now, you're a remarkable.
Speaker 1: Man in your own right and an amazing patriot in
Speaker 1: your own right, and I'm glad you were there. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you got in. I'm glad you liked it. When
Speaker 1: I said to people, I knew the guest list, I
Speaker 1: knew that Jason Alden was performing, I knew Malania Trump
Speaker 1: would be there, I knew Erica Kirk would be there,
Speaker 1: but I was not allowed to tell anybody. I knew
Speaker 1: the great patriots that were going to be honored that night,
Speaker 1: and I was not allowed to tell anybody. I just
Speaker 1: kept saying, you're gonna want to be there. I never
Speaker 1: over promised an under deliver and I think everybody had
Speaker 1: a great night. I'm just honored to be a small
Speaker 1: part of it, to be honest.
Speaker 13: Oh it was, it was, Sean. I got to tell
Speaker 13: you one more things. The Patriot Award itself was fascinating
Speaker 13: to use the melted down Revolutionary War of musket balls
Speaker 13: and Mount Thurn at Elm Tree.
Speaker 3: And it was crazy, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's stuff that you're into, because I know
Speaker 1: you're a craftsman in your own right, but it's pretty
Speaker 1: pretty special.
Speaker 3: Tom. We love you. Thanks man. Jim and Illinois jimmy're
Speaker 3: on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 14: Hi, Hey, Sean, nice to talk to you. I was
Speaker 14: listening last week and I just want to chime in
Speaker 14: on a top You were talking about why the bad
Speaker 14: things happen to good people and it's not so much that.
Speaker 3: Did you notice how angry that atheist was? Pretty angry guy, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 14: Right, but I just wanted to chime in on that.
Speaker 14: Why bad things happen to good people? It happens to everyone.
Speaker 14: Rainfalls on the good as well as the bad, but
Speaker 14: God allows it. That's the real point, because of the
Speaker 14: grace that comes through suffering. You know, in even the
Speaker 14: smallest form, we gave grace just like through prayer. We
Speaker 14: gain it through suffering. But we actually God allows it
Speaker 14: because it gives us the opportunity, to our free will
Speaker 14: to take that grace and to multiply it by trillions.
Speaker 14: Excuse me, I'm getting a little bit nervous here.
Speaker 10: But the thing.
Speaker 14: The thing is we do that by accepting that suffering.
Speaker 14: When we accept it, we make it sanctifying grace. Christ Well, I.
Speaker 1: Think you're right, and I think it's a mystery that
Speaker 1: you know. I think in many ways, you know, life
Speaker 1: was designed to be challenging. There's nobody. I don't care
Speaker 1: your background, whatever. Everybody has problems in life, and some
Speaker 1: have very big problems and some have you know, just
Speaker 1: day to day survival sometimes is a problem. And you know,
Speaker 1: we still live in the greatest country God gave Man,
Speaker 1: and we have less problems than a lot of other
Speaker 1: people in the world because we live in a country
Speaker 1: that if you work hard and and just put your
Speaker 1: head down and bring your talents to fruition you're going
Speaker 1: to I don't believe you can fail if you really
Speaker 1: set your mind to it. I mean, really dedicate your
Speaker 1: life to being successful. And however you define success, and
Speaker 1: that is the beauty of America, that's the American dream.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm never going to convince an atheist
Speaker 1: that they're wrong. And you know, but then you start
Speaker 1: tearing a part of their argument and he goes, well
Speaker 1: the quantum particles that I'm like, well, where the quantum
Speaker 1: particles come from? Because if you believe there's no God creator,
Speaker 1: then you're basically telling me that that you think something
Speaker 1: can come from nothing. At least an agnostic acknowledges the
Speaker 1: possibility of a god as one of the answers, but
Speaker 1: they don't have the answer. Anyway, my friend, I'm going
Speaker 1: to keep moving along. I do appreciate your call. God
Speaker 1: bless you. Eight hundred and nine foot one, Sean, if
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the program. Andrew
Speaker 1: is in the Great State of Georgia. Andrew, how are
Speaker 1: you glad you called?
Speaker 15: Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. What's going on?
Speaker 14: Not much?
Speaker 15: I do want to encourage you or at least give
Speaker 15: you recommendation for a future pro uh in what I
Speaker 15: saw one of your shows a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 15: So what happened a couple of weeks ago was you
Speaker 15: basically were calling calling out the Democrats well by actually
Speaker 15: reading their right legislation on air, when when they came
Speaker 15: up with their with their junkie proposal where you said
Speaker 15: where they're like, oh, you're not funny. We're not going
Speaker 15: to fund illeg immigration or funny healthcare for earlier immigrants. Yeah,
Speaker 15: that's not exactly true. Here's the exact page and here's
Speaker 15: the exact verbiage. And I would like to see uh
Speaker 15: occourage more of that if if we see more garbage
Speaker 15: coming from the West.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's my job. I immersed myself in this every
Speaker 1: single solitary day. I know everybody's busy. So if you
Speaker 1: tune into this show, or we got a great TV
Speaker 1: show tonight, for example, by the way, Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: is on John Fenderman's on RAMS Home. We got great
Speaker 1: people tonight, and we're going to go through the crackup
Speaker 1: that is now the Democratic Party. It is officially now
Speaker 1: a five alarm fire, and they're all ready to kill
Speaker 1: each other, and I'm perfectly happy with that. We'll get
Speaker 1: in another quick call Andrew, God bless you. Let's say
Speaker 1: hi to Elizabeth and Kentucky. Hey Elizabeth, how are you hi?
Speaker 10: Sean, It's a pleasure to talk to you. I actually
Speaker 10: was calling about the atheist from last week too. Apparently
Speaker 10: a lot of us hurt.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of response this weekend on that.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 10: Well, I'm just going to disagree actually with your previous
Speaker 10: caller two calls ago. I don't believe that God allows
Speaker 10: bad things to happen. God created a perfect world, and
Speaker 10: through that creation, he created a perfect Adam and Eve.
Speaker 10: But he also gave them that will to choose, and
Speaker 10: they chose to disobey him, which caused sin to enter
Speaker 10: the world. And because sin entered the world, that separated
Speaker 10: us from God, which caused the bad things to happen.
Speaker 10: That's why we have the cancer and the hurricanes and
Speaker 10: all that. So but God then created are allowed Jesus
Speaker 10: to come to restore that fellowship with him. And when
Speaker 10: we believe that Jesus came and died and we confess
Speaker 10: our sins, then we restore that fellowship with God. So unfortunately,
Speaker 10: until God creates a new, perfect world again, we will
Speaker 10: always have bad things that happen to good people. But
Speaker 10: it's the sin that separates us that causes those bad
Speaker 10: things to happen.
Speaker 1: Well through one man a woman, I guess you could
Speaker 1: say sin came into the world, and yes, through grace
Speaker 1: and salvation. This is the myth that liberals try to
Speaker 1: portray Christians as self righteous, sanctimonious, and that they're always
Speaker 1: trying to proselytize that's not who I am, or I
Speaker 1: don't think who you are. We just to be a
Speaker 1: Christian to me is to acknowledge your failure. To be
Speaker 1: a Christian means you're acknowledging your transgressions and you are
Speaker 1: seeking help to be a better person. And once you
Speaker 1: get to that point, that is the ultimate humility and
Speaker 1: you open your heart up to salvation. That's what I believe.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get other people to think the
Speaker 1: way I do, but it's worked for me in my
Speaker 1: life and helped me tremendously, and I don't think i'd
Speaker 1: be anywhere near the person I am without that blessing
Speaker 1: of my life. And you you said it way way
Speaker 1: more articular than I could ever say it. I do
Speaker 1: appreciate your call, though, and that's gonna wrap things up today.
Speaker 1: We are expecting keyth boats tonight during Hannity nine Eastern UH,
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Speaker 1: Also the one and only Stephen A. Smith will join us.
Speaker 1: I love how we have he's blaming Democrats for the shutdown.
Speaker 3: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Linda's great? Ari Fleischer, Lawrence Jones, l J and Moore
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