WEBVTT - Obamacare Insights with Sean Hannity 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Happy Friday, 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.920 eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean, if you want 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.840 to be a part of this extravaganza, Linda, what do 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.760 you think about? We can start it today or we 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.200 can do it on Monday or Tuesday. And uh, obviously 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.400 it's Thanksgiving week next week. And we have so much, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.840 all of us to be thankful for. There we have 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.400 so many blessings in our life. We do take a 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.760 lot of them for granted. Uh not, the least of 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.239 which is we woke up this morning and we we 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.120 are given and blessed with another day of life in 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.199 which we, you know, get to see and ponder at 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:46.120 times moments quiet reflective, introspective moments, the majesty of a 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:51.320 great creator, of which we're endowed with. I'm still getting 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.240 a lot of people questioning me. They couldn't believe the 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.400 conversation we have with that atheist who I kind of exposed, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.000 as you know, to be an atheist, you have to 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.920 believe something can come from nothing. But it is remarkable 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.000 how many people have called in because they're having to 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:14.000 deal with their crazy liberal relatives that are triggered by 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.120 their very presence. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.480 This is not a small phenomenon, is it. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.440 This is much bigger and I think our calls are 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.160 beginning to reflect that on the program, and I don't know, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.160 maybe we should spend a little time on it next week. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:26.839 What do you think? 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.200 Oh, I'm being grateful for what we have. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.200 Do you ever listen to the show? Do you pay 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.040 attention to the show? 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:34.479 Know? What? 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.000 Can I be one word that I said? 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.720 Can I be honest with you? I just got some 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.080 really really bad news from a listener from our show. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.240 Can I announce it? Do you mind? You talk to 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.720 a guy named Dale Kaufman and his granddaughter bad News 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.280 was diagnosed with a severe rare form of brain cancer. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.560 And he just emailed me that she died at five 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.880 thirty this morning, and I just, I know, I know, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.560 I just want to send our condolences to her parents. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.800 And he wrote me in this beautiful note and he said, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.200 she's completely healed and she is with our Lord and Savior. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.280 So I guess we do have a lot to be 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:12.840 grateful for. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:20.320 I don't think there's anything worse in life. And you can, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.800 obviously just you know, stand down for a while and 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:23.560 take a break. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:25.960 I know how. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.320 Involved you were and we were involved in praying for 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.200 this family and hoping for the best. I can't think 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.480 anything worse for parents than losing a child. It's just 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.480 not designed to be that way. As hard as it 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.160 is when you lose your parents, you know in March 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.320 is going to be what thirty years and I lost 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.240 my father and my mother not long thereafter. I still 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.720 think about them every day, and I still realize my 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.520 life was impossible, and I regret that. You know, I 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.040 was such an incorrigible child at times, but you know 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.040 I have said that to my father, But when you 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.280 lose a child, it's just not designed to be that way. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.480 I mean, she was only seven, she was seven. Sorry. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.760 In any event, I think we should definitely have some 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.600 calls about being grateful and about not inviting liberals to dinner. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:14.320 Full circle. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:15.680 Well, then that. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.639 You listen, Jesus loves them, I do not. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.760 It's not just saying Jesus loves them, I do not. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.200 I mean to be a disciple of I am a. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.640 Disciple of Christ, but I am falling every day. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:33.400 What did Jesus say on the cross after they brutalized him, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.680 beat him to death, half to death, nailed his hands 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.880 and feet into a cross and one of the most 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.320 excruciating deaths put you know, a crown of thorns into 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.000 his head. And as he's dying, what were you know 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.120 among his last words, what were they? 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.160 Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they have done. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.360 I thought that was probably the most powerful thing that 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.000 Eric Kirk said when they were out in Arizona and 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.880 they had that memorial for Charlie, and he said, this 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.680 guy that did this to Charlie is exactly the type 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.320 of young man that Charlie was trying to reach, and 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.760 that you know, she mentioned, you know, Jesus on the cross, 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.760 and forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.480 And she said, and I forgive him? I'm not sure? 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.320 I mean, and I believed every word of that was sincere, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.920 and she put every bit of thought into it, and 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.680 she knew that her faith commanded her to go there 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.880 and that she was able to pull that off, where 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.360 I think a lot of people might not have been 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.159 able to pull that off and mean it and be 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.000 sincere in all of it. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:48.920 I think. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.320 So, you know, some people do horrible things that are 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.000 very unforgivable in many ways, but that's not what the 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.040 you know, and this, by the way, it does raise 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.119 a bigger discussion. It's not what I planned to talk 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.640 about at this show. And you know what, what I 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.920 want you to ask Kristen to do for us, uh, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.320 for this family, And I know you'll take care of 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.520 that right away. And I'm so sorry to this father 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.320 and our prayers are with him and his family. And 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.520 and this this precious little girl, uh taken way too young. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.480 And you know, and and maybe it's a reminder all 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.920 these instances when we lose people in our lives, it's 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.480 a reminder that every single solitary day in your life 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.880 is a gift, and don't take it for granted, and 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:38.320 don't waste it. And you know, and and that's that 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.440 maybe dovetails into what I was beginning to talk about 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.039 before I was going to get to my monologue in 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.160 the News of the Day. And it's really this simple, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.719 is that a lot of people have been calling and 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.120 they don't know how to deal with with relatives that 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.200 their sole mission in life is hating them just because 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.440 of political disagreement that they may have in their family. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.200 And you know, we've done this in the past years. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.719 How do you deal with your crazy relatives? Around the 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.279 Thanksgiving to a table. And you know, my advice, although 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.039 it's fun to talk about, is not to cut off 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.000 the turkey leg and throw it in their face or 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.400 throw the mashed potatoes in their face. Although I suspect 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.520 if Linda had those liberal relatives that hurt table, if 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.039 they even made it to the table, that that's exactly 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.479 what you're capable of doing. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.440 I don't even do that. I just leave them doggy 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.560 bags on the steps. There you go, have a nice day. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.520 Oh you do not leave them doggie bags. Doggy what 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.320 is doggie? You don't leave them doggie bags on the step. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.640 So you cook the turkey, you put turkey stuffing and 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.240 Cranberry's whatever it is. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.960 I don't do any of that. What are you putting 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.880 in your turkey? What's wrong with you? 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:46.000 Now? 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.000 The best turkey to make is to fry a turkey. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.240 You can get a master built butter Ball turkey fryer 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.440 and you can fry it right inside your home. I've 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.080 done it on and put it if you can find 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.560 it on my ex account, just you. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.560 Know, post hale, okay, and then this way people will know. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.600 Now, I honestly, as much as I like the Master 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.040 built butterball turkey fryer and I'm great at Megan turkey, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.320 and you injected this with this incredible garlicky, creamy sauce. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.000 You know, the idea I've never understood. People you know, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.040 put in their oven the turkey and they cook the 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.120 turkey in the oven and then they base the turkey. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.360 And you know, if you watch the juices that you're 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.240 putting on the turkey, it just you know, rolls off 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.720 the turkey skin and it doesn't penetrate into the turkey, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.800 so it's not juicy, which is why you need bolt 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.360 loads of gravy because it doesn't taste good. And everybody 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.720 that listens to this program, or if you have listened, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.200 you know that I love to cook, but I decided 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.239 this year that I'd rather have my favorite meal, which 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.200 is a you know, tomahawk bone in ribbi, and that's 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.400 that's what I'm I'm gonna make for my family. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.240 Is that a bad thing? 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.600 I mean, I mean, I'm a big belief and freedom 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.160 of choice, but I you know, when I had that 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.600 father call in this week, a lot of people commented 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.200 to me on this and my advice to him, and 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.240 he's upset. I believe it was his own son that 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:20.280 he wants to have a relationship with, but because of politics, 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.400 they don't have a relationship anymore. And earlier in the week, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.080 even earlier in the week, we had a woman a 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.520 guy call in about his wife and they're getting a 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.480 divorce and it's all over politics. And I'm like, why 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.440 do you guys just come up with an agreement not 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.840 to talk about politics? 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.280 Period? End of sentence. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.240 So, but it's it's going to be challenging for some 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.960 of you because there are going to be people that 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.600 come to your house for Thanksgiving loaded to bear, and 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.760 they're going to want to pick that fight. And the 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.480 question is how do you deal with these relatives? Now, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.959 what I said to the father who wants to re 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.600 establish the relationship with the son, as I said, and 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.640 I think I gave the right advice. You're going to 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.680 disagree with him, and I want you to speak up 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.840 if you do, is that you never give up on 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.440 your children. And I have friends of mine whose children 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:16.360 have been addicted to the hardest drugs and alcohol and gambling. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.240 Now is off the charts. I mean, it's it's gonna 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.120 be an epidemic. You can barely watch a sporting event 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.960 without four thousand chances to bet on the event, and 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.280 some people get the dopamine hit from betting. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.520 You know, as as Steve. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.560 Wynn famously said, the only one that makes money in 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.679 a casino is the owner. And I like Steve when 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.840 he's a friend of mine's. There's this great, huge picture book. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.720 It's five hundred dollars. He gave me a free copy 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.800 of it once and I read it and in the 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.320 beginning of the book it says the only one that 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.600 makes money to casino ultimately is the owner. And he 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.720 was in the casino business for all those years. So 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.200 but you know, I don't think you ever give up 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.560 on your children. In the case of this guy that 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.320 was married, I tried to say, is there any way 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.640 you can just come to an understand in an agreement 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.240 that you just don't talk about politics and maybe save 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.839 your marriage, And he told me there was no hope 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.280 for that. I mean that to me is kind of sad. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.559 Do you have any liberal oatives, Linda, any I. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:14.040 Have a lot. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.000 Most of them don't talk to me. I work for you, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.040 so it's not really a secret. What I think. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.040 Is that part of it, because I've had other people 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.160 that work for me tell me that that's a problem 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:27.680 for them. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.160 Listen, I'm not exactly subtle either. I'll take some ownership, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.360 but I mean, you know, at the end of the day, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.840 I gotta be honest with you. I'm not even interested 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.800 in talking to them. I'm really not. I'm interested in 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.680 talking to people who are identified by being good people 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.840 who happen to be liberal. I have friends like that, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.160 but I have these family members who are like, I 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.800 can't even I can't even talk about Trump. He's this, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.800 he's that. I'm like, oh my gosh, really, I didn't 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.000 know anything about that. Could you explain to me, you know, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.400 the basis of your opinion. I'd love to hear about it. Oh, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.800 just stop it. Don't patronize me. I'm like, I'm not 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.120 patronizing you. I'm just wondering if there's anything behind your 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.080 baseless and ridiculous comments before I shred you with information 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.439 that you're actually not going to hear it. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.280 I may take some calls on this in the next 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.960 half hour, but i'd have to get some of the 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.920 news in. By the way, Iran, I mean is in 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.800 deep trouble. They now are moving their capital because of 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.080 the water crisis that is devastating Tehran. Iranian president saying, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.960 ignoring it means signing off on our own destruction. So 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:34.480 they're going to relocate the capital from Tehran, which is 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.280 likely unavoidable because of the severe water crisis resulting from overpopulation. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.760 And of course they spend all their money on weapons 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.679 to destroy Israel and to provide, you know, all the 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.800 weaponry to terrorists to wipe Israel off the map. That 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.560 failed spectacularly thanks to Donald Trump. He said, moving the 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.320 capital initially thought to be impossible because they lack sufficient funding. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 We no longer have a choice. It's a necessity. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.080 I guess they're going to spend less time building nuclear 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.600 weapons and weapons to destroy Israel. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:05.920 By the way, I. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.000 Told you the story we went into this deep last 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:13.440 night on Hannity. You know this career criminal. I thought 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.960 it was forty nine times, as an article out today 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.640 that says seventy times. This guy that was arrested and 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:24.440 captured on transit in Chicago and he set the CTA 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.640 rider on fire and he wants to get out of 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.880 jail yet again. His name is Lawrence Reid. Set this 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.600 poor woman on fire, twenty six years old, on the 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.280 Blue Line train. And this is you know, at least 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.960 forty nine times they had this guy, he'd been arrested. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.800 Now we're going to have on TV tonight. You heard 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.440 about Jasmine Crockett and we played this yesterday made oh 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.520 Lee Zelden, don't you know was soliciting money from Jeffrey Epstein. No, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.920 it turns out the person that was doing that, even 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.560 after his conviction for solicitation of prostitution with a minor, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:05.360 was Hakeem Jeffries many many times, not Lee zeldd Anyway, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.600 the guy turns out to be a surgeon, and we're 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.319 gonna put him on TV tonight, and Jasmine Crockett suggested 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:18.400 he could be, you know, Jeffrey Epstein, the creep. And anyway, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.080 he said, I think that I should contribute money to 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.080 Jasmine Crockett and let everybody know she took money from 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.280 Jeffrey Epstein, which I thought was funny. I mean, he 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.959 has a sense of humor. Good for him. And then 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.040 Jasmine Crockett promised she wouldn't swear on TV, and in 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.520 the next breath said speaker Mike Johnson is full of 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.480 Adam Schiff got to love you know, the gift that 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.720 keeps on giving. And by the way, this you know 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.240 Epstein hoax. Remember Donald Trump, through Epstein out of mar 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.480 A Lago, spectacularly embarrassed him, humiliated him. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:49.559 And it was twenty five years ago. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.240 Would you do that if you knew the guy had 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.640 damning information on you, incriminating information on you? 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:55.360 Likely not. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.360 Now we're finding out. According to the Daily Mail, they're 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.719 claiming laurenarn Summers, who is now pretty much out at 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:09.040 Havid and disgraced and apologized to his students, according to 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.840 what they're saying. I mean, this is the Daily Mail. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.400 I can't confirm or deny it, but I'm looking at 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.480 the headline in front of me that Harvard dragged into 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.960 a fresh scandal after it revealed that Laurence Summers and 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.560 his wife honeymoon on org Island. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:24.000 Hoofs. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.080 If that's true, that's going to be unbelievable. By the way, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.480 the Trump DOJ moving to force California to stop giving 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.960 free college tuition to illegals. DOJ filed the lawsuit. It's 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:40.800 got to stop. They are aiding and a betting law breaking. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.920 It's got to stop. They've got to be held accountable, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.160 all right, let's get to our busy phones. Let us 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.160 say hi to Brenda in Ohio. Brenda Howard, we'll do 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.120 a lot more of this next week, but we'll do 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.880 some now. And I know it's really weird that this 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.680 year is worse than past years. You know how to 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.400 deal with your crazy relatives at Thanksgiving. But anyway, Brenda, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.040 glad you called. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:05.440 How are you? 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.320 I'm fine. I'm so nice to talk to both of you. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.840 I have one little disagreement, and it's like a fifty 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.240 percent disagreement. While I think that it's true, you're right 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.000 we shouldn't give up on our children. I disagree with 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.720 what you've said in the past about you know, every 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.640 so often you just shoot them a little note that 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.920 says I love you and blah blah blah blah blah. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.120 I have a son that hasn't spoken to me in 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.760 almost three years. And here's my viewpoint. All I ever 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.880 want is for my children is for them to be happy, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.760 and if that includes cutting me out of their life, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.920 then I need to be willing to step back and 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.800 not constantly hound them about, you know, like poking the 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.200 bear all the time, because it really just makes them 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.400 more angry. And you know I'm an unvaccinated conservative, and 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.240 evidently that it's a problem that just cannot be solved. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.120 So if he, you know, if he's happy cutting me 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.200 out of his life, then I've always told the Lord, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.080 just make my kids happy. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.960 Well, I'm listening very closely to what you're saying. Would 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.840 it really kill you that much to be the bigger 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.840 person and every once in a while not annoying. I'm 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.440 not talking about every day. I'm not talking about every week. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.720 Maybe every two or three months. Just drop a note 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.920 in his mailbox. Hey, it's your mom. I just want 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.000 to tell you I love you. I'll always love you, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.600 and my door is always open to rebuilding our relationship. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:36.480 What's so hard about that? 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.160 Are you talking to me or Brenda? 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:41.200 Brenda? 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.400 The siblings were told that, you know, I'm just an annoyance. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.360 So that message came back to me and I said, okay, fine, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.720 because I tried for a year and a half. I 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.600 was sending Birthday cards to sending Christmas cards and text 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.600 him and say, hey, just want you to know that 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.880 I love you. You know, if you ever want to talk, 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:58.640 please call me. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.800 I'm always here and nothing and listen, I'm not saying 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.960 you'd get on your hands and knees and grovel. I'm 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.720 just suggesting, every two or three months, draw up a 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.719 note in a mailbox, send them an email, send them 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.840 to shoot them a text, say just that, leave your 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.880 door open, and then ultimately you know that final. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.440 Decision will rest with them. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.320 Now, there are certain people in my life I'll never 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.240 let back in my life, and they know who they 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:28.919 are and they deserve every bit of it. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.359 But I try, but I don't want to live my 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.840 life that way. Now. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.960 I will tell you, if it's not your children, I'm 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:42.680 talking very specifically here about children. If it's not children, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.159 and you can forgive people, but that doesn't mean you 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.480 have to like them and be friends with them. And 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:50.879 I think that's perfectly fine. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.080 I've also arned through counseling though, that as hard as 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.600 it is for me to be cut out, I do 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.600 also have to teach some lif own health. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.920 And is it really Is it really that hard to 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.639 shoot a note every two or three months saying my 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.080 door is always open. I love you, You're you're my blood, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.960 you're my son. I'll never give up on you when 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.399 you If you ever change your mind, my door's open. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.240 Is that you know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.479 I wouldn't spend any more time than that on it. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.879 But I think when it comes to children, I'm talking 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:32.440 very specifically here. You know, siblings, you know whatever, nieces, nephews, whatever, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.359 you know, an ex spouse probably. I've never really met 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.920 many x exes that really are crazy about each other. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.119 They tolerate each other, or they just you know, for 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.000 the sake of the kids, they get along, right, But 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.919 in this case, when it's your children, I think you 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.520 go the extra extra mile that. Look, you don't have 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.240 to follow my advice. What the hell do I know, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:53.160 I'm a dope. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.240 Well, the problem is you don't want to anger them 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:01.080 even further and make them alienate you, even because. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.680 You keep well you know, you don't have any contact 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.719 with them now, I mean it's been three years. I 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.160 think sending a kind note is far from alienation. It's 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:16.080 you're you're reaching out a hand of you know, of 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.520 of openness. I don't you know if that's if they 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.800 have a problem with that, that's their problem, not your problem. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.720 At that point, you've done it. You're doing everything you 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.520 can do. After that, they have to decide. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.080 Yeah, Well, like I said, I did that for a 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.840 year and a half and nothing changed. So I have 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.240 to consider my own well being as well. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.160 If you really do you really think it would hurt you. 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.119 This would impact your well being if every two or 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.280 three months you just dropped the note to your son. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.440 That would hurt your well being. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:49.800 Because it sounds like you're being a little bit of 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.840 a snowflake if that would upset you that much. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.320 Have you ever suffered from depression? 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.000 I have not, but I know many people that have, 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:05.360 so I'm very aware of you. You've suffered depression over this? Yes, Okay, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.800 that's a different all right, now we're adding to the equation. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.359 At that point, I would urge you to talk to 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.520 your doctor about it. But you can say I talked 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.879 to my friend Sean Hannity and he thought I should 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.200 do this. Then when I told him, you know, I've 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:19.560 suffered from depression over this. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.480 What do you think of his idea? And and you know, 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.679 make your own decision. I'm not telling you what to do. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.560 I'm just I just think with children, you go the 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.479 extra extra extra fifteen thousand miles. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:31.560 That's what I think. That's all. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.600