Speaker 1: All right, Leonard Skinner, simple man that could only mean
Speaker 1: one thing on this radio program, all things. Self proclaimed
Speaker 1: simple man that means all things. Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly
Speaker 1: at Bill oreilly dot com, his best selling book on
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly dot com, Amazon dot com. We have it
Speaker 1: on Hannity dot com and bookstores around the country. Confronting
Speaker 1: the presidents, no spin assessments from Washington to Biden, and
Speaker 1: mister O'Reilly, sir, before we get into the guts of
Speaker 1: what your analysis is. There are a lot of liberals
Speaker 1: in this country that are melting down. Puffington Post has
Speaker 1: an article today. My husband and his family voted for Trump,
Speaker 1: so I'm canceling Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's There's one. Women
Speaker 1: are shaving their heads, Bill. They are wearing blue bracelets.
Speaker 1: It's something called the four B movement, where they are
Speaker 1: swearing off physical romantic relationships with men. They are stockpiling
Speaker 1: abortion pills, they're vowing never to have children. They're wearing
Speaker 1: blue bracelets to signal to each other that they are liberal,
Speaker 1: and they are slamming the media. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: the Washington Post is offering a guide on how Americans
Speaker 1: can leave America and flee to other countries. The co
Speaker 1: host of that hard hitting news show, The View are
Speaker 1: just flat out saying that you shouldn't have to have
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving with people you don't like. What's going on, mister
Speaker 1: O'Reilly well, and I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're exactly the right person to ask for I
Speaker 1: don't know mental health advice, but I'm going to try anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely the best person you could possibly talk to
Speaker 2: in the world about this issue. So here I go.
Speaker 3: Ready, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: Got a message of today on billoreilly dot com. It
Speaker 2: deals with Sonny Houstin's opinion that if somebody didn't vote
Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris, you should not have Thanksgiving or any
Speaker 2: other dinner with them. So I'm a simple man. My
Speaker 2: simple analysis is this is an American. That's what that is.
Speaker 2: In addition to being mean, petty, and stupid. I think
Speaker 2: those are the three adjectives I'll use because I don't
Speaker 2: like to call.
Speaker 1: People an American because in America you have freedom, and
Speaker 1: if she did freely chooses not to associate with people,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to stop her from doing it. I
Speaker 1: think it's absolutely ridiculous and just like all these people
Speaker 1: that think that, you know, Donald Trump was going to
Speaker 1: do all these horrible things and they believed all the
Speaker 1: lies about him. But if that's her choice and she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to sit and throw turkey legs and mashed
Speaker 1: potatoes at fellow family members, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: I'm not I think it's an American And thank you
Speaker 2: for challenging me. I mean, I don't I like the
Speaker 2: non cupcake stuff, so it's un American. Because Bill, what
Speaker 2: do you.
Speaker 1: Mean I'm challenging you. I'm just giving a different opinion.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you.
Speaker 2: Don't think it's an American and I do, And let
Speaker 2: me explain it then, because.
Speaker 1: We believe in freedom, Bell, if she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: hang out with I don't want to hang out with
Speaker 1: people that don't want to hang out with me. You
Speaker 1: know that there was a moment somebody invited me to
Speaker 1: a country club and it's not far from where you live,
Speaker 1: and I was, and that person was later told when
Speaker 1: it was revealed that I was going to be going,
Speaker 1: he's not welcome here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no phone call to you to tell you that.
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 3: Will you? Did you you hear about that. Hey, I
Speaker 3: did forgotten and right.
Speaker 2: So the scolding that I gave that, oh boy, I
Speaker 2: wish I had that on tape.
Speaker 3: What are they going to?
Speaker 1: What do they think I'm going to stand on at
Speaker 1: the table with a bullhorn. You must vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Every one of you. Listen to me, now, vote for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. What did they think I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sit there, eat a hamburger and go home.
Speaker 2: Listen. So let's get back to Sunny Hostin who by
Speaker 2: the way, I'm responsible for her being on television. I'm
Speaker 2: the one that gave her the first exposure on the
Speaker 2: O'Reilly Factor. She was a young lawyer and she was
Speaker 2: a liberal. But I liked to have those kinds of
Speaker 2: people to hear their points of view. This is why
Speaker 2: telling people it's okay to insult your friends and family
Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving is un American. Our whole system is based
Speaker 2: on the freedom to dissent. That's everything. If you read
Speaker 2: the Constitution, if you study the Revolutionary War, we Americans
Speaker 2: are dissenters. We dissented from the king. We boot him
Speaker 2: out of here. We dissented from the European style governments.
Speaker 2: We forged our own constitution in the process. If you're
Speaker 2: reading Killing the Witches, the founding fathers had each of
Speaker 2: the throats, but they did want to shun each other.
Speaker 2: They weren't keaning each other, and they came out with
Speaker 2: an almost perfect document that protects all of our freedoms today.
Speaker 2: And one of those freedoms is to say, this is
Speaker 2: the way I see it, but I would like my
Speaker 2: opinion to be respected if it's sincerely held. Sunny Houston
Speaker 2: and her ILK are not respecting sincerely held opinions, and
Speaker 2: in my humble opinion, that is Unamerican.
Speaker 1: The only thing I would say is that I love
Speaker 1: this about our country is that they can go on
Speaker 1: The View and all these late night hosts, and I
Speaker 1: think you would agree with me that we are now
Speaker 1: on like a cancelation countdown. I don't think that Colbert
Speaker 1: is going to survive. I don't think Kimmel's going to survive.
Speaker 1: I don't think Gibe Follon's going to survive. And I
Speaker 1: think that they have alienated more than half the country
Speaker 1: and the most important part of what their show should
Speaker 1: be about, humor is nonexistent on those shows. You see
Speaker 1: what you probably read the story about fake news CNN,
Speaker 1: they are about to fire pretty much everybody rumor on
Speaker 1: the street is is it's for sale. There was a
Speaker 1: story that MSDNC and CNBC are for sale. There was
Speaker 1: a very good column about how Fox News was right
Speaker 1: about pretty much everything involving Donald Trump, going back to Russia, Russia, Faiza,
Speaker 1: all these other issues. We've been in the forefront of that,
Speaker 1: and I would argue that's why Fox has has continued
Speaker 1: to do so well over the years. But legacy media, bill,
Speaker 1: I will now argue, is officially dead. If you look
Speaker 1: at every major newspaper, three networks, every cable channel, and
Speaker 1: celebrity culture is also dead. They all came out nine
Speaker 1: years straight slamming Donald Trump, and they all got their
Speaker 1: asses kicked a week ago yesterday. And to me, that
Speaker 1: speaks volumes about the future. People were rejected them and
Speaker 1: they are not listening to them anymore.
Speaker 3: They have no influence.
Speaker 2: I agree that done. Legacy media is done. Late night
Speaker 2: is done. On fact, I was with Jay Leno on
Speaker 2: Friday night. He had a show here.
Speaker 1: On Long Island and yeah, I heard he introduced you
Speaker 1: and you got a standing out?
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I mean I don't. And that's a mixed
Speaker 2: crew by the way. But the point of the matter.
Speaker 1: Is this that can I interject and don't be mad
Speaker 1: at me. You know why Leno? You know why Leno
Speaker 1: was so successful versus these guys because.
Speaker 3: He was funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he didn't.
Speaker 3: Care about politics.
Speaker 1: He I bet he made jokes about Trump and Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris am, I am I wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, he didn't do any political material and he told
Speaker 2: the audience he wasn't gonna en it, and he did
Speaker 2: an hour twenty stand up when it was good. But
Speaker 2: I talked to him, you know, off the record before
Speaker 2: and I said, gee, I bet you glad you're out
Speaker 2: of there right now. He rolled his eyes. But the
Speaker 2: major point is that in an election, any election, dissent
Speaker 2: and opposing points of view not only should be tolerated
Speaker 2: but respected to some unless there's a destructive aspect to it,
Speaker 2: as there was in the Donald Trump coverage. Now, Isaac
Speaker 2: Shore is a guy who wrote the column here referred to.
Speaker 2: You can read it on media Height. It's an excellent column.
Speaker 2: And I am very happy with the outcome of the election,
Speaker 2: not because of Donald Trump the man, but because the
Speaker 2: far left progressive movement has been shattered, at least in
Speaker 2: the short term, and in my opinion, based on history,
Speaker 2: that is a monumental plus for the United States of America.
Speaker 2: This is a pernicious movement that wants to destroy all
Speaker 2: of our traditions. Now I want to enlist your hell penalty.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to listen to me for a moment?
Speaker 3: Not really, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: I knew it, Linda. We had just slapped him and
Speaker 2: just let him listen to me.
Speaker 3: Form with pleasure. Go ahead. Yes.
Speaker 1: By the way, Linda has been in full gloat mode
Speaker 1: the entire since the election day.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, no.
Speaker 2: Glow, Okay, just give him a little tap. Hannity now
Speaker 2: soon is the new Senate majority leader, replacing the turtle
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell. That is a huge upgrade. And I want you, Hannity,
Speaker 2: to join with me to reintroduce Kate's Law. Trump was
Speaker 2: a backer of it. Ted Cruz was the biggest backer
Speaker 2: of it, the senator from Texas. Just one reelection, Mitch
Speaker 2: McConnell's single handedly killed Kate's Law because I a punk
Speaker 2: TV guy, introduced it. Kate's Law. Just for those who
Speaker 2: don't remember Kate Stanley was killed by an undocumented migrant
Speaker 2: with a long rap sheet in the United States who
Speaker 2: came back six times after me being deported five times.
Speaker 2: This federal law would say, if you are convicted of
Speaker 2: a crime and you're undocumented in America and we deport you,
Speaker 2: you come back, you get a ten year mandatory prison term.
Speaker 2: Standalone bill. It would pass, Trump would sign it. We
Speaker 2: could get this done in thirty days after he's inaugurated.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 3: Of course it does.
Speaker 1: I supported it back then, will support it again, and
Speaker 1: I agree it should be reintroduced. And you have my
Speaker 1: full backing. And there's no selling point here.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 1: We're on the same page. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: this country is about to head into a very very
Speaker 1: interesting time. I don't know if you saw the interview,
Speaker 1: and we have Tom Homan on today on radio. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the interview that I had
Speaker 1: with Tom Holman on TV the other night.
Speaker 2: I now we have, but I read the transcript.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, and it was very powerful. These people
Speaker 1: that we have gang members here, we have cartel members here.
Speaker 1: We have had dozens and dozens of Americans murdered, raped,
Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds of Americans victims of violent crimes,
Speaker 1: and we have thirteen thousand murderers. I've gone through all
Speaker 1: these statistics, and we have known terrorists in our country.
Speaker 1: They have to go Bill, and I'll tell you, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we're going to be able to find
Speaker 1: them all. But what they have done is created the
Speaker 1: biggest national security threat in our lifetime and it's got
Speaker 1: to be dealt with. And as soon as people start
Speaker 1: getting sent back home, the left in this country is
Speaker 1: going to go nuts. I don't know why they would
Speaker 1: defend keeping people like this in our country, but they will.
Speaker 2: That's too bad. But let's see Irish guys, hannony O'Reilly,
Speaker 2: let's start to you know, lobby for this case. Laws
Speaker 2: stand alone, don't attach anything to it. It'll pass. And
Speaker 2: the people who vote against it, this is the best part.
Speaker 2: The liberal senators who vote again stick and House members
Speaker 2: will be exposed. They're voting against public safety because the
Speaker 2: law is very sharply defined.
Speaker 1: I will work with you. I'll use every contact I
Speaker 1: have and I will push it hard.
Speaker 3: You have my word, well, we'll do it then.
Speaker 2: And because nobody's going to stand up to you, and me.
Speaker 1: Right, nobody's going to stand up to me. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone knows that. You know if we go in the
Speaker 1: octagon that you're going to be down in thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: And it's over all.
Speaker 2: Right? Are we now brawling again? Is where we are?
Speaker 1: No, Bill, I've invited you to train with me and
Speaker 1: you're too chicken to come. You need to show up.
Speaker 1: You need to just hang with us one day and
Speaker 1: just have fun.
Speaker 2: Right by the way.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you who trained with us once
Speaker 1: is Jesse Waters and Laura Ingram.
Speaker 3: But I can't get you to come hang.
Speaker 2: I'm putting in a water's Ingram bout. I'm putting my
Speaker 2: money on Laura.
Speaker 3: That's probably a good bet. I don't know. Well, it's
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Linda's been gloating and I'm not gloating. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: where how I feel. I feel a sense of relief
Speaker 1: and a sense of gratitude. And I'm grateful for the
Speaker 1: American people that, in spite of every major massive media outlet,
Speaker 1: every major celebrity, and everything that has been done and
Speaker 1: said to this man, that they were able to rise
Speaker 1: above it, not listen to the noise, and they made
Speaker 1: the right decision for the country. And I give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to you. Throughout your entire career, you
Speaker 1: never endorsed a candidate, and this was the first election
Speaker 1: you ever did because you saw that this was an
Speaker 1: inflection point for the country.
Speaker 3: I give you a lot of credit for that.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you acknowledging that you and I are both
Speaker 2: in business now to help the country. We got enough money,
Speaker 2: got enough fan That's all.
Speaker 1: I care about. I don't care about anything else about that.
Speaker 1: In our families, that's.
Speaker 2: All I can tell the audience. It's true. And savan
Speaker 2: he says something it isn't true. I come write down
Speaker 2: on I mean, everybody knows. But that's basically that is true.
Speaker 1: And oh, Bill O'Reilly can attest to the fact. Am
Speaker 1: I really pretty much a loser in my real life
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 2: No, why would you be a loser?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't do anything but work and hang out
Speaker 1: with my friends and family, and then I don't do
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: No, I work out.
Speaker 2: Well, everybody's afraid of you. They don'tant you know, they
Speaker 2: don't want to get killed.
Speaker 1: Frank, all things simple, man, Bill O'Reilly, you can go
Speaker 1: to Bill O'Reilly dot com for everything you want to
Speaker 1: ever hear about Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, all right, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to our busy telephones. Here. Robin
Speaker 3: is in Ohio, Robin High. How are you glad you called?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 5: Sean Hi Son. I'm brokenhearted. I'm absolutely astonished that my
Speaker 5: gay daughter and her wife after the election wrote on
Speaker 5: Facebook that they were disgusted and in total disbelief with
Speaker 5: me her family, myself and my husband included, because we're
Speaker 5: conservative and voted for Trump, that we don't align with
Speaker 5: their beliefs and that we can no longer be family.
Speaker 1: They've forget well, So your daughter and her wife came
Speaker 1: to you and your husband and said that they don't
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the family anymore.
Speaker 5: They wrote it on Facebook. So when I confronted both
Speaker 5: of them, they went on about how Trump is this
Speaker 5: evil fascist home of Bobe Fellon that's going to take
Speaker 5: away their birth control, abortion rights, He's going to ban
Speaker 5: their gay marriage and take the non bio mom of
Speaker 5: their two kids off of their birth certificate. I mean,
Speaker 5: it goes on and on. They're trying to figure out
Speaker 5: how they're going to move to Canada. They're worried that
Speaker 5: now we are aligned with the KKK and that their
Speaker 5: very lives are in danger, and that my daughter in law,
Speaker 5: who's blacks, she believes her civil rights will be returned
Speaker 5: to the fifties. And it just blows my mind. And
Speaker 5: the thing that is crazy is that there is blown
Speaker 5: away by us as we are by them. But my
Speaker 5: question is, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't been.
Speaker 5: Able to find a whole lot on Trump's social issues
Speaker 5: regarding these things.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump, is there's nothing that you have stated
Speaker 1: that they they have been indoctrinated into believing that I
Speaker 1: have heard that is true.
Speaker 3: Not one thing.
Speaker 1: The one thing that you will have working in your
Speaker 1: favor is over time, they're going to realize that none
Speaker 1: of it's true. Now, whether they want to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: or not is going to be up to them.
Speaker 3: But none of.
Speaker 1: Their aborture rights aren't going to be taken away. Nobody
Speaker 1: is it cares of. Look, let's be out of Most
Speaker 1: people don't care about other people's private lives. You obviously
Speaker 1: were loving family before this, and and you know the
Speaker 1: fact that there they would allow politics to get in
Speaker 1: the way of that family love and support is you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure very painful and difficult for you.
Speaker 3: Can I give you some advice please? Okay?
Speaker 1: My advice is I would I would write both of them,
Speaker 1: I would say, and I would just I would go
Speaker 1: point by point with them.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not a member of the Klan. No, I
Speaker 1: don't support people that are evil like that.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not taking away contraception. Uh No, he's
Speaker 1: not going to ban gay marriage. No, he's not taking
Speaker 1: away abortion rights. With that said, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to convince you otherwise. Over time I will be
Speaker 1: proven true. But I want you to know this. I
Speaker 1: want you to know you will always be my family.
Speaker 1: I love you with all my heart. I will continue
Speaker 1: to love you with all my heart. I hope you
Speaker 1: will reconsider uh and that I'd like to remain a
Speaker 1: loving family.
Speaker 3: And I have a whole in my heart.
Speaker 1: At the thought that that you feel this way about me.
Speaker 1: And if we can sit and talk and have discussions
Speaker 1: and and come to a meeting of the minds, I
Speaker 1: think that would be in everybody's best interest. In other words, love,
Speaker 1: just just just love. Right now, they're in a lot
Speaker 1: of pain. They believed a lot of lies, and I
Speaker 1: would just kind of like love on them and understand that.
Speaker 1: You know, when people when people are told over and
Speaker 1: over again that you're a piece of garbage and a
Speaker 1: fascist and a racist, and you know, you support Hitler
Speaker 1: and and not and Nazism and you support Moussolini and
Speaker 1: Stalin and and he's going to take away your right
Speaker 1: the contraception, and he's going to take away Grandma or grandpast,
Speaker 1: social Security and Medicare, and he's a racist and he's
Speaker 1: you know, it's some people believe the lie and it's
Speaker 1: just not true. Because I I can tell you right now,
Speaker 1: if if that was the Republican Party, I would not
Speaker 1: be a part of it because that's not who I
Speaker 1: am and that's not the way I think, and it's
Speaker 1: not what I believe. And I'm sure you feel the
Speaker 1: same way. And you were loving it sounds like you
Speaker 1: were a loving family all before this election. Am I
Speaker 1: understanding that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Very very loving family. They knew we were conservative, but
Speaker 5: I don't think they ever thought we pause for Trump, right, And.
Speaker 1: You have no issue with the fact that they're married.
Speaker 1: You don't have any issue with none at all, none whatsoever?
Speaker 1: All Right, So I would I would remind them of
Speaker 1: that and just say, you know, I love and respect
Speaker 1: both of you so much that this is maybe the
Speaker 1: most painful letter I've ever gotten, and that I'm not
Speaker 1: the person you're describing, and I wouldn't support the person
Speaker 1: you're describing. And I know that a lot of rhetoric
Speaker 1: was used during a campaign, but it's not true. I
Speaker 1: know I will be proven true on this, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just want our family to be back to together,
Speaker 1: and my door is always open, and I always want
Speaker 1: and I will always love you both forever.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: And at that point, you know, you know, you're basically
Speaker 1: holding up a mirror to them because this is on
Speaker 1: them now, you know, because they're believing things about you
Speaker 1: that just aren't true and things that unfortunately, this is
Speaker 1: the danger of legacy media. This is the danger when
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and her her you know, most vocal supporters
Speaker 1: go out there.
Speaker 3: And say these things.
Speaker 1: So that's how I would handle it, and I i'm
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm also going to add I'm very sorry
Speaker 1: that you have to go through that. You know, as
Speaker 1: a Christian, I just believe that, you know, in times
Speaker 1: like this, you've you've got to go the extra mile.
Speaker 1: You've got to you've got to show that you're willing
Speaker 1: to do your part. And it sounds like they're just
Speaker 1: struggling with this and it's way more serious than you
Speaker 1: know what I've been making fun of, you know, people
Speaker 1: shaving their heads and you know, you know, stocking up
Speaker 1: on abortion pills and you know, not having sex with
Speaker 1: their significant others and planning to divorce men and all
Speaker 1: those nonsense. You know, look at the headline from the
Speaker 1: Hvington Post. My husband and his family voted for Trump.
Speaker 1: So I'm canceling Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean, if I had,
Speaker 1: if I have a family member that disagrees with me,
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing a turkey leg or mashed potatoes at them.
Speaker 5: Well, we celebrate Christmas, Thanksgiving and Christmas together every year,
Speaker 5: and it's not going to happen this year. Maybe next year.
Speaker 3: I'm just very very sorry.
Speaker 1: Just let them know that your door is open and
Speaker 1: that you're not the person they're describing.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: You know, If people draw conclusions like that, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to prove. You know, when when did you stop
Speaker 1: beating your wife? It's kind of like that situation exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm hanging there and you.
Speaker 1: Know, look, just just I would just love on him,
Speaker 1: you know, pray for them, stay with them, stay in
Speaker 1: touch with them, and and always remind them that you
Speaker 1: want to be a family.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens over time when what they are
Speaker 1: saying is going to happen doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're ringing in there. I'm sorry you have to
Speaker 3: go through that. I really am.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine one Shawn is our number. If you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program, all right,
Speaker 1: quick break right back. More of your calls coming up.
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Speaker 2: America, listen, say Sean, Henny and on.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to our busy phones. Eight hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety four to one, Sean. If you want to join us,
Speaker 1: Let's say hi to Richie. He's in Valley Stream in
Speaker 1: Long Island, New York, not far from where I grew
Speaker 1: up in Franklin Square. Richie, how are you glad you called?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 4: How are you Sean back to talk to you. I've
Speaker 4: been a fan for a long time, been following you
Speaker 4: since you have had your show with Alan Holmes in
Speaker 4: the early two thousands.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, thank you. By the way.
Speaker 4: Like you, I'm a Brooklyn Maids Alongland transplant.
Speaker 1: Like my father was the one that lived in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Franklin Square. Do you remember Carl Hopples.
Speaker 1: I don't know how old you.
Speaker 4: Are, Oh man, I fifty seven.
Speaker 3: So you probably remember Carl Hopples in Valley Street.
Speaker 4: Well, I've been in Valley Street for just a little
Speaker 4: over twenty years. I'm in North Street.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was it was before that got it anyway,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Well, I wanted to chime in on your on the
Speaker 4: conversation regarding ev mandate. You know, I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: change anyone's mind either way. About the vehicles. I can
Speaker 4: give you both side of the perspective. I've owned a
Speaker 4: Tessler for eight years, and I also know my way
Speaker 4: around a vehicle, like I re built my books three
Speaker 4: point five three, you know, three fifty five seven, three
Speaker 4: fifty engine like three times of the last twenty years.
Speaker 4: And I have an old truck with two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty thousand miles on it that I maintained, So I
Speaker 4: love them both. But what I want to note is
Speaker 4: that I got too many points to make about EV's
Speaker 4: and anyone who compares an electric car or an EV
Speaker 4: so an internal combustion in in my opinion, they've lost
Speaker 4: the argument before it again, they look similar, but they're
Speaker 4: just two different species. You know. In July this year,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump said that he would end EV mandates on
Speaker 4: day one. And one of the reasons that I respect
Speaker 4: them and Elon must so much, and I love Elan
Speaker 4: for it, is because he's all for ending government mandates
Speaker 4: or EV vehicles. You know, he believes that in the
Speaker 4: markets decide the winners and losers, not the government. The
Speaker 4: consumers should be the charge and the jury as to
Speaker 4: what they're going to spend them on the ond, not
Speaker 4: the government. And you know, after eight years of only
Speaker 4: my tesla, let me tell you it's uh when I
Speaker 4: when I bought it eight years ago, it's a rocket
Speaker 4: seven hundred host powers. There were sixty and two point
Speaker 4: six seconds my battery at the time, three d and
Speaker 4: thirty miles.
Speaker 1: I have a ton of friends. They love their Tesla,
Speaker 1: they love it, and and the thing all I'm saying
Speaker 1: I have no problem. I believe in freedom. If you
Speaker 1: want a Tesla, you want an electric car, you can
Speaker 1: absolutely have one. And if you want a hybrid, you
Speaker 1: can have one of those too. I had a hybrid
Speaker 1: at one point, an escalator hybrid. If you want a
Speaker 1: different car, a gas power car, you ought to be
Speaker 1: able to have the choice. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: told what kind of dishwasher to have. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be told the washer and dryer I need to have.
Speaker 3: I want to. I want to.
Speaker 1: I want the freedom to choose what I want and
Speaker 1: leave me alone and get the hell out of my life.
Speaker 1: And I think most Americans think like we do.
Speaker 4: That's what makes this country great. Choice, not the government.
Speaker 4: So I'm going I'm actually buying a whole new kitchen.
Speaker 4: So right now I'm fearing that I'm overpaying for something
Speaker 4: that's not gonna have the same efficiency as the old
Speaker 4: dishwashers or the old stuff. You know, I wouldn't trade
Speaker 4: my Tesla right now for the world. Last year, Testla
Speaker 4: manufactured the most vehicles built in the United States, and
Speaker 4: three years in a rows had the most popular model
Speaker 4: with the why And I think why this year became
Speaker 4: the bestseller in Europe. You know, and look when it
Speaker 4: comes to like the criticism you get online and you
Speaker 4: look at these comments of these people, they just they're
Speaker 4: just like the last poller. I felt sorry for her.
Speaker 4: People who suffered from from the ranging curn drome, people self,
Speaker 4: the phone, all types of things. I mean, I remember
Speaker 4: in the in the seventies how expensive was it to
Speaker 4: buy a cell phone and it was unaffordable, like the
Speaker 4: battery technology and electric vehicle is. I compare it to
Speaker 4: like cell phone technology or personal computer technology. Every year
Speaker 4: it gets better, they get good.
Speaker 3: Oh listen, maybe one day I'll go one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Richie, I appreciate the call. You're informing our audience.
Speaker 1: And as long as people have the choice and we
Speaker 1: don't have these mandates, and we don't force Ford to
Speaker 1: produce cars that their customers don't want want and lose
Speaker 1: four point five billion dollars in a year and risk
Speaker 1: losing I paying career jobs, I'm all for it. We
Speaker 1: have about a minute left. Hillary is in Stanford, Connecticut. Hillary,
Speaker 1: how are you glad you called?
Speaker 6: Hi? San? Thanks so much for having me on. I've
Speaker 6: been a fan since I'm about fifteen years old, so
Speaker 6: this is an honor.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, The honors are all mine.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 6: I just I just wanted to share that I love
Speaker 6: Peter Doucy and I think he would be such a
Speaker 6: fantastic choice as press secretary for President Trump. You know,
Speaker 6: he has experienced being a journalist for so many years
Speaker 6: right out of college. I believe covering.
Speaker 1: Can we stop rating like the Fox News contributors and
Speaker 1: hoes and you know, I'm just teasing.
Speaker 6: I just I love him and I think, you know,
Speaker 6: I think compared to the other potential picks, you know,
Speaker 6: he brings such unique experience to the table, having dealt
Speaker 6: with Jemsaki and Karine, Jean Pierre, and he knows how
Speaker 6: to handle the inevitable. I'll go back and forth seal experience.
Speaker 6: And I hope he's being considered. I haven't seen him
Speaker 6: on any lists, and I scour them.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I love Peter. He's so gifted
Speaker 1: and talented. He'd be great at it. But I think
Speaker 1: he's pretty committed to his craft and he's at the
Speaker 1: top of his game, and I think he will continue that.
Speaker 3: Listen, I got to run Hillary.
Speaker 1: It's only because of the constraints of time, but I
Speaker 1: do appreciate you being out there.