WEBVTT - Sean Live from China 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:01.240 All right, welcome back. 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.240 It's top of the hour two and we are graced 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.400 with none other than our illustrious host, Sean Hannity. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:08.959 He is officially in China. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.799 Sean Hannity, How are you, Suan Hannity. I mean, it's 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.080 not Shuan Hannity. It's only four am here, by the way. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:23.360 But so it's been an amazing experience. I mean, there's 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.680 so much to tell you in terms of what goes 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.880 on behind the scenes. And one of the reasons I 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.120 really like to do an occasional trip like this is 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.640 to let people know kind of what goes on behind 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:42.920 the scenes. It was really incredible between the trip over 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:48.280 the stop in Alaska. At that stop, I'm sure you're 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.920 aware of the company Navidia and Jensen Wong. He jumped 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.560 on Air Force one in Alaska, and I got to 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.200 spend a lot of time with him, really got to 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.400 know him. Really amazing life story. I don't know how 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.800 much you're aware of him, but he was very young 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.679 when he came from Taiwan. He came from Taipei and 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.680 they moved to the US. His parents were very, very poor. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.080 I mean, he's obviously a multi multi billionaire, one of 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:21.160 the one of the richest companies in the entire world. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.520 Got a lot of time with him and really liked him, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.360 and he wanted to know all about my life, my 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.679 radio story. I want to know about his life, his 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.959 radio story. His parents got him into a private school, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.920 a boarding school in Kentucky with a population of like 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.240 six hundred people. I love hearing people's life stories and 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.880 the stuff he's telling me. Now he's gonna come on 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.480 the shows, he's gonna come on radio, TV, the podcast, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.800 He's going to do it all. But you know, the 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.960 one thing I said to him, I said, I try 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:02.320 to communicate to my audience all the time that AI 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.680 is not the future that it is now, it is 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.480 right now. And I told him I use it every 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.720 single day, and he said, please keep telling your audience that, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.680 especially young people. He said, if schools would spend half 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.239 their day, you know, learning that new technology, those kids 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.040 would be in far off in terms of their future, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.480 their career and everything in between. So he he's very 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:35.280 very insightful. He's very very smart, obviously, So I had 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.320 a really good time with him. We've got Marco Rubio. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.680 I got him for about a half hour. We're going 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.600 to air that interview tonight on Hannity. We did an 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.280 on air Force one. I did a really really cool 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.560 podcast with Laura and Eric Trump. I had no idea 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.680 they were going to be on the trip about out 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.080 they were coming, so I set that up. Elon Musk 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.520 was on the plane. Got to talk to him. He's 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.200 so wrapped up in all that he's doing right now, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.760 and he's got a public offering and so much going on. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.080 So we put off an interview for another time. But 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.760 I really enjoy talking to him because he's so wickedly 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.120 smart and uh. And then I got, you know, a 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.720 good amount of FaceTime with the President, which was really cool. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.280 And then when I got here, this was this was 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.399 pretty fun. You'll enjoy this. So I got a call 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.640 from the President while we were in the motorcade, and mean, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.280 this motorcade, I don't know if you saw how big 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:36.960 it was. It was. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.760 It was incredible, Yes, incredible, assive. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.200 And he he looks at me before he went down 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.480 the stairs, do you want to cut you? Just before 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:49.440 he goes, I. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.320 Was looking for you. I was waiting. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.200 You know, if I did it, Everyone's gonna hate me 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.360 and think that I'm a jerk. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.200 And who cares that. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.320 You know, I have a professional relationship with the president 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.720 and then I have, you know, a longstanding friendship with him, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.760 and he wants to include me and everything, which is cool. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.320 I talked to the President and I wanted to get 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.880 an update what his schedule was, et cetera. And I 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.360 have an interview with him tomorrow after he spends a 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.960 number of hours with President she and that'll air on 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.440 Thursday night. That'll be the first interview that's going to 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.320 be here. So yeah, and you know, look, there's a 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.480 lot at stake here. I mean, obviously I would argue 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.760 that China is our top geopolitical foe. We talk about 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.040 it all the time. We have the issue of Iran 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.800 and the Straight of hor Moves. I mean, ninety percent 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.320 of China's oil comes through that straight. The price of 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.600 oil energy in Asia overall has gone up seventy percent. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.240 So I'm sure that's going to be a big item. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.520 Intellectual property, theft arras is going to be a big deal. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.200 Trade is going to be a big deal. You know, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.000 the fact have they been helping the Iranians militarily in 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.120 this conflict with us. I'm sure that's going to be 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.000 a big deal. You know. The one thing that I 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.800 do know about President Trump is nothing is going to 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:22.040 be off the table and everything will be discussed. I think, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.640 I think what's good about things like this? And remember 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.680 I went to Helsink, and I went to Singapore, I 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.560 went to Vietnam. I was in Alaska when the President 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.520 met with Vladimir Putin. So this is not our first rodeo. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:42.160 But usually after they meet face to face, there is 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.440 a little bit of a thaw in terms of Okay, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.320 they come to a mutual understanding on this issue. That 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.160 issue Taiwan will come up. Obviously that'll be an issue 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.000 of concern for the President, but I really don't think 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.840 it's going to be that big a deal. The South 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.200 China Sea, there's just a lot for them to discuss. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.160 The one insight that I do have from previous meetings 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.679 the president has has had which president she president? She's 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.240 all business like. There's no small talk with this guy. Right, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.280 how are you, how's your family? Let's get to business. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.400 You know. The way the President tells Victory is hilarious, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.159 and I think the President takes great pride in trying 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.479 to break him from that stride because that is well, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:31.000 I mean, he. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:37.359 Is the most disruptive personality I think in history. Everything 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.200 he does, he does his way. So I have no 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.320 doubt that his meeting of g would be any different. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:49.880 Disruptive, disarming even at times maybe, But I think he's 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.560 been on the world stage long enough now that they're 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.039 very aware of it. But they rolled out the red 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.800 corpus certainly when he landed. I mean, to watch that 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.559 was pretty cool. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.679 I was going to ask you about that. Three hundred 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.640 Chinese students with American and Chinese lags. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.400 I mean I was with a medico with American and 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:09.360 Chinese flags. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:10.440 Yeah, incredible. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.840 That was to me, was like the moment I was like, oh, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.640 they're really to me. That's like the Olive Branch, right, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.840 We're saying to you, we know you're here, we welcome you. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.280 Yeah, one hundred percent. And so you know they're going 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.640 to get down to business tomorrow and after the first 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.280 big business meeting is when I'll have my interview. And 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.440 but I just can tell you that, you know, these 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.080 meetings are historic. I mean you think back when President 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.360 Nixon went to China and what a big deal that 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.720 was at the time, and it's still a big deal. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.000 I'll tell you another thing that I saw. Now, Remember 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:53.320 we arrived it was nighttime, about eight thirty. You know, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.280 it's not exactly four point fifteen as it is now 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.280 in the morning. Well, I'm getting up to do to 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.360 say hello to Linda by My show will air locally. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.000 It's four fifteen. I will be on the air in 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.040 less than five five hours. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.440 Yeah, you're sticking to your clock. That's amazing. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.480 Well, yeah, I mean I kind of had You, don't 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.720 get sleeping is kind of hard when you're taking a 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:23.240 long It wasn't eighteen hour flight. It's not my first rodeo, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.480 so I'm used to it, and you just you kind 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.160 of just adapt. You you go with the flow. I 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.000 did a lot of reading, a lot of studying. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.560 Did you watch your shows? Did you get the chosen 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:35.120 in the terminal? 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.440 Listen a little bit? I did. I don't own a computer, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.640 but I got to put it on some device they 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:47.480 gave me. Look, you get the whole lowdown that you 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.360 have to assume that right now, the Chinese intelligence of 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:57.520 listening to this interview, I mean, it's it's kind of expected, right, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.160 and I was give them very explicit warnings. But you know, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.360 I mean what are you going to do? You know, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.920 the one thing that President Trump understands that a lot 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:12.320 of other presidents never have people act surprised that President 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.520 she would want to put China first, or that Vladimir 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.120 Putin would want to put Russia first. Well, I want 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:25.760 my president to put America first. Wonderful this president understands 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.880 they think the same way. So what you try to 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.760 do is you find areas of mutual interest and benefit, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.720 and then you build off of that and trying to 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.640 lower the tensions. You know, I wonder and I'll ask 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.160 the President about this in my interview tomorrow, if there 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:48.400 might be another opportunity for perhaps a different level of trade, 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.240 which might be American energy, so that China is not 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:58.360 so dependent upon, you know, the instability that has been 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.080 the history of the Middle East and the strait of 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.840 horror moves, et cetera. Remember the Iranians hit one of 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:10.480 the Chinese tankers, so and that was a bit surprising. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.160 It's like, did they want to piss off the last 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.880 person that even halfway likes him? 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.679 All right, Sean, I'm going to ask you to put 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.760 a pin in that for one second. I've already potted 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.439 you down I know it's your favorite thing in the world. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.640 We are going to be right back with Sean Handity 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.960 live on the other side from China, being spied on, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.920 but he loves it. With President Trump, as we embark 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.040 upon this amazing meeting with ge please let us know 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.880 your thoughts. We would love to hear from you. Give 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.400 us a call eight hundred nine four to one, Sean. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.240 That's eight hundred nine four seven three two six, and 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.719 we will be right back with more. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.600 All Right, we're back with Sean Hannity. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.000 He is in China, he is landed safely, he's got 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.559 great interviews. You're talking about this very important issue of trade. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.240 So obviously we have our soybean trade, we have our 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:56.520 semiconductor trade. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.360 We now want to trade with them. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.280 And energy, and I think when he added Jensen Huang 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.920 from Nvidia, he wants those chips. I mean, this guy 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.360 understands that market and that sector of the world better 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.440 than anybody. So I think adding him to that trip 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.320 and having him there is sending a very clean message. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:15.559 Did you we're here to do business. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:16.680 You know you can get on. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:22.320 Remember that the President already made a deal with South 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.440 Korea that we're now going to be building semiconductor chips 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.400 in the US with billion dollar investments in the video 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:34.360 being a part of it. So, you know, it's kind 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.120 of like when I was in went on the golf 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.240 trip and all the top CEOs of every American fortune 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:45.880 five hundred country company, they were all in riot. They 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.800 were all there, and I'm in the room with them. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.280 I'm like, okay, what am I doing here? Guard My 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.440 dad was a waiter and a family core guy. I'm like, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.480 how did I end up here? But the other thing 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.439 that is fairly amazing is how recognized I am. That 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.240 kind of threw threw me a little bit. I did 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.720 not expect that at all. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.839 Well, you didn't expect it when you went to the 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.120 Middle East, either, but you were. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:12.480 Well. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.440 That was the moment that I went up to talk 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.120 to Secretary of State Rubio, who was on his way 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.640 to Turkey, and I wanted to pass something on to him, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.160 and you know, so I went up near the dais. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.040 I didn't even go to the dais, and Dan Scavino 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.439 pointed out to the President that I was there, and 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.040 he's sitting next to MBS and goes, oh, Crown Prince, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.040 you see that guy. He's the most important guy in 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.040 America media. You know he's having fun, he's entertaining himself. 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.600 Yes he does. He doesn't make anywhere near your money, 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.800 but he makes. He came up with some astronomical made 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.280 up some that's how much money he makes. And the guys, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.719 I said, sir, they don't know who I am. The 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.600 guy that was, right, goes Hannity, next guy next to him. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.559 Sean Hannity talked news guy next to him, nine PM Eastern. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.640 No way, Oh, that's actually yeah, I mean say, but 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.920 that's These are the moments, Sean. Right, you can pass 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.720 this on to your kids and your grandkids. Right, You're 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.960 going to come back and tell them like, this is surreal. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.520 Well, what the what I can tell people is that 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.400 just knowing this president. Oh, I didn't even finish the 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.160 story that when he finally got settled in his hotel 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:30.240 in his room, I went into his room and in 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:38.800 the room was Jensen Wong from Navidia Elon and his 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.400 son x Laura, and Eric Trump and Marco Rubio and 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.000 then me, what's wrong with that picture? Who you know? 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.760 Pick one who doesn't belong and put an ex through 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.760 that person That was me, And it was cool were 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.880 they were playing a rerun of When the President Arrived. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.959 We were watching it, and then we were talking about stuff. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.640 So I think I think the interview that I'm going 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.680 to have with him tomorrow will give us a real 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.440 insight into how this is going to play out. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.480 Sean Hannity, let us all the time we have here 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.880 at four o'clock in the morning for you. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.920 You're cutting me off on my ill tell you even 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.560 though even it's amazing it's nearly four thirty in the morning. Yes, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:20.240 and I'll be. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.360 Glad to tell you in the morning. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.000 What a high performer you are, sounding alert and sharp 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.840 at four thirty in the morning, Sir, I have to give. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.640 You two on three hours sleep. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.520 I'm amazing, that's your normal. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.360 That's pretty much all right. Well, I miss everybody. I 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.120 hope this is valuable to people we have. I'm doing 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.400 a two hour show tonight nine to eleven Marco Rubio, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.280 my full interview with him on Air Force one. Uh. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.200 And oh, we've got a great lineup. John Fetterman tonight, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.000 Victor Davis Hansome tonight. I mean, we've got everybody, and 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.240 we will be watching the script. I know you'll be watching. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.600 I will be all two hours so that I can 0:14:59.640 --> 0:14:59.960 bug you. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.680 Yeah, by the way, I you know, I guarantee while 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.520 I'm away, God help your audience, because you're going to 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.720 be talking the way you normally talk. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:09.920 I'm gonna take. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 Good care of your people. I promise. I will not 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.120 do anything that is outside the box of the Sean handy, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.240 you know, perimeter. Don't worry. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.600 Everything is fine here taking care of the house. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.800 I said, Hi, and I miss everybody, and I'll see 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:25.080 when I go. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.280 You miss your back, boss. All right, safe travels and 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:28.760 be careful in the shower. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.400 All right, thank you, Bye bye. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.560 Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I loved hearing 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.200 from Sean as Linda interviewed him. Oh my goodness. If 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.200 you miss that, you've got to tune in tonight to 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.040 his live TV show from China two hours long tonight. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.440 A lot of great interviews coming up. Well that was 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.200 so interesting. Anyway, my name is Rose, sitting in for 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.000 Sean today while he's in China. I just want to 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.440 remind you of my new show on Real Life Network. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.240 It's available now, I'm so All you have to do 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.440 is go to Real Life network dot com, log in, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.320 for free and search Rose Unplugged. 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So, Lyric, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.240 thank you so much for being with us today. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:53.560 Rose. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.640 It is an absolute honor to be on with you. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.040 Thank you so much for having me. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.560 Oh yeah, absolutely. We've been getting to know each other 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.520 over the last couple of weeks. Someone introduced us, and 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.160 I have to say that I love what you're doing 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.800 and I want you to share with anyone that's listening 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.960 what abortion survivor means and explain why these stories matter 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.320 so deeply yeah, Rose. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.520 You know, ten years ago I woke up to a 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.800 pattern of stories that I did not know existed. And 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.560 that is a pattern of survivors of abortion. And I 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.280 want to clarify what I mean by that. I mean 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.160 real men and women who were aborted while they were 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.679 still in their mother's wombs, but who survived a process. 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.040 There are hundreds of thousands of such survivors living around 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.160 the world today, and I've been honored to meet quite 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.000 a number of them. And you know, when you look 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.879 at the course of human history, you realize that every 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.639 effective humanitarian effort of our era has had the face 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.280 of the survivor attached to it, and it takes it 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.240 from this abstract conversation, like you know, a clump of 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.440 cells and a thing and an argument and a political conversation, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.040 and it moves this to a human face that actually 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.800 has a name and a story and can look you 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.119 in the eye. And when you look a survivor of 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.639 abortion in the eye and you tell them I supported 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:15.080 your mother's choice, that hits differently, Rose, because had that 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.439 choice worked, had that abortion been successful, the person that 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.199 you are looking at right now would not exist. And 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.359 so ten years ago I realized that this was a 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.120 story that needed to be told, and so in twenty twenty, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:33.080 I was able to put together a commercial of survivors 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.200 of abortion that we wanted to run during the Super Bowl. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.239 And this was right in the stick of cancel culture. So, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.359 you know, we work with a network for months and 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.479 then just days before this was supposed to launch, we 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.160 realized it wasn't going to happen, that we were effectively 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.680 being blocked from running the ad, and there was a 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.080 big media blets that happened. The ad actually played at 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.560 the March for Life right after President Trump spoke and 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.040 left the stage. But you know, this showed me something 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.080 important that vibrant messaging cuts through where a lot of 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.359 traditional messaging does not. But I didn't want to stop there. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.160 I didn't want to end with the March for Life 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.280 because I wasn't just trying to preach to the choir. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.000 I wanted the world to come face to face with 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.920 the reality of choice. And after this World Cup bid 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.120 or sorry, super Bowl bit that did not go forward, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.040 COVID happened just a month later. The world changed. But 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.240 late last year I received word that this ad featuring 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.120 survivors of abortion, this ad campaign was approved to run 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.840 during the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup, And you 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.320 know what, Rose, I think Americans in general could not 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.760 give a hoot about soccer, and I refused to call 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:43.600 it football. But the unique thing about what's happening this 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:48.360 time around this World Cup is capturing the world. This 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.520 World Cup initiative is so unique because right now, for 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.119 the first time in thirty years, the World Cup is 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.639 happening in the United States, and we know how FIFA 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.000 has honored President Trump. The chatter surrounding this World Cup 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.560 Cup endeavor is very different from anything that we have 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.200 seen in decades. So not only will the rest of 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.200 the world at large be watching, but the United States 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:09.960 will be a captive audience in a way that it 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.159 never has before. And we received approval to run our 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.639 ads during this campaign, and so that's what I'm trying 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.800 to do, is to bring the world face to face 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.159 with Choice, to kind of tapure language with the truth 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.239 of a human encounter, and have the world look these 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:30.240 survivors of abortion in the eye and understand that choice 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.400 is a person with a story that you can actually hear. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.600 Important lyric too, that you explained to our listeners why 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.000 this is so important and what the message is because 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:43.960 I went to your site. In fact, you might want 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.320 to mention your site, your website, but I went there 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.200 and I was listening to the stories and I had 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.160 no idea. I mean, there's one story about a set 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.440 of twins and the attempt to abort both. Well, actually 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.920 the mom didn't know there were two, so they only 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.800 aborted one and the other actually survived. I mean, these 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.440 are really powerful stories. Can you share one or two 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.240 with the audience so they understand just how important this 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.480 message is and how powerful the message is. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.600 Absolutely, And so the website that you mentioned is Faces 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.000 of Choice dot org, and we do have a new 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:20.159 website launching soon in conjunction with the World Cup. But 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:22.359 right now you can see many of these stories, and 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.320 the one that you references of a survivor named Claire Colwell, 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.119 and I'll never forget that when she was recording the story, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.919 she said, I want you to look at me and 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.639 see what an abortion grows up to look like. And 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.120 the circumstance was that, as you said, her mother did 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.280 not realize that she was pregnant with twins. She was 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.200 very young, and she went in for this abortion and 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.080 the abortion was successful. A dead baby was the result, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.080 but they didn't realize that Claire was still alive until 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.720