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Speaker 1: about my friend Scott Shannon, legendary radio personality. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you coast to coast? Order to order? John Hannity is

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Speaker 1: that song out? Were you? And he was so much

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Speaker 1: he was that was his life before he got into

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Speaker 1: talk radio. He was a radio top like me, a

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Speaker 1: top forty DJ. It's almost the year, almost coming up

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Speaker 1: on a year since we lost him, and I still

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. I really can't, because he's had such

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Speaker 1: an impact on my life. Obviously. Oh yeah, I remember

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Speaker 1: that you used to fill in for him all the time.

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Speaker 1: I filled in for him. The first day I'm filling

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Speaker 1: in for him, the golden eib Mike fell down, crashed

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Speaker 1: scared to death. Rush comes back from vacation and goes

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Speaker 1: John Kennedy dented the golden eib mica, I mean, which

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Speaker 1: was typical him. Right, Well, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: giving me some time to talk about the about this

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Speaker 1: this movie. It's it's it's close to my heart. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question, is what is it

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Speaker 1: I do radio and TV, the more intimate medium is radio.

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Speaker 1: It's a heart medium. Explain what you think it is. Well,

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Speaker 1: the thing that the thing that drove me to it

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Speaker 1: is I've always been very shy, and especially when I

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Speaker 1: kind of id I was my own friend, that was it.

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Speaker 1: And but I saw these pictures by Billboard magazine down

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Speaker 1: he's talking to you know, hundreds or thousands of people.

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Speaker 1: I think it was some guy in Montana as the

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Speaker 1: first picture, and I would cut these out and put

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Speaker 1: them in a little scrapbook and say, someday I want

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Speaker 1: to do that because it's so cool. You can sit

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Speaker 1: in that room and no one's going to look at you.

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Speaker 1: You can talk to him, and that's that was the

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Speaker 1: thrill for me. And I could express my love for

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Speaker 1: music on that microphone and it was just so I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It gave me everything I wanted. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's an amazing story, it's an amazing documentary. It is

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Speaker 1: well deserved. I'm proud to be able to call your friend.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm grateful for your friendship and advice

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Speaker 1: which you've given me over the years. It has been

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Speaker 1: sometimes it was welcome, as sometimes as it wasn't. Now

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of calls that went like this, Hannity,

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Speaker 1: it's Shannon. You didn't reintroduce the guests. I don't know

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Speaker 1: who you're talking to. I need to know is that

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Speaker 1: true or false? Sorry, I gotta go anyway, Love you too. Worst,

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Speaker 1: the first featurely length documentary portraying what Isn't Against all

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Speaker 1: odds inspirational story, a man that helped create that created

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Speaker 1: Morning Zoo Radio. Um, the true story is Z one hundred.

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Speaker 1: You can get it on Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft.

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Speaker 1: On cable, you can get it on Comcast, Spectrum, Chartercox, Frontier,

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Speaker 1: Direct TV and uh In Kennedy. You get it there

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Speaker 1: too as well on Apple iTunes. Now that we have

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Speaker 1: old these Canadian fuckers listening to us, thankfully, we love you. Scott,

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Speaker 1: Thank you man. Eight hundred nine one, Sean our number

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Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program

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Speaker 1: Bad for America CBSTV. Yeah, it's the news like nobody else,

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Speaker 1: this is the Sean Hannity Show. The fact is that

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Speaker 1: we're in a situation now where you know, you should

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Speaker 1: have peace of mind. I know food prices are up,

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Speaker 1: and we're working to bring them down. I said, they

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Speaker 1: grew up in a family where the price at the

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Speaker 1: pump went up. You're Philip, and I understand, but these

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Speaker 1: things are necessities. We're working to bring down prices where

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Speaker 1: they're not told to leave what the families in fact

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Speaker 1: have to pay. Now, I'm going to work like the

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Speaker 1: devil to bring gas prices down, which I'm gonna working

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Speaker 1: to make sure that we keep strengthening the supply change

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Speaker 1: and bringing the cost of energy and everything else and

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Speaker 1: the goods that come to America down. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: hit our busy phones. Rod is into Joyzy Rod. How

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Speaker 1: are you glad you called? Only have about a minute

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Speaker 1: and a half. It's all yours though, Hey son, how

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Speaker 1: are you? It's a privilege and an honor to speak

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Speaker 1: to you. Finally want I wanted to call and talk

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Speaker 1: about that that bill that fleepy Joe's passing here, about

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Speaker 1: the crack pipe and the needles and the bomb. I

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Speaker 1: recovered myself, and it took a while. But the way

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Speaker 1: I did it is I went and just did it

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Speaker 1: called Turkey by myself, because I went in and out

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Speaker 1: of these institutions they have in the state, and basically

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Speaker 1: what they do is like people get arrested. These drug

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Speaker 1: dealers get arrested and say that they're users, and they

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Speaker 1: go to rehab and then you get you find more

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Speaker 1: contacts in rehab and it's it's not working. It They

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Speaker 1: need they need a new plan on helping addicts in

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Speaker 1: the state because it's I've lost so many friends, I've

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Speaker 1: lost a family member over It's it's it's it's insanity

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Speaker 1: and this state and it's everywhere. You can get it anywhere,

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Speaker 1: And I lost everything. I lost my marriage over it,

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Speaker 1: and I finally recut. You know, I've been clean now

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Speaker 1: probably ten years. You know, I'm back on my feet,

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Speaker 1: I got a car again, I'm doing everything. My kids

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Speaker 1: are back in my life, and it's you know, it

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Speaker 1: took a while, but what the way they're doing it

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Speaker 1: is not gonna work. I could see it. You need

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Speaker 1: you need to want to do it to be clean,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I have too many people

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Speaker 1: that I know that have been through addiction of one

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Speaker 1: kind or another. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's got to come from the person. At the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, you got to hit that rock bottom

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Speaker 1: wherever it is for you and then say I've got

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Speaker 1: to change my life. And yeah, for a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: I know it's the beginning of their spiritual journey. They're

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Speaker 1: reaching up towards God because they know they can't help themselves.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you've made it. You're speaking a lot of truth.

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Speaker 1: And for anybody that has an addiction problem, deal with

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Speaker 1: it it. Beget on your knees, let it humble you

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Speaker 1: and hopefully you can change. God bless you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Great story. That's all the time we have though for today.

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Speaker 1: We'll loaded up tonight Hannity ninet Eastern on the Fox

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Speaker 1: News Channel, Ted Cruz, Doctor Oz Adam Carolla, we have

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Speaker 1: Joe Conta, Pete Hegseth and did you see Sarah Carter

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Speaker 1: with the truckers last night and in Ottawa. She'll join

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Speaker 1: us and Leo Ninetiestern Fox News. Hannity on the Fox

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Speaker 1: News Channel. We'll see you then back here tomorrow. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for making this show possible. Hey, there's still a

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Speaker 1: lot more ahead on the best of the Sean Hannity Show.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more right afternoons on this station.