Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Handity Show. My name is
Speaker 1: Rose and I am with you this last hour of
Speaker 1: the Handity Show. You know, we've got a story that
Speaker 1: hits right in your living room. Right now, Texas Attorney
Speaker 1: General Ken Paxon is taking on major smart TV manufacturers
Speaker 1: and then alleging that they are collecting data on what
Speaker 1: Texans watch and when they watch it, and then they're
Speaker 1: selling that information for profit, all without clear consent. So
Speaker 1: joining us now is Attorney General Paxton to explain the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: the privacy concerns, and what viewers can do right now
Speaker 1: to protect themselves. We're also going to talk about his
Speaker 1: Senate race. Welcome Attorney General Ken Paxon.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, I'm Mary Christmas, Happy Holidays. We're doing
Speaker 3: great in Texas.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you our Texas is a great state. So listen.
Speaker 1: According to lawsuits that you've filed, TV manufacturers might have
Speaker 1: quietly turned America's living rooms into surveillance hubs by using
Speaker 1: technology that most consumers never agreed to. And that's really
Speaker 1: the very definition of intrusion. What exactly did these television
Speaker 1: companies collect and how much of it was taken without
Speaker 1: Texans ever knowing.
Speaker 3: Oh well, first of all, they did it without Texans
Speaker 3: knowing for sure, and they did it without anybody the
Speaker 3: United States knowing it. What they do is they record
Speaker 3: every so many milliseconds what you're watching, and so they
Speaker 3: can use that and sell that information to other companies. So,
Speaker 3: you know, if they wanted to do that, they just
Speaker 3: need to get consent. And if consumers agree to that,
Speaker 3: that's fine. But the problem is they're doing it without consent. Obviously,
Speaker 3: that helps them sell more TVs because they can go
Speaker 3: with the price because they're making so much money. They're
Speaker 3: making more money on the marketing than they are the TV.
Speaker 3: So I have no problem with them doing it as
Speaker 3: long as they get consent. The problem here is they're
Speaker 3: keeping track of all this information on all of this
Speaker 3: without our consent. And this is all the major TV manufacturers,
Speaker 3: from Sony to Samsung to the Chinese manufacturers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and when you say it's all of us,
Speaker 1: it should be concerned. I was telling some of my
Speaker 1: friends that you were going to be on today, and
Speaker 1: I was telling them that this was one of the
Speaker 1: things that we were going to talk about, and they
Speaker 1: had no idea and of course you provided and I
Speaker 1: will provide that on social media what you can do
Speaker 1: to protect yourself. But first of all, how did you
Speaker 1: discover this? And you're right, it doesn't square with basic
Speaker 1: consumer consent under Texas law, are probably under the law
Speaker 1: of many states, correct.
Speaker 3: I would guess most states would have some type of
Speaker 3: consumer protection law where if they're going to use data
Speaker 3: on you and they're going to intrude into your house
Speaker 3: through your TV, that they would be obligated to at
Speaker 3: least disclose that and potentially compemplate you for it. In
Speaker 3: this case, you know, nobody knew. You didn't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: I just found out, as I find out from a
Speaker 3: lot of my cases, there other constituents of minor consumers
Speaker 3: who just happened to tell me about it, and we
Speaker 3: researched it and found out that it was absolutely true,
Speaker 3: and that for the most part, all the TV manufacturers
Speaker 3: are doing it, and they're all doing it without telling us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think what bothers me is that consumers
Speaker 1: aren't given any meaningful way to opt out of this surveillance,
Speaker 1: or if they even knew that there was a need
Speaker 1: to opt out of the surveillance. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: that really bothers me.
Speaker 3: Well, absolutely, And even the way of opting out it
Speaker 3: is so complicated. I mean, I'm not sure I'm technically
Speaker 3: able to opt out. There isn't you happen to know.
Speaker 3: You got lucky because some friend of yours happen to know.
Speaker 3: It's still not an easy process to opt out on
Speaker 3: these TVs. So even if you want to do it,
Speaker 3: you may not be able to do it properly and
Speaker 3: actually execute on getting out of the disclosure that you
Speaker 3: are giving them every time you turn your TV set on,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And also one of.
Speaker 1: The things that you talked about too, and that your
Speaker 1: office warned about was sensitive information like passwords and banking
Speaker 1: data that could be exposed. Now, has there been any
Speaker 1: evidence that we know of that personal or financial data
Speaker 1: could be compromised.
Speaker 3: Well, certainly people operate that stuff, you know, the access
Speaker 3: or bank accounts, they get it. They have passwords on
Speaker 3: their TV for their accounts that they use apps for.
Speaker 3: So we're in the middle of we'll be you know,
Speaker 3: doing discovery to find out exactly what data they've captured.
Speaker 3: We just know that they are capturing everything they can
Speaker 3: every just you know, split second, and so it would
Speaker 3: not be shocking to find out that they have gotten
Speaker 3: pasted it. We're pretty sure they are getting passwords and
Speaker 3: personal financial information, which should be a concern to anybody
Speaker 3: who's using their TV as a way to get into
Speaker 3: their bank account or do any kind of financial transactions.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and that's scary too. And I've just
Speaker 1: got one or two more questions on this subject. I
Speaker 1: want to move on to your race, but before I do, Okay,
Speaker 1: two of the companies that were named, One of them
Speaker 1: was TCL, I can't remember the other one. They're Chinese
Speaker 1: owned and operate in China. So that adds another layer
Speaker 1: of concern, does it not? You know, when you talk
Speaker 1: about foreign access to Americans private and in home.
Speaker 3: Data, Yeah, anything obviously, any company doing this, I'll get
Speaker 3: a prolumn list. But the fact that Chinese have this information,
Speaker 3: of course, they're using it to our detriment, to our
Speaker 3: consumer's detriment, to our nation's detriment, capturing as much information
Speaker 3: as they can about everybody and using that to their advantage.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm extremely concerned about That's a whole other
Speaker 3: level of security concern beyond just personal security. It's a
Speaker 3: national security interest that's affected by what these Chinese manufacturers
Speaker 3: are doing with their TVs.
Speaker 1: Well, are you talking to any of the AG's across
Speaker 1: the country, making them aware, getting them involved in the
Speaker 1: process of looking into this or filing lawsuits?
Speaker 2: Possibly.
Speaker 3: We've certainly publicized it. We've certainly spread it around with
Speaker 3: our resources to other attorney generals. I'm hoping that they'll
Speaker 3: pursue as well. Certainly we wanted to get it going
Speaker 3: and they can join in. We're we would be happy
Speaker 3: to be joined by their states.
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking care of that. I appreciate that your state.
Speaker 1: You're running for Senate in the Great State of Texas
Speaker 1: and the primary is March third, and early voting starts
Speaker 1: as soon as February seventeenth, so there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of time between, like after everybody gets back from Christmas
Speaker 1: and really getting the election process underway. How is it
Speaker 1: looking for you? And I really before we even talk
Speaker 1: about anything else, because I know you were at Turning Point, USA,
Speaker 1: and you talked about a lot of things about the
Speaker 1: Senate race and why you feel you're the better candidate.
Speaker 1: But one of the things I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: is why you chose to run for the Senate. What
Speaker 1: is it that you feel you must do, need to do,
Speaker 1: and can only do that by running for a Senate seat.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean of all our state wide leaders. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's no doubt that the guy I'm running against, he's
Speaker 3: been in office forty forty years. He's been in office
Speaker 3: since I was in college. And I'm turning sixty three
Speaker 3: tomorrow and happy birthday, Yeah, thank you, and those forty
Speaker 3: plus serious he has no major accomplishments. I've asked people
Speaker 3: across the state since a Bullie eight, and you name
Speaker 3: one major good accomplishment. There's some bad ones, but there's
Speaker 3: no there's they've never had. No one's ever said, yes,
Speaker 3: seriously good accomplishment. And for a guy that's running for
Speaker 3: his sis term in you sent which no one's ever
Speaker 3: done in Texas with no accomplishments, saying I'm part of
Speaker 3: the Washington establishment. I raised my money in Washington. I
Speaker 3: answer to Washington. Texas deserves better than that. And because
Speaker 3: it's so hard to run against incumbent, you have to
Speaker 3: in Texas. It's so large of a state, thirty one
Speaker 3: point three million people. You have to have name ID
Speaker 3: to overcome the massive dollars that come in from VC
Speaker 3: because functually there's no limit on their contributions, but there's
Speaker 3: a very tight limit on Challenger. So you have to
Speaker 3: have name id going into this, And I thought, who
Speaker 3: can do this other than somebody that already has name?
Speaker 1: I be right that you have for sure when we
Speaker 1: talk about we had doctor Ben Carson on earlier and
Speaker 1: we did touch on capitalism and how that is not
Speaker 1: what has let down the young people. It's the leftist ideals.
Speaker 1: And we also talked a little bit about socialism. And
Speaker 1: we're headed into two hundred and fifty years celebration of
Speaker 1: this country and our freedoms. What do you think? Where
Speaker 1: do you think we're headed as a country? Can we
Speaker 1: because it doesn't look really good in many ways, but
Speaker 1: can we turn this around? Because we're holding onto the
Speaker 1: republic by a thread.
Speaker 3: So I don't disagree with you, but I always I'm
Speaker 3: pretty opt I'm always optimistic. I wouldn't be doing this
Speaker 3: if I weren't optimistic. But it really is a battle
Speaker 3: of ideas and whether we're going to let socialism creep in,
Speaker 3: And even among the Republicans, they do sometimes so little
Speaker 3: in DC and really around the country that they don't
Speaker 3: affect very much what the Democrats are trying to accomplish.
Speaker 3: They don't speak out enough. They don't they don't propose Ah,
Speaker 3: they don't. They don't stand in the way of it enough.
Speaker 3: And that's part of the reason I think it's so important.
Speaker 3: We have more people who are willing to go up
Speaker 3: to Washington and say, you know what, enough of this.
Speaker 3: We need to make sure that we're protecting our country
Speaker 3: from outside forces they want to hurt us, and also
Speaker 3: inside forces, because it's a battle of ideologies and we
Speaker 3: could lose it at any time. But I truly believe
Speaker 3: that we have the upper hand because our ideas work
Speaker 3: and they're good for America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the things I talked about.
Speaker 1: Can see over and over again, whether it's Cuba, even Russia, China.
Speaker 1: Any time that we a country takes on something that's
Speaker 1: not a that doesn't have a capitalistic foundation, they fail,
Speaker 1: and they fail miserably, Venezuela being the most recent. And
Speaker 1: I think that one of the things that you just
Speaker 1: said that you have to be unafraid to go in
Speaker 1: there and fight for those things that we think are important.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone can deny that you would
Speaker 1: be unafraid to do that.
Speaker 2: So thank you for that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I just there's a whole mindset that
Speaker 1: needs to be changed here, or at least we need
Speaker 1: to educate.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, there's that doubt. You'll remember what Marca
Speaker 3: Thatcher said about socialist she said, eventually you run out
Speaker 3: of other people's money. There's no example, whether you look
Speaker 3: at Obamacare, whether you look at any type of socialistic model.
Speaker 3: Even our school finance system in Texas was created by
Speaker 3: John Cornyan by judicial FA. It's called Robin and it's
Speaker 3: designed to create media socialistic system that doesn't benefit our
Speaker 3: schools like it should. Socialism there's no example of it
Speaker 3: actually working. It's always harmful to the people. It's good
Speaker 3: for the leadership that's in control of everything, that get
Speaker 3: the best of everything. But what creates opportunity is capitalism,
Speaker 3: because then anybody, if they're willing to work and apply themselves,
Speaker 3: can succeed.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what doctor Carson said today. Earlier too,
Speaker 1: he said, really, your success is entirely up to you,
Speaker 1: and that is the truth. And that's a man that
Speaker 1: came from property and a lot of this haaps, and
Speaker 1: yet he overcame all of that, became a great pediatric
Speaker 1: neurosurgeon and then on to do even greater things after that.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it only only depends on each one
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look right, Ben Carson is a perfect example of that.
Speaker 3: He came from you know, poverty and turned out to
Speaker 3: be you know, a very very successful doctor, politician, speaker,
Speaker 3: and just generally some that's contributed greatly to the United States.
Speaker 3: And I think anybody has that opportunity, has the opportunity
Speaker 3: to fail or be successful based on their hard work
Speaker 3: and their own abilities.
Speaker 1: You know, you represent, you believe, and I believe you're
Speaker 1: correct the values of the Texan voter. What are some
Speaker 1: of those values and what are you most excited about
Speaker 1: to get to work on when you get to Washington, DC.
Speaker 3: Well, in Texas, we care about like being financially responsible.
Speaker 3: We balance our budges. That I was in the legislature for
Speaker 3: twelve years. We balance our budget. We have to balance
Speaker 3: our budget. Since John Corn has been in off in
Speaker 3: two thousand and two, we went from six point two
Speaker 3: trillion depthsit that was from George Washington to George Bush.
Speaker 3: We've now added over thirty one trillion dollars in debt
Speaker 3: in his time there, and he doesn't speak out, he
Speaker 3: doesn't take responsibility for it. He just spends the money
Speaker 3: acting like we can continue to fund these depthicits. That is,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, a one of the biggest issues we have.
Speaker 3: And I think the other one of the other big
Speaker 3: issues is China. Dealing with the threat from China and
Speaker 3: making sure that we are keeping up with them in
Speaker 3: every way, whether it's with AI which is huge, or
Speaker 3: with just our defense and making sure that our allies
Speaker 3: are aware and part of our team and making sure
Speaker 3: that we understand the threat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there really is a threat and AI is a
Speaker 1: big issue right now. And there is a balance to
Speaker 1: be had there as well, because we are going to
Speaker 1: a lot of our resources are going to be spent
Speaker 1: or put to that effort of building up those facilities
Speaker 1: that we need to have to stay in that AI race.
Speaker 1: So there is a balance there. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: work right there. That in and of itself, it.
Speaker 3: Is a huge lot of work. It is a lot
Speaker 3: of work because the Chinese are serious and they they're
Speaker 3: maneuvering economically, They're maneuvering militarily, and they are doing it
Speaker 3: all over the world, and they are doing in the
Speaker 3: United States, and they're doing it across the world. And
Speaker 3: their intent is domination. And they have a limited amount
Speaker 3: of time given the fact that their population is going
Speaker 3: to massively decrease over the next twenty years. And so
Speaker 3: Gigiping is on a mission. His mission is complete global
Speaker 3: dominance and putting America, you know, under his feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's long been the goal, and we need to
Speaker 1: wise up to that, and I think we have to
Speaker 1: give it very special attention and a lot of focus
Speaker 1: too in the days and years to come. So all right,
Speaker 1: so just to remind you again, the primary is March third, correct,
Speaker 1: and then February seventeenth actually is when voting starts because
Speaker 1: you have early voting.
Speaker 3: That's correct. And we need all the help we can
Speaker 3: get because John corn is getting three million dollars a
Speaker 3: week from Washington, DC and that does not happen for challengers.
Speaker 3: So go to kimpaxon dot com and please help us.
Speaker 5: We need it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you so much for spending time
Speaker 1: with us. Thanks for what you're doing too, and also
Speaker 1: bringing to light what's going on with our television sets
Speaker 1: right in the middle of our living rooms. So thank
Speaker 1: you so much for all that you do. We appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining the Handi Show. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with more of the Handity Show right after this.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. My name is Rose.
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying this and we only have like a
Speaker 1: little more than a half hour together. I wish all
Speaker 1: of you are very merry Christmas if you are celebrating Christmas.
Speaker 1: And I'll be back, by the way on December thirtieth,
Speaker 1: just to welcome you into the new year of just
Speaker 1: about so I'm looking forward to that as well. By
Speaker 1: the way, we were talking about smart TVs and that
Speaker 1: while these our TV's vary by brand, a lot of
Speaker 1: them allow you to limit the data collection by following
Speaker 1: some general steps. So what I did is I posted
Speaker 1: those on my If it's not upright this very minute,
Speaker 1: give it a little bit of time, but I will
Speaker 1: have the steps that you can follow to limit that collection.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be at Rose Unplugged on Facebook
Speaker 1: and then Instagram, Rose Unplugged with the number one. So
Speaker 1: those two places will have the steps that you need
Speaker 1: to follow to make sure that you are protecting your privacy.
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of my social media, also, I
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Speaker 2: Stay with us. Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: My name is Rose and we've got this last half
Speaker 1: hour together. So glad to spend time with you. I'll
Speaker 1: be back on December thirtieth. Great lineup of guests that day.
Speaker 1: To wait until you hear that show. Oh, looking forward
Speaker 1: to it anyway. In the meantime, my next guest is
Speaker 1: Linda with the y L y Nda.
Speaker 2: I like that. Actually I've been elevated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're elevated in my mind.
Speaker 2: You are always elevated. Listen, flattery.
Speaker 5: We'll get you everywhere every day, all day and twice
Speaker 5: on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You think I know that, Yeah, yeah, I know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you also know that I'm sincere when I tell
Speaker 1: you I love you so much.
Speaker 2: No, no, of course, of course, of course. All right, good,
Speaker 2: let's get that out of the way.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I wanted to tell you about some of my
Speaker 1: experiences here inside the Beltway, so you know I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm back and forth, but I'm here a lot. One
Speaker 1: of the things I noticed was I was in church
Speaker 1: one Sunday. Well, I went to the wrong church a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and it wasn't until they were disparaging
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated in cool Blood. So
Speaker 1: I left that church. And there are two that I
Speaker 1: really like, Cornerstone Chapel, is awesome. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: going to be my church and National Community Church, which
Speaker 1: is right in the city. But anyway, I was at
Speaker 1: the National Community Church one Sunday morning and they said, okay,
Speaker 1: everyone we are, we're gonna do some prayer time and
Speaker 1: let's pray for the d MV. And I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's kind of weird. You know, the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Speaker 1: It's like I get it, Like it's a long line.
Speaker 1: They've got it. They're all messed up in there. There's
Speaker 1: so many people, it takes forever to get things done.
Speaker 1: So we prayed and I'm like, yeah, Lord, yes, we
Speaker 1: were praying for the DMV. God, thank you for the DMV.
Speaker 1: And I'm like I turned to a young girl next
Speaker 1: to me, I'm like, why did we pray for the
Speaker 1: Department of Motor Vehicles. She goes, oh, honey, you know
Speaker 1: we're talking about what are the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, or DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that DMV. I had no idea. I
Speaker 2: never heard of that. I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: If I said DMB to you, you think Department of
Speaker 1: motor vehicles.
Speaker 5: I'd be like, Yeah, let's pray for them, Let's let's
Speaker 5: get their stuff together, and let's start getting this party started.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like path of least resistance.
Speaker 2: How can I help you help yourself? And living here?
Speaker 1: And I have to tell you, Linda, and we all
Speaker 1: need prayer here. I have to tell you, honest to God.
Speaker 1: First of all, there's so many karens. I was going
Speaker 1: into the area where you recycle cardboard where I live,
Speaker 1: and there was a woman that looked like suspicious when
Speaker 1: I walked in. She jumped when I opened the door,
Speaker 1: and I said, Hey, what's up? And she said, well,
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready to write down apartment. And
Speaker 1: I'm of all the people that left the styrofoam in
Speaker 1: their cardboard boxes.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is your name Karen? How much time
Speaker 2: do you have in your life? Come right?
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, I recycle like the best of them.
Speaker 5: But I gotta tell you, you know, I'm friendly with
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys because I get up very
Speaker 5: early in the morning, I'm out very early in the morning.
Speaker 5: And I invite you all to talk to the person
Speaker 5: that's handling and facilitating your garbage pickup and ask them
Speaker 5: where the garbage goes. Just have a come to Jesus
Speaker 5: with your garbage person, because then you've got to find
Speaker 5: out that this is a big racket for them to
Speaker 5: charge you more money and say they're taking things to
Speaker 5: they're recycling, and they're not. They're dumping it all in
Speaker 5: the same place. Because yeah, you don't have to wonder,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm telling.
Speaker 2: You right now, you're here to talk. This is And
Speaker 2: I still.
Speaker 5: Recycle, like you know, I'm out there recycling doing what
Speaker 5: everybody else does, yellow top, green top, brown top, whatever,
Speaker 5: but you know, or whatever the colors are in your
Speaker 5: neighborhood for recycling and regular trash. But all kidding aside,
Speaker 5: like everything. And I hate to say it like this
Speaker 5: because it's very pessimistic, but I feel like I'm being
Speaker 5: a pragmatist and sharing it. There's a lot of scams
Speaker 5: going on because everybody wants to feel like they're doing
Speaker 5: something good, and if they can charge you because you
Speaker 5: feel better feeling like you're doing something good and nothing's
Speaker 5: actually happening, they will.
Speaker 1: So you're paying more money for ten cents for a
Speaker 1: plastic gap bag at the grocery store everybody feels better,
Speaker 1: But it's still a plastic bag.
Speaker 5: First of all, the plastic bags have already been made.
Speaker 5: Use the plastic bags in existence, and then dispose of
Speaker 5: them how you wish? What are you doing with all
Speaker 5: the plastic bags sitting in the cardboard boxes? And how
Speaker 5: many trees are you killing now that they're given paper?
Speaker 5: Like the common sense of life is gone.
Speaker 1: It's completely gone, it really is, and you're just ah,
Speaker 1: I just want to scream, But thank you for that tip,
Speaker 1: because I'm so OCD that I mean, I literally, like
Speaker 1: they say, to clean out the glass bottles, Okay, I
Speaker 1: washed it out. I make sure there is crystal clean
Speaker 1: and put the lid back on it. I yell at
Speaker 1: the kids if you don't put the lid back on
Speaker 1: that plastic bottle, you know, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm OCD, So yeah, I take everything to the extreme.
Speaker 1: If you're telling me that's what I have to do,
Speaker 1: that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 5: The only thing I do that they tell me I
Speaker 5: have to do is I cut up the plastic that
Speaker 5: goes around bottles because I don't want a duck or
Speaker 5: a fish or any kind of life leg you know,
Speaker 5: in the any of our seasons.
Speaker 2: I cut that. I don't want them to get hurt. Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't put that in the recycling. Where do you
Speaker 2: put it? I'm supposed to just put it in? Well,
Speaker 2: what do you do with it? Do you cut it up?
Speaker 2: You gotta cut it. I gotta cut it up.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, now you have to add to all
Speaker 1: of my my anxiety.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll cut it up.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Christmas, Linda. I know
Speaker 1: you always have a ton of people. Well, now you
Speaker 1: have a ton of people in your family. What are
Speaker 1: you doing for Christmas?
Speaker 5: We're having twenty people over both sides of the family.
Speaker 5: I have put it a put up an extra table,
Speaker 5: and we're doing the the White Elephant game. I'm sure
Speaker 5: people have played this, or some people call it Double Diamond.
Speaker 5: It's my first year doing it, so you know, we've
Speaker 5: got twenty gifts and we're gonna do it with the
Speaker 5: kiddos and the grandparents and everybody. I think it'll be
Speaker 5: really fun. So we're excited. And I'm making braised short
Speaker 5: ribs instead of traditional foods, so trying to something different.
Speaker 1: But your husband's aid, Taliano, doesn't he want Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have zdi with sausage.
Speaker 5: We're doing linguini and clams sauuce. Don't worry. Everybody's gonna
Speaker 5: get something. It's everybody's getting a little something. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: it'll be good, It'll be good, All.
Speaker 2: Right, good. I'm glad to hear that. I don't know either, Jesus.
Speaker 1: You know, I was watching this movie I'm the Shopfier,
Speaker 1: who I think is absolutely gorgeous to this day.
Speaker 2: The movie was, Oh, what fun.
Speaker 1: And it just talked about all the things that a
Speaker 1: mom does and a woman does to prepare for Christmas
Speaker 1: in the holidays, right, and you know we do. It's
Speaker 1: just like when you go to bed at night, aren't
Speaker 1: you still thinking about, Okay, what does my child need
Speaker 1: for tomorrow's lunch? Did they study for that math test
Speaker 1: that I know they have? Your husband is out cold
Speaker 1: the minute his head hits the pillow. You you're laying
Speaker 1: there thinking about all these things. You're also the one
Speaker 1: probably responsible for all of the gifts, filling all this stuff.
Speaker 1: The men you just like you just said, you know
Speaker 1: exactly what you're having. I mean, that's a burden on
Speaker 1: all of us, and sometimes we're neglected let's just be
Speaker 1: honest here.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm very lucky. I'm not neglected.
Speaker 5: My husband are incredible, we do everything together, and I'm married.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very lucky. He's awesome. We love him. I
Speaker 2: married well too.
Speaker 1: But I still think that the stocking could be just
Speaker 1: a little fuller, you.
Speaker 5: Know, and ask Eric, Eric and Ether are in the studio,
Speaker 5: what are you doing for your wives to help them
Speaker 5: get ready for Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What are we supposed to help?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, should I play Jeopardy music and
Speaker 5: see how long it takes.
Speaker 7: It's like I'll be cooking a lot of the stuff
Speaker 7: on Christmas, but prepping for the day before and all
Speaker 7: that stuff. I can't handle that now.
Speaker 1: I don't really think you guys are really made to
Speaker 1: do that. To be honest with.
Speaker 7: You, Listen, I can't even wrap a gift that well.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna be honest. I'm pretty good at a
Speaker 7: lot of stuff, but wrapping gifts and decorating is not
Speaker 7: my forte. When I give stuff to my wife, it's
Speaker 7: it looks like a three year old might have wrapped it.
Speaker 5: It's the drunk elf, the drunk else wrap my presence.
Speaker 5: That's fine, it's all good.
Speaker 1: No, I don't like that. No, I want it to
Speaker 1: be nice. I want to wrapped. I don't want to bag.
Speaker 1: I don't want to dig in and just pull it out.
Speaker 1: I want the suspense of unwrapping, tearing that paper off
Speaker 1: the bouot box. I think that my favorite part is rapping,
Speaker 1: and I keep buying presents so I have more to wrap.
Speaker 1: I I really think that's my thing. I'm I'm gonna post.
Speaker 2: Over that.
Speaker 1: There's so many other reasons why I need to see
Speaker 1: a therapist, but yeah, that could be one of them.
Speaker 2: I'll put a post.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna post a picture of under my tree and
Speaker 1: you'll see what I'm talking about, because I am.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's stunning.
Speaker 2: I am really good. Stunning is right. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I wish you, Linda a very merry Christmas, Mary, and
Speaker 1: you too, Ethan and Eric, geez. Did you notice that
Speaker 1: Eric didn't chime in at all. Eric is very quiet, just.
Speaker 2: To me that he yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: Eric's like, I want to stay married and I got
Speaker 5: nothing to say.
Speaker 2: I tell you, I'll tell you what my contribution is.
Speaker 5: I paid for everybody's gifts.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love you guys, I really do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break here, we'll come back. Don't forget. I
Speaker 1: am going to put all of the information on how
Speaker 1: to limit data collection on my website, on Facebook, on Instagram,
Speaker 1: Rose Unplugged. And also I'll put a picture of the
Speaker 1: stunning as Linda called them, gifts under my tree.
Speaker 2: I really do.
Speaker 5: And just a reminder, And I know that Rose has
Speaker 5: mentioned it a few times, but they say, like a
Speaker 5: lot of our veterans and we've got homeless on the
Speaker 5: street some of the sadder parts of the holidays. So
Speaker 5: if you're in need of prayer, if you're wanting to
Speaker 5: pray for somebody, you know she is called Is. It's
Speaker 5: really great, you know. And I'm not much of a proselytizer.
Speaker 5: I'm not a Bible thumper. I don't know it verse
Speaker 5: and chapter and all the things. But I do know
Speaker 5: there's a higher power and I do know that if
Speaker 5: we ask him for help, we'll give it to us.
Speaker 5: And Rose is really terrific with that. She's got this
Speaker 5: great group of individuals who will pray for you and
Speaker 5: help you or help somebody maybe you know, maybe somebody
Speaker 5: who knows going through a tough time and could use
Speaker 5: a little prayer and just put it in for them,
Speaker 5: you know, and I mean always put a good word
Speaker 5: in with the big Man.
Speaker 1: Never heard anybody, No, not at all, Linda, thank you
Speaker 1: again for reminding me. And yes, especially during this time
Speaker 1: of year, I think there are a lot of needs
Speaker 1: and let people are feeling overwhelmed and maybe even sad
Speaker 1: because they lost a loved one. So definitely send you
Speaker 1: a prayer, ree question in and it does stay anonymous,
Speaker 1: and we do have a great team of ladies who
Speaker 1: are dedicated to prank for it.
Speaker 5: And definitely call at eight hundred ninety four one seven
Speaker 5: three two six we want to hear what your Christmas
Speaker 5: traditions are.
Speaker 2: I love those calls. I love those calls too.
Speaker 1: Thanks for reminding me to give out the phone number
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine to four to one show.
Speaker 2: And thanks Linda, I love you. I really do back
Speaker 2: at your girl. All right, we'll be back with more
Speaker 2: after this, all as.
Speaker 6: The Land of the Free, Because of the Free, the
Speaker 6: has to show on Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for joining me on today's Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun to be with all of you.
Speaker 1: I'll be back on December thirtieth, looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: And just real quick, you know, sometimes the biggest cultural
Speaker 1: battles don't happen in Washington, DC or New York. They
Speaker 1: happen in small towns and in places where faith has
Speaker 1: always been part of daily life. And that's what's playing
Speaker 1: out right now in South Carolina. There's this little town
Speaker 1: that was decorating its brand new marketplace for the very
Speaker 1: first Christmas season. It was nothing fancy, nothing controversial, just
Speaker 1: classic holiday decorps, lights, wreathes, a snowman, Santa Claus, and
Speaker 1: oh uh oh, a small Nativity scene. And the decorations
Speaker 1: weren't paid for by the city. They were paid for
Speaker 1: personally by members of the Mollens Beautification Committee. So a
Speaker 1: woman named Kimberly Bird put it all together, put up
Speaker 1: the decorations, put the Nativity scene in, and found out
Speaker 1: around Thanksgiving time that the town's mayor asked that the
Speaker 1: Nativity scene be removed from the public parking area. And
Speaker 1: the reason that was given was concerned about church and state,
Speaker 1: you know that old argument, and about people in the
Speaker 1: community who hold different beliefs. So but Bird said that
Speaker 1: if the Nativity goes, then all of the decorations go.
Speaker 1: And her reasoning was simple. She doesn't believe that Jesus
Speaker 1: should be pushed aside while the rest of Christmas days
Speaker 1: front and center. So she also raised a bigger question,
Speaker 1: how do you explained to children that their faith has
Speaker 1: to be hidden but Santa Claus can stay, but oh,
Speaker 1: the story of Christ can't. And she said that she
Speaker 1: never expected to be in this position. Who does right?
Speaker 1: But she believes there are moments when people have to
Speaker 1: stand up for what they believe is right. And you
Speaker 1: know what, that's what it's really all about at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. This is about whether or not
Speaker 1: the heart of Christmas still has a place in public life,
Speaker 1: especially in communities where faith has always been part of
Speaker 1: the fabric. And that small town in South Carolina, one
Speaker 1: woman decided that if Christmas is being celebrated, then christ
Speaker 1: shouldn't be hidden. So if Christmas is the holiday that
Speaker 1: you celebrate right now, remember not to hide the person
Speaker 1: that we celebrate it for and whose birth we celebrate
Speaker 1: it for. And also, I just want to wish all
Speaker 1: of you a wonderful holiday season and safety and kind
Speaker 1: words between family members, because you know what in the end,
Speaker 1: that's all we have are those that are dear to us.
Speaker 1: That we have to remember to be kind and to
Speaker 1: respond and to negativity the way that woman in the
Speaker 1: Target store did. She responded with kindness. She didn't argue,
Speaker 1: she didn't fight back, she didn't use the nasty words
Speaker 1: that the attacker used when she was attacking her, but
Speaker 1: she just responded with kindness. And I think it's something
Speaker 1: for all of us to keep in mind that that's
Speaker 1: what the season is about. But it's what it's about
Speaker 1: all the way through. And I do think too when
Speaker 1: we talk about as earlier in the show, we mentioned
Speaker 1: socialism and how it's creeping into every aspect of our lives,
Speaker 1: how it's creeping into the very fabric of who we are,
Speaker 1: and even in churches, which you know, I find astounding. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I must have been in some sort of cocoon because
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard anything like that. You know, I lived
Speaker 1: in southwestern PA, and you know, I just about everybody
Speaker 1: that went to church believed the same way. And you know,
Speaker 1: they knew that socialism, that S word, was a bad word,
Speaker 1: but it's being repackaged in such a way that, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's pulling the roll over a lot of people's eyes.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that concerns me the most
Speaker 1: is that our children haven't been taught history, because if
Speaker 1: they had, they would know what happened to places like Russia,
Speaker 1: to China, to Cuba and now Venezuela, the most recent one,
Speaker 1: early part of the two thousands. If they were taught,
Speaker 1: they would recognize why socialism isn't a good idea, but
Speaker 1: they would also recognize something else if they were taught
Speaker 1: American history. Why this experiment, this American experiment, is the
Speaker 1: most amazing experiment in all of history.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned before, the document that we are
Speaker 1: celebrating the liberty that we're celebrating two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years of beginning twenty twenty six. That document, that Constitution
Speaker 1: was a radical document. And the reason that it was
Speaker 1: radical was because that no other country has implemented something
Speaker 1: quite like it. And that's because other governments do not
Speaker 1: want to give up control and give it to the people,
Speaker 1: and we don't want to lose that control people. This
Speaker 1: is something worth fighting for. This country is something worth
Speaker 1: fighting for and something to celebrate as we go into
Speaker 1: the new year.
Speaker 2: God bless all of you. I love so much being
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Please check me out Rose Unplugged and also she is
Speaker 1: called by him dot com. That's my ministry. God bless
Speaker 1: I'll see you again December thirtieth