WEBVTT - Stand Your Ground and Dangerous Rhetoric 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.680 All right, News roundup and information overload hour. Here's our 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:04.240 toll free telephone number if you want to be a 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.720 part of the program at eight hundred nine four one 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.440 Sean if you want to join us. There is a 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.640 lot going on as it relates to Iran. If I 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.599 had to guess, is going to be soon some action 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.960 by President Trump. And we have now seen a ratcheting 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.480 up of the tensions we've had the USS Abraham Lincoln 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.520 had to send up fighter jets to take out an 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:35.559 aggressive drone and American forces now shot that down. As 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.199 the naval build up is continuing, and I would imagine 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.959 you're going to see probably a series of attacks against 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.920 those people responsible for cracking down and murdering innocent people 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.920 who were actually peacefully protesting from all that I could see, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:56.240 and it's you know this, look, this is a Nazi 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.440 theocracy regime. This is a regime where people do not 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:06.080 have rights. This is a regime that literally kills people 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.679 for no reason. And you know, women are treated like 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.240 third class citizens. God forbid, if you're gay or lesbian, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.640 they're going to put you up on a roof and 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.440 throw you off the roof. And they have been the 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.360 number one state sponsor of terror for a long time, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.320 which is why Donald Trump took out their nuclear sites. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.399 This is why he took out Solamani. This is why 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.800 also Donald Trump beat back the Isis Caliphate. But they 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.520 have been fomenting terror around the world for a long 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.960 long time, and they can chant, and they've been chanting 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.039 in the last week, death to America again. You have 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.240 the leaders now talking about well, in a month or 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.720 two from now, we will be talking about the death 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.800 of Donald J. Trump. They're threatening our president directly. If 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.000 you go back after the Iotola commandee came back from 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.360 he was in isolation in France. I can't believe France 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:01.880 put him up, by the way, but that's a different 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.480 story for a different day. But after the Shah was 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:11.920 overthrown incomes this religious theocracy and anyway, America lived through 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.280 and I remember it well, four hundred and forty four 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:20.320 days Americans were held hostage inside of Iran. One of 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.120 them is going to join us in a minute. Kevin 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.079 her Manning is a marine held captive four hundred and 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.320 forty four days. Upon his release, he continued in the military, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.200 completed thirteen years in the Marine Corps, earning multiple honors, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.560 including the Prisoner of War Medal, the Defense Notorious Service Medal, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.880 the US State Department's Award for Valor. And you know 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.000 he knows a thing or two about this, you know, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.800 Nazi fascist deocracy regime that is terrorizing and now murdering 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.480 the people in that country, the Persian people. Rightly, I 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.800 think it's the natural state of man to want liberty 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.480 and to want freedom. Our founders are discussed that that 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.320 is the natural order of things endowed by our creator, 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.960 that rights come from God, they don't come from man anyway. Kevin, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.600 welcome to the program. Glad you're with us. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 Well, thank you, Sean. And you know you and I 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.520 have been around long enough to know and when it 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.800 comes to Iran, the most dangerous mistake we've made is 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.600 pretending that it's a new problem or a misunderstood regime. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.520 Wouldn't you agree with that? 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.600 Yeah, of course I'd agree with it. And you know, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.280 I want people to fully understand when you were being 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.560 held hostage during that time. Four hundred and forty four 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.240 days is an awfully long time. I want to know 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.760 how you were treated, and I want to know mentally psychologically, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.920 did you always know that your country was behind you, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.720 supporting you, and that would do everything possible to ensure 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:49.320 your release. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.480 Well, to be honest, no, we didn't know that the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:58.160 United States was even concerning itself with us. Obviously our families, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.880 but we didn't know until after the failed rescue mission 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.480 Operation Eagle Cloth, that there was something proactively being planned 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.640 by our US government, our military, and really that was 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.600 way in April of nineteen eighty. But you know, when 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.760 we were first captured, I was a young Marine security 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.760 guard twenty years old at the time. But marine security 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.919 guards have a dual responsibility. One is to be of 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:32.159 course adhering to our military responsibilities through the Department of Defense, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.920 but also because we have a dual manager, if you will, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.480 or leadership of the Department of State, which is about diplomacy, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.640 and so really marine security guards they're supposed to try 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.680 to do their best at diminishing chaos, diminishing conflict. And 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.240 the ambassador way back on November fourth, nineteen seventy nine, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.080 Charge de Pair, Bruce Langen, he's the one who ultimately 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.600 made the call to lay down our weapons and to 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.240 surrender the embassy. But honestly, it's because he and everybody 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.280 involved was expecting the Iranian government to do its job 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.760 under a millennia several millennia of international law, and that 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.200 was to come to the aid of the diplomats and 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.640 the staff at the embassy to clear the compound. And 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.080 you know, we would go about our daily life. But 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.920 indeed the Ayahtola and his followers, they saw this as 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.480 an opportunity to consolidate their power, and we became the 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.880 Great Satan and the representative of the Great Satan, and 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.599 so we were captured. I would say to you one 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.520 thing that might be relevant, relevant is that our CIA 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:48.560 station chief, his position was finally declassified about thirteen months ago. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.679 He was held captive. He was held in solitary consignment 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.400 for four hundred and twenty five days. And I don't 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.160 know how Tom Ahern managed that to endure, and I'm 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.359 out a hole man. But after forty three days, I know, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.680 at least for me in solitary, following a failed escape attempt, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.800 that was enough. I was ready to get out of 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.560 solitary for sure, and I pretty much was begging the 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.560 guards to put me with another room mate. And we 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.960 didn't know that was right around the time, right before 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.280 when I came out of solitary reciement was right before 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.359 the failed rescue mission. And I guess I would be 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.200 remiss if you didn't give me ten seconds to say that. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.359 People have referred to the hostages as heroes or what 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.200 we've endured, but indeed the only real heroes were those 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.080 eight men who selflessly laid down their lives for people 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.840 they didn't even know, just so we might have been 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:43.560 freed earlier. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.400 Let me let me talk about how you were treated 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.520 when you were being held in captivity. How were you 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:50.400 treated well? 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.160 Early on? A lot of blindfolds, a lot of you know, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.919 there was a lot of solitary confinement early on. My 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.000 colleagues there were some who were beaten severely during their 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:07.440 interrogations that went on, but you know, just being denied 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.039 the BAI. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.520 Why do you think they were beaten and you were 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:11.480 not being beaten? 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.600 Well, I mean I had my own share of that 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.360 very early on and then during my following my failed 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.640 escape attempt. But some of these guys, senior military officers, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:27.040 Colonel Schaeffer, Colonel Scott, they were senior military officers and 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.440 in the Air Force and the Army military attaches there. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.040 They knew the Shaw's leaders so the Iyahtola and his followers, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.760 those who captured us, they wanted to try to extract 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.840 information from these guys. But the information that people working 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.040 at embassy largely have Sean And you know some of 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.960 this because you've interviewed many people in national security and 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:55.640 diplomatic positions, that their information was really about how can 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:01.920 the United States collaboratively collaboratively work with foreign governments, either 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:07.840 adversaries or allies. And for at least twenty six years 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.280 when the shot was in power, we certainly saw a 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.120 very tight relationship between the US and Iran. And we 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.800 have to go all the way back to those days 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.200 because the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union, shared about 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.680 a twelve hundred mile border with the northern northern border 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:28.240 of Iran, and so Iran was a very important player 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.360 in the geopolitical front. And so when I think about 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.480 these guys who endured that type of treatment and behavior, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.640 and not all of them spent much time, if any 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.160 time in solid dr confinement, but just the beatings because 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:50.640 of the interrogations. They played Russian roulette with us. Early on, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.080 they were trying to force the Marines to open up 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.200 safes that we didn't have combinations too, and there, you know, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.040 just being isolated Sean, just not knowing what the next 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.600 day was going to bring. They would play a lot 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:11.200 of mind games with the correspondence letters to our families 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.440 and from our families. The letters that I received from 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.440 my folks had every single thing torn out of it 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.440 that had anything to do with the negotiations that might 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.560 have been going on. What was our government doing to 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.280 try to secure our release? And as a result, you know, 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.280 we were really very much kept in the dark. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.360 Quick break right back. We'll lot more with Kevin her Maning. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.920 He is a former marine. He was held captive in 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.240 and Iran for four hundred and forty four days. More 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.000 on the other side, we'll talk a little Super Bowl 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.000 food with Linda and much more. Now we continue. Kevin 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.280 her Maning is with us, held hostage in Iran for 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.640 four hundred and forty four days. You know, it's got 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.240 to be so hard. What was the lowest point for you? 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.720 Well, I think the lowest point for pretty much maybe 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.880 two thirds of the hostages was in February of nineteen eighty, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.240 about three months after we were captured. They decided to 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:10.160 really play a severe mind game on us. They dragged 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.000 us out of our cells that we were in at 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.840 the time, lined us up against the wall, stripped us 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.480 down to just our shorts, and then while one of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.880 their guards, a couple of their guards went running up 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.560 and down the hall, up and down the hallway behind us, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.160 started shouting out execution commands at the top of their 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.360 lungs and then chambering their weapons as though we were 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.320 about to be executed. And I remember a good friend 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:40.720 of mine, another fellow from Wisconsin, actually Dave Raider, Colonel 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.480 Dave Raider and an Air Force fellow. He had enough and 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.400 he basically started cursing at the Iranians and shouted to 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.440 them to just get it over with if that's what 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.320 they really wanted to do. But for all of us, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:54.880 I would. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.720 Say that was how how did they react to him 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:58.720 fighting back on that? 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.000 Or I would say astonished They didn't think that it 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.040 was a lot There was a lot of mind game 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.720 being played, mind games being played by both sides throughout 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:15.280 the situation, but at that particular time, they were just 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.600 so taken aback that that type of resistance was happening. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.120 I mean, we were handcuffed behind our backs and there 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.600 wasn't a lot we could have done physically other than 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:24.880 just speaking up. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.640 And I had the I mean, imagine if they're trying 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.240 to intimidate you and scare you, and you're saying, go ahead, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.480 pull the pull the trigger. I'm going to see Jesus. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.800 Go ahead, I want to go see Jesus. Tod I 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.960 pull the trigger, pull it, do it now? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:38.160 Yeah? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.120 And and what's interest? 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.760 In other words, you don't give them the reaction that 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:41.280 they want. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:42.800 No, they didn't. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.080 They want to create fear, they want to intimidate, and 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.199 I'm not I'm not saying the average person naturally would 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.040 respond that way. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.880 But if bring about submission, no question. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.839 Well, and you know you you you can choose not 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.839 to do you obviously, as a marine, I would have 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.840 imagine you were probably more equipped than others in the 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.920 embassy of the time to handle the stress of that. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.440 And I'm sure that a lot of people that were 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.920 held hostage for that length of time were never the same. Again, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.400 you sound like you've recovered really nicely and that you 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.120 put this chapter in your life in its proper perspective 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.320 and moved on. But I'm sure a lot of the 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.040 people that you stayed in touch with did not. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.679 Yes, And I would say the following on that topic. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.920 I think youth has a lot to do with the 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.720 resilience that people are able to bring about. I think 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.720 that being just twenty years old. And then when we 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.320 finally were released and we got back to our communities 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:43.199 and our families, what my experience was the Marine Corps 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.160 they put me on the road working out of the 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.800 recruiting office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but not as a recruiter, 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.760 rather in public affairs, and I traveled the state with 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.880 the Marine Corps. They had somebody accompany me, and I 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.959 spoke at high schools, in rotary club in kawanas, and 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.000 church groups. And as a result of that, it really 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.640 became a Catharsis for me. And I don't think that 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.000 was a plan for the Marines, but it worked for 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.440 me because it helped. It helped me understand that I 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.760 would rather be defined for what I've done in my 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:22.360 life and rather than for what happened to me. For 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.000 four hundred and forty four days, I had a roommate, Sean, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.200 who became a very good friend of mine. We were 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.120 roommates for about six months. Bill Kieo was a giant 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.920 of a man, weighing six standing six feet nine inches tall, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.120 weighing about three hundred and fifty pounds, and he lost 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.800 half of his bodyweight actually literally a little more than 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.160 half of his bodyweighting captivity. But Bill Kiol was an 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.079 educator who had only been in Iran for twenty four hours, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.240 and he arrived there as part of an international education 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.000 agency to gather records from the former Tehran American High 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.439 School which had been shut down by the IATOLA, and 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.319 then the Americans who were having their kids go there 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.560 left the country anyway. But he would always say to me, Kevin, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:04.880 you know you're a young man. You were at the 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.840 age of my kids. And when we get out of here, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.240 and Shawn, he never said if we get out And 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.240 that's what educators do. They encourage people. So he said, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.040 when we get out of here, go back, get involved 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.280 in your community, complete your education, and make a life 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:28.280 of relevance. And I've never forgotten that because some of 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:33.200 my colleagues they had much worse experiences than I had. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.160 What they feed you every day, we. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.120 Have we have a lot of chicken legs, a lot 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.400 of rice, a lot of grass, and goat guts soup. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.080 It was supposedly as a Delta dot what soup grass 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.440 and goat guts soup? 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.120 I never developed a taste for that. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:58.840 I'm sure you didn't. Honestly, you know you're an inspiration. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.440 You know i'd your resiliency and you're sharing your story 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.000 with us, and thank god you're okay. And to all 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.720 the other hostages, we pray for them even to this day. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.800 Nobody should have to live through that captivity. Terrible to 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.960 lose your freedom, Kevin. We appreciate you, man, God bless 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.360 you and stay in touch with us. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.760 Okay, thank you for having me on you bet. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.400 Eight hundred nine point one Sean. If you want to 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.720 be a part of the program, now you want Linda's 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.560 air fried French fries? I do you want Hannity cooking 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.160 for the super Bowl? It's not even close. We'll get 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.200 to that in a minute. Eight hundred nine point one, Sean. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:46.320 If you want to be a part of the program, well, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.200 do you want to talk about the super Bowl anymore? 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.720 I mean, you did not How do you not know 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.400 who's in the super Bowl? When I first asked you, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.680 you did not know? And then we're going to talk 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.160 about food because you're you're not a better cook than me. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.360 I well, I think I am. I don't really think 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.160 that even warrants a conversation, but that's okay. If you 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.560 want to have it, we can have it on Olan. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:09.480 How do you cook your French fries? 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.600 That's how we're rating our abilities to cook as French fries. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.000 How do you cook your French fries in an air fyer? Okay? 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.200 And what other food do you cook in an air fryer? 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.000 I mean, you can cook anything you want in an 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.800 air fryer, but I don't cook it. What do you 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.640 cook it in the airfare? I mean you can cook 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.480 fried chicken. You can cook if you make like your 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.880 own nuggets from scratch, So they're health. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.000 Everybody listening to my voice right now? Do you want 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.200 Hannity fried chicken? 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:33.720 No? 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.200 They want to be Maha olive oil or avocado oil 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.840 or olive oil. Or do you don't need any of 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.120 the air fried crap? 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.680 How about no oil? How about less calories, same great 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:46.200 taste less? 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.479 Okay, these are healthy oils MAHA approved. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.880 But you know what's the healthiest of oil? No oil? 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.520 I'm taking the oil out. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:58.320 No, Actually, you're wrong. Olive oil is extremely hard healthy 0:16:58.440 --> 0:16:58.760 as is. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.240 I wouldn't say it wasn't. I didn't say. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.840 Okay, So if you cook using you don't need it, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.119 why are you adding and and it tastes better? Because 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.000 the point is when you're cooking food, you cook food 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:12.840 that tastes good. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.080 The reason it doesn't taste better for you? 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.520 What is the other crap that you get? Like, for example, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.320 if you were watching the super Bowl this weekend like 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.840 every other American, if you. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.560 Were a lot of people, would you make I talked 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:24.800 to people. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.119 I don't want to talk about that. I want to 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.160 talk about what would you make? What would you make 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:29.600 to eat? 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.800 We make heroes, we make dips heroes. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.040 Yeah, what kind of heroes? 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:36.679 You know? 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.240 Italian subs like big heroes. I don't know what you 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:39.720 guys call. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.879 Them ITALIANU you go, you get bread at the grocery store, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.160 you slap some meat on it. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.320 And authentic Italian deli. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:56.200 You get the bread, get the right bread. Okay, that's 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.679 your big that's your that is your big meal. I 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:00.800 didn't what else are you gonna make? 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:01.000 You know? 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.040 You said, what else would you make? 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:02.159 Well? 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:03.960 What are you you going to make? Art of choke dips? 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.879 Aren't you and spinach dip and tacos. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.680 Spinach dip, steak tacos. Let me ask you a question. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:11.960 How do you cook your taco meat? 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.120 I cook it in a pan. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:14.760 Oh you don't air fry it? 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.040 I told you not. Everything goes in the air fryer 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:18.680 just because I own an air fyer. It's not a 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.199 one trick pony. Can you use other things like like 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:21.640 a pan? 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.560 Use hard too doing it? 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.119 I'm having a brunch on Sunday and we're not watching 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:27.760 the super Bowl. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:29.679 Having a brunch on Sunday? And what are you going 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:29.960 to take? 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.439 You know what I'm gonna watch on Sunday. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.240 I'm gonna know what I'm I don't care about that. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.119 I'm not talking. We're talking about food. Focus, Learn to focus. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.000 You're like, all right, So what else are you gonna 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.320 make for your brunch? 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.800 My brunch? I'm doing French toast with brioche bread, peak. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.560 Of off puke. What You don't like pancakes? 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:50.160 No? 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:50.560 Why not? 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.119 Because I don't know? I don't eat sugar. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.359 Oh, but it makes everything taste better. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.040 You don't like sugar, No, I don't. I try. I 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:58.600 can use eggs. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.240 Well, you can eat other things, Sean, you know you don't. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.760 Okay, I'm making pork. I'm making pork ribs. You want 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.880 to know what I'm making. I'm making pork ribs. I'm 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:11.480 going to make sausage and onions, mild Italian sausage from 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.399 a butcher, which is delicious. I don't put peppers in 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:15.480 because I don't love peppers. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.840 Do you have no hormones and no vaccines in your meat? 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:18.920 Do you make sure of that? 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:25.320 Of course? Of course? Okay, grass fed, wonderful organic. I'm 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:30.600 going to have steaks available. I'm gonna make tomahawk rabbis. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.000 For people that want carbs, I can make potatoes for them. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:35.919 I'll make like potatoes or grotten. 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.119 So nobody gets anything sweet though. Nobody can have a cookie. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.040 Nobody can have a brown. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.320 You know, they gonna have whatever they want. I'll order whatever. 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.520 You just don't make it. Oh you order, you can't 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:43.720 make it. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.000 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make that. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.800 I already whooped your ass because I can. I'm a 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:47.359 great baker. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.440 Whoop my ass. Okay, I'm gonna sit there and I'm 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.040 gonna pound out making a pie that nobody really is 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.560 gonna end up eating anyway, because they're gonna be stuff 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.720 from eating my pie, from eating my other food. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.280 Listen, well, they probably figure they better fill up because 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.439 you're you know, you're just now, that's not that's not 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.919 why my pork ribs are superbe My pork ribs are unbelievable. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.880 You can't even match them. You could never match the Yeah. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.280 I also will create a shrimp option. I'm actually actually 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.320 two options seafood options. One I will make seafood fraudyavlo 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.240 and two I will make shrimp scampy. I'm just telling 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.280 you I'm a better chef than you. You can't deal 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:23.440 with it. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.360 You can say it out loud, I'm dealing. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.479 To Okay, let's go through the phones and say, Tom, 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.600 who would you rather Where would you rather eat on 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.480 Super Bowl Sunday? At my house or Linda's? Based on 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:34.400 what you just hurt. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.520 Well sewn, I'd rather eat at your house, and next 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.280 to that, it would be my house because that's Phil 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:41.840