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| I think if you look at some of the progress that's taken place in the first nine months, despite the fact that the Congress has done uh very little up until this point, the president has gotten rid of nearly a thousand regulations that have paved the way for massive job creation and job growth in this country. | |
| We're looking at a booming economy. | |
| I think those are things that people actually care about. | |
| We're looking at the defeat of ISIS, something that this president has led on and worked with our coalition forces to help do. | |
| Uh he's created better relationships with countries around the globe. | |
| He's bolstered the relationship with NATO and had other countries encouraged in the growth of the amount of money that other countries are participating in that. | |
| Uh the historic moment that we saw with the president on his first foreign trip when he was in Saudi Arabia, and he spoke in front of nearly 60 Muslim majority countries. | |
| These are historic moments that he's done without Congress. | |
| Imagine how incredible and how many good things we would be doing if people like Senator Bob Corker got on board and started doing their job instead of doing so much grandstanding on TV. | |
| Oh, I loved what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said from the podium today, and we just so happen to have her, and she's the White House press secretary. | |
| You know, you have the most miserable job in the entire universe. | |
| I don't know how you deal with those snakes every day. | |
| And I by the way, these are my words, they're not Sarah Sanders' words, they're Sean Hannity's words. | |
| I I I don't think I could control my temper. | |
| I honestly don't think I could do it. | |
| Some days it's hard, but uh it helps that after uh doing that I get to come on your radio show and talk to uh friendly people like you, Sean. | |
| Well, look, I um I do appreciate the great work you do, and I think you do it masterfully, and I think it's a very difficult job. | |
| Um, one of the things I just despise about the media is number one, they're agenda-driven. | |
| In my opinion, they are an extension of the Democratic Party's, you know, uh ops operation, and they're they're just basically all sheep and they all ask the same questions every day. | |
| And I was watching you just a few minutes ago, and I thought you handled the whole issue of uh Senator Snowflake retiring out there in Arizona, and you know, I love what you said that they haven't gotten their job done. | |
| They they're go ahead. | |
| I and I think the people of their home states are frustrated by their inability to be effective and to push legislation through, despite the fact that they Senate has not uh been as successful. | |
| This president still managed to get a lot of things done, and I think that he's gonna continue working with members of the Senate, uh certainly Republican members of the Senate to really make historic changes like tax cuts for the middle class, and I think we're gonna see that by the end of this year. | |
| I think we're gonna see it, and it's not because they you know, I I don't understand what part of the president's agenda that they're against. | |
| All right, maybe they don't like the president's style, but I mean, to be perfectly blunt, we don't even know who half these senators are because they're too afraid to take a stand on anything, and I don't like the fact that people run for office and they're supposed to be public servants and they're not serving the American people and fighting for the American people. | |
| And I think, you know, people like Senator Sass and and Senator Flake and Senator Corker and some of these other guys, if they'd spend more time fighting for the people they represent, we'd be a lot better off, and and President Trump wouldn't be so frustrated with them. | |
| I'm frustrated with them. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And I think America's frustrated with them. | |
| I think that's one of the reasons you see a lot of these individual members that come out and attack this president, their numbers drop because they do want to see somebody get things done. | |
| That's what this president has been focused on is actual results, not just rhetoric. | |
| And I think that you're seeing a lot of that frustration come through, not just from the president, but certainly from the American people. | |
| The fact is this Senator Corker was probably going to be primaried and lose. | |
| And we and Jeff Flake had no shot against Dr. Kelly Ward, who I've known and has been a guest on this program for five years now. | |
| And so I I'm watching him today, and he's trying to be a martyr and he's trying to act like, oh, whoa, woe was me. | |
| And I'm sitting there thinking the only reason you're really getting out is because you're not going to win. | |
| So you might as well go out and blame somebody else other than yourself and the fact that you're not out there fighting to keep your promises. | |
| I mean, that's my take on it. | |
| Yeah, and I I think that's one of the problems with Washington is you have people that are so much more concerned with re-election and a lot less concerned about uh focusing on real policy changes. | |
| Uh this is a president who is not uh concerned about doing things politically correct, but he's concerned about actually accomplishing real things that impact change, and I I think that that's really shaken some of these members, and uh one of the reasons you're seeing uh some of them get uh a massive dip in their numbers and drop out and not run for reelection. | |
| Let me play something that you said the other day, and it's funny because it was echoed by former president Jimmy Carter of all people, and uh and that there's never been a president that has experienced the level of hostility from the press day to day like this president. | |
| You said this from the podium. | |
| So recently in the Atlantic magazine, Glenn Thrush said he thought the administration's apparent tension with the press was overstated. | |
| Uh would you agree? | |
| No. | |
| Uh I I know Glenn well, but uh, you know, I think that uh there's always gonna be tension between whatever administration is in place at that time with the White House press corps, but I do think that there is a heightened tension, uh certainly between this administration and the press. | |
| I think you can see that in the coverage. | |
| I mean, I've been around press and worked in politics uh my entire life, and I've never experienced the level of kind of hostility that I think we see day to day. | |
| Why do you think that is? | |
| I have my own um I think the reason is I'll give you my answer and then I want yours. | |
| I think the reason is that this president doesn't take any crap. | |
| This president fights, this president digs his heels in, and I love the fact that he's fighting for the country and and taking a stand. | |
| And I think they they resent it and they're not used to it. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I think one of the other reasons is they never expected him to win. | |
| And I think that it uh absolutely embarrassed them when they were crying on national TV on election night when this president showed them up and proved them wrong and has continued to do that every single day since taking office. | |
| Yeah. | |
| No, I think I think you're right uh as well. | |
| Let me ask you this. | |
| Um, what is the relationship like like with Jim Acosta? | |
| I mean, I don't think there's anyone more hostile. | |
| Jim Acosta thinks he's a talk show host instead of uh quote objective journalist, and they're sitting there and being obnoxious to you every day. | |
| I mean, how do you handle that and what is it like behind the scenes with these people? | |
| Uh, you know, I try to take it one day at a time. | |
| Look, uh I I hate to um overgeneralize the entire White House press corner. | |
| Oh, you can't there are some good uh reporters and good journalists that still exist in that group, and I I think it's sad when you have a few people that so regularly are more focused with getting good TV clips than they are with actually getting good information, substantive information. | |
| And they focus so much more on the palace intrigue and the and the the process stories and so little on substance and so little on policy. | |
| I do think that that's a big distraction, but um there are uh a handful of good folks out there, and so I hate to see some of the the louder folks take all of the attention away from some of the better reporters. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, one of the things that I think is missing from the Republican Party is an identity, and I I know that certainly the president has a a real agenda. | |
| Um how did it go in the meeting today when he went up to Capitol Home? | |
| You know, I thought the meeting was really productive. | |
| I I think that it shows that uh the support for this president with the Republican senators uh is pretty wide and pretty deep. | |
| If you've got a few people, uh again, I I don't think just because they're the loudest folks in the room, it makes them speak for the entire group or certainly for the for the majority, as as uh we often say in the South, just because they eat their soup louder than everybody else doesn't mean it tastes any better. | |
| And so I think that you can apply that uh certainly to the Republican members of the Senate. | |
| There's a great deal of I I think support and respect from those members, and they really want to see something big happen. | |
| On a person before I ask you more more professional questions, on a personal level, I'm just curious because I've always felt your dad is one of the best debaters all the times he's run for for president on that stage, and he's got a great wit. | |
| He's very sharp, he's smart, funny, very personable. | |
| Uh what part of uh growing up with your dad and him being governor do you think helped prepare you for this? | |
| Uh you know, I I I would not uh disagree with your assessment of my dad at all. | |
| Obviously, I think he is uh one of the best and the brightest that has ever been, but I'm also uh a very biased daughter, but and I'm perfectly okay with that. | |
| But I I think you know, having a front row seat to the political process certainly I think helped prepare me, but also having a dad that really allowed me to be part of it, not just to watch it, but to actually engage in it. | |
| He included me uh from a really early age in a lot of his campaigns and and you know, I got to sit in the the meetings while he was having different discussions uh throughout his time as governor. | |
| I think it really helped give me a different perspective and certainly uh a great insight into the process. | |
| Let me ask you about the uranium one issue. | |
| Um I I have been all over this. | |
| I have known about this FBI informant that has the emails and the documents and the tapes and and all the evidence that we now know the FBI knew about in 2009. | |
| This is an FBI informant. | |
| And now what we're beginning to discover is, you know, it looks like a pay-to-play bribery, compromising of American national security with the hostile regime of Vladimir Putin and Russia. | |
| And we've spent the better part of a year with no evidence talking about Trump, Russia collusion. | |
| Trump this to me is the one of the biggest scandals on national security because we at at the end of this, with money transferring hands all over the place, gave up 20% of America's uranium to this this bad actor that that everybody in the liberal media has been talking about, and I would argue, but for me, Sarah Carter, John Solomon, and now Victoria Tunsing, I don't think anybody else has picked up on it. | |
| And I think where we're headed with this, now that we have two congr three congressional investigations, one in the Senate, two in the House, and it looks like that the informant is gonna have his NDA lifted, that all of this evidence is gonna become public, and none of it is gonna be good for the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Eric Holder. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I I think you're spot on. | |
| I mean, just last week there was a report from the Hill that alleges officials in the previous administration actually had knowledge of Russians who are engaged in bribery, a massive kickback scheme that allowed their government to get a huge foothold in the U.S. uranium supply. | |
| That is concerning in itself, but it went on further and said these officials had information indicating that Russians routed millions of dollars to the U.S. design to specifically benefit Bill and Hillary Clinton's foundation while she was Secretary of State. | |
| I mean, it just one fact after another comes out Uh that shows that this was just a horrible situation. | |
| Uh all this taking place. | |
| And one of the things that I find even more uh impactful is that this report doesn't just cite anonymous sources. | |
| It actually has a member of Congress on the record uh validating and giving credibility to this story. | |
| You've had uh a ton of media outlets, just about every single one, minus uh a few of the good ones that like to run stories alleging the Russia collusion. | |
| They're far thinner, including allegations made against the attorney general by centers without having any evidence, and major networks and mainstream media have completely ignored this story. | |
| Well, they're not gonna be able to mind boggling to me. | |
| It's they're not gonna be able to ignore it much longer. | |
| And you know, the words uh Sarah Carter, John Solomon, Sean Hannity were right, are gonna have to come flowing out of their mouths as usual, but I'm sure I'll I'll be dying until my last breath before I hear those words. | |
| What do you make of the fact the FBI director at the time that knew about this information was Robert Mueller and Robert Muller is now the special counsel and he's investigating, quote, Russia collusion. | |
| Uh does that compromise his ability to do it or Rod Rosenstein? | |
| He was, you know, the the deputy attorney general at the time as he is now. | |
| Uh look, again, I I think that the details of this story and this report are certainly extremely troubling and something that we should be looking into. | |
| Uh I I don't want to get any further ahead of the investigation. | |
| I'll leave some of those uh comments for you to do. | |
| Uh but I definitely think that this story uh shows just the absolute hypocrisy that exists in the media, particularly given their obsession and the Russia fever that they've had over the last year. | |
| They finally have a real Russia story, and I hope that some of the other outlets will start covering it. | |
| That's okay. | |
| I'll do their job for them as usual. | |
| Um anyway, I'm very you should be very proud of the job you do. | |
| I think it's extraordinarily difficult. | |
| And uh I think you've got the patience of Job and uh Sarah Sanders. | |
| I I why uh you dropped Huckabee, is that true? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I want to make sure I get it right. | |
| Well, my my husband does appreciate that I've claimed him. | |
| Uh I I've always tried to go by Sarah Sanders, but you know, I I'm certainly very proud of my family and happy if they'll let me continue to be associated with them as well. | |
| Oh, I think you're I think you're in good graces of your father and mother. | |
| I know them well. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| All right, thank you, and and congratulations on the job you're doing, and it's a thankless job. | |
| Uh we appreciate you being with us. | |
| Daniel's a legend here. | |
| Well, I was gonna say I was gonna introduce my buddy, my friend, my pal, the great patriot, the great football fan, the the one of the greatest country artists. | |
| We only have a kind. | |
| It's only a half an hour. | |
| Charlie Daniels is here, and you're annoying you already interrupted the interview and you're wasting time. | |
| But I think if to a real proper welcome to Mr. Daniels would be if you sang him his greatest song, Devil Went Down. | |
| It's not complete unless you're singing, right? | |
| Well, well, uh you mean a version that I've already signed. | |
| Well, a version that you can sing with him. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Alright, ready? | |
| All right, the devil went down to Georgia and he was looking for a soul to steal. | |
| He was in a bind because he was way behind, so he's willing to make a deal. | |
| When he came across this young man's song on a fiddle and playing it hot, well, the devil he jumped up on a hickory spot and he said, Boy, let me tell you what. | |
| Yes, you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too, and if you care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you. | |
| Now you play pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil his due. | |
| I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul because I think I'm better than you. | |
| My name's Johnny, and it may be a sin, but I'll take your bet, and you're gonna regret because I'm the best as ever been. | |
| Johnny you're on up your bow and play your fiddle hard. | |
| The devil would be hard. | |
| And if you and you get the I can't ruin the whole song, I'm butchering it to the devil. | |
| All right, so Charlie Daniels is with us. | |
| You know, you came out with this never look at the empty seats. | |
| Right. | |
| And I have spent so much time with you. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| And we've done so many events together. | |
| And I've watched you perform so many times, and the thing is you I don't even know how old you're you are doing a hundred some odd dates a year. | |
| I'll be eighty eighty-one in four days. | |
| You look amazing. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And the energy you bring to the people that come to your shows is phenomenal. | |
| I feel the same way about my profession, you feel about yours. | |
| We both love it. | |
| Love it. | |
| And you uh you put your best into it every day. | |
| I do every night. | |
| And it's just it's a it's a joy. | |
| It's a joy to do it. | |
| You know, I've actually been to events and and maybe the crowd size wasn't what we thought it was. | |
| That's happened to anybody, I guess in performing, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| You know, sometimes you don't have enough notice, sometimes uh the word didn't get out, they didn't promote it right or whatever. | |
| And it used that used to bother me. | |
| I'm like, why didn't you fill the seats? | |
| Why is it and and then I learned it doesn't matter. | |
| If there's 10 people there, you give your all for 10 people. | |
| You give your all for whoever's there. | |
| And you're not concerned with the empty seats. | |
| You're concerned with the ones that have people in them. | |
| If you please them, then that's the way you build a following. | |
| They'll come back and bring somebody else with them and kind of snowballs and hardly have MTCs. | |
| I swear to you. | |
| Oh, I do. | |
| I have to occasionally we have some empty seats, yeah. | |
| Especially when we first started. | |
| This is about really it's kind of an accentuate to positive type thing. | |
| If you can't get what you want, take what you can get and make what you want out of it, you know. | |
| You have uh a lot of things that guide you in life. | |
| One is your faith, yes, your love of music, your love of football. | |
| And you have a love of politics. | |
| You're I I watch you, you write your blog, and and you go out and you're tweeting up a storm, and you're passionate about this country, you're passionate about everything you do. | |
| What are you most passionate about? | |
| Your music? | |
| I'm most my my priorities are God, family and country music and country, yeah. | |
| God, family, country, and work. | |
| That's me, yeah. | |
| I'm curious because uh I know what a great patriot you are, and I know how much you love our troops. | |
| How many times do you go see the the men and women when they were out fighting? | |
| Uh we've been to uh we've been to Iraq three times. | |
| Right. | |
| When we've been to Afghanistan and we go, of course you go to Wrack, you go to Kuwait 'cause that's a jumping off place. | |
| Sure. | |
| Co uh we've been to Kosovo, uh um Serievo, been to Guantanamo, just all over the but wherever we can get to them. | |
| You know, we can never do enough for our troops. | |
| Anybody put their life between us and our enemies. | |
| How do you reconcile uh the big great patriot, lover of our military, because they they give you the freedom to play, me the freedom to to rant on the radio and on television. | |
| Um and they put their lives on the line for us. | |
| How do you reconcile that with your passion for football? | |
| I know you like college football probably better anyway, but what's going on in the NFL? | |
| You know, I've got I'm still kind of wondering if I'm gonna redo my my season tickets next year. | |
| I I found myself in this. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| This just happened. | |
| Uh that I I'm not as it used to be football was on. | |
| I had TV on. | |
| Right. | |
| I've kind of it's kind of lost a little bit of its glow to me. | |
| And you know what gets me about it uh is I I you want to protest something, you feel something's wrong, please do. | |
| It's free country, you can do that. | |
| But the guy holding it or the gal holding that flag out there in that color guard may well be a veteran or maybe not even a veteran, maybe still an active duty person who has put their life on the line in Afghanistan, Iraq, or someplace we don't even know about. | |
| And you can't take thirty seconds to honor them, the flag that they served under and the song that signifies the whole thing in our country. | |
| You know, that's that's my point. | |
| And listen, I'm I made my living, you know, giving my opinions and strong opinions. | |
| A lot of people don't like us, Charlie, trust me. | |
| And I respect people that have different views. | |
| I really do. | |
| I'm fine, I'm cool with the but even people that don't like me and want to write horrible things and lies about me, which happens pretty much every day. | |
| But how many we can't unite on this issue. | |
| Yes. | |
| How many fought, how many bled, how many died, how many sacrificed for you to have the right to get paid millions to play the sport you love. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And and be loved by the crowds. | |
| You're right, but you used you took the words out of my mouth. | |
| It took a I'm not watching NFL football. | |
| I'm watching college football. | |
| It's pretty good too, ain't it? | |
| It's oh my you know, isn't it fun to like t ascertain the only the the minuscule differences in terms of talent level? | |
| And then you think there's only a few of those college kids that are ever getting the pros, and I'm like I think they're all good. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know what's amazing is is is you get you get it, you there's a whole mindset to college football that you don't have when you watch pro. | |
| It's like these kids are doing it. | |
| They're they're they're giving it their best. | |
| They're in love. | |
| And to watch you know, Alabama should have to play in a pro league after what they did about Tennessee Titanic balls the other day. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But it's it's great. | |
| It's uh college football is a great thing. | |
| I'm every Saturday I got TV. | |
| I don't know how Nick Saban does it every year. | |
| Every year the star puts a championship team on the field. | |
| But I wish I did, I'd teach it somebody else. | |
| So you're a volunteer fan. | |
| I have a volunteer fan. | |
| Yeah, well, listen, I admire that. | |
| What is it? | |
| How many years now is it total music for you? | |
| And were you musical when you were born when you were young? | |
| I cut the apron strings in nineteen uh June of nineteen fifty eight and I left home. | |
| That's all I've done since it's something to do with music. | |
| How old were you then? | |
| I was uh well, nineteen fifty eight would have been coming to be twenty two years old. | |
| I was twenty one. | |
| That was it. | |
| You went out on your own, never look back. | |
| Went bound on my own, never looked back, and I've done it on all different levels, of course, but it's all been music related. | |
| Except for five weeks, I worked in a junkyard in Denver, Colorado. | |
| How was that? | |
| I couldn't get well. | |
| Well, it was it brought me very much down to earth. | |
| It made me realize appreciate my you know, I came from uh uh labor type background, blue-collar people. | |
| Same here tobacco and uh timber, you know, that sort of thing. | |
| So I was not I was no stranger sweating. | |
| I mean, I've done it, you know, and I I got have empathy for everybody. | |
| I ride down the street and see the truck drivers unloading the trucks. | |
| I got empathy for that person. | |
| It's hard. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Those giants I did all the construction work and restaurant work. | |
| I but I'll tell you this. | |
| It was looking back, I think it's it saved my life in a lot of ways. | |
| Because it gave me the empathy, the perspective, real life experience. | |
| And and you know, look, I mean, if if I get tired and I'm I'm grinding it out on the road like you are sometimes, and I'm flying from I was in five cities in three days recently, you know, this past weekend. | |
| I have no reason to complain, Charlie. | |
| You're grounded. | |
| You're grounded. | |
| I mean, and a faith in God does that too. | |
| Oh, yeah, definitely. | |
| Um you perform, is that the time that you feel the best in your life? | |
| It's one of the few times I ever feel like in my life that I know exactly what I'm doing. | |
| I have devoted my life. | |
| I know when you sit down in front of a a microphone, you take on a whole persona. | |
| I mean, you're showing Hannity on the air. | |
| Right. | |
| And it's very obvious that you're at home back there. | |
| Right. | |
| I'm at home when I walk on stage. | |
| Just the way you co-relate the way you feel when you sit down behind that microphone. | |
| The and that's the way I feel when I walk on stage. | |
| Well, it's funny because my kids, Charlie, they uh uh I have a studio near my house, and sometimes uh they'd come in when I'm doing the radio show from home. | |
| I'm in New York today, and they'd come in and they're like, Daddy, you just you st your veins are popping out of your neck and you're screaming and you and I'm like uh well let me do the radio show this way. | |
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| And our numbers 1800-941. | |
| I said, Nobody's gonna listen to that. | |
| But here's the interesting thing to me, and I want to know if you can relate to this. | |
| The first time I got behind a microphone, I did that. | |
| I just I started talking like this, you know. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I have no idea why. | |
| I have no idea where that came from. | |
| Because you're doing exactly what you want to do. | |
| That's what you put that's when you put your whole heart and soul into it. | |
| When you're doing exactly I would not change places, and I know you wouldn't either. | |
| Right. | |
| I'm gonna look I'm looking you straight in the eyes. | |
| I want to be Garth Brooks of or Kenny Chesney in my next life. | |
| There's already Charlie Daniel. | |
| There's already one of them. | |
| You can't be that but you're doing exactly what you want to do, and you put your heart and soul into it, and I'm the same way. | |
| The firm I when I learned three chords and I could play a whole song, I was ruined. | |
| That's all I wanted to do. | |
| You know, one day I was with Billy Graham. | |
| It was his last crusade, and it was in New York. | |
| It was in flushing. | |
| And look, he's he's very was old at the time, isn't it? | |
| It's like headed towards a hundred now. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he's in a wheelchair. | |
| And then all of a sudden it was rally time. | |
| Right. | |
| And I watched him. | |
| He l it's like even a force drove him up the stairs and behind that podium. | |
| And I watched you too, and you it's the same thing I watched with you. | |
| All of a sudden you're just Charlie, you're taking pictures, you're doing selfies, and then it's game time, and you're just like, let's go. | |
| And you start twirling that bow and boom, we're time to roll. | |
| Time to do it. | |
| What um what what what did you're giving advice in this book? | |
| What do you tell people? | |
| The first thing I tell people, you know, young people ask me, you got what about a music career and about how long you longevity and sort of thing. | |
| First thing I tell them, make sure you love it enough to put up with the sacrifices, to put up with the rejection, to put up with all the things your failures, which you're gonna do, and to put up with people just being mean to you that you can put up with all of that because if you have any success, people are gonna be jealous of you, they're gonna try to bring you back down. | |
| If you can't do that, if you can't put up with those people, those situations and those circumstances, stay home. | |
| It's not the business for you. | |
| Stay home. | |
| Play the lounges on the weekend. | |
| You know, come out on don't come on the road and break your heart because that's gonna happen to you. | |
| Um I think I've learned more from my failures than my success. | |
| Well, you do learn from your failures. | |
| It's like burning your fingers on a stove, you know. | |
| Seriously, it's like I ain't gonna do that no more. | |
| Not doing that again. | |
| Zach I heard him singing the devil the other day. | |
| Well seriously. | |
| A lot of people sing. | |
| In fact, Garth Brooks opened the uh Mercedes Dome in Atlanta. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And of all things he did that went down to Georgia first song. | |
| Did he? | |
| I was very honored, yeah, definitely. | |
| Uh but you're but the thing is is because I know a lot of these countries I everybody loves you. | |
| You're like the father of country music now. | |
| I mean, I don't know if you ever if if you set out to have that happen. | |
| Why are you able to survive the temptations on the road? | |
| I mean, I've been out with these bands, Charlie. | |
| A lot of girls with a lot of well, not so many clothes on, throwing themselves at these guys, a lot of booze, some are doing drugs. | |
| You never got into any of that. | |
| Well, uh, my career is is the thing to me. | |
| Um you don't go on a road to party. | |
| That's a common misconception. | |
| Anybody has another thing you have to understand. | |
| If you're gonna go on a road to party and pick up girls and that sort of thing, stay home. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because you that's not you're not gonna either you can do that at home. | |
| Yeah, you know, don't go on the road and ruin your career. | |
| Maybe they don't like the girls in town, Charlie. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I've seen so many careers ruined from because of that. | |
| Drugs and yeah, but just it all it all kind of works together after a while. | |
| Yeah. | |
| People get alcohol habit or drug habit, or they they're they just fall apart. | |
| They take their focus off of what they love, and all of a sudden they're doing stuff that they're thinking. | |
| But everybody thinks they're that you want to party with them in the city that you're in. | |
| They don't even want to party with me anymore. | |
| So, how many dates are you gonna do this year? | |
| We'll do 102, 10 grand old operators and a couple of charity things. | |
| Well, it but you know it sounds like a lot, and but actually I can handle that. | |
| There's no problem. | |
| 102 is a piece of cake, Rio. | |
| Basically, it's not a piece of cake, but it's about we're getting up to about the limit right there. | |
| But yeah, accounting at Grandville. | |
| You know, when you're members of the Grand Old Library, they want you to do 10 shows a year, so I have so much respect for the for the thing I knew at the end. | |
| You know, I got to MC that once. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| That was an honor. | |
| When you come back and do it again. | |
| I have to do me on the Grand Bow Opera. | |
| No, Charlie, every time, listen, it was such a great honor. | |
| I would sing the devil with you. | |
| Yes. | |
| And I butchered the song. | |
| It don't matter. | |
| It don't matter. | |
| Did you notice I was to me? | |
| Did you notice I was leading the band? | |
| We were playing with you, so you had to sing with us. | |
| I think you're probably right. | |
| There was one day I missed an entire um uh what's lyric verse, an entire verse of the song, and I'm like, and you look at me, you look at your band members, and you're laughing. | |
| And uh there's nothing I could do at that point. | |
| But Sean, do you realize what an incredible charge our crowds got? | |
| That was the last song we do, remember? | |
| It's always the early. | |
| And we go we build up to that, and all of a sudden Sean Hannity comes out and gets and you were like, you look like Garth Brooks. | |
| You're jumping on the mic, jumping on the drum stand, running all over the stage. | |
| You know that but they got the crowd got such how many people got to hear that? | |
| Now, how many people? | |
| Only the people we played for, and you were live that got to hear Sean Hannity do double went down to Georgia. | |
| Which by the way, I'll tell everybody it's on YouTube, it's all over the place. | |
| That's good. | |
| And I have looked at it myself. | |
| You know, over these many years, um, it's been my honor. | |
| It really has to get to know you. | |
| And every time I call, just Charlie, I need you for we can raise the money, we need you here, we need you here, we need you. | |
| You're always there. | |
| Um you have been a mentor, a life mentor, an example for all of us. | |
| I love your music. | |
| I love who you are more as a person than anything else. | |
| I love this book, by the way. | |
| Never look at the empty seats, just out today. | |
| It's on Hannity.com. | |
| Right. | |
| It's on Amazon.com, it's in bookstores everywhere. | |
| And it's always a pleasure to see you, my friend. | |
| God bless you always. | |
| Thank you. | |
| God bless you. | |
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