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Oct. 20, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Remembering Charlie Daniels - October 20th, Hour 2
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Leonard Skinner's simple man that means only one thing, all things Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Uh Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
Good.
I'm trying to pick out my Halloween costume.
Um by the way, you really you really don't need one.
Um, but it's too frightening just to go as me.
I don't want to scare the children.
So I'm going as kids go trick-or-treating to your house and stuff like that, because they don't come to my house.
Well, they don't like you.
Um I have a fortress, Bill.
I've been to your house like going to uh the airport.
You got TSA guys out there, you got you know, that's all true.
But I'm going, I'm trick-or-treating as Sean Hannity, so I got to pick out the martial arts outfit.
I got to get the martial arts outfit.
All right.
So you always talk about your children and you declare you have urchins, correct?
Correct.
All right.
So we have kids.
What's what's worse?
What was worse than the O'Reilly household?
When your kids screwed up and did something stupid, or when they lied about it.
You know, I never hear my children ever, because you know, I was raised in a home where there wasn't a lot of people.
Here's the question.
What are the kids get in trouble more for?
The lying or the what they did.
Um the cover-up is always worse than the uh than the deed, as they said in the Nixon administration.
Um but I didn't have you know, I gotta tell you, my kids didn't really misbehave that much because I'm this looming six foot four guy, and I was pretty lenient.
I wasn't.
Okay, I'm sorry.
For example, when the Biden camp is either nonchalant or condescending, or they lie.
When they say the border, what's happening down there is not a crisis, that's a lie to me.
When they say, Oh, we don't need to test uh illegal immigrants because they're not gonna be here very long.
That's a lie to me.
Uh a flight at two or four a.m. in the morning, that's not a flight in the middle of the night.
No, that would be considered an early morning flight.
When they talk about the the supply chain problem, they lie and say it's a high class problem and we know it's impacting every American.
That's a lie.
Um then they get really sarcastic and say things like, Well, you won't get to choose 15 colors of what you want, but at least you'll get one, or they lecture you like Buddha Judge, shop earlier, or when they lie and say 3.5 trillion won't cost you a penny, that they lecture you to shop earlier uh in October for if you want Christmas presents on time, and the you know, Gensaki calling it the tragedy of the treadmill that you can't get on time.
I don't like being lied to, Bill.
And I don't like the condescension behind these remarks.
Because that's what they're doing.
Allow me to go big picture on you, Hannity, okay?
Yes, sir.
All right, so the big picture is that the Biden administration's failures are so dramatic that they have no choice other than to deceive.
They have to deceive you.
Now, Saki's good at her job.
She's the minister of propaganda.
She's slick, articulate, um, and does what she is told to do a hundred percent of the time.
Never goes off the reservation as a cliche goes.
But the worst for Saki, and it really hurt her credibility with Americans, not just the press, is when the questions were raised about migrant children being flown to New York City, Jacksonville, Florida, other places, and landing at two, three in the morning, and then Saki says sarcastically, well, that's not really that late.
That's an early morning flight, as you just pointed out.
Now, any person, even a fanatical supporter of Joe Biden, is going to say, why would you say something that's stupid?
Because that's the word.
It's just stupid.
But the Biden administration is failing, and this is a key for everybody to understand, because they are so arrogant.
That's the word.
That usually when you have a policy that doesn't work, you reverse the policy, correct?
Bill Clinton.
And in in your personal life, right.
Yeah.
You try to do something.
If something isn't working in your own life, you try to a new tact and make it work and to solve the problem.
Not the Biden administration.
And it's stunning.
They don't reverse anything.
They double down as a cliche goes.
I've used two cliches and I'm driving myself crazy.
So another one is Buddha judge.
I call it the Buddha judge misjudge.
Okay?
So Buddha judge is a secretary of transportation, a job he clearly is not capable of doing.
He has no background in it.
He knows nothing about transportation.
Nothing about supply lines, nothing about anything.
Doesn't think ahead, doesn't anticipate, hey, we have a lot of shutdowns on COVID the world over.
It's gonna be hard to ramp up to get everybody the products they need for Christmas, so maybe we deregulate instead of adding on regulations.
That's what a smart secretary of transportation would have done, not Buddha judge, because he doesn't know anything.
In addition, he takes a paternity leave.
All right, he's entitled to a paternity leave.
But you appoint an acting secretary while you're out for two months.
Did Buddha judge do that?
No.
So who's minding Buddha judge?
Biden.
Biden didn't even know who he is.
Biden couldn't care less.
So now my lead story tonight on the No Spin News on BillO'Reilly.com is it's not going to be a good Christmas for Joe Biden.
Because they will not correct any mistakes.
They are too arrogant.
And that's what we're looking at.
The sad part is who's getting hurt the most?
Now well, it's problems, Bill.
The folks.
I I the the as you say the folks.
You and I can afford to pay more for gas.
We we can afford the higher taxes that we'll be paying, even though it's frankly stealing at this point, license stealing, legal legalized stealing.
We can afford, you know, to pay the money to to do what we want to do.
But I lived a good part of my adult life without money, Bill.
And and I've never lost that mindset.
You know, my parents grew up very, very poor.
And it was a big deal to get a fifty by a hundred lot Franklin Square House.
And and four kids in one bathroom, three older sisters, that's called hell on earth, Bill.
Um but in all seriousness, the people that cannot afford his policies are the poor and the middle class.
They're now battered.
They're getting crushed.
Crushed, Bill.
And Saki is gonna go out there and weave a tale of deception that doesn't blame her boss, Joe Biden, and it is his fault.
He's the president.
The supply lines, the shortages, the inflation, it's all Biden's fault.
Because he's in charge.
So I interviewed Trump last week, as you know, and I said to him, we didn't have inflation in your administration, even though you spent an enormous amount of money.
And he got on the defensive.
So I had to do that to rebuild the military.
You've heard it a million times.
But then I said, listen, why didn't we have inflation?
And he gave a very cogent, smart answer.
He says, I kept energy down.
The energy prices were down.
And once they get unleashed, everything goes up.
And that's exactly what happened under Biden.
So Biden's he's responsible.
But Saki, she's gonna tell you the rich people are responsible.
Or Trump's.
Let me get you to go a little deeper.
When he promised 13 days before he abandoned Americans in Afghanistan, that that is as that is a preventable crisis.
He certainly could have gotten out in April, May, June, July, because they knew the Taliban were on the march.
The border disaster, again, that all of these problems are preventable.
The energy crisis is preventable because he ended energy independence that Donald Trump didn't have to happen.
You're absolutely right.
And that that then therefore impacts the economy.
And then, by the way, there's more people dead of covid this year than last year.
Bill, how do you explain that?
It's not that these problems are insurmountable.
They're manmade problems.
And the manmade problem, the man who made them is Joe Biden.
Now, covid is a little bit different because that is not anybody's direct fault.
Any human being.
It might be the Chinese government.
But wait a minute, he did promise I can play it for you.
He did promise that he'd he would get this completely under control.
That was his but he didn't.
He didn't.
So you would think that he might go another way, right?
That's that's the theme of our conversation today.
Correct.
When something doesn't work, you go another way.
So instead of mandating all this armed forces, you gotta do it.
Now the armed forces are gonna be in chaos, right?
Chicago police department's already in chaos.
Instead of the mandates, I asked Trump about that.
And and I hope everybody listening today goes to Bill O'Reilly.com and watches the my interview with Donald Trump.
It's very illuminating.
I said, would you have mandated vaccine?
He goes, No, I would have persuaded.
And that's how it should have been done.
Not you better take it or we're gonna fire you, because you can't fire people, Joe.
We don't have enough workers, all right?
There aren't enough truck drivers.
Why?
Because you decided to give the folks all this COVID money, and now they don't have to work.
They don't have to get in a truck.
They don't want to get in the truck.
So we don't have truck drivers to get the goods to the marketplace.
It's your fault.
It goes back to you.
But you'll never get the corporate media to report it that way.
All right, quick break more with uh Bill O'Reilly, simple man on the other side, and then we'll get to your calls in John Rich, 800-941 Sean, our number as we continue.
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How does this end, Bill O'Reilly?
Because I think it ends really badly.
We're now at a point where I'm I'm making the comparison.
You know, when they say, oh, you know, this is Jensaki sarcastically uh saying, oh, a treadmill problem or a high class problem or shop earlier for Christmas.
Store shelves are getting empty, Bill.
How does this end?
It sounds like Jimmy Carter and you know, Americans need to lower their heat, uh their temperature, their heater, and then put on a sweater.
That's what it sounds like to me.
It ends with um the Republican Party winning the House and the Senate next November.
It's only a year away.
And that's my calculation.
My calculation is this Biden has a horrible Christmas.
Terrible.
Um people are furious, even the people who supported him, because everybody now is getting hurt personally.
It's not theoretical anymore.
And that carries over to the first three months of the year into March, okay?
The anger that people are feeling toward the administration.
Then the campaign starts in earnest for November.
From April to November, you have the Republicans against the Democrats.
And you have the Republicans with a huge, huge amount of ammunition to say, do you really want to continue this way by electing so-and-so as a senator or congressperson?
So that's what happens, I think, unless there's a dramatic occurrence that alters the course of history.
The worst part of this, Bill, is that we're now if this mandate, if they stand, if they don't make the the transition that you're talking about, which you're right about.
Um the era of big government is over, the underwelfare as we know.
And if they don't make the transition, we're gonna lose thousands, tens of thousands of military personnel, thousands of teachers, thousands of police officers, thousands of nurses and and health care workers.
Bill, it is going to be an unmitigated, unprecedented disaster.
It's crazy.
If Biden were smart, which he is not, and he never has been.
You know, I did a I'm doing a special on Joe Biden on Thursday night.
I hate to keep plugging my website, but that's where O'Reilly stuff is, as you point out.
He's never been smart.
And and he basically isn't anticipating the unintended consequences of all the people you just mentioned leaving their jobs.
Who's going to fill those jobs?
Who?
I mean, you're you're you're getting thousands of military people are gonna leave the service.
Thousands of police officers leave the departments.
Thousands of medical workers leave the hospitals.
Who's gonna replace them?
Pete Buddha judge.
You see talking about the National Guard.
That's what their latest uh talking about.
They don't have enough National Guard.
I agree.
All right, they just don't have and so you would think they would be thinking it out, but nothing is thought out.
Nothing.
And that goes back to Biden.
He has poor people in the secretary positions.
He is embracing the radical left, which is destroying the country socially.
What is the man doing well?
Give me one thing, Hannity.
One thing he's doing well.
Give me one.
Listen, I've asked this question repeatedly, Bill.
I can't name one.
And I'm people used to ask me that question about Barack Obama.
Can't you say one nice thing about him?
I said, you know what?
Him and Michelle seemed like very, very good parents.
That was my observation.
That they seem to really love their children.
I worked with Obama, as you know, on Brothers Keeper, which was the solution to poverty in the inner city.
And I worked very closely with him on that.
I personally, he asked me to do it.
It's a charitable enterprise, and I did it.
So Obama did some good things.
Um but not really.
But you and I can we'll have that argument another day.
Anyway, all things O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Don't forget Bill O'Reilly's gonna be touring with President Trump for Cities in uh December.
All that information on his website, Mr. O'Reilly, sir.
Thank you for being with us, Mr. Simple Man.
Oh, it's fun.
Thanks, Sean.
Well, we're coming to your city Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country sound We'll all be inside.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a second to hear the immortal Bob Grant's thoughts about the world today.
Hey, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's sick, and it's getting sicker.
Now, back to the Sean Hannity show.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800, 941 Sean.
You know, one of the reasons that we start with Big and Rich and we've changed music on the show over the years, is some of these stupid people in the music industry.
We're on like how many stations now?
670, 6765, something how many stations are there?
Yeah, it's almost 700.
All right.
So we were on more stations than any other show.
By the way, thanks to all of you.
And we're willing to play the music of people we like.
I'm particularly am drawn to country music.
I like Christian contemporary music too, but I'm not sure that would fit for the program.
Uh, because I probably cuss even too much for Linda's pastor, but she's he's used to it with her.
But to be very frank, these people then send us cease and desist letters.
And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
And if you play more than what is it, 30 seconds of a song, then you owe a fortune.
I mean, that we're not talking about a small amount of money.
How much is it, Linda, if we get a violation of it?
150,000.
They want 150 grand.
And meanwhile, I'm promoting their music.
I mean, it's so stupid.
So one day I called my friend John Rich.
I say, hey, John, do you mind if we use your song uh in the open to our to the radio program?
Um and he says, no, I love it.
That's great.
Which one?
And the one you just heard uh coming to your city.
Well, that's the one I'm playing.
And he didn't, there was no headache, no heartache.
It was just two friends talking, and and we're best friends, and you know, he was gracious about it.
Took two seconds.
Anyway, John Rich is With us, artist whiskey connoisseur, as we know, uh his brand Redneck Riviera.
Uh, he's also now hosting his own show on Fox Nation and also on the Fox Business Network called The Pursuit.
Uh, he interviewed Charlie Daniels, and what ended up being Charlie Daniels, who we love, his last interview.
Listen.
You know, I think he would be, I think there's songs from heaven that's still waiting for us to hear and and and get down and put on paper.
So I got one final question for you.
I ask.
I ask every guest on the pursuit this question as the final question.
And that would be this.
How has the right to pursue happiness changed your life?
It is my life.
I live my life.
There's so many things I enjoy.
You know, I enjoy eating.
You probably tell that, you know.
Enjoy a good glass of wine.
I enjoy hunting.
I don't get a chance to do it anymore, but I like my love my guns.
I love fishing.
I love being able to, if I decide today to say, Hey, so let's go down to Lake Weiss and catch some grappi.
Get in the car and go.
Or let's go.
Let's fly out Australia.
Get your passport.
You know, let's let's go somewhere.
Let's do something.
Nobody stopped me.
A lot of places you couldn't do that.
You couldn't go out of the town you're in.
You couldn't go out of the state you're in.
Right.
Pursuit of happiness, freedom and pursuit of happiness go hand in hand together.
Freedom to worship any way you want to.
Freedom to go anywhere you want to, do anything you want to, say anything you want to, right, wrong, indifferent, whatever.
People have to listen to you, but you got to right to say it.
That's a pursuit of happiness.
Be in the person to reach your potential and be the person that God designed you that you could reach your potential to be.
That to me is a pursuit of happiness.
God, family, country, work.
That's my four principles.
Boy, that was powerful.
Our buddy John Rich is with us speaking rich.
How are you, my friend?
Hey, Sean, I'm good.
I'm good.
Man, just listening to uh Charlie say that again.
I what a lifetime honor that was for me to sit with him.
Who knew that 19 days later he was going to pass away.
And um, you know, to have that on record is that's that's what was on his mind and the things that you'll see in this interview tonight.
That I asked him a lot of questions.
And you know how Charlie was, he didn't hold back.
He he didn't care who's gonna be able to do it.
Charlie's soapbox, yes, whatever.
He was just going to tell you the truth, you know.
You know, when you really think about it, this is what I think we're missing in society now.
Because I give this one-minute speech on what it means to be a conservative.
And if you want to hear it, I'll I'll give it to you.
Uh, it's and it's very simple.
Conservatism is not complicated, but it's rooted in what Charlie said.
God, faith, family, and country, and we believe in liberty.
We believe in freedom.
We believe in capitalism, our constitution, less government, limited government, lower taxes, less bureaucracy.
We want choice for our kids for schools.
We want law and order and safety and security in our towns and cities.
Very simple stuff.
Free market health care solutions that take into account pre-existing conditions.
Uh, we want constitutionalists, those that believe in that document on the bench.
We want, let's see, secure borders, legal immigration.
We want energy independence.
We had it under Donald Trump.
We want free and fair trade.
We want peace through strength.
And that pretty much sums it up, John Rich.
It's not that friggin' complicated, if I can say it.
So basically everything that's opposite of what's going on right now in the country.
Totally opposite of everything you just said.
So the way the way I look at it, because it it's not my opinion, it's what it says.
It's in the Declaration of Independence.
It calls it our inalienable rights, meaning they are not rights given to us by man or given to us by government.
They're given to us by God himself, by the creator of mankind.
And it says that those rights are life, liberty, and not the right to be happy, the right to pursue happiness.
And so this show I've got the pursuit.
I sit people down, Sean, of all kinds of backgrounds, all different kinds of Americans, who have pursued happiness.
They have absorbed failure.
They have dealt with with defeat.
They've dealt with disappointment, but they continue to pursue happiness to exhaust their potential.
If there was ever a human being that exhausted their potential, it is Charlie by God Daniels.
And so tonight on this show, this is the first time this has ever been seen on television.
That's nine o'clock Eastern, eight o'clock central, Fox Business Network.
This is honestly one of the one of my most proud moments of my life, Sean, was to sit with Charlie Daniels and ask him these questions and learn his story.
He was always a hero of mine, and he did a lot of the freedom concert tours with us.
We raised millions and millions of dollars that have now been distributed.
I I got a note over 20 some odd million dollars to to the children of slain soldiers for scholarships for college.
Uh he was a big part of that movement, and believe me, it was a very heavy lift.
Yeah, let me go back to something you said, because your life is fascinating to me.
Hanging out with you is always a trip.
And I I if anyone had the opportunities that I've had in life to hang out and party with John Rich, I'm warning you, it's going to be a long night.
You're gonna reek of cigars and and some type of whiskey, even though I don't even drink whiskey, he makes me do it.
He's the only person that can make me drink a shot of redneck Riviera whiskey for crying out loud.
Anyway, and it's fun.
But you said something deep and profound here.
And it by the way, the the soul of the musician comes through in their writing and in their playing.
So you have this background, uh you're the son of a pastor, you know, but yet you raise hell and when you go out and party.
I know because I've been there, and you there's nobody more fun to party with, and you got this this soulful side of you, and then you just said something really profound, and that is that our rights come from God.
You believe, as I believe, that every human being on this earth, the these are called natural rights, God-given rights.
I believe the word education from the Latin derivative educore means to bring forth from within.
Well, what is within is what God put in you.
God put in you an ability to sing.
God gave me a big fat mouth.
I wish I had the ability to sing because that looks a little bit more fun than what I'm doing, but you know, I'm not complaining.
And a lot of people, we don't understand freedom anymore.
Like, for example, look at the choice that some people have made.
These people are willing to give up their pensions, policemen, teachers, nurses, military personnel, and they're willing to that they're standing on their freedom.
Nobody's gonna convince them at this point whether they should get the shot or not get the shot.
They've made up their mind, John.
And now we're gonna fire first responding nurses and our military personnel that risk their lives for us because they they have a personal conviction that we that maybe many disagree with.
Yeah, from heroes to zeros in 12 months flat.
That's exactly how they're being treated.
So here's what I see in the country, Sean.
I see more and more every day, America being divided into two groups, and it's not along political lines, racial lines, gender lines, eco status, none of that, economy status, none of that.
I see one group that believes what they're being told, and one group that doesn't.
That's it.
I mean, ask yourself why 28% of African Americans are vaccinated.
That means 72% are not.
Well, a lot of those folks are not Republicans, they don't vote conservative, they they don't agree with a lot of the things I might believe in, but they have made up their mind.
I don't trust what I'm being told at this point.
I want to know more about it before I make a decision that big for my life.
And so the government comes in and says, No, I don't think so.
Uh you said how to define freedom.
They are changing the way they're trying to, anyway, the way we view freedom.
They want us to believe that free that the government giveth and the government taketh away in reality are inalienable rights.
It's the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Joe Biden is not God, the government is not God.
It's this one size fits all medicine that really bothers me.
It's all these people, I don't care if they're Hollywood actors or radio hosts or TV hosts or or politicians in Washington.
Oh, you gotta get the vaccine, got to get the vaccine.
Well, there are people that have rare conditions that their doctors recommend they don't get it, number one.
Number two, for whatever reason, there and I think a Lot of vaccine hesitancy, and I believe in science, was created by the government because they changed their mind and their and and their protocols almost on a daily basis.
So I think they've created their own distrust here.
But I'm trying to find a way that people don't lose their pensions, John.
And I'm saying, well, if you if they're not going to get it and they made up their mind, will you at least test them every day?
And then this way they can keep their pension and pay their bills.
Well, there's a word for what they're doing for what you just described.
You know what that word is, Sean?
It's called coercion.
It's called coercion.
When you threaten people that if they don't do something, something bad's going to happen to them, so you better go do it.
That's called coercion.
And so you've got people saying, listen, I can't find a long-term study.
I've got a friend that was vaccinated and they caught COVID and they died in the hospital.
I don't trust Dr. Fauci.
I don't, they've got a list of reasons.
And as Americans, they should be allowed to have their list of reasons and make the best decision that they think.
Well, wait a minute.
Dr. Fauci says that without being penalized.
There comes a point that you should give up your freedom for the greater good, John Rich.
You didn't hear that?
No, that's called communism.
Yeah, 101, baby.
That's communism.
That's what that's what that means, the greater good, the community.
You know, we have actual communists in this country, whether they want to declare that or not.
You know, the only thing communists have ever ruled over, Sean, burning piles of destruction.
That's it.
And so if you ask yourself, why are these people actively destroying our country right now on so many levels?
Why are they doing that?
Because they have to destroy it, Sean, before they can rule it.
What did you think of Travis?
What did you think of Travis Tritt's stance?
That he said it's a good thing.
Listen, there's a show that I let go of as well.
I just didn't publicize it, but I I cut one out too.
I said, no, I'm not going to be the bait on the hook that you throw out there into the water to get country music fans to possibly do something that they don't really want to do, just so they can hear me sing a country song.
I will not be a part of this coercion tactic.
All right, quick break more with John Rich on the other side.
Top of the hour.
He is now closing in very closely on this November 2nd race against Terry McCullough, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Yunkin will join us.
And oh, Terry had a bad day yesterday.
We've got the tape straight ahead.
John Rich uh joins us, of course, a big and rich and the host of the pursuit on FoxNation.com.
You know, it it's interesting.
Whether you disagree or disagree, it's not even a debate anymore about vax or don't fax.
It's not because they've made up their mind.
And so at this point is, is there another solution that we can save people from losing their careers and their jobs and their benefits and their pensions?
Uh I'm looking at the human side.
You know, I don't listen, I get a flu shot every year.
And people, half my friends think I'm nuts.
Linda thinks I'm nuts, and then uh the other half of my friends think they they do the same thing.
But you have these discussions.
I don't know why people make the decisions they make, but clearly nobody's gonna be able to convince them at this point.
I don't believe.
Everything that can be said's been said.
Well, that is that is correct.
And at the end of the day, the harder the government tries to force feed people and and can cattle prod them into a decision that they're not comfortable with, the stiffer their necks are gonna get.
And this this comes down to individual freedom.
Listen, Sean, we know that vaccinated people can still catch the virus and they can still spread the virus.
What that's been established.
We know these things.
So people take all of it into account and they make up their own decision.
But I'm saying this.
Sean, there's a million people a weekend cramming into college football stadiums, and they're not wearing masks, and they're not having to show vax papers, and they're not having to take a PCR test before they walk in, but the police have to, and the nurses have to.
They they weren't vaccinated last year when they were out being the heroes.
So it's uh it's all nonsense and it's and it's hypocrisy, and it is causing major division in this country, and it's not gonna end well if somebody doesn't pull the ripcord and allow people to be free again.
John Rich, we appreciate you being with us.
Redneck Vervier or Whiskey, the pursuit on Fox Nation.com, Fox Business Network.
Thank you, sir, for being with us.
Charlie Daniels, your next interview, it's gonna be uh a blockbuster.
We appreciate you being on board.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
We'll see you tonight.
Thank you.
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