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Donald Trump Tax Return - December 22nd, Hour 3
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Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Normally I'm on our big flagship station in New York, the number one talk station, WOR.
Normally I'm on 10 to noon, but I didn't do my show today because I have to use up all these days off.
So normally I'm on 10 to noon, so I can't watch The View.
So today at 11 o'clock, I watched The View.
Linda, have you ever watched The View?
It is frightening.
They are.
Oh, I stopped watching The View a long time ago when they didn't put a muzzle on Joy Behar.
Well, yes.
That was it for me.
She's just rabid.
I haven't seen it in years, but it is really dopey.
I mean, it's the stupidest discussion I've ever.
No wonder they like Joe Biden.
Well, they get their cue cards from the same person.
You know, they make them up for Biden, then they pass them over to Behar.
Behar shows them to the rest of the crew, and they all sit there and reframe their cue cards, not thinking for themselves.
And when they do, it gets more scary because that's when they sort of go off card.
You're like, oh, geez, here we go.
It's amazing to watch.
I mean, you can only watch for like a minute, and then you just get sick and you turn it off.
And they have said some of the dumbest things.
Remember, my favorite was when they needed a surgeon general for the Biden administration and they were looking for a top doctor and Joy Behar said, what about Dr. Joe Biden?
She's one of the best doctors in America.
And the panel had a whisper to her.
She's an English teacher.
That's a PhD.
Join PhD.
Well, no, actually, I think it's an E. What is it?
An EHD or something.
Oh, yeah, you are right.
Yeah.
She actually is a doctor of education and teaches at a community college.
And if you look at how she got that doctorate, even that was a little questionable.
You know, you have to write a thesis, and people have looked at that thesis as it's, you know, it's like borderline literate, but it was a college heavily depending on government financing that Joe Biden controlled.
And he came with her to the where the panel goes over the thesis and sat with her.
A highly unusual move, but that led to her doctor of education degree.
So, hey, this Bette Midler thing, it's, I mean, that really said a lot.
Bette Midler, after Joe Manchin knocks down the bill, tweets out, this is, he's going to do for us what he did for Virginia.
It's just like West Virginia, where it's everybody's illiterate and she didn't say stoned.
What did she say?
Strung out.
Everybody's illiterate and strung out.
That's what they think of America, these Hollywood elitists, this creepy elitist Bette Midler.
They think you're all illiterate and strung out.
Well, remember when she made fun of Melania because of the way that she had an accent when she spoke English?
And she said, oh, we have a first lady who can't even speak English.
I'm like, this woman has two master's degrees and speaks seven languages.
Yeah.
You're a singer and a sometimes actress.
Like, take it easy.
Yeah.
In defense of Bette Midler, her IQ is probably 95, maybe.
Oh, God.
Maybe the high 90.
That's about it.
But, you know, actually, Larry Kudlow checked.
He'll be with us in a second, but I was watching his show.
The literacy rate in West Virginia is 87%.
In California, it's 77%.
So California is actually more illiterate than West Virginia.
And she's really trying to claim there's more people on drugs in West Virginia than in Hollywood.
She's really going to try to make that claim.
I don't think it works, but it was real insight into those Hollywood elitists and what they think of real people.
They just never see any real people.
They live in this little bubble of Hollywood and then come to New York and then they go to Palm Beach and maybe they're in London.
They've never been in a 7-Eleven or any actual real place and met any real people.
Do we find Larry Kudlow?
I am on the phone with him as we speak.
Oh, okay.
The great Larry Kudlow, of course, who was a big part of the Trump administration, and he does a great show every day on the Fox Business Network.
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Larry Kudlow, how are you doing?
I'm good, Mark.
How are you?
Very good.
Doing well.
What's going to happen to this country?
What's going to happen in the midterms?
Is it going to be a slaughter, I hope?
Save America.
Kill the bill.
And kill any new bills that they try to put in.
You know, look, I think it looks great next year because I think the country just really rejects Biden.
They reject him personally and they reject his policies.
That's the whole reason this buildback rope thing went down.
And it's not just Manchin.
There's a few other senators, Democrats behind Manchin that have been keeping a low profile, but they wouldn't vote for it either.
And Schumer thinks, Schumer thinks he's going to run the same bill for a real vote probably sometime in late January or February.
And I'm telling you, it'll lose.
It's going to lose.
And the country just doesn't want this transformational, woke spending, inflation, free, no borders.
They just don't want it.
And we can trust Manchin to stay strong?
Well, I think so.
Look, all they do is yell at him.
I mean, it's amazing to me.
The layout practically call him a liar.
And, you know, this says Madam Saki Baghdad Bob throws a temper tantrum at him after he was on the Sunday news show.
And he's treated very badly.
I mean, look, I had McConnell, Mitch McConnell's on our show tonight, and they are wooing him to cross the line and become a Republican.
But I think cinema is also hanging tough.
She doesn't get as much visibility, but she's hanging tough.
So can we count on him?
We can certainly count on him to vote against this bill, what's called the House version, which is the White House version.
Future bills, I just, look, he doesn't want to spend any money.
Nobody, do you want to?
I don't want to spend any money.
It's all inflationary.
And, you know, today is the fourth anniversary, Mark, of the Trump tax cut.
Today, we ran some clips on it tonight.
And, you know, they worked.
It generated prosperity.
Minority unemployment was a 50-year low.
The middle class got the biggest income and wealth gains, much better than the top 1%.
I mean, he really launched prosperity.
And I think that's what people want.
They don't want higher taxes.
They want lower taxes.
We should make the Trump tax cuts permanent.
You know, when Biden ran, it was all about change the tone and change the tone.
But he changed the policy.
He should have kept the policy and changed the tone.
His tone is just as angry as anybody.
So I think that was his mistake.
Well, you know, I yearn, I yearn for the calm, placid days of Donald Trump after watching Biden.
I know there were a few tweets, too many, but look, his policies worked.
I mean, that's we spent some time on that tonight.
And I think people know that.
And what was there?
Some more, one of these liberal polls came out, and independents have dropped out of sight on Biden.
It's just, you know, people are sending him a message.
And I think you and I talked about he's no Clinton.
He's not going to change.
He's not going to get up there and say the era of big government is over.
He's going to stay with this woke stuff.
And it's killing him.
And I think it's really unpopular.
You know, the most frightening thing, if you look at the Trump White House, you had brilliant people there in that cabinet room.
You, you had Ben Carson, you had Mnuchin.
You had these brilliant minds, the top guys at work.
You look at this Biden cabinet.
They're just mediocre, silly people like Buttigieg and Granholm and even Lloyd Austin.
How are we going to survive that?
Yeah, no, that's an interesting point.
You know, we had Mike Pompeo, we had Robert O'Brien.
As you say, we had Ben Carson, my friend Steve Mnuchin at Treasury.
It was a very strong group and a group that accomplished a lot.
And I've always thought, I mean, look, you give them a honeymoon for the first month or two, but it's just what you've got here is a very weak, ideologically left-driven group with very little or no what I would call real-world business experience.
You know what I mean?
I mean, it's like Mnuchin was in business.
I was in business.
Carson actually was a brilliant doctor, but he was also in business.
Pompeo was in business.
And of course, Trump himself was in business.
I mean, Biden's never in any business.
So there's no common sense to this gang.
They're all ideologically left.
And they have a tin political ear, don't they?
Yeah, and even simple things.
Can you imagine Donald Trump having a supply chain crisis and not knowing what to do?
He'd have that fixed in two days.
Yeah, he'd knock heads together, which I watched him do many times.
I mean, the FDA finally approved what they approved today, the Pfizer pills.
But Trump would have had that done months ago.
In fact, I watched him run roughshod over the FDA when we were off doing Operation Warpspeed, and he knew how to cut through.
And Trump would bring business people in and work with them.
How do we get this done?
How do we get that done?
We'll do this.
You do that.
Biden brings business people in, Mark, and he lectures to them.
He lectures to them.
You know, there's a big difference there.
And we had public-private activity.
We had it before the pandemic, but certainly during the pandemic.
And you get reports from these Biden meetings with business people.
And apparently, he just kind of tells them, you do this, and we're going to have climate change and this and that.
And that's just not the way to do it.
They don't believe in the private sector.
They don't believe in free market capitalism.
Some of the worst appointees and nons I've ever seen, again, people who go in there, whether it's Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, this crazy Moscow State University lady was going to be the banking commissioner.
They're putting people in who hate the areas they're regulating, right?
So you can't do anything constructive.
My new hero is Elon Musk.
Why would they go after Elon Musk?
If you're worried about climate change, this is the guy that'll probably come up with the answer.
Yeah.
By the way, did you see the latest stuff he said on this interview?
Yeah, he said woke is divisive.
It's hatred.
He's absolutely right.
I loved it.
You know, I know him.
We did a little business when I was in the White House, but I think when he speaks, he's really hurting the woke side.
I don't know.
There's something about him.
Maybe it's because of his standing and the fact that he produces more electric cars than anybody.
So he has climate.
But he's hurt them a lot in this lot with Elizabeth Warren.
So she calls him a freeloader, right?
And then he's going to pay $11 billion in taxes.
It's probably the largest, I think it is, the largest single tax bill for an individual in our history.
And she's calling him a freeloader and a tax chief.
I love that.
$11 billion in taxes.
Yeah, I could see him in Donald Trump 2024, Elon Musk 2028.
He'd be great.
Yeah, I'd love to see Elon Musk run in the Fed or the Treasury or something.
It would just be.
He's a very interesting guy, Musk.
Real smart, super smart.
But he's opposing Biden's policies.
He doesn't want subsidies.
He took subsidies a few years ago, but he doesn't want them anymore for his electric cars or the electric gas stations and stuff.
He's a fascinating figure.
But I think his attack on woke really gets a lot of play, Mark.
You know?
Yeah.
Well, he's become a very important figure.
We're out of time, but everybody should watch Kudlow.
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Larry Kudlow, thanks for being with us.
Thanks, Mark.
Love, love, love.
Merry time.
All right.
Take care.
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Let's go to, let's go to Mark, who's calling from Montana.
Mark, how you doing?
Mark, you there?
Good, Mark.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
What do you want to say, Mark?
Yes, sir.
You there?
Yeah.
Hey, you had a caller ask about HIPAA and civil rights laws.
Yeah.
In Montana, House Bill 702, they framed it under civil rights legislation.
So vaccine mandate or vaccine status.
So I thought I'd just update your listeners.
All right.
Thanks for calling.
You know, the real problem is, especially here in New York, you got to show this vaccine card to get into a restaurant.
But if you've had the virus, you got a lot of immunity.
There's no card for that.
That's a major flaw.
The Omicron variant, which is now all over the place in New York.
In fact, they say it's 90% of all the cases in New York.
It's very mild cases.
And the incubation period is much shorter.
You know, the incubation used to be five days, seven days.
With the Omicron incubation, now pretty much three days.
That's very, very fast.
We have time for another.
No, we'll take some more calls when we come back after the break.
But hey, this woman just died in China.
135 years old.
Oldest woman in the world.
135.
I mean, think about that.
Middle age for her was like 70, 75 years old.
That's unbelievable.
135.
The candles cost more than the cake at her birthday.
That's an amazing thing.
She was born in 1886, 1886.
So, you know, you watch those old Westerns on TV.
She was there.
Of course, she was in China if you were there in 1886.
And today, not much change.
It looks pretty much the same in a lot of China.
Anyway, we'll take some calls after the break.
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Hey, now this is interesting.
The progressives, the squad, all these nutjobs are all now demanding Biden take radical executive action.
They don't want to lose this spending agenda.
They're demanding that he do something.
So this is all great going into the midterms.
These lunatics taking over, pushing him around.
So you've got AOC and the rest of the squad demanding an assault on the filibuster, an assault on it.
That's the great thing about woke idiots.
When it doesn't look good, they go even further to the left.
They go more radical, more nuts.
And you've already seen some people peel away from this.
Look at the San Francisco mayor who's now saying it's ridiculous to defund the police.
I got to stop this.
We've got to start putting back the police, fighting crime.
You've got the mayor of Chicago saying that stuff.
I never thought I'd hear that.
So they're starting to realize they're just walking off a cliff with this woke nonsense.
And you look at the numbers.
It doesn't lie.
People fleeing California, fleeing New York.
People moving to Texas, moving to Florida.
And people in Florida, they're starting to worry.
You get too many New Yorkers down there.
Might turn Florida a little blue.
No, that's not the case.
They know why they fled to get away from the taxes, the crime, all that stuff.
So the numbers don't lie.
It's pretty obvious what's happening.
The whole tide is turning slowly, but it's turning.
And Kamala Harris, I'd watch out if I were you.
You know, I don't know how you get rid of a vice president, but I think they're already thinking they got to replace her with somebody else.
I don't know exactly how you do it.
You come up with something.
This talk of appointing to the Supreme Court or something like that.
Joe Biden just gave away his dog.
Now, that tells you everything.
You remember that one dog that kept barking and biting?
He just gave the dog away.
It's gone.
The dog's gone.
A guy will give away his dog.
We'll switch vice presidents.
Don't worry about it.
He got a new dog.
This one three months old, small enough so that it won't attack Joe Biden.
Let's take some calls.
Let's go to Bobby in Missouri.
Bobby, how you doing?
I'm good.
How are you?
Very good, Bobby.
What do you want to say?
Well, I wanted to echo what Linda has said.
She's been spot on on this.
I'm a lifelong GOP voter, and I don't know who I'm voting for in this next election because they have lied and lied and lied and went back on their word so many times.
I don't know that I can vote for them again.
Well, you're talking about for the presidency?
I'm talking about midterms.
Oh, midterms.
Well, did Linda say that?
Are you echoing what I said?
Yeah, I said that.
You did say that?
Well, yeah, okay.
You can't trust any of these people, but you're going to be better off with Republicans just to make sure Pelosi doesn't have control and just to make sure Schumer doesn't have any.
You're better off with Republicans.
Wouldn't you agree to that?
We're really not.
There's not any difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.
The Republicans and the Democrats came after the one guy that we had that was on our side, Trump.
I see no difference in between them, and there's a lot of people like me out there.
Okay, but a simple thing.
You want somebody running the committee?
You want AOC?
You want Adam Schiff running the committee?
Or you want Jim Jordan running the committee?
They're running it now.
All right.
Well, thanks for calling.
I know what you're saying.
I know what you're saying.
Can I jump in for a second?
Can I give you my two cents?
Just a hard time.
If she gives you her two cents, it's like $1.50.
But go ahead.
Oh, my God.
It's really quick.
You can thank Biden inflation for that.
All I'm saying is when Republicans had control, they didn't do anything with it.
And that's the problem with our party.
We have a lot of people that get in good positions, and then they don't do a lot with it.
You know, part of being in those positions is to actually do something with the power when you have it.
And they didn't.
Well, that's why you got to have a Newt Gingrich contract with America.
Here's the 15 things we'll do.
Here's the schedule for when we'll do them.
But you're right.
Well, who's the leader in Congress?
Who's the Newt Gingrich that can do all this?
You know, I honestly, I really like Tom Cotton.
I loved DeSantis when he was in Congress.
I love Jim Banks.
I think a lot of the people in our Congress that have served have a certain level of understanding of the collective good that others don't.
It doesn't mean that they're not worthy.
It just means that when you're willing to put your life on the line for your country, I think that there's a lot to be said for that.
You know, Jim Banks has been out there sort of really just putting his actions behind his words, unlike anybody else that I've seen in a very long time.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
We got 11 months till the midterm elections.
It's going to be a fascinating 11 months.
It's just to see what Biden tries to do if the Democrats try to pivot, if they try to scramble back to the center.
We'll see.
Let's go to Don in Sacramento.
Don, how you doing?
Oh, very good, dear.
Mike, pleasure to talk to you.
Mark, I was going to talk about the corn pop thing, but I got to be a little more serious and talk about the Ukraine.
I'm an old veteran and all this, and I've studied history, you know, college and that.
But this is what I think Putin should do.
This is what I think Putin should do.
I don't think Putin cares anything about economic sanctions, either to the Chinese dictator.
You know what I'm saying?
But anyway, what I would do, considering the NATO, everything like it is, is that I would just keep building troops up.
I just keep pulling troops up, keep pulling troops up, and NATO is going to keep Jim or Jamie or whatever you say like that.
And I'd have China come up at the end, China to move a little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit, to throw that right at the last moment and then tell Ukraine, hey, throw your weapons down, give up, or I'm coming in with all these.
Everybody's going to die.
Well, you're probably not wrong, Don.
There's some people who think China will act, take Taiwan.
Russia will act, take Crimea, all on the same day.
They'll just both do it simultaneously.
They'll coordinate it.
If you're our enemy and you look at Biden, obviously he's weak, doesn't know where he is.
He's bumping into the walls.
You have no vice president.
You've got this giggling woman who's not even there, just out to lunch and out of the office.
You got the worst cabinet ever.
You got the dumbest Secretary of Defense we've ever had, Lloyd Austin.
You got the totally useless General Milley.
If there was ever a moment to act, obviously this is it.
Linda, why did you say you thought it would be, you thought it would be in January?
I think there's a lot of movement happening.
I don't think that the rest of the world is beholden to America right now.
We don't have any leadership.
We don't have any clue what we're doing.
And the people that do have a clue are not in positions of power to actually do it.
You know, when Donald Trump was in office and he said, you're going to need to sit down for a little bit because you're starting to get on my nerves.
They sat down.
When he said, I'm going to make a call, they answered.
You know, Biden doesn't even know where the phone is.
We're an embarrassment.
But why would you act China with the Olympics?
You don't want to screw that up.
I don't think they give a crap about the Olympics.
That could be.
I mean, look what they did to that poor girl who spoke out against the guy that was sexually assaulting her.
She disappeared for two and a half months, and then suddenly she's given out a statement saying it was all fake and she didn't mean any of it.
They don't care about anything.
No, you're right.
All right, now you're scaring us.
Sorry.
Merry Christmas.
I apologize.
Merry Christmas.
Anyway, let's take some more calls.
Let's go to Tony in North Carolina.
Tony, how you doing?
Yeah, how you doing, Mark?
Good.
Want to say Merry Christmas to you.
Never spoke with you, but I was in the military, Iraq and Afghanistan, and God bless our troops.
But I don't understand why they call this vaccination, this COVID vaccine a vaccine because it hasn't been proven.
There's too many breakthrough cases.
We've got vaccines like measles, smallpox, polio.
You get a vaccine and you can't get it.
So you've got all these breakthrough cases.
So it's just like a flu shot.
It ain't called a flu vaccine.
All right.
You got a point, but I like the vaccine.
I got three of them.
I like the vaccine.
You can get a breakthrough case.
But 99% of the time, you get a much, much milder case.
So it's worth getting.
But it's up to you.
You got to make your own decisions.
A lot of people just anti-vaccines of all kinds.
And I understand that.
But I like the vaccines.
Linda, you're vaccinated, right?
Sorry, what did you say?
I said, this is getting tiring this show.
What time is it?
Almost over.
I'm answering the phone, too.
Oh, I didn't know you were screening the calls.
I'm screening the calls.
I'm talking to you.
You know, I got America on the hold.
You know, what was the question?
I apologize.
You're actually screening the calls.
I am screening the calls and talking to America.
How long has it been since you've screened calls?
Do you remember how to do it?
First of all, unless you want that $1.50 peace of mind, you've got to take it easy.
Well, normally, Linda doesn't screen call this.
I don't, but it's staff of people.
It's been a long time, and I gave everybody off for Christmas.
So we got a skeleton crew here.
It's me and Ethan.
Oh, okay.
Well, there you go.
All right.
We're back to the, we'll let you screen.
It's fun.
Yeah, no, it is.
You want to call it 1-800-941-Sean, 1-800-941-Sean.
Hey, oh, here's some good news.
General Flynn is going to sue the January 6th Commission.
It's going to sue Nancy Pelosi.
You know, you've got to start fighting back, and you got to go into courtrooms.
We have an attorney general in New York State who's just nuts and fixated this weird, bizarre fixation on Donald Trump, and he is now suing her.
This Attorney General in New York for years now has been investigating the Trump organization.
We had a district attorney in New York, same thing.
And you remember they went to every court, and finally in the final court, they won and they could get his tax returns.
And if you remember back in January, they showed on the news, here's the tax returns being delivered.
You know, Donald Trump's tax returns is like a, for 10 years, it's like 3 million pages.
So they showed a moving van with forklifts bringing in this tax return.
The New York District Attorney got it.
They brought in forensic accountants to go over these tax forms.
That took about three months.
And you'll notice at the end of the three months, no charges, nothing.
They've investigated every inch of the Trump Corporation.
They keep investigating.
He hasn't gotten so much as a parking ticket after all this stuff.
So the New York Attorney General is continuing.
You remember one phone?
They couldn't find anything.
They couldn't find anything criminal anywhere.
So finally, they went after one executive in the Trump organization.
He was using a company car.
Well, that happens everywhere in every company.
Well, wait a minute.
He was using a company apartment.
But that happens all the time, too.
And meanwhile, Hunter Biden is out there with Kraken Horse.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
But hey, that's not a big deal.
He's an artist, okay?
Yeah, he's a regular Da Vinci.
Yeah, we got Picasso over here.
Yeah.
So they can't find anything on the Trump organization, but they keep going.
He's now going to court.
He's going to sue her.
And I think she loses badly because there's a video montage of her running her first getting in office saying that she was going to target.
She actually said this.
She was going to target Donald Trump.
She was going to find something on Donald Trump.
She was going to keep looking.
That's going to look very bad in front of any jury, even in New York.
And in the middle of all that, Hunter Biden, who knows?
Hunter Biden may have made $100 million already on this fake art scheme, which is an old scheme, by the way.
It goes back to the 1950s.
Years ago, in radio, they had what was called payola.
You slip the disjunctie $10,000 and he'd play your record.
Well, then they made it illegal.
I think it was 1958.
They made that totally illegal.
What happened was a lot of radio guys opened art galleries and they couldn't take the money, but they'd say, you know, I have an art gallery here.
Why don't you go buy a painting?
And you'd buy a junk painting for $10,000.
Now, I know that from reading the history of rock and roll.
I'm sure that's where Hunter got it.
It's a scheme.
Nobody's investigating.
When they tell you, well, don't worry, we'll keep the buyers secret.
That makes it even more dangerous.
That makes it even more of a scheme.
Anyway, we'll take some calls in a minute.
1-800-941-Sean is the number.
1-800-941-Sean.
Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Welcome back.
It's the Sean Hannity show.
Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Oh, I got to correct myself.
And I keep forgetting this.
I always, I said, Elon Musk, great president, presidential candidate.
He was born in South Africa.
He can't run for president.
He wasn't born in the country.
One problem.
But he's still great.
Follow him on Twitter.
He's great there.
And Elizabeth Warren, I don't know how she got away with this.
That's stupid.
He doesn't pay any taxes.
He only paid $60,000.
He paid $11 billion last year in taxes.
That's a heck of a mistake to make.
Anyway, let's take some calls.
Let's go to Terry Ann in Tennessee.
Terry Ann, how you doing?
Hi.
Hi, Terry Ann.
What'd you want to say?
I just wanted to say I agree that we need to get as many Republicans in there as we can, but we need to be careful and actually vet these people because they get in there and they're not really Republicans.
And the Democrats infiltrate everything from wondering if they're not sending quote-unquote Republican people that aren't really Republicans.
I think we need to do a better job of vetting the people we're voting for.
All right, that's a good point.
You know, the other problem you have is you got to, it used to be had a lot of people want to run for Senate, run for office, and the vicious, rotten media just scared everybody away.
You know, a lot of CEOs through the years thought about running from Lee Iacoka to Jack Welch to, well, when they see what happened to Donald Trump, who's going to run?
You know, Dr. Oz is running, and everybody keeps warning him.
But he's a brave guy.
He's going to do it.
I mean, I hate to say it, but who knows what will happen to Dr. Oz's fine reputation when the Democrat media complex gets done with him.
It could get ugly.
I hate to see that happen to him.
He's a great guy.
We're just about out of time.
Sean will be back in a few days.
We've got a lot of great shows here.
Linda, who's here tomorrow?
Tomorrow we have the best of Sean Hannity.
Wow.
They were going to do the best of Mark Simone, but they couldn't find any.
That's not true.
You're like the number one show.
Get out of here.
Oh, well, that's true.
If you want to listen to me, otherwise I'm on WOR710 in New York.
But actually, not for the next week and a half.
I'm on vacation.
You are?
You're taking your time off?
Yeah.
You're going to go follow La La La?
Who?
Fala la la la.
You know, Christmas and all that.
Yeah, yeah.
Definitely, definitely.
That's what I'll be doing.
You're a folla la la la la la.
Yeah.
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