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Jimmy Carter's Hero - December 22nd, Hour 1
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Hey, we got a great show for you.
It's not today, but it's coming up soon.
No, actually, today's pretty good.
We got a lot of good stuff to talk about.
We'll go over that Biden speech yesterday.
I think you could start an impeachment proceeding based just on that speech.
We'll get to, you know, my new hero, Elon Musk.
I love this guy.
We'll get to Joe Manchin.
We'll get to the crazy mayors all around the country who now realize they've killed themselves with this woke nonsense.
Lots to talk about.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Sean taking some time off.
Normally, I'm on our big flagship station in New York, W-O-R.
I didn't do my show there this morning because Linda, they force you to use all your vacation days at the end of the year.
Is that right?
Yeah, so I was on vacation from my own show, which is 10 a.m. to noon.
So I figure I don't have to get up so early.
I could sleep till noon.
But at 10 o'clock, when my show begins, I'm not there.
Everybody I know starts calling me.
Are you okay?
Are you okay?
All right.
What's going on?
Is it Omicron?
Everything is Omicron, just so you know.
Doesn't Omicron sound like a hotel in Atlantic City?
You know what Omicron is?
What?
It's a misspelling for moronic.
That's what it is.
That's what Omicron is.
Actually, it's the variant that could end this pandemic.
A lot of experts actually saying that's how pandemics end.
It mutates, mutates, mutates, and then all of a sudden starts mutating weaker.
And Omicron apparently was part of the virus mutating with a cold.
And more like a common cold, which is why it spreads faster, but it's also weaker.
And this could be the end of it.
And I don't know.
That would be a nice Christmas present.
Well, yeah, except, you know, with this, one thing about this pandemic, you don't have to go to work.
You can stay home.
You don't have to commute.
You don't have to sit in traffic.
You know, there were some advantages to this.
And I've never been home for more than 15 minutes in my whole life.
For me, it was interesting.
You're like, is this what my kitchen looks like?
Huh?
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I know I started cooking things.
It was really, see, most people were upset having to stay at home for me.
For me, it was a whole new experience.
This Joe Biden speech yesterday, apparently they wrote it out and they wrote, I don't know if you probably didn't have time to hear the whole thing.
They wrote three versions of the speech.
You know, he can't go more than four minutes without collapsing.
So, you know, it's not like he's going to go on prime time and make a 40-minute speech.
He's lucky if he can do three minutes off those index cards.
So there were like three versions.
If you watch the whole speech, he just did all three versions.
He did version one, then he did version two and version.
So it was just totally repeating everything three times.
And if you don't think he's a brilliant man, you got to listen to him when he tries to explain the supply chain crisis.
It's fascinating because what is a supply chain crisis?
It's about the simplest problem in the history of the world.
You know, if you said invent alternative energy, that's a little complicated.
If you said, let's land a man on the moon, that could be complicated.
But if you said these ships are going to come in, you take the crates off them, put them on a truck.
It's not that complicated.
You know, if Donald Trump were in office, day two of the supply chain crisis, he would have been in California on the dock with all the union heads, port heads, trucking heads, screaming at everybody till they worked it out and settled it.
And if all else failed, he would have brought in the military.
They have two enormous divisions.
That's all they do is logistics and supply chains.
They could have unloaded everything in three days and delivered it.
But he can't figure out.
Now, take a listen.
Here's Biden trying to explain the supply chain crisis, how complicated it is.
Earlier this fall, we heard a lot of dire warnings about supply chain problems leading to a crisis around the holidays.
So we acted.
A lot of recommendations of the people that you see on the screen here.
I wish we were all able to do this in person.
We brought together business and labor leaders to solve problems.
And much, you know, the much predicted crisis didn't occur.
Packages are moving.
Gifts are being delivered.
Shelves are not empty.
That's a pretty good approach, actually, to it.
Just deny it.
Just deny it ever happened.
Just deny it.
What was that old Lenny Bruce routine?
If your wife catches, deny it.
Even if she's got pictures.
Just deny it.
Keep denying it.
So there is a supply chain crisis.
Now, this is not affecting him because he never leaves.
He never goes anywhere.
And if he does, the only thing he orders is ice cream.
I mean, outside of that, he doesn't see it, but you've seen it.
You just go on Amazon.
You remember everything's delivered the next day.
Now it's like two weeks, three weeks.
There's a massive crisis.
And if you were Pete Budajed, you're the guy in charge of this.
You're the Secretary of Transportation.
And all these years, you say, well, what does the Secretary of Transportation do?
This is what he does.
Fix supply chains if they break.
And can you imagine being the Secretary of Transportation during the supply chain crisis and you never once went to these ports?
You never bothered to go anywhere.
You're sitting in your office like Fauci trying to get on TV, trying to book TV shows, trying to pose for Instagram pictures and ride your bike for a video, that kind of stuff.
So absolutely ridiculous.
This is a, I mean, it's frightening, but it kind of worked out for all of us.
You know, Donald Trump was the most exciting four years.
If you were in the media business to cover him, there was nothing more exciting.
Nothing gave you more stuff to talk about, more ratings than Donald Trump.
It was phenomenal.
So when he left, you think, oh, what are we going to do now?
And then this guy comes along, the worst president ever.
You know who loves this guy, who is so grateful to this guy, is Jimmy Carter.
If one day Jimmy Carter passes away, now the obituary will not say worst president ever.
Joe Biden has wiped out that the worst president ever.
You know, the difference is Carter, the first year or two weren't bad.
It was like year three, it all fell apart.
And the other thing with Carter, he had a lot of prestigious names in that cabinet.
Some of the biggest names and great statesmen were in the cabinet.
Give Biden credit.
He's not only the worst president in history, he has put together the weakest cabinet ever.
A bunch of incompetent, bumbling idiots with no resume.
Budajedge is a good example.
Look at that energy secretary, Granholm.
You ask her a question.
She's giggling.
She doesn't know what to say.
Look at that, Tony Blinken.
That's like a really, really bushleague version of John Kerry.
And even Kerry wasn't anything.
And just to make it complete, he puts Kerry on the team, Kamala Harris giggling, moron, worst vice president.
I mean, they will study this administration in business schools for years to come about putting together the worst team of mediocrities ever and trying to get anything done.
So you still have a pandemic yet.
Omicron everywhere.
Now, listen to Joe Biden.
What if you had a vaccine mandate on the truckers?
Okay, go listen to this.
We say.
I say no.
Yeah.
It's a great approach.
It's an excellent approach to problems.
Just deny it.
If you have a vaccine mandate, wouldn't you lose some trucks?
No.
No.
Just sound convincing.
Take that Build Back Better.
Listen.
I mean, it's $5 trillion.
I think if it's $5 trillion, that it would cost $5 trillion.
But listen to this.
Listen to Biden.
And the biggest weapon, excuse me, in our arsenal, it's my Build Back Better Act, which will reduce what families have to pay for prescription drugs, for health care, for childcare, and so much more.
The bill is paid fully, fully paid for.
It won't increase the deficit.
There you go.
I mean, it's a little, he's a bit of a psycho there.
$5 trillion.
Where are we going to get $5 trillion?
It doesn't cost anything.
And he believes all this.
That's the great thing about it.
Linda, don't you admire that?
That delusional whole thing?
It's fascinating.
I think that this administration has given me more to think about in the past year than I have ever thought about any administration in my entire life.
And I've been doing this business.
I've been in this business a long time.
But I have to say, the moment of all moments, the pinnacle of Biden's first year in office was what he said at the start of the speech yesterday.
Do you know what he said?
No.
I'm going to shoot you straight from the shoulder.
That's how I do it.
I'm like, what?
You're going to shoot me straight from the shoulder?
I'm like, was the hip not in the cue cards, buddy?
I literally almost fell out of my chair.
I said, you got to be kidding me.
Shoot you straight from the shoulder.
What a moron.
He is the most embarrassing president we have ever had in our history.
I mean, gee and Putin, they must be having a field day every single day.
It's unbelievable.
You know, we can laugh about this, but that's the real problem.
Putin wants to take Crimea in the Ukraine.
God knows what she wants to pull off, and they're all going to do it now.
I don't know.
They may wait till after the midterms, or who knows, they may not wait.
Putin, every second, there's more and more troops he keeps putting on the board of the U.S.
Oh, I think it's New Year.
I think January, we're going to see all kinds of drama.
New Year?
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
They're not going to wait for the midterms.
They don't care about our politics.
Well, that could be.
Yeah.
The reason they want, it's very important to Russia to take Crimea because they desperately need a warm water port, a deep port for their Navy.
Crucial.
And there is one in Crimea.
They want it for that port.
That's the reason for this.
So it's not just, I mean, it's evil, but it's also very strategic evil.
So here's the other thing, though.
Hey, Newt Gingrich will be with us a little later in the show.
Obviously, Democrats get slaughtered in the midterms.
They'll lose dozens and dozens and dozens of seats.
But you can't just go in there just depending on that.
You've got to put together, like he did, you have to have a contract for America.
You got to have a list of things.
So we'll talk about later what the Republicans need to do to pull this off.
Now, some people think that the Democrats are well aware of this.
They're sinking in the polls.
Biden just dropped.
You know how low Biden's polls were?
They were incredibly low.
And he already dropped another 21%.
I mean, he's just setting records.
And this is in the rigged public polls.
He's down to like 21%.
He's just plunging.
So some people think Biden might pivot.
All of a sudden, Biden, you know, Bill Clinton did it.
Bill Clinton was pretty far to the left, and he went pretty far to the right, and that saved him.
But Clinton was a highly skilled politician.
Clinton was a real salesman.
Biden can't pull that off.
And I don't know if Biden can afford to look any more insincere than he always looks.
You know, the problem is everything he ran on, he was going to change the tone, change the tone and not be so divisive.
Soon as he gets elected, everybody's a white supremacist.
He's calling everybody names.
If that's what you're running on, good, change the tone.
But he changed all the policies, the Trump policies that were working and working very well.
So nobody wanted to change the policies, changed the tone.
But again, he's the nastiest guy, calling everybody names.
He appoints Jen Saki.
It's got to be the meanest, most vicious press secretary.
I mean, I kind of like it in a way.
There's something interesting about that.
You know, every press secretary tries to sell you what they're saying, tries to convince you.
She doesn't care.
Here's the lie.
Write it down.
That's it.
Get out of here.
Well, she had eight years with Obama.
She practiced quite a bit.
Yeah, she worked for Obama for a while and she did train under Linda.
I'm sorry.
What?
Fake news.
That's real fake news.
I said, no, she's terrible compared to Linda.
It's awful.
Yeah.
Well, but you're good at toughness, but you do it with a smile.
With a finesse.
I will tell you exactly where you need to go while smiling at you.
I'm very good at that.
Yes.
And Linda will explain it to you in great detail.
But I like Jen Saki.
No detail, no explanation, no charm, no salesmanship.
Here's the lie.
Write it down.
That's it.
Get the hell out of here.
And that's it.
We've never seen a press secretary like this.
The whole thing is unbelievable.
You know, Pfizer has now come out.
The FDA is going to approve this pill.
If you get the virus and you take this pill, it can knock out the symptoms a lot faster.
But you got to have FDA approval.
Remember the vaccine?
And that could have, you know, first of all, it takes five years to get a vaccine.
Donald Trump gets it done in months, months.
And it's interesting how he did it.
Maybe we'll get into that later.
But then he had to go to the FDA and just kick them and kick them and kick them to get it done and just force them to put.
Now, Biden won't do that.
So this pill is ready.
Let's see how long it's hung up with the FDA.
Hey, we got lots to get to.
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Hey, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Remember when if Donald Trump said one thing wrong, if one comma was out of place, it'd be front page news.
It'd be analyzed and dissected for a month.
Biden can say anything, and it's never mentioned.
Everybody looks the other way.
Everything's fine.
The shoulder comment.
No one knows what the hell.
Take a listen to this.
Good afternoon.
I promised when I got elected, I'd always give it to you straight from the shoulder.
What?
What does that mean?
I've heard straight from the hip.
Straight from the shoulder.
I mean, truly, that is a thing of beauty.
Like, when you try to defend this man, you need to just play this on your phone and say, I just want you to hear what POTUS, the man that sits in our Oval Office, the highest seat in America.
This is what he has to say when he starts a speech about the nation's health safety.
It's insanity.
Play that one more time.
I got to hear that one.
Good afternoon.
I promised when I got elected, I'd always give it to you straight from the shoulder.
This guy, can you imagine if he wrote greeting cards?
I love you with all my shoulder.
I think the heart is what he meant.
I'm broken-shouldered over our.
Straight from the hip.
I've heard that.
With all my heart.
With all my shoulder, I love you.
So I will tell you, we had a caller yesterday, and I said this on the show yesterday, who called him, had some experience in boxing.
He says there's an expression in boxing that says straight from the shoulder.
And I said to him, with all due respect, sir, and I mean you no disrespect, truly.
Joe Biden doesn't know anything about boxing.
Now, wait a minute.
He took on corn pop when no one.
Oh, you're right.
I'm sorry.
I was doring the hairy legs.
You know, you never heard from that corn pop again.
He took on bad, bad Leroy Brown, everybody.
Anyway, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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Let's take some calls.
It's 1-800-941-Sean is the number.
Let's go to Bill, who's calling from Texas.
Bill, how you doing?
Hey, Mark.
Good to talk to you.
You do a good job filling in for Sean, and I love hearing you and Linda go back and forth.
That's always fun.
Oh, we like Linda.
We like going back and forth.
Yes.
Right from the shoulder.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, you were talking about how Linda shoots straight from the Adams apple.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it reminded me, my dad had two lines about diplomacy.
One of them really applies to Linda, and that is some people, a diplomat is someone who can tell you where to go and make you look forward to the trip.
Well, that's good.
I like that one.
What's the other one?
That's Linda.
And the other one is the way you approach Linda.
The diplomat is the one who says, good dog, while they look for a big stick.
Well, I don't know.
That one doesn't apply.
Not so much.
Hey, you live in Texas, right?
No state income tax, right?
Absolutely true.
Absolutely true.
And we're grateful.
You don't even fill out a state income tax form.
There is no such thing, right?
No, sir.
I don't even know what that would look like.
You can't imagine it in New York.
Even if you do your federal tax form, then they get to that state tax form.
That's where you owe all kinds of things.
But you find there's more and more people moving there.
Every town is getting a little more crowded, more traffic.
Every town, yeah.
I'm up in the panhandle, you know, where there's a lot of distance between a lot of things.
But, boy, we're getting people from all over the country coming in here.
Pretty amazing.
All right, good call.
Thanks for checking in with us, Bill.
You know, you talked to people in Austin years ago.
Austin is so beautiful.
What a beautiful place.
What a great town.
Well, it is a great place.
Now everybody's moving there.
And now the same people are sitting in a rush hour gridlock going, so, and it's not going to stop.
Everybody from California is running there.
Let's go to, it says line one, Texas transgender.
What is that?
We don't have a name.
Fred.
Oh, Fred.
Oh, it doesn't even forgot the name.
Fred, are you there?
Yes, sir, I am.
Yes.
Fred?
Why does it say transgender?
Hello.
Yes, Fred.
Well, I wanted to comment on the character of the athlete that's swimming that's transgendering.
Oh, so you're not transgender?
No, sir.
Oh, wait, hang on.
Let's check.
Yeah, you look like you're a regular old guy there.
Okay, go ahead.
Only 63.
You're not old.
No, I don't mean old.
I mean, have you ever thought of being a transgender?
No.
Well, don't be so quick to discuss.
Whatever a person wants to be, fine.
No problem with you.
You want to be whatever you want to be.
But I brought in the part of character.
I mean, they know they're cheating.
He's a male's body.
He's got a female's mind.
And I heard about the young ladies that were swimming with him were afraid to complain because they might have problems getting a job or a career in the future.
What do you mean?
If you're transgender?
I would never hire them.
If you're transgender, you get a job in a second.
Everybody will hire you.
You know, if you show up and say, I'm a white male, you can't get anybody to look at you.
But he's a cheater.
He's a liar.
It's out of style.
He's a cheater and a liar.
Yeah.
Well, all right.
Well, thanks for calling, Fred.
Let's go to Sharon is calling from Florida.
Sharon, how you doing?
Sharon, you there?
Nope, I think we lost Sharon.
Let's go to Mark in Michigan.
Mark, how you doing?
All right.
How are you doing?
Very good.
Thanks for taking my call.
Listen, how clear his phone sounds.
Why can't I get a call that clear on the phone?
Are you on a landline?
Yes, I am.
Oh, that explains.
I don't have a cell phone.
I'm old school.
I don't have my wife's got one.
I'm glad of that, but I don't really want one.
You know, every year they come out with a new phone.
It can take pictures in the dark.
It can do this.
It can take your pulse.
It can take your blood pressure.
It can do everything except make a call where it sounds clear.
You'd think that'd be the first thing to invent.
Yeah.
But I was just wondering, you know, for so long, so many.
Joe Biden and all the other ones saying that, no, the federal government cannot mandate these vaccines and that.
But it seems like they keep pressing it more.
And I would like your honest opinion of whether you think they're eventually going to mandate it for every American in the country.
Probably not for the illegals, but for every American that is a citizen.
Are they going to mandate it for everybody?
Well, I don't think so.
No, I don't know that the courts would uphold that.
You know, what you could really do if you really, you know, if it's important, you just renounce your citizenship, become illegal.
Then you can do whatever the hell you want.
You can go wherever you want.
You don't have to show a card.
You can do anything you want.
You know, the good news about Omicron, which started in another part of the world and just shot right up.
I mean, you look at the graph, it just goes straight up.
But, and then it looks like it's starting to come straight down.
So that's the possible good news about Omicron, that it spreads so fast that within a couple of weeks, it can just get everybody and everything and then start to plunge.
And the other good news is it's not giving people a serious case.
In almost every case, very, very, very mild cases.
Let's go to, as it says, Joe Lewis in Henderson, North Carolina.
Joe, how are you doing?
Hey, Rob Man.
What's up?
Yes.
What's going on?
I hope you're having one heck of a good day because I daggone, sure.
Well, I don't know what you're smoking, but I hope you brought enough for everybody.
No, I'm just living on life, buddy.
Living on life.
What are you doing?
You sound like you were driving right now.
Yeah, I'm driving a truck.
I'm a truck driver.
Oh, good.
There's like a stone truck.
Yeah.
Yeah, hell, hell yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Y'all were just talking about Joe Biden and his corn pop.
Yeah.
Just this day and time with social media being what it is, why haven't we found corn pop?
I want to hear corn pops side of corn pops a bad boy.
You know, that's a very good question.
That's actually quite a brilliant question, Joe.
Thanks for calling.
That is a brilliant question.
Linda, can you answer that?
You know, every time Donald Trump mentions anything, they check it.
Why haven't they checked the records?
Oh, you have the audio?
Oh, but here's the story.
Take a listen to Joe Biden.
I learned a lot.
And I learned that it makes a difference.
This was the driving board area.
And I was one of the guards.
And there weren't a lot of three-meter board.
And if you fell off sideways, you landed on the darn cement over there.
And Corn Pop was a bad dude.
And he ran a bunch of bad boys.
And I did.
And back in those days, you see how things have changed.
One of the things he had to use, if you use pomade in your hair, you had to wear a bathing cap.
And so he was up on the board, wouldn't listen to me.
I said, hey, Esther, you, off the board, or I'll come up and drag you off.
Well, he came off and he said, I'll meet you outside.
My car, this was mostly, these were all public housing behind it.
My car, there was a gate out here.
I parked my car outside the gate.
And he said, I'll be waiting for you.
He was waiting for three guys in straight razors.
Not a joke.
There was a guy named Bill Wright Mouse, the only white guy, and he did all the pools.
He was the mechanic.
And I said, what am I going to do?
He said, come down here in the basement where mechanics, where all the pool filter is.
You know, the chain, there used to be a chain that went across the deep end.
And he cut off a six-foot length of chain.
He folded up.
He said, you walk out with that chain.
And you walk to the car and say, you may cut me, man, but I'm going to wrap this chain around your head.
I said, you kidding me.
He said, no, if you don't, don't come back.
And he was right.
So I walked out with the chain.
And I walked up to my car.
And they had, in those days, used to remember the straight razor, you'd bang them on the curb, get them rusty, put them in a rain barrel, get them rusty.
And I looked at him, but I was smart then.
I said, first of all, I said, when I tell you to get off the board, you get off the board, and I'll kick you out again.
But I shouldn't have called you.
Esther Williams, I apologize for that.
I apologize, but I didn't know that apology is going to work.
He said, you apologize to me?
I said, I apologize, not for throwing you out, but I apologize for what I said.
He said, okay, close the straight razor, and my heart began to beat again.
Now, if you were trying to have somebody committed and you went before the judge and you played that, I think you'd get the guy committed.
I think, I mean, if you called a 911 dispatcher and said that, they'd say, we have a mental case.
We have a mental guy, a mentally ill guy.
I mean, so did anybody understand one word of that story?
He does that a lot.
He tries to tell 42 stories blended into one, all of which is not relevant to anything.
And nobody knows.
Do you anybody know what he was talking about?
No one knows what he's talking about.
And what's even more ridiculous is they expect us to believe, I mean, he really thinks this, and the people that reiterate this story, they think that anybody would take Joe Biden seriously, that he would be able to form a sentence.
He can't form a sentence with cue cards and nothing happening.
This guy's got a straight razor to your neck and you're having a conversation.
Okay, sure.
I guarantee you none of that story is true.
None of it.
If you're the toughest guy in Delaware, you're not calling yourself corn pop.
Corn pop is a cereal.
It's a cereal.
That's all it is.
Do you know what he was talking about with that Esther Williams?
Do you know what that means?
No.
Esther Williams was a movie star in the 40s who starred in these movies where she would swim.
She was a famous swimmer and she would swim in all the movies.
So.
I know nothing about this.
Yeah, so I guess she was like a world champion.
I think she was an Olympic swimmer, then became a movie star.
So I don't know why that's such an insult.
But everything he says, and Joe, you brought up a good point.
Where's the media?
Go find out if there ever was a corn pop.
Go research this.
Remember he used to tell that story about the train conductor Angelo, how Angelo came over to him and hugged him and said, you just rode your millionth mile and Angelo and him and it was so close and Angelo.
And then they checked into the story.
It turns out Angelo retired 25 years before the story.
He'd been dead for 10 years and he still Angelo like left a letter.
I hate Joe Biden.
Yeah.
His nickname was Corn Pop.
Okay, yeah, but somebody, they'll never do it, but some researcher, go to wherever the heck this was in Delaware and find if there ever was a corn pop.
I guarantee you there wasn't.
Hey, nobody knows where he grew up.
You know, Delaware.
But then half the time he's telling you he came from Scranton, the tough streets of Scranton.
You ever been to Scranton?
It's not so tough.
It's a pretty nice place.
they got a university it's very then if you read his autobiography he grew up in garden city long island which is a very plush nice suburb His father owned the car dealership and for a time owned the airport there.
So you could never get his story straight.
It's the most confusing guy in the entire world.
Hey, we'll take some more calls in a minute.
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I don't want to sound like Scrooge, but hey, Linda, it's enough with the Christmas music, don't you think?
Do you think I should play the Grinch?
Is that what you want to hear?
No, I mean, it's like we need new Christmas traditions.
I love this song, first of all.
What does that mean?
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
It means that people put decorations up.
What do you think it means?
I don't know.
There's no snow anywhere.
Oh, I mean, you know.
Christmas.
It's never a white Christmas.
Well, I think it will be Christmas soon enough.
I mean, I think there will be snow soon enough, honestly.
No, not in three days when it's Christmas.
I mean, how do you know?
Because I checked the forecast.
It's going to be in the 40s.
Oh, so you believe the weather guy, the guy who gets paid whether he's right or wrong on any given opportunity?
Yes.
I don't believe anything those people say.
Here's another thing.
This climate change, this global warming.
You know, it's winter here in New York City.
It's like 45 degrees.
This is pretty good if this is global warming.
I like it this way.
Used to be 25 in the winter.
Now it's 45.
You know how many people I know that spending a fortune to go to Florida right now for the next week or two?
Why?
Because it's 30, 40 degrees warmer.
That's why they're paying all this money.
So if you hear it's going to get one degree warmer here in the next 100 years, they panic.
They go crazy.
They're frightened.
First of all, it's not going to get one degree warmer in 100 years.
I guarantee in 10 years, they'll invent something that fixes the problem.
You're not going to go 100 years without somebody solving the whole problem.
And who's going to fix it?
Somebody like that Elon Musk.
He's going to be the one to come up with the answer.
Stop picking on him.
We've got time for one more call.
Let's go to Marty in North Carolina.
Marty, how you doing?
Hey, Mark.
How are you doing today?
Good.
Good.
Hey, look, I've got a good idea that I think you and Sean ought to run with.
What?
In my life, I've found that the greatest toy is somebody's words that I can use against them.
Yeah.
But what I have come up with is why don't we have the GOP say, okay, I tell you what, we're going to go ahead and embrace these vaccine passports.
We're going to make them official.
It's going to be having your picture on it and your information and all your stuff on it.
And you have to show it everywhere you go, including to go vote.
Which means one of two things is going to happen.
We're either going to get voter ID or the libs are going to get ticked off and say, well, this is evasion of privacy.
We don't want vaccine passports.
So it's a can't win for us.
Yeah.
All right, Marty.
It's a good point.
Excellent point.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It is kind of crazy.
Like here in New York, you got to show your vaccine card to enter a restaurant.
You don't need any ID to vote.
But in a restaurant, you got to show the vaccine card.
Then you got to show them some ID to show it's really your name on the card.
And you go into the restaurant.
Everybody's been checked except the 45 people that work in the restaurant.
How come they don't have to show us their cards?
You know, it's very tough to get employees right now in a restaurant.
How carefully do you think they're really checking those cards in the kitchen?
I know we've had like 15 major restaurants in New York that have had massive outbreaks among the staff and had to close.
But the good news is the Omicron variant, much weaker.
Let's hope it stays that way and hope the next variant is even weaker still.
And that could be, that's how these pandemics end.
They just mutate weaker and weaker till they go away.
Hey, we've got a lot coming up in the next hour.
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