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All right, Leonard Skinner, simple man.
That can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that's all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
It's been a while since he's been on the program because apparently Mr. O'Reilly has months and months of vacation that he takes every year.
What does Bill O'Reilly, the simple man, do on a vacation?
Because a little birdie tipped me off.
And apparently you've been posting pictures of yourself in some weird outfit.
And apparently you do some deep water diving or something or other out of spear fishing.
What are you doing down there?
All right, number one, Hannity.
I run my own corporation, so I'm off.
I'm not a slave to management like some people I know.
Number two.
Wow, that's cold.
That is cold.
Little birdies, Hannity.
You got little birds flying around you now.
But you want to laugh.
I get all this vacation time.
Yeah.
Part of my deal.
I don't think there's been one single year I've ever taken half of it.
And thank God.
We don't want you out on the loose.
All right.
We want you confined.
I can never imagine.
So explain what it is you do on vacation.
That's all I'm saying.
I went down to the Turkish Coast.
Their nice islands.
They're not in the Caribbean.
People think they are, but they're a little bad into the ocean.
And down in Turkscape Coast, we hired dive boats to take us out and show us the underwater life.
Most of it was snorkel, but I did a little snooba.
I went down.
That's a picture you saw in the weird outfit.
That is.
It's a weird outfit, Hannity.
That's when you go underwater.
But here's the big headline.
So I'm in the dive boat with my guys, and we had about 20 guys go on this trip.
We do it every two years called the Men of Adventure Trip.
You've been invited, but since you're not of a man of adventure.
I got invited once, like last minute, like as an afterthought.
But go ahead.
Yeah, we don't want to have to put like a life preserver on you.
You've got to be a man of adventure.
You've got to be a man.
So we're out.
I don't want to get seasick.
I think I'm going to get claustrophobic under that water.
Go ahead.
We're going to a reef, all right?
And all of a sudden, the guy driving the dive boat, we hired him, of course.
He sees dolphins.
And the dolphins are jumping up and down.
We stop the dive boat.
We jump into the water with the dolphins, okay?
And they're cute, and there's baby dolphins and all.
Guess whose front yard we were in?
Who?
Oprah.
Really?
I didn't even know it.
This is big, lavish house on the beach.
Okay.
We're about 30, 40 yards off the shore with the dolphins.
And I get back up, and the guy goes, You know what his house is?
I go, No, it's not mine.
I know that.
I'd like it to be.
Oprah.
And so we're waving, but I didn't see her.
I don't think she was there.
I wonder if she would have come out to say, Hi, Bill.
Why don't you come in for a drink?
Let's talk.
What are the odds for that, Hanni?
Zero.
Not happening ever in your lifetime or mind, but whatever.
That's true.
I actually, I think Oprah's an interesting woman, actually, in many, many ways.
If I had one word to describe her, one adjective, I would say she is a searcher, seeking, she's a searcher, or two words, seeking person.
She really seems curious to me about life and issues.
She is the best example of what an extraordinary country America is.
Had a horrible childhood, which I feel bad for her.
That's right.
And was able to overcome it and become, you know, look, the top TV television person in the world for crying out loud.
Not only that, if I ever go back into the classroom and teach history, which of course I did, but if I do it again, she is going to be my model for why America is great.
She overcame her terrible upbringing, number one.
Number two, she's a minority.
All right.
Number three, she was very heavy.
And, you know, she was not only a minority, but she had a weight problem.
Number four, after she succeeded on her own talent, no one helped her.
Okay.
Did it on her own, as you did and I did.
Okay.
She then turned and used the capitalistic system to become a tremendously wealthy individual.
And that in turn allowed her to give millions of dollars to worthy causes.
I have read she's extraordinarily philanthropic and generous.
The people that work for her that I have talked to loved working for her.
And I've never heard a bad word about her, which in our business is like impossible.
Well, I was on a program a couple of times.
She treated me respectfully.
I never got that invite.
I wish that people would acknowledge that, you know, the people who hate America and the victimization crew and all of that.
This Oprah Winfrey individual American just counters all of that.
All right, let's go back to the fish and the dolphins.
And how deep did you go when you went down deep?
20 feet.
Okay.
Now, you can't, I know there's something called the bends, which could be extraordinarily, you know, painful if you get them.
There's a certain process by which if you descend deeper than that, you have to go up in increments.
Am I wrong?
If you want to scuba dive, you have to take courses.
You get a passion.
I don't want to scuba dive.
I don't want to fly a plane either.
And the fish don't want you down there.
They don't, because if I see one, I'm going to spear it and take it up and get it.
I know.
You're a killer.
I'm a killer.
Look, diving is a tremendous experience, but you got to know what you're doing.
You can clear your sinuses.
You can clear your head.
There are techniques and ways to do it.
I don't go down deep anymore because there's no reason to.
I'm not looking for the Titanic, okay?
I just want to see nice fish.
I saw a big turtle.
I followed the turtle.
The turtle goes, why are you following me?
I said, because you're a turtle.
And then we sang happy together.
The tortoise and O'Reilly.
Yeah, we have a new child book coming out, the killing series.
O'Reilly Kills the Tortoise.
I just love it underwater because it's so relaxing.
Nobody can get to you.
It's a very good thing.
You know what's amazing, though?
I read once, and I don't remember the exact number, but the number of fish in the sea far outnumber the number of human beings on earth.
And then you look at the detail.
A very good close friend of mine has the single best aquarium I've ever seen.
And the amount of work that goes into this thing is unbelievable.
It's science on a level you can't even comprehend.
And I look at these fish and the detail.
And to be honest, it just reminds me of God's majesty because every fish, the colors, the brightness, the beauty, the unbelievable detail.
And for people that don't believe in God, I don't understand how you can see something as spectacularly beautiful as that and not believe there's a God.
Well, they don't want to believe.
People believe what they want to believe and what they don't want to believe.
I'm not proselytizing, Bill.
I'm the center guy.
That point is valid.
I mean, you go down there and you see another world that you don't see up here.
And the world is coordinated.
The world works.
None of them have subscriptions to cable TV, which is good for them.
And they putter around.
By the way, Bill, if I could get them subscriptions, I'd get it.
I'll take as many eyeballs as I can get.
I know.
So this was funny because after the dolphin deal, we went to another place.
And Turkscake goes, to my money, is the second best water for clarity and beauty and warmth.
What's the best?
Tahiti, the Society Islands with the blue coral.
Man, you are a world traveler.
I'm like a world worker, but go ahead.
82 countries I've been to.
So anyway, we're zipping into another one and we come upon this great reef and we jump in and there's a reef shark, a fairly big one, about 10 feet.
And everybody got out but me.
Everybody's like, both, let's get out of here.
But the reef shark won't hurt you, okay?
It's not an aggressive shark.
And I know the difference between a bull shark, which will bite your toes off, and a reef shark, which is just going to look at you and go, hi.
So I follow this reef shark, and we got great pictures.
And those are some of the pictures that you saw.
But if you respect the nature underwater, it will leave you alone most of the time.
But you do make a good point that this world is miraculous, and there's no way all of this could come from not a design.
And I mean, it's had to be designed by someone or some entity, and it was.
You could start with the smallest fish with the most beautiful, incredible colors and go all the way through universes within universes within universes.
And everything else is that it's not.
And we cannot.
I don't think in this life we are, and this is Holy Week, so it's a good time to talk about it.
I don't think in this life we are meant to understand or fully comprehend God's great majesty, except these things to me point in that direction completely.
I have zero doubt in my heart at all.
And in that sense, if you watch Life After Death programs or 90 Minutes in Heaven or Heaven is Real, all these stories of people that died and experienced a glimpse of heaven, what they describe as heaven, I believe all that's real toast.
I hope it's there.
And you're right.
We can't understand it.
I know it's there.
I can't understand CNN.
I can't understand it.
I don't know how to add it.
All right.
All right.
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I'm in awe of the fact that you've traveled the world so much and something that maybe one day I'll do.
Probably not, but it's a nice thought.
But then you have this incredible evil unfolding in our lifetime, Bill.
And it bothers me to no end that the world is lacking the urgency, the evidence of real terror, murder, mass graves, rapes, death, cities just evaporating and then turned into rubble.
And there's not the urgency to get the weaponry to the Ukrainians to win this war against Putin.
And there are still Western European countries buying his energy.
It pisses me off.
Well, people look away.
We live in a look away society, a lookaway world.
Look at Modi in India.
Modi knows what's right and wrong.
I mean, India has been one of the most exploited, violent countries on the face of the earth.
And if it wasn't for the United States, India would be involved in a war now with Pakistan.
So Modi should be right on board, helping the world strangle Putin, but he's not.
And China, obviously, we know.
And then when the vote came in the UN Council to expel Russia from the Human Rights Commission, can you believe it was even on the Human Rights Commission in the United States?
Yeah, Bill, that's been going on for decades.
Iraq and Syria and Iran.
28 countries, 28 countries voted against expelling Putin from the Human Rights Commission.
Useless.
Right.
And so I say to people, look, you can only take logic so far.
You can only take decency so far.
You've got to accept in this world, there is a strong component of evil.
And if every one of us, everyone listening to us today, thinks back in their life, you know you have encountered evil.
And evil you cannot reason with because evil is only in business to harm.
So with a guy like Putin, you would think, you know, you sit him down, you say, look, this is bad for the world.
It's bad for you personally.
It's bad for your country.
There's no way that you should be doing this.
So let's find a way out.
But they're willing to fight for their country.
You know, it's interesting.
I make the contention, and I did this in 2004.
I wrote a book, Deliver Us from Evil, Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism, because first you have to win, you have to get rid of those unilateral disarmament crowd people that just don't want to understand evil.
But I think it's very hard for good people to wrap their minds around evil.
But the last century, Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, communism, socialism, Nazism, Imperial Japan, fascism, 100 million plus souls dead, Bill.
And history, you're a historian.
It repeats itself, doesn't it?
Sure, it does.
I mean, we saw it yesterday in New York City where this guy goes in and he starts to fire at people on the subway.
He's an evil guy.
He doesn't care.
They got him, by the way.
Thank God.
Yeah, he doesn't care.
He wants to bring people down.
You know, you wrote that book, and I remember that book, Deliver Us from Evil.
And my book, Killing the Killers, A Secret War Against Terrorists, comes out in less than three weeks.
Your book and my book have something in common, although mine is more about the actual fighting, the war that's being fought.
And I hope you look at it, Hannity, because I want to have a good discussion with you about it.
Just look at it.
Oh, Riley, I've read every one of these books that I've interviewed you on.
I take the time to do my work.
And I'm going to read Killing the Killers, the latest in your killing series.
And then I think the next one up is after that is Killing Hannity.
I'm worried about that.
We got that down, but you'll be surprised by the next one.
But the thing is that evil, you're absolutely right.
You're absolutely correct.
You have to confront it.
You can't look away.
Because if you look away, it makes evil stronger.
You have to confront it.
And this is a message.
A lot of people don't want to do that.
It's too hard.
I don't want to do it.
I don't want to get involved.
I don't.
No.
Look, in a sane society, we would have turned this crime, violent crime thing around three years ago.
But so many.
O'Reilly, I'm going to have to let you go because we're just out of time.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Glad you had a good vacation.
And maybe one day I'll head out on a trip if I get a real invitation.
I didn't get a real invitation yet.
BillO'Reilly.com for all things O'Reilly, Simple Man, 800-941.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to join us, as I mentioned at the top of the show today, the Brooklyn shooting suspect in this New York City subway incident, his name is Frank James, has been taken into custody.
What's been fascinating, we see this happen a lot, is that people telegraph where they're headed in their social media posts.
And should police and law enforcement monitor for extremism, threats of violence on social media?
Yeah, I think that's fine as long as they don't do it based on some political agenda.
Anyway, these are some of the rantings and ravings of this guy.
I've been through a lot of where I can say, I wanted to kill people.
I wanted to watch people die right in front of my face immediately.
But I thought about the fact that, hey, man, I don't want to go to no prison.
We need to see more mass shootings.
Yeah, you need that.
No, we need to see more.
Let's see more mass shootings.
To make him understand, listen, you're going to die.
It's not.
No, it's not about the shooter.
Nope.
It's not about the shooter.
It's about the environment in which he actually exists.
Anyways, any surprise that all the signs were out there, all the indications were out there.
We haven't gotten a hold of his full rap sheet.
I'd like to see if there is one.
Kevin in Florida.
Kevin, you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Glad you called.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hannity.
How are you doing?
I'm good, sir.
How are you?
Thank you very much.
I'm doing good.
Real quick, the word that Mr. O'Reilly was looking for is called valsalva.
That is to clear your ears when you're scuba diving.
Since I've been too, well, I've been diving since I had to get in the water to put the tank on because I physically couldn't pick it up.
My dad would have to lower it over and put it on my back.
It seems fascinating to me.
I'm fascinated by my friend's aquarium.
I mean, it's, I mean, I probably wonder over a hundred grand, maybe more.
I mean, the fish, when he buys these incredible rare fish, I mean, and he tells me the prices, I'm like, what?
You paid how much for a fish?
And then there's a whole process of introducing the fish to the fish tank, and it doesn't always go well.
It's pretty amazing, but I admire people like yourself that do it.
I do not have an appetite to do that, though.
I'm not sure why we do well underwater like that.
It's something you get used to.
Once you get down there, it's the wow factor to get you.
Yeah, no, I mean, the majesty of it is clear.
I've been to enough big aquariums to just to get a glimpse into what it is you do and what you see.
Yeah.
What I called about today is I want to offer up another point of view on communism that nobody has pointed out.
If you look at the history of communism, you go back to Karl Marx, you go to Lenin, you go to Stalin after that, Bryznov, Gorbachev, and then Tutin, and you go and look over the Kim Uns over in North Korea and Mao over in China.
What is the one thing they have in common?
Is that they all lived in lavish lifestyles.
They lived richly while the rest of their people that they ruled fought for scraps.
Now, you take a look at the new Black Lives Matter.
What you've got is the new Black Lives Matter.
You're talking about the group and their nearly $6 million homes.
Yes, exactly.
They're doing the same thing that all the communist leaders did in the past.
And I hope these people that want to follow communism out there see this.
They're doing the same thing.
Communism is a poor man's game.
You know, it's going to be interesting when the financial statements, I assume at some point, are going to be released.
And where, again, we're separating out and extrapolating out people that chanted Black Lives Matter after George Floyd's killing that are not part of the group Black Lives Matter that's on tape chanting what do we want dead cops?
When do we want them now and other things?
And it's going to be interesting how much maybe corporate America might have given to the group and without any due diligence, obviously, because I don't think these corporations spend the time to vet who it is they're actually giving money to.
And they think they just want to be part of this woke movement, and they probably got caught up in it, but they should have done their due diligence.
They should have known that group leaders have this history of incendiary and dangerous rhetoric, but they don't.
$6 million is a lot of money.
And you're right.
And I don't really, you know, you can make the comparison.
It's like Vladimir Putin, I've read, since this Ukraine invasion is probably the second richest man in the world.
I never knew that before.
Now, I do know authoritarian leaders, you know, they usually rape and pillage the country.
And when it's time for them to leave, if there's about to be a coup, they'll get asylum in a third country and they'll fly in in a private jet and it'll be filled with tons of cash, whatever their currency happens to be, precious metals, gold, silver, et cetera, and they'll end their reign of terror and they'll move on to a life of luxury.
Now, don't forget.
Don't forget that we have the leaders of Black Lives Matter, the new Black Lives Matter, the new group, on film saying they are trained Marxists and communists.
They are trained Marxists and communists.
People need to put two and two together on that.
I listen, the ideology has been clear.
Now people get to decide.
And I do think it's important to separate the people that were outraged after George Floyd, as I was, versus the group.
And I think the group, and maybe there needs to be, you know, a group of people that do not support the insane rhetoric of the group Black Lives Matter or do not support in the case of liberal groups, steep funding, dismantling, no bail laws, police, et cetera.
There's got to be some more common sense to this.
But anyway, Kevin, God bless you.
Thanks for checking in.
We appreciate you being with us.
Jim is next.
He's in the great state of Ohio.
Sir, how are you?
Do you listen to my buddy Billy Cunningham?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sean, Hanneda, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I think he's almost as great as you.
And I want a full report.
Is that not him or no?
That's exactly him.
Yeah.
What's going on, my friend?
I listened to you yesterday, and you were endorsing candidates, and I approve of all your endorsements.
I like the same guys you do.
But you didn't do anybody in Ohio.
I haven't decided in Ohio yet.
Now, I'm looking, there's a number of good people.
I asked Cunningham the question who he likes.
And I don't remember her name.
You're going to have to help me out.
She used to run the Republican Party in Ohio.
He's very fond of her, but he also had nice words to say about other candidates, too.
And by the way, there are some candidates that are running that I'm not endorsing that are good people, but I'm looking for the person that is America first that has convinced me that they're going to fight for everything they say that they're going to fight for.
Exactly.
I want a Trump supporter.
I want somebody who's going to.
Yeah, I want a Trump clone.
I want somebody that means what they say, say what they mean, and go fight and shake things up and turn the bureaucracy inside and out.
And I want the bureaucracy disrupted and I want things accomplished.
I don't want the good old boy system.
Yeah, we don't need any more Romneys and those types of people.
I seen the commercial for JD Vance.
I saw the words come out of his mouth that he's a never-Trumper.
Is that true?
I have not seen that videotape.
I don't know.
I do not know.
But if that's true, I know that played a part and ads are running in Pennsylvania about that, but I've not seen it in Ohio.
And listen, to be honest, it's taken such a long time going state by state.
I've decided in Florida, that's Rubio.
I've decided Herschel Walker in Georgia, North Carolina.
I know the president is going with Judd.
I've not had time to speak to him.
I know McCrory, who's a two-time governor.
I've not decided in New Hampshire, but I have made inquiries into the Senate leader who seems to be very popular among Republicans up there.
That is a potential pickup seat.
I like Ron Johnson.
I'm supporting him.
I'm supporting Oz, as I've told people.
You know, it's funny.
Well, some people said to me when I first endorsed Trump and people were like, you know, beating the crap out of me every day.
And he said this about abortion and this year.
And he went, he donated to this Democrat and he went to Hillary Clinton's daughter's wedding and all that.
I said, yeah, that's all true.
But I spent enough time with him that he convinced me that he was that that was not where his political ideology was that was not the foundation of who he was.
And he had evolved dramatically politically.
So I had to really be convinced in that case.
And I took a lot of heat and people, you know, beating the crap out of me.
And I turned out to be right because I spent the time to really vet him.
And we spent hours on the phone talking.
You know, people, I would ask, we talk about these issues late into the night.
I mean, one thing, if you're a night owl, you'll probably be my best friend because I stay up till all hours of the morning.
I'll tell you what, I'm going to, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to bring Billy Cunningham on maybe in the next week or so, and we'll get his take on it.
And I'll, by then, have done a deeper dive, okay?
Okay.
Mike, I've heard Mike Gibbons is good.
Mark Bikita, he's good.
JD Vance, I mean, when those words came out of his mouth, if they weren't true, I'd be fighting like hell to say that's not what I said.
But I haven't heard any comeback saying that that's not true.
So he kind of like that wrote me off for JD Vance.
I used to like him, but so I'm looking for good people like you that you're looking for.
So listen, I am trying to find the best people that I can possibly find so that when Republicans win, they'll actually get things done.
It's one thing to win, but you got to win and accomplish something.
You got to really fight for your agenda.
Anyway, Jim, good call, my friend.
God bless you.
Love the people of Ohio.
Quick break, right back.
We'll get to more of your calls, 800-941-Sean.
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We'll get into the very latest out of Ukraine.
more evidence of just unadulterated evil perpetrated by Vladimir Putin as we continue.
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Patty's next.
Hey, Patty, how are you?
I'm fine, darling.
Darling?
Oh, did you hear that, Linda?
I got called darling.
It's a good day.
It's a good day for me.
Very good day.
In this day and age, some people would be offended.
I'm not offended at all.
Well, I'm a southern woman.
That's just how we are.
You are too kind, ma'am.
God bless you.
Bless your, excuse me, bless your heart.
How's that?
Well, now, bless your heart is kind of not exactly a compliment.
Okay, I can't even get that right, Linda.
What's wrong with me?
I didn't mean it in a way that was not complimentary.
I know you didn't.
So you mean when you say, oh, bless your heart, meaning you're a jerk.
Is that what you're saying?
Not a jerk.
It just means you're a little late to the party.
All right.
I've got to get it.
Let me fill you in.
Well, I've got to get, I have something really important to say, so I hope I get a minute.
But when Trump, Trump, Trump, when Trump came down that elevator, he was my guy.
That was it.
I was done.
He was my guy.
And when the primaries were over and he was my candidate, I was over the moon.
I was so motivated.
I went, oh, my God, we're going to win.
And then all that commentary on the TV.
So I started yelling at the TV and I'm yelling at the TV.
And I sat down.
I said, I can't just yell at the TV.
I'm a Republican and I have a responsibility and I'm going to go find out what I need to do.
So I went down to my local GOP, which I recommend everybody go and meet your folks down at your local GOP.
And I became a precinct chairman.
And one thing that we had to do is do, I don't know how many thousands of door bags to hang with literature and a sample ballot and this and that.
And so I'm knocking on all my friends' doors, my neighbors' doors, and I would bring them hundreds of copies.
And they would find their friends and they'd have a nice party and drink some wine and they stuffed all these door hangers.
So when people would canvass, if somebody didn't come to the door, whatever, we left that door hanger on.
So I was the organizer at the early voting, one of the early voting sites, which meant I was getting there at 6 a.m. to put up a tent and I was there at 7.30 p.m. to take it down.
And I had staffed it with all that early voting and spent lots of time there.
And what was so gratifying is so many people came through the parking lot and they had that sample ballot in their hand, which meant all that work that we went to came to fruition.
Let me say this only because of the constraints of time.
I want people to understand exactly what you're saying here, is that you got great personal satisfaction rather than yelling at the TV and getting aggravated, you did something and you involved yourself.
Now, not everybody's going to be able to do that.
Maybe some people, they're just going to cut a check for a candidate that they like so that they can run a good campaign.
But whatever you can do, even if it's just show up and vote or vote by mail, whatever you're going to do, just do it because we are at an inflection point, a tipping point for the country.
And I believe that with all my heart.
I've said it before in past elections.
I'm saying it for the next two elections.
It's real.
And we cannot continue down this path without causing irreparable harm to this great country.
God bless you.
A great story, Patty.
Great call.
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