Senator Hagerty of Tennessee discusses how he and his colleagues are fighting to defend our nation as we head into May, and the end of Title 42. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| If you want to be a part of the program, I told you in the very beginning that the reason that the media mobs He is stuck with the Washington Post starting it, started to recognize looks like the uh Hunter Biden laptop story is true. | |
| Now I know that the soon-to-be Minister of Truth, uh Jankowitz, uh, was out there saying it was Russian disinformation lying just like everybody else in the media mob. | |
| Fifty-one uh former Intel officials, including what, four CIA directors, all saying, Oh no, that looks like all that looks like Russian disinformation. | |
| No, it was all true. | |
| We're not getting to the bottom of it. | |
| Um, but eventually we will get to the bottom of it, and none of this is going to be good for the Biden family syndicate. | |
| As uh they have many problems and many questions. | |
| We now know that Joe lied repeatedly. | |
| We've got pictures with Joe and Hunter and some of Hunter's foreign business um partners, like from Mexico and Kazakhstan, for example. | |
| Uh, you have Hunter whining about paying his father's bills and his father taking half of what he makes, and so on and so forth, and that meetings that took place uh and dinners that took place with Hunter Biden business associates. | |
| Uh one of the things that came out this weekend is Hunter is furious, was furious at the time that David Axelrod, who he called the giant a-hole, uh, was mad at saying that his father shouldn't run in 2016. | |
| Anyway, Republican majority should they win in November, six months from now, uh, we'll definitely be investigating Hunter Biden and China and Russia and Kazakhstan and Ukraine and all these other countries. | |
| Uh, one other development that came out this weekend is Joe Biden wrote to his son Hunter and others, apparently using a pseudonym, Peter Henderson, who was a fictional Soviet Union era spy in Tom Clancy novels who infiltrated the U.S. government. | |
| Um, so it looks like Joe has a lot of splating to do, as they they used to say. | |
| And Jen Salki says, Oh, I'll circle back. | |
| Uh, I don't know anything about Hunter, nothing. | |
| No, I gotta get to MSNBC as quickly as I can, so I'll never have to answer that question. | |
| And there's not going to be much circling back, not that there ever was. | |
| Uh, one Russian oligarch who met with Hunter Biden was sanctioned by the UK, but not by the US. | |
| Why is that? | |
| We just found that out this weekend. | |
| Uh Senator Haggerty, Bill Haggerty from the great state of Tennessee. | |
| He says, you know, this he states the obvious conflicts of interest for President Biden in this case. | |
| And I think the real question is is whether or not the Department of Justice is going to remain politicized or whether or not they'll appoint a special counsel, which is what they should have done a long time ago. | |
| Listen. | |
| I'd like to turn to some public evidence, though. | |
| There are emails and photographs that show that President Biden, while he was vice president, met several of Hunter Biden's business associates, including a barisma executive. | |
| That's the energy company that paid Hunter Biden a million dollars per year to sit on his board, and a Russian billionaire who paid Hunter's firm 3.5 million around the same time. | |
| All of this is while President Biden was running portions of the United States' foreign policy, including Ukraine. | |
| There's evidence that Hunter Biden paid for Joe Biden's living expenses while he was vice president, a Hunter Biden email from 2010 entitled JRB Bills, Joe R. Biden Bills, discusses paying for the upkeep of Joe Biden's large stakefront lake front home. | |
| There's another 2010 email from a Biden confidant to Hunter Biden, saying, quote, your dead just called me. | |
| He could use some positive news about his future earnings potential. | |
| To me, this suggests that Joe Biden's 231,000 salary is taxpayer-funded salary and lifestyle as vice president of the United States, weren't enough to support his lifestyle. | |
| That same confidant of uh uh uh and and also Hunter Biden's business partner made nine visits to the White House between between 2009 and 2013 and met with Joe Biden in the West Wing while Joe Biden was vice president. | |
| And we have a text message from Hunter Biden to his daughter stating that don't worry. | |
| Unlike Pop, Meaning Joe Biden, I won't make you give me half your salary. | |
| So it seems President Biden was serving as vice president and running U.S. foreign policy at the same time that his son Hunter Biden was breaking in money from shade shady foreign business deals, and this was money that was being diverted to benefit Vice President Biden. | |
| So General Garland, do you have any reason to dispute the evidence that indicates the President Biden was involved with and using money from Hunter Biden's business deals? | |
| Senator uh following the long-standing rule of the Justice Department, we don't discuss investigations or evidence that maybe may or may not be relevant to investigations. | |
| That's a matter um for the United States attorney's office that's investigating the case. | |
| Joining us now, Senator uh Haggerty, the great state of uh Texas is uh with us. | |
| To me, the the evidence is so overwhelming, so incontrovertible. | |
| Joe clearly lied. | |
| He lied repeatedly. | |
| There's now enough evidence proving that he had contact and discussions with Hunter and his foreign business partners uh that are far more extensive than than his claim that he never once had a conversation with his son about it. | |
| What's your reaction to all this and where is the special counsel? | |
| Well, I I think what we've got, John, is a situation where Attorney General Garland finds himself in a very tough spot. | |
| You know, his department is responsible for investigating a criminal investigation, by the way, of Hunter Biden for tax fraud and money laundering. | |
| He's in charge of that. | |
| At the same time, Attorney General Garland's boss is telling him that his son did nothing wrong. | |
| Uh this is extremely obvious to anybody, and you know, no one's denied this, but it's extremely obvious that there's a huge conflict here, and Garland can't find his way to a point where he can even answer the question. | |
| His only answer is trust me, we'll handle this properly. | |
| I can't talk about it. | |
| Uh, the American people aren't going to accept this, Sean. | |
| And if we want to begin to reinstate trust here in America in terms of the the government, uh, you know, we've got to start finding ways to do things properly in this administration. | |
| They've just been running roughshod over. | |
| I just think the American people have kind of given up on all this. | |
| I mean, I know my audience has followed the entire, you know, lie of Russia collusion, the lies about Hunter and his laptop, uh, the double standard of a conservative, you know, Jaywalks or spitz on the sidewalk, they'll spend a year in jail. | |
| If you're uh uh a Democrat, you you know it doesn't matter what you do, you seem to always get away with it. | |
| I don't care if it's Hillary, I don't care if it's Hunter Biden, uh, I don't care if it's deep state operatives that we know were even referred to, referred to criminally from the inspector general report. | |
| Uh none of that seems to matter for Democrats. | |
| They seem to live in an alternate universe, one that is far less stringent than the world we live in. | |
| For example, if I were to go down to the border today, I think you'd agree, Senator, and pick up a bunch of illegal immigrants and and transport them to some state in the country. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Why do I suspect I might be arrested for for human trafficking? | |
| I'm sure you would be, Sean. | |
| The double standard is just painful, but it's also so obvious to the American public, as you say. | |
| Uh what we've seen over these past sixteen months is the complete control of our government by one party, the Democrat Party. | |
| They've got the White House, the House, and the Senate. | |
| And what you've seen as a result is Joe Biden making mistake after mistake, failure after failure, and the American public has clearly woken up to this. | |
| Joe Biden's numbers are in the tank. | |
| You mentioned that uh things may change when when Republicans take the majority again. | |
| I think that we will take the majority in November. | |
| That's the first point for us to begin to exert oversight over all of this, because until this point happens, until we change the the composition of the House and the Senate, the Biden administration is going to be able to run Roughshod because they have no oversight at all from the Democrats in the House and the Senate. | |
| So I'm very confident. | |
| I really believe with all my heart that the House is going to be won pretty easily. | |
| But then when I look at the Senate, and I'm looking at every bellwether state that we have, every swing state, if you will, that we have. | |
| Um I think Marco Rubio will do well in Florida. | |
| I think Herschel Walker will win Georgia. | |
| If he does, that will be a pickup. | |
| Um I think Tim Scott's a shoe one for South Carolina. | |
| Uh I think that Republicans have a better than even chance to win in North Carolina. | |
| They still have their primary going on. | |
| Uh I think we can even make a play for New Hampshire. | |
| I think Ron Johnson will hold on to his seat, I hope, in Wisconsin. | |
| He's done a great job. | |
| Uh I like Bernovich and I like Laxalt out in Arizona and Nevada, respectively. | |
| But every one of those states I mentioned is a bellwether Senate race. | |
| How do you see that going down? | |
| I I I think it's uh looking good for a Sean. | |
| And by the way, I want to tell you again how much I appreciate your endorsement in my 2020 race. | |
| It made a big difference for me. | |
| Um the way the ballot looks today, if you look at the generic ballot, that's when you poll people and you ask them, are you gonna you're gonna vote Republican or Democrat in the United States Senate rates in these battle battleground states we're up in every one of these states. | |
| And I think it has a lot to do with the the low ratings of Joe Biden. | |
| So we have to navigate the primaries we have to do a good job here. | |
| We have to put good candidates in office but I have every confidence that we're going to be able to change the composition of the Senate and we're going to win on November. | |
| I know you've been doing a lot on the border I know you and and Buzman and a few others introduced legislation blocking Biden from deploying uh VA resources to the southern border. | |
| So if I understand this plan correctly the Biden administration wanted to send medical professionals that are meant to be meant to take care of our veterans and send them down to the border because they're leaving the border wide open. | |
| Yes that was their plan you think about it our veterans were already suffering waiting in line to get health care. | |
| And the Biden administration would rather divert health care from our veterans and actually bring it to the border to help illegal immigrants into our country people crossing our border illegally and Sean I was down there I took a group of Tennessee sheriffs down to the border uh earlier last month what we saw was just a complete travesty Sean it's it's just amazing the flow of people across that border going unchecked. | |
| They've already apprehended in the past year over 160 different nationalities at that southern border. | |
| It's a national security crisis Sean all right quick break more with Senator Bill Haggerty of the great state of Tennessee on the other side 800 nine four one Sean our number we'll get to your calls um all right final days now when's m is Mother's Day the Sunday Mother's Day is this coming Sunday all right time's running out you got to grab your mom the and all the women in your life the perfect gift and that would be from Genusell and right now you'll save an additional 60% off Genusell's most popular package you go to genusel.com slash Sean to get the special offer and | |
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| continue Senator Haggerty of Tennessee is with us. | |
| So the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorcus who who wants a ministry of truth now with the probably one of the bigger disinformers ever or misinformers ever as the head of it this woman Miss Jankowitz um it has act they in my view they've been aiding and abetting law breaking. | |
| Now there's this push to end title forty two The problem Joe Biden has is number one, the courts have put a stay on that that execution of that rescinding. | |
| And number two is then you have border state Senate candidates like, for example, in Texas, Beto Bozo, or Mark Kelly in Arizona and Nevada. | |
| You know, the these states now have bore the brunt of this. | |
| So they're begging Joe Biden not to do it at least until after the election. | |
| Here's my orchestra. | |
| Now when I listen to this, I hear our Department of Homeland Security Secretary basically admitting that he's not going to enforce the laws of the land. | |
| I want to know if you hear it the same way. | |
| Sure. | |
| The DHS has directly released at least 836,000 aliens into the United States since January 21st. | |
| Then you add the two thousand two hundred and seven thousand unaccompanied alien children, UACs. | |
| And then your border patrol estimates somewhere from two hundred to four hundred thousand god aways. | |
| In other words, encounters that uh are not evade apprehension. | |
| So gotta ways have been a challenge from the beginning. | |
| From the beginning. | |
| But did that matches your numbers roughly? | |
| I believe so. | |
| So that's all without Title Forty Two in place. | |
| I mean, with Title 42 and Title Forty. | |
| When it's removed, you're gonna see more numbers, right? | |
| We very well could, and we we estimate that we will, which is why precisely why, Brett, we've been planning since September of 2021 for the eventual end of Title Forty Two, an authority that the CDC exclusively controls. | |
| Okay. | |
| That sounds to me like they're probably used with the CDC as cover just to get through election day in six months, and then it'll happen then. | |
| But doesn't that sound like law breaking to you or permitting the illegal activity of entering this country illegally? | |
| Continue? | |
| That's absolutely true, Sean. | |
| And if you if you saw what I saw, if if Joe Biden would go to our southern border and see what I saw, uh I can't believe he would allow his White House press secretary to stand there and and and and you know deflect and and mislead the American public the way she does. | |
| It wouldn't allow Majorcaster just flat out uh misrepresent. | |
| Well, let me ask you why why are they not held accountable for facilitating law breaking, number one, and what do you think their motive is in this? | |
| Well, I I think the uh first the first point why they're unheld accountable has to do with the fact that they control all branches of government right now. | |
| This is what we get with democratic control. | |
| That's why I think it's gonna change in November. | |
| And I look forward to that change because we will hold them accountable from this point forward or from that point forward, uh, in and bring them to bear. | |
| Uh you know, the their budgets I'm on the appropriations committee on the foreign relations committee in terms of the the invasion of our border. | |
| I mean, this is just insane what they've allowed to happen. | |
| And you ask, why are they doing it? | |
| Well, I I'm certain that some of their big corporate donors may be happy with this because it's allowing a flood of low-wage people to come in and put pressure on on wages here. | |
| But the other thing is even more cynical. | |
| That has to do with the fact that you've got sanctuary cities that are situated in blue states where Democrat legislatures control those states. | |
| And if these people flow in and flow to those sanctuary cities, they're increasing the number of people in those states. | |
| And when the census comes, they're going to increase the number of congressional seats in those states. | |
| And likewise the number of the city. | |
| So you're thinking that they're holding out something of great value like citizenship for people that enter the country illegally, and that they would gain political support perhaps for generations. | |
| Look, I don't care where people come from. | |
| My poor grandparents came here, they came through Ellis Island. | |
| I'm for legal immigration. | |
| I don't care where you come from, just come here legally, follow the process. | |
| Let's check that you don't have radical associations in the middle of a pandemic, you need a health check, and you can't be a financial burden on the American people. | |
| I don't think that's unreasonable. | |
| I'm with you on that, Sean. | |
| But again, the Democrats win, even if they don't get these people to a point of citizenship, because again, they can affect the numbers in the states that they control. | |
| Again, the sanctuary cities are like magnets. | |
| And in those states where they control the legislatures, again, if they can get the next census count, more people and a higher number, they will get more congressional seats and more electoral votes. | |
| So that's still a benefit uh in their column, I think in their view, but it's terribly cynical to put people through this sort of pain. | |
| If you look at the deaths in my home state, Sean, each month is worse than the month before it in terms of overdoses and deaths, mostly related to the city. | |
| I mean, we're we're losing thousands of our of kids or national treasure every Year, tens of thousands. | |
| Uh Senator Haggerty, Tennessee, always great to have you, sir. | |
| Thank you for being with us. | |
| We appreciate it. | |
| We appreciate it. | |
| Holding them accountable. | |
| Sean gets the answers no one else does. | |
| America deserves to know the truth about Congress. | |
| All right, 25 now to the top of the hour. | |
| Toll-free. | |
| Our number is 800 941 Sean. | |
| We were talking earlier. | |
| You did not watch the the White House correspondence dinner, right? | |
| You didn't watch it at all. | |
| Correct. | |
| I would rather have a colonoscopy than watch the line. | |
| I don't know anything about it. | |
| It's not, it's not for me yet, thank God. | |
| But what I'm saying is that the other thing is that the other thing is. | |
| You want to know the truth? | |
| It is for you. | |
| Why is it for me? | |
| Because you're at that age you should get your first one. | |
| I'm a late. | |
| I am not at that age yet. | |
| I'm sorry you have been misinformed. | |
| That is fake news. | |
| I am not at that age. | |
| You're very close to that age. | |
| Now you're getting there. | |
| I might be getting there, but I'm not there. | |
| Careful. | |
| Thank you, Jason. | |
| Um, I'm a believer. | |
| I'm a believer in preventative medicine. | |
| Colon cancer is one cancer that if you get regular screenings, you're not gonna die from it. | |
| So you might is this your way of changing the topic because you just call me old on the air. | |
| I'm just wondering. | |
| You're getting of the age. | |
| I bel I've just like for example, uh men should have their prostates checked. | |
| Um absolutely women need mammograms every year. | |
| My mom, you know, had stage four breast cancer. | |
| She didn't die from it. | |
| She had a double mastectomy, chemo radiation. | |
| She sort of barely survived. | |
| She died from something else years later. | |
| But I mean, you know, she lost all her hair. | |
| It was hell. | |
| So if you go regularly, you want to catch cancers early. | |
| So I'm saying it actually in a kind loving way. | |
| Wow, you're really good at this. | |
| The years of flipping that script has really done you. | |
| I am a professional. | |
| I really are it it is a thing of beauty. | |
| I mean, I'm admiring you from afar. | |
| It's just lovely. | |
| I did not watch it. | |
| I did not. | |
| So I just saw some of the clips. | |
| I'm not going to waste my time playing it because I just don't care that much. | |
| The only clip that really annoyed me is Joe Biden laughing w when Trevor Noah's, you know, talking about everything's gone up under Joe. | |
| Inflation, this, that, and there's Joe chuckling. | |
| Except for the city. | |
| Joe was just thinking about Quarmpop. | |
| He wasn't listening to Trevor Noah. | |
| He didn't even know where he was. | |
| There was somebody kicking him under the table, reminding him every three seconds. | |
| What was up with the tie? | |
| If you've got to wear that stupid bull tie, you might as well learn to put it on right. | |
| It was the whole thing, and he was so shiny and his hair. | |
| Oh, he's just embarrassed. | |
| I don't think I've ever seen Trevor Noah funny. | |
| I don't think he's never been funny. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now, I thought with the clips that I saw, no, I didn't watch it, but the clips that I saw, even the look, what have I been saying? | |
| Make fun of Fox News, make fun of Sean Hannity. | |
| I don't care. | |
| But just be funny about I actually thought the fact that he went after everybody. | |
| Both sides went after the media, went after Trump, went after Fox, went after CNN, went after Joe, went after everybody. | |
| Actually, you know what? | |
| I was like, uh, the guy did a pretty good job for what from what I could see. | |
| I'd never waste my time ever going to this stupid thing. | |
| I I am very proud of my record. | |
| I've never been to one. | |
| I'd rather be shot by a firing squad than ever go. | |
| You'd rather have a colonoscopy. | |
| See how that works. | |
| It comes right there. | |
| It's not as bad as everyone says. | |
| Everyone's so freaked out because the night before, you're a couple hours. | |
| It's all done. | |
| It's clean. | |
| You go in and early, get the road morning appointment. | |
| It was a brief mention. | |
| And then when you're done, you just go straight to the diner and eat whatever the hell you want. | |
| Have a colonoscopy, everybody. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, if you you're definitely of the age of you have not had one. | |
| Uh I'm probably gonna get one probably uh sometime later this year. | |
| Okay. | |
| It shouldn't be probably. | |
| I say this out you need to get one. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Uh I've been reminded. | |
| I have doctors, okay. | |
| All right. | |
| Levko, California, next Sean Hannity show. | |
| What's up, Lebco? | |
| Hey, Sean. | |
| Um, I've been listening to you talk about all this money we're sending to the Ukraine. | |
| And I have a real problem with this corrupt bunch of people sending money to a corrupt government and not knowing where any of it goes to. | |
| I mean, they've gotten millions out of that country already. | |
| It just seems like they're just a revolving door of transfers of money. | |
| I've been probably one of the loudest critics prior to this point, prior to Zelensky of corruption, financial corruption in Ukraine. | |
| Um and by the way, and that's what Donald Trump was saying. | |
| You're not going to be like your predecessors and be corrupt, because it they had that history was very well known. | |
| The reason I disagree with you is we can't put a single American boot on the ground. | |
| I'm not supporting that. | |
| I'll never support that anymore, because these politicians start wars, they don't fight to win wars, then they get l these long protracted conflicts, and and then they politicize it, and then you know, how many of our national treasure, our children did we lose in the course of fighting these wars that they then say never mind about? | |
| So however, with that said, we're watching a mass slaughter, human atrocity, indiscriminate bombing, the destruction of a sovereign nation, and the Ukrainians are willing to fight the war themselves. | |
| Our problem has been here, and and it's the same for NATO nations, allies, and the same for Western European countries, is we have not committed the military might needed to win the war. | |
| The goal should be to decimate Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and drive him out of Crimea, drive him out of the Dumbass region, drive him back home to Russia, uh, and hopefully the people there will say goodbye and get new and and take them out and get a new leader. | |
| Yeah, as long as there's an accounting for this money. | |
| I just know that with all these billions, I mean, we're up to almost uh half a trillion dollars sent over there. | |
| And I'm I'm saying we need to keep track of every penny. | |
| Uh by the way, uh apparently a merry poll, I mean, tons of artwork, gold, valuables, I mean billions of dollars. | |
| I mean, they have pillaged that country on their way in and out of there on top of killing innocent men, women and children. | |
| Look, uh it's like everybody's doing that. | |
| You know, there's a part of me that would love to be in isolation, is close my eyes and act like it's not happening. | |
| But we can't. | |
| Because uh if this goes further, eventually we're gonna get dragged in. | |
| I'd rather the Ukrainians are willing to fight, give them the ornaments they need so they can win the war. | |
| We're not giving them what they need to win. | |
| And I'd give 'em and I charge him for all of it, if there's even a country left, uh by the end of this, considering Putin has been so you know, heartless, soulless in killing innocent women and children. | |
| So I I just disagree with you. | |
| Look, I would love to be where you are. | |
| I'd love to say, you know what, I'm gonna close my eyes. | |
| When you look at those pictures of dead women and children in the street and the mass graves and cities leveled, and I mean it's now they're all a lot of these cities are rubble at this point. | |
| Does it not move your conscience at all? | |
| Well, I'm not closing my eyes. | |
| I said we used to do this crap and we used to do it quietly. | |
| But it seems like this administration wants to brag about all the stuff they're giving. | |
| I'm saying giving them more. | |
| I don't have no problem with that. | |
| I'm just saying we need to have an accounting of where this money goes. | |
| I know some of us coming back to this minute. | |
| Well, it's sort of like the COVID relief funds that we now know was spent on climate change uh initiatives, right? | |
| I mean yeah. | |
| You know, we should be doing more, but we should be doing it quietly too. | |
| We used to do it quietly, so you'd have plausible possibility. | |
| But now we're gonna put in the I'm a huge believer in covert operations and plausible deniability. | |
| We're on the same page. | |
| Um all right, so we actually agree on most of it. | |
| Anyway, thank you, my friend. | |
| Thanks, Levco. | |
| Uh Anthony is in New York. | |
| What's up, Anthony? | |
| How you doing? | |
| What's going on? | |
| Hi, Sean. | |
| My name is Anthony Campolo. | |
| I'm a young college student at Manhattan College. | |
| And wanted to ask you a question. | |
| Why do you want to give out your last name when you're in college, knowing that some professor is gonna hear this call and probably give you a D? | |
| If they're listening to you, Sean, I don't mind it. | |
| That's true. | |
| But you'd be surprised. | |
| A lot of people listen just to hate on me. | |
| Oh, without a doubt. | |
| And you know what? | |
| I I want a career in journalism, so why not? | |
| You know. | |
| Um but my my question for you is on our current uh education system. | |
| Uh yeah. | |
| So I I just uh under a year ago I graduated from a public high school, and in that high school they required you to take a uh English class every single year. | |
| And in my senior year, at the beginning it wasn't too political, but during my senior year, they had me take uh the first assignment we had was to read the book, The Great Gatsby. | |
| And we had to read it through a Marxist lens. | |
| Now, this is just a normal English class. | |
| We had to read the great What what was the point of that? | |
| Exactly. | |
| I mean, I I wanted to ask her, are we gonna read this? | |
| The bourgeois, you you're supposed to hate the rich, is that the point? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| It was ridiculous. | |
| And the I mean the next assignment was watching a video on how America wasn't the greatest country in the world. | |
| Um but then I had enough. | |
| I I could not stay silent. | |
| So the the following assignment where we had to read a Bernie Sanders article on why college should be free and the college judge should just be paid off by big government spending and big government socialism. | |
| I decided to respond to that video by making a documentary and show it to the class. | |
| Um I like video editing and I like to speak in front of the camera, so I made a quick 10 minute documentary and showed it uh to the class. | |
| Uh after showing it, uh half the class came up to me and said, uh, you know, I never thought about the college debt situation this way. | |
| Uh you really opened my eyes. | |
| And so to bring it back to my question, uh how do you I I found that with a lot of people I'm I want to ask a question first. | |
| What did you get in the class? | |
| What was your grade? | |
| I I got a B plus, and usually I'm an A student, so I I certainly got No, in fair look, it's hard to get an A. If you got a B plus, at least that the the professor didn't punish you for taking a different position. | |
| I had the same situation where the I was at NYU and the teachers first thing that the teacher said is that the per the teacher, the professor was a a communist and and I aced the midterm, it was a midterm and final gr uh final exam that get that guaranteed your grade. | |
| I ended up getting the lowest grade. | |
| You know, I made I made Dean's list in some semesters in school. | |
| I I had a pretty good grade point average. | |
| That's great. | |
| And and so anyway, and I remember I got I got the lowest grade I ever had that ever gotten to college. | |
| I think it was a C plus, if my memory serves me well. | |
| And actually we ran into the guy, Alan Alan Combs at the time, remembered the ran into that professor who remembered me like it was yesterday, because the whole class t became me and him fighting because I was a Reagan conservative. | |
| It was the whole class. | |
| I sh I'd sit in the back row and I'd start saying, Professor, that just isn't true. | |
| And we just start arguing, and w once he he wanted to fight with me every t every single lecture. | |
| And I was up for it. | |
| I loved it. | |
| And but anyway, so your question is what? | |
| Yeah, so my my question for you is how do we combat this? | |
| I mean, do we just pass more parental rights and education laws, or do we go the route of school choice where we give power to the parents and we allow parents to decide what is being taught in the classroom and put the school in a free market system? | |
| Well, I love school choice. | |
| Um I think we would be far better off if we could break the stranglehold of the unholy alliance of teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. | |
| But I have a different idea for you. | |
| I mean, because obviously you're passionate about this. | |
| Now, there's different paths that you could take. | |
| You can go into broadcasting and go into journalism, you can go into uh being a talk show host or a podcaster, you can go into TV, and you know, there's a lot of opportunities, or you can go into politics. | |
| Any interest in any of those fields? | |
| I mean, certainly broadcasting. | |
| I mean, I I love listening to your show. | |
| I listen to it every day, and I watch uh your primetime show on Fox News. | |
| Um so certainly broadcasting I'd love to do, and you know, ever since I've made that document that documentary I've really been able to change a lot of minds. | |
| Um I like to add it. | |
| So my advice is this it's not easy, it's not an easy career to get into. | |
| You can't learn it in a classroom. | |
| You're never gonna learn this in a classroom. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And the only way you now you might need the degree. | |
| What grade what uh year college you in? | |
| I'm a freshman. | |
| Okay. | |
| My advice would be I ran out of money, so I couldn't finish my I didn't have the money to finish. | |
| But my advice would be get your degree, play that game. | |
| And in the meantime, I don't know if your college has like a college radio station or college, you know. | |
| I would I would certainly change my major to journalism if you have it. | |
| Maybe you want to even go to another school. | |
| Can I ask what school you're going to? | |
| Or you don't have to tell me if you don't want. | |
| Yeah, oh, you said Manhattan College, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Do they have a journalism school? | |
| They do. | |
| They do. | |
| Uh not the same. | |
| Why don't you why don't you transfer to the journalism school? | |
| Okay. | |
| And why don't you go there and you know what? | |
| You're gonna learn a lot probably. | |
| And any broadcast time you can get on any station. | |
| I don't care if you can sweep floors and I don't know, just do the weather, whatever you you can do to get airtime, just do it. | |
| Excellent. | |
| Just like you, Sean, right? | |
| You had that college radio show. | |
| That's it. | |
| By the way, it was the worst show ever. | |
| They should have fought. | |
| By the way, and I wasn't the only worst show there. | |
| Every show sucked. | |
| Um, and but you wouldn't expect a college radio station to be any good. | |
| And and but with that said, when that light went on for the first time on radio, it just changed my life. | |
| And that and I I had no idea that this was ever gonna unfold for me. | |
| That light went on, and my that was it. | |
| I was it's over. | |
| And I didn't even know at the time it was over. | |
| It was over. | |
| That's all I wanted to do. | |
| And I only had a one-hour show a week, and you know, I they rightly fired me because I sucked and I said stupid stuff. | |
| And uh, but with that said, I was not gonna let them silence me. | |
| And I managed to get a job in a trade publication, and I worked in Huntsville, Alabama. | |
| The they were gracious enough to hire me. | |
| I talked to the owner of that station. | |
| He's since sold it just last week. | |
| And uh another friend of mine, Dave Stone, who used to be a great broadcaster in his own right, he was also the announcer for the Harlem Globetrotters. | |
| He passed away. | |
| He was one of his uh one of the greatest influences of my life. | |
| And oh I'm I'm friends with every boss I've ever had. | |
| I talk to every single sluggo, still sends me notes. | |
| You forgot to reintroduce the guest. | |
| I'm like, oh, shut up, sluggo. | |
| Why are you annoying me? | |
| Anyway, 800, 941 Sean. | |
| Keep us in the loop, Anthony. | |
| Just go follow your dream. | |
| Follow your dream, follow your heart. | |
| Follow the talent that God gave you. | |
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