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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| And news roundup information overload, our 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I told you in the very beginning that the reason that the media mobs, the Washington Post starting it, started to recognize, looks like the Hunter Biden laptop story is true. | |
| Now, I know that the soon-to-be minister of truth, Jankowitz, was out there saying it was Russian disinformation, lying just like everybody else in the media mob. | |
| 51 former Intel officials, including, what, four CIA directors, all saying, oh, no, that looks like Russian disinformation. | |
| No, it was all true. | |
| We're not getting to the bottom of it. | |
| 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 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 partners, like from Mexico and Kazakhstan, for example. | |
| 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 and dinners that took place with Hunter Biden business associates. | |
| 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, was mad at saying that his father shouldn't run in 2016. | |
| Anyway, Republican majority, should they win in November, six months from now, will definitely be investigating Hunter Biden and China and Russia and Kazakhstan and Ukraine and all these other countries. | |
| 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. | |
| So it looks like Joe has a lot of splitting to do, as they used to say. | |
| And Jen Saki says, oh, I'll circle back. | |
| I don't know anything about Hunter. | |
| Nothing. | |
| No, I got to 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. | |
| One Russian oligarch who met with Hunter Biden was sanctioned by the UK, but not by the U.S. Why is that? | |
| We just found that out this weekend. | |
| Senator Haggerty, Bill Haggerty from the great state of Tennessee, he says, you know, 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 lakefront home. | |
| There's another 2010 email from a Biden confidant to Hunter Biden saying, quote, your dad 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, his taxpayer-funded salary and lifestyle as Vice President of the United States weren't enough to support his lifestyle. | |
| That same confidant and also Hunter Biden's business partner made nine visits to the White House 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 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 that President Biden was involved with and using money from Hunter Biden's business deals? | |
| Senator, 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 for the United States Attorney's Office that's investigating the case. | |
| Joining us now, Senator Haggerty, the great state of Texas, is with us. | |
| To me, 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 that are far more extensive 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 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. | |
| This is extremely obvious to anybody, and no one's denied this. | |
| 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. | |
| The American people aren't going to accept this, John. | |
| And if we want to begin to reinstate trust here in America in terms of the government, we've got to start finding ways to do things properly in this administration. | |
| They've just been running roughshot over this. | |
| I just think the American people have kind of given up on all this. | |
| I mean, I know my audience has followed the entire lie of Russia collusion, the lies about Hunter and his laptop, the double standard of a conservative Jay Walker spits on the sidewalk, they'll spend a year in jail. | |
| If you're a Democrat, 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. | |
| I don't care if it's deep state operatives that we know were even referred to, referred criminally from the Inspector General report. | |
| 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 transport them to some state in the country. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Why do I suspect I might be arrested 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. | |
| What we've seen over these past 16 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 things may change when the 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 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. | |
| I think Marco Rubio will do well in Florida. | |
| I think Herschel Walker will win Georgia. | |
| If he does, that will be a pickup. | |
| I think Tim Scott's a shoe-in for South Carolina. | |
| I think that Republicans have a better than even chance to win in North Carolina. | |
| They still have their primary going on. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 think it's looking good for us, 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. | |
| But in terms of 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 going to vote Republican or Democrat? | |
| In the United States Senate rates in these battleground states, we're up in every one of these states. | |
| And I think it has a lot to do with 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 Buzman and a few others introduced legislation blocking Biden from deploying 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 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 are 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 earlier last month. | |
| What we saw was just a complete travesty, Sean. | |
| 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, 800-941, Sean. | |
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| All right, we continue. | |
| Senator Haggerty of Tennessee is with us. | |
| So the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Mayorkis, who wants a Ministry of Truth now with probably one of the bigger disinformers ever or misinformers ever as the head of it, this woman, Ms. Jankowitz, has acted, in my view, they've been aiding in abetting lawbreaking. | |
| Now, there's this push to end Title 42. | |
| The problem Joe Biden has is, number one, the courts have put a stay on 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 or Nevada. | |
| You know, 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 2,207,000 unaccompanied alien children, UACs. | |
| And then your Border Patrol estimates somewhere from 200,000 to 400,000 gotaways. | |
| In other words, encounters that are not evade apprehension. | |
| So that gotaways have been a challenge from the beginning. | |
| Yeah, in the beginning. | |
| But that matches your numbers roughly? | |
| I believe so. | |
| So that's all without Title 42 in place. | |
| I mean, with Title 42, when it's removed, you're going to see more numbers. | |
| We very well could, and 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 42, 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 saw what I saw, if Joe Biden would go to our southern border and see what I saw, I can't believe he would allow his White House press secretary to stand there and deflect and mislead the American public the way she does. | |
| He wouldn't allow Mayorkas to just flat out misrepresent. | |
| Well, let me ask you, why are they not held accountable for facilitating law breaking, number one? | |
| And what do you think their motive is in this? | |
| Well, I think the first point, why they're not held 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 going to 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 and bring them to bear. | |
| Their budgets, I'm on the Appropriations Committee, on the Foreign Relations Committee in terms of 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'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 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 as 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 people. | |
| 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 Ellos 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 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 all. | |
| It's awful. | |
| I mean, we're losing thousands of kids, our national treasure, every year, tens of thousands. | |
| Senator Haggerty, Tennessee, always great to have you, sir. | |
| Thank you for being with us. | |
| We appreciate it. | |
| I'm 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 White House correspondence dinner, right? | |
| You didn't watch it at all, correct? | |
| I would rather have a colonoscopy than watch the hunt. | |
| That's not bad. | |
| I don't know anything about it. | |
| It's not for me yet, thank God. | |
| But what I'm saying is that if 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 lady. | |
| 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, Linda. | |
| I might be getting there, but I'm not there yet. | |
| Careful. | |
| Thank you, Jason. | |
| Listen, I'm a believer. | |
| Happy months. | |
| I'm a believer in preventative medicine. | |
| Colon cancer is one cancer that if you get regular screenings, you're not going to die from it. | |
| So you might. | |
| Is this your way of changing the topic? | |
| Because you just called me old on the air. | |
| I'm just wondering. | |
| They call you old as it you're getting of the age. | |
| Just like, for example, men should have their prostates checked. | |
| Absolutely, women need mammograms every year. | |
| My mom had stage four breast cancer. | |
| She didn't die from it. | |
| She had a double mastectomy, chemo radiation. | |
| She 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 well. | |
| I am a professional. | |
| You really are. | |
| 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 when Trevor Noah's talking about everything's gone up under Joe. | |
| Inflation, this, that. | |
| And there's Joe chuckling, except for Joe was just thinking about corn pop. | |
| 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. | |
| Wait, what was up with the tie? | |
| If you 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 embarrassing. | |
| I don't think I've ever seen Trevor Noah funny. | |
| I don't think he's ever been funny. | |
| Okay. | |
| Now, I thought with the clips that I saw, and I didn't watch it, but the clips that I saw, even 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 it. | |
| 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, oh, the guy did a pretty good job from what I could see. | |
| I'd never waste my time ever going to this stupid thing. | |
| 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. | |
| I'd rather have a colonoscopy. | |
| See? | |
| How about that comes right now? | |
| I'd take a dozen colonoscopies over going to that thing. | |
| It's not as bad as everyone said. | |
| Everyone's so freaked out because the night before, a couple of hours, it's all done. | |
| It's clean. | |
| You go in an early killing. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| It was a brief message. | |
| 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, you're definitely of the age. | |
| If you have not had one, I'm probably going to get one probably sometime later this year. | |
| Okay. | |
| It shouldn't be probably. | |
| I say this. | |
| You need to get one. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I've been reminded. | |
| I have doctors, okay? | |
| All right. | |
| Levco, California, next, Sean Hannity Show. | |
| What's up, Levco? | |
| Hey, Sean. | |
| 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. | |
| I've been probably one of the loudest critics prior to this point, prior to Zelensky, of corruption, financial corruption in Ukraine. | |
| 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 they had that history as 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 these long, protracted conflicts, 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 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 Donbass region, drive him back home to Russia, and hopefully the people there will say goodbye and take him 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 half a trillion dollars sent over there. | |
| Listen, I'm saying we need to keep track of every penny. | |
| By the way, apparently a Mariupol, 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, it's like everybody's doing that. | |
| 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 if this goes further, eventually we're going to get dragged in. | |
| I'd rather the Ukrainians are willing to fight, give them the armaments they need so they can win the war. | |
| We're not giving them what they need to win. | |
| And I'd give them, and I charge him for all of it, if there's even a country left by the end of this, considering Putin has been so heartless, soulless in killing innocent women and children. | |
| So I just disagree with you. | |
| Look, I would love to be where you are. | |
| I'd love to say, you know what? | |
| I'm going to 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 just 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 administration. | |
| Well, it's sort of like the COVID relief funds that we now know was spent on climate change 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 have plausible ability. | |
| But now everybody's in the middle of Putin's face. | |
| I'm a huge believer in covert operations and plausible deniability. | |
| We're on the same page. | |
| All right, so we actually agree on most of it. | |
| Anyway, thank you, my friend. | |
| Thanks, Levco. | |
| 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 I 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 going to 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 want a career in journalism, so why not? | |
| But my question for you is on our current education system. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So I just, under a year ago, I graduated from a public high school. | |
| And in that high school, they required you to take an English class every single year. | |
| And in my senior year, because at the beginning it wasn't too political, But during my senior year, they had me take 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. | |
| What was the point of that? | |
| Exactly. | |
| I mean, I wanted to ask her: are we going to read this? | |
| The bourgeois, you're supposed to hate the rich. | |
| Is that the point? | |
| Yeah, exactly. | |
| It was ridiculous. | |
| And the next assignment was watching a video on how America wasn't the greatest country in the world. | |
| But then I had enough. | |
| I could not stay silent. | |
| So the following assignment where we had to read a Bernie Sanders article on why college should be free and the college debt 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. | |
| I like video editing. | |
| I like to speak in front of the camera. | |
| So I made a quick 10-minute documentary and showed it to the class. | |
| After showing it, half the class came up to me and said, you know, I never thought about the college debt situation this way. | |
| You really opened my eyes. | |
| And so to bring it back to my question, how do you found that with a lot of people? | |
| I want to ask a question first. | |
| What did you get in the class? | |
| What was your grade? | |
| I got a B plus. | |
| And usually I'm an A student, so I certainly got it. | |
| Well, look, it's hard to get an A. If you got a B+, at least the professor didn't punish you for taking a different position. | |
| I had the same situation where I was at NYU and the teachers, first thing that the teacher said is that the professor was a communist, and I aced the midterm. | |
| It was a midterm and final exam that guaranteed your grade. | |
| I ended up getting the lowest grade. | |
| I made Dean's list in some semesters in school. | |
| I had a pretty good grade point average. | |
| And so anyway, and I remember I got the lowest grade I ever got into college. | |
| I think it was a C plus, if my memory serves me well. | |
| And actually, we ran into the guy, Alan Combs at the time, ran into that professor who remembered me like it was yesterday because the whole class became me and him fighting because I was a Reagan conservative. | |
| It was the whole class. | |
| I'd sit in the back row and I'd start saying, Professor, that just isn't true. | |
| And we'd just start arguing. | |
| And once he wanted to fight with me every single lecture. | |
| And I was up for it. | |
| I loved it. | |
| But anyway, so your question is, what? | |
| Yeah, so 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. | |
| 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. | |
| You can go into journalism. | |
| You can go into 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 love listening to your show. | |
| I listen to it every day. | |
| I watch your primetime show on Fox News. | |
| So certainly broadcasting, I'd love to do. | |
| And, you know, ever since I made that documentary, I've really been able to change a lot of minds. | |
| And I like that. | |
| 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 going to learn this in a classroom. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And the only way you, now you might need the degree. | |
| What grade, what year college are 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 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? | |
| You don't have to tell me if you don't want. | |
| Oh, you said Manhattan College, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Do they have a journalism school? | |
| They do. | |
| They do. | |
| Why don't you transfer to the journalism school? | |
| Okay. | |
| And why don't you go there? | |
| And you know what? | |
| You're going to 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 can do to get airtime, just do it. | |
| Excellent. | |
| Just like you, Sean, all right? | |
| You had that college radio show? | |
| That's it. | |
| By the way, it was the worst show ever. | |
| They should have. | |
| By the way, and I wasn't the only worst show there. | |
| Every show sucked. | |
| But you wouldn't expect a college radio station to be any good. | |
| But with that said, when that light went on for the first time on radio, it just changed my life. | |
| And I had no idea that this was ever going to unfold for me. | |
| That light went on, and that was it. | |
| 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, they rightly fired me because I sucked and I said stupid stuff. | |
| But with that said, I was not going to let them silence me. | |
| And I managed to get a job in a trade publication. | |
| And I worked in Huntsville, Alabama. | |
| They were gracious enough to hire me. | |
| I talked to the owner of that station. | |
| He's since sold it just last week. | |
| And 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 the greatest influences of my life. | |
| And 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. | |
| All right, that wraps things up for today. | |
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