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July 21, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Death of Wisdom - July 20th, Hour 2
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Uh his book uh landing again at number one, killing the killers, uh, in his killing series.
He's now working on killing Hannity, uh, which liberals will probably enjoy more than anything.
You might have a whole new audience buying your books.
How are you, sir?
I'm good.
Uh killer is number four this week.
Number four, after 12 weeks in the marketplace, honey.
Thank you very much for your help.
Couldn't have done it without you.
No, well, I didn't do the writing, and and obviously they're very popular.
Let me play a couple of things for you because I want to talk to you.
Uh you you went to Catholic schools for 12 years.
I went to Catholic schools for 12 years.
Uh we're both Christians.
We both believe we need salvation.
Uh, we both believe that we should be good stewards of the planet Earth.
We both want clean air and clean water, not only for ourselves, but for our as you're as you say, for your urchins for our kids and our grandkids.
And this is what where we are.
I want to play Pete Budigudge, then I want to play John Kerry.
And I want to ask you why it is that the left is willing to beg, you know, the worst countries, the most hostile regimes with the most hostile actors, why it's okay to import energy from them but not produce it domestically, and why do they want Americans to suffer pain?
I say that because that's what Pete Buddha judge said.
Listen.
The higher the gap the price of gas, then the the faster you reach that parody.
Of course, the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.
That's why we're hoping you and your colleagues might reconsider opposing the reduction of EV upfront prices with tax credits.
So, so you you're saying the more pain we have, the more benefit we're gonna get.
Of course.
I think that's what I heard you say.
The more pain that we know that's that's what you heard me say.
That's what I heard you say.
I know you want me to say it so bad.
He did say it.
The more pain at the pump, the more benefit.
He said it.
And this is John Kerry, who himself has a big private jet, and we went over the the amount of flying that plane does, and the carbon emissions are massive, which by the way, I don't care that he has a plane, good for him.
Uh the fact is that he's lecturing us about, you know, having to buy electric vehicles and pay high gas prices.
That's the problem.
Listen.
The challenge for all of us now is that no one country can solve this problem by itself.
We all have to be able to reduce the emissions.
We have to accelerate the transition.
We're behind.
We're not yet fulfilling the promises that we made in Glasgow.
So we have our work cut out for us.
And by the way, I'll add one thing, and that is Donald Trump Rump, for the first time in 75 years achieved energy independence and he did it while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions uh and our carbon footprint more than any other country in the industrialized world.
Mr. O'Reilly, those are words they're saying they want more pain.
They want us to pay more.
They want to accelerate what they call this transition.
Now, can you tell me how the folks are going to react to this in November?
Well, it's not going to be a top priority as far as uh independent and Republican voters are concerned.
You know, the progressive left, global warming is everything to them.
Um, and so they react uh in a way you would expect.
But let me give you a simple man view, Hannity, and I'd like your opinion on what I'm about to tell you.
I love how you just flip this.
They're okay with the so the poor, the middle class, people on fixed income, the elderly are disproportionately suffering because they want pain.
It's called greater good.
So the progressive left says, um, yeah, it's greater good if we defund the police and dismantle it, uh, law enforcement because we think it's racist, so uh it's greater good.
Yeah, there may be thousands and thousands of minority people dead because of that, but greater good is we have to get rid of this racist police in America.
So greater good in global warming is yeah, you're gonna have to pay a lot more, and uh maybe uh go into insolvency if you're a working person, but down the road, your grandchildren will thank you because they'll be in a cleaner planet.
But let me give you a solution to the problem.
And it is not complicated.
So nuclear energy is clean and it doesn't pollute.
And in France, a secular left country, 70% of all energy needs are provided by nukes.
By the way, I need to correct the record, it's 78%.
Thank you, Hannity.
I mean, you are on it, man.
And Macron says they're gonna build six more nuclear plants.
Okay.
So why don't we do that here in America?
No one can answer.
No one knows.
All right.
I guess they're afraid of three mile island happening again, but with our technological advances on these things, come on.
Number one.
Number two, electric cars are good, but folks, firefighters, teachers can't afford them.
So the auto industry can make a profit with electric cars.
You give tax credits to Americans who buy them, encouraging that.
But you don't go in as Buddha judge clearly stated and keep artificially high energy costs that people need to live day to day.
That's insane.
Bill, I showed a graph on my TV show last night, and we only get 12% of energy in this country from what they call renewable energy, solar, wind, etc.
It doesn't, but by the way, thank you.
It doesn't work.
And by the way, the sun doesn't always shine.
You can't preserve the energy in the meantime.
There's no way of storing that energy, and the wind doesn't always blow.
Now, your brilliant transportation secretary, Pete Budajudge, was on CNBC today, and he was asked a question.
You know, what what is the transition to green energy look like?
I want you to listen to this answer and give me a simple man analysis.
It seems like a real quandary at this point to try to do these to near term try to do these things when near term we need power.
We need energy.
So how do you declare?
Well, let's say how do you declare a climate crisis in the middle of an actual weather crisis?
Well, look, uh, obviously those those two things are closely related.
I mean, it's uh more than a hundred degrees in London today, or at least it was yesterday.
Uh, we've seen things happen in the Pacific Northwest Northwest and the U.S. that are supposed to be basically all but statistically impossible, and they're happening more and more often.
But this is what a transition looks like, right?
This is exactly the challenge that we're living through.
You can't flip a switch.
you can't do it overnight.
So you now put that together with what he said yesterday, the more pain we experience, the more benefit there is.
So it means that they don't have the answer, but yet in the meantime, they're just willing to end domestic energy independence.
Now, here's my question, Bill O'Reilly.
And if you can answer this, you get you're going to get five gold stars today.
How is it that the left and Joe Biden, it's okay for him to go hand in foot and and beg and kiss the ring and kiss the ass of Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince that he called the murderer and the pariah nation of Saudi Arabia that he called it?
Why is it okay to send emissaries to s to uh Venezuela?
Why is it okay that he imported a million barrels of oil from Iran last year and six hundred and eighty-four million barrels of oil from Russia, and he's begging OPEC to increase output when we have all the energy resources we could ever want, need, or use right here in America domestically.
Why is that better for Mother Earth?
Well, you left one out.
Why did he send uh U.S. reserve oil member you'll be oil reserves to China?
Yeah.
So the answer to that is very simple.
There is no coordinated strategy to do anything coming out of the Biden administration.
They cannot problem solve.
They caused the problems because everybody knows that under Trump, we didn't have this uh horrible inflation.
We didn't have to go to Saudi Arabia to ask them to drill.
We didn't have to send oil to China, we would have never done that.
So the Biden administration creates problems, the border, violent crime spike, um energy uh chaos, and then they can't solve them.
So Buddha judge runs around, and you know, if we had a really astute press, which we'll never have again, um the first question would have been you're presiding over the collapse of the airline industry, Mr. Secretary.
What are you gonna do?
You haven't done one thing so far, and tens of millions of Americans have been abused.
Well, what are you gonna do?
He doesn't do anything because he doesn't know what to do.
And he doesn't know what to do on the electrical grid, which is very important in the United States that's being ignored, and he doesn't know what to do with alternative energy because the technology is not there yet.
You don't dump fossil fuels that fuel your economy to an unproven theoretical energy system.
Who does that?
The stupidity, and I use that word on Bill O'Reilly.com in my message of the debt, and it was tied into Victor Diggs.
You should make it the word of the day, stupidity, because it runs rampant.
But go ahead.
So Victor Davis Hansen, who you like and has on your show, he wrote a comment the death of wisdom in America, and it's true.
But the opposite of wisdom is stupidity.
And that's what we're seeing from the Biden administration.
All right, quick break.
More with Simple Man, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly.com.
Then your calls 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program, all right.
More with uh simple man, all things O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly.com, uh, as we continue our discussion about the climate and the new Green Deal radical socialism, and of course the high price of gas and record inflation, electric vehicles, EVs, as they call them, don't improve the environment.
Now, number one, they cost more, about 20,000 more per vehicle than than a gas-powered vehicle.
And if you look at the recent study that came out, a new Hummer electric vehicle produces more carbon emissions than a gas-powered Chevy Malibu.
Uh, the battery of an electric vehicle is comprised of nickel, cobalt, aluminum, uh, manganese, all of which need to be mined from the earth with heavy equipment that uses diesel fuel.
Eighty percent of power to recharge these vehicles comes from oil, gas, and coal.
And because of the extreme cost to build, operate along with the very small energy output of wind, solar, and other forms of quote, renewables, that's only twelve percent of our power grid.
So for the foreseeable future, Bill O'Reilly, and that would be the next ten to twenty years, this transition to renewables is impossible.
They are so they're gonna make us suffer for what, ten to twenty years, probably longer, as they make this transition that they keep saying they need to expedite into into technology that really is not up to speed and doesn't exist for the power needs that we currently have.
Okay, but that's not gonna happen because the progressive movement is dead.
Not dead.
It's a lot, it's running government right now, Bill.
They're not dead.
But that's that's three months away from being obliterated.
Look, Biden's not gonna run again.
It's impossible for him to run again.
You don't have Gavin Newsom lurking around a White House measuring the couches if Biden's gonna run again.
Okay?
He's not.
I don't think he's gonna make his term out.
I think he'll resign for health reasons.
And people go, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris.
Nobody's gonna elect Hamla Harris to anything.
She'll sit there.
Once Republicans get back that two houses in Congress, it's over for the progressive movement in this country.
And locally, is there's a lot of people.
Well, you say that, but but you see what Joe Biden's doing today.
He's he's ruling by executive fiat by the stroke of a pen and bypassing the legislative branch of government.
But if you look at the executive orders, they don't mean anything.
It's their theoretical orders.
Well, we're gonna help this, we're gonna encourage that.
He's not doing anything other than trying to blind people by the light to his incompetence.
That's all this is about.
It's not about anything concrete.
So what I tell people is that history goes in cycles.
I'm the history guy, Hannity.
I'm the history man.
It goes in cycles.
This is quintessential O'Reilly.
I I I am the history guy.
I I am the guy standing up for all the folks, all the folks, not half the folks, all the folks.
Hey, everybody knows that.
The most successful historical author in history.
But I'll wrap it up because I know you're up against the clock.
It's over for Biden, and the progressive movement is going to get tremendous.
But it doesn't matter who replaces them, Bill, because the policies of this new Green Deal Socialist Party, this climate alarmist cult party.
It it doesn't matter who's in that office, the same policies will be used.
Last 20 seconds.
I don't I I don't agree.
Look, if Trump theoretically is re-elected, he's throwing all of that stuff out.
If DeSantis is elected, he'll throw it all out, Hannity.
It'll all that's why these elections matter.
Agreed.
All right, Simple Man Bill O'Reilly.
How's the Killing Hannity series part of your series coming?
You know, I'm researching you, Hannity, and it's frightening.
The whole thing's frightening.
I'm not disagreeing.
I think it's frightening too.
I can't wait till you hear about the stories of the things I did when I was eight years old.
Anyway, uh Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly, Simple Man at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Sir, it's always a pleasure.
Thank you for being with us.
Appreciate it, Sean.
We'll continue the exposing left-wing media bias.
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Uh all right, let's hit the phones.
California, Chris is joining us.
Chris, would you want your governor Gavin Newsome to run for president and maybe be president of the United States?
You you've lived with him, you've watched him.
He's a class A hypocrite.
Uh he's done disastrous job out in your state.
I don't know why people are pushing him for president, but he was in there measuring the drapes last week.
What do you think?
Hey, Sean, how's it going?
Thanks for taking my call.
Oh, thank you.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
I want that guy nowhere near my house.
I want that guy nowhere near anywhere, anywhere where he's setting policy that that's just a terrible idea.
Um agreed.
All right.
What else is on your mind today?
So I just had a question because I've been hearing a lot of, like, you know, people saying that they don't want Trump to announce yet.
They want Trump to announce that, you know, that it's going to give the Democrats a reason to campaign on and it'll get the enthusiasm.
But then you see, like, in Maryland what happened where his endorsement, like, you know, pushed his candidates over and he's just winning in all these other states.
It's like, I don't know if that's, like, a fake narrative, if they're just afraid to have Trump announced so that there won't be more enthusiasm or...
What do you think?
Do you think that he should not announce or do you think he should wait after the midterms or what?
Well, first of all, there are financial reasons and election laws that I think would make it a bad business decision in terms of announcing.
Then he's held to a whole different standard as it relates to fundraising, et cetera, and the way he can spend his money.
So I think for that reason alone, I think you wait as long as possible.
The other thing is, does Donald Trump want to make the 2022 midterm election a referendum on?
on him there's an upside there's a downside um I I I think he stands as a strong presence regardless I don't think it matters but if he was asking my advice I'd tell him to wait and I probably would tell him to wait till next year when when other there will be other people I think in the Republican side that will announce I don't know who they are.
I had to guess Nikki Haley would be one.
Chris Christie would be one.
Larry Hogan would be one.
Mike Pompeo.
There's a possibility he might want to run for president.
I think Mike's a great guy.
I think Ron DeSantis, possibly.
I'm not buying the hype.
I think the media wants a DeSantis Newsome showdown because they think that that would be the most interesting to them.
I think the media also is in love with and in.
intoxicated with and addicted to hating all things Donald Trump and and they think if it would be a slam dunk to run against Donald Trump in 2024 they may be uh they better be careful what they wish for.
um donald trump is a force of nature he takes up more space and more people's heads than any one single human being that i know and um i i think trump would be uh formidable and and probably an odds-on favorite if it was a rematch against joe or any democrat that we can think of that's being mentioned buddha judge or or kamala harris or amy klobuchar or anybody else that we've heard from.
So, you know, it's, it's going to be interesting to see.
I think, DeSantis has done a phenomenal job and deserves re-election in Florida I think the people of Florida wouldn't want to lose him as their governor interestingly number two he's very young.
I do think he is the natural heir apparent that I see to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.
And I think you know it's gonna it would be hard for him to come off a re-election in November and then starting to put together a a presidential election campaign literally three three months later because that's what it would take.
So I'm not sure I'm buying the hype that Ron DeSantis is running um but I think uh there's certainly people that are courting him there's no doubt about it.
And I think he's done a great job as governor and I think I I would not be surprised in my lifetime if Ron DeSantis is president.
Yeah I I completely agree with you Sean I think I think Ron is like it's a one two Trump is the top whatever he decides is is going to be the he's gonna be the nominee and then DeSantis is right there close number two.
But that's gonna be exciting I'll tell you we got a we got a deep bench though.
I mean think about it we got a lot of great people out there.
I I know people love Senator Tim Scott and I've heard his name bantered about one day running for president or maybe being a vice presidential contender.
I could see that happening in a heartbeat um Christy Gnome same thing.
We got Greg Abbott we've got a we've got amazing cast of of conservative Glenn Yuncan apparently is thinking about it.
He seems you know I I think he ran a phenomenal campaign in in the Commonwealth of Virginia we we got a deep bench.
Thanks Chris uh appreciate you being out there buddy thank you.
All right Ken is in Massachusetts Ken you're on the Sean Hannity show.
How are you?
Hi Sean thank you for taking my call I've been with you since the old Hannity and Combs days so well thank you, my friend.
What are you up to?
What's going on in Taxa Chusetts?
Oh God, don't I don't want to start there.
But I'm an Uber driver.
And I have been forced and I have to lease the car from Hertz through Uber because my car died.
So in order to drive for Uber, Uber set up the uh rental at Hertz before uh the fourth of July.
I went on vacation, I turned in my gas-powered car, and I said I'll need it back when I come back after the fourth.
I came back after the fourth.
Hertz is no longer renting gas-powered vehicles so you can drive for Uber.
It is an EV, either a Tesla or something else.
So you now have I would imagine renting a car, not even leasing a car.
If you were leasing a car, I'm sure it would be a lot cheaper, but renting a car has got to be prohibitively expensive.
How much how much you're renting that car a week for?
330 a week.
330 bucks a week?
Right.
So I've been driving.
Wait a minute, that's not that bad.
No, I drive on average six to ten hours a day.
Now with this now, does that include unlimited miles too?
Oh, I'm limited miles, full insurance coverage, you name it.
That's the only thing about it, yeah.
That's not a bad deal.
Now, let me ask you, and I'm not trying to be personal, and you don't have to answer.
Because I think it's funny.
Anytime I've taken an Uber in my life, and people say, Hannity, you don't Uber.
I'm like, yeah, I've Ubered plenty of times.
Um so when I get in an Uber, you know, I'm always talking to the driver.
I always like to ask questions.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, find out more about their life, how they like their job.
I ask everything, right?
So how do you like your job?
How do most people treat you?
Um have you had any situation that you felt was getting dangerous?
You know, how do you like doing it?
And how much do you and if you don't if you can talk about it, about how much you m profiting a week.
I have to make enough to pay the the uh pay for the rental.
So I make probably anywhere between four and six hundred dollars over that.
So the total would be about eight hundred bucks.
Eight hundred bucks a week?
Yeah, but I make, but I have to give three hundred and thirty of that to Hertz, and then the rest of the rest of it is mine.
But this someone uh I love my job, I meet great people.
I wouldn't mind Ubering you.
I was a former teacher, so of course when we start talking, the teacher and me comes out and I give them history lessons in Boston, the history lessons in Quincy, point out all sorts of interesting things.
I've met people from all over the world, really, really nice people.
I enjoy it.
I've only had one bad incident, but no more, you know.
Um but the thing is somebody has to pull the curtain back and expose the electric vehicles for what they are.
The it's all smoke and mirrors.
I have the car that I have, it takes nine and a half hours to charge it.
And if I'm driving in the morning, I go out at 4 a.m., four to seven, I go to a charging station, charge it, drive my daughter to work, then I Uber, I'm sitting at a charging station now, throwing a charge into it so I can continue driving, and then at night I go back from six to nine and charge.
The problem is, you know, Biden says they're charging stations.
You have to look for them.
Some charging stations are charging 37 cents a minute to charge.
And how many minutes do you need to charge that thing?
Well, you might uh with Ken if I did a full nine hour charge, I put uh at the charging station that charges 37 cents, that would be over 210 to charge it.
So I'm at a free one right now.
They're free for now, but I'm sure at some point they'll raise the rate.
But this is nothing but smoking mirrors.
It's not like you're making a ton of money.
I mean, uh in my head, I'm doing the math, you're making what, about 41,000 a year profit.
That's what you take home, that's pre-tax, right?
Right.
All right, so then you get taxed on top of it, and and maybe even if you're at a low tax rate, you know, you're you're you're struggling at that amount of money.
Now, you said you had a daughter.
Do you have how many dependents?
I have I have a son and a daughter.
I'm married, I have a son and a daughter, so you have the household bills, you have everything else that goes along with it.
You know, teenage.
You make 41 grand a year.
What is your wi wife make?
She probably makes about eighty-five teaching.
Okay, so sh that that helps a lot.
So, you know, you're at uh 126 grand a year, but I I'm I'm just guessing.
By the time you pay your rent or your mortgage, whatever you have, by the time you're paying your insurance for your house, by the time you pay uh, you know, all the other bills, groceries, everything in between, you're probably not even breaking even.
That's my guess.
You you've got you hit it right on the nail.
You hit the nail right on the head.
But the thing that irritates me, Biden says we're gonna be charging stations every place.
I'd rather drive a gas-powered car that I can keep an eye on the you know, gas gates, I'll know I have the point of check.
You're not you're not allowed to drive a gas-powered car in Massachusetts if you work for Uber.
No, Uber Uber, oh, of course you can if I have our own private vehicle.
But since I'm leasing or renting to hurt, they're not renting gas-powered cars anymore.
It's either it's either a Tesla or why don't you why don't you get a decent used car if you can find one?
It's gonna be hard right now because prices are inflated, but maybe more maybe put some money aside a year from now, or you just make monthly payments and you lease a car, uh, maybe you lease a used car, and then you have gas and it's yours, and then you get to put gas in it, and you get maybe to put more hours in and make a little bit more money.
Oh, yeah.
And you're saving money, and you don't have to worry about where you're gonna get your next charge from because there's still a gas station nearby.
And and make the transition that way.
Would that work for you?
Oh, that'll work for me, but again, it's just getting everything, put on all your ducks in a row, making sure you can get the money.
But like you said, use cars.
I've been looking.
I kind of was looking at last year before the you know, all of this stuff is happening.
It was like 17,000 for a five uh four-year-old uh Corolla.
Now it's up to 27.
Yeah, but those prices will come down.
I hope so.
But Volvo actually came out with a statement that the chips that had been in short supply now are more readily available.
Yeah.
Look, I I don't I don't envy what you're doing.
I admire your work ethic.
I admire what you're doing.
I admire your your you know, your commitment and your the hard ethics, the work ethics that you have.
I just want you to try to find ways, and I'm I'm always running through ideas with friends all the time.
Try and find ways that you can save a little money and make a little more money.
And if doing this is a way, a path for you to make more money and make it more convenient for you and your life, then definitely try to do it.
And you keep shopping around, you might find the right right car at the right place at the right time, maybe hopefully be able to finance it and and pay a low monthly fame payment, lease it.
Um, you know, I uh it I have found that if you look hard enough, you can usually find a deal.
Okay?
And I wish you a lot of luck.
And and if I'm in Massachusetts, I'd I think I want to hire you.
Um, Ken, appreciate it.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back.
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