Sept. 8, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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| This is an IHIP podcast. | |
| Hour two, Sean Hannity Show. | |
| Thanks for being with us. | |
| Toll-free on numbers 800-941 Sean. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Joining us now is the governor of the great free state of Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is back with us. | |
| He's been a friend of the program for many years. | |
| Sir, how are you? | |
| Good, Sean. | |
| I just want to let you know, you know, our voter registration window is opened until uh early October, so you still have a time to register in Florida and vote for me on November 8th. | |
| So get it done, man. | |
| I've I'm selling all the New York property I possibly can and buying as much Florida property as I possibly can as of as I've told you privately. | |
| You know what's interesting. | |
| So we're in the middle of this election cycle, and I know you're not taking your race for granted, but I feel very confident for you. | |
| Um I know that there are polls showing that the race would with Senator Rubio might be a little closer. | |
| I'm not sure I buy those polls, but we need Senator Rubio back in in the U.S. Senate. | |
| He's done a great job, I think, for the country, and I think you agree with that. | |
| Yeah, no, absolutely. | |
| I mean, first I would just let your listeners know uh if people want to get involved, uh, keep up with what we're doing. | |
| They can text the word freedom to the number five, one, two, three, four, five, and that's freedom to five, one, two, three, four, five, and we will send updates and and provide them ways where they can help. | |
| Even if they're not in the state, they can help. | |
| Here's what I think we're we're looking to do on November eighth, Sean. | |
| I think we're looking to set a turnout record uh in the state of Florida for a midterm election. | |
| And part of the reason we're able to do that is because over the last three and a half years we've delivered for people in Florida, time and time again, and not just fulfilling the promises I made when I ran in 18, which many people who get elected don't do. | |
| Uh we did that and we over-delivered on those, but then when COVID hit, uh we stood uh virtually alone in some respects to stand for open businesses, people working, kids in school, and all that. | |
| So I think that formula, people are really appreciative because they feel pro proud of being in Florida, and they say, Thank God we're not like California or New York. | |
| So I think we're gonna have a really big turnout. | |
| Um and I think Senator Rubio uh being from Miami Dade, that's kind of now the tip of the sphere for Republican politics. | |
| I mean, you know, you and I remember previous elections, Republicans used to get walloped in Miami Dade. | |
| Uh Donald Trump only lost it by single digits in 2020. | |
| Since then, we've seen an even bigger sea change in Republican registrations down there. | |
| A lot of the people who are moving there are registered Republicans, and we've seen a huge shift right amongst the Latino population towards Republicans. | |
| And so Miami Dade uh is really ground zero. | |
| And it used to be you just try not to get lose Miami Dade by 30 in order to win statewide. | |
| Well, now Miami uh the that's folks who are really holding the line for freedom in this country. | |
| So it's exciting to see a lot of the positive changes that have happened in Florida over the last four years. | |
| I talk a lot about the state of the economy, 40-year high record of high inflation, record high gas prices, more than twice of what we were paying just what, two years ago. | |
| And the looming recession in the housing market, new home construction is stopping in many states, sale of pre-existing homes has come to a screeching halt. | |
| Uh I believe home values will plummet in most parts of the country. | |
| Uh and I make an exception, and one of the biggest exceptions I'm making is for your state of Florida, because the migration to Florida, I'm reading you're taking in nearly a thousand new people a day. | |
| Is that is that close to the right number? | |
| Yeah, I think so. | |
| I mean, you know, sometimes it's hard to get an exact handle on this, but since COVID, we've led the country in net in migration. | |
| Uh we had more adjusted gross income move into Florida in 2020 than has ever moved into a single state in the history of the United States. | |
| I think we beat it in 2021. | |
| We don't have all that data quite yet. | |
| The next closest state to us is Texas, you know, which is not too shabby. | |
| They had about six point three billion. | |
| So we're almost four times uh what was moving into Florida compared to Texas, and people have never really seen anything like it. | |
| The question though, people will ask, and and Sean, you know, you know, do when the New Yorkers come down, people wonder, hey, how are they gonna vote? | |
| I can tell you when we started seeing California license plates in Florida. | |
| I was born and raised here. | |
| I Never saw California license plates. | |
| All of a sudden, you see these Californians, and Floridians were like freaking out. | |
| They're asking me, are these people going? | |
| Most of these people are Republicans, Sean. | |
| When I got elected governor, there were close to 300,000 more registered Democrats in the state of Florida than Republicans, and we have never had more registered Republicans in the history of Florida than Democrats prior to me becoming governor. | |
| Today, we have 267,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats. | |
| So that's a 500,000 plus registration shift towards Republicans. | |
| So what that's telling me is the New Yorkers that are being driven off are the conservatives. | |
| The Republicans in California are being driven off by those bad policies, and so they're coming to Florida – So this this electorate that's going to perform in Nov on November 8th, no one really knows. | |
| I mean I think it's going to be good for us, but no one really knows because this is a really different electorate than even what we had in November of 2020, much less November of 2018. | |
| I think that's a really critical point that you're bringing up. | |
| I I tell people all the time if you're gonna leave a state like New York or New Jersey or Illinois or or California, that's fine, but don't bring the policies that pushed you out of that state with you. | |
| Uh and then ruin the next state that you go to. | |
| In Florida, people are very sensitive about that. | |
| There will be people, and they just do this on their own. | |
| You go to like our public supermarket, which is our tough supermarket chain, they'll look in the parking lot for New York license plates and they'll put flyers in the windshield saying, okay, don't vote like you did there here. | |
| We don't want to turn in to like they're doing there. | |
| But you know, I do think don't ruin our state like you're you ruined your previous state. | |
| We don't need that. | |
| I think people get it because I think the contrast has been so sharp. | |
| I mean, you see it firsthand what the draconian lockdowns that these blue states were doing, locking kids out of school, and then how they've embraced soft on crime policies, that causes cities and communities to be hollowed out when you don't have safe streets, and they've gone in a really bad direction, and you know, you've lived in New York a long time. | |
| It was safe under Rudy Giuliani. | |
| I mean, that's just the reality, and now it's not, and we're seeing that all across the country. | |
| So I do think people, when you start talking about denying their kids an education, denying businesses right to operate, denying their ability to have safe communities, they do get it, and they don't want to mess with it. | |
| So in Florida, we obviously are strong on all those things, and and consequently the quality of life is so much better. | |
| I think a large part of the your popularity comes from the boldness that you've shown and leadership that you've shown, especially look at an issue like COVID. | |
| Schools in Florida were open in August of 2020. | |
| Now, that was way ahead of the curve of everybody else, and and rather than look at the success of Florida schools, uh many other states remained in in shutdown mode for a year or longer. | |
| And and they wouldn't even look at the science or the data uh that you were able to accumulate in that time period, and I think the people of Florida will clearly be rewarding it for that come come election day. | |
| Well, at the end of the day, Sean, there was a lot of hysteria, particularly those early months of COVID. | |
| What I did was look at the data, and we had data from Sweden, other parts of the world, and it was clear that we needed to have kids in school. | |
| It was not a very difficult decision from uh from a data or science perspective, but it was like hugely controversial because the whole corporate media was against me, the left was against me, Fauci was against me, and so I'm standing out there saying, you know what, this is important. | |
| And I really believe that once we had uh the all the schools open, that people would see that it's the right thing to do, and then every other state would follow. | |
| I mean, I was honestly shocked that they stuck to their lockdown ism and locked these poor kids out of school. | |
| But obviously, you know, in hindsight, they were basically doing what the teachers' unions wanted. | |
| They were not following with the best interest of the students or the parents. | |
| But what I told myself through all this with COVID, keeping business open, all that is you know, I don't know if it's gonna work out for me politically or not, but the leader's job is to look out for the folks you represent. | |
| And I was totally willing to take the arrows. | |
| I didn't know how it was gonna work out, but as long as I was standing up for them, then I was doing my job, and I could look in the mirror and say, you know what, you know, you're actually leading Uh and these guys are coming at you, but that's fine. | |
| And you know what? | |
| What ended up happening is we were right on a lot of these core issues, and people are now very appreciative that we were. | |
| So the state of Florida has no income tax. | |
| The state of New York has a ten percent state income tax. | |
| If you live in New York City, it's a it's three and a half percent more. | |
| Yeah, and the forty percent federal income tax, that's fifty-three cents of every dollar just going to income taxes. | |
| Not s that doesn't include sales taxes, record high property taxes, etc. | |
| So Florida has now surpassed New York in terms of population by almost three million, a little shy of three million, and you have half the budget of the state of New York, and as somebody that is in Florida as much as I possibly can, I can tell you the infrastructure is so far superior to that of New York, and it's amazing you do it with half the budget. | |
| Explain to people how you're able to accomplish that. | |
| Well, we're focusing on things that matter for people's lives and matter for having a good community. | |
| We're not giving a lot of money or any money to these special interests. | |
| I think you know, New York, you go around the city, you pay all these tolls. | |
| Where does that money go? | |
| I mean, the the the it's all still dilapidated, and so we take pride in in infrastructure, we take pride in services. | |
| It's a lot easier to get a driver's license in like Palm Beach County than it would be in these blue states, and we're proud of that. | |
| We also have done a good job with with education. | |
| Part of the reason we're number three in the country for K-12 achievement in the most recent education week rankings. | |
| We were number one in the NAPE for fourth grade reading and math from the last NAPE before this year on a on a demographically adjusted basis, is because we've embraced parental choice, uh, we've supported charter schools, we've supported opportunities within the school district for parents to be able to make good choices, and we've set high standards. | |
| So our schools outperform K-12, New York, and California. | |
| When I was growing up, Sean, that was not the case at all. | |
| Uh but I think what's happened is uh is those blue states, they're basically being run by teachers' unions, and it's more about politics than it is about respecting parents' rights and achieving student success. | |
| Let me ask you about these upcoming midterms in 62 days, because to me this is an inflection point or a tipping point election, and I know I've said that many times over the years over many elections, but I really believe it. | |
| Um I'm worried, really worried about the people in this country, the economic conditions that people are suffering under. | |
| Uh it's a disaster for many families. | |
| Two-thirds of Americans now living paycheck to paycheck. | |
| Forty plus year high, record high in inflation, record high gas prices, uh open borders like we've never seen, abandoning energy independence, the disaster that is for foreign policy, uh foreign policy from Afghanistan to Ukraine, um record homicides, no bail laws, defund, dismantle the police, you're offering incentives for police to move to Florida. | |
| My question is, and I know you're one of the most sought-after uh endorsements in this upcoming election, and I know you've been traveling the country for many really good candidates that we have. | |
| What is the message you would advise them to bring to their constituents so that this can be the wave election that some people are predicting? | |
| I'm not going down that road. | |
| I'm I'm too Irish. | |
| I always think the worst is going to happen. | |
| Well, look, Sean, I mean, you you you and I have seen uh the destruction that's happened in not even two years, and this is what they've been able to do with just a 50-50 Senate and a four or five seat majority in the House. | |
| Just imagine if they had fifty-five senators and a 30-seat majority in the House, what more damage they would have been able to do. | |
| And so I think the candidates need to be prosecuting the case against Biden, because at the end of the day, these are all problems that have either been created or exacerbated or exacerbated by Biden and his minions. | |
| And they're the ones that are responsible for this. | |
| Our border on January 19th, 2021 was not open. | |
| He opened it when he came in. | |
| We were energy independent on January 19, 2021. | |
| He kneecapped American energy production, and we're in for, I think, more of a roller coaster on that uh as we near year's end. | |
| And so his policies drove up inflation By printing trillions and trillions of dollars. | |
| They are making our streets less safe with their soft on crime policies. | |
| So prosecute the case and then stand for the things that we know we need to do to get the country turned around, and there's clearly a majority of the public that'll be with us on all those core issues. | |
| They do not want an open border. | |
| They do not want to see criminals running the street and having their way. | |
| They do not want to see runaway inflation, and they want to see us energy independent. | |
| Those are all no-brainers, and those are things that I think our candidates have been talking about. | |
| I think some of them don't get enough credit. | |
| You know, there people will take these polls, Sean, and you you know you've been following this. | |
| How many of these polls from like the summer of the election year turn out to be totally garbage? | |
| They always say we're going to lose all these races. | |
| I think we have a chance to win all the key races across the board. | |
| I think we've got good candidates. | |
| I don't buy this that we don't have good candidates. | |
| So I'd not just tell your your listeners, support these folks and let's make a difference to try to turn the country because the margin of air now is so small. | |
| This is not like the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy. | |
| Uh this is a Democratic Party that is uh basically uh a woke entity, and they're trying to impose that ideology on us. | |
| And Biden even said it the other day. | |
| They view people that think like us as a threat to the Republic and is basically an enemy of the state, and they're willing to weaponize government to go after us. | |
| So you gotta get up and you gotta let your voice be heard. | |
| So there was a Trafalgar poll out today. | |
| Fifty-six percent of Americans think that Joe Biden went really over the edge and way too far the other day. | |
| What was your reaction to that speech in Philly? | |
| I think this is an angry, desperate, failing president, and I think he's trying to do whatever he can to rev up his base, and I think he thinks demonizing people like us is the way that he gets his base to come out and vote. | |
| I've never seen an American president uh be so divisive as Joe Biden. | |
| This is a guy that ran on saying he was going to unite the country, and now you're saying that that folks that disagree with your agenda uh are a threat to democracy. | |
| And Bo, by the way, Sean, this is a majority of a country that disagrees with them. | |
| It isn't like it just like 10% over here. | |
| He wants to try to backtrack and say that, but he's really talking about everybody that's rejected him. | |
| Uh and then I think you look at the way they've used the government uh in the bureaucracy and the administrative state uh to target people that they don't like. | |
| These IRS agents, the 87,000, do you think those are gonna go after Hollywood liberals with those IRS agents? | |
| No. | |
| They're gonna go after uh sole proprietors, mom and pop, they're gonna go after handy men, Uber drivers. | |
| They're gonna go after people. | |
| They're gonna go after everyone's gonna get the Hannity treatment, in other words. | |
| In other words, they just pick my file out every year. | |
| That's why I have two accounting firms and one legal team going over my taxes, and I pay every dime, uh including in your great state as well, which is much lower than New York. | |
| It seems to me that the the we we have an opportunity now to show something that I always talk about, which is that conservatism works. | |
| Liberty, freedom, capitalism, our constitution, limited government, lower taxes. | |
| Uh we believe in uh law and order, safety and security. | |
| We believe in choice in schools. | |
| We want laws at our borders, we want to control our board nation's borders. | |
| Energy, I think beyond energy independence, we should be energy dominant because our Western European allies certainly need our help. | |
| Peace through strength. | |
| You know, simple issues, free and fair trade. | |
| These are not complicated issues, Governor, that we're talking about here, but they are principles. | |
| I don't say them because I'm a conservative. | |
| I say it because when implemented these policies work, you've implemented them in the state of Florida. | |
| Sean, it's basically, I mean, what all you just said boils down to, I think, two things. | |
| One, common sense, and two policies that reflect traditional American principles. | |
| I mean, the principles that our country was found were founded on are correct. | |
| They're enduring. | |
| They apply differently when as times change and circumstances change, and you need to obviously have an agenda that's meeting those needs. | |
| Uh, but the other side has really given us a gift because they're so outside of what makes sense. | |
| Their policies are failing in real time. | |
| That's why I think the governor's races are going to be so important. | |
| Because those are the laboratories Of democracy. | |
| You can look at Florida. | |
| You can look at Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, and you can compare it uh to some of these blue states that have done far, far worse. | |
| That's just the reality. | |
| So we can pick up governorships in a lot of these states, and they're they're gonna be able to help turn those states around at the state level. | |
| Huge opportunity for us. | |
| I know there's a lot of talk on the House and Senate, and it's important, and they need to hold Biden accountable and they need to check him from doing any more damage. | |
| But if we pick up five or six governorships across the country and flip those from from D to R, that's gonna have a major impact. | |
| It's interesting because I've been focused way more on the House and the Senate, and I know Kevin McCarthy's gonna come out next week with his commitments to America, and I'm looking forward to reading it. | |
| I've I've seen drafts of it, and it seems very comprehensive to me. | |
| Uh you have been traveling the country on behalf of Republican gubernatorial candidates more than the senatorial candidates. | |
| I know you only have so much time. | |
| Um, but I think for the very reasons you're stating. | |
| Yeah, I said well, I've done I mean I've done Adam Lacksalth, I've known since we were in the Navy together out in Nevada, he's gonna be the U.S. Senator there. | |
| I did something for both Kerry Lake and Arizona running for governors. | |
| I think she's gonna win. | |
| She's a great candidate. | |
| Uh Blake Masters, I think he's gonna win. | |
| People are saying, you know, that he's not doing good. | |
| I think he's got a great message and people need to support him. | |
| We have uh Mark Ronchetti in New Mexico. | |
| You know, New Mexico's Democrat governor was a lockdown zealot, and she destroyed that state, and he's gonna take that governorship, and then we also helped JD Vance in the Senate and Ohio, and then Doug Mastriano in the Senate and or in the governor for Pennsylvania. | |
| He's strong. | |
| He's a 30 year army veteran, and he absolutely could win. | |
| I'm also gonna I am gonna help Dr. Oz at some point. | |
| I'm gonna help uh Lee Zelden at some point and maybe a couple others. | |
| Um, you know, I obviously I can't. | |
| By the way, Lee Lee Zelda is within the mar margin of error. | |
| Uh I don't know if you've been following the polls. | |
| Two polls now have him within four points. | |
| He's a strong candidate. | |
| If you just had a group of 100 just normal folks He would beat her every single day. | |
| You know, the issue that you guys have in New York is a lot of the Republicans have left. | |
| No, I'll say it for you. | |
| As somebody was born and raised in New York and left New York for sixteen years and wish I was out of New York now. | |
| Uh no, this is not your normal voting constituency. | |
| It is far hardcore left wing. | |
| Uh Governor, we could talk all day. | |
| It's uh always great to have you on the program. | |
| Uh every time I get a call to this show from Florida, I always say so and so from the free state of Florida, and I hope the country follows the successful example that you're setting there, because it's it's it is really paying off huge dividends for the people that live in your state, sir. | |
| We appreciate you being with us. | |
| Thanks, Sean. | |
| God bless. | |
| Take care. | |
| All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Uh at some point during the next 62 days, uh I'm I've got to pick the perfect day to do this to announce this. | |
| But we have news about Linda that is big news, happy news, um that I want to tell everybody about, um, but it's just not the right time yet. | |
| And I don't take that on your ability to keep it uh keep it quiet for 62 days. | |
| Well, that you're saying that I have to do uh that I can't do it before the 62 days, you want to do this after the election. | |
| I'm asking you if you have the ability as a talk show host. | |
| Of course I have to I am a I am a disciplined martial artist student. | |
| Of course I do. | |
| Hold on, I'm still laughing. | |
| You still can laugh. | |
| I when I'm when when I'm committed to something, you know me, I'm nuts. | |
| I agree. | |
| You are committed to the city. | |
| I've been I've been training for ten years. | |
| Yes, and and when I started, you know, my doctor was the one that recommended it because he I happens to be the only black belt in the entire dojo. | |
| He's scary. | |
| No, he's a killer. | |
| And our sensei is a real killer. | |
| Agreed. | |
| They're actually pretty frightening human beings. | |
| After the first, you know, five or six or seven or eight times, he's gonna quit, right? | |
| He's gonna quit. | |
| He's not gonna keep going, right? | |
| And now I train more than anyone else in the dojo. | |
| I do it four or five days a week. | |
| Nobody else in the dojo trains that hard. | |
| Is that because it's the closest to your house for your convenience? | |
| I'm just asking. | |
| That has a little bit of a factor to plainness. | |
| Just ask it. | |
| But I but I've d I dedicate the time. | |
| I get my ass out of bed. | |
| I don't feel like getting my ass out of bed. | |
| And I I go train. | |
| I mean, I don't love it, but if I I can't imagine if 10 years ago, if I didn't start this, what it would mean for my life in terms of my health. | |
| No, working out is everything. | |
| It's so important. | |
| Oh, it's so important. | |
| Nobody loves, I mean, there are plenty of days I don't love it. | |
| Today kick the living crap out of me. | |
| You know what's funny about it? | |
| Sensei comes in with a bad mood. | |
| God help you. | |
| If you you hate it going in, but you love it going out. | |
| Is my I'm soaking wet coming out. | |
| But like it's like it's invigorating. | |
| You're like, yes, I did that. | |
| I accomplished that. | |
| Like I nailed it. | |
| I can finally kick again, which I had not been able to do for a period of time because of a pretty severe injury I had that I refused to get surgery on. | |
| Oh my god, that was bad. | |
| I didn't want to get surgery. | |
| And you know what? | |
| It's 90% better without it. | |
| I listen, when you can, it's always better not to get surgery, in my humble opinion. | |
| When you can. | |
| I I had the I had a choice. | |
| I was given the opportunity to get it if I wanted to. | |
| I know. | |
| It was bad, man. | |
| That was a gnarly injury. | |
| Yeah, that was pretty nuts. | |
| That was nuts for sure. | |
| But um, you know, and I had a couple of them this year. | |
| Not one, two. | |
| Well, you feel like you had the first one. | |
| Are we are we speaking high level? | |
| We're not getting into the weeds. | |
| Is that what we're doing? | |
| No, we're not getting into the weeds. | |
| Okay. | |
| I think. | |
| The first one though, I feel like you had what? | |
| Two, I think you had that two years ago. | |
| I've had it for a number of years. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| That's what I thought. | |
| But that was almost directly related to golf. | |
| Yes. | |
| And you know, it was that was more of a hip thing. | |
| I don't mind saying. | |
| I mean, you were never gonna be Tiger Woods. | |
| But the knee thing was bad. | |
| But now it it's we I rehabbed it and rehabbed it, and it was painful as hell. | |
| And you know, now I'm back kicking as hard as I've ever kicked. | |
| I'm actually really happy for you that you got that back. | |
| Because I think if you didn't have MMA, I would be afraid. | |
| I'd be afraid for that. | |
| Well, now we we added weights to it, and um I've I'm I'm shocking myself. | |
| Uh I finally got up 100 pound dumbbells, which I only got them up twice, but I got them up. | |
| Um I think my That's impressive. | |
| Did you take a picture? | |
| No, I have some videos of it. | |
| That's the cool stuff. | |
| Those videos are fun. | |
| Yeah, I can definitely do it. | |
| But I we actually once I got there, I hit my goal. | |
| I'm like, okay, this it's it's instilling too much pain in my shoulders, and then I can't live for a number of days after. | |
| So I'd rather do 80 pounds 15 times than do a hundred pounds, you know. | |
| Definitely smart two times or 90, you know, five times or six times, whatever it is. | |
| And then uh, and then when we curl, I've got this machine. | |
| I forget what they call a stupid machine anyway, and I can do the rack on that, and uh we do we do all we've added that to it, so I've I've gotten stronger, it's heavier because muscle is heavier than fat, but you know, for an old guy, it's not too bad. | |
| And then we still do our core or sit-ups, our push-ups. | |
| Do you do V ups? | |
| You don't do that. | |
| I do the Versa machine, which is pretty intense. | |
| All right. | |
| So wait, they actually is so Sensei's son got into yoga. | |
| Now, this kid has a black belt. | |
| This kid is a serious black belt. | |
| And he I watched a video of him. | |
| He can go into a full handstand and then literally flip his legs back behind him without ever touching the ground, and then push them out straight with perfect strength and form. | |
| And it he's like a professional now. | |
| And how and how old is he? | |
| No, he's in law school, so you know what, 20 to 20. | |
| In his 20s, he's yeah, he's in his 20s. | |
| All right, that's cool. | |
| I mean, it's actually very impressive. | |
| I really like yoga. | |
| I think yoga is key for strength training. | |
| I've been doing a lot, a lot of yoga because I I do Peloton every day, and I do about 10 miles every morning, and I will say that my hips, my legs, you know, it my T-bands, like they were all really they were screaming. | |
| It was it was not comfortable. | |
| Now, how long does 10 miles take you? | |
| About 30 minutes, 35 minutes. | |
| All right, so that's not too bad. | |
| It's pretty good. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh all right, the announcement will come when at the right time. | |
| I don't know when the right time. | |
| All right, let's get to uh Rebecca is in North Carolina. | |
| Hey Rebecca, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Hi, Sean. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| What an honor to speak to you. | |
| The honor's mine. | |
| Can you hear me? | |
| Yes, ma'am. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Um you touched on it briefly uh on a different uh a couple of different times, but I wanted to bring attention to something that I'm not hearing too many um too many people talk about, and that is how the politics of what's going on right now is really detrimental to the mental health of our children. | |
| Um I have a 22-year-old daughter, and she came to me a couple weeks ago and she said, Um, mom, I you know, she's trying to be independent. | |
| She's got her first job, she's just finished her associate's degree um online because the schools were shut down during the pandemic, but she was able to finish, and she's not able to afford anything um to get out and be independent on her own. | |
| But she said, Mom, the future that I'm looking at looks so dim, and it just looks like everything is being shredded for my future, and I just don't see any hope. | |
| And she said, I've I've honestly been considering suicide lately. | |
| Oh man, that's a tough one. | |
| That's terrible that's all right. | |
| Listen, I'm not a doctor, but I'm I'm just gonna give you m what my advice to any friend of mine that would have said the same thing to me. | |
| First thing you gotta take it seriously, and I'm sure you are. | |
| Second thing is you've got to get her professional help. | |
| We gotta get to the bottom of this. | |
| And it so and and do it in a loving way. | |
| It's not a punishment, it's uh it's okay, she's obviously reaching out for help. | |
| I don't know what your financial situation is. | |
| Maybe if you're capable in some way to help her a little bit, I would definitely consider that. | |
| And there always is hope. | |
| I mean, you know, for me, in my the darkest days of my life, if it wasn't for my belief in God, um, I I don't know what I would do. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know how people survive without some faith. | |
| Does she have any inclination at all towards God, faith, religion? | |
| I don't care what religion it is. | |
| Oh no, we are faithful attenders to our church every Sunday. | |
| Umiever. | |
| Um, and we've been clinging to the verse that says in Jeremiah 29, 11, that I know the plans I have for you to give you hope and a future. | |
| But even in a dark time like that, she still feels like everything that's going on in our world and society is so dark and the policies that are being made, she you know, she hopes to grow up and have a family, and she just says, I I don't know that I'd ever want to have children in this world. | |
| Listen, there's always reason to look at the at the dark side of life, but on the other hand, there's this other side of life. | |
| You know, there's God's majesty that you can see every day for free, and that is, you know, a beautiful beach, a beautiful sunset, the sun, the stars, the sky, the the planets, you know, there's beauty everywhere. | |
| There's nature, there's beauty in nature, and you can see all of that too. | |
| Um there's beauty in friendships that you can develop. | |
| Um maybe this is a situation there's there's a maybe there's a woman's Bible class that she can join and and develop new friendships. | |
| Maybe there's a counselor at your church, um, maybe there's a family friend that's a counselor. | |
| I would definitely be taking that to a a high level of seriousness and urgency and start getting her the help she can that she needs. | |
| A lot of us in life at times we just need perspective. | |
| We need to stand back and realize, okay, as bad as this moment is, it's not going to last. | |
| And that's what I have found in my life. | |
| You hit these these bumps in the road, they're hard, and then they pass. | |
| And and she will have better days. | |
| Um, and I believe that with all my heart. | |
| I believe God created every man, woman, and child on this earth. | |
| Every man, woman, and child was given talent from God, and it's a matter of her finding where her talents lie and and finding a way to make money at it. | |
| Uh, at the end of the day, making money is it's basically just for the necessities in life at first. | |
| And then it's beyond that. | |
| Then it's do you want luxuries in life? | |
| What kind of life do you want to provide for your kids? | |
| All of those things factor in. | |
| But right now I'd focus more on the urgency of making sure that we get her to a better place where she's happier, And maybe that means a new job, a new career, a new outlook on life. | |
| Maybe she needs to move back with you for a short period of time. | |
| And there's nothing wrong with that if she does. | |
| She needs to not live her life worried about what other people think of her. | |
| And then while she's, you know, getting the proper help and perspective that she needs to go back out on her own. | |
| Um, she she's secure financially and and will have the ability to devote the time necessary. | |
| Look, you I say this to my kids all the time when they complain. | |
| I'm like, okay, make a list of all the things you love about your life and a list of things that you don't like. | |
| And then I really want you to do a comprehensive list. | |
| Now they never do it, but it does make them think because they realize that there's so much to be thankful for. | |
| All of us. | |
| We we take so much for granted in this life. | |
| And but uh as a parent, I'm sure it's probably very scary for you. | |
| Um what is her pat how old is she, by the way? | |
| She's 22. | |
| And I can tell you that as her mother, 56 years old, this is scary for me. | |
| Um this whole everything that's going on politically. | |
| Um another thing is we've gotten her off of social media. | |
| Um, and I can tell you that as hard as it is for my husband and I, it's got to be that much more difficult for our young people who don't have the life experience. | |
| It's it's honestly the most important job you're gonna have. | |
| Your daughter clearly is crying out for help. | |
| Find her the help that she needs and help that she can relate to. | |
| Maybe that's your church, maybe it's a counselor, maybe it's a professional. | |
| I don't know the I don't have the exact answer, and I don't know what your financial situation is, and if you can help her financially in the interim or bring her home for a little while, get her stable and secure, and you know, go take one of the you can go down to one of these places or even online somewhere and take these tests, and they'll t give you feedback of what professions you might want to want to pursue based on the answers that you give. | |
| And maybe that would be perfect for her. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yeah, she's yeah, she actually lives at home with us, and she's just started a new job. | |
| And I'm hoping that all of these things, as I've been telling her, this too will pass. | |
| And there's so much, you know, got I agree with you a hundred percent. | |
| We know that God has a perfect plan for her life, and the only one that you know can change this is God. | |
| And we are definitely all of our family is going together on November 8th, which my son turns 18, so he will be a new voter. | |
| So we're gonna be able to do it. | |
| You know what? | |
| Regardless of wins a political election, she should s still be happy. | |
| I mean, you live in in North Carolina, you live in a beautiful state, and there's plenty of places where she can go, and there's I'm sure there are places in the mountains. | |
| I've been in the mountains of North Carolina, they're beautiful. | |
| And and she needs to connect with nature. | |
| But I definitely think you you when that word is said or stated you know, by somebody, to me, it's always a cry for help that needs to be taken seriously. | |
| Okay. | |
| I hope that helps you. | |
| Thank you for your time. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And we're praying for her. | |
| Wish her the best. | |
| So I tell you, having kids is scary. | |
| I always thought, oh, my kids will graduate and and it's all over. | |
| Um my work, my work is done. | |
| What an idiot. | |
| What a total idiot I was. | |
| How funny is that, Linda? | |
| But I feel sorry for this lady. | |
| I mean, I listen f the problem is is that her story is like so many people's stories. | |
| I mean, wherever we go, whatever we do, whoever we talk to right now, everybody is saying the same thing. | |
| I'm scared for my children. | |
| I'm scared for my children. | |
| I'm like, I don't want my child to learn about pornography in the second grade, and that's can makes me an extremist, you know. | |
| Here comes Tiger Mom, buckle up. | |
| But right, Sean, can you imagine somebody re like if your daughter was in second grade right now and they're talking to her about how she can pleasure herself at seven? | |
| Like that's a real thing, right? | |
| My daughter texted me today, it was in the middle of one of her classes, and she wrote me an uh a note about what the assignment was. | |
| I started laughing. | |
| Um Yeah, it's f it's funny but scary at the same time. | |
| It's funny, but my daughter's you know, sophisticated enough. | |
| I've I've taught her. | |
| I said, just play the game, you know, give them what they want, get out of there, you know the truth, and it doesn't matter. | |
| And she's she's got her own dis interests and and loves in life. |
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