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	Uh Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
	I'm signing a thousand copies of Killing the Legends.
	So I'm I'm in pain.
	I'm and I think you broke the record.
	I did.
	I really remember my book tour was in the middle of COVID.
	So I couldn't do appearances like I normally have done.
	And it was an entirely virtual book tour, and we signed 80, 85,000 sheets that they actually put in the book.
	It's not like it's not it's not a book plate, in other words.
	So you should empathize for me.
	Uh right now to sign a thousand today.
	But look, the order's still coming, so we're wait wait a minute.
	A thousand compared to eighty-five thousand.
	I have no sympathy for you.
	Zero zip, none, not a st. I mean, you beat me.
	I'll I'll concede you beat me.
	But I've signed about, I don't know, thirty, forty thousand of these in September.
	You know what?
	I'm grateful, and I know you feel the same way that that people are interested in in what we have to say, and give us these the microphone that we have, the cameras that we have.
	Um, let me ask you about this.
	So, President Biden says we're not going to discuss, there will be no negotiations on the debt ceiling.
	So he and the Democrats have calculated that the Republicans will splinter and they won't stay united, and they won't be all the Republicans saying we want spending cuts here and specifically here, here, here, and here.
	And that's what they're banking on.
	Now that's the exact opposite of what he was saying when he was leading up talks leading into another debt ceiling increase in 2011.
	Putting that aside, I think the Republicans will stay united.
	I'm making that prediction right here and now.
	And I think Biden will be forced to negotiate.
	And if in fact uh they do default, it will be Biden's fault for not negotiating.
	Well, I mean, Sweet McCarthy, as you know, today, uh, to start these uh exciting talks off.
	Um but you know, you're talking to a guy, and with all due respect to the office, um Biden, he doesn't make any decisions at all.
	So sitting right to his left or right, probably left, is gonna be Susan Rice, who will be the driver in What happens here?
	But the Republican Party doesn't really have a banner any longer if it doesn't get some spending cuts.
	Now the way to do this, you can't basically say, well, you gotta cut out the Michelle Obama jogging trail in Georgia for three million.
	I mean, that's not the way this goes.
	You say we need an assurance that this year Congress will pass legislation to cut the budget by eight percent across the board, which is reasonable, very reasonable.
	When you say eight percent across the board, are you including the military?
	Are you c including Social Security and Medicare?
	I doubt it.
	No, I'm not social security and Medicare are two different things.
	Um they have their own separate budgeting and their own separate classifications, as you know.
	Well, I I beg to differ a little, because remember they were supposed to have a Social Security lockbox.
	They rated the lockbox, they they put all of the funds in the general fund and they broke that promise and both Social Security and Medicare are headed towards insolvency.
	Political suicide for either party to mess entitlement at this point.
	So it's not gonna happen.
	But an eight percent um discretionary spending cut, let's use the word discretionary spending, all right, is reasonable, and you can sell that to the American people.
	And if Biden and his uh party doesn't want to go along with that, then you the Republican Party can hammer them like crazy and and you level the playing field rather than oh, here are the Republicans, they're the obstructionists, they want the government to shut down, which is what we hear every single time.
	You can say, look, we present a very reasonable eight percent discretionary spending cut in return for raising the debt ceiling.
	That's reasonable.
	That's the way you run any corporation or any kind of entity.
	That's what you do.
	But the only way this works is whatever the cuts are, and if it's eight percent of discretionary spending across the board, that's fine.
	If it excludes defense, that's fine.
	I think it would have to not include defense because you know how Republicans are way more hawkish than Democrats.
	Rightly so, I think that you don't have to cut the fence in a discretionary cut.
	It's because.
	Um the Democrats are ac obviously favoring a strong defense with the saber rattling from China and Putin now.
	So you know you don't have to go near that.
	Um but you do have to get a deal, not a specific deal on this is we're gonna do this where that comes down the line.
	That's a sane way to do it.
	And I think if McCarthy puts it that way and Biden says no, then the Republicans will have an advantage here.
	So at some point down the road, let's say Joe Biden sticks to his I'm not going to negotiate, probably around May, June, maybe July, maybe even longer.
	It depends.
	There are a lot of things the Treasury has at its disposal uh whereby they can avert a real cr debt crisis uh for the country.
	So uh my prediction is gonna be the Democrats will only negotiate when the Republicans are united.
	And I've spoken to a lot of my sources on Capitol Hill and a lot of Republicans.
	I can name specifically 15 different ideas that are being bantered about, and one of those ideas ultimately will win the day.
	I liked what they did in 2011.
	In 2011 they had the deficit reduction act that resulted in sequestration.
	And sequestration, whether people want to admit it or not, forced government into a position to become fiscally responsible even though they didn't want to do it.
	It made them do it.
	I like that accountability.
	Explain the word sequestation.
	In other words, i if in fact they can't agree on where the cuts are going to take place, very much like what you're talking about, they would be automatic cuts across the board.
	Now that also at the time included defense, which made some Republicans unhappy because this is a dangerous world with a lot of evil ruled by military force.
	Um but with that said, it was effective in restraining the unending insatiable appetite to spend our tax dollars by Washington.
	Yeah, But you have to also add another thing on the Republican side, if you're trying to win hearts and minds, you have to say, look, this is dangerous now.
	We're in dangerous spending territory.
	So you may not see it because it's hard to see numbers that are projected into the future.
	But what this is going to do is to value your savings, everything that you've worked for, your investments, the dollar itself.
	You can't continue to run up trillions and trillions of dollars of debt.
	Americans will understand that.
	So Biden, who's unbelievably inarticulate, incredibly inarticulate, and has no blank and clue what he's even saying.
	And I'm going to divert a little here if you don't mind, Hannity, I think you'll find this interesting.
	Well, before you do, I want to point out two numbers to you.
	Because we just crossed the thirty-one trillion dollar mark in terms of debt that this country's accumulated.
	Right.
	And the scarier number is if you look at, and if you talk to any economist, they will confirm this for you.
	The debt to GDP ratio, which historically has been a forty-six percent, is now at ninety-six percent.
	And once you break that threshold number of ninety percent, you're you're basically on par with a lot of third world economies.
	Yeah.
	And that's you're inflating your own currency, which means the workers' take home pay goes down.
	You'd have to explain that very vividly, but that's exactly what's going to happen.
	But I I I want to get this in because it goes to what we're talking about now.
	So McCarthy goes to the White House to cease Biden today, right?
	McCarthy brings his guys, Biden has his uh crew, and then they go, and whatever they do, we'll find out about it because McCarthy will come out and say X and then Biden will say why.
	Biden yesterday um was asked a question on his way to New York with this uh tunnel business, which is an astronomical expense, but needed.
	Um somebody asked him about the payment for abortion by taxpayers.
	And Biden said the Pope does not oppose it.
	That is I I mean, what my jaw dropped.
	And if you look at what Pope Francis has said, comparing abortion, the um the killing of a fetus to a hit man, I mean that's on the record.
	How Biden could say something like that, and uh you just look at the man and you know he's not in control of his words.
	You think I try to point this out on a nightly and daily basis.
	By the way, uh let me go a side note here because you brought up uh Pope Francis.
	Do you know that Pope Benedict wrote a final book?
	Yes, I do.
	Do you know that it has not been translated, it is not widely disseminated in English yet?
	Do you know why?
	Because of the allegations in this book about from the local parish uh through the bishops through the cardinals, uh, all the way to Rome and the the Vatican itself.
	The knowledge of the extent of which abuse occurred and what is happening at seminaries uh is is beyond the pale, and he laid it all out, Bill.
	Yeah, it's not so much the priest abused thing, it's the gay thing.
	And uh well, even he talked about, for example, gay and lesbian clubs at a Catholic seminary.
	And translated, and that that's what's blocking it, the woke culture in Britain and and the United States doesn't want a book like that because obviously Benedict doesn't think this gay culture that he believes is within the Catholic Church is a good thing.
	He doesn't think it's a good thing.
	But he even seems to be at odds with Pope Francis on this, not that I want to digress this deeply, but based on the recent comments of Pope Francis.
	Uh look, I don't know what Pope Francis, all I know is that Francis is taking the tact that all people have to be respected.
	That that's always been his Christianity one on one.
	I mean general statement, whereas Benedict's statements are specific.
	Francis has never made specific statements about gays.
	Look at look at Jesus, and he was criticized for sitting down and having a meal with quote the sinners or uh Jesus when they're about to stone a uh prostitute to death said he was without sin cast the first stone.
	You know killing Jesus, uh that portion in the gospel, because we didn't take the gospel as history.
	We had to check it out.
	This is fascinating.
	So Jesus basically stopped an execution that the uh Jewish authorities, the temple authorities were had underway of a woman convicted of adultery.
	This is the if you're without sin, cast the first stone.
	Okay.
	That happened because the journal of the um temple kept records of executions, and this woman was in the records, was supposed to be stoned to death, and was lucky enough to be in a place where the Nazarene was at the same time.
	And then he injected himself into that execution and said, Okay, any of you the first stone, you're gonna have to pretty much answer to me, and nobody knows.
	Well, then Jesus got down on his hands and knees and started writing out the s the private sins of the very people that were about to throw the stones, and they wanted no part of that.
	All right, quick break, right back more with simple man Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly or Bill O'Reilly.com.
	Who the hell are you?
	You know, now say my name.
	Sean Hannity.
	You're damn right.
	And this is The Sean Hannity Show.
	Hello.
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	All right, let me let's go back to original topic and and the meeting between Biden and McCarthy.
	Here's my prediction is that until the Republicans show they have a united front of 222 or 221 Republicans that are gonna stand by their plan as it released relates to raising the debt ceiling.
	Until Democrats see that, they won't negotiate in good faith.
	When they see that, they'll have no other choice.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna disagree with that as speculation, but I I think if if I'm McCarthy, what I I'm trying to do here is be as reasonable as possible.
	And put if I'm McCarthy, my j my his job is to go in and fulfill the promise to be fiscally responsible.
	But he did that's true, but he wants to convert independents who are not allied with the Republican Party to his side, which is always the key, is you know right now.
	By the way, poll out today, vast majority of Americans they want fiscal responsibility.
	You bet even if even if it means a government shutdown, they said it on Rasmussen today.
	So McCarthy has got momentum, and we'll see how he plays it, but he's gotta be reasonable.
	An eight percent a discretionary cut of eight percent is reasonable.
	I mean, come on.
	Why does the word reasonable in Bill O'Reilly not that doesn't seem to fit perfectly for me?
	I don't know.
	Hannity stop it.
	I am the most linear thinker that Oh, here we go.
	I'm the most this, I'm the most that, and I'm the greatest things in sliced bread, blah, blah, blah.
	Will you stop?
	These are all compliments.
	Did you wake up this morning?
	Did you need a little reinforcement that you're a good person, Bill, and God loves you?
	I have a puppet that tells me that.
	You have a puppet.
	Oh man, just don't start sounding like these young snowflakes that were raising this next generation.
	Good grief.
	Uh-huh.
	Sensitive about everything.
	All right, Bill O'Reilly, not sensitive on anything.
	Anyway, 800 941 Shawn is our number.
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	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up.
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	Hey there.
	I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
	We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
	So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
	You're our kind of people.
	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
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	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up.
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	25 to the top of the hour.
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	Amazing.
	Yes.
	If you haven't been following the news today, another raid this time of the Rehoboth Beach House of Joe Biden.
	You know, how did the guy come all the way from being the poorest guy in the U.S. Senate?
	And now he's one of the richest I wonder how much money Hunter did Hunter really give him half his income to Pops I don't know.
	Anyway the FBI is there.
	They didn't raid of course they they arranged in a meeting uh at a mutually convenient time to go to the Rehoboth beach house now the question is where the massive document dump is going to be and that that is going to be at the University of Delaware when are they going to go there?
	That's the next stop.
	And as we've been pointing out there are an awful lot of documents that they ought to be searching for at the University of Delaware and I'm not sure if they're sure if they're going to be able to find it.
	33 pallets of documents two truckloads 18 cartons of papers and never mind the 415 gigabytes of electronic records.
	What if we have to print all those out what do you think the odds are that there are probably top secret classified information in the University of Delaware and they've allowed no access to anybody at any time since they've been put there and nor that do they want any access out of fear that it might politically damage Joe Biden.
	Anyway here's Jonathan Turley weighing in on this and I think that the Department of Justice is going to be in a tough position now because of how it's handled this.
	The White House is in a free fall.
	I mean they they've adopted a position of not answering questions that is neither legally nor practically sustainable.
	I think the most dangerous spot in Washington today is any point between Ron Klain and the door.
	I mean I I think that he uh he's this exit is going to set a new record in terms of uh track.
	Now I really respect Jonathan Turley.
	I mean he's a registered Democrat but he calls him as he sees them the the disagreement I would have with him when he says you know I don't know how this is going to be legally sustainable and I can answer that question.
	It's going to be legally sustainable because we have a dual system of justice.
	We don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws and as you can see as I predicted you know Jim Jordan and the judiciary committee they the DOJ is now stonewalling already and it's going to be one court fight after another for every single document for Congress to do their job of oversight.
	They don't want oversight they want to delay and they're hoping they can delay two long years.
	That's what their hope is John is in the great state of Rhode Island.
	I spent five years of my life in the town of Warren Rhode Island.
	How are you, sir?
	I'm doing good how you doing Sean I'm good.
	Do you ever go to the black pearl at the wharf in Newport?
	Well I've been there many many times I used to live in Newport.
	How great is that chatter as you say what's that?
	It's isn't it it's like the best you've ever had right except for mine.
	I doubt it.
	I do there's no way you can beat the black pearl.
	If you can you're an amazing soup I'm an original New Englander so mine's good you know but it's surprising because if at the when I would go out in New England anywhere if I go out I've I've been up there to visit occasionally.
	Nobody comes close to the black pearl.
	And I can I have one bite, and I know immediately if I'm eat I'm having potato soup or real New England clam chowder.
	All right, so I'll tell you what, next time you are in that area, stop by Middletown, the Newport Middletown line, go to Anthony Seafood and get the Portuguese fish stew.
	You'll fall in love with that.
	Sounds good.
	I like by the way, in Rhode Island, it's kind of strange.
	They don't call clams clams.
	They call them cohogs, correct?
	Or quahogs.
	I don't know how you say it.
	Depends.
	I mean, it's that's all the size of the clam.
	Right.
	Kohog is the big one.
	And then it goes down from there.
	You have cherry stones, little necks.
	So it's but you know nobody else in the country calls them quahs.
	Correct.
	Yes, you're correct.
	Okay.
	Anyway, what's on your mind today?
	So I have a question for you.
	So um we're always talking about voter ID, mail-in ballots, signature verification, and all that, which I believe in.
	Um my question is about the politicians.
	Huckham is not a law, or come to not passing a law that it's mandatory that you have to debate if you're gonna run for office.
	And if you can't make I would support that law a hundred percent, and that any debate must all debates must be taken place before any votes are cast.
	Before any, absolutely.
	So how how come nobody ever talks about that?
	Well, we talked about it a lot because you know, by the time Fetterman and Dr. Oz debated, it was close to a million ballots already sent in in Pennsylvania.
	And we all know that Fettermen like Biden and like Katie Hobbs and others, you know, they spent most of their campaign dumping, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars and and lying ads about their opponents and hiding in their basements and not doing anything historically the politicians do.
	Democrats are in the business of ballot harvesting, running negative ads, and hiding.
	That's how they run campaigns.
	Republicans, you know, they think if they have better ideas, they're gonna win.
	If they kiss babies and take selfies and shake hands and have press avails and do town halls and have better ideas that they're gonna win.
	That's not how elections are being run right now.
	So why is it the Republicans aren't talking about that, making that mandatory and passing some sort of law?
	Um I think I'm having success because I'm telling enough people about it.
	Um I'll t I'll give you a preview of what we're planning to do.
	What we're planning on on going to every swing state governor, trying to get them on the air with us and asking them if they will lead the effort for election integrity in their state, including your idea, which I think is a good one.
	I think it's a great one.
	And if you can't make it, you can't say no, it's not a good it's a great, great one.
	I agree.
	It is a good idea.
	Yeah.
	And then I have one more very important question.
	Okay.
	It was really important.
	You're always talking about what a great cook you are.
	So I have to travel to New York next week to see my son at school for his birthday.
	He's in college there, and I was hoping to come by and sample some of your food, myself and my wife.
	You sound like a great guy, John, okay.
	Let me give you just a little insight.
	Now, Sweet Baby James, I don't know why, but he's he bought a house.
	They finally got the CO on the house.
	He's been how long you've been living with me, Uncle James.
	He and and my sister have I live alone, but he and my sister have been living with me.
	How long have you been here now?
	Eight months?
	About eight months.
	Which by the way, I don't mind, because my sister does all the the grocery shopping, although I like grocery shopping.
	And she even cooks chicken soup.
	Now, here's the problem I have.
	You're just don't like paying twenty dollars for a whole chicken now, though.
	No, but uh but it's frustrating.
	I'm not gonna lie.
	The problem is I can't even open my own mail anymore because of, well, let's say events that have occurred in the course of my career.
	And and you sound like a great guy, but I don't know anything about you.
	I'd have to do a full complete background check to see if you really are who you say you are.
	By the time that any security would ever let you near my house.
	Does that make sense?
	That's yeah, that's fine with me.
	It's all clean and clear.
	I'm not worried.
	I just want to try the food.
	One day maybe we'll have a Hannity barbecue and I'll cook for everybody.
	I think you'd be impressed.
	I'll put it that way.
	You have my number.
	Uh hey, sweet baby.
	Now, James can testify to the fact do I or do I not make every meal that I eat for myself myself?
	Yes.
	I do.
	Now, I also have made a lot of meals for you.
	How would you rate my cooking on a scale of one to ten?
	Maybe not as much as Rodney, but I really like your cooking.
	Well, Rodney's a friend of ours in Washington, D.C., and I I've made two meals from him for him, and between everybody, mmm.
	Mmm.
	Mmm.
	And it was like every bite.
	Well, give me your grade.
	One to ten.
	What do I get?
	Ten being the best.
	You can't you can't cook anything, so I should get a ten plus.
	Unbelievable.
	Do you hear this, Linda?
	My own.
	Well, barely, because James, after 30 years in radio, still thinks he doesn't need a microphone, so that's always fun.
	I know.
	He still doesn't understand your book into it.
	Yeah.
	Well, he said 9.5 if you didn't hear him.
	James is always your your biggest cheerleader.
	Come on now.
	No, but you know I'm a good cook.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	You are a good cook.
	You're I mean, no no doubt.
	But it's not the food that you would eat, most of it.
	That's not true.
	I mean, you make like steak and eggs and stuff.
	That's fine.
	I make really good steak and eggs.
	Yeah, that's like your thing.
	Yeah, love it.
	All right, quick break right back for your calls 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
	Listen, I want to remind you about Mantis X. By the way, Mantis X, sweet baby James has been using my Mantis X more than me, and he's always been a good shot.
	He actually beat me and we had a contest the other day, beat me by I think he got a hundred and I got like a ninety-nine or a ninety-eight.
	I was pretty pissed off, Linda.
	It was made me mad.
	Makes me happy.
	Somebody has to beat your butt.
	Oh, come on.
	He was out there practicing for weeks.
	Well, it's not going to be me, so I have to live vicariously through James.
	Anyway, all the world's best shooters, uh, they do a majority of their training uh with dry practice.
	Most people do it at home.
	Ammo's very expensive in short supply, and 94% of shooters improve their shooting technique in 20 minutes because of Mantis X. You simply attach it to your own firearm.
	It's like a weapon light, and it gives you real-time, data-driven feedback on your technique.
	It's like having a firearms instructor right by your side and helping you become a marksman as fast as possible.
	Uh anyway, it's used by the Marine Corps, the Army, the special forces.
	In other words, you get military great technology all at an affordable price.
	And let me tell you one other thing.
	It's fun.
	And if you believe in your second amendment rights, you've got to be competent and confident in your shooting ability, and this will improve your accuracy almost immediately.
	Anyway, you're gonna love the technology at an affordable price.
	Mantisx.com.
	That's M-A-N-T-I-S dot com.
	Up next, our final roundup and information overload hours.
	Back to our phones, 800 941 Sean.
	If you want to join us, Peter Schweitzer, Greg Jarrett at the top of the next hour.
	We'll get into the latest developments with top secret classified documents and of course the Biden family syndicate uh as we continue.
	Uh Eric in Florida, the free state of Florida.
	What's up, Eric?
	How are you?
	How are you, Hannity?
	Long time fan.
	Thank you, my friend.
	Glad you called.
	Yes, I'm calling about border security.
	Isn't there something we can do about suing Mr. Joe Biden personally and his administration from all these illegal uh immigrants that get in the country and hurt our citizens?
	There's been a ton of lawsuits.
	Many of them are still outstanding.
	I like what Governor Abbott now has done, and he's decided to appoint his own border czar.
	And now the shoe is on the other foot.
	And that is that if the Biden administration wants to sue Greg Abbott in Texas, let them go to court.
	In the meantime, he can secure the border in Texas, which he's been trying his hardest to do with handcuffs on his on his feet and on his hands.
	And it's unbelievable.
	Now, there is an effort now to get rid of and impeach Alejandro Mayorcus, but it's really Joe Biden's policy that he's enforcing.
	and he's following through on what Biden wants, which is open borders, and he has facilitated it the whole way and lied to the country repeatedly, telling us that the border is secure when our own eyes show us that it's anything but secure.
	So I like what Abbott is doing, and I think other governors should join uh with him.
	Absolutely, other states, borderly states, and maybe we should also sue Mallorca.
	That soup is not going to go anywhere because he's a government official.
	However, he sh he does not belong in that position.
	He's not upholding the law.
	As a matter of fact, if I did what he did, if you did what he did, if anyone listened to this program facilitated law breaking at our southern border, we'd get arrested, tried, convicted for human trafficking.
	That's how severe what they're doing on the southern border is.
	Anyway, appreciate it, Eric.
	Thank you.
	Ryan in uh California.
	Ryan, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	How's your uh great governor doing out there?
	Oh God, I call him Eddie Munster.
	That's what he looks like.
	I cannot I can't cannot stand the guy.
	I'm a son of a marine, my grandfather all can't we came from nothing.
	So believe me, I'm not a fan of Silver Spoons guys like that guy.
	But the reason why I've been listening to you since the 1990s love or so, thank God for you and Mark Levin every day.
	When I pray at night, I think it's for you guys.
	Because if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't get the information that we get and uh have some kind of hope that there's something we can do about it.
	But I want to thank you two guys for that.
	Well, thank you for letting us have this microphone every day.
	What's on your mind though?
	So here's what I've been in my head, being you know, military kid.
	What I don't quite understand is why they haven't looked into us.
	And I think people like Liz Cheney, I think um Biden, I think all his cronies, all of them are taking 45 billion from us, giving it to the Ukraine, and buying the weapons from companies that they're connected with and making money on it.
	And that's why they have no problem stealing their money because these guys have never worked a day in their life.
	They're taking the money from the hardworking guys like me who works 70 hours a week trying to raise his family, and they're taking our money and buying weapons, giving them money to buy weapons from themselves and making money on it.
	Uh look, let's go back now nearly a year when this started.
	An innocent country, a sovereign country, is invaded by a hostile actor in a hostile regime, Russia.
	What should have happened and didn't happen, and we discussed should happen at the time is I don't mind when when you see innocent men, women, and children being targeted the way Putin has targeted them.
	You kind of don't have a heart and a soul if you if you just want to just sit back and say, well, that's not in my backyard.
	So there's a certain responsibility we have.
	However, it's the fact that the United States, as usual, ends up bearing the brunt of the cost.
	They don't fight to win wars to win them.
	They don't fight to win, and Western Europe does not do their part.
	And otherwise, so it makes the effort futile.
	And now it's a quagmire, and now it becomes a long protracted conflict, and we can't afford it.
	But it's a good question.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean, our number, you want to be a part of the program.
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