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	Uh all right, Mr. Simple Man, I have uh somewhat I have to lay a foundation for this question.
	It won't take long.
	Uh, but I need your simple man analysis because none of this makes sense to me.
	So apparently, if you were to believe the Biden White House, now they are saying they were following the original beautiful balloon that flew over the skies of Alaska uh since it was launched.
	That's what they're claiming, as of today.
	This changes every day.
	And then that they followed that balloon as it went down, you know, over the skies of Alaska.
	Then they take it out of the sky, uh, six miles off the coast of the Carolinas.
	Now we have three other incidents, four total in eight days, where even the F-16 pilots that were chasing whatever object that they shot down over Lake uh Huron, they weren't sure what they were shooting at.
	They don't know what they shot out of the sky the other three times.
	However, they are confident in their belief that it was not from China, with no evidence at all to back up that theory.
	Um, Mr. O'Reilly, simple man, sir.
	I'm not buying any of this this BS, are you?
	Uh, I don't believe the Biden administration, no.
	Um I don't know what happened.
	And I'm amused by the speculation.
	Um, on television in particular.
	Radio hasn't been hasn't been crazy, but television, some of this stuff is pretty nutty.
	Um, aliens and all of that.
	I know it's tongue-in-cheek.
	Well, wait, but hang on a second.
	That that that wasn't made up by by people on television.
	That was spoken by the head of NORART.
	He just said I'm not ruling any.
	I'm playing beautiful balloon just for you in the background.
	You love the song.
	This is this goes right back to your era, the fifth dimension.
	You remember the song, Bill?
	Oh my beautiful boy, oh my...
	The world's a nicer place than my beautiful room.
	The world's a nicer place than my beautiful room.
	Dramatic music
	Anyway, Mr. O'Reilly, I didn't mean to interrupt your thought process.
	Okay, um, I understand that song was playing when they shot it out of the sky.
	Yeah, I bet you're right.
	Marilyn McCood, lead vocalist, brilliant singer.
	Um, but I think what the uh problem is here is that it's what they are, but they'll be, I think, in the end, when they find out, you know, about the other three, it'll be surveillance stuff.
	What else would it be?
	Surveillance.
	They're trying to get pictures of, as you put it, our air bases and our silos and and all of that.
	I think that's what it will turn out to be.
	But the Chinese, I mean, they basically are saying now that we're gonna do pretty much what we want to do.
	And if we have to violate U.S. airspace or Canadian airspace, we're gonna do it because we don't fear you.
	And we're gonna see how far we can push, try to embarrass the United States, try to tell the world that we're the big dog now.
	That's what she wants.
	He wants to give the impression to everybody in the world that China, not the United States, is the big player.
	I think that's the overarch on this, Hannity.
	I don't think it'll turn out to be any kind of threat to the American people.
	But you know, you go back to the Biden administration, which is never straight with us, right?
	When has the Biden administration been straight with us?
	They don't even by the way, we haven't even heard from Biden except to say that he didn't think it was uh that serious a breach.
	That's the that that was the only statement we got out of this guy.
	When I was at the Super Bowl and I was talking to some Democrats, I heard that he thought it was uh Valentine's Day balloons, you know.
	That would have delivered on on uh early for him and and Jill Biden.
	Uh that's it.
	That's a great theory, Bill.
	Yeah, I mean By the way, what a wait, what a name dropper.
	You're at the Super Bowl.
	Do you have fun at the Super Bowl?
	Listen, I learned so much of the Super Bowl, Hannity, you wouldn't believe it.
	And that's why I went.
	Uh, we'll get to that in a second.
	Let's finish the balloon story.
	So here's two other little nuggets I want to throw at you and get your reaction to Defense Secretary Austin reached out to his counterpart in China, they wouldn't return his phone call.
	And now, rather than take blame or responsibility uh for their little balloon incident, uh perhaps incidents, although Biden the administration is desperately trying to tell us without any knowledge or reason or why or where for that the other three objects of which they don't know what they were that they shot out of the sky are not Chinese, which I think is absurd to even think that if you don't have any evidence.
	Uh but China's now threatening to retaliate against us because we shot down their balloon flying over our airspace over the entire continental U.S. Well, that's just bolsters what I told you.
	They're trying to send a message that they're the big power and they can do what they want.
	And if the United States objects, then they're gonna retaliate, which I don't think they will.
	There was a movie around the world in 80 days.
	You remember that movie, Hannity?
	It was before your time in the 50s.
	I I remember the name of the movie.
	I don't recall ever watching it, Bill.
	Yeah, it was uh it was best picture of the year, David Niven up in a big balloon, and at first I thought it was a remake, that's what they were doing, but now, but I'm not taking this balloon shoot down as seriously as most analysts are.
	I am taking the threat from China ultra seriously.
	I I I'm in the same place you are.
	Um however, if the the wh where we have not gotten an explanation.
	First, they told us the reason for not shooting down the balloon when it was flying over potentially uh uh population areas.
	You know, Steve Daines was on this program laughing at that possibility.
	Uh we have the technology and the ability to basically blow it up into dust if we wanted, uh, but we didn't do that.
	Um but then they shot the other three objects out of the sky over land, so I'm not exactly sure, you know.
	Uh that to me just exposed their first lie, which was a cover-up of why they let this thing fly for eight days without shooting it out of the sky anyway.
	I'm sure Corinne will explain it all someday when they come up with something.
	Um, but they could they should have actually uh neutralized.
	I love that military term.
	Uh the balloon when it hit the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
	Elmendorf Air Force Bases right there.
	You don't play around with that kind of stuff.
	But they were afraid.
	They didn't want to um they really didn't want to um antagonize the Chinese.
	They all knew it was China, just as you said.
	Who else would it be?
	The Albanians, are they putting it up there?
	The Swedes?
	I don't think so.
	All right.
	Well, you've mentioned Corinne Jean-Pierre.
	She actually did respond yesterday.
	Uh let me play her for you.
	Why is uh why is the American military shooting something out of the sky over Canada?
	Because it's part of uh NORAD.
	There is uh the NORAD is part of like a part of uh it's a it's uh what you call a coalition of course social pack.
	Exactly.
	And so that's why we were able to do that again.
	We didn't do it on our own.
	We did it in in uh in uh clearly in in in step with uh Canadia.
	Uh-huh.
	We did it in step with Canadia, Bill.
	I'm glad to know that.
	You know, look, at this point you have a lot of friends in Canada, don't you?
	I I have a few of them, and there are Cadians in Canada.
	You know, yeah.
	It's not really fair at this point to make fun of Miss Jean-Pierre.
	I mean, this woman is in so deep and she doesn't what do you mean is not fair?
	I mean, we don't get an answer to a single question.
	That's the only thing we got left, Bill, is to make fun of it.
	I listen, I understand that, but it's it's low hanging fruit as the cliche goes.
	Now listen to Bill O'Reilly taking the high road here.
	Seriously, uh kind of guy.
	Oh, yeah.
	Listen, you know, I know, and all the millions of people listening to us on the radio right now, know we're never gonna get a straight answer out of Corinne Jean-Pierre.
	Okay, it's not happening.
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	You know Mark Penn.
	I know Mark Penn.
	Uh, I like him a lot.
	Uh he writes today about Joe Biden, and for people that don't know, he's a Democratic pollster, was Hillary Clinton's top holster, the Clinton's top holster from 95 to 2008.
	He was there for uh Bill Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996.
	Uh actually ran and polled Hillary's first Senate run in 2000.
	Uh but anyway, so he says that Joe Biden's re-election campaign is in deep trouble.
	He goes into a whole host of reasons.
	Crime, rampant inflation, unchecked migration at our southern border, fuel prices, uh, this latest event without any real answers.
	Uh he Implies obviously the cognitive issues Joe has, his age.
	What's uh say you to use your own uh um words of the day.
	Number one, Martin's a brilliant man.
	He's honest, a straight shooter.
	He also throws in the document stuff.
	Um that Biden was, you know, had all these documents and he knew it in pillar Trump at the same time that uh this is the biggest piece of hypocrisy you'll ever find.
	When he had his own document discovery, he didn't say anything to anybody.
	Um and the Hunter Biden stuff coming up on the horizon.
	So Penn stole this from me.
	I said a year ago that Biden was not gonna be the nominee in 24 for the Democratic Party.
	Because you can see the collision course with reality here.
	I love that phrase, Hannity.
	I come up with all these phrases, no spins on the collision course with reality.
	The man can't campaign.
	He can't go on the trail.
	He can't debate.
	I mean, the debate thing was hysterical on the Super Bowl, wasn't it?
	I I uh he was gonna do Fox News Soul.
	What were they gonna say?
	Marvin Gay songs?
	Is that what they were gonna do there?
	I never I I work for Fox and you work for Fox forever, but uh I've never heard of it, did you?
	No, I did three interviews.
	Joe probably saw two of them with Obama and said, I'm not gonna do an interview.
	Biden doesn't want to do interviews with anybody, okay?
	Okay, but Brett, you know Brett Baer or Martha McCallum.
	I mean, then they're not gonna go in there on a Super Bowl Sunday.
	It's it's not an environment where it's gonna get that hostile.
	Let's it's this is gonna be uh as close to a cupcake interview as you can get.
	Not with me.
	Mine three were real, were tough, but I didn't tear their throats out.
	I wasn't disrespectful.
	But you can but you can't in that listen, I've I have said this before, and I think you would agree with me.
	Wouldn't have me, if I ever interviewed Obama, would that or would that not be one of the hardest interviews I'd ever have to do because of the office?
	Sure.
	I mean, when I did my two with Obama, I got mail from right wingers going, you were too soft on him, which I wasn't.
	And by the way, if you want to see those interviews, we have them posted on Bill O'Reilly.com.
	And the Trump one, the first uh inauguration, the first Super Bowl when he was in office.
	And they're not tough cake interviews.
	They're right between the eye interviews, but they were done respectfully.
	And I gave them uh both Obama and Trump a chance to answer legitimate questions.
	That's what we are in business to do.
	I mean, if I were Biden, I'd want to interview with you, Hannity.
	Number one, that would get huge ratings, right?
	A lot of people would watch it, Bill.
	Everybody would tune in to see, okay.
	Number two, if he has a better argument than you, he wins the debate, right?
	But he doesn't, so he'd lose, but go ahead.
	I'll I'll play along.
	Okay.
	I went on Letterman 16 times.
	Which, by the way, I have no idea why you bothered, but okay.
	You see, I I I never understood how you two seem to get along.
	I never got it.
	I brought my message to millions of people who ordinarily wouldn't watch Fox News, okay?
	Because I bring a message to people who ordinarily wouldn't hear us.
	That's what I do.
	I'm like an evangelist.
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	Will he be the nominee in 2024?
	Yes or no?
	No.
	Who do you say I'm predicting it's Gavin Newsom?
	He's got the money and the hair.
	He's got the hair gel going.
	Definitely has the hair going.
	And he got the money.
	There may be uh a Clobichar or somebody like that that emerges as a moderate Democrat because Newsom's more left wing than the Biden people.
	Yeah, I noticed neither one of us has Kamala on the list.
	She's done, right?
	She finished, and uh there's a spot for her on the view.
	Oh, is that her next uh uh employment opportunity, you think?
	That's where she'll be, you bet.
	Is the view still gonna be on TV at that point?
	That's the big question.
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	When 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.
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	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.
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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.
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	Uh, Karin Jean-Pierre says Biden is the best communicator in the world uh in the White House.
	Well, we're gonna we're gonna put that to the test in just a minute here.
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	So Corrine Sean Pierre saying Biden is the best communicator in the White House.
	Let's let's listen to Corinne.
	Is it the view of the president's communications team that he is equally adept in all settings in terms of communications, or are there some that play the greater strength?
	Some where he probably isn't as strong, et cetera.
	I will tell you this.
	The president is the best communicator that we have in the White House.
	All right, let's let's put that to the test.
	You decide.
	Here's Joe.
	No, we have to come together.
	That's why I'm running.
	I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate.
	So vote!
	Vote!
	And the character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot.
	What kind of country we're gonna be?
	Four more years of George uh George, uh, he uh is gonna find ourselves in a position where if uh Trump gets elected, uh we're gonna be uh we're gonna be in a different world.
	Yes, and we had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe, the rest of Europe.
	Come on.
	We have put together, I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.
	But my wife Jill, as you know, and Doug Emhoff, uh Kamala's wife are there.
	Common will be back uh later this week.
	My name's Joe Biden.
	I'm Joe Biden's husband, and I am Kamel's running mate.
	You all think I'm kidding, don't you?
	I never believed it did be this much in jeopardy.
	We launched our campaign over on the Oval back in 29, May 9 2019.
	But you know what I said then, we've been through a lot since then.
	You may remember I got in trouble when we were running against the senator who is a Mormon.
	The governor, okay?
	And I took him on.
	Anybody could no one's face to be questioned.
	An increasing incomes.
	A $15 million or $15,000, $15 minimum wage.
	And dreaming here.
	Look, I'll do what he's unable to do.
	I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize through an international average of pressure.
	Isolate and punish China.
	The political coverage.
	look Some of the political players and some of them.
	Let me ask a rhetorical question.
	No.
	There he is.
	The uh the best communicator of the White House got.
	There's Joe Biden himself.
	All right.
	Uh Amanda's in Louisiana.
	Hey, Amanda, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, Sean.
	Um, I wanted to make a comment about the Chinese balloon.
	It's having our attention go to the North borders, where in the South borders, we have an increase in the Chinese um nationals coming through, and they're normally single individuals that are middle aged.
	So I think it's drawing our attention up there, and we really need to turn our attention back to the border, the southern border, and watch who's coming across there.
	Uh, I think the southern borders, you know, a prime vulnerability, and yeah, balloons are concerning.
	One of the things that kind of shocked me this week, we have been following on this program other issues involving the communist Chinese, not the least of which is the financial dealings they've had with the Biden family syndicate, but more importantly, uh the fact that China's buying up all this ranch land and farmland and land around our military installations in this country,
	and only in the last week have we seen reports of you know, an average of of eight hundred uh Chinese nationals, I believe, a week now at our southern border trying to make their way into this country.
	Uh I'd like to know what that's all about.
	You know, China would never allow us to buy their farmland, their ranch land, or land near their military installations.
	They wouldn't let any anyone get near the Wuhan Virology lab except their bought and paid for relationship with the WHO.
	So not trusting the communist Chinese for me is is simple.
	They've earned our distrust.
	Oh, absolutely.
	That's why I don't trust a single middle-aged people coming across by themselves and not families.
	Like that kind of reminds me of, you know, like 9-11, they were individual males that took over and flew the planes.
	Well, what are these individual Chinese middle-aged people coming across our border for?
	It's not a family.
	It's not, so that concerns me.
	It's I I think it should concern you.
	Look, if we caught last year alone a hundred people on the terrorist watch list, and we had five million people cross the border, of the five million, at least 1.2 million were gotta ways, as we call them.
	Uh, I've got to believe the people on the terror watch list uh made it across the border and have created terror cells inside this country, and and at some point I would imagine we're gonna be under attack again.
	Is it will it be as severe as 9-11?
	Uh God, I hope not.
	Uh, I don't even want I I don't even want a minor attack on this country.
	But we have the number one reason we should be securing our borders for national security reasons.
	And national security also includes stopping the fentanyl and the opioids and the heroin from crossing the border, also.
	And this is simple, basic one-on-one common sense, and it is you know the fact that they've gotten away with all of this and these proclamations that the border is secure with a straight face.
	I you know, why the country isn't paying more attention to it, I don't know.
	I really don't.
	Um, but you know, if if if a Republican spits on the sidewalk, they want to put him in jail.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah, it really is.
	Anyway, good call, Amanda.
	Appreciate it.
	We love your your senator down there, John Kennedy's a great guy.
	Uh Adam is in San Diego COGO Radio.
	What's up, uh uh Adam?
	How are you?
	Glad you called.
	What's going on in the Southland?
	Hey, Sean.
	Third time caller from the land of big gold nuggets.
	Yes, Sir.
	We both love Trump, so I have to say if Trump trashes Nikki Haley like he trashes DeSantis, he's finished.
	You know, he's Trump scorched Earth policy won't work with her.
	Yeah, Trump and DeSantis are like 30 Santa's for a vice president.
	Look, I my take is is that of all the names that are being mentioned, with the exception of, say, Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, um who else?
	I don't think Asa Hutchinson is is really gonna make a run at this, but uh there was reports today.
	I think for the most part, and I speak for a lot of conservatives, the the names that we hear are people that happen to be well liked.
	If you hear Tim Scott's name, if you hear Ron DeSantis' name, uh people seem to like Len Youncan.
	They're not enemies.
	Um now, I will tell you this.
	Everything can start out warm and fuzzy and and cozy, and everybody's running for the same office.
	Uh, but eventually there comes a moment when the gloves come off.
	And it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
	And, you know, perfect example would be the primary between George W. Bush and John McCain.
	Um George W. Bush had his back against the wall heading into South Carolina after Iowa, New Hampshire.
	And John McCain was was you know, creating a real threat for him to get the nomination or not.
	And the gloves came off in South Carolina, and it was ugly.
	People seem to forget that.
	That that happens.
	Um that's that in part is politics.
	Uh even though Donald Trump battled what, sixteen, seventeen prominent Republicans in in 2015 and 16.
	Uh, he ended up being friends again with most of them.
	Um, I wish it weren't that way, but it ends up being that way.
	Uh, and you know, I uh can't we all just get along, the great philosopher once said, right?
	Right.
	Oh, I mean, I think it's inevitable.
	That's that's the nature of the business.
	We could sit here all we want and say that negative ads don't work too, but if you and you focus group negative ads and they always do terrible.
	But then they run negative ads, they tend to work during political campaigns.
	People believe them.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll come back.
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	Uh, let's say hi to Danny in California.
	Danny, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi, how are you?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	I'm just wondering what it's gonna take for the Republicans to realize the destruction that Biden has done and shut short time in office.
	When when are they going to I I think Republicans see it?
	I think independents are seeing it.
	You know, but we're still a long way from 2024.
	For his medical in his first year, have you seen his medical report in his first year?
	They released a medical report that was meaningless to me.
	I mean, the the real report would be a real cognitive test, like the likes of which Donald Trump took.
	Yeah, which he's going to be taking, I believe on Saturday or Saturday.
	I think it's just a general physical, he's not taking a cognitive test that I've heard.
	Why that's what should be done.
	Of course it's what should be done, but you and I both know he can't pass that cognitive test.
	And they know we can't pass the cognitive test.
	That that's never gonna happen.
	That's what the American people need to know.
	This is where the Republicans need to stand up and say When it's enough enough.
	I I I don't Well, that that's what elections are for.
	And let me let me now use this as a moment again to remind people.
	Republicans, the Republican Party in general, they've got to recalibrate how they view elections.
	Democrats are not running elections based on ideas and kissing babies, shaking hands, taking selfies, doing town halls, press avails, and and rallies.
	They are running hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads.
	They hide as much as they can from the compliant press that wants them in office.
	Uh, and then they are in the ballot harvesting business.
	Uh only one state mandates that the individual voter must return a ballot themselves.
	Only one, that's Alabama.
	Every other state has legal ballot harvesting.
	That's where the Democrats have been focused.
	Republicans have got to do it as well, if not better, than the Democrats in 2024.
	Number one, number two, I will add, and this resistance this that Republicans have, this reluctance they have to vote early and vote by mail, has got to stop.
	Because you can't start the election day down 500 to a million votes, 500,000 to a million votes, and expect to be competitive.
	You can't.
	You've got it's not the system I would design.
	But if you want to change voting system, if you want paper ballots, if you want election monitors uh in every precinct across the country, meaning partisan observers.
	If you want voter ID laws, if you want signature verification laws, updated voter roll laws and integrity measures, you first got to win the elections, and this is the system now that we've got.
	We can't change that system until we get that power.
	The way you get that power is you got to use the system the way they're using it.
	They are outmaneuvering Republicans in the ballot chasing game.
	And that's that that that played a big part.
	I am very convinced in the 2022 midterms.
	Oh.
	Anyway, I hope that answers your call.
	Uh let's say I did Dave in uh Arizona.
	Dave, how are you?
	Hey, Sean, good afternoon.
	Can you hear me?
	Yes, sir.
	What's going on?
	Awesome.
	Hey, uh, first time caller, longtime listener from uh Maricopa County, Arizona, and uh I was uh listening you talking to Bill today and uh Senator Hawley and uh Congressman Jordan yesterday.
	So this um Chinese spy balloon was shot down over water because wasn't shot was shot down over water because it may have posed a danger according to Biden, but then three objects were shot down over land, well, two over land, one over water, um, which uh let's go with uh, you know, never has it been reported that a Chinese balloon has made it over the U.S., which was not a major breach according to President Biden, and never have three individual targets been shot down over North American territory.
	Um if the Chinese balloon was not meant originally for the public eye, why why all of a sudden is the Biden administration reporting the uh three targets knocked down by our F-16s?
	I mean, it's it's a pretty major thing to launch our fighters to acquire multiple targets over the city.
	And then they don't even know what they shot, or they're not telling us, but they are telling us that they don't it's very unlikely that it was Chinese related.
	None of it makes sense.
	And it's saying it's not a major breach is absurd on the face of it.
	I mean, no intelligent person would ever make that argument.
	At least from my point of view.
	Uh good call, my friend.
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	We'll have an update from uh Arizona Representative Debbie Lesco.
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