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Masks Work and Other Lies - February 28th, Hour 1

Sean covers the many mistruths we heard about COVID and just how impactful they were to an American public who needed to know the truth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, thanks, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for being with us.
We got so much the news is voluminous.
It is massive.
It is almost impossible to keep up with.
And I'm I'm like working up to the last second trying to, you know, get everything, you know, worked out for the show today.
By the way, Governor Ron DeSantis will join us.
Uh Dr. Steven Quay will join us.
Uh this guy's been calling, you know, out the origins of COVID from the very beginning, uh, only to be, you know, called like everybody else a conspiracy theorist again and again and again.
Uh we're gonna play a lot of the sound uh later in the program today that will prove our point yet once again.
Um every one of you should be mad at all of this.
Every American should be mad at all of this.
Because you know what?
We knew in the early days when the the flurry of emails with Anthony Fauci, high-ranking members of the NIH and late-night text emails, whatever they were going back and forth.
Uh they were scared to death that the that it would become public that the NIH gave the Eco Health Alliance uh monies that they also spread out to the Wuhan Virology lab.
You know, we we now have on the one hand, we have the White House finally admitting the obvious, and that was that COVID-19 was in fact developed by Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through gain of function research.
Uh the only people that are taking issue with it is John Kirby.
I'm sorry, not John Kirby, Jake Sullivan, and Corinne Jean-Pierre.
They're the only one.
Well, we're not really sure yet.
No, no, we're pretty sure now the because the Biden energy department confirmed it and the FBI has confirmed it.
You know, what do you want it on a silver platter?
You know, we knew from the beginning that they did gain of function research at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
We knew that they did coronavirus research.
No, but it likely came from a wet market.
No, it likely did not come from a wet market.
And then the communist Chinese, they lied about it.
The most damning thing they did, I keep repeating this.
Nobody seems to remember the first travel ban.
The first travel ban was the China travel ban, which prevented people in Wuhan province from leaving the province and going to any other part of China.
And if you were in any other part of China, that ban prevented you from going to Wuhan.
Because everybody in Wuhan was getting sick.
But that they did not prevent the people from Wuhan from traveling to Italy and Europe and the US and all over the world, and therein lies, you know, the beginning of a massive pandemic that took millions of millions of lives.
It's in America and the world's best interest to understand how this happened so we can prevent it from ever happening again.
You know, these things get very, very complicated.
You know, in a uh for example, Dr. Quay, who will join us later in the program, points out that gain of function research, what you have as a microbiologist can increase how lethal a coronavirus in this case is enormously simply by splicing a special sequence into the genome at a prime location.
Now, when they do that, that leaves no trace of any manipulation, but it does alter the virus spike protein.
How often have we heard about the spike proteins being the problem for many people that created that that storm within the body, the cytokon uh storm within the lungs of people, and that's what ended up killing so many people.
I mean, that's where it happened.
It was all related to the spike protein.
Anyway, then that renders then it easier for the virus to inject genetic material into a victim cell.
Since 1992, there have been at least 11 separate experiments adding a special sequence to the same location, the end result has always been a supercharged virus.
And by the way, there was even that that email that to Anthony Fauci very early on that said it had all the hallmarks of being manipulated in a lab, but that didn't that didn't stop them.
And then what did they do?
People like, oh, uh Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Ram Paul, they were brutalized over this.
And Rand Paul, every time we had him on TV last night, every time he went after Dr. Fauci, you know, people in the media, the mob, they would get mad, they'd call him a conspiracy theorist.
Uh when same with Senator Um Cotton, he was being smeared as a as as a conspiracy theorist.
You know, if you dare to talk about any therapeutic because you had nothing to offer people that were really struggling in the early days with COVID, oh, God help you.
You know, God help you if you mention hydroxychloroquine.
Well, then the Henry Ford hospital study came out and numerous other studies came out that showed if taken early, it mitigated some of the impact of COVID.
That was it.
Not nothing great, but at least it was something.
You fight with the army you have, as Dr. Oswood always say, not the army you wish you had.
The one thing that worked the best in terms of therapeutics was monoclonal antibodies.
And as it relates to them, they were only on emergency use authorization, and the people that stopped that was was Joe Biden.
And I'm not really sure why, because they were extremely helpful.
Uh Governor Ron DeSantis, who we'll talk to later, he was the he was the only governor at the time that opened up monoclonal antibody centers.
Once we found out that with the Delta variant, that in fact, even if you were vaccinated or had a previous infection, you can get it again.
In other words, they had breakthrough cases of COVID.
Again, that was the exact opposite.
There was a piece in the New York Post today, the 10 COVID myths that they dispel, you know, probably at the top of the list, the big lie, which is if you got vaccinated, you weren't gonna get COVID.
That's what they were telling the American people.
And then they go through their list.
You know, if you wear masks, you know, you masks prevent the the transmission of COVID.
Well, we told you about last week.
I mean, it finally came out.
Face masks made little to no difference in preventing the spread of COVID.
You know, well, now the that was the stance of the Center for Disease Control and Convention.
You know, but the first person to say that masks likely won't work was Dr. Fauci himself on 60 minutes in March of 2020.
Then of course he changed his mind 15 times on the issue of masks.
Oh no, masks, they're not gonna do anything.
Um yeah, you gotta wear a mask.
Maybe you should wear two masks.
Maybe we'll all be wearing masks in perpetuity, he actually suggested at one point.
Anyway, so you know, we've we've now learned that the Cochrane reviews are considered the most authoritative and independent assessment of evidence in medicine.
And one uh published last month by a highly respected Oxford research team found that mass had no significant impact on COVID transmission.
And when asked about this, the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walinsky, who should have been fired, downplayed the study, arguing that it was flawed because it focused on randomized controlled studies.
Well, I thought that was supposed to be the gold standard.
Anyway, but that was the greatest strength of the review that it was randomized controlled studies.
That is the gold standard of medical evidence.
Anyway, if all the energy used by public health officials, uh, you know, their efforts, even two year olds on airplanes had to have a mask on.
Well, good luck to any parent trying to keep a mask on a two year old because it ain't gonna happen.
And then everybody else on the plane has been so freaked out by the government lying to them without any real information behind it, you know, he doesn't keep his mask on.
Throw that two year old off the plane.
Good grief.
And then parents, you know, they have crying kids and yeah, just a mess.
You know, vaccinated immunity is better than natural immunity.
Rand Paul was beating the drum on this almost from day one.
It doesn't make sense.
Our natural immunity is the body's ability to fight off an infection or a virus, and if your body does so successfully, uh, you can't tell me that any man made immunity with new technology that had never been used before,
mRNA technology, create by the way, created by Dr. Robert Malone, who on this very show said it wasn't really fully functional at a level that he was happy with, but he said it would be good for older people that had comorbidities that would be more susceptible to death.
He said it's better than nothing, but if you're under sixty, you probably shouldn't be taking an MRNA uh mRNA virus.
Then he goes on with Joe Rogan's podcast, and they beat the crap out of Rogan.
Then they beat the crap out of Rogan when he got uh COVID himself, and he said I tr I threw everything at it.
Meaning he threw hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, he threw it all.
That was instead of saying, I'm glad you're better, which it should have been the response.
How dare him be a purveyor of misinformation?
Well, if I'm sick and somebody's offering me some lifeline that may work, I'm a right to choose guy.
I want the right to decide for myself, and I believe I'd rather take my own chances and then listen to some of these idiots.
You know, remember they said school closures, this is another myth that school closures reduce COVID transmission.
Florida schools were open in August of 2020.
They weren't having problems.
The CDC also ignored your the European experience.
They kept schools open, uh, most without mask mandates and transmission rates were no different uh evidence by studies conducted in Spain and Sweden.
Then they said the vaccine has no side effects.
Public health officials downplayed the concerns about vaccine-induced myocarditis, uh, which is the inflammation of the heart muscle.
They cited poorly designed studies that undercaptured uh complication rates.
A flurry of well-designed studies said just the opposite, actually.
We now know that myocarditis is six to twenty-eight times more common after the COVID vaccine than after the infection among young people.
We're talking to sixteen to twenty four-year-olds.
Tens of thousands of kids likely got my myocarditis, mostly subclinical from a COVID vaccine they didn't need because uh they were entirely healthier because they had already even had COVID.
I mean, that's the other thing.
If you have natural immunity, why were they forcing this on you?
You know, the other thing, young people benefit from a vaccine booster, that boosters reduced hospitalization in older high risk Americans, but the evidence was never there for the lower COVID mortality in young people.
That was the one thing that kind of remained consistent, except for the complications with the vaccine, that this was a disease mostly for older people that had comorbidities, pre existing conditions, and I hate to say it, most people were did tend that struggled the most, did tend to have obesity issues.
And I'm just saying this in the nicest way possible.
I'm not attacking people.
Um, you know, another myth was that vaccine or misinformation increased vaccination rates.
Well, President Biden, other officials demanded unvaccinated workers, regardless of their risk or natural immunity, be fired.
And they demanded that soldiers be dishonorably discharged, if you recall.
And nurses, the ones that were right in the middle of the of the absolute shift show in March and April of 2020.
They put a mandate on those people as well.
And the mandate was based on the theory that vaccination reduced transmission rates.
That was a notion later proven also to be false.
But after broad recognition, the that vaccination does not reduce transmission, the mandates uh persisted and still do to this day.
Recent study from George Mason University detailed how vaccine mandates in nine major U.S. cities had no impact on vaccination rates.
They also had no impact on COVID transmission rates.
They also said COVID originated from the Wuhan lab.
Is a conspiracy theorist.
The wet market theory.
Well, that got blown out of the water in the last, you know, 48 hours.
Then they said it was important to get both vaccine doses quickly.
Well, it turned out data was clear in the spring of 2021, months after the vaccine rollout, that spacing vaccine out by three months reduces complication rates and increased immunity.
But they didn't tell you that part either.
Or that data on the, you know, the the vaccine is crystal clear.
It's all of this is was government lies.
They didn't know the answers, and they pretended they did.
And many people like sheep just listened to the government.
Nobody wanted to be called a conspiracy theorist.
And that was the left's tactic.
If anybody didn't take the standard, you know, lie that they were pushing.
They didn't know what they were doing, and they acted like they did.
Just like they told us Ground Zero was safe.
Christy Todd Whitman, just days after the 9-11 attacks, it wasn't safe.
And many people suffering health effects, even to this day.
Now they're telling the people in East Palestine that things are safe there.
Don't believe them.
Get an independent study about the water and air, and I would believe independent people that have no, you know, no agenda at all, except for giving you healthy information and doing real science.
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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.
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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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.
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 Nayfock 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.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
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I don't know what it is about Joe Biden and the issue of race.
He's got a problem.
And nobody wants to ever talk about the problem.
Now, if it was any Republican candidate or any Republican president or any Republican elected official, I guarantee you all of the comments of Joe Biden would not go basically ignored like the left and the liberal media ignore all of Joe Biden's, you know, comments.
I mean, Joe Biden is out there.
I mean, there's something kind of like wrong with this guy.
Um, when he when he says these bizarre things, you know, he's out there suggesting, you know, what was the comment that he made?
You let's play it.
I think we have time for that.
You know, I know uh I know real power when I see it.
The Divine Nine.
Honored to have presidents all the presents here tonight.
I want to thank him.
And by the way, you know, I'm not smart I I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid.
I may be white, but I'm not stupid.
We'll get to that when we come back.
We'll get to that when we come back.
When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Good to your calls today.
Governor Ron DeSantis today on his new book, Dr. Steven Quay will join us.
Uh, we'll talk to him.
Uh, he'd been a leader in studying the origins of COVID from the very beginning.
Another one of those, quote, conspiracy theorists, according to the media mob and Democrats.
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So there is a lot of brush back.
Biden now saying, uh, I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid.
Made the comment at Black History Month.
This is a guy that had now remember this is a guy that partnered with the former Klansman Robert Byrd.
Well, first of all, he praised Robert Byrd when Robert Byrd died.
Uh former former grandpooba of the Ku Kuk Klux Klan, right?
Praises the guy, partnered with him in the 70s to stop the integration of our nation's public schools.
This this is your president.
Imagine if it was a Republican for a second.
And he didn't want schools, his words, to become racial jungles.
The only person that called him out during the primary uh before the 2020 election was Kamala Harris, interestingly enough, but she didn't even make it to Iowa.
Uh you know, so we put together a little montage reminder of all of uh Joey's uh race comments.
Dunkin' donuts, unless you have a slight Indian accent.
I'm not joking.
You don't know my state.
My state was a slave state.
My state is a border state.
My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.
You got the first sort of mainstream African American.
Who is articulate and bright and clean, nice looking guy.
I mean, this that's a story.
Unchained Wall Street.
You're gonna put you all back in chains.
It's a long way until November.
We got more questions.
You got more questions, but I tell you that if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black.
We have this notion that somehow, if you're poor, you cannot do it.
Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
I'm a 29-year-old oddball.
The only reason I was able to raise the money is I was able to have a national constituency to run for office.
Because I was 29.
I'm like the token black with a token woman.
I was the token young person.
If we don't, they will, or a portion of them will become the predators 15 years from now.
And madam president, we have predators on our streets.
I think the two-party system, although my Democratic colleagues don't like me saying this, I think the two-party system is good for the South and good for the good for the black in the South.
Yes, and by the way, what you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.
Although I and my colleagues behind me revere the Senate, uh Robert C. Byrd elevated the Senate.
He was fiercely devoted, as you've all heard, to his principals.
Even once he became power, he always spoke truth to power.
Standing up for the people he proudly was part of.
By the way, you know, I'm not sm I I I I may be a white boy, but I'm not stupid.
I know where the power is.
I know where the power is.
You think I'm joking.
No, I don't think you're joking.
I mean, when you hear it all together, it's like, wow.
Anyway, so uh if it was a Republican, it would be a very different media mob reaction to all of this.
Uh by the way, that lie that uh they've been telling the entire time that since Biden has been president, uh, that in fact the Bureau of Land Management, David, there's over 9,000 uh leases for oil wells available.
No, it actually is sixty, seven hundred, And what they're not telling you, what they're not, yeah, the military aid.
No, we've given as much as we pledged $120 billion.
You know, Europe has pledged 30.
It's crazy.
I know.
I we're watching something on TV.
Anyway, the um, by the way, the inspector general is investigating uh Mayor Pothole Pete's extensive private jet travel after a Fox News digital report, which is good news.
John Kerry will be staying on at least until the end of the year.
God help us.
Uh Biden did admit that it's totally legitimate to debate whether he's too old to be president.
The New York Times is even suggesting that, well, maybe maybe you want to let the Democratic Party pick your vice president next time, considering the odds are a little higher at your age that you might not make it through your full term.
Which by the way, FDR did.
So apparently there's not a lot of love for the ever-giggling vice president.
I there's something really off there.
Uh Americans overwhelmingly support cognitive tests for candidates over 75.
By the way, Donald Trump has already taken one cognitive test.
He aced it and he said he'd have no problem taking another one, which I thought was pretty good.
Uh the New York Times published the essay, as I said, urging Joe Biden pretty much to dump Kamala Harris, and they go it go into great specificity.
Uh Greg Craig, you know, goes on to compare Biden to a dying FDR who knew the end was near 1944, so Roosevelt replaced his unpopular left-wing vice president Henry Wallace on the 1944 ticket with Harry Truman, which by the way proved to be historic.
Uh anyway, when Roosevelt's prognosis came, it was two months before D-Day and less than four months before the Democrats were scheduled to convene in Chicago to renominate him.
He knew full well that there was a good chance that the next vice president, whoever that might be, would be called to lead the nation, and it would only be natural for this thought to pass through Mr. Biden's mind.
Again, I'm reading from the New York Times as he prepares himself for the presidential election of 2024, and he should take a page from Roosevelt's playbook by telling his party that he will not dictate who will be his running mate, but instead leave it up to the delegates to pick the person who is best equipped to take on the task.
I mean, this is the New York Times floating a new strategy to let the DNC um pick the vice president so that they'd be so voters would be more comfortable re-electing an 82-year-old weak, frail cognitive mess Biden for a second term.
Anyway, this was a guest essay by longtime super lawyer Greg Craig, suggesting that by dumping Kamala Harris and replacing it with a more acceptable substitute, voters might be more comfortable re-electing the very frail and weak and cognitive mess of a president that we current currently have, who himself even admits that his age should be a factor, you think?
Uh what's piano Biden?
What's that?
It's our favorite RNC piano Biden movie.
Oh, I do love this.
This is my favorite.
It doesn't get old.
This is my favorite Biden ad by the RNC, yes.
The political coverage of the political players and some of the let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, I'm I know uh it's funny, but it's not funny.
Well, we can't get rid of him, so it has to be funny.
So you have all these moments where he's a cognitive complete mess, and then he has other times when he's more lucid, and people say, Well, Hannity, look at the State of the Union address.
I'm like, okay, what did he do all day?
Did he nap all day?
Did they did they did they give him caffeine Pills?
Did he suck down 15 you know cups of coffee?
Did uh you know, is uh this is why I wanted to know he's spending 40% of his time outside of the White House.
Who is seeing him?
Are there any medical professionals seeing him?
Because it's kind of odd that you could be a total cognitive mess on one day and then be able to get through a state of the union address, which by the way, is one of the easiest speeches to ever give.
Uh anyway, California gas prices.
Get this, they're now driving um people that run restaurants to the brink of closing.
Now get this between November and January, uh, people's bills, the the LA Times points out that the natural gas bill has gone from eight hundred dollars to eight thousand dollars.
And they talk about this one particular restaurant in in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles receiving an astronomical bass uh gas bill.
Some San Diego restaurant owners are seeing a 400% surge uh in January.
And you know, one store they mentioned is Rudford restaurants owners, Jeff and and Nick Casha receiving an eight thousand two hundred dollar gas bill.
They were on Fox and Friends in early February and said they felt betrayed by politicians.
How do you can't keep open a restaurant?
I've worked in restaurants for a decade of my life.
The margins are next to nothing.
You know when you make your money in a restaurant, it's not on food.
You make it on on alcohol.
That's where you make your money.
Selling wine and and liquor.
Uh there's predictions now the used car market, which had slowly come come down, is now reversing course and get and used car prices once again are gonna go through the roof.
Um but that's the Biden economy.
And it's not gonna change if you keep the same people in power.
That's just a fact.
You look at other economic indicators, you know.
Uh I I've been pointing this out.
The core rate in terms of the economy is not good.
And you know, Biden's inflation even has millennials now drowning in debt.
You have people now tapping their credit cards to pay their bills.
Two thirds of the country now living paycheck to paycheck, just to make basic ends meet.
Do you know what it's like?
If you if you're tapping your credit card, what is the interest rate on a credit card today?
21%?
I mean 24 and 25.
Okay, 24 or 25.
Now, or you're going into your retirement savings, which you should never touch.
You should under no circumstances would I advise anybody to touch their retirement savings.
Because if you do, number one, you're gonna pay a massive penalty by taking it out early.
Number two, it's that is your future.
The only two things I I don't give economic advice, like I don't give medical advice, but there's only two ideas, and when I said this the last time, people are saying Sean Hannity tells poor people to work harder.
I that's not what I said.
You can either reduce your spending, which is very hard to do in inflationary times, or you have other sources of income.
I don't know of any other way to make up the average household difference of on average, every household has paid a ten thousand dollar inflation tax of Joe Biden.
Now, for most people, that is unaffordable.
That's why two-thirds of the country are living paycheck to paycheck.
Now, you're asking Sean Hannity.
I care about people.
I want people to weather this storm.
And the only advice I have, find ways to save money and maybe find ways to bring in more income.
Oh, Hannity's telling poor people to work harder.
I am saying that is the only way I know.
If you know a better way, tell me.
I don't want you to work harder.
I mean, you know, all I do is Why don't we want people to work harder?
What happened to that mantra?
We were the nation of hard working people.
You know, a day's hard work, coming home sweating after working on a farm, smelling the high heaven.
Like, what happened to that work ethic?
Listen, I uh it's it's hard to tell people to take another job.
I mean, but we can't even imagine now they have they have kids that they've got to pay their school for, they have to buy books, they have to feed them, they have to pay their mortgage or their rent.
Like they can't go and say, hey, I went and looked for a Job this week, but I couldn't find one.
Remember when Trump was like, listen, we just want you to go out and look for a job before you go on the dole.
That's all we're saying.
Every week.
People are like, oh, that's outrageous.
Why is that outrageous?
We want you to try to work.
Um able bodied, nothing's wrong, everything's all right.
You can't go get a job.
Why?
Tell me why.
Listen, I'm just telling you, I that just ticks me off.
It can tick you off, but what if you're a single parent?
Yeah, it's different.
If you're a single parent, you can't work because you got three kids at home, whatever your circumstances may be.
There's all different rules for different people.
Okay, fine.
Life is complicated.
No question about it.
I'm gonna tell you right now, there are all different shifts that you can work, there are all different things you can do, and not for nothing.
The one thing COVID afforded all of us was the opportunity to work from home.
That's true.
And there are a lot of jobs.
There are a lot of jobs that people that's a great idea for people that have kids.
You know, maybe there's a way to make money in your own home.
And I I I just the sad part is all of this is preventable.
If we didn't have these idiotic socialist new green deal economic policies, if we didn't give up energy independence uh and energy dominance, we could be rich right now by selling all of our energy to Western Europe.
But we're importing, we we've stopped domestic production of gas, oil, and coal, and now we're importing three million barrels of oil a day from Venezuela?
How stupid are these people?
Unbelievable.
I'm I'm getting real.
All right, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the uh program.
All right, so here's a question.
Why are so many people leaving New York, New Jersey, Illinois?
Uh, why are people leaving California in droves in New York and new and California?
They're losing almost a thousand people a day.
Florida is gaining almost a thousand new residents a day, about eight hundred and fifty.
How is that?
How why are people moving to Florida in such large numbers?
Well, when we come back, we'll ask Governor Ron DeSantis.
Uh, he wrote a new book, The Courage to Be Free, Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival.
Um, because there's a reason.
And I think a lot of it has to do with lower taxes, less bureaucracy, uh, more liberty, more freedom, less government intervention in your life.
I think it's that simple.
I think it's that simple.
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