Sean Hannity Show - Joe Concha - March 20th, Hour 1

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Joe Concha - March 20th, Hour 1

Joe Concha fills in for Sean Hannity and hits the ground running talking about just how crazy the left has gotten. Would you support taxpayer funded sex change for prisoners? Senator Elizabeth Warren does! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	Good afternoon, everybody.
	Joe Mad Dog Concha here with you today, filling in for Sean Hannity taking a much deserved break.
	I mean, this guy works.
	You think about it.
	Three hours a day on the radio, it's a grind.
	I've done it, trust me.
	And then you do an hour show, he's got live studio audiences.
	You're talking 20 hours a week, and that's just the on-air part.
	All the prep, all the things you gotta do behind the scenes.
	And he's like, isn't he like running Copra Kai now on Long Island?
	Isn't he like, you know, Sinsei Creese at this point?
	The guy, Linda, what's he do?
	It's not karate, right?
	He does a jiu-jitsu.
	It's an eclectic blend of martial arts.
	Oh, okay.
	He never talks about it that much, so I wasn't quite sure.
	Very low-key.
	He's okay about it.
	He's gonna kill me when he gets back.
	Uh, but no, this is great.
	Um, what are we on?
	Something like uh 6,000 radio stations across the country.
	I mean, this is a good one.
	Just about, just about.
	So we got a big audience, and I want to hear from you.
	Linda says, share that phone number, 800-941-7326 that 800-941-S-E-A-N.
	I am on Red Bull right now, pixie sticks, coffee with plenty of cream and sugar.
	I got witnesses, so this will be a hyped up show.
	And the first order of business, right?
	Since I am king of the county for a day, is to take a guillotine to the usual music that you hear on this show.
	Where do you got where do you hear what I got planned for you people?
	All right, you're gonna love it.
	You're gonna make your ride home, forget about it.
	Not this usual country stuff.
	I mean, I love country, don't get me wrong.
	We're gonna mix things up, all right?
	This is Joe Contcha's show, therefore it's gonna be Joe Contch's countdown.
	I'm like Casey Caseon, but different.
	All right, to the serious stuff.
	So Donald Trump is gonna get arrested tomorrow, according to Donald Trump.
	I don't know.
	I look at this and I say, boy, didn't the Statue of Limitations end on this whole Stormy Daniels thing like two years ago?
	Isn't this basically a zombie case where you have this Alvin Bragg in New York?
	Now, let me explain to you who Alvin Bragg is, okay, district attorney of Manhattan, who has gone softer on crime than any district attorney in New York's history, right?
	And he takes felonies and turns them into misdemeanors, and that's why we have a revolving door of criminals that just keep committing the same crimes over and over again, they end up back in the street, and they keep doing it because they know there won't be any actual consequences under this DA.
	So this guy who is the softest of soft on crime now suddenly thinks, you know what, I should take what is at best, and we're being very generous here, a misdemeanor with Trump as far as this hush money to Stormy Daniels and turning it into a felony.
	And oh, by the way, this is a case that even the feds, the Department of Justice said, yeah, no, they're there.
	So why is this guy, the local New York district attorney going ahead with this?
	Oh, right.
	It's a political hit job.
	And when Trump says that the system's against him and and warns you of the swamp, this is Exhibit A Plus right here.
	And this will have a boomerang effect like you will not believe if they actually are stupid enough to go ahead with this, because they're probably not gonna win the case A. And then B, even if they do, Trump's number one point, his number one selling aspect about all the corruption that we have in Washington and apparently in New York in the district attorney's office, it's all true.
	And here is your example.
	But you know what?
	I'm not very articulate.
	I want to hear from Vivek.
	All right.
	Ramaswamy.
	Now this guy's running for president against Trump.
	Okay.
	He wants the GOP nomination.
	And usually the rule in radio is that when you cut what's called a SOT, that's sound on tape, maybe you go 20, 25 seconds, 30 max, but then that's it.
	In this case, I asked Linda, I said, can we do the whole three minutes of this video that Vivek basically filmed in the back of his car uh over the weekend and this thing has gone viral.
	I mean millions of people watched it because he nails it to a T. And again, this is somebody who wants to take the GOP nomination away from Trump.
	And this is what he had to say.
	Cut one, go.
	Carolina today.
	It's our first day here.
	Went to Dorchester County earlier, going to other areas in Charleston later today.
	I was going to talk about a number of cultural issues in this country, but I find it pretty distracting to just focus on what I was planning to talk about without actually talking head on about the serious news we heard this morning.
	The risk that Donald Trump might be indicted while running for president of the United States for alleged violations that if it were any other situation would undoubtedly just be charged as a misdemeanor if at all.
	This isn't to me about a person.
	I could care less about defending Donald Trump or any other individual out of some sort of personal affinity.
	Forget about that.
	This is about principle.
	It's about the country.
	It's about the idea that if you live in a self-governing democratic nation, a constitutional republic, it means that the people get to decide who actually wins the election not some managerial class and certainly not a party in power that now uses quite literally it would appear police power to stop their political opponents from running that is wrong.
	That is not the America I know that is not the America my parents came to that is not the America that our founding fathers set into motion 250 years ago that's the stuff of a banana republic.
	I think that's the stuff of the beginning of the end of the American experiment if we allow our Justice Department to be politicized and people to literally use police power to persecute and literally prosecute their political opponents and so I hope I really hope that the dialogue around this today that some self-reflection from the Manhattan district attorney results in them making the right decision to say that you know what you oppose Donald Trump great speak out against him vote against him.
	Do everything you can to stop him from getting elected that's fair game because that's how the electoral system works.
	But do not use prosecutorial power to disqualify your political opponents by locking them up and putting them in jail because once you cross that bridge if you could do it to Trump you could do it to anybody.
	And I think that that is a dangerous slippery slope for us to go down as a country especially if it involves particularly prosecuting someone for otherwise what an ordinary person would not have been prosecuted for criminally it's wrong.
	And you know it's not it's not in my interest to say this I'm just going to tell you this I was advised to stay silent on this probably the same advice that every other GOP candidate got which probably explains why the other GOP candidates from not Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are staying pin drop silent until they get permission from their political consultants and their donors to say something.
	I could care less about that.
	I would rather lose and be honest about what I say at every step of the way than to win and be a hollowed out husk of myself and as a as a somebody who wants to be a standard bearer of the principles of this country.
	This is not about me it's not about Donald Trump it's not about anybody else.
	It's about making sure that this national experiment which we call the American experiment still continues for another 250 years rather than beginning a decline with the dangerous abuse of political power.
	There you go.
	Again not in his interest to talk about this that's his opponent he's talking about I I could play for you you know uh soundbites from the Mike Lindell or Steve Bannon like staunch Trump supporters and you would expect them to say that I don't I wouldn't expect a a Vivek Ramaswamy to to say that considering that he wants uh what was Trump's job.
	Let's play then there for a Democratic supporter on this who happens to be I think, and maybe I'm a little biased because he writes for the Hill, I write for the Hill, uh, as far as columns are concerned, and and uh I know Jonathan per uh personally, but uh Mr. Jonathan Turley of also Fox News legal analyst is the best out there.
	And again, he's a Democrat.
	And here's what he had to say about this.
	And again, it's just pitch perfect.
	And the thing is, it's not even like a political argument.
	It's common friggin' sense.
	Got to go.
	What uh most people can objectively say about this uh potential indictment is that it's based on very little law and a lot of politics.
	You know, there's that old joke of a doctor telling his patient you're not paranoid because people really are out to get you.
	Uh, you know, the same can be true in the sense of Donald Trump's complaints about the politicalization or weaponization of the criminal justice system.
	This is a political prosecution, in my view.
	And you don't have to really venture very far to reach that conclusion.
	If you look at how this case uh came about, uh it's rather obviously political.
	You know, the predecessor of Brad did not Bragg did not pursue this case.
	Uh the Department of Justice did not pursue the underlying federal election violation.
	The chairman of the FEC, election experts have all said that this is an exceptionally weak theory.
	And yet Bragg, who threw a flag on this case, um, decided to go forward after his prosecutors resigned, and one of them wrote what I thought was a very unprofessional book, uh, detailing the case against an individual who hasn't been charged, let alone convicted.
	Precisely.
	Uh, by the way, Vec before said uh DeSantis hadn't weighed in on that's true, uh, because that video that uh he shot was over the weekend.
	DeSantis weighed in on this uh today uh after a reporter asked for Mr. DeSantis's thoughts about the potential indictment and whether he might have a role extraditing uh extraditing, excuse me, Mr. Trump, uh, to New York, the governor demurred saying he did not know what was going to happen.
	But here's the quote from DeSantis.
	But I do know this.
	The Manhattan District Attorney is a George Soros funded prosecutor.
	And that's that's when he's talking about uh Alvin Bragg here.
	And so he, like other Soros funded prosecutors, they weaponized their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.
	That is exactly right.
	If you're if you're in New York, you see what's happened under Eric Adams and Alvin Bragg.
	Remember, Adams came in and he was supposed to be the anti-deblasio, right?
	Because he's a former cop and he's gonna get tougher on crime, and it's gone nothing but up, right, in terms of violent crime.
	People don't even want to take the subway anymore because you might get thrown in front of an actual train.
	It's not the same city that it used to be, and a lot more people now, particularly New York City police officers, because they know Alvin Bragg is the district attorney who worked their asses off and get people arrested, and only to see them back on the street, they're arresting the very next day.
	4,000 New York City police officers resigned last year.
	It's not like they resigned and weren't police officers anymore.
	Many of them still work, but they went to smaller towns that had better pay, and a lot of them went to Florida, because in Florida, they were incentivized to come.
	They would get a bonus if they came.
	Or DeSantis, and this is where he is beyond smart, I think one of the better ideas I've ever heard, I wish all 50 governors would do this.
	They have a teacher shortage, particularly in Florida.
	It is nationwide, but particularly in Florida.
	So DeSantis said, okay, in order to backfill the gap, instead of throwing money at the problem, we will pay for ex-cops and ex-military to get certified as teachers.
	All right.
	We'll pet we'll take care of that part, we'll help you get certified, and then that's how we're going to backfill the teacher shortage.
	And it is working big time.
	Thousands of teachers have now been added uh to Florida's payroll.
	And that's one more reason why, again, if this election is simply whether it's Trump or DeSantis or Tim Scott or whoever the nominee is, if you just make the argument, it's very simple.
	Do you want the country to look like California, New York, or Illinois?
	All right, where those three states, according to you Hall, who keeps stats on this stuff, has the biggest exodus going out than any other three states in the country.
	It never used to be that way, particularly for California.
	Nice weather, nice oceans, decent sports teams.
	I could go on.
	But everybody's leaving there now, especially businesses.
	And where are they going?
	Top three states?
	Florida, Texas, Tennessee.
	What do those states all have in common?
	They don't have income taxes, right?
	And when you make money, uh particularly at a big scale, if you're a business, suddenly that 13% like it is in California, that 12% like it is in New York, well, that begins to really mean something.
	Throw in the crime that we have already talked about in places like that, that the homeless camps that just engulf Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example, and obviously everything happening in terms of the the border and all the folks coming in through there in California saying, hey, we'll pay for your health care.
	Yet maybe that's why people are leaving.
	Not sure.
	If it comes down to that argument, you want America to look like Florida or Tennessee or Texas, or do you want it to look like California, New York, or Illinois?
	You make it that choice, you're gonna win independence.
	You win independence, you win the election.
	So I I wouldn't worry about Trump too much as far as this possible indictment coming down.
	Every legal person, at least the objective ones that you listen to, say that it's got no shot unless the jury is so compromised because it is New York and they probably have an anti-Trump bias.
	I would think though, if you're sitting on a jury, you put that aside and you try to come to a logical conclusion.
	But even if if the worst case scenario comes out, Trump only this is Obi-Wan Kenobi right here, right?
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	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.
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	Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
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	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.
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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.
	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 Nafock 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.
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	We start off with 38 Special on the Conch Countdown.
	Little song called Hold On Loosely.
	Now this is funny because 38 Special was considered rock in the 80s.
	But now this would totally be country.
	So it's funny how the genre shifted.
	Anyway, welcome back to Sean Hannity Show.
	Joe Concha in for Sean.
	Uh you may know me from uh the Fox News.
	I'm a contributor that's on.
	Let's see what time I am tomorrow.
	Oh, that's nice.
	They're putting me on 524 a.m. on Fox and Friends first, and then I'll be on Sean's show at like nine something at night and probably a couple in between.
	So uh could have been a fireman.
	Oh, well, nah, it's a labor of love.
	Come on, I gotta go on TV and talk about stuff.
	I gotta even consider this a job and they pay me to do it.
	Kind of like this.
	Particular show right now.
	Anyway, a Hunter Biden legal team, apparently uh getting into stand-up comedy, ladies and gentlemen.
	They just had a legal filing where they argue that the repair shop owner had no right to view and share the contents of Hunter's a Biden laptop, but then at the same time, still will not admit that the laptop belongs to Hunter.
	Hey, how dare you look at that thing that may or may not belong to us?
	I mean, it's just an insane argument.
	And here are the facts.
	Hunter dropped off his laptop at the repair shop a couple years ago.
	And after 90 days, he did not return for it.
	John Paul Mac Isaac, the repair shop owner, tried to reach Hunter multiple times to no avail.
	That's what happens when you're passed out.
	You tend not to answer the phone sometimes.
	So there is also a signature, by the way, of Hunter Biden on a receipt that includes a note saying if the property is not retrieved in 90 days, it is forfeited.
	He signed to that.
	That's the end of it.
	The bottom line here is that the contents of the emails have been verified.
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	Who knows the cannon door?
	And you know it.
	Sleepy Joe just signed more executive actions in one week than most presidents did in their entire term.
	So much for a democracy.
	Looks like Joe is the new dictator.
	And it's on right now.
	I want Scott Shannon on my GPS.
	Wouldn't that be kind of cool?
	Make it right turn here.
	Hey, some traffic coming up.
	Watch out for that cop on the side of the road.
	I mean, that would be kind of cool, right?
	I listened to Scott Shannon when I was a kid.
	That's amazing.
	That voice is some people start to lose the voice as they get uh a little bit older, but Scott, he's still got the pipes, man.
	Good for him.
	Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity, 800-941-7326.
	I'm gonna take your calls in just a minute, but I gotta I gotta play this clip from you know what?
	I uh an interesting day here on the Sean Hannity show.
	I've played uh two sound bites, one from uh an opponent to Donald Trump supporting Donald Trump as far as this ridiculous politicized uh joke of an indictment that may or may not be coming.
	Uh and then Jonathan Turley, who's a Democrat also defending Trump.
	Let's play a third Democrat, which may be a record, uh, as far as one hour is concerned, and that's Bill Maher, right?
	And I find Marr, I'm a media analyst, as you know, for Fox News and write some media columns for for the Hill, uh, as long as the political ones.
	But Marr, I find refreshing in the sense where he does not give a damn what maybe some of those watching his show will say about him on Twitter or if his studio audience will be offended in some way, shape, or form.
	The guy calls it as he sees it, and you could disagree with him.
	That's all well and good.
	But the thing is, at least he's willing to call out his side.
	And uh on Friday night, I nearly fell off my chair watching this because it really is that funny and that telling.
	Talking about Elizabeth Warren is now advocating for your taxpayer dollars to pay for sex changes for inmates in prison.
	I mean, this is insanity.
	Yeah, and Marr calls it out beautifully.
	Let's play cut three.
	Go.
	Elizabeth Warren has not come out in favor of imprisoned serial killers voting, but she does want taxpayers to cover their sex change operations in prison.
	Which brings up the question if you tried, could you come up with a policy with more third rail buzzwords in it?
	Let's see.
	Taxpayer-funded sex change for prisoners.
	No, I don't think you could.
	And again, where are the votes in this?
	You know how many transgender people there are in federal prison in America?
	473.
	And they can't vote.
	So we're taking this position because it makes a great campaign, Slogan.
	Commit a crime, get a free.
	Uh nickname for Commit a Crime and your new vegina is free.
	I suspect you could fill in what those two body parts were in that particular uh bleep uh part of the show.
	So look, guys, uh that's the bottom line, right?
	2024, just highlight the insanity of the Democratic Party.
	And I'm writing a new book, by the way.
	Uh happy to announce it here first in the Sean Hannity show.
	It's called Not Your Daddy's Donkeys.
	And what that means is way back when we had a Democratic Party that was for the little guy, or at least that that's what they said they were for, right?
	And now they become the party of the elites.
	You think about John F. Kennedy now.
	Uh the guy's a Reagan Republican.
	In a billion years, he would not come close to sniffing the Democratic nomination because he liked cutting taxes, big no-no, and beefing up the military.
	Also a big no-no in today's Democratic world.
	Then you look at Jimmy Carter.
	Jimmy Carter was a pro-life Democratic president.
	Could you imagine anybody seeking the Democratic nomination, saying, Yeah, by the way, I'm pro-life, and then actually even getting even one vote as far as Democratic voters are concerned.
	Now, there probably would be a couple out there because there still aren't some old school blue dog, blue-collar kind of Democrats that, you know, are our pro-life, but for the most part, again, that would be a big no-no, and that candidate would be shouted down on CNN and MSNBC so fast, it would make your head spin.
	Then you look at Bill Clinton, and oh my goodness gracious, this is my favorite part about writing the book.
	You look at his comments on illegal immigration, he makes Trump sound like a wallflower, talking about how he will conduct mass the deportations of anybody who enters this country illegally because they are taking good jobs away from people who are here legally, and talks about how drugs are coming across the border from, as he called it, from corrupt Mexico.
	I could go on and on.
	And obviously, obviously talked about the importance of border security.
	Again, no shot in hell that any Democrat could say that now and expect to get the nomination.
	And there's even some Barack Obama warnings around going woke and what that's doing to the party, right?
	Uh, There's one part that I referenced where we talk about how in 2022, out of 100 top-ranked universities in the country, only three invited somebody deemed to be conservative to speak at their graduation commencement ceremonies.
	And one was Tim Tebow.
	All right.
	And Tebow spoke at Florida.
	He only won two friggin' national championships for him and a Heifen trophy.
	So yeah, he's going to get the invite.
	All right.
	So I got I don't even know if I could count Tim.
	And I've met Tim.
	The guy is jacked.
	I mean, you wouldn't believe the build on this guy.
	It's very attractive.
	Hi, honey.
	My wife's listening, by the way.
	Very happily married.
	And then we also have uh, let's see.
	Oh, Glenn Yunkin, the governor of Virginia spoke at Virginia Tech.
	All right.
	So this wasn't exactly like the Ivy League reaching out to any conservatives, right?
	And the third was like the prime minister of Turkey or something like that.
	Spoke at Boston College.
	Otherwise, then you had 97 universities that sent a message that conservatives are not welcome here on this campus.
	Why am I bringing this up?
	Because not long ago, Condoleezza Rice, right, who seems to be a pretty reasonable person, uh, somebody who was considered to be the next NFL commissioner, right?
	That's how much she is respected, right?
	She was shamed out of speaking at my state university, in 2014, and the the protests were so overwhelming, led by the faculty, by the way, because they couldn't have Condi Rice there.
	So she said, look, this is supposed to be a happy day for students.
	I don't want to be a distraction, so I'm gonna bow out.
	And even Barack Obama came forward and said, wait, this is wrong.
	Just because you disagree with somebody, you're gonna now tell the first black secretary of state female that she's not welcome because you disagree with her views.
	That's kind of what free speech is all about.
	And you're listening, like Obama said that.
	Wow.
	So that's the gist of the book.
	Where Democrats were, and I'm not even talking like six, seven years ago, and where they are now as far as a party is concerned.
	And if and if you can't beat them in 2024, again, I don't care who the nominee is, based on where we are in terms of inflation, which is still way too high.
	We got banks that are collapsing now because we raised interest rates, because we didn't have anybody looking at what was going on in these smaller mid-tier banks as far as all the risks that they were taking.
	Then you look at crime that we talked about earlier in the show and how it's running rampant in uh in cities that they all have this one little thing in common, they're run by Democrats.
	All right, so that's a pretty easy campaign ad to get out there.
	And then we talk about the border.
	It is a complete and total catastrophe.
	That's the only way to describe it.
	I mean, an unmitigated disaster.
	And this is where it gets dangerous, okay?
	Fentanyl for starters, as we know, is the number one killer of adults between the ages of 18 and 49.
	More than 100,000 people died in this country from opioid overdoses led by fentanyl that comes from China, goes through Mexico, and goes into all of our communities.
	So that's that's danger number one.
	Danger number two, 182 people on the terror watch list have been encountered crossing the U.S. Southern border illegally.
	Those are the ones that we know about, folks.
	How about all the ones that we don't know about?
	And there's plenty of gotta ways, something like 600,000 entered the country last year.
	So when the next 9-11 happens, and we see all these idiots on TV talking about, oh, how do we not connect the dots?
	Oh, it's right there for you now to connect.
	And nobody is doing anything about it in this administration.
	Alejandro Mayorcis, what a winner this guy is.
	He goes out to dinner on Friday night with Gensaki and his producers to celebrate her new stupid show on MSNBC that's on at noon.
	I can you believe that CNN and M SNBC had a bidding war over Gensaki, the girl who sounds like the chick from uh American Pie and one time at Band Camp.
	I mean, without Peter Ducy, this is not an interesting person, okay?
	So what happens?
	They pay her all this money and they give her the noon time slot on Saturdays?
	That's what you're paying for?
	That's kind of a And uh I mean that that's the thing.
	I mean I forgot why I was even talking about Saki.
	But the point is that I'm gonna take your phone calls right now because clearly having a brain fart.
	Let's go to Sean in Florida.
	Hey, Sean, how's it going down there in the Sunshine State, the home of Tim Tebow?
	Hey, Joe.
	Actually, it's a sunshine state, but it's cold today in Florida.
	Really?
	Because I'm going to Disney next week.
	Don't tell me this.
	Sorry, it's 68 degrees.
	I don't have shots.
	Oh, that's unacceptable.
	You know, 68 will feel like 88 because it was like 20 over the weekend here.
	So I'll take it.
	Let me let me check the long-range forecast.
	Oh, look at that.
	90.
	90 when I get there.
	Outstanding.
	Anyway, what part of Florida again?
	Fair enough.
	I'm on a holiday, which is just by Tartan Springs, Florida, but I tell people Tampa, so they have a general idea of where the heck I'm at.
	Burn Steakhouse, baby.
	Best steakhouse in the in the country.
	I don't know if you've ever been there, but yum yum.
	No, it is awesome.
	Hey, love, love what you're doing.
	Thank you for bringing it just a little bit of humor and civility into what is ultimately right now just a ridiculously crazy world we're living in.
	Yeah, I mean, look, angry, I I I could go angry for three hours, believe me, because I am just so pissed off about what's going on in this country as far as the apathy, particularly around the border, which we just talked about.
	I mean, just allowing these terrorists to come in and and and and the and our our media just looks the other way because, oh, that may help Republicans, and you're just like, just do your jobs, get some camera crews down there and demand that Democrats address this problem, but of course, they won't do that.
	But yeah, I guess you gotta laugh.
	I mean, that's the only thing he can do at this point without or else you'll go crazy.
	It's insane.
	It really is.
	And I have to tell my wife, she gets so upset, and I'm like, you know what?
	You and I individually have very little we can do to control any of this.
	So, you know, don't get your blood pressure up.
	Hopefully this will be resolved sooner than later.
	Hey, the reason I'm calling is I need your counsel.
	Uh I'm curious about what's actually going on with the 87,000 IRS agents that the omnibus bill, which was passed, uh, was allowing.
	I know that McCarthy, that was his first uh line of action was to uh to not fund this, but all I'm hearing and reading is that, well, you can't really do that much about it, and it's already in progress.
	Are we gonna have more II agents?
	Yeah, unfortunately.
	Because uh exactly because of the bill that you mentioned had passed, so there's not too much that McCarthy can do at this point because the Perth Springs, uh, you know, i the money's already being spent to do this.
	So I mean, that's unbelievable that again you have a party that's running on saying, hey, how about more IRS in your life?
	Vote for us, right?
	And it's not even like they're going after tax cheats.
	It's gonna be small businesses that get hit the most, the same small businesses that suffered so much during COVID that some of them may be finally getting back on their feet, the ones that survived anyway, and now you're gonna unleash this horror at them.
	So it's it's a whole bowl of wrong, and that's a great question, by the way.
	And I wish I could give you a more optimistic answer, but that's that's the reality that we're in at this point.
	Uh let's go to Patty in North Carolina.
	Uh let's see, the home of the Tar Heels, who did not make the tournament this year.
	Amazingly so.
	I I don't think in my lifetime I remember that ever happening, but anyway, Patty, uh, how are you?
	I'm good, Joe.
	It's it's a pleasure to talk to you.
	I watch you all the time.
	I love you.
	Um I love you too.
	Jersey guy.
	I was born in Jersey City.
	Oh, I lived in Jersey City.
	I was at the uh Dixon Mills pencil factory that they turned into apartments.
	I was I was born in Margaret Haig Hospital 63 years ago.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah, the city's changed just a slight bit.
	It's um it's a little nicer than probably when you were there.
	Basically, New York and Hoboka have spilled into Jersey City, and it it's become very corporate and very uh it's it's it's a nice town.
	I play softball there still, and uh I'm sure you're not missing it one bit uh because the weather is slightly better down in North Carolina than it is in Jersey.
	Well, I have a daughter that lives I have a daughter that lives there, so you know she lives in Middletown, New Jersey, so Exit 114, of course.
	We go by exits on everything in New Jersey, as you know.
	So I can name any exit for any town off the parkway or turnpike.
	It's a talent that I have, and I'm very proud of it.
	But anyway, I know you don't want to talk about this.
	I want to hear about what you think about Trump and this impending arrest that he says is coming.
	Oh I want to talk about um why I I I believe that I'm sorry, but since Donald Trump came down the escalator, Joe, he's been crucified.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	Eight years ago that one was.
	Can you believe that was almost eight years ago?
	June of 2015.
	What?
	Wow.
	That that's insane.
	I wish he did that this time for this announcement.
	Like you did it in Mar-a-Lago.
	I would have done the same exact thing.
	Go down the escalator again.
	I mean, talk about nostalgia.
	But you think he comes back stronger from this because obviously the swamp is overplaying their hand.
	I believe that every time they try to crucify him, he does come back stronger.
	Yeah, because he's making the argument that he's made for these eight years now, which is the swamp is corrupt, that there are people that don't have your best interests in mind, and they will weaponize their political power for their own power themselves.
	So that that makes total sense to me, Patty.
	And next time you're in Jersey, give me a call.
	All right, have my people call your people, or vice versa, and we will get together uh in Jersey City.
	They have the best Cuban food ever, anywhere, period.
	Saying it.
	Probably even better than Havana than the Jersey City.
	So just wanted to share that.
	Well, can we get one more call on?
	Do we have time?
	Nah, okay.
	We're gonna break, but when we come back, big big guest coming up, Governor Mike Huckabee, Jimmy Fayel of Fox, Cal Roth, do stick around.
	Joe Conchae in for Sean Hannity.
	with more in just a moment.
	Hannity is on.
	John Hannity.
	Always honoring our service men and service women and standing up for liberty every day.
	Sean Hannity.
	So it's new and new.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh boy.
	It's just speech, sweet fantasy baby.
	This has to be the first time Mariah Carey's been playing on this radio show.
	No question about it.
	If there's any song that puts you in a good mood, it's that one.
	Mariah Carey.
	How long ago we talking here?
	96.
	Okay.
	Nearly 25 years since she was dating one number two, Derek Jeta.
	Remember, Jeter and Mariah Carey were a thing in the late 90s.
	If I'm playing short stuff for the New York Yankees, I'm certain I'm taking that call to go out for a little uh tequila one night, right?
	I think it might work out.
	I think Derek's finally married, right?
	Yeah.
	He was with the Minka Kelly for a while.
	That's uh very easy on the ice.
	He did okay.
	Derek Jeter's amazing to me, only because he played here in New York for like something like 20 years almost, right?
	And never got in trouble.
	You never read anything about the guy.
	And he was single the entire time.
	He wasn't like a boring house like husband like me.
	You know?
	So he was able to do all this, win all these championships, stay out of trouble.
	God bless you, Derek Jeter.
	Run for office.
	I don't think he's working for the Marlins anymore, so why not?
	Doing subway commercials with him.
	Joe Conchip for Sean Hannity.
	My coffee I could be on the other side.
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