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March 30, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Losing Your Stoves - March 30th, Hour 3
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I know it's a little mind-numbing.
I know it's kind of hard to comprehend, but it is true.
It is real.
It's a fact.
But the federal government wants to come after your stove, wants to eliminate gas stoves.
By the way, one of the cleaning burning, the cleanest burning fuels out there.
You know, pretty amazing.
And then they're going to go after your air conditioners.
And then they just lie to you.
After there was some pushback on the gas stove issue, well, first general for Granholm, the energy secretary, said, nobody's taking away anybody's gas stove.
This is what she said.
You've heard the right-wing talk in front of about gas stoves, right?
But there are some states and there are some leaders who are recommending that we move away from gas stoves, right?
Talk to us about, well, first of all, is the Biden administration going after gas stoves?
The Biden administration is not coming after the state.
Of course, of course.
Of course, they're not.
I will say this.
The Department of Energy regulates appliances.
And like with all appliances, stoves are one of the things that we are trying to seek additional efficiency on.
So we have put out proposed regulations with respect to increasing efficiency for regular stoves, for gas stoves, for electric stove, et cetera.
Nobody's taking away anybody's gas stove.
Really?
Because this is now Jennifer Granholm saying, yeah, some gas stoves are going to be impacted by the government proposal.
And then you have states like New York that want to eliminate it completely in terms of any new building that is ever put up, which, by the way, is going to be hard to do unless you can figure out a way to build a building without metal and steel and glass, maybe toothpicks and matchsticks.
Maybe that's how we'll build big tower buildings in New York moving forward.
Anyway, this is Jennifer Granholm contradicting herself.
The gas stoves that would be impacted are high-impact, high-tech, high-end gas stoves for the most expensive gas stoves.
And the reason why they were found to be inadequate is because in many cases they're very heavy grates and the burners can be an oval shape, which causes an excess amount of natural gas to be emitted relative to the pot that's on there.
So it's just, it's a wasteful use of natural gas.
Anyway, now the irony in all of this is there've been pictures of a ton of liberals all over the place.
And guess what?
In the back, you can see a gas stove.
You know, Jill Biden even had one.
I mean, it's a joke, but it's real.
And the cost, do you think the government's going to give you a free gas, free electric stove?
I doubt it.
And by the way, I've got to point out it's one of the cleanest burning fuels, natural gas.
It's that simple.
For the next, for the foreseeable future, meaning in the next few decades, our economy, the world's economy, is going to be run on oil, gas, and fuel.
That's it.
And I hope they do come up with cheaper, cleaner forms of energy.
I'm not against that.
But right now, I'm looking at the reality.
And energy-wise, by not producing the energy domestically, and we have the vast resources that will last hundreds of years, we have now become dependent on countries that hate our guts.
And Joe Biden is making countries like Saudi Arabia, countries like Venezuela even, rich again.
And these should be high-paying career American jobs.
It drives me nuts.
It's also good for national security.
I don't want to be relying on Saudi Arabia, China's new friend, for anything.
Anyway, joining us now, Tim Stewart, president of U.S. Oil and Gas.
Sir, how are you?
Glad you could be with us.
Mr. Hannah, you're a great American.
Thanks for having me on.
Yes, sir.
You're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
Our country is an absolute mess.
And we have unilaterally disarmed in the energy sector, the lifeblood of the world's economy.
And we will, as my mother said often, we will rue the day.
Yeah, I think we are right now.
And I think you've teed this up really well.
You know, 61% of U.S. households use natural gas.
65% of our reduced emissions have come because we have switched from coal to natural gas.
Natural gas is where we need to be for the future.
And yet we have the administration who refuses to admit that.
And frankly, this gas stove issue is incredibly frustrating because the amount of efficiency that they will be able to implement and the amount of savings amounts to literally any for each user.
So we're a little bit frustrated, but I think we run a real risk here that we end up winning the wrong fight because theoretically, I think we can probably beat the Biden administration back on these regulations about gas stoves.
But the challenge is the dark money and the environmental groups are running very concentrated campaigns at the state and local level, like you mentioned, where I may be able to have my right to buy an installed gas stove, but I won't be able to get a residential gas line to run to it anymore.
And the environmentals will say, hey, we didn't ban anything.
Go buy that stove.
But good luck in getting natural gas to your house, though.
I mean, it's pretty amazing to me that this is the position we now find ourselves in.
News broke today, and this was on NBC, by the way.
House Republicans, they are, to their credit, moving to unleash America's energy industry in the face of Joe Biden's adherence to new Green Deal socialism and the climate alarmist religious cult, as I call it.
Anyway, a GOP bill up for a vote today would sharply increase the domestic energy production in the country, and that includes natural gas and coal, and ease permitting restrictions that's delaying pipelines, refineries, and other projects.
Now, I don't think they're going to be successful, but they are making a statement.
And the statement is, elect us, and we'll go back to energy independence and hopefully even take it a step further, which is where I would take it, energy dominance.
We could be supplying all of Western Europe with all of their energy needs.
And you know what?
We always use the term, you know, an oil-rich nation.
We can be an energy-rich America and maybe pay down the trillions and trillions and trillions in debt that these politicians have squandered over the years.
So I agree with you.
You know, the interesting thing, and I know you've talked at length about this, but the issue is what is the oil and gas asset that the federal government itself holds.
The federal lands hold about 15 or 20 percent of the total oil and gas assets in the U.S.
And for all intents and purposes, last two years of the Biden administration pulled those off the table for future development.
As you know, imagine you would the pressure you'd place on any other industry if, say, you pulled 20 percent of the airplanes out of commission by the FAA or 20% of the trucks were pulled off the road by transportation.
You see, it has a huge impact.
Same with domestic energy reduction.
Unless you're an operator exclusively on private lands, most operators in the Western states have this mix of federal and state and private lands.
And if you pull 15 or 20 percent of those available resources off the table, it has real ramifications.
That's why this bill is so important to us.
It streamlines the permitting process, and frankly, it forces the renewable energy who now finds themselves in the same position the oil and gas industry does with regards to this morass of permit permitting problems that were now tied together.
So it's encouraging, I think, to get this bill passed from the House this week, and then they'll go to the Senate where all good ideas go to die, but we'll at least we've got something to be talking about.
Well, and there's also a new vision and an alternative, hopefully, for the future that we'll be depending on.
And hopefully, we'll make that transition with an election won in November of 2024.
You're the expert.
How many years worth of oil, gas, coal does this country have known resources that we could tap into that are available?
What do we know what we have?
How many years' worth of natural gas, for example, do we have that we know about?
Well, you know, our industry is really interesting because, you know, we're theoretically, according to the Luddites and the other side, we're supposed to have run out 10 years ago.
But look, when the Biden administration is saying that we're going to see an increase in domestic production through 2050, another 15, 20 years at least, we've got at least 100 years of resource available to us.
There's conventional, there's unconventional.
There's stuff in oil shale and oil sands.
It's really, really exciting what we have going forward.
But, you know, those gas stoves that people are trying to get rid of, they're going to be around for a long time.
And that's really our whole purpose: to give, if I could for a minute, you know, last summer when gas prices were high, I'd go to church and the old ladies would gather around me and they kind of beat me up because they knew they worked for oil and gas industry.
And that's changed.
You know, they now come to us about, well, this government is going to come take away my gas stove.
And this really, really pisses people off.
They're upset.
I figured out why it's because the kitchen is one place in our homes where everybody congregates.
It's the heart of family life.
It's where you raise your kids.
It's where you have your arguments, et cetera, et cetera.
And they view this as an absolute invasion of their personal space by uninvited guests.
They view their choice and their freedoms being taken away.
And that's why the industry needs to stand up and do something.
That's why we're starting this little initiative to give people some information through handsoffmystove.com.
It's a new website we've started to get them signed up to figure out what they can do.
But they're going to, you know, this is like I said, this ticks people off.
And they want to give these environments and the pajama boys the middle thing here and say, I don't give a crap if the way I cook dinner makes you feel sad.
Get the hell out of my house.
And we want to be able to help people understand there's ways to respond back to this and give them that opportunity.
Well, listen, Tim Stewart, President, U.S. Oil and Gas.
We'll check in with you regularly, I am certain.
And we really appreciate you doing that.
And I hope I can keep my gas stove.
Can you?
I might actually buy like backups, like three or four or five of them, maybe get 1,000-gallon tanks of propane put in the ground in my backyard.
I don't know.
I'll try and do something like that.
I'd suggest you give Stacey Abrams a call because she, well, she just took a role with one of the environmental groups about how to get rid of gas stoves and how they're so bad for poor people.
She's got a very nice, beautiful gas range in her home that you can see in one of her old campaign commercials called Cooking.
So they're hypocrites.
Amazing.
Come on.
Amazing hypocrisy.
Anyway, your website, handsoffmystove.com.
I hope a lot of people go there because there's great information.
We appreciate you being with us.
Thank you, Tim Stewart.
Thanks, John.
Appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones.
Julie in Alabama.
What's going on, Julie?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, I'm doing great, Sean.
Thank you.
What can I do for you?
What's on your mind today?
Okay, so yesterday I heard you talking and you were talking about the military bases, the drag shows.
And then you posed the question: who started this?
And right before you said that, I thought the same thing.
It's like, who gave the order?
Who gave the mandate?
We're going straight into libraries.
We're going to hit the kids.
We're going to the schools wherever they'll let us speak to a young audience.
And, you know, the mama bear in me just really rises up and says, okay, drive the steak in the ground and say no more.
But, you know, I do want to know who gave the order.
Like, who started this?
Let me give you what's in the news today.
I'll just give you headlines.
And this is the stuff I read every day.
In Texas now, they have to have a push to ban drag queen shows for kids.
It now has passed its first hurdle by a vote of six to two in a Senate committee there.
The Washington Post is mocking parents requesting transparency on gender identity curriculum.
Quote, I want to vomit, was one of the comments.
Kentucky legislature has now overridden the Democratic governor's veto on a bill banning sex changes for minors.
In West Virginia, their governor signed a ban on gender affirming care.
We have another story at a North Carolina community college.
A girl straddled by a drag queen that sparked outrage at that particular school.
It is a church assembly to debate urging the U.S. government to renounce transgender procedures on minors.
By the way, and we brought this up yesterday, General Milley now finally commented he's going to put an end to drag queen story hour on military bases.
Thank you, Matt Gates, for that.
It's even Joe Rogan who goes off on this, you know, transgender female athletes competing against biological women.
Yeah, I don't think that's fair.
And even Caitlin Jenner, right here on this show, was very articulate.
I don't really care what the testosterone levels are when an athlete is competing at 20 or 21 or 22.
What was it when they were 13, 14, 15?
That matters.
And by the way, I'm not done.
Michigan State warns against using bigoted phrases like Christmas trees, terrorist, or overweight.
Oh, I can't talk about myself when I have a little belly, although I've been knocking it down pound by pound.
So you get my point.
By the way, that's just today's news on these issues, just today.
Right.
And the story you brought up with the straddling of the 14-year-old girl, I saw the picture of that, and I thought to myself, I know that girl walked into that show thinking it was going to be, quote, fun, and never expected some grown man to sit on her like that.
And I'm thinking, you know, our children really don't give consent, you know, for what's being put in front of them, but the adults can.
I mean, so if you're an adult, want to go do that.
But children don't have consent.
I leave the children alone.
You want to go transgender.
You're an adult.
Go do what you want to do.
I am not.
Honestly, I think most Americans are pretty libertarian.
Live your life the way you want to live.
I believe in freedom, but freedom for adults, not freedom to indoctrinate kids.
Anyway, good call.
You know, you could juxtapose that.
Linda, you'll love this story.
University of Pennsylvania, they have now done away with dean's list recognitions.
Now, by the way, when I was in college, the times I made the dean's list, I was pretty proud of myself for making the dean's list.
3AQ, Hannity did pretty well for a guy that worked full-time while I was going to school.
And now we're going to get away with that, but we're going to have story hour, you know, with drag queens.
And then we're going to talk about to minors the issue of transgenderism and gender identity.
You know, how about a little bit of age appropriateness?
And let me add, I know this is a wild, old-fashioned, out-of-date thought process, but maybe schools should go back to the basics because they're screwing it up so bad.
And that would be reading, writing, math, science, real history, and computers.
And maybe they should start learning about artificial intelligence and chat GPT because their world is going to be transformed by it.
You know, you can't, you just cannot make this stuff up.
Linda, pretty amazing.
So this caller in the last hour, and I had planned on doing this today.
All of these stories, now this happens every day.
Now, we've been very focused on, you know, is former President Trump going to get indicted.
We've been focused on Biden's economy.
We've been focused on, you know, woke military.
We've been focused on so many other issues, our broken borders, the disastrous energy policies, the disastrous economic policies.
So people aren't really paying attention to these things.
So juxtapose the University of Pennsylvania, beginning July 1st of this year, will stop recognizing academic achievements and the designation of being on the dean's list.
I made it on the dean's list when I was in college.
I remember my first semester at college, I got a 3.8 and I was working full-time.
Not too bad.
And paying my own way through school.
But then you look at the rest of the stories.
This is just one day's worth of news.
I don't know where this whole thing came from about drag queen story hour for children.
I have no idea.
Or where, you know, all of a sudden we're finding out that there are many teachers around the country, story after story, that feel they have the right to circumvent parental authority and values and instill their values in children as it relates to controversial issues involving gender, identity, etc.
We've told you many of these stories.
They're all our children.
And the reason you're the teachers of the year is because you recognize that.
They're not somebody else's children.
They're like yours when they're in the classroom.
As an educator, I am constantly worried if I am part of the problem.
What do I mean by that?
Well, public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society, like white supremacy and misogyny and colonization, etc.
In my role as an educator, I try to undermine that BS in my classroom as much as I possibly can.
I teach high school English and whew, the white supremacy runs deep.
What do I mean by that?
Well, let's look at how we write essays.
Start with an introduction that includes a thesis.
Always cite your sources.
Use transition words like however and therefore.
These are all made-up rules.
They're arbitrary.
They were created by Westerners in power.
In linguistic justice, April Baker Bell calls this the language of respectability or the language of power.
Which got me thinking, what if I started my school year with a unit honoring how we talk rather than teaching students how to write properly?
For the first time in my life, I'm going to be teaching at a majority white school.
And I'm kind of interested to see how students and parents react to my classroom or if they even notice anything about it because it's built for non-white students.
And what I mean by that is like if you look around and you interact with some of the materials I have, you'll notice that there's like no white kids represented in that.
So this comment right here is asking me to explain why not wanting critical race theory in the classroom is racist.
Thank you for asking me this question.
I'd love to explain it.
So, critical race theory talks about how the systems that we have, the laws that we have, how all of those are designed to oppress people groups.
Things like mass incarceration, the prison industrial system, the military-industrial system, all of those are used to oppress people groups.
We can dismantle racism by dismantling systems of oppression, not by being nice to people.
You know, in Texas, believe it or not, they have a Senate committee.
This is only part of the process.
Anyway, they are now passing two bills restricting, quote, drag queen performances in the presence of children.
They now have to form legislation.
When did this become so popular?
I must have missed it.
Washington Post, remember their slogan, democracy dies in darkness, mocking parents for requesting public records on what their children are learning on topics relating to gender identity and race.
Wednesday in a social media post on their TikTok page, resources are being shifted away from students' academic needs at the exact instant America is facing falling test scores, a teen mental health crisis, and a teacher shortage.
And because of how much time and money is needed to process these requests, they are now changing what schools are spending on their funding.
And then he proceeded to mock parents' complaints about information being left out of the public record requests relating to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
I'm very tired.
I almost want to vomit when I hear the word redaction.
Oh, in other words, you parents maybe investigated as domestic terrorists.
Just shut your mouth when it comes to educating your kids and what these teachers are teaching.
Over in Kentucky, the state legislature there overrode Democratic governor, the Democratic governor's veto of a bill banning sex change surgeries for minors on Wednesday.
They had to take it and override a veto.
Not easy to do.
Then we have another story, this one out of a North Carolina community college, a drag queen straddling a girl during a racy performance at the school.
Well, I'm not sure I want to even send my kids to college and have them indoctrinated in a school environment like that.
I'd prefer they actually learn something about their future profession, maybe economics, maybe communications, maybe pre-med, pre-law, whatever they happen to want to get into.
Anyway, one church assembly, they had to debate urging the U.S. government to renounce the sin of transgender procedure.
Now, we learned during this Nashville shooting, you know, I always thought it was we were told by the woke crowd, the left in America, the PC crowd, that you should never ever attack someone's deeply held religious beliefs.
Now, you can go after radical extremists.
We always make the distinction, always have, as it relates to radical Islamists.
We're not talking about all Muslims.
We make a distinction.
You know, but if you say something that's anti-Semitic, you are widely condemned.
If you say something that is deemed Islamophobic, you are widely condemned.
By the way, I'd say rightly so.
But it's okay.
It's, you know, free gate.
Oh, maybe these kids, maybe the people at this Covenant Church, they didn't pray enough.
That's okay.
And other comments like I went over yesterday.
It's unbelievable.
And then, of course, we have, you know, wokeness all over our military, where we literally have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has to make the comment that he will end drag queen story hour on military bases after a pretty heated exchange with Congressman Matt Gates.
Played part of the exchange yesterday that he had with somebody else.
Then we have the issue of men born, people born biologically as male, transgender, and become female competing in female sports.
I'll quote Caitlin Jenner on that every day.
I don't care about the testosterone levels when somebody's 22.
What were they when they hit puberty?
That makes a big difference.
Anyway, good point.
You know, and by the way, Caitlin Jenner is a phenomenal golfer.
If she played the senior LPGA tour, I'm telling you, she would rock it.
I mean, we obviously knew Caitlin when Caitlin was Bruce.
I mean, he wanted the cathlon.
He's an Olympic athlete of all athletes at the time.
Now she's a she, and she said, it would be unfair for me to compete.
She said this on this very show.
Friend of mine, she's called me.
We've talked about it.
I've interviewed her.
And, you know, she explained a lot about it to me that I didn't understand before.
I feel pretty libertarian, and I think most Americans are.
You know what?
We're so wrapped up in our everyday lives.
Do you really care what other adults choose to do in their life?
Because I don't.
I mean, I wish them the best.
I wish them all of God's blessings.
But it's not my job to tell people how to live their lives.
Now, if people seek my advice, my counsel, my input, I'm always willing to help somebody out.
Breaking news on 710WOR.
Jeff McKinney in from the WR newsroom, and all major news outlets now are reporting.
Everyone is in agreement that former President Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
The grand jury voted to indict just in the last hour or so.
So Trump has been indicted, it would seem for sure now, much more throughout the evening here on 710WOR.
Now it's back to Hannity.
The Sean Hannity show already in progress.
Calling his comments insensitive, apologizing profusely for focusing on one already harassed minority.
He also confessed to his full house of privilege.
And anyway, in the deleted tweet that he had posted Monday, the actor addressed the woke Hollywood trend of casting only LGBTQ actors in LGBTQ roles.
A question, if the only people allowed to play trans characters are trans folks, then are we also suggesting that the only people trans folks can play are trans characters?
I'm only pointing out the magnitude, the impact, how widespread this has gotten.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
Kind of came out of nowhere to me.
I understood when Caitlin Jenner gave her interview with Diane Sawyer that it was a game changer, but I didn't think we'd have teachers and schools trying to indoctrinate our kids.
Meanwhile, you look at Michigan State, and again, our prayers are still with them after what happened there, but they're warning against using bigoted phrases like Christmas trees, terrorists, or overweight.
How do I describe myself, Linda, when my tummy gets a little big done?
Was that response worthy or was that rhetorical?
No, it wasn't rhetorical.
Occasionally, I have to watch what I eat.
Christmas time is a time of giving and growing.
Sometimes growing in particular areas from too many cookies.
It's okay.
I don't eat cookies.
I'm very, very, you know, keto-friendly paleo.
At Christmas?
Always.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
Stop lying to the audience.
I'm not loying to the older.
You're not being a good Christian.
I'm not.
Whoa.
It's a low blow.
See that?
That was a low.
I'm calling your pastor.
Right before Christ Price.
I am calling your pastor.
I am calling your pastor.
Listen.
In the middle of Lent.
My pastor is out of his mind right now with all this news.
You kidding me?
He wants to rip his hair out.
Exactly.
That's why he's going to yell at you for me.
All right.
Let's get to our phones.
Mark in Texas.
What's up, Mark?
How are you?
I'm good.
Hey, thank you for taking my call.
So there's a lot of, I guess, rumors going around that the Democrats want Trump to win the primary because they truly believe that Joe Biden can beat him again.
If he did it fairly, you know, that's up for asking me any day now.
I have a dance.
Well, if they really believe that, why are they trying so hard to indict him?
Yeah, I've heard that that's what a lot of people are bringing up to me because they know I'm a Republican that they believe that the reason they're trying to indict him and they're trying to bring all this, I guess, attention towards him because they know that it'll push him past that finish line, past DeSantis.
If he wins, I do believe he wins, and I hope he wins the primary.
Do you think that he can beat Joe Biden this time?
I think whatever is going to drive the election in 2024 has not happened yet.
It's going to be, now some things have happened.
You know, Joe's horrific economic policies, his terrible foreign policy, the move of China and Putin and Qi and Putin and Russia and Iran.
And, you know, there's a lot going on, a lot of moving parts on the border, on the economy, on energy, on, you know, decimating the American dream for so many people.
All of that's going to be a part of it, but there's going to be a lot more that unfolds between now and November of 2024, none of which I predict is going to be particularly good for the country or the world.
And I pray to God that I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
I do believe that in the case of Russia and China, I do believe they're just waiting to see who wins this election coming up.
I may be wrong, but I do believe that if Joe Biden wins again, that's when they'll attack.
I really appreciate it.
Thanks so much for calling.
You know, we'll see what happens.
I think China's going into Taiwan, and this new axis of evil scares the hell out of me.
I got an idea.
I think I know the way that they're going to bring down America.
They're going to offer Joe Biden ice cream.
He's going to get very distracted, right?
They're just going to start talking about ice cream, all the flavors they have.
He loves chocolate chocolate chip.
It's his favorite.
And then Xi's is going to be like, you know what, Joe?
Just take a seat.
You know, we got a nice, cozy guest room.
And while Joey's upstairs having some good ice cream, you know, Xi will just take over the rest of the world with all the support from the Middle East and Putin and every other bad actor because that's what we've allowed to happen.
And no one takes this seriously, as is the case by now Europe and other Middle Eastern nations considering their currency trading to be more popular with the yen than it would be with the dollar.
Anyway, we appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean.
Linda, those are pretty good points.
We really appreciate it.
Thanks for your input.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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