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July 5, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Best of Hannity - Sean's Funeral Arrangements - July 4th, Hour 3
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I'm always looking for good shows, series, movies to watch.
And I happened upon, I'm sure somebody recommended it to me, and then I I've I finally did a deep dive and I really got into it.
Uh Angel Studios, it's uh I believe it's Angel.com is is what the website is.
I'll find out in a second, uh, for sure.
And they did a whole series called The Chosen, and it was about his life, uh Jesus' life on Earth, and they did three seasons of it.
I I just I can't wait for the next season.
And it was to me, I could not stop watching it.
And it was one of those those binge series, and especially if you're a person of faith and you believe in Jesus, and and by the way, regardless of what faith you're from, you get a lot if you w want to know about the story of Jesus.
They they did something that I thought was impossible to do, and that is they they were able to show the human side of of the Son of Man on Earth, uh, obviously leading up to his his resurrection.
Now we all remember The Passion of the Christ.
Uh I can't watch that movie to this day without crying, and and they now came out with a new movie.
It stars, interestingly enough, uh somebody I happen to like a lot.
He played Jesus in the Passion of the Christ, Jim Cavizel, and it's called The Sound of Freedom.
And this is a little bit different.
This is based on a true story of uh freedom fighter that embarks on a dangerous mission to literally rescue dozens of children from human trafficking and sex trafficking and slavery.
It is it is beyond emotionally ri riveting start to finish.
It will be in theaters the weekend of July fourth, but I want to tell you about a unique program that they've instituted that you can get your tickets now and guarantee that you can see it and even pay for people that maybe can't afford to see it.
Uh that's coming up in a second, but here's the trailer.
It is the fastest growing international crime network that the world has ever seen.
It has already passed the illegal arms trade, and soon it's gonna pass the truck trade.
You can sell a bag of coat cake one time, the child five to ten times a day.
God's children are not for sale.
How long you've been doing this?
Twelve years now.
Let me pedophile.
288.
The kids you found.
Well, homeland security, you know we can't go off rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia.
She'll disappear.
For good.
Singing everything bad.
You quit your job and you go and rescue those kids.
Joining us now is Tim Ballard.
Uh this story was about him and his life.
He's the guy that actually was involved in in rescuing children from human trafficking, and Jim Cavizel, who plays Tim in the movie, is with us.
Uh great to have you both.
Um, you know, Tim, before I get to your personal story, I want to go to Jim.
At the end of this movie, you you did a passionate description, and up on the screen at the end of the movie, um, how human trafficking is a hundred and fifty dollar a year business.
These are the facts you put up in the last frame of the movie.
You said the United States of America, our country, is one of the top destinations for human trafficking and among the largest consumers of child sex.
And then you put up that there are more humans trapped in slavery today than at any other time in history, including when slavery was legal and millions of these slaves are children.
Now I mean that that that took me aback.
I did now I've known over the years interviewing guys that have worked in in various law enforcement that have told me how real this is and how dangerous this is and how widespread this is, but I uh those statistics startled me.
Well okay.
Um two things here.
One, I want to tell you how incredible this film is.
But it you need not look far if if you want to go to Ms. Roha's testimony, April 26th in front of the swing uh giving her sworn testimony when she uh whistleblowed that eight hundred and fifty thousand children went missing.
Um and then next day in the media there was nothing in the news.
Now the public is well aware that a lot of this stuff comes out and then the next day it's gone.
Um and when you go into this film, when you watch this film, um let me just say this, ladies and gentlemen.
This is not a woke movie.
Um, like the Maverick movie last year, Top Gun, great adventure.
This also has a great adventure thrill ride when you watch what my hero Tim Ballard, who I got to play, and thankfully, he came to me and asked me to play this uh part.
But I'm gonna explain something.
Like The Passion of Christ, the movie you just mentioned earlier.
People don't leave the theater.
They're stunned, slack job.
The mouths are wide open, just looking at each other uh because they just went on this massive thrill ride, but something that hits you so hard to your core.
And I think that it would be the right time now that the public would on the fourth of July, they give these children their independence to go and s sit and watch this tremendous film.
It's one of the best films I've done since The Passion of the Christ.
Well, I can tell you I agree with you.
It's called The Sound of Freedom.
It's gonna be in theaters nationwide.
It was shot on location in Columbia, and it's based on the very true story and the true bravery and the incredible heroism of this other guest we have, Tim Ballard.
Um I I I I Well, first of all, you're a hero to me already, and I don't know you, but um this will resonate with Americans, and I think Americans need to understand how widespread this is.
You know, oh I I how real is the movie to what exactly you did.
Um yeah, thanks, son.
Uh honored to be on your show and appreciate the opportunity.
Um so the the film really is uh it's very accurate.
Uh every kid is real, every bad guy is real, um, and the story is based on a truth that is coming, is a documentary that's coming out that's gonna actually show you uh it's in some ways the underreported in the film what actually happened um in in terms of the number of rescues on that particular operation.
So uh it's it's it's uh it was our first operation, and I'm just grateful that we have amazing partners in it in the media and in child in the uh angel studios to to get this word out because we think it can help rescue a lot more kids.
You know, the amazing thing is is they're asking people they they want to get two million people in week one in the theaters, and they have a unique way to do it.
Now you can go to their website right now and buy it for the Fourth of July weekend, it's release weekend, and that's at Angel.com or they have another website, uh Soundofreedomovie.com.
And if you're there and you want to buy tickets for you and your family, you might want to pay for one or two other people to go.
Uh, because they want anybody that wants to see this film to have the ability to say it.
They call paying it forward.
Um so in this particular case, what amazed me is when you went in to rescue, well, first of all, the the human evil that exists in the world today, Tim, it's you know, it's hard for good people, I think, to really wrap themselves around the that the fact that evil exists.
And you have this one woman appealing to a father, oh let me bring your two kids.
I think they can be stars.
Uh, let me bring them to the audition.
It's gonna take place tomorrow.
The woman knows full well that she's going to kidnap those children, sell them into slavery, most often the case, sex slavery, and you were able to save both a brother and a sister in this instance, and uh my understanding is you saved other children as well.
I mean, t tell people a little bit about that story.
Yeah, so I I had been sent down by the U.S. government, I was a special agent with U.S. government this time with Home Man's Security, and I was sent down to do a training, uh, consult on this case, and I kind of overcommitted and and went further um than I was supposed to, and ultimately had to make a choice, either come home and not do the case or quit my job in um by the way, and and quit your job ten months before you were vested in your pension.
Yeah, I didn't I watched by it, I didn't get anything.
Um and I'll be honest, I was more cowardice than the film shows.
I I I had six kids at the time, and and as my wife says, You are not coming home.
You are you are gonna stay there, and I if she said, I will not let you jeopardize my salvation by not doing this.
So really, you know, Mary Sabrino Plays my wife and and it her role is actually a lot more powerful in real life and in influencing this operation.
And so I mean in her knowing that I I may never come home.
It was that kind of an operation.
You lost I lost my badge.
I lost my top cover, um, you know, the protection of the US government and and we we went in uh and and we infiltrated this organization like like you mentioned, run by a woman.
I just testified in her trial actually just a few months ago that's still ongoing.
Uh they're they're all gonna be convicted, but and she had her and her cohorts and they were recruiting children, just like you said.
They were recruiting children uh by by pretending that they were gonna make them famous, famous models, famous actress.
This woman was famous.
She was Miss Cartagena in 2012.
She shows up in music videos all through Columbia.
So she was very convincing and she was able to round up quite a few children.
Um in the end, it was fifty-four in total on on that particular operation, and we were able to get them all in the same place, all the traffickers in the same place.
And um, you know, Jim Jim can tell you he he depicted something that was really real, and I'm I was on the set crying.
I was crying as I watched them, you know, that that raid and not rescue operation on the island, uh, because it was so so incredibly real and it was just it was like a mile from the actual location where it had happened.
So by the way, just so people know, this is it right in the middle of Cartel Central.
There was no help ever coming.
You either got in and out on your own or you weren't getting out, you'd be dead.
Sean, uh he's not even hardly telling you anything.
They were doing operations while we were doing the shooting, they were doing operations.
So I had a first hand account of what that is like.
Um in fact, one at one point I you know, Tim was training me to you know, uh taking me in and showing me okay when I'm asking questions of what are you looking for here?
And because it's a really important for the audience to understand this is action adventure, but you learn.
You learn how it works.
You get to see how they hunt.
And and in this particular case, Tim had me coming in there back and forth.
I was going back to Salt Lake back and forth, and I was going to do a mission with them.
Well, they ended up doing a mission, but it was while we were filming, and he says, You can't do it, it's too dangerous.
We were shooting right in the cartel territory.
I'm going from set, just walking from you know, I forgot something down at the set.
My security came running after me, surrounded me, and said, You you do you have any idea where you're at?
They would take your head off.
Don't ever do that again, okay, you know, but I'm sitting here thinking m uh learning m remembering my lines and trying to change things and w where am I to pull my gun out and everything.
And but this is all going on and he's trying to arrest Mr. Mrs. Ms. Cartagena while this is all going on when we're down there.
And I'll just tell you, just Sean, we had the we had fifteen hundred people in a theater in Vegas, and not one of them got up and left.
And at one particular part they were talking back and forth.
Like so I asked them at the end of the movie, what why were you doing that?
Why were you talking like that?
And they kept saying Epstein Island, Epstein Island.
Oh, well, I want to say that Epstein Island isn't the only sex island outfit for kids.
I mean, that's such a powerful point.
I mean, when you look at these actual numbers and the fact that this was your real life, Tim, and I guess still remains your real life.
Every time you're involved in one of these operations, you know you may not be coming home.
That's right.
Yeah, these operations are are are pretty dangerous.
We infiltrate pretty deep.
And uh, you know, let's what's the thing maybe the thing I'm most proud of is the fact that when I see that movie, our teams, I have 140 plus employees now.
Um after that operation, we're all through the world.
Our foundation is called Operation Underground Railroad, and um I also run the Nazarene Fund, which was founded by Glenn Beck, which does similar work for persecuted Christians.
But we're doing these operations that you see in that film every week, every month.
Um so it's it's uh it's great uh to be part of a solution, but we gotta wake everybody up.
You know, the United States, as you mentioned earlier, Sean, we're in the top destination, we're number two or three.
I spent ten years of my career on the border, on the southern border.
And uh, you've taught you've been more vocal than anyone, and and and thank God you have been because we are facilitating human trafficking, as you know.
Um, you know, eighty-five thousand unaccompanied minors under this current administration have disappeared into the belly of the United States.
We are the number one demand in the world for child sex.
So it doesn't take uh an an economist to really conclude what's happening here and why it's happening.
Um It makes me sick to my stomach to think that you know when we don't enforce those laws on the border, children get raped and they get raped by the thousands in our own country.
So thank you for being vocal on that and Ted Cruz and and those who have really come out with the truth here.
But we are our own country.
We are complicit.
And in one of the worst human trafficking uh schemes that the world's ever seen.
Well, I'm gonna tell you what they're planning.
This movie's gonna be released.
You have to see it.
And you can buy tickets early.
You can go to Angel.com.
They're looking for two million people the weekend of the Fourth of July.
This this will have a for an impact that will last forever.
I promise you.
And Angel.com slash Hannity.
And and you can even buy tickets maybe for people that can't afford them.
If you want to go but can't afford it, the somebody will pay it for you.
We'll take care of it.
Um and if you want to see, just go to Sound of Freedom Movie dot com as well.
Um this will be this this will shock your conscience and soul because you're witnessing real evil in real time, people without hearts, souls, or a conscience.
And uh guys, all I can say is really well done.
Uh, we're gonna talk more about it before its debut.
Uh Jim Cavizel, we haven't talked in a long time.
Good good to hear your voice, my friend.
Great job in this movie.
Tim Ballard, what an incredible inspir inspiring life you've led.
And just remember this name, Sound of Freedom.
Weekend 4th of July, Sound of Freedom Movie.com, or just go to Angel.com and you'll be able to get your tickets there as well.
Uh guys, we'll have you back before the fourth and your launch.
Uh, this movie blew me away.
Absolutely blew me away.
And the work at Angel Studios is phenomenal as well.
Thank you both.
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, Linda wants to be in charge of all my funeral requests and arrangements, but she's not willing to enforce any of the the rules that I've laid down.
I have a rule that and I expect you to be the enforcer of it.
No, no crying at my funeral.
Absolutely not.
And I want it to be a celebration of an undeserved life.
Absolutely.
I'm gonna hire John Rich.
He's gonna come and play.
You know what I mean?
We're you can he can say, like, you know, we're coming to your city, and it can be like, you know, you're going home to God.
Like, yeah, baby Jesus, I'm coming to your city, get it.
I love that.
Yeah, it's working.
He can sing amazing grace.
Absolutely, he does great gospel.
By the way, he made fun of you really, really bad at Alpha 611.
I died laughing.
He sent me the video.
Anybody who hasn't seen it, it's online.
It's John Rich drinking the oceanity with Pinkies up.
It's pretty funny.
Um, yes, I'm happy to enforce it, and I will make sure that no one cries, and if they cries, I will give them something to cry about.
What do you make sure?
What are you gonna do to my daughter?
If she's I'm gonna hug her and console her and say you're really gonna give her something to cry about?
Well, no, she doesn't count like we're a regular person.
She's your daughter.
What about my sisters?
She's allowed to cry.
Any immediate family's allowed to cry.
No, that's not what my will says.
You know, he's not forced to be like, Humpty Dumpty can't come and cry.
Humpty Dumpty.
First of all, when you're a po you're a celebrity, people show up.
No way.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Are you serious?
Yes.
Think about like Princess Die.
I mean, they surrounded the castle.
You know what I mean?
Like they meant it, man.
They wanted to see her.
People who never knew her, you know.
Well, one of my one of my rules is I don't want anyone seeing my dead corpse.
Oh no, see, that's the other thing I'm gonna do for you.
I'm gonna get the best picture that you ever had, like one you really like.
Like, you know how we take like 89 pictures of you and you don't like any of them, and then you pick one from like 10 years ago because it's the only one you liked.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm gonna put that one on top of your caskets.
We don't open the casket.
It's just this nice.
How about I live in the minds and hearts of people, and then whatever they remember they people are very forgetful.
We need to remind them.
We need a nice picture.
We're gonna put it up.
It's gonna be good.
All I remember is all my dead relatives and laying in that stupid box with the makeup on.
And it's bad.
The only good thing is is that people in my family especially and my friends, they used to see me in makeup, so it's not a little bit more.
This is true.
You actually look pretty normal.
You know, my dad was a funeral in bomber.
Yeah.
And I used he used to bring the dead bodies home on lunch break.
And I have to say, it's made me very calm.
He brought the dead bodies home on lunch break.
And you would, what, would he bring him in to sit in a chair like Weekend at Bernie's?
We were broken as a joke, and my dad picked up an extra swing shift at a funeral parlor in Philly.
And uh the one time he came home with the you know, the what do they call those cars?
The hearses.
And he parks it, and I go, What's that?
And he goes, That's where the people that have gone home, we we put them in the back there.
I'm like, are you driving them?
He goes, No, no, no, I don't know.
He goes, No, we gotta take them, we gotta embalm them.
I said, What's that?
He goes, We put formalderhyde and other chemicals in their body so that they look good.
I'm like, who cares what they look like?
What's going on underground?
I mean, this was like a foreign concept.
So there was this this nun that they uh I g I guess exhumed her body and it was she died four years ago and she was in a perfectly preserved state.
And they're wondering to looking in the poster.
Your callers are obsessed with this story.
Katie got like you talked about this for like a second last week.
Right.
Forget about it.
All right.
So what's interesting, and then you know, people are making fun of the fact that people think this is miraculous.
What I didn't know is how fast the body starts its decomposition process.
I mean, it is, you know, they have to embalm just to keep the body alive for the week, you know, while you're going through the wake and the funeral and and sit and shiver, whatever you happen to be doing.
I mean, some people, you know, buried the day or the next day, um, which I think is a lot smarter.
I don't want to sit there and stare at a dead body.
How awful is that?
I have to be honest, it was very difficult, but there's a lot of conversation that goes on about who gets to do what and who's hosting and who's coming and where's the lunch and all the non- It's a bunch of nonsense.
Well, I put the details in and I'm paying for my own funeral, and uh I just want it to be a celebration of an undeserved life.
I think that is I assure you that if you make me the consigliary of your death, I will make sure to facilitate all the things you want to.
So you say all of this, and I don't believe you.
Why?
I think anybody that starts crying, what are you gonna walk over and say, excuse me, there's a flying room.
It's to the right.
Please.
I didn't say there's nothing in my will about a crying room.
Listen, you said that I couldn't see people crying.
So if I can't see you, you go in, you close the blinds.
I say no crying at my funeral, period, and I want that strictly enforced.
There's only one person that controls free will, and that's the baby Jesus, and I can't do it.
I'm sorry, but I can't put them in a closed room with blinds.
And tell them to shut up and stop complaining.
I'm here to facilitate.
Eat the food, drink the beer, whatever, whatever.
D drink potatoes.
The old shannity with the pinky.
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