Sean Hannity Show - GOP Debates Continue - November 9th, Hour 1

Nov. 10, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show

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GOP Debates Continue - November 9th, Hour 1

Sean breaks down the latest GOP primary and looks to the future with President Trump leading President Biden by as much as he is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	If you want to be a part of the program today, you know, it's I I I watched a lot of the debate as much as I could, and then I'm on the air against the debate, so I know I'm sure a lot of my audience wanted to see both and maybe f hopefully flip back and forth.
	I just wasn't that impressed.
	I don't like when you have five people up there on stage, and yeah, I just don't think you get the substance that you want to get out of a debate.
	And I'm not sure.
	I mean, Vivek made this point about why the why why is this on NBC?
	I mean, I like the fact that Hugh Hewitt was there.
	I think that that certainly helps, but why is the RNC bothering?
	The people at NBC hate Republicans.
	I mean, the bias can't be any more clear.
	It's it's corrupt, abusively biased.
	Um and then you get into these little pissing matches between the the candidates over things that I don't find substantive enough.
	One of the things, this this debate that we have coming up on November 30th, and I have a lot of me media people that have been wanting to interview me, and I almost always turn down most interview requests, as you know, Linda, and I've been doing a bunch of them in the lead up to the debate between uh Governor DeSantis and Governor Newsom is what one of the reasons I like the format that uh that we've created for
	this debate is this there's gonna be room to breathe here.
	In other words, it's gonna be okay, let's let's talk about immigration, sanctuary cities, controlling our borders, let's talk about taxes, let's talk about energy, you know, let's talk about the economy, let's talk about you know, there's a lot of topics.
	And what I hope to accomplish is I mean, you're looking at two heavyweight governors uh of the of two of the largest states in our country.
	Uh they've been kind of sniping at each other for a long time now behind the scenes, and they've agreed to let me moderate it.
	Although Gavin is out there complaining, it's already two on one and it's on Fox.
	I I literally wrote him, I said, really, Gavin.
	You know, and this is the guy that thanked me for giving him a fair interview when I interviewed him, because I kept my word.
	I said I'm going to let him answer the questions.
	And I have I have no my job in this is to let them answer the questions.
	And the questions are going to be what they're going to be.
	I think a lot of it will be fairly predictable questions.
	I might have a few curveballs in there that maybe they don't expect.
	But here's the good part.
	We've got 90 minutes for this debate.
	90.
	And you only have two people.
	So that kind of lends itself to an environment where whether they like each other or not, I don't I don't think they're going to be openly hostile towards each other.
	Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
	I can't I I can't control any of that.
	But my hope is is that we actually, I mean, it's kind of an amazing thing if you think about it.
	You have two of the biggest states, and they couldn't be governing any more differently than they are.
	And it's very representative, I think, of the moment we as a country are now living through.
	And it's a point that I have made often, which is how do you reconcile, defund, dismantle the police, no bail laws with those that want law and order so people can be safe and secure and pursue happiness.
	Tell me where the middle ground is there.
	Well, we'll only defund 50%.
	We'll cut it right, you know, cut the baby in half, as they say, just as a phrase.
	And I'm like, wow.
	You know, pretty amazing.
	I don't see common ground here.
	You know, there used to be a time on this radio program, by the way, Joe Manchin announced that he's not running for re-election for the U.S. Senate.
	Did you see that, Linda?
	Manchin is not running.
	I did see that.
	Um it doesn't surprise me.
	I could see him running for governor if he runs for office again.
	He's not going to do anything.
	He is old.
	He needs to retire and go spend his millions that he never earned being in the Senate.
	The one thing I just say he was one of the few Democratic senators that would even take my call.
	And we could have a discussion.
	And it was it was always cordial.
	And how did he vote?
	Well, he voted in ways I would have disagreed with.
	There you go.
	You know, the inflation reduction act.
	He was at a 70% plus approval rating in West Virginia when he was opposing it.
	I don't know why he changed his mind and eventually gave into that.
	And I know that the Democrats, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden promised him he wanted that the pipeline, what was it from West Virginia to Virginia or West Virginia somewhere.
	And he was promised this if he went along with the act, which by the way, I don't blame him.
	He's standing up for the people of West Virginia, standing up for energy, a big part of the economy.
	And then they reneged on the whole thing.
	And I maybe I'm maybe I'm just guessing wrong here, but I interpreted that as like he's done.
	You know, these people are not men and women of their word.
	They're not honorable people.
	And I find out with a lot of people in politics.
	But there used to be a time.
	I could call Joe Lieberman today, and he would take my call in two seconds.
	Funny story about Joe Lieberman.
	And maybe he was the canary in the coal mine.
	Maybe in the sense that, you know, here you have a guy in 2000 that ran as the vice presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and then just a few years later, the Democrats throw him off the ticket.
	He has to run as an independent, wins as an independent, wins his seat back, because he's very well liked.
	And he and I, even when we're disagreeing, it's we disagree, but we're not disagreeable.
	You can't, there's nothing not to like about this guy.
	Um I would agree with them.
	I we we did tend to agree on issues involving national security.
	We definitely disagreed on everything involving social issues, but there's no more Joe Lieberman's anymore.
	And if Joe Manchin was the moderate, there's no moderates anymore.
	I mean, I think somebody told me Kristen Cinema, I mean, I know she says she's an independent now, but I think she still votes with Joe Biden 97, 8, 9% of the time.
	I mean, what difference does it make if you the debate that we're doing is it's there's enough time For the for the look, you're dealing with two very smart people.
	Whether you like Gavin Newsom is slick, Gavin Newsom will come in prepared.
	So will Ron DeSantis.
	He's had one of the best formal educations of any person that runs any state.
	But they disagree on everything.
	And on every issue that I'm going to bring up, I'm I'm I'm curious if there's going to be any middle ground, if there's going to be any area where you could say, okay, we could probably find agreement here.
	If you do this, we do that.
	Those days now seem done.
	They now the left in this country has gone insane.
	Now, I was happy happily surprised that 22 Democrats voted to censure Congresswoman Taleb when she said from the river to the sea, which in case you don't know means to wipe Israel off the map.
	And I was glad that they did that.
	But you know, so I I'm not saying, for example, I like all the people on that stage last night, even Dopey Vivek, who thinks that I was so mean to him in the debate, and he asked me a hard question, and Tucker was much nicer to me on his show.
	I'm like, just shut up and answer the question.
	Just you know, really, you're gonna whine about everything.
	Um, in my opinion, he came in a little too cocky, a little too prepared with his, you know, one-liners, etc., etc.
	And I think it was a big mistake.
	I just don't think it's fair to bring up people's children in a debate.
	I just think it's wrong.
	And I didn't like when he brought up Nikki Haley's daughter.
	I mean, seriously, leave the kids out of it.
	It's bad enough that they have famous parents.
	It's that enough, that's enough of a burden on them.
	Um I thought Governor DeSantis, he he just took the high road on this stuff for the most part.
	He did go after Donald Trump in the beginning of the interview.
	Uh you know, I wish that the battle within the Republican ranks, it's gonna happen in every primary.
	At some point, the top candidates are gonna start killing each other.
	But usually that's at the end of the process.
	Usually when, you know, there's two people left and everything's on the line, and you gotta win this state or you gotta win that state.
	That's that's when things can get very ugly.
	Although you want to see an ugly campaign, you can go back to John McCain and George W. Bush.
	If you go to South Carolina, I mean, it became a must-win state at that point for George W. Bush.
	I mean, it was brutal.
	I mean, that campaign at that point was brutal.
	Um, so I just I I see this now as America now, you have uh a party that is weak, a party that doesn't have the strength to really advance any agenda except distinguish itself from the socialist radical climate alarmist cultists that represent the Democratic Party, and I don't even see enough agreement on their side.
	And that's frustrating to me.
	At that point, we then have like a unit party in America.
	I do want clear distinctions.
	I want bold colored differences, as Reagan talked about.
	I want a choice election.
	I want to know how they distinguish themselves from what the Democratic Party is doing.
	You know, I'm watching Joe Biden out there, and you know, he actually said yesterday, oh, I'm not trailing Trump in battleground states.
	like, yes, you are.
	The New York Times even says you're trailing in five of the six battleground states.
	Did you ask for a three-day pause to get in the offer?
	No, I've been asking for a pause for a lot more than three decades.
	All right, that's the wrong tape.
	Let's go to the other one.
	I'll get to that one in a second.
	I'm not trailing Trump in Battleground states.
	That's cut four on today's cut sheet.
	Did you ask for a three-day pause in any Yahoo?
	All right, he'll find it.
	Anyway, now Joe Biden admitted in the cut that uh we were just playing.
	I asked Netanyahu for even a longer pause than three days.
	Why would the president of the United States, after Israel's 9-11 on steroids and human growth hormone, if you extrapolate our populations?
	Why would he be asking Israel to pause for anything?
	What does a pause mean?
	A pause means they rearm, they recalculate, they they They redeploy, and then they come back even more powerful than they were before, and you stop your momentum.
	Why would we ask Israel to stop the momentum because they're winning the war?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	And then Biden said something that I haven't heard of.
	He said he struck Iran's revolutionary guard because they struck us.
	Linda, we read the news all day, every day.
	Did we strike the Iranian revolutionary guard?
	Is he talking about the two pinprick strikes at empty warehouses?
	Is that what he's referring to?
	After 40 some odd attacks against American soldiers.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	Do we have that tape?
	Why did you strike Iran's revolutionary guard?
	Because they struck us.
	And President Biden.
	Why did you hit them again?
	What is he talking about?
	Because they struck us.
	Yeah, well, they've been striking us forever.
	And just like China has been intimidating and challenging our fighter jets in international airspace.
	Just like China's been flying spy balloons over our country for eight days.
	No consequences.
	Just like China has been confronting our Navy in international waterways, just like they've been confronting our ally Taiwan by constantly flying over their airspace in a in a hostile way.
	And Joe Biden hasn't done a thing.
	Just like, you know, no problem if, in fact, the Houthis take out a $30 million American drone.
	You know, there's there's no there's no consequences for Vladimir Putin taking out our drones.
	There's no consequences for anybody in all of this.
	It's unbelievable.
	Anyway, you got which one do you have?
	We have to do that.
	Why do you think it is for your trailing Trump and all these swing state polls?
	Because you don't read the polls off there in ten tolls.
	Eight of them, I'm beating him in those states.
	Eight of them.
	You guys only do two.
	CNN and New York Times.
	Check it out.
	Check it out.
	We'll get you a copy of all those polls.
	Don't believe you're trailing in battleground states.
	No, I don't.
	I'm not trailing in battleground states.
	You know what?
	Just check it out.
	Just check it out.
	Come on, man.
	Come on.
	Check it out.
	Come on, man.
	He's so cool.
	He's so cool.
	Like when I look at him, I'm like, I want to be that cool when I grow up.
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	Um, what do you think of the debate last night?
	Just give it a grave.
	Boring as hell.
	Really was, wasn't it?
	It's just terrible.
	And I think it's just telling that the crowd is chanting Trump.
	I know.
	That was I mean, come on now.
	Enough with the nonsense.
	We all know who the candidate is.
	All right, we all saw what happened on October the 7th in Israel.
	More than 1,400 Israelis killed, hundreds taken hostage.
	Uh Israel now in the middle of a ground invasion in the south in Gaza.
	Uh so far 320 confirmed IDF soldiers have been killed.
	Uh, as a result of all of this, uh, we literally have thousands and thousands of Israelis now uh have been taken out of their homes in the north by Lebanon, uh, and in the south, some of these, some of these uh border uh cities, and right now there's a need for a lot of assistance on the ground to help the people that have been displaced, critical essentials like food, medicine, other emergency supplies.
	There are literally a couple of hundred thousand people that are displaced.
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	We have a lot of Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegation news uh that we're gonna get to.
	Um Jim Jordan will join us, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
	Um a lot happening too.
	Let me tell you one thing.
	So now that we have these the subpoenas that have been set out for Hunter Biden and for Joe Biden, I'm sorry, for Joe Biden's brother, Joe Biden's son, And one of their business It really gets into the other news about how the how the FBI has been weaponized and how the DOJ has been politicized.
	And you know, now we're learning they had apparently had a behind closed door interview uh with David Weiss, and David Weiss confirmed that everything that the IRS whistleblowers had said is absolutely positively true.
	And that is that in fact, David Weiss said to them, Oh, I don't have the authority to go forward in charge in other jurisdictions like Washington, D.C. and California.
	Anyway, we'll get to all of that today, and we'll tie it all together for you.
	Uh that's coming up a half hour from right now when we come back to other news of the day, straight ahead.
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	All right, so as I mentioned, uh the subpoenas now going out to Joe Biden's son Hunter, uh, his brother James and uh one other business partner.
	I am told that this is just the beginning of what is going to be a long list of people that are going to be subpoenaed.
	Uh and and have to head to the uh House Oversight Committee.
	How they react to this is going to be interesting.
	We'll talk all about this with Jim Jordan.
	Now, these investigations run in tandem because, you know, in the Judiciary Committee, they just interviewed behind closed doors David Weiss.
	He's the special counsel.
	By the way, this guy's been investigating Hunter for six years.
	And David Weiss confirmed that Biden and his DOJ blocked him from indictment Biden.
	Now, if you recall, the IRS whistleblowers came out, and they're the ones that said, well, David Weiss, the guy in charge of the investigation in the Hunter Biden, said to them that he had no ability to charge Hunter Biden in jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C. and California.
	Well, that's the exact opposite of what the Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
	That goes to the heart of the Judiciary Committee investigation into whether the FBI and the DOJ have been politicized and weaponized.
	I'd like to get to the bottom of that.
	Because special counsel David Weiss told members of the House Judiciary Committee that he did, in fact, seek special attorney status in the spring of 22 in order that he could charge Hunter Biden in California and Washington, D.C. Now remember, this is the same David Weiss that allowed the statute of limitations to run out on very important tax years involving Hunter Biden, the Barisma tax years.
	Well, I'm sure that was just convenient.
	We have an unearthed email showing stu uh the stonewalling.
	An FBI agent had ordered for the Bureau and their officials to censor social media posts.
	Linda, did you hear Jim Jordan the other night on TV?
	I'll ask him about it in the next hour.
	That I was on the list of people, conservatives named that that the FBI or and others were censoring anything that you because I don't have access to any of my social media.
	You took it away from me.
	You don't even give me my passwords.
	I haven't been on You're welcome.
	What do you mean you're welcome?
	Do you want to deal with your social media?
	Because I'm telling you, you're not missing anything.
	I don't think I'm really missing anything.
	And it did get a little bit addicting in some of those late night battles with Jimmy Kimmel.
	He's such a jackass.
	Was that actually a lot of Jimmy's, right?
	It was Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Acosta.
	I think we should just ban that name from your list.
	Really?
	Fake news.
	He's not just thinking out loud.
	Well, I'm one of my all-time classics was with Alec Baldwin.
	And in the middle of that that Twitter war, well, two things happened.
	One, his daughter direct messaged me to please stop fighting with her father.
	And I wrote back, I said, I'll honor your wish.
	You're a young girl.
	I mean, I I feel terrible.
	I don't want to cause anybody any pain.
	But I'm thinking of myself, why isn't she writing her own father and telling her father to knock it off?
	But I I stopped.
	And then his brother Steven, who I like Stephen, he's crazy as hell, but I love him.
	And he's, you know, a big You know who wrote me the other day?
	I forgot to tell you, Harriet.
	Harry approved.
	The normal cousin.
	Yeah, she wrote me just to say hello.
	She's good.
	She listens, she watches.
	She's a good person.
	I don't know how you have a few good.
	Now Steven's crazy, but Steven, remember when the issue came out and the tapes came out, is you're nothing but a filthy pig, blah, blah, blah.
	His voice messages for his daughter.
	I mean, it's just hard.
	No, no, no.
	And Steven, he just he said, Can I meet with you?
	I said, okay.
	I'll meet with you.
	And he goes, You're a Christian, right?
	I was like, oh no.
	He's invoking Jesus.
	I'm in trouble.
	Because if you invoke Jesus, I'm gonna like uh.
	And he goes, I'm asking you as a Christian if you could stop fighting with my brother.
	I know I know he's he's wrong a lot of times.
	I know that you know, he he wants to engage in these fights, but it's it's not helpful to my family.
	And I especially care about my niece and the long-term impact it'll have on her.
	I'm like, what am I supposed to do?
	I mean I I said, okay, I'm gritting my teeth, like, yeah, I'll do the right thing.
	Just leave me the hell alone.
	And to your credit, you did.
	Yeah, I kind of stopped.
	Um the best beatdown was Jimmy Kimmel, mate me making him apologize and then putting up all the videos of him when he was doing the old man show.
	Oh, I remember.
	And then I was like, I'm not stopping.
	And I kept hashtagging Disney and his boss and hashtagging Bob Iger, who I guess then was the CEO.
	And I eventually I said, I'm not stopping till you apologize.
	And then eventually I got the apology.
	And then he was gonna start in on me again, and I was that close to starting it up again.
	Um if he does one more thing, I am going to unleash at my at my command, you will unleash hell.
	Right from black and saw some tables in Jesus' name.
	It's no problem.
	It's in the Bible.
	No, I mean, if he wants to start up that war again, this time I'm not gonna stop.
	There'll be no stopping me.
	Let's do it, man.
	I'm all in.
	Anyway, uh, so why is you know, look, I don't I don't bring these issues to the public airways very often because it sounds like I'm I'm self-centered and and you know, only caring about myself here.
	It doesn't really matter that it's happened to me.
	But how is it that our government, which now is if you want to know why I'm off social media, why I'm off, I don't have an email account.
	If you want to know why I I don't save anything, it's because the government has printed thousands of my personal text messages and they've released them to the public.
	And which one was that?
	That was your conversation with Manafort to which Mother Jones said, Oh my god, Hannity really believes this bleep.
	By the way, so okay, that's a great case.
	It's a good example though.
	Fifty-seven pages of your personality.
	And that was the funniest commentary about it, because they released all these text messages, and everything that I said on the air, I was communicating to Paul Manafort.
	At that point, we were looking at the Russia hoax, and what I thought about, you know, uh Robert Muller and what was that other guy's name, the Pitbull, uh Andrew Weissman, and how unfair it was, and the and the double standard we have in our justice system.
	All of it was there.
	But then the judge in the case releases everything.
	Well, I'm not involved in that case.
	Why'd she release my private text messages?
	Why did the January 6th committee feel that they can release my private text messages?
	I'm not involved in that case.
	You know, why and it's happened to me what?
	No, I was just gonna say, you know, I'm gonna get mad.
	I could tell you.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	I've got my own dump button on myself.
	Uh, you know, I think the bottom line is, you know, with Jim Jordan, who's gonna be on in a little bit, you know, with Linda Monaco and the oversight that she has, you know, the weaponization of their abilities is not what it does say, but what it doesn't say.
	So it doesn't explicitly say do not spy on people, do not read their children.
	No, it's I am mentioned specifically as somebody that the FBI wanted to censor.
	Probably because you're smarter than the rest of the people in the house.
	And they did that, and I'm like, okay, do I have any legal recourse at all?
	I call my lawyer, and my lawyer says, Nope.
	You know, when I get smeared to this person, he goes, uh, it's called Times v.
	Sullivan.
	Do we have to go over that for the 400 million time and Times v.
	Sullivan landmark case says that if you're a public figure, the standard for libel goes much higher.
	And you have to prove malice.
	Now, to prove malice, you have to be able to ascertain what somebody was thinking, what was in their mind and their heart and their soul at the time that they libeled me.
	And I get libeled quite often.
	And I have the best libel attorney on earth uh at my avail, Charles Harter, the guy that won the Gawker case.
	He's amazing.
	And the answer is I can't.
	I would love to have sued the New York Times.
	I really would have loved to, because of the lies they told about me.
	And, you know, but then I get the speech.
	Okay, do you want to spend X number of dollars, X number of years of your life, only the and light the likelihood is you end up losing.
	And, you know, I give credit, like people like Sarah Palin, she tried.
	She got further than I think anybody thought she'd get.
	And but I give her all the credit in the world, but at some point I've got to make a decision.
	Do I want to devote my time to my shows and do the best show I can do every day, or do I want to deal with this garbage?
	But you know what the reality is?
	There's nothing that I can do.
	But now it's confirmed.
	Remember they had all the 302s on all of us involved in the Russia hoax, our whole ensemble cast.
	You know, they they had all of these notes on all of us.
	I get a call one day from I won't say who, a source of mine, telling me, uh, just giving you a heads up.
	Um, your name's all over this.
	I'm like, all over what?
	And describes what it was.
	And I'm like, well, why is my name all over that?
	And then you can't get access to it.
	So I have no idea what people are saying or not saying about me, and knowing in my heart that I wasn't involved in anything that they're talking about.
	Just is so wrong.
	Uh anyway, 800-941 Sean.
	So we have Jim Jordan in the next hour.
	We're gonna get into that.
	I don't have good economic news.
	I I I don't even know what to say to you anymore.
	There's not any good economic news.
	You know what?
	I'm gonna pass on giving you bad news for the day.
	How's that?
	And we could all live in a bubble.
	We are now as a nation paying a trillion dollars a year in interest.
	A trilli let me repeat, a trillion dollars a year in interest.
	You know, one of the other great benefits of Bidenomics, they're not calling it Bidenomics anymore.
	Uh Mayorcus finally endorses canceling visas of foreign students who support terrorists.
	Wow, what a high bar.
	What a really, really brave decision that is.
	When he was asked yesterday how many illegal immigrants are in this country since they came into office, uh, and Ron Johnson two weeks earlier had given him the number between the ones we know about and the ones that are quote got away's the estimates, it's around eight million.
	Now, now we're discovering that thousands are coming from the Middle East, including Syria and Iran.
	Big numbers.
	And including China and Russia.
	Now, why would people from the Middle East, Iran and Syria, China and Russia be going to our southern border and mixing in with the crowd and walking into our country unvetted.
	You know, I I I wish I was wrong.
	And what I have been predicting, I am saying it is a near certainty.
	As a matter of fact, I'm gonna go a step further.
	I am a hundred percent certain that among that eight million people that Joe's allowed into this country, that there are terror cells that have come into this country, and they will plot, plan, and scheme, and they will attack us.
	And it may be worse than 9-11.
	And you better prepare yourself.
	And the people that have allowed these open borders, not enforce the law, a president that has not upheld his oath to office.
	They will all have blood on their hands.
	Now, I'll add this caveat.
	I pray to God, who I believe in that I am wrong.
	I pray that my instincts are wrong.
	I pray that of the eight million people, there's not one of them that is bad intentions for our country.
	But I don't believe it.
	I think I will be proven right.
	I wish I I I would hope that I'm proven wrong.
	Um I don't know why.
	I'm just not that interested in going over last night's debate.
	Um I'm just not for a lot of different reasons.
	I have a lot of things to say, but whatever.
	Um, the get Trump judge is now under fire for posting hate half naked bathroom cells.
	They're not half naked.
	Let's be honest.
	Well, I didn't see the just blocking all the stuff.
	It's a full on.
	He's got the camera where the sun doesn't shine.
	You know what I'm saying?
	What do you mean by stuff, Linda?
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	I mean, I can't get into it.
	I'll text you later and they'll release it to the media and everyone will know.
	Oh, okay.
	Um, okay.
	All these people, uh I'm gonna be very blunt here, because I don't have access to social media.
	We were saying this.
	I don't get it.
	I don't get the obsession of all these quote celebrities and people, news people, that they want to put every single solitary detail of their glorious lives on social media.
	I don't want any pictures on social media.
	What do I say if you put up a picture of me?
	I say stop it.
	I don't I don't want my my picture out there.
	I don't want my personal am I like the only one that wants my personal life to stay personal?
	Good grief.
	You know, I've never told anybody, Hannity, what did you do with COVID?
	Did you get the shot?
	Did you not get the shot?
	How about I'm never telling you?
	You know why?
	Because you want to know.
	I would otherwise probably easily share it.
	Hannity, did you ever get COVID?
	I'm not telling you.
	Unless I know you and I like you and I feel like telling you.
	It's none of your business.
	I believe in medical privacy.
	I believe in personal privacy.
	You know, that's why I said, you know, look, I understand that Kelsey, uh, the football player, Kelsey.
	Yeah, uh him and and we just leave him and Taylor Swift alone.
	I'll tell you what, if we never talk about them again, it is a minute too soon.
	Let's stop right now.
	Um how about we just be happy for them?
	And hope that's work out well.
	I'll tell you what I like about Taylor.
	She works her ass off.
	Yeah, I don't care about Taylor.
	She does four-hour concerts.
	She writes her own songs.
	Yeah, she should go on tour and go play some music.
	I'm talking about the game.
	Just stop.
	Do anything but this story.
	What is wrong?
	What is what is wrong with you?
	I've had enough of both of them.
	God man shake it off.
	Just shake it off, Jason.
	Don't stay up too late.
	I have tears on my guitar listening to you.
	All right, a lot happening as it relates to the Joe Biden bribery and uh money laundering scandal allegations.
	The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, when we get back in your calls, 800-941 Sean.
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