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Nov. 23, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Jingle Smells - November 22nd, Hour 1

Jay and Logan Sekulow fill in for the vacationing Sean and share a new partnership with Sean Hannity; the launch of a new movie "Jingle Smells", featuring an incredible story and a family comedy... filled with some great messages we all need to hear. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, everybody, it's Jay Seculo and Logan Seculo.
Yep, sitting in here for Sean today.
And we do have breaking news.
Of course, a lot of you know us from, we've been on Sean's program many times.
I'm the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice.
Logan heads up all of our media.
We've got breaking news, and that breaking news is an attempted terror attack on the United States at Rainbow Bridge, which is at Niagara Falls.
Now, here's what we know so far.
A vehicle tried to enter the United States from Canada, exploded on the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls, which triggered, of course, an emergency response.
The FBI's terrorism task force is on it.
New York State and New York City have been under a heightened alert for a week now.
It's unclear if there's any fatalities other than the two individuals that were in the vehicle.
The reports are they are deceased.
The city of Niagara Falls says the explosion came from the car as it was entering and they say speeds of up to 100 miles an hour into the U.S. portion.
It's a crossing, like a toll bridge.
Sure, yeah.
I'm clearly trying to do a lot of damage.
Well, it could do a lot of damage because Niagara Falls is a huge tourist attraction.
I mean, there are literally, when you go to the area of Niagara Falls, I haven't been there since I was a kid, but I remember it distinctly.
There were hundreds and hundreds of people there in any given time.
Thousands and thousands of people.
And obviously the border crossing is right there as well.
So disrupting a lot of travel plans as you were heading into the Thanksgiving holiday.
I'm sure all of that came in place.
Thankfully, right now, it seems like the attack was limited.
They are looking for another vehicle.
And the New York governor has said the police are working with the FBI Terrorism Task Force.
They have closed the four land border crossings between the United States and Canada.
I think at this point, anything else is speculation.
So obviously everybody's on alert because of what's happening in the Middle East.
We were concerned.
The FBI said there'd been increased reports on terrorism generally.
So that is what we have.
As more information comes forth, we will give you that information.
We're also monitoring, of course, the situation in Israel, where the reports are that Israel, through the Qataris and Hamas, have entered into an agreement where at least 50 hostages will be exchanged, Israeli hostages, mostly women and children, for 150 of the Palestinians that are in jails in Israel right now.
We represent a number of families, the ACLJ.
In fact, one of our families is on the list of the ones to be released.
It's a mother with three of her children.
Yeah, that's been important working here at the ACLJ as we've been in the middle of our Faith and Freedom Drive.
You know, it's something that we're on Thanksgiving.
You know, we were doing a big push for that.
But really, what happened was obviously the war broke out.
We were able to represent so many of these families, and it's been an important time.
We were pleased to see, obviously, on this list, potentially a few of one of our families, but that's just a very small portion of what's going on right now.
And you're dealing with terrorists, so you don't know what they're going to do.
Exactly.
It's something that we're now having to deal with in our country.
We have to deal with overseas.
And that is an important time for the ACLJ, but it's also important to start re-educating people somewhat into what this whole world means and what everything looks like.
And I think that's something that has been a big project for us as we start to roll out new ways.
You have to always be on top of how you're reaching new audiences and how you're making statements that you're not just going to put up with what's going on.
And we've seen that now with the protests against Israel.
We've seen that with a lot of Hollywood celebrities now getting, you know, getting a little bit, maybe a taste of what they said, their own medicine.
We heard that coming out of Susan Sarandon.
Those are the kind of voices that we're hearing, and we're actually seeing proper backlash maybe occur to that.
And that is part of what we're doing right now.
We are right now in the process of releasing a brand new feature film that is really a lot of fun.
And in a time when the world is very dark right now, and it's easy to get kind of caught up in the grief and the sadness, even though we were over Thanksgiving weekend, we wanted to bring a little bit of light and a little bit of levity, but also infuse it with just an incredible amount of content that really tugs at not only your heart, but also gets the messages you want out there in a way that's creative, in a way that's different, in a way that's not just going to be pushed a Hollywood gender being pushed on us.
And we've been working on that with our friend Sean Hannity.
Who is your executive producer with you?
Yes, we're both co-executive producers, if you will.
I co-wrote this film.
It is called Jingle Smells.
It's releasing tomorrow, Thanksgiving, but it is available for an audience that really needs it.
Because I think right now, when we are seeing Hollywood really put all of their agendas into it, now we're seeing sort of the fruits of the labor, if you will.
And we've seen that, honestly, with the sort of the protests against Israel and all of that, that this is going to happen.
So now we're able to stand up to it.
Not only does this movie feature an incredible cast, you're going to hear from a bunch of them today.
John Schneider is going to be on the broadcast.
Ben Davies, who's our lead, he's going to be on the broadcast today as well.
Victoria Jackson, you know, from SNL, she's going to be on today.
Because at its heart, it's a big, fun family comedy.
But we kind of said you unwrap the present and it's filled with all of this great message.
Well, I'm not going to give the whole movie away, but I mean, it deals with the issues and topics that we deal with that the American Center for Law and Justice and that Sean deals with every day on the broadcast.
And that is things like cancel culture, which is a huge issue right now.
And you mentioned what was going on in the streets of New York and around the country with these student protests in support of Hamas.
You think to yourself, how could people be thinking this way?
And the fact is, they don't get canceled.
They could say that they're supporting Hamas, who was raping women and killing people, including babies and children, in unbelievable brutality, and that they don't get canceled.
You've indoctrinated an entire generation of young people who are now adults.
And what we're saying is we have to stand up to that.
Not only have to stand up to it in the content we created, we also have to stand up to it in where you're putting your money.
So for us, we made this film, and we want it to be the number one Christmas movie of the year.
Why?
Number one, it's a great movie.
I love this movie.
I've co-wrote it.
I've seen it a million times now.
Literally probably 200 times I've watched this movie in its various stages and I still love it.
But also to send a message and send a message to the world, not just to Hollywood, send a message to the world that we're not just going to take anything entertainment that we're given because we know it's packed with these messages.
I was playing video games with my son and we're playing a superhero video game.
And then midway through, all of a sudden, there is an agenda-based messaging thrown in there.
My son's turning to me going, what happened here?
Well, it's because they weave all of this content in.
Well, we're not just going to take it.
We're going to stand up to it and provide alternative options.
So we're going to hopefully make this the number one Christmas movie of the year.
We can't do it without people like the listeners here on Sean Hennedy.
Well, Sean's in the movie.
He is executive producer with Logan in the movie.
I'm in the movie.
I shouldn't say my band's in the movie.
But you're in the movie.
Well, I don't make a, I mean, yes, you'll see me playing the drums.
Yeah.
i'm in the movie but just very briefly my uh our brother's in it pretty much every a lot of the people you hear on the aclj and in our world yeah make appearances but it's packed with mike huckabee Governor Mike Huckabee does make an appearance in a very unexpected way.
So I'd say keep your ears open for Governor Mike Huckabee's appearance.
Really funny.
A lot of people just wanted to come in.
They saw the script.
They saw the story and said, this is important.
Well, people take Hollywood back.
Yeah.
Jim Brewer from SNL, who you know from movies like Half Baked or you maybe remember Goat Boy or any of those.
He has not done, by his own decision, a feature film like this in 15, 20 years.
But he saw the script and said, this is important.
These are the messages that went out there.
Not only is it hilarious, and I think it's very funny.
I hope more people like you decide to make movies.
So he's in this.
Again, Victoria Jackson from SNL.
John Schneider, who everyone loves from The Dukes of Hazard and Smallville.
He'll be calling in a little bit later.
Ben Davies, who you know from Courageous and War Room and all these different big tentpole faith-based films.
He's our lead in this.
He's also hysterical.
You have Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts.
You have so many people that packed this cast.
And it's just a terrific film.
Yeah, and the messaging, look, we deal this every day at the American Center for Law and Justice.
The issues that we deal with, a lot of them are reflect, like military supporting our military.
That's a big part of this movie.
So, you know, we're dealing with a lot right now as a country.
We're dealing with a lot as a nation.
We're dealing with the terrorist attack today.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem like it's had mass casualties at all.
But the fact that there was an attempt tells you what we're dealing with.
But to have a movie come out, we're at Thanksgiving, we're at Christmas, that brings light to the darkness, that is funny, that also has a really important content and message, I think is very, very significant.
Well, and we know, look at what the news is right now.
We're watching it unfold in front of us live right now as there is an attempted terrorist attack.
It's probably not going to be what you're going to want to put on in front of your family, your small kids, or your teenagers even.
That's not how you're going to want to celebrate Thanksgiving.
So we hope as we've created an option, and we've also done that with our friends at Rumble, pretty much the number one free speech platform for video content.
It is their first ever feature film, which is very exciting to partner with them.
So I'm sure if you listen to this broadcast, you've heard of Rumble.
You're familiar with them.
If not, it's really easy.
You should go to rumble.com slash jingle smells.
And that's the movie, by the way.
Jingle Smells.
We haven't said it, like Jingle Bells with Smells, because the story revolves around, and it's an insult that's given to our lead, who is, we say, a garbage man is what we say.
He's a trash collector.
And, you know, some kids insult him by calling him Jingle Smells.
He's wearing a Santa hat, and he takes that moniker on as sort of, again, sort of a Robin Hood Santa story.
It's a very sweet story.
It's got great messages.
Faith messages.
Faith messages in there as well.
But at its core, a Christmas comedy with a big heart and a lot of laughs.
And we hope you're really going to enjoy it.
And again, I just went to the Rumble website.
It's right there on the homepage.
Oh, great.
What do people need to do?
Yeah, just go to, you can go to jinglesmells.movie.
That's the domain, .movie, if you're not used to going directly to Rumble.
Or if you're going directly to Rumble, just type in Jingle Smells or Jingle Smells or Rumble.com slash Jingle Smells.
It's available to purchase.
And again, if you buy it, you'll be able to watch it as many times as you want.
This isn't a limited time thing.
You can watch it over and over again.
You can watch it on Continue the Loop.
I don't mind.
It helps us out.
Again, our goal is to make this the number one Christmas movie of the year, and especially new Christmas movie of the year.
We think it really holds up to some of those classics, especially those 80s and 90s classics we grew up with, sort of the more comedic ones, like a Christmas vacation or even a home alone.
But again, it's free from all profanity.
It's not nothing that you're going to be embarrassed watching in front of your kids.
But still, I try to let people know it's not necessarily a children's movie because it is not, it does deal with issues that are important here.
But kids will love it.
Kids will love it, but it's not a kid's movie because it deals with cancel culture.
It deals with PTSD from our troops and our soldiers have come home.
The lead character is someone who was involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal and sort of his kind of reacclimation into civilian life and what that looks like for a lot of these guys.
And we worked with some military experts on that as well to try to make it as realistic as possible while still being at its core a silly Christmas comedy featuring comedians like Brad Stein and Victoria Jackson and Jim Brewer and then big actors like John Schneider and Ben Davies.
And we have a few professional wrestlers in there as well.
If you're a wrestling fan, James Storm and Dylan Hornswagglepostle, who both are phenomenal in this movie.
I love them.
And it's just a terrific movie and a great thing to watch, especially when we're trying to decompress a little over the holidays.
Yeah.
So jinglesmells.movie or just go to rumble.com and you could buy it there.
And we'll have a lot more discussions about that coming up.
I do want to give everybody a brief update again.
The latest developments is still the same.
The two perpetrators of the attempted terror attack are dead.
They blew up in the car.
The car was going 100 miles an hour.
Apparently, they lost control of the vehicle.
Vehicle apparently was loaded with explosives.
Also, American Center for Law and Justice, we are representing a number of families of hostages.
And this hostage release, one of our families is in it.
It's a mother with three kids.
They're on the list to be released.
But most of our clients, which are mostly 24 to 28-year-old males, that means in Hamas's mind, they're the enemy.
They're the military in Israel.
They're not going to be on this list.
So we've got a lot of work to do.
We've been working aggressively in Washington, working in Europe.
Of course, working in Israel too.
We're even dealing with Qatar on this.
So a lot more ahead on the Hannity broadcast.
Again, jinglesmells.movie.
We're going to be talking about a lot of other issues too as things come up.
We'll keep you posted on the developments on this terror attack.
Praying for our country, praying for our leaders, praying for our troops.
We're going to be back with more.
A lot of exciting things coming up in the next few minutes.
So you're going to want to stay tuned.
Back with more in just a few minutes.
More on the Hannity program.
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Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Ham, and I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
And we cover the stories that you're not getting anywhere else.
We arm you with the facts to be able to know and advocate for the truth with your friends and family.
So download Verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Hannity.
This is J Seculo.
I'm at Logan Seculo.
And we are in for Sean Hannity.
And by the way, that music you're hearing during these bumpers is actually produced by my band, the Band I'm Min, I should say.
J Secular band we call JSB.
Anyways, we got a concert coming up at the end of the month.
It'll be on Rumble.
And you're in.
And we're in your movie.
You're in the new movie that Sean and I co-produced.
I co-wrote Jingle Spells.
It's available.
And yeah, it's very exciting that you're in the movie.
You're sort of in the grand finale of the movie.
Yeah, so there you go.
Let me give an update on a couple of things.
One is at the American Center for Law and Justice, we're involved in this situation in Israel.
We have an office in Jerusalem.
So we're helping hostage families right now.
We represent a number of them.
One of them is on the list of release.
Most of the others are not.
So, we're obviously still very engaged in that.
And our European Center for Law and Justice is working on that situation as well.
We have offices in Strasbourg, France.
So, our global offices are involved in that.
Here in the United States, we just came through a series of cases.
I've talked about these on John's broadcast where there was an attempt by various either individuals or this group called Crew to try to keep Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, off of the ballots.
We have litigated those cases, and we just tried one in Colorado, which frankly I thought was going to go against us.
And shockingly, the judge, a lot of her opinion I didn't like, but I liked her last sentence, which says Donald Trump gets to be on the ballot, which was, of course, the whole point of the litigation.
We've won in Oklahoma.
We've won in now in Colorado.
We've won in I'm leaving states out, Michigan and Minnesota.
I feel like they only pack those.
Of course, they always give you the last line in the win, but I feel like they pack that so CNN has something to talk about.
That's exactly what they did.
So they could, so CNN can say, well, look, look what it says.
It's like, yeah, you said the final part, which says, by the way, you won.
Yeah.
No, that's exactly what they did here.
You're 100% correct.
Anyways, I'm Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice.
If you want more information about what we do, go to aclj.org.
That's aclj.org, which is a great way for you to get information about what we do during the day.
And we have a broadcast also at noon called Seculo on radio stations around the country.
And you can support the work of the ACLJ.
It's a nonprofit at aclj.org.
In fact, this month, any amount you give is matched in our Faith and Freedom Challenge.
Back with more on the Sean Hannity show in just a moment.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Sean Hannity program.
It's Jay Seculo and Logan Seculo in for Sean.
I love that intro, driving the liberals not.
Every time.
I never know which intro we're going to get coming back.
And every time it catches me off guard the best.
I like that one.
That was fun.
Yeah.
And your new movie is doing that.
And you got the star right here.
That's right.
Ben Davies is here.
Ben.
Thanks for stopping by.
Oh, tell everybody about the movie.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for having me, guys.
Also, that driving the liberals crazy, that is also could be the tag of this movie, which would be great.
Yes, I've already seen the comments.
So that's it.
My favorite has been the most like pretentious liberal, like elite YouTubers who have like MSNBC commentators who have put out like their pre-reviews already.
And the way that they react, I'm like, that's exactly what we wanted.
You should just read that on the air.
That'd be just a great ad for the movie.
They're like, how dare they?
These people hate the movie.
You should watch it.
Exactly.
Well, that is the truth.
I mean, if the left is going after it, you know what my view is?
That's something I want to watch.
Yeah, that's what we hope.
And, you know, it's been an exciting time.
And Ben's been involved for the last few months as we've been working on this film.
But you may know Ben.
I mean, if you're watching right now, if you're seeing any of these segments posted social, you know Ben.
But you may know him from Courageous and a lot of times playing cops.
But this movie, we kind of flipped it.
You're not necessarily playing a cop this time.
You're dealing with cops.
I was getting typecast as a cop for a while and I thought, oh, you know, maybe I'm tired of this.
And then I get demoted to a trash man.
I'm like, oh, no.
I just jinxed myself.
Yeah, exactly.
But now.
Fest collector.
Yes, yes, exactly.
We say garbage man.
I think it's okay.
We say garbage man.
And so far.
I love the you're going to live without those guys?
Let me tell you that.
That's exactly right.
Absolutely not.
But we are excited because this new movie, Jingle Smells, is it's a fun Christmas comedy.
And Ben, a lot of the movies you work on, I've seen so many of them over the last year.
They are these like great family movies.
And the big difference between maybe this and a lot of movies that are coming out is it is free from that sort of Hollywood agenda and now actually has some messages that you may actually want to watch and digest, take in, and is quite different.
And that's been a big part of your journey as well.
Yeah, I love being a part of movies that don't specifically have this agenda to destroy the family and destroy the country, which is awesome being part of a lot of Christian conservative movies.
And I feel like the last bastion that people have been able to enjoy as far as cinematically every year are like the Hallmark kind of theme movies where the families together for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
You get to gather around and watch these movies.
And even then now, you can see more and more of those movies, the exact stories we love to sit around and watch where people come together at the end and there's a great inspirational message.
They've taken a left turn on even those.
I call it the left hook.
You're watching it.
It looks like it's going to be great.
And then out of nowhere, they have to bring the agenda into it right at the part where you don't want it.
Yeah.
And fortunately, Jingle Smells has none of that where you can feel safe bringing everyone together and watching this movie and knowing that you'll laugh, be entertained, a great family film, and you're not going to have, you know, your kids indoctrinated with something weird.
Yeah, exactly.
And Ben, this is something we want to announce here.
We're pretty excited about this is the movie's coming out tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day.
We said that was the whole plan was Thanksgiving Day.
We were going to be releasing this movie.
So at night, you can watch it.
But you know what?
When Sean asked us to come and be in today, and now we've seen the reaction over the last little bit we've been on the air, we are very excited to announce, and I'm excited to announce this with you, Ben, our lead in this film, is that Jingle Smells is available right now.
We have decided to surprise everyone.
It's been an overwhelming demand.
And we are excited.
We had to get our friends on Rumble on the phone because we've done that all morning.
All morning.
All afternoon.
To see if we could pull this off because we were very excited about this to premiere it on Rumble.
So if you're traveling right now and tonight you get into wherever you're going for Thanksgiving, you can turn on Jingle Smells tonight.
It's available right now as we speak on Rumble, which is also cool.
We're on a very free speech-centered platform, especially as our exclusive premiere.
It's their first feature film, and that was important to us as well.
No, I think being on Rumble is great.
And we decided, and Logan decided, that it was going to see if we could launch it today.
We started it since yesterday.
We talked about it on our broadcast.
And all of a sudden, there was this clamoring demand for this movie.
And so with just a few mentions, it just kind of is mushrooming.
So I'm glad that it's live now.
It's live right now.
If you go to jinglesmells.movie, or if you're watching on Rumble, you can just go directly, rumble.com slash Jingle Smells.
You click that buy access button, that big order button, and it's available to watch as many times as you want, starting right now, which is pretty cool.
That's awesome.
We did this in pretty record time.
So I'm pretty excited about it.
It is in record time.
It felt like it was just meant to be the fact you guys were able to pull it off the way you did.
And then I can't wait to see the response and people finally see this movie.
What was the part that going through the script that kind of stood out to you as what grabbed your attention?
Well, I really like the comedy.
And I've been fortunate to be a part of a lot of great inspirational and dramatic films.
And then it was a funny Christmas holiday themed movie.
I was thrilled to take on that kind of role because it's one that I've not done very often.
And it was terrific to work with director Daniel and to work with a script that had, it was very easy for me to pull out the laughs in a script that's written like this.
So I was just thankful that you guys were able to hit me up and see if I was interested because I'm thrilled to see the response from this movie.
When I read the script before I saw any of the movie, what hit me the most was that it was, like you said, Ben, it was funny.
But the message of the issues that we deal with at the ACLJ all the time, cancel culture, military, whatever it might be, is clear in the movie too.
So it's funny, but there is a real positive message.
It's a redemptive message.
It's a Christmas comedy.
We say the rapping is a silly Christmas comedy, but really inside of it, inside the Christmas gift, if you will, is a lot of heart and a lot of messages.
And look, we planned it in reality.
I think we talked originally, which was, we started working on the script a number of years ago.
And then the Afghanistan withdrawal happened, the box withdrawal that we all watched in real time.
And we thought, wow, this could be an interesting thing to add into the film, to change it a little bit, to be very of this moment.
Because everyone can remember where they were because it was only a couple of years ago when that happened.
So if we could place it in reality, you can actually get a bit more of understanding of where this character is coming from.
And there are moments in this movie that do get a little heavier as the movie goes on.
But I will tell you, if you're watching with your families, they're very limited.
They're there.
They make big impacts to me in the story.
But we get quickly back to the laughs and quickly back to the jokes.
And that's why even we supplemented the cast with people like Jim Brewer and Victoria Jackson, some SNL alums and people like that.
So you know, when you see the trailer, when you watch the clips, you'll know, oh, this is supposed to be a big, funny, satirical look.
I mean, the main character, the main focus is about an action hero that gets canceled for his conservative views.
And his conservative views is just saying, you know, on his social media, God bless America and may he protect our troops.
Seems satirical in nature, but we've seen stuff not that far.
It's not that far.
It's not far enough to get you cancer.
It sounds like a documentary.
Yeah.
Turn it into a documentary after the movie's done.
Yeah.
So we've seen that happen.
We've seen the toys get pulled from the shelves.
That's what the story is about.
Toys that get pulled from the shelves because the actor happens to be a Christian conservative.
And then what happens to those toys?
And then, of course, you and a motley crew of garbage men, as we say, get put on a mission to go be sort of Santa Robin Hoods, if you will.
It's awesome.
We can combine, like you said, grounding in reality.
And then also it's a very fun, whimsical tale as well.
It doesn't take itself too seriously, which is great, which is why it's such a perfect holiday movie for everyone's friends and family.
Yeah, and absolutely.
People have kind of suggested like, well, this, yeah, it reminds me of the Christmas comedies of the 80s and 90s of you feel connected to them, like a home alone or Christmas vacation.
But there is still this, like you said, a whimsical Christmas fantasy kind of feeling happening.
I just can't wait to read some of the reviews you're talking about because that is my favorite when there's actually a good conservative or Christian movie that comes out just to see people fuming because they hate it.
What Hollywood is putting out is such trash for everyone.
It's just poison for your family over the holidays.
And so as soon as we get to watch, I want to go look through all the reviews.
You already get any pre-reviews.
Well, those were like people, again, they watched a 45-second trailer movie.
And they decided, oh, this is all they read a press release and said, well, how dare they?
I see who's in it.
You know, I see it's these people.
I see it's Ben.
We know where Ben's coming from.
We got Sean Hannity is involved in this.
How dare they?
And it's called Jingle Smells.
I mean, we said before this, we know what some of the, you can easily take our headline and turn it into a bad review, but we don't care.
No, we want this.
It's actually a good thing.
Yeah, I mean, I think probably more views came in that first little bit when the hardcore left decided to come after this movie.
But again, that's what we want.
I love that because honestly, it gets their attention.
It gets the attention of Hollywood.
Because if not, you're just another, you know, Christian conservative family movie that kind of goes away.
What I love is that this movie has the potential to get some big legs and be the number one Christmas movie.
The trailer alone on Just Rumble has 450,000 views.
It's got another 500,000, 600,000 on all the other social media platforms.
So clearly, the message is being heard.
So what's interesting to me, and this is where we encourage you, Sean and Logan are the executive producers of this Ben Stars in it, is to get the movie.
It's now available.
They decided to put it up today, a day early, because we were broadcasting and the demand was high.
You just go to jinglesmells.movie or if you go to rumblejustrumble.com, it's right there on their homepage.
And Logan, what do people need when they get there?
What do they do?
I mean, it's very easy.
There's big buttons that say order.
And then there's another one that maybe if you're on the Rumble page, it's buy access.
All you got to do is that, put in your credit card information, the movie will start playing.
If you want to watch it on your TV, download the Rumble app.
It's available on all the normal platforms and TV.
You may not have it.
Go get it.
It's also a great free speech platform.
And we think that it's important to be there.
And we're excited that that's where we're premiering.
We also got to work with John Schneider, which, of course, he'll be on the show in just a little bit.
We're going to have him on Layler Broadcast.
That was pretty cool.
I was going to ask you about that.
Yeah.
It was very surreal for me.
Also, it was funny that he was playing my father because we had actually been in a movie together several years ago.
This is probably about eight years ago at this point.
And some people told us, like, hey, you guys look like your father and son.
I was like, oh, that's hilarious.
And then eight years later, just like prophetic, we get to actually play those roles.
But it was very surreal for me because I grew up, one of my favorite series growing up was Smallville.
And a lot of people liked it.
I was so into superheroes and it was that his character was just a tremendous man.
It was also a great story of one of my friends.
It was like his bonding experience with his family was watching Smallville together and all these different stories.
And so getting to actually act across from him professionally, because in the previous movie, we just had scenes we were absent.
But to get to do that with John was fantastic.
He's such a pro, too.
And he just, it was a little intimidating because he just, people gravitate towards him.
And in this scene too, he kind of steals.
You feel like he's just stealing the shot because he's just such an impressive guy on camera.
But it was terrific to work with.
You know, I love getting to work with talented people.
And hopefully we brought up some performances that people are going to enjoy.
It's really great.
And yeah, the two of you, I think there's a shot we've used for the trailers where it's just like you guys are your profiles looking at each other.
And it is like, oh, wow, this was cast perfectly.
So fantastic.
And John does a great job in this movie as well.
Brad Stein does an incredible job.
He's a hysterical comedian who's great.
He's great.
You want to come on today.
He's traveling for the holidays.
But, man, it's a terrific, packed movie.
With a message.
With a message.
But it's really exciting that we're able to release it today and put it out on Rumble through our platforms.
By the way, free of any Hollywood studio, free of any red tape or anyone telling us what we can or can't say.
That's been probably the coolest part.
It's truly the independent.
It is truly independent.
Yeah.
So not only are you buying a ticket, supporting people making good quality movies like this and people that want to work on movies that don't have a strange agenda, but every time you click order, you're also sticking it to woke Hollywood.
If it's not just to enjoy, just to rage click to the movie, that'd be fantastic.
Oh, that's what I want.
I want it to be the number one Christmas movie of the year, not just because I think it's an amazing movie that I've watched, like I said, 200 times, I think, at this point.
Man, that headline, if we can make this the number one Christmas comedy or Christmas movie of the year, what a story that could be.
All right.
Well, Brent, I appreciate Ben being here.
I appreciate the fact that we're able to talk about this great movie.
We want to let you know how to get it.
This is the executive producers are Sean Hannity and Logan Seculo.
Sean's actually in the movie.
In fact, everybody that's on the set right now with us is in the movie, although mine is just the band playing.
Don't say just.
Well, I mean, and listen, there's some big names in that band.
That's true.
That was the highlight of the movie.
Yeah, that's the finale of the movie.
It is the finale of the movie.
So we encourage you to get it.
Tell everybody again because we're going to get ready to take a break here.
Yep.
Jinglesmells.movie is the easy way to go to it.
If you're a Rumble user already, just search for Jingle Smells.
You'll see the big, beautiful artwork.
You'll see Ben.
You'll see John.
You'll see the whole cast.
Click, click, click, buy access.
It's good to go.
If you're used to using any sort of streaming service, it works very easily.
Yeah, so anyways, jinglesmells.movie.
And it's a movie with a great message.
It's available right now.
And it's available and literally available 15 minutes ago.
It is now available.
So you can get it right now.
We encourage you to buy that movie.
It's sending a message to Hollywood too.
Also helps the ACLJ out.
I have to say that because it's an ACLJ film.
All right.
We're getting ready to take a break when we come back.
More from Hannity.
Welcome back to Hannity.
This is Logan Seculo.
Jay.
Jay Seculo as well.
Guessing for Sean?
Yes, we're in for Sean today.
And we're here with Ben Davies, star of the new film, Jingle Smells, which I was one of the executive producers on, co-writer on.
With Sean Hannity.
Was Sean Hannity.
And he said, you know what, guys?
You got a little bit of time here.
The day before Thanksgiving, go on, promote the movie, talk about the movie.
And we're excited because Ben, the movie's out.
It is out.
It is out.
I wish Sean could be here to celebrate with us.
I think he was actually the best performance in the movie.
I wish I could say myself, but Sean just steals the show.
It's a great guy.
I'm really happy.
He does it.
It's amazing.
I mean, I've been friends with him for a long, long time.
He is great in these things.
Yeah.
And I gave him like some of the dialogue is pretty funny.
And then he takes it.
And I was like, just do it like you're doing your normal show, even if play it straight.
Because there are times where he's like, it's a garbage man in New Mexico.
And I'm like, well, this is not.
And then at one point, he started talking about the big toy industrial complex.
Like it gets, but he played it perfectly straight.
He did a great job at it.
Yeah, so the movie's up, by the way, and it is a surprise drop.
If you go to Hannity.com, another place to get it.
Surprise drop today.
Yeah, Hannity.com.
And you'll see it real big in the middle right now.
It's a surprise drop holiday film.
Jingle Smells is out now, and it's exclusively on Rumble, premiering exclusively on Rumble.
And it's there right now.
So you can see it.
Quickly, quickly, you said earlier that the messaging and the comedy together was really the key here.
It really was.
I mean, Eddie, you know, you have a good movie when you can both laugh and cry.
And in this movie, you know, it's fun, it's whimsical, but you will also, you'll get those serious moments.
You'll also laugh and really enjoy yourself.
And that's really what you want in any movie that you decide to purchase and support.
All right.
Jinglesmells.movie.
When Hannity.com is another way to get it.
We'll be back with more on the Sean Hannity program in just a moment.
But get that movie, folks.
It's dropped now.
It is live.
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