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Victoria Jackson - November 22nd, Hour 2
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Hey, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show with Jay Sekulo and Logan Csekulow.
We are in for Sean Hannity.
We're monitoring a couple of stories I want to get to right away.
Uh first, the FBI is investigating an incident at the New York uh Canada border near Niagara Falls.
It's the rainbow uh crossing.
Uh vehicle exploded.
Uh joint terrorism task force is looking at it.
There's still a lot of reports coming in as to what it is, and there's conflicting reports.
One customs and border patrol agent uh official has been injured.
The two individuals in the car are now deceased.
That is all we really know right now on that.
Let me now take our attention to the Middle East.
We have an office, the American Center for Law and Justice, where I've served as Chief Counsel has an office in Jerusalem.
Uh that office uh as well as our offices in Washington, our office in Strasbourg, France, which is our European Center for Law and Justice, are representing families of hostages that are being held by Hamas, as you heard late last night, and then today there's uh a negotiated release of 50 hostages.
One of our families is in that group.
It's a a woman with three children, but most of our clients, and we have so many, are are not being released.
So this is an ongoing situation.
There's a four-day pause in the military engagement, and then uh this pause could extend if more hostages are released.
We'll keep you posted on that too.
You know, you look at the world that we're in right now, and you and you need hope and you need you need something positive here, and uh, you know, it looks chaotic.
I mean, I think about where we were four years ago, three years ago, and where we are today, it's it's it's mind numbing and mind-boggling that the world is in this kind of mess.
In that aspect, we the ACLJ have taken a couple of different initiatives.
That's right.
I mean, I remember sitting in this chair right around the 2020 election and saying, you know, regardless of the res knowing what the result looked like it was going to be, it looked like the Joe Biden was going to become the president.
I said, all of you voted, you forgot what happened in the Middle East, you forgot how calm it's been, you've forgotten about terrorism, you've forgotten about all these things.
And sadly, it seems like it's on repeat when you know that there's a uh a Democrat president that that starts to tick up and it ticks up, and here we are, just you know, three years later, dealing with Russia Ukraine.
Russia Ukraine, the worst war in the Middle East in our lifetime.
And now a potential, you know, there's explosions of the border of our country and Canada right now.
Uh the world is in chaos.
It is a a complete mess right now.
And all at the same time, you're seeing social media and you're seeing media just explode with their agenda, uh, really target it at your families, and we decided to combat that in different ways.
We obviously take on you know the law.
We're we're there in Washington, D.C. politics.
We are involved in every aspect, and we decided now to get involved in the entertainment space because we know that a lot of culture can be changed in terms of entertainment.
We also know there is an audience and you're all listening right now who wants this kind of content.
You're not living and breathing 24 hours a day on the news.
You want occasionally something light, something fun.
Uh this provides a really great way to stay engaged, support an organization that you already support and people you support, like Sean Hannity and like us, uh, because Sean and I are both executive producers on this film, while giving your family a bit of a break, having a little fun.
Now still, free of Hollywood agenda, but by the way, our messages are in this.
I wanted to make sure that's clear too.
It's not agenda free, if you will, because we made sure that our messages are heard loud and clear in this movie in a way that was creative, subtle, uh, and hilarious and heartwarming.
So we're gonna play a trailer actually from our film, the audio trailer.
You can watch the video trailer uh on our website on jinglesmells.movie, and you can buy the movie right now.
It's available.
We surprise dropped it for everyone uh listening to this broadcast.
We decided, you know, it's supposed to come out tomorrow.
We've been advertising Thanksgiving, but we said, you know what?
We're gonna be hosting Hannity today.
What could we do?
Let's go out, release the movie, and the demand was there, and we did it.
Yeah, so you could go to uh rumble.com, it's right there to buy it.
Hannity.com, it's up on Hannity.com, and Jingle Smells dot movie.
Yeah.
Here's the trailer.
Let's take a listen.
All right, Merry Christmas, America.
Hollywood has canceled action star Mason Stone.
From ACLJ Films and executive producer, Sean Hannity and Logan Seculo comes the hilarious new Christmas movie, Jingle Smells.
Like a holiday Robin Hood, the mysterious gift giver has struck again.
Starring John Schneider, Ben Davies, Eric Roberts, James Storm, and featuring comedy legends, Victoria Jackson and Jim Brewer.
I should have known your hard luck son was involved.
You didn't know him before Afghanistan.
Jingle Smells has heart, humor, and no Hollywood agenda.
You get busted with those toys, you're done.
You made me an accessory.
Well, you know what they say.
Some accessories are required.
Am I smiling?
Yeah.
Jingle Smells.
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For more information and to order the movie, go to Jinglesmells.movie.
That's our little teaser trailer for those who are listening, audio trailer, go watch it.
I gotta say that voice, by the way, the voiceover, I'm gonna give him a shout out, is Bart Scott, who uh you know, wrote this movie with me and uh really someone I kind of gave him.
And he's in the movie.
He's in the movie as well.
He plays the Troubadour, which is a very important character.
Uh in the movie, you know, Bart and I kind of worked out originally, uh, it really did start.
The genesis of this was me throwing a trash bag over my shoulders to take it out, you know, to the to the garbage cans and like and go in, ho ho ho, and my kids laughed, and I said, Maybe that's something.
I text Bart, who's an amazing writer, I said, Bart, what if we had we had some idea of Santa Claus and a garbage man?
And he came back with this story, and we, you know, he worked on it a lot, and I worked on it a lot.
We kind of, you know, workshopped it together.
Will Han's also worked a lot on it, our executive producer at on the secular broadcast, and he's in it as well.
Uh and our next guest that's gonna be coming on Hannity today is Victoria Jackson from SNL, and she plays sort of this extreme liberal activist, social media activist, like you see all the time on Instagram, uh, you know, what they call, I guess like a libs of TikTok kind of person.
And I remember pitching it to her and just being like, here's what we're thinking.
Now she's very much with us.
She's a very strong conservative, uh, a very loud, strong conservative.
And I said, What if we had you play uh extremely loud, screaming liberal?
And she thought, This is amazing.
This is the role I want.
They've been dreaming of this.
And Will, uh I said, Will, who who is our executive producer here who deals with uh sort of that kind of crazy all the time.
I was like, no one could will and will knock out uh kind of the script for what she had to say.
We worked with her on it, and it turned out amazing.
She plays a hysterical character.
Uh and again, maybe unlike what Hollywood would do.
And I'll spoil this a little bit.
Don't spoil it.
I'll spoil it just a little bit, is that we even give redemption to most of to almost every character.
Almost every character, except for maybe the one real bad guy.
Uh every character, including uh maybe even the liberal screaming, you know, ultra woke activists.
I want to make sure that you know we show that we're better and that we give an opportunity for people to change.
We show that in this this film.
So it's it you got a a movie that's a comedy for the family.
Yes.
It's got a strong message also.
Like you said, it's not free of an agenda.
It's just it's our agenda.
Free of Hollywood.
Hollywood's agenda.
It's free of Hollywood's agenda.
Uh and and look, they're infiltrating that into everything.
As much as I am a I mean, I'm a film buff.
I'm someone who grew up and loves this with film school and it's important to me.
Uh I also see what is being put in front of my kids without any choice of our own.
Of course, You watch the movie, everything looks fine, and then all of a sudden you get the left hook out of nowhere, and it's like, where did that come from?
It doesn't even fit, but they have to get it in.
You said, Oh, I saw a Broadway show this past week with my kids in New York.
And this show, I don't want to name it.
Uh and I love the show, but it takes place in the early 70s, and there's a Trump joke in the first five minutes of the play.
And you're like, well, that took me completely out of it.
You know, all of a sudden there is a dig at President Trump, and you go, Why did you put this in here?
Like I I love the rest of the show.
99.9% of that show was not political.
More than that.
But they put in one line to pop the audience, if you will.
Because they all laughed, of course, because most of the audience at a Broadway show is going to be supportive, and all that did was it's what we call we'll call it wrestling a cheap pop.
Uh, you know, it's something that the audience, you know, it gets it's like going to uh a local town to be like you know, che, you know, saying something about their sports team.
You know, it's it's a cheap plug, and that happens all the time in Hollywood right now, and you're seeing it be pushed in, and we decided we're going completely the other way.
And really the first 10 minutes of this movie sets up a bigger story.
So, yes, there is some messages, and there is some politics, if you will, in that first 10 minutes.
I'd say even more culture.
There's more cultural satire in that.
And once you get through the first 10 minutes of it, sure, there are jokes, there are little mentions, there are references, and there's a big support of the of the military that's in it.
But after that, it's not like we're sitting there making a political jab every 12 seconds.
Because we know that's not how people are.
Uh, it's a wonderful movie, and in a time of real chaos, and we're seeing it right now, uh happened in real time.
Uh because I know that some people are like, Why are you guys talking about this?
We we're seeing what's happening in in potentially in New York right now.
Uh we know that there will be times this weekend, specifically the reason on Thanksgiving, you'll be with your family, and maybe you're not going to have on the news.
But what do you want to put on something that's that's again not free of any agenda, but free of Hollywood's agenda.
I mean, how many times?
I family tradition is for a lot of people, like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
How many of us have watched it?
I've watched it in person.
And how many times also, though, does it open and within the first five minutes, you're like, what is this?
And why is this in front of my kids?
Like, why did they pick kinky boots, you know, to open this show?
You always there is that L that that moment of going, well, why why is it like this?
And it's because there is some sort of strange agenda.
And again, nothing against that show, but why is it in the family entertainment portion of this broadcast?
Uh we're standing up against that.
And when I say we want to be the number one Christmas movie of the year, I mean it.
And I mean it because not only do I think it's it's a worthy movie, I think it's also sends a huge message, could send shock waves through the entertainment industry.
We've seen it happen over the this year with other movies that have come that have very deep, heavy subject matter.
But what happens if we do it for something that's silly and fun and filled with a lot of heart?
Uh, that's something we haven't seen uh Hollywood have to react to yet.
No, I think that the idea that you've got a comedy for the family with a message is great, and the cast is great.
You've got uh Sean's in it, Sean Hannity, you got John Schneider, like you said, Victoria Jackson, Eric Roberts, uh Ben was just here, uh the Ben Davies, who's one of the stars of this movie, and it it's we did something different today, though.
Originally it was gonna be scheduled to be live tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day.
Yeah, it was gonna be released tomorrow.
That's what we've been you know, pushing that Thanksgiving Day because we thought this would be a great thing after you're done with Thanksgiving lunch or dinner, you could pop it on and watch it with the family or maybe in the mornings before.
Um, but when we had the opportunity to come in here with Sean and to to take over kind of Hannity today, and we saw the demand that was coming over the last 24 hours, and people start to make their travel plans.
We know a lot of you listening right now are in the car are in the car driving to your parents' house, your grandparents' house, your family, your sister, your brother, uh, or you're making that trip back home, or you're waiting for your kids to get back, and we thought this could be a great uh opportunity, not only because we're on this broadcast, I didn't want to tell you to go just pre-order.
I wanted you actually give the opportunity to go and order and watch it right now.
So what do people need to do if they want it when we encourage you to buy the movie today and you'll be able to watch it today?
Like I said, it's a it's a surprise release.
I know you can get Hannity.com has a link.
Hannity.com, it's right front and center, you'll see it right there.
Uh and if you're looking for a direct spot, go to uh Rumble.
Rumble's our premier platform.
Again, Rumble is the f the the free speech.
If you want to say the free speech YouTube, if you will.
Uh they were our partner in this.
It's their first feature film that's a non documentary.
So for us to be able to to also have that is very cool for me because uh it's a cutting edge technology.
Uh this is not saying it's available on you everywhere.
We're making it specifically, exclusively, premiering on Rumble.
And uh you can do that at Rumble.com slash jinglesmells.
And if you're well listening to this live right now, uh, I believe Rumble has it featured uh on their homepage.
You just go to Rumble, and it is like the second thing on the on their site.
So we couldn't be more happy to be partnered with them.
Yeah, I mean, this is great.
I mean, to do a movie with Sean Hannity, to do a movie with our friends at Rumble, to have the cast that you've assembled for this, which is you know just incredible, is is a great way to start celebrating the holidays.
So again, jinglesmells.movie or rumble.com or Hannity.com, and you can uh download it and get it today.
I mean, it is we did a surprise release.
It is available right now.
You saw the demen yes starting last night when we talked about it on air on our broadcast, it just took off.
It took off, I think people know how to this weekend.
We've had it available for pre-order for the last month or so, but since the beginning of November, but now that people actually are getting there.
We said, you know what, it's time.
We saw the demand.
Look, over just on Rumble, which is a very, you know, specific audience.
We've had well over 400,000 views of the trailer.
Like that is wild.
400,000 plus views of the trailer.
And then, of course, if you if you talk about all our other social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook, you're talking another few hundred thousand views.
Uh, so the demand is there, the audience is really there.
Yeah, and we encourage you to uh get the movie.
Again, uh it's co-produced, executive producers are Logan Seculo and Sean Hannity.
Sean's in the movie uh and and actually sets it up.
Uh the movie the first voice you hear uh in the movie is Sean Hannity.
So you'll see him uh at the very beginning.
So it it it's exciting and it's available right now.
You know what?
I hear the music and I say, I know that music.
We're about to take a break.
As Will's character said, I thought it was just the Christmas spirit.
No, that is uh the J Secular Man.
It is also featured in the movie.
And also in the movie, uh Jingle Smells, but that is uh we're playing what tune is that?
Uh Lone Time.
That's what it is.
I remember when we did this.
We're thrilled that uh Linda puts our music on here.
We're gonna be back with more in the Sean Hannity program in just a minute.
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Welcome back to the Hannity Show, Jay Secular, Logan Seculo.
Summing in for Sean.
We've been talking a lot about um the uh great movie coming out uh now out, actually, Jingle Smells.
We'll talk more about that coming up with Victoria Jackson in the next segment.
Let me give you a quick update on something that we've been handling at the ACLJ, and that is a challenges to trying to keep Donald Trump off of ballots.
We've seen it in we've won these cases, by the way, and we've won them in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.
We are still fighting in Virginia and West Virginia.
And I'll tell you something.
The case in Colorado, I thought that judge was gonna rule against us, but that the last sentence of our opinion said what I wanted to say, that this president could stay, the former president could stay on the ballot.
And you know what?
Whichever candidate you're for, that's your decision.
But I'm gonna tell you this the idea that a Secretary of State on their own could decide to take somebody off a ballot because they don't like that person's politics, or they don't like the person's tweet, that's not the way it works in the United States of America.
And I'm glad the judge got that part of the opinion right, which was the part that counted.
Then you had the hyperbole she wrote for CNN and MSNBC, as I like to call it.
Because they love doing that.
Yeah, absolutely.
They always can come up with some a bunch of it, so they get their headline and buried in it is the actual win.
Yeah.
Win was we won.
That's what counts.
Hey, coming up on the next segment of Hannity, Victoria Jackson.
That's right, Victoria Jackson comedy legend, and obviously in our film in Jingle Smells, so we're excited to have her on this next segment.
This is gonna be a this is gonna be the next half hour is gonna be a blast coming up, let me tell you that.
We've got a lot more ahead on Hannity.
Victoria Jackson joining us.
Get that movie, it's out now.
We did a surprise drop, jingle smells dot movie.
Back with more.
Hey everybody, welcome back to the Hannity Show.
This is Jay Sekulum and Logan Secular Subming in for Sean.
Yes, we're in for Sean Hannity today.
We've been talking about a lot of things.
We've also talked about a great movie that is uh co-produced by executive producers by me and Sean Hannity, which is very exciting, and stars, one of the people who are sitting here right here with us.
We're very excited about it.
Our good friend now, uh, which is exciting to say you're our good friend, Victoria Jackson who's here, which is awesome.
I cannot even bel I feel like I'm on the set of Saturday Night Live on it.
It's like we're on weekend up too.
Well, I can't believe that I can say my friends are the seculars.
There you go.
It was so fun to put you in this movie, and when we were writing this portion, it was the this was written this this part was was really written for you.
We're like, who who could play you know, a raving liberal activist, and we're like, well, who's one of the more conservative people I know who also has just incredible comedic instinct that we couldn't think of anyone better than you, of course.
So you're just down the road.
So it's it's nice too.
No, it was awesome.
It was a divine appointment.
It was so much fun.
Yeah, I know you said that that something in the last few years you've really wanted to, even maybe the last few months, but really to kind of reconnect with your comedic roots.
Because I think a lot of people know you from like you're obviously again a comedic legend, but then last definitely last decade have been very outspoken, very uh been on sort of the front lines of the political world.
But now I honestly think because there are people like me and there's other people who are saying, you know what, we love Victoria, we grew up with her.
We want to see her back making people laugh.
So we know you're here.
I I hate politics.
I was just trying to keep freedom alive for my children and my grandchildren for another generation, and somebody's got to do something.
But uh, I'm not a political, you know, whatever.
I might pretty knowledgeable from our conversation.
I do know your stuff.
Thank you.
Just saying.
But I specialize in being a ditz, and so that is what I really want to do because I'm good at it.
Prove it's successful for for 30%.
Yeah, it's it's awesome.
We and we decided, Victoria, I don't know if you heard this.
We released the movie, it is out.
You can get it right.
Yeah.
I know, but we put it out today.
Everyone can suppose to be yes, it's supposed to be tomorrow.
But we found out we're gonna be on Hannity, and then we had the demand, and you decided you could come in and we also had uh Ben Davies, who who is our our lead character in the movie in early, and John Schneider's gonna be on later.
That today we decided to release it.
And uh I know when we were working on the script, we were sitting back and forth and going at different takes and different versions.
I mean, it is a hysterical, your your character, but it's also not that far off from really what's happening.
I know.
And uh it was not playing a ditch.
I had to stretch.
I was playing an angry liberal.
That's quite a stretch.
You did a good job though.
Well, it was a good part, it was very funnily well written, and I appreciate it, and I loved every second of it.
And I even sent you a clip from I think it was a few weeks later, there was somebody on Capitol Hill protesting.
I mean, it sounds like your character just came to life in reality because this is what we're saying, Dad.
This is what we're saying.
I mean, we're seeing this with the protest uh nationwide right now.
We are seeing it.
No, it is.
You're saying this.
They're marching with Hamas.
Yeah.
And then you say, Do you know what Hamas stands for?
And they have no idea.
I know.
But it the and these people that they're marching with Hamas would be thrown off the buildings by Hamas.
This is what's so I know.
But they keep doing it.
So here's the thing though, Logan.
You just need to know this because I don't know if you've just checked, but I just checked Rumble's homepage.
Okay.
Since we've been on this broadcast, 10,000 people have watched the trailer.
Uh, I'm sure.
I mean, that it's been 10,000 people in.
We've already nearly half a million people watch the trailer just on Rumble.
So that's like just showing you like there is an audience for this kind of material.
Yes.
For for a move there is an audience saying we are not just gonna give us what the Hollywood agenda is.
We're not just gonna allow that to be what gets put in front of our family.
Yes, we're sick of political correctness.
And we're sick of the yes agenda.
You know what here's the thing.
Every all these movies come I call them the left hooks.
You're watching the movie or the show.
It seems fine, and then out of nowhere comes the left hook.
Yes, and it usually has nothing to even do with the movie, but it's as if they can't resist getting the point in.
So what Logan and Sean's executive producers and your directors all got together and the team and said, We're gonna we're gonna have an agenda in this movie.
It's good.
It's got an agenda.
Yeah, and yeah, and it was not free from uh you know, we decided to make this movie in a time where a lot of people also needed to work.
There was crew that needed work.
Uh Daniel Lusco, who's the director of this movie, came in and said he had a crew in New Mexico that was ready to work.
A lot of people wanted to work.
Because it was during the strike.
It was during strikes and also, but we're we're not involved with that because we were not a Hollywood studio.
Right.
The strikes were against the big Hollywood studios.
We weren't the big Hollywood studio.
We're we're a little independent film studio, if you will, who just happens to have some mighty powerful people like uh it part of platforms by the grace of God, whether that's from our broadcast or whether that's from Hannity, people that can really elevate something that is again, it it may it doesn't feel low budget, it feels like a big budget 80s, 90s Christmas comedy, uh, but with a really strong message, And and that's important.
And we're gonna send potential shock waves through the industry.
I was gonna ask you.
So when you saw the script, what was your kind of reaction?
Well, I was thinking that my friend Becky, she had a script that was uh against political correctness, and I thought, oh, she's gonna die.
This is gonna come out before her movie gets made.
It's okay.
But um, we're on the same team.
She'll be thrilled that it's out.
Um, you guys, I'm a little quieter than usual because I had prop of fall, proper fall five.
Yeah, it's the best sleep you get.
But I'm that's the best ten minutes to sleep you're ever.
But I'm still kind of a sleeper.
I'm not on my game.
Yeah, okay.
It's okay.
You know what?
You off your game is still on your game.
Yes, it's you'll think this is a dream tomorrow.
Tomorrow this will be a dream.
I didn't take the drug for fun.
I was getting a medical procedure.
Too much information.
Because we all guess what that might be.
My test came out perfect A-OK.
Okay, great.
Well, that's so you slept for 10 minutes, great.
Was that not the best 10 minutes of sleep you were gonna?
You were out for half an hour.
I think you were out for 12 minutes.
I think I'm still asleep right now.
You were out for 10 minutes, 12 minutes.
But you feel like you slept for a week.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not great on that.
I'm not great on the uh sleeping on the uh what do you call anesthesia?
I've always told people how okay.
So if they want to get the movie, what do they need to do here now that we've been talking about anesthesia?
It's okay.
Yeah, if you want the opposite of anesthesia.
You want the opposite of anesthesia.
There you go.
And you want to laugh with your family tonight, and you can put it on tonight.
It is available on Rumble, which by the way, that Rumble app is available on all of your you know major app stores, whether that's an Apple or or Fire, however you get Roku, uh, the Rumble app is there.
But we encourage you to go buy the wet movie out the website, which is Jingle Smells.movie.
You can also find it right now on Hannity.com.
Do that.
Then all you gotta do, after you buy it, you'll see the big button buy access.
You just download the Rumble app, log in like you would any other streaming service.
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We even put together a five-step you can't mess this up way to get it on your TV video that you can find on our Rumble channel right now.
Just type in Jingle Smells, it's there.
Thousands of you have been going on to Rumble as we've been on this broadcast uh and making your purchase.
And look, our goal is to have a uh headline that comes out that Jingle Smells with such a ridiculous, funny, silly name is the number one Christmas movie of the year.
And we can do that, and we can do it, and we can you again it's not about saying say no to Hollywood.
What it's saying is no, we are going to actually respond.
We could beat Chevy Chase's Christmas movie.
Yes, we're gonna take on Christmas vacation.
You know, a lot of people have said this movie uh has those feelings.
It has a Christmas vacation or a home alone feeling where it it it's big, it's silly, it's fun.
Uh, but it's also like you said, it's not soft.
It's still the kids can watch it, but it's tough and it's fun.
Hey Logan, can we make uh a sequel next Christmas and then we could put Chevy in it?
Uh I mean, what a dream that would be.
He's out of work.
Just call, you're just gonna call like go just go on your phone, just be like, well, who do I have's number and uh needs work?
So we'll go.
Hey, Rob Schneider would be in it.
Yeah.
He's not out of work.
He's not, but he would be in it.
He's doing great work.
And he he's a guy who seems to recently come to Facebook.
He's not afraid to say anything.
No, it's it's pretty great.
Is my bow too big?
I think it's I think it's appropriate.
For my for everything.
For my joy.
Yes, I like it.
I mean, I have th two daughters and my wife who are big beau advocates, I feel like.
So this doesn't feel any different than big it, like just around the house.
Do you think it's drawing too much attention to myself?
I don't think they're good.
Can I plug my C. I want you to, yes.
Also, not only are are you coming in our movie and making just a splash at it, you also have a brand new CD of of great songs.
Yes, it's my first c um time I've done a music CD since I moved to Nashville 11 years ago.
I thought, well, I have songs, why can't I sing at the Opry and be on the radio, lock all the rants in the people here?
So uh there's 18 original songs and stand-up comedy at the end, and it's for sale on Amazon and uh Spotify and Victoria Jackson.com.
Uh it's called When I Get to Nashville, I'm gonna make a splash.
Anyway, um and and this song's about my challenging marriage and my children and love and happiness and you've been singing for a long time though, because I remember the Saturday Night Lives with you and some famous.
Yes, on Saturday Night Live, I sang I'm not a bimbo.
And I sang, Where do you draw the line between love and adultery?
And in and Johnny Carson, I sang um the boyfriend song because I was looking for a husband, and I sang me because you sing with Willie Nelson.
Yeah, I sang it with him.
That's pretty awesome.
That was awesome.
Yeah, we saw a few more pretty impressive at 90.
Throw back maybe you saw it with Milt Larson also gave you a star.
So Logan uh in the sequel, can I have a bigger part?
Yes, absolutely.
Because we had not worked together, we've not never met.
And so we're like, you know what, let's work with Victoria.
We'll work for a day or so on this.
And what I told you, and I told this to Jim Brewer, also who you share the screen with, who also is an SNL alum.
Uh I I've texted both of you and said I I want this to just be the start because uh I really want to believe in both of you, but I also believe that there's a lot of comedy that can be can be still be had, and people can be laughing.
Comedy isn't even really on the forefront of film right now.
Like you don't see as many big tip pull comedies and we need it right now when we know there is so much uh chaos in this world, uh it is okay to take 90 minutes out of your day and laugh.
And that's what we hope to provide, and I hope we can provide it more with you uh as well as the rest of the you know amazing cast.
You're talking about you know, bringing some happiness and joy in the holiday scene.
I mean, look what we're dealing with.
I mean, you got the situation, of course.
We're involved in it in Israel with our office in Jerusalem, our office in Washington, and our office in Strasbourg, France on the hostage.
We represent some hostage families.
Wow.
A number on large number of them.
Uh, there's still gonna be the release of fifty hostages.
One of our families is on its own uh mother with three kids, but most of our families, uh most of our clients are are sold not soldiers, but they're a military age, which for the Hamas gives them a justification to try to keep it.
Of course, not under any kind of international law, but they're terrorists, they don't care about international law.
Then you see what happened in New York, which they still don't know exactly what that was, but you know, it's just immediately the darkness kind of prevails here, and I think cutting through it right now is really important and bringing some hope and joy.
Thank you for what you're doing.
We're finding hard.
Jay, I have a question that I think inquiring minds want to know.
Who's running our country?
Huh.
Usually it's uh 26-year-olds that are working for the I'm not kidding you.
The the snappers of these uh government agencies, you can see they they put like a note in front of of uh of someone's face.
They're like, Here goes.
Here's your answer.
Oh look, I think perfect example is you saw President Biden having to make like uh references to Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
It's like there's no way he would have ever thought to do that.
Why would they put that in front of him?
And of course he's gonna bumble his way through it.
Clon Pop was a bad dude.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, and he's yeah, we'll we'll talk more politics when we come back from the break.
This is great.
We're gonna be.
Victoria, thank you so much for for stopping by.
The new album, make it segment.
Say it, okay.
The movie is also available right now, and Victoria's in it and plays really a character which steals the show.
Jingle Smells dot movie.
That is jinglesmells dot movie, or go to Hanna D.com.
It's available right now.
Check it out.
Welcome back to Hannity.
This is Logan Secular and J. Secular Saturday.
And here we're joined by Victoria Jackson.
You know, comedy icon and someone who I had a lot of call, a lot of comments with having this last segment.
My text have lit up on this segment.
It's been so fun to have you, and it was great having you in our movie, which is available now.
Victoria, one of the things that we originally spoke also was the importance of this kind of movie to have to tell these kind of stories, stories that don't paint your conservative Christians as the villain or as some sort of again swerve where oh, they're actually the worst people in the world.
Right.
But also, even for your character, no, no, too much spoiler.
You know, it's also about redemption.
Redemption for everyone.
That's what I loved about my character was she has a redeeming moment.
And um I think this is so important because freedom of speech is the most important thing we have.
It actually means freedom of thought.
Right.
And um 1984 by George Orwell warns of a thing what's ha which is happening now.
We have to fight back.
And the best way to fight back is make our own content and say, We're not gonna obey your rules.
We're not gonna say the agenda you want us to say.
We're not gonna push the gender confusion, we're not gonna push, you know, the dark stuff.
And I've got to tell you, my favorite thing was when I got to do my part at this desk, and I got to scream because I never get to do that in real life in public.
And you gave me big words.
I'm so glad there was a monitor.
But um, the fun part was two security guards were trying to drag me away.
And first they were being too gentle, and I go, no, you can't be gentle because then I can't resist.
So I said, do it as hard as you can.
That was fun.
Well, you can see that is one of the breakout moments of this movie.
It's available right now.
All you have to do is go to jinglesmells.movie, make your purchase today, and you can watch it tonight with your family.
See Victoria in action as well with Jim Brewer and plenty of other great actors.
John Schneider, who's gonna be joining us later in this broadcast.
Thank you, Victoria for coming.
Thank you.
When I get to Nashville, that's stocking stuffer.
All right, we'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
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