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Nov. 23, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Victoria Jackson - November 22nd, Hour 2
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Hey, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
It's Jay Seculo and Logan Seculo.
We are in for Sean Hannity.
We're monitoring a couple of stories I want to get to right away.
First, the FBI is investigating an incident at the New York-Canada border near Niagara Falls.
It's the rainbow crossing.
A vehicle exploded.
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 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, Rife Service Chief Counsel, has an office in Jerusalem.
That office, 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 a negotiated release of 50 hostages.
One of our families is in that group.
It's a woman with three children.
But most of our clients, and we have said many, are not being released.
So this is an ongoing situation.
There's a four-day pause in the military engagement.
And then 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 need hope and you need something positive here.
And it looks chaotic.
I mean, I think about where we were four years ago, three years ago, and where we are today.
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 result, knowing what the result looked like it was going to be, when it looked like 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 Democrat president that starts to tick up and it ticks up.
And here we are, just 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.
The world is in chaos.
It is 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, really targeted at your families.
And we decided to combat that in different ways.
We obviously take on the law.
We're there in Washington, D.C. for 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.
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, 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, and hilarious and heartwarming.
So we're going to play a trailer actually from our film, the audio trailer.
You can watch the video trailer on our website on jinglesmells.movie.
And you can buy the movie right now.
It's available.
We surprise dropped it for everyone 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 going to 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 rumble.com.
It's right there to buy it.
Hannity.com.
It's up on Hannity.com and jinglesmells.movie.
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 hardlock son was involved.
You didn't know him before Afghanistan.
Jingle Smells has heart, humor, and no Hollywood agenda.
If 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?
No.
Jingle Smells.
Now streaming on Rumble.
For more information and to order the movie, go to jinglesmells.movie.
So that's our little teaser trailer for those who are listening, audio trailer.
Go watch it.
I got to say that voice, by the way, the voiceover, I'm going to give him a shout out is Bart Scott, who wrote this movie with me and 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.
In the movie, Bart and I kind of worked out originally.
It really did start.
The genesis of this was me throwing a trash bag over my shoulders to take it out to the garbage cans 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 some idea of Santa Claus and a garbage man?
And he came back with this story.
And he worked on it a lot.
And I worked on it a lot.
We kind of workshopped it together.
Will Haines also worked a lot on it, our executive producer at the Secular Broadcast, and he's in it as well.
And our next guest that's going to 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.
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.
And now she's very much with us.
She's a very strong conservative, a very loud, strong conservative.
And I said, what if we had you play extremely loud, screaming liberal?
And she thought, this is amazing.
This is the role I want.
They've been dreaming of this.
And Will, I said, Will, who is our executive producer here, who deals with sort of that kind of crazy all the time?
I was like, no one could, and Will knocked out 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.
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 almost every character, almost every character, except for maybe the one real bad guy, every character, including maybe even the liberal screaming, you know, ultra-woke activists.
I want to make sure that we show that we're better and that we give an opportunity for people to change.
We show that in this film.
So you got 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.
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 went to film school, and it's important to me.
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.
And you said, I saw a Broadway show this past week with my kids in New York, and this show, I don't want to name it, 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.
All of a sudden, there is a dig at President Trump.
And you go, why did you put this in here?
Like, I love the rest of the show.
99.9% of that show was not political.
It might be 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 what we call, we'll call it wrestling a cheap pop.
You know, it's something that the audience, you know, gets, it's like going to a local town and being like, you know, saying something about their sports team.
You know, 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 cultural.
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.
There's a big support 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.
It's a wonderful movie.
And in a time of real chaos, and we're seeing it right now, happened in real time.
Because I know that some people are like, why are you guys talking about this?
We're seeing what's happening in potentially New York right now.
We know that there will be times this weekend, specifically the reason this is 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, again, not free of any agenda, but free of Hollywood's agenda?
I mean, how many times have you, family tradition is for a lot of people, like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
How many of us have watched?
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?
There is 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?
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 a worthy movie, I think it also sends a huge message, could send shockwaves through the entertainment industry.
And we've seen it happen over this year with other movies that have come up 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?
That's something we haven't seen Hollywood have to react to yet.
No, I think that the idea that you've got a comedy for the family with the message is great, and the cast is great.
You've got Sean's in it, Sean Hannity.
You've got John Schneider, like you said, Victoria Jackson, Eric Roberts.
Ben was just here.
Ben Davies, who's one of the stars of this movie.
And we did something different today, though.
Originally, it was scheduled to be live tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day.
Yeah, it was going to be released tomorrow.
We've been 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.
But when we had the opportunity to come in here with Sean and 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 driving to your parents' house, your grandparents' house, your family, your sister, your brother, 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 opportunity, not only because we're on this broadcast.
I didn't want to tell you to go just pre-order.
I wanted you to 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 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.
And if you're looking for a direct spot, go to Rumble.
Rumble is our premier platform.
Again, Rumble is the free speech, if you want to say the free speech YouTube, if you will.
They were our partner in this.
It's their first feature film that's a non-documentary.
So for us to be able to also have that was very cool for me because it's a cutting-edge technology.
This is not saying it's available on everywhere.
We're making it specifically, exclusively, premiering on Rumble.
And you can do that at rumble.com slash jinglesmells.
And if you're listening to this live right now, I believe Rumble has it featured on their homepage.
You just go to Rumble and it is like the second thing 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 a great way to start celebrating the holidays.
So again, jinglesmells.movie or rumble.com or Hannity.com, and you can download it and get it today.
I mean, we did a surprise release.
It is available right now.
You saw the demand 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 Henry's 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 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 talk about all our other social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook, you're talking another few hundred thousand views.
So the demand is there and the audience is really there.
Yeah, and we encourage you to get the movie.
Again, it's co-produced.
Executive producers are Logan Seculo and Sean Hannity.
Sean's in the movie and actually sets it up.
The movie is a little bit more.
Yeah, the first voice you hear in the movie is Sean Hannity.
So you'll see him in the very beginning.
So 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 the Jay Seculo man.
It is also featured in the movie.
And also in the movie, Jingle Smells.
But that is, we're playing, what tune is that?
Lone Time.
That's what it is.
I remember when we did this.
We thrilled that Linda puts our music on here.
We're going to be back with more in the Sean Hannity program in just a minute.
Remember, jinglesmells.movie.
Back with more Hannity in a minute.
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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.
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Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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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.
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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?
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Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Welcome back to the Hannity Show, Jay Seculo, Logan Seculo.
Submining in for Sean.
We've been talking a lot about the great movie coming out, 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 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 going to rule against us, but 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 going to 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 a bunch of it.
So they get their headline and buried in it is the actual win.
Yeah.
The 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.
One of the best.
The next half hour is going to 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.
Jinglesmells.movie.
Back with more.
Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Hannity Show.
This is Jay Seculo and Logan Seculo subbing 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 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.
Our good friend now, which is exciting to say you're our good friend, Victoria Jackson, who's here, which is awesome.
I cannot even believe.
I feel like I'm on the set of Saturday Night Live all day.
It's like we're on Weekend.
Well, I can't believe that I can say my friends are the seculos.
There you go.
It was so fun to put you in this movie.
And when we were writing this portion, this part was really written for you.
We're like, who could play 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?
We couldn't think of any better than you, of course.
And you're just down the road.
So it's nice too.
No, it was awesome.
It was a divine appointment.
It was so much fun.
Yeah.
I know you said that something in the last few years you've really wanted to, even maybe the last few months, have been 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 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 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 I'm not a political, you know, whatever.
You're pretty knowledgeable from our conversation.
You do know your stuff.
Thank you.
I'm just saying.
But I specialize in being a ditz.
So that is what I really want to do because I'm good at it.
And prove it successful for 30%.
There's no reason to get the movie right here.
Can I say that?
Yeah, it's awesome.
And we decided, Victoria, I don't know if you heard this.
We released the movie.
It is out.
You can get it right.
You've seen it yet.
I know, but we put it out today.
Everyone can.
It's supposed to be yesterday.
It's supposed to be tomorrow.
But when we found out we were going to be on Hannity, and then we had the demand, and you decided you could come in.
And we also had Ben Davies, who's our lead character in the movie in early, and John Schneider is going to be on later.
That today we decided to release it.
And 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 hysterical, your character, but it's also not that far off from really what's happening.
I know.
And it was not playing a ditch.
I had to stretch.
I was playing an angry liberal.
And 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 a protest nationwide right now.
We are seeing it.
No, it is.
You're saying this.
They're marching with Hamas.
And then you say, do you know what Hamas stands for?
And they have no idea.
I know.
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.
I'm sure.
I mean, 10,000 people have watched the trailer in.
We've had 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.
There is an audience saying, we are not just going to give us what the Hollywood agenda is.
We're not just going to 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, here's the thing.
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.
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 going to have an agenda in this movie.
It's got an agenda.
Yeah, and it was not free from, 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.
Daniel Lusko, 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 strikes.
It was during strikes.
And also, but we're not involved with that because we were not a Hollywood studio.
The strikes were against the big Hollywood studios.
We weren't the big Hollywood studio.
We're a little independent film studio, if you will, who just happens to have some mighty powerful people like part of a platform 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 doesn't feel low budget.
It feels like a big budget 80s, 90s Christmas comedy, but with a really strong message.
And that's important.
And we're going to send potential shockwaves through the industry.
I was going to 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 against political correctness.
And I thought, oh, she's going to die.
This is going to come out before her movie gets made.
It's okay.
But we're on the same team.
She'll be thrilled that it's out.
You guys, I'm a little quieter than usual because I had prop a fall, prop a fall fun.
Yeah, it's the best thing you can get.
That's the best 10 minutes to sleep here.
I'm still kind of asleep.
I'm doing pretty good.
I'm not on my game.
Okay, it's okay.
You off your game is still on your game.
Yes.
Well, thank you.
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 guessed what that might be.
But my test came out perfect A-O-K.
Okay, great.
Well, that's so you slept for 10 minutes.
Great.
Was that not the best 10 minutes?
And that actually was like half an hour.
You were out for half an hour.
I think.
I don't know.
I think you were out for 12 hours.
I think I'm still asleep right now.
You were out for 10 minutes, but you feel like you slept for a week.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm not great on that.
I'm not great on the sleeping.
On the what do you call it?
Anesthesia.
I've always need to tell 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.
Fall.
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 major app stores, whether that's at Apple or Fire, however you get Roku.
The Rumble app is there.
But we encourage you to go buy the movie at the website, which is jinglesmells.movie.
You can also find it right now on Hannity.com.
Do that.
Then all you got to 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.
Boom, it's right there.
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 and making your purchase.
And look, our goal is to have a 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 going to take on Christmas vacation.
You know, a lot of people have said this movie has those feelings.
It has a Christmas vacation or a home alone feeling where it's big, it's silly, it's fun.
But it's also, like you said, it's not soft.
It's still the kids can watch it, but it's tough, but it's fun.
Hey, Logan, could we make a sequel next Christmas and then we go put Chevy in it?
I mean, what a dream that would be.
He's out of work.
Just call.
You're just going to call and go just go on your phone.
Just like, well, who do I have number?
And it 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's a guy who seems to recently come to Facebook.
He's not afraid to say anything.
No, it's pretty great.
Is my bow too big?
I think it's appropriate for my joy.
Yes, I like it.
I mean, I have two daughters and my wife who are big bow advocates, I feel like.
So this doesn't feel any different than big, like just around the house.
Do you think it's drawing too much attention to myself?
I don't think they do.
Can I plug my CD?
I want you to.
Yes.
Also, not only are you coming in our movie and making just a splash at it, you also have a brand new CD of great songs.
Yes, it's my first 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 rest of the people here.
So there's 18 original songs and stand-up comedy at the end.
And it's for sale on Amazon and Spotify and VictoriaJackson.com.
You got to give us the name.
It's called When I Get to Nashville, I'm Gonna Make a Splash.
Anyway, and there's songs about my challenging marriage and my children and love and happiness.
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 Johnny Carson, I sang the boyfriend song because I was looking for a husband and I sang.
Did you sing with Willie Nelson?
Yeah, I sang it with him.
That's pretty awesome.
That was awesome.
And it throws back.
We saw Willie Nelson.
Yeah, we saw a few more concerts.
Yeah, pretty impressive at 90.
Throwback with Milt Larson also gave you a star.
So Logan, in the sequel, can I have a bigger part?
Yes, absolutely.
Because we had not worked together.
We 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.
I've texted both of you and said, I want this to just be the start because I really want to believe in both of you, but I also believe that there's a lot of comedy that can 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 titpole comedies and we need it right now.
And we know there is so much chaos in this world.
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 as well as the rest of the amazing cast.
You're talking about bringing some happiness and joy in the holiday scene.
I mean, look what we're dealing with.
I mean, you've 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 large number of them.
There's going to be the release of 50 hostages.
One of our families is on.
It's a mother with three kids.
But most of our families, most of our clients are soldier, not soldiers, but they're a military age, which for Amas 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 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 26-year-olds that are working for, I'm not kidding you, the staffers of these government agencies.
You see, they put like a note in front of someone's face.
They're like, here you go, say it.
Here's your answer.
Look, I think perfect example is you saw President Biden having to make 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 going to bumble his way through it.
Compop was a bad dude.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, and he's, yeah, we'll talk more politics when we come back from the break.
This is a great week.
Victoria, thank you so much for stopping by.
The new album, man, keep it.
Maybe say it, okay?
The movie is also available right now, and Victoria's in it and plays really a character who steals the show.
JingleSmells.movie.
That is jingle smells.movie or go to Hannity.com.
It's available right now.
Check it out.
Welcome back to Hannity.
This is Logan Seculo, Jay Seculo sitting in here.
We're joined by Victoria Jackson, you know, comedy icon and someone who I've had.
We're making a lot of comments with this last year.
Contacts 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 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.
But also, even for your character, too much spoiler, it's also about redemption.
Redemption for everyone.
That's what I loved about my character was she has a redeeming moment.
And 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 1984 by George Orwell warns of a thing 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 going to obey your rules.
We're not going to say the agenda you want us to say.
We're not going to push the gender confusion.
We're not going to 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 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.
It's 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 going to be joining us later in this broadcast.
Thank you, Victoria, for coming.
Thank you.
Get your new record.
Yes.
When I get to Nashville, that's stocking stuffer.
All right, we'll be right back.
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