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John Rich - November 24th, Hour 3
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One thing we haven't agreed to is a ceasefire.
A ceasefire with Hamas means surrender to Hamas, surrender to terror.
There won't be a ceasefire without the release of Israeli hostages.
And then do we go back to bombing?
No.
Four hours.
We don't want four hours.
We don't want 16 hours.
We don't want 22.
We want a ceasefire now.
So the situation at the border, you're saying, is not a disaster.
That is correct.
Freedom is back in style.
Welcome to the revolution.
Yeah, we are coming to your center.
Going to play our guitars and sing you a country song.
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If you want to be a part of the program, it's always an honor, a privilege, a pleasure to have back on the program my friend, my buddy John Rich.
He's going to be down in Nashville with us at the Fox Nation Awards next week.
I can't wait to see you, my friend.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Sean.
Looking forward to seeing you too, buddy.
All right.
So we have tomorrow, which is November 11th.
And sadly, there are probably too many Americans that don't know what that day is.
Would you like to remind them or shall I?
Well, tomorrow is Veterans Day, where we as Americans are supposed to stop and remember whose shoulders we stand upon, who we owe everything to in this country, and we honor them and show them great respect.
That's what tomorrow is all about.
So you are a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, one of the best songwriters I've ever met, and you've written for so many other artists besides yourself.
And Big Kenny, you and Big Kenny, Big and Rich, have done great.
You write, I got to tell you, I've been listening lately, Earth to God, because things are so screwed up in the world.
And I'm like, I hope people watch that video.
I'm actually going to put it up there with your new song today that you're just releasing.
But John has just put together a brand new release.
It's called The Man, and it's to honor our veterans, and he's releasing it today.
And you can catch the riveting video featuring numerous American heroes who fought for your liberty and your freedom.
And we got to honor them and remember to honor them.
Even if you just take some time and say a prayer and give a prayer of thanks to the people that sacrificed all, risked all for our liberty and our freedom that way too many Americans take for granted and others abuse by supporting terrorist groups like Hamas.
Anyway, here's his brand new song.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans Day.
All right, that song just released today.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans.
By the way, where can people download it?
I guess anywhere that you get your music, right?
Yes, sir.
It's everywhere.
iTunes, Amazon, anywhere you go.
It's on a record called The Country Truth.
It's one of the songs on that record.
And that's a song I wrote about my grandfather and his service in World War II in the U.S. Army.
And when I say the man, yeah, I'm talking about him because he's my granddaddy, but the man is all of them.
The man is every man, every woman, everybody that has gone to the mat like that for this country.
I think it's been a long time since Americans have experienced the potential loss of sovereignty of the United States, the actual loss of freedom.
And nobody really can relate to what that must feel like.
And if you go back to the greatest generation, had they not stood up and did what they did, the world would be a completely different place.
We're the shoulders they stand on.
They're the shoulders we stand on.
And the next generation, Sean, they're standing on our shoulders.
I said this the other day to a friend, that there are people with my last name, with Sean Hannity's last name, that we will never meet.
They will be born into the future, and they're depending on what we do right this second.
So I wanted this song to be a reminder to all Americans how important our veterans are.
In doing so, you mentioned the greatest generation.
My father was a part of it.
Now, all four of my grandparents came from Ireland.
They came here with nothing.
They lived all of their lives pretty poor, worked their asses off.
Both my parents grew up very poor.
My mom in the South Bronx in New York and my dad in Pedstein, Brooklyn.
Not exactly the best neighborhoods at the time where they were living.
And then my father, you know, grew up during the Depression and had to contribute financially to his own family.
I mean, crazy stuff, even delivering papers, whatever money he got from that.
And you're right, we stand on their shoulders.
Can you imagine the trauma, the horror of the things he might have seen?
Or you think of the guys that slammed the beaches of Normandy.
You know, if you haven't watched Saving Private Ryan, take a look.
Because that was their reality.
They were sitting ducks and just being slaughtered on the beaches of Normandy.
And yet they were able to beat back the forces of evil at that time.
I mean, you just, I mean, they're just so amazing.
You can't say enough good about these people.
Yeah, I mean, there's one part in the song, The Man, where it says, I'm the grandson of a soldier, and I'd fight the whole world over if duty called and freedom's on the line.
But thanks to the greatest generation and the one still fighting for our nation, I've never had to kill from my way of life.
I don't have PTSD, Sean.
You don't have PTSD either.
We've never had to pick up a rifle and shoot somebody with it or throw a hand grenade at a bunch of guys and kill people on behalf of the United States to ensure freedom for our future generations.
Thank God we've not had to do that.
But I'm telling you, a lot of time has passed and a lot of our young people, especially in this country, have no touchstone, no firsthand knowledge or conversation with real heroes, real veterans, real men and women that have done things like that to understand that their freedom is not inherited.
They have to earn it.
And I believe in this country, we're moving towards a place now where we're going to have to earn it again.
Why?
We're watching a victim of terrorism extrapolate out the population of Israel, compare it to the United States, and those 1,400 people slaughtered by the terrorist organization Hamas on October the 7th.
That would be the equivalent of losing 38,000 Americans in a single day.
Now, I know how this country acted after 9-11.
You refer to that in your new song as well, the man.
We lost 2,977.
Could you imagine if we lost 38,000 plus Americans in a single day?
And then we were being told by governments around the world that we have to hit the pause button while we're fighting an enemy that has sworn to wipe us off the planet, off the face of the earth, because that's in Hamas's charter, John Rich.
Yeah, well, this is the product of mass brainwashing for a very long time, especially on our youth in this country to be brainwashed and indoctrinated that America is the problem.
America deserves it.
And they believe that.
That's why they're out in the streets like a bunch of brainwashed anti-American zombies cheering this on.
And it's disgusting to watch, and it's very concerning.
All of us that don't feel that way, which I believe is the mass majority of a country, we're all watching it going, wow, these people live in our zip codes.
These people are right down the street from all of us.
John, are you watching what's happening on college campuses in the halls of Congress?
I don't think it's happening in Nashville.
At least I pray to God it's not.
It shocks the conscience and soul, at least of me.
And I didn't think I could be shocked anymore at this point in my life, John Rich.
I thought I pretty much saw it all.
Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think you have.
And I will say this, all those weak-kneed college kids out standing out in the street cheering on Hamas, they better hope to God in heaven that if the bad guys in this country ever decide to activate, guess where they'll be running to?
They'll be running to the veterans, to the active duty, to the patriots.
They'll be running to the people who said, I told you so.
Yeah, well, I've been warning people, John Rich, and I'll say this, and your dad was a preacher, and I'll say it this way.
I pray to the good Lord above that this never happens, that I am 100% wrong, but I'm actually 100% confident I'm right.
Joe Biden, by allowing 8 million, since he's been president, 8 million illegal immigrants, allowing them into this country unvetted, and that we know of, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds coming from Iran, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds coming from Syria, thousands coming from all over the Middle East, tens of thousands from China and Russia.
I guarantee you, John Rich, that I'm 100% right, that among that 8 million are terrorists that are aiming to harm Americans.
I guarantee you they're plotting, they're planning, they're scheming what would be a brutal attack on our country.
And I shudder to think of what that attack may, what form it may manifest itself in.
And you know what, John?
I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I don't think I'm wrong.
And I bet you probably don't think I'm wrong.
Yeah, I don't think you're wrong at all.
Why would they make a trip like that?
You know, why would they?
See, what a common sense question.
What a great question.
Right.
Why would you go to all that trouble to get over here?
I'll tell you what they're going to run into whenever they try that nonsense.
They're going to run into close to 17 million veterans that are still alive in the United States.
They're going to run into hundreds of millions of Americans.
Americans that are armed, Americans that are ready, Americans that will die for their families.
They're going to run into that.
Look at what they did to Jason Aldean.
That don't happen in a small town.
And what he's talking, and all this guy did was put out a video and showed the riots in the summer of 2020.
It wasn't fake footage.
It was real footage.
And he's saying, you know what?
In small towns in America, we're not going to allow this crap to happen because we stick together.
And he wasn't talking about race.
There was nothing.
There was no zero anything to do with race in that video or in the music.
But there are Americans that still have this, you know, these fundamental beliefs, God, family, faith, country.
They believe in it.
Protect our own.
Protect our community.
Protect our neighbors.
Stand up for people we love, even strangers in town.
Stand up for everybody.
You're not going to get far if you're in the wrong town and you try to pull the crap that's happening in big cities.
Why did he come under so much fire for that?
I think he came under fire because the left loves chaos.
And anybody that calls him out on it and says, you know what, why don't you try that in my town and see if you get the same result.
What's going to happen in Nashville if anyone tries that in your bar in Nashville?
Well, you know, somebody brings trouble into your bar in Nashville.
I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen to the person bringing the trouble.
Yeah, well, a lot of my security guys at Redneck Riviera, we actually hire active duty.
So when they come in off deployment, a lot of those guys come to my place and they work.
They work security.
We've got guys that even bartend down there.
So, yeah, my bar would be the last place you would want to try that in, I can promise you.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with John Rich.
He just released his brand new single today.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans Day Today.
And by the way, you got to catch the riveting video.
We have it up on Hannity.com featuring numerous American heroes who fought for our country and our liberties and our freedoms.
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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.
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This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hammond.
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?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
All right, we continue more with John Rich.
He released his brand new video and song today.
It's called The Man.
It's an honor of Veterans Day tomorrow.
The video is great.
It's up on Hannity.com.
You can get the song downloaded where you get music anywhere.
You know, one day, I don't know if you know this about my background.
I used to be a bartender.
How about one night we set aside some type of charity event for vets, and you and I get behind the bar.
I'll teach you how to tend bar the real way.
And that doesn't mean just pouring shots of Redneck Riviera whiskey.
Tending bar is an art.
You know, I'll teach you, I'll teach you the real way to make some real drinks.
I don't even think you could make a martini for crying out loud, can you?
Come on, Sean.
You're talking tough, but we both know you're a gray goose vodka with soda water and a little twist of.
I can't stand the taste of alcohol.
I admit it, so I drown it out.
There's no doubt.
However, I can hang pretty, you're one of the toughest people I've had to hang with, and I hung.
I stayed there, and I didn't give up till the sun came up.
That was a long time ago.
I don't think we can run like that anymore.
Oh, no, we can run like that.
But one night, you and I get behind the bar and we kick some ass, raise some money for the military.
What do you think?
At your bar?
I will shake your hand right now in this interview.
That would be incredible.
I would suggest maybe Bolds of Honor would be great.
Bolds of Honor is great or at Tunnel to Towers.
Any one of these are great.
Also great.
I would love to do that, man.
I'll take you up on that.
All right, we'll figure out how to do it, and we'll pick a date.
And hopefully, am I going to see you down at the Fox Nation Awards, the Patriot Awards?
Yeah, actually, I kick off the whole thing with Pete Heckseth.
We got this whole bit that we did for the beginning, and then I'll be there later in the show.
Yeah, they kind of delegate me to like, oh, Hannity's here.
We'll give him five minutes on stage and kick him off.
Everybody gives you a standing ovation, man.
Oh, man.
Listen, this is unlike any other event where we honor our nation's heroes.
And that's why I love being a part of it.
And I don't care what role I play.
If I just show up and clap, I'm happy.
Yeah, and at the Grand Ole Opry.
So this, for me, this is just the coolest thing ever.
By the way, one of the coolest moments of my life, I got to be the announcer at the Grand Old Opry once.
And you know what they gave me?
They gave me bookends of WSM microphones.
How cool is that?
That is classic, the original country radio station.
You bet, man.
All right.
John Rich, we love you.
His new song, you can get it wherever you get music.
It's called The Man in Honor of Veterans Day tomorrow.
And get this song, download it, listen to it again and again.
You're going to get a lot out of it.
We love you, man.
Appreciate you being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
Take care.
On this Friday, your call is coming up toll-free on numbers 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right.
Let me, you know, it was funny because earlier this week, all the Democrats have been out there with the horror that is the Biden economy, begging Joe Biden to stop running on, quote, Bidenomics.
Why?
Because Americans in every poll are not buying it.
Joe Biden has now had two polls showing him with the lowest approval ratings in his presidency, 36, 37%, respectively.
Now he's losing to not one, not two, but three Republican presidential candidates in the polls in a head-to-head matchup for 2024.
And the poll before that showed Donald Trump over Biden in five swing states out of six.
Not looking good for Joe Biden.
So I think that means the likelihood is there that they're going to try and replace him.
Yeah, I think all these polls are scaring the living hell out of Democrats.
And, you know, that dust up earlier in the week with David Axelrod was not done by accident.
I think that was done on purpose.
But still, you've got these sycophants, these people that are just brain dead, people that are just disconnected from the 60-some-odd percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
And they think they can go out there with their phony, happy face as if inflation is not impacting every American.
Interest rates are not impacting every American.
High gas prices are not impacting every American.
High diesel prices putting up the price of every item we buy in every store we go to, that it's not impacting Americans.
You know, if you look, listen to Circle Back Jensaki, I guess she was on with Liberal Joe.
You know, Biden's numbers show that 75% of Americans are happy with where they are economically.
That's not true.
Show me the poll that you're referring to.
And I'm not sure I'd believe it if I saw it.
Pete Buttigiege out there saying, you know, the Biden economy just, it's phenomenal and we're just getting started.
Listen.
And what's so frustrating at the White House is that they have numbers that show 70, 75% of Americans are happy with where they are economically.
Yeah, the data doesn't always make sense.
I can tell you from banging my head against the wall, communicating about the economy from the White House for two presidents over many years.
It is very difficult to do.
You can't tell people how they feel about the economy.
They are going to decide how they feel about the economy.
And the challenge for the Biden White House right now is they need to make up some ground on the economy in terms of how the American public feels.
That they're spending lots of money on paid media to do that.
But really, the question is, should they actually be focusing on the contrast with Trump and fascism and the threat he is?
And should they be spending more time on that?
President Biden heard the American people loud and clear.
And under his leadership, it finally happened.
Yeah.
Let's remember, all through that first year, commentators, skeptics said that nothing could be done on a bipartisan basis in today's Washington.
But together, we passed a once-in-a-generation investment that is building a stronger America.
And so we got to work.
We have come a long way, but most of our work is still ahead of us.
The work we're doing right now will ensure that the America we know, the America we love, will be even better for future generations.
And for President Biden and for this whole administration, it starts with delivering on the very basic things that make people's everyday life possible.
And the great news is we're just getting started.
So my question is, is that how you see it?
Because we'll know a year from now whether or not the American people are seeing it like Jen Saki, Liberal Joe, Scarborough, and Pete Buttijudge.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let me go to Pearl in Brooklyn.
If this is Pearl in Brooklyn, that can only mean one thing.
Our mother was a woman named Hannah who always called this program and was a Holocaust survivor.
Am I right, Pearl in Brooklyn?
Yes, you are 100% right.
And we miss your mom.
You wrote me the nicest letter after she passed away.
We loved her.
I know she's looking down on us today and probably looking down in horror because what she lived through, you know, seems to be unfolding yet again.
It not seems to.
It unfolded again on October 7th.
And there are so many people, I am shocked, that are buying into the sick, ugly, twisted ideology of virulent anti-Semitism.
It's so sad.
Very sad.
And thank you once again for being a close friend to my mother and my family and giving my mother a voice.
And she loved, she loved, she heard you and saw you twice a day.
Never missed a day.
Three hours on the radio, one hour on TV.
I wanted to tell you and your audience that I know my parents were survivors, and I wonder today what my mother would say.
How would she feel?
I know she would be scared and devastated, but Sean, my mother would not be in disbelief.
She said history repeats itself, and it can happen in this country, too.
Anti-Semitism will never go away, and we have to be aware of our surroundings and be very careful.
That is what she said.
You know, your mom lived through something that no human being should ever have to live through, and she survived the Holocaust.
What about all those that did not?
Six million plus Jewish people slaughtered, murdered.
You know, well, but what led up to it was a lot of the language we are hearing at what they call pro-Palestinian rallies.
What is your reaction to, you know, Congresswoman Tlib or, you know, from the river to the sea or calls for Antifada or, you know, calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.
We have heard it on our college campuses.
We've heard it around the country.
We've heard it in your state of New York.
We have heard it all throughout Europe.
I never thought we'd hear out of Australia gas the Jews, F the Jews, but we heard that too.
What is your reaction to that?
Because your mom was a Holocaust survivor.
Yes, the squad with Taib and ALC and others, I'm disgusted at the fact that they are in Congress today.
I don't understand it.
I understand.
Yes, they were elected.
But when they preach anti-Semitism and hatred, that should be against the law.
If they were for the KKK or the Nazis or Nazis, which are here in this country also, wouldn't they act?
They act immediately upon that because that cannot happen.
But for the Jews, everyone attacks the Jews.
If he's attacking the Jews, they jump on the bandwagon.
And it's very difficult for me at this time because I was born in Bergen-Belsen, which was a DP camp where Anne Frank was murdered.
It was a notorious concentration camp.
And after that, it was turned into a DP displaced persons camp.
Growing up with my parents, I listened to their experiences at forefront in my mind.
I wake up every morning listening to my mother's voice about the Nazis and the SS.
She told me that a Jew was not allowed outside, not allowed to go to work, school, or in the playground.
The Nazis ordered each person to wear a yellow armband with the Star of David.
Now, she had to make these, and there was nothing to make.
She made the armband, and she used onion skin to make it yellow.
On February 24th, in her small town in Poland, in the middle of the night, in the winter, the Nazis invaded their town, dragged all the Jewish people out of their homes, lined them up outside.
No coat, no shoes, no pajamas.
There was an open grave ready for the Jews.
My mother was standing next to her best friend who was holding her baby boy.
The SS, it's a Nazi soldier, walked towards them and grabbed the baby.
The mother ran after the Nazi, and then the mother ran to take the baby away from him, and he shot the baby and the mother.
This sounds familiar, Sean?
I am so afraid for what this can turn into.
All right, quick break, right back.
More with Pearl.
Her mom used to call this program regularly.
Sadly, she recently passed away, and she was a survivor of the Holocaust, told us the horrors of the Holocaust, but we'll have more with our daughter, Pearl, on the other side.
As we continue, Pearl is with us.
Her mom was a Holocaust survivor, and we're talking about how we never thought we'd hear the type of anti-Semitism we're hearing every day.
Here's my biggest fear for what Israel is now facing.
Israel now is facing Hamas, Islamic Jihad in the south out of Gaza.
They are facing Hezbollah out of the north.
The Houthi rebels have declared war on the state of Israel.
We have rockets being fired out of Syria.
All of this is being orchestrated and planned and plotted, this whole scheme by Iran, the mullahs in Iran.
Iran is now partnered with China and Russia and North Korea.
They are desperately seeking nuclear weapons, and I believe if they ever get them, they will use them.
That would be, you know, beyond a Holocaust in our lifetime.
And, you know, the fact that this world is tolerant that so many people don't have the clear moral clarity of what is going on here and the evil unfolding before our eyes should shock anybody that has a conscience, a mind, and a soul.
And I can't, it is inexplicable to me that here we are, the few of us, saying, and by the way, it did warm my heart to see the 300 plus thousand people show up in Washington this week.
But here we are again fighting a battle against evil that I didn't think would happen.
And that was the evil that your mother lived through.
And now we're living through it again.
And think of every family that knows Hamas is holding their loved ones hostage and what they must be going through.
Think of every family of the 1,400 slaughtered, what they must all be going through.
And the fact that the world is not in unison condemning the people responsible is incomprehensible.
And I pray to God that people wake up soon because it can get worse.
Pearl, we love you.
Thank you.
We think of your mom often.
I mentioned her the other day on the show, and I just thought the world of her and think the world of you.
I was thinking about when you visited Israel and Stradot, and you were the only journalist who went into the tunnel, put your arms out, and showed how wide and how high it is, and you showed everything.
You had the guts of the best soldier, and I thank you for being...
Hey, Pearl, can I be honest?
Yeah.
If that defines courage, then the bar is way too low.
The people that are courageous are the people on the front lines that are in those tunnels today, knowing that there are Hamas soldiers that have set booby traps that are in there ready to kill them.
And they're going to be the heroes.
But I will tell you how this is going to end.
Hamas is going to lose.
They're going to be destroyed.
Hezbollah gets more involved.
They're going to be destroyed.
Israel is not going away.
They are not going to be successful.
And if they ever are, then we can kiss the world as we know it.
Goodbye.
It's over.
Anyway, praying for you, praying for your family.
God bless your mom.
And I know she's looking over.
She's looking down from heaven and praying for all of us.
Thank you so much, Pearl.
We thank the world of you.
Bye-bye.
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