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Dec. 22, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Riots vs Protests - December 21st, Hour 3
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As a matter of fact, just some breaking news real quick before we get to our next guest.
You have Senator Richard Blumenthal.
He of the, as decorated as Rambo, all right, coming out of Vietnam.
This guy.
Oh, that's right.
He didn't serve there, but said he did.
He is now saying that Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, needs to recruit, recuse himself from the Supreme Court case coming up regarding putting Donald Trump back on the Colorado ballot.
So, you see how this is working now.
The Supreme Court's going to be attacked next.
And now we're even going to have senators calling for Justice Thomas to be pulled off because this is how democracy works.
Actually, no, this is how democracy dies.
Anyway, Carol, who is our next guest?
Well, before we get to that, I just want to say, what did I tell you, Joe Concha?
I said that this is not just about Trump.
This is about delegitimatizing the court.
And this is just the first thing you are going to hear about it.
And this is why I know you think we're going to get a 9-0 ruling on this overturning the Colorado Supreme Court, but I am not as optimistic.
And I think they're dropping these little Easter eggs for us.
But with that being said, as you mentioned, we've got Christmas Eve coming up this weekend.
But before that, on Saturday, we are celebrating Festivus.
It is a wonderful holiday that was brought to pop culture by Seinfeld.
And we get to air our grievances as well as show our feats of strength.
But on this radio show, we are just going to air the grievances because I think the feats of strength thing would get a little out of control.
And one of the grievances that I know you and I have talked about before are these constant protests, many of which turn violent that keep interrupting our lives.
And we have a fantastic guest to talk about that who wrote a wonderful piece on it recently.
It's our friend Carol Markowitz.
Carol, if you're not familiar with her, she is everywhere.
She writes at the New York Post and Fox News.
She has her own podcast, the Carol Markowitz show.
She's written a book, Stolen Youth, that was fantastic.
And so excited to have her with us today.
Carol, how are you doing?
Hi, guys.
Two of my favorites.
Wow.
And one of ours, Carol.
Yes, and one of ours as well.
So great to have you here.
You know, we're talking about these protests, and we've seen everything from Black Lives Matters to the environmental protests.
And now we have these pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist protests that are quote-unquote peaceful.
We know that many of them are not peaceful at all.
Yet those seem to go unchecked while we had a quote-unquote insurrection on January 6th, in which over a thousand people got charges.
So what is going on here?
Why is there a different treatment between what happened on January 6th and all of these other riots that are sort of going on under the name of a protest?
Well, I think it's because there is one standard of justice for people on the left and another standard of justice for everybody else.
And what we are seeing right now is a chaotic mass of people that, you know, it's not about Palestinians and Israelis.
It's not about Jews.
It's not about any of this.
It's about the issue of the moment.
It could be anything.
It could be climate change.
It could be BLM.
I mean, Israel provides a really easy one, but it's this leftist mob that rampages through our cities, blocks traffic, and forces us to listen to these big babies who don't have anything interesting or any kind of concrete solutions to any of this.
They just want to wail in our faces.
And they're allowed to continue to do this at our own peril.
Because if we don't stop them, if we don't start stopping this behavior, it's going to continue to get worse and worse.
And we're seeing it.
I think we used to see, you know, protesters, you know, maybe one protest would get violent or two protests would get violent.
And now the majority of them do.
Now the majority of them cause chaos, have destruction of property, and have violence associated with them.
So we need to do something and we need to do it quick.
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Carol, that's the question.
How many more times are we going to allow our roads or bridges to be shut down for this lunacy of the day until we say enough?
Now, I guess it's not a we question because it's really local police forces that have to do this sort of work.
And that could be very tricky because then things could get violent and then the police are blamed for stomping on protests and democracy and so on.
So I think this is an easier said than done type of scenario.
Well, it is somewhat.
But the only other option is that regular citizens are going to have to fight those battles.
And we don't want that either.
We don't want vigilantes, right?
That's okay.
So if somebody's blocking you and you have to get to work and you're going to get fired if you don't get to work, I know that like, you know, a lot of these Trust Fund kids who do these protests don't know about that.
But people need to get to work or get home from work and they have no choice.
So what we're doing is putting regular citizens in a situation where they have to police the roads and they have to handle this.
I think we need to start going back to basics.
One thing, for example, you're not allowed to protest wearing a mask in many, many places across the country.
But because of COVID, we've decided that that's okay.
I'm sorry, these protesters are not wearing ski masks because they're afraid of COVID.
So we need to take step by step, start arresting people who break the law during these riots, protests turn riots, and we need to start making sense of society again where people can live in a normal, peaceful way and not have to deal with these antifa lunatics getting in their faces whenever they feel like it about any issue that they feel like it.
Here's the problem, Carol, is that we have a culture of non-accountability.
And a culture of non-accountability is going to reap what it sows because it is not just the riots.
We're seeing it in every facet of life.
We have people who are stealing packages from people's porches and they're looking in the ring cameras and they're waving.
We have people who are mass looting and they're not wearing the ski masks and they're not wearing the face covering because they just don't care.
They know that they won't be caught.
They know that if they are caught, that there will be no consequences.
Can we keep going on without having consequences and accountability?
Because it just seems that anybody who might want to push the line is going, well, I'm going to just take it all the way out because there's absolutely nothing that's stopping me.
Well, you guys both know that I'm a big fan of both of you, but you are both holding on in blue areas of the country where this kind of thing is prevalent.
I can tell you that it's a little bit different in Florida.
Things don't happen like that here in quite the same numbers.
So for example, when I wrote the article about blocking the highways, I was curious, has this happened in Florida recently?
And look, they did block a highway in Tampa.
It's not like it doesn't happen at all, but the consequences are completely different.
That protest lasted like 20 minutes.
The police got them out of there.
There were arrests within minutes of them being on the highway.
It's a different way of living.
And I think that what needs to happen in these blue areas is it's not the you guys that need to say enough.
It's your liberal neighbors need to finally realize that they can't go on this way.
And once they do, then you could see changes.
But until that happens, I just, you know, the super lefty A's who don't prosecute crimes lead to police officers who don't want to make these arrests because what's the point, which leads to more crime.
And it's just this vicious, vicious cycle.
I grew up in 1980s Brooklyn.
I remember how all of this went down.
It got worse and worse and worse until it hit rock bottom.
And only then it got better.
So I hope you guys aren't heading for that rock bottom.
But what needs to happen is your leftist liberal neighbors need to wake up.
And we're talking to Carol Markowitz, and she is exactly right.
Carol, I'm curious what you think about what's going on at the U.S. southern border right now.
We're at a full-blown catastrophe.
We passed crisis a long time ago.
We're approaching now eight, nine million people coming into this country illegally since Joe Biden took office, just to put that in perspective.
There aren't 40 U.S. states that have a population of 9 million people.
So we're surpassed 40 states now as far as the number of people coming into this country.
Your story is a different one.
You came from the Soviet Union and came here legally.
When you see this happening, what do you think as a legal immigrant?
It completely destroys me because it was a really difficult process.
And I know I've probably talked to you both about it before, but we first had to get permission to leave the Soviet Union, which, okay, was its own thing back then.
But then once we did, Italy led us in to wait out to see which country would take us in.
It wasn't an automatic just because you got out of the Soviet Union.
Now somebody has to accept you.
People ended up in America, in Canada, in Israel, in Australia, in other countries, in Germany.
And you waited for somebody to accept you into their country, but you also needed somebody to apply for you and to say, when this person arrives in my country, I'm going to take care of them until they get up on their own two feet.
They're not going to be on the public assistance.
And now that's completely out the window.
People come here.
They expect to be taken care of immediately.
They expect to have housing.
And it's such a drain on our system.
But beyond that, we just have no control whatsoever at the border.
We don't know who's coming in.
Every single person that came in at the time that I came in was thoroughly vetted.
Plenty of people got denied.
It was, I mean, it was a completely different system.
The fact that we now have a situation where we cannot turn anyone away, it's beyond insane.
The thing is, you know, when they talk about adding more people at the border, you know, more border agents, all of that is just to process more people to come in.
None of that is to turn anybody away.
Nobody gets turned away.
Nobody gets sent back.
And so, I mean, as a country, we have to realize that what we're doing is so destructive to ourselves.
We want to have an immigration policy that makes sense.
None of this makes sense.
Nobody in the world does this.
It's completely untenable.
Yeah, I mean, I'm going to jump in with you, Joe, and you, Carol.
Love you both in talking about this mass immigration.
This is not mass immigration.
This is an invasion.
It's a mass breach of our borders.
And we are being invaded as a country.
And I think that we need to start calling it for what it is because we know the left likes to change words, but this word is pretty clear.
And if you looked anywhere else and you had a mass breach of borders the way that we have, that would be considered an invasion.
All right.
With that, Carol, we've gotten incredible expertise from you, but we need your expertise on one really critical issue.
We are putting together our list of the best Christmas movies.
So what would you like to add to our list?
You know, I started watching Home Alone 2 today with my son.
That movie is fantastic.
Such a beautiful portrayal of a New York I once loved and, you know, a kid being free in New York City on Christmas.
Really nothing beats that.
Wow.
I watched Home Alone 2 with my son Liam two nights ago and out of nowhere, Trump appears in the movie.
I only saw Home Alone 1.
I never saw Home Alone 2.
He's only in it for like three seconds.
And then I remember this controversy in Canada.
They took out the scene where Macaulay Calkin asked Trump directions to the bathroom.
I'm like, it's three seconds.
All he says is go down the hall to the right.
And they couldn't even handle that.
So anyway, yeah, it is great.
Home Alone 2, 1, it is all good.
Carol.
My son asked, how did they get Trump to appear in this movie?
I was like, well, he wasn't president yet.
Right.
30 years later.
And he never turns down publicity.
All right, Carol, thank you so much for being with us.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Carol.
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It's like throwing a dart at a very, very, very big dartboard.
So let's go to California, where I had a lovely vacation watching my nine-year-old play in something called Surf Cup in San Diego, California.
Lovely, lovely state.
Expensive as heck, I'm still paying for it.
James, how are you?
What do you want to share?
Yeah, how are you today?
James, are you there?
Yes, can you hear me?
I got you, buddy.
Go ahead.
Oh, okay.
What I had originally called about, but your phone answer wanted me to tell you guys that I will be voting for Biden.
My wife is a black conservative Jew who said some things to me yesterday that convinced me why Biden will probably win a landslide.
Plus, she even voted for Trump.
And we really have some interesting conversations about what's going on in the country and where we stand politically.
Sure.
So let me go issue by issue, and then you could tell me why Biden is doing well in a particular area.
We'll peel the onion off a little bit.
In terms of the U.S. southern border, how do you think things are going there?
Oh, no, I have no problem.
We both agree on building the wall, but that's not going to stop the majority of the migration because most of the people who are coming there are asking for asylum.
And because of our laws and our Constitution, they have a right to do so.
What if you tightened asylum laws and didn't allow them to do that?
Would that help?
Well, yeah, but there's so much dysfunction in the House and the Senate that that's not going to happen.
Everybody's going to talk a good game, but really nobody's going to do anything.
And you're okay with gas prices in California and inflation?
Well, inflation comes and goes.
And in reference to the gas prices, I paid, was it yesterday?
Yeah, I paid $3.99 for gas.
And my wife just got back from Florida.
And she said they were, I know, Los.
No, no, she wasn't there, Florida.
She's in Los Angeles.
Oh, okay.
It's good to know you know where your wife is.
That's the important thing.
I don't know where she is half the time.
That's usually either mall or shop and stop.
But anyway, we're going to hold you over, James, and we're going to talk to you a little bit more.
I know Carol has a couple of questions for you.
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Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
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This is the Sean Hannity show, Joe Concha Carol Roth.
As we continue with our phone calls and our conversation with James from California.
He'll be voting for Joe Biden.
He says Biden will win in a landslide.
Carol, I know you had a couple of questions for James, so take it away.
Yes, I listened to you two gentlemen speaking.
And James, you had talked about the border not bothering you because there is an asylum process.
And I just have to press you a little bit, James.
Do you really believe that?
Because the reality is we've seen videos of the nine plus million people who've come across the border, many of whom have just breached right through and just ran and haven't talked to anybody.
But in terms of the actual asylum claim, we've had people on video saying that they're here for jobs, they're here for a better life.
That's not what asylum is.
There's a very clear and tight definition of asylum.
I would venture to say, and I'm not a betting woman, I'm not the one you're going to find in Las Vegas, but I would put a whole ton of money that less than 1% of the people who've come across that border, maybe even far less than 1%, have a legitimate asylum claim.
Do you really believe the people who are coming across the border en masse are here on asylum, James?
No, I can't say one way or the other, but that's our problem.
That's not their problem.
Yes, it is our problem, a big problem for us.
And you don't find that to be a problem for you.
Well, let me finish what I want to say.
And the reasons why it is up to us as Americans as well.
It's up to our federal government and our senators to put in legislation to handle this.
They're coming on the old, on the laws that have been on the books since the 1950s.
And one of the reasons is before when Eisenhower administration, he canceled the Pacero program.
Before I retired, me and two other guys owned the only African-American organic food company in the United States, where we got most of our vegetables and grooves.
It was just in Salinas.
Most of the people that were picking it and working for it and doing the work for it were Mexicans.
And many of those were undocumented.
And I'm sure that many had forged documents.
But as I said before, that is our issue.
If we want to change the border policy, well, then let's change it.
But James, James, James, James, James.
They're abusing the asylum law.
We do have a law on the books that is for asylum, and they're abusing it.
They're saying they're coming here on that.
And they've said on video that that's not true.
I agree that we need to be tighter.
We all believe that the border should be secured, but you're the one that said that you're voting for Joe Biden because you don't have a problem with these people coming across the border.
Why, with all of this that's going on with the economy, with the last few years that we've had, why is Joe Biden your choice?
Well, I'll give you the reasons that my wife gave to me that Biden is going to win, probably win in a landslide.
No, no, no, I don't want your wife's answers.
Why are you voting?
You said that you're voting for Joe Biden.
Why do you think your life is better off now under Joe Biden than it was before?
Why do you say that you're voting for Joe Biden?
Well, my life has not changed one iota.
Fortunately for me, my father was very successful and I had, before I retired, had a very successful company and I get a very good retirement.
My father was one of the greatest patriots that ever has been created in this country because he was a poor country boy who was told he would never be successful or be anything.
And he proved everybody wrong.
I believed America is one of the greatest countries, the greatest country in the world, and I've traveled the world.
But I don't believe, in reference to the people that the mega Republicans want to run, have the interest of America in hand.
Trump says he doesn't believe in the Constitution, so I can't go down that road.
When did that happen?
The whole not believing the Constitution thing?
Well, if you read, I heard the speech, I've read the speech where he said he doesn't think it's his job as president of the United States to protect the Constitution.
I think he has an idea of what this country should be.
And this is not the same idea as I have.
So James, I have to interrupt you for a quick second.
All right.
So we're getting all your tags here.
We have one final take for you.
Since these tags are awesome, what is your favorite Christmas movie?
Oh, it's a wonderful life.
All right.
All right.
Well, I think you got that, right, James?
That's it.
That works.
That works.
Merry Christmas, James.
Thanks, James.
Well, well, well, Carol, lots to unpack there.
And when people say, who are the 33% that support Joe Biden?
Like, who are the people that approve of the job he's doing?
We just net the poster boy for that.
I mean, this is why they have the phrase shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations because people, you know, they come to this country, they scrap, they grow up, they're patriots, they do well, and then they give, you know, their, their children all of this privilege.
And then they just go, oh, I'm just going to vote for Joe Biden and I'm going to, you know, see things that aren't there.
But, you know, that's his prerogative.
And we still wish him a Merry Christmas, don't we, Joe?
Absolutely.
No, actually, I don't.
I'm sorry.
I didn't buy anything that he said.
This person's like, oh, my wife is in Florida.
No, she was in Las Vegas because you always get those places confused because they're so close to each other.
Yeah.
Well, we didn't want to hear what his wife had to say.
Do you think, by the way, do you think that they normalize sleeping in separate bedrooms?
Oh, well, I'm not even sure Mrs. James exists at this point because we heard a lot about her.
Couldn't get her on the phone for some reason.
The alleged miss.
Oh, we're kidding, James.
You're just having fun with you.
It's nuts.
What do you want to talk about, Carol?
We got some show to do.
Yes.
All right.
So there is a new study that was out by Lending Tree, and they looked at different quotes from people who were trying to insure their cars and different automotive brands to find out behavioral patterns.
And they found by the study that Tesla drivers in the U.S. were involved in accidents at a higher rate than drivers of any other brand of vehicle.
And the ones that had the most DUIs, those were BMW drivers.
So does that surprise you, Joe?
Yeah, let me think about this.
If you drive a BMW, you're more likely to get overserved.
I guess you have more money.
Then again, Teslas are kind of expensive in their own right.
Is this one of those things where it's just a random result of something that has nothing to do with anything?
What do you think?
Well, I mean, obviously these were people who were looking to insure their vehicles.
So there may be some self-selection in that data.
And we know that statistics often lie to us.
But, you know, based on my interactions with Tesla and BMW drivers on the road, I cannot say that I am entirely surprised.
But you never know, Joe.
I was going to the grocery store yesterday, little Trader Joe's action, and I saw this older couple and they looked a little, you know, disheveled and not put together.
And I don't know, I thought maybe they were homeless and I felt bad.
I let them kind of go away.
And, you know, they ran into their car and it turned out their car was a Porsche Cayenne.
So you never know by judging people.
And again, BMW does stand for Bourbon Motorworks, right?
So perhaps when they include that maker's mark in every vehicle, that that could lead to this sort of thing.
I just still don't get in a day and age where we have Uber and we have Lyft and we have all these options.
Why, if you're an adult and you have $20, $30 in your credit card account that goes right to your Uber account, why people just can't do the responsible thing?
I think it's because it's hubris.
Like, oh, I'm not going to get pulled over.
You hear the excuse from people sometimes, like, I actually drive better when I'm drunk because I concentrate more.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I just don't get why you would risk so many things doing something like that when there are just options out there that, quite frankly, we didn't have growing up if you didn't live in an urban environment.
That's all I got to say.
This is very true.
This is very true.
Do we have another caller, Joe?
As a matter of fact, we do.
This is a rare thing.
We had Lindsay from South Carolina before.
She apparently had to go run to Trader Joe's like you did, Carol.
And now she is back and she wants to talk about a topic that we talked about earlier: girl math.
So, Lindsay, before you jump in, Carol, just give us a quick 15, 20 minutes, 20 second overview of what girl math is for our new listeners.
Okay, I'm going to go.
So, girl math is like mental gymnastics.
So, like, if it's under $5, it's free.
And then, like, if you buy something and you have a 20% discount, you've like saved like 20%.
And, you know, it doesn't really matter because if you buy stuff now and then it's like for like your birthday in six months, then basically it's free.
Wow, makes sense to me.
Lindsay, your thoughts, South Carolina.
Well, I think girl math equals you will own nothing.
Ah, the name of Carol's.
Nice plug.
Nice plug, Lindsay.
And you need to put that on some t-shirts or some mugs because I would definitely buy it.
And that goes in with your Trader Joe's that you were talking about earlier.
Going to the store.
I went to the grocery store, picked up large eggs, got them home, opened them up.
You know, I did a quick glance to make sure they weren't broken.
Got them home.
Only one of them was a large egg.
So now they're packaging them large eggs, but they're small.
Like that's how we're getting.
Yeah.
The eggs are small.
I made eggs today.
It's shrinkflation.
That's what they're doing.
They're putting in, they're taking the small chickens and they're taking their small eggs and they're putting them in there.
They're taking the pizzas.
They're shrinking them down.
We can't get away from this.
If you're not paying more, you're getting less.
Wait a minute.
Shrinkflation is because they're putting smaller items in a bag?
What have I been taking all this Viagra for?
I thought that something else was going on.
Not that I need that.
This is the Seinfeld wrap.
This is George was in the pool.
Joe was in the pool.
Yeah.
He had shrinkflation.
No, this is something else.
This is not Costanza math.
This is not girl math.
This is Bidenomics.
Oh.
It's a lot.
We've had a lot of math here today.
Indeed.
The wife isn't listening.
All right.
Lindsay, we're wrapping up our list here of the best holiday movies.
We've got It's a Wonderful Life.
We have The Holiday.
We have Home Alone 2.
Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?
The Christmas Story.
Oh, good call, Lindsay.
Good call.
All right.
Fabulous.
I like it.
Lindsay, thanks so much.
Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays.
Carol, I guess we should give our top picks for our favorite Christmas movies.
Obviously, I will go through mine.
You know what it is.
I got kind of a thing for Bruce Willis.
I got to admit, I hate seeing what he's going through right now, but boy, it was 35 years ago.
Can you believe it?
35 years ago that Die Hard came out in July of 1988.
People think it's a Christmas movie, but if it comes out in July, can it really be?
But the whole plot is centered around the fact that the Nakatomi people at that corporation decided to have a Christmas Eve party for their workers.
It's like, oh, can I go home and be with my family?
No, you're staying here at the Nakatomi Plaza until all hours of the night.
Who does that?
You barely can see a Christmas party after December 15th for work, let alone December 24th.
But needless to say, it plays a big role in the whole thing.
Obviously, you have Bruce Willis's wife trying to get home.
I'm sorry, the kids are at home.
And I got to say that it's absolutely a Christmas movie.
Yeah, I just have to jump in there.
So Die Hard is also my favorite Christmas movie.
But, you know, I think it's rude for you to go after the Nakatomi Corporation at Nakatomi Plaza because this is a Japanese company and they are not familiar with the customs that we have here in America.
They thought it would be festive to have a Christmas party and celebrate their wonderful wins and all the different mergers on Christmas Eve.
So I kind of give them that pass.
But I give that as a Christmas movie.
As well, do I do one of my other favorite movies, which is not only a Christmas movie, it is a New Year's movie, and that is Trading Places.
Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, if you know the scene where Dan Aykroyd has just gone undergone the switch that happened based on Mortimer and Randolph Duke's bet that he doesn't know about.
And he has been swapped, his life has been swapped with Eddie Murphy, who is a panhandler on the street.
And, you know, now he is at the Christmas party.
He's having, you know, he's trying to exact his revenge.
And then that's when he shortly after that finds out that this has all been a bet.
And him and Eddie Murphy, to you.
Wow.
Almost nobody names trading places, but you're exactly right.
And Philadelphia never looked better before or since or ever than it did in that particular movie.
By the way, we have a special guest that's joining us on our hotline, Carol.
And that is Jimmy Fala of Fox News, of course, the host of Fox Across America.
And he'll be hosting Fox News Saturday night this 10 p.m., 10 p.m.
Saturday Eastern, a special Christmas edition.
Jimmy, how are you, pal?
Hey, hey, hey.
So I got hair and makeup for this phone interview.
Really?
That's where you are.
I want to know what you went with.
Was there, is there, do you have like the full lash thing going on?
Is it full glam?
I have to tell you, this is a true story.
Like I commit, I'm a full-blown dream girl at heart.
So I'm wearing gold shoes.
I got a little bronzer on.
like i'm i'm like i'm half diana ross right now usually look like festive yeah an adult figure skater but now you've changed your uh your whole tune i I love it, Jimmy.
We're talking about Christmas movies and the best of, and Carol and I agree that Die Hard is one of the best trading places she just named.
What do you think of Love Actually with a great cast?
Hugh Grant and Liam Neese and Laura Linney.
I could go down the line.
Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, where do you land as far as Christmas movies and particularly Love Actually, Jimmy?
Okay, well, let's start with what needs to be said, which is it is probably the most successful rom-com of all time.
Why?
Because women love and wanted to sleep with them.
Yeah.
So we played along and we were like, yeah, this is good.
I love this movie.
It was doable.
I mean, to be clear, I don't want to disparage it because if I was in a rom-com, it would be called Love Handles, actually.
The truth is, it's, you know, I think it's manipulative.
I hear you.
Hey, Jimmy, stick around.
We're going to take you on the other side of the break.
Joe Koncha, Carol Roth.
I'm showing Annie's show.
Please do stick around.
Carol Roth, I had a lot of fun today.
Thanks for joining me as my co-host.
It was awesome.
Yes, Joe, thank you so much.
It's Carol Roth, and I want to wish everyone a happy festivus, a Merry Christmas.
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