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April 3, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Squatter Hunters - April 2nd, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, uh now the issue of squatting gets to be a bigger and bigger and bigger issue every single day.
Believe it or not, there are tens of thousands, tens of thousands of homeowners if they're on vacation or maybe they rent to somebody where people will not pay and just stay in their home for long periods of time.
Now it's gone so far crazy left and woke that homeowners, they're now the ones getting arrested, not the people that are actually living in their home, rent-free, pretty much stealing their home, acting as though it is yours.
Two alleged squatters suing the owners of a duplex.
Why?
Because they were accused of making themselves at home in a pricey Queen's residence and refusing to move out.
The home is worth $930,000.
I mean, it is the New York City has has permissive laws when it comes to these situations, and you have the property owner now facing $4,000 minimum in legal fees.
Trust me, that's gonna go up way, way higher before this is all said and done.
And if you note and you look, for example, in a state like New York, squatters have legal protection if they occupy any property for 30 days.
And anyway, social media users shared their thoughts.
Uh, and and this is saying because it's now a nightmare for anybody that has to deal with this.
You had, for example, two alleged squatters served up a $25 Shake Shack receipt among several pieces of evidence that they claim shows that they have the the legal right to live in this $930,000 New York home.
I mean, that's what they produced before the court.
They filed pieces of evidence in a court in Queens, New York, including an application approval letter, a rental lease, and mail that was addressed to them at the home.
Oh, great.
You just tell anybody to mail you something, and you're you're good to go.
I mean, it's now we have the Shake Shack defense, the Shake Shack receipt defense.
But uh there are ways that you can fight back.
Uh let me first play for you, if I can a report, and this report talks about us from ABC 7 in New York about suspected Venezuelan illegals squatting in a Bronx home.
They have guns, ammunition, drugs, cocaine, and a child.
Listen.
And we just obtained when police sprung into action, hopping out of their squad cars after they got a call about a man with a gun.
When they arrived, they chase 24-year-old Hector De Soso Villata, believed to be from Venezuela, into the basement of this Hull Avenue home.
Another man, 22-year-old Javier Alborno, tried to get away with another gun before he was also arrested.
Playing on your screen now are four of the eight suspects That were under arrest, being walked out one by one from police.
When a search warrant was in place, investigators recovered two more loaded guns, three loaded extended magazines, a box of ammunition, and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine.
Now Flash Shelton, who's going to join us in a minute, is with the squatter hunters.
We'll tell you about this organization in a minute, but this is Flash talking about you know how he got started as a squatter hunter.
Listen, in 2019, after my father passed away and while we were attempting to sell the home, I was notified that there was a break in.
I did what everyone would do.
I called the sheriff.
I told them that someone had broken into my parents' vacant home.
The responding deputy called me and verified a broken back door.
Then he said the words that every homeowner fears to hear.
You have you said it was a vacant home.
It appears you have squatters, and there's nothing we can do.
I know what it feels like to feel the helpless, hopeless feeling when dealing with squatters, and the law saying it's a civil matter.
Fearing that long drawn out and costly process, I decided to lift my head up, stand up and fight.
I broke the law down to its knees and figured out that if they could take a house, I could take a house.
I got my squatters out in less than a day, using the same system and their rights against them.
I started squatter hunters to start helping others to shift the balance.
We are making an impact nationwide, and I'm and I'm consulting in a few other countries.
This is a worldwide problem.
My fight to change squatter laws started one year ago, and I will not stop fighting until squatters laws until squatter laws are changed from coast to coast, and homeowners are free from their squatters.
Thank you.
Anyway, joining us now is Flash Shelton of Squatter Hunters.
He's here with advice and expertise on how to rid home rid your home of squatters who invade and take over properties that don't belong to them.
Uh sadly, the law is not often on the side of the homeowner, which is insane to me.
And we talked about the a woman in Queens trying to protect her home, but she was handcuffed.
And now you have illegal immigrants with a seven-year-old in the basement apartment and they're not paying any rent, and they can't get rid of them.
Anyway, Flash Shelton, thank you so much for being with us.
Hey, thanks for having me.
All right.
Tell us first of all, how'd you get into this issue and and how bad is it?
I'm reading tens of thousands of examples exist in this country c today.
Yeah, um, you know, just like everybody else, I was shocked and blindsided by uh squatters taking over my uh my parents' home after my father had passed away.
I did like everyone, and I called the sheriff and found out that there was nothing they take to do.
Well, I mean, it really is pretty amazing, isn't it?
I mean, you think about it.
Uh whatever happened to owners' rights, property owners' rights.
I mean, I could tell you, uh I'll give you use myself as an as an example.
When I was finally able to buy my first home, and I bought it in Roswell, Georgia, when I was on the radio in in Georgia.
And I think I paid 114 or 15,000 for the home.
I was the happiest person alive.
For me, the American dream literally came to life.
I never thought I'd be successful, never really even dreamed about when I might be able to own my own home.
And I was happy as can be when I was able to get that home.
And it means the world to you.
The idea that somebody can come in and steal it from underneath you is unfathomable to me.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I don't know.
Uh, you know, it's uh you would you would assume that you have those rights, and uh, you know, it's it's it's just completely in.
I think the reason why this is such a big deal right now is because it just doesn't make any common sense whatsoever.
How do you help people that find themselves in this situation?
Well, you know, my number one thing is I'm trying to help with squatter law change, but um but how I help people is basically a system I figured out to get the squatters out of my mom's house.
I got them, I got seven people out of my mom's house in less than a day.
And uh had it how specifically Did you do it and what state did you do it in?
So the first one was in California, and I I got a lease from my mom in case they had a fake lease.
And I basically decided that if they could or figured out that if they could take a house, I could take a house, and I outsquatted them.
Once I can take possession, if I take possession before they actually have established their squatter rights in civil court, then possession is basically what matters.
If I outsquat them, it's my house, then I force them to fight in court to prove that they were a legal tenant to get back into the house instead of fighting to get them out of the house.
I know somebody that spent four and a half years in court in New York to finally, finally get a judge to kick these people out of their home.
The amount of money that was spent on legal fees was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time all was was said and done.
And it took that long to get rid of somebody.
So you're saying to people, you better catch it early.
If you catch it early, what you've got to out squat the squatters?
I mean, that's that's your advice to them.
That's the only advice you got.
Well, what I'm telling them is that they, as the homeowner, have no rights.
Unfortunately.
What I'm telling them is to call law enforcement.
And as soon as they tell them that they can't do anything, don't call an attorney first.
Contact me at squatterhunters.com and I will assess your situation before you give them rights in the civil process.
All right.
We appreciate you being with us, Flash Shelton Squatter Hunters.
I mean, I can't believe another topic we're discussing, but here we are.
Uh welcome to uh the year 2024.
Uh only 216 days till election day.
Uh I'd like a president that would take action against squatters and stand up for homeowners' rights.
Uh by the way, they did it down here in Florida.
Governor DeSantis, just in the last two weeks, signed a bill against squatting in the state of Florida.
Thank you, Governor DeSantis.
I appreciate the common sense.
It's it's pretty unbelievable to me.
It really is.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll get back to your calls uh when we come back.
Let's get to our busy phones 800-941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Barb is in the free state of Florida.
Barb, hi, how are you, my fellow Floridian?
What's going on?
Oh, thank you so much for that nice introduction, Sean.
This is wonderful.
I am so thrilled to be with you to be talking to you.
Because I started my journey on in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and you've talked to a lot of people from the people who would have been affected by the Massapequa incident, which was horrible.
Then my family moved to Connecticut, and we were in um condominiums, and those are the best things to live in if you don't want squatters to move into your empty house.
And we did have an empty house because we were building our home, our retirement home in Florida, and our condominium was vacant, had furniture in it, but it was vacant for quite a period of time.
And thank goodness we moved down in 2018, and we're now 100% of the time in Florida with you.
Well, I gotta tell you, you know what?
I I you know what the difference is, I can tell you it's it's very distinct.
There is law and order down here.
There is a sense of safety that I definitely did not feel, for example, in New York City.
You know, on the one hand, Linda and I companer back and forth about how I don't want her on the subway, and I I understand her position, appreciate the fact that she's tough and is gonna tough it out.
On the other hand, I worry about the her security and her safety, and I take it seriously, just like anybody else that works for me.
And but that's not a problem down here.
Now it doesn't mean there aren't pockets of problems in any state.
There are.
But police are empowered here to do their job.
They don't have these idiotic no-bail laws.
They're not talking about defunding, dismantling and reimagining our police departments down here.
So there's a big difference, right?
Yeah, oh, absolutely.
And I come from a part of Florida where the sheriff says that if he catches anybody doing anything wrong, he's gonna take them to the green roof inn.
And believe it or not, in Bennell, there is a there is a green roof, and it is on top of the jail, and that's where they go if They do something wrong.
But we were very, very fortunate because we left um uh our uh um snowbird agenda in in uh 2019, 2018.
So we didn't get anyone in our in our um condo in uh Connecticut, which was wonderful, and we had very close neighbors, so they wouldn't have allowed that to happen anyway.
But I just wanted to talk to you because I feel that I am one what I call one of the 2024 VVs or valued voters, because I am a suburban woman.
And um I want to censure Joe Biden, a supposed Catholic, for what he did to Easter.
It was outrageous.
Um you know what was even more outrageous, he denied he did it, and they actually had posted the proclamation online.
I'm like, now did he forget that he did it?
Did he not know that he did it?
Uh or was he trying to BS his way out of what he did?
Oh, I I I think it was all of the above.
I I I think his handlers have him they they are holding on to him so close and they keep whispering in his ear, and maybe he's got some kind of an ear device, and he says these things, but he is such a weak, inefficient, horrific president.
And Trump, I gotta tell you, the prices when we moved down here for gas were like rock bottom.
It was wonderful.
But even down here, prices have gone up.
I mean, you know, it I I well, whatever it is here, and and I fill up my own tank like you do, it's double in California.
And what what is the governor doing, but he's suing the quote big oil companies.
I'm like, great.
Who do you think's gonna pay for those lawsuits?
Consumers.
Everybody all of us will pay the price for their very expensive law firms that they now need to hire to defend themselves to stay in business.
Well, and then the first thing that should go on by whoever becomes president in 2024, and I hope to goodness it is Donald Trump, should start that pipeline again.
That was so wrong to stop that.
Um if we had all that gas, as my husband is fond of saying, and he's former military, served in Vietnam.
Um, we could pay down the national debt, we could lower the price of gas, we could sell fuel to all of our allies in Europe.
We could become a superpower again.
We could.
Well, I think I absolutely believe we could.
I absolutely believe it.
And and I hope we will.
I really do.
Uh look, there's so much on the line.
If you don't like what's happening at the border with the economy, and if you don't like the squatter rights and you want law and order and safety and security, if you don't like America and the way the world looks, having abandoned and abdicated our role on the world stage as the leader of the free world.
Well, 216 days you can do something about it, and I can't do it alone.
I am one voice, I am one person, I am one vote.
But I am telling you, it's an all hands-on deck moment.
It is an inflection infliction point in the country, and it is a tipping point election.
Everything is on the line.
And I can't get any more serious than that.
Anyway, I do appreciate the good call.
All right, quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
We do have a, you know, the world's getting crazier and crazier.
I never thought we'd have to debate the issue of squatting people that own homes now, tens of thousands of them having them stolen, and there are more rights for the squatters and the thieves than there are for the homeowners that sacrificed pretty much everything to get into that home that they they dreamed of.
And it's just, you know, these things get more out of control by the by the day.
I mean, I I have a pack of stuff every day that I I don't even have time to get to.
You have a leading feminist group now slammed for defending inclusion of trans athletes and female sports and calling any critic, quote, white supremacists.
Did you think we'd be discussing this?
I didn't think I'd be discussing these issues when I started in radio and TV.
I just didn't.
You know, how sad was it, LSU, and I'm glad they got their asses kicked by Iowa, the NCAA uh women's basketball tournament.
Uh and man, they they didn't even come out for the the national anthem.
Like, here we go again.
Is it any surprise?
Five percent drop in applications To Havid.
Would you really want your kids to go to woke Harvard at this point?
I wouldn't.
I have no interest in it.
You have children uh uh child uh children's TV channel, The Cartoon Network celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility.
A cartoon channel.
We can't even let kids walk watch cartoons without monitoring the content.
Apparently not.
In San Francisco, you have a drag group mocking Christians with a quote hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests on Easter Sunday, a Minnesota school district seeking a hire a hundred to two hundred thousand dollar anti-racist official who can examine weightness.
The job listing calls for an employee who cultivates a culture of accountability for a systemic racial equality transformation.
This is now America.
You know, we have the mob, the media, they're all in for all things Biden, whoopy Goldberg are all friend claiming that voters have memory issues and slamming in the stupid question, are you better off than you were four years ago?
What's so stupid about that question?
Are you?
Well, maybe Whoopi's better off, maybe her contract went up, and maybe she's making more money.
I don't know.
I'm sure she's pre paid very well working for the view.
You have a Florida Supreme Court now has allowed the six-week abortion ban to stay in effect, but the voters will have a final say in a referendum that will be on the ballot in November.
Also one on on legalization, I believe, of marijuana is will be there as well.
Things have gotten so bad in other countries.
You know, I'm looking at J.K. Rowling, you know, the of the Harry Potter series, and her next book could be Harry Potter and the prisoner, uh, because J.K. Rowling is daring police in her native Scotland to arrest her for misgendering transgender people after a new woke hate crime law took effect on Monday,
and she said freedom of speech and belief are at the end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
She wrote this on X. I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offense under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish enlightenment.
I mean, this is the crazy world you now live in.
This is the crazy world we all live in, and it is getting more insane hour by hour.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to Mike in Virginia.
Mike, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I'm doing fine.
Um it's a pleasure to talk with you, Sean.
I appreciate it.
Glad you're out there.
Thanks for checking in.
Two hundred and sixteen days to go.
What's on your mind today?
All right.
Well, you know, I originally thought about calling and saying, you know, uh, I'm worried about your reporting seems to be not quite what it used to be.
I mean, I'd give you an A overall, period.
And this is not to say that I'm I'm a hundred percent behind you, period.
I think everybody feels the same.
They love you.
We support you.
Maybe this is time to get a second wind.
I know it's gotta be frustrating.
Well, what is the butt here?
What don't you like?
I mean, I'm willing to take constructive criticism from anybody, but just tell me what it is.
All right.
Well, I have to say this that the more I look at what's going on and I look at the mission statement the Fox has, we provide a platform for diverse perspective voices and views, always supporting relentless reporting, bold thoughts, and opinions.
Now money Why why why are you worried about what what an uh an organization has put out versus what I'm out there saying and doing every day?
I mean, did you ever hear me say that?
Maybe concerned about Well no, I'm asking you a question.
Have you ever heard me say any of that?
Because I've never seen any of this, to be very honest, and I know every corporation, you know, feels compelled because otherwise they're likely gonna get sued to put all this information out there.
How many times have you heard me say I'd eliminate most HR departments?
You can have a one-page HR statement.
And you know, and the first part of it would be optional.
Love God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and your neighbor as yourself added and adding, treat others the way you want to be treated.
If you do that and you treat people nicely, uh, I think that covers all the issues in the rest of the four thousand or four hundred thousand pages that end up in HR books.
So I've said that too.
I think you're doing a great job.
Don't think it's the wrong way.
It's really just saying we you know, we'd like to see some of the energy come back that you're known for.
Maybe uh, you know There's been a lot of things come your way that have been unfair.
You know, stories that you have broken, maybe some have backfired, but I won't let you know that Well, let me ask you a question.
If I backed off the Biden family syndicate, have I backed off on on the Justice Department and how they've weaponized the Justice Department?
Have I backed off on the FBI being politicized and weaponized?
Have I backed off on anything that you can mention anything specific?
Well uh No, no, no, I want you to answer that.
If I backed off on any of it, because the answer is no.
I think about five or ten percent of the real news out there gets reported by Fox, and you all can only report what your people in the field are giving you and so forth.
But there's a lot of other news out there.
Well, let me let me just give you something straight here, because it's an you're beginning to annoy me because I have had and continue to have, and I've been very blessed to work in an environment with both my radio and TV partners that I get to choose the topics.
I get to do run my own show, and they depend on me to be a responsible host and to fact check, and and believe me, you could ask Linda, we spend hours fact checking a lot of things because we have a desire to be accurate, unlike I guess many others in the media mob.
But if there's something, if there's some some glaring omission in your mind, please just tell me what it is, and I'm uh maybe I can fix it.
Yeah.
I think the thing to do is to send you an email, some thoughts I have, not to take up all your time on the air, but uh because I don't want you to take it the wrong way.
Definitely supporter and all that.
I just think that I appreciate the support, but I'm trying to get you to be specific, and you don't seem capable of doing that.
And that that's the part that is annoying.
Well, I I can't do it on the air right now in this in this uh format, but I can certainly put it in an email to you that is more, you know, uh again I can address it better in an email because I don't want to read from something I've written, um, but I can put an email to you and then see what you think.
All right, feel free, send it.
Linda will tell you how to to send us an email.
But um I have been very blessed in as much as I work I have partners in radio and TV.
I don't I don't own the Fox News channel.
I don't want to own the well, actually I wouldn't mind owning the Fox News Channel.
It's a pretty profitable organization.
Um I have bosses like everybody else, but I will tell you that from day one in October 96 to today, that I have never been told what to say or not to say, and I have free reign to have full editorial control of both my radio and TV show.
I have great radio partners uh that let me do the show the way that I want to do the show.
And and again, they trust my judgment and they trust my ability to put on a good show and and from we now have built up a pretty good track record over the years.
Uh being being a top show in radio and TV, I've been able to maintain that for longer than anybody else in both mediums.
And I'm I'm very grateful to all of you for that, because you all of you can fire me every day.
In terms of the energy, I can tell you with full confidence.
I work harder now than I've ever worked in my life.
Every year I work harder just to stay on top of things.
The amount of hours that goes uh into work behind the scenes on this show and on TV, I can't even count them.
From the minute I open my eyes after my four or five hours sleep, I'm go go go go go.
I don't stop.
And anybody in my life that knows me can affirm that.
Linda, is that a fair statement?
Yes.
That's all you have to say.
Yes.
Well, I felt like you were awful, and I didn't want to interrupt.
I didn't want to annoy you like callers.
Well, let me ask you, what what what time do you get text messages from me throughout any given day?
It's all the time.
All the time.
It never stops.
That's correct.
And you're you're you're on a text chain with TV and with radio, and so is sweet baby James.
And the text can come in at two, Three, four, five, six a.m., seven a.m. in the morning.
It can come across any time of day and night, correct?
That is correct.
I'm a maniac.
I can't help it.
I don't think it's actually that you're a maniac.
I think it's that the world is really horrible under Joe Biden.
And to use your expression, it's like drinking from a fire hose.
And I think with that I think that that gentleman's comment, if I may pontificate, and I'm not him and I don't know him, and I had nothing to do with him.
But if I had to speculate what he meant, because you know, I was screening last week and I was talking to a lot of callers, and they're like, oh, you didn't cover this, or you know, he didn't sound like he cared about this, or we didn't talk about this.
And one of the things I said to people was like, Yeah, we covered that every day for like a week, and they were like, What?
I'm like, see, the problem is there's so much, and none of it's good, and none of it is happy, and none of it is makes you like leave the show going, oh, I have hope.
So, you know, it's it's hard to say, like, no, we did cover that, or we did talk to that person, or we did make a comment about that, or we interviewed that.
And, you know, it's difficult.
And I think people are they hear you and they're like, oh, you don't sound energized about the border, or you don't sound energized about Officer Diller, you don't sound energized, and it's like I I am energized, but I'm drowning in the deluge of negative news every day.
How could anybody hear me yesterday and not know how viscerally angry I am about Officer Diller?
I think the guy on Thursday who didn't hear you on Monday is gonna say, Man, he seems really apathetic.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I think that's the thing that our audience has to understand.
And if I I will say this, and this is a frustrating part of this job, is that I bring in all of this material.
You have seen my desk for years, and I'm looking at it now.
I cannot reach across, because I have them in stacks.
I can't reach to the end of the stack without going like that because that's how much information I can only get maybe 10% of what I'd love to get in on any given show and do as deep a dive analysis as I want.
And I try.
I mean, we we we work really hard to get the news information we know you're not gonna get from the media mob.
That that's an added pressure we have because I know that a lot of what you're gonna hear here on this program and what you're gonna see on Hannity at nine Eastern, you're not gonna get from the mainstream media mob.
They're all in for Biden.
A hundred percent.
They're gonna be the biggest donors to the Biden re-election campaign.
They supported him hiding out in his basement throughout the entire 2020 election.
They've they failed to report on even the most simple and basic and fundamental issues involving the president, like his cognitive decline.
We've been on the front lines of pounding the crap out of that for how long?
Look, I'm just if I'm failing in that regard, I'm I'm I can only tell you it's not through lack of effort.
It's not like I'm sleeping my life away because I don't.
The only real time I take for myself on any given day is the time that I have allocated to work out so I can live a little bit longer and do the best job that I can do.
And I'm thankful to do it.
I love it.
It's my passion.
Um, but we're definitely open for for criticism.
You ask any host, I don't I I have no idea what other hosts do because I don't have time to listen to them.
I don't have time to do that.
Well, we know what Joe Scarborough does.
He makes songs about monkey houses.
Oh, you can't uh control yourself.
So can audience consider yourselves lucky.
All right.
800 941 Sean, our number as we continue.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up today.
Border front and center today.
We'll check in with Steven Miller and Tommy Larren.
Uh, also Senator Tim Scott, representative John James will join us.
Ryan's Previs, Mike Huckabee, and Linda, guess who else?
The one and only Mike Tyson is gonna join us and preview his big fight coming up.
That's all happening tonight.
Set you DBR, nine Eastern Hannity on Fox News.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
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