Joe Concha fills in for the vacationing Sean and talks about just how much President Trump has had to endure. Two assassination attempts, dozens of felony charges and additional lawfare!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| And welcome everybody. | |
| Joe Concha in for Mr. Hannity. | |
| Man deserves a little vacation. | |
| He hasn't taken a day off. | |
| I swear to God. | |
| I think it was like 2009 was the last time like Sean has had like a truly like long weekend. | |
| So good for him. | |
| He's probably in warmer temperatures, I would imagine, after doing a bang up job at the Patriot Awards last night, Fox Nation, hope you watched. | |
| It's really good. | |
| I I know I work for the network, and by the way, I shouldn't introduce myself. | |
| I'm Joe Conch, I'm a Fox News contributor. | |
| I'm also the author of the upcoming book, The Greatest Comeback Ever. | |
| Inside Donald Trump's big, beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been. | |
| I know it's a great title. | |
| The cover's even better, I gotta tell you. | |
| If you go to Amazon right now or everybody buy books that you could already pre-order it. | |
| And we were gonna go with Harper Collins is my publisher, all right? | |
| And we were gonna go with this photo of like Trump like looking to the skies, and you know, he's got this stoic look in his face, and it's like almost like he's looking to the future and he's looking beyond the election to 2025 and beyond for his second term. | |
| I'm like, nah. | |
| I mean, it's a good shot, don't get me wrong. | |
| And I wasn't gonna go with the assassination photo because I think that's been used like it's the most iconic photo of all time. | |
| It's almost like that's too easy to go down that route because again, it's the most iconic shot, perhaps of all time, uh, with the fight, fight, fight, uh, of course, uh shot. | |
| But I'm like, you know, this whole campaign, you do understand, came down to McDonald's, right? | |
| I mean, son loves McDonald's. | |
| I used to love McDonald's, too. | |
| I'll be patty, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun. | |
| That is a big Mac, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| All right. | |
| I used to go there all the time as a kid, which probably explains a lot in terms of my current health uh uh challenge. | |
| I go once a year now, just as like a little goof. | |
| But anyway, the point is that McDonald's stop, that was so huge. | |
| And it got such backlash in the media. | |
| That's when you knew it worked, right? | |
| I mean, the fact that he goes there and he trolls Kamala Harris like no one has ever been trolled before. | |
| Because by doing that stop in Pennsylvania just a couple days before the election, it A called into question whether Kamala Harris ever worked at McDonald's before, which again, you'd think one person from way back when. | |
| If you worked with the future vice president of the United States, a presidential candidate, Democrat nominee, Republican nominee, doesn't matter. | |
| You come forward, right, and say, hey, I know somebody's questioning if Kamala Harris worked at that McDonald's in Northern California. | |
| Yeah, I worked with her, I was there. | |
| Not one person did that on the record. | |
| Can you believe that? | |
| There's not one photo of this anywhere. | |
| McDonald's doesn't have one scintilla of evidence that she worked there. | |
| But the thing that did it for me was when she wrote not one but two memoirs, she didn't mention it once. | |
| When she ran for president in 2019, the campaign went on for a big think about 10 months, early 2019. | |
| She dropped out before 2020 in December. | |
| Uh didn't mention it there once. | |
| All those rallies, all those speeches, that's weird. | |
| As vice president never mentioned it once. | |
| Never mentioned it when she was running for the Senate in California. | |
| This has never been mentioned until August of this year. | |
| So you gotta wonder like, did she really work there? | |
| And the answer is, of course she didn't. | |
| So Trump goes there and it's just absolute genius. | |
| And there's one shot of him smiling and waving to a car as it goes off after he serves up some fries. | |
| And I'm like, that's the shot. | |
| That's the shot I want for the book. | |
| So uh hopefully go to Amazon now, uh Barnes and Noble, the HarperCollins.com, wherever you buy books, pre-order it now. | |
| Uh it's gonna be out early next year. | |
| We don't quite have a date yet. | |
| There's like a date that you're gonna see on there of April. | |
| No, we're gonna get out sooner because I just finished this puppy and uh we're gonna we're gonna pump it out as quickly as possible. | |
| But it was the greatest comeback of all time. | |
| I mean, this isn't hard to really come to that conclusion. | |
| I know Red Sox Yankees 03. | |
| Was it 04? | |
| 04. | |
| Yeah, I get it. | |
| All right, down 3L. | |
| This is completely different. | |
| When you go through everything, when you're called an agent of the Kremlin, as he was during his first term, when you're impeached twice, when there are two assassination attempts against you, when there are 94 felony counts against you. | |
| I heard a stat yesterday, I think it was Mark Tyson on Fox, where he said that, and this is actually a true stat, that Donald Trump had nine times more felony counts than the friggin' you in a bomber. | |
| Think about that for a moment, right? | |
| So the law fair thing doesn't work, and then Kamala and that whole honeymoon that she had in July and August and the summer of joy and dreams, hopes, and aspirations. | |
| He overcomes all of it. | |
| And he wins the popular vote. | |
| He wins all seven swing states. | |
| Republicans take back the Senate and they keep the House. | |
| I mean, when you're thinking about like the best month of somebody's life, the election was called exactly one month ago today. | |
| It was called on November 6th, actually, early in the morning, but that's what we're going to call it. | |
| November 6th is now December 6th. | |
| Think about what's happened since for Donald Trump. | |
| I mean, this is insane. | |
| First, Jack Smith says, Yeah, we're I'm I'm going to drop these uh two cases that uh have against him, which were BS in the first place. | |
| Right. | |
| Then Fonnie Willis, now she's being uh there's a uh Fulton County judge down in Georgia who's saying that he wants all communications between Fonnie Willis and Jack Smith. | |
| Well that's weird. | |
| There's supposed to be two separate investigations. | |
| So why exactly would Fonnie Willis be talking to Jack Smith? | |
| Right? | |
| And then this New York case is going to be thrown out on appeal. | |
| That we know. | |
| So the lawfare thing is done. | |
| He'll be president again. | |
| His cabinet is being applauded up and down. | |
| I know there's been some controversial uh selections, right? | |
| But that's kind of the point, right? | |
| Donald Trump isn't going to be thinking inside the box, he's thinking outside the box. | |
| This is more about fixing inflation and making sure wages go higher and making sure GDP growth is over four percent and unemployment goes down, and all the things that we had in the Trump presidency part one, up until the pandemic, and then everything goes sideways, of course. | |
| But up until that point, that's one of the great presidencies that you'll ever see. | |
| Again, despite the fact that you had a hostile media, a hostile House Speaker in Nancy Pelosi. | |
| Uh you go down the line and he's still got a lot of things done, but from an economic perspective, and in terms of peace, remember, we had this thing called ISIS. | |
| Remember the JV team that Barack Obama called them, and they took over large swaths of Iraq and Syria. | |
| He doesn't get enough credit for this. | |
| Then Trump gets in, he immediately drops the MOAD, the mother of all bombs, and now like there's like a Jeep called a Moab, which I think is kind of cool. | |
| Like somebody very smart in the marketing department. | |
| Like, now I want a MOAP Moab. | |
| I mean, who wouldn't want a Moab? | |
| It's kind of a status symbol. | |
| Anyway, the point is that he drops that bomb, he wipes out the ISIS Caliphate, then he meets with Kim Jong-un, where people say, What are you crazy? | |
| And then Kim Jong-un stops doing nuclear tests over Japan and Guam and stops threatening to blow up Los Angeles and San Francisco. | |
| So we tame that guy, right? | |
| Then he gets the Abraham Accords as far as the Middle East is concerned. | |
| Donald Trump's foreign policy chops for a guy who was supposedly only a businessman who didn't have any foreign policy chops, does not get enough credit. | |
| Then obviously, in terms of prosperity, we had that here in the United States. | |
| And oh, we had a secure border. | |
| I saw this stat a couple days ago. | |
| I couldn't believe it. | |
| I mean, I could believe it, but the numbers were just staggering. | |
| During Donald Trump's entire first term, 14 terrorists on the FBI terror watch list came into this country. | |
| At least those were the ones that were apprehended by Border Patrol. | |
| Fourteen, okay? | |
| Now, under Joe Biden, more than 400. | |
| I mean, you know, that's the ones that have been apprehended. | |
| I mean, you got to think that the really skilled terrorists kind of can figure out a way not to be caught by border patrol, the gotta ways. | |
| So the fact that that stat alone, I get 12, 15, 20 million people have come in here illegally, but but the fact that that many more terrorists have entered the country as well under Joe Biden. | |
| Uh we didn't have that under Donald Trump, and we won't again. | |
| I mean, if there's one person that you wouldn't want to get into the ring with right now, I would have said it was Mike Tyson, even still at 58. | |
| Uh, but then I watched that fight with Jake Paul. | |
| I'm like, maybe take him or at least go to distance. | |
| No, you don't want to get in a ring with Tom Holman, that guy. | |
| I used to work with him at Fox. | |
| And now he's gonna be the border czar. | |
| You hear these these mayors and governors in states like Illinois and Massachusetts and California saying Tom Homan, Donald Trump, they think they're gonna come in here and deport our people. | |
| Well, they're gonna have a fight on their hands. | |
| That's what Jackie Gleason said over in Illinois, the J.B. Pritzker. | |
| I mean, the resemblance is there. | |
| You gotta have met at least from the you know the neck down anyway. | |
| I mean, that's Gleason. | |
| I mean, that that you know, bang zoom. | |
| I mean, you that that is JD Pritzker, who I believe uh is like a front runner now for like the Democratic nomination if AOC isn't and you know, I guess we could talk about that the next hour because that is a whole block. | |
| I don't want to want to want to rush through that in any way, shape, or form. | |
| The point is that Donald Trump's first term was incredibly successful, and the fact that he's back here now again, despite all of those obstacles, all those things thrown at him, including bullets. | |
| It is the greatest comeback of all time. | |
| Pre-order now, please if you can. | |
| One of those cabinet picks that I talked about was controversial, is another co-worker of mine, and that is Pete Hegskith. | |
| Now, I go on Fox and Friends Weekend fairly often. | |
| I am going on tomorrow, for example, uh tune in 9 30 uh a.m. Eastern time. | |
| I'm doing a segment, stand up segment, which is kind of cool with Rachel Campos Dovey. | |
| It's called a pop culture roundup. | |
| And we we have some fun with some crazy things that are going on in entertainment and uh and the like. | |
| So anyway, uh I'm on the show often. | |
| I've gotten to know Pete. | |
| I've gotten to know Will Kane and obviously Rachel I just mentioned, and they have great chemistry and their numbers are incredible. | |
| And Pete always, always is prepared. | |
| Now, I want to explain something to you. | |
| All right. | |
| I'm doing a three-hour show here. | |
| And I prep for a couple hours beforehand. | |
| I try to watch and grab as many things as I could, and I have a general uh idea of what I want to talk about here as far as each block is concerned. | |
| To do a four-hour TV show, cable news with a whole bunch of different guests, right? | |
| Per hour, a whole bunch of different segments and subject matter to talk about, to go four hours like that. | |
| You ain't doing that with alcohol on your breath. | |
| You're not showing up drunk to work. | |
| And I see these stories coming out from NBC News, from CNN, from the New York Times. | |
| They all got this one little thing in common. | |
| One little thing. | |
| No, actually, it's a big thing. | |
| There's not one person on the record. | |
| Who's accusing Pete of this of showing up to work with alcohol in this breath? | |
| Oh, yeah, okay. | |
| Yeah, you're gonna get through a four-hour show pretty easily. | |
| And by the way, here's the thing. | |
| I'm gonna bring up Brian Stelter, for example, from CNN, because his hit piece was by far the worst. | |
| Stelter puts out a tweet just yesterday. | |
| And he says, you know, I wrote a book on Fox a couple of years ago, and I just realized that I had all this stuff on Pete Hegsgith. | |
| I spoke to all my sources. | |
| The these these Casper the friendly ghost apparitions inside of Fox that apparently run to Brian Stelter whenever there's a problem at the network. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| And he says, I just realized I had all this stuff, and you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna have a story out soon. | |
| You just realized. | |
| Really? | |
| You had all an entire book on limited space. | |
| You had all this scandalous stuff on Pete Hesgeth and drinking, and and oh, now you're putting it out? | |
| Why didn't you put it out a couple years ago, Brian? | |
| And then in his story, of course, there's like 10 unnamed sources that corroborate his reporting. | |
| And then I'm thinking, well, that's funny, because I'm looking at Will Kane's X feed Twitter account, and Will is literally saying on there that that's funny because no one reached out to me. | |
| Will has been Pete's co-host for many years. | |
| So if I'm a journalist, the first thing I am doing, if I'm trying to track down the story, I'm trying to see if there is a story first. | |
| I don't assume that whatever's being said is true. | |
| I want verification. | |
| Trust but verify. | |
| Reagan said that, I think. | |
| I go to Will Kane first because he's been the co-host there the longest. | |
| And then a close second is Rachel Campos Duffy, because she has been a co-host of Pete's as well for several years. | |
| Then I think, wow, who's on the show a lot? | |
| Like a contributor. | |
| Oh, Conscha. | |
| Yeah, I see him on there almost every week. | |
| Maybe I'll go to him. | |
| It's got my address. | |
| It's got my email. | |
| Track me down easily on X. And it's funny because Brian Stelter and these reporters from the New York Times, NBC. | |
| No one contacted me. | |
| No one contacted Will. | |
| No one contacted Rachel. | |
| No one contacted anybody at that show. | |
| But there they are. | |
| Oh, you know, we're talking to people, Fox, their own name. | |
| They don't want to go on the record. | |
| They're afraid. | |
| I don't believe one minute, one second of any of this so-called reporting. | |
| And it's back. | |
| Wow, we didn't see it for four years under Joe Biden, the anonymous source. | |
| The sources close to. | |
| We saw it with Trump during his first four years. | |
| A source close to Donald Trump. | |
| Remember that guy Anonymous who wrote that entire book? | |
| And everybody's like, wow, is it Kellyanne Conway? | |
| Is it is it General Kelly? | |
| Is it their name? | |
| Mike Pence. | |
| Who's anonymous? | |
| It turned out to be like this lower level like staff guy, like the equivalent of like a first week pledge of a fraternity that had no access to Donald Trump whatsoever. | |
| It might as well have been the White House chef. | |
| And it wouldn't have mattered. | |
| And everybody made this big deal of it, like he's the insider. | |
| And now for four years under Joe Biden, we rarely saw the anonymous source rear his or her ugly head. | |
| And now that Donald Trump is coming back into power, and we have to destroy every cabinet member that he has nominated. | |
| Well, the anonymous sources are back. | |
| But here is the difference, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Ain't nobody listening anymore. | |
| MSNBC can't even get 34,000 viewers in what's called the 25 to 54 year old demo. | |
| What is that? | |
| That is what advertisers care about most, those age groups, because those people can still be sold a product and maybe switch from what they're currently using. | |
| Once you get past a certain age, as some of you know, you're stuck. | |
| You're gonna use the same stuff. | |
| You're you're not switching your razor blade, you're not switching XYZ. | |
| So that's what they target most. | |
| 34,000 people average watching MSNBC. | |
| You know how hard that is to do? | |
| There are 50 states, right? | |
| That means you're not even getting a thousand people on average per state. | |
| Not even close. | |
| That's how bad it's gotten for them. | |
| But I'll leave you with this before we go to break. | |
| Kamala Harris, during the first uh couple of weeks of her campaign, ABC News. | |
| Remember who ABC News is. | |
| Dana Walden, Dana Waldensu, Kamala Harris's best friend. | |
| What does she do? | |
| She runs ABC News. | |
| That's why that debate was just so incredibly one-sided against Donald Trump. | |
| Anyway, before I go off on a tangent. | |
| So they do a hundred stories, ABC News does on Kamala Harris. | |
| And according to the Media Research Center, all 100 were positive. | |
| I can't make this up. | |
| 100 out of 100. | |
| I mean, that's like Baghdad Bob is watching this saying, hey, are you guys laying it on a little thick? | |
| No, of course not. | |
| Anyway, this is Joe Conscia in for Sean Hannity. | |
| Back with more in just a moment. | |
| We've got a great guest list today, by the way. | |
| We're gonna talk about that Daniel Penny case, which we absolutely have to talk about because that is a miscarriage of justice like we have never seen before. | |
| Back with more in a moment. | |
| Sean Hannity talks to the people involved in the top stories of the day. | |
| Every day. | |
| Sean Hannity is on. | |
| The Eagles never get old people. | |
| I know. | |
| I'm dating myself on this one, but we're talking 197 this one came out. | |
| So that's what? | |
| Oh boy, it's a long time ago. | |
| It's not quite 50 years old, but uh I uh I can listen to the Eagles anytime. | |
| And now it's funny because the Eagles now are like that was rock. | |
| Now the Eagles would be considered country. | |
| Does that make sense? | |
| Because there is really no more rock anymore. | |
| So the Eagles are more country than anything else. | |
| And the same would happen with Don Henley and the fans should have stayed together longer than it did. | |
| Anyway, Joe Konsha, in for Sean Hannity. | |
| Uh it's a great Friday. | |
| Uh it's the end of, you know, if you are a Trump supporter, the one the best months of your life, I would think, right? | |
| I mean, they couldn't have gone any better uh if you uh drew it up. | |
| So uh yeah, that was only one month ago that the election was called for Donald Trump at 2.27 in the morning, I believe it was. | |
| But we knew like a couple hours before that that she wasn't coming back. | |
| I mean, once he won North Carolina, once he won Georgia, then she had to sweep the swing states in order to win, and you just can tell what was going on in Pennsylvania that it just wasn't gonna happen, and they ends up sweeping all seven. | |
| So I predicted it. | |
| Just saying, I had three twelve on my little real clear politics map. | |
| There's there's proof of this. | |
| I said it on Sean's show. | |
| He's like, boy, you're the most bullish of all our guests. | |
| I go, eh, man, I I know what I see. | |
| I see the early voting. | |
| I know that Kamala's a horrible candidate, and Trump has the issues on his side, and the ground game is infinitely better than it was uh before. | |
| The guys like Scott Pressler over in Pennsylvania. | |
| I mean, this guy's moving to New Jersey now to try to turn New Jersey red. | |
| And I think Kamala only won Jersey by like five points when Biden won it by 16. | |
| So yeah, it's definitely closing the gap in my garden state, no question about it. | |
| But enough about that. | |
| I want to bring in our VIP guest of the show. | |
| She is Wendy McCarthy, owner of Outpost 611, the eatery and tap house and Clearwater. | |
| Wendy, I I cannot praise Clearwater enough because I went there on vacation two years ago, late February. | |
| It's 81 every day. | |
| The sun sets, the beach is like three football fields. | |
| It's like huge the beach down there. | |
| Gorgeous beach. | |
| I think I read it's the nicest beach in the country, Clearwater or St. Petersburg. | |
| It's one of those two, but either way, they're basically the same. | |
| So uh I'm coming back down there again, and uh the fact that not only are you running uh such a great place in terms of the eaterine tap house 611, but also uh the fact that you are about to host a fundraiser this Sunday to help victims of Hurricanes Milton and Helene, where people are still recovering to this day. | |
| So welcome to the show, and please tell us more about your efforts here. | |
| Thank you so much for having me on. | |
| It's such a pleasure to talk with you. | |
| Sure. | |
| Um there's a reason why Sean moved down to Florida, I think. | |
| You do several here. | |
| Yes, so you'll have to come visit us too when you come when you come down to Florida. | |
| It's done. | |
| Um this Sunday we've got an amazing event that we're putting on, and we're raising money for the firefighters that lost everything in the hurricanes. | |
| Uh, we're also doing it for um other family members, but we're doing a toy drive for the kids. | |
| A lot of the kids lost everything. | |
| Um so people have been dropping off toys for a month at our restaurant. | |
| Um we're doing uh like all of the the singers, all the bands, everybody's donating all of their time, so it'll be a great lineup of music. | |
| And then John Rich uh from Big and Rich is gonna be doing a private Zoom concert for us with um like taking uh requests and everything and he's gonna do that in our restaurant, so we'll be streaming that live at 6 p.m. and you buy tickets for that. | |
| But if people want to donate and they can't come because I know you have such a large audience and it's for the firefighters in the community, there's gonna be a QR code that's on their website. | |
| Am I able to say that to you? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Okay. | |
| So the firefighters, it's it's called the North Pinellas Firefighters uh charities, and they're gonna have a QR code on there for people that want to donate anything, like even a dollar helps you figure with all the people that were would be out there wanting to help. | |
| Um, but they're um we're doing a big silent um silent auction and people have donated everywhere from Grant Balfour. | |
| Um he's donated a jersey from the World Series, I believe, and he'll be at the event signing autographs for donations. | |
| Santa will be there. | |
| Um we've got all kinds of gets and all uh probably 50 items that we're doing auctions. | |
| We're doing raffles. | |
| It's just gonna be a really fun day, and the firefighters are gonna be there with their fire engine and it'll be decorated for Christmas. | |
| Wow, that's awesome. | |
| Uh and and kiv give out that website once again, Wendy, because uh websites are people have to like kind of stop and write them down, they could be a little clugy. | |
| So can you give that out again? | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| So it it would be on their Facebook page and it's called the North Pinellas Firefighters Charities. | |
| Perfect. | |
| Got it. | |
| Okay, guys. | |
| If you're in that area, Tampa, Clearwater, uh St. Pete, uh you you gotta get over to this, and obviously this is uh the most worthy of causes and the fact that you decide to do this, Wendy, uh it just shows that we've we've seen the best of America during the worst of times and we saw it uh after Helene, so many people jumping in when uh the federal government unfortunately uh wasn't doing its job or skipping over houses with Trump signs, which is you know, that's that's criminal stuff. | |
| Like you should go to jail uh if you engage in that behavior in any way, shape or form. | |
| That I do know. | |
| And Grant Belfort, that that's interesting. | |
| I wonder if his dad was El Bell Ed Belfort who played uh for the uh Dallas Stars and Chicago Blackhawks. | |
| I I know I don't know, I know you don't know, but maybe something to ask him like, hey, by the way, uh did you was your dad kind of famous also in hockey? | |
| Because uh that that's very interesting. | |
| Uh so tell us about this Hannity uh drink that you have. | |
| What is in it, and how do I get my hands on one? | |
| Well, you have to come to Outpost for that. | |
| But of course. | |
| So we we like to tease Sean because he drinks light beers. | |
| He's getting teas and he's not even here to go. | |
| Oh, Sean Hannity drinks the guy at Cobra Kai, Jiu Jitsu, he drinks light beer. | |
| Yeah, maybe it's so he can stay on his feet, right? | |
| Well, good point. | |
| Good point. | |
| Yep. | |
| But it's it's a light beer and it it has a um an ice cube in it. | |
| Wow, an ice cuban beer? | |
| That's like an ice cube and wine. | |
| That's wow. | |
| We're we're we are breaking news here, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I mean, this this is this is big stuff. | |
| And and I've gotten to know Sean over the years, so I can bust his shops and he he would do it the back to me in kind, I'm sure. | |
| So uh hey man, whatever gets you there, uh that that's that's all good. | |
| I I'm just curious, like what made you get into you know the the the bar, restaurant type of industry? | |
| Because my my brother went to school culinary arts, right? | |
| And went to school up in Providence and literally studied this stuff. | |
| So I'm just curious, like what made you want to get into it? | |
| Was this like a family business kind of thing? | |
| Because all I know is he told me is like this is a big risk because if I open up my own stuff my own place, like 90% of restaurants like don't survive the first two years or something crazy like that. | |
| So obviously you've been around for a while. | |
| What what's your secret for success and what made you want to get into the business? | |
| Well, we're it's a family business, so it's our it's our son Riley and my husband Ian. | |
| Um we uh it was during COVID and everything was shut down. | |
| We had a really big RV trip planned for 60 days to go across country, and of course everything was shut down. | |
| We I don't know, my husband decided we needed to open a restaurant. | |
| So we opened a restaurant and um he was knighted in Belgium. | |
| We had a beer distribution company for 25 years, so we have over a hundred beers, over 80 bourbons. | |
| We've kind of been the the restaurant now that everybody comes to for like the funky unique uh import beers when you know there's a lot of breweries around us which we love and support, but there's also the European beers that are starting to come back around again. | |
| Um we've been open for four years and we love our community. | |
| And as you can see, we're getting a lot of uh, you know, just everyone's coming together. | |
| It's it's taking a village to put this on, and everyone is coming forth. | |
| We've got about 30 auction items from uh sports memorabilia. | |
| And my cousin, uh my husband's cousin is married to Roger Maris' son, Kevin Maris. | |
| We all are 61. | |
| Yeah. | |
| We have a bat that is going up for auction starting at 300 dollars, and um he sent that to us last week, and I I just to see it and to know the story is amazing. | |
| So I'm hoping that that goes for some money for the firemen too anywhere, and Grant will be there for the day, and he's trying to get some of the other race players there. | |
| And it's just gonna be a wonderful day of everybody coming together. | |
| But the restaurant business is it's a lot of work, it's a lot of reward, but it's your your long hours. | |
| My husband's there sixteen to eighteen hours a day. | |
| Yeah, I believe it. | |
| And you know, there are no holidays, there are no weekends. | |
| You it's just constant working in the service industry. | |
| And I I'm sure you're very happy about Donald Trump's plan for uh no tax on tips. | |
| Oh, we love that. | |
| Yeah, that's how you make money. | |
| It's it's not so much your hourly wage, the tips are everything when you're in the service industry. | |
| As a former waiter, I would know this. | |
| Hey guys, I think we have uh that sound of John Rich, right? | |
| In terms of uh his help here. | |
| That's obviously a big voice in country music. | |
| Uh he's on Fox all the time. | |
| Can we hear what Mr. Rich has to say? | |
| Hello to all my patriotic friends in the great state of Florida, it's your buddy John Rich here, and there is something really, really special happening on December the 8th. | |
| And I'm gonna read it off to you because there's a lot of details, but check this out. | |
| You're gonna wan wanna make sure and be there. | |
| December the 8th at Outpost 611, Outpost 611, open to the public from 5 to 11 p.m. and VIP from 5 to 8 p.m. | |
| Uh I've partnered with the McCarthys and local firefighters to hold a fundraiser for victims of the recent hurricanes that have devastated so many people in your area. | |
| All proceeds will go to the North Pinellas Firefighters Charities. | |
| Uh it's a hundred dollars to the VIP, and uh that's from five to eight that night. | |
| And here's the thing uh I'm gonna be doing a live stream that night, a live stream concert live from Nashville that our VIP guests will be able to watch. | |
| You'll be able to interact with me, maybe make a request or two. | |
| I'd be happy to sing whatever you want to hear, make you guys happy, some other VIP perks, Yellowstone bourbon tasting, merchandise giveaways, uh, redneck riviera uh whiskey items and baskets. | |
| Let's see, Roger Maris, number sixty one bet, TT Rodriguez Golf Merch, Lightning Tickets, Phillies Tickets, bourbon baskets, beer baskets, Tampa Bay Rays Memorabilia, and a whole lot more. | |
| So this is going on December the 8th, uh 5 to 11 p.m. | |
| Uh at the outpost. | |
| And guess what? | |
| Bring the kids because Santa Claus is going to be there too. | |
| It's gonna be absolutely incredible. | |
| Tell your neighbors you guys be there. | |
| Let's make a difference for our friends and our communities down there that have been hit so hard. | |
| God bless you. | |
| God bless America. | |
| I'll see you December the 8th. | |
| I I still want to fly down for this. | |
| This is Sunday. | |
| I I I got time. | |
| I could convince the wife that we should do this. | |
| I mean, this is awesome. | |
| I mean, uh you're here all those things that are gonna be given away. | |
| John Rich going to be live streaming. | |
| You don't want me singing, all right. | |
| I would live stream, but uh that that will probably repel uh actual donations. | |
| So uh but I want to I'm gonna promote this uh the heck out of this on my website, uh Wendy, that's for sure. | |
| So nice. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Can I just tell you, John Rich, he he came to our restaurant. | |
| He was uh promoting his redneck Riviera whiskey and doing a bottle signing. | |
| And he spent like half the day with us. | |
| He was just the kindest man, and then when I wanted to do this, I reached out to him and he was like, absolutely. | |
| So he's already sent all kinds of swag for us to put together for giveaways and it it's just been incredible. | |
| So that was kind of the ball that started rolling was all of all of everything going on with John Rich. | |
| So we appreciate him so much. | |
| And then there's gonna be another band at the end of the night called the Petty Experience. | |
| That's a very local band that plays all Tom Petty. | |
| Wow. | |
| Uh the Yeah, so it's really gonna be, and that's outside, so everybody can bring lawn chairs and sit under the stars. | |
| We're gonna serve hot chocolate and just enjoy the uh the rest of the night. | |
| One of the great videos, uh so my son's only nine years old, but I I'm trying to prep him to go to some sort of like SEC school because I want to be warm. | |
| Like he's not allowed to go to Syracuse or Northwestern or any like, you know, Minnesota. | |
| No, no. | |
| You're you're going south. | |
| You're going south, preferably Florida, Georgia, Alabama, like that sort of area, because Daddy wants to watch A big time football and B be warm when he visits uh his son. | |
| So I played for him, University of Florida, the Gators over in Gainesville. | |
| Uh they have this thing where in between quarters they play Won't Back Down by Tom Petty. | |
| Except they turn down petty singing, and it's just 80,000 people singing that song. | |
| Go to YouTube during the break and you'll see like it's the greatest thing ever. | |
| And they shut off the lights, too. | |
| So everybody holds up their phone with the light. | |
| It's the greatest thing you'll ever hear. | |
| It is awesome. | |
| So this Petty band is gonna be amazing. | |
| Uh and and obviously you got Sean Rich coming in. | |
| The Roger Maris bat bat. | |
| I mean, uh, you know, this is 61 home runs, 1961. | |
| That record stood until last year when Aaron Judge broke the record. | |
| So that that bat, I'm not saying this is the bat that he hit 61 with, but if it's a Roger Maris bat that his son has, I mean, that's gonna be worth a lot of money. | |
| You're gonna really do well here. | |
| More importantly, the people of Florida that were impacted by this are gonna do well, Wendy, because you look at Tropicana Field, what happened over in St. Pete, right next door to you, that blew the roof off. | |
| I mean, literally, you could see into the stadium. | |
| It was the most surreal thing that I have seen. | |
| Has the has the area recovered somewhat? | |
| I know DeSantis is being uh heralded for the reaction the army is uh of people and resources that he sent there, but these things take a long time to recover from, don't they? | |
| Well, we I can just tell you that where I live, um, in the it's more country, about a half hour outside of Clearwater. | |
| We have a couple of acres. | |
| We're on a lake, and we lost about six trees. | |
| All our fencing is down still. | |
| Our lake came all the way up to the house, um, and it kept rising for three days after the hurricane. | |
| So that's what happened to these guys that lived on the water, the some of these firemen. | |
| And they l one of them lived near a creek, and the creek came up three feet into their house. | |
| Holy cow. | |
| You did not expect that. | |
| It was it was really the one of the worst hurricanes we've ever seen. | |
| And I've been living here 30 years from Rockland County, New York, and now I'm here and happy to be in Florida. | |
| But um, yeah, it's that's the one thing about Florida that is a little bit scary, but it didn't stop, it doesn't stop us from living here. | |
| It's a beautiful state. | |
| More people are moving to Florida than any state in the country for a reason. | |
| Uh taxes uh are one, but it's the people and and just the way the state is run is just magnificent. | |
| And uh, whenever we go on vacation, that's always the first place I say we're going back to Florida because uh just such great people there, and uh you you always feel like you're at home, even though I'm a Jersey guy. | |
| We're talking to Wendy McCarthy. | |
| She is the owner of Outpost 611 Eatery and Tap House in Clearwater, Florida. | |
| She has a fundraiser this Sunday to help the victims of Hurricanes Milton and Helene, which were just enormous as you remember, and that was only a couple months ago. | |
| Give that website out one more time, Wendy, before we uh let you go. | |
| Sure. | |
| It's the North Pinellas Firefighters Charities on Facebook. | |
| Be there on Sunday, people. | |
| You're gonna have the time of your life, and you'll be supporting uh the greatest of causes. | |
| Wendy McCarthy, thanks so much for joining us. | |
| Uh, I'll be down there soon. | |
| You have a promise on that one. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Good to be. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All righty. | |
| See, that that's that's a great person right there, Wendy McCarthy. | |
| Uh, coming up in the other side of the break, David Schoen will be joining us, Civil Liberties attorney and former counsel for President Trump. | |
| He's gonna give us his take on the Daniel Penny case. | |
| Stick around for that because that is a miscarriage of justice, and David has some things to say about that. | |
| Back with more in just a moment on the Sean. | |
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