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Trump Survives! - December 6th, Hour 1

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.
It was the last time Sean has had a truly 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 know I work for the network.
And by the way, I should 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 got to tell you.
If you go to Amazon right now, wherever you buy books, you could already pre-order it.
And we were going to go with HarperCollins as my publisher.
All right.
And we were going to go with this photo of like Trump 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 going to 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 with the fight-fight-fight, of course, 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 to all be Patty's 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 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.
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're going to 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 hopefully go to Amazon now, Barnes and Noble, the HarperCollins.com, wherever you buy books, pre-order it now.
It's going to be out early next year.
We don't quite have a date yet.
There's like a date that you're going to see on there of April.
No, we're going to get out sooner because I just finished this puppy and we're going to 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 Thiessen 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' Unabomber.
Think about that for a moment, right?
So the lawfare 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, I'm going to drop these two cases that I have against him, which were BS in the first place, right?
Then Fonnie Willis, now she's being, there's a 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?
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 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 4% 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 and Nancy Pelosi, you could 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 Moab, the mother of all bombs.
And now 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 Moab, Moab.
I mean, who wouldn't want a Moab?
It's kind of a status symbol.
Anyway, the point is that then 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.
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 the ones that were apprehended by Border Patrol.
14, 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 gotaways.
So the fact that that stat alone, I get 12, 15, 20 million people have come in here illegally, but the fact that that many more terrorists have entered the country as well under Joe Biden, 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.
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 Homan, that guy.
I used to work with him at Fox, and now he's going to be the borders are.
You hear these mayors and governors in states like Illinois and Massachusetts and California saying, Tom Holman, Donald Trump, they think they're going to come in here and deport our people.
Well, they're going to have a fight on their hands.
That's what Jackie Gleason said over in Illinois, J.D. Pritzker.
I mean, the resemblance is there.
You got to have met, at least from the neck down anyway.
I mean, that's Gleason.
I mean, bang, Zoom.
I mean, that is J.D. Pritzker, who I believe is like a frontrunner now for the Democratic nomination if AOC isn't.
And I guess we could talk about that the next hour because that is a whole block.
I don't 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 Hegsketh.
Now, I go on Fox and Friends weekend fairly often.
I'm going on tomorrow, for example.
Tune in 9:30 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 have some fun with some crazy things that are going on in entertainment and the like.
So, anyway, I'm on the show often.
I've gotten to know Pete.
I've gotten to know Will Cain 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 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 on his breath.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Yeah, you're going to get through a four-hour show pretty easily.
And by the way, here's the thing.
I'm going to bring up Brian Stelter, for example, from CNN, because his hip 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 Hegsketh.
I spoke to all my sources, these Casper-friendly ghost apparitions inside of Fox that apparently run to Brian Stelter whenever there's a problem at the network.
And he says, I just realized I had all this stuff, and, you know, I'm going to have a story out soon.
You just realized.
Really?
You had an entire book on limited space.
You had all this scandalous stuff on Pete Headsgeth and drinking.
And, oh, now you're putting it out?
Why didn't you put it out a couple of 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, Concha.
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 there's 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.
You know, we're talking to people, Fox, they're unnamed.
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 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 going to use the same stuff.
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 1,000 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 couple of weeks of her campaign, ABC News, remember who ABC News is, Dana Walden, Dana Walden Sue.
Kamala Harris' 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 100 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 landing on a little thick?
No, of course not.
Anyway, this is Joe Concha in for Sean Hannity.
Back with more in just a moment.
We've got a great guest list today, by the way.
I'm going to 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, what is this, probably 1977?
This one came out.
So that's what?
50.
Oh boy, it's a long time ago.
It's not quite 50 years old, but I could 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, they're 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 Concha in for Sean Hannity.
It's a great Friday.
It's the end of, you know, if you are a Trump supporter, one of the best months of your life, I would think, right?
I mean, it couldn't have gotten any better if you drew it up.
So, 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 going to happen.
And he ends up sweeping all seven.
So I predicted it, just saying, I had 312 on my little real clear politics map.
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, man, I know what I see.
I see the early voting.
I know that Kamala is a horrible candidate, and Trump has the issues on his side.
And the ground game is infinitely better than it was 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, 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 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 I'm coming back down there again.
And the fact that not only are you running such a great place in terms of the eatery and tap house 611, but also 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.
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 down to Florida.
It's done.
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.
We're also doing it for other family members, but we're doing a toy drive for the kids.
A lot of the kids lost everything.
So people have been dropping off toys for a month at our restaurant.
We're doing like all of the singers, all the bands, everybody's donating all of their time.
So there'll be a great lineup of music.
And then John Rich from Big and Rich is going to be doing a private Zoom concert for us with like taking requests and everything.
And he's going to 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 going to 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 called the North Pinellas Firefighters Charities.
And they're going to 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 would be out there wanting to help.
But we're doing a big silent auction, and people have donated everywhere from Grant Balfour.
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.
We've got all kinds of guests and probably 50 items that we're doing auctions.
We're doing raffles.
It's just going to be a really fun day.
And the firefighters are going to be there with their fire engine, and it'll be decorated for Christmas.
Wow, that's awesome.
And give out that website once again, Wendy, because websites are people have to kind of stop and write them down.
They could be a little kludgey.
So can you give that out again?
Yeah, yeah.
So 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, St. Pete, you've got to get over to this.
And obviously, this is the most worthy of causes.
And the fact that you decided to do this, Wendy, it just shows that we've seen the best of America during the worst of times.
And we saw it after Helene, so many people jumping in when the federal government, unfortunately, wasn't doing its job or skipping over houses with Trump signs, which is, you know, that's criminal stuff.
Like, you should go to jail if you engage in that behavior in any way, shape, or form.
That I do know.
And Grant Belfour, that's interesting.
I wonder if his dad was Ed Belfour, who played for the Dallas Stars and Chicago Blackhawks.
I don't know.
I know you don't know, but maybe something to ask him.
Like, hey, by the way, was your dad kind of famous also in hockey?
Because that's very interesting.
So tell us about this Hannity 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.
Of course.
So we like to tease Sean because he drinks light beers.
He's getting teased and he's not even here just to love him.
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?
Yeah, good point.
Good point.
Yep.
But it's a light beer and it has an ice cube in it.
What?
An ice cube and beer?
That's like an ice cube and wine.
That's wow.
We are breaking news here, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, this is big stuff.
And I've gotten to know Sean over the years, so I can bust his shops.
And he would do it back to me in kind, I'm sure.
So, hey, man, whatever gets you there, that's all good.
I'm just curious, like, what made you get into the bar, restaurant type of industry?
Because my brother went to school culinary arts, right?
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, he's like, this is a big risk because if I open up my own place, like 90% of restaurants don't survive the first two years or something crazy like that.
So obviously you've been around for a while.
What's your secret for success and what made you want to get into the business?
Well, it's a family business.
So it's our son, Riley, and my husband, Ian.
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.
I don't know.
My husband decided we needed to open a restaurant.
So we opened a restaurant.
And he was knighted in Belgium.
We had a beer distribution company for 25 years.
So we have over 100 beers, over 80 bourbons.
We've kind of been the restaurant now that everybody comes to for like the funky, unique import beers.
When 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.
We've been open for four years and we love our community.
And as you can see, we're getting a lot of, you know, just everyone's coming together.
It's taking a village to put this on, and everyone is coming forth.
We've got about 30 auction items from Sports Memorabilia.
And my cousin, my husband's cousin, is married to Roger Maris' son, Kevin Maris.
We all are 61.
We have a bat that is going up for auction starting at $300.
And he sent that to us last week.
And just to see it and to know the story is amazing.
So I'm hoping that that goes for some money for the firemen to 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 going to 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 long hours.
My husband's there 16 to 18 hours a day.
Yeah, I believe it.
And there are no holidays.
There are no weekends.
It's just constant working in the service industry.
And I'm sure you're very happy about Donald Trump's plan for no tax on tips.
Oh, we love that.
Yeah, that's how you make money.
It's not so much your hourly wage.
Tips are everything when you're in the service industry.
As a former waiter, I would know this.
Hey, guys, I think we have that sound of John Rich, right?
In terms of his help here, that's obviously a big voice in country music.
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's something really, really special happening on December the 8th.
And I'm going to read it off to you because there's a lot of details, but check this out.
You're going to want to 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.
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.
It's $100 to the VIP, and that's from 5 to 8 that night.
And here's the thing: I'm going to 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, Redneck Riviera whiskey items and baskets.
Let's see.
Roger Maris number 61 bat, Chi Chi Rodriguez Golf Merch, Lightning Tickets, Philly's tickets, bourbon baskets, beer baskets, Tampa Bay Rays memorabilia, and a whole lot more.
So this is going on December the 8th, 5 to 11 p.m. at the Outpost.
And guess what?
Bring the kids because Santa Claus is going to be there too.
It's going to 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 still want to fly down for this.
This is Sunday.
I got time.
I could convince the wife that we should do this.
I mean, this is awesome.
I mean, you hear all those things that are going to be given away.
John Rich is going to be live streaming.
You don't want me singing.
All right.
I would live stream, but that will probably repel actual donations.
But I wanted, I'm going to promote this the heck out of this on my website, Wendy, that's for sure.
So nice.
Thank you so much.
Can I just tell you, John Rich, he came to our restaurant.
He was 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's just been incredible.
So that was kind of the ball that started rolling was all of everything going on with John Rich.
So we appreciate him so much.
And then there's going to 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.
Yeah, so it's really going to be, and that's outside.
So everybody can bring lawn chairs and sit under the stars.
We're going to serve hot chocolate and just enjoy the rest of the night.
One of the great videos.
So my son's only nine years old, but 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 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 his son.
So I played for him, University of Florida, the Gators over in Gainesville.
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 going to be amazing.
And obviously, you got John Rich coming in.
The Roger Maris bat.
I mean, you know, this 61 home runs, 1961.
That record stood until last year when Aaron Judge broke the record.
So 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 going to be worth a lot of money.
You're going to really do well here.
More importantly, the people of Florida that were impacted by this are going to do well, Wendy, because you look at Tropicana Field, what happened over in St. Pete right next door to you, it 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 area recovered somewhat?
I know DeSantis is being heralded for the reaction, the army of people and resources that he sent there, but these things take a long time to recover from, don't they?
Well, I can just tell you that where I live in the 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, and it kept rising for three days after the hurricane.
So that's what happened to these guys that lived on the water, some of these firemen.
And 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 really one of the worst hurricanes we've ever seen.
And I've been living here 30 years from Brockland County, New York, and now I'm here and happy to be in Florida.
But yeah, that's the one thing about Florida that is a little bit scary, but 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.
Taxes are one, but it's the people and just the way the state is run is just magnificent.
And whenever we go on vacation, that's always the first place I say we're going back to Florida because just such great people there.
And 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 let you go.
Sure.
It's the North Canelus Firefighters Charities on Facebook.
Be there on Sunday, people.
You're going to have the time of your life, and you'll be supporting the greatest of causes.
Wendy McCarthy, thanks so much for joining us.
I'll be down there soon.
You have a promise on that one.
Thank you so much.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All righty.
See, that's a great person right there, Wendy McCarthy.
Coming up on the other side of the break, David Schoen will be joining us, Civil Liberties Attorney and former counsel for President Trump.
He's going to 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.
Hannah, you still.
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