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Dec. 17, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Do You Know Scott Shannon? - December 16th, Hour 1

Sean and Lynda swap stories of the legendary Scott Shannon and just how he transformed the world of radio!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you, Scott Channan, and thanks to all of you for being with us.
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If you want to be a part of the program, it is 800-941 Sean.
If you would like to join us, we send out our thoughts, our prayers, Madison, Wisconsin.
It's a shooting, school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School there.
As of now, four people have been killed.
12 others have been injured.
The shooter then, I guess, turned the gun on themselves and is now dead also.
And I don't know for the life of me.
I know the predictable comments that we can expect from the legacy state-run media mob, gun control, gun control.
That's not the answer.
The answer is every school in this country needs armed, retired police, law enforcement, military to protect them, to protect the perimeter and to have people inside the schools.
If God forbid something ever happens, then I'd use metal detectors.
And these school shootings will end.
They will end permanently.
And you won't have to have discussions about taking away law-abiding citizens, the 99.9% of people that own guns that would never, ever use them in such a way.
We have a ton of news to get to in the course of the program.
This is getting sicker by the day.
I understand that there has been a long process of demonization against entire industries.
I understand.
It turns out there was a poll that showed about 65% of people are happy with their health care coverage.
Most of the problems, as we discussed with Dr. Josh Umber last week, that we've experienced in terms of people and the choices and the plans that they have, when you have 40 plus percent of the country that has one Obamacare exchange option and that's it, then that pretty much tells you the state of health care.
And when you have a situation where what was promised by your government, they lied like they're lying about the drones, like they lied about the Chinese fly balloon, like they lied about Joe's cognitive health, like they lied about the economy and inflation being transitory, like they lied about the border being secure and closed.
You know, there's nothing that I don't think that they wouldn't lie about.
They lied about keep your doctor, keep your plan, and save money.
And so there are legitimate criticisms of healthcare companies and health insurance companies, but as we have learned since Obamacare, the percentage of people that are denied claims has gone up exponentially.
And 40% of the country, 40-plus percent of the country have one Obamacare exchange option.
Millions have lost their doctors, their plans, and instead of saving $2,500 a year per year per family, well, we're now paying about 250 to 300% more for less coverage or for less than optimal coverage.
My advice to everybody here, this is not a problem that is going to be solved and solved overnight, if at all.
We came very close.
And remember the dramatic vote of John McCain at the time, even though he had promised Arizona was one of my biggest disappointments with him, is that we had a chance to repeal and replace Obamacare.
There are brilliant ideas and solutions.
Years ago, I started talking on this program about a book called Patient Power.
It was put out by Cato Institute.
What was it?
Musgrave and somebody else wrote the book.
And it talked about healthcare savings accounts.
And that would be a situation where every year, tax-free, you're able to build up your own health savings accounts from your early working years.
And that money would grow over time.
It would include annual physicals to catch things early.
And through your hopefully healthy years, you'd be able to stock up quite a sum of money.
You couple that with catastrophic care, which is something that would cover the heart attack, the stroke, the bad accident, cancer, and you would be fully covered.
And there wouldn't be any ambiguity.
There wouldn't be any questions.
You wouldn't have to worry about that.
Another idea is healthcare cooperatives.
Healthcare cooperative is another brilliant idea.
It was mastered by Atlas MD.
I think it's been mastered, where people would have unlimited health care and people would pay 50 bucks a month.
You could see a doctor or have contact with a doctor 24-7.
Telemedicine is a big part of the equation also.
But healthcare cooperatives, healthcare savings accounts, these are all options.
But that doesn't take away the frustration that people have with healthcare companies.
Now, there's also been a demonization of pharmaceutical companies.
But, you know, those pharmaceutical companies, those horrible companies that invest in many cases, hundreds of millions of dollars developing medicines that save lives are not all bad.
Those pharmaceutical companies, you know, they created the cancer drugs that save some people's lives.
They've created the medicines that prevent strokes and heart attacks.
They've created whether you believe in statins and don't believe in statins.
I don't feel like getting into a whole discussion over statins, but if you do like them, fine.
Blood pressure medicine, fine.
But all sorts of medicines that they have that are extremely and extraordinarily helpful.
They're not all bad.
Oh, they're in it for profit.
Yeah, they're in it for profit.
But do you know how much money they have to spend just to get through the approval process?
I mean, and all the checks and balances.
And then if you finally get a drug that gets to market, I mean, it's a miracle.
But, you know, and there are other industries that are demonized.
I mean, the media for crying out loud.
You know, how many people hate my guts?
It's ridiculous.
It's kind of the list is pretty long.
But it's the answer is not what people on the left are suggesting.
It's not, you know, there's only so much people can take of Elizabeth Warren.
That's not the answer.
You know, you can only push people so far is not the answer to justify Luigi Mangioni and then turn him into a sex symbol.
Now it's gotten so sick.
The founder of a socialist apparel brand has now, you know, who has called online for the death of corporate executives is now planning to sell a deck of cards of the most wanted CEOs with the names and faces and gun range target illustrations.
I don't even want to give out the guy's name or his company for fear that there might be some lunatics that'll look this guy up and want to support him.
But he said he was inspired by the most wanted Iraqi playing cards deck that famously was distributed to U.S. and coalition forces during 2003.
And that deck helped soldiers find and do what they needed to do.
Anyway, he then, you know, rattles off numerous A-list CEOs who I have the names to that I won't name.
I hope all of these CEOs are taking proper precautions and safety and security measures.
For that type of level of security that they're going to need, it is massive.
And it is, we're not talking about like you're talking about annually hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the type of security that would genuinely protect you from assassins like this.
And then your whole life, your freedom is taken away in the process.
Nobody wants to live their life this way.
But so, you know, then you've got, you know, people like Michael Moore said he wants to pour gasoline on the anger directed at the health insurance industry.
Isn't this the guy that once went to Cuba bragging about their dilapidated, broken down, sick, twisted health care system?
Why do all the people from Canada with a single-payer plan touted often by the left in this country?
Why are they making the trek all the way across the border and paying out of pocket for the health care that the United States has to offer, you know, in a free market system?
You know, other high-profile figures have hedged on it on this murder of Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO.
This guy was a father.
He was a husband, and he was just assassinated in the streets of our country.
And now the guy that did it, Luigi Mangioni, well, he's like a folk hero to the left.
You know, violence is never the answer, but you can only push people so far, which is disgusting in and of itself.
Over at MSDNC, people are very, Joy Reed saying people are very angry about healthcare.
I think for good reason, denying care and the whole system, killing a CEO is not the way you change.
You have to regulate them.
Oh, okay.
We'll say it over and over.
Warren said, violence is not the answer.
The guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed his CEO, but you can only push people so far.
And then, you know, she walked back her comments later.
And it's disgusting.
Then you had this exchange with Piers Morgan and some left-wing journalists who used to work at the Washington Post and, you know, saying that the person felt joy over Thompson's death.
Who feels joy over a father and a husband dying?
But that is the radical left, which kind of leads us into where we are politically right now is, you know, the resistance is now emerging of the left, and that's Joe Biden and company.
They're trying to do as much damage out the door as they possibly can before they leave.
They're trying to Trump-proof the DOJ by putting in all these late-minute hires.
You know, they have now come out of hiding to thank their donors, urging Democrats to fight on.
Our spirit is not defeated.
We are not defeated.
We are strong.
We are clear about why we are in this, Harris told people as she's planning to run for California governor.
But in the meantime, Joe Biden is selling off the parts of the wall that they inherited from the Trump administration, knowing that Donald Trump is about to begin the process of finishing that wall.
So they're going to sell it all for pennies on the dollars, thinking that they're hurting Trump when they're really hurting the American people because we're going to have to buy new parts.
And these parts, I'm sure, would be perfectly fine to use.
They're hiring all these people in the DOJ.
They will all be fired.
They need to be fired, these last-minute hires, what they're trying to do.
He's escalating wars by giving the go-ahead for Ukraine to fire ballistic missiles into Russia.
That resulted in Russia changing their nuclear weapons policy to say if you fire missiles into Russia, we have the right to nuke you.
And then, of course, he's Joe Biden last minute, 36 days to go.
He's been firing missiles into Syria ever since the decline of Assad.
He's also now trying to solidify their radical Green New Deal agenda as much as possible.
They're trying to sneak in as much, you know, $1.6 billion for their environmental justice fund.
They're pushing student loan forgiveness as part of this.
They're moving forward with more commutations of the sentences.
and presidential pardons at a record clip.
They're even pardoning this guy who's called the Kids for Cash judge, a Pennsylvania judge that took bribes to send kids to a for-profit detention center.
Another one is an Illinois clerk that embezzled over $53 million from a town of 15,000, a Massachusetts woman convicted of a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
And that's just what's come out of the first few days about all of this.
Then, of course, Biden strikes a deal with 42,000 workers in the Social Security Administration, lowering the professional demands on a big chunk of the federal workforce, you know, saying that you can still not work from the office, which is a big part of the plan of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
You know, so you got the whole apparatchik, if you will, you know, rushing to shovel the last Biden's, you know, agenda items through the door.
And on top of that, judges that they're trying to push through.
And he's threatening even Joe's threatening to veto a bipartisan bill that would create a slate of new federal judgeships because he and his allies don't want Trump filling them.
You know, so all of this, you know, they're trying to do, you know, for example, federal grants for high-speed internet.
I think we already have it.
I think it's called Starlink, and I think it's called Elon Musk.
It's that technology.
And by the way, now Trump has now come out.
He gave a long press conference today, almost an hour and a half, about an hour and 20 minutes today, and he plans to eliminate Biden's $7,500 electric vehicle subsidy.
By the way, that doesn't help his friend Elon Musk, and Elon Musk is not complaining.
Kamala is telling backers she's not going quietly into the night and weighing a bid for president or California governor.
Good luck with that.
Biden is telling Kamala, you're not going anywhere, kid, among speculation about her future.
What else do we have?
We got so much going on.
Bernie Sanders' advice to Biden is to seriously consider all these preemptive pardons.
I know this is irritating a lot of you.
It's not irritating me.
If they want preemptive pardons, you know what?
That gives Donald Trump time to focus on the borders, on the economy.
It gets him time of energy dominance, securing world peace and negotiating settlements in Europe and the Middle East.
That gives him time to fix the things that matter.
I'd prefer his attention to be in that direction.
But somebody whose name needs to be on the list would be Joe Biden himself.
All right, slowly it's kicking in.
You ever watched the chosen Linda?
Have you watched the series?
No.
You got to watch it.
It's so good.
I couldn't get through that first one with Mary Magdalene, although my godmother told me that once you get through it, then it's like good after that.
But I don't know.
Well, what part couldn't you get it over that?
I don't know.
It's just a bit much the way it was filmed.
I didn't care for it.
But everybody tells me it's amazing, so I'll watch it as it moves on.
Oh, you got to watch it.
That'll get you in the Christmas spirit.
I've actually been reading the book of Luke.
My priest says we have to all read the book of Luke for Christmas.
So that's what I'm doing.
I think Linda.
I mean, who's been regressing?
I have never been regressing.
I am a static person when it comes to the hate list, which I think God made me in his image earlier.
We all have to reset.
And, you know, I think this is a good reset for you.
Everyone really thinks in D.C.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour, 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Did you ever listen to True Aldi's entire station, Linda, that is programmed by our friend Scott Shannon?
Scott Shannon is a legend.
God bless him.
He's a legend.
Absolutely.
He created Morning Zoo Radio.
It was a great film put out, you know, from last place to first place when he took Z100 in New York and just took it from nothing all the way to number one.
Wait, can I tell you my funniest Scott Shannon story?
It's 30 seconds.
Don't worry.
It's not about hating.
Ask him about the night that he almost shot me because I knocked on his door.
I remember that story, actually.
When I was working for you, I think I had just started.
And he needed something.
And somehow he ended up calling the studio and I answered.
And he goes, this is Scott Shannon.
And I thought it was somebody punking me.
Because, you know, like, people have like a radio voice and then they have like the talking to you voice.
But Scott Shannon, that's just his voice all the time.
Well, that's his.
So I hung up on him.
Hannity.
That went really well.
And he reintroduced the guest.
No, but then he called back and he goes, did you just hang up on me?
I'm like, oh, my God, it's really you?
I'm like, dude, I'm so sorry.
I did not think you talk like that in real life.
I apologize.
Hang on one second.
And then I punched him through to you.
But to this day, I always laugh about it because now he's a buddy.
We email, we talk.
He's a great guy.
He's awesome.
But the channel is so good.
He does these cool things that he inserts them into the show.
And it's just so well done.
I mean, he's just, his radio career is legendary, obviously.
And so one of the things he did is on this date in 1966, these were the top five songs.
And he goes through them.
And it's just, obviously, you know, he's got that voice from God.
Great set of pipes.
And I'm listening.
I'm like, oh, man.
And like all the songs that he played, I loved.
And it was so eclectic.
It was just amazing.
And I just couldn't stop listening.
So I wrote him.
I said, I had no idea the channel was on where I happen to live in Florida.
And he goes, yeah, I'm glad you found it.
That's what he said.
But it's a passion of his, and it's like all over the country.
And he's doing really well.
What, Mayorkas?
I was talking about drones.
What are you talking about?
We have a live update on the shooting in Wisconsin.
Four kids shot, and then the shooter turned on himself.
And no motive.
We better start protecting our schools.
Let's just listen in.
Are you doing that?
My name is Chief Sean Barnes, S-H-O-N-B-A-R-N-E-S.
I'm currently the chief of police for the Madison Police Department.
I'll be providing a brief update of the school shooting that we had today in Madison.
There's some information that we're not going to release because it's still an ever-evolving situation.
You'll hear from some of our representatives from our city and from our county.
And behind me are a lot of people who came together today to make sure that the day ended well and that everyone else was safe.
So with that being said, I'll go ahead and start my remarks.
Today truly is a sad day for Madison and for our country.
It is a day that I believe will live in our collective minds for a very, very long time.
Here are the details.
Today at 1057 a.m., our team was called to the Abundant Life Christian School in reference to an active shooter.
We know that three people are dead, including the suspect shooter.
We know that the suspect shooter was a teenage student who attended the school.
At this time, we're not releasing the age or gender of the student or any other identifying remarks about the student.
Two other people have died that died were a teacher and a teenage student.
Six other people were injured.
Two students are now in critical condition in the hospital, and these injuries are considered life-threatening injuries.
Four students are also at other area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
But these are just the physical injuries that we know about.
We know that this was the middle of the day of a school day, and so there will be other injuries that we'll have to face for a very, very long time.
And we're going to do everything we can as a community to heal those injuries as well.
Many of you have asked me about the why of this.
Why did this happen?
What do we know?
What was the motivation?
I do not know.
But I will tell you this.
Our detectives are working hard in the investigative process to find out as many answers as we can so that we can further prevent these things from happening not only in this community, but in other communities around our country.
I think we can all agree that enough is enough.
And we have to come together to do everything we can to support our students, to prevent press conferences like these from happening again and again and again.
The school building itself is clear.
We have cleared the school.
There's no other threats or danger to the community.
We're in the process now of what we call reunification.
And what that simply means is making sure that every student that was in the school is present and accounted for and returned to their loved ones.
This usually takes a while, but we have practiced, unfortunately, and practice and practice.
And that's why we're able to reunify students with their parents within hours of a school shooting.
The reunification is taking place at the Dean Clinic on Stoughton Road, and I certainly thank them for their help.
Again, we need our public to find an alternate route.
If that is your normal way home as we get closer to the end of the day, please be patient or find another route home.
We are currently processing the scene.
We are interviewing those who may have been witnesses and we are obtaining search warrants to get additional information.
And lastly, I want to just say thank you to everyone who's standing behind me, the organizations and agencies that they represent, the men and women of the Madison Police Department and Dane County Sheriff's Office who selflessly ran into a building not knowing what they were going to encounter.
Many of you know this about me, but I started my professional career, if you will, as a public school teacher back in 1997.
And I taught public school for four years.
It was one of the greatest joys of my life before becoming a police officer.
And I can tell you what a special place our schools are.
With that being said, we owe it to our community to do everything possible to ensure that it's not only a special place, but a safe place as well.
And we're going to continue to do that.
So we ask for your patience as information is coming in.
We will do the best that we can to bring you accurate and timely information, but we want to make sure that our public knows that we're working extremely hard on this particular incident.
There are a lot of people involved, and certainly we're going to come together as a community.
I'd like to bring up at this time police fire chief Chris Carpenter.
All right.
It seems like fewer deaths than we originally were that were originally reported.
That, you know, there were five people in total, including the shooter themselves.
Now we're down to three.
But yeah, the emotional toll is incalculable.
And I think there is a solution.
And this is what frustrates me.
And that is retired police and military in every school, metal detectors in every school.
And I believe you cover the perimeter, you cover the inside of the school, and you send these kids through metal detectors.
I mean, I've been able to, I've been at events where you get wanded and you go through a metal detector where there's 30,000 people.
This is extremely doable.
It's money we ought to invest to save lives and do it in every school and every school district.
And I think in the end, it would put an end to this once and for all.
Nobody wants to ever talk about that part.
So anyway, we've got the resistance now going on.
And I just went through the whole list of what they're trying to do.
And, you know, it is, it's nerve-wracking.
It is, it is now we're going to sell off portions of the border wall.
And Bernie Sanders is advising Biden to very seriously consider preemptive pardons due to Trump sounding like a tinpot dictator.
If they all want their pardons, let them have it.
I don't really care.
The power of the pardon is absolute.
Fine.
You know what?
If that is what Joe's legacy is going to be, let it be.
I'll tell you this, it would definitely prevent Donald Trump from being distracted and his administration from being distracted.
I mean, Joe Biden himself should be investigated for burisma as far as I'm concerned.
You know, leveraging a billion tax dollars to fire a prosecutor investigating his zero-experienced drug-addicted son.
And, you know, and then I'm sitting here next to my father in between everyone he knows and my ability to hold a grudge you're going to regret not paying us.
It's unreal.
Anyone see the Army-Navy game?
Like, I do have to send a shout out to our friend, Colonel Oliver North.
He always referred to his wife, Betsy, as his best friend.
I gave many speeches with Ollie around the country.
We did many freedom concerts around the country.
He loved this woman.
56 years they were married, and she passed away over the weekend.
He would normally have been at the Army-Navy game.
And I spoke to him this weekend.
Our prayers are with him.
Never forget back.
I mean, I was, this is before I got into radio.
My first radio year was 1987, I think.
Iran-Contra hearings had taken place.
I didn't go to work during that period.
I was so obsessed with watching them.
Anyway, the chance of USA, USA is the president-elect.
JD Vance was there.
They brought Daniel Penny with them.
Pete Hagseth with him.
Tulsi Gabbard with him.
Speaker Mike Johnson with him.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
is headed to Capitol Hill, which I think is great.
Rick Grinnell, Devin Nunes, two appointments added to the long list of notable people.
I think the thing I'm most obsessed with is this new government, well, the Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and their promise to slash $2 trillion.
We are getting some insight into where they're going.
You know, in 1955, there were 1.5 million words in the U.S. tax code.
Ask yourself in your mind's eye, what do you think?
How many words, 1955, 1.5 million words in the U.S. tax code?
What do you think that is today?
I mean, there are more than 16 million words.
I mean, 16 times.
Americans collectively spend 6.5 billion hours preparing and filing their taxes every year.
You think we could fix that?
Or the fact that the DOD, Department of Defense, and by the way, we do need hypersonics.
We do need the next age of modern military warfare.
It's not going to be fought on a battlefield.
It's going to be people pushing buttons in an air-conditioned room.
So we're not talking about cutting back on that, but it's, you know, the seventh straight audit that the Department of Defense has failed, noting the DOD cannot fully account for their budget.
How's that possible?
Elon Musk wrote that it sounds like a job for exactly what he's leading up, which is the Department of Government Efficiency.
What do they call it?
Doggy?
Is that Doge?
Doge?
Yes, Doge.
And that's also the Bitcoin name, right?
It's an alternate current.
It's a crypto, yeah.
You know what, Sean?
I could get the IRS down to four words.
You know what it could say?
Pay your taxes.
We want your money.
Now we want your money.
That's all it needs to say.
Congress authorized $516 billion for expired programs.
Can you believe this?
Our friend Rand Paul said over 2,000 examples of waste fraud and abuse.
You know, how about ending?
What about all these government employees that work from home?
How about they show up and do their jobs?
Modernizing, fighting cost-effective government with IT systems.
I hate to say this, and nobody's going to like when I say it, but I'm just telling you it's the future.
You know, if you've spent any time experimenting with artificial intelligence, I am telling you, jobs are going to be replaced.
Make sure that whatever profession you are choosing is going to be a profession that is not going to be easily replaced by artificial intelligence.
National Institute for Health returning money to taxpayers, $759 million on workforce diversity and outreach.
I could just keep going.
They don't care when it's your money.
Rand Paul, 2,000 pages of waste to doge.
Department of government efficiency.
I love it.
Anyway, Biden is leaving with a vengeful agenda.
We'll get to Van Jones saying Trump is smarter than his critics, not wrong.
George Stephanopoulos paying $15 million to settle a defamation suit along with ABC.
DC restaurant service worker fired for not wanting to serve conservatives.
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