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Aug. 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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What If - August 1st, Hour 3
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I've been trying to read the Bible.
They have a way to read the Bible in a year.
I I decided to do it in two years, and I still fall way behind.
But one of the reasons I fall way behind is I get wrapped up, especially late at night, watching shows like The Chosen.
I have watched The Chosen from start to finish at least three and a half times.
Linda, you've watched the series.
You love it, right?
I've watched not as many times as you, but yes, I have.
The History Channel has a great series uh called The Bible.
Uh I'm watching now.
I never knew this existed, and I should know because I'm friends with Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, and I like both of them.
I did not know that they did a series, and I've been watching it all week.
I only found it this week, uh, called A D, and it starts with the crucifixion and then moves forward.
But I but I love those shows and they're they're pretty amazing.
Um and in a second one we're gonna be joined by uh John Ratzenberger.
Uh you might remember him from the show known as Cheers, and um, he was the mailman on that show, and he he was he's such a great actor.
He's so good.
Anyway, Dallas Jenkins, who does The Chosen, which I would have to argue is my favorite.
Now, my favorite movie would be The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson.
I I can't watch a lot of these episodes without you know tearing up and and tears getting in my eyes.
It's so well done.
And if you're a Christian, it kind of brings your faith out.
It's pretty cool.
Anyway, so John Ratzenberger joined Dallas Jenkins, who does The Chosen for a revisit to his film What If, where John Ratzenberger plays the angel.
And by the way, I'm sure he's no angel in real life.
We'll find out in a minute.
Uh, but the film came out fifteen years ago prior to the fame uh from the season The Chosen.
Anyway, the tickets now can be purchased at Fathom Entertainment.
Uh let me play for you uh Dallas Jenkins, who's the creator of The Chosen, talking about the 15th anniversary and release of What If.
Here's what he said.
Hey there, I'm Dallas Jenkins, and you might know me as the creator of The Chosen, but 15 years ago I made a movie that my kids tell me is still the best movie that I've made, and it's called What If.
What if tells the story of a man who gets a chance to see what his life would have looked like if he had made the right choice to follow his faith?
I'm an angel sent here to help you straighten out your life.
Okay.
And it's got a wonderful cast.
Kevin Sorbo, Christy Swanson, John Ratzenberger, Debbie Ryan.
We got together to reminisce about the film to talk about some insider stories and behind the scenes info that no one's heard before.
And we're going to put that with the movie in theaters to celebrate the 15th anniversary.
Well, you walked away, you broke two hearts, Wendy's and his.
It's been years thinking that I was happy, but I didn't know what happy meant.
Check out what if in theaters coming soon.
No, you're pretty tough for an angel.
What do you rank?
They send me someone important.
The fact that I've sitting here babysitting you should tell you where I rank.
Anyway, joining us now, John Ratzenberger.
Uh he played the angel in that film.
I mean, that's pretty cool.
I you know, I've only recently gone back to a movie theater.
I I can't even tell you how many years it had been since I'd been back.
And when the chosen season five came out, and it came out on three consecutive weekends, uh, I went to two of the three of them, and I had a great time.
I I just enjoyed the experience.
I like the more comfortable seats.
I like the fact that you can get any food you want, and of course I love buttered popcorn, and you get to put your own butter on it, which I didn't know had occurred since the last time I really had been there.
How you been?
How are you?
Oh, good.
Good.
Yeah, I'm just breezing along with the breeze here.
I played a tow truck driver who's also an angel.
And uh uh slept out the tow truck aspect of it.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's pretty cool.
I mean, it's not often that a film gets re-released like this.
Uh so that's gotta be pretty cool for you.
Now, you're most well known for your role as Cliff Claven and in Cheers.
I mean, you had a great run with that series.
How'd you like that?
Oh, yeah, Cheers.
Eleven years of cheers.
I I spent ten years over in Europe prior to Cheers.
And now uh well mostly uh Pixar and uh cartoon voices.
So I've uh I've had a good run at it.
Yeah.
Um how did how did you get close to Dallas Jenkins?
How do you know him?
And what do you think of the the series The Chosen?
Well, Dallas just called me.
He he called me to to do the uh what if yeah, I like the uh the aspect of an angel who's a toad truck driver.
And it shows it, I haven't seen all of it.
But uh I I like what I've seen.
Well, it's definitely a series worth watching.
Um now, did you go are you gonna go back in the theater this weekend and watch it yourself?
And last question do you do you uh stay in touch with the people that uh I know Normie passed away, but do you stay in touch with the people from Cheers back in the day, because that was like the biggest show on television at the time.
Yeah, no, I I uh I run it into them occasionally to Ted uh we uh occasionally I wrote it to them, but you know, we don't keep in touch at all.
Uh yeah, yeah, it's uh uh I'd like to, but uh we geographically we'll this is a part.
Yeah.
Well anyway, I hope people go and check it out.
It's two nights only.
It's happening uh on August 5th and August 7th.
And anyway, 15 years later, what if returns to theaters?
Anyway, John Ratzenberger, thank you, sir.
Appreciate you uh being with us.
Not at all.
Thank you.
800 941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's get to our busy telephone.
Stuart, North Carolina this Friday on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
I know you saw Cory Booker's tirade the other day.
I was listening to another radio show.
A guy called it a meltdown.
I said, that is not a meltdown.
That is a strictly performative outrage he's doing there.
It looked almost identical to what he did a couple weeks ago when he was before there.
He said, I cannot believe.
And then whenever he did with the uh with uh filibuster, which is the only thing Cory Booker is going to be remembered for because he's done almost nothing uh impactful legislation.
Um he's just gonna be remembered as the guy who talked for the longest, and I said, Why not a big mouth and he sat there on the steps, I think it was with Hakeem Jeffries.
Remember that guy started singing and they all started singing with him.
We have that singing video when they was when they were sitting on the steps of the Capitol, the little sit-in, another performance.
I will build this world from love.
I will build this world from love.
Not too bad.
*Random singing*
I want to die, die listening.
I can't take it anymore.
Oh, these people.
It was like a tiny little crowd.
It's and the twenty-five hours on the on the Senate floor just to break a record.
Nobody cares about him.
He has no power at all.
Thank God.
This guy thinks he's gonna be president.
That's what he thinks.
Well, I say I say let him have that record.
It's and uh I mean, who better to have it?
Because no one likes the sound of their voice better than him or maybe Barack Obama.
Well, Wall said Stuart, North Carolina, we appreciate it, buddy.
Thank you.
You have a great weekend, all right.
Uh Cindy in my free state of Florida.
What's going on, Cindy?
How are you?
Glad you called.
You got it, Sean.
We love it here.
We moved here from liberal Connecticut about seven years ago, and we love it.
By the way, did uh did the tax people harass you and follow you and you have to prove your innocence like everybody else?
Oh no, this is the free state of Florida.
I actually talked to Governor DeSantis about that.
I mean, uh because the the idea that they're m they're like more New York State tax officials in Florida than in New York State.
They do everything possible to push you out of your state, and then they they chase you because they still want your money, even if you don't live there at all or work there at all or make any money there at all, like in my case.
They'll still try and chase you.
I had to hire accountants and lawyers out the Yazoo to prepare to do this the right way.
We can't allow any more Democrat voting people here.
That's that's the bottom line.
But the reason I'm calling, uh I'm calling about Russia Gate and Crossfire Hurricane that you were talking about earlier.
And something occurred to me.
I don't know if anything could be done like this, but given how much lawlessness and corrupt things that they did, but the demorats I call them.
I wonder, because they destroyed Trump's first term, if he could be awarded a third term because of what they did, that would scare the Democrats straight, don't you think?
They wouldn't do that.
Um I'd I'd be fine with it.
Uh you you know what the battle cry would be.
You know, this is the uh the irony of with all that we've learned in the last two weeks.
Uh the irony is Democrats ran on, well, Donald Trump is a Nazi fascist and racist, and he's Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, and that was their closing argument.
Uh and you know, and then they said threat to democracy over and over again.
How ironic is it with the news of the last two weeks?
Um, who's the real threat to democracy?
It's them.
They are.
They are.
Absolutely.
They want communism.
That's what they want.
Yeah.
But they'll say no matter what happens.
Look, the twenty second amendment is pretty clear.
No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.
No person who has held the office of president or acted as president uh for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president shall be elected to the office of president more than once, but this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of president when this article was proposed by the Congress and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of president or acting as president during the term within which this article becomes operative
from holding the office of president or acting as president during the remainder of such term.
Um would be awarded.
He wouldn't be elected.
Well, I don't know how you I don't know how you get away from the election election part.
How do you pull that off?
Because of their corruption and what they did to him for his first term.
They just certainly a strong, a strong argument can be made.
I mean, they they my interpretation of all the data is they tried number one, they manufactured this phony Russia collusion's uh story with Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier, and that was first designed to prevent them from winning.
This Republic can't survive if pe if we have hostile actors from within like this, undermining integrity of elections, which they've done.
I think if they got that sort of a punishment as a result of what they did, they would never do it again.
That's my the punishment would be Donald Trump gets another term.
That would be a punishment for them.
Their heads would, you know, turn like the like Glinda Blair on the exorcist, and they'd projectile vomit out in that disgusting green puke drink that the that pea looking drink, disgusting dark green uh puke drink that Linda drinks.
Just throw bags over our heads and go on our day.
All right, we appreciate you still drinking that crap, by the way.
I haven't seen you drinking all.
I had an avocado and banana shake yesterday.
It was delish.
An avocado and banana shake.
That's right.
With a little bit of protein powder and collagen and all the other good stuff.
You know what I had yesterday?
I had I had two thin T bone steaks, and I had one organic turkey, lettuce wrap with a little bit of mayo and tomato, uh, with about maybe three pieces of turkey.
That's what I ate all day yesterday.
That's it.
My God, aren't you hungry?
No, it's great.
And guess what I've eaten so far today?
What have you eaten so far today?
Three eggs with a ton of smothered grilled onions.
Oh my gosh, you must smell the list.
I I listen, uh, poor Uncle James.
No such thing as poor Uncle James.
That poor guy can't even have a pickle or an olive or having a bowl of onions.
Uh I made him breakfast with me.
He's the only guy that gets a colonoscopy and goes up two pounds.
Oh I'm sorry, three pounds in the two days after he had it.
He went up three pounds in two days, and I'm still cooking for him every day.
You know that muscle weighs more than fat, right?
He's just working on the city.
He's not putting on muscle.
No, he's not I'm putting on muscle.
He's not putting on any muscle.
I don't know about that, Sean.
You know what it is?
He cheats.
And then when you call him out on it, he lies about it.
Well, let him live a little.
Exactly.
Oh, let him let him rock.
Yeah, okay.
What what did Jason eat for lunch today?
What'd you have for lunch?
Oh, 14 ounce of a buy.
Oh, you out for lunch today?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
And French fries.
And by the way, for the record, I buy my entire team lunch every day.
You see buying steak and sushi every day.
Am I going to go bankrupt on this?
Every day.
No, no.
I only do good stuff on Fridays, okay?
My weight has been a consistent 160 for a couple of years.
Have I ever, ever once put a restriction on what you all can buy for lunch?
Ever.
No, and it's a good thing you don't.
Oh man.
You know, I don't know any other host that does this, just for the record.
And I buy my TV team dinner.
But there is a method to my madness.
I don't want you to leave your desk.
And it works.
If I keep you well, I don't leave my desk.
I mean, I work out and I sit here and I just prep my my ass off every day, and then get you know criticized online if I say the wrong word.
Really irritated me.
The comment somebody made.
I am so angry at what happened to these two people in the Cincinnati brawl.
And the worst part of all of this is your corrupt state-run legacy media mob, ABC, CBS, MBC.
They haven't covered this mob attack against this woman Holly.
And literally she was blindsided with a punch and knocked her out.
Senator Moreno got permission to post her pictures.
The fact that this woman is even alive is a miracle.
This other poor guy is getting punched in the head, kicked in the head, brutally beaten.
All these people are surrounding the people getting beaten up with their cell phones taking videos.
Only one person, only one decided to call the police.
This isn't worthy of coverage on ABC, CBS, MBC.
I thought I thought they didn't like the insurrection.
Linda, they don't like insurrection, right?
No, I heard that they don't.
They're firmly against it.
Okay, and then you've got this woman, Victoria Parks.
Uh, what is she on the city council?
We have Burry Cunningham.
She's a councilwoman.
I think I do a pretty good Bill Billy Cunningham.
You like my Bill Cunningham?
Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
Mm-hmm.
He actually calls me the other day and he goes, Do I really sound like that?
And I go, Yeah.
Uh Victoria Parks.
Well, and if you watch him in a studio, he's like, he stands like 10 miles away from the microphone, which is what you really should do in broadcasting.
I'm probably the only person that eats the microphone because I just can't help myself.
Unless you're distracted and looking at your phone, and then I have to say, look at the microphone.
You never see me, so you it very rarely do you see me.
That's a good thing.
I know when you're leaning.
Victoria Parks on the city council writes on Facebook that they pretty much that they deserved it.
Did you see the comments that she made?
Yeah.
She's by the way, the woman who was beaten Holly, he returned home to her home.
She returned to her home in Russia.
I mean, when when things are better in Russia than Cincinnati, Ohio, we've got a problem.
Now Victoria Parks was given an opportunity to pull back on those remarks that, well, they deserved it.
And here's what she said.
I have the freedom of speech.
And um, you know, I I am a grown woman.
When I wrote on the internet, I I meant to.
That's the way I felt, and I'm not gonna back down from it right now.
I'm not gonna back down from it right now.
Well, what we're gonna wait, and maybe a month from now, she's gonna realize the brutal beating mob attack that nearly killed two people.
Uh, is something that shouldn't take place in a civil society.
I need do I need to educate you about that?
Unbelievable.
Where's Liz Cheney?
She needs to resign.
It's repulsive.
This whole idea that we can't talk about this and we can't talk about the people involved because they want to play some sort of politics game is a bunch of nonsense.
This is one human being on the ground getting the kick crapped out of her.
And she had nothing to do with anything.
She's just there.
She got blinded.
No, she actually went over to try to help the other guy.
I know.
But I'm saying like this guy was getting a crappy.
Did you see how many times he got punched and kicked in the head?
Of course I did.
And then I saw how the person in charge of his bail release let him out on 400 bucks and said, Oh, well, it's not his fault.
The police chief, I quote, says it's not his fault.
He's not culpable.
It's the bartender's fault because they overserved him.
I can just tell you the this thing in Cincinnati.
It makes my blood boil.
It really does.
How dare this woman?
And by the way, you know where the mayor's been the whole time?
Yeah, the mayor's been gone the whole time.
Oh, but uh, but he shows up today.
How nice of him.
How many days later?
You know, day late, dollar short.
It's like, you know, Pete Buddha judge, Potho Pete, Joe Biden, you know, Kamala Harris couldn't go to the border.
I mean, that interview last night was an unmitigated disaster.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's get to our busy, busy telephones.
Uh let's say hi to Steven in Connecticut.
What's up, Steven?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, good to be on, Sean.
How how are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I just kind of want to address something uh uh that you touched on uh earlier in the week, and then of course, uh obviously with the uh burn bags and all the other uh uh things that are kind of developing.
I hope that there's some justice that kind of comes out as a result of it all.
And uh yeah, I'm I'm uh addressing actually interestingly enough the leftist agenda, which is you know basically pretty pretty historic and pretty uh common.
Uh their desire to basically uh uh lie at every turn and and steal and and uh in some places uh obviously destroy this uh great nation of ours.
So I'm I can't believe they didn't burn the burn bags and that's gonna nail them all.
I really can't.
I'm really thankful.
I think it's uh divine intervention, uh very similar to what was uh a year ago when when our uh great president uh was nearly taken out.
So I I think it's all all their whole their whole uh agenda is basically to kill, steal, and destroy and distort truth.
Yeah.
So anyway, I appreciate you being with us, my friend.
Thank you.
800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, we'll stay with another Stephen, this one in California, the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin Newsom.
What's going on?
Hey, what's going on, Sean?
How are you doing today, brother?
I'm good, man.
What's going on with you?
Not much, brother.
Uh so I spoke with you about a month ago.
I'm the gentleman that uh that I I I shared my story with you.
Uh I was the one gentleman who was living in my car for a while.
Um you offered to uh help me get my apartment and get into an apartment.
Um I do remember, and I know Katie worked it out for you.
Uh how are you doing?
Because you have a young child, if I recall.
I do.
I do.
Um the level of gratitude and the level of appreciation that I have for you, like is uh uh uh indescribable.
I can't I can't even express like how grateful I am and how thankful I am for you.
Uh just for offering that.
Um, when we had that conversation, you you know, you you cut me off and which I'm thankful for.
I'm not really care.
But like, you know, you you you interjected, you were like, hey, well, I'm gonna try and solve your problem.
Like I I was crying, like, you know, like I could cry right now with just just how grateful I am right now because you really you didn't let me remind people because of and tell me if I'm off.
You have a job, right?
You work.
What what is your job again?
Uh I work for um I work for a garage door company, a nationwide garage door company uh out here in Sacramento.
Okay, and uh about how much do you make an hour?
Uh I make uh right now I'm about twenty two dollars an hour.
And you were living in your car to save money, but you had recently been through a divorce and you're never gonna be able to see what you if I recall you have a son.
How old is your son?
Uh he just turned three.
Okay.
And I said you you you have to have a place to bring your son uh look.
Yeah.
Every child needs both parents in some capacity, and unless of course it's it for whatever reason is not possible.
Ideally, you need to be in this kid's life.
I'm not gonna get into your personal life with your ex wife.
That's meaningless to me.
I mean, that's between you and her.
Yeah, that's and but what's great.
But if you don't have a place to stay, no there's no child services that's ever gonna let your son stay with you in a car.
So you got your apartment.
Now are you able to sustain it based on how much you're you're making and are you getting other sources of income?
Absolutely.
I did it I did enough research.
I found I found a a solid apartment, uh, one that I can afford um like safely.
Um and the the part the the complex actually, you know, they gave me a little cut on the original rate that they were offering when the when the apartment was on the market, you know, they brought it down, they brought the the the the monthly rent down a little bit, increased the deposit, so it made it a lot more feasible for me, a little a lot more reasonable, you know, for me to to for me to live on my own.
You know, I make pretty I make pretty decent money compared to you know compared to a lot of other people that you know that live and I I mean I'm blessed, absolutely blessed to have the to to to be in the position that I am right now, and it's just you know, uh a good portion of that is to you, man.
I just I cannot listen, I have I have had people in my life help me, and I'm in a position now where you know, I can occasionally do nice things for people.
I try to do as many as I possibly can.
And all this is is a bridge for you.
And now I want you to take the ball, keep your good job in garage stuff, maybe start a little business on the side, get your own little customer base, maybe you can build out your own little company and or find other jobs maybe, you know, in the hours that you're not with your son and just try to put in as many hours.
There's only two ways to save money.
Spend less and bring in more income.
Uh I've been there uh when I had no money in my my early twenties and mid-20s.
I mean I all I did was work, and I worked seven days a week.
I didn't have a kid at that time, so that I didn't have that complication in my life, but you know, work as much as you can, but also be as good a father as possible.
That's my advice to you.
It sounds like you're doing great.
If we helped a little bit, we're we're I'm grateful that I'm a I I could.
Uh thank you for your kind words, but it was a pleasure for me to do it, and I'm I love good news stories.
I love when things work out for people.
I'm very happy for you and keep up the good work.
Dude, thank you again.
I'm just gonna conclude on this, man.
I I just thank you.
Just simply thank you.
You you you have given me this is a life changer for me.
Period point blank end of story.
Like, and I've always been hungry and motivated, and this just fuels that fire even more so.
So um again, I mean, look, listen.
You've you're very, very well welcome.
Here's my advice.
Sometime in your life down down at some point in your life, there's gonna be somebody that comes to you that needs help.
Just pay it forward that way.
Okay?
And if we all did that, I think we'd all be better off.
You know, the y you don't need all these HR books.
If you just follow the golden rule.
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul, your neighbor as yourself, treat others the way you want to be treated.
Nobody's perfect.
We've all sinned and fallen short, but when you can do something for somebody, always always try to look for that opportunity.
We're glad you're doing well.
God bless you.
God bless your son and your family, and we wish you the best.
Um that's a good story to end in on a Friday, right, Linda?
Absolutely.
Linda once what's she like in my ear.
When do I get my free apartment?
What yeah, I don't really believe in free.
Um I have a little bit of a different mindset on those things.
You don't think I made the right decision to do that?
I think it was your decision to make and you made the one that made sense to me.
I didn't ask you that question.
I said, Did you do you think I made the wrong decision?
Would you have made a different one?
If I had the money to do something like that for someone?
Yeah.
Yes, I would have made a different decision.
What would your decision have been?
You know, m I come from a very poor background.
We never took government assistance.
We worked all of us as as young as we were as soon as we could.
My dad got hurt when I was really young.
It was very, very hard.
And nobody ever helped us.
And we made it.
And it taught us one very, very important thing.
That was to work very, very hard all the time.
You wouldn't have helped this guy.
Three jobs.
Four jobs.
Yeah what have helped him find another job.
Well I did give him the advice to do that but he needed to get into an apartment so he could see his kid.
Again.
And you're hard your hardcore you're hardcore ma'am I'm from it.
Just because somebody didn't help you doesn't mean that you know you it wouldn't have been a good thing if they did.
Listen everybody's entitled to their opinion.
You asked me for mine.
I'm just saying it's a little hard a little like for example if I see homeless people I give them money.
You never do.
Absolutely not I always give them a lecture though.
It's always like I am talk to them I will give them food and in New York City I have given food to many homeless people.
I have worked in homeless shelters the problem is nobody wants the crap food that you're going to give them.
But if I give them a money out of my hand and they try to attack me it's because they want the money for drugs.
So you can't take that risk.
It's not the same way people promise me that they won't spend the money on drugs or alcohol and then I realize the odds are probably against me that they probably will but I walk away at least I tried.
And then I talk to them I about getting their life together and sometimes I'll spend a lot of time with them.
I was I was doing this in front of a 7-Eleven recently and a guy recognized me and he just sits in on the whole conversation he goes I can't believe you spent all this time with this guy.
I'm like well I I I've had people help me in my life I'm very grateful and God's blessed me beyond what I deserve that's going to wrap things up for today.
Tonight Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel remember all the people that signed the FISA applications using the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier?
Yeah and then they all went before Lindsey Graham and say no knowing what we know now we never would have signed it.
Well we're going to play that for you.
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