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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 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 it not as many times as you, but yes, I have.
The History Channel has a great series called The Bible.
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 called AD, and it starts with the crucifixion and then moves forward.
But I love those shows, and they're pretty amazing.
And in a second, we're going to be joined by John Ratzenberger.
You might remember him from the show known as Cheers.
And he was the mailman on that show, and 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 can't watch a lot of these episodes without tearing up 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.
Now, by the way, I'm sure he's no angel in real life.
We'll find out in a minute.
But the film came out 15 years ago prior to the fame from the season The Chosen.
Anyway, the tickets now can be purchased at Fathom Entertainment.
Let me play for you 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.
When you walked away, you broke two hearts, Wendy's and his.
Spent years thinking that I was happy, but I didn't know what happy meant.
Check out What If in Theaters Coming Soon.
You know, you're pretty tough for an angel.
Where do you rank?
They send me someone important.
The fact that I'm sitting here babysitting you should tell you what I rank.
Anyway, joining us now, John Ratzenberger.
He played the angel in that film.
I mean, that's pretty cool.
You know, I've only recently gone back to a movie theater.
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, I went to two of the three of them, and I had a great time.
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 breathing along with the breeze here.
Down in Southern California, but uh, yeah, I played a tow truck driver who's also an angel, and uh, uh, that's that's what swept 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 got to be pretty cool for you.
Now, you're most well known for your role as Cliff Clavin and Cheers.
I mean, you had a great run with that series.
How'd you like that?
Oh, yeah, Cheers.
11 years of Cheers.
I spent 10 years over in Europe prior to Cheers, and now, well, mostly Pixar and cartoon voices.
So I've had a good run at it.
Yeah.
How did you get close to Dallas Jenkins?
How do you know him?
And what do you think of the series, The Chosen?
Well, Dallas just called me.
He called me to do the What If.
And I said, Yeah, I like the aspect of an angel who's a tow truck driver.
And The Chosen, I haven't seen all of it, but I like what I've seen.
Well, it's definitely a series worth watching.
Now, did you go?
Are you going to go back in the theater this weekend and watch it yourself?
And last question: Do you stay in touch with the people that 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've run into them occasionally to Ted.
Occasionally, I've run into them, but we don't keep in touch at all.
Yeah, yeah, it's I like to, but we geographically distance apart.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, I hope people go and check it out.
It's two nights only.
It's happening on August 5th and August 7th.
And anyway, 15 years later, What If returns to theaters.
Anyway, John Ratzenberger, thank you, sir.
Appreciate you 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.
Stewart, North Carolina, this Friday on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
I know you saw Corey 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, Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe.
And then whatever he did with Filibuster, which is the only thing Corey Booker is going to be remembered for because he's done almost nothing in pactful legislation.
He's just going to be remembered as the guy who talked for the longest.
And I said, why not?
He's got 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 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.
Yada die die die.
Yada dai dai.
Yada dai, die, die.
Da da da da.
I want to die, die, die listening.
I can't take it anymore.
Oh, these people.
It was like a tiny little crowd.
It's in the 25 hours 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 going to be president.
That's what he thinks.
Well, I say let him have that record.
And I mean, who better to have it?
Because no one likes the sound of their voice better than him or maybe Barack Obama.
Well, well said.
Stewart, North Carolina, we appreciate it, buddy.
Thank you.
You have a great weekend, all right?
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 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, because the idea that there are 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 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 the bottom line.
But the reason I'm calling, 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, the Democrats, 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 it.
I'd be fine with it.
You know what the battle cry would be.
You know, this is the irony with all that we've learned in the last two weeks.
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.
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?
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 22nd 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 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.
He would be awarded.
He wouldn't be elected.
Well, I don't know how you get away from the election part.
How do you pull that off?
Because of their corruption and what they did to him for his first term.
It's certainly a strong argument can be made.
I mean, they My interpretation of all the data is they tried, number one, they manufactured this phony Russia collusion story with Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for Russian disinformation dossier, and that was first designed to prevent him from winning.
This Republic can't survive 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 punishment as a result of what they did, they would never do it again.
That's the punishment would be Donald Trump gets another term.
That would be a punishment for them.
Their heads would turn like Glenda Blair on the exorcist, and they'd projectile vomit out that disgusting green puke drink that pea-looking drink, disgusting dark green puke drink that Linda drinks.
Just throw bags over our heads and go on our day.
All right.
We appreciate it.
You still drinking that crap, by the way.
I haven't seen you drinking anything.
I do.
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 two thin P-bone steaks and I had one organic turkey, lettuce wrap with a little bit of mayo and tomato 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 delish.
Listen, poor Uncle James.
There's no such thing as poor Uncle James.
That poor guy can't even have a pickle or an olive when you're having a bowl of onions.
I made him breakfast with me.
He's the only guy that gets a colonoscopy and goes up two pounds.
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 that.
He's not putting on muscle.
No, 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.
Oh, let him live a little.
Exactly.
Oh, let him.
Let him rock.
Yeah.
Okay.
What did Jason eat for lunch today?
What do you have for lunch?
14 ounce of raby.
Oh, you have it for lunch today?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
And french fries.
And by the way, for the record, I buy my entire team lunch every day.
Is he 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 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 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 this Cincinnati brawl.
And the worst part of all of this is your corrupt state-run legacy media mob, ABC, CBS, NBC.
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, NBC.
I thought they didn't like the insurrection.
Linda, they don't like insurrection, right?
No, I heard that they're firmly against it.
Okay, and then you've got this woman, Victoria Parks.
What is she on the city council?
We have Curry Cunningham on.
I think I do a pretty good 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.
Pretty good, bad.
He actually calls me the other day and he goes, Do I really sound like that?
And I go, yeah.
Anyway, 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 when 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 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?
The woman.
She's repulsive.
Yeah.
By the way, the woman who was beating Holly, she returned home to her.
She returned to her home in Russia.
I mean, 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 a freedom of speech.
And, you know, I am a drone that night when I wrote on the internet.
I meant to.
That's the way I felt.
And I'm not going to back down from it right now.
I'm not going to back down from it right now.
We're going to wait.
Maybe a month from now.
She's going to realize the brutal beating mob attack that nearly killed two people is something that shouldn't take place in a civil society.
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 was there.
She got blank.
No, she actually went over to try to help.
To help the other guy.
I know, but I'm saying like.
This guy was getting a crappy.
Did you.
Do 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 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 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, Pothole 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.
Let's say hi to Stephen in Connecticut.
What's up, Stephen?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Good to be on, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I just kind of wanted to address something that you touched on earlier in the week.
And then, of course, obviously with the burn bags and all the other 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 yeah, I'm addressing actually, interestingly enough, the leftist agenda, which is basically pretty historic and pretty common.
Their desire to basically lie at every turn and steal.
And in some places, obviously destroy this great nation of ours.
I can't believe they didn't burn the burn bags, and that's going to nail them all.
I really can't.
I'm really thankful.
I think it's a divine intervention, very similar to what was a year ago when our great president was nearly taken out.
So I think it's all their whole agenda is basically to kill, steal, and destroy and distort truth.
Yeah.
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 Newsome.
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.
So I spoke with you about a month ago.
I'm the gentleman that I shared my story with you.
I was the one gentleman who was living in my car for a while.
You offered to help me get my apartment and get into an apartment.
I do remember, and I know Katie worked it out for you.
How are you doing?
Because you have a young child, if I recall.
I do.
I do.
The level of gratitude and the level of appreciation that I have for you is indescribable.
I can't even express how grateful I am and how thankful I am for you just for offering that.
When we had that conversation and you, you know, you cut me off, which I am thankful for.
I don't really care, but like, you know, you, you, you interjected.
You were like, hey, well, I'm going to try and solve your problem.
Like, I was crying.
Like, you know, like, I could cry right now with just how grateful I am right now because you really did.
Well, let me remind people, and tell me if I'm off.
You have a job, right?
You work.
What is your job again?
I work for a garage door company, a nationwide garage door company out here in Sacramento.
Okay.
And about how much do you make an hour?
I make right now.
I'm about $22 an hour.
And you were living in your car to save money, but you had recently been through a divorce and you're never going to be able to see what you, if I recall, you have a son.
How old is your son?
He just turned three.
Okay.
And I said you have to have a place to bring your son.
Look.
Yeah.
Every child needs both parents in some capacity, unless, of course, for whatever reason is not possible.
Ideally, you need to be in this kid's life.
I'm not going to 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 what's going on.
But if you don't have a place to stay, there's no child services that's ever going to 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 making and are you getting other sources of income?
Absolutely.
I did enough research.
I found a solid apartment, one that I can afford safely.
And the complex actually, they gave me a little cut on the original rate that they were offering when the apartment was on the market.
They brought it down.
They brought the monthly rent down a little bit, increased the deposit.
So it made it a lot more feasible for me and a lot more reasonable for me to live on my own.
I make pretty decent money compared to a lot of other people that live.
And I mean, I'm blessed, absolutely blessed to be in the position that I am right now.
And it's just, you know, a good portion of that is to you, man.
I just, I cannot.
Listen, 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 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.
I've been there when I had no money in my early 20s and mid-20s.
I mean, all I did was work and I worked seven days a week.
I didn't have a kid at that time, so 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, I'm grateful that I could.
Thank you for your kind words, but it was a pleasure for me to do it.
And 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 going to conclude on this, man.
I just thank you.
Just simply thank 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 again, I mean, look, listen.
You're very, very welcome.
Here's my advice.
Sometime in your life, at some point in your life, there's going to 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, 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 is 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.
And that's a good story to end on a Friday, right, Linda?
Absolutely.
Linda wants what she's like in my ear.
When do I get my free apartment?
Yeah, I don't really believe in free.
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, 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, I come from a very poor background.
We never took government assistance.
We worked, all of us, 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.
I've got one job.
Two jobs, three jobs, four jobs.
Yeah, it would 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, you're hardcore, ma'am.
I'm from it.
That's a hardcore.
Just because somebody didn't help you doesn't mean that, you know, it wouldn't have been a good thing if they did.
Listen, everybody's in touch with their opinion.
You asked me for mine.
I'm just saying, it's a little hard, a little, 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 asked.
I will talk to them.
I will give them food.
And in New York City, I have given food to many homeless people.
I've 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 bad 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 it was.
And then I realized the odds are probably against me that they probably will.
But I walk away.
At least I tried.
And then I talk to them about getting their life together.
And sometimes I'll spend a lot of time with them.
I was doing this in front of a 7-Eleven recently, and a guy recognized me.
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've had people help me in my life.
I'm very grateful.
And God's blessed me beyond what I deserve.
All right, 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.
And we're going to play that for you.
Also, Devin Nunes, Jason Chaffetz, Miranda Devine, Tommy Laron, Jimmy Phela, and the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Is he within reach?
9 Eastern tonight.
Hannity, we'll see you then back here on Monday.
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