In this gripping episode, Sean Hannity welcomes renowned author and commentator Bill O'Reilly to discuss his latest bestselling book, "Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst." O'Reilly shares his perspective on the persistence of evil in society, illustrated by real-life incidents that highlight the consequences of political decisions. The duo dives into the implications of the Trump doctrine on national security and the political landscape, touching on recent controversies within New York's criminal justice system and the impact on innocent citizens. Join them for a thought-provoking conversation that challenges listeners to reflect on the moral choices facing America today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All right, Leonard Skinny, simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly.
Of course, you can find it at billo'reilly.com.
And by the way, his latest best-selling book, Confronting Evil, assessing the worst of the worst, number one New York Times bestseller.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I need advice, Sanity.
I have to market confronting evil for Christmas.
And I can't say put evil under the tree.
That's actually quite a quandary, a dilemma, if you will, that you're facing.
You know what?
No, it's a look.
I read that book cover to cover.
And when I had you on about the book, we went into, I think we did the whole hour, and we went into great detail and specificity.
It annoys the living hell out of me that people do not understand that evil exists.
Years ago, I wrote a book very different from what you wrote, Deliver Us from Evil and Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism.
And everyone got all worked up because I said, well, you're talking about calling liberals evil.
No, I'm saying if you don't win the political battle and elect people with moral clarity, then that enables the rise of evil.
Let me give you an example, and then I'll hand it off to you.
It's to me, if you look at the Trump doctrine, and I was talking about this with Marco Rubio last night, I'm sure you are watching.
And I got into the Trump doctrine because I define it this way.
No forever wars.
I agree with him.
We can't do what we did in Iraq ever again and have our national treasure going door to door, stepping over IEDs and not having up-armored Humvee vehicles.
Modern weaponry and technology is changing all that.
And I believe future wars will be fought from air-conditioned offices.
Okay, so but that doesn't mean isolationism.
And there's a certain faction of the MAGA movement that misinterprets the Trump doctrine.
Example, he took out Soleimani, the world's worst terrorist.
Example, he took out Baghdadi and his associates, some of the world's worst terrorists.
Evil does exist.
And there are some people that maybe forgot 9-11, don't understand how bad October 7th was, don't understand that Israel has for decades been taking incoming missiles.
I don't know.
You do understand it, though.
That part I do know.
Well, you can localize it.
And I'm going to give you a very vivid, short example here, and then we can get into the larger discussion of why the Democratic Party and the left is opposing President Trump on trying to mitigate evil.
There is a reason they're doing it.
So Bryan Park in New York is a place around 42nd Street where they have very nice Christmas decorations, and you can go there and buy trinkets.
So there's a six-year-old boy on Saturday with his grandfather, and they're just taking in the Christmas sights.
And a guy comes up to the six-year-old boy and punches the kid in the face.
This man had been arrested 12 times.
The last time his case actually went to trial, which is stunning in Manhattan because Alvin Bragg, recently re-elected, doesn't prosecute assaults very often.
In the court proceeding, the judge threw the case out because the man, 46 years old, was incapable of standing trial, according to the judge.
That means he's insane.
Instead of keeping that man in confinement in some kind of mental health facility, state of New York let him out on the street, despite that happening.
That is an evil act.
And now this little boy, six years old, will have to live with that assault the rest of his life.
And you cannot get the attention of elected officials in New York City and state to deal with this problem.
That is evil.
And the voters turn away from that evil.
They continue to elect people like this.
And I can't make it any more stark than that.
Well, the cover of the New York Post, and you know I'm in the nation's capital today, and I've been spending a lot of time communicating with 24-year-old Andrew Wolf's mother.
Bill, you would love her.
She's a sweetheart.
She's a very devout, religious woman.
She's asking me to ask this audience, and I've asked many times for everyone to pray for her son who's been clinging to life.
They did get some good news yesterday, thank God.
And we don't know, you know, whether or not the extent of his injuries are going to really impede his future life.
I'm hoping he makes it, first of all.
And then Sarah Beckstrom, 20 years old.
She's dead.
National Guard's person killed while protecting the nation's capital, where because of the guard, homicides are down 70%.
And the front cover of, I think, the best paper in New York, the New York Post, yesterday, Bill, had a headline, hand them over.
And it goes through the specifics of nearly 7,000 known illegal criminals that they released, including pedophiles, violent criminals, rapists, you name it, Bill.
And that Tish James and company refused to hand over to ICE and allowed these people, including a pedophile, time-served probation back out on the streets.
Now, I've been telling you forever, get the hell out of there, and you don't listen to me.
Maybe you don't think I'm very smart, but I'm very happy in my free state of Florida.
Well, I'm in Nassau County, so it's a whole different, as you know, situation here.
They're actually putting up a barrier between Queens and Nassau County to stop the intrusion.
But you're making the same point I'm making, that if voters in America, no matter where you live, continue to put people into office who are going to allow evil to prosper, not just exist, but to prosper, they give evil opportunities to help, to hurt, I should say, individuals.
And yet the people continue to cast ballots for them.
There's no excuse for that, in my opinion.
I'm a judgmental guy, and I'm in D.C. too today.
And I'm, you know, lobbying Kate's law, trying to get that passed.
And I hope you have.
By the way, I fully support your effort on that.
Yeah, early of next year, it should be put up on the floor of the House and the Senate.
And it'll get passed.
But, you know, you cannot allow foreign nationals to defy deportation and commit crimes, and then you deport them, and they come back.
You've got to isolate them.
Can I disagree with you on your assessment of New York?
And I am a huge fan of Bruce Blakeman.
And Bruce Blakeman runs Nassau County.
I'm a fan of the elected officials in Suffolk County, Westchester, upstate New York, are very different than New York City.
But you have such a densely populated area of radical leftists.
They're the ones that elected Mamdani.
Here's my premise.
And we talked about it a little bit in the last hour.
Kathy Hokkel is governor of name only.
Kathy Hochul gave her endorsement to Momdani, expecting Mamdani would endorse her re-election.
He didn't do it.
Kathy Hokkel is now scared to death of Zoron Kami Marxist Mamdani.
And Kathy Hokul is going to do everything Mamdani says.
And she even said yesterday she doesn't rule out raising business taxes.
That would be the whole state.
There's nothing that Bruce Blakeman can do in Nassau County if she does that.
And she said there's a lot of common ground with Mamdani and universal child care, all the money for free buses.
Everybody's going to get hurt in New York because he will be the real governor.
She will be governor name only because that's her only path to staying in power.
Tell me where I'm wrong.
She's going to lose next November.
To who, Bill?
Stathana's going to beat her.
I'll take the bet.
Listen, there would be nothing in the world that makes me happier than to pay money to any charity of your choice.
Okay.
Okay.
It's not going to.
And let me tell you one thing that Kathy Hochul is also afraid of.
Mamdani, I could see him challenging her for the nomination.
How far-fetched is that, Bill?
Not next year.
She's already primarily by the lieutenant governor who is Mandani's soulmate.
And it's possible that lieutenant governor could beat her, but it doesn't matter because the people of New York, I believe, and I could be wrong, of course, have had enough.
And you've seen it.
You can see most of the counties now turning red in New York.
And they've had it.
And it's going to get worse in the next 11 months.
Mandani is going to take over in a month.
All right.
And if I am correct, and you are correct, you're going to see mayhem in the streets that is going to be so horrific that no one's going to be able to turn away from it.
And that's what I believe is going to happen.
All right.
Quick break more with All Things Simple Man, Bill O'Reilly, All ThingsO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
As we continue from our nation's capital, it's the Sean Hannity Show.
All right, we continue now with All Things Simple Man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, All Things O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
You know, there's certain things in life that just infuriate me.
And when we lose good people, innocent people, for example, I mentioned these two National Guards people that were shot.
And I hear the agony in this mother's voice when I talk to her and when I'm texting with her.
I mean, we both have children, Bill, and I know you refer to yours affectionately as urchins, but also you love your children.
And if this happened to one of your kids, if this happened to one of my kids, I don't know if I'd ever recover.
I don't know how these families that lose children get through it.
And I've talked to many of them, as you have, in the course of your career.
Well, our responsibility as Americans, and if you're Christian, then that even makes it more intense.
Our responsibility is to look out for other people.
It's as simple as that.
And the communal nature of a democracy is that we don't allow other people to get hurt if we can stop it.
So you couldn't stop this National Guard thing because the guy was a terrorist, is a terrorist.
And he's going to, I believe, I think they're going to execute him.
But there's nobody who could stop that.
That's individual evil.
You can't stop Putin.
Why put him on a cover confronting evil?
They'll negotiate a fair deal in Ukraine and Putin will go, blank you.
I like the war.
I want to continue the war.
And unless the Russian people overthrow him, he's going to continue the war.
But what you can do is stop the madness by electing people, voting for people.
And they've done that in Florida.
Absolutely.
I know Florida as well as anybody.
I worked down there twice in my life.
Oh, you know it well because every time you come down, I have to take you to either breakfast or lunch and I pay for it.
Yeah, and I know the most expensive places.
By the way, you do.
It was pretty funny the last time Bill and I go into this.
By the way, it's like the fancy diner.
I go to the city diner in West Palm occasionally.
Love the place.
And, you know, it's more working folks like us.
And anyway, you take me to this upscale diner and like, you know, they're putting like all these green parsley little things that you have to push off to the side before you can get to your eggs and your, you know, sausage and bacon.
Yeah.
And you're, and you're eating oatmeal.
Who the hell eats oatmeal?
Irish oatmeal.
That's why I'm so healthy.
Henny, you know, you're younger than I am, but when you get to be my age, if you look like me, you look like me at my age.
If you get there, you get there.
If I get there, thanks a lot, Bill.
Well, you never know.
Listen, we're all on God's time.
Let's be real.
That's right.
That's right.
But you know how old I am.
So the Irish Oatmeal's working.
All right.
All things simple, man.
Bill O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Listen, think about December, all the hustle, bustle, errands, travel.
This next segment, I am really looking forward to it.
And I'm going to tell you why.
So over the years, if I start talking about all the jobs I did in my life to my kids, they roll their eyes.
I know, Dad, you were a paper boy.
You were a dishwasher.
You were a cook.
You were a busboy.
You were a waiter.
You were a bartender.
You were a house painter.
You hung wallpaper.
You laid tile.
You did roofing.
You fell off a roof.
Three stories hit the ground, frozen ground in Rhode Island and woke up a conservative.
Broke and dislocated my arm.
All of that.
And it infuriates me that there have been people in the fake news media that have challenged the veracity of my statements.
I don't lie.
That's not what I do.
It's not who I am.
We had this situation where I told the story that after I broke my arm and fell off a roof and dislocated my elbow and broke the radial head.
I was living paycheck to paycheck.
I didn't have any money.
And a friend of mine got me a job at Blount Marine in Warren, Rhode Island, and we told you that whole story.
And sure enough, Linda, because people were questioning whether I was telling the truth.
And she called over there.
They said, huh?
Sean Hannity, Fox News, worked here?
They didn't remember.
I didn't work there very long, but I worked there for a while.
And lo and behold, those records existed.
Okay.
Now I'm going to prove to you critics out there that, yeah, I was 12 years old.
Yeah, I did wash dishes.
Yeah, it was one Thanksgiving.
The chef, Hans, quit, and the guy I'm about to introduce you to threw an apron at me and said, you're in.
And I was about to be, I was 13 years old, about to be 14.
And the restaurant was the Norwood Inn.
It was in West Hempstead, New York.
And his name is Don DeZondber is his name.
And him and another guy own the restaurant.
And he's best friends with another friend of mine, Captain Howie, who will tell you every story about how I can't drive a boat to save my life.
Guys, welcome to the program.
Glad to have you.
Captain Howie, how are you?
Welcome aboard on this boat.
Very good, Sean.
Good to talk to you again.
You know, yeah, you want to go way back to when you started last year.
Well, first of all, I want everyone to know you're a hero.
He was on the NYPD, and he was on a job, and somebody threw acid in his face, ended up becoming blind in one eye, and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your life.
And he recently got honored for his service and recognized for his service.
So you're a real hero.
And just like every law enforcement officer, we don't put you guys on a pedestal enough.
So I want people to know that about you.
Thanks, Sean.
I appreciate you saying that.
Yeah, I never regretted one thing.
If I ever had to do it over again, I guess maybe I would say I would duck, you know.
But other than that, everything turned out fine.
Well, I mean, you know, you went through the rest of your life.
I mean, you had life long injuries as a result.
Don, welcome back to you.
Now, I had a chance to talk to you before.
Is it true that when you own the Norwood Inn, that I was your dishwasher every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night?
And I was 12 years old.
Absolutely true, Sean.
Absolutely.
Yes.
All right.
Is it true?
Do you remember the chef Hans who quit on Thanksgiving Day?
Hans actually called in sick that day, and you were there.
You and I were working in the kitchen.
We were doing prep work, and Hans called, and in his German accent, he said, boss, I am feeling very sick today, and I won't be in.
So I had three turkeys in the oven while the food was going on.
You were washing dishes, and I turned around, I threw an apron at you, and I said, Sean, you're the assistant chef today.
And from that point on, you became a true daughter cook after that period of time.
Listen, you taught me how to cook everything.
I don't know if you remember, but I learned how to cook shrimp scampy from you.
I learned how to, you know, do stuffed lobster.
I learned that we'd have live lobsters.
I'd cut them open, rip out that sack, and you taught me how to cook them.
Steaks and burgers and a bar menu.
The food was phenomenal and a bunch of other dishes.
And to this day, Don, cooking is a passion of mine.
I cook for everybody all the time.
I never want anyone to cook for me.
Well, you did a great job, Sean.
You know, you learned well, and I'm glad you were there.
You know, and you guys, you and your friend Eric Balthings, who I work with now at Huntington Harbor Control.
It was Eric.
It was actually John, his older brother at the time.
And then I think Eric went to work later.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I know you guys were hitting those St. Paulie girls after the shift, but that's okay.
You turned out to be a great guy.
You know, and this is a great story because it was a very different time.
People wouldn't understand it in this day and age.
But we finished our shift maybe like two o'clock in the morning, whenever.
And by the way, you didn't have a dishwasher machine.
I had to scrub those pots and pans.
I'll never forget.
I'd always come in early on Fridays because you guys didn't clean a thing from the entire week.
And I had to clean the entire week's worth of stuff before the rush came that night.
And Fridays were brutal for me.
Well, that made it tough.
That's why you're doing so well.
Okay.
It made me tough.
I remember how much you paid me.
Do you have any idea what you paid me an hour?
I have no idea.
Well, I think it was minimum wage at the time.
It was $2.35 an hour.
Well, it deserved more.
No, honestly, I didn't.
I mean, I was so happy to have that job.
And you guys were so cool to us.
At the end of the night, you know, we'd have one or two St. Paulie girls fly home on our bicycles.
I loved it.
I honestly loved that job.
You know what a sad day in my life was?
Is you sat us down and said, you're changing the restaurant into a club called Bojangles.
You remember that?
Yeah, I know.
The last mistake.
Yes, I remember.
Well, did it end up being a mistake?
Because I think it stayed on.
It was open for a lot of years.
Am I wrong?
No, it stayed on for about a year, but, you know, the restaurant business is tough.
Location, location, location.
So if we would have been on Hempstead Turnpike instead of Hempstead Avenue, might have been a different story.
But, you know, what can I say, Hunt State 2020?
You know, but that's the thing.
And, you know, we all talk about this.
People don't know that the margins in terms of food are so slim.
And most restaurants make their money with selling alcohol.
And Captain Howie, you know, there's nothing more fun than hanging out on his yacht.
He's got this massive boat of his.
We call him Captain Howie because he would teach people how to drive boats.
I was probably your worst student, right?
Well, yeah, I guess so.
Well, you know, I all the time that says, Sean, listen, this is not your station wagon that you're trying to drive.
You know, this is a boat.
So once I got that across to you, you started coming across pretty well until the time came to say, I had enough of this.
Let's go to lunch.
No, do you remember?
So I had twin outboards in this boat that I bought.
I bought a Boston Whaler.
I had twin outboards.
Yeah.
Okay.
The slips to park your boat, I guess dock your boat would be the appropriate term, were so tiny.
You had like an inch on each side if you were between two boats.
And, you know, people on the dock would see me coming in and knew that I was about to dock the boat.
They're like, oh, boy, all hands on deck.
Like the whole dock knew that a crash was about to occur.
So they would come to assist.
And then if they saw you there and I wasn't by myself, they all felt better because they knew that you would handle it.
But I don't know if you remember, I kind of crashed into a couple of boats that were neighboring next to mine.
I blame them for it because it's not my fault.
They didn't give me enough room on either side.
It's not your fault that they even put their boats next to you.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, it was more like entertainment.
Hey, guess who's coming up?
Hannity's coming with the boat.
They spread the word around and he all came down to watch the show.
You'd hear the foghorn.
It would be, in comes Hannity.
It was unbelievable.
It came over the loudspeaker.
Hannity's coming and everybody ran down to the dock to watch this show.
So you did good.
All right.
Just have a remember, Sean.
I just hated it.
It was too stressful for me because I knew I couldn't do it well.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with my friends Captain Howie and the guy that hired me to be a dishwasher when I was 12.
Don DeZomber is with us.
And I know for you critics out there that don't believe me, too bad.
There you go.
There's your proof.
We'll continue.
Up next, an information overload.
All right, we continue now.
My dear friend, Captain Howie.
And, you know, I keep telling everyone, yeah, I was washing dishes every Friday, Saturday, Sunday night at the Norwood Inn.
And Don DeZomber was my boss, and he's with us to confirm that I'm not a liar, as some of you have accused.
Don, did you get out of the restaurant business for good after that?
What did you do next?
Yes.
While I was in the restaurant business, I worked in IT and I held various positions for different companies.
Sabara, one of them, I was vice president of information technology.
And then another company after that.
But, you know, the corporate world is cruel.
And I became a peace officer in the early 2010, 2012 area.
I was the oldest guy in the police academy.
So I became a peace officer.
I was a court officer.
And then I'm currently working with the Huntington Maritime Division.
That's where Eric Faulting's, he's like one of the top guys there, right?
Yeah, as a hobble.
No, I'm not the top guy.
I'm the oldest guy there right now.
I'm working with Fultons right now.
He's one of my partners.
We've been on patrol a number of times.
They had a great family.
And honestly, they were so nice to me growing up, too.
I'm very grateful.
I don't think you know, and I'll tell you the impact that job had on me in my life.
Because then after you, you know, changed, you kind of changed formats in a sense.
You changed the business.
And I remember when you sat us down and you said, yeah, we might be able to use you here and there.
But I actually, for a while, I think I cleaned Bojangles like the morning after the night before.
But it just wasn't enough hours.
And I went to work at a place called the Merry Peddler in Floral Park.
And that's when at 17, they taught me how to be a bartender.
First, I was a busboy, and I think I waited tables for a while, but I really loved Tendon Bar.
And then I worked at Salisbury on the Green at the time at Eisenhower Park.
They since changed the name.
And I used to do five weddings a weekend tending bar.
I made a fortune.
All my friends couldn't understand why I always had a wad of cash in my pocket.
And it's because I worked.
And I loved it.
And I think my parents liked it too because they knew that I was doing something productive.
I don't know if you know that had a big impact on my life.
Yeah, your parents were in law enforcement also, right?
Yeah, my mom worked at Nassau County.
She was a prison guard.
My dad was in family court probation.
He also waited tables on weekends.
If you remember the name Carl Hoppel, he worked for him for a while.
But, you know, how did you one day figure out it was me?
You know, I guess maybe you saw me on Fox or talked to Captain Howie.
I mean, I mean, how did you, I was surprised you even remember me.
Well, I heard one of your news forecast, you know, your news releases on TV, and you mentioned it all within.
And I go, God, that's it.
And I talked to Captain Howie, and he goes, yeah, he confirmed it.
And I says, yeah, this guy worked for me.
You know, so when I meet people now and they go, you know, what'd you do in your life?
Just that, and the other thing, I got to tell you one thing I'm very proud to announce that I knew Sean Hannibal.
He worked in my restaurant.
Because, man, you turned out to be a great guy.
Well, you know what?
Working is probably the best thing kids can do.
And working for minimum wage, that's why I don't like this, you know, let's raise the minimum wage to $400 an hour.
Nobody's going to be able to afford a hamburger or a meal.
It's insane.
But both of you guys played a very big impact in my life, had a very big impact in my life.
