Sean Hannity Show - Freedom Is Back: Trump, the Courts, and America’s Political Reckoning
Aired: 2026-03-14
Duration: 32:26


=== Wealthy Tax Evasion Tactics (07:44) ===

[00:00:00]  This is an iHeart podcast.
[00:00:02]  Guaranteed human.
[00:00:04]  To all of you for being with us, write down our toll-free telephone number this Friday.
[00:00:08]  It's 800-941 Sean.
[00:00:11]  If you want to join us, I'm in the mood to take calls today.
[00:00:14]  We're going to take calls.
[00:00:15]  And you and I are going to have a big fight later in the program today because I'm a little tired.
[00:00:20]  You sound like a liberal, you know, because you keep making excuses because after years and years of trying to give up cursing for Lent, and yeah, I think your record is under an hour because you're acting like a liberal saying, I have no control over my behavior.
[00:00:37]  Therefore, I'm just going to give up and stop trying.
[00:00:40]  I think that is the antithesis of what it means to be an independent, self-reliant conservative that is in control of themselves.
[00:00:51]  Well, Sean, happy Friday.
[00:00:53]  Happy Friday.
[00:00:55]  By the way, for those people I left behind in New York City, I've got some very, very bad news for you today.
[00:01:03]  Now, on top of the fact, let's be honest, the mayor lied about the snowball fight when it was an ambush of police officers.
[00:01:11]  Never mind the fact that Mamdani's wife, after October 7th, you know, where they killed what would be the equivalent of 40,000 Americans based on their small population size versus ours in a day, murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, beheading.
[00:01:30]  Oh, she liked over 70 posts.
[00:01:32]  And Mamdani basically says, oh, it's none of your business.
[00:01:34]  I'm like, oh, really?
[00:01:36]  I thought that would be a big deal if the first lady of New York City took such an extreme position.
[00:01:42]  It's absolutely insane.
[00:01:45]  And then, of course, you got Zoran Marxist Kami Mamdani and all the radicals he's put around them and, you know, the culture of whiteness and taxing white people more and on and on and on.
[00:01:57]  And we've chronicled all of that.
[00:01:59]  Then Mahmoud Khalil, the guy that he invited to Gracie Mansion, not the hero officer.
[00:02:06]  By the way, the hero officer's wife had the best light ever.
[00:02:10]  He sees the picture of her husband moving towards the guys that are launching IEDs, the terrorists by Gracie Mansion, although not attacking Gracie Mansion.
[00:02:21]  And she says, what's wrong with this picture?
[00:02:24]  Wrong direction.
[00:02:26]  You're moving in the wrong direction.
[00:02:28]  His wife's saying, what the hell are you doing?
[00:02:31]  Because he's moving into harm's way and danger.
[00:02:34]  I don't think he ever got an invite to Gracie Mansion.
[00:02:37]  Probably never will because of the defund, dismantle, reimagine the police idiocy that is in New York City, which is just one of many more reasons to move to the free state of Florida.
[00:02:48]  By the way, I'm getting some neighbors down in Florida.
[00:02:51]  Mark Zuckerberg is moving down there.
[00:02:54]  Larry Page and one other Google co-founder is moving down there.
[00:02:58]  Oh, the former CEO of Starbucks is moving down there.
[00:03:03]  He's leaving Seattle because Seattle is about to embrace a wealth tax in that state.
[00:03:09]  All right.
[00:03:10]  Now, I want you to follow my math here because this is a true story.
[00:03:14]  It is on Bloomberg.com.
[00:03:17]  It has to do with Marxist Kami Mamdani.
[00:03:21]  And the mayor wants to slash New York State's estate tax exemption threshold from a more than $7 million limit.
[00:03:35]  In other words, the first $7 million, you pay taxes on this money your whole life.
[00:03:40]  You have to give 40% of that money.
[00:03:43]  Although I think there's a federal exemption.
[00:03:45]  I don't know what the federal exemption is off the top of my head.
[00:03:48]  I'm not thinking about dying, and I have estate planners to do all that crap for me because I can't be bothered to read through it.
[00:03:56]  But they know their stuff, and I have confidence in them.
[00:04:00]  And I've told this story many times before.
[00:04:03]  I used to meet once a year with my accountants, my financial people, and they always would come to New York and we'd meet, and I hated it.
[00:04:11]  Not that I didn't like them.
[00:04:12]  I just hated talking about estates and planning and trusts and wills and insurance and this and that.
[00:04:21]  And it just, but then they would always add, whatever you do, don't die in New York, whatever you do.
[00:04:29]  I'm like, why?
[00:04:31]  And they got a 10% estate tax.
[00:04:33]  Now, federally, there's a 40% estate tax.
[00:04:37]  I'm not sure.
[00:04:38]  Did Trump lower that in the one big, beautiful bill?
[00:04:40]  I don't think he did, actually.
[00:04:43]  Now, there are ways around that that I know wealthy people take.
[00:04:47]  I just don't know all the ins and outs of it.
[00:04:48]  But just follow the math here.
[00:04:50]  So you pay taxes your whole life, federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes on income.
[00:04:57]  You pay your taxes, pay your property tax, pay your sales tax, pay, And most people pay more than half their income in taxes.
[00:05:07]  That's why I'd be a big proponent of the idea that there's no more withholding of taxes in your paycheck every week.
[00:05:16]  By the way, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, they think this guy is incapable of moving, the new Supreme Leader, and may be paralyzed.
[00:05:28]  That's interesting intel.
[00:05:30]  But anyway, so you work your whole life, you pay all your taxes, and then you die.
[00:05:35]  In America, you got to pay to die if you meet the threshold.
[00:05:41]  So in the state of New York, I'm not sure what the number is, but you have to pay 10% of your estate to the state of New York.
[00:05:49]  Like in my free state of Florida, there's zero estate tax.
[00:05:52]  In other words, I already paid my taxes.
[00:05:55]  What does that mean?
[00:05:56]  Well, maybe you want to give your money to a charity.
[00:05:59]  Maybe you want to give your money to family members.
[00:06:02]  Maybe you want to give it to friends.
[00:06:04]  Maybe you want to give your money.
[00:06:05]  It's your money at that point.
[00:06:07]  You already paid all your taxes on that money.
[00:06:09]  Why should they get another bite of the apple when you die?
[00:06:13]  Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
[00:06:15]  We did.
[00:06:16]  Now, God forbid, the rich leave.
[00:06:19]  The rich are leaving.
[00:06:21]  They're leaving California.
[00:06:22]  They're leaving New York.
[00:06:23]  They're leaving New Jersey.
[00:06:25]  They're leaving Illinois.
[00:06:26]  They're leaving in droves.
[00:06:28]  Now, think of this.
[00:06:29]  So the federal estate tax is 40%.
[00:06:33]  The New York state estate tax is 10%.
[00:06:37]  Follow the math with me here.
[00:06:39]  Now, you're only going to get a write-off of $750,000 that you won't have to pay the tax on if you are a New York City resident.
[00:06:49]  It used to be more than $7 million.
[00:06:52]  All right.
[00:06:52]  So that's money that you work hard.
[00:06:54]  You know, like one of the reasons that I like to save money is, I don't know, I'd like to give my children something.
[00:07:02]  I don't want them to be trust fund brats for sure.
[00:07:05]  It's going to be very, very, by the way, I am going to have tentacles from the grave when it comes to my children in so many different ways.
[00:07:15]  And as much as I just, they have to work, they have to produce.
[00:07:19]  You can put anything you want in your will.
[00:07:22]  And you can put conditions on the ability of people that you give money to.
[00:07:28]  And, you know, they have to be well-behaved, whatever your conditions are.
[00:07:33]  But, you know, and only then limit how much money you would give them.
[00:07:37]  And then this, I've always said to my kids, you've got to, you've got to give back to others.
[00:07:42]  You're not, you're not royalty.

=== Conditions on Your Will (10:57) ===

[00:07:44]  You're not meant to be served.
[00:07:45]  And I've gone through the example often on this program, and I go through it with my kids.
[00:07:49]  You go to a restaurant.
[00:07:50]  What happens?
[00:07:51]  You get met with some nice lady or some guy that hands you a menu and says, I'll take you to the table.
[00:07:57]  And they escort you to the table.
[00:07:58]  And they often pull out the chair and they get you seated.
[00:08:01]  Then somebody walks over and fills up your water glass.
[00:08:04]  And oh, thank you for the water.
[00:08:05]  Would you like sparkling or still?
[00:08:07]  Okay, I'll take still water, please.
[00:08:10]  You out Isinoy.
[00:08:11]  They get your ice for you.
[00:08:13]  And then some other guy's going to come over.
[00:08:15]  Maybe he'll bring some bread that they have and bread and butter or bread and you know, olive oil, whatever they happen to have.
[00:08:21]  Okay, and then you, you know, then somebody else comes over and they take a drink order.
[00:08:26]  And then they go to a bartender and the bartender makes you the drink.
[00:08:29]  And then they take an appetizer order.
[00:08:32]  And, you know, and then they bring that order into the kitchen and the cook starts cooking your appetizers.
[00:08:39]  And then somebody brings you the appetizers and they bring you the drinks and they're serving you the whole time.
[00:08:44]  And then they take your entree order.
[00:08:47]  And, you know, but after you finish your appetizer, somebody comes and takes away your filthy, dirty plate and they bring it to a dishwasher who then cleans your dishes and cleans your knives and forks and cleans up whatever mess you made.
[00:09:00]  And then they will take your order for your entree and then they bring the entree to the table and the process goes all through again.
[00:09:08]  Then you eat your food.
[00:09:09]  Would you like to take that home with you?
[00:09:11]  Yes, would you mind boxing this up for me?
[00:09:13]  I want a doggy bag, if I was going to quote Linda, and bring it home to the dog.
[00:09:18]  Although I didn't get the right dog because I didn't get a shelter dog.
[00:09:21]  My dog is coming soon, and I happen to like my dog.
[00:09:27]  And we'll talk more about when you see my, when everyone sees my dog, they're going to go, of course he got that dog.
[00:09:32]  The dog is, you can't not be in love with that dog.
[00:09:35]  Dog is, you've seen the pictures, right?
[00:09:38]  Ethan, have you seen them?
[00:09:40]  Talk in my ear.
[00:09:40]  Yeah, I can't hear you.
[00:09:41]  Yes, I've seen your dog.
[00:09:42]  Everybody's seen your dog.
[00:09:44]  It's the best dog in the world.
[00:09:45]  It's huge.
[00:09:46]  It's beautiful.
[00:09:47]  Everybody loves it.
[00:09:48]  God, they're going to.
[00:09:49]  I'm going to introduce this dog to the dog.
[00:09:51]  You know what you should do is you should introduce the dog to Trump and have Trump describe the dog and we'll make it into a radio line.
[00:09:57]  Well, I'll tell you a story.
[00:09:59]  I did offer to buy the president a dog when he got to the White House.
[00:10:04]  Didn't go over well.
[00:10:05]  He did not like the idea.
[00:10:07]  He's a gerbophobe.
[00:10:09]  He would never.
[00:10:10]  Oh, I mean, I let dogs kiss me.
[00:10:12]  I mean, I lay on me.
[00:10:15]  I don't care at all.
[00:10:16]  I mean, if people want to make fun of me, I don't care.
[00:10:17]  I love dogs.
[00:10:18]  Nope.
[00:10:18]  Love them.
[00:10:19]  Absolutely.
[00:10:20]  All right.
[00:10:20]  So follow the numbers with me.
[00:10:22]  Now, after $750,000 that you might have saved in the course of your life, every other penny you made that you paid taxes on, now Marxist Kami Mamdani wants the top estate tax to go to 50%.
[00:10:39]  So the federal tax is 40%.
[00:10:42]  The state tax is 10%.
[00:10:45]  Mamdani's city tax is going to be 50%.
[00:10:50]  Now, I don't know, Linda.
[00:10:52]  I don't have a calculator.
[00:10:54]  How much of your money then is going to go the government take when you drop dead?
[00:11:04]  You're talking about the 40%?
[00:11:06]  Oh, good grief.
[00:11:07]  Do you listen to the show?
[00:11:08]  Do you ever listen to the show?
[00:11:09]  I have to be honest.
[00:11:10]  I was looking up pictures of your dog.
[00:11:12]  I think there needs to be a little bit of context here for the rest of the nation.
[00:11:15]  Also, the average price of a home.
[00:11:17]  So if you're a homeowner in New York City or in the suburbs, Nassau County, that's part of your estate.
[00:11:23]  That's part of your estate.
[00:11:24]  The average price of a home in Suffolk County is about $780,000.
[00:11:29]  The average price in Nassau is $800 and something.
[00:11:31]  That means I pay you very well because you own your own home.
[00:11:36]  But in the city, you're talking about a million dollars.
[00:11:38]  So if you are a homeowner in the tri-state area in New York City, you're getting a death tax of 50%.
[00:11:46]  50%.
[00:11:47]  You get a state tax of 10%.
[00:11:50]  You get a federal tax of 40%.
[00:11:53]  Add that up.
[00:11:54]  How much of your money do you get to pass on to whatever you want to pass it on to?
[00:11:59]  Money you've already been taxed on?
[00:12:01]  Nothing.
[00:12:02]  Nothing.
[00:12:03]  They take it all.
[00:12:05]  That is Marxism, communism, redistributionism.
[00:12:10]  This is radicalism.
[00:12:12]  This is what we have been warning you about.
[00:12:16]  And guess what?
[00:12:17]  You have an entire Democratic Party that thinks the way this lunatic thinks.
[00:12:24]  Never mind his extremism inviting Khalil Muhammad.
[00:12:28]  Never mind the wife.
[00:12:29]  Don't pay attention to my wife, says she's not a public figure.
[00:12:32]  Liking 70 posts, you know, that were happy about October 7th when people, innocent people were murdered and kidnapped and raped and tortured.
[00:12:43]  And some were beheaded.
[00:12:45]  Some were beheaded.
[00:12:47]  But no, that's not a big issue.
[00:12:49]  And an ambush of police are just a bunch of kids having snowball fights.
[00:12:53]  And those cops, I guess they just got in the way when they were called to the scene and then ambushed and not only hit with snowballs, but snowballs packed with ice, which is why a couple of the cops got facial lacerations.
[00:13:06]  You know what a facial laceration means?
[00:13:09]  It means in all likelihood after they stitch you up, the odds of you not having a permanent scar are probably relatively low.
[00:13:18]  And you probably will need multiple facial surgeries to get that back to normal.
[00:13:22]  That's what that means, if it's even possible.
[00:13:26]  Now, Democrats, they voted for the largest tax increase in the history of our country.
[00:13:32]  The largest.
[00:13:34]  And Republicans voted for the largest tax cut in the history of the country.
[00:13:40]  No tax on tips.
[00:13:42]  Overtime.
[00:13:44]  Now, yeah, it's up to a certain amount, but I think it's $12,000, whatever the number is.
[00:13:50]  That's a lot of money you're going to put in your pocket if you're a waiter or a service worker.
[00:13:54]  I know I used to be one.
[00:13:56]  Not like you're making hundreds of thousands of dollars in that industry anyway.
[00:14:00]  And, you know, in Social Security, same thing.
[00:14:03]  No taxes there either.
[00:14:05]  Democrats voted against working men and women, voted for the largest tax increase in history.
[00:14:11]  They voted against the elderly.
[00:14:13]  And they're going to lecture us that they're the party of compassion?
[00:14:16]  No, thank you.
[00:14:17]  That party has been radicalized.
[00:14:20]  Oh, we don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
[00:14:23]  We want open borders.
[00:14:24]  We want amnesty.
[00:14:25]  We want sanctuary cities and states.
[00:14:28]  We don't want to deport these people.
[00:14:30]  We're going to tell you and lie to you that, oh, no, the borders are closed and secure.
[00:14:34]  Known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, cartel members, gang members, other violent criminals, drug dealers all out into the country.
[00:14:42]  Now, you tell me, is that the party you want to vote for?
[00:14:46]  Because that's what's at stake in the next election, but I'm not ready to go there yet.
[00:14:51]  All right, we've got a lot of updates from the I just can't believe this guy at Old Dominion had been convicted and spent seven years in prison for ISIS-related activity.
[00:15:05]  Why would we ever, ever let this guy out again?
[00:15:10]  What is wrong with this country?
[00:15:12]  Been warning forever.
[00:15:14]  Not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
[00:15:16]  But I pray to God that I'm wrong.
[00:15:18]  I'm telling you, it is so insane.
[00:15:22]  And you know who you can thank?
[00:15:24]  The radical left for this madness.
[00:15:27]  Everything is coming into full focus, the biggest choice midterm in our lifetime.
[00:15:33]  ahead.
[00:15:33]  When fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth.
[00:16:03]  Sean Hannity is on right now.
[00:16:09]  I can listen to John Andrasig every day.
[00:16:11]  Five for fighting.
[00:16:15]  He's a Superman.
[00:16:16]  Just play the play the regular.
[00:16:19]  I got to get in a better mood.
[00:16:21]  It's Friday.
[00:16:23]  We have something to get you in a better mood.
[00:16:24]  Do your live read and then go to line two.
[00:16:26]  You'll be so happy.
[00:16:28]  First, I want to hear a little bit of Superman.
[00:16:30]  Why don't you just sing along?
[00:16:31]  It could be Karaoke Friday.
[00:16:32]  Okay, because I can't sing.
[00:16:33]  You don't have to be aware of that.
[00:16:34]  You have a beautiful voice.
[00:16:35]  You're the one that was the wedding singer, not me.
[00:16:38]  Me and Adam Sandler.
[00:16:39]  I was the wedding bartender making fun of everybody that got married, didn't know their family.
[00:16:45]  Give Uncle Joe another beer.
[00:16:47]  And making horrible predictions whether they would last or not.
[00:16:51]  Like, oh, it was awful.
[00:16:53]  I was an awful person at that point in my life.
[00:16:55]  That's not awful.
[00:16:56]  That's funny.
[00:17:22]  It's not easy to be mean I wish that Fall upon my knees.
[00:17:41]  Find a way to lie about a home I'll never see.
[00:17:48]  It may sound absurd, but don't be naive.
[00:17:53]  Even heroes have the right to bleed.
[00:17:57]  I may be disturbed, but won't you concede?
[00:18:02]  Even heroes have the right to dream.
[00:18:06]  And it's not easy to be mellow.
[00:18:21]  Well, it's all right.
[00:18:24]  You can all sleep sound tonight.
[00:18:28]  I'm not crazy or anything.
[00:18:35]  I can't stand to fly.
[00:18:40]  I'm not.

=== Real Talent Without Auto-Tune (13:45) ===

[00:18:41]  You know what amazes me?
[00:18:42]  Not only his creativity and his songwriting and his piano playing and his voice has this range that is so enviable.
[00:18:53]  I mean, he's so gifted and so talented.
[00:18:56]  It's not fake.
[00:18:56]  There's no auto-tune.
[00:18:57]  I've seen him live.
[00:18:58]  No, I've seen him live.
[00:18:59]  I mean, it's real.
[00:19:01]  He's amazing to watch.
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[00:20:16]  I've given you a lot of advice over the years.
[00:20:18]  You just gave me some symbolic advice just a few seconds ago.
[00:20:22]  I mean, I wonder if I should follow that advice.
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[00:21:03]  Am I reading this right on my screen?
[00:21:06]  This guy, Mark, in Texas?
[00:21:08]  No way.
[00:21:09]  So funny.
[00:21:10]  No way.
[00:21:10]  I told Katie, I like, you got to put him up.
[00:21:12]  Mark in Texas, I am reading that you worked for Armando de Quesada, who used to own Mando's Pizza in Decatur, Alabama.
[00:21:24]  Is that true?
[00:21:25]  Yes, sir.
[00:21:26]  This is Mark.
[00:21:26]  Mark Kay in Houston.
[00:21:27]  I used to live in Decatur.
[00:21:28]  Yes, sir.
[00:21:29]  Wow.
[00:21:30]  And so you know the story about Armando.
[00:21:34]  Yes, I do.
[00:21:35]  I was like 15 and in high school and one of my first jobs as a dishwasher, getting that lasagna out of those baked on cakes.
[00:21:44]  The food was great, wasn't it?
[00:21:46]  I thought it was awesome.
[00:21:48]  He, yeah, it was awesome.
[00:21:50]  And I think at that time, he was showing us how to get it off.
[00:21:55]  He gave us a little knife, and he had a good work ethic.
[00:21:58]  And I heard you mention him, and I said, man, I got to call in and tell Sean I used to work for Armando.
[00:22:03]  We called him Mando.
[00:22:05]  Yeah, Mando's Pizza.
[00:22:06]  I bought, well, his full name was Armando de Quesada.
[00:22:10]  And by the way, I don't know if you know, he's since passed away.
[00:22:14]  Yes, yes.
[00:22:15]  And I heard that broke my heart.
[00:22:16]  I used to go there a lot, actually, and sit with him, and he'd sit with me.
[00:22:21]  He advertised on my local radio show at the time in Huntsville, Alabama.
[00:22:25]  This is 1990 to 92.
[00:22:28]  I guess I'm slightly aging myself in terms of my radio years, but I loved him, and I learned a lot from Armando.
[00:22:37]  I learned about Cuba.
[00:22:40]  I learned about his family.
[00:22:42]  And he came from a wealthy family.
[00:22:44]  They had a lot of land, and it was confiscated by the government.
[00:22:48]  And he barely escaped with his life, had to start over in the U.S.
[00:22:53]  And, you know, I'm not saying it was the biggest restaurant in the world, but he was happy.
[00:22:59]  And he was very verbose, very, very knowledgeable, understood communism.
[00:23:04]  I just learned a lot from the guy.
[00:23:07]  Yeah, I did too.
[00:23:08]  And his work ethic was, you know, impeccable.
[00:23:11]  And he taught us, you know, if we could get there 30 minutes early, Sean, we could make our own pizza and put anything we wanted on it.
[00:23:18]  That was part of the deal?
[00:23:20]  Yeah, that was part of the deal.
[00:23:22]  Should have taken a part-time job working at Mando's because I used to go there and love the food.
[00:23:28]  Yes, sir.
[00:23:29]  But I heard you talk about him and it brought back memories.
[00:23:32]  He was a good, good guy.
[00:23:34]  He was, you know, and he came, he assimilated.
[00:23:38]  He was the right, you know, he did it right.
[00:23:40]  He loved this country.
[00:23:42]  He was never bitter about what had happened to his family.
[00:23:45]  Obviously, he lost loved ones, but he warned.
[00:23:52]  There was just a lot of reality behind him telling his stories that made it that much more important.
[00:24:01]  And it was a much better learning experience.
[00:24:03]  But Mark, I appreciate it, man.
[00:24:06]  Thanks for checking in with us.
[00:24:07]  Yeah, Sean.
[00:24:08]  Yeah, have a good one.
[00:24:09]  Thank you very much.
[00:24:10]  All right, buddy.
[00:24:11]  Appreciate it.
[00:24:12]  All right, Rick in Pennsylvania.
[00:24:13]  Rick, what's up?
[00:24:17]  I love you, Sean.
[00:24:18]  I agree with the Mondo.
[00:24:21]  That's a great story.
[00:24:23]  But I'm going to go back.
[00:24:25]  I'm a veteran.
[00:24:27]  I was a truck driver.
[00:24:28]  Well, thank you for serving your country.
[00:24:30]  You were a truck driver?
[00:24:31]  Thank you.
[00:24:32]  I was.
[00:24:32]  Yeah, I did about a million eight.
[00:24:34]  Oh, wow.
[00:24:35]  Wow.
[00:24:37]  I went to Coast Guard boot camp in the 80s, and I'm a Christian conservative, a registered independent.
[00:24:47]  I'm still having trouble not swearing.
[00:24:52]  If you're a truck driver, I almost want to give you a pass because people piss me off the way they drive.
[00:24:58]  They just suck at it.
[00:25:00]  Oh, man.
[00:25:01]  You got me there.
[00:25:02]  But yeah, I still struggle with trying not to swear every day.
[00:25:08]  It's tough.
[00:25:10]  All right.
[00:25:10]  We'll get into this later in the show when we have more time.
[00:25:13]  I'm sorry.
[00:25:14]  I think Linda's copping out.
[00:25:16]  I think she's.
[00:25:16]  I'm not sorry, Rick.
[00:25:17]  I encourage that behavior.
[00:25:19]  Good luck.
[00:25:19]  Good on you.
[00:25:20]  Keep it going, Papa.
[00:25:21]  You know what you need?
[00:25:21]  I'm going to tell you, instead of, I know you can't do this with an 18-wheeler, but now that I have my Tesla S-Plaid and everyone could make fun of me all they want.
[00:25:29]  I didn't buy it because it was an electric car.
[00:25:31]  I never envisioned I'd buy an electric car in my life.
[00:25:35]  And I saw what they were doing to Elon Musk, and it pissed me off because I thought it was so unfair.
[00:25:43]  I met with him and I said, what's your best car?
[00:25:45]  Which one do you like the most?
[00:25:46]  He goes, no, if you're going to get one, he goes, get the S-plaid.
[00:25:49]  And I said, really?
[00:25:50]  Okay.
[00:25:51]  I didn't even go and drive it.
[00:25:52]  I just ordered it.
[00:25:53]  I just contacted my local Tesla dealer, got in contact, ordered it on the phone.
[00:25:59]  I traded in a car, and they said, what year is it?
[00:26:04]  Any accidents?
[00:26:05]  No, we'll give you this much for it.
[00:26:07]  And they gave me a fair amount.
[00:26:09]  And I said, great, done.
[00:26:11]  And they deliver the car.
[00:26:13]  And this thing is a rocket chip.
[00:26:16]  Literally.
[00:26:17]  It is 0 to 60.
[00:26:19]  What did I say to him in 0.1 seconds or something?
[00:26:22]  And he laughed at me like you'd be dead.
[00:26:25]  But it's 1.9 seconds.
[00:26:28]  And it accelerates.
[00:26:30]  It's got 1,024 horsepower.
[00:26:33]  I don't drive that far on a regular basis, so it's not a big deal for me.
[00:26:38]  You know, I charge it and just plug it in, and I don't have to go to the gas station with that car.
[00:26:44]  I have another car, and that's it.
[00:26:47]  Anyway, let me get back to the issues at hand, shall we?
[00:26:51]  Considering we're just so distracted today.
[00:26:53]  But you know what would be cool, Sean?
[00:26:54]  Is if you opened a Mondo's, is it Mando's or Mondo's?
[00:26:58]  Mando's.
[00:26:58]  Mando's in Cuba, you know, when Trump fixes it.
[00:27:02]  Will we make Cuba great again?
[00:27:03]  Oh, he's think about how cool that could be.
[00:27:05]  There was reports out today that, in fact, Cuba is in full negotiations with the U.S. Cuba is about to fall.
[00:27:17]  And that's great.
[00:27:18]  You could have a cigar and pizza shop.
[00:27:20]  Look, I live in South Florida, so I love Florida.
[00:27:23]  And in Florida, it's beautiful.
[00:27:26]  And the island of Cuba, I mean, it's just impoverished because of the Castro brothers and communism.
[00:27:34]  I mean, could you imagine American investors going in there?
[00:27:38]  I think one of the first things somebody's going to do is buy up every old 1957 Chevy that they've been keeping on the road because they can't buy new cars.
[00:27:47]  And there's a ton of them there.
[00:27:49]  But there's so much beachfront property that people, there's only so much, they always say when you're dealing with real estate, there's only so much beachfront property that goes around.
[00:27:59]  And it's usually the most valuable because people want to be near the water, which makes sense because it's beautiful to look at and not beautiful during a storm.
[00:28:07]  But short of that, it is what it is.
[00:28:10]  And I could absolutely see a revitalization of the entire island and it maybe become like the place to go.
[00:28:18]  Turks and Caicos.
[00:28:21]  What are the St. Barts?
[00:28:24]  I could see Cuba in the mix.
[00:28:26]  I'd want to go.
[00:28:27]  Get some Cuban cigars.
[00:28:29]  I think you can get them now.
[00:28:31]  I think Obama actually opened the door for that.
[00:28:35]  So we got to give credit.
[00:28:37]  There was a hero cadet that stepped in after this ISIS supporter.
[00:28:45]  This is the one at the Michigan synagogue.
[00:28:49]  They had just been there, the FBI, six weeks earlier preparing what-if scenario of a shooting like this or somebody wanted a shooting event happen like this.
[00:29:01]  This guy drives his car through the synagogue.
[00:29:04]  And if it wasn't for the security guard, this guy now, he apparently broke his tib, tib and fib in your leg.
[00:29:12]  Thank God he's going to be okay, but he's a real hero.
[00:29:15]  He killed a guy, and it's just unbelievable.
[00:29:18]  And it had a daycare center in that synagogue.
[00:29:21]  Kids could have gotten killed.
[00:29:22]  Unbelievable.
[00:29:24]  Then the one that maybe angers me even more is this, you know, convicted ISIS terrorist that barged into this ROTC class at Old Dominion University in Virginia, you know, shouting Allahu Akbar.
[00:29:39]  Oh, just like the guys in New York City shouting Allahu Akbar, but of course, and then throwing the incendiary device.
[00:29:47]  Then we had another hero there.
[00:29:49]  We had that NYPD officer.
[00:29:51]  By the way, those barriers that he just looked like he could just leap over this like Superman.
[00:29:58]  You know, we just played Superman was amazing.
[00:30:02]  And the funniest part of that story is his wife said, texts him, wrong direction, meaning, what are you doing?
[00:30:10]  You're my husband.
[00:30:10]  I love you.
[00:30:11]  And you're moving towards a guy that has an IED.
[00:30:15]  And probably he probably caught hell when he got home for being a hero.
[00:30:20]  You know, you never, I guess a prophet is not recognizing their own country.
[00:30:28]  I will tell you this.
[00:30:30]  I'm kind of sick of the naysayers, the liars out there, the conspiracy theorists.
[00:30:35]  I mean, we kind of spent a lot of time on that this week.
[00:30:38]  But Marxist Mamdani, I cannot believe that Mamdani talks about free speech and has this Mahmoud Khalil, guy that was one of the protesters at Columbia, his own wife posting likes to post that, you know, celebrated October 7th.
[00:31:00]  And then I don't agree with the lunatic that showed up at the counter protests.
[00:31:05]  Remember, they had the memorial for the former Supreme Leader, and then a bunch of counter-protesters showed up.
[00:31:11]  And, okay, then they turn it into an anti-Muslim thing, and they're roasting a pig and being jackasses and bigoted.
[00:31:20]  And that ended up being a distraction for the two guys that were ISIS-inspired that built IEDs that they were throwing into the crowd that if, God forbid, they went off, it would have been more carnage than the Boston Marathon bombing.
[00:31:38]  And how does the first lady, and this really pisses me off, you know, gets away with what she's doing?
[00:31:47]  Really just makes me so mad.
[00:31:49]  I mean, there's things in life.
[00:31:51]  What was Mamdani's answer?
[00:31:53]  My wife is the love of my life.
[00:31:55]  Murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, beheading.
[00:31:58]  Okay.
[00:31:59]  And she's liking posts about that day.
[00:32:02]  My wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person.
[00:32:06]  The first lady of New York City, you idiot.
[00:32:09]  I don't know.
[00:32:11]  You know, now Mamdani, this is how he's going to raise taxes.
[00:32:16]  Forget it.
[00:32:17]  40% estate tax.
[00:32:20]  Don't be shocked if it gets passed in New York.
[00:32:24]  That could easily happen with that city council.