Sean Hannity Show - Mamdani Drives Money South
Aired: 2026-05-08
Duration: 29:40


=== New York Wealth Tax Plans (14:33) ===

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[00:00:12]  If you want to join us, God bless Ken Griffin.
[00:00:16]  And I was talking about Ken Griffin yesterday.
[00:00:18]  I don't know him, I never met him.
[00:00:19]  He's a multi, multi billionaire who, by the way, with that money creates thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of high paying career jobs for a lot of people.
[00:00:33]  Which then causes people to buy homes and buy food and luxury items, whatever it is that people do with their money.
[00:00:42]  And he's just a successful business guy.
[00:00:45]  And he's moved his entire company, Citadel, a financial firm, down to Wall Street South, which is in my free state of Florida, like so many other people.
[00:00:56]  And you got more and more of these very wealthy people, like, for example, two of the co founders of Google, one of them, Larry Page, have now moved to Florida.
[00:01:03]  Mark Zuckerberg, Meta.
[00:01:05]  He's now moved to Florida.
[00:01:07]  Larry Ellison, who runs Oracle, he's now moved to Florida.
[00:01:13]  And here's the fascinating thing for Zoran Marxist Kami Mamdani to do this ad bragging about how he's going to tax the rich, does it in front of where Ken Griffin lives?
[00:01:27]  Now, remember, the United Healthcare CEO was assassinated in cold blood.
[00:01:34]  We live in an assassination culture.
[00:01:36]  Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
[00:01:39]  There's been three separate would be assassins, and in one case, he came within one millimeter of killing Donald J. Trump.
[00:01:48]  This is the culture we're living in.
[00:01:50]  And you're never going to convince me that the dehumanizing and insightful rhetoric of the left is not inspiring these crazy people that hear it day in and day out Nazi, fascist, racist, Gestapo, whatever else they're saying.
[00:02:06]  Now, if you remember the original ad, let me play it for you.
[00:02:09]  This is Mamdani with his stupid smile before the cameras, bragging about raising taxes on people like Ken Griffin.
[00:02:18]  What I guess he wasn't factoring in is Ken Griffin had planned on spending $6 billion, yes, billion with a B, on building out office space and jobs in New York City.
[00:02:32]  And I'll tell you why he's not doing it on the other side.
[00:02:35]  But this is what Mamdani did to dox Ken Griffin.
[00:02:38]  When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich.
[00:02:42]  Well, today, we're taxing the rich.
[00:02:44]  I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-a-terre tax, the first in New York's history.
[00:02:48]  This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full-time in the city, like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.
[00:03:00]  This pied-a-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live here.
[00:03:07]  Now, again, I don't know Ken Griffin.
[00:03:10]  I don't.
[00:03:11]  But he doesn't deserve this.
[00:03:13]  Nobody deserves to be singled out.
[00:03:15]  Why?
[00:03:15]  Because he's successful.
[00:03:17]  You know, I've said this many times on this.
[00:03:19]  I never got a job in my life from a poor person.
[00:03:22]  I got jobs from restaurant owners and from construction companies that had money to invest and pay me.
[00:03:32]  And I like the people that pay me.
[00:03:34]  I'm as grateful ever since I started working when I was eight years old.
[00:03:39]  Anyway, so now this is all backfired on Kami Mamdani.
[00:03:44]  And, you know, so he's now on defense, and I don't blame Ken Griffin one bit.
[00:03:51]  He was asked about this incident.
[00:03:53]  He talked about how he listened to it three times and he feels his personal safety is at risk.
[00:03:59]  So, where does that leave us at 350 Park?
[00:04:01]  That leaves us with the fact that we went to Miami and revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building.
[00:04:08]  You're bailing?
[00:04:10]  So, what do we do at 350 is still a point of discussion internally.
[00:04:15]  But what is no longer a point of discussion is that Miami is now, you know, when we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami.
[00:04:25]  It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
[00:04:29]  I'll leave it at that.
[00:04:31]  It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
[00:04:33]  And now, what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American dream.
[00:05:02]  Then he dropped the hammer.
[00:05:05]  I'm now moving my money to Wall Street South of Miami.
[00:05:09]  Remember, I keep telling you, Wall Street South is very, very real.
[00:05:14]  Every big bank, every private equity firm, every investment firm, they now have more employees in my free state of Florida, all the way from Miami, all the way up to West Palm Beach.
[00:05:27]  All of these financial firms have relocated.
[00:05:30]  They have more employees in the free state of Florida than they do.
[00:05:34]  In New York on Wall Street, although many have kept a presence up there, but that apparently is going to go away next as well.
[00:05:42]  Anyway, she, I think, is still, you're not still stuck in New York, are you?
[00:05:46]  Because you can work from anywhere.
[00:05:47]  Miranda Devine is with us.
[00:05:48]  How are you?
[00:05:50]  I'm well, thank you.
[00:05:51]  Well, look, I know that New York is getting harder to live in, but I must say, I went to see a play the other night called Masquerade, which reminded me why I love New York so much.
[00:06:04]  It was absolutely brilliant.
[00:06:05]  And, you know, you're paying an awful lot of money.
[00:06:09]  On top of the $300 you probably spent for the ticket to that great play you went to, just for the privilege of going to see a play?
[00:06:17]  Well, tell me about it.
[00:06:19]  I know it's a huge impulse to live in this city, but I do work at the New York Post, so I don't really think that I could do it from Florida for very long, maybe for a few months a year.
[00:06:31]  Oh, I could show you how to do it.
[00:06:32]  You'd be able to do just fine.
[00:06:35]  Well, they make it very hard for you to live here because, especially when you've got Pot shops opening up everywhere.
[00:06:42]  That's the only industry that's doing really well, those weed shops that Eric Adams, to his credit, was closing down because they're some sort of shady operations, most of them.
[00:06:53]  There's no way there are so many of these weed shops thriving.
[00:06:57]  There's never anyone in them.
[00:06:58]  I don't know what their front's for, but they're shady operations.
[00:07:02]  And now they're booming under Mamdani.
[00:07:04]  That's the only thing booming.
[00:07:06]  Everything else is in the toilet, and Kathy Hochel is in bed with him.
[00:07:11]  She's just Donated another two billion plus to the city to help out Mamdani and to help him do more taxes, this pierre-taille tax, which is the first of I'm sure many.
[00:07:27]  And you know, they pretend that it's taxing the rich.
[00:07:30]  No, the rich have ways of not paying it.
[00:07:33]  They will move like Ken Griffin and they'll take their jobs and all the money that they put into this city with them.
[00:07:40]  They'll take it to Florida or Tennessee or Texas.
[00:07:44]  And then it's after.
[00:07:45]  Poor bunnies who are not wealthy, high income earners who will be footing the bill, the middle classes.
[00:07:53]  All right, as we continue, Miranda Devine, New York Post, is with us.
[00:07:56]  Your call's also coming up, 800 94 1 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:08:01]  I'd love to see the New York Post move out of New York, believe it or not, and still call it the New York Post.
[00:08:06]  I still think you can have some reporters on the ground there.
[00:08:09]  I mean, things have just gotten so bad and have deteriorated so bad.
[00:08:12]  Ron DeSantis, the governor of my state, was on TV with me last night, and there are 23 million people in the free state of Florida.
[00:08:21]  There are less than 9 million in New York City now.
[00:08:25]  And New York City's budget is billions more.
[00:08:30]  Than the entire state of Florida.
[00:08:33]  You have better law and order and safety and security.
[00:08:36]  You have far better infrastructure.
[00:08:39]  You get way more for your money down here.
[00:08:41]  You don't have high taxes the way you do on everything in New York.
[00:08:45]  All of that money is being spent on social welfare programming.
[00:08:50]  And now, Momdani, now we have a 40% federal death tax, a 10% New York state death tax.
[00:08:57]  You have, not me.
[00:08:59]  And now, Momdani wants a 50%.
[00:09:03]  New York City death tax, and he wants to lower the threshold from $7.5 million, which is not a lot of money in New York.
[00:09:13]  It sounds like a lot, but it's not that much in New York, to $750,000.
[00:09:17]  You can't buy a closet to live in for $750,000 in New York.
[00:09:22]  I know that sounds nuts, but it's true.
[00:09:24]  Yes, it is true.
[00:09:26]  And I mean, I guess we're all flabbergasted that Namdani is persisting with his insane policies, which don't work.
[00:09:37]  And which he can't fund, the budget's in a hole, but he's an ideologue and he's a Nepo baby who doesn't have a real grasp on reality, the cost of living, law and order.
[00:09:50]  He doesn't care.
[00:09:51]  He's got a security detail provided by the NYPD, the very same police force that he's defunding.
[00:09:59]  He's not doing what's necessary to keep just the basic minimum, the 5,000 extra cops that Eric Adams had promised and that we need.
[00:10:09]  And, you know, The NYPD punches above its weight nationally, even if you don't care about New York.
[00:10:17]  The NYPD's counterterrorism unit is world class, and they were instrumental in foiling three of the four terror attacks that the FBI says it foiled.
[00:10:30]  Those tip-offs came from the NYPD.
[00:10:33]  If that counterterrorism unit, which was set up by Paul Morrow from Fox News, gets eroded, then All Americans are at risk.
[00:10:45]  So I just think it's a very dangerous time in New York.
[00:10:49]  But help is on the way in the form of Bruce Blakeman.
[00:10:52]  He is not getting a lot of coverage, unfortunately.
[00:10:55]  But Kathy Hochul's favorability is declining precipitously.
[00:11:01]  Her job approval is down at record lows.
[00:11:04]  She's, you know, already, even before the election, she is promising tax hikes.
[00:11:10]  God knows what she will do after the election.
[00:11:13]  Well, here's the thing I mean, she did.
[00:11:15]  Desperately, she's scared to death.
[00:11:18]  Like Schumer's scared to death of Mamdani.
[00:11:21]  He's scared to death of AOC.
[00:11:23]  Kathy Hochul needs Mamdani's support to get reelected.
[00:11:28]  I like you.
[00:11:28]  I love Bruce Blakeman.
[00:11:29]  He's done a great job in Nassau County.
[00:11:32]  Did you see the new ad that he put out?
[00:11:35]  If you haven't, let me play it for our audience.
[00:11:37]  Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.
[00:11:42]  Okay?
[00:11:45]  Get out of town.
[00:11:46]  Get out of town.
[00:11:47]  Dolly, you've got to let me know.
[00:11:51]  Should I stay or should I go?
[00:11:54]  You say that you are mine.
[00:11:58]  I'll be here till the end of time.
[00:12:02]  It's always taste, taste, taste.
[00:12:05]  First step should be go down to Palm Beach and see what you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.
[00:12:12]  They're not bringing me home.
[00:12:13]  I'm not leaving Florida.
[00:12:15]  And remember, Cuomo famously said if you're pro life and pro assault weapon, you're not a New Yorker, and there's no place in the state of New York for you.
[00:12:25]  I mean, so they begged me to go.
[00:12:27]  Now what?
[00:12:28]  Now she wants me to come back because she wants my money?
[00:12:31]  Well, you are exactly typical of, you know, born and bred, died in the wall, New Yorkers who've been driven out, basically, because this state, this city is just on a suicide mission.
[00:12:49]  And I think the Democratic Party is on a suicide mission because Kathy Hochul and Chuck Schumer are supposedly moderate.
[00:12:57]  Democrats.
[00:12:59]  Joe Biden, we were sold as a moderate Democrat who would bring back normality.
[00:13:05]  And what do they do?
[00:13:06]  They have bent over to the left, which is hijacked their party, which is a minority of Democrats, but they have enormous power in that party.
[00:13:16]  And you can see, even you just look at the California debate for the gubernatorial campaign, they're all just like in 2019 presidential debate, putting their hands up and saying, Yay, to free health.
[00:13:31]  Care for illegal aliens.
[00:13:33]  That's what we're paying for.
[00:13:34]  It's not even welfare for American citizens.
[00:13:37]  It's welfare for foreign fraudsters who know that they can come to this country, come to this city, to sanctuary cities like New York, and make lots of money, get rich, drive around in Porsches by ripping off taxpayers, law abiding taxpayers.
[00:13:55]  It's so corrosive.
[00:13:57]  And the Democratic Party is not what it used to be.
[00:14:01]  And the cowards, I just, you know.
[00:14:04]  I despise people like Schumer and I despise Pelosi and Kathy Hochul and those old school Democrats who allowed this to happen to their party and allowed their voters who trusted them to.
[00:14:17]  All they care about is power.
[00:14:21]  Let me just give you one last warning.
[00:14:24]  The next thing to come in New York is a wealth tax.
[00:14:27]  Then, when you want to get out, Miranda, if you don't get out soon enough, then they're going to have an exit tax.

=== Storms and Exit Taxes Ahead (02:07) ===

[00:14:33]  Mark my words.
[00:14:34]  And I didn't even get to Momdani defending the anti Semitic rioters who stormed a New York City synagogue.
[00:14:41]  But we'll do that another time.
[00:14:42]  Miranda Devine, love your work at the New York Post.
[00:14:45]  Appreciate you more than you know.
[00:14:46]  Thank you.
[00:14:46]  Terrific.
[00:14:47]  Thanks so much.
[00:14:48]  800-941-SHAWN if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:15:26]  Driving liberals crazy.
[00:15:29]  Three hours a day, every day.
[00:15:32]  The Sean Hannity Show is back on the air.
[00:15:35]  All right, let's get to our busy phones.
[00:15:38]  Mike is in New Orleans, New Orleans.
[00:15:40]  How are you, sir?
[00:15:41]  Glad you called.
[00:15:42]  Hey, Sean.
[00:15:42]  Nice to talk with you.
[00:15:44]  Nice to talk to you.
[00:15:45]  Real quick.
[00:15:45]  What's going on?
[00:15:46]  I've had, I've had, been truly blessed in life.
[00:15:50]  I originally started with Paul Harvey, then Rush, and then, of course, you.
[00:15:54]  So it has been a true pleasure.
[00:15:56]  Anyway.
[00:15:57]  And now the rest.
[00:15:59]  Of the story, he was Paul Harvey was great, bro.
[00:16:03]  John Hannity dented the golden EIB microphone.
[00:16:08]  He actually said that the microphone dropped when I was filling in for him.
[00:16:12]  Anyway, what's on your mind?
[00:16:13]  Two of the greatest ever.
[00:16:14]  So, uh, yesterday, you and Linda, who is a true sweetheart, um, were discussing why you why are you flirting with Linda?
[00:16:22]  She's a married woman.
[00:16:23]  Why are you calling her a sweetheart?
[00:16:24]  He's not flirting, he's just stating facts.
[00:16:26]  Continue, sir, please.
[00:16:28]  Good lord.
[00:16:29]  Um, so anyway, I was born and raised in Chicago and I met my wife after 9 11 playing backgammon online, and she was from New Orleans.

=== Katrina's Impact on Families (03:58) ===

[00:16:41]  So in December of 04, I moved down to New Orleans.
[00:16:45]  And in August, we found a house that we were going to buy and bought some dogs, got everything set up for the wedding, and our flood insurance was going to kick in on September 1st.
[00:16:56]  Well, as you know, beforehand, we.
[00:16:59]  How many days beforehand?
[00:17:01]  Three days.
[00:17:02]  Oh, no.
[00:17:03]  August 29th.
[00:17:04]  Katrina rips through.
[00:17:06]  We get 12 feet of water from her.
[00:17:08]  We got the Murphy oil spill, another six feet of water from Rita, putting the water market, the three quarter mark of the headboard of the bed on the second floor of the house.
[00:17:17]  We get to Pearl Beach, Florida, and we get hit with Wilma in late October.
[00:17:23]  Good grief.
[00:17:25]  You're not having a lot of luck here with homes and with storms.
[00:17:29]  Exactly.
[00:17:31]  Oh, my God.
[00:17:32]  I'm so sorry.
[00:17:32]  I mean, you know, when people, when this happened, I went to New Orleans after Katrina.
[00:17:38]  And I was shocked.
[00:17:39]  And it looked like a war zone.
[00:17:42]  I mean, I was riding for miles.
[00:17:44]  I don't remember what the highway, what name it was, but for miles and miles and miles on end.
[00:17:51]  I mean, on both sides of whatever bridge or highway I was driving on, you could just see devastation and an entire neighborhood just wiped out, done, gone.
[00:18:01]  It looked like a war zone.
[00:18:02]  Absolutely.
[00:18:03]  It was the worst natural disaster I've ever seen in my life.
[00:18:06]  Absolutely terrible.
[00:18:07]  So, my wife's family was a very close knit family.
[00:18:10]  So, when they Grew up and became adults, they literally bought houses within blocks of each other.
[00:18:17]  Okay.
[00:18:19]  Well, of course, with Katrina, it's.
[00:18:22]  Everybody's wiped out.
[00:18:23]  Oh, yeah.
[00:18:23]  So we got.
[00:18:25]  Did anyone else have insurance or were you the only one without it?
[00:18:28]  We were without it.
[00:18:29]  You're the only one, the other family members had it?
[00:18:31]  Yeah.
[00:18:32]  Well, I mean, thank God for small blessings.
[00:18:34]  You still don't want to live through that, but at least gives you hope to rebuild.
[00:18:37]  Yes.
[00:18:38]  And so now we've got people in Yerson, we've got them in northern Mississippi, we got to spread out everywhere.
[00:18:44]  Well, My wife went into like a super, deep depression.
[00:18:50]  And here I am.
[00:18:51]  I just came down.
[00:18:53]  I'm like, I don't know how to get this woman happy.
[00:18:55]  I did everything that I possibly could.
[00:18:58]  And I looked at her one day.
[00:19:00]  I'm like, honey, I give up.
[00:19:02]  I don't know how to make you happy.
[00:19:04]  I says, why don't we go to Disney?
[00:19:06]  They claim to be the happiest place on earth.
[00:19:09]  Why don't we go there for the weekend and see if that'll help you?
[00:19:13]  So we went and she had a great time.
[00:19:16]  And on Monday, she was pretty much back to normal.
[00:19:19]  And after a period of time, when she got back in that deep depression, we would go back to Disney.
[00:19:26]  Wow.
[00:19:27]  And it helped her every time?
[00:19:28]  Every time.
[00:19:29]  Every time.
[00:19:30]  Listen, I don't know what depression is like.
[00:19:35]  I don't, because I'm not that way.
[00:19:37]  I'm not inclined to that.
[00:19:38]  But I've met many people that are.
[00:19:40]  And those people that, I mean, it is a real, I guess you call it, disease.
[00:19:46]  And, you know, whatever gets people out of it, I don't care what it is, you know, if it's Disney, good for her.
[00:19:53]  Yeah.
[00:19:53]  Yeah.
[00:19:53]  I mean, of course, everybody down here suffers from PTSD.
[00:19:56]  No, I don't have anything against.
[00:19:58]  You know, Disney.
[00:19:59]  Linda's more anti Disney than me.
[00:20:01]  I'm just saying that kids love it.
[00:20:03]  I never loved it.
[00:20:05]  I mean, and especially if you've been there 10 years in a row, you get sick of it.
[00:20:08]  Now, that was just for me, but I mean, every kid wants to go to Disney.
[00:20:12]  You can't deny a kid that, although Linda's denying Liam that.
[00:20:16]  Just shows you Linda denies the kid french fries, denies the kid real food, swears her air fried french fries are better than anything you can buy at any other store.
[00:20:25]  All this crap.
[00:20:26]  Ask your cooler, what kind of fries does he eat?
[00:20:28]  What does he eat when his wife is depressed?
[00:20:30]  Does he give her healthy food or does he feed her disgusting food?
[00:20:33]  She probably has a funnel cake and a turkey leg.
[00:20:36]  I'm sorry, are you the caller?
[00:20:38]  I'm just guessing.

=== President's Message of Clarity (03:17) ===

[00:20:39]  Go ahead, sir.
[00:20:39]  What do you give your wife when she's sad?
[00:20:42]  Every time we go to Hollywood Series, we can't pass up the funnel cake.
[00:20:46]  Oh, my God, you kill everything.
[00:20:47]  Ding, All right, this caller's fired.
[00:20:51]  Mike at New Orleans, you made my day.
[00:20:53]  Appreciate it, my friend.
[00:20:54]  God bless you.
[00:20:56]  800 941 Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program.
[00:21:00]  Let us say hello to Blake in my free state of Florida.
[00:21:04]  What's up, Blake?
[00:21:04]  How are you?
[00:21:05]  Glad you called, sir.
[00:21:07]  Tom, thank you very much.
[00:21:08]  And first, I have to thank you for putting just simple people that walk the street like I do, work and do what we do on the radio to share our opinions with you because it really lifts up the rest of the country.
[00:21:19]  I just want to thank you for that.
[00:21:22]  Thank you for giving me this mic.
[00:21:24]  It's my honor to be here every day, and I'm very grateful.
[00:21:28]  You are a true warrior.
[00:21:30]  My message today is one of Clarity of talking about the threat our country is facing and mankind is facing.
[00:21:39]  We are dealing with a warrior like culture which has only one purpose in mind.
[00:21:45]  We have to take a look and be accurate in terms of explaining that culture, that it has a completely different understanding of truth, it has a completely different understanding of what's right and wrong and what somebody's willing to do to accomplish their goals.
[00:22:02]  And when we do that, we understand that.
[00:22:05]  Any kind of appeasement, any kind of negotiation with this culture, it's only going to result in more loss for us.
[00:22:14]  I just am so concerned about what's happening in terms of negotiations with Iran.
[00:22:19]  We need to break their spirit the way the Axis powers' spirit were broken in World War II, the way the spirit was broken back in the Civil War.
[00:22:30]  It's not a matter of being unkind to anybody, it's a matter of protecting.
[00:22:35]  And saving what we hold dear.
[00:22:39]  They're the ones that attacked us.
[00:22:41]  They're the ones that have carried out these heinous acts.
[00:22:44]  And we just have to recognize who they are, what they're willing to do, and just turn the tables on them and just deal with it very directly and very powerfully.
[00:22:56]  Well, I'm just telling you this and understand the president is doing that.
[00:23:02]  The president at any moment can wipe the place out.
[00:23:04]  The president, I think, has been very judicious.
[00:23:08]  And also thinking about, and he said it, Marco Rubio said it, you know, he's thinking about the people that have been victimized for 47 years.
[00:23:18]  He's trying not to wipe out an entire, you know, once great civilization.
[00:23:22]  The Persian culture is a great culture if you look at it historically.
[00:23:26]  And I hope and pray that they get their country back and they get freedom back in their lives instead of living under this oppressive, murdering thug theocracy.
[00:23:39]  But I have faith in the president.
[00:23:42]  I really do.
[00:23:43]  I have faith in his decision making.
[00:23:46]  He knows things that none of us know.
[00:23:48]  And I think that he's, you know, so far the blockade is working better than anybody thought.
[00:23:53]  They're losing $400, $500 million a day.

=== Faith in Presidential Decisions (04:35) ===

[00:23:56]  You know, let's see how it plays out.
[00:23:59]  My guess is we win, they lose.
[00:24:01]  That's how I think it ends.
[00:24:04]  I can't say with 100% certainty, but that's how I think this ends.
[00:24:07]  Blake, appreciate it, buddy.
[00:24:08]  God bless you.
[00:24:09]  Barb in Minnesota.
[00:24:11]  What's up, Barb?
[00:24:11]  How are you?
[00:24:12]  Hi, Sean.
[00:24:13]  Thanks for having me on.
[00:24:15]  I was listening to your banter with Linda yesterday about Disney, and it brought.
[00:24:20]  Man, this got a lot of attention, apparently.
[00:24:22]  It was kind of like off the cuff.
[00:24:25]  It brought back a lot of happy memories for me.
[00:24:28]  I had a little boy that had leukemia.
[00:24:31]  And Make-A-Wish sent us to Disney World in 1990.
[00:24:35]  So that's how long it's been.
[00:24:40]  And the memory came back like nothing.
[00:24:45]  Is there anything more hard to live with than a sick kid?
[00:24:49]  Actually, it's the hardest thing that I've ever gone through.
[00:24:53]  I've gone through a lot in my life.
[00:24:55]  And it's the hardest thing I think I've ever, ever gone through.
[00:25:01]  Or parents that lose their children.
[00:25:05]  I interviewed these people.
[00:25:06]  I don't know how they do it.
[00:25:08]  Now, was this your child?
[00:25:10]  Yes.
[00:25:11]  Matthew was three, just turned three when he was diagnosed.
[00:25:15]  He died just before his sixth birthday.
[00:25:17]  And life support twice, no chance to live.
[00:25:21]  And that's when I gave up hope and I gave it to God to take care of, and he came back again.
[00:25:27]  So, anyway, he had a bone marrow transplant, and Make a Wish sent us to Disney World October 11th.
[00:25:34]  To the 16th in 1990, and he got um, I was filling like 30 syringes a day of medicines for him.
[00:25:44]  And but he could walk, he could walk, and he had got his hair back, so it didn't really look like anything was wrong with him.
[00:25:52]  Um, anyway, we got down there, and he absolutely did not want a wheelchair, he wanted to be like everybody else and walk around and get in line.
[00:26:04]  And we got through the gates, and we got to the first.
[00:26:07]  Ride and he saw how long the lines were and how long the wait was.
[00:26:12]  And he said, Mom, let's go back and get the wheelchair, go to the front of the line.
[00:26:18]  So it brought back a lot of happy memories for me.
[00:26:22]  Well, he sounds like such a great, great kid, strong, tough, resilient, everything any parent would want, any characteristics a parent would want in their children.
[00:26:33]  I'm so sorry about your loss.
[00:26:37]  I love St. Jude's Hospital.
[00:26:39]  And I love the Make a Wish Foundation, and they're both incredible organizations.
[00:26:44]  I had one experience with the Make a Wish Foundation.
[00:26:46]  Linda, I don't know if you remember this.
[00:26:49]  And there was a young kid that wanted to meet me.
[00:26:53]  And I'm like, of course I'll, but I mean, why doesn't he want to go to Disney?
[00:26:59]  Why, you know, I just thought that the bar was way too low, you know, because Make a Wish would do anything that the kid wanted.
[00:27:05]  And, you know, we spent the day with him.
[00:27:08]  I was so humbled and honored by that.
[00:27:10]  And, and, You know, this kid was, he just loved politics.
[00:27:16]  And we stayed in touch for a while.
[00:27:18]  I mean, it's to see a sick child or for a parent to lose a child, I think, is the hardest thing that people go through in life.
[00:27:26]  And when I interview people, if the hardest interviews I'll ever do are like angel moms and people that lost children, you know, like Jocelyn Nungary, her mother's name is Alexis.
[00:27:37]  We've interviewed her, Rachel Moran's mom interviewed them.
[00:27:41]  I never interviewed Lake and Riley's family, but I've talked to them, and they're wonderful people.
[00:27:47]  And I don't know if I could.
[00:27:50]  I look on in awe and I wonder, how do you go on?
[00:27:55]  How do you get, how do you lift your head out of the bed the next day?
[00:27:58]  I don't, I don't know.
[00:28:00]  I think that's the hardest thing in life to live with, or, you know, parents that lose, you know, service men and women and, you know, the difficulty, the challenges associated with that.
[00:28:12]  Anyway, Barb, I'm glad that he was the person he was and that he had his dream come true and that he.
[00:28:21]  Fought as hard as he did.
[00:28:22]  And I am sorry, deeply sorry about your loss and our love and prayers to you.
[00:28:27]  And I'm sure he's in paradise looking down, praying for all of us.

=== Magical Disney Trip Planned (01:08) ===

[00:28:32]  And I'm glad that worked out for him.
[00:28:34]  See, Linda, I think I'm going to take you on this trip to Disney.
[00:28:37]  And then you can hear everyone say, Have a magical day.
[00:28:40]  Maybe it'll change your attitude.
[00:28:42]  Because your attitude some days is different.
[00:28:44]  Listen, her story is heartbreaking, but I have to say, she did go in 1990 before Cinderella had a beard.
[00:28:49]  I'm just saying.
[00:28:50]  Cinderella does not have a beard.
[00:28:53]  Okay, I'll send you a picture.
[00:28:54]  Now, they do have the adult Disney people that like go in before the park even opens and they dress up as characters.
[00:29:00]  That's a little odd to me if you go there like every day.
[00:29:04]  A little odd, a little strange to me.
[00:29:21]  That's going to wrap things up for today.
[00:29:22]  Great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
[00:29:26]  We'll have Larry Elder, Tommy Larin tonight, Sage Steele is back tonight, Steve Moore, Greg Abbott, Joe Concha.
[00:29:34]  Set your DVR, 9 Eastern.
[00:29:36]  Hannity on Fox.
[00:29:36]  We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow.
[00:29:38]  Thank you for making this show possible.