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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thanks Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
On an hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred nine
point one, Shawn our number if you want to be
a part of the programmers that we've been pointing out
all day, Well, what an unbelievable weekend this has been.
And it's everything that I've been saying is America has
a chance it hasn't had in over one hundred years,
and that is to see a real transformation everything from
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you know, eliminating the size, the scope, the influence of
government and cutting back on waste, fraud and abuse, and
getting our budget and balance and not being stepped on
by the rest of the world, which I spent an
enormous amount of time talking about in the last hour.
And you know, to watch hostages release this weekend, terrorists
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killed this weekend, to see deep state operatives removed from
the FBI and the weaponized DOJ. The Denmark Prime minister
making overtures about Greenland, wants a deal on Greenland. It
looks like the Panama Canal, the deal with China is
now going to be dead within hours. Mexico caved on
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the tariff issue, promising ten thousand troops at our southern border.
Something they said just yesterday that they would not do
and all the hysteria and the media, you know, was
absolutely meaningless. Water now is moving from northern California to
southern California, and I can keep going on, and all
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of this is happening at a record pace. It's like
shock and all government. But everything is simple, basic common sense.
You know, before Mexico announced that they were going to
retreat and the Mexican president, she had a conversation with
Donald Trump, and they came to an agreement at least
for the next thirty days. We'll see if they follow through.
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You would think that Canada would do the same thing. Anyway,
here is Chuck Humor just slamming the Trump tariffs. And
the amazing thing to me is Donald Trump has been
on the scene now since the moment he came down
that escalator, and all they've known is hatred and and
you know, calling him the most vile names and bubbling,
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bubbling and fizzing like alca salts are and water at
every movie makes. And yet within hours after he makes
this statement, those tariffs are lifted and a deal is
made and our southern border will be safer. And when
Donald Trump announces a tariff. Basically, he's announcing the beginning
of negotiations. And that's what happened here and that's what
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will happen with Canada.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Listen, we're now in the trade war with Mexico and Canada.
For the American people, it will now be a war
between prices and their paychecks. That is the last thing
we need. It's going to work that to almost everything.
Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday. Okay, it's going to
with beer. Okay, most of it Corona here comes from Mexico.
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It's going to affect your guac because what is guacamole,
nde of avocados, both from Mexico. If you have pizza,
it's going to affect the cost of cheese. So all
of these that all of these are subject to price
increases almost anything that you buy or eat.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I've never heard Schumer talk about inflation during the four
years of Biden. Harris never heard him talk about Joe's
cognitive state, even though it was obvious to the entire
world he lied about that. Never once heard him talk
about the murders, the murderers, the rapists, the cartel members,
the criminals, known gang members in our country that Harris
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and Biden were allowing in unvetted including terrorists into this country.
And if you're really worried about the price of beer,
well there's plenty of American beer Anheuser Bush that you
can buy, among many other companies. Anyway, the newly confirmed
Interior Secretary, I can't think of anybody better for this job.
Former North Dakota governor now Secretary of the Interior, Doug
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Bergram joins us, mister Secretary. Great to have you, and
over the course of the campaign, I really had a
chance to get to know you and think the world
to you, and I can't think you're the guy for
this job for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well thank you, Sean. Great to be with you. And
and as you said, wow, it's so exciting to watch
President Trump in action. It's a it's incredible. You know,
some some people, you know, make promises about being a politician.
When President Trump makes a promise, he executes on it.
He's executing in record speed. And as we say, when
he ends these wars abroad with his energy dominance vision,
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you know, I think he should write They've give him
the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, that's what that's where
we're going with this thing. He's making such a big
difference in the world, both at home and abroad.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If Western Europe were to get all of their energy
from America rather than Russia, wouldn't that be good for
their national security? Because it would it would greatly reduce
the money that Putin has to wage war against Europe.
If the Iranians are shut down again from oil production,
Joe Biden turned a blind died to the sanctions that
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were in place. Won't that bankrupt the number one state
sponsor of terror un likely prevent them from fomenting their
proxy wars and building out their nuclear technology one hundred percent?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Sean, you got it, you understand it. I mean Roan
was funding twenty four different terrorist groups, not just as Balla,
the Hutis, and Hamas, twenty four terror groups around the world.
President Trump hadn't on their knees Financially, Joe Biden let
somehow two or three hundred billion dollars of revenue flow
back into Iran. Well, they were shaped sanctions supposedly through
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front companies and ghost ships. And of course Russia. Russia's
been running a very sophisticated operation for a decade feeding
information in the Western Europe into the Dreen Party in Germany.
I mean, you know when Elon took over Twitter, forty
percent of those accounts that Twitter were bots. You think
that the Russians weren't feeding information saying shut down your
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coal plants, shut down this. Germany became completely dependent on
Russian natural gas. That's when Russia invaded Ukraine. The price
went over one hundred dollars. Russia made so much money
on that move. They knew they would because they Western
Europe had no place to go but for them, And
it could have been a lot worse if we had
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not had the capacity here the shale revolution, which was
driven by technologies supported by President Trump, that got us
in a position. That's part of what saved Western Europe
was the US's ability to actually export export that natural
gas then, but we can now do it from Alaska.
For our allies in the Pacific, Japan, Philippines, South Korea,
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they're also highly dependent on foreign sources. And with China,
with a three hundred ship navy getting bigger every day,
cut off the South China Sea when they decide to
make a move on Taiwan, all of our traditional World
War two allies in the North Pacific will be stranded
from energy. We've got to start serving them out of Alaska.
We've got to unleash Alaskan energy. I signed a Secretary's
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order today about unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential. President Trump
wanted to do this with Anwari's wanted to do with
the strategic patrolling Murger Biden. Biden had sixty eight executive
orders against Alaska. Biden sanctioned Alaska more than Iran during
his term. We're unwinding all of that, and we're going
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to you know, energy dominance is going to again, it's
going to solve the problems abroad, and it's going to
be prosperity at home.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Let me ask you, these are very ambitious goals. And
here's what we're asking American energy companies to do, and
that is to commit to spending billions of dollars to quickly,
you know, begin the process of being the most dominant
and energy rich country on Earth, which I think they
probably want to do. We only have Donald Trump in
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office for four years. Has got to be a little
bit of hesitancy on the part of some of these producers,
and you know them well because of all of your
work with energy companies in North Dakota. Are they willing
to invest all of that money?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Number one? Number two?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is there a way to create unbreakable contracts for them
so that if they do invest that money, that if
God forbid, an environmentalist ever gets back in the White
House and wants to shut it down, that it would
be impossible.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I think there's a way, Sean. You know, as you say,
capital is going to float where it's most secure. There's
a lot of capital that wants to flow to the
US right down. We've also got an interesting confluence of
two things we haven't had before, and that's the demand
for energy. We've been talking liquid fuels in gas, natural gas,
but the demand for electricity. We're in a we're in
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the proxy wars with Russian Iran, we're in a cold
war with China, and the center that cold war is
the battle for artificial intelligence AI dominance AI AI. The
AI war that we're in with them, and that war
is going to be one by who's got the most electricity.
And China is building hydro, they're building nuclear, they're opening
up They permitted fifty three coal plants in six months
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last year. More than two a week, and we are
so far behind right now on electricity. But we're seeing
there's an announcement last week by Chevron where they for
the first time, you know, global multinational oil and gas company,
they're committed to building baseload energy for a for an
AI data center. So when you start getting the oil
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and gas guys looking at the US and say, well,
it's not just it's not just export, it's not just transportations,
not just manufacturing. We also can use our resource like
natural gas to use electricity that's reliable, it's clean, it's cheap,
it's affordable, it's long term. Those are going to be
the long term contracts that you're talking about. They're going
to sign twenty year optake agreements for these data centers.
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These data centers are actually manufacturing intelligence. It's the new
generation of manufacturing. It's occurring, and that becomes a base
capability for every industry gets more productive.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, we see through executive action how quickly and executive voters,
how quickly President Trump has been able to undo a
lot of the damage that Joe Biden had put in
place through executive action. In other words, is there a
rock solid way to ensure that if these companies invest
the billions we need as quickly as we needed for
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all of these energy needs, that you have articulated that
they won't be shut down if a democratic administration ever
won again.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, I think in the way our politics of Peter
tottered and whipside back and forth, I mean, I think
it just speaks to everybody that is out there that
was part of the huge mandate for President Trump. Is
why we've got to start working now for the midterms.
You got to start working for four years from now.
We've got to make sure that this run, this movement
that President Trump is leading lasts longer than one term,
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so we don't end up being whipsawed back the other way.
But I think we're also going to see the results.
The American people are going to see the results of
President Trump, and I think it's going to This is
a revolution. You described that Shawn as a transformation of
once in one hundred years. That's happening. It's going to continue.
I'm confident that we're going to deliver the results for
President Trump that is going to keep this momentum going
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well beyond the pen of theture. A future competitor that
they want to overturn the brilliant moves that President Trump
is making.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
All right, quick break, welcome right back. We'll continue more
with the newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Bergram is with
US eight hundred nine one.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Shawn is a number.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
We'll get to your calls coming up as well as
we continue this so much breaking news, it's incredible.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We continued now with the newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug
program as we now are making all the moves to
become the most energy dominant, energy rich country on the
face of the earth. My last question is how quickly
do you think we can become this energy dominant?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
How long will it take. It's not an easy job.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
No it's not. But part of what we part of
what we're doing today again my first day as a
Secretary of Interior. Today, we also did a couple of things.
We reversed following President Trump's executive order, this disastrous bam
that he had an offshore exploration. You know, three weeks
before he left office, Biden took six hundred and twenty
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five million acres off the balance sheet of America, saying
it couldn't be developed that's a third of the lower
conor nent, you know, lower Continental forty eight. That's how
that size six hundred and twenty five million acres. President
Trump is unbanned that ban. We're executing on unbanning that.
In terms of the red tape production, red tape production
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is one of the things that slows people down. People
would send more capital in America the existing energy companies
right now, but you know, try to build a pipeline,
try to build a power line. These things take ten
years or never because they get protested. These things are
going to be sped up. They're going to get built,
and capital knows that if it's going to get built
and be in the ground or in the air and working,
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and that assured that we're going to be able to
build stuff in America. Is part of the infrastructure. We
need to unlease that. And then of course Biden broke
the law. He wasn't holding lease sales. Twenty five percent
of the oil and gas in America comes from public land.
The public that's listening to this called you're the owner
of that land. When an oil company takes the risk
and goes or a natural gas company to produce that
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energy on there, they cut a check and they send
it to the Treasury, they send it to you, the public,
and Joe Biden said, we don't want those checks. We're
we're going to send all this opportunity overseas, but we're
bringing that back. And we've already Joe Biden was the
first president since Harry Truman that didn't hold the lawfully
required lease permit sales on DLM land in North America
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for oil and gas. Did not do that during his time.
We've already been issuing him in the last twelve days.
Its Department of Interior. We're back in the business of
leasing oil and gas land for timberland, grazing land. Public
land was there for the benefit of the use of
the American people, and I'm not we can still have
all these precious, unspoiled national parks. We won't go anywhere
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near them. But we're talking Sean. There's five hundred million
acres of public land, seven hundred million acres of sub service,
two billion of offshore, and Joe Biden has basically taking
that off America's balance sheet. If Interior was a company
to have the largest balance sheet in the world, and
we're going to make sure that Americans get the appropriate
sustainable return on that balance sheet.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
I look forward to frequent updates, and I can't think
anybody better for this position. Interior Secretary Doug Bergram, Doug,
thank you so much for being well us. We appreciate
your time and an update. Thank you, sir. Eight hundred
and ninety four one. Shawn is on number if you
want to be a part of the program. So you
remember last week we played Selena Gomez and and it
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made me stop ponder and wonder. I have since found
out is it true that Selena Gomez's net worth is
over a billion dollars?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Linda?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I mean, I have multiple people tell me that I
have not confirmed it, and I don't think you really
can if you look it up on the internet.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
But anyway, that's there's no way to.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Confirm her personal wealth. But she is obviously a multi millionaire.
She's been on TV, she was a childhood star, she's
a singer, she's got all sorts of branding and sponsorships.
She's not hurting, that's.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
For sure, okay, And so you know, she went out
there and just lost it on social media that eventually
pulled it down. I don't really know much about Selena Gomez.
To be honest, I don't really care that much. He's
entitled to her opinions, and if she wants to go
on social media and cry, that's fine. But I do
have an issue with her crying. You know, we have
known terrorists, murderers, rapists, and we have cartel members and
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gang members in our country, and we have Americans and murdered.
We have Americans being murdered and raped and victims of
violent crime, thousands of Americans, and I never saw her
take to social media to express sympathy for the victims
and their families, and it's frustrating to me. Well, anyway,
the White House decided that they were going to, you know,
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respond to this, and I'm kind of glad that they did.
You know, we have the story of Kayla Hamilton, only
twenty years old, murdered in her own room, left on
the on a floor like trash, any illegal MS thirteen,
known gang member brutally raped and murdered this young girl.
And anyways, part of this response, Tommy Nobles is the
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mother of this twenty year old Kayla Hamilton, and Patty Moorean,
the mother of Rachel Morn who was herself a mother
of five, and Alexis Nungary who I interviewed her and
she's the mother of Joscelyn Hungary and Joscelyn's grandfather. They
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became a part of this response, and I think it's
enormously powerful.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Let me play it for you.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
What about our children who were brutally murdered and raped
and beat to death?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Sun sad, so sorry all maybe people are getting children
seeing that video. It's hard to believe that it's actually
genuine and real.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Because she's an actress.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
You don't know who you're crying for.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
What about our children who were brutally murdered and raped
and beat to death and left on the floor by
these illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I just feel like it's a.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Ruse to deceive people and to garner your sympathy for lawlessness.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I wish I could do there.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
My daughter was a child. There's many other children whose
lives were taken due to people who cross here illegally.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
They didn't cry for our daughters.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
No one has stand up except for us mothers to
cry out about our children.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I am so happy that drop won. I am so
glad that this is one of the first bills to
help with immigration.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
It's only been two weeks if that, since he's been
in office, and he's taking accountability, and he's making moves
and he's making things happen.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
President Trump genuinely cares for the American people, and he
cares for the American family.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
That I truly appreciate everything Donald Trump has done.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
We stand with President Trump and make America safe again.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Good, I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'm glad somebody else responded to this because it's just
so outrageous. All right, let's get to our busy phone. California,
the United Socialist Utopia. Jason is next, Jason High. How
are you glad you checked in?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Mega?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Did O Shan from deep red northern California always accent
that northern part.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, the northern parts now finally sending water to the
southern part, which if only we sent it, you know,
a month or two ago, that would have been a
little bit better timing. But I worry about the northern
part too, especially areas like San Francisco with all the
crime and homelessness, and you know, all the drugs and
everything else, and robberies and every other crime committed there.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
It's a cesspool. But yeah, I'm in the far North,
but either here nor there. The reason I called is,
out of all the amazing things that President Trump's done,
nobody's touched on the absolute miracle that the man's pulled off,
and that is he finally found a tacks that Democrats
don't love.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
If you look up tariff in the dictionary, it's a tax.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
And they have spent years telling us an increasing corporate
income tax doesn't increase prices. Value added taxes will increase prices,
capentrye doesn't increase prices, but yet miraculously, this tax will
increase prices.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, listen, all this is is demagoguey. And you know,
for all the years Donald Trump has been on the scene,
and I know him so well, and I actually said
this last week. I said, Donald Trump, when he says tariffs,
that is the beginning of a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And low and behold.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I saw the Dow futures and I knew the stock
market was probably going to react to this today. And
I watched some of the Sunday shows, even though I
hate to watch them and rarely do, and they're fixated
on tariffs and tariffs and Dei and Dei. Meanwhile, you know,
Donald Trump is taking out terrorists in Somalia, He's getting
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hostages released, He's getting Maduro to agree to take back
all of their illegal immigrants. He's cleaning out the deep
state and the FBI and the DOJ. And you know,
Denmark is now saying sure, they'd love to have a
deal and more American involvement in Greenland, and and Panama Cave.
They're going to kick out China and bring the US
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back in Mexico caved within hours, and then all of
a sudden, the dow stabilized pretty darn quickly. And it's
they they don't they don't understand Trump because they don't
want to understand him.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
They just want to hate him.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And on Panama, I'm sorry, they violated the agreement that
Canal was not given to be controlled by China. And
that's the end of the conversation. And marsaid Secretary of
State Marco Rubio did a great job going over there,
communicating that message and getting that concession pretty quickly. And
I expect that we're going to see a lot more
of the world react this way. And Mark my would
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not be surprised by the end of the week. I
know there's a conversation with Little Justin and President Trump
going on today. If Little Justin says, oh, we've been
able to come to an agreement and just like Mexico did.
Although he might just be angry that he's been thrown out,
we'll see. But anyway, Jason, I appreciate everything you we
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have to say. Glad you're out there. Thank you for
being in front of the show. We appreciate it. Let's
get to Edward in New York. Edward, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I'm good, Henny, thanks for having me on. Long time listener,
first time.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Caller, Thank you, Thanks, Ben, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
My response is to last week's air traffic control staffing incident.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I had three hash that, but I feel I need
to call you.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Let's just say that.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I'm calling to say at my agency's nine to one
dispatch center is intentionally cutting staffing due to staffing are
due to budget cuts.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well, it's a little deeper than that. We've since learned
out they were supposed to have thirty air traffic controllers
that night. And remember now we learned that the night
before that there was they came very close to another
mid air collision. The FAA, the ntsbing been warning in
great specificity, in detail all throughout the Biden years that
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we have worked. We don't have enough qualified people working.
So we had a huge crisis developing there. They did
nothing about it. I mean, Pete Buddha, Judge Pothole. Pete
was too busy fixated on quote racist roads and a
billion dollar project there and too busy to see the
people in East Palestine. And you know what we also
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learned is that DEI did play a big part. We
know a thousand people that were qualified, including one guy
that I've read his story. He got one hundred percent
on the test to be an air traffic controller and
he never got called up. And meanwhile, they have a
huge staffing shortage, and you had qualified people that wanted
to work as air traffic controllers. It's a hard job,
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and that night they had one person doing the job
of two people and they're understaff by almost half. And
you know that means that all of this was preventable.
And then we learned the DEI played a part in
not hiring these people. And we learned the DEI. You know,
when you look at the written language that was put
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together first in the Obama years and taken down when
Donald Trump put his New Order in place, because we
really wasn't a big part of our vernacular in twenty
seventeen when he took office. But you know, people that
have intellectual you know, deficiencies and psychiatric disorders, you know,
are part of DEI hiring and people with epilepsy. This
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is not a This is not a job for somebody
that has a psychiatric or intellectual difficulty. It isn't Now
I want to find jobs for those people. There are
jobs available for those people. I don't believe in discrimination,
but I also believe in meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And this is a job.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You better be able to multitask and make fast decisions
because lives are in your hand, and you better be
fully staffed on top of it. And they better have,
you know, a backup plan on nights if people get
sick and they want to have replacements available, and they
got to keep America's sky safe. It's really that simple.
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I don't think it's any more complicated than that. Anyway,
my friend, I appreciate the call. Thank you for being
with us. All right, quick break right back to our
phone toll free this Monday, eight hundred nine four one.
Shawn is on number if you want to be a
part of the program. All right, spring is approaching not
fast enough for some of you. I'm sure not a
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Speaker 4 (26:22):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
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Speaker 9 (27:06):
Also, the final hour roundup is next. You do not
want to miss it, and stay tuned for the final
hour reball on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Let's get back to our busy phones. Let's say hi
to Rick in Utah. Rick, how are you glad?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You called good?
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Sean? How are you?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'm good? What's going on?
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Well? I just wanted to call in. I had the
unfortunate experience of being the first on a scene of
a very similar midair aircraft crash in nineteen eighty seven,
January fifteenth and Kern's Utah. I was headed up to
the ski resorts for a half day skiing and I
had a scanner radio and I heard the call come on.
(27:54):
They initially said it was a Western Airline.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Western, but they said a Western an Airline plane had
crashed in Turns. So my friend and I drove out there.
We were like a mile away, pulled over to the
side of the road and what we saw it had
snowed the night before and there was snow on the
ground and literally there was a parking lot where there
looked like a school teacher was covering up a body
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part and red dots in the snow all over. It
was just horrific. And you know, these I don't believe anybody.
I think they all died instantly, which is a good thing.
My heart goes out to the the victims, families and friends,
you know what they're going through. And it was it
(28:44):
was ten people died in this crash. It was a
Mooney student pilot and a pilot that came up into
a SkyWest commuter plane that was on approach into Salt Lake.
And the differences it was not over water, you know,
that just increases the risk or the task at hand
to try to recover those body parts and things out
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of that waters. It's got to be a challenge. And
I mean it took them days and days back in
Turns in nineteen eighty seven to find everything. And it's
just a horrific experience. And again, air traffic control is
so much better than it was then, but and accidents
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like this happen very rarely now, thank goodness. But anyway,
it was just quite an experience and this kind of
brought it all back seeing these pictures and things from.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
The thing is is we've almost perfected air travel almost
I mean when you look at the actual numbers, I mean,
it's safer to be in the air than it is
to be on the road. And however, you know, in
almost every case it's either pilot error, air traffic control error,
(30:01):
or some combination thereof. We haven't perfected it. We've gotten close.
I mean, you have hundreds of thousands of flights a
day taking off around the world, and you know what
they we don't hear of many instances. I believe the
numbers down to zero point eight percent of an instance
like this. To have two in a row like last
week was rough. But with all that said, you know,
(30:27):
we now have a chance. We now know the deficiencies
that we're ignored by the Harris Biden administration, and we
know the admonitions and the warnings were there, they ignored them,
and we now have an opportunity to transform it and
fix it and hire people and create you know, high
paying career jobs for people that are really interested in that.
(30:49):
To deny a thousand applicants when your short staff makes
no sense at all, zero sense.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Anyway, I do appreciate your call. Sorry you had to
witness that. I don't think anybody would ever want to
witness it.
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