Carol Roth - November 23rd, Hour 2

Joe Concha sits down with Carol Roth to talk about the liberal media's attack on journalism.  The New York Times "Best Sellers'" list has become the "Best Sellers We Deem Appropriate" list...

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back. It's the second hour of the Sean Hannity's show.
Joe conche in for sean five day weekend. The guy
finally took a day off. He never takes off, and
that affects my earnings. Nevertheless, we're having a good time
so far, my kids, and we're going to continue to
have a good time. But first, it's shameless fuck sales time.
Come on, man, the truth about Joe Biden's terrible, horrible,

(00:22):
no good, very bad presidency. That's my book went all
the way to number seven on the Wall Street Journal
bestsellers list, went all the way to number two on
the Amazon bestsellers list, and the New York Times, the
Paper of Record, the old old old gray ladies somehow
couldn't find any spot for me on their bestseller list.
Because it's not biased or anything, I'm not angry about

(00:43):
that whatsoever. Please go out and buy this because you
know it's a great book for the holidays, right, I
mean maybe traveling, Maybe you got some time off. Get
off the phone, get off the Twitter, get off these
places and read for want and educate yourself on the
life Joe Biden. It's utterly horrifying and hilarious all at
the same time and his presidency. Of course. Carol Roth,

(01:06):
I know, the great entrepreneur, the great podcaster, the great
hair designer overall. She bought my book, I know, and
we're gonna get a live review of it right now.
Carol act like you Reddit go No, it's fantastic, Joe,
and I'm so proud of you. And I actually think
that it's a badge of honor that the New York
Times snubbed it. It goes to show that it was

(01:28):
so damaging to Joe Biden that they couldn't even put
it on their list. So good good for you for
stoking the fire there. Can I tell you I had
inside information on this that there were two books on
there that I doubled their sales and they still didn't
put it on. And then I talked to Molly Hemingway,
who's also one of those Fox talking head books, and

(01:50):
she said, you got to look at this nineteen eighty
three lawsuit against the New York Times from the guy
who wrote The Exorcist, and really it's said, yeah, he
went to number one Publishers Weekly, I made the Publishers
Weekly list, went to the USA Today Bestseller list. I
was on that Wall Street Journal, all of them. He
made all of them except for the New York Times.
But he had a clause in his contract apparently that

(02:11):
said he would get a bonus, but its specifically said
he had to be on the New York Times bestseller list.
And he sued, and then in court the Times had
to admit that it's not just based on data. In
other words, where we're both football people, right like who
had a higher score the Bears and Alliance. No, it
also was an editorial decision. They finally admitted that it's
just not about the numbers, and that's what it should be.

(02:32):
You know, runs hits and that's that. But anyway, I'm
talking too much about myself or cause something else. Call
it the New York Times Favorite Books that we deem
appropriate list or whatever it is. But if it's a
sales based list, if that is a metric, that should
be the metric that it goes off. The New York
Times Book Club. Yes, it could be like Oprah, but
different exactly good stuff. Hey, I want to play a

(02:53):
clip for you, and I want to get your reaction.
And everybody listening at home or driving home, or maybe
you're about to fly out somewhere out in your ears,
off your phone somewhere. Tell me where the misleading let's
call what is? Tell us what a lie is. And
this sound bite from Joe Biden talking about student loan
forgiveness and how it came to fruition. Originally, what we've

(03:15):
provided for is if you went to school, if you
qualify for a pelgrand, you qualify for two thousand. I mean,
can you qualify for twenty thousand dollars in debt forgiveness? Secondly,
if you don't have one of those loans, you just
get ten thousand written off. It's passed. I got it
passed by a vote or two and it's in effect

(03:36):
and already a total of I think is now thirteen
million people have applied for that service. Okay, Carol Well
in that statement doesn't quite sound right. So could it
be that it passed by a vote or two in
his household? Is that what he meant? That's my final answer.

(03:57):
Do I have to say that in the form of
a question? And what is it's even talking about? I mean,
here's the thing with it, Joe, I'm not sure that
he has any idea what's going on? So this is,
you know, his interpretation of what somebody's told him over
the telephone game. It's not like he's actually involved in
these decisions, but it's you know, very representative of the

(04:19):
falsehoods and the lives and the exaggerations, and they're just
made up stuff that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth.
And I'm just glad that Cornpop isn't here to see
all this. Hey, Carol, we have a very young and
beautiful audience. Can you explain with the telephone game is
exactly for those who aren't familiar with it? Are people
not familiar with the tell? I guess, yeah, I guess

(04:39):
people I gets. Back in the day, it was very different.
So we used to play this in school, right, Somebody
would would have a phrase that they would say and
they would whisper it in the ear of the next person,
and the next person was hear what they heard and
whisper it in the ear of the next person. And
by the time he got like fifteen people down the line.
What started out as you know, I like joke, Concha

(05:00):
is you know black cats, you know, have nice hair.
You know, it's fun, and it kind of proved what
happened as you pass information along, how it gets misinterpreted
and adapted. But Joe Biden is a telephone game all
wrapped up in himself, isn't he pretty much? Yes, and
just celebrated his eightieth birthday. If Joe Biden runs for
president again and somehow gets the second term, we could

(05:23):
be looking at an eighty six year old version of
Joe Biden in the White House sleep tight America. Wow,
that would be I mean, let's way to say. If
it didn't affect all of our lives so deeply, it
would actually be pretty you know, amusing. But unfortunately, it's
affecting our lives. It's affecting our pocketbooks, it's affecting our freedom,
it's affecting our national security. So from that respect, it's

(05:46):
not so funny. Yeah, if he took a night shift
at like the Quickie Mark, then we're fine with that, right, Okay,
you got to fill the hour somehow. But this is
the most powerful person in the world. In theory. We're
talking to Carol Roth, the great entrepreneur, and Carol, I'm
just curious as far as these student loans are concerned.
I think the big story that everybody's missing is while
you forgive these loans, and something like fifty percent of

(06:08):
the loans go to those that have a graduate degree
or a master's degree, and those are the type of
folks that become lawyers and doctors and go into professions
where you earn a lot of money where you could
probably afford to pay back the loan. Won't disjust ultimately
because it's just a temporary bandit. Let's call it what
it is. It was a gambit to get votes from
young people that they knew wasn't going to be constitutional,

(06:29):
that he knew was going to be thrown out. But hey,
it's after the mid termself they throw it out, so
be it. It served its purpose. But in the end,
won't this just if it does somehow survive, raise the
cost to tuition where at schools like Harvard we're talking
now north of eighty five thousand dollars a year all
in just to go or Georgetown eighty thousand, Duke eighty thousand,
Stanford eighty thousand, or your average States school like where

(06:50):
I went to the University of Maryland. I think it's
something like almost fifty thousand dollars a year all in,
and that's a state school. So I don't see how people,
even upper middle class can afford to send their kids
to college at this point. Yeah, I mean that's the
real tragedy here is that it's not addressing the problem.
I mean, basically, getting the government involved in the student
lending business, not having any underwriting or risk assessment has

(07:14):
basically just allowed the colleges to continue to increase their prices,
not the value of the education, but what they're charging
for it, and it's become a huge wealth transfer. It's
basically created students that are indentured servants for the rest
of their lives. And this doesn't hold them accountable here already,

(07:36):
it's enabled the colleges to not have any skin in
the game and to extract more fees. All this does
is tell them, Okay, well this is working and we
can continue to do that. And so you know, it's
very emblematic, emblematic of government and trying to quote unquote
not solve the problem that they've created. It doesn't address

(07:58):
the issue of why it's so expensive. If colleges were effective,
people should be able to pay down their loan. Unfortunately,
people are not getting a return on that investment, and
so you know, we have to go back get government
out of student lending, fix the problem. Otherwise this is
just going to continue in a really bad trajectory. I

(08:20):
personally think, Carol Roth, that college is overrated. My brother
runs a school where basically he trains people to become
electricians or contractors. It's a trade school, right, and it's
in Patterson, New Jersey, which will never be confused with
Fiji or Saint Barts. It's it's a tough town and
it's like ten minutes from me. So I'm not talking
down about it in any way, shape or form. I'm

(08:42):
just saying a lot of kids there they can't afford
to go to even a community college because they're they're
priced out right. They grew up in poor families and
his classes and I'm not doing this to promote my
brother's business, but his classes are filled to the tilt.
And when these kids get out, something like ninety seven
percent of them have jobs waiting for them because there
is such a demand. Like most of the last time

(09:03):
you tried to get like a handyman or contractor to
come to your house and they actually were able to
come on the day they were supposed to, and then
they were able to follow up it's such a shortage
here and I think that we should be talking about
that a lot more, but that would take sane and
sober leadership for talking about solutions instead about all the
things that we seem to focus on. Yeah, unfortunately the

(09:23):
left has come up with education is a right instead
of what colleges are providing, which is an accreditation. And
that's an investment, and so an investment has to be
evaluated on investment parameters. What kind of return are you
getting on that investment, And unfortunately, for many students, they're

(09:43):
not getting anywhere near the appropriate return, if they're getting
a return at all. And that goes back to your
point of the trades. In pushing people and saying that
you have to get this college education and it's so important.
We've now created this shortage in the important trades and
skilled areas you mentioned, you know, some of the contractors,

(10:05):
plumbers and the like. Also things like airline pilots. There's
going to be a huge shortage. There's very starting, but
we've got so many people if we're going to be
retiring over the next twenty years. The airlines are panicking
and doing whatever they can to try to recruit people
and these are you know, really well paying jobs. You know,
these are jobs that you know could be in the

(10:26):
six figures. So we really need to embrace and talk
to people about the full range of options. And also
the things that we're talking about pilots and plumbers and
electricians and contractors. Those are the kinds of jobs that
aren't going to be outsourced. They're not going to be
replaced by robots and so on and so forth. So

(10:46):
these are really solid jobs with security as the job
market continues to shift and change. So yes, the narrative
needs to continue to shift. We need more education, and
we need to get the government out of the student
lending business. Well said. She is the author, by the way,
Carol Roth is of the War on Small Business. Now,
my people tell me that thousands are now currently on

(11:08):
Amazon since I promoted my book earlier in the segment
buying my book, make it too to the cart people.
The War on small business, How the government used the
pandemic to crush the backbone of America. She is Carol Roth.
Yet even better, Joe, send them to a small business bookseller.
Send them to bookshop dot org. That book fills a
small business bookseller, so that we can get those small

(11:29):
businesses getting those dollars, not Amazon. Excellent, excellent point. That's
why we have you who Carol. By the way, you
mentioned plumbers before, I can say, given that I had
a little pipeerst in my basement a couple of days ago,
the ass crack still lives. I mean, it's amazing how
consistent plumbers are with that where they just can't seem
to get the genes that cover that that very sensitive area.

(11:52):
So I saw another one and it was tremendous. We're
talking to Carol Roth. You know how I feel, you
know when any time we talk about plumbing, you know
how I feel about bid days and the washlets and
always like to give a plug there that the fact
that that has not been embraced as widely as it
should be in this country. I want to just add
that recommendation to our talk about plumbing, that everybody should

(12:16):
get a washlet because it's a it's a life changer. Well,
you know it's funny. Right before we came in the
arrows talking to the great producer Linda here, and she
could not advocate the bi day enough, right, she said that,
you know, she stayed with a guy for like three
months after the relationship clearly was over because he had
of the day. So congratulations that land. I'm sorry didn't
work out, but you must miss that biday. Carol. Have
you heard of the phrase fake news? This is that

(12:36):
moment before Thanksgiving? We're having fun. So Carol, just to
go to a more sober thought here as far as
the midterms are concerned, given the conditions on the ground,
with inflation and with crime. You live in Chicago, you
know it quite well that even the Miracle Mile, you know,
Michigan Avenue, it is Chicago's my favorite cities. You know this, Uh,

(12:59):
there's no place anymore. Right, just doesn't happen in the
bad parts. Given inflation, given crime, given what's happening with
the US southern border, given that we have an unpopular
president in the White House. What happened to that red
wave that somebody folks like me you were talking about. Yeah,
it is staggering, Like if you can't win with these
economic conditions and the broader social conditions, it makes it

(13:23):
really challenging to think of what it would take to
get some people to switch their votes. My personal feeling
and I know some people aren't going to be happy
about this is that I think that the Republicans lean
too heavily into some of the social issues, and not
to say that they're not important, but fix them in

(13:44):
your communities, not with the government, and didn't spend enough
time really hammering on not only the economy but what
they would do to fix it. And so, you know,
I think this is an opportunity for lessons to be
learned and for prioritizing. But again, you know, we're we're
so far gone as a as a population that you know,

(14:08):
it's hard to say that even with that focus, if
that would have shifted thing. That's the thing, right, it's
more about voting against the other party than voting for
the party that you may support to just to own
them or something, or you just have this this notion
that one side is evil. It becomes down like good
versus evil, like we're watching Star Wars or all over again.
And that's that's that's a big deal anyway, Carol, thank
you so much for joining us once again. The book

(14:30):
is the war on small business. She's right, go to
a local bookstore, support your local businesses, whether it be
buying books or whether it be buying clothes or buying
food that they could all use your help right now. Certainly, Carol,
you enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend. I assume you'll stay in
Chicago absolutely, and you have a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.
And I'm going to do my family a solid. I'm

(14:50):
not going to actually cook anything. I'm just going to
bring something so that everybody can actually eat it and
be happy. Good. You're bringing Arby's again, and everybody loves Arvys,
so thank you, Carrel. Have a good one. All right.
It's the second hour of the Sean Hannity's Show. Joe
Conscha in from mister Hannity back with more in just
a moment. Come on, man, it's taking me forty seven

(15:15):
years to perfect doing nothing. I had to become president
to show yeah, I could do that better than anybody.
Joe Biden the most dangerous man in America. This is
the Sean Hannity Show, and welcome back Joe Conscha sitting
here for Sean Hannity The Sean Hannity's Show. Coming up.

(15:36):
An amazing group, Boulder Crest Foundations, centered on post traumatic
growth and supporting veterans and first responders. They have a
new campaign It's called Operations struggle well, in addition to
their annual holiday dinners and staying at their locations. You're
gonna want to hear from these folks. I mean, this
is truly what Thanksgiving is all about, giving back without

(15:57):
asking for anything in return, back with more than moment.
This is Joe Konchen. Hannity is on right now. Oh
he isn't Scott Shannon. It's Joe Cootcha filling in for
Sean Hannity. I listened to Scott Shannon when I was

(16:20):
like eight on w PLJ here in New York, and
maybe it was the one hundred. Now it was PLJ.
So it's funny like having him in my ear, and
he sounds great. He's still doing an awesome job. Thank you,
Scot Shannon. Well, let us welcome, and this is a
special guest only because here we are the day before
Thanksgiving and so many of us are going to celebrate
with our families or we're gonna travel somewhere to see

(16:40):
our families. These folks are going to be working hard.
They had been working hard as far as what they
do to give back to their communities and then some
particularly to veterans. Let's introduce Ken Falk He's the founder
and chairman and Josh Goldberg co founder and executive director
of boulder Krest. Get that name in your head. Boulder
Rest a foundation centered around post traumatic growth in supporting

(17:04):
veterans and first responders. Bouldercrest they have this new campaign
called Operations Struggle Well in addition to their annual holiday
dinners and stays at their locations. Let's play their current
campaign and you gotta give a listen to this scope. Hello.

(17:24):
My name is ken Fall. I spent twenty one years
in the US Navy as a bomb disposal specialist. Early
in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, my wife Julia
and I started to charity to help severely physically wounded
bomb disposal personnel and their families. Ten years later, that charity,
Bouldercrest Foundation, has helped over fifty thousand deserving men and women.

(17:44):
At Bouldercrest, we trained veterans and first responders to transform
their past struggles into future strength through a process called
post traumatic growth. We are very proud to report that
it's making a significant difference in the lives of these
heroes who stand up for us every day. But we
cannot do us alone. Please help us by donating ten
dollars a month to continue to offer our programming free

(18:05):
of charge to those remarkable men and women that we
call heroes. To learn more, check out Bouldercrest dot org.
Thank you very much, and let's bring in Ken Falk
and Josh Goldberg. Gentlemen, thanks for joining us on the
Sean Hannity Show. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having us.
Good question for you. Yeah, of course some folks may

(18:27):
be a little confused about what post traumatic growth is.
You know, what it was here about syndrome, But how
do you define that exactly? Well, you're you're right. I
think most people, you know, they hear post traumatic and
then the next thing that they're expecting to hear is
stress disorder. Post Traumatic growth is a science that came
out of the University of North Carolina back in the

(18:48):
early in the commid nineties, and the concept of post
traumatic growth at the highest level is what doesn't kill
us makes us stronger and the idea that after a
traumatic event, what we can actually do learn from un
can allow us to become a better version of ourselves
or thrive, uh, you know, in the aftermath of that trauma.

(19:08):
And Ken you spend the majority of your time educating
the public and private sectors on the issue surrounding the
long term care of our returning military personnel and their families.
You know, we we've pulled somebody folks out recently, obviously
Afghanistan a year ago August, the Iraq war as well. Uh,
we basically have nobody over there when they've come home.

(19:29):
What is the one condition that you've seen most that
that seems to have an impact on them that isn't
going away anytime soon. You know, I think the thing
we see most is probably post traumatic stress. But there's
a lot of depression and stress around just the military
transition in general terms. You know, the military is a
very tight knit group of people, and you know, when
you're separated from that, you know, and and sent back

(19:52):
to a place where it's it's it's not that um,
it becomes a very difficult way to live life. And
and and I think that stress us and the missing
of their brothers and sisters, I think is really where
we see the biggest challenges that come from this community.
And you know, as a kid, I grew up in
you know, outside of DC during the Vietnam War, and

(20:12):
I mean, we still see the Vietnam generation, you know,
suffering with the same thing. So you know, I tell
everybody every day, these these invisible injuries of war don't
get better with age. And I and I worry a
lot about this generation. And Josh Goldberg, when you see
reports about veterans being homeless, about veterans being on food stamps,
I mean that that must be something. As somebody who

(20:34):
has led the development delivery study scale of post traumatic
growth based solutions, you know you must see this and
just to scratch your head, like, how can we do
that to people that sacrifice so much for us and
protecting this country? Cool? And it's a pollen, right, And
I think you go back to George Washington who said
they're likelihood of the next generation that is going to
be based on how this generation is treated and fair.
And I think you know it does it worries you

(20:55):
from a national security perspective of nothing else. And I
think when you look in particular at the suicide statistics,
I mean, what I don't understand, what I've shake my
head at, is we have lost more people every year
where military and veterans the suicide than we have in
the wars and a racking Afghanistan, and we lose more
people in terms of police to suicide than the line
of duty. And these are dangerous jobs they're doing. And

(21:17):
that's where you have to say that we have got
to stop, and we've got to figure out how to
show up for these folks, because there's no question when
we need help, when we need protection, when we need
people to go to the front lines, they don't hesitate.
And I think what we're asking for is part of
this effort is we have to return that favor and
try to figure out how do we be how are
we there for them? And we've got to do something differently,
And that's what this whole Postraumatic Growth effort is about.

(21:38):
Is far too many of these men and women feel
like they get a diagnosis and it's a death sentence
for the rest of their life and it's going to
be a permanent, permanently diminished life. And they deserve better
than that, and we deserve better than that, and we
need these men and women. They're the pillars of strength
in our society, and you're darn right we don't. We
don't want them on the streets, we don't want them
on foot stats We don't want them in early graves.
We need them to be leaders in our communities because

(22:01):
that's when we're at our strong end. We're talking to
Ken Falk and Josh Goldberg of the Bouldercrest Institute. That's
a studding and horrifying stat you just shared as far
as more folks are serving coming back home committing suicide
than actually died in the line of duty. What is
the primary driver as far as what would have someone

(22:21):
get to a point where where they take their own
lives and possibly in many cases probably leave families behind him.
What what ultimately do you see as far as them
getting to that point of no return? Well, I think
is kenn help people all the time. I think suicide
is a disease of hopelessness. You know, when you get
to the point where you can't see what anything's going

(22:42):
to get better tomorrow or the next day or the
next day. And you know the three major you know,
causes of suicide our depression, our substance abuse, and our
undiagnosed or misdiagnosed traumatic brain injuries, which a lot of
people during these last two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

(23:02):
and received because of all the explosions and in the
closeness of the explosions that many of them has been
and we just haven't done enough for the traumatic brain
injury work, or the depression work, or the substance abuse work.
I mean, you know, the ninety seven percent of people
that go through substance abuse care, you know, come out
and they still have to go back the second time.
It's just the system doesn't work. And that's what we're

(23:23):
really trying to do a Bouldercrest is come up with
a new way of triage and these injuries and to
get people better so that they can thrive in the
aftermath of the trauma and not get to this, you know,
this this state of hopelessness where where suicide becomes an option.
We're talking to Ken Falcon Josh Goldberg of the Bouldercrest Foundation,
organization focused on the wellness teachings of post traumatic growth. Ken,

(23:47):
you were just inducted into the Veterans Hall of Fame.
That must have been quite an honor. What was it?
What was it like? What I feel like? Well, you know,
for me, it was I don't like awards, so I'm
a little bit embarrassed by But you know, I think
the thing that I was most honored by with the
other people, the other five and specifically one guy, Jam Scruggs.

(24:08):
I don't know if you know the name, Jam Scruggs,
the Jams, the one who basically raised the money and
policy through the the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
And you know, Jan Jans just an amazing man. And
for me to be, you know, in a category anywhere
near that guy, it's just it's humbling and it was

(24:32):
an interesting event, but it's I'm just I'm just not
an awards guy now nearly why I think it's something
you know, don't make it about yourself. It's about the cause,
and that's why you do what you do along with Josh.
But we do just just to feed into your non
existent ego just a little bit. Well, you have your
biggest fan here and that is Linda, our producer, who
can't speak highly enough of you guys. And when she

(24:54):
asked me to fill in, she said, by the way,
we're doing this the day before Thanksgiving and you're going
to talk to Boldercrest and here's why. So, Linda, I
know you have a couple of questions for the boys
as well. Yes, full disclosure. I love Boulder Crust, I
am working with them, I donate to them. They're a
fantastic group. And I think it's you know, this at
the time of Thanksgiving, and I think one of the
things that I know Josh talks about this a lot.
You know, the holiday season is one of our highest

(25:15):
times of suicide among people who work these very difficult
first responder and military jobs. And I think, Josh, maybe
you could just discuss that just a little bit and
talk about how we can be more aware of what
we can do to help. And then I'm going to
go back and embarrass Hin a little bit about his
military service. Yeah, And I think, and I just echo
in Kensa Hum think he's the epitome of why it's

(25:37):
so important that we allow veterans to kind of continue
to transition and live great lives. He's just he's an
amazing man. In the mention, you know, it's your question,
and I think there's two parts of that. There's no
question I think for folks who you know, you've got
divorce rates and first responder land at seventy five percent,
you've got to ninety percent divorce rate within special ops,
and so people who are sitting there reflecting on their
own in the holidays, all alone with alcohol and the

(25:59):
rest of it creates a world where I think it
really crystallizes the scort shirt nature of people's lives when
they really go through struggle. And so part of it
really is just the act of reaching out to another
human being. And if you think about somebody to text
the say hey, I'm thinking about you, because you have
no idea how much that means to somebody, And it
goes to this broader idea and broader sort of I

(26:19):
think narrative in our society is the people who are
said to be essential keep feeling left to be disposable. Right,
you know, we send our troops out ghanastic and they
believe they die, they watch their friends die, and we
withdraw and they essentially feel like what was it for? Right?
Does my life even matter? And it's the same with
the police. It's to defund the police stuff. It's like,
I'm willing to put my life on the line for
society that does not value and I think it really

(26:42):
does contribute to struggle. And so you've got you know,
the mental health system telling you you're broken, You've got
society telling you they don't really care, and you're left
and then you're just dealing with a lot of stress
and sling professionally. And I think it's easy to see
why that's such a toxic cocktail. And so part of
what we have to do isn't just to do programs,
but I think it's we have to change the nature
of all our societal narrative about trauma, about struggle, and

(27:03):
we've we've got to show up for these men and women,
and sometimes that just means saying thank you, acknowledging the
value they provide, and being grateful for the things that
they do. Absolutely, and ken you, you got a big
year coming up next year. And for what I'm seeing,
you've been married to your wife Julia for thirty nine years,
you're coming up on forty. That's a lot of pressure.
You know, you got to find something that you haven't
bought for her before. And the shopping for the wife

(27:24):
is very tough. That I've learned forty years. You know,
the bomb disposals guy in the Navy and in the military,
that's CEO D Explosive Ordinance Disposal And in the Navy,
it was a joke when I first joined the Heart
for everyone's divorce. So we've we've made it. We've made
it through a lot of a lot of turmoil, and
they had a great marriage and a great family. Good

(27:44):
for you and and Josh, we can't let you go
with aout talking about you know, before I transferred University
of Maryland, I was an Emerson College guy in the
back day of Boston, and I always just remember like
going to the coolest party of Tufts, And I just
wonder if you remember back that far to say, yeah,
you know, Tufts was a tough school, but also, boy,
you guys could do keg stands like nobody's business. We
had some very good parties. The ones that stick in

(28:06):
my minders some ice luge iluge yours if I wanted
to put my mouth on that, but it was. It
was a great experience. I love Boston. I love the
food up there, and and I did fall in love
with the Red Sox as well, So U judge me
if you will, but I did. It was an amazing
experience to get to go to school there and I think, uh,
you know, study the world and get to where I
am today. It's just amazing. I had a love hate

(28:26):
relationship with the Red Sox in a sense where Emerson,
where I lived, was right over Kenmore Square basically, and
then you could look into Fenway almost at least you
could see the Green Monster. But then that damn sick
Go sign, you know, that's above the wall. It was
right in my window. I had to put up like
heifty bags over it because I didn't go off until

(28:46):
exactly at the strike of midnight. So that that's what
I remember. I Boston's probably why I transferred Lindon, and
I think about it like I gotta sign yeah, first
first roll problems, no question about it. Hey, guys, how
do we donate to Boulder Crest? As far as I know,
go to the website, But is there faster ways to
do this where we could get as much money in
the cofference as possible for the most worthy cause. I

(29:08):
could think of it this holiday season. Thank you for
saying that. It's you know, there's so many great causes
and we do need help, but it's it's it's the
easiest thing is to go to the website. There's a
click donate button and you can put your credit card information,
and it's We've made it as easy as possible right
on the flat on the front page. That's great to hear.
And how much of you raise so far just a
ballpark category. Well, you know, we we have to raise

(29:31):
every year about eight and a half million dollars, and
for this campaign right now we've raised about two hundred
thousand dollars and goals to raise a million, so we're
we had a long way to go and we could
resolve that. Help we can get well being on seven
hundred stations right now if certainly, I hope will help Linda,
I know you had want to put in one more
plug for one more worthy cause in the organization. So
you've got Operations Struggle, Well, just tell people about Operations

(29:54):
Struggle well this new campaign and how we're going to
be putting out more information on that. Yeah, you know,
our focus is on serving fifteen hundred combat veterans as
first responders as part of this Operation to Struggle. Well,
So the funding we're seeking, the million dollars can mentioned
is really designed to help us transform the lights of
fifteen hundred people. And what I would say to anybody
listening is is the commitment we have is it's really

(30:15):
about transformation. It's not catching the leaves, it's not one
and done. It's not a few days away. This is
really about fundamentally changing people's lives and allowing them to
then change the lights of the people and their family
and in their community. And so it pays evidence everywhere
down the line. And so we'd love you to join
us to be part of that effort and to help
us transform the lives of these fifteen hundred men and
women who who, like I said, they need us to

(30:36):
show up for them at a time, because darn knows,
they show up for us. And it's only ten bucks
a month, right exactly. Yeah, so it's ten bucks a month.
You know, give what you can. You know, we're so grateful,
you know, for all you guys are doing. Linda just
bought me a cup of coffee that was twelve dollars
here in midto Manhattan, so you can afford it. People
are I so sad, It's so true. Go into this

(30:56):
week and feeling good about yourself and and donate the
ten dollars a month. I mean, well, what is gasco
for these days? Ninety bucks to fill up by one
hundred and eighty three thousand mile car yesterday? All right, enough,
donate to Bouldercrest Josh Goldberg, Ken Folk, thanks so much
for joining us. The final hour of the Sean Hannity

(31:18):
Show is up next. Hang on for Shawn's Conservative solutions.
This is Joe Kancha filling in for Shawn Hannaday. This

(31:39):
wonderful Wednesday before Thanksgiving long weekend, best weekend of the
year in this guy's opinion. Coming up next, Number thirty
four herschel Walker, just weeks ahead of a crucial rundown
in Georgia. We talked to herschel next in a moment.

(32:03):
You know you've helped, You know you've helped build my
Pillow into the incredible company it is. Today. You've trusted
Mike Glendel to give you a great night sleep. Now
one of Mike's latest incredible deals is on his Giza
Dream sheets. Now those are the sheets made from the
world's best cotton, Giza, the softest sheets you will ever
sleep on. Right now, Geza Dream Sheets are back at

(32:24):
the lowest price ever. Now these sheets are coming in
as low as twenty nine ninety nine. By going to
the Sean Hannity Square when you go to my Pillow
dot Com and don't forget my Pillow products come with
a ten year warranty, and now for the holiday season,
they are extending their sixty day money back guarantee. Orders
place between now and December. The twenty fifth will have
a money back guarantee extended until March first, twenty twenty three.

(32:48):
Just go to my pillow dot com, click on the
Shawn Hannity square to get the insanely low price thirty
nine ninety nine on the towel set and of the
promo code Hannity, or call eight hundred nine nine six
zero nine zero mention my name for these great, incredible discounts.
If you own a business, this has been a bumpy
ride from pandemic to inflation, I'm sure you could use

(33:08):
a break. If your business has five or more employees
and survived COVID, you might be eligible to receive a
payroll tax refund of up to twenty six thousand dollars
per employee. The challenge is getting your hands on it. Hi,
I'm Howard Mackler, and that's why I founded get refunds
dot Com to cut through the red tape and get
you that money. The team of tax attorneys we have
put together are highly trained. This little known payroll tax

(33:30):
refund program. We do all the work, charge not a
dime upfront, and so we share a percentage of the
cash that we get for you. Businesses of all types qualify,
including those who took PPP, nonprofits, and even those that
had increases in sales. We have helped return over a
billion dollars to businesses, and we can help your business too.
Just go to get refunds dot com and answer a

(33:52):
few questions. This payroll tax refund is only available for
a limited period of time. Don't lose out and up
to twenty six thousand dollars per employe AOIE. Go to
get refunds dot com. That's get refunds dot com.