October 22, 2025 • 31 mins
Sean Hannity continues his in-depth conversation with Elie Sharabi, diving into the unimaginable details of his captivity — life underground in Hamas tunnels, starvation, psychological warfare, and his unbreakable will to live. Sharabi describes how he held on to hope, led fellow hostages, and found strength through routine and faith. Hannity explores Sharabi’s release, his meeting with President Donald Trump, and what the world must understand about Hamas and terrorism.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, Leonard Skinner simple man. That can only mean
one thing on this radio program, and that is all
things self proclaimed simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly.
That means all things bill O'Reilly when you go to
Bill O'Reilly dot com. I want to start with something
I know. I know you address this on your podcast,
and that is our friend Stephen A. Smith is one
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of the nicest guys we know, we're both very fond
of him. He's a great guy. And you know he
will tell you that when he was, you know, let
go at one point from his job, that there were
a few people that stood up for him, defended him,
stood by him, and among them would be people like you,
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me and Mark Levin. And he never forgot that. And
now obviously his star has been rising, which I couldn't
be happier about. I'd love to see that. And anyway,
so I guess it's on fake news CNN some guy
named Bakari Sellers. Do you know who this guy is?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I know he is. You want me to run
it down?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, And I want to play the tape, and then
you're gonna let you run it down.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
How's that excellent?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's play the tape.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I know you stand on the shoulders of strong black men,
and you are disappointing us every time you continue to
chop down those people who are doing that real work.
And so yeah, I think it's necessary that we call
that out. I think it's necessary we have that level
of accountability, especially right now while you're appreciating the gaze
of those individuals in the White House, the gaze of
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people like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly but yet instill. You're
quiet as a church mouse pissing on cotton when Donald
Trump is out here trying to take away our voting rights.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, he's been anything but quiet in his criticisms about
Donald Trump. He is somebody that is he's not a
radical leftist, but he's a Democrat, and you can have
a civil conversation with him. You can laugh with them,
you can talk about other stuff. I'm more friends with
him than I am a political opponent of his, and
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I find those remarks unfortunately too common and repulsive. Let's
get your take.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, but Cary sOAZ is a race bader in my opinion,
So that's what he does. And then he said those
things about Stephen A. Smith because he wants to intimidate
stephen A.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, good luck with that. That's not going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, but that's that was his motivation because Stephen A
has been critical of Congress from in Crocketted Texas and
questioned her veracity, her grasp of the issues, which is
certainly legitimate, not just for our Congress from the Crockett
but for every politician. And so doesn't like it because
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he's a color based guy. If you're black, you're beyond criticism.
If you're white, then you are a suspect. This is
the Cary Sellers. He's getting paid by CNN. Now he
brings you and me into it because he's playing to
a radical left group that doesn't like us, and we're
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a symbol of white supremacy. I guess, Hannady, I don't know.
I mean, when we go out we have scrambled eggs
and burgers. I don't know if that's white supremacy. I'm
not eating a lot of pheasant underglass. I don't think
you are either, Bill.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Bill, we're both Christians. We believe that God created every man, woman,
and child. I find that, frankly, that cheap shot that
is constantly throwing on people that are conservative or Republican.
You know, I find that obnoxious. I find it intellectually
lazy because that is the antithesis of who we are.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I find it vicious. So I'm upgrading from obnoxious. So
what I did was I laid out as you did
that Stephen a Is should be a man of respect.
And if you saw a week ago the Three Americans
Show at the Kennedy Center and DC, where we had
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every point of view you could possibly have for two
hours on the News Nation Special, and twenty three million
people accessed that program. Twenty three million, So there's a
hunger for them.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
They were tuning in for Steve and I. They weren't
tuning in for you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, whatever they were tuning into, I was a beneficiary
of it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm just kidding, you know. But the thing is, Okay,
this is what they cling to. This is now what
the left in this country is reduced to, racist, sexist,
fascist Hitlos Doolin, Mussolini. I sum it up that way,
and it's having I don't think it's having the impact
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they want. If it would have had any impact, it
would have impacted the twenty twenty four election, because that
was their closing argument, Bill, Well, if it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Had the impact want of discovery, wouldn't be trying to
sell Cienna. And I think you and I might want
to buy that, by the way, so it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Want no part of it. You can't, you can't. You
can't resuscitate that brand.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I could, I could, but there would be a lot
of blood in the street. But I got a little
personal with Sellers. Last point I want to make on
him because as you know, I have a charitable foundation
named after my parents, and I give an enormous amount
of money to mentoring programs like Best Friends in Washington, DC,
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and to black colleges and Two Brothers Keeper and to
Big Brothers and Sisters because I leave the solution to poverty,
not only African American poverty, but poverty in general, is
mentoring and one on one we have successful people taking
a very strong interest in poor kids, kids at risk. Now,
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I put my money where my mouth is, and I
challenge sellers, do you do that? You know?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You're asking me if I have charitable causes. I'm a
part of many of them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, So why would he use me and you who
are using our affluence to benefit African Americans and that's
a target of my foundation. Why would you do that?
That's such a cheap shot, Someway.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I do it for two specific programs, and having the past,
done it for two specific programs to help minority youth
get into athletics as an alternative to having nothing to
do after school, and they're both very successful.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Smith does that. So the whole thing is a charade,
and I'm glad that we can call it out because
it's got to stop. And you're right, it doesn't have
a lot of influence anymore that clear thinking people know
what this racket is, this race fading racket, and they
rejected it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Let me go to what's happening in your state? And
I've asked you many times on the program Bill, why
don't you pack up and leave? You know you're getting
tax to death. You know, my accountant, before I left
New York, you said we would always say to me
every year when we'd have our meeting, you know, whatever
you do, don't die in New York. And I always
found that very funny. But if you do, you you know,
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on top of all the money you paid in taxes,
then they come in and they take as a state
ten percent of whatever state you have left, which is
insane a state do that, but it is what it is.
You've made your decision, you're happy where you are. I
respect people that make that whatever choice. But New York
City is about to elect a Marxist communist. I won't
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go through the checklist of every bizarre position he's taken.
We've covered that at nauseum. But the reality is, and
now there's an inordinate amount of pressure that had been
brought to bear on Curtis Leewood to drop out of
the race. And Curtis he says he's been offered as
much as ten million dollars in a show for limousine
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if he'd get out. And you know, I just pushed
back on this notion that is somehow Curtis's fault. No,
I think that Andrew Cuomo has not run a good campaign.
Starting in the primary. He's taken off ten days since
Labor Day, which in a race where you're behind, you
don't take off any days if you really want to
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win that office. He's spent, in my view, what I read,
too many days out in the Hampton's doing fundraising. He's
not down in the subways, he's not out shaking hands,
and remember ed Kotch would always, you know, be out
there shaking hands with everybody if you want to go
back to a Democrat. I have yet to see a
single poll head to head where Andrew Cuomo's even close
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to zoron Kami the Marx's Mom, Donnie, and I think
the idea that you're going to put all of this
on Curtis for being the one Republican in the race
is unfair. Now I'll add one other thing to this,
if you know, all of a sudden, I guess, I
guess Governor Cuomo was on what SID the other day
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and said, oh, I have never thought about the idea
of maybe calling Curtis and maybe teaming up with him. Well,
that's on him that he didn't reach out if he
thought that that pairing up together might be a good
thing to stop. Mom, Donnie, you know, now everyone's in
a state of panic, but the state of panic should
have been after Cuomo lost big time the primary.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, let me give you some facts. Number One, I
have not asked for Curtis to drop out, because I
would feel very uneasy about doing that with anybody. So
have you are patriotic enough to run for office in
any party at any time. It's not my job to
tell you what to do. So I have not done that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And I'll add one other thing. Don't we always say
we want principal politicians that won't sell out. And Curtis
has offered all these jobs, no show jobs, he's saying,
and Chaufford, limousines and all this sort of thing, and
you know, and he's turned it down because he's fighting
for what he believes in. How do you how do
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we say we want that? Then when we get it,
we say get out of the race. Well, not me,
I'm not calling for it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's not going to get out of the race. I
don't think the Republicans are down five to one and
voter registration so he's not going to win.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And if he did get out of the race, by
the way, it's down about nine or ten to one,
whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But I think it's registration in the five boroughs is
five to one. It might be ten to one in
this in the surrounding area, but I could be wrong
on that. But anyway, CMO would take up some votes
if Curtis endorsed Cuomo. But Curtis can endorse Cuomo because
he's been as big as critic for the last ten years. Whatever.
Number Two, there is a big foreign presence in New
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York City. Half of the workers in New York were
born overseas, and a lot of people are struggling in
the city. Two insolvency. They don't have enough money because
they're so expensive to live. And Dommy is promising all
this stuff you'll never deliver. It's the Fidel Castrow playbook,
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all right, almost word for work. But the real horror
of this. And the final debate is tonight in New
York City.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And Curtis will be my show right after. By the way,
what you're referring to is the poll published by Patriot Polling,
and the article starts out decades of mass legal immigration
in New York City propelled Joram Donnie's campaign to be
the city's next mayor. According to the results, as foreign
born voters are lining up and drove to support Mam Donnie.
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So that's what you're referring to, and that is very important.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But the African American vote, which is very powerful and
that's why Lee Zelden was not elected governor here, came
very close to beaton Hogal last summer on the African
American vote is not coalescing around Colomba. I don't like
him and he's not a very likable guy, let's be
honest about it. So that's all. That's not going to change.
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So I believe man Donnie will be the next mayor.
But people don't understand what exactly is going to happen.
If you call nine to one one under a mayor,
ma'am Donnie, nobody's going to show up, okay, so you're
on your own.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, if you're lucky, the social workers may come in,
because he's a reimagine the police, you know, the police
and sending the social workers instead. A lot of good
are social workers going to do in those situations?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Americans, when they're in trouble, when they're being menaced, they
call nine to one one and in most places the
police respond. That will stop. In New York City, the
police department is ten thousand under man. Now it is
a record flight out. Cops are getting out. They cannot
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be replaced. So you're not going to have a police presence.
That means all right, lot more.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Because I'm running out of time. Let's assume he wins.
What happens to New York. Besides the crime, which I
agree with, I predict a mass exodus. Wall Street South
gets bigger. They might have just small remaining offices in
New York symbolic for big customers that choose to remain there.
But they're out. They're leaving, Bill, They're going to leave
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in droves.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We'll have a lot more friends down in Florida. Hey,
my real estate here I'm out eight miles outside of
the Queen's line has been up twenty percent since Mandommie announced.
So they'll go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're saying you want Mamdani to win because you'll benefit,
you know, financially, that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm just giving you the stat We'll.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Give you more money to give away for you a
good charitable organization and your your family trust that you have, well,
that's always a good your family foundation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
At my advanced stage, I'm still working. So anyway, look,
your garbage not go it picked up. There'll be far
more violence in the city. People will move out in droves.
The state of New York fiscally will collapse. Hoko will lose.
That's the one good thing she will lose. Next November.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not convinced Hoko will lose, but we'll see. Bill
O'Reilly all things simple, man. Thank you my friend eight
hundred and ninety four one, showing us a number if
you want to be a part of the program. Nick
and Pennsylvani Nick the Commonwealth. What's going on? Sir Hi?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Thanks for having me on Sean.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Thank you? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I attended the New King's rally on Saturday, and I
just wanted to kind of give you a bird's eye
view what it was like. Foots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I'm dying to hear it. What do you got? What'd
you see?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I live in State College, you know where Penn State
is the university, and you would expect I mean, it
was nothing but boomers at the at the protests, it was.
The demograph was probably fifty plus. Kind of expect a
more young turnout for this kind of thing, But I
mean it does reflect the voting base and everything. I
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just think young people are kind of disinterested in politics
and voting now. They're so sick of the whirlwind of
everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, there were from what I saw, there were a
lot of you know, aging hippies that showed up with
these things. And there were some you know, young people
with you know, pink and purple hair and you know,
but you know, between the signs that I read f Trump,
f Ice and the rhetoric I heard, you know, calling
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Charlie Kirk garbage, getting in front of a Charlie Kirk
supporter and mimicking mocking his being shot in the neck,
calling for ICE agents to be shot, one saying he
wants to kill President Trump. You know, it's to me,
it is it just is representative where Democrats are today,
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and this is a radicalized party. This is why Chuck
Schumer shut down the government. This is why Democrats are
afraid to take on the radicals in their party. They
won't stand up to them.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
So as you had a segment yesterday and you're talking about,
you don't know if any Democrats listen to your show.
I'm a Democrat. I've been definitely left of center than
you know, heavily left leaning. But I mean, anyone that
can't condemn an act of political violence is just that's
that's not the way you do things.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You know, And well, let me ask you, tell me,
let me ask you a question. Let me go through
a serious of questions with you. Let me see if
I can help you, you know, really clarify your thinking.
So do you think we should have law and order
at the border and legal immigration? Do you think that
everybody that enters this country needs to be vetted?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Are you in favor of law and order and regular
policing or do you support defund dismantled no bail laws
and reimagine the police.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
No.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think that police need to be defunded or disbanded.
And I think that if you come over illegally.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, check check number two? Check number three? Do you
think Americans are over taxed or under tax Would you
have supported Donald Trump's largest tax cut in American history
or the Democrat's largest tax increase in American history?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
So I do support aspects of the big beautiful bill,
it's just the.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I've seen it my entire I'm asking a very specific
question because that was the biggest part. Do you support
no tax on tips, overtime, and social security?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, So the Democrats were against all of that. They
voted for the largest tax increase in history. Do you
believe that energy is the lifeblood of the world's economy,
and because we have so many natural resources that we
should be energy dominant.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I do.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I think we should be self reliant on oil and
you know, the precious, precious minerals. I go into semiconductors
and all the things that are used for the computer
chips and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Perfect. Next question, do you think that that men should
have the right to play women's sports and be in
women's locker rooms?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Okay? Next, and probably I guess my last question. Do
you believe that the world is an evil place and
we need a president that understands evil exists and is
building the building out the next generation of weaponry and
is willing to use the Merria can power in instances,
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for example, to not allow Iranian Mullahs that chant death
to America to get nuclear weapons. Is that the right
call for you?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Can I ask you a question, Sean, Okay, you can.
But I'm just telling you right now, you're not a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I'm definitely more of a centrist.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I lean you're not a centrist either. There a common
sense American and that means you don't have you can't
vote for this Democratic party. You can based on your answers,
you are completely at odds with the Democratic Party. All right,
what's your question for me the last election? Yes, what's
your question?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
My question is the same way aircraft carriers revolution as
the military in World War Two? Do you think drone
technology is revolutionizing the way wars are fought now?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I absolutely believe the next generation of weaponry is critical,
including yes, drones. We see the impact it's had in
the Middle East and in the war in Europe with
Ukrainian and Russia. I do believe the President's vision for
the Golden Dome to protect America. I think the next
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generation will surprise people. I think laser defense is going
to be the next generation. That's my prediction, mark my words.
And I think that I think that America is rightly
getting ahead of all of this thanks to President Trump,
because Joe Biden let everything decline. Look, I'm just going
to tell you something. How old are you? Sound like
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a good kid.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I'm twenty five, right, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Twenty five years old. You know when you become twenty five,
you know a young man's brain is not fully formed
till it's twenty five, twenty six? Did you know that?
I didn't know that yeah, Okay, your brain is now
pretty much fully formed, and you are not. You said
you were a Democrat when we started this. You're not.
And it's just a matter of you coming to grips
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with that part. And I think that over time you're
going to realize that the value system of the those
people that you saw at this No King's rally, you know,
dressed up in mascot and furry you know, uniforms and
chanting and singing and holding up signs that say f Trump,
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f Ice killed Trump, kill Ice, shoot Ice, all this nonsense.
That that's not who you are. I know, it's not
who you are based on this one phone call. That's
not who you are. And I think that you, you know,
maybe maybe there are things you don't like about President
Trump's style. I don't know, but it's neither here nor there.
It's the policies that impact lives, and it's governance that
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will impact lives, and it's winning elections. But you're not
a You are not a Democrat. I'm telling you right now,
you might as well change your party affiliation tomorrow because
you're not.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So I'm a registered independence, but I just I just
wanted to say, like I see a lot of people
that are just concerned, that are concerned about, you know,
the income disparity in this country, and you know, people
not being able to afford rent or and it's just
a lot of frustration, you know. And there was there
was a well let me let me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Ask you about that, okay. Because President Trump has seventeen
trillion a new investments committed to this country for manufacturing,
that's going to be a lot of high paying career
jobs for people. Opening up energy dominance is going to
create a lot of high paying career jobs for people.
The largest tax cut in history, Reagan cut taxes from
seven eighty to twenty eight percent. Twenty one million new
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jobs were created, and we had the longest period of
peace time economic growth. So those three things are in
place for somebody like you, your age. What do you
do for a living? We're at a hotel, okay, and
you're in the service industry?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah I am, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Do you like it? Do you want to make a
career out of it? Do you want to do something else?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I'm a very social I have a degree in mechanical engineering,
but I graduated during COVID, So all the internships that
were you know doing that. They were working from home
at the time, so I wasn't able to get any
actual experience and my degree, so they kind of sell
by the wayside. But I would like to get back
into that in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know what, Listen, I'm just going to tell your
dream big and everything that government touches. You know, the
school systems are a disaster in most blue cities and states.
You know, No policing is a disaster. They're not safe
and secure, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid all head of a
bankruptcy is not one part of the Obamacare promise that
(23:30):
was kept. And I'm giving you the best advice anyone
will give you. Never in your life count on the
government for anything. Take control of your destiny. And the
way you do it is the old fashioned way. You
roll up your sleeves, you work harder than everybody else.
You never say no, you work over time. You don't
(23:50):
work forty hour weeks, you work seventy hour weeks, and
that will lead to prosperity and happiness for you. And
never give up and never stop applying, and never stop
you know, chasing your dreams. You're at a point right now,
I assume you're not married, you know, so you don't
have you don't you don't have obligations that are weighing
(24:13):
you down. And now is the time in your life
where you should dream big and jump through, jump off
every high board to achieve your dreams. Okay, all right,
thank you, Sean, I just all right. I hope it
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Speaker 1 (25:56):
All right, quick break right back to our phones eight
hundred and nine four one Sewan. We'd love to hear
from you on the other side as we continue straight
ahead up next our final roundup and information overload hour. Alright,
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let's get back to our busy phones. Eight hundred and
nine four one. Shawn is our number, Nevada. Sean next
on the Sean Hannity Show, what's going on? How are you? Sir?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Good do great John here? You're great American and a
great name as well.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So how do you spell your name? That's the key.
If you pass the test, you would be you'd be spread.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
So it's should be Armenian version. It's actually called s
h a U n T believe it or not, and
people think it's shown T and I'm like, not, believe me,
it's a it's a mess. I could go to the
whole diet drive.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, I can. I could deal with that. I mean,
there are many ways to spell it, but se A
N is the Irish version of spelling. But anyway, glad
you called how things out in Nevada?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
It's yeah, they're good out here. We got a good governor.
He's he's kind of riding the ship and so we
drift between purple the red. He was of red depending
on where you live, right, Uh, but it's been good.
But where I am contemplating a move to Florida. And
I really liked your comments and your feedback, and what
do you really think you think is going to happen in
terms of you know, postpon Damie, is really Wall Street
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South going to be a permanent thing?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Right?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Are these companies going to leave in droves? And I
think once companies leave, it's hard to get him back, right,
So how permanent you think that's going to be shocked?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, first of all, it's already real. It's already happened.
You know, Citadel Ken Griffin, he moved all those operations
for the most part, with very little left behind. In Chicago, Texas,
for example, has more JP Morgan employees than New York
City does. But if you look at every major financial firm,
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private equity group, every major bank that has defined Wall Street,
you know for nearly two hundred years, if you will,
they're all down here and their offices are growing by
leaps and bounds, and I just think this accelerates it.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They'll probably keep all of them, will keep a small
presence in New York as I imagine, you know, there's
a certain amount of their business that they have to
do there, but they're going to minimize it because they're
going to you know, I don't know rich people that
got rich by being stupid. I just don't you know,
maybe some people are lucky. I don't know, but they're
(28:52):
pretty smart. And if they're looking at a corporate rate
that is the highest in the nation versus no corporate
income taxes, it's not complicated when you're dealing with hundreds
of millions or even billions of dollars to do the
math and realize you're going to save a lot of
money and make more money and pay your employees more
money if you do so, and that I would expect
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that there's going to be, you know, another wave of
exodus out of New York. And I think that these
companies have had it. I think there's no way now.
People say, well, Mam Donnie will need Albany's support, but
I don't think Kathy Hochel has any control over Allbney,
to be very honest, unless he's going to be willing
to take on the radical legislature up there. It's just
(29:37):
the same a shame in so many ways because New
York had so much potential. I mean, I used to
once call it the greatest city in the world, and
you know, it's become an Adam Schiffol. It's awful. Crime
has had a control quality of life out of control, homelessness,
out of control, poverty is everywhere. You know, Eric Adams,
he could have easily won reelection had he done a
(29:58):
good job and not opened up, you know, the city
of New York to all the illegals, and then later
come to regret it because he had. You know, it
became an unmitigated disaster for him, and I think that's
the main reason why his approval rating was in the
tank and he had to he had to bow out
of even running for reelection. You know, we'll see. I
will tell you. Look, my own personal taste is I
(30:22):
like being near the water. I like the weather, I
like the people. It's a night. It's been a dramatic difference.
It got to a point in especially New York City,
where I felt that if I was going out to places,
you could read a room utter disdain, disgust. I felt
(30:43):
like it was I was putting people in danger that
I cared about, and I just felt like it got
too bad, and that that's probably the main reason I
left UH and it was becoming untenable. You won't regret it.
I tell you right now. You're gonna love the weather,
You're gonna love the people. And there's a million places
that are nice. You can live in Florida, all right.
We'll have more on the other side. Eli Sharrabi coming
(31:05):
up on the other side. Eight hundred and nine four
one Shawn our number as we continue
All right, Leonard Skinner simple man. That can only mean
one thing on this radio program, and that is all
things self proclaimed simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly.
That means all things bill O'Reilly when you go to
Bill O'Reilly dot com. I want to start with something
I know. I know you address this on your podcast,
and that is our friend Stephen A. Smith is one
(00:36):
of the nicest guys we know, we're both very fond
of him. He's a great guy. And you know he
will tell you that when he was, you know, let
go at one point from his job, that there were
a few people that stood up for him, defended him,
stood by him, and among them would be people like you,
(00:58):
me and Mark Levin. And he never forgot that. And
now obviously his star has been rising, which I couldn't
be happier about. I'd love to see that. And anyway,
so I guess it's on fake news CNN some guy
named Bakari Sellers. Do you know who this guy is?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I know he is. You want me to run
it down?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, And I want to play the tape, and then
you're gonna let you run it down.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
How's that excellent?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's play the tape.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I know you stand on the shoulders of strong black men,
and you are disappointing us every time you continue to
chop down those people who are doing that real work.
And so yeah, I think it's necessary that we call
that out. I think it's necessary we have that level
of accountability, especially right now while you're appreciating the gaze
of those individuals in the White House, the gaze of
(01:48):
people like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly but yet instill. You're
quiet as a church mouse pissing on cotton when Donald
Trump is out here trying to take away our voting rights.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, he's been anything but quiet in his criticisms about
Donald Trump. He is somebody that is he's not a
radical leftist, but he's a Democrat, and you can have
a civil conversation with him. You can laugh with them,
you can talk about other stuff. I'm more friends with
him than I am a political opponent of his, and
(02:22):
I find those remarks unfortunately too common and repulsive. Let's
get your take.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, but Cary sOAZ is a race bader in my opinion,
So that's what he does. And then he said those
things about Stephen A. Smith because he wants to intimidate
stephen A.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
By the way, good luck with that. That's not going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, but that's that was his motivation because Stephen A
has been critical of Congress from in Crocketted Texas and
questioned her veracity, her grasp of the issues, which is
certainly legitimate, not just for our Congress from the Crockett
but for every politician. And so doesn't like it because
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he's a color based guy. If you're black, you're beyond criticism.
If you're white, then you are a suspect. This is
the Cary Sellers. He's getting paid by CNN. Now he
brings you and me into it because he's playing to
a radical left group that doesn't like us, and we're
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a symbol of white supremacy. I guess, Hannady, I don't know.
I mean, when we go out we have scrambled eggs
and burgers. I don't know if that's white supremacy. I'm
not eating a lot of pheasant underglass. I don't think
you are either, Bill.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Bill, we're both Christians. We believe that God created every man, woman,
and child. I find that, frankly, that cheap shot that
is constantly throwing on people that are conservative or Republican.
You know, I find that obnoxious. I find it intellectually
lazy because that is the antithesis of who we are.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I find it vicious. So I'm upgrading from obnoxious. So
what I did was I laid out as you did
that Stephen a Is should be a man of respect.
And if you saw a week ago the Three Americans
Show at the Kennedy Center and DC, where we had
(04:29):
every point of view you could possibly have for two
hours on the News Nation Special, and twenty three million
people accessed that program. Twenty three million, So there's a
hunger for them.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
They were tuning in for Steve and I. They weren't
tuning in for you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, whatever they were tuning into, I was a beneficiary
of it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm just kidding, you know. But the thing is, Okay,
this is what they cling to. This is now what
the left in this country is reduced to, racist, sexist,
fascist Hitlos Doolin, Mussolini. I sum it up that way,
and it's having I don't think it's having the impact
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they want. If it would have had any impact, it
would have impacted the twenty twenty four election, because that
was their closing argument, Bill, Well, if it.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Had the impact want of discovery, wouldn't be trying to
sell Cienna. And I think you and I might want
to buy that, by the way, so it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Want no part of it. You can't, you can't. You
can't resuscitate that brand.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I could, I could, but there would be a lot
of blood in the street. But I got a little
personal with Sellers. Last point I want to make on
him because as you know, I have a charitable foundation
named after my parents, and I give an enormous amount
of money to mentoring programs like Best Friends in Washington, DC,
(06:00):
and to black colleges and Two Brothers Keeper and to
Big Brothers and Sisters because I leave the solution to poverty,
not only African American poverty, but poverty in general, is
mentoring and one on one we have successful people taking
a very strong interest in poor kids, kids at risk. Now,
(06:25):
I put my money where my mouth is, and I
challenge sellers, do you do that? You know?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You're asking me if I have charitable causes. I'm a
part of many of them.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, So why would he use me and you who
are using our affluence to benefit African Americans and that's
a target of my foundation. Why would you do that?
That's such a cheap shot, Someway.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I do it for two specific programs, and having the past,
done it for two specific programs to help minority youth
get into athletics as an alternative to having nothing to
do after school, and they're both very successful.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Smith does that. So the whole thing is a charade,
and I'm glad that we can call it out because
it's got to stop. And you're right, it doesn't have
a lot of influence anymore that clear thinking people know
what this racket is, this race fading racket, and they
rejected it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Let me go to what's happening in your state? And
I've asked you many times on the program Bill, why
don't you pack up and leave? You know you're getting
tax to death. You know, my accountant, before I left
New York, you said we would always say to me
every year when we'd have our meeting, you know, whatever
you do, don't die in New York. And I always
found that very funny. But if you do, you you know,
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on top of all the money you paid in taxes,
then they come in and they take as a state
ten percent of whatever state you have left, which is
insane a state do that, but it is what it is.
You've made your decision, you're happy where you are. I
respect people that make that whatever choice. But New York
City is about to elect a Marxist communist. I won't
(08:14):
go through the checklist of every bizarre position he's taken.
We've covered that at nauseum. But the reality is, and
now there's an inordinate amount of pressure that had been
brought to bear on Curtis Leewood to drop out of
the race. And Curtis he says he's been offered as
much as ten million dollars in a show for limousine
(08:35):
if he'd get out. And you know, I just pushed
back on this notion that is somehow Curtis's fault. No,
I think that Andrew Cuomo has not run a good campaign.
Starting in the primary. He's taken off ten days since
Labor Day, which in a race where you're behind, you
don't take off any days if you really want to
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win that office. He's spent, in my view, what I read,
too many days out in the Hampton's doing fundraising. He's
not down in the subways, he's not out shaking hands,
and remember ed Kotch would always, you know, be out
there shaking hands with everybody if you want to go
back to a Democrat. I have yet to see a
single poll head to head where Andrew Cuomo's even close
(09:16):
to zoron Kami the Marx's Mom, Donnie, and I think
the idea that you're going to put all of this
on Curtis for being the one Republican in the race
is unfair. Now I'll add one other thing to this,
if you know, all of a sudden, I guess, I
guess Governor Cuomo was on what SID the other day
(09:36):
and said, oh, I have never thought about the idea
of maybe calling Curtis and maybe teaming up with him. Well,
that's on him that he didn't reach out if he
thought that that pairing up together might be a good
thing to stop. Mom, Donnie, you know, now everyone's in
a state of panic, but the state of panic should
have been after Cuomo lost big time the primary.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, let me give you some facts. Number One, I
have not asked for Curtis to drop out, because I
would feel very uneasy about doing that with anybody. So
have you are patriotic enough to run for office in
any party at any time. It's not my job to
tell you what to do. So I have not done that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And I'll add one other thing. Don't we always say
we want principal politicians that won't sell out. And Curtis
has offered all these jobs, no show jobs, he's saying,
and Chaufford, limousines and all this sort of thing, and
you know, and he's turned it down because he's fighting
for what he believes in. How do you how do
(10:42):
we say we want that? Then when we get it,
we say get out of the race. Well, not me,
I'm not calling for it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's not going to get out of the race. I
don't think the Republicans are down five to one and
voter registration so he's not going to win.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And if he did get out of the race, by
the way, it's down about nine or ten to one,
whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
But I think it's registration in the five boroughs is
five to one. It might be ten to one in
this in the surrounding area, but I could be wrong
on that. But anyway, CMO would take up some votes
if Curtis endorsed Cuomo. But Curtis can endorse Cuomo because
he's been as big as critic for the last ten years. Whatever.
Number Two, there is a big foreign presence in New
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York City. Half of the workers in New York were
born overseas, and a lot of people are struggling in
the city. Two insolvency. They don't have enough money because
they're so expensive to live. And Dommy is promising all
this stuff you'll never deliver. It's the Fidel Castrow playbook,
(11:49):
all right, almost word for work. But the real horror
of this. And the final debate is tonight in New
York City.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And Curtis will be my show right after. By the way,
what you're referring to is the poll published by Patriot Polling,
and the article starts out decades of mass legal immigration
in New York City propelled Joram Donnie's campaign to be
the city's next mayor. According to the results, as foreign
born voters are lining up and drove to support Mam Donnie.
(12:19):
So that's what you're referring to, and that is very important.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But the African American vote, which is very powerful and
that's why Lee Zelden was not elected governor here, came
very close to beaton Hogal last summer on the African
American vote is not coalescing around Colomba. I don't like
him and he's not a very likable guy, let's be
honest about it. So that's all. That's not going to change.
(12:46):
So I believe man Donnie will be the next mayor.
But people don't understand what exactly is going to happen.
If you call nine to one one under a mayor,
ma'am Donnie, nobody's going to show up, okay, so you're
on your own.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, if you're lucky, the social workers may come in,
because he's a reimagine the police, you know, the police
and sending the social workers instead. A lot of good
are social workers going to do in those situations?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Americans, when they're in trouble, when they're being menaced, they
call nine to one one and in most places the
police respond. That will stop. In New York City, the
police department is ten thousand under man. Now it is
a record flight out. Cops are getting out. They cannot
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be replaced. So you're not going to have a police presence.
That means all right, lot more.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Because I'm running out of time. Let's assume he wins.
What happens to New York. Besides the crime, which I
agree with, I predict a mass exodus. Wall Street South
gets bigger. They might have just small remaining offices in
New York symbolic for big customers that choose to remain there.
But they're out. They're leaving, Bill, They're going to leave
(13:59):
in droves.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We'll have a lot more friends down in Florida. Hey,
my real estate here I'm out eight miles outside of
the Queen's line has been up twenty percent since Mandommie announced.
So they'll go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're saying you want Mamdani to win because you'll benefit,
you know, financially, that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm just giving you the stat We'll.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Give you more money to give away for you a
good charitable organization and your your family trust that you have, well,
that's always a good your family foundation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
At my advanced stage, I'm still working. So anyway, look,
your garbage not go it picked up. There'll be far
more violence in the city. People will move out in droves.
The state of New York fiscally will collapse. Hoko will lose.
That's the one good thing she will lose. Next November.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm not convinced Hoko will lose, but we'll see. Bill
O'Reilly all things simple, man. Thank you my friend eight
hundred and ninety four one, showing us a number if
you want to be a part of the program. Nick
and Pennsylvani Nick the Commonwealth. What's going on? Sir Hi?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Thanks for having me on Sean.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Thank you? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I attended the New King's rally on Saturday, and I
just wanted to kind of give you a bird's eye
view what it was like. Foots on the ground.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I'm dying to hear it. What do you got? What'd
you see?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I live in State College, you know where Penn State
is the university, and you would expect I mean, it
was nothing but boomers at the at the protests, it was.
The demograph was probably fifty plus. Kind of expect a
more young turnout for this kind of thing, But I
mean it does reflect the voting base and everything. I
(15:36):
just think young people are kind of disinterested in politics
and voting now. They're so sick of the whirlwind of
everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, there were from what I saw, there were a
lot of you know, aging hippies that showed up with
these things. And there were some you know, young people
with you know, pink and purple hair and you know,
but you know, between the signs that I read f Trump,
f Ice and the rhetoric I heard, you know, calling
(16:04):
Charlie Kirk garbage, getting in front of a Charlie Kirk
supporter and mimicking mocking his being shot in the neck,
calling for ICE agents to be shot, one saying he
wants to kill President Trump. You know, it's to me,
it is it just is representative where Democrats are today,
(16:28):
and this is a radicalized party. This is why Chuck
Schumer shut down the government. This is why Democrats are
afraid to take on the radicals in their party. They
won't stand up to them.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
So as you had a segment yesterday and you're talking about,
you don't know if any Democrats listen to your show.
I'm a Democrat. I've been definitely left of center than
you know, heavily left leaning. But I mean, anyone that
can't condemn an act of political violence is just that's
that's not the way you do things.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You know, And well, let me ask you, tell me,
let me ask you a question. Let me go through
a serious of questions with you. Let me see if
I can help you, you know, really clarify your thinking.
So do you think we should have law and order
at the border and legal immigration? Do you think that
everybody that enters this country needs to be vetted?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Are you in favor of law and order and regular
policing or do you support defund dismantled no bail laws
and reimagine the police.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
No.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think that police need to be defunded or disbanded.
And I think that if you come over illegally.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Okay, check check number two? Check number three? Do you
think Americans are over taxed or under tax Would you
have supported Donald Trump's largest tax cut in American history
or the Democrat's largest tax increase in American history?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
So I do support aspects of the big beautiful bill,
it's just the.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I've seen it my entire I'm asking a very specific
question because that was the biggest part. Do you support
no tax on tips, overtime, and social security?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, So the Democrats were against all of that. They
voted for the largest tax increase in history. Do you
believe that energy is the lifeblood of the world's economy,
and because we have so many natural resources that we
should be energy dominant.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
I do.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
I think we should be self reliant on oil and
you know, the precious, precious minerals. I go into semiconductors
and all the things that are used for the computer
chips and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Perfect. Next question, do you think that that men should
have the right to play women's sports and be in
women's locker rooms?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Okay? Next, and probably I guess my last question. Do
you believe that the world is an evil place and
we need a president that understands evil exists and is
building the building out the next generation of weaponry and
is willing to use the Merria can power in instances,
(19:01):
for example, to not allow Iranian Mullahs that chant death
to America to get nuclear weapons. Is that the right
call for you?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
It is.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Can I ask you a question, Sean, Okay, you can.
But I'm just telling you right now, you're not a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I'm definitely more of a centrist.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I lean you're not a centrist either. There a common
sense American and that means you don't have you can't
vote for this Democratic party. You can based on your answers,
you are completely at odds with the Democratic Party. All right,
what's your question for me the last election? Yes, what's
your question?
Speaker 5 (19:37):
My question is the same way aircraft carriers revolution as
the military in World War Two? Do you think drone
technology is revolutionizing the way wars are fought now?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I absolutely believe the next generation of weaponry is critical,
including yes, drones. We see the impact it's had in
the Middle East and in the war in Europe with
Ukrainian and Russia. I do believe the President's vision for
the Golden Dome to protect America. I think the next
(20:06):
generation will surprise people. I think laser defense is going
to be the next generation. That's my prediction, mark my words.
And I think that I think that America is rightly
getting ahead of all of this thanks to President Trump,
because Joe Biden let everything decline. Look, I'm just going
to tell you something. How old are you? Sound like
(20:27):
a good kid.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I'm twenty five, right, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Twenty five years old. You know when you become twenty five,
you know a young man's brain is not fully formed
till it's twenty five, twenty six? Did you know that?
I didn't know that yeah, Okay, your brain is now
pretty much fully formed, and you are not. You said
you were a Democrat when we started this. You're not.
And it's just a matter of you coming to grips
(20:52):
with that part. And I think that over time you're
going to realize that the value system of the those
people that you saw at this No King's rally, you know,
dressed up in mascot and furry you know, uniforms and
chanting and singing and holding up signs that say f Trump,
(21:13):
f Ice killed Trump, kill Ice, shoot Ice, all this nonsense.
That that's not who you are. I know, it's not
who you are based on this one phone call. That's
not who you are. And I think that you, you know,
maybe maybe there are things you don't like about President
Trump's style. I don't know, but it's neither here nor there.
It's the policies that impact lives, and it's governance that
(21:34):
will impact lives, and it's winning elections. But you're not
a You are not a Democrat. I'm telling you right now,
you might as well change your party affiliation tomorrow because
you're not.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So I'm a registered independence, but I just I just
wanted to say, like I see a lot of people
that are just concerned, that are concerned about, you know,
the income disparity in this country, and you know, people
not being able to afford rent or and it's just
a lot of frustration, you know. And there was there
was a well let me let me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Ask you about that, okay. Because President Trump has seventeen
trillion a new investments committed to this country for manufacturing,
that's going to be a lot of high paying career
jobs for people. Opening up energy dominance is going to
create a lot of high paying career jobs for people.
The largest tax cut in history, Reagan cut taxes from
seven eighty to twenty eight percent. Twenty one million new
(22:27):
jobs were created, and we had the longest period of
peace time economic growth. So those three things are in
place for somebody like you, your age. What do you
do for a living? We're at a hotel, okay, and
you're in the service industry?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah I am, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Do you like it? Do you want to make a
career out of it? Do you want to do something else?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I'm a very social I have a degree in mechanical engineering,
but I graduated during COVID, So all the internships that
were you know doing that. They were working from home
at the time, so I wasn't able to get any
actual experience and my degree, so they kind of sell
by the wayside. But I would like to get back
into that in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know what, Listen, I'm just going to tell your
dream big and everything that government touches. You know, the
school systems are a disaster in most blue cities and states.
You know, No policing is a disaster. They're not safe
and secure, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid all head of a
bankruptcy is not one part of the Obamacare promise that
(23:30):
was kept. And I'm giving you the best advice anyone
will give you. Never in your life count on the
government for anything. Take control of your destiny. And the
way you do it is the old fashioned way. You
roll up your sleeves, you work harder than everybody else.
You never say no, you work over time. You don't
(23:50):
work forty hour weeks, you work seventy hour weeks, and
that will lead to prosperity and happiness for you. And
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(24:13):
you down. And now is the time in your life
where you should dream big and jump through, jump off
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All right, quick break right back to our phones eight
hundred and nine four one Sewan. We'd love to hear
from you on the other side as we continue straight
ahead up next our final roundup and information overload hour. Alright,
(26:39):
let's get back to our busy phones. Eight hundred and
nine four one. Shawn is our number, Nevada. Sean next
on the Sean Hannity Show, what's going on? How are you? Sir?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Good do great John here? You're great American and a
great name as well.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So how do you spell your name? That's the key.
If you pass the test, you would be you'd be spread.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
So it's should be Armenian version. It's actually called s
h a U n T believe it or not, and
people think it's shown T and I'm like, not, believe me,
it's a it's a mess. I could go to the
whole diet drive.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, I can. I could deal with that. I mean,
there are many ways to spell it, but se A
N is the Irish version of spelling. But anyway, glad
you called how things out in Nevada?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
It's yeah, they're good out here. We got a good governor.
He's he's kind of riding the ship and so we
drift between purple the red. He was of red depending
on where you live, right, Uh, but it's been good.
But where I am contemplating a move to Florida. And
I really liked your comments and your feedback, and what
do you really think you think is going to happen in
terms of you know, postpon Damie, is really Wall Street
(27:41):
South going to be a permanent thing?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Right?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Are these companies going to leave in droves? And I
think once companies leave, it's hard to get him back, right,
So how permanent you think that's going to be shocked?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, first of all, it's already real. It's already happened.
You know, Citadel Ken Griffin, he moved all those operations
for the most part, with very little left behind. In Chicago, Texas,
for example, has more JP Morgan employees than New York
City does. But if you look at every major financial firm,
(28:11):
private equity group, every major bank that has defined Wall Street,
you know for nearly two hundred years, if you will,
they're all down here and their offices are growing by
leaps and bounds, and I just think this accelerates it.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They'll probably keep all of them, will keep a small
presence in New York as I imagine, you know, there's
a certain amount of their business that they have to
do there, but they're going to minimize it because they're
going to you know, I don't know rich people that
got rich by being stupid. I just don't you know,
maybe some people are lucky. I don't know, but they're
(28:52):
pretty smart. And if they're looking at a corporate rate
that is the highest in the nation versus no corporate
income taxes, it's not complicated when you're dealing with hundreds
of millions or even billions of dollars to do the
math and realize you're going to save a lot of
money and make more money and pay your employees more
money if you do so, and that I would expect
(29:14):
that there's going to be, you know, another wave of
exodus out of New York. And I think that these
companies have had it. I think there's no way now.
People say, well, Mam Donnie will need Albany's support, but
I don't think Kathy Hochel has any control over Allbney,
to be very honest, unless he's going to be willing
to take on the radical legislature up there. It's just
(29:37):
the same a shame in so many ways because New
York had so much potential. I mean, I used to
once call it the greatest city in the world, and
you know, it's become an Adam Schiffol. It's awful. Crime
has had a control quality of life out of control, homelessness,
out of control, poverty is everywhere. You know, Eric Adams,
he could have easily won reelection had he done a
(29:58):
good job and not opened up, you know, the city
of New York to all the illegals, and then later
come to regret it because he had. You know, it
became an unmitigated disaster for him, and I think that's
the main reason why his approval rating was in the
tank and he had to he had to bow out
of even running for reelection. You know, we'll see. I
will tell you. Look, my own personal taste is I
(30:22):
like being near the water. I like the weather, I
like the people. It's a night. It's been a dramatic difference.
It got to a point in especially New York City,
where I felt that if I was going out to places,
you could read a room utter disdain, disgust. I felt
(30:43):
like it was I was putting people in danger that
I cared about, and I just felt like it got
too bad, and that that's probably the main reason I
left UH and it was becoming untenable. You won't regret it.
I tell you right now. You're gonna love the weather,
You're gonna love the people. And there's a million places
that are nice. You can live in Florida, all right.
We'll have more on the other side. Eli Sharrabi coming
(31:05):
up on the other side. Eight hundred and nine four
one Shawn our number as we continue
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