May 30, 2025 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
All right, thanks Scott Channon. An hour two Sean Hannity
Show this Friday, eight hundred and nine to four one.
Shawn is a number you want to be a part
of the program. Hawks News Legal Analysts, number one best
selling New York Times author Greg Jared is with us
before we get to a lot of the legal issues
of our time, and there's a ton of legal issues
in the news today. I do think this issue first
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broken by John Solomon, but actually first broken by our
ensemble cast including Greg Jarrett, John Solomon and others as
it relates to Nelly Orr. And what we have discovered
is that the Department of Justice knew damn well a
long time ago that Nelly or who whose husband was
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Bruce or deputy assistant district attorney or whatever what not
district attorney but attorney general, and that she was up
to her eyeballs working for Fusion GPS. They of course
were responsible for working with former MI six agent Christopher Steele.
They came up with the Dirty Russian disinformation dossier. That
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dossier was then used four times even though it was debunked,
even after it was debunked in December of twenty twenty sixteen,
and they still used it as the bulk of information
for the FAIZA applications. Call me signed three of the
four of them. You had to renew it every three months.
And on page fifty three of Greg's number one best
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selling book, he did point out all of this six
years ago. Greg Jarrett, take on a victory lap. You
deserve it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well, thanks, and again you were instrumental in all of this,
and you know we discussed it six years ago in
twenty nineteen when my book, Which Hunt, came out. So
I was reading through these newly declassified FBI documents showing
that Nelly Or gave false testimony, and I knew where
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that had been written before, because I wrote it almost
word for word chapter two, page fifty three, and then
many pages thereafter, and I detailed all of her false statements.
I had gone through the testimony. I had also obtained
documents which showed the same thing. You know, she denied,
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for example in her testimony, sharing her dossier research with
anybody at the Department of Justice. But as I wrote
in the book, there are three hundred and thirty nine
pages of emails showing that she sent it to at
least three prosecutors at the Department of Justice, and in fact,
those same emails proved that she knew of the DOJ's
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parallel investigation of Trump, even though she testified to the
exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, it's important to remind people greg that that dirty dossier,
and there are even claims and people that believe in
and maybe you believe that she actually wrote at least
part of it, if not all of it, that in
fact that they knew it was false, they didn't care,
and it without any real basis to start an investigation.
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It became the impetus for the opening of what was
known then as and now as Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which
was the Russia hoax.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, she helped research at least two phony dossiers on
Trump that essentially were mimicked or merged into Christopher Steele's
infamous bogus dossier. Then she and her husband Bruce or
the number four at the Department of Justice, met secretly
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with Christopher Steele nine am at the a Flower Hotel
in Washington, DC on July thirty, twenty sixteen. I wrote
all of this in my book, Which Hunt, and that
date's important because the very next day, the Crossfire Hurricane
investigation of Trump was launched without any legal basis, no
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credible evidence, and in direct violation of FBI regulations. So,
as you and I were talking last night, it was
crooked top to bottom, and James Cumy knew at the
outset that it was all a complete fiction. He didn't care.
He hated Donald Trump so much he was willing to
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abuse the law, lie to the courts to see the
American people all to take down President Trump. And you know,
the lesson here is the people we entrust to enforce
the law can themselves become law breakers. And yet none
of them were ever charged or held accountable.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, I think that's the key thing. They weren't charged,
they weren't held accountable. And I guess the statute of
limitations probably by this point has run out on this,
you know, And it's very interesting as you watch this,
for example, all these issues, the media has had a
reckoning in two thousand and seven, and again, give me
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a little bit of time to set this up here.
In two thousand and seven, I said journalism is dead.
After this past election, I said legacy media is dead.
They just don't know it yet. And I think it's
it's coming to be true and proven more true every
single day. I mean, you know, if you look at
fake Jake Tappa, for example, I mean his show has
hit the lowest ratings they've ever had since twenty fifteen.
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So the legacy media mob, I would argue, is paying
a price. And I don't think they'll ever get credibility back.
These bureaucrats that were in the what we call deep state,
they were not held accountable But back to the media.
I mean I learned a lesson because I was on
the air when the Atlanta Journal Constitution came out with oh,
Richard Jewel fits the profile of the lone bomber. He
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lives with his mother, And I said on the air,
I didn't know Richard Jewel was listening to me, and
I ended up getting one of the first interviews with
him as a result, I said, just because he lives
with his mother does not make him a terrorist. This
is ridiculous. And I was the only one that did it.
And he said that to me. And now when I
was shocked when he said it, but it opened my
eyes and I didn't rush to judgment. The media got wrong.
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Duke Lacrosse, we got it right, you were on My
show off. And then we got Uva right. We got
Fergus of Missouri right, hands up, don't shoot, never happened.
We got Freddie Graham Baltimore right, because we had sources.
I had a source in the George Zimmerman case that
told me early on. Now there's going to be eyewitness
testimony that will claim that it was George Zimmerman screaming
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because his head was being pounded into the cement and
that would probably mitigate any any guilty verdict. And they
got every one of those issues wrong, and they rushed
to judgment every time. So there's this unholy alliance with
the legacy media and this deep state, and they never
get held accountable, though I would argue media is being
held accountable because people don't trust them. Sorry that took
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so long.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No, it's worth reciting. And you know, back in two
thousand and seven seven, when you predicted that or pronounced
the mainstream media dead, you weren't just prescient. You had
eyes and ears and you were paying attention, and you
saw what they were doing. They were rushing to judgment,
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they were allowing their own political bias to infect their
reporting in not just the stories they chose to publish,
but the way they told those stories. And what's so
interesting about all the examples that you just recited quite accurately,
I must add, is that there was never any maya
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culpa from the mainstream media for getting it wrong. They
never apologized for it. And the Russia hoax was the
classic example when in the end they were finally forced
to admit the New York Times or the Washington Post
they got it wrong. They didn't give back their Piluitzer prize. No,
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they just moved on to the next faux scandal that
they either generated or inflated and never looked back at
all of their chronic mistakes. They never apologized to the
American people. But Americans are smart, and that's why they
no longer trust people in the mainstream media. They have
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utterly lost faith in them because they have gotten it
wrong so many times, and not just innocuous mistakes.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was on with malice, It really was, Greg and
all credit to you. And here's the even the more
the irony, and it gets more ironic, is that they
got pullitzerprises. Now I'm not saying that we deserve a
Pullet surprise, but there was a very very small circle
of us that were doggedly all over the Russia hoax.
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We spent about three years of our lives covering that story,
unfeeling every layer of the onion. You are a big
part of the coverage. John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Catherine Herridge,
and I'm gonna miss names here, but there wasn't many more,
and maybe about six sources that were so rock solid.
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And we protect our sources because we are members of
the press. But you know, but for those six people
or seven people maximum, you know, the story never would
have been told.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, I mean, look, I had good sources, You had
good sources, but a lot of it was in the
public sphere, and journalists', mainstream journalists became incredibly lazy. They
were happy to jump on the I hate Trump bandwagon. He's,
you know, a Russian stooge who colluded in the bowels
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of the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin. I looked at a
lot of his as a lawyer, and I began with
the FBAI regulations. I said, wait a minute, comy's violating
the regulations. He has no credible evidence, none, zero, And.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yet but you even took it further than that, because
after he knew definitively in December of twenty sixteen, that
they knew by then that it was debunked, Christopher Steele
was fired, and in spite of that, they still continued
to use that dirty Russian disinformation tossier that Hillary paid
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for as the bulk of information before the Pfizer court. Now,
the law you pointed out to me at the time
required that if you make a mistake, go back to
the court immediately and.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Tell them, Yeah, I poured through all of those applications
to the Fiser court. James Commy's on name and signature
is on three of the four, and of mccab on
another one, including Rod Rosenstein, by the way, and that's
a whole other story. But look what he was doing
was telling the court that this is based on the dossier.
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The dossier is credible, and Christopher Steele is reliable, without
telling the court that Steele was not reliable, in fact,
so unreliable and such a liar that the FBI fired
Steele as a confidential human source for a line, but
they didn't disclose that to the court. Now what is that?
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That's lyne to the court. And if I ever did
that in front of a judge, I better bring my
toothbrush because I'm going to be held in criminal contempt.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And yet you don't have to worry. Does that come
with the cake and a fly? You'd be good?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thanks pal, I appreciate it. But look, the point here
is that these people were getting away with it. You know,
James coming in his whole crooked gang at the FBI,
and they're still getting away with it because they were
never held accountable. It apparently is not enough for you
and I and John Solomon and others and Catherine herrid
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to disclose the truth backed up by documentary proof. That's
apparently not enough. And you know this, Nelly or they
buried that classified document for the better part of a
decade until you know, Cash Betel came in started going
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through the vaults where all this stuff is hidden away
so that nobody would ever see it, and he began
to go through it and reveal it to the American public.
They deserve the truth. And you know, God blessed the
Cash Betel for doing it. It takes a lot of courage.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, quick, freak. We'll come right back and we'll
continue more. Greg Jarrett on the other side, we'll hit
the phones as well. Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program,
all right, we have the fourth of July coming. Don't
you want to fly the American flag with pride? Don't
you feel when you're in your more quiet and introspective moments,
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aren't you glad and grateful and humbled that you live
in the greatest country God gave man. I remember writing
a friend of mine. I was in I was in
Saudi Arabia. I was in Rihat, I said, man, I
missed the Free State of Florida. It was hot and
it was an arid desert. All right. We continue now
with number one New York Times bestselling author. Fox News
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legal analyst Greg Jarreeded is with us. You know how
I know that I'm right and we were right on
this program. We started chronicling Joe's cognitive decline in twenty nineteen,
and I've proven that on radio. And We're going to
go deep in the pain tonight on Hannity on TV
on this because I think it's the biggest White House
and presidential scandal in history what they did. And I'm sorry,
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but I'm going to be dogged on this because it
and please watch the Night Show. It's going to be definitive.
Is the media ignores me when I'm right. They ignored
my reporting on his cognitive decline, except to criticize me
occasionally and take cheap shots a hit and run. But
it's the same with the Russia hoax. They never followed
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our lead. They were clear watching every single night. They
knew the truth and they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Last word, Well, you were talking about it. In twenty nineteen.
I went back and I pulled a August twenty twenty podcast.
I warned that if Joe Biden was elected, he would
be a marionette president, manipulated by White House puppeteers. That
literally was the title of my podcast. Of course, that's
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exactly what happened. Puppeteers were pulling the strings his White
House aides, his wife, and you know, once again, I
was simply paying attention as you were paying attention. We
could see it with our own eyes. The mainstream media
wanted people to deny what their eyes and ears they were.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Calling it in late twenty four cheap fake videos. They
were mocking us, and we were playing very real videos.
I have to run, but I will tell you it
makes me proud to be associated with people like you
and John and Sarah and everybody that was part of
our ensemble cast. We you know, we all dug down
as deep as we could, and our staves also worked
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so hard on those issues. And we like being right
and if we're wrong, we'll admit it. But that's something
they won't do. Craig Jarrett, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Being with us, my friend, and so thank you to
you as well have.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A great weekend. Eight hundred and nine four one, Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Continuing the mission of Saving a man Erica, as we
return to the Sean Hannity Show.
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All right twenty five now until the top of the hour,
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we've been talking a lot about the Democrats and how
they're sinking. There's a great article in Salon How long
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will Democrats sink before the DNC acts. I don't think
they're going to be able to act. There's no way. Well,
first of all, there aren't many moderates to begin with.
That's number one. Number two. They continue to remain woke.
You heard AOC talking about, oh, let's let's abolish ice.
You know, they keep on this narrative that they want
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to defend the right of men and champion the rights
of men to play women's sports. They continue to champion
the rights of illegals, even gang members and cartel members
over the safety of Americans. They continue to think that
if you try to reign in insane government spending and
rob from our kids and grandkids, that you're a horrible person.
I think the most amusing part of all of it,
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to me, though, is the fact that they have no
clue what has happened to them. They have no clue
and no understanding of why the American people are rejecting
them in droves. They don't understand that most Americans don't
want taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and
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for convicted felons the way Kamala Harris did. They don't
want to pay for college tuition for illegal immigrants. They
want people to follow the law. They want people vetted
before they enter our country. And I think what made
me laugh the most this week is this insanity of
the left when it was announced that they're spending twenty
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million taxpayer dollars twenty million to figure out how come
we talked to men, especially younger men, Hey, bro, how
are you? What's up? Dude? You want to get a bruski?
I mean, what the hell is that? Anyway here? To
sort this one out? It really is a job for
one man, and one man only a good friend Rick
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Burgess is back. He's now the author of the book
Men Don't Run in the Rain. He's the host of
the hit Rick Burgess show for many years. It was
the Rick and Bubba Show. And I know Bubba is
sadly retired. I know he's doing great things. We miss him,
and I know you guys are still great friends, which
I'm glad to hear. And I can't make fun of
his tennis game anymore. I had so much fun doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yeah, I mean, you never saw Bubba and talk to yourself,
now there's a tennis player.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No, no, you never saw Bubba said, yeah, there's a
great tennis player. But he was a great guy, and
you guys had an incredible run together. And I'm glad
you're continuing in broadcasting, and I'm wishing him all the best.
He's been a great friend of the show, as you
have been. By the way, So the name of your
book is Men Don't Run in the Rain, A son's
reflections on life, faith, and on an iconic father. And
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I want to talk a little bit about it, but first,
I mean twenty million dollars Democrats spending to learn how
to talk to men? Hey, Rick, how are you? What's up?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
How you doing? What's going on? I want to catch
a Bruski together. I mean, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I can't imagine my dad? You know, because this book
represents a dying generation. Now, don't forget the laughter. The
very people that won, one hand told us that men
and women are not beautifully distinct, they're interchangeable, that women
can be me and men can be women. But all
of a sudden they decided that they're going to lead
the way on how to talk to me. And after
telling us there's no such thing as men and women,
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only the could have that kind of logic.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, it's all true, but I mean, if you have
to study that question, that means you don't have any authenticity.
You know. I learned very early in my career that
the only way I was going to be successful is
to just be myself. When when I first started and
talk radio, I had listened to guys like Bob gret Hey,
get off my phone, you creep, you scum bag, you know,
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and all this stuff. So when I started at radio,
I try to be like that, and I realized that's
not really who I am, and I just evolved into
myself more and more, and you you can't fake it
for three hours a day, and your authentic self is
coming out period under sentence if you're going to have
any level of success. But what I love about you is,
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you know you guys cut up, you have a good time,
you laugh, you tell jokes, but then you also have
a serious side. You're very open about your Christian faith
and your book A Son's Reflections on Life, faith and
an iconic father. Few things shape a life more profoundly
than the lessons of a father. Well, that's going to
make the left in this country bubble and fiss like
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Alca Saltzer, you know, because you know it's too masculine
in its title.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, you're exactly right. And that title men Don't Run
in the Rain, it came from you know, I remember
growing up and you remember these men, Shane. I mean
you saw them and they were men. They didn't apologize
for being men. And now, what at one time we
called basic masculinity, the left just tried to label toxic masculinity.
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Now there is a toxic masculinity, and there are men
who who are a detriment to society. But just because
a person is masculine, it does not make it toxic.
There was also a beautiful masculinity that I believe was
created by God when he made them male and female,
made them equal but beautifully distinct. And I remember seeing
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my father. It was raining and I was just a child.
I was a little boy, and I noticed that he
never changed his gate. He was walking in the rain
as if there were no rain falling at all. And
he came over and even my friend he said, did
you know that your dad doesn't run in the rain.
And I'm like, no, I've never seen him run in
the rain. So when I became a teenager, and he
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was the athletic director and football coach at the local
high school, I was in the junior high program. So
you know, Mom said ride home with your dad when
he's done. So we were about to go out to
his truck, you know, three on the column like real
men drove, and so it started raining. You know, we're
from Alabama, you know just about every summer afternoon, you're
going to get some sort of rain because the humidity.
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And I went to run to his truck and he
took his massive forearm shine and he just stopped me
and he said, men don't run in the rain, we
walked to the true I kind of love that.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
That's a pretty cool story about your dad, and it's
very old school. Yeah, you're right. It would you called
toxic masculinity, you know, I said to where I was
having this conversation with a friend of mine, I mean,
you know, what does it mean to be the head
of your household or the man in the home? Well,
in my view, and I don't care if people want
to call me Bam Bam or Fred Flintstone. If there's
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an intruder in my house and my family is there,
I'm going to be the one that goes out and
takes care of the threat. That's my job. I view
it as my job. And even though quote I view
myself as quote the head of the household. You're the
man of the household, but you're a gentleman. It's like
I still believe in the old fashioned way of opening
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doors for women in a car. I believe men should
pay for a date. You know, this idea of if
you pay half, I pay half. I don't. I don't
get that. I wasn't raised that way. I was taught
that you don't say certain words to a woman ever,
except Linda because she uses them more than me.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Well, let's say, said, Linda's a different case. But when
you're our household, you said that correctly. My dad was
clearly the authoritative figure in the home, but it was
a servant leadership. He was our protector. I remember. I
mean the day he passed away, my mother was there
and my wife was there, and my mother and my
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wife both said the same thing. When he passed. There
was a moment where my wife looked at me and
she said, he was our protector. He was the patriarch
of the family, the very thing the left is trying
to remove from society. And if there was a moment
there when I realized it would now shift to me,
it would shift to my brother, and we realized there
was a passing of the torch. But there was a
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certain comfort he brought because we knew what you said,
Sean would he would make sure that nothing could ever
harm us. But at the same time he opened the
door for my mother. He told us, never disrespect our mother.
I better never hear you say a harsh word to
your mother. And he served our house as well as
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led our house. And he had a humility that was
something that's been lost, and I'm trying to use this
book to say these kind of men are leaving our society.
So we can use this platform where I can share
this incredible man, this true original with a generation that
aren't being taught this.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
All right, quick break, We'll come back more with Rick Burgess,
radio host, author of the brand new book Men Don't
Run in the Rain, A Son's Reflections of Life, faith,
and an Iconicfather. Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com. Also
your calls, Andy Ogels on this radical left Nashville mayor
as we continue. So we continue with Rick Burgess, a
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very successful radio host and author of the brand new
book Men Don't Run in the Rain, A Son's Reflections
of Life, faith, and a Iconicfather. Amazon dot com, Hannity
dot com. Let's talk about I mean, because I mean,
all of this was displayed you right on the on
the football fields in the Southeast as a player at
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Auburn and later as a championship championship winning coach at
a high school and at the collegiate level. What are
you as a father? What are the other lessons you
learned from your dad?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, my dad, My dad tried to eradicate stupidity. I
think from the planet. He loathed it. He raises that
I would never forget my brother and I one time
set the woods on fire, the stories in the book,
and after what we did was so stupid. And he
looked at us and he said, boys, if I had
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ordered a truckload of stupid people and all I got
were you two, I would have got my money's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I love that. That is awesome. What a great lesson.
What did you what was your now? My dad used to,
you know, pull off the belt and give me a
good looking And I can look back in retrospect, I
know I never did it with my kids. I didn't
have to. I just took their stuff and that was enough.
But I can tell you that I deserved it every time,
every single time. And it didn't traumatize me.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
No, because my dad loved me enough to discipline us.
Our only version of time out was asking for one
when he got developed out after exactly, Hey Dad, how
about a time out? How about he was He was
completely under control, He never lost control, He never abused us.
He corrected us, and he corrected us because he loved us,
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and he also taught us. He could not stand for
a man to make excuses. He said, if you make
a mistake, own it. What a strange concept nowadays. If
you make a mistake, don't make an excuse, just own it,
correct it, and do it do it right the next time.
But don't don't shuck your responsibility. Don't shirk that. Don't
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say that, hey, I slipped. I remember one time, you know,
playing for him, a guy your breaks containment on that side,
and he said, I'm sorry, coach, I slipped. You said,
just tell me you didn't get the job done. How
about this, You can't slip, don't make any excuse, Just
say you didn't get the job done, and then get
back up on the next play and do it right.
You know, now everything, everybody's got an excuse for everything.
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No one owns anything anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I will tell you the words I was wrong, I'm sorry.
I mean, they're not used often enough. They really aren't,
and they're very powerful words. And those are things that
I learned from my parents. My parents were very devout.
They grew up really really poor, and they understood why
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working was so critical to life and developing a strong
work ethic. You know, I was twelve years old. I
get home two three in the morning and nobody was
waiting up. Nobody cared. They didn't know that I had
two Saint Pauli girls at the bar before I left
to twelve, and I'd fly home on my bicycle. That
part I didn't tell them.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
You know, a work ethic.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
If you could pass that along to your kids, well,
you know what we do, Sean. I'll tell the mistake
we make, and I hope this book helps. We worked
so hard to give our children the things we didn't
have when we really need to concentrate. If you were
raised the way you and I were raised, don't forget
to give them the things that you did have. Discipline,
a work ethic, you know, learn to look a man
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in the eye, learn to shake hands, learn to do
a good interview. You know, learn the difference between confidence
and arrogance. You know, we talk about that in the book.
You know, learn to be tough and push through adversity.
You know. My dad had a question that he would
always ask when you know you were hurt, He would say,
can you go? And you know, at one time I
didn't really fully understand that it wasn't about football. I
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can't tell you the things that I faced in my life.
And concluding, as you know, Sean, you you actually helped
walk through that with me when my youngest son died.
That's when I understood when he was teaching me, Hey,
can you go? He was teaching me something about toughness
that was much larger than the game of football.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I think that's the hardest thing that any parent can
go through, and I remember it well, I really do,
and I to this day, I feel horrible for you.
And I know your son's in a better place and
you'll be with him again, but it's not easy. By
the way, the word confidence, some people think being confident
is arrogant. It's not. It's from the Latin. It means
with deity, meaning you put God first, which is a
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big part of the message in your book as well.
And you know, I guess we're both very fortunate, Rick,
and that we both stand on the shoulders of unbelievably
loving parents that sacrifice so much for us. And I
hope people will get a lot out of your book.
We're going to put it on Hannity dot com, It's
on Amazon dot com, It's now in bookstores around the country,
and it is Men Don't Run in the rain a
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son's reflections of life and faith, and an iconic father.
And look, a few things shape life more profoundly than
the lessons of a great dad. And we both were
blessed with one Rick Burgess. Thank you, my friend, God
bless you. Appreciate you more than you know.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Thanks again, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Eight hundred ninefold one. Shawn is a number if you
want to be a part of the program.
Well, we'll come.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
To y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Gonna way I gets and saying you a contos will
I'll be entire let tell and if you want a
little banging again, you.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
And come along. I think we are in the midst
of generational change and we'll see that continue to unfold.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
I mean, Richard literally sounds like someone who was broken
out of the insane asylum, Like you just be all
over the place.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is gestopo like behavior where plain clothes officers wearing
masks are terrorizing immigrants.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
All right, thanks Scott Channon. An hour two Sean Hannity
Show this Friday, eight hundred and nine to four one.
Shawn is a number you want to be a part
of the program. Hawks News Legal Analysts, number one best
selling New York Times author Greg Jared is with us
before we get to a lot of the legal issues
of our time, and there's a ton of legal issues
in the news today. I do think this issue first
(01:31):
broken by John Solomon, but actually first broken by our
ensemble cast including Greg Jarrett, John Solomon and others as
it relates to Nelly Orr. And what we have discovered
is that the Department of Justice knew damn well a
long time ago that Nelly or who whose husband was
(01:54):
Bruce or deputy assistant district attorney or whatever what not
district attorney but attorney general, and that she was up
to her eyeballs working for Fusion GPS. They of course
were responsible for working with former MI six agent Christopher Steele.
They came up with the Dirty Russian disinformation dossier. That
(02:15):
dossier was then used four times even though it was debunked,
even after it was debunked in December of twenty twenty sixteen,
and they still used it as the bulk of information
for the FAIZA applications. Call me signed three of the
four of them. You had to renew it every three months.
And on page fifty three of Greg's number one best
(02:37):
selling book, he did point out all of this six
years ago. Greg Jarrett, take on a victory lap. You
deserve it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Well, thanks, and again you were instrumental in all of this,
and you know we discussed it six years ago in
twenty nineteen when my book, Which Hunt, came out. So
I was reading through these newly declassified FBI documents showing
that Nelly Or gave false testimony, and I knew where
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that had been written before, because I wrote it almost
word for word chapter two, page fifty three, and then
many pages thereafter, and I detailed all of her false statements.
I had gone through the testimony. I had also obtained
documents which showed the same thing. You know, she denied,
(03:33):
for example in her testimony, sharing her dossier research with
anybody at the Department of Justice. But as I wrote
in the book, there are three hundred and thirty nine
pages of emails showing that she sent it to at
least three prosecutors at the Department of Justice, and in fact,
those same emails proved that she knew of the DOJ's
(03:56):
parallel investigation of Trump, even though she testified to the
exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, it's important to remind people greg that that dirty dossier,
and there are even claims and people that believe in
and maybe you believe that she actually wrote at least
part of it, if not all of it, that in
fact that they knew it was false, they didn't care,
and it without any real basis to start an investigation.
(04:23):
It became the impetus for the opening of what was
known then as and now as Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which
was the Russia hoax.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, she helped research at least two phony dossiers on
Trump that essentially were mimicked or merged into Christopher Steele's
infamous bogus dossier. Then she and her husband Bruce or
the number four at the Department of Justice, met secretly
(04:57):
with Christopher Steele nine am at the a Flower Hotel
in Washington, DC on July thirty, twenty sixteen. I wrote
all of this in my book, Which Hunt, and that
date's important because the very next day, the Crossfire Hurricane
investigation of Trump was launched without any legal basis, no
(05:20):
credible evidence, and in direct violation of FBI regulations. So,
as you and I were talking last night, it was
crooked top to bottom, and James Cumy knew at the
outset that it was all a complete fiction. He didn't care.
He hated Donald Trump so much he was willing to
(05:41):
abuse the law, lie to the courts to see the
American people all to take down President Trump. And you know,
the lesson here is the people we entrust to enforce
the law can themselves become law breakers. And yet none
of them were ever charged or held accountable.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, I think that's the key thing. They weren't charged,
they weren't held accountable. And I guess the statute of
limitations probably by this point has run out on this,
you know, And it's very interesting as you watch this,
for example, all these issues, the media has had a
reckoning in two thousand and seven, and again, give me
(06:26):
a little bit of time to set this up here.
In two thousand and seven, I said journalism is dead.
After this past election, I said legacy media is dead.
They just don't know it yet. And I think it's
it's coming to be true and proven more true every
single day. I mean, you know, if you look at
fake Jake Tappa, for example, I mean his show has
hit the lowest ratings they've ever had since twenty fifteen.
(06:50):
So the legacy media mob, I would argue, is paying
a price. And I don't think they'll ever get credibility back.
These bureaucrats that were in the what we call deep state,
they were not held accountable But back to the media.
I mean I learned a lesson because I was on
the air when the Atlanta Journal Constitution came out with oh,
Richard Jewel fits the profile of the lone bomber. He
(07:11):
lives with his mother, And I said on the air,
I didn't know Richard Jewel was listening to me, and
I ended up getting one of the first interviews with
him as a result, I said, just because he lives
with his mother does not make him a terrorist. This
is ridiculous. And I was the only one that did it.
And he said that to me. And now when I
was shocked when he said it, but it opened my
eyes and I didn't rush to judgment. The media got wrong.
(07:32):
Duke Lacrosse, we got it right, you were on My
show off. And then we got Uva right. We got
Fergus of Missouri right, hands up, don't shoot, never happened.
We got Freddie Graham Baltimore right, because we had sources.
I had a source in the George Zimmerman case that
told me early on. Now there's going to be eyewitness
testimony that will claim that it was George Zimmerman screaming
(07:54):
because his head was being pounded into the cement and
that would probably mitigate any any guilty verdict. And they
got every one of those issues wrong, and they rushed
to judgment every time. So there's this unholy alliance with
the legacy media and this deep state, and they never
get held accountable, though I would argue media is being
held accountable because people don't trust them. Sorry that took
(08:17):
so long.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No, it's worth reciting. And you know, back in two
thousand and seven seven, when you predicted that or pronounced
the mainstream media dead, you weren't just prescient. You had
eyes and ears and you were paying attention, and you
saw what they were doing. They were rushing to judgment,
(08:41):
they were allowing their own political bias to infect their
reporting in not just the stories they chose to publish,
but the way they told those stories. And what's so
interesting about all the examples that you just recited quite accurately,
I must add, is that there was never any maya
(09:05):
culpa from the mainstream media for getting it wrong. They
never apologized for it. And the Russia hoax was the
classic example when in the end they were finally forced
to admit the New York Times or the Washington Post
they got it wrong. They didn't give back their Piluitzer prize. No,
(09:28):
they just moved on to the next faux scandal that
they either generated or inflated and never looked back at
all of their chronic mistakes. They never apologized to the
American people. But Americans are smart, and that's why they
no longer trust people in the mainstream media. They have
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utterly lost faith in them because they have gotten it
wrong so many times, and not just innocuous mistakes.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It was on with malice, It really was, Greg and
all credit to you. And here's the even the more
the irony, and it gets more ironic, is that they
got pullitzerprises. Now I'm not saying that we deserve a
Pullet surprise, but there was a very very small circle
of us that were doggedly all over the Russia hoax.
(10:22):
We spent about three years of our lives covering that story,
unfeeling every layer of the onion. You are a big
part of the coverage. John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Catherine Herridge,
and I'm gonna miss names here, but there wasn't many more,
and maybe about six sources that were so rock solid.
(10:43):
And we protect our sources because we are members of
the press. But you know, but for those six people
or seven people maximum, you know, the story never would
have been told.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, I mean, look, I had good sources, You had
good sources, but a lot of it was in the
public sphere, and journalists', mainstream journalists became incredibly lazy. They
were happy to jump on the I hate Trump bandwagon. He's,
you know, a Russian stooge who colluded in the bowels
(11:15):
of the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin. I looked at a
lot of his as a lawyer, and I began with
the FBAI regulations. I said, wait a minute, comy's violating
the regulations. He has no credible evidence, none, zero, And.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yet but you even took it further than that, because
after he knew definitively in December of twenty sixteen, that
they knew by then that it was debunked, Christopher Steele
was fired, and in spite of that, they still continued
to use that dirty Russian disinformation tossier that Hillary paid
(11:51):
for as the bulk of information before the Pfizer court. Now,
the law you pointed out to me at the time
required that if you make a mistake, go back to
the court immediately and.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Tell them, Yeah, I poured through all of those applications
to the Fiser court. James Commy's on name and signature
is on three of the four, and of mccab on
another one, including Rod Rosenstein, by the way, and that's
a whole other story. But look what he was doing
was telling the court that this is based on the dossier.
(12:26):
The dossier is credible, and Christopher Steele is reliable, without
telling the court that Steele was not reliable, in fact,
so unreliable and such a liar that the FBI fired
Steele as a confidential human source for a line, but
they didn't disclose that to the court. Now what is that?
(12:48):
That's lyne to the court. And if I ever did
that in front of a judge, I better bring my
toothbrush because I'm going to be held in criminal contempt.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And yet you don't have to worry. Does that come
with the cake and a fly? You'd be good?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thanks pal, I appreciate it. But look, the point here
is that these people were getting away with it. You know,
James coming in his whole crooked gang at the FBI,
and they're still getting away with it because they were
never held accountable. It apparently is not enough for you
and I and John Solomon and others and Catherine herrid
(13:23):
to disclose the truth backed up by documentary proof. That's
apparently not enough. And you know this, Nelly or they
buried that classified document for the better part of a
decade until you know, Cash Betel came in started going
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through the vaults where all this stuff is hidden away
so that nobody would ever see it, and he began
to go through it and reveal it to the American public.
They deserve the truth. And you know, God blessed the
Cash Betel for doing it. It takes a lot of courage.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
All right, quick, freak. We'll come right back and we'll
continue more. Greg Jarrett on the other side, we'll hit
the phones as well. Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the program,
all right, we have the fourth of July coming. Don't
you want to fly the American flag with pride? Don't
you feel when you're in your more quiet and introspective moments,
(14:23):
aren't you glad and grateful and humbled that you live
in the greatest country God gave man. I remember writing
a friend of mine. I was in I was in
Saudi Arabia. I was in Rihat, I said, man, I
missed the Free State of Florida. It was hot and
it was an arid desert. All right. We continue now
with number one New York Times bestselling author. Fox News
(14:44):
legal analyst Greg Jarreeded is with us. You know how
I know that I'm right and we were right on
this program. We started chronicling Joe's cognitive decline in twenty nineteen,
and I've proven that on radio. And We're going to
go deep in the pain tonight on Hannity on TV
on this because I think it's the biggest White House
and presidential scandal in history what they did. And I'm sorry,
(15:07):
but I'm going to be dogged on this because it
and please watch the Night Show. It's going to be definitive.
Is the media ignores me when I'm right. They ignored
my reporting on his cognitive decline, except to criticize me
occasionally and take cheap shots a hit and run. But
it's the same with the Russia hoax. They never followed
(15:28):
our lead. They were clear watching every single night. They
knew the truth and they didn't care.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Last word, Well, you were talking about it. In twenty nineteen.
I went back and I pulled a August twenty twenty podcast.
I warned that if Joe Biden was elected, he would
be a marionette president, manipulated by White House puppeteers. That
literally was the title of my podcast. Of course, that's
(15:57):
exactly what happened. Puppeteers were pulling the strings his White
House aides, his wife, and you know, once again, I
was simply paying attention as you were paying attention. We
could see it with our own eyes. The mainstream media
wanted people to deny what their eyes and ears they were.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Calling it in late twenty four cheap fake videos. They
were mocking us, and we were playing very real videos.
I have to run, but I will tell you it
makes me proud to be associated with people like you
and John and Sarah and everybody that was part of
our ensemble cast. We you know, we all dug down
as deep as we could, and our staves also worked
(16:40):
so hard on those issues. And we like being right
and if we're wrong, we'll admit it. But that's something
they won't do. Craig Jarrett, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Being with us, my friend, and so thank you to
you as well have.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
A great weekend. Eight hundred and nine four one, Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Continuing the mission of Saving a man Erica, as we
return to the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
All right twenty five now until the top of the hour,
toll free our numbers eight hundred and nine four one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program. Look,
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IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ dot org. Two day. Well,
we've been talking a lot about the Democrats and how
they're sinking. There's a great article in Salon How long
(18:35):
will Democrats sink before the DNC acts. I don't think
they're going to be able to act. There's no way. Well,
first of all, there aren't many moderates to begin with.
That's number one. Number two. They continue to remain woke.
You heard AOC talking about, oh, let's let's abolish ice.
You know, they keep on this narrative that they want
(18:56):
to defend the right of men and champion the rights
of men to play women's sports. They continue to champion
the rights of illegals, even gang members and cartel members
over the safety of Americans. They continue to think that
if you try to reign in insane government spending and
rob from our kids and grandkids, that you're a horrible person.
I think the most amusing part of all of it,
(19:18):
to me, though, is the fact that they have no
clue what has happened to them. They have no clue
and no understanding of why the American people are rejecting
them in droves. They don't understand that most Americans don't
want taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and
(19:42):
for convicted felons the way Kamala Harris did. They don't
want to pay for college tuition for illegal immigrants. They
want people to follow the law. They want people vetted
before they enter our country. And I think what made
me laugh the most this week is this insanity of
the left when it was announced that they're spending twenty
(20:04):
million taxpayer dollars twenty million to figure out how come
we talked to men, especially younger men, Hey, bro, how
are you? What's up? Dude? You want to get a bruski?
I mean, what the hell is that? Anyway here? To
sort this one out? It really is a job for
one man, and one man only a good friend Rick
(20:25):
Burgess is back. He's now the author of the book
Men Don't Run in the Rain. He's the host of
the hit Rick Burgess show for many years. It was
the Rick and Bubba Show. And I know Bubba is
sadly retired. I know he's doing great things. We miss him,
and I know you guys are still great friends, which
I'm glad to hear. And I can't make fun of
his tennis game anymore. I had so much fun doing that.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yeah, I mean, you never saw Bubba and talk to yourself,
now there's a tennis player.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
No, no, you never saw Bubba said, yeah, there's a
great tennis player. But he was a great guy, and
you guys had an incredible run together. And I'm glad
you're continuing in broadcasting, and I'm wishing him all the best.
He's been a great friend of the show, as you
have been. By the way, So the name of your
book is Men Don't Run in the Rain, A son's
reflections on life, faith, and on an iconic father. And
(21:18):
I want to talk a little bit about it, but first,
I mean twenty million dollars Democrats spending to learn how
to talk to men? Hey, Rick, how are you? What's up?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
How you doing? What's going on? I want to catch
a Bruski together. I mean, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I can't imagine my dad? You know, because this book
represents a dying generation. Now, don't forget the laughter. The
very people that won, one hand told us that men
and women are not beautifully distinct, they're interchangeable, that women
can be me and men can be women. But all
of a sudden they decided that they're going to lead
the way on how to talk to me. And after
telling us there's no such thing as men and women,
(21:59):
only the could have that kind of logic.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, it's all true, but I mean, if you have
to study that question, that means you don't have any authenticity.
You know. I learned very early in my career that
the only way I was going to be successful is
to just be myself. When when I first started and
talk radio, I had listened to guys like Bob gret Hey,
get off my phone, you creep, you scum bag, you know,
(22:26):
and all this stuff. So when I started at radio,
I try to be like that, and I realized that's
not really who I am, and I just evolved into
myself more and more, and you you can't fake it
for three hours a day, and your authentic self is
coming out period under sentence if you're going to have
any level of success. But what I love about you is,
(22:46):
you know you guys cut up, you have a good time,
you laugh, you tell jokes, but then you also have
a serious side. You're very open about your Christian faith
and your book A Son's Reflections on Life, faith and
an iconic father. Few things shape a life more profoundly
than the lessons of a father. Well, that's going to
make the left in this country bubble and fiss like
(23:08):
Alca Saltzer, you know, because you know it's too masculine
in its title.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, you're exactly right. And that title men Don't Run
in the Rain, it came from you know, I remember
growing up and you remember these men, Shane. I mean
you saw them and they were men. They didn't apologize
for being men. And now, what at one time we
called basic masculinity, the left just tried to label toxic masculinity.
(23:37):
Now there is a toxic masculinity, and there are men
who who are a detriment to society. But just because
a person is masculine, it does not make it toxic.
There was also a beautiful masculinity that I believe was
created by God when he made them male and female,
made them equal but beautifully distinct. And I remember seeing
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my father. It was raining and I was just a child.
I was a little boy, and I noticed that he
never changed his gate. He was walking in the rain
as if there were no rain falling at all. And
he came over and even my friend he said, did
you know that your dad doesn't run in the rain.
And I'm like, no, I've never seen him run in
the rain. So when I became a teenager, and he
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was the athletic director and football coach at the local
high school, I was in the junior high program. So
you know, Mom said ride home with your dad when
he's done. So we were about to go out to
his truck, you know, three on the column like real
men drove, and so it started raining. You know, we're
from Alabama, you know just about every summer afternoon, you're
going to get some sort of rain because the humidity.
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And I went to run to his truck and he
took his massive forearm shine and he just stopped me
and he said, men don't run in the rain, we
walked to the true I kind of love that.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
That's a pretty cool story about your dad, and it's
very old school. Yeah, you're right. It would you called
toxic masculinity, you know, I said to where I was
having this conversation with a friend of mine, I mean,
you know, what does it mean to be the head
of your household or the man in the home? Well,
in my view, and I don't care if people want
to call me Bam Bam or Fred Flintstone. If there's
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an intruder in my house and my family is there,
I'm going to be the one that goes out and
takes care of the threat. That's my job. I view
it as my job. And even though quote I view
myself as quote the head of the household. You're the
man of the household, but you're a gentleman. It's like
I still believe in the old fashioned way of opening
(25:38):
doors for women in a car. I believe men should
pay for a date. You know, this idea of if
you pay half, I pay half. I don't. I don't
get that. I wasn't raised that way. I was taught
that you don't say certain words to a woman ever,
except Linda because she uses them more than me.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Well, let's say, said, Linda's a different case. But when
you're our household, you said that correctly. My dad was
clearly the authoritative figure in the home, but it was
a servant leadership. He was our protector. I remember. I
mean the day he passed away, my mother was there
and my wife was there, and my mother and my
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wife both said the same thing. When he passed. There
was a moment where my wife looked at me and
she said, he was our protector. He was the patriarch
of the family, the very thing the left is trying
to remove from society. And if there was a moment
there when I realized it would now shift to me,
it would shift to my brother, and we realized there
was a passing of the torch. But there was a
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certain comfort he brought because we knew what you said,
Sean would he would make sure that nothing could ever
harm us. But at the same time he opened the
door for my mother. He told us, never disrespect our mother.
I better never hear you say a harsh word to
your mother. And he served our house as well as
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led our house. And he had a humility that was
something that's been lost, and I'm trying to use this
book to say these kind of men are leaving our society.
So we can use this platform where I can share
this incredible man, this true original with a generation that
aren't being taught this.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
All right, quick break, We'll come back more with Rick Burgess,
radio host, author of the brand new book Men Don't
Run in the Rain, A Son's Reflections of Life, faith,
and an Iconicfather. Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com. Also
your calls, Andy Ogels on this radical left Nashville mayor
as we continue. So we continue with Rick Burgess, a
(27:45):
very successful radio host and author of the brand new
book Men Don't Run in the Rain, A Son's Reflections
of Life, faith, and a Iconicfather. Amazon dot com, Hannity
dot com. Let's talk about I mean, because I mean,
all of this was displayed you right on the on
the football fields in the Southeast as a player at
(28:07):
Auburn and later as a championship championship winning coach at
a high school and at the collegiate level. What are
you as a father? What are the other lessons you
learned from your dad?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, my dad, My dad tried to eradicate stupidity. I
think from the planet. He loathed it. He raises that
I would never forget my brother and I one time
set the woods on fire, the stories in the book,
and after what we did was so stupid. And he
looked at us and he said, boys, if I had
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ordered a truckload of stupid people and all I got
were you two, I would have got my money's worth.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I love that. That is awesome. What a great lesson.
What did you what was your now? My dad used to,
you know, pull off the belt and give me a
good looking And I can look back in retrospect, I
know I never did it with my kids. I didn't
have to. I just took their stuff and that was enough.
But I can tell you that I deserved it every time,
every single time. And it didn't traumatize me.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
No, because my dad loved me enough to discipline us.
Our only version of time out was asking for one
when he got developed out after exactly, Hey Dad, how
about a time out? How about he was He was
completely under control, He never lost control, He never abused us.
He corrected us, and he corrected us because he loved us,
(29:31):
and he also taught us. He could not stand for
a man to make excuses. He said, if you make
a mistake, own it. What a strange concept nowadays. If
you make a mistake, don't make an excuse, just own it,
correct it, and do it do it right the next time.
But don't don't shuck your responsibility. Don't shirk that. Don't
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say that, hey, I slipped. I remember one time, you know,
playing for him, a guy your breaks containment on that side,
and he said, I'm sorry, coach, I slipped. You said,
just tell me you didn't get the job done. How
about this, You can't slip, don't make any excuse, Just
say you didn't get the job done, and then get
back up on the next play and do it right.
You know, now everything, everybody's got an excuse for everything.
(30:13):
No one owns anything anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I will tell you the words I was wrong, I'm sorry.
I mean, they're not used often enough. They really aren't,
and they're very powerful words. And those are things that
I learned from my parents. My parents were very devout.
They grew up really really poor, and they understood why
(30:37):
working was so critical to life and developing a strong
work ethic. You know, I was twelve years old. I
get home two three in the morning and nobody was
waiting up. Nobody cared. They didn't know that I had
two Saint Pauli girls at the bar before I left
to twelve, and I'd fly home on my bicycle. That
part I didn't tell them.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
You know, a work ethic.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
If you could pass that along to your kids, well,
you know what we do, Sean. I'll tell the mistake
we make, and I hope this book helps. We worked
so hard to give our children the things we didn't
have when we really need to concentrate. If you were
raised the way you and I were raised, don't forget
to give them the things that you did have. Discipline,
a work ethic, you know, learn to look a man
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in the eye, learn to shake hands, learn to do
a good interview. You know, learn the difference between confidence
and arrogance. You know, we talk about that in the book.
You know, learn to be tough and push through adversity.
You know. My dad had a question that he would
always ask when you know you were hurt, He would say,
can you go? And you know, at one time I
didn't really fully understand that it wasn't about football. I
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can't tell you the things that I faced in my life.
And concluding, as you know, Sean, you you actually helped
walk through that with me when my youngest son died.
That's when I understood when he was teaching me, Hey,
can you go? He was teaching me something about toughness
that was much larger than the game of football.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I think that's the hardest thing that any parent can
go through, and I remember it well, I really do,
and I to this day, I feel horrible for you.
And I know your son's in a better place and
you'll be with him again, but it's not easy. By
the way, the word confidence, some people think being confident
is arrogant. It's not. It's from the Latin. It means
with deity, meaning you put God first, which is a
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big part of the message in your book as well.
And you know, I guess we're both very fortunate, Rick,
and that we both stand on the shoulders of unbelievably
loving parents that sacrifice so much for us. And I
hope people will get a lot out of your book.
We're going to put it on Hannity dot com, It's
on Amazon dot com, It's now in bookstores around the country,
and it is Men Don't Run in the rain a
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son's reflections of life and faith, and an iconic father.
And look, a few things shape life more profoundly than
the lessons of a great dad. And we both were
blessed with one Rick Burgess. Thank you, my friend, God
bless you. Appreciate you more than you know.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Thanks again, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
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