September 28, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity and investigative journalist John Solomon reflect on Charlie Kirk’s faith, intellect and approach to political debate. Solomon shares personal memories and discusses the new book The Intellect of Charlie Kirk, including Kirk’s use of the Socratic method, his willingness to engage ideological opponents and the role faith played in his life. Sean also shares his own memories of Kirk before turning to listener calls on politics, the economy and the upcoming elections.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, news roundup and information overload hour. Here's our
toll free telephone number. It's 800-941-SHAWN. If you want to
be a part of the program in a minute, we
will be joined by our friend, founder, editor in chief,
chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com. John Solomon will be with us.
He has put together the forward for a new book.
(00:20):
It's called the intellect of Charlie Kirk. I've never before
seen an introduction by Charlie Kirk. And he's telling stories.
And I'm kind of disappointed in myself because I knew Charlie.
I knew him pretty well. But most of our discussions, contact,
had to do with politics. And I never really got
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to know the person that was on the road and
doing Prove Me Wrong and going.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To the college campuses.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We talked about that, but Not to the extent I
wish we did. And, you know, I want to play
a couple of clips of Charlie. He once said that
he wanted to be remembered for courage of my faith.
I think he is remembered for that. I think his
dream came true. Unfortunately, it came way too young.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
If I die, everything just goes away.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
How would you, if you could be associated with one thing,
how would you want to be remembered? I want to
be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be
the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith
in my life.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Now, I know this may seem controversial in this day
and age for anyone to even say it, but he
said that he advocates, and again, he's saying this to
a crowd that's never heard this before. He's telling people
to find their faith, embrace their faith. Like we learned,
I learned, I didn't know that he practiced Shabbat and
would turn off his phone, you know, Friday at sundown
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and wouldn't turn it back on until Sunday. I did
not know he was living his life that way. And
I just came to admire it. And I watched him
and Erica do sessions together at Turning Point events. Again,
after he passed, things that I missed at the time.
I mean, we all have busy schedules and I just
I like the fact that everybody's like a spoke in
(02:08):
the wheel. Everyone's doing their thing. And, you know, it
all all kind of helps a rising tide to lift
all boats. But this is him advocating against sex before
marriage to bring back purity. How many college kids are
hearing this today?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Listen, in dating, look, I don't I do not think
you should have sex for marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I know that's a provocative take. I think sex is holy.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And by the way, it's not just a religious take.
I actually think that if you introduce sex into dating.
then all of a sudden there's kind of like a
dilution of what exactly will be the ultimate physical crescendo
of marriage. You can actually make a rational, reasonable, non-religious
argument for that. Anyway, that's like a whole other topic
that we could discuss another time. But I will defend that.
I actually think bring back purity, bring back saying yourself
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for marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
One other thing that Charlie was great at, not only
his prove me wrong segments, because these college kids were
pretty dumb that he would be debating. You know, and
I got to know his pastors, Frank Turek, really well
and Rob McCoy really well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And they're two wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And he was constantly looking to them to guide him
in his faith and his ability to to debate people
of a different point of view. He even debated Hassan
Piker back in 2018. Let's play a clip of that.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You give 95 percent of your money away and go
live on a commune.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you really think that that's how it works? Do
you really think that's how it works? Why not? Go
live what you preach. This is as silly.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You talked uninterrupted for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hassan, let me finish.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I live.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
What I practice.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I'm a free market capitalist. I employ people. I took
a risk. I have my own startup business. Every single day,
I practice what I preach. He wants other people to
contribute to what he considers to be a good idea.
What he considers will make the world a better place.
You have the freedom to go live as a socialist.
Go do it, Hassan.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What's stopping you?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean, extremely relevant in light of what we now
know about Hassan Piker and how active he has been
in this campaign. Anyway, so John, um, John Solomon, our friend,
wrote the foreword for this new book, The Intellect of
Charlie Kirk. It's a collection of writings, ideas, and stories
from a transformative America, includes never-before-seen introduction by Charlie Kirk.
(04:18):
And John was very close friends with him, and he
joins us now. Well, this is a different interview than
we're used to doing, but There was a side of
Charlie Kirk that most people didn't know.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Yeah. You know, I want it. We've all everybody's talked
to him about the activists, about the election work, about
the students. engagement that he did. But behind the man,
when you got to know him as a person, he
was this extraordinarily deep intellect. He had an unbelievable brilliance
about him. His mind was like a supercomputer. And he
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taught me something at a time in my life when
I started to think, well, maybe the debate isn't worth
it anymore. Well, you can't debate these crazy people. They're
never going to listen to anything. And Charlie truly believed
that having a conversation, a civil conversation with his intellect
could turn people into thinking a different way. And he
was right. He learned the Socratic method. He wrote columns.
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He wrote speeches. He prepared for every campus event that
he ever went to to be a master professor. person
who could debate on the issues and turn someone's thinking
in the middle of a debate. And I think that
got lost in his assassination. So we wanted to step
back at Just the News. We created a special book
label called Just the Books. And we went to the
guy who actually worked with Charlie often to write the columns,
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to write the books, to prepare for some of those
epic debates that he was going to have. And he
gave us some insights and he tells a firsthand story
of what it was like to see Charlie's intellect evolve.
And we wanted this to be one of the legacies
of Charlie, not just his assassination, his martyrdom, not just
the TPSA extraordinary legacy that he created, this infrastructure that
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will live on for decades to come, but the intellect
of the man. He was a serious intellectual, and he
used it for good.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, he used it for good.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And as I got to know Frank Turek, and he's
been on this program, and Rob McCoy's been on this program,
and they've both been on TV recently, And he had
these amazing people around him that he surrounded himself with
that had incredible, you know, spiritual knowledge. And that seems
to be on top of his desire to be, you know,
driving younger voters into politics. And again, hearing things that
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they were never going to hear anywhere else. I mean,
come on, John, how many kids talk about not having
sex before they get married?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Nobody. It just doesn't happen in this day and age.
How many?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How many people are telling kids to get in church?
The only thing, interestingly, I disagreed with Charlie on that
I heard him say was even if you can't afford
kids to have them.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm like, yeah, I don't know if I agree with
that part.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think you might want to wait until you can
afford them because they're pretty expensive.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
They are expensive. There's no doubt about it. Listen, how
many kids talk about the Socratic method as a part
of life? Charlie believed that this idea of using the
Socratic method of having a question-based dialogue, meaning if someone
asked him something, he'd respond with a question, and he
would expose their contradictions, particularly those who were far leftists.
And he would create these journeys, these intellectual journeys. There
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aren't many kids at age 19, which is when I
first met Charlie, all the way through that had that
level of intellect, had that level of passion that he
built it into his lifestyle. And I think that's what
this book captures here. It's amazing by asking questions and
engaging in a debate how much reasoning you can create
and also how much contradictions, particularly when it comes to
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those who subscribe to the far left philosophies today, the
socialism and the communism, how easy it is to expose
their contradictions. Charlie lived his life dedicated to that. I
don't think a lot of people knew that. This is
the first time I've ever seen something written that captured
this side of him.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
No, I learned this from his pastors and both of them, interestingly,
have become friends of mine. And I kind of look
to them, too, as mentors. And I'm learning from both
of them as well. I think we should all be
lifelong learners. And then the spiritual side of mankind, you
cannot ignore that we are of spirit. You know, I
(08:18):
interviewed people that that had near death experiences and went
to heaven for my podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And it did really well.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I interviewed, and I think we're dropping it tomorrow, I
have to check, people that had a near-death experience and
went to hell. And did you ever read Dante's Inferno?
Did you ever read the Screwtape Letters? Did you ever
read Taylor Caldwell's, you know, she.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Wrote a book, Dialogues with the Devil. Did you ever
read any of those books?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Dante's Inferno, absolutely. I mean, that's a must-reading. And you're right,
we don't think about this enough in life, but we
need to.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We need to.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, and all of this spiritual warfare that's going on,
I think, is very real. And the way they described it,
you know, one guy in particular was not very religious,
and he had this near-death experience, and he instinctively said
that he was going straight to hell and describes what
he saw down there and the pain and the separation
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from God and just agony at a level you cannot
describe and seeing demons.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You know, all right, for those that might think.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
This is crazy talk, well, why does the Lord's Prayer say,
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, right?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
That's right. Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know, pretty straight forward. But this was the side
of Charlie that a lot of people didn't know.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
It was such an amazing side to see. And, you know,
my last interaction with him was just a couple weeks
before he passed. And I have to admit, I was
a little grouchy because he asked me to come out
to an event in Colorado. It was going to be
like a three-flight hop. At the end of August, I
was really busy, and I was grouchy, grouchy, grouchy about it,
but I did it. Got on the plane. I got
on the ground in Colorado, and this unbelievable student picks
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me up at the airport and says, I'm going to
take you there. And she starts telling me her life
story about she's an athlete, but she became very disillusioned
and how Charlie and TPSA and getting surrounded by people
of like thinking got her back onto a great path.
And I thought, wow, that was an amazing experience in
the car. I get to the event and like within
minutes of just being around Charlie and talking to him,
(10:17):
your whole spirit picks up. You're like, why was I
so grouchy about coming here? I'm glad I came here.
And we're just about to get on stage for our
Q & A. And I said to him, hey, Charlie,
we got a country to save. And he turns around
to me and says, no, John, we got Western civilization
to save. And he stopped me in my tracks for
a second. It was such a powerful moment to realize
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someone so young could see the stakes of the moment
we were living in, that it wasn't just the American
experience we were trying to save, but all of Western culture.
And it led us into this discussion about what was
going on in Europe and Great Britain and And I
went back on the plane the next morning because I
turned around one morning, came back the very next day.
I was invigorated on the plane. That's what Charlie could
do to you. His intellect, his passion, his ability to
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see the big picture and to bring faith into everything
that he did. I went out grouching and I came
back completely the one who was rewarded by the experience.
And that was what was amazing about Charlie.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
All right, quick break.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Right back more with John Solomon on the other side, justthenews.com.
800-941-SHAWN is our number this Monday if you want to
be a part of the program as we continue. All right,
our final moments talking about our friend Charlie Kirk with
John Solomon. My last two interactions with Charlie were very different.
And one was at the White House. I was going
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to interview President Trump as he entered his second term.
And he was at the gate where I was. And
we spent some time And we stopped and I actually
had an opportunity to thank him for all that he
did for the 24 presidential election and getting a lot
of young people out and getting them motivated and all
of that. And another conversation was a little bit more
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contentious and as much as I'm like, Charlie, why are
you associating with these lunatics? And without mentioning names, I'm like,
it just is off brand for you. And I realized
in that conversation, he was uncomfortable with it. And I'm like,
then you know what to do. That's all I said.
I said nothing else, but maybe I shouldn't have said that.
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Maybe that wasn't my business.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
It's funny that Charlie, even in, he wanted to engage
everyone with his intel, even if he thought they were
crazier than a bat and off the radar, he always
believed that getting into a debate with someone and using
that Socratic math and walking him through it might lead
them to some enlightenment, some realization. And there's, I've met
many people like, Charlie changed my life. He changed my thinking.
It's amazing how fearless he was in wanting to debate
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people because he thought at the end of the day,
no matter how crazy your thoughts were, that a debate
might lead you somewhere good. And that is a side
of him that it took me a long time to
appreciate how ingrained it was in him that no matter
who the person was, no matter how far they were.
I remember one time we were talking on the phone.
It was during a period of time where he was
facing some criticism about some Martin Luther King comments he
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had made. And there was someone that engaged him. He's like,
I'm like, Charlie, why in God's name would you even
take the call? He's like, because you know what? If
I ask a few questions and begin to debate, maybe
some good will come of it. It was such an
amazing moment for me to realize that he truly believed
that debate would change people, that intellect would change people,
that having a conversation in an era where we stay
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in our foxholes and often don't talk to the other side,
that that could change the country. And he forever changed
my outlook on how we're going to engage with people
going forward.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, he changed it and he did it with intellect
and he did it with a smile and he did
it good naturedly. I'll tell you this, he's missed. He
was a great guy. And tell us more about the
book and how people can get.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It, John. Yeah, I'm so excited about it. The Intellect
of Charlie Kirk is the title. You go to jtnmarketplace.com.
You can get a copy there today. Buy a copy
for a young person. Somewhere today, there's a young person
in a college campus or a high school campus that
feels disillusioned by the people around them. They're being pressured
into not having the values that their faith told them
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to hold on to. A book like this can make
a difference. That's why we wrote it. Brent Hamachek wrote
the book. He was really the ghostwriter who helped Charlie
put together a lot of things. When Charlie got busier
and busier, he got to see a side of Charlie
no one else did. In many ways, it's a little
bit like the book Tuesdays with Maureen. You get this
unbelievable insight into Charlie through these writings and the intellect
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he was doing. It's a fantastic book, jtnmarketplace.com, easy to get.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
All right, we'll put a link on hannity.com as well.
John Solomon, appreciate you. Just the news dot com. Of course, John,
we'll talk soon. Eight hundred nine four one. Sean is
on number if you want to be a part of
the program.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Let's get to our busy phones.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sylvia, Tennessee. Sylvia.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How are you? Glad you called. Happy Monday. Thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'm good. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
No offense, but Linda, I wanted to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm originally from New York.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And by the way, I could never tell. Not in
a hundred years.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You sound like you're from South Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well, I moved here, thank God.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Thank God?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You're thanking God that you moved to Tennessee? Let me
ask you, when you walk around Tennessee, how many people,
when you talk to them, say, where.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
In New York are you from?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
No, they say New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Same thing. Just as bad.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
No, no, no. New York is way better. But anyway,
I started using silver platter for my lasagna.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Silver platter? We don't have silver. What is a silver platter?
Use a silver platter for your what?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
For my sauce.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
For your sauce. Use silver platter for your sauce.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You were going to say something. I knew you were
going to say something.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, it's not silver platter. You don't know the name
of the product, do you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I'm sorry. I'm pronouncing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah. Linda, you want to help her out?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
No, it's fine. It could be a new version of
Silver Palate. It could be Silver Palate on your silver
platter for your lasagna for this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And what's the full name of the product?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Silver Palate Pasta Sauce.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's not sauce. There's no such word as sauce. There is.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
In fact, Sylvia is confirming said.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Sauce as we speak. Sylvia has as thick an accent
as you do. She's got a.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Thicker accent than me. I'm impressed by her, actually. I
think it's good for the people of Tennessee to feel
something authentic like Sylvia.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All right, Sylvia.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Listen, I bet, but the people in Tennessee, probably every person,
or close to every person says, where in New York
or New Jersey are you from, correct?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Kind of, yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Kind of, yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
When I say whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
But how long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Eight years.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Oh, yeah, you're still new.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Eight years is not new. It's not old.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Well, I used to live in Arizona. That was worse.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh, God.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
I mean, your hair looks good, but it's so dry.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, Tennessee is awesome. I don't know what Linda's talking about.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
No, she said Arizona. And I said, ugh, I like
Tennessee a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, I was out there campaigning with... Who was it? J.D.
Hayworth years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And it was 125 or 30 degrees. You could fry
an egg on your car.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And he's like, why are you complaining? It's a dry heat.
And I go.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not a dry heat. It's still hot. I can't
breathe heat. It's like Dante's Inferno. I was living in hell.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's because they're so used to it, though.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
They don't feel it anymore. That's the difference.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, it's not like that where I live in Florida. Oh, God,
it's so humid there. No, it's not. No, wrong. You're wrong.
I'm not wrong. You're wrong. You're just used to it.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
And plus, you're cold and clammy all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You love it. Anyway, Sylvia, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I want to tell you that I have simply saved.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They're great, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yes, and I can watch my granddaughter in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
She watches a granddaughter in the backyard?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
She's cooler of the day. She's using the saw. She's
protecting her house. She's got SimpliSafe, Silver Palette. Do you
carry a burner, Sylvia?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's a trifecta.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Not yet.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
Oh, see that?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You definitely need one.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, you know. But anyway, I also want to say
I have a couple of things. One is nobody understands Trump.
They don't see the big picture at all. They don't
see the big picture. And I watch your friend, Mr. O'Reilly,
about the gouging of the prices of gas. I work
at a fuel center. I tell everybody, keep the faith,
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keep the faith. Don't give up. You know, it's going
to get better. And nobody believes me. You know, some do,
some don't. I just say, come on, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let me tell you what the Iranians are doing.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They're dragging this out because they want it to impact
the elections. Now, with that said, Iran will never have
a nuclear weapon because of one man and the political
courage he had.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And that's Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And, you know, people can debate the right or wrongness
of the decision.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
To me, he had no choice. Period.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We have Marco Rubio on TV tonight. I'm telling you,
he had no choice.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And I believe you completely. But let me tell you,
my granddaughter wants to pray for Trump every day. She
says she doesn't understand. She didn't understand about Charlie, even
why someone hates some person so much. So she prays
for them every day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, she's got a good heart because she's got a
good grandmother.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, well, I try. I try. But, you know, I
try to keep her on the straight, you know, like,
you know, and be honest what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, let me put it a way that I think
everybody can understand. If everybody's concerned about, let's say, the
Strait of Hormuz, what would the Strait of Hormuz be
like in the future with a nuclear-armed Iran?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
They would hold the world. hostage.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This war will come to an end sooner than later.
This conflict.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Because my granddaughter is going to grow up in this world.
And we have to make sure, as people now, that
these kids, they're our future.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I would feel if I was on my deathbed tomorrow
and maybe some people think I'm on my deathbed because
I sound like crap today, but.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I just have a cold. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But I'm just telling you, if we left our kids
and grandkids to have to deal with a nuclear armed Iran,
one day they would use that weapon. That's how fanatical
and sick they are. And I believe that with all
my heart, mind and soul. They think they're doing the
work of God. They think they're going to be rewarded
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in heaven with virgins.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And radical Islamists are dangerous. So, you know, what he
did made the world a better, safer place. And maybe
there is a political price he'll pay.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I hope not among conservatives that are thinking, because if
you're thinking, you know, this just is something that had
to be done.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Sylvia, we love you. Get some silver palette past this US.
Have fun down in Tennessee. Go to Music Row and
stop by Big and Rich's Big Place, okay?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
All right.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Linda, give him heck, okay?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You got it, Sylvia. And your honor. How about leave
me alone? No, that's not fun. Rick in South Carolina.
What's up, Rick? How are you? Glad you called, sir. Oh, hey, Sean.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Thanks for taking my call. And I wanted to say
that I moved from California to South Carolina, and my
cost of living literally dropped by 50%. Yep. The drastic
change was just a shock. I can't explain it in words,
the difference. And, of course, the society is so much
more civil. But when I talk to my neighbors and
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so forth and tell them how costly things are in California,
they're not only not aware, but they sort of don't
believe it. And I think the Republican Party is really
making a mistake by not getting that word out. I mean,
you can drive a leftist insane if you just say,
if you're so good at lowering prices, then how come
Democratic states are so frickin' expensive? And so while you
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do a great job, I think the Republican Party is
just doing a terrible job.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, I think we've opened up a roadmap. They're crazy, radical, extreme,
and they want to shred the Constitution. I looked at
another story today. Several Democratic run cities across the U.S.
are in such decay that, you know, because of their
left wing policies, Seattle is a slowly dying city and
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people are leaving these states in droves and you can't
blame them. I'm telling you right now, if if in
fact Steve Hilton loses in California and Bruce Blakeman loses.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You're going to see another massive wave of migration out
of those two states.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's my prediction.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
One more thing?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
I went on three very left-wing talk shows last Thursday
and Friday, and all I asked them was, if Democrats
are so good at lowering prices, then why are blue
states so expensive? And they spent two days after I
hung up just berating me. They were hysterically angry. berating me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What are the liberal talk shows? I don't even know
any liberal talk shows that are successful.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
They're on Sirius FM.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Some other guy.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
And they spent three days, I mean two days, just
berating me. Rick from South Carolina. I was famous in
the left-wing talk show.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, at least now you have people listening. Number one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And number two, people that matter. Look, we're not going
to change the hearts of these radical socialists. They're not
going to all of a sudden. Oh, Hannity's right. Oh,
Fox News is right. Oh, Drake in South Carolina is right.
They're not going to do that. But what they will
do is just get louder and angrier and more radicalized,
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the more extreme. Look, I know that there's a level
of overconfidence on the left right now. And I'm just
saying to everybody, do not let the the legacy media mob,
which is invested in being their spokespeople, impact your psychology
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going into this election. If everybody votes as though their
vote will be the deciding vote for your local congressman, congresswoman, senator.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Then we'll win the election. We'll win.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We'll shock the world. We'll defy historical trends. The opportunity exists.
Some people are voting early. I would just say to people,
if you can vote early, vote early. I'm not against
voting early. even though it's not ideal. I don't think
you should be voting 45 days out of an election
like they are in the Commonwealth of Virginia. But anyway,
I appreciate your kind words. Thank you, sir. Keep up
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the good work. Leslie is also in Tennessee. Leslie, how
are you? Glad you called.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Hey, thanks, Sean.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
I appreciate you having me on the show. And just
kind of highlighting on what you just said about knowing
who you're voting for. A special example is the governor
of Virginia that was voted in. how Abigail Spanberger is
showing her socialist spots little by little.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, we refer to her as Scamburger because she ran
on one platform and did everything that she didn't tell
the people of Virginia she was going to do.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh, yeah, Ms.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Winslow Earl Sears would have been a better choice for Virginia,
that's for sure. But just recently, she just overturned very quietly,
which was kind of bizarre, the Protect and Preserve Act
that Glenn Youngkin had put into place recently. which protects
girls in all school sports divided by the male and
the female gender. And saying that she's now saying there
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shouldn't be any differences and she's there to protect the
LBGQ plus community, which is to me unbelievable when the
Virginia State Board of Health 10 to 15, regulation into
place in last year. And what questions me is how
the new elected Attorney General Jay Jones, who is also
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another snake in the grass, some people remember, threatened the
President and Republican Attorney General Todd Gilbert with two bullets
to the head, three people, two bullets, and got elected. So,
I mean, this is craziness in Virginia. It's almost like
they get what they deserve. But they're a neighboring state,
and I have family that lives in Virginia. So this is,
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you know, it's boggling that they were able to take
this regulation by themselves. Glenn Youngkin, who was beloved by
all Virginians at the time, and said this was a
withdrawn regulation. And the chairperson of the board had no
idea that there was anything that was withdrawn. So how,
you know, how could that.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Be if it's just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's sad that these people, they don't run on who
they really are.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I mean, that's now the.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Adopted strategy of the DSA candidates, you know, as evidenced
by AOC.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh, that's woke 1.0 crazy or.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know, spam burger, you know, running on one platform.
And she had totally different intentions the whole time. We
see the same thing with Telefrico. We see the same
thing with Abdul Al-Sayed. We see the same thing with
Troy Jackson. We see the same thing in Kansas. We
see the same thing in Iowa. We see the same
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thing in Alaska. We see the same thing. Jared Brown
will be a total DSA sycophant when all said and done,
if he ever got elected from Ohio. So all of
these races matter. That's why Sununu needs to win in
New Hampshire. That's why Susan Collins needs to win in Maine.
You raise good points. I hope people are paying attention.
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I am trying to, to the best of my ability,
let people know what is at stake here. You know,
I'll go back to something Bill Maher said before the
24 election.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
He said, what am I going to do if Kamala loses?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He goes, nothing. I'm going to keep doing my job.
I will keep doing my job. I'm not leaving the fight.
If we lose, I'm just telling you, we can prevent it.
And now is the time to pay attention even more.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
A great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox. Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, Caroline Leavitt tonight, Nancy Grace tonight, Brianna
(28:26):
Lyman hitting the streets, and much more news you'll never
get from your corrupt, abusively biased legacy media mob. Set
your DVR tonight, Hannity on Fox. We'll see you tonight,
back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour. Here's our
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He has put together the forward for a new book.
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It's called the intellect of Charlie Kirk. I've never before
seen an introduction by Charlie Kirk. And he's telling stories.
And I'm kind of disappointed in myself because I knew Charlie.
I knew him pretty well. But most of our discussions, contact,
had to do with politics. And I never really got
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to know the person that was on the road and
doing Prove Me Wrong and going.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To the college campuses.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We talked about that, but Not to the extent I
wish we did. And, you know, I want to play
a couple of clips of Charlie. He once said that
he wanted to be remembered for courage of my faith.
I think he is remembered for that. I think his
dream came true. Unfortunately, it came way too young.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
If I die, everything just goes away.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
How would you, if you could be associated with one thing,
how would you want to be remembered? I want to
be remembered for courage, for my faith. That would be
the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith
in my life.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Now, I know this may seem controversial in this day
and age for anyone to even say it, but he
said that he advocates, and again, he's saying this to
a crowd that's never heard this before. He's telling people
to find their faith, embrace their faith. Like we learned,
I learned, I didn't know that he practiced Shabbat and
would turn off his phone, you know, Friday at sundown
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and wouldn't turn it back on until Sunday. I did
not know he was living his life that way. And
I just came to admire it. And I watched him
and Erica do sessions together at Turning Point events. Again,
after he passed, things that I missed at the time.
I mean, we all have busy schedules and I just
I like the fact that everybody's like a spoke in
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the wheel. Everyone's doing their thing. And, you know, it
all all kind of helps a rising tide to lift
all boats. But this is him advocating against sex before
marriage to bring back purity. How many college kids are
hearing this today?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Listen, in dating, look, I don't I do not think
you should have sex for marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I know that's a provocative take. I think sex is holy.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And by the way, it's not just a religious take.
I actually think that if you introduce sex into dating.
then all of a sudden there's kind of like a
dilution of what exactly will be the ultimate physical crescendo
of marriage. You can actually make a rational, reasonable, non-religious
argument for that. Anyway, that's like a whole other topic
that we could discuss another time. But I will defend that.
I actually think bring back purity, bring back saying yourself
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for marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
One other thing that Charlie was great at, not only
his prove me wrong segments, because these college kids were
pretty dumb that he would be debating. You know, and
I got to know his pastors, Frank Turek, really well
and Rob McCoy really well.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And they're two wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And he was constantly looking to them to guide him
in his faith and his ability to to debate people
of a different point of view. He even debated Hassan
Piker back in 2018. Let's play a clip of that.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You give 95 percent of your money away and go
live on a commune.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Do you really think that that's how it works? Do
you really think that's how it works? Why not? Go
live what you preach. This is as silly.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You talked uninterrupted for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hassan, let me finish.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I live.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
What I practice.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I'm a free market capitalist. I employ people. I took
a risk. I have my own startup business. Every single day,
I practice what I preach. He wants other people to
contribute to what he considers to be a good idea.
What he considers will make the world a better place.
You have the freedom to go live as a socialist.
Go do it, Hassan.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What's stopping you?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I mean, extremely relevant in light of what we now
know about Hassan Piker and how active he has been
in this campaign. Anyway, so John, um, John Solomon, our friend,
wrote the foreword for this new book, The Intellect of
Charlie Kirk. It's a collection of writings, ideas, and stories
from a transformative America, includes never-before-seen introduction by Charlie Kirk.
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And John was very close friends with him, and he
joins us now. Well, this is a different interview than
we're used to doing, but There was a side of
Charlie Kirk that most people didn't know.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Yeah. You know, I want it. We've all everybody's talked
to him about the activists, about the election work, about
the students. engagement that he did. But behind the man,
when you got to know him as a person, he
was this extraordinarily deep intellect. He had an unbelievable brilliance
about him. His mind was like a supercomputer. And he
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taught me something at a time in my life when
I started to think, well, maybe the debate isn't worth
it anymore. Well, you can't debate these crazy people. They're
never going to listen to anything. And Charlie truly believed
that having a conversation, a civil conversation with his intellect
could turn people into thinking a different way. And he
was right. He learned the Socratic method. He wrote columns.
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He wrote speeches. He prepared for every campus event that
he ever went to to be a master professor. person
who could debate on the issues and turn someone's thinking
in the middle of a debate. And I think that
got lost in his assassination. So we wanted to step
back at Just the News. We created a special book
label called Just the Books. And we went to the
guy who actually worked with Charlie often to write the columns,
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to write the books, to prepare for some of those
epic debates that he was going to have. And he
gave us some insights and he tells a firsthand story
of what it was like to see Charlie's intellect evolve.
And we wanted this to be one of the legacies
of Charlie, not just his assassination, his martyrdom, not just
the TPSA extraordinary legacy that he created, this infrastructure that
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will live on for decades to come, but the intellect
of the man. He was a serious intellectual, and he
used it for good.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, he used it for good.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And as I got to know Frank Turek, and he's
been on this program, and Rob McCoy's been on this program,
and they've both been on TV recently, And he had
these amazing people around him that he surrounded himself with
that had incredible, you know, spiritual knowledge. And that seems
to be on top of his desire to be, you know,
driving younger voters into politics. And again, hearing things that
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they were never going to hear anywhere else. I mean,
come on, John, how many kids talk about not having
sex before they get married?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Nobody. It just doesn't happen in this day and age.
How many?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
How many people are telling kids to get in church?
The only thing, interestingly, I disagreed with Charlie on that
I heard him say was even if you can't afford
kids to have them.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm like, yeah, I don't know if I agree with
that part.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think you might want to wait until you can
afford them because they're pretty expensive.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
They are expensive. There's no doubt about it. Listen, how
many kids talk about the Socratic method as a part
of life? Charlie believed that this idea of using the
Socratic method of having a question-based dialogue, meaning if someone
asked him something, he'd respond with a question, and he
would expose their contradictions, particularly those who were far leftists.
And he would create these journeys, these intellectual journeys. There
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aren't many kids at age 19, which is when I
first met Charlie, all the way through that had that
level of intellect, had that level of passion that he
built it into his lifestyle. And I think that's what
this book captures here. It's amazing by asking questions and
engaging in a debate how much reasoning you can create
and also how much contradictions, particularly when it comes to
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those who subscribe to the far left philosophies today, the
socialism and the communism, how easy it is to expose
their contradictions. Charlie lived his life dedicated to that. I
don't think a lot of people knew that. This is
the first time I've ever seen something written that captured
this side of him.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
No, I learned this from his pastors and both of them, interestingly,
have become friends of mine. And I kind of look
to them, too, as mentors. And I'm learning from both
of them as well. I think we should all be
lifelong learners. And then the spiritual side of mankind, you
cannot ignore that we are of spirit. You know, I
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interviewed people that that had near death experiences and went
to heaven for my podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And it did really well.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I interviewed, and I think we're dropping it tomorrow, I
have to check, people that had a near-death experience and
went to hell. And did you ever read Dante's Inferno?
Did you ever read the Screwtape Letters? Did you ever
read Taylor Caldwell's, you know, she.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Wrote a book, Dialogues with the Devil. Did you ever
read any of those books?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Dante's Inferno, absolutely. I mean, that's a must-reading. And you're right,
we don't think about this enough in life, but we
need to.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We need to.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, and all of this spiritual warfare that's going on,
I think, is very real. And the way they described it,
you know, one guy in particular was not very religious,
and he had this near-death experience, and he instinctively said
that he was going straight to hell and describes what
he saw down there and the pain and the separation
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from God and just agony at a level you cannot
describe and seeing demons.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
You know, all right, for those that might think.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
This is crazy talk, well, why does the Lord's Prayer say,
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, right?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
That's right. Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know, pretty straight forward. But this was the side
of Charlie that a lot of people didn't know.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
It was such an amazing side to see. And, you know,
my last interaction with him was just a couple weeks
before he passed. And I have to admit, I was
a little grouchy because he asked me to come out
to an event in Colorado. It was going to be
like a three-flight hop. At the end of August, I
was really busy, and I was grouchy, grouchy, grouchy about it,
but I did it. Got on the plane. I got
on the ground in Colorado, and this unbelievable student picks
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me up at the airport and says, I'm going to
take you there. And she starts telling me her life
story about she's an athlete, but she became very disillusioned
and how Charlie and TPSA and getting surrounded by people
of like thinking got her back onto a great path.
And I thought, wow, that was an amazing experience in
the car. I get to the event and like within
minutes of just being around Charlie and talking to him,
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your whole spirit picks up. You're like, why was I
so grouchy about coming here? I'm glad I came here.
And we're just about to get on stage for our
Q & A. And I said to him, hey, Charlie,
we got a country to save. And he turns around
to me and says, no, John, we got Western civilization
to save. And he stopped me in my tracks for
a second. It was such a powerful moment to realize
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someone so young could see the stakes of the moment
we were living in, that it wasn't just the American
experience we were trying to save, but all of Western culture.
And it led us into this discussion about what was
going on in Europe and Great Britain and And I
went back on the plane the next morning because I
turned around one morning, came back the very next day.
I was invigorated on the plane. That's what Charlie could
do to you. His intellect, his passion, his ability to
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see the big picture and to bring faith into everything
that he did. I went out grouching and I came
back completely the one who was rewarded by the experience.
And that was what was amazing about Charlie.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
All right, quick break.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Right back more with John Solomon on the other side, justthenews.com.
800-941-SHAWN is our number this Monday if you want to
be a part of the program as we continue. All right,
our final moments talking about our friend Charlie Kirk with
John Solomon. My last two interactions with Charlie were very different.
And one was at the White House. I was going
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to interview President Trump as he entered his second term.
And he was at the gate where I was. And
we spent some time And we stopped and I actually
had an opportunity to thank him for all that he
did for the 24 presidential election and getting a lot
of young people out and getting them motivated and all
of that. And another conversation was a little bit more
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contentious and as much as I'm like, Charlie, why are
you associating with these lunatics? And without mentioning names, I'm like,
it just is off brand for you. And I realized
in that conversation, he was uncomfortable with it. And I'm like,
then you know what to do. That's all I said.
I said nothing else, but maybe I shouldn't have said that.
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Maybe that wasn't my business.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
It's funny that Charlie, even in, he wanted to engage
everyone with his intel, even if he thought they were
crazier than a bat and off the radar, he always
believed that getting into a debate with someone and using
that Socratic math and walking him through it might lead
them to some enlightenment, some realization. And there's, I've met
many people like, Charlie changed my life. He changed my thinking.
It's amazing how fearless he was in wanting to debate
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people because he thought at the end of the day,
no matter how crazy your thoughts were, that a debate
might lead you somewhere good. And that is a side
of him that it took me a long time to
appreciate how ingrained it was in him that no matter
who the person was, no matter how far they were.
I remember one time we were talking on the phone.
It was during a period of time where he was
facing some criticism about some Martin Luther King comments he
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had made. And there was someone that engaged him. He's like,
I'm like, Charlie, why in God's name would you even
take the call? He's like, because you know what? If
I ask a few questions and begin to debate, maybe
some good will come of it. It was such an
amazing moment for me to realize that he truly believed
that debate would change people, that intellect would change people,
that having a conversation in an era where we stay
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in our foxholes and often don't talk to the other side,
that that could change the country. And he forever changed
my outlook on how we're going to engage with people
going forward.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, he changed it and he did it with intellect
and he did it with a smile and he did
it good naturedly. I'll tell you this, he's missed. He
was a great guy. And tell us more about the
book and how people can get.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It, John. Yeah, I'm so excited about it. The Intellect
of Charlie Kirk is the title. You go to jtnmarketplace.com.
You can get a copy there today. Buy a copy
for a young person. Somewhere today, there's a young person
in a college campus or a high school campus that
feels disillusioned by the people around them. They're being pressured
into not having the values that their faith told them
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to hold on to. A book like this can make
a difference. That's why we wrote it. Brent Hamachek wrote
the book. He was really the ghostwriter who helped Charlie
put together a lot of things. When Charlie got busier
and busier, he got to see a side of Charlie
no one else did. In many ways, it's a little
bit like the book Tuesdays with Maureen. You get this
unbelievable insight into Charlie through these writings and the intellect
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he was doing. It's a fantastic book, jtnmarketplace.com, easy to get.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
All right, we'll put a link on hannity.com as well.
John Solomon, appreciate you. Just the news dot com. Of course, John,
we'll talk soon. Eight hundred nine four one. Sean is
on number if you want to be a part of
the program.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Let's get to our busy phones.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Sylvia, Tennessee. Sylvia.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
How are you? Glad you called. Happy Monday. Thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'm good. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
No offense, but Linda, I wanted to talk to you first.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh, boy.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I'm originally from New York.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And by the way, I could never tell. Not in
a hundred years.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You sound like you're from South Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Well, I moved here, thank God.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Thank God?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You're thanking God that you moved to Tennessee? Let me
ask you, when you walk around Tennessee, how many people,
when you talk to them, say, where.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
In New York are you from?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
No, they say New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Same thing. Just as bad.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
No, no, no. New York is way better. But anyway,
I started using silver platter for my lasagna.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Silver platter? We don't have silver. What is a silver platter?
Use a silver platter for your what?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
For my sauce.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
For your sauce. Use silver platter for your sauce.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You were going to say something. I knew you were
going to say something.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, it's not silver platter. You don't know the name
of the product, do you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I'm sorry. I'm pronouncing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah. Linda, you want to help her out?
Speaker 9 (15:51):
No, it's fine. It could be a new version of
Silver Palate. It could be Silver Palate on your silver
platter for your lasagna for this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And what's the full name of the product?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Silver Palate Pasta Sauce.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's not sauce. There's no such word as sauce. There is.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
In fact, Sylvia is confirming said.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Sauce as we speak. Sylvia has as thick an accent
as you do. She's got a.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Thicker accent than me. I'm impressed by her, actually. I
think it's good for the people of Tennessee to feel
something authentic like Sylvia.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
All right, Sylvia.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Listen, I bet, but the people in Tennessee, probably every person,
or close to every person says, where in New York
or New Jersey are you from, correct?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Kind of, yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Kind of, yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
How long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
When I say whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Whatever.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
But how long have you been there?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Eight years.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Oh, yeah, you're still new.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Eight years is not new. It's not old.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Well, I used to live in Arizona. That was worse.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Oh, God.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
I mean, your hair looks good, but it's so dry.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, Tennessee is awesome. I don't know what Linda's talking about.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
No, she said Arizona. And I said, ugh, I like
Tennessee a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, I was out there campaigning with... Who was it? J.D.
Hayworth years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And it was 125 or 30 degrees. You could fry
an egg on your car.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And he's like, why are you complaining? It's a dry heat.
And I go.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not a dry heat. It's still hot. I can't
breathe heat. It's like Dante's Inferno. I was living in hell.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's because they're so used to it, though.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
They don't feel it anymore. That's the difference.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Well, it's not like that where I live in Florida. Oh, God,
it's so humid there. No, it's not. No, wrong. You're wrong.
I'm not wrong. You're wrong. You're just used to it.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
And plus, you're cold and clammy all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You love it. Anyway, Sylvia, what's on your mind?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I want to tell you that I have simply saved.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They're great, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yes, and I can watch my granddaughter in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
She watches a granddaughter in the backyard?
Speaker 9 (17:53):
She's cooler of the day. She's using the saw. She's
protecting her house. She's got SimpliSafe, Silver Palette. Do you
carry a burner, Sylvia?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
It's a trifecta.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Not yet.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
Oh, see that?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You definitely need one.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, you know. But anyway, I also want to say
I have a couple of things. One is nobody understands Trump.
They don't see the big picture at all. They don't
see the big picture. And I watch your friend, Mr. O'Reilly,
about the gouging of the prices of gas. I work
at a fuel center. I tell everybody, keep the faith,
(18:26):
keep the faith. Don't give up. You know, it's going
to get better. And nobody believes me. You know, some do,
some don't. I just say, come on, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let me tell you what the Iranians are doing.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They're dragging this out because they want it to impact
the elections. Now, with that said, Iran will never have
a nuclear weapon because of one man and the political
courage he had.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And that's Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And, you know, people can debate the right or wrongness
of the decision.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
To me, he had no choice. Period.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We have Marco Rubio on TV tonight. I'm telling you,
he had no choice.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And I believe you completely. But let me tell you,
my granddaughter wants to pray for Trump every day. She
says she doesn't understand. She didn't understand about Charlie, even
why someone hates some person so much. So she prays
for them every day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Well, she's got a good heart because she's got a
good grandmother.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, well, I try. I try. But, you know, I
try to keep her on the straight, you know, like,
you know, and be honest what's going on.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, let me put it a way that I think
everybody can understand. If everybody's concerned about, let's say, the
Strait of Hormuz, what would the Strait of Hormuz be
like in the future with a nuclear-armed Iran?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
They would hold the world. hostage.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This war will come to an end sooner than later.
This conflict.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Because my granddaughter is going to grow up in this world.
And we have to make sure, as people now, that
these kids, they're our future.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I would not.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I would feel if I was on my deathbed tomorrow
and maybe some people think I'm on my deathbed because
I sound like crap today, but.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I just have a cold. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But I'm just telling you, if we left our kids
and grandkids to have to deal with a nuclear armed Iran,
one day they would use that weapon. That's how fanatical
and sick they are. And I believe that with all
my heart, mind and soul. They think they're doing the
work of God. They think they're going to be rewarded
(20:39):
in heaven with virgins.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's weird.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And radical Islamists are dangerous. So, you know, what he
did made the world a better, safer place. And maybe
there is a political price he'll pay.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I hope not.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I hope not among conservatives that are thinking, because if
you're thinking, you know, this just is something that had
to be done.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Sylvia, we love you. Get some silver palette past this US.
Have fun down in Tennessee. Go to Music Row and
stop by Big and Rich's Big Place, okay?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
All right.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Linda, give him heck, okay?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You got it, Sylvia. And your honor. How about leave
me alone? No, that's not fun. Rick in South Carolina.
What's up, Rick? How are you? Glad you called, sir. Oh, hey, Sean.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Thanks for taking my call. And I wanted to say
that I moved from California to South Carolina, and my
cost of living literally dropped by 50%. Yep. The drastic
change was just a shock. I can't explain it in words,
the difference. And, of course, the society is so much
more civil. But when I talk to my neighbors and
(21:48):
so forth and tell them how costly things are in California,
they're not only not aware, but they sort of don't
believe it. And I think the Republican Party is really
making a mistake by not getting that word out. I mean,
you can drive a leftist insane if you just say,
if you're so good at lowering prices, then how come
Democratic states are so frickin' expensive? And so while you
(22:10):
do a great job, I think the Republican Party is
just doing a terrible job.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, I think we've opened up a roadmap. They're crazy, radical, extreme,
and they want to shred the Constitution. I looked at
another story today. Several Democratic run cities across the U.S.
are in such decay that, you know, because of their
left wing policies, Seattle is a slowly dying city and
(22:39):
people are leaving these states in droves and you can't
blame them. I'm telling you right now, if if in
fact Steve Hilton loses in California and Bruce Blakeman loses.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You're going to see another massive wave of migration out
of those two states.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's my prediction.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
One more thing?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
I went on three very left-wing talk shows last Thursday
and Friday, and all I asked them was, if Democrats
are so good at lowering prices, then why are blue
states so expensive? And they spent two days after I
hung up just berating me. They were hysterically angry. berating me.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What are the liberal talk shows? I don't even know
any liberal talk shows that are successful.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
They're on Sirius FM.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Some other guy.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
And they spent three days, I mean two days, just
berating me. Rick from South Carolina. I was famous in
the left-wing talk show.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, at least now you have people listening. Number one.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And number two, people that matter. Look, we're not going
to change the hearts of these radical socialists. They're not
going to all of a sudden. Oh, Hannity's right. Oh,
Fox News is right. Oh, Drake in South Carolina is right.
They're not going to do that. But what they will
do is just get louder and angrier and more radicalized,
(24:03):
the more extreme. Look, I know that there's a level
of overconfidence on the left right now. And I'm just
saying to everybody, do not let the the legacy media mob,
which is invested in being their spokespeople, impact your psychology
(24:23):
going into this election. If everybody votes as though their
vote will be the deciding vote for your local congressman, congresswoman, senator.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Then we'll win the election. We'll win.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
We'll shock the world. We'll defy historical trends. The opportunity exists.
Some people are voting early. I would just say to people,
if you can vote early, vote early. I'm not against
voting early. even though it's not ideal. I don't think
you should be voting 45 days out of an election
like they are in the Commonwealth of Virginia. But anyway,
I appreciate your kind words. Thank you, sir. Keep up
(24:59):
the good work. Leslie is also in Tennessee. Leslie, how
are you? Glad you called.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Hey, thanks, Sean.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
I appreciate you having me on the show. And just
kind of highlighting on what you just said about knowing
who you're voting for. A special example is the governor
of Virginia that was voted in. how Abigail Spanberger is
showing her socialist spots little by little.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, we refer to her as Scamburger because she ran
on one platform and did everything that she didn't tell
the people of Virginia she was going to do.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Oh, yeah, Ms.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Winslow Earl Sears would have been a better choice for Virginia,
that's for sure. But just recently, she just overturned very quietly,
which was kind of bizarre, the Protect and Preserve Act
that Glenn Youngkin had put into place recently. which protects
girls in all school sports divided by the male and
the female gender. And saying that she's now saying there
(25:54):
shouldn't be any differences and she's there to protect the
LBGQ plus community, which is to me unbelievable when the
Virginia State Board of Health 10 to 15, regulation into
place in last year. And what questions me is how
the new elected Attorney General Jay Jones, who is also
(26:14):
another snake in the grass, some people remember, threatened the
President and Republican Attorney General Todd Gilbert with two bullets
to the head, three people, two bullets, and got elected. So,
I mean, this is craziness in Virginia. It's almost like
they get what they deserve. But they're a neighboring state,
and I have family that lives in Virginia. So this is,
(26:35):
you know, it's boggling that they were able to take
this regulation by themselves. Glenn Youngkin, who was beloved by
all Virginians at the time, and said this was a
withdrawn regulation. And the chairperson of the board had no
idea that there was anything that was withdrawn. So how,
you know, how could that.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
Be if it's just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's sad that these people, they don't run on who
they really are.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I mean, that's now the.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Adopted strategy of the DSA candidates, you know, as evidenced
by AOC.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh, that's woke 1.0 crazy or.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know, spam burger, you know, running on one platform.
And she had totally different intentions the whole time. We
see the same thing with Telefrico. We see the same
thing with Abdul Al-Sayed. We see the same thing with
Troy Jackson. We see the same thing in Kansas. We
see the same thing in Iowa. We see the same
(27:30):
thing in Alaska. We see the same thing. Jared Brown
will be a total DSA sycophant when all said and done,
if he ever got elected from Ohio. So all of
these races matter. That's why Sununu needs to win in
New Hampshire. That's why Susan Collins needs to win in Maine.
You raise good points. I hope people are paying attention.
(27:51):
I am trying to, to the best of my ability,
let people know what is at stake here. You know,
I'll go back to something Bill Maher said before the
24 election.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
He said, what am I going to do if Kamala loses?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He goes, nothing. I'm going to keep doing my job.
I will keep doing my job. I'm not leaving the fight.
If we lose, I'm just telling you, we can prevent it.
And now is the time to pay attention even more.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
A great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox. Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, Caroline Leavitt tonight, Nancy Grace tonight, Brianna
(28:26):
Lyman hitting the streets, and much more news you'll never
get from your corrupt, abusively biased legacy media mob. Set
your DVR tonight, Hannity on Fox. We'll see you tonight,
back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible.
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