September 9, 2026 • 27 mins
Bill O’Reilly joins Sean from Dallas with a message he believes voters need to understand before November: this election is bigger than any individual candidate. O’Reilly argues that voters are choosing between competing political movements and warns that the country’s institutions, economy, borders, courts, and traditional understanding of government could all be reshaped depending on who controls Washington. Sean and O’Reilly also discuss James Talarico, Iran, affordability, California, and why independent voters may ultimately decide whether Republicans can hold the line.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man, that can only mean
one thing on this radio program, and that is all
things self-described, Simple Man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly,
all things Bill O'Reilly at BillOReilly.com.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
As we report today, Mr.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
O'Reilly, from the Republican Midterm Convention, we are in the
great city of Dallas, in the great state of Texas,
God bless Texas. They have a Senate candidate that believes
that there are six genders, not two, and thinks that
God is non-binary, is running a vegan campaign in a
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cattle state, does not want drilling in the country in
an oil state. and absolutely supports the right of biological
men to play women's sports and wants access for all
trans people, including biological men, to have access to abortion.
I have to go back to biology school and take
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biology classes in school because I only thought there were
two genders.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Do you know what the other four are?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Do I know?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, do you know?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah. Tell Rico says there are six genders. I want
to know if you know what the other four are.
What's so hard about that question?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Listen, I got two genders.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What do you mean you got two? So you don't
know the answer to the question, do you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I don't know much about history, no.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Did we get it wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Do I need to go back and take more theology classes,
Latin classes, go to mass more often?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
What do I need to do? Because Tallarico thinks that
God is non-binary.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, I don't think anybody follows what Tallarico thinks.
The people who are going to vote against Paxson don't
like him. It's a personality vote. But I'm glad you
brought it up because I made a point yesterday and
I expanded upon it today. As you know, I have
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a book coming out next week called Confronting America. What
has to change? And I'm trying to explain to voters
who would show up in November, you're not voting for
a guy. You're not voting for Paxton or Tallarico. And
they look at me like, what? I said, you're voting
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for a movement. You're voting for a radical left movement,
Tallarico and his cohorts, or a more traditional movement, Paxton.
That's what you're voting for. And this election in particular,
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it doesn't really matter about the people involved. It matters
what their vision is and what they will support. So
if you want open borders, then you'll vote Democrat, right?
If you want 15 genders, then you'll vote Democrat, right?
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And so that the independent Democrats, the people in the
middle who don't like Trump or don't like this or
don't like that, try to get through to them. It's
not about that. President Trump will be out of office
in two and a half years. It's about the future
of our country, whether you destroy what we have and
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build it up in Tallarico's vision, because he'll go right
down the list with every progressive leader uh... insanity there
is or you hold the line as total one saying
you hold the line and say not a perfect country
that's time subtitle and book what has to change however
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we don't want to destroy it cala rico wants to
destroy it and if the republicans can get that message
across they'll pick up a lot of independent.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Voters I think that is a spot on, dead accurate,
top dead center analysis by Mr.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think you're 100 percent right. That's what it's going
to come down to. A part of the process. Now,
you took a nice vacation, rightly so, because it gets
very quiet in the month of August.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Let's be blunt.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And so you took a couple of weeks off and
you recharge your battery and you do have your book
tour coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
By the way, I'm halfway through your book. I got
an early copy. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I will not disclose the contents that I now know
that are in that book. And I've perused the entire book,
but I've actually read half of it. And I will
finish it by the time you're on the air for release.
And I think that if people hear what you're saying
and understand it, I think this is a very winnable
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election for the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It runs deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I think the most profound thing that you said is
they want to fundamentally alter the America that has existed
for 250 years. They want to take the Constitution and
shred it. If you want to eliminate the U.S. Senate,
prevent the American people from voting directly for president, if
you want to upend our court system and pack the
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judiciary with activist liberal justices, abolish borders, amnesty for illegals,
abolish ICE, end all deportation, defund the Department of War.
If you want to abolish prisons and defund, dismantle, no
bail laws with the police, public ownership of corporations, a
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wealth confiscation scheme, and a cradle-to-grave socialist Marxist utopia, then
that is going to be any Democrat you vote for,
that's what they're going to end up supporting, because that
is the power structure now of a formally normal party.
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I mean, you and I got along with plenty of
Democrats over the years.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, in Holmes, I mean, that's your best historical yardstick.
So you went on, you had civil debate every night,
you had some laughs. And now if you disagree with
people on both sides, I have to say, they hate you,
a lot of them. They hate your guts. And there's
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a Trump quotient in that, but it's a personal failing
on a lot of part of Americans. But you're absolutely
right when you say there's only one Democrat that I
know of that will defy the leadership, and that's Fetterman.
of pennsylvania and he's going to have to become a
republican there's no doubt he can't stay in his party
they're going to draw them out uh... and so that
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no matter who it is in maine or in michigan
or in montana no matter who it is you cast
that vote for a democrat even though you may like
that person better than the republican running you are voting
for armageddon the way the country has been run since
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the turn of the 20th century, which is when we
assembled our economic power. We started assembling that and have
become the most powerful nation on earth, providing the most
opportunity for the most people. You want to vote against that?
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You don't want that? You believe Tallarico when he says,
I'm going to give everybody free health care? You think
you're not going to wait six months for a doctor's appointment?
You think you're not going to have more affordability? Affordability?
Go to California and look at the gas prices. Look
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at the tax structure. This is run by Democrats, and
they're screaming affordability? There's going to be more money coming
out of your house if the Democrats win than then
you will believe, you won't believe how much tax you're
going to have to pay. And that's everybody, except for
the dire poor. And so people don't think this deeply.
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They're thinking about a gallon of gas costing this much,
so I'm going to vote against Trump. Is that a
foolish vote? When we're looking at a possible destruction of
traditional America? Yes, it is a foolish vote. You've got
to get the bigger picture. And that's the campaign I'm
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on with the book and with the midterms.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Again, I don't think I can define what's at stake
any better. And to be honest, the reason that gas
prices have spiked, but they've come back down many, many times.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Every time they spike, they come right down.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The main reason is, is this president had to make
a call, a decision. And it's never easy to make
a decision to use military force. Every single person that
I know and, you know, I have a lot of
connections in the administration. The people that know the people
that read the presidential daily briefings bill, they all. in
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one shape, manner, or form, gave me the same description
of why the president needed to do what he's doing
in Iran. And their description is simple. The president had
no choice. They were that close to becoming a nuclear power,
a nuclear-armed Iran that also, and we discovered this during
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Epic Fury, has ballistic missile range that nobody, nobody knew
or anticipated. They have range that they can actually put
a nuclear warhead and hit Paris or London. And probably
not long after that, the continental United States. That is
a clear and present danger to the world. I don't
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think the president has gotten enough credit for that or
controlling the borders or the largest tax cut in American
history or deregulation or energy independence. I don't think the
Democrats have gotten enough blame for leaving wide open borders
and lying to us for four years, lying about a
cognitively impaired president, voting for the largest tax increase in
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history instead of the largest tax cut. There's a lot
at stake here. And there are two competing visions for
the country. Cradle to grave, wound to the tomb. Look
at what this Green New Deal offers you, Bill. You know,
they want to offer you guaranteed daycare, guaranteed government jobs,
guaranteed government salaries, guaranteed government schools for your kids. We
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pay the most per capita in education than any other
country in the industrialized world with the worst results, Bill.
And now we're going to give these kids over to
the government, what, when they're children? You heard El-Sayed's comments yesterday.
And then I guess, you know, then you get a
government-guaranteed retirement, government-guaranteed health care. I guess the government-guaranteed pine box,
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you know, to put you in a government field when
you croak. Because that's where they're headed. It's been tried before.
Many names, forms, manifestations of fails every time, Mr.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But most Americans are not smart enough to understand it
because the public school system has collapsed.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's collapsed.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You're targeting the Democratic Party is targeting people that Rush
Limbaugh used to call low informed voters. And those groups
are mounting more and more and more, particularly when you
have all of this money. from the real progressive left,
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like Pritzker, 200 million, Soros, unbelievable amounts of money. And
these people don't know, A, how the country was founded,
and B, what the danger that lies ahead will be.
They're susceptible to propaganda. They hear it from their friends.
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Their friends are dumber than they are. I see it
all the time. I see it wherever I go. I
ask one question to these people. They go, affordability. As
soon as I hear that word, I go, is in
California a democratic state? Top to bottom? Okay. You think
California is affordable? In what area is it affordable? Can't
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buy a house? Okay. What do they have? A hundred
billion dollar debt? Can't see a doctor? All right. If
you're on the dole, Try to get a doctor's appointment
in L.A. if you're doing Medicaid.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Try.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
See how long it takes you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's Medi-Cal, and it's given to free to illegal immigrants.
Your state of New York is not much better, Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No, but Hochul could lose here.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Right now, it's a four-point race, and I hope and
pray for all of my friends in New York. I
think this might be the last shot you have to
save your state with Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, if Mandami keeps yapping, Blakeman's going to win, because
they've successfully, the party here in New York, Republican Party,
has tied Mandami around Hochul's neck.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
All right, Mr.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
O'Reilly, got to run, man. Looking forward to the new book.
Let's put it this way. I read half of it
in one sitting. I didn't put it down. I stayed
up much later than I should have. Anyway, we'll talk
to you next week, Mr.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I just, because of Linda's visceral reaction, boss, boss, boss,
about Abdul El-Sayed, the idea that the left, I mean,
it was a big controversy when Hillary Clinton said it
takes a village, as I discussed earlier. For this guy
to say that he wants communal responsibility over our children,
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with all due respect, parents are not potted plants. You
bring children into the world, they're your responsibility. And, you know,
Abdul El-Sayed, he can have all the kids he wants.
He can instill whatever nutty values that he wants in
his own children. He can, you know, bring Uncle Hassan,
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Hassan Piker, that claims America deserved 9-11 over as often
as he wants, and indoctrinate them into this radicalized thinking
of theirs. The last person I want raising my kids
are people like El-Sayed or Pocahontas, or Bernie Sanders, Grandpa Bernie,
or AOC and the Squad, or six-gender Tallarico here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
No, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think I could do fine without them, but this
is what El-Sayed said.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I'm not a socialist. I'm a scientist.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But if I have one political philosophy, right, it's that
I want us to build what we would build if
we took seriously the idea that all of our kids
were all of our kids.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
All of our kids are all of our kids.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Linda.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Your kids are not your kids. You have Uncle Abdul
El-Sayed ready to help you with your children.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Over my dead body, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Forget about it. It'd be a cold day in hell.
Cold day in hell for Linda.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And this is, by the way, what he said, you know,
claiming that what America did after 9-11 scarred millions of
other people.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
There was a before 9-11 and an after 9-11 for
all of us, but especially for people like me. We
have a choice about where we go from here. Thousands
of refugees from our war in Afghanistan are awaiting resettlement. Already,
the same voices who pounded the drums for war are
fear-mongering the lives they displaced.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But we owe them so much more.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Our war destroyed their lives and livelihoods. Perhaps this is
the opportunity to, in some small way, turn the page
on an era of death, destruction, and destitution. Because even
if the war is over, the stain of the war
lives on. And though we lost the war, perhaps we
can yet win a peace. 9-11 scarred our country in
profound ways. But what we did after 9-11 scarred millions
of other people. When we talk about 9-11, we often
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fail to center them.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Unbelievable mentality. No wonder his best friend in the world
is Hassan Piker. All right, Chad in Texas, where we
are today. Chad, how are you? Glad you called, sir.
God bless Texas, and thanks for checking in.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Love to hear that, Sean. Welcome to Dallas. I'm bringing
up something that your humbleness and you, that you don't
talk about on September the 10th because of what happened
the next day. I'm doing it today because you're not
going to want to hear it tomorrow. 25 years nationally
syndicated violence. You got to paint yourself. This is real.
(17:11):
I mean, 25 years ago, did you see yourself? Man,
I don't know how long this is going to be.
Do you still wake up every day like, this is
actually real. So this is just a, I haven't called
in in a long time. I still listen to you,
but haven't called in. I did today. So just want
to thank you for everything that you do, Sean, whether
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it's election year or not, breaking news, the guests that
you have on. I tune into your podcast as well.
But this is really just a big thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
All of your listeners.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We love you, Sean. I mean, 25 years down, hopefully
25 more to go. And just a big thank you, Sean.
I know you don't like to talk about September the 10th, 2001,
because of what happened the next day. So this is
just a big congratulations and thank you for everything that
you've done, do, and will still do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I get very uncomfortable. I'm not very good at taking
a compliment.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just not. But I'm very grateful. The thankfulness really
is on my part. And you are right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We never mention on September 10th the anniversary of this
program going into syndication. And there's a reason. Because I
know what happened the next day. It just doesn't seem
appropriate to me.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It seems.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
self-centered and narcissistic to me. It seems like it just,
it just, I can't bifurcate one day from the other,
if that makes sense. But do I have a deep
sense of gratitude and thanks beyond which I could probably
even express to all of you in this audience? And
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you've been with me all these years and you stick
by me. I mean, I can't do this job without
all of you and your support. I can't be on
TV without all of you and your support. The podcast,
you know, I'm trying to do that differently than the
way other people do it. And so far it's been
out of the box, a much bigger success than anybody
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ever thought. And I'm so grateful to everybody for it.
I really, I kind of, how do I say this?
I just know the answer to your question is I
never thought I would survive in radio television. I never
saw TV on the horizon and always believed I was
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doing my last show. And there's a part of me
in the back of my head that actually still thinks
that way. And I can't explain why. Maybe it's just,
I don't know, talent insecurity.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But it drives me to try to be better and
better and better and better. You know, I read comments
about me in the last week that were critical of me,
and I took it to heart, some of it. And
I said, OK, I think maybe I can improve in
that area. Uh, I won't go into the details of
what it was, but I'm, you know, I always want
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to be the best I can be, but really the
gratitude is on my part because I, when I started
in 1987 and first got behind a microphone, trust me,
if you think I thought I'd ever be successful, you
don't know what was going.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Through my head.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Um, I, I was scared to death on that first show,
but I knew I just wanted to, that's all I
wanted to do. And so, When you find something that you'll,
I never thought I'd get paid doing it. Did it
for free in the beginning. Got paid 19 grand a
year in my first paid gig. And I was so
happy just to be able to do it. And I'm
happy to be able to do it today. And you
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make that happen. So really the gratitude comes from me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You're right. I don't want to, it's just not right
to celebrate that anniversary. Just not.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And but I'd be negligent if I didn't say express
my appreciation to each and every one of you. I
think I have been living an undeserved life. And for
those that hate me, they would agree. It's an undeserved life.
You don't deserve to be on the air. And people
have tried a lot over the course of my career
to get me off the air. But I'm grateful to
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all of you that have shown me that kind of support.
It is more meaningful than I can express.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
All right, quick break. Right back to our busy phones.
It's toll free. It's 800-941-SHAWN. As we continue, we are
in beautiful Dallas, Texas for the Republican Midterm Convention. Two
hours of coverage tonight on Hannity. Set your DVR 9
to 11 Eastern, 8 to 10 local.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But more of your calls straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Final Hour Roundup is next.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
You do not want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And stay tuned for the final hour free-for-all on the
Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
All right, from Dallas for the Republican National Midterm Convention,
it's the Sean Hannity Show. Back to our busy phones. Dennis,
Long Island, New York.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What's up, Dennis? We're in Long Island. Are you, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Please, New Yorkers. Bruce Blakeman has a shot. He's within four.
He's within striking distance. Please help Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, absolutely. No doubt.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
John, I've been listening for feels like decades, too. In fact,
even I shared coffee and conversation at the ice rink.
Our kids played ice hockey in a long, long time ago.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, so probably Iceworks and Syosset.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That one.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
But you did Superior, too.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, I did. You know, in the beginning, my son
was a hockey player.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He later trained sports, but he broke his leg skiing
with me one time, one year.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You had black hair, then I had blonde, but those
days are over.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I still got some black left. This is not all black.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh, yeah, and I got none. It's all white. Anyway, Sean,
I like the idea of you reminding everybody what's at
stake for the midterms, and I think it needs to
be hammered home all the time, and the RNC isn't
doing such a great job of it. But what I'm
really concerned about is the amount of vote. They have to.
Too big to rig. It's got to come out of
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their mouths every day. More, you know, this whole three days,
it's got to come out. We've got to get the
amount of people that came out for the president to
come out in the midterm. And I think they're missing that.
And it should be a big priority of what's going on,
especially the next three days. And from right from now until.
It's time to vote. People got to get out to vote.
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That's the one thing that will beat us the most
if they don't. It's simple as that. I think we're
hearing enough of it from the president or his administration
or the RNC.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The kickoff to the campaign starts this week. So that's
why we're in Dallas. And people tend to get back
to their normal schedules. Kids get back to school. I
know some people in other parts of the country, their
kids already started in school in August. But, you know,
for the rest of the country, they're going back to
school this week or next. And with that comes a
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the regular routine comes back. People get back to their
normal lives. People will dial into the news a little
bit more. It's normal to have slow summer news periods.
People need a break. They're on vacation. They're traveling, so
on and so forth. But I will say this. And
it's a combination of the discussion I had with O'Reilly
earlier and a conversation I had last week with our
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own Linda. You know, and that is if what O'Reilly
is saying, I agree with. If you vote for any Democrat,
you are voting for an ideology and you're voting for
somebody that will go along with the radicalized crowd. There's
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not going to be many elected Democrats that will join
John Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It won't happen.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We have 250 elected DSA members since 2019, 40 plus
more on the ballot this year. So you are voting
for that philosophy. Whatever way they're told and pressured, they're
going to vote. So it's like you're voting for Abdul
El-Sayed if you vote for any Democratic senator. Let me
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make it that plain, or Tallarico, or Troy Jackson in Maine.
It's like you're voting for any Democrat. And the Linda
part of it is, you know, she thinks we have
a uniparty. And I'm like, no, because there's not one
Republican that's supporting any DSA policies. And there's a lot
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of Republicans that I wish were stronger.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I really do. I'll give you the last word.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I still think that it needs to be a priority
to get the vote out. We have to make it
a priority. And I do have. So, you know, Linda's here.
I have a trick for the swear words.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What is your trick?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
So, Linda, back in the day, I was a local
elected official. So you'd have to, you know, give policy
speeches or do events, you know, shake hands, get babies,
that type of thing. There was a person in my
community who came to me, always wanted me to run
for stuff. And she said to me, listen, do me
a favor. When you are about to drop the F-bomb,
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I want you to change it to flipping. And I laughed.
She laughed. But I did it. And I'm telling you, Linda,
after a while of just saying flipping every time I
wanted to drop an F-bomb, it worked. And a day,
decades later, I still say flipping and not drop the F-bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Hey, Dennis, she is backsliding and incorrigible.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
No way.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And the worst part of the whole story is she
gave up. And instead of even trying to conquer this
and give it up for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh, my God, would you look at that? We're out
of time. Time for commercial. All right, Dennis, we appreciate you, man.
Thank you. Yeah, bye.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Have a great day. 800-941-SHAWN as we continue from Dallas tonight,
9 to 11, Hannity, two hours on this special Republican
midterm convention.
All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man, that can only mean
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
As we report today, Mr.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
O'Reilly, from the Republican Midterm Convention, we are in the
great city of Dallas, in the great state of Texas,
God bless Texas. They have a Senate candidate that believes
that there are six genders, not two, and thinks that
God is non-binary, is running a vegan campaign in a
(00:36):
cattle state, does not want drilling in the country in
an oil state. and absolutely supports the right of biological
men to play women's sports and wants access for all
trans people, including biological men, to have access to abortion.
I have to go back to biology school and take
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biology classes in school because I only thought there were
two genders.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Do you know what the other four are?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Do I know?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, do you know?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah. Tell Rico says there are six genders. I want
to know if you know what the other four are.
What's so hard about that question?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Listen, I got two genders.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What do you mean you got two? So you don't
know the answer to the question, do you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I don't know much about history, no.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Did we get it wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Do I need to go back and take more theology classes,
Latin classes, go to mass more often?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
What do I need to do? Because Tallarico thinks that
God is non-binary.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, I don't think anybody follows what Tallarico thinks.
The people who are going to vote against Paxson don't
like him. It's a personality vote. But I'm glad you
brought it up because I made a point yesterday and
I expanded upon it today. As you know, I have
(02:01):
a book coming out next week called Confronting America. What
has to change? And I'm trying to explain to voters
who would show up in November, you're not voting for
a guy. You're not voting for Paxton or Tallarico. And
they look at me like, what? I said, you're voting
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for a movement. You're voting for a radical left movement,
Tallarico and his cohorts, or a more traditional movement, Paxton.
That's what you're voting for. And this election in particular,
(02:43):
it doesn't really matter about the people involved. It matters
what their vision is and what they will support. So
if you want open borders, then you'll vote Democrat, right?
If you want 15 genders, then you'll vote Democrat, right?
(03:05):
And so that the independent Democrats, the people in the
middle who don't like Trump or don't like this or
don't like that, try to get through to them. It's
not about that. President Trump will be out of office
in two and a half years. It's about the future
of our country, whether you destroy what we have and
(03:26):
build it up in Tallarico's vision, because he'll go right
down the list with every progressive leader uh... insanity there
is or you hold the line as total one saying
you hold the line and say not a perfect country
that's time subtitle and book what has to change however
(03:47):
we don't want to destroy it cala rico wants to
destroy it and if the republicans can get that message
across they'll pick up a lot of independent.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Voters I think that is a spot on, dead accurate,
top dead center analysis by Mr.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think you're 100 percent right. That's what it's going
to come down to. A part of the process. Now,
you took a nice vacation, rightly so, because it gets
very quiet in the month of August.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Let's be blunt.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And so you took a couple of weeks off and
you recharge your battery and you do have your book
tour coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
By the way, I'm halfway through your book. I got
an early copy. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I will not disclose the contents that I now know
that are in that book. And I've perused the entire book,
but I've actually read half of it. And I will
finish it by the time you're on the air for release.
And I think that if people hear what you're saying
and understand it, I think this is a very winnable
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election for the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It runs deeper than that.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I think the most profound thing that you said is
they want to fundamentally alter the America that has existed
for 250 years. They want to take the Constitution and
shred it. If you want to eliminate the U.S. Senate,
prevent the American people from voting directly for president, if
you want to upend our court system and pack the
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judiciary with activist liberal justices, abolish borders, amnesty for illegals,
abolish ICE, end all deportation, defund the Department of War.
If you want to abolish prisons and defund, dismantle, no
bail laws with the police, public ownership of corporations, a
(05:43):
wealth confiscation scheme, and a cradle-to-grave socialist Marxist utopia, then
that is going to be any Democrat you vote for,
that's what they're going to end up supporting, because that
is the power structure now of a formally normal party.
(06:03):
I mean, you and I got along with plenty of
Democrats over the years.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, in Holmes, I mean, that's your best historical yardstick.
So you went on, you had civil debate every night,
you had some laughs. And now if you disagree with
people on both sides, I have to say, they hate you,
a lot of them. They hate your guts. And there's
(06:31):
a Trump quotient in that, but it's a personal failing
on a lot of part of Americans. But you're absolutely
right when you say there's only one Democrat that I
know of that will defy the leadership, and that's Fetterman.
of pennsylvania and he's going to have to become a
republican there's no doubt he can't stay in his party
they're going to draw them out uh... and so that
(06:55):
no matter who it is in maine or in michigan
or in montana no matter who it is you cast
that vote for a democrat even though you may like
that person better than the republican running you are voting
for armageddon the way the country has been run since
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the turn of the 20th century, which is when we
assembled our economic power. We started assembling that and have
become the most powerful nation on earth, providing the most
opportunity for the most people. You want to vote against that?
(07:39):
You don't want that? You believe Tallarico when he says,
I'm going to give everybody free health care? You think
you're not going to wait six months for a doctor's appointment?
You think you're not going to have more affordability? Affordability?
Go to California and look at the gas prices. Look
(08:00):
at the tax structure. This is run by Democrats, and
they're screaming affordability? There's going to be more money coming
out of your house if the Democrats win than then
you will believe, you won't believe how much tax you're
going to have to pay. And that's everybody, except for
the dire poor. And so people don't think this deeply.
(08:23):
They're thinking about a gallon of gas costing this much,
so I'm going to vote against Trump. Is that a
foolish vote? When we're looking at a possible destruction of
traditional America? Yes, it is a foolish vote. You've got
to get the bigger picture. And that's the campaign I'm
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on with the book and with the midterms.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Again, I don't think I can define what's at stake
any better. And to be honest, the reason that gas
prices have spiked, but they've come back down many, many times.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Every time they spike, they come right down.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The main reason is, is this president had to make
a call, a decision. And it's never easy to make
a decision to use military force. Every single person that
I know and, you know, I have a lot of
connections in the administration. The people that know the people
that read the presidential daily briefings bill, they all. in
(09:30):
one shape, manner, or form, gave me the same description
of why the president needed to do what he's doing
in Iran. And their description is simple. The president had
no choice. They were that close to becoming a nuclear power,
a nuclear-armed Iran that also, and we discovered this during
(09:51):
Epic Fury, has ballistic missile range that nobody, nobody knew
or anticipated. They have range that they can actually put
a nuclear warhead and hit Paris or London. And probably
not long after that, the continental United States. That is
a clear and present danger to the world. I don't
(10:14):
think the president has gotten enough credit for that or
controlling the borders or the largest tax cut in American
history or deregulation or energy independence. I don't think the
Democrats have gotten enough blame for leaving wide open borders
and lying to us for four years, lying about a
cognitively impaired president, voting for the largest tax increase in
(10:36):
history instead of the largest tax cut. There's a lot
at stake here. And there are two competing visions for
the country. Cradle to grave, wound to the tomb. Look
at what this Green New Deal offers you, Bill. You know,
they want to offer you guaranteed daycare, guaranteed government jobs,
guaranteed government salaries, guaranteed government schools for your kids. We
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pay the most per capita in education than any other
country in the industrialized world with the worst results, Bill.
And now we're going to give these kids over to
the government, what, when they're children? You heard El-Sayed's comments yesterday.
And then I guess, you know, then you get a
government-guaranteed retirement, government-guaranteed health care. I guess the government-guaranteed pine box,
(11:23):
you know, to put you in a government field when
you croak. Because that's where they're headed. It's been tried before.
Many names, forms, manifestations of fails every time, Mr.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But most Americans are not smart enough to understand it
because the public school system has collapsed.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's collapsed.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You're targeting the Democratic Party is targeting people that Rush
Limbaugh used to call low informed voters. And those groups
are mounting more and more and more, particularly when you
have all of this money. from the real progressive left,
(12:08):
like Pritzker, 200 million, Soros, unbelievable amounts of money. And
these people don't know, A, how the country was founded,
and B, what the danger that lies ahead will be.
They're susceptible to propaganda. They hear it from their friends.
(12:30):
Their friends are dumber than they are. I see it
all the time. I see it wherever I go. I
ask one question to these people. They go, affordability. As
soon as I hear that word, I go, is in
California a democratic state? Top to bottom? Okay. You think
California is affordable? In what area is it affordable? Can't
(12:53):
buy a house? Okay. What do they have? A hundred
billion dollar debt? Can't see a doctor? All right. If
you're on the dole, Try to get a doctor's appointment
in L.A. if you're doing Medicaid.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Try.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
See how long it takes you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's Medi-Cal, and it's given to free to illegal immigrants.
Your state of New York is not much better, Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
No, but Hochul could lose here.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Right now, it's a four-point race, and I hope and
pray for all of my friends in New York. I
think this might be the last shot you have to
save your state with Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, if Mandami keeps yapping, Blakeman's going to win, because
they've successfully, the party here in New York, Republican Party,
has tied Mandami around Hochul's neck.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
All right, Mr.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
O'Reilly, got to run, man. Looking forward to the new book.
Let's put it this way. I read half of it
in one sitting. I didn't put it down. I stayed
up much later than I should have. Anyway, we'll talk
to you next week, Mr.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
O'Reilly.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I just, because of Linda's visceral reaction, boss, boss, boss,
about Abdul El-Sayed, the idea that the left, I mean,
it was a big controversy when Hillary Clinton said it
takes a village, as I discussed earlier. For this guy
to say that he wants communal responsibility over our children,
(14:30):
with all due respect, parents are not potted plants. You
bring children into the world, they're your responsibility. And, you know,
Abdul El-Sayed, he can have all the kids he wants.
He can instill whatever nutty values that he wants in
his own children. He can, you know, bring Uncle Hassan,
(14:50):
Hassan Piker, that claims America deserved 9-11 over as often
as he wants, and indoctrinate them into this radicalized thinking
of theirs. The last person I want raising my kids
are people like El-Sayed or Pocahontas, or Bernie Sanders, Grandpa Bernie,
or AOC and the Squad, or six-gender Tallarico here in Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
No, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think I could do fine without them, but this
is what El-Sayed said.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I'm not a socialist. I'm a scientist.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But if I have one political philosophy, right, it's that
I want us to build what we would build if
we took seriously the idea that all of our kids
were all of our kids.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
All of our kids are all of our kids.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Linda.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Your kids are not your kids. You have Uncle Abdul
El-Sayed ready to help you with your children.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Over my dead body, I do.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Forget about it. It'd be a cold day in hell.
Cold day in hell for Linda.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And this is, by the way, what he said, you know,
claiming that what America did after 9-11 scarred millions of
other people.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
There was a before 9-11 and an after 9-11 for
all of us, but especially for people like me. We
have a choice about where we go from here. Thousands
of refugees from our war in Afghanistan are awaiting resettlement. Already,
the same voices who pounded the drums for war are
fear-mongering the lives they displaced.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But we owe them so much more.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Our war destroyed their lives and livelihoods. Perhaps this is
the opportunity to, in some small way, turn the page
on an era of death, destruction, and destitution. Because even
if the war is over, the stain of the war
lives on. And though we lost the war, perhaps we
can yet win a peace. 9-11 scarred our country in
profound ways. But what we did after 9-11 scarred millions
of other people. When we talk about 9-11, we often
(16:34):
fail to center them.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Unbelievable mentality. No wonder his best friend in the world
is Hassan Piker. All right, Chad in Texas, where we
are today. Chad, how are you? Glad you called, sir.
God bless Texas, and thanks for checking in.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Love to hear that, Sean. Welcome to Dallas. I'm bringing
up something that your humbleness and you, that you don't
talk about on September the 10th because of what happened
the next day. I'm doing it today because you're not
going to want to hear it tomorrow. 25 years nationally
syndicated violence. You got to paint yourself. This is real.
(17:11):
I mean, 25 years ago, did you see yourself? Man,
I don't know how long this is going to be.
Do you still wake up every day like, this is
actually real. So this is just a, I haven't called
in in a long time. I still listen to you,
but haven't called in. I did today. So just want
to thank you for everything that you do, Sean, whether
(17:32):
it's election year or not, breaking news, the guests that
you have on. I tune into your podcast as well.
But this is really just a big thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
All of your listeners.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We love you, Sean. I mean, 25 years down, hopefully
25 more to go. And just a big thank you, Sean.
I know you don't like to talk about September the 10th, 2001,
because of what happened the next day. So this is
just a big congratulations and thank you for everything that
you've done, do, and will still do.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I get very uncomfortable. I'm not very good at taking
a compliment.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just not. But I'm very grateful. The thankfulness really
is on my part. And you are right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We never mention on September 10th the anniversary of this
program going into syndication. And there's a reason. Because I
know what happened the next day. It just doesn't seem
appropriate to me.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It seems.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
self-centered and narcissistic to me. It seems like it just,
it just, I can't bifurcate one day from the other,
if that makes sense. But do I have a deep
sense of gratitude and thanks beyond which I could probably
even express to all of you in this audience? And
(18:57):
you've been with me all these years and you stick
by me. I mean, I can't do this job without
all of you and your support. I can't be on
TV without all of you and your support. The podcast,
you know, I'm trying to do that differently than the
way other people do it. And so far it's been
out of the box, a much bigger success than anybody
(19:17):
ever thought. And I'm so grateful to everybody for it.
I really, I kind of, how do I say this?
I just know the answer to your question is I
never thought I would survive in radio television. I never
saw TV on the horizon and always believed I was
(19:37):
doing my last show. And there's a part of me
in the back of my head that actually still thinks
that way. And I can't explain why. Maybe it's just,
I don't know, talent insecurity.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But it drives me to try to be better and
better and better and better. You know, I read comments
about me in the last week that were critical of me,
and I took it to heart, some of it. And
I said, OK, I think maybe I can improve in
that area. Uh, I won't go into the details of
what it was, but I'm, you know, I always want
(20:11):
to be the best I can be, but really the
gratitude is on my part because I, when I started
in 1987 and first got behind a microphone, trust me,
if you think I thought I'd ever be successful, you
don't know what was going.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Through my head.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Um, I, I was scared to death on that first show,
but I knew I just wanted to, that's all I
wanted to do. And so, When you find something that you'll,
I never thought I'd get paid doing it. Did it
for free in the beginning. Got paid 19 grand a
year in my first paid gig. And I was so
happy just to be able to do it. And I'm
happy to be able to do it today. And you
(20:50):
make that happen. So really the gratitude comes from me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You're right. I don't want to, it's just not right
to celebrate that anniversary. Just not.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And but I'd be negligent if I didn't say express
my appreciation to each and every one of you. I
think I have been living an undeserved life. And for
those that hate me, they would agree. It's an undeserved life.
You don't deserve to be on the air. And people
have tried a lot over the course of my career
to get me off the air. But I'm grateful to
(21:21):
all of you that have shown me that kind of support.
It is more meaningful than I can express.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
All right, quick break. Right back to our busy phones.
It's toll free. It's 800-941-SHAWN. As we continue, we are
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hours of coverage tonight on Hannity. Set your DVR 9
to 11 Eastern, 8 to 10 local.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But more of your calls straight ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Final Hour Roundup is next.
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You do not want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And stay tuned for the final hour free-for-all on the
Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
All right, from Dallas for the Republican National Midterm Convention,
it's the Sean Hannity Show. Back to our busy phones. Dennis,
Long Island, New York.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What's up, Dennis? We're in Long Island. Are you, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Please, New Yorkers. Bruce Blakeman has a shot. He's within four.
He's within striking distance. Please help Bruce Blakeman.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, absolutely. No doubt.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
John, I've been listening for feels like decades, too. In fact,
even I shared coffee and conversation at the ice rink.
Our kids played ice hockey in a long, long time ago.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, so probably Iceworks and Syosset.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That one.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
But you did Superior, too.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yes, I did. You know, in the beginning, my son
was a hockey player.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He later trained sports, but he broke his leg skiing
with me one time, one year.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You had black hair, then I had blonde, but those
days are over.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I still got some black left. This is not all black.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh, yeah, and I got none. It's all white. Anyway, Sean,
I like the idea of you reminding everybody what's at
stake for the midterms, and I think it needs to
be hammered home all the time, and the RNC isn't
doing such a great job of it. But what I'm
really concerned about is the amount of vote. They have to.
Too big to rig. It's got to come out of
(23:51):
their mouths every day. More, you know, this whole three days,
it's got to come out. We've got to get the
amount of people that came out for the president to
come out in the midterm. And I think they're missing that.
And it should be a big priority of what's going on,
especially the next three days. And from right from now until.
It's time to vote. People got to get out to vote.
(24:13):
That's the one thing that will beat us the most
if they don't. It's simple as that. I think we're
hearing enough of it from the president or his administration
or the RNC.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The kickoff to the campaign starts this week. So that's
why we're in Dallas. And people tend to get back
to their normal schedules. Kids get back to school. I
know some people in other parts of the country, their
kids already started in school in August. But, you know,
for the rest of the country, they're going back to
school this week or next. And with that comes a
(24:47):
the regular routine comes back. People get back to their
normal lives. People will dial into the news a little
bit more. It's normal to have slow summer news periods.
People need a break. They're on vacation. They're traveling, so
on and so forth. But I will say this. And
it's a combination of the discussion I had with O'Reilly
earlier and a conversation I had last week with our
(25:07):
own Linda. You know, and that is if what O'Reilly
is saying, I agree with. If you vote for any Democrat,
you are voting for an ideology and you're voting for
somebody that will go along with the radicalized crowd. There's
(25:28):
not going to be many elected Democrats that will join
John Fetterman.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It won't happen.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
We have 250 elected DSA members since 2019, 40 plus
more on the ballot this year. So you are voting
for that philosophy. Whatever way they're told and pressured, they're
going to vote. So it's like you're voting for Abdul
El-Sayed if you vote for any Democratic senator. Let me
(25:55):
make it that plain, or Tallarico, or Troy Jackson in Maine.
It's like you're voting for any Democrat. And the Linda
part of it is, you know, she thinks we have
a uniparty. And I'm like, no, because there's not one
Republican that's supporting any DSA policies. And there's a lot
(26:15):
of Republicans that I wish were stronger.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I really do. I'll give you the last word.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I still think that it needs to be a priority
to get the vote out. We have to make it
a priority. And I do have. So, you know, Linda's here.
I have a trick for the swear words.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
What is your trick?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
So, Linda, back in the day, I was a local
elected official. So you'd have to, you know, give policy
speeches or do events, you know, shake hands, get babies,
that type of thing. There was a person in my
community who came to me, always wanted me to run
for stuff. And she said to me, listen, do me
a favor. When you are about to drop the F-bomb,
(26:52):
I want you to change it to flipping. And I laughed.
She laughed. But I did it. And I'm telling you, Linda,
after a while of just saying flipping every time I
wanted to drop an F-bomb, it worked. And a day,
decades later, I still say flipping and not drop the F-bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Hey, Dennis, she is backsliding and incorrigible.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
No way.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And the worst part of the whole story is she
gave up. And instead of even trying to conquer this
and give it up for Jesus.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh, my God, would you look at that? We're out
of time. Time for commercial. All right, Dennis, we appreciate you, man.
Thank you. Yeah, bye.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
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