Shutdown's Real Impact

All right, news round up in Information over Load Hour. Here's a toll free telephone number. It's eight hundred and nine four one sean if you want to be a part of the program. So, really the countries on pins and needles. You know, we have forty two million Americans dependent on government benefits for snap that are, you know, now desperate. It's probably time if you have time, and you have a local food bank, maybe to help them out if you can afford it. I'm not asking people

The fate of this effort depends on both the Senate and the House of Representatives. After a seven week absence, the Speaker Johnson needs to call his members back and join us in the hard work that lies ahead. Many of my friends are unhappy. They think we should have kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies of

Okay, and John Fetterman, Senator Angus King, and you know, we just have just barely enough Democrats, and I think the House vote is going to be like a one vote margin.

Anyway.

Here to break down where we are in all of this, Carol Roth, two time New York Times bestselling author You Will Own Nothing and recovering investment banker. Also Mark some own host of the number one morning show on our affiliate it in New York AM seven ten wo R like Curtis Leewa. He is, you know, born and raised in New York, born and bred, and when he dies, there'll be New York dead. And he ain't ever given up on New York City? Am I wrong about that? Mark Simone?

Well, Actually I was born in the Midwest. I'm from Michigan, but I always wanted to come to New York. It was like the ultimate place to be.

You're never leaving, are you?

And you'll you want.

To go back on your prediction after I left two years ago when you said I'll be back. You think I'm really ever coming back.

One day you'll all be back here.

No, well, no, no, there won't be that day. You're you're getting worse by the hour. But look, this shutdown continues and it's a disaster. Let me let me play for both of you before we really get into Let me play the Southwest Airline pilot. Listen to this. This is how desperate things are. I mean, things are so bad in the skies because we can't It's been fifteen times Democrats have rejected a continuing resolution that which they themselves have advocated for regularly throughout the decades.

And now all of a.

Sudden, the Schumer's shut down for the first time in his career. No, he's gonna hold the line and they're going to use the American people as leverage. How do we know because they keep saying it.

Listen, I don't.

Really care what your let im come persuading is. And you should really call your senator because I'll tell you this is costing the airlines millions of dollars and just take up thirty airplanes with one engine running, it's going to take us at least ninety minutes to take off.

Of the system.

So right now we're at a four.

Percent reduction in light capacity. Next week we go to ten website. I had a six hour delay in Houston.

And the weather was perfect.

It's because they're traffic controllers market paid.

So wee today alone five thou three hundred delays and eighteen hundred cancelations alone so far today. Carol, your thoughts on you know, what is the Democratic strategy been here? What's the point.

Of all this?

I mean, they are basically holding Americans hostage for no reason, and for people who you know, keep saying how concerned they are about getting air traffic controllers paid and making sure that Americans have access to snap benefits and don't starve. They don't seem to be willing to do anything about it.

I think that's well stated. Let's get your take, my friend Mark Simon.

Well, shutdowns accomplished nothing. Neither party, nobody's ever achieved anything with a shutdown. You shutdown caucuses zero for fourteen. This will get settled at you know, ten hour air traffic delay is ridiculous. We get down to the usual three hour delay that we have at most airports, and we still got to settle this whole Obamacare crisis. And the media has never asked the real question, which is if it's called the Affordable Care Act, if it's affordable, why

I think that's a great line. I'm going to steal that and not give you attribution if you don't mind. I think that's really well. Said Liberal Joe this morning, urging Democrats to take the win on the shutdown. Diolo, what's the win? American people have suffered needlessly? Democrats proved nothing. Okay, they'll get their vote. And you make the great point,

Listen.

So all this fear and loathing and all this whining, I wish Democrats for once, just once could take a win and then understand the Republicans they were never going to help working Americans.

They learned that through this process. So you know who else learned that through this process?

The American voter.

Donald Trump was exposed and the administration was exposed, and Republicans were exposed as the party that fought like hell to give tax cuts to billionaires, to multinational corporations, to the richest of the rich. And we learned just last week, they were trying to extend those tax cuts to even

Just a little helping hand, you know, okay, even for people eight hundred percent above the poverty line. Carol Roth again Mark said it perfectly. The Affordable Care Act need subsidies.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. The Democrats like to engage in their favorite hobby shown, which is gaslighting. That's all they do. They go in on TV, they go in the radio, and they gaslight. But you know what's happening is that the American people are not buying that. If you look at the polls and you look at you know who is to blame for the shutdown. It's very transparent, and the American people know that it's the Democrats who have been responsible for this, and Main Street has been the

Well, I mean, what do they stand for now? I mean, here's the interesting thing to me, And let me play for you. Mark Simone, you're soon to be new mayors Zoron Marxis Kami Mamdani.

I know you voted for him, right right.

We're lucky he was available.

We're lucky he was available.

He made this comment, which is really really government will confiscate privately owned buildings if landlords don't pay fines or make assessed repairs that he determines they must make.

Listen.

That's why I'm announcing a plan to overhaul the Mayor's office to protect tenants, bringing code enforcement under one roof and making sure that agencies are working together to hold bad landlords accountable. Starting on day one, we will expand the city's special enforcement programs, doubling fines for HAZARDUS violations and tripling them for conditions that are immediately dangerous. And when a really bad landlord like this guy refuses to fix it, the city's going to step in, make the

Wow, let's just confiscate your house mark, simone. I think you know it should be given a homeless people.

Well, if you take all the buildings that have the worst problems, the worst conditions, that are most need to repair, you'll find it's the city housing project. So they're going to be seizing their own buildings. So good luck with that. He's just going to spend his whole life in court. You know, he can't seize anything all this stuff free buses.

You're so optimistic. Good luck with that, you know, sending in the soul to workers. So there's going to be a conflict. And let me ask you. Do you avoid the subways?

No?

I take them now and then I mean they're pretty good.

Well, whoa now? And then? What does that mean?

Like, if it's an emergency and you can't get an uber or a cab, well, it's New York.

You can walk most every place, and if it's way downtown you don't want to sit in traffic, you take the subway.

But you do it only in case of an emergency. Mark marks them all. And that's what I'm hearing out of you.

Well, I'm not cure to see you. I don't take it at four in the morning on the.

That's a good point. And you do know what do you think about sending in the social workers.

You like that idea.

I was talking to our greatest police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, Commissioner about twenty years. He said, the NYPD has tried that program twelve different times over thirty years. It never works. Nobody hates it more than the social workers because the half of them get injured, killed. It's been tried, it doesn't work.

It's not going to work.

Quick break more with Mark Simon, Carol Roth, and then your call's coming up on the other side, eight hundred and ninety four one Sean. As we continue this Monday, I would continue with Carol Roth and Mark Simone. Carol, there is a part of me that feels bad for people like Curtis and Mark and some of my colleagues that work out of New York City. I've been blessed to have been able to get out of there, and you know, some people you know, chastise me, Well, why'd you give up?

Yeah, no, we please pay the stupid family tax because our family wants to be here, and that's what's drawn us to the center. But I can tell you, having lived through Lorie Lightfoot and barely survived the Brandon Johnson regime, it's very, very challenging. This idea that you're going to get all this free stuff and that you're going to live in La La land. You know, you might as well count on getting a unicorn because it's not going to happen. And it makes the city less safe. People

Lfe, thirteen bucks for a beer.

Yeah, and so imagine what they're going to think when they find out how much all the other free stuff is going to cost them thirteen bucks?

Were you at that party, Mark Simone? You usually MC every party in New York?

Yeah, I was a little I'm busy that night. Listen, he's already done some good for New York. He got rid of Andrew Cuomo. I think, once and for all, we'll never have to see that guy again.

So he say he's talking about moving to Florida.

Oh good, good, Let him be your problem, let him run for stuff down there.

I don't think he's running for anything anymore. And I don't think you can win anything in the Free State of Florida. Not going to happen? Is I just let me ask you. Do you worry that there is an appeal that is growing in the country now that Aoc Mamdani, the Squad, Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas have taken over the party, that this is going to grow.

Yeah, it'll grow for a while. George will if you have pardoner the expression actually said the other day, we got to go through this every twenty five years because younger people don't know how bad socialism they got to see it with their own eyes. The Democrats have been through this before. They go way too far the left, and then somebody of Bill Clinton, somebody rises up and

All right, Mark, Simoon krol Raw, thank you both. Eight hundred and nine to four, one show on our number. If you want to be a part of the program. By the way, Linda, you didn't tell me if you watched the Patriot Awards.

I watched a lot of the Patriot Awards actually, and I actually have some snippets in case anybody else missed it.

Uh, I don't know if I want to play the snippets. Well, these are that you have on my cart tout sheet. Well, I see the snippets.

I think you singing is a highlight. You know, I've told you for years you're a closet rock star, and that's fine.

Okay, but you let a finger on this show. You are you let that flag fly, and I'm proud of you. Good for you. Let's play that'll be fun.

Let's play that part.

But because I can't sing to save my life. So we're going to put the words on the screen here, so Stan, if you don't mind, please Stan. And this is just a small, little itsy bitsy sample. This is what Sean Hannity does at two o'clock in the morning.

And I wasn't even drinking.

But bu.

Bu bu but uh, but but we'll put it up. Start spreading the news.

I'm leaving today.

No longer want.

To be a part of it, high tax New York. These commie Mamdani blues are.

Longing to leave right to the very heart of it by by New York.

All right, that's enough, man, that's enough.

I thought it was great.

The reason I didn't play the Joe Pegg's version is people. No, it's not. It's not that they didn't let me. I just thought about there are people in that room that are depressed over what happened with wood zoron Kami mom Nani.

By the way, I wrote that weeks ago.

I know you did.

You sent it to me.

I sent it to you. Joe Pegs, we sat on him for a couple of weeks. Joe Paggs cut it in record time. He sings it great. I mean, he's amazing and I had a cue in and I'm like, uh, this is gonna upset people if I play the whole thing because they're freaking out.

Well, let's play something that you said that I thought was really beautiful, which was cut twenty eight J.

This is perfect what you said here.

You hear him, happy to be back.

I was born and raised in Long Island, New York.

I was here, and we are here tonight as a family. This is unlike any other award show that ever takes place. We're not patting our soul little back like Hollywood and the Grammys and the Oscars. Although all of you look great on the red carpet tonight, we are here to honor a Erica's true patriots.

We are here.

To honor the US service members around the globe and in our country, the first responders, other heroes that put their lives on the line for us and our liberty and our freedom every single day. They protect all of us because they love us, and they sacrifice for us.

That's why we're here tonight.

I mean, that was incredibly you know, you did a great job on that. You got to the point you're definitely losing your voice because I'm sure you talked for hours and you're like.

I have no voice Friday. It was all bad. I was going to I was gonna work Friday. There's no as you know.

This is impossible. You're not going to have any voice.

Law.

When you're on you have to project at a whole different level. I mean, it took me all week and to get my voice back.

And I saw the white jacket, well done?

Did you see?

I didn't even know it was where he was sitting because you can't see anything from the stage.

The lights are so bright. Oh Don from Lake Warren Conquerment? Were you there? Done?

Josh?

And I definitely was there, and my friend, I got to tell you you certainly did under promise an over delivered. I was at that a patriot wards and it was absolutely the best medicine for those who endured or have endured the government shut down in an unmploysant election day. I got to tell you, the audience certainly got their aerobics and with the voluminous standing ovations, it.

Was you know, I will tell you.

I mean, like, for example, DJ Daniel, remember he was honored at the Joint the Joint Session of Congress. Yeah, all these heroes. You know, whenever I see people that have these unbelievable challenges and they gave up so much for us, I'm embarrassed that I think in my heart and mind that I have problems at times.

It's embarrassing. Well because compared to them, you don't.

Well.

I goes to kick out Eden Alexander the New Jersey Jewish idea of soldier captured for five four days and he goes back to his unit. What a tremendous guy in a Skyler Dearrington, that twelve year old Texas flood surviber of the Mystic Camp.

I mean, unbelievable goods.

You can't like look at this and then not look at your own life and say, wow, I'm so grateful that people like that exist in our country that I will tell you it is the greatest honor of my life to be able to host those awards MC those awards, And it kind of just fell into my lap because like two weeks before last year's awards, Pete Hegseth was, you know, ripped away from us to be the head of the Department of War. So and you know, I will tell you this, I write every word of it myself.

For good or for bad?

Did I make the right call just doing a shorter version of New York, New York? What did I make the right call and not do the three and a half minute version of New York New York.

Yes, that was wonderful, Thank you very much, Sean. To tell you, I'm the drive home after that event, I thought about other award shows whose hosts and artists, you know half for years used the exposure despout for political activism, and they try to do each other with Volger presentations. This award show was absolutely amazing.

I can't I'm I'm glad you were there. You've been such a good friend and supporter of the show for so many decades.

Now, you're a remarkable.

Man in your own right and an amazing patriot in your own right, and I'm glad you were there. I'm glad you got in. I'm glad you liked it. When I said to people, I knew the guest list, I knew that Jason Alden was performing, I knew Malania Trump would be there, I knew Erica Kirk would be there, but I was not allowed to tell anybody. I knew the great patriots that were going to be honored that night, and I was not allowed to tell anybody. I just

Oh it was, it was, Sean. I got to tell you one more things. The Patriot Award itself was fascinating to use the melted down Revolutionary War of musket balls and Mount Thurn at Elm Tree.

And it was crazy, right.

I mean, that's stuff that you're into, because I know you're a craftsman in your own right, but it's pretty pretty special.

Tom. We love you. Thanks man. Jim and Illinois jimmy're on the Sean Hannity Show.

Hi, Hey, Sean, nice to talk to you. I was listening last week and I just want to chime in on a top You were talking about why the bad things happen to good people and it's not so much that.

Did you notice how angry that atheist was? Pretty angry guy, Yeah, you're.

Right, but I just wanted to chime in on that. Why bad things happen to good people? It happens to everyone. Rainfalls on the good as well as the bad, but God allows it. That's the real point, because of the grace that comes through suffering. You know, in even the smallest form, we gave grace just like through prayer. We gain it through suffering. But we actually God allows it because it gives us the opportunity, to our free will to take that grace and to multiply it by trillions.

But the thing.

The thing is we do that by accepting that suffering. When we accept it, we make it sanctifying grace. Christ Well, I.

Think you're right, and I think it's a mystery that you know. I think in many ways, you know, life was designed to be challenging. There's nobody. I don't care your background, whatever. Everybody has problems in life, and some have very big problems and some have you know, just

Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.

Thank you. What's going on?

Not much?

I do want to encourage you or at least give you recommendation for a future pro uh in what I saw one of your shows a couple of weeks ago. So what happened a couple of weeks ago was you basically were calling calling out the Democrats well by actually reading their right legislation on air, when when they came up with their with their junkie proposal where you said where they're like, oh, you're not funny. We're not going to fund illeg immigration or funny healthcare for earlier immigrants. Yeah,

Listen, that's my job. I immersed myself in this every single solitary day. I know everybody's busy. So if you tune into this show, or we got a great TV show tonight, for example, by the way, Stephen A. Smith is on John Fenderman's on RAMS Home. We got great people tonight, and we're going to go through the crackup that is now the Democratic Party. It is officially now a five alarm fire, and they're all ready to kill each other, and I'm perfectly happy with that. We'll get

Sean, It's a pleasure to talk to you. I actually was calling about the atheist from last week too. Apparently a lot of us hurt.

I got a lot of response this weekend on that. What's going on?

Well, I'm just going to disagree actually with your previous caller two calls ago. I don't believe that God allows bad things to happen. God created a perfect world, and through that creation, he created a perfect Adam and Eve. But he also gave them that will to choose, and they chose to disobey him, which caused sin to enter the world. And because sin entered the world, that separated us from God, which caused the bad things to happen. That's why we have the cancer and the hurricanes and

Well through one man a woman, I guess you could say sin came into the world, and yes, through grace and salvation. This is the myth that liberals try to portray Christians as self righteous, sanctimonious, and that they're always trying to proselytize that's not who I am, or I don't think who you are. We just to be a Christian to me is to acknowledge your failure. To be a Christian means you're acknowledging your transgressions and you are

Did you know that?

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