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All Right, News round Up, Information Overload Hour, Toll free. Our number is eight hundred and nine to four one sean if you want to be a part of the program. Had I not seen the video this next story, we're gonna tell you, I may not have even believed it. And if I didn't do a deeper dive into what is now becoming a bit of a scary phenomenon, I wouldn't even I wouldn't have believed that we'd be covering this. But here we are covering this, and even Newsweek is
picked up on it. And let me give you the headline. It's MAGA influences influencers that are targeted by swatting calls, and multiple conservative MAGA figures have said they have been victims of so called swatting incidents at their homes and they go through a list of people that have been victims of this. It has now resulted in the new FBI Director Cash Betel addressing it publicly saying I want to address the alarming rise in quote swatting incidents targeting
media figures. I mean, I gotta wonder if I'm on the list. I have no idea, and the FBI is aware of this dangerous trend, and my team and I are already taking action to investigate hold those responsible accountable. This isn't about politics. Weaponizing law enforcement against any American is not only morally reprehensible, but it's endangering lives, including those of our officers. It will not be tolerated. We are fully committed to working with local law enforcement to
crack down on these crimes. Now, what am I specifically talking about? Joe Pag's friend of mine radio talk show host. I think he's been in the business as long, if not longer, than I've been in the business. I'll ask him. In a second, released a video and there is somebody with a long rifle, you know, looks like is in tactical gear on his home security camera about two thirty in the morning, and he's released the tape and he's you know, and there are a number of them, I
think in total, six or seven people. And why are they coming to his house? It makes no sense at all whatsoever, And it sounds surreal. And then I started talking to Joe about it last night. Then I watched the video in total last night and I was numb by it because there's no reason. Joe Paggs is a great American law biding, you know, tax paying, played by the rules type of guy. And you know why they came to his house is a mystery, and hopefully he'll
be able to shed some light on it. There's about two thirty five on Wednesday morning. He was alerted by security notification on his phone. Most of us have those systems on our phones. He checked his outdoor camera and he sees an armed man at his door, and in that moment, as adrenaline kicks in, calls nine to one one, which was the right thing to do, you know, then gets his own rifles out and which is also the
right thing to do in my opinion. When somebody shows up at two thirty five in the morning, it's likely not a good thing. Now, Joe Paggs broke no laws. He's under no investigation at all. He did get in contact with the FBI director which resulted in this statement. And anyway, Joe Paggs is with us, walk us through. So it's two thirty five in the morning, and you're like me, you're a night owl. You stay up late at night and your phone gets the alert. Okay, I've
had that happen at my old house. It would happen if a deer walked in my backyard. That would happen occasionally, and you pay attention, you find out it's a deer, you go back to bed. But in this case, you see a guy with a long rifle at your door, and then there are other guys. How many guys in total?
Were there?
Seven?
Seven guys tactical gear long rifles show up at your house at two thirty five in the morning.
What for?
Right, Well, I'm sitting in my production studio like you and the people listening probably don't know this. You and I've known each other twenty some odd years. We used to chat on AOL instant messenger at two and three o'clock in the morning.
So that's true. Boy, Now you're aging both of us.
I want to miss anything if that's going to happen overnight, so I get that indication. I see a man with what looks like an AR fifteen. I've got an AR fifteen. I know what they look like. And he's at my front door. Now I've got to figure out is this is a bad guy that wants to kill the family, is this a police officer that was sent here by somebody? What do I do? And you know, you calculate all that in about a second shown, and then you make the decision, all though my guns are five feet away
from me. Do I grab a gun and go out there? Or what do I do? I called nine one one, I said, are you at my house? Here's my address? This is who I am. Yes we are. We had a report of dogs were shot and killed. Family scared to death. They're hiding, they need help. I said, well, none of that's happening. There's no peril at my house. Nobody is under attack. We're fine. This is obviously a sweating Tell him to put the gun because I only saw the one officer said, make him put the gun barrel down.
I'll come out with my hands up with you on the phone. That will diffuse this right away. But I walked out of my production studio in my backyard shown, I saw flashlights. So now there are a bunch of guys in my backyard. A bunch of guys in my front yard, and I had no idea what the hell was going on. Thankfully they do know who I am. I've been in this area a long time in this part of Texas, and when I walked out with a
few they were still very on edge. You know, they're ready to go to protect the house and the family. But as you as you spelled that very wisely, they wanted to kill me in my doorway to shut me up, and then they wanted a cop to do it to make the police look bad.
This is the two parts. So I want to explain to people what this means. That you were targeted by somebody or some group and they call the police and they make a false report, and the police go in adrenaline, you know, racing through their veins for the very purpose of creating what it would naturally be a confrontational situation because they have guns drawn based on the nature of the call. Fair assessment, Absolutely right.
They wanted to be death by cop, Sean. This wasn't to scare me. You send a tactical team to my house at two thirty five in the morning, they hope I walk out and do something stupid end up dead. Who I'll say, Oh my god, it was a bad accident. And look how bad the police saw. They killed the citizen guy at his house. I would give the advice to anybody listening right now, call nine one one find out what's going on easily. You and I both Second Amendment guys. We would grab our gun to protect our
families until we died. But I had to know who was there before I took that sort of action. And think God on nine one one was very upfront with me, said what was going on, and were able to diffuse it. But I do believe a bad actor somewhere who wants you to shut up and me to shut up, and other voices like ours to shut up. They would like to have seen me dead that night. And it's only two days ago. I'm still processing it, to be honest.
No, I mean, I'm really sorry that you went through this. The question I have is are we capable of finding the person or persons responsible that sent the police there under false pretenses? Are we able to find out the people that did this to you? I mean, and you know we're going to put the video on Hannity dot com. You can watch it yourself. This is like a setup, a setup confrontation that is extraordinarily dangerous.
Well it is. Well, for your first question, it was it was seven police officers. Did they do? Can they track the person down when I talked to the captain the next day, and we set a mechanism up so that this can never happen again in my house, so that if they try it, we have a system now in place. But the intro was no because it's VoIP. It was some Google phone number that could have been shown.
It could have been somebody in Ukraine, it could have been somebody anywhere on this planet saying they were in my house and in distress. And you're right, I am a loser the same way you are, in that we want to make sure we don't miss anything. We are people who want to do the best show we can, and we, generally speaking don't leave the house much. So they probably knew that I would be there. Thankfully, I stay up too late and so to you, so I
was aware when the camera went off. Had I been asleep, I think there would have been seven Sheriff's deputies with guns out inside my house.
I mean, honestly, that that is unbelievable. That really is unbelievable now that you know what happened, and then it sounds to me like we're not going to be able to find the perpetrators. Is that what you're telling me, Well, I don't know.
I don't know what the technology is. Today's showing a tract on VoIP, but on the using the Internet address and innet phone number. It's very, very hard because you can spoof it. You can say that you're in one place when you're really in a very different place. Here's the scariest part. It wasn't already scary enough. Right I'm standing outside with my hands up on nine to one one with a dispatch as I've got seven guys with guns that are ready to go if something happens. They say,
the complaintant is still on the line with dispatch. I said, well, keep them on the line, find out who the hell he is. He's obviously not here. Let's make this stop right now where we are. And the only follow up I got was that the next day was that it was a Google phone call phone number or a VoIP some sort of an IP phone number that was almost untraceable.
Now Cash is involved, your friend in mine, and now with him involved, maybe on the federal side, they've got more technology that you and I don't know about where they can track these people down. I pray that they can, because this isn't okay, you know.
And it's sad because the last thing that police officers want to do is get involved in a shooting and a situation or a confrontation that is all based on a false premise, like is what happened here? All right, quick break, We'll come right back more with our friend radio talk show host Joe Paggs, who was squatted. Now, Cash Bettel, the FBI director, has weighed in on this, and this has got to stop or somebody's gonna get killed. We got to really really end this and nip this
in the butt. We continue. Joe Paggs is with us, fellow radio talk show host, and he was squatted just this week and the video is on Hannity dot com. You said you worked out with local law enforcement of a plan that this can happen again. And maybe conservatives and it's not just you, it's conservative influencers or people on social media, it's prominent people like yourself. What is
the plan that maybe you can work out? Maybe I need to be a little more proactive and get ahead ahead of this and learn from my friends so that it doesn't happen to me and the people that I love and care about although I'm a loner and I live alone, I'm a total I am a bigger loser than you. I will say that, A much bigger loser. Oh come, but no, it's absolutely I asked Linda, true and Linda, true and false? Who's the bigger loser?
Well, Linda and I talk about it all the time.
Linda, you can be honest. Who's the bigger loser?
This is very tough. I'm very good friends with both of you. I don't think I can say either one of your losers. I think you're very strong conservative men.
Who is Linda, stop being delicate and diplomatic. Who's the biggest loser?
Then you ask me to look within myself and get to know the Good Book and be kinder to be a Christian?
And here I I want you to go back to the honest Linda, just for thirty seconds. Who's the biggest loser? I can't answer that question. No, you can. You're afraid. I can't believe you're whimping out. I can't believe it. What's happened to you can't do it.
I can't get emails and text from me in the middle.
Of the I just like she does.
This is true.
I will say that you and Joe both are You might be tied for how many texts I get at three in the morning, because you both love to text at three in the morning.
You know, we got to get you on our rapid radio's walkie so and we'll plan different days where we'll alternate, and you know you can use the rapid radio to wake her up, you know. And so tell me what you did with with local law enforcement.
Yeah, well, I spent some time with him. The sheriff was actually at some sort of a get together in Austin, so I didn't talk to him directly, although he's ready to call me back INtime I want. I talked to his next in command, and I say, this is what we have to do to defuse this and stop this next time. Here's my name, here's my cell here's my house number, here's my wife's number. If somebody calls in something like this at my house, knowing that that they're
apt to do this again, you call me. If you don't get me, you call my wife. If you don't get my wife, then come to the house. And that's just for us, because the regular person to my county is going to get the immediate service that they expect every time they call. But now that we know that I'm on this list and that I'm a target, this is the best way to not waste their resources, not put anybody's life in danger, and not have somebody show up, you know, at two thirty in the morning, ready to
kill somebody to save me and my face. And that's somebody that they might end up killing his me. So I think that plane is probably one that would work very well.
Man oh man uh. And what was your family with you? I don't I don't even know if I should ask you that question, to be honest, they.
Were in they were in bed, they were asleep, and you know, the dog started barking, and my wife said, what's going on? I should get back in the in the bedroom. I think we're being swatted. We're gonna be safe. I'm gonna work this all out. Just stay stay at a arm.
By the way, if you're a woke liberal, you're acting like Fred Flintstone and Bam bam by taking charge of security in your family. I'm just saying, I know, and in the woke world here, honey, you go down and deal with the confrontation. I'm going to stay in bed.
Honey, here's the gun in the phone. I'll be under the bed. Let me know when they leave.
Yeah, here's my gun. I tell you how to use it about a year ago. You might hopefully remember what I taught.
You, right exactly. No, at that point, I'm the protector. I'm the man of the house. I'll handle it. I'll let you know when it's over.
Sorry, I'm old school like you. I agree with you.
Yeah, I don't. So it all worked out well. We've got a system in place now. They can't do it to meet again. Anybody out there who goes through a situation like this, please take my advice. Even with the with the adrenaline pumping call nine one.
One.
First question is are you at my house? If so, why If they're not, that's a different situation, Sean. If they were, if that was not the police that night, then I have to take different action to protect my family.
Oh man, I'm seriously, we've been friends a long time. I'm so sorry you went through this. The video is chilling. We have it up on Hannity dot com if you want to take a look at it, and I you know, I mean, it shows you that there are people in this world that want to create you know, as much chaos, danger and even you know, a situation that could result in death if you let them. Look what they're doing a poor Elon Musky's shooting up his his tesler dealerships.
They're they're you know, fire bombing his his charging stations. They're making death threats against this guy. What has he done to you know, Garner? So much hate, which is why we're starting our contest Monday. We're going to give away a Tesla on this show. And by the way, you can register and I would not be unhappy if you want it. Joe Peggs, we love you. We're glad to say thanks for you know, alerting this audience to this happening so people understand it. It's scary.
Hey, thank you by the way for taking my text that night. We did speak that night. You were very very gracious and nice, and I'm glad you looked at for my family and me that night.
I appreciate you.
Listen, I appreciate you too. I'm probably the only person you can call that late at night that's guaranteed to be up. Uh. I'm just glad you saved my friend. God bless you talking about radicalism on the left and uri Luann hatred on the left. Well, Chucky Schumer was on MSDNZ last night and calling Republicans bastards. The poor old soul, Well, I think is losing his mind, is really just upset because he's trying to cling onto power.
And we played yesterday Chuck Schumer in the past had called for an end to waste, fraud and abuse and governm that Chuck Schumer's long dead and gone. He doesn't exist anymore. We played Chuck Schumer also talking about cutting out fraud and medicare. In other words, he sounds like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. But that Schumer no longer exists because the current Schumer only cares about one thing, and that's his own power and clinging to it any
way possible. Anyway, here's him calling Republicans bastards. Because the Schumer shutdown ended up being the Schumer surrender. Listen to have.
The conflict on the best ground. We have summed up in a sentence that they're making the middle class pay for tax cuts for billionaires. It's much much better not to be in the middle of a shutdown, which to divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards, sorry, these people, which is not only all these cuts, but they're ruining democracy and one other thing.
On a shutdown, on a shutdown, the courts could close or at least be totally totally disabled, and the course of one of the best ways we've had to go.
After these guys. I mean, it's really unbelievable. And then you got you know, remember, this is the party that will never stop talking about January sixth, But yet the same group of people that ignored the five hundred and seventy four riots in the summer of twenty twenty that killed dozens of Americans, injured thousands of cops, and caused billions of property damage. There was no committee set up to investigate this. We had, you know, we had so
many hours of videotape evidence. We could have convicted everyone involved in it. There was no interest on the part of Democrats. And you know, the only the only time they seem to care, and it's it's seemed to it's not in reality is if it's a Republican that they can bludgeon politically and Matt and they won't tell you the whole truth about January sixth. We have told you about the troops that Donald Trump authorized that in writing,
Muriel Bowser declined to bring up. We told you about the police chief, and we told jew that the actual driver of Donald Trump's car testified that he never tried to commandeer the vehicle. But you know, here's Maxime Water, you know, talking about civil war in America.
I'm worried that Trump is on the edge of creating a civil war. He alluded to it more than once. What does Trump expect, Oh, I believe he expects violence. I believe he expects confrontation. I believe he's working toward a civil war. We're not going to get goaded. We're not going to get tricked into that. Not only are they planning on a civil war if they have to do that, but he's spelling it out specifically, how and what they're going to do, and how he's going to
get revenge, how he's going to attack his enemies. He is capable of starting a civil war. He must be impeached, he must be stopped.
Now, wow, let's take a little trip down memory of the lane, shall we. And this is during Trump's first term and the likes of Maxie Moater, get in their face, follow them into grocery stores and gas stations. Remember this, you need to respect a chair and shut your mouth.
Do see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station.
You get out and you create a gude, and you back.
On them, and you tell them the welcome. The people are gonna turn on them, They're gonna protest, They're gonna absolutely harass them until they decide that they're going to tell the President no, I.
Can't hang with you.
I did not threaten his constituency. Support us.
I do that all the time, but I didn't do it at that time.
This is a bunch of scumbacks, that's what they are. And with this kind of inspiration, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
Oh okay, I think an awful lot about blowing up the house. Oh that was Madonna, That wasn't her. This is how sick the radical left is. This is how triggered they are. All right, let's get to our busy phones. Eight hundred nine four one show is a number you want to be a part of the program. Brady of Michigan Brady, Hi, how are you happy Friday? Glad you called? I'm good. What's going on?
I just wanted to call and talk about Chuck Schumer. How much of a spineless person and seemingly self righteous after he conceded saying that he is going to vote yes, trying to himself look like a proverbial savior.
Well, I mean, Chuck Schumer is in a box. Chuck Schumer cares about one thing.
You know.
We used to, you know, joke about the fact the most dangerous place in New York City was any distance between Chuck Schumer and a television camera. I mean, Chuck Schumer cares about one thing, and that is his power. And if it means, you know, giving into a radicalized party and contradicting every past position, he's he's going to do it, and he's doing it now in real time. And look he's now The one thing he doesn't want
to lose is that power. And so if they pull him further and further to the radical left, that's what he's going to do.
Yeah, And speaking about losing, Sean, their situation is to lose lose for them if they don't pass the c R. That means Doge would get a clear shot at pretty much anything that they want. If they vote yes, then the Trump agenda continues to prosper well.
I mean that this is the thing, and what are they so angry about. You know, at this point, everything that they're saying is pretty much falling on deaf ears. And I think the American people, and we learned this during the election, are very hip to the fact that they spend every waking minute, every single second, every minute, every hour of every twenty four hour dayes raging on Donald Trump, and you know, it's falling on deaf fears.
At this point, people know where they coming from and and people don't trust the legacy, state run media mob. That's why I say they're dead. They just don't know it yet. They have no influence. If that influenced Donald Trump ever, would have been elected president again. And one of the reasons is that they lie and they don't tell truth. And now people have more options than ever before,
alternative media, talk radio, fox news, podcasting, social media. I mean, it's it's it's now we are now able to bypass
any influence they may have had. And that's why I say to people in this industry, if you want to be successful, you better tell your audience some truth and and you better, you know, you better give them news, information, opinions that are different than what they're getting everywhere else because they've had a monopoly forever and now that monopoly has been broken and the trust is gone, and they have earned people's distrust. You know, I have to I have to earn your trust every day, and we try
and we work hard to do that. Anyway, my friend, you have a great weekend. Glad you called. Uh, let us say, I to Ken in California. Oh, no, Ken wants to talk about Why do you want to talk about the View? I thought we I thought this issue was settled. We're done.
Oh no way, no way, it's not no way.
No, it doesn't matter what you want, Hannity, it's if it's not over until we say it's over.
Oh absolutely, well, I think I'll do a quid pro quill with him. You know, they want you go onto the View and then you get Linda and Katie and baby James and you guys all sit down and you get Sonny Austin there, or you get whooped there and get trade off.
So you don't think I can handle him on my own as though you're suggesting listen. I know, I know, I can. I've been on the show. I've been on the show numerous times. I haven't been on the show many years, though, and I gave up going on the show for a good reason. It was a colossal waste of my time.
Yeah, but you should bring them onto your show, and the only way to do that is if you.
Go over there.
I'm willing to attempt that. I might be willing to attempt that. Awesome, let me let me that that I think is the most tenable idea, and you know, to watch and listen to them, you know, But then I run a risk, and I'm gonna tell you what the risk is is, because they're going to say all this crap that's not true. And then I'm in a bad position because now if I interrupt them every every time they get something wrong, then I seem like a jackass. All right, So then what it's going to be five
on one. So let's assume all five of them are just expressing rage and hatred and irrational thoughts or inaccurate things about Donald Trump. If I interrupt them, then people will go all over social media Hannity can keep his big fat mouth shut and they'd be right. Or I can sit there and not correct them. Why is Hannity allowing them to say all these lies? I mean, I can't win for losing in that situation.
You have to correct them. There's you can't sit back and let wrong be wrong, all right.
So if so, if they say one sentence I say that's not true, you're not letting me finish. I mean, that's horrible television for us. All right, Well, said touche. I got I got trumped by my callers. Unbelievable, Linda. You know, you know exactly the situation I'm talking about. Because if somebody is telling lies and I keep interrupting them,
then people get mad that I'm interruptive. And then if I don't counter every lie, then another group of people are gonna be pissed off that I'm not correcting them and stopping them. So I in that situation when you know people are irrational and won't speak truth, I am in the worst position imaginable, and I'm never gonna please everybody.
Yeah.
Well, I mean that's your first mistake, right, trying to please everybody. I mean, that's the whole. That's the whole.
I mean, I'm gonna piss off half of my regular audience.
You're gonna piss off everybody anyway. I mean, somebody is always mad, because that's just the state of things. Everybody's somebody's always pissed off at something, and most of the times it's pretty silly when you get right down to it. I mean I'm not innocent of that either, but I.
Think I'm sending you down, you know, maybe to one of these Khalid mo Moved protests that take place there. Absolutely, I can't unless I said, like fifteen security guards with you, I don't know.
I don't need security.
How you doing? What are you here for?
How much you are making?
How much did they pay you?
Don't you have things to do? Me and Daddy pay for your education. By the way that mask on your face, I still know who you are. Ps Oh, you're so brave. That would just be like the start.
That's just the start. You know, you talk tough on the radio. I will say that definitely talking to me. I don't talk tough on the radio.
I'm actually just being honest.
You know.
I do take the subway, I do walk through New York city. It is ridiculous yesterday. Don't get distracted with what you offer.
I'm not getting distracted. I offer to get you out of the subway and pay for a car and use my offer.
My point is, regular people living their regular life cannot do it because paid activists are blocking the streets. They're blocking the subway. It takes two and three hours to do things that should take fifteen minutes because there's no accountability. I am praying that the President sends in some sort of national guard or strong police presidence and says you have the right to actually arrest these people and lock
them up and not like just bands. I mean, did you see the officers arrest in the people that were sitting in Trump Tower yesterday. They were smiling with them, they were making jokes with them. I'm like, these are anti semites. What are you doing? It's not fun in games?
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