Crime Is On The Rise - February 18, Hour 2

Published Feb 18, 2022, 11:01 PM

Sgt. Tre Pennie, a 21 year veteran of the Dallas Police Force, President of the Dallas, Texas National Fallen Officer Foundation, and Leo Terrell, Fox News Contributor and Civil Liberties Attorney, discuss the rise in crime that democrats across the country are choosing to ignore. Pennie testified yesterday in front of the House Judiciary Committee and was able to put Maxine Waters in her place for her lack of knowledge on the situation within her own district. 

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Play that one more time, Jason, because that is the voice, one of the most recognizable voices in the country, one of the most talented and gifted broadcasters I've ever had. The pleasure and privilege of knowing the voice of the Sean Hannity Show, and that's Scott Shannon. Listen again. Coming up next our final news round Up and Information Overload Hour and the great news about my friend Scott Shannon, legendary radio personality. By the way, he still has a number one morning show in New York City on CBSFM, where they played the oldies, and he has one of the best radio stories of all time in history, and they've now created a documentary on it and it's phenomenal. It's called Worst to First The True Story of Z one hundred in New York. They were in last place and he drove him right to first place and built what has been copied again and again and again to this day Morning Zoo Radio. And it's just a phenomenal success story, amazing journey that he's been on. And he and I got to be friends many many years ago when I first came to New York. I met him twenty six years ago and I was like, you know, I like, hey, I had stars in my eyes. I was like starstruck. That's Scott Shannon. And then he started voicing this program and I couldn't have been more honored to have him. He's been a friend for many, many decades now and one of the most gifted, talented broadcasters of all time. Mister Scott Shannon, Sir, how are you coast to coast? Order to order? John Hannity is on right now. Now. There's a funny story behind this, and that is now, you usually wait till your first wake up in the morning where your voice is at its deepest, and you if we need liners, you usually cut it like at three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning. Is that true? Yeah? I like to cut him early before I started yachting, and I still have that morning voice, you know. Sean Hannity is on right now. If only I had it when you got me doing this the countdown all this time? Five days so election day, Oh my god, Now you got those four people in Afghanistan. I wish you just get them out of there so I can quick out. I know it's awful, like give you these countdowns all the time. I hate to tell you the other one's coming till the mid term elections, but I'm only going to do the hundred day countdown this time. Do you remember the last time we actually saw each other in person because of COVID. Well do you mean when I when I went to your house late at night and knocked on the door and you came out with a shotgun? This is this is terrible. This is a great story. I'm watching television. I'm trying to fall asleep. It's eleven o'clock at night, and I live in a very quiet little village. And all of a sudden, that ring doorbell goes off, and there's nobody walking around where I live at night. It's very quiet and safe. All of a sudden, I look at the screen and there's a pack, a pack of people I brought about eight. Well, they all wanted to meet you. So I happened to be at somebody, somebody that lives in your neighborhood's house for dinner, and they said, you know, your buddy's got Channing lives across the streets, So what's up is that? Let's go wake his ass up. I don't care for us to get up at two am to do his morning show. Who cares? All right, I gotta talk about this documentary, and I got to talk about your life, and now I got to talk about your career. Tell me your story. I fell in love with radio because of music. First, I grew up my father was an army brat. I was an Army brod. My father was in the service, and we traveled around. So anybody that's listening that's ever been a service brat knows that you don't have very many friends because you're moving all the time. I mean, I went to something like eighteen different schools. Wow, And that's hard. It was you don't have any friends. And I had kind of a rough childhood. My father was an army sergeant and at times, most of the time not too nice to me. And so I kind of like I lived in the basement. I've had my own little room down there. I'd just stacked up the army foot lockers down there. And I fell in love with rock and roll music. I grew up in the you know, in the mid sixties, and I fell in the love with the music. And then I found out, you know, I was about top forty radio, and I said, oh my god, I could listen to my favorite song. Says I couldn't. I had I had a paper out and I'd buy like two forty fives every Saturday. I pedalo edel my super swin on down to the record store and I buy two forty fives. But I didn't have all the something. I could record him off the radio. And then I found out you could go down downtown Indianapolis and stand in front of the radio station. The call letters were wife, and you can watch the disc jockey work. So i'd catch a ride with my mom when she was going downtown to shop on the Circle, and he dropped me off in front of the radio station. I just stand here and stare at the DJ, and I watched him take the forty fives and put the headphones on, and I could see him answer the phone. I'm imagine he's talking to some women and some young ladies calling in. I don't know, but I guessed that I was right. That was a great draw. Go ahead, I got it. That's what I want to do. And you know, like a dummy, I dropped out of high school and I was only a silvester away from graduation. I guess I felt I didn't need to didn't need a graduation. I don't need to go to college. I know what I want to do. So I set out to seek fame and fortune, well fame anyway, or at least get a job on the radio. And as I did that, I didn't realize I didn't have any experience in my head. I did because I would talk along with the DJs, and I didn't. I really couldn't get a job. And finally when I somehow grab it, taded into a smaller town. Then back then, you could walk into the radio station and say, Hi, can I look around? And that's how it got started. My first real job was in Mobile, Alabama. I went from Mobile to Memphis, to Nashville, to Atlanta, to Washington, d C. To Tampa, Florida, and then I went to the major leagues to New York, the number one radio market in the country. Okay, now one quick question, then we're going to go from worse to first. Now did this happen to you? Because I couldn't. I have old tapes of my original shows and I cannot listen to it. It's so bad. It is god awful. It is. I had played it once for my son and he said, Dad, that is humiliating, that is embarrassing. How did you get on the radio? Dad? Exactly the same thing and so but but you'd always start out when you start and I thought Stern captured this in his movie Private Parts, when you go it's now easy, hot and humid eighty two degrees chancel late afternoon thunderstorms right now seventy nine eighty two in the city of blank blank blank on wwww and we all think we all try to play radio person when we're not a radio person? Did you start like that? I love that slogan, fake it till you make it. I walked into the radio station one day and I was real, you know, I toughed my chest up. I went and I said, yeah, I need a job here of a disc jockey. Well, you gotta do with you. No, I left on my tapes at home. I left in a hurry. I wanted to get on the road and get out here and see what's going on. And he said, well, pitch in the production room and I go. And I would to go, Hi, everybody, it's got And I was imitating disc jockey that I listened to when I was a kid, Jay Reynolds. Yeah, and he was. He was kind of what you call a puker, and that means that it's WIBC. You know, they kind of like sound. They're like they're getting ready to throw up. That's funny as well. All right, So now you make it to the big leagues, you arrive in the greatest Well, it was once the greatest city in the world, and that is New York City. It used to be not anymore. Um And now you get to Z one hundred, you're on the radio station that is in last place. How did you get it to number one? Well? I took the job and I'd never really lived in New York. I had been there a couple of times, and I just kind of was cocky because we were so successful. I had a great, a great time in Tampa. I was lucky enough to work for a company that hired me and said, you know what, we trust you do what you need to do. And it's amazing if somebody hires you and tells you to do a job and they leave you alone, it's amazing what can be accomplished, because you know, if you hire properly, you can trust the person. And they just said, what do you want to do? And I said, I got an idea for a morning show. And I was lucky enough to there was a guy already there and he thought I was going to fire him and take over his shift, and I said, no, I've never done this before. I'd never had done mornings before Tampa and I just said, I want to be a morning guy instead of a nighttime guy or an afternoon guy. And I've never done it before. So I worked with him and we came up with this idea to have a lot of funny skits, parody songs, a lot of people on the air from the Tampa area and just was and everybody seemed to catch on to it, and within six months we had the highest ratings in the country during Tampa Bay. And I was with Cleveland Weaver at the time. And then when this guy from Cleveland bought a radio station in New York, I tried they did first. I didn't even return their calls because I was so happy in Tampa Bay. And I just met a young lady that I was fond of, named Trish and now you're still married to today. Yeah. Yeah. And then and I just didn't want to do like a New York station. I wanted to do a really hard hitting I called it radio by two by four. You just kind of pounded it, you know, you just came. I wanted to match the beat of the city and that's what we did. We had a bunch of young people who had never worked in New York before. You know, most stations had a staff of about a ten. We had twenty one people, and in seventy four days we were very lucky, by the grace of God, we went to number one in New York and suddenly, what was so weird other stations around the country would fly people in to listen and copy that morning show. Billboard magazine did an article and they said there were probably three hundred stations around the world during the morning Zoo format. Quick Break, right back More with Scott Shannon. His documentary can get it everywhere online. Worse to first, the true story of Z one hundred radio legend that he is more with Scott on the other side than your calls. Eight hundred and nine for one, Shawn our number. As we continue from coast to coast, from horner to corner, from sea to shining Sea. This is the Sean Hannity Show, all right, we have the legendary broadcast. So the voice of this radio program, Scott Shannon with us. He's got a new documentary out. You've got to see this. You can download it on Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft, pretty much everywhere and on cable on demand as well. And it is called Worst to First. It's a feature length documentary that you don't want to not see. It's great. If you love radio, you're gonna love this documentary. You know, it's amazing. At the time, remember Top forty was kind of beginning to decline, and then as time went on, then iconic you know, fifty thousand and one AM blowtorches were given way to these FM stations where it sounded better, the music sounded better, and you were able to create this this environment and it's called Morning Zoo Radio and there's you know, many incredible, many variations of it. And I know you probably don't think a lot about it, but I mean that creation in many ways revived radio at the time, just like I would argue Rush revived the AM band with talk radio. Well, the thing about it is we didn't have any money to do marketing, and one of the guy named Gary Fisher was a great sales manager. Later, the general manager of the station stated that he was being interviewed for the movie that we're talking about. He said, you know, this was really the first viral campaign I'd ever seen, And it was just so strange because we sounded so different because we were Z one hundred. Everybody else was WNBC, WABC, and they had all these big voices, and we just sounded like a station that came out of you know, the ether is and it's just crazy and all of a sudden, people we asked people to make up their own bumper stickers. We don't have money for that. We we were in Secaucus, New Jersey, and no station in New Jersey had ever been successful before in New York and I think everybody thought it was JINX. You had to be in New York City and we weren't. We stay right there. I'm gonna if you don't mind, I'd like to hold you over a little bit. This is a phenomenal broadcasting story. This is history in the making. Our good friend Scott Shan and the voice of this radio program, the Sean Hannity Show, reading Morning Zoo Radio. They came out with an incredible documentary. I was just watching it the other night. It's phenomenal and if you love radio, and I still love radio, it is one of the best radio stories of all time. It's called Worst to First, The True Story of Z one hundred New York. And you know when when you go online, you can find it at Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft is pretty much everywhere. On cable platforms, you can get on Comcast, Spectrum, Chartercock's Frontier and even by the way, for our trucker friends and Kennedy, you can get it there at Apple iTunes. Quick Break Welcome Back More with Scott Shannon. Worst to First, a full length feature documentary portraying against all odds inspirational success story. This is the best of the Sean Hannity Show. Don't forget stay tuned for more right after the latest news. Right here on this radio station, you are listening to the best of the Sean Hannity Show. Kennedy uncovers the real truth about the politics of DC. He's your watchdog on Big Brother. Every Day. Kennedy is on right now, all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour. That voice you just heard is our friend, Scott Shannon. He's got a brand new, full length featured documentary. It's called Worst to First, The True Story of Z one hundred New York. He is the creator of Morning Zoo Radio. He still has the number one morning show in New York City to this day. On now he's on CBSFM where they play oldies, and he's just on top of his game. He's never lost a beat. How many years now total? Have you been in radio A long time? I get I'm on my thirty fourth year, so I'm giving my age away. By the way, I'm really not number one. I kind of share the top of the ratings with a guy named Elvis Duran, who's also featured in the documentary Worst First because of the fact he does the show that I started back in nineteen eighty three. And that's what's so cool about this whole thing that we put together. It takes you from the beginning of this radio station and shows you what was going on in New York back in the eighties. It's we have a guy that set it up by the name of Eraldo Riveri. He's in the movie. Elvis is in the movie. Joe Piscopo, Debbie Gibson, Tabor Dane, John bon Jovi, Jone, Jet Nil Rogers from chic and all these people were involved with the radio station early on. And well, let me ask you about that. You met all of these stars in the beginning of their career, and to get on your show was the biggest deal, the biggest lift that they could ever get. And at the time, you'd be getting tapes in the mail every day from this band or this performer. You know, you'd have I remember going into your office you were still getting tapes from artists from from all over the place. I don't know, I don't know how you soar through them, you know, did you know would you know right away whether or not somebody was going to be a star? Could you tell there's no way they're gonna make it? We actually didn't. We didn't start every one of those people, but we were certainly some of them. We did. Debbie Gibson, we were one of the first two stations in the world to play her songs, and she was so young, she was like fifteen years old at the time that Joan Chet would bring her songs by Madonna was we were very early in her career and very close with John bon Jovi. He did concerts for us from time to time, and it was just such a you had to be on that station and to go from where we started, where we had to send our music director into New York City from se Caucus every day to buy records because the record companies didn't even think enough of us to services. They didn't know who we were, and then all of a sudden we were beaten down our door. When the ratings came out, seventy four days after we signed on, we were the number one station in the country. You know. The amazing thing is, though to this day you remain friends and you can talk about who you're friends with, but all of these people give you all of this credit for really catapulting maybe it's a better word, their careers because when they got on your show, on your station, on your playlist, all of a sudden, their career was at one level and it was like a rocket ship straight to the top. That was usually the case. It's a little that's a little strong, but you know, we did help a lot of careers. There's a new band from England that came over and they didn't even want to come to New Jersey. They were living the life because they were already big in England. And we started playing their first song and we talked him into coming over and Duran. Duran came back five more times, did a free concert for us. We had a school spirit contest, and you know I've got Unfortunately for me, I'm found to be healthy and live a good life. I got involved with him some nightlifetimes here almost killed me with those guys. But I mean, today you want me to go into those stories that you want to avoid those stories. We're not going over there. We're not going over there today. You know you forget you forget one thing. Our careers are kind of similar because I remember when I was working at another station, w PLJ, after Z one in between Z one hundred and CBSFM, where I worked out. The manager of WABC was a dear friend of mine, Mitch Dolan, and he was telling me, I got this new kid coming in. He's got to be on Fox. I don't know how good he is. We're going to put him on at ten o'clock at night. There's eleven, but they're you're close. Yes. When I got hired of Fox, I did eleven to two in the morning and I loved it. And I did that for a year and then I got moved to afternoons. He said, would you listen to this guy? And so I said, well, I go to bed early. Heither were I'll tape it for you. I'll give you a tape. I think he's got some potential. And that was a guy named Sean Hannity, and I heard him. I said, holy crap, you need to get him in a prime time And then then it was it was. It wasn't long before you moved up to afternoons on the rest is history that it was one year later. But I remember, and this is now kind of deeply personal for me because h and by the way, you were right, I mean, Alvis Duran is phenomenal, and I know you're good for The amazing thing is a lot of people in TV they all hate each other. A lot of people in radio hate each other. I don't hate people in this business. It's kind of it's a very small group of people and we share one big passion, which is a microphone. So I've never I've never felt my success is contingent on somebody else's failure. I still don't believe that on radio or TV. And it's just I focus on the product every day. But I digress a little bit here. And you know, I used to go over and sit in your office for hours and we would just sit, we just shoot the Adam schiff and we'd have a great time. And I gotta tell you something before you sat in my office. Another guy used to come in there, right is really yeah? You know why because him and I had the love for music. And he would come in there sometimes even because he the you know, the Golden microphone started at WABC also it was a golden microphone maybe Sacramento. But I mean he came in and just he would ask me what's the hot He would he loved music. I'm not kidding you. I went to his apartment one time with his brother and he played Barry White on the single best sound system, you know, Rush. If he got into a phone, he knew everything about it. If he got into computers, he knew everything about it. He loved music. And this is when he still had his hearing and Barry White, you know, can't get enough of your love baby. That song I don't know what the title is, and and everybody knows a song and he's saying, now listen to this, now listen to that, and he's he's picking out you know, precision, and I'm like it sounds great, Rush, Can I have another drink? Let me go into your cigar bar one more time. But he's got every cigar in the book. And when he came into my office, because I'm like, a, I don't know music. I just I've got like a hundred different books about some of the most obscure artists you've ever heard of, and a trivia expert on that and that kind of stuff. He would come in and ask me questions about different artists, and you know, and here, you know, oh, I didn't know that. That's great? Pull that song out? Were you? And he was so much he was that was his life before he got into talk radio. He was a radio top like me, a top forty DJ. It's almost the year, almost coming up on a year since we lost him, and I still can't believe it. I really can't, because he's had such an impact on my life. Obviously. Oh yeah, I remember that you used to fill in for him all the time. I filled in for him. The first day I'm filling in for him, the golden eib Mike fell down, crashed on the on the table and I'm like, I'm leaning down my neck, bend all the way over and I finished the monologue before I could pick it up and fix it. That's a true story. I was sweating profusely, scared to death. Rush comes back from vacation and goes John Kennedy dented the golden eib mica, I mean, which was typical him. Right, Well, thank you so much for giving me some time to talk about the about this this movie. It's it's it's close to my heart. I mean, it's just we built this station in New York and it's still a thriving and still one of the most famous brands in radio. Z one hundred and it dropped. Let me ask you this question, is what is it about the lore of radio that is so intimate? Because I do radio and TV, the more intimate medium is radio. It's a heart medium. Explain what you think it is. Well, the thing that the thing that drove me to it is I've always been very shy, and especially when I was a kid, I just didn't have any friends and kind of id I was my own friend, that was it. And but I saw these pictures by Billboard magazine down at this record store that I would go to, and I saw these pictures of a little control room and a guy by himself with a microphone and headphones. But he's talking to you know, hundreds or thousands of people. I think it was some guy in Montana as the first picture, and I would cut these out and put them in a little scrapbook and say, someday I want to do that because it's so cool. You can sit in that room and no one's going to look at you. You can talk to him, and that's that was the thrill for me. And I could express my love for music on that microphone and it was just so I don't know. It gave me everything I wanted. Yeah. Well, it's an amazing story, it's an amazing documentary. It is well deserved. I'm proud to be able to call your friend. First of all, I'm grateful for your friendship and advice which you've given me over the years. It has been sometimes it was welcome, as sometimes as it wasn't. Now there are a couple of calls that went like this, Hannity, it's Shannon. You didn't reintroduce the guests. I don't know who you're talking to. I need to know is that true or false? Sorry, I gotta go anyway, Love you too. Worst, the first featurely length documentary portraying what Isn't Against all odds inspirational story, a man that helped create that created Morning Zoo Radio. Um, the true story is Z one hundred. You can get it on Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft. On cable, you can get it on Comcast, Spectrum, Chartercox, Frontier, Direct TV and uh In Kennedy. You get it there too as well on Apple iTunes. Now that we have old these Canadian fuckers listening to us, thankfully, we love you. Scott, Thank you man. Eight hundred nine one, Sean our number if you want to be a part of the program Bad for America CBSTV. Yeah, it's the news like nobody else, this is the Sean Hannity Show. The fact is that we're in a situation now where you know, you should have peace of mind. I know food prices are up, and we're working to bring them down. I said, they grew up in a family where the price at the pump went up. You're Philip, and I understand, but these things are necessities. We're working to bring down prices where they're not told to leave what the families in fact have to pay. Now, I'm going to work like the devil to bring gas prices down, which I'm gonna working to make sure that we keep strengthening the supply change and bringing the cost of energy and everything else and the goods that come to America down. All right, let's hit our busy phones. Rod is into Joyzy Rod. How are you glad you called? Only have about a minute and a half. It's all yours though, Hey son, how are you? It's a privilege and an honor to speak to you. Finally want I wanted to call and talk about that that bill that fleepy Joe's passing here, about the crack pipe and the needles and the bomb. I recovered myself, and it took a while. But the way I did it is I went and just did it called Turkey by myself, because I went in and out of these institutions they have in the state, and basically what they do is like people get arrested. These drug dealers get arrested and say that they're users, and they go to rehab and then you get you find more contacts in rehab and it's it's not working. It They need they need a new plan on helping addicts in the state because it's I've lost so many friends, I've lost a family member over It's it's it's it's insanity and this state and it's everywhere. You can get it anywhere, And I lost everything. I lost my marriage over it, and I finally recut. You know, I've been clean now probably ten years. You know, I'm back on my feet, I got a car again, I'm doing everything. My kids are back in my life, and it's you know, it took a while, but what the way they're doing it is not gonna work. I could see it. You need you need to want to do it to be clean, you know what I mean. I have too many people that I know that have been through addiction of one kind or another. And at the end of the day, it's got to come from the person. At the end of the day, you got to hit that rock bottom wherever it is for you and then say I've got to change my life. And yeah, for a lot of people, I know it's the beginning of their spiritual journey. They're reaching up towards God because they know they can't help themselves. I'm glad you've made it. You're speaking a lot of truth. And for anybody that has an addiction problem, deal with it it. Beget on your knees, let it humble you and hopefully you can change. God bless you, my friend. Great story. That's all the time we have though for today. We'll load it up tonight. Hannity ninet Eastern on the Fox News Channel, Ted Cruz, Doctor Oz Adam Carolla. We have Joe Conta, Pete Hegseth And did you see Sarah Carter with the truckers last night and in Ottawa. She'll join us and Leo Ninetiestern Fox News. Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We'll see you then back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible. Hey, there's still a lot more ahead on the best of the Sean Hannity Show. Stay tuned for more right afternoons on this station.

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