Sean Hannity
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but that's who he is he's just you know he is he's a fierce competitor the guy that got up and said fight fight fight after he got shot that's the guy i know because in his head he was thinking no way i'm gonna look weak i'm getting up yeah that day was a tough day when i saw the blood on his face i thought they killed him how did you hear about it at first i didn't hear i was watching it live
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Oh, wow. I watched the whole thing live and I started to get emotional because when he stood up and I saw the blood, I thought he might drop. I thought he might have been hit in the head. I'm literally feverishly calling everybody that I know that's around him. Is he okay? Is he okay? Is he okay? And in a pretty short period of time, I got back, he's okay.
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You know, and they only got his ear one millimeter and this guy's dead.
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Oh my gosh. We need to get to the bottom of it because the level of lying.
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I can take a lot of things from my kids. I understand kids, they're about your age. They're gonna mess up. I can deal with that part. But if you look me in the eye and you lie to me, now I'm pissed off. I always would say to my kids when they were young, stop insulting my intelligence. Right? Right. Because they're never any good at it. It's like a little kid grabs a cookie out of the cookie jar,
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and they have cookie all over their face, and you told them not to eat the cookie, and they're like, did you eat the cookie? No, I didn't eat the cookie. Stop lying to me. So they claimed it was the slope of the roof in Butler. Did you see that roof? Okay, I could literally, in the middle of winter, water down that roof, And I used to play hockey and I skate on that roof. Yeah. All right.
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That's not a sloped roof. I used to be a contractor. I fell off a sloped roof, nearly two and a half stories, almost three. And I was on the two and a half story right next to a dormer. And my feet gave out. There was sleet coming down. It wasn't good. I was putting in the last nail of the day of putting up tar paper to kind of protect the roof. And then all of a sudden, my feet gave out.
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I threw my hammer, tried to slam it into the dormer. It was unsuccessful, obviously. Hit the ground. This part of my arm is dangling. I'm like my... I played hockey all these years of my life. All my friends lose their teeth. I didn't lose one. Somehow I managed. You didn't wear a mouth guard. You didn't wear one of those face masks. We barely wore helmets if we did. I busted up all my teeth.
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They're pretty now, right? Because now they're perfect. Thank God I fell off a roof. It helps me with TV. So they're blaming the slope as to why they couldn't see them? They're blaming the slope. So they just lied through their frigging teeth. And I don't like being lied to.
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and hopefully sean kern who's the new secret service director we'll get to the bottom of it what i also don't like is the trump international incident because there's no excuse a number of holes around that trump international course if if you're familiar with the the layout of it A number of those holes are well-known areas on the outside of the fence. It's heavily treed.
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And it's a known area where paparazzi would go to grab pictures or videos of Trump. Okay. They never swept the area. How do you not sweep that area knowing that the top presidential candidate is playing golf there that day? There's no excuse for it. So I think in both instances, we've got to get to the bottom of it. But back to Butler.
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94. I started in radio in 1987. Holy shit. Holy shit. So I wasn't even a thought. You know what that means? That means I'm really old compared to you.
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So Kimberly Cheadle, who was the Secret Service director at the time. said that, well, we decided it was a sloped roof. Now, on an adjacent roof that had a bigger pitch, they had Secret Service agents on there. That's where the guy actually took out the would-be assassin. It had a deeper pitch. And you're telling me that's a sloped roof. And then she said, she was genius.
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She goes, so we decided to put them inside the building. Well, that doesn't prevent somebody from getting on the roof of that building. You should have, you know, surrounded the perimeter of the building. They didn't do that either. So... It's scary. I mean, with the United States of America, we need to protect all our elected politicians.
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I don't give a shit if it's Obama, Biden, Trump, whoever's in office. You're elected. This is a democratic republic. We've got to protect elected officials, period, end of sentence. No ifs, ands, buts. And they didn't do it.
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I'm really into health, wellness, fitness, nutrition now. I'm like a lunatic.
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You know, you're asking me a question that I've never revealed. I don't know if I should. Because...
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nobody in the media has ever understood the nature of the relationship i have with trump and i really don't want to talk about it that much i'll give you a little bit of i'll give you a preview if if i will which i've never talked about publicly because nobody's really ever asked they just write as if they know and they don't know
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Because we have a business relationship where, okay, I've got to interview the president. And then we have a personal relationship where I consider him a close friend. And he's one of the funniest people. most gregarious, generous people, charming, that you'd ever meet in your entire life. I wish America knew the Donald Trump in person that I know that you met. And I know him a little deeper.
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So we probably go a little deeper than... He is wickedly funny.
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I mean, there are times we'll talk and... We're just laughing the whole time. You're just one of the guys. Just cut up. We're just cutting up and having fun. I don't want to date this show, but I had Kid Rock on last night, and he was there with Dana White and Bill Maher. Saw that. And I got the lowdown on that meeting, and apparently Bill Maher was really nervous, which is interesting.
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He seems like a pretty confident guy. I don't like his politics, but I think he's talented. It went really well. Could you imagine Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama ever inviting Sean Hannity to the White House or you to the White House? No chance. Never going to happen. And that's Trump. That's what makes him special.
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Kid Rock said they agreed on wokeism. They agreed on securing the border. How could you not agree on securing the border?
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The Senate just had an opportunity, and Democrats in the Senate... They had a chance to prevent men from playing women's sports, and they voted against it. They have doubled down on dumb, dumber, and spectacularly stupid.
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Here's the Democratic Party today, and tell me if I'm wrong. They champion the rights of men to play women's sports, right? They're the party that... is putting the rights of people that are illegal immigrants that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty, over the safety of Americans. We've had dozens of Americans killed. It's not just Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungary, Lakin Riley.
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I used to scroll during the campaign the list of Americans murdered the list of Americans raped, the list of Americans that were victims of violent crime by Biden-Harris illegal immigrants. So they become the champions of the rights of illegals over the safety of Americans. They champion men's rights to play women's sports.
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Then they complain it's a constitutional crisis when we discover that they spent hundreds of billions of hard-earned tax dollars on DEI, wokeism, transgenderism, the Green New Deal, not even in America, in every other country around the world. And we're a country with $37 trillion in debt going through the roof, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, they're all headed towards insolvency.
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The average American makes $66,000 a year. What the hell are they thinking if they're going to spend our money that way? They think that's a constitutional crisis?
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Add to that agenda that we mentioned, right? Now, this is the party. We have a joint session of Congress. And I once went to a State of the Union and I sat in the upper chamber when Barack Obama was president. He comes out, I stood up and I clapped. I respect the office of the presidency. Do I like Obama? No, I couldn't stand his policies.
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I was one of his biggest critics, but I respect the office of the presidency. So they didn't stand for the first lady. They don't stand for the president.
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you have the mothers of the of lake and riley and jocelyn nungary mothers that lost their daughters because of joe biden unvetted illegals they couldn't stand for those parents that lost their children they couldn't stand for a young 12 year old man that beat cancer and once and became a secret service agent that night which was a cool moment very cool
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They couldn't stand for the wife of a slain officer, a hero. They couldn't stand for a young man who lost his father and was told that night that he got a West Point commission. They sit there and they hold up bingo cards like a bunch of petulant, angry, bitter children. If that's the party, I'm like, okay, stay right in that lane because you'll never win another election that way, in my view.
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He and I have gotten into a fight this morning. First thing in the morning, he starts in on me. I love Stephen A. But first thing this morning, he starts in, you know, and he's quoting Jim Cramer. I'm like, if you took financial advice from that idiot, that makes you even dumber than him. He was talking about tariffs. And then I literally start hammering him with information that he didn't have.
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He goes, I need to study up on this. It's pretty funny. He's saying he wants to run for president, right? No, he doesn't. Hell no, he's not running for president. That would be the last thing he'd ever do. It was a cool moment, though, on Hannity when I was interviewing him in the at the height of all the noise about him running. He has the White House in the background.
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The one thing I'd warn Republicans is don't say it's game over. I've heard that prediction many times over the course of my career. That's the end of the party. They're definitely in disarray. A lot can change, though, in three years, right? A lot can change. A lot is going to depend on... Peace and prosperity at the time. Donald Trump has taken on the most transformational, consequential agenda.
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But every single agenda item is rough. How do you deport, you know, all of the known terrorists, murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members? that Joe Biden and Harris allowed in this country. How do we find them? How do we end war in Europe and war in the Middle East? The Trump economy hasn't been put in place yet, so he's got to get a reconciliation bill through. which in the U.S.
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Senate is like the heaviest lift in the world. Every one of these items, how do you restore law and order in America's cities? How do you become energy dominant? Every single issue now that he's taken on is a very heavy lift. And hopefully Republicans, with their small majorities in the House and Senate,
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hopefully they'll be able to stand by that agenda get it through and give it time to percolate it takes a little time to take effect and it'll they will be judged on their success at the end of the day that's that's for every politician Now, in the meantime, Democrats are going to do nothing but flail, demonize Trump. They have they revert to form.
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The only thing they know is Nazi fascist, you know, racist Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. I'm so sick of hearing the name calling. Yeah.
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It's just... If it would have stuck, they would have won the election.
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Right? Jasmine Crockett, AOC, and Bernie Sanders, the leaders of the party. Who's the most sane Democrat, in your opinion? I don't know. That's a bit of a... If you had to choose one. Probably right now the most reasonable sounding is John Fetterman. Okay, I don't know too much about him. Well, Fetterman's a senator from Pennsylvania.
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And I went hard at him when he was running because I was supporting Dr. Oz, who's a friend of mine. And I never expected him to be as reasonable as he is. There are other Democrats that are pointing out that they're failing, their message is off. But at the end of the day, who are the louder voices? Chuck Schumer's never going to deviate. He wants power too much.
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He's not going to go against the radical base of that party, in my view.
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I mean, because he sits there in the Oval Office all day long and he spends an hour answering questions from a hostile media. There's nothing I'm going to ask him that they wouldn't ask him themselves.
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And so... Whatever the question is, whatever the issue of the day is, I'm doing my job. At that point, he's doing his job.
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I mean, there have been times we've had conversations. I'm like, what are you doing? And there are times if I do a show, he doesn't hesitate to say that show sucked. He has told me. He did not like my interview with James Carville. Now, Carville in that interview, in fairness to Trump, was lying through his teeth. And I fact-checked him the next day. He kept saying, fact-check me.
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I said, you're wrong, James. You're wrong, James. And so he goes, fact-check me. So the next day I was on the air, I fact-checked him. And he was wrong on all of it.
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A typical day I get up, I do a workout. Mixed martial arts is a big part of it. Boxing, a lot of core sit-ups, push-ups. situational self-defense, kind of an eclectic blend of arts, Krav Maga, Kenpo, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, just situational street fighting, sticks, blades, firearms. We work with all of it. I'm not in an art where I'm trying to get a black belt. I kind of gave up on the belt system.
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He did. He went there. His wife went there with him as well. I think Mike Waltz went there. I'll make a prediction. I think the people of Greenland will separate from Denmark. I think they'll claim their independence and Trump being the ultimate negotiator. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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I do it for fitness, number one, to stay in good shape and stay strong. I also lift, but I don't lift heavy weight. I'm in the best shape of my life at my age. Yeah, you're looking toned up. Well, for an old guy, yeah, I'm doing okay. And it gives you energy and it gives me focus. And I just dedicate that hour and a half, which is really hard for me to do with my busy schedule,
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Definitely a dopamine factor to it. No doubt about it. Yeah. I interviewed Gary Brecker. He was sitting in your chair right there. He's a good friend of mine too. Do you like Brecker?
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Jillian Michaels. Best guy. She is all over me to get rid of my nicotine habits. So that has to go away. What do you do? Smoke or? I've given that up and now I'm moving to like Zinn and all these other... I just got... I got Zinn too. What do you got? I got Zinn too. Let's see. Here we go. There you go. Cheers. I'm going to throw one of these in. They're pretty awesome. Yeah.
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You know, everybody wants Trump and Steve Woodcoff, who I like a lot, to go out there and say, Vladimir Putin's a murdering thug dictator. I happen to be of the thought he is a murdering thug dictator. If he had territorial claims on certain territories in Ukraine, it was a much better way than...
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Then lining up troops on the border with Ukraine and that idiot Joe Biden saying, you know, well, what are you going to do if he invades? Oh, it depends if it's a minor incursion. I mean, what do you mean a minor incursion? He's building up his army right on the border, you dumbass. He's about to invade the country. He already annexed on your watch with Obama, Crimea.
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Of course, it's going to happen. And, you know, then it becomes a full-fledged war. Then it becomes a proxy war because they're using hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to fight this war. And they fought it to a standstill. I admire the people of Ukraine. They fought bravely, valiantly, courageously. They did better than anybody ever thought that they would do.
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Everybody thought that Putin would march in there and devastate them. Here's where we are, though. Three years later, however long later. It's time to end it, right? Okay, there's not going to be a country left. There's not going to be a place for people to return to. The mineral deal will not only provide a U.S. presence and a financial incentive for the U.S.
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to do it, but it will also give them the money that they will desperately need to rebuild. I'd love to see that. What's the point of people dying? So Joe Biden would call Putin all these names. Probably accurate. But what does that do? Did it move the needle? No, it didn't move the needle. The best thing that we could do is end this war and have a negotiated settlement.
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And if that happens, I think it's going to be in Europe's best interest, Ukraine's best interest. Putin, in that sense, will be rewarded for bad behavior, but at least the death will stop, the destruction will stop, and Ukraine can begin the process of rebuilding, which I'd like to see.
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Well, one part of it scares me. If even the IAEA acknowledges that they're much closer to acquiring nuclear weapons than maybe we thought... the actual breakout time, once you are able to get to 60% enriched uranium, the next step to 90%, which is military grade, nuclear, bomb grade uranium is very short. So they're on the precipice of having
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according to my sources and public information enough uranium to start out with probably six nuclear weapons they don't quite have the delivery system yet that could probably be acquired quickly so time is short donald trump gave them two months a number of weeks ago every indication yesterday was they're giving us the middle finger.
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I have a hundred days or Jillian Michaels. You ever watch her on The Biggest Loser? Mm-hmm. She's going to kick my ass if I don't give up completely the vape.
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When they chant death to Israel, death to America, I think that's pretty clear. We see what they've done in the Middle East. They have provided Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Houthi rebels. They provided all the weaponry. So they're fighting all these proxy wars against Israel. We saw twice now they have fired directly from Iran into Israel.
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When people take the side of Hamas, it drives me up a wall because they lost on October 7th. They lost the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a single day based on their population size versus ours, which is 10 million versus, what, 350 million. I didn't finish the Canadian analogy. Canada is not going to win against the U.S.
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in any kind of battle or war, and you need us to defend you in Canada, just as a point.
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so they lost 40 000 people when i asked liberals all the time what part of murder rape kidnapping torture and beheading because i've seen the videos do you not understand if you don't have that moral clarity you don't have a soul you don't have a conscience and you don't have a heart watching those videos reminded me of the images i've seen in the holocaust i saw images of babies being beheaded
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It's all there. The IDF has the videos. They won't release them publicly, but they did show certain people in the news media so they could be aware of it. Back to Iran. On the Iran question, it's simple. Because Israel already proved after last April's attack, almost a year ago, that they could penetrate Iranian airspace. Because Iran has a lot of land mass.
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Which I still, you know, take a... I feel like Zins are a good alternative though. It's a great alternative. And there are other, I'm trying other brands out there and seeing which one I like the most. So far, Wintergreen, Zin. Yeah, so you wake up in the morning, work out, and then what? So the rest of my day is just dialed into studying. And I read and read and read and read and read.
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Okay, so they can penetrate that system, which means they can do whatever the hell they want in that country. Now, if they get American... bunker buster bombs, because all of their nuclear facilities are spread all throughout the country, coupled with the planes that we have that they would need to deliver those bombs. They could wipe out, you wipe out their refineries, you take away their money.
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Donald Trump was on the verge of bankrupting them his first term. And Joe Biden put a blind eye on sanctions and let them get rich again, just like he let Just like Europe helped Putin get rich by buying their oil, which is why energy dominance here, we can supply Western Europe all their energy needs. We'll get rich and they'll have more security.
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I would say how this ends, you can't trust the Iranians at all. And how it ends is somebody's going to have to take out the refineries and their nuclear sites. And the sooner they do it, the better. The last thing I would want to have happen is
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even though it would be biden's fault biden made them rich biden bought them time four years to enrich more uranium and get to this point trump inherited this problem but if if the weapons are made on his watch they would try to blame him it wouldn't be fair but they would try so i don't want that to happen
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I want to stay out of it. But if we have to take him out and just end that threat for the world, I promise you, and I know for a fact, every single country in the Middle East would celebrate Donald Trump or Israel or both taking out Iran's nuclear sites and refineries.
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You know, but there are some conservatives that are like, no, there'll be more acts of terrorism. I listen to those arguments. We already have Iranian assassination squads in the country, thanks to Joe Biden. So they're already here. We have known terrorists in the country because of Biden. We just have to find them and get them the hell out of here. Yeah.
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Oh, I've had boycotts, all that sort of thing. I don't even think about it anymore. Coolest moment ever, though, for me...
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is i don't remember what the controversy was but there was some controversy something i said and kerrig coffee machines made it known they were pulling off my show all of a sudden somebody on my team makes me aware they're like holy you got to go take a look at these videos and it went viral it wasn't anything i started
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But my fan base read that they were trying to boycott me, which is another way of silencing or trying to cancel you. The first video I saw was a guy on the third floor on his apartment taking his Keurig machine, dropping it, busting in pieces. Then the videos start going crazy. People shooting them. People with baseball bats. People with golf clubs. Destroying their Keurig machines.
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That's hilarious. So Keurig backs down. They come back on the show. And I felt bad. I'm like, man, all these people stood up for me. If you did that for me and you send us your video and you prove that you destroyed your coffee machine on my behalf, I'm going to buy you a new one. And so I bought like a thousand of them.
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And really, the key to success, I think, is working hard. I've always known in my career that I'm not the funniest, I'm not the smartest, I'm not the most talented, but I was never going to let anybody outwork me. And it's really hard in this industry to achieve longevity. And I think longevity is a big part of success. Because, especially if you do it the traditional way.
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It was pretty cool. Yeah. But I've had, yeah, I mean, all throughout my career, I don't give a rip what anyone says about me. I'm way past that.
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They really have. I mean, 29 years. That's a long ass time. That's crazy. It's crazy. I'm like the lone survivor. Yeah. I feel blessed to do it. I have a great relationship with them. They let me do my thing and they know I'm going to work hard. They know I fact check. They know I do all the things necessary to put on a show that doesn't put the network at risk.
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But I always get to say what I want. I'm not told what to say, who to support. None of that gets in the way.
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I mean, am I really supposed to believe that Joe Scarborough, who used to represent the most conservative district in Florida, all of a sudden became a liberal? It seems kind of expedient to me that he wanted to be on television, get paid a nice big check. And so he goes on MSDNC and now he's a big liberal Joe. That's my nickname for him, liberal Joe. Or Nicole Wallace.
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She ran John McCain and Sarah Palin's campaign. She worked for George W. Bush. And now she's like radical, hardcore, left-wing, Trump-hating.
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Oh, big time. Could she have had a change of heart? I don't know. But I've kind of stayed consistent throughout my career. I'm a Reagan make America great again Trump conservative. That's how I describe myself. And I've been consistent. I want lower taxes. I want less regulation. I want government out of our lives. Tell me what government does well.
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How's law and order and safety and security in small towns and big cities? How's education in America? We were abolishing the Department of Education. You know, we spend more per capita per child than any industrialized country with the worst results. How does government do with that? How's Social Security and Medicare doing? They're headed towards insolvency.
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How did that Obamacare promise work out? Keep your doctor, keep your plan, and the average family saves on $2,500. a year per family. Well, okay, the verdict's in. Millions lost their doctors. Millions lost their plans. The average American's paying nearly 300% more. And over 40% of the country has one Obamacare exchange option. How'd that work out?
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So when people put their faith in government, I question, why would you want the Green New Deal? Cradle to grave, wound to the tomb society, Marxism, redistributionism, socialism, statism, put whatever name you want on it. I wrote a whole chapter in the book, Live Free or Die. I swore I'd never write another book. I hate writing books, too hard. What was that process like?
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Do you just write it all yourself? No, I actually dictate part of it and then I'll have somebody put that part together and then I do the final thing myself. And I'll put in the column, research this part, research. I need to research and research, research, which is how I do my show every day. I have a whole research team.
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And I like to get everything right, but I have a whole chapter of socialism. It's history of failure. Whatever form, name, manifestation, it always fails. You end up the same way every time. You end up with unfulfilled promises, more poverty, and then you calculate how much freedom you gave up in the name of false security. That's how it ends every time.
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What was one of the most iconic interviews? By the way, you know what? I love when you ask a question, you smile. Because I've seen your pranks over the years. You've got a wicked sense of humor. There's always like this little devilish grin behind you, knowing your history. Yeah. Which is very cool. What pranks have you seen? Oh, my God. You see any of the Trump ones we did leading up?
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I saw a couple of those. When you see that there's liberals, there was one that I saw.
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If I was starting out in media today, I would not follow the path that I followed. I would follow your path. And that is... do a really good show, reach for the stars, get big people, bring in Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Dana White, Stephen A. Smith, and people like that, find alternative products to sell, build off that brand, and I would definitely do it that way.
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I get asked this all the time. Like in this studio right here, this is my podcast studio. I've had Mike Tyson in here. I've had Sly and Jennifer Stallone in here. Stephen A's been in here. You know, Jillian Michaels, Gary Brecker. I just love interesting people. Next time I'm going to interview you. Yeah, let's do it. We'll bring in your whole crew.
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This is an unusual day because of a lot of breaking news that's coming today. You know, I get asked that question a lot. I'm going to give you the same crappy answer, so forgive me. And that is, I love all of it. When I was young and 10 and 11 and listening to the pioneers of talk radio, I never thought I'd ever be in front of one of these.
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And when I got the first opportunity to be on the air on radio, and remember, talk radio, when I started, was 200, 250 news talk stations in the country. Now it's the number one format over, I think, over 5,000. Wow. We're on the most of anybody, 750. Then you have SiriusXM, then you podcast it. It goes out on the internet, station websites, Hannity.com.
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The minute that light went on, my life changed. So it's a roundabout way of answering you and saying, I love all of it. I've never gotten over liking that light going on, loving it. You know, it's like they're starting to count me down. People, when I did an audience show, it would be like, 10, I'm like doing this, I'm joking with the audience, talking to people that are there.
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Three, and they're like getting nervous. Two. All right, welcome back. That's it. And I just like the feeling. And I like, because my passion is politics. I also love sports more than people know. Stephen and I, he's like, stay in your lane. Don't talk about sports. I'm like, you stay in your lane. Stop talking about politics. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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But I love all of it. Does that sound, it's a cheap, it's a kind of crappy answer, right?
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Like back then when you got fired from that, did you always like, no, you'd be. I always felt through most of my career, I was doing my last show. I just figured somebody's going to come in and realize they screwed up and pull the plug. And I always, but that fear also drove, that wasn't a fear. And that belief drove me and I just worked harder.
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I'll give you an example of how I learned to work harder. When I was in Atlanta, there was a legend, he's now retired, he's still a friend of mine. And it's funny, we became friends because we were fierce competitors. His name is Neil Bortz, smart as hell, Mensa, he's that bright. And he was on a station in Atlanta and then he made the jump to another station.
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It was a big deal, big story, big change. I went in to audition, two days, I get hired, I move from Huntsville, Alabama to Atlanta. He's on a six month no compete. I get there, I've got four months to convince this audience that I'm worth listening to. Otherwise, he's going to come in? Well, first, he made a mistake. He used to be on 9 to noon, which was my slot.
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Then he moved 12-3 to go up on my station. We had Rush at the time, and Rush was like at the top of his game. I mean, pulling massive numbers, which was great for me because he was a big draw for the station. That meant huge cue. So he went up against Rush. He got his ass kicked. Then he swore, I'm a morning person. Sure enough, I'm going on vacation one day.
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When I started, there were only like 200 talk radio stations in the country, or news talk stations. I'm now on 750, which is the largest in the country. I'm pretty, you know, I'm happy about that. But then we also put it on an audio podcast. Then we also put it- Distributed everywhere after, yeah. It's everywhere.
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My first vacation, like eight months after starting. And I'm listening to him 12 to 3. I just finished my show. I'm driving to the airport, Hartsfield Airport. And he's like, Hannity, I know you're listening. I'm like.
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On the air. I'm like, how the hell does he know I'm listening? He goes, I know you're going on vacation. He goes, get ready. Your phone's about to ring. And he goes, I just want you to know, you're going to get a call from your boss telling you to come back because starting Monday morning at 8.45, he was going to get a 15 minute jump on me. He was an SOB. And I heard all of it.
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He goes, I'm coming and I'm taking my audience back and I'm running you out of town. All that on the air. All that on the air. And I heard every bit of it. Wow. So I was close to the airport, get to the airport, call my boss, I'm coming back. I'm not going on vacation. They wouldn't let me. And I was too new to have any juice to fight him. I'm like, no, I want to come back.
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I want to be on the air. What the hell is this? I'm like, you can't do this to me. And it worked out fine. It ended up, nobody had ever been able to compete with this guy. And there were a couple of books I beat them, and that had never happened before. There were three books in a row. Now, you think of all the stations in Atlanta. These are 2 a.m. stations at the time.
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And between the two shows, 9 to noon, we both had, for nine months straight, 12 1⁄2 shares with men 2554. Wow. Okay, that's one quarter of the entire Atlanta metro, basically the state of Georgia, listening to either him or me. It was crazy.
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But then I was way more into like... He was kind of a little later in his career. I was at every event. I was shaking hands. I was handing out handitized buttons and doing rush rooms where people would get together, eat pizza, listen to Rush at the same time. That's when I really became very close friends with Newt. He's like my older brother. And I was the emcee the night he becomes speaker.
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That kind of catapulted me up a little bit. And if you talk to him, he would swear that he ran me out of town. I'm like, yeah, you ran me out of town to Fox News. Good luck. But at the time, nobody thought like Fox News. You mean like Fox 5 in New York or Fox 5 Atlanta? No, this is a national news channel like CNN. Nobody gave us a shot. Nobody thought we'd ever be successful.
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Oh, he lit me up. So one day I'm driving into work and I tuned into his station. it is i'm on the air at nine it was 6 15 in the morning not only did he go on the air with the morning host he had already read every newspaper he gave a whole list of every topic he'd be talking about that day and i'm like Wow. Man, I haven't picked up a newspaper. I didn't do any work.
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And what, 4 million viewers a night, right? Yeah. On TV, yes. On radio, we're over 25, 26 million when you add it all together because we also podcast it. It's on Sirius XM. It's pretty much everywhere. Wow. So I don't ever think about the reach.
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So that was the last time I ever showed up at that time. Then every day, 6.15, I would get a list of all, I would take notes of all of it. He'd give away his whole show. For example, if he was talking about a topic, he didn't do guests. I would get the person he'd be talking about as a guest. Me and my producer would be like, damn, you guys are really flexing on each other. We're fighting, man.
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This is old school radio war. One day he announces, oh, I have a rare guest today. Bob Shapiro, who represented OJ Simpson, is going to be in studio at 10 o'clock. And I'm like, why didn't we get him?
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he goes well i just heard him on he's going to be on 99x which was an alternative station one april fools by the way because we just passed april fools i did their morning show and had everyone calling into taking chastity pledges and they did my show and they were pretty liberal and they were telling everyone that they wanted to perform gay marriage on the show so it was a pretty cool april fool's joke yeah everyone went crazy in the town
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Anyway, so I'm like, all right, let's call over to 99X. We know the morning. We love those guys. We get along with them. So we get Bob Shapiro's rep. We're like, I don't know if you have an opening. Any chance you can come on at 9 o'clock? Yes. So we're going to beat him by an hour. Wow. Okay. The hour's coming to a close. His station is literally down the block. It's like a two-minute ride. Okay.
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i'm like you know mr shapiro this conversation i have so much more to talk to you about i have so many more questions i keep them in the studio until 10 45. oh my god you know gets to the other station Warts comes running out of his studio, basically cussing him out, pissed off. And that's what an old school radio war is. That's how competitive I've been. Is he still in the space at all?
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No, he's retired. But I mean, he was on the air for 40 some odd years. And we're still best friends. We became best friends in the process, believe it or not.
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He made me better, made me work harder. And I realized I have to work hard. And I would argue today I work harder than I've ever worked.
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You drove an hour and a half to do this interview. I'm not worth an hour and a half, three hour drive. I'm not. I mean, this is great. This is... No, I don't think I'm worth a three hour drive. This is free with them. But you're gonna... You just keep working like this... I mean, obviously Rogan's at the top.
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He's the GOAT, yeah. He's the GOAT, but you're not far behind. I mean, I think he's got like 36, I saw this the other day.
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I just think about every day doing the best show I can do and bringing it to my audience and making it compelling and interesting and entertaining news and information you're not going to get from the corrupt, abusively biased
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Yeah, but you guys are like at 20 million. That's serious. You have a serious audience here. Yeah, we have a serious audience for sure.
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YouTube's where you're making a lot of money too because everyone that I know that has a YouTube channel, they're doing really well.
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If they're paying everybody else, they need to pay you. I need to negotiate your deal.
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Okay, so you got smart, you build businesses. Why don't you get that money too?
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Well, I actually, because music became so expensive for radio, bumper music, I just have a cover band doing them all.
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And you know what? It works. You need to plug us up with a cover band. I can hook you up, no problem. They start doing all the milk music. So what's your future? What are you guys planning?
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legacy media that i argued died on november 5th and they got their asses kicked and they threw everything that they had at your friend donald trump everything i think they died before but that was just the official funeral that was all right i'll take i think they were dead but that was the funeral but they tried everything they could for all those years to destroy this man and
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He's going to run for president. You gotta have him on. He's badass, man. In his prime, I just remember he just, I would hate it when he lost. But when he was on his game and he'd win. He was a beast. Oh my gosh. Who's your favorite fighters? He's one of them. You watch a lot? I don't as much because I don't have the time. The president even invited me to go to one UFC match.
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I just can't get away. I gotta work. You gotta come though. Have you been? No, there's one actually coming up, I think, this weekend.
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You're going to be there? You're going to be there. You're going to be in the front row? Yeah. Dana gets your front row seats?
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I got to call Dana. I'm not as close to Dana as you are, but I like Dana. We'll call him after this. I will tell you, I respect Dana a lot. Yeah.
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The thing is if you do like a strike and you can't use your palm because if you do a targeted strike – Like for example, if I were to like use a hammer point and just like rake your jaw and just come right down, First of all, your jaw will come off its hinge. It'll go straight to your brain. You're going to be on your ass. It'll be that. One of the things that we train with is targeted strikes.
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Go for the carotid, eyes, trach, knees, you know, whatever I can do to break you in 20 seconds or less. And everything's in combinations. Yeah. You just don't do one thing. You do multiple things. But I like it because it's so badass.
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I love the use of it. You can't move. You have to sit there. And some trained, strong guy.
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boom gonna come right across it takes balls through powers man it is like you're out of your mind there's so many great up-and-comers that i don't know i don't know where the sport's going i just know that it's it's just we have gladiator sports i love gladiators i love fighters i love warriors i love people that put their everything on the line NFL players to me, ultimate respect, ooze to them.
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Boxers, same thing. UFC guys, slap guys, they just, I love people that are tough, that have courage. That fight, they put it all on the line. They're not going in that octagon. They're not going in that ring expecting to lose. They're not going on that field expecting to lose. And they just give their heart and soul and put it all on the line. I love people that put it on the line.
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You know, in a way, what you do, you go out there, you put it on the line, you're going to get criticized, you're going to get people that like you, people that hate you. Okay, too bad. But a lot of people live their lives in fear. I never want to live a fearful life. I don't want to be afraid of anything, and I'm not. I also believe in God, so that helps.
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You're not sick of it. You love it. I'm not sick of it. I mean, I'm more addicted to it than ever. That's awesome. I asked my son at one point, I said, do you ever think I should retire? And he goes, God, dad, no. Like it was like an instantaneous no. That's awesome. I'm like, why not? He goes, dad, you're going to die. That's what his answer was. And I thought about it.
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He probably wasn't too far off in as much as, you know, I've just so immersed in it. Full-time. Through passion, yeah. And I love every aspect of my life. I moved to Florida, so I love it down here in Florida. Best move I made. Save a ton of money, although New York is vicious. If I'm in New York a day. They come after you? They want to come after you.
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a day you know this whole oh you know 183 days or is complete bs yes you know i had hired attorneys and accountants the list had 65 items on it so that they can't come after me you know and if they do they'll have no case yeah and they'll still come after me i meet all these people that move from california and new york there are more tax people from new york that live in florida
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Because they chase you out of the state because of their regulation, taxation. Two governors in a row said they want conservatives to leave. Kathy Hochul, Lee Zeldin, Trump, all these people, get on a bus, go down to Florida where you belong. I'm like, okay, I'll go to Florida. Andrew Cuomo, when he was governor,
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If you're one of those extreme conservatives and you're pro-life and pro-assault weapon, which I am, and anti-gay, I'm not anti-gay, I'm pretty libertarian. He goes, you're not a New Yorker and there's no place for you in the state of New York. All right, I leave New York. Now they want you back. No, they want my money back.
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They don't want, and like all these companies, Wall Street South is where you are. I mean, it's amazing all these big companies, private equity companies, banks, they're all moving to Florida, man. And the free state of Florida. The place to be.
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Like you can see in TV minute by minutes and like, oh shit, that didn't work. All right, don't do that again. Let's think of this. Constantly fine tuning it. And look, keep doing more of this.
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This is it right here. Buy this. And because this makes me, I'm a dad, makes me a happy dad.
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100%. They wanted him in jail. Yeah. And he did it for his country, took a bullet in the process, had another would-be assassin. You just got to admire... that intestinal fortitude, that strength, that courage, that commitment to the things that he believes in. And I've known the guy 30 years. He's a force of nature. And look what he's doing.
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I'm like, fine. We're going to have to crack one. We'll crack one, absolutely. See? Cracking one with Sean Hannity. Boom. Cheers. Salute. I like it over ice. Yeah.
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I mean, if he is successful at his agenda, I think it'll be the most transformational, consequential presidency in 100, 150 years. This is it. I agree. And had we lost, I think we would have lost the country.
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By the way, that's what Elon Musk said. Elon Musk said the same thing. He goes, you're not going to be able to run off to New Zealand. There'll be no place to go. We are the foundation.
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They brought Dana White, which I think was great. Yeah. I actually have had... private conversations i won't reveal them with zuckerberg it's interesting because if you look at before the election and i'm i'm throwing them a prop here and and people will criticize me for this but long before the election he did tell
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The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, he wrote a letter, admitted to everything that they did. They were pressured on Hunter Biden's laptop to kind of hold back on the story. They were pressured on COVID. that they didn't want out there. I mean, the whole country was lied to on COVID on a massive level.
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You do and you don't. I mean, at that point they have the power to shut you down and really cause a lot of misery in your life. But wow, that letter was the most powerful thing I ever read. So people say, no, he's doing this because of Trump, but he did it before Trump got elected. So I give him a lot of credit for that. And then he used the Zuck Bucks in 2020.
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His explanation is he did it because he wanted to help. During the pandemic, get people out to vote. It turned out to work more on behalf of liberal candidates. And he absolutely promised he was staying out of the 2024 election. He did keep his word on that. In the months leading up to the 2020 election, the FBI was meeting with big tech companies on a regular basis and.
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And they had already confirmed the authenticity of Hunter's laptop in March of 2020. So they knew it was real. And so what they were doing was pre-bunking the laptop story, which they knew would break because they knew Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Bob Costello.
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had a copy of it and that he was going to drop it they knew it was coming out so the meeting monthly with all these big tech companies to the credit of facebook and twitter at the time this is before elon bought bought twitter they when that story broke in the new york post they were meeting weekly fbi coming to your office meeting with you telling you you may be a victim of russian disinformation wow
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in the lead up to this campaign. You hear that every week for months. And then the Hunter laptop story breaks. And then they call the FBI. Is this what you've been warning us about? Or is this real? The FBI knew the answer and they wouldn't give them an answer. They didn't tell them the truth. To me, that's corruption. And hopefully they clean that up. That's crazy.
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No, I'll tell you when I first interviewed him, I just got hired by Fox when it went on the air in 1996. Okay. I'd been doing, I was a local radio guy in Atlanta, which was a really cool time. You got fired, right? Not in Atlanta, no. I only got fired once when I first started and I deserved it because I was awful. I was God awful. So you got fired for performance, not because of views? Yes. Both.
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Both. I deserved it. Yeah. Absolutely. It was awful. But so was everybody else on the station. So the whole station should have been cleaned out. But that was in Santa Barbara, California. Then I moved to Alabama. That was my first professional gig, 1990 to 92. I got a chance to audition in Atlanta in 92. Got hired there, which worked out to be a really cool time in my life.
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Because then New King, which was coming into power. And I was the emcee the night he became Speaker of the House. Republicans had not had control of Congress for 40 years. Can you imagine that? And I was the emcee that night. It was a really cool night. And anyway, so then I got hired by Fox in 96. before they went on the air.
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And then I started doing late night, a New York talk radio, because I wanted to keep doing radio because I love radio. As you can tell, I don't shut up. And what were you talking about at that time? Was it like politics at the time too? I loved politics. I loved issues.
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i don't know what it was when i was 10 11 12 years old i would stay up late at night and listen to the the pioneers of talk radio talk radio was not a big deal and and rush really took it to like this huge massive level and forged the path for all of us and i'm very grateful to him for that because i know we follow in his footsteps and we miss him a lot that rush was a genius on every level
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What's up, man? First of all, congratulations on all your success. Thank you. I mean, let's see, Dana White. Elon, Trump, and then you stuck with me. There's something wrong with that picture.
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This is what I love. I love people and kind of, this is a big part of my life. I love people that start with nothing and build something. You jumped off the high board every step of the way because I'm pretty aware of your career, right? Now you have one of the biggest podcasts in the country and I just love success.
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anyway so uh trump would call in to answer your question um i'd get him to call in he's like who the hell is this guy but i say can you just call in for like a half hour then he'd stay on the phone for an hour and a half and he what i we began a relationship and i began to realize this guy is really smart way smarter than people are understanding and
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And then fast forward to when he's thinking about running for president, we had a conversation privately about it. And I said, I'll never support you. If you're not going to govern as a conservative, you will never get my support. And that led to a series of meetings, late night conversations. I mean, deep into the night, 3 o'clock in the morning. And we're on the phone.
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And he's saying, well, why doesn't Iraq pay for our liberation of Iraq? Why don't they pay us back in oil? And I'm like, why didn't I think of that? Smart idea. We're going to risk American treasure. Why shouldn't we? And I went out pretty early for him. And, oh, my God, I got the crap kicked out of me.
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Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, they probably spent two years on the air every day saying that I sold out, that I'm not a conservative. Wow. And meanwhile, I did my own vetting of Trump. And it was because of those conversations, I really believed in him.
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Pretty much right out of the... I was interested in Ted Cruz a little because I liked Ted. I still like Ted. He's a personal friend of mine. But I felt Trump could win. I just saw in him an ability that he could break through. And he was iconoclastic. And just different.
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Zelenskyy Oval Office Meeting, Trump Tariffs In Effect, Epstein Files Update | PBD Podcast | Ep. 556
Did you ever think you would make it? I feel I'm supposed to take sweet victory. I know this life meant for me. Adam, what's your point?
PBD Podcast
Zelenskyy Oval Office Meeting, Trump Tariffs In Effect, Epstein Files Update | PBD Podcast | Ep. 556
OK, I want to be clear because I think people got frustrated because they were expecting more. You were expecting more and you didn't find out less than 24 hours before the release. You got a whistleblower that confirmed that there were way more documents that they were supposed to turn over. And then you found out just before that.
Pod Save America
Is Trump's Honeymoon Over?
They want you two to start. They want a divorce. They want you two to start hating each other. Well, I respect him. I've always respected him.
Pod Save America
Is Trump's Honeymoon Over?
That's nice the way he said that, you know? There's something nice about it.
Pod Save America
Is Trump's Honeymoon Over?
But he gets it done. He's a leader. This guy's a very, he's a brilliant guy. He's a great guy. He's got tremendous imagination. You're much more than a technologist. You are that. But he's also a good person. He's a very good person.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2141 - The Trump-Musk Show ROLLS ON
Starlink is in 100 countries. This is gonna be hard. I feel like I'm interviewing two brothers here. You go ahead. Star Shield, which could be used for national defense. Yeah, it is already being used for national defense.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2141 - The Trump-Musk Show ROLLS ON
They want you two to start hating each other and they try, oh, President Elon Musk, for example. You do know that they're doing that to you.
The Bulwark Podcast
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse
Steak and Shake has been great. We're very grateful for them, for RFK and the French fries. They turned me into a verb. But also Popeye's. By the way, a plastic straw. Thank you. Thank God. I can't stand those paper straws. I hate them.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
DOGE Protestors Turn on Tesla & Astronauts Make It Home | Anthony Carrigan
Bullets are being fired. Charging stations are put ablaze. Teslas are being put ablaze. What have you done that warrants this? Because I see nothing that you have done except help our country.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | It's Classified
People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | It's Classified
What could they possibly think existed inside of Mar-a-Lago in a box that was taken from the White House that was so damaging that the FBI director and the attorney general of the United States would have to raid a former president's residence and grab everything out of there?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | It's Classified
Do we have a dual justice system in America? Is there equal justice under the law?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
Here, play this clip. When does it cross a line into aiding and abetting lawbreaking? Would it have to have direct involvement by her in helping people to evade ICE?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
I can give a few headlines. There's no conflict between them. There's no power struggle. There's no ambiguity as to who the president is. And what I observe both in front of the camera and behind the camera are people that had a great relationship. I don't want to give too much away. People will decide for themselves. You were there for a lot of it. Do you agree?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
All right, joining us now, the host of the upcoming hit show, My View with Laura Trump. And by the way, take that to the bank. It will be a hit show. I might even be a guest one day if she ever invites me.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News GOES INTO PANIC MODE over Trump’s FATAL MOVE
Yeah, he said, let's get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for people. Where the media is freaking out is, oh, Donald Trump's going to take over Gaza.