Sean Hannity | Ep. 153

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Full Send Podcast Episode Summary: Sean Hannity | Ep. 153

Podcast Information:

• Title: FULL SEND PODCAST
• Host/Author: Shots Podcast Network
• Description: Full Send Podcast brought to you by Happy Dad Hard Seltzer.
• Episode: Sean Hannity | Ep. 153
• Release Date: April 3, 2025

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1. Introduction and Welcome

Kyle Forgeard enthusiastically welcomes Sean Hannity, praising him as "one of the legends of the game" and expressing admiration for his career achievements.

[00:00] Kyle Forgeard: "We've been trying to set this up for a while. One of the legends of the game..."

Sean Hannity reciprocates the appreciation, acknowledging the success of Happy Dad Hard Seltzer.

[00:30] Sean Hannity: "A happy dad. The third largest selling seltzer in the entire country, you know, behind White Claw."

2. Sean Hannity’s Daily Routine and Fitness

Hannity shares insights into his disciplined daily routine, emphasizing the importance of fitness and mental sharpness.

[03:26] Sean Hannity: "Typical day, I get up, I do a workout... I lift, but I don't lift heavyweight. I'm in the best shape of my life age."

He discusses various martial arts disciplines he practices, underscoring his commitment to staying in top physical condition.

[04:04] Sean Hannity: "It's fun... First thing in the morning gets you. It's like an addiction."

3. Career Highlights and Relationship with Donald Trump

Sean Hannity delves into his extensive career in radio and television, highlighting his 29-year tenure at Fox News and his pivotal role in shaping political discourse.

[01:51] Sean Hannity: "You jumped off the high board every step of the way... One of the biggest podcasts in the country."

He recounts his first encounter with Donald Trump in 1996, describing the genesis of their close relationship built on mutual respect and shared political ideals.

[13:19] Sean Hannity: "I had just got hired by Fox when it went on the air in 1996... We began a relationship, and I began to realize this guy's really smart."

4. Big Tech Censorship and Media Bias

Hannity criticizes major tech companies and mainstream media for perceived censorship and bias against conservative voices and figures like Trump.

[10:07] Sean Hannity: "He wrote a letter, admitted to everything that they did... They were pressured on Hunter Biden's laptop to hold back the story."

He highlights inconsistencies in how platforms like YouTube handle content, noting a shift towards more open dialogue post-trump presidency.

[09:24] Sean Hannity: "They deleted the podcast... Now they are throwing a Trump party."

5. Criticism of the Democratic Party

Hannity offers a scathing critique of the Democratic Party, blaming them for various societal issues and policy failures, including border security and the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[25:22] Sean Hannity: "They champion the rights of men to play women's sports... Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, they're all headed towards insolvency."

He emphasizes the party's focus on "wokeism" and policies he deems detrimental to American prosperity and security.

6. The Butler Roof Incident and Secret Service Critique

Recounting a personal accident, Hannity criticizes the Secret Service's handling of security protocols during a presidential event, questioning their competence and accountability.

[18:11] Sean Hannity: "They decided it was a sloped roof... I fell off a roof nearly two and a half stories."

He demands a thorough investigation into the incident, expressing distrust in current security measures.

7. Anecdotes from Radio Career and Competitive Spirit

Hannity shares gripping stories from his radio days, illustrating his competitive nature and dedication to surpassing rivals, which ultimately propelled his success.

[68:13] Sean Hannity: "Neil Bortz... we became best friends in the process... you talk to him, he swore that he ran me out of town."

These anecdotes highlight his relentless work ethic and strategic maneuvering within the media landscape.

8. Perspectives on International Relations: Iran, Ukraine, and Canada

Hannity discusses complex international issues, including the Iran nuclear situation, the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and strained relations with Canada. He advocates for strong, decisive actions to ensure national security and economic interests.

[46:18] Sean Hannity: "If the weapons are made on his watch, they would try to blame him... We have to find them and get them the hell out of here."

Regarding Canada, he criticizes their economic and immigration policies, suggesting a need for renegotiation to better align with U.S. interests.

[41:02] Sean Hannity: "Canada needs a big comeback... securing their borders, paying their fair share to NATO."

9. Challenges with YouTube and Monetization Strategies

The conversation shifts to the struggles and successes of content monetization on platforms like YouTube. Hannity advises building independent business models to mitigate dependency on such platforms.

[72:36] Sean Hannity: "Why don't you get that money too? At this point, they have no right to not monetize you."

He encourages leveraging alternative revenue streams to maintain creative and financial independence.

10. UFC, Sports, and Personal Interests

Hannity expresses his enthusiasm for UFC and other combat sports, commending the athletes' courage and dedication. He also discusses upcoming events and the intersection of sports and politics.

[77:34] Sean Hannity: "UFC guys... they're fighters, warriors... I love people that are tough, that have courage."

He highlights the synergy between sportsmanship and his personal values of resilience and determination.

11. Future Plans and Legacy

Looking ahead, Hannity reflects on his enduring passion for media and politics, expressing no intention to retire. He underscores his commitment to continuing his influential role in shaping public opinion.

[77:51] Sean Hannity: "I'm way past that... 29 years, that's a long ass time... I'm the lone survivor. I feel blessed to do it."

He discusses the evolving media landscape and the importance of adapting while staying true to his core principles.

12. Closing Remarks and Mutual Respect

The episode concludes with mutual appreciation between Hannity and the podcast hosts. Hannity praises the hosts' creative endeavors and dedication, reinforcing the camaraderie forged during the conversation.

[80:45] Sean Hannity: "I appreciate you, bro. Thank you for coming on. I know you don't do this too often."

Notable Quotes

• On Success and Building From Nothing

  [01:31] Sean Hannity: "I love people that start with nothing and build something."

• On Media Bias

  [07:37] Sean Hannity: "They threw everything that they had at your friend Donald Trump."

• On Competition and Work Ethic

  [68:28] Sean Hannity: "He lit me up... and I realized I have to work hard."

• On National Security

  [54:00] Sean Hannity: "I don't want to live a fearful life. I don't want to be afraid of anything."

• On Political Consistency

  [57:04] Sean Hannity: "I've been consistent... Reagan, Trump, conservative."

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This episode of the Full Send Podcast offers an in-depth conversation with Sean Hannity, exploring his personal routines, career trajectory, political ideologies, and perspectives on current national and international issues. Through candid anecdotes and robust discussions, Hannity provides listeners with a comprehensive understanding of his influence in media and his unwavering commitment to his political beliefs.

Transcript

[Kyle Forgeard]

All right, guys, we got a special episode today. We've been trying to set this up for a while. One of the legends of the game, someone I look up to, someone that inspires me. We got Sean Hannity.

[Sean Hannity]

What's up, man? How are we doing? First of all, congratulations on all your success.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Thank you.

[Sean Hannity]

I mean, let's see. Dana White, Elon Trump, and then you stuck with me. There's something wrong with that picture. Stephen A. Right?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Stephen A. Yeah.

[Steve Will Do It]

A lot of cool people.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's what I love about the pod, is we just get to sit down with like, cool people. Like you get free wisdom. He can't complain.

[Sean Hannity]

So the person that made me aware of how big and successful you are now. I'm fully aware of it, by the way. Totally aware. A happy dad. The third largest selling seltzer in the entire country, you know, behind White Claw.

[Kyle Forgeard]

How aware of it is. Do your sons drink it or anything?

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They. They're like, dad, you're gonna have to drink. My son goes, dad, you're gonna have to drink it on air. I'm like, fine, you don't have to crack one. We'll go crack one. Absolutely. Hey, see?

[Steve Will Do It]

Cracking on to Sean Hannity.

[Sean Hannity]

Boom. Cheers. Salute. I like it over ice.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I mean, that is so awesome.

[Kyle Forgeard]

It's fun. Yeah. We started it like three years ago.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So we were always doing, like drinking in our videos and stuff. So I always knew there was going to be an opportunity to make money in the alcohol space. And like, we tried to get a deal with Corona because that's what we were kind of like repping at the time.

[Sean Hannity]

Right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But they just never wanted to do a deal because of the liability. Now that I'm in the alcohol industry, I kind of understand why they couldn't work with us.

[Sean Hannity]

Sure.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But we just said, fuck it, let's just start it ourselves and we'll never look back.

[Sean Hannity]

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. Cause I'm pretty aware of your career right now. You have one of the biggest podcasts in the country. And I just love success.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Well, that's your story too. That's what I. I know you talk a lot of politics too, but I really wanted to get your come up in your story because it's been. You've been on the air 28 years.

[Sean Hannity]

No longer. This is my 29th year of Fox. 29th but okay, what year were you born?

[Kyle Forgeard]

94.

[Sean Hannity]

94. I started in radio in 1987. Holy. Holy shit.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So I wasn't even.

[Sean Hannity]

You know what that means? That means I'm really old. Yeah, compared to you. Look good though. I stay. I'm really into health, wellness, fitness, nutrition. Now I'm like a lunatic.

[Kyle Forgeard]

All right, guys, we have an epic pod today.

[Steve Will Do It]

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[Kyle Forgeard]

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[Kyle Forgeard]

Let's get into the pod. What's your like day to day? Like you were telling me off air a little bit, but what's like a typical day in Sean?

[Sean Hannity]

Typical day, I wait, I get up, I do, I do a workout. Mixed martial arts is a 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, we work with all of it. Yeah, I'm not in an art where I'm trying to get a black belt. I, I kind of gave up on the belt system. Yeah, I do it for fitness number one, to stay in good shape and stay strong. I also lift, but I don't lift heavyweight. I'm, I'm in the best shape of my life age.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, you're looking because I've lookin toned.

[Sean Hannity]

Up well for an old guy. Yeah, I'm doing okay, you know, and it gives you energy and gives me focus, and I just dedicate that hour and a half, which is really hard for me to do with my busy schedule. And I. In the end, I'm glad. Always glad I did it, but it's hard to do.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And first thing in the morning, it just gets you.

[Sean Hannity]

First thing in the morning gets.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I feel sluggish if I don't work out, like, first thing in the morning, too. Like, you just. You don't feel good. You know what I mean? And it becomes like an addiction.

[Sean Hannity]

Definitely a dopamine factor to it. No doubt about it.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I interviewed Gary Brucker, who's sitting in your chair. Right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's a good friend of mine, too.

[Sean Hannity]

Do you like Brucker? I like him, too. Jillian Michaels, she is all over me to get rid of my nicotine habits, so that has to go away.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What do you do? Smoke or.

[Sean Hannity]

I do. I given that up, and now I'm moving to, like, Zinn and. And all these other.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I just got. I got Zen, too. What do you got?

[Sean Hannity]

Sin, too. Here we go. There you go. Cheers.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I'm gonna throw one of these in.

[Sean Hannity]

They're pretty awesome. Yeah, I. I have a hundred days. Or Jillian Michaels, you ever watch her on the Biggest Loser? She's going to kick my ass if I don't give up completely. The vape, which I still, you know.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Take a. I feel like Zen's are a good alternative, though.

[Sean Hannity]

It's a great alternative, you know, and there are other. I'm trying other brands out there and, you know, seeing which one I like the most so far. Wintergreen. Zen.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So you wake up in the morning, workout, and then. And then what?

[Sean Hannity]

So the rest of my day is just dialed into studying. And I read and read and read and read and read. 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. If I. 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. I would definitely do it that way. When I started, there were only like 200 talk radio stations in the country and. 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 a audio podcast. Then we also put it distributed everywhere after.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, it's.

[Sean Hannity]

It's everywhere.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And what, 4 million viewers a night right around on TV.

[Sean Hannity]

Yes. On. 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. It's pretty much everywhere. Wow. So I don't ever think about the reach. 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 legacy media that I argue died on November 5th. And they got their asses kicked and they threw everything that they had at your friend Donald Trump. Everything.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I think they died before, but that was just the official funeral.

[Sean Hannity]

All right, I'll take that.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I think they were dead.

[Sean Hannity]

I like that.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But that was the funeral.

[Sean Hannity]

But they tried everything they could for all those years to destroy this man. And what's amazing about Donald Trump, not that you're asking, is that he was facing all of these legal challenges. He put all of his chips in the. On boom, Right in the middle of the table. And it was either the White House or I. I am certain they would have put him in jail.

[Kyle Forgeard]

100%.

[Sean Hannity]

100%. They wanted him in jail.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

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. And look what he's doing. 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. This is it.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I agree.

[Sean Hannity]

And had we lost, I think we would have lost the country.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Well, I think we would have lost the world, too.

[Sean Hannity]

You're right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What Trump's doing is just affecting the whole world now, too, which is crazy, by the way.

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I can even see it, too, just based off, like, our own business and stuff, too. Like, even just social media apps like YouTube, right? I mean, two years ago, we did. We were the first podcast that Trump ever did in 2022. Dana White set that up for us. And when we did it, I don't know if you know the story, but we uploaded it, it got 12 million views, and they deleted it.

[Sean Hannity]

What?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Who deleted YouTube? So on the podcast, Trump says, you were canceled. We were. We were, yeah. They deleted the podcast. And this is only two years ago. And now recently. So after the inauguration, I went to an actual YouTube event. Like, the CEO of YouTube was there. He's actually like a great guy, the CEO of Google. And it was inauguration event. And in the corner, there's a TV and there's a montage of all the content, including ours, that everyone did with Trump leading up to the election. So I'm like, wait a second. Two years ago you guys deleted our shit, and now you guys are here throwing a Trump party. So it's just like, I mean, I think it. But you can't complain because I think it was good for free speech. And, you know, you see what Meta's doing now, I guess, too, they brought Dana White on.

[Sean Hannity]

They brought Dana White, which I think was great.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

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 throwing them a prop here, and people will criticize me for this, but long before the election, he did tell 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 information that they didn't want out there. I mean, the whole country was lied to on Covid on a massive level.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So can you even blame him in a sense? Like, if you're getting pressured by the government too? I mean, I'd be a little bit scared, you know, but I guess you got to have balls in a position like that to stand up to do, and you don't.

[Sean Hannity]

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. 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 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, 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 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Wow.

[Sean Hannity]

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 him an answer. They didn't tell him the truth. To me, that's corruption, and hopefully they clean that up.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's crazy. When was the first time you ever met Trump? 30 years ago. You said, gosh, you know, you guys meet.

[Sean Hannity]

No, I'll tell you, when I. When I first interviewed him, I was. I had just got hired by Fox when it went on the air in 1996.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Okay.

[Sean Hannity]

I had been doing. I was a local radio guy in Atlanta, which was a really cool time.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You got fired, right?

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So you got fired for performance, not because of views?

[Sean Hannity]

Both.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Both.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, 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. 1990-92. I got a chance to audition in Atlanta in 92, got hired, which worked out to be a really cool time in my life because then Newt Gingrich 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 and before they went on the air. And then I started doing late night on New York talk radio because I wanted to keep doing radio because I love radio. As you can tell, I don't. Shut up.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And what were you talking about at that time? Was it like politics at the time, too?

[Sean Hannity]

I loved politics. I loved issues. 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 a 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. Anyway, so Trump would call in to answer your question. I get him to call in, he's like, who the hell is this guy? But I said, can you just call in for like a half hour? And then he'd stay on the phone for an hour and a half. And we began a relationship, and I began to realize this guy's really smart, way smarter than people are understanding. And then fast forward to, you know, when he's thinking about running for president. We had a conversation privately about it, and I said, I'll never support. 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 and, you know, 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, you know, 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. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Wow.

[Sean Hannity]

And meanwhile, I did my own vetting of Trump, and it was because of those conversations, I really believed in him.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So you supported him in 2016? Right away, right off the get go.

[Sean Hannity]

Pretty Much right out of the. I was interested in Ted Cruz a little because I like 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. And it was the time for different.

[Kyle Forgeard]

2016 Trump and those Republican debates. Oh, that was like, prime Trump. I'll go back and watch some of those clips. Him versus, like, Jeb Bush, 16 and 17. That's like prime.

[Sean Hannity]

He was brutal. Yeah, 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 going to look weak. I'm getting up.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

That day was a tough day. When I saw the blood on his face, I thought they killed.

[Kyle Forgeard]

How did you hear about it?

[Sean Hannity]

At first, I didn't hear. I was watching it live. 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 said, okay, you know, and they only got his ear. One millimeter, and this guy's dead.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Looking back, what do you make of that situation? Like, what do you think it was just negligence?

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, my gosh. We need to get to the bottom of it, because the level of lying. Yeah, I could take a lot of things from my kids. I understand. You know, kids, they're about your age, they're going to 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. You know, don't. And I always would say. I always would say to my kids when they were young, stop insulting my intelligence. Right? Because they're never any good at it. You know, it's like little kid grabs a cookie out of the cookie jar and, you know, 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. Stop lying to me. Yeah, so they claimed it was a. That 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 ice skate on that roof.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

All right. That's not a sloped roof. I fell. 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. It was. 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. I threw my hammer, tried to slam it into the. Into the dormer, 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. Yeah, I busted up all my teeth. You know they're pretty now, right? Because now they're perfect.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Thank God. Thank God I fell off a roof.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

It helps me with tv.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So they're blaming the slope as to.

[Sean Hannity]

Why blaming the slope. So they just lied through their friggin teeth. And I don't like being lied to. And hopefully Sean Curran, who's the new Secret Service director, will get to the bottom of it. What I also don't like is the Trump International incident, because I. 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 is heavily treed, 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. 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. The would be assassin. It was. And at a deeper pitch. And you're telling me that's a slope roof? And then she said she was genius. 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. I don't give a shit if it's Obama, Biden, Trump, whoever's in office. You're elected. You. 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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[Kyle Forgeard]

Let's get back into the podcast. Why do you think you and Trump have been so close all these years? 30 years.

[Sean Hannity]

You know, you're asking me a question that I've never revealed. I don't know if I should, because 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 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 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, 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, so we probably go a little deeper than he is. Wickedly funny.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Wickedly. I've had some off camera moments with him. He's just hilarious.

[Sean Hannity]

Hilarious.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I mean there are times we'll talk and we're just laughing the whole time.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's just one of the guys just cut up.

[Sean Hannity]

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 and I got the lowdown on that meeting and apparently Bill Maher was really nervous, which is interesting. 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? Never going to happen. And that's Trump. That's what makes him special.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What do you think? Did they agree on anything or did they get to like.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, they did agree on stuff Kid Rock said. They agreed on wokeism. They agreed on securing the border. How could you not agree on securing the border?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Securing the border and also how there's still some Democrats that are still pro like men and women sports like the governor of Maine. I feel like that really lost in the election too.

[Sean Hannity]

The Senate just vote 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's not even liberal. That's just. That's woke.

[Sean Hannity]

That's insane.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Crazy. I feel like that was the main reason why they lost too. Because a lot of people saw that and they're like, I don't agree with this.

[Sean Hannity]

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, border sovereignty over the safety of Americans. We've had dozens of Americans killed. It's not just Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungarry Lake and Riley. 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. 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. The average American makes 66 grand a year. What the hell are they thinking if they're gonna spend our money that way? They think that's a constitutional cr.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Scary. Yeah. I wonder what it is. I even saw a few weeks back when all the mayors came of sanctuary cities and they got just absolutely grilled. And you're just listening to them talk and it's like I always try to figure out what it is. Like, is there some hidden agenda they have? Are they being like paid or are they just. Are they just stupid?

[Sean Hannity]

Happy dad is a good beer. You like good seltzer? I do like it.

[Nick Kolcheff]

I love it.

[Sean Hannity]

Congratulations. Thank you.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Thank you.

[Sean Hannity]

It's really good.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But I always wonder that, like, are they just stupid or is there some hidden agenda?

[Sean Hannity]

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. 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. You have the mothers of Lake and Riley and Jocelyn Nungare, 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. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Do you see any Democrats, like, flipping? I saw even, like your friend Stephen A. He's been a little more outspoken recently.

[Sean Hannity]

He was. He and I had gotten to 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. He goes, I need to study up on this. It's pretty funny.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's saying he wants to run for president, right?

[Sean Hannity]

He's. No, he doesn't want. The 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. Yeah, he has the White House in the background. You know, I'm like, really? Stephen? I really. Yeah, he's just playing it up. He's having fun.

[Kyle Forgeard]

If you had to predict, what do you think the Democrats do in four years? Like, who's going to be the face of the party?

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

A lot can change, though, in three years, right?

[Sean Hannity]

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, but every single agenda item is rough. How do you deport 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 US 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, 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 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. The only thing they know is Nazi, fascist, you know, racist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. I'm so sick of hearing the name calling.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And it doesn't stick anymore, too. It's just.

[Sean Hannity]

If it would have stuck, they would have won the election. Yeah, right. Jasmine Crockett, AOC And Bernie Sanders, the leaders of the party.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Who's the most sane Democrat, in your opinion?

[Sean Hannity]

I don't know. That's a bit of a.

[Kyle Forgeard]

If you had to choose one, probably.

[Sean Hannity]

Right now the most reasonable sounding is John Fetterman.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Okay. I don't know too much about him.

[Sean Hannity]

Well, Fetterman's a senator from Pennsylvania, 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 messages off. But at the end of the day, who are the louder voices? Chuck Schumer's never gonna deviate. He wants power too much. He's not gonna go against the radical base of that party in.

[Kyle Forgeard]

When you interview Trump, since you guys have such a close friendship, how do you turn off that friendship button and kind of keep your, like, integrity and keep him in check, quote, unquote?

[Sean Hannity]

There's nothing I won't ask him because.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That'S tough as a friend.

[Sean Hannity]

Not really. Not with him. 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 them themselves.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

And so I just. Whatever the question is, whatever the issue of the day is, you know, I'm doing my job at that point. He's doing his job because you can't.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Agree with him on maybe every single thing he does. Just, like, most of it. Most of it. But if there's something you don't agree with him on, like, you always press him. I notice, too.

[Sean Hannity]

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 is. He has told me, really, 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. 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 in all of it.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What do you think about his whole policy with, like, Canada and like, Greenland? What do you. What do you think about that? I saw J.D. vance just recently went there, too, right?

[Sean Hannity]

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, the more you know Trump, he's in a perpetual state of negotiation. He doesn't stop negotiating. If I want an hour interview, I asked for an hour 15. I start there. Or let's say I really need for the full hour, 43 minutes to get an hour in. And I'll say, you got to give me the full hour. I'll give you. I'll give you 20. 15 minutes will get me over the top. I'll give you 30. All right, so I'll end it like 35, knowing that I'll keep him in the chair till 43 and get.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You kind of have his number on negotiations now with interviews.

[Sean Hannity]

No, it's not that. But it's. But I just know he's going to negotiate, so. Yeah, and that's what he's doing with all these countries with tariffs. The fact that the media, after all this time, doesn't understand him, to me, kind of speaks volumes about how stupid they are, because they can't get beyond their visceral hatred of him or Trump. Derangement syndrome. It's like if I took in your seltzer. If I took Alka Seltzer and I dropped it in, it's going to bubble and fizz. Trump says one word, they bubble and fizz. You know, let off energy, they scream, I hate Trump is dangerous threat to democracy. And meanwhile, they sit by idly, silent, when Elon Musk is under fire for no reason at all, and they're firing bullets into his dealerships and the Molotov cocktails at his vehicles and putting ablaze his charging stations. For what reason? What did Elon Musk do that engendered this hate or brought upon all this hatred? Nothing. He Saved astronauts that were lost in space and abandoned by Biden. This is the guy that, after Hurricane Helene, sent free Starlink connections when they had no communications with the outside world to help them out for free. Help people in Tennessee, also help people in California after the wildfires. This is a guy that's working with Neuralink to hopefully help the blind with the combination of AI be able to see again and people with spinal cord injuries to be able to walk again. And now because of his association with Trump and the fact that he's identified hundreds of billions in waste, fraud, abuse and corruption, they don't like him for that reason. I think, frankly, he's a hero for discovering that.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Just even what he did with X, I mean, I feel like free speech is really back, even just as a creator. I've noticed the difference. And Elon really started that wave. Like, he didn't have to buy X, but I think what he did with X too put a lot of pressure on all the other social media platforms. Right. So, I mean, that was huge.

[Sean Hannity]

You're not being canceled on YouTube anymore.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Exactly.

[Steve Will Do It]

No.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I've even just seen the difference in the last, you know, little while.

[Sean Hannity]

Meta. That's changed a lot. We'll see what happens with TikTok. I'm not actually. Funny story. My staff finally took my accounts away from me.

[Kyle Forgeard]

From you running them, you mean?

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, yeah, yeah, they took. Because it became a full time job.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I'd be up at three in the morning fighting Jimmy Kimmel and having these huge Twitter fights. You'd see these notices go out. Twitter fight, Twitter fight. You know, and people would. And I'd be, you know, going back and forth with Jimmy Kimmel, who's a jackass.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He hates us too.

[Sean Hannity]

I hate him. He's an idiot. When he made the comments about Elon Musk, I went after him. I'm like, really? Bob Iger, you're the CEO of Woke dei Disney. Do you approve that message? Joking about domestic terrorism, Just like when he went after Melania Trump. The woman speaks six languages, English is her sixth language. She's reading to children and he starts making fun of her accent. I mean, you're, you're just an asshole to do that. And I went hard at him and I made him apologize to me before I'd ever give up. That's how deep in the pain I went against him. And I just kept hashtagging Disney, Bob Iger. But I'm like, bob Iger, do you approve this message? Does Mickey Mouse approve this message?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Definitely not.

[Sean Hannity]

Well, my radio show was first syndicated by ABC Disney, so I know they can't stand controversy. Anyway, all of those late night shows are on cancellation watch now. Their ratings are so bad.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

You'll get a thousand times more viewers to this podcast than they'll ever get viewers on any given night. And it's pretty. Because they got so political.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I always think, too, because I'm from Canada, too. So since I supported Trump, I'm getting a little bit of flack now.

[Sean Hannity]

Like, where in Canada?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Just outside Toronto. Mississauga.

[Sean Hannity]

Did you play hockey?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, of course. My whole life.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, me too. What position?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Center.

[Sean Hannity]

Center? Yeah. All right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You still watch or do you watch hockey or. No.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, I have seasons tickets to the Panthers.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Okay. Oh, that's your team? Yeah, I'm Leafs. So Panthers have been fucking us a.

[Sean Hannity]

Little bit recently, but they do have Tkachuk waiting.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's a fucking beauty. Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Okay. And can you imagine if they get his brother? How cool would that be?

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And then he's got Marshawn.

[Sean Hannity]

Okay. But they've got three guys down now. They have one guy suspended. I think they'll be ready for the playoffs. How great was the series, the finals, last year?

[Kyle Forgeard]

They're a fun team to watch. Tachuk's one of my favorites.

[Sean Hannity]

Okay. They went up. Okay. He's one of my favorites, too. They go up three zero. It's three, three and the tightest Game seven you've ever seen, right?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

How great was that series? Good.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And that stadium, too. I noticed when I go watch Leafs games, the Panthers fans are so positive, too. Like Leafs, if they get scored on, the whole building goes quiet. When I went to a Panthers game, when Bobrovsky gets scored on, they chant his name after he gets scored on. So, like, that's how positive of fan base.

[Sean Hannity]

He's a great goalie.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Great goalie.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's a wall.

[Sean Hannity]

It was just an exciting year for them last year.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I just haven't been able to get to many games because of my work schedule.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Did you watch the Four Nations?

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Canada needed a W there. We needed some sort of W at least because things are not well there right now.

[Sean Hannity]

It's not a bad thing you're losing little Justin, Right?

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

So, however, I don't like. I think Canada and the US should be best friends. However, Canada has been screwing the US with tariffs. They haven't paid their fair share when it comes to NATO and they're doing nothing to control the border. In 2024, there were more illegal immigrants coming through our northern border, through Canada than the previous 17 years combined. I'm like, you guys gotta be good neighbors, good partners. You shouldn't be putting tariffs on our products. You know, there are certain agricultural, poultry products, dairy products that you can only sell X amount at a tariff of around 5 to 15%. And then after America sells X amount of that product, then the tariff goes up to 245%. So they kind of started the tariff war. And do I think after the election that will take place later in the month that we'll eventually find peace with Canada? I do.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I hope the. What do you think?

[Sean Hannity]

I don't like when we boo each other's national anthem.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, it's not good, right?

[Sean Hannity]

Not cool.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

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[Kyle Forgeard]

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[Steve Will Do It]

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[Kyle Forgeard]

What do you think of the Pierre Polever running the conservative? Do you know much about him?

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, I mean, he was winning by a lot. I. I hope he pulls it off. I think it would for the people of Canada. How do I describe this? I mean, Canada's become a socialist hell hole.

[Kyle Forgeard]

It's so different than when I grew up there. Yeah, Canada needs, like a big comeback, too.

[Sean Hannity]

So the thing is, if Canada wants to pick a fight with the U.S.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Well, yeah, I don't think we're picking a fight. Not military. Not military. Well, and we'll stick to hockey, but.

[Sean Hannity]

In a sense, they're resisting lifting their tariffs. Right. They're resisting paying their fair share to NATO. They're resisting securing their borders. I'm like, just do those three things and you'll have a good relationship with President Trump. It really is that simple.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I think, too, as a Canadian, I think that the fact that Trump can even say, like, he can even say, and it makes somewhat sense, like joining the US that just shows what a state Canada's in. Like, that's not even something he should be able to say.

[Sean Hannity]

You asked Me, if I disagree with President Trump, I don't want Canada as a 51st state. It's too liberal. That means too liberal United States senators? No, thank you.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You think California's bad?

[Sean Hannity]

No, exactly.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But there's a lot of conservative Canadians that are just fucking fed up, too, but a ton.

[Sean Hannity]

But they're not the majority. Right. So that to me would be two, you know, senators from the. From the 51st state that are going to be liberal. I don't need that fight. We have a hard enough time maintaining control as it is. We got 53 US senators now, but I think we should be best friends. You mentioned earlier, Greenland. I think once they vote for independence, mark my words, Trump is going to come in with a deal. I don't think I made him an offer they can't refuse. That's what I think happens.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And maybe that won't result in them officially joining, but maybe it'll be something beneficial.

[Sean Hannity]

It'll be a partnership.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

With Panama, I think the same thing. We built that canal. We didn't build it for China. He's absolutely right. And we've got to reestablish our control and our presence there. There'll be a deal made in Panama.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Like you said, too. Everything he does is a negotiation. So I think when he comes out in an interview and his initial position is all the way over here, Canada, you're joining us.

[Sean Hannity]

Right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

The deal is probably going to fall somewhere over here, you know, but if you're starting all the way out there, you're probably going to get a pretty good result with the deal.

[Sean Hannity]

Everybody's got to remember, too, this guy takes up more space in people's brains than any other one human being that's ever been created. He lives in these people's minds and he knows it. He knows what he's doing, and that's a part of him that people don't understand.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What do you think about when he says he's going to run for a third term?

[Sean Hannity]

I love it. Because they bubble and fizz. Right. Like Alka Seltzer.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And Happy Dad.

[Sean Hannity]

And Happy Dad. Listen, it would be an interesting challenge. Ultimately, it's a constitutional issue, but read the next sentence. I'm not thinking about it. It's way too early in my administration. But again, he's taking up space in people's minds, which I find funny.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Is that constitutionally something that could actually be possible?

[Sean Hannity]

Well, not according to the actual wording of it. Two terms. But would that be a possibility? Maybe in some other respect. Yeah. But I'm telling you, he takes up people, keep space in people's heads. He's great at it.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Do you think that he's going to be able to end the Ukraine, Russia war?

[Sean Hannity]

Cautiously optimistic. I think he's made progress. I love that he kind of. He went hard at Zelinsky, now he's going hard at Putin. You know, Putin has kind of used this opportunity to push forward. Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Didn't they just mobilize like 160,000 troops?

[Sean Hannity]

He just did. 160,000 is the exact number. What I don't like is I don't want to see Putin have an advantage and buy time and delay it. I think the only way this is going to end is. Or if it's going to end, it will end this way is Ukraine will not be a part of NATO, however, with their mineral deal with the US that will ensure a US Presence in the region for decades to come. I think it may allow other European nations to put troops inside of Ukraine again, creating a barrier, a defense, if you will. I think they probably they not probably they will have to give up some land, some of the territorial claims of Putin. You know, everybody wants Trump and Steve Woodkoff, who I like a lot to go out there and say, Vladimir Putin's murdering thug dictator. I happen to be of the thought he is a murdering thug dictator. If he had territorial claims on. On certain territories in Ukraine, it was a much better way than, than 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. 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. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Time to end it, right?

[Sean Hannity]

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 US Presence, but. And a financial incentive for the US 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What does that do?

[Sean Hannity]

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. 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Another one that scares me is the Iran situation doesn't scare me. No.

[Sean Hannity]

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, 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 to negotiate. Every indication yesterday was they're giving us the middle finger and they've made it.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Pretty clear what their, their intentions are. Right.

[Sean Hannity]

When they chant death to Israel, death to America, I think that's pretty clear.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

You know, we see what they've done in the Middle East. They 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. When people, you know, take the side of Hamas, it drives me up a wall because they lost. On October 7th, they lost the equivalent of 40,000Americans 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's not going to win against the US in any kind of battle or war. And you need us to defend you in Canada just as point. So they lost 40,000 people. And 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. 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, 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. 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 you know, 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. 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, 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 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I think Trump. I'm glad that Trump's.

[Sean Hannity]

But I'm not a warmonger. 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 year, every single country in the Middle east would celebrate Donald Trump or Israel or both taking out Iran's nuclear sites and refineries.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, it's an interesting time right now.

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Since you've been in the game so long, like, you've been in it longer than pretty much anyone, Right. What's been like your biggest challenge, like, in the media space? Like, has there ever been times where like, you've been kind of censored or.

[Sean Hannity]

Like, oh, I've had boycotts, all that sort of thing. I don't even think about it anymore. Coolest moment ever, though, for me is I don't remember what the controversy was, but there was some controversy. Something I said. And Keurig 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, 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. Busted. In pieces. Then the videos start going crazy. People shooting him, people with baseball bats, people with golf clubs destroying their Keurig machines.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's hilarious.

[Sean Hannity]

So Keh backs down. They come back on the show and. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Really?

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, it was pretty cool. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Not necessarily that, but like the net network or like, I'm sure it's a lot.

[Sean Hannity]

That work's been great to me. They really have. I mean, 29 years, that's a long ass time.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's crazy.

[Sean Hannity]

It's crazy. I'm like the lone survivor. I feel blessed to do it. I have a great relationship with them. They let me do my thing and I just. They know I'm going to work hard. They know I fact check. They know I do all the things necessary, you know, to. To put on a show that doesn't put the network at risk. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

How do you think Fox differs from other networks, do you think? Are those other networks, are they kind of more pressured on what they can and can't say, like an MSNBC or.

[Sean Hannity]

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 what I call, that's my nickname for him. Liberal Joe. Yeah. Or Nicole Wallace. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Really?

[Sean Hannity]

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, 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 does Social Security and Medicare doing? They're headed towards insolvency. 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? So when people put their faith in government, I question, why would you want the Green New Deal, cradle to grave, womb 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 for. Swore I'd never write another book. I hate writing books. Too hard.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What was that process like?

[Sean Hannity]

Hard. It's.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You like no help. Do you just write it all yourself?

[Sean Hannity]

I actually dictate part of it and then I'll have somebody put that part together and then I do the final thing myself. Yeah, but it's. But. And I have. And I'll put in the column. Research this part. Research. I Needed to research, research, research, which is how I do my show every day.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I have a whole research team, and I like to get everything right. But I have a whole chapter. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What was one of the most iconic interviews, by the way?

[Sean Hannity]

You know what I love? When you ask a question, you smile. Because I've seen your pranks. Pranks?

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, over the years.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

You've got a wicked sense of humor. There's always, like, this little devilish grin behind you, knowing your history.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Which is very cool.

[Kyle Forgeard]

What pranks have you seen?

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, my God.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You see any of the Trump ones we did leading up?

[Sean Hannity]

I saw a couple of those. I saw. When you. I saw. When you see that there's liberals. There was one that.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I saw the signs. We'll put Trump signs on those lines.

[Sean Hannity]

Or.

[Kyle Forgeard]

No, the better one is putting liberals on Trump supporters signs now.

[Sean Hannity]

No. Oh, that's funny.

[Kyle Forgeard]

We did a few of those leading up to the election.

[Sean Hannity]

It's funny. I'm doing that. That's good stuff.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Did you see the one we did with the illegals?

[Sean Hannity]

Which one was that?

[Kyle Forgeard]

So we went to Beverly Hills, like, the most rich, liberal neighborhood, and then we knocked on the door and said, hey, would you want to sign this petition to, like, support illegals, immigration, keep the border open? And of course they say yes. And then we had, like, 20 Mexican actors come off a bus and, like, try to walk into their house, and we're like, okay, here you go. And then they freaked out.

[Sean Hannity]

That stuff.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Those ones are so fun.

[Sean Hannity]

You got to share them with me. And we'll put them on Hannity. I will if you want.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Let's do it.

[Sean Hannity]

Let's do that.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I was gonna say, what was your. What's. What's one of your most, like, iconic moments all these years?

[Sean Hannity]

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 Brucker. I just love interesting people. Next time, I'm going to interview you.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Sean Hannity]

We'll bring in your whole crew. Yeah, you guys are rowdy bunch.

[Kyle Forgeard]

We'll Be a little more happy dads.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, we'll be a lot more happy dads. It's earlier.

[Kyle Forgeard]

We won't do it at 10:00am yeah. On a Wednesday.

[Sean Hannity]

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. 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. And when I got the first opportunity to be on the air on radio and remember, talk radio when I started was 200, 250 talk news, talk stations in the country. Now it's the number one format over, I think over 5,000 stations. We're on the most of anybody. 750. Then you have Sirius XM. Then you podcast it. It goes out on the Internet, station websites, hannity.com. i mean, there's so many different venues to listen to it.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So many now.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

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 start and 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. 3. And then, like getting nervous. 2. All right, welcome back. That's it. And I just like the feeling.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

And I like. Because I. My passion is politics. I also love sports more than people know. Stephen A. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You guys are good together, though, because you're kind of friends and it's. You guys always have a good conversation.

[Sean Hannity]

We do.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

He's a cool guy.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

But I love all of it. Does that sound. It's so cheap. It's a kind of.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Crappy answer. Right.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Did you ever think you'd be at this point, like, back then when you got fired from that, did you always, like, know you'd be.

[Sean Hannity]

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 not Wasn't a fear. That belief drove me and I just worked harder. I'll give you, 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. It was a big deal, big story, big change. I went into audition two days, I get hired. I got moved 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Otherwise he's going to come in.

[Sean Hannity]

Well, first he made a mistake. He used to be on nine to noon, which was my slot. Then he moved 12 to three 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 Cube. So he went up against Rush, he got his ass kicked. Then he swore, I'm better, I'm a morning person. Sure enough, I'm going on vacation one day, my first vacation, like eight months after starting. And I'm listening to him 12 to three, I just finished my show, I'm driving to the airport, Hartsfield Airport, and he's like, hannity, I know you're listening.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I'm like, he called you out on.

[Sean Hannity]

The air, 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. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Wow.

[Sean Hannity]

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 be to have any juice to fight him. I'm like, no, I Want to come back? 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 him. And that had never happened before. There were three books in a row. Now, you think of all the stations in Atlanta, these are two AM stations at the time. And between the two shows, nine to noon, we both had, for nine months straight, 12 and a half shares with men 25, 54. Okay? That's one quarter of the entire Atlanta metro, basically the state of Georgia, listening to either him or me. It was crazy.

[Kyle Forgeard]

So you're battling over just such a small territory at the time.

[Sean Hannity]

But then I was way more into, like, politics. He was kind of a little later in his career, like I was at every event. I was shaking hands. I was handing out out hanitized buttons and, you know, doing Rush rooms where people would get together, eat pizza, listen to Rush at the same time. That's when I. I really became very close friends with Newt. He's like my older brother, and I was the MC the night he becomes speaker, that kind of catapulted me up a little bit. And he'll. 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. Yeah, but at the time, nobody thought, like, Fox News. You mean like Fox 5 Atlanta in. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's interesting. Yeah, I can kind of relate to that, too. I feel like sometimes when you have someone that you're competing with, it can really drive you. Drive you. Even if you're friends with them or not friends with them. Just having someone that can subconsciously light a fire in your ass.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, he lit me. He lit me up.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

So one day I'm driving into work and I tuned into his station. It is. I'm on the air at 9. 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. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Damn, you guys are really flexing on each other.

[Sean Hannity]

We're fighting, man. This is, this is old school radio war. One day he announces, oh, I have a rare guest today. Bob Shapiro, who represented O.J. simpson, is going to be in studio at 10 o'clock. And I'm like, I go to my. Why didn't we get him? He goes, well, I just heard him on. He's going to be on 99X, which was an alternative station. 1 April Fool's, by the way, because. 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 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 9:00? Yes. So we're gonna beat him by an hour.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Wow.

[Sean Hannity]

Okay. The hour's coming to a close. His station is literally down the block. It's like a two minute ride. 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

You're evil.

[Sean Hannity]

I keep him in the studio till 10:45.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Oh my God.

[Sean Hannity]

You know, gets to the other station, Bortz 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Is he still in the space at all?

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's good. Is there anyone not that you.

[Sean Hannity]

By the way, he made me better. Better? Yeah, he was so good. 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I'll find that too. I'll find myself Slacking off. And maybe I'll see another person or another group and you see what they're doing and you're like, yo, these guys are killing it. They're here, they're there, they're doing this.

[Sean Hannity]

How long?

[Kyle Forgeard]

They're not stopping.

[Sean Hannity]

And then 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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I mean, this is great. This is.

[Sean Hannity]

No, I'm. I don't think I'm worth a three hour. But you're, you're, you're gonna, you just keep working like this. I mean, obviously Rogan's at the top.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Oh, of course.

[Nick Kolcheff]

But you go, yeah, but you.

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I mean, he's 36 million or 40.

[Sean Hannity]

Million, whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, but you guys, like a 20 million. That, that's serious, that you have a serious audience.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah, we have a serious audience.

[Sean Hannity]

And that's awesome.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Our audience is like Die Hard. They're like a cult following.

[Sean Hannity]

I know. My son's one of them. My son, my business partner. I other business partner. They're all.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's probably like yours too though, cuz you've been in the game so long. Like, even us, we're considered like, oh, geez to like, we've been doing this for like 12 years. So for us it's never been like a.

[Sean Hannity]

You're how old and you're OG.

[Kyle Forgeard]

30.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, that's what.

[Kyle Forgeard]

In the YouTube. In the YouTube space. In the YouTube, we're considered like, yeah, we've been doing it for 12 years.

[Sean Hannity]

Like. But 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 with us.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Our thing was we never got monetized by YouTube because we were always edgy. So as we were coming up, that's why we built such a loyal fan base, is because we were very transparent and YouTube never paid us.

[Sean Hannity]

They pay you now?

[Kyle Forgeard]

No. Well, now we don't really care because we use like copyright music to like make the videos better and stuff.

[Sean Hannity]

Okay.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Like if we're doing a lifestyle video, like, we'll use a 50.

[Sean Hannity]

If they're paying everybody else, they need to pay you. I need to negotiate your deal. Yeah, I'll help you.

[Kyle Forgeard]

But no, when we were coming up, like, I'd be collabing with YouTubers and they would Be telling me like, yo, we're making 200,000amonth. And we weren't far off their views. But since we were edgy, YouTube would just demonetize us. But it forced us. It was a blessing in disguise because it forced us to get smart and, like, build businesses.

[Sean Hannity]

You got smart, you build businesses. Why don't you get that money too?

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

At this point, they have no right to not monetize you.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Now, YouTube's been very, very good to us recently, though. I think they've realized what kind of they paying you. They're paying us on the podcast channel, the other channel we have where we do, like, the funny videos. We'll just use copyright music because it's kind of like a movie. And like, we don't want to use, like instrumentals or royalty free shit. So we just take the L on that to make the videos better.

[Sean Hannity]

Well, I actually. Because music became so expensive for radio, bumper music, I just have a cover band doing one that's smart. And you know what? It works.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You need to plug us up with the COVID band.

[Sean Hannity]

I. I can hook you up, no problem.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Start doing all the music.

[Sean Hannity]

So what's your future? What are you guys planning?

[Kyle Forgeard]

I mean, just keeping up with the videos.

[Sean Hannity]

We're.

[Kyle Forgeard]

We have our other channel where we do the funny stuff. So we've been to, like, Australia recently. We went to visit this uncontacted tribe. We went to India. We went to India, did a video there. So that channel is more just like lifestyle traveling, having. We just went to Ireland. Love that. We partied with Conor McGregor for a night, so we're dropping that Monday.

[Sean Hannity]

How great is Conor McGregor?

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's awesome.

[Sean Hannity]

Is he awesome? Yeah, he's a trip.

[Kyle Forgeard]

He's running now, I guess.

[Sean Hannity]

I know he's going to run for. For president.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You got to have him on.

[Sean Hannity]

He's badass, man in his prime. I just remember he just. I would hate it when he lost, you know, but when he was on his game and he'd win, he was a beast. Oh, my gosh.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Who's your favorite fighters?

[Sean Hannity]

He's one of them.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You watch a lot. I know you like.

[Sean Hannity]

I. I don't as much because I don't have the time. Like, I. The President even invited me to go to one UFC match. I just can't get away.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You got to come, though. Have you been?

[Sean Hannity]

No, there's one actually coming up, I think this weekend. Miami. Right, That's. You're gonna come. You're gonna be in the front row?

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Dana, get Your front row seats.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah. I gotta call Dana. I'm not as close to Dana as you are, but I like Dana.

[Kyle Forgeard]

We'll call him after this.

[Sean Hannity]

I will tell you, I respect Dana a lot. Yeah, he's smart. What do you think of the slap?

[Kyle Forgeard]

I think it's cool. I think it's different. I think it's tough to compare it to the ufc.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh, it's so different.

[Kyle Forgeard]

It's so different than the ufc. I personally think watching it live is very entertaining because it's like a party in there.

[Sean Hannity]

Oh.

[Kyle Forgeard]

There's like bars all around, and everyone's just, like, laughing, having fun. I think if you compare it to the ufc, obviously you're, you know, you're not going to like it.

[Sean Hannity]

Thing is, is if you do, like, a strike and you. You can't use your palm because if you do a targeted strike, like, for example, if. If I were to, like, use a hammer punch and just, like, rake your jaw, like, and just come right down, first of all, your jaw will come off its hinge. It'll go straight to your brain. You're gonna be on your ass. It'll be that. You know, one of the things that we train with is targeted strikes. 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

I mean, just.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I love the.

[Sean Hannity]

You can't move, you have to sit there, and some trained strong guy, boom, gonna come right across.

[Kyle Forgeard]

It takes balls through power, man.

[Sean Hannity]

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 just. Just. We have gladiator sports. I love gladiators. I love fighters. I love warriors. I love people that put their everything on the line. You know, NFL players, to me, ultimate respect ooze to them, 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. You know, 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 to put it on the line. 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

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.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Where do you see your career going from now? You've been in it so long.

[Sean Hannity]

Are you telling me you don't get.

[Kyle Forgeard]

No, I'm telling me you're still at the top of your game.

[Sean Hannity]

You're pulling 4 million days are done here.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I'm saying, does the battery ever run out? You're pulling 4 million live hours at night, 30 years later.

[Sean Hannity]

You know, you're not sick of it.

[Kyle Forgeard]

You love it.

[Sean Hannity]

Not sick of it. I mean, I'm more addicted to it than ever.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's awesome.

[Sean Hannity]

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 instantaneous. No.

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's awesome.

[Sean Hannity]

I'm like, why not go, dad, you're gonna die. That's what his answer was. And I thought about it. He probably wasn't too far off. And as much as, you know, I've. I've just so immersed in it full time.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Your passion. Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

And I love every aspect of my life. I kind of. I moved to Florida, so I love it down here in Florida.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

Save a ton of money. Although New York is vicious. They try. If you're there, if I'm in New.

[Kyle Forgeard]

York a day, they come after you.

[Sean Hannity]

They want to come after you 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

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 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. If you are one of those extreme conservatives and you're pro life and pro assault weapon, which I am an 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, Leave New York now.

[Kyle Forgeard]

They want you back.

[Sean Hannity]

No, they want my money back. 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, they're all moving to Florida, man. And the free state of Florida, the place to be.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I'm glad we're both here.

[Sean Hannity]

I'm glad we're both here.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Well, I appreciate your time. I don't want to take up too much. I know you got a busy day. You fired me up, though, with these. You got a crazy work ethic. I got a day. I had a day off. I got to go do some more shit now or find someone else to compete with.

[Sean Hannity]

You know what? Just, just keep being creative.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And no, I love it too. I'm just like you. Like, I just love what we do. And we're so. I'm so grateful. We're so blessed.

[Sean Hannity]

Fine tuning everything.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Sean Hannity]

All right. You know what? Like, you can see in TV minute by minutes and like, ah, 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.

[Nick Kolcheff]

Yeah.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Well, that's our. That's our.

[Sean Hannity]

Where's my camera?

[Kyle Forgeard]

That's our baby. That's our billion dollar play.

[Sean Hannity]

This is it right here. Buy this. And because this makes me. I'm a dad. Makes me a happy dad.

[Kyle Forgeard]

And next time we hang out. Yeah. It won't be Wednesday at 10am we'll have a few more with your son, too.

[Sean Hannity]

Yeah, we can have. We'll definitely hang. It'll be fun.

[Kyle Forgeard]

I appreciate you, bro. Thank you for coming on. I know you don't do this too often. Appreciate you, Sean Hannity.

[Sean Hannity]

You bet. Thanks, man. Awesome.

[Kyle Forgeard]

Thank you.

[Sean Hannity]

Appreciate it.