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Oct. 25, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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UFC's Big Announcement - October 24th, Hour 2
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I was actually, now I want to be very, very clear about this.
I was happy at the news when I heard a partnership with Anheuser-Busch and with our friend Dana White, You know, of course, with the UFC, the world's premier mixed uh martial arts organization.
If you listen to this show, if you have listened to this show for any length of time, you know it's a passion, personal passion of mine.
And that they are now in a partnership together.
Now, I uh well, I I I looked at this at first and I said, Okay, I think we got our apology.
You know, because it was so frustrating to me.
In all my life that I've been on radio 30 some odd years, all the years I've been at Fox, I've now started my 28th year.
I've never been part of this cancel, call for firing, boycott, silence uh voice movement ever.
And when this issue came up with Anheuser Busch and Bud Light, and and I saw people's reaction to it, I understood it.
Um however, my first thought went to, and I expressed it at the time on the air many times, went to uh oh, you know, this boycott has really taken hold.
Uh-oh, those those guys that drive the trucks and and have paid a lot of money for these routes all around the country because Budweiser, uh Bud Light at the time had been the number one beer, best selling beer in America.
I said, these guys are gonna be the ones that ultimately get hurt here.
And then I said, Oh no, when you go into the breweries and the factories and and the guys that work on the loading docks, this this is gonna have a ripple effect.
And it's it's and maybe it'll be a couple of the people involved.
They never should have got involved in politics in my mind, period.
However, I just worried about the hardworking men and women for Anheuser Busch, because those are career high-paying jobs for people.
And people have mortgages to pay, they have rent to pay, they have car payments, they have kids in college, and I'm like, uh-oh, this this is not gonna work out well for them.
And I thought it was from a PR standpoint handled horribly by an Anheuser Bush.
So when I saw this, that they have now partnered with somebody that I just admire from afar.
We've talked a number of times.
We're not great friends.
I'd love to be great friends with Dana White, but I'm just admire him.
Uh he's a brilliant businessman, and I like the fact that he's t uh take no holds, you know, no holds barred, speak from the heart.
I love that about him.
And I love if you remember during COVID, he came up with a way that UFC fighters could keep fighting on an island, and I'm like, brilliant idea.
Thank God somebody's thinking out of the box.
So anyway, there's an announcement here that Dana White and the UFC, the world's premier mixed mark uh uh mixed martial arts organization, uh together with Anheuser Bush, have created a partnership.
Now, if you know you're going into business with Dana White, you'd have to be pretty dumb and ignorant if you don't know who you're going into business with.
And Dana White is is right there in the wheelhouse of who I would say prior to this controversy with Bud Light that appeals directly to the base of of the people that were purchasing Anheuser Bush products.
Now a lot of the drivers lost their jobs and a lot of the guys in the factory lost their jobs.
I know a few of these marketing dimwits lost their jobs as they should have.
But this to me might be a step that hopefully those career jobs can come back if people see this as Anheuser Busch saying making a loud statement here with this partnership.
So that's my hope.
I never wanted to see people get punished for something they were not responsible uh for and and that ended up happening.
Anyway, the great Dana White is with us now.
Sir, how are you?
I'm good.
You know, I know I know how this game is played.
I've been doing this too long and there are people that are going to come out of the box right away and say, oh Dana did this for blank.
And I'm sure you're ready for it.
You're too smart not to be ready for it.
But when I had an opportunity to speak to you yesterday, you had some great answers and and I'd like you to explain it to this audience.
Well I would assume if people say Dana did this for blank, the blank would be money.
I'm assuming that's what they would say.
I think you've got enough money for 4,000 lifetimes, just for the record.
The truth of the matter is, this was a decision that I made that was the furthest thing about money.
I felt like, as we started to look into who our next beer sponsor would be,
I'm actually very aligned with Anheuser Bush and and and I I think you nailed it pretty well already but you know these guys employ sixty five thousand Americans they are you know thousands of vets they employ they spend uh over seven hundred million dollars a year with U.S. farmers you know uh buying their crops for their product and there's many many other reasons that that that I did this but you know um we're going
into an election cycle.
By the way, I wonder if Dana White's going to be outspoken during the election cycle.
Well, just where I sit personally with my core values, and I feel like the core values of the UFC, even though we're a global sport, and we have fighters from all over the world, this is an American company.
And I love this country, And this is more about me being a aligned with uh somebody who is a sponsor of the UFC and and and somebody that I'm gonna work with every day and and uh you know the the other thing about that that I love about Anheuser Busch is the amount of money that that they spent they have a um they have a program called Folds of Honor.
Now I'm very big with military and uh law enforcement so you know that this thing is a a program for fallen heroes whether w whether they're military, police, first responders and and these guys have raised like you know forty five million dollars for scholarships for their kids and uh and wives or whatever may be of of fallen heroes and you know as you just keep going deeper and deeper into who Anheuser Bush is as a company,
I am definitely very aligned with them.
You know, you're adding something called context and texture and and oftentimes you know people have these emotional reactions at moments and and by the way I understood how so how people felt and they were calling into the show left and right and trying to urge me to join the boycott and I kept explaining I've never done that my whole career and I'm not going to start now and I said I and my fear at the time and it ended up being true is the the hardworking forgotten man
and woman that worked for Anheuser Bush they were ultimately going to pay the price here if this continued to go on for a period of time which it has and that's why I think them partnering with you is making a very loud statement to me.
Yeah whatever they went through as a business you know listen we we all you know do certain things in our business that you know uh you know fans or whatever you want to call them might not love but uh as you if you look at like for me going into this deal and I'm looking at different beer companies to to be in business with and be aligned with listen I'm gonna I'm at a point in my career where you know things aren't necessarily about money anymore.
Obviously money's important you know um Dana Dana you have you you have enough money for four thousand lifetimes.
I know it's not about money for you.
Yeah, it's just you you get to a point where it's where it's about it's about more than money.
And uh this one was a big deal to me, you know, and uh yeah, it it wasn't it wasn't a tough decision at all.
And everybody who was involved in this thing on every side, you know, our old sponsor, our new sponsor, and whoever else knows it was absolutely positively about money.
This is about this is more about core values to me than anything else.
And I want to be very clear about something, and maybe you don't want me sharing this.
I I hope I'm not divulging something that you don't want me to share, but there were no shortage of beer companies that wanted to partner with you in the UFC.
Yeah, this this wasn't this wasn't uh it's not it really wasn't about that.
It wasn't about that for me.
It was about way more than just you know who who who's gonna who's gonna pay us the most.
Um you know, we were in business with Anheuser Bush.
They were they were actually the first beer company um, you know, that that we did a big deal with, and and they put us on the map.
We had a great relationship uh then.
We have a great relationship now, and and and uh I'm excited and looking forward to this.
Uh and and and I think that we're gonna do a lot of cool things together.
Um uh around you know, based around all the things that you and I have just talked about on the phone.
So my hope out of this is what I've been saying.
My hope out of this is that people that had legitimate concerns about them bringing politics into it.
I don't want I don't even want to talk about the controversy.
But the I thought the mistake was why they why are they jumping into the political arena?
They produce great beer, they're an American beer company that Americans like and and all the other things associated with it, the causes that they support, for example, the the career jobs that are created that have been lost.
My my hope is that those jobs come back.
My hope is is that people can get past it and give 'em only what I'd say only one more chance.
You know, if if if they go down that road again, I can't stop stupid.
But I don't think they will.
I think I think partnering with you is pretty clear they're not going down that road again.
Yeah, I can't speak on behalf of what the company thinks or what they did or or how they're running their business.
I can tell you this, you know, um obviously we we've we've been in talks for for a while here, and uh we've had many, many meetings with them, and you know, their CEO.
Uh I I actually like him a lot.
Uh he's a former Marine, and uh listen, I uh all I can really speak to is is myself and the UFC.
We're we're very aligned, and uh it I I couldn't be happier going into this uh into this deal with these guys.
I look forward to the next six years.
All right, quick break, right back.
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All right, we continue with our friend Dana White, UFC, the world's premier mixed martial arts organization, and his announced partnership with Anheuser-Busch, which I think is a very loud statement by Anheuser-Busch.
All right, so everybody in the world wants to know what the hell happened with Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.
What happened?
Because you announced that you had spoken to both of them.
They were willing to jump in the octagon, and nothing came of it.
What happened?
Yeah, listen, I was talking to both of them back and forth, and uh, you know, uh Elon Musk has actually trained in in judo when he was growing up, and and Zuckerberg is obsessed with this right now.
He's been uh he's been training an MMA.
Um and you know, listen, at the end of the day, these guys are two multi-billionaires, and uh you know that's what made it so fun.
I mean, it was like I think talking about fighting is actually more fun than actually doing it.
So I I think it's probably a good idea that that that it didn't happen.
But listen, I you know, I'm I'm a fight promoter, and if these guys wanted to talk about fighting, I'm their guy.
Now, question is it dead completely, or is there a chance that this happens?
I I would say more than likely it does not happen.
No.
Okay.
So for twelve years now, I've been training in mixed martial arts.
I do it about an hour and a half a day, four or five days a week.
I am fascinated by any single person that gets into that octagon.
I am I I just have deep respect for them.
I'm like, ooh, you know, you have to show a lot of courage to get in that that octagon.
I could not agree with you more.
You know, our fighters are not only you know incredible athletes, they have to train in all the different martial arts, but in you know, cardiovascular weight training, and yes, to to go into the octagon uh and face off against somebody that's worked as long and as hard as you are and is looked at as one of the best in the world, and test yourself in front of everybody on the planet on television.
It takes a special individual to do it.
It really does.
What I like about the fact that my training in particular, there's no rules.
There's headbutting, there's eye gouging.
I mean, it is it is dirty situational street fighting, and and basically I'm I'm trained to try and win a fight in less than 30 seconds and not only win, but break blind destroy and do whatever I have to do if it's if it is a real life situation.
And and you know, we have uh, for example, my sensei keeps it that we call keep it real day, and for the entire for an entire hour and a half, he's just throwing moves on me, left, right, and sideways, and see what my reaction is, and it keeps you on your toes, it keeps you mentally strong and tough.
It's just a great discipline.
100%, and it's one of the greatest things that you could ever give your kids is uh it's to have them train in mixed martial arts when they're when they're growing up.
I mean, when guys like you and I grew up, you know, your parents put you in karate or taekwondo.
This is the new martial art that men, women, and children are taking all over the world.
Dana, I'm I'm hoping, praying for our friends that lost their jobs.
I want them to get their jobs back.
Uh I I hope people uh I believe in forgiveness.
I'm a Christian, that maybe one more chance.
And partnering with you to me sends a very, very strong message.
I wish both you and Bud Light the b and Budweiser and Heiser Busch the best in this endeavor.
Um, and I hope these guys get back to work.
I appreciate it, my friend.
Thank you.
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All right, what are you going to do?
God forbid that moment comes a perpetrator, enters your home, wants to bring harm to you and to your family.
What are you going to do?
I ask liberals this all the time.
Uh, people that don't support our second amendment, and they have no plan.
Well, I'm going to call the police.
Well, by the time the police get there, even if the response time is phenomenal, whatever was gonna happen happened.
You know, at there are certain times you're going to be able, you're going to have to have the need to defend yourself.
I hope it never happens to anybody listening to my voice, but you got to prepare for it.
You need a personal security plan.
And I have had a concealed carrier permit my entire life.
I'm a big Second Amendment supporter.
I still am.
That's never going to change.
And however, I've been so intrigued by the technology of burner uh BYRNA.
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Um, and and you have a you know, capacity.
The one of the great things is it's legal in all 50 states, doesn't require a permit or a background check.
And if somebody breaks into your house, I can hit a target 40 feet away easily.
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So now you can have an answer, and it's not just the lethal option answer.
And the idea that if you have time and you have a strategy and you're prepared and you have both lethal and non-lethal force and choices before you, it is fantastic.
I frankly think every police department around the country needs to have burner launchers.
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It stops perpetrators, attackers right in their tracks.
It doesn't have the legal complexities that come With using uh lethal force or having to take lethal force, and that's why alongside my firearms, I have several burner launchers, and I I can't wait to get my mission for delivered.
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Alabama, let's say hi to Scott next, Sean Hannity Show.
Hey Scott, how are you?
Glad you checked in.
Great, Sean, you're good, American.
Appreciate the time.
Thank you, my friend.
What's on your mind today?
Well, brother, I'm I as I look historically at both this administration and as as well as our our our our country's economies.
I got a question considering the higher risks that we're gonna have interruptions and future interruptions in supply chains across the board.
Uh, you know, the high risk that we're gonna have the need to reproduce uh some of the supplies, materials, uh systems that are defense forces or you know, DOD are you know that will need potentially to defend uh us as well as our allies.
I have to question because the current administration's focus on you know the the Green New Deal, the you know the infrastructure support that uh is that not distracting away from what we need in a wartime economy, meaning the means of self-production, the means to rapidly increase production to uh source materials to support source supplies to uh produce those and turn them up because you know the bottom line is we can sign a bill into action today.
We can put a bill and we can actually have a law published with an NDA with funding, but it takes time to turn that money into a product.
Wondering what's your thoughts on that?
I look, I I'm scared to death about the economy for most Americans.
I don't know if you saw this, but and I mentioned it last night on TV, I'll mention it here, but economically we have credit card interest rates now as high as 30 percent, 28 percent in other cases.
I in my whole life I thought 21 and a half percent, twenty-two percent, twenty-three percent was the maximum I'd ever see.
Uh you might be able to get a better deal from a loan shark for crying out loud.
Um so it's scary because then you have sixty uh nearly two-thirds of the population, over sixty percent, living paycheck to paycheck, and of that sixty percent, some people can't make ends meet every month, and then as a result, they they have to put some items, you know, bare necessities.
I'm not talking about luxuries on their credit card just to make ends meet, and and you're never gonna be able to pay off that that high interest rate loan.
It's just you you're bury you're digging such a big hole, I don't know how you get out of it.
Um, and then add to that, okay.
People, their biggest investment is their home, and if you locked in at 2.1%, 30-year fixed rate mortgage, 3.1%, even 4.1%.
Now, the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage is over 8%, and we can't afford it.
And then you mentioned, you know, we should be in independent.
And you know, we we were energy independent, but we're not anymore, thanks to Joe Biden's, you know, radical climate alarmist religious cult, you know, policies.
They're killing us.
And so I guess to really answer your question is yeah, we should be reconfiguring how we're looking at everything.
The first thing I would do, the immediate answer to me is right there, it's a resource that we have an abundance of between oil, gas, and coal.
We ought to mass produce all of it.
We ought to be at first energy independent, then move towards energy dominance and and start making a lot of extra money that we could be using to pay down our debt and pay our own bills and build up our nation's defenses in these very troubling times we live in.
But they're not they're never gonna do any of that because they're just you know the hardened radical leftist ideologues.
And they they think that they're right.
They think the biggest existential threat to quote Joe Biden isn't even nuclear wars.
He thinks it's climate change.
And he said it and he doubled down on it through his spokesperson recently.
And I'm like, how stupid can this man be?
He's pretty stupid.
Yes, and I guess my my concern is what what did we learn from COVID?
We learned that critical medical supplies, even the materials and manufactured metal supplies were not available to us, and actually we're being provided, you know, by an opponent, you know, by you know, by our potential.
Yeah, that's that makes us pretty stupid, doesn't it?
Yeah, I wouldn't have to agree, and I think here's I'll just close with this.
Uh my parents, grandparents uh went through, you know, the you know, the second world war, Korea or the Vietnam War.
I watched as you know, they this country, you know, and and even in my youth, I'm 60 today.
I even in my youth I can remember how our infrastructure, how the enterprise, you know, within industry was able to meet those challenges.
I question our ability to do that today.
So thank you for the time.
I question it too, and the only answer is to get a new government.
And the only way that to make that happen is to vote.
And one of the ways that Republicans can be more successful, we should learn more two weeks from today.
They have uh the House of Delegates, they have the Senate in Virginia up for election, and I know Governor Youncan in Virginia has been working very hard to help them have a majority.
Right now they have a five-seat majority in the House of uh Commons and a four-seat deficit in the Senate.
And uh if they're able to get a majority in both those houses, well, that means a lot.
That means that you know, his push for early voting, voting by mail, and overcoming the resistance and reluctance conservatives, Republicans have to this, that should we should learn a lesson from that.
So a lot that we gotta do here, and having good policies that people support.
Anyway, eight hundred-nine four one Sean, uh, our number to be a part of the program.
Uh let's say hi to Tom in the free state of Florida.
What's up, Tom?
How are you, my friend?
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for taking the call.
Um, before I get to my point, I was hoping to make a request to you that if possible, could you mix up the songs that you play that country song you keep playing?
Just uh it's it's like then fingernails on a chalkboard after a while.
Again, nothing against the you you know I've had to change music over the years, not not because I desired to, especially, you know, the theme song of the show music, but you know, for varying political reasons at times that I I don't need to rehash now.
We've got more important things to talk about.
But all right, we'll try and mix things up a little bit in the bumper music.
I take requests here.
Appreciate it.
Uh the reason for the call, I go back and forth to Moscow on a regular basis.
And I had the pleasure of meeting Victor Shokin with the last time I was there last month.
And my question to you is Pardon me.
Wow.
And um my question to you is uh I even said at the time, because I knew Shokan's uh nephew, I actually coach him over there, and I was like, why don't they interview Shokan?
I mean it took a long time before the few finally got interviewed, and the guy was like, No one's ever called me.
And no one's ever talked to him.
But my question is is why isn't anybody pursuing all these people that Biden's have paid off?
I mean, obviously they're throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Trump in these trials, and no one's going to interview the wife of the old Lagarth in Russia, which is she's accessible.
Some of these other people in China and Elena Batarina, yes.
And Victor Shokan.
Well, first of all, Shokan has been interviewed a number of times, and and we've played portions of that.
Uh Elena Batarina, you know what?
We'll give it a try.
I know we tried in the past, Linda.
Correct me if I'm wrong, and we've not had much luck, but I I'd love to interview uh Alina Batarina.
I'd love to talk about her dinner with Joe Biden at the Cafe Milano.
I'd love to know why she invested three and a half million dollars with Hunter Biden.
Uh I'd like to know about the 120 million invested in their real estate venture at Rosemont Seneca.
I'd like to know all those answers.
I'd like to have answers to all those questions.
Affordy information to your people.
My next time I'll be over there again next week.
Yeah, well, listen, just put in a good word for your buddy Hannity and and I'll be glad to put him on, all right.
Yeah, no, by the way, for this goes out to uh all the football fans in this country.
Watch out for Russia in 2028 and the uh flag football competition.
We're I'm gonna make them tough.
They're gonna be competitive.
You think so?
Listen, flag football is fun.
Let's be honest.
Uh every year, you know, when I'd be at the beach with my son, some of our best memories are playing beach football.
And I was the stationary quarterback, and I didn't have to run on the beach as much as everyone else, and I loved it.
Uh anyway, 800-941 Sean.
Thank you, Tom.
Appreciate the call.
All right, quick break, right back to our phones.
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Jim in Pennsylvania.
What's going on, Jim?
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
Uh to anyone watching uh Biden stumble through his teleprompter speeches knows they're not his words.
It's obvious he's not making decisions.
He's not running the country.
Uh my question to you is who is?
I think that the I think the American people have a right to know who's running the country.
Is it Obama and his cronies getting a third term?
Is it James Clapper and John Brennan and Ben Rhodes and Valerie Jarrett and John Kerry?
I mean, are these still these people still running the country?
Because it's obviously not Biden.
Look, it's obviously not Joe.
I think it's a combination of many people around him, including some of the people you would think that are even behind them.
So I I think they're all pretty much weighing in on a lot of this.
And uh, you know, I think one of the worst moments Joe had was you that interview that he gave to this gaggle of reporters on Air Force One headed back from Israel was awful.
And you know, typical Joe Biden, I mean, he just couldn't he he just couldn't get his act together.
Let me remind people.
And remember, this is after he just got rejected by Jordan and by Egypt and by the Saudis rejected a meeting with Blink and even uh the Palestinian authority and Abbas and others that they wanted nothing to do with meeting Joe Biden, but they had plenty of time for other world leaders right at the same time.
But anyway, this was Joe on Air Force One after he had spent a couple hours on the ground in Israel.
Can you talk about the impact of meeting the survivors and the first responders?
that's all for what I spent an hour and a half about 17 or 18 before.
And I don't know how to say this.
So...
Virtually every mass shooting, every circumstance were large number of people have been victimized and lost.
I spoke with our defense department.
It's highly unlikely.
A different footprint and intercept us.
Anyway, yeah.
And uh so that's why if you notice I didn't say the first, I wanted to make sure that I knew.
And look.
And I'm not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either.
It's that old thing, got a little hot of shoestring.
You know, and...
And it's not the first time Hamas has launched something that didn't function very well.
Not as fine as moment, wouldn't you agree?
I would agree.
I just question the Middle East policy.
Uh it's just seems to become Obama with the uh here's the way you gotta look at it.
Who's in charge?
The leftist radicals that run and that now dominate the Democratic Party.
They are no longer a mainstream party.
This is not the party of Joe Lieberman anymore.
Joe Lieberman, once their vice presidential candidate, you know, was just cast aside by the Democratic Party.
That was the Canary in the coal mine.
And and I like Joe Lieberman.
We got along great over the years.
Uh great guy.
Uh, we agreed on a lot of foreign policy issues.
We disagreed on a on a lot of domestic policy issues.
He was a moderate democrat.
They don't exist anymore.
It's an ext It's you know, it's a dinosaur.
It's extinct, it's finished.
So, you know, we can hope all we want, but I think it's a combination of all the crazy leftists that are that make up the Democratic Party.
I think it's that simple.
Seems to be.
Yeah.
All right, buddy.
Appreciate the call.
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