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May 6, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Sean and Jimmy Failla On Tour - May 5th, Hour 3

 Jimmy Failla, Host of Fox Across America joins us to talk about two upcoming shows this summer, June 28 and June 29. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So the president is moving full force to try to get this deal in Europe done.
And now that the minerals deal has been signed with Ukraine, well, now we have Vladimir Putin to deal with.
And the question is whether or not he's serious.
We will find out this week because I know that there's going to be a sanctions bill that is going to be brought up in the U.S. Senate.
And we will talk to the people involved in that later this week.
Then we have the issue of Iran.
And the president this weekend on Meet the Press could not have been any more clear that he wants a total dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
Now, the Iranians, they think they're clever and they think they're tough and they think they're smart.
And they responded by announcing that they have unveiled a new ballistic missile that they say can hit U.S. bases wherever they are.
All right, so they want to play the tough guy talk with Donald Trump.
That's a bad bet for them.
Anyway, I went over all these issues with Secretary of State, now NSA head as well, Marco Rubio.
And this is going to be a consequential week, as will next week be a consequential week.
We do have an announcement that we'll have for you later in the week.
Here's my interview with Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Your wheelhouse has always been foreign policy.
I've known you forever.
This is your passion.
Your heart is here.
These are consequential times.
We've got Europe, we've got Russia, Ukraine, we've got the Middle East, we have Iran, and then we have this, you know, our number one geopolitical foe, China.
Let's start in Europe.
Let's start with Putin.
You said this week may be the deciding week for him.
Clearly, the minerals deal yesterday was a big win for the president in the White House.
Where do we stand with Putin?
Well, let's remind everybody, this is not our war.
I mean, this is a war that started under Joe Biden.
For three years, it went on.
They made no effort to sort of bring it to a conclusion.
And it's a war that has no military solution.
In essence, Putin can't take all of Ukraine.
Ukraine can't push the Russians all the way back to where they were in 2014.
And so the question here is: who's the only leader in the world that can talk to both sides and hopefully bring him to a deal?
And that's President Trump.
And that's what he's tried to do.
For 100 days, he has done efforts to bring about peace, to end the killing, to end the dying, to end the destruction.
You know, that Ukraine, it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild that country.
And so the president's tried.
Look, we've gotten closer.
For the first time, you know, we haven't known this for three years.
We kind of can see what it would take for Ukraine to stop.
We can see what it would take for the Russians to stop.
The problem is those two positions are still a little far apart.
And look, we're not going to give up on it in the sense that we're not going to be ready to help if we can.
But there does come a point where the president has to decide how much more time at the highest levels of our government do you dedicate it when maybe one of the two sides or both aren't really close enough, when we've got so many, I would argue, even more important issues going on around the world.
Not that a war in Ukraine is not important, but I would say what's happening with China is more important in the long term for the future of the world.
Obviously, Iran's nuclear ambition, you know, all these other things that we have going on.
So at some point in time, it either has to be something that can happen, or we'll need to move on.
That'll be a decision the president will have to make.
Yeah, well, I will say this.
The consequences are really dire in every situation that you're referring to.
Let me go back to Putin for one more second.
I mean, the mineral deal, I don't think we can under, I don't think we can overstate how important that's going to be for Ukraine's security, the relationship they will have now moving forward with the United States.
That's a big part of the puzzle.
It's important, I think, for people to understand in the four years when Donald Trump was president, from 2017 till he left office in 2021, no problems with Vladimir Putin.
But in 2014, 11 years ago, that's when Crimea was annexed.
When Joe Biden was president and Putin was amassing troops on the border and military equipment on the border, he's asked, well, what happens if he invades?
Of course, he was going to invade.
He said, well, it depends if it's a minor incursion.
And it makes you wonder, nobody ever dared to pick up a phone and even attempt or try to stop it from happening.
That to me is unconscionable.
In your heart, do you feel like you're closed?
I mean, you're in the middle of this.
Yeah, well, I'm glad you gave everybody that lesson because that's not only did it happen in 2014 under President Obama, but during that time, the Obama administration refused to provide the Ukrainians any military weapons.
They would provide him blankets and sheets and towels and but they wouldn't give him weapons.
Donald Trump, when he was president the first time, provided them the weapons that actually helped stop the Russian tanks from taking Kyiv, even when he was no longer in the White House a few years later.
This invasion would have never happened if Donald Trump were in the White House.
But it did.
It happened after Joe Biden.
It happened just a few months after the fiasco in Afghanistan.
And I think everyone realizes Putin saw that and said, now's my time to go.
I have a weak president under Joe Biden.
And he went.
And this war dragged on for three years.
Look, you ask how close we are.
I think we know where Ukraine is, and we know where Russia is right now and where Putin is.
They're still far apart.
They're closer, but they're still far apart.
And it's going to take a real breakthrough here very soon to make this possible.
Or I think the president is going to have to make a decision about how much more time we're going to dedicate to this.
And you're right about the minerals deal.
It's good for America because we've invested a lot of money in this war.
It's also good for Ukraine because it's going to help them be able to develop their economy and rebuild when this war ends.
Well, they're going to need a lot of money to rebuild.
Okay, let's move to the Middle East and let's move to what happens in Gaza.
It can no longer remain a launching pad for their missiles, Hamas missiles, to be fired into Israel.
That we agree on.
I know the president has said, and you have said, and Steve Witkoff has said, everybody has said the Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon.
The only reason they're close is because Joe Biden put a blind eye towards the sanctions that were bankrupting Iran as far as I'm concerned.
However, they are closer than they have ever been.
To me, a deal with Iran would have to include the following.
Their enrichment would have to be stopped, their facilities shut down by Americans.
We would need anywhere, any place, anytime, American inspectors, not international inspectors.
Why in my heart of hearts do I not believe that the millers of Iran would ever agree to that?
And do you agree that those should be the conditions?
If Iran wants a peaceful civil nuclear program, meaning they want nuclear power plants, like other countries in the world have, there's a way to do it.
And that is you build the reactors and you import enriched uranium to fuel those reactors.
And that's how dozens of countries around the world do it.
The only countries in the world that enrich uranium are the ones that have nuclear weapons.
Iran is at, they're claiming they don't want a weapon, but they would be there.
What they're basically asking is to be the only non-weapon country in the world that's enriching uranium.
And the level at which they enrich it is really not relevant per se, because really, if you have the ability to enrich at 3.67%, it only takes a few weeks to get to 20% and then 60% and then the 80% and 90% that you need for a weapon.
And so that really is the path forward here.
Iran simply needs to say, we've agreed to no longer enrich.
We're going to have reactors because we want nuclear energy and we're going to import enriched uranium.
This is an opportunity for them if they take it.
And this is the best opportunity they're going to have.
President Trump is a president of peace.
He doesn't want a war.
He doesn't want conflict.
None of us do.
And there's a path forward here.
But what cannot happen is to live in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon.
The path forward has been given to them, and now it's a matter of whether or not they're going to take it.
And the president was very, very clear.
He would lead the effort to stop them from ever achieving that nuclear weapon.
And that would mean that statement was obvious in terms of that he would use military force to destroy those facilities.
We have the capacity, obviously, to do it.
But back to this question, would we need American inspectors and Americans scientists to shut it down?
And would that have to be part of the deal?
And anywhere, any place, anytime, American inspectors.
Would they have to agree to that in your mind?
I think you would have to allow Americans as part of you can send, you know, maybe there will be French inspectors, there'll be Italian inspectors, there'll be Saudis, whoever.
But I think you cannot basically say we will not allow any Americans.
You also have to make sure if you really want to prevent a nuclear program, and you're not building a nuclear weapon, then you should open all your facilities.
You know, one of the failures of the Biden, I'm sorry, of the Obama nuclear deal with Iran is that you could not inspect military sites.
Well, if you're making nuclear weapons, you would probably make them on a military site.
And by the way, it's been known and discovered that in the past, Iran has had a secret nuclear program that it did not disclose to the world.
So I think if in fact, Iran likes to say they're not interested in nuclear weapons.
They like to say all they want is peaceful nuclear energy.
Then they should not be afraid of inspections by inspectors of any kind, including Americans.
And look, there's a win here for Iran, okay?
They can actually have real economic development, have real investment in their country.
But they have to walk away from sponsoring terrorists.
They have to walk away from helping the Houthis.
They have to walk away from building long-range missiles that have no purpose to exist other than having nuclear weapons.
And they have to walk away from enrichment.
These are not unreasonable requests.
There are countries all over the world that have nuclear energy and don't enrich and don't have long-range missiles and don't sponsor terrorism.
That path is there for them.
It's the path of peace.
And frankly, I pray and hope, and we'll do everything we can to hope convince them that they should take it.
I have the same prayer that you do, and they know what the consequences will be.
And they will probably lose their nuclear sites.
They'll lose their refineries.
And if that's the case, that would probably result in poverty and regime change.
Last question.
China.
You're right.
I view them, as you do, as our top geopolitical foe.
Things seem to be heated in public.
Are there any things going on behind the scenes that give you some hope that hopefully, for example, on trade and tariffs, we can come to some type of agreement?
Because they put tariffs on basically every American product.
And it's just, they've been ripping us off forever.
They have.
They've been ripping off the world.
And look, yes, there's efforts.
You can see that, look, this is hurting the Chinese economy.
People forget that the factories are all these shoes and shirts and clothing and all that stuff that comes from China.
Those are all Chinese jobs.
When they say that the containers, that the factories are not going to be sending things to America, that means they're out of a job.
This is hurting the Chinese economy badly.
I think there's two questions.
Can we reach some sort of short-term accommodation with them?
That's what they want.
I mean, the Chinese are reaching out.
They want to meet.
They want to talk.
We've got people involved in that.
Obviously, our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, is involved in those efforts, and their talks will come up soon.
But I think there's a broader question, and that is whether we shouldn't.
This is a wake-up call that we truly need to become a country that can make more things in America and not be as dependent on China.
We were far too dependent on China.
We allowed them, through unfair trade practices, to deindustrialize us and to use not just tariffs, but non-tariff barriers, currency manipulation, you know, dumping.
We've allowed them to use all of those things.
Intellectual property theft.
Yeah, stealing intellectual property and really left us deindustrialized as a country and heavily dependent on them.
That's a very dangerous place to be.
And President Trump is taking it on and he's doing it now because it needs to be done now.
It cannot wait any longer.
Two more years in this direction and we are going to be in a lot of trouble, really dependent on China.
So I do think there's this broader question about how much we should buy from them at all moving forward.
Quick break right back.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and, frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
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Kevin, Texas, God bless Texas, Kevin.
What's going on?
Yes, sir.
Thank you so much.
Ryan, I don't see today who is cool in the Democratic Party.
They're all a bunch of Karens.
You know, Elizabeth, Kahanis, Karen, AOC, Mom Jeans, Karen, Whoopi, Karen, Anna DeVaro, know-it-all, Karen, Sonny Holstein, high-maintenance, Karen, Tim Wallace, Tampon Tim.
He's the king of all male Karens.
I mean, this is the party that they have become.
It's just, it is so radicalized and so out of touch.
And I'm actually, you know, they don't understand or want to even understand, you know, Donald Trump or what he's trying to do or conservatives or what conservatives actually believe in.
And they've got this false caricature, false narrative that they all echo each other.
And meanwhile, the American people are rejecting it more and more.
I've never seen a party that has lost not only all its confidence, it's lost its heart and its soul.
And they don't, and they've been taken over by radicals.
And then, if you're not radical, you dare not speak out against them because if you do, you're going to be ostracized.
Well, doesn't anyway, appreciate well, I'm going to move on, Kevin.
I do appreciate the call.
God bless Texas.
We have a minute.
We got Rock and Robin or Trucker from Texas.
Rock and Robin, you got a minute.
It's all yours.
Thank you for what you do every day.
Thank you, Sean.
I'm sitting up here in Illinois right now.
I go home literally one weekend a month.
And I'm going to be happy.
Yeah.
Well, I have an amazing wife now, and we'll be married 16 years come this July.
You never see her unless she goes on the road with you.
Well, we do a lot of face chatting through our phones.
We talk several times a day.
I call her every morning, or she calls me every morning before she leaves for work.
And we pray and we pray every evening.
We talk, you know, throughout the day when she's at lunch or when she gets off work.
And so we have a very good relationship.
I was a truck driver when she met me.
She was a medical assistant when I met her.
She doesn't try to change me.
I don't try to change her.
She said she doesn't care what I do for a living as long as it's legal and the bills get paid.
Look, I just hope maybe you can get the right gig and actually be with her a little bit more often.
It sounds like, you know, look, it works for you.
I'm happy for you, but it sounds a little rough.
Rock and Robin, I'm just out of time, but I'll tell you what, we're going to get your number.
We'll call you back on another day, and we'd love to talk to you at more at length.
Does that work for you?
Yes, sir.
And the way I see it, since I didn't get to be in the military, this is how I serve my country as a truck driver.
Well, you fill our shelves with the stuff that we need to survive.
So I can't thank you enough for what you do every day, man.
Thank you.
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So we have an announcement that I'm really excited about.
I got to host the Patriot Awards this year for the Fox News channel.
Had a great time.
We made it fun.
We celebrate freedom and fun at the same time.
And I got to work very, very closely with my friend and colleague, Jimmy Phela.
And Jimmy has maybe the most interesting life story of all time.
He used to be a New York City cab driver.
Now he has his own hit show on Fox Saturday nights with Jimmy Phala.
You don't ever want to miss it.
And we feature him on the program for kicks and giggles.
But the news is pretty heavy.
You need to lighten it up a little bit.
And we've been talking about maybe kind of duplicating except doing it differently.
We watch like AOC and Bernie and their big tour.
And I'm like, I'm rolling my eyes because it's fight the oligarchy and just rage and hatred and misery.
And maybe the antidote to it, we've come up with an idea and we partnered with Fox Nation.
And it's the Punchlines and Patriots tour.
And we're very pleased, proud, happy to announce our first two dates.
And here to help me do that is Jimmy Phala himself.
One is going to be in Clearwater, and the second one is going to be in Fort Lauderdale.
Both will be in Florida.
And then we might do other stops around the country.
And it's called Punchlines and Patriots.
We're going to make you laugh.
We're not going to sit there and bemoan the loss of plastic straws and pollution as AOC and Bernie fly around on their private jet for their fight the oligarchy tour.
How are you, sir?
I'm better now.
I'm so psyched for this.
But can I make one comment about the Bernie thing and the oligarchy thing?
Nobody says the word oligarchy except Joe Biden, if he was doing a commercial for Olive Garden.
He'd go.
That's true.
Oligarchy.
We've got free breadsticks.
And they'd be like, cut, cut.
It's Olive Garden, Joe Biden.
But yes.
Listen, wherever we're going to go on this little tour of ours, we have to just make sure there's either A, a waffle house or B, an in-and-out burger.
Period.
End of sentence.
Or I'll take a cracker barrel.
That's fine, too.
Yeah, no one has ever gotten.
I said this on your TV show the other night.
No one has ever gotten offended within 20 miles of a cracker barrel.
You can tell them any joke you want.
That's absolutely true.
You can't get offended.
How can you not love Cracker Barrel?
They have all the candy you ever wanted when you were a kid and all in one place and you can buy it and the best downhome, you know, southern cooking you'd ever want.
And it's all great and things that I don't usually eat now, but I got to lighten up when I'm on the road.
Well, I'm honored to announce this tour with you.
And thanks to Fox Nation, our partner in this, and it's called Punchlines and Patriots.
Why don't you tell everybody what this is about?
So Sean and I are going to be down.
It starts in Clearwater Saturday night, June 28th, and then we'll be in Fort Lauderdale, June 29th at the Broward Performing Arts Center.
We're going to do a little bit of stand-up comedy.
We're going to take a live Q ⁇ A.
But the best thing we're going to give them, okay, is access to this great thing we've built on this Fox News Media platform, which is a true connection with the American people.
Like when you think about what we represent, okay, you got one guy, Sean Hannity, who hangs out at the White House.
You got another guy, Jimmy Fellow, who hangs out at the White Castle.
Okay.
There's a lot here.
Wait a minute, but that's where I come from.
I still love White Castle.
I can't pass a White Castle without buying them.
Yeah, fair.
But I actually look like I get paid in White Castle.
So I have.
That's right.
Now, you're being a little harsh on yourself here.
I'm doing better.
Okay.
But the point is, we're going to come out.
We're going to tell some wild jokes.
And what I'm excited about is I get to do stand-up every weekend.
I host a stand-up comedy show.
I am genuinely just excited to watch your acts because I was there at the Patriot Awards.
And remember, I had to go on after you.
And usually the Patriot Awards is the easiest stand-up gig of the year because you're the only comic on the bill.
You're going to walk out there and you're going to crush for five minutes and leave.
But you murdered.
You did it.
And I want you to get credit for this because obviously you made fun of like the Adam Schiffs of the World and it was brilliant.
But you actually did a bit.
I believe there was like a projector involved where you portrayed Joe Biden wandering into the jungle looking for the cannibals who ate his uncle.
That's like so it's like if we can't laugh at what the hell has happened to these people, I mean, what's gone on with the championing the rights of a Brego Garcia, the rights of men to play women's sports,
they're upset and think we are a constitution in a constitutional crisis because we're not giving Green New Deal, DEI, transgender money to every country on the face of the earth.
And just looking at Kamala makes me laugh when she giggles.
And to think she could have been president of our country scares the hell out of me.
There's a lot to laugh at.
I agree.
The only upside to Kamala being president is she would have that designated driver she needs.
Okay.
That's all true.
Driving a car.
But one thing I want to talk about, Punch on the Patriots, really quick, because this is the truth of what we do, whether it's humor or commentary, is we always talk about Trump derangement syndrome, but we've gotten to this place now where that's an excuse for people.
It's not a derangement syndrome.
They're just stupid.
Okay.
And we're going to show up and we're going to make fun of some stupid people.
If you're trying to protect the rights of migrant gangbangers, you're stupid.
Derangement would be an excuse.
I can't let you get away with it anymore.
You know, if you think Kamala should have been the president, Kamala was telling an elephant story the other day.
Like, talk about putting the dumb in Dumbo.
Okay.
And we really, we're at the precipice.
As you think that was a good idea.
Our job is to restore.
You know, when you talk about law and order, but there's something to be said for like conversational law and order.
And we're going to get out on the road and we're going to make fun of stupid people.
And we should all be able to unify around the fact that there is a specific segment of the population that's weapons-grade stupid.
Scientists actually have a word for them.
They're called liberals.
And we're going to talk about them and we're going to have a nice time in Clearwater and Fort Lauderdale.
Dang it.
And I'm excited to do it with you because you are the funniest guy I know.
Now, what people may not know about you is your background.
You grew up, you know, like we have very similar backgrounds, how we grew up, but then you became a cab driver.
And I think you fine-tuned your humor and your act while being a cab driver.
Because, I mean, it's a crazy job for people in New York City.
That's the nuttiest job in the world.
And out of that, you know, came all of this success.
You sell out, you know, these arenas and halls all around the country and you do it.
And I just, I'm not going to compete with you in terms of trying to be a stand-up comic.
I have my own little routine, but that's why it's Punchlines and Patriots.
It's going to be a nice mix of both.
It's going to be everything.
It is so exciting.
If I try to stand toe-to-toe with you on the humor part, I'm going to get killed.
You want to know something, Hannity?
You know enough politicians that you're doing the old lower expectations.
You're going to crush.
And you're just roping me into this.
Everybody's going to go, you know.
I'm not roping you into anything.
I'm just, this is your profession.
You make people laugh.
You throw out a joke every five seconds.
I mean, to me, you're right up there with, I don't know, Chappelle and Chris Rock.
I watch on stage.
Oh, my gosh, some of the jokes you tell have to be edited out.
I could see it already.
No, we're going to play it.
We're going to play clean ball because you're there and you're a much classier broadcaster than I am.
So we're going to play to the editorial guidelines of the Hannity Shelf.
I'm convinced, honestly, by the way, that the reason you have me on your TV show twice a week is to hear me say the things you want to say.
But you can't say them because you're Sean Hannity.
Yeah, and I usually put a disclaimer in there.
I'm not responsible for the things that Jimmy Fail is saying on the show tonight.
I have no idea.
No very advanced warning.
All right.
So I want people to come.
And for example, it's going to be, what is it, the Ruth Eckard Hall in Clearwater?
Yep, June 28th, down in Clearwater, Ruth Eckert.
And June 20th, Fort Lauderdale.
Yeah, sorry.
Okay, and now my understanding is the tickets will fully be on sale Friday, but there's VIP tickets you guys are putting up for sale today.
Yeah, so the people who are members of these two theaters have VIP access and they can buy tickets today.
The reason me and you are announcing this today, the tickets go on sale Friday, May 9th, is we want everybody to have the same level of access.
We're not doing a show that's a million dollars to get into.
We're doing a show for the people.
And we don't want to be doing a show full of elites.
We want to be doing a show full of people like us who bust their butts all day to make things work and who get it.
You know, that's what we're after here.
It's a weird like, do you remember the old TV show Scared Straight where they'd take a mouth?
Oh, I love that show.
Loved it.
And they'd lock him in a classroom with some ex-con who'd scream at the kid until he got his life together.
Okay, we're doing a funny, scared straight for America.
We better get our act together or else we're screwed.
We did on November 5th.
I mean, that's why, I mean, I've been watching these people on tour, and I'm like, this is like the let's make America depressed for fight the oligarchy.
Then you find out they're flying around on their private jet to get there.
I'm like, oh, okay.
That's the joke's on us, right?
But I'm just telling you, this is a time that Americans, that like-minded Americans should celebrate because we're transforming government in every good way, and we won.
And you know what?
It's time to celebrate the win and the success.
And look, everything the president's doing is hard, but it's going to be good for the country in the end.
And we've needed this shock to our system for a long time.
Yep.
And if you guys come to the show and give us a list of people you'd like us to place in the new reopened Alcatraz, we'll give it to the president.
Oh, you read about that today, did you?
I loved that so much.
And you want to know why it matters, though, really quick, is because it does send a message.
I mean, it would largely be a symbolic thing, okay?
But if they got it open, great.
But we're sending the right message to aspiring criminals who want to come here.
Is yes, we're not only not letting you in now, but if you do get in, we're either sending you back or locking you up in the most high-profile way imaginable.
It's time to stop having empathy for the criminals.
That was the problem with the last administration.
It's like, Sean, we all grew up playing two games in the backyard.
We played either cops and robbers or cowboys and Elizabeth Warrens.
Okay, those were the games.
Yeah.
We always knew in cops and robbers, cops good, robbers bad.
Okay, we need to get back to that mindset as a country.
And I think the people coming to see us are already in that mindset, but that's kind of what you're looking forward to.
We are restoring order in America.
Well, but not really restoring order because Biden is going to be on the view this week, and the Democrats are keeping the door open for Kamala Harris in 2028.
Which I love.
But to be clear, you know, Kamala thinks she's running in 2028.
Okay, Biden thinks he's running in 1992.
Okay, the point is, neither one of them have any shot at this thing.
But I love that his wife, can you just let the guy be already, Joe Biden?
Like, she was beating him up in office and making him go through the motions.
Like, how dare you drag him onto the view, which you and I make fun of, but it is the highest streaming show in Guantanamo Bay.
You know, they're watching it in place of waterboarding in the modern era.
So there is that.
But I mean, between him and Kamala, what did the American people do to deserve that?
You know, we've been through things.
We've been through depressions.
We've been through recessions.
But we've never been through a dementia day-drunk presidency.
One guy didn't know what no, we have not.
I honestly think I have PTSD when I think about it.
When I heard Kamala last week, I literally shocked my system.
But this is going to be a fun event.
I really, really enjoy meeting the people that make our lives possible.
I hope people will come.
We put it up on all Hannity social media.
It's on the top right now.
If you go to Hannity.com, two dates only, June 28th.
That's going to be in Clearwater, Florida, June 29th.
It's a Saturday and a Sunday night.
The Broward Center for Performing Arts.
Tickets fully go on sale Friday.
You can get, if you're a theater member, tickets now.
The link will be there.
And Jimmy Phela, you're going to make me laugh, and we get to hang out with great Americans.
I wonder if protesters will show up.
That would be awesome.
We better get at least one or two.
Yeah, I'm kind of banking on that.
It's all right.
I'm banking on somebody saying, I hate you, Hannity.
You know, I'm having to be dragged out of the hall.
That's always fun.
I've had that happen a few times in my career, too, Jimmy.
Listen, I've had a couple of good hecklers, but that's my favorite thing about a good heckler is that, you see, we showed up prepared to talk.
The heckler didn't.
So if you let them talk, you just give them a little rope, they run out of good ideas real quick, and then you turn the rest.
That's my favorite thing about them.
So yes, if you know a potential heckler, buy them a ticket, please.
I actually want to watch this.
It's going to be awesome.
All right.
Yeah.
Come out during the Jimmy Phela portion.
Looking forward to it.
June 28th, 29th.
Hannity.com for tickets.
Yes, sir.
Looking forward to a Punchlines Patriots.
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