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Best of Hannity: Building a Great Career and Life - May 23rd, Hour 2
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This was not an MS-13 gang member, and you damn well know that.
Oh, come on.
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As far as I'm concerned, he's a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House because last time I checked, he didn't have any criminal convictions.
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If you want to be a part of the program, one of the people I've gotten to know, and I love all my colleagues at Fox, I actually discussed this in a recent podcast, and people always ask me about my colleagues.
And what do you think of this person?
What do you think?
And I'm like, I kind of like everybody.
And over the years, I've had my intramural battles with people, but I'm kind of past that point in my career.
And I actually like to celebrate other people's success.
I don't believe any success or failure I have is contingent on other people's failure or success.
It's not a zero-sum game.
And one person that has emerged as a huge star on the channel has been a good friend from day one.
I'll never forget meeting her in the Bush White House.
And she was the White House press secretary for George W. Bush.
Dana Perino.
She co-hosts America's Newsroom every day.
And she's on the hit show The Five.
He has a new book out.
I wish someone had told me the best advice for building a great career and a meaningful life is on Amazon.com.
We're featuring it on Hannity.com.
It's going to be bookstores all around the country.
You're going to want to get a hold of this book.
But I'm proud to also call her a friend.
Dana, great to have you.
How are you?
I'm so grateful to be on your show.
And honestly, my heart is bursting with gratitude because I truly can trace all of this back to you.
And I'm really super grateful for it, Sean.
Well, I don't really know you say that, but I mean, honestly, you were a star from the moment you were on the podium.
And you have some really funny stories about that part.
And it's, you know, I remember when The Five, for example, was starting and our old dear friend who's since passed on, Bob Beckle, was there.
And, you know, I was a fan of the show from day one.
And he goes, well, why do you like it?
I said, it's a great show.
Well, he goes, no, no, no.
Why do you really like it?
I'm like, because it's a great show.
What else do you want me to say?
It just got the perfect dynamic.
And it remains, you know, the top-rated show because of that.
And did you ever think when you were in the White House that this would all happen to you?
I didn't.
No.
And actually, one of the best things about writing a book of mentoring advice now is to be able to look back and think, you know, I tried to plan my whole life away.
I worried my 20s away.
And when I wrote my first book, and the good news is one of the reasons I chose that title is that you realize that the plan that you have is the thing that God laughs at and that the real plan is the one he has for you.
And that's what ended up happening.
I would say that the previous book I wrote mentoring advice for was just for young women.
This new one is more broad-based and it includes great advice from all sorts of our different walks of life and our colleagues and people like Mike Rowe, Dirk Spentley, people I've come to know at Fox.
But I'm really impressed by Lawrence Jones's contribution because what does he say?
He said, I said, how did it impact your career?
Was there somebody who made a big difference in your life?
And he said, Sean Hannity, and that you gave him three rules.
And I swear there is nobody in this building that I can go to who doesn't have something positive to say about you and how you lift others up.
And I know you think I was a star at the podium, but I remember I was a Rocky contributor at Fox when I first started.
I was shy.
I wasn't sure what.
You are absolutely not Rocky.
You're being rough on yourself.
If you want to see Rocky, go back and watch Hannity and Combs back in 1996, and you'll see Rocky.
Hey, do you remember when I got the daily briefing show and I was nervous because I thought, well, I've just been answering questions.
I remember asked questions and you gave me the advice about how to ask a question.
I don't remember.
What did I say?
I don't recall the question.
To his office when you were role-playing, and that he finally said, Sean, just ask the question.
Right.
That's all true.
You give advice.
It's invaluable guidance.
It's wisdom.
And it's only the wisdom you will accumulate over a period of a lifetime, really.
And you're passing it on to people.
And I think anybody, old or young, can learn from it.
You know, you talk about, all right, getting your foot in the door, how to break out in the job and get recognized.
And I think that always means going above and beyond and working really hard.
I mean, there's a hard part of our job that nobody ever sees, and that's working behind the scenes.
Tell us some of the advice that you're giving in this book for people.
Well, one of the things I did is I refreshed my advice for Dana's do's and don'ts for a post-COVID workforce.
And also, I realized that the people I've been mentoring for my time since I left the White House in 2008, they are still coming to me for advice.
And now they are executives themselves or managers or big-time producers and they are becoming mothers and fathers.
And I wanted to add that advice.
But, for example, I haven't raised children.
But I went to people and I asked them for advice, asked them questions that I could include in the book.
And for example, Ainsley Earhart, who we know and love, she has great advice for young parents about how to manage a work-life scenario that can be meaningful for both you and your child that you can do both, have a career and have that great family life that you've always wanted.
Martha McCallum, for example, she recommends that young parents don't look more than three months ahead at a time.
I also ask questions like, when do you know it's the right time to leave a job?
And I asked Trey Gowdy about that because he left the prosecutor's role to go into Congress and he left Congress and now he is here with us at Fox News.
So there's all these transitions that our colleagues have made that are really important.
I also talk about how to deal with rejection and disappointment because that can cripple people.
But if you want to succeed, along the way, you will make mistakes or you will be disappointed.
And how you bounce back from that is really important and can determine your trajectory on the way forward.
I think all of that is sound advice.
And you really did get advice from a wide range of people from our colleagues Brett Baer and Ainsley and Jimmy Phela and Harold Ford Jr.
and Trey and Greg.
I don't know.
What was Greg's advice?
Greg Gutfeld had to have great advice.
Greg's advice is great.
Do you know how he's been fired from so many jobs, but he talks about how that was not a problem?
He also said, look for the calm person in a crisis.
He thought that that was important.
He also said that the jobs that you take that you think aren't going to be important end up being the ones that you really care about.
And in addition to that, he said, when I asked him the question of what do you wish somebody had told you, he said that drinking was no solution to your problems, that it was the problem masking itself as a solution.
And once you remove it from your life, your life becomes much bigger than the delusional relationship you had with substances.
That's pretty deep and profound.
You know, I find a lot of comics are very, and especially somebody as bright and witty as he is or Jimmy Phela is, is they can be complicated people often.
And what I find with a lot of people in life, the people that I find most interesting are the most complicated.
And I could even add Donald Trump to the list.
And a lot of people to this day really don't understand him.
I've known him for 30 years, and I kind of know his mindset.
I know when he's in a never-ending state of negotiation, whether people like that or not or don't like that.
And he likes to throw people off and he likes to divert attention.
And he's like a bull in a china shop.
If he has an idea, he's going to see it through.
When you look at the very question that you're asking, which is, I wish someone had told me, what do you wish somebody told you?
I wish someone had told me not to worry away my 20s, that everything was going to work out.
I'm an educated American woman who is loved by her family.
I have a wonderful husband of 28 years now.
And looking back, when I think about all that time I wasted worrying was time that I could have been investing in myself or enjoying life and having fun, if you are educated here in America and you have this opportunity to be here, there's nothing you can't do.
There's so many opportunities.
Isn't it kind of natural, though, for all of us to worry?
I mean, it's sort of a natural thing that you it's sort of a temptation you have to resist.
It is.
And in fact, if you think about it, there was a woman I write about in the book.
She was in my singles group at church when I was 24, 25.
And I was coming up to my 25th birthday and nothing was turning out the way I thought it was going to.
I hadn't met anybody.
My career was kind of okay, and I didn't think it was going great.
And she said, remember what God says, fear not.
You are written in the palm of his hand.
I've never forgotten her reminder, even though I've been hearing that since I was a kid.
But there are just times in your life when a friend or a loved one will just remind you of what you needed to hear.
And I think that there's a reason that over and over again in the Bible, it says that you don't need to be afraid.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Fear not.
Perfect.
You know, all of that is true.
The very hairs of your head are counted.
I mean, when you think deeply about that, that's pretty profound.
Comforting.
It's very comforting.
And honestly, I attribute two things to any success I may or may not have had.
And one would be my faith, my belief in God.
And number two would be that I work really, really hard and I don't lift my head up.
And I just, since the beginning of my broadcast career, I always thought I was doing my last show.
I still kind of feel that way.
I still have not gotten over it.
I wake up every day thinking it could all go away in an instant.
But there's another thing that you do, which I write about, and I think it's an undervalued leadership skill, and that is the power of listening.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with my friend, colleague, Dana Perino, co-host America's Newsroom and the hit show of the five.
Her new book is out.
I wish someone had told me the best advice for building a great career and a meaningful life.
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All right, we continue now with my friend, my colleague from Fox, Dana Perino, is with us.
Of course, she co-hosts America's Newsroom and is on the hit show of the five.
And she has her new book out.
I wish someone had told me the best advice for building a great career and a meaningful life.
Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores all across the country.
What a lot of people don't know is the business that we're in is hard.
It really is.
And there are a lot of people gunning for your job, your career, or maybe they don't like your political opinions.
And we give a lot of opinions, right?
And I just, I have learned to tune out that noise.
I honestly don't hear it.
I don't even have access to social media anymore.
I haven't had it for years.
Your phone.
It's not on my phone.
And I don't know.
I don't even have the password.
I have a team that runs it for me.
Yep.
If you want to feel bad about yourself, go read about what people say about you.
But let me ask you this.
How do you view the current political situation?
Fascinating.
I wake up every day like, what's going to happen next?
And I love it.
I remember in 2017, there was a Saturday where I took a nap for 20 minutes and three stories broke.
And it was a pace that just seemed impossible to keep up with.
And then we had the sleepy Joe Biden years, and it was like so boring.
And also so upsetting.
You would have Corinne Jean-Pierre, the press secretary, saying the border is secure.
And the split screen is Bill Melusion at the border with everybody streaming across with no due process at all.
And so, you know, that was profoundly upsetting, not to mention the cover-up at the end when she used to say that Joe Biden was running circles behind them at the White House.
It wasn't true, and I was upset about it then.
But I feel like even more now that the Democrats have generational damage because of the decision of Joe and Joe Biden for him to seek another term, and they're going to have to pay the price for that.
The Republicans have gone through a political realignment.
It's fascinating to watch, but the Democrats are just beginning theirs, and I think that theirs could even ultimately be more painful because of the decisions that they made that have basically lost them their foundation.
And the Republicans continue to gain with younger people.
And there's a good reason for that.
I think the common sense piece of what Donald Trump is talking about is a powerful word.
It is persuasive, and it could be long-standing.
I think there is a political realignment going on.
I think the Democratic Party has lost touch with working men and women.
I think they've become the party of coastal elite.
When I see, you know, in the U.S. Senate a couple of weeks ago that they're championing the right of men to play women's sports or, you know, look at this recent issue with Von Holland and his trip.
You know, he never once called the family of Rachel Morin.
He never once called the family of Kayla Hamilton.
Both women were raped and brutally murdered by illegal immigrants from El Salvador.
And if they want to be the party that claims it's a constitutional crisis, when you find $150 billion wasted dollars, you know, waste, fraud, and abuse, I think they are way off track.
And I think that if Donald Trump can get this economy on track, I think Americans, there might be a generational shift in terms of what party people vote for.
What do you think?
I absolutely think that's true.
I think you're already seeing that.
And there's also the president having had built up a lot of, I would say, capital goodwill in his account that he has some time for people to give him the patience that is needed at a moment like this if there is going to be this transition.
On the border, I would say that when it's solved that quickly in three months, you do the split screen now and you look at Eagle Pass, Texas, and it's a beautiful natural landscape.
There's no people.
But it's hard to keep covering that story.
So I think one communications challenge they have is reminding people how bad it was for the last four years, what we are dealing with in the cities, and not just the cities, but many cities being inundated with illegal immigrants.
And now how do we get them out?
And in the meantime, they're trying to deal with the high prices.
So I feel like there's enough time for them to try to get things in place, to get things done.
It's not an exhaustible amount of time, and I think that they know that, and that's why they're moving pretty quickly.
Anyway, Dana Perino, co-host America's Newsroom, my friend and colleague at Fox, also on the hit show The Five.
And her new book is out, I wish someone had told me the best advice for building a great career and a meaningful life.
We have it featured on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores now across the country.
And Dana, we really appreciate you.
Appreciate your friendship, appreciate your wisdom.
And thank you for coming on and sharing this with us.
Well, thank you for giving me this opportunity, not just to be on your show, but for everything.
You're the best.
Dana Perino, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we'll come back.
We'll get to your calls straight ahead.
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What 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?
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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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Why is it that the left never seems to care when their radicals, you know, they defend the radicals' rights on college campuses to go after Jewish students?
Are you a Zionist?
And then these campuses then tell Jewish students, you might want to just work, learn remote for the rest of the semester.
And that's basically it, no consequences for the people involved.
You know, how did this become a party where you have outspoken Democrats sort of worshiping at the altar of Luigi Mangione?
How did this become the party whose silence is deafening over the domestic terrorism involving Tesla or the calls for assassination against Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and now others?
There were protesters chanting outside of JD Vance's house over the weekend.
Listen, if the left thinks this is going to be effective, that they're going to be persuasive in changing the hearts and minds of Americans by sounding like a bunch of idiots like this.
Good luck with that, too.
Just like good luck championing the rights of a guy that's been designated a MS-13 gang member.
Tim Wall's daughter caused a social media storm by saying that if Jesus were alive today, that the Trump administration would have claimed he was a member of MS-13 and deported him.
Like, this is how crazy they're getting.
Nancy Mace was, it looked like she was in, and she's on Hannity tonight.
Looked like she was in a drugstore, and this guy just kept following her and harassing her.
And some people didn't like the language she used, but at some point, there's only so much harassment you're going to take from anybody.
Listen.
I have to remember.
I have over a dozen every year.
That was my entire question.
You didn't have to get to this school.
You could have come to any of them last year.
I had over a dozen.
Where were you the year before that?
Or the year before that?
It was a simple question.
Oh, because you know what?
Because you people on the left are crazy.
You're absolutely crazy.
I'm absolutely fing.
You are.
Get out of my face.
Goodbye.
You're insane.
You're going to f me.
I'm not.
I won by so much.
You're a disgrace to the state.
That's who you are.
You're a disgrace.
I ask you a simple question and you just took on this tirade and tell me disgusting.
Get out of my face.
Get out of my face.
Try it again.
What's your name?
Yep, I sure did.
You're insane.
Get the f out of my face now.
You couldn't take me on, baby.
Stay the f away from me.
Linda, could you ever imagine going to a store, running into somebody that's prominent that we vehemently disagree with, and ever saying anything to them?
Why would you do that to a woman alone?
I love it.
She is such a ballbreaker.
She don't take it, man.
I'll tell you what.
No, I like her because she stands up for herself.
And it is people like that are not expressed.
What choice does she have?
Yeah, but what choice do you have?
Typically, the left acts like that, and then Republicans just stand there politely and they say, let them have their say.
That's free speech.
No, it's not free speech.
That's harassment.
Okay, she's not, she's out.
She's not working at that moment.
I mean, well, you're always serving.
When you're an elected official, you're always serving.
Okay, I'm an elected talk show host.
People choose to listen.
So, in a sense, right?
But I've had people come up to me, and finally, I'll just look at them and say, either back off or I'll bring in security.
I'll call the police.
And if you come any closer, I'm going to hurt you.
Please don't make me hurt you.
I don't want to hurt you.
And I mean it.
And when I say that, why does that grab their attention so much?
Listen, they love violence.
There's nothing they would like more than for somebody to put hands on.
There's something about those words, which, by the way, are meaningful.
I'm like, I don't want to please, you know, and I'll step back as I'm saying it with my hands up in a very peaceful way.
And I get very calm whenever I talk to lunatics.
I don't know.
It's like a gift I have.
I get very calm.
I think someone like her, she's a congresswoman.
She's pretty.
She doesn't deserve this crap.
She doesn't, you know, this is ridiculous.
And they think they can just do whatever they want to her.
And she's like, nope, I'm not having it.
Piss off.
I love it.
All right, let's get to our phones: 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Daphne, Texas, next Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Daphne?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
It's an honor to talk to you.
You're in my living room every night.
Thank you, ma'am.
I look better with makeup on.
What's going on?
I have an idea about all this federal money that's going to these anti-Semitic Ivy League schools.
I think it should be clogged back, reallocated, and start a vocational program across the country.
Maybe put Mike Rowe ahead of it and even specialize the training for the factories coming in so that our labor force is ready to hit the door running and we don't fall on our chins after the president pulls a miracle out and turns on our potential.
Well, I'm going to tell you right now, we have no business.
These universities, these Ivy League institutions of higher earned learning, we have no business providing one cent in taxpayer dollars for these institutions.
They have enough money on their own and they have the ability to raise even more and they don't need our money.
And frankly, If they continue to defy presidential orders, then I would argue that there's a very strong case to be made that they should be defunded.
Now, if we're going to spend money on college, I don't think it should be for Ivy League institutions or, but maybe community colleges, maybe trade schools, maybe, you know.
Vocational schools, yes.
Vocational schools, trade schools.
And I'm just telling you, I just think our money could be better spent and we could help more people for far less money than sending these people to these schools where they get indoctrinated into radicalism and they come out dumber than when they went in.
And also, too, we've got plenty of lawyers.
There's no shortage of lawyers in this country.
But I guarantee you, there's a shortage of machinists.
There's a shortage of welders.
We need to trade off.
You're right.
Let me tell you something.
This is very, very critical, I think.
There was a story I read.
I said this last week about the next generation of millionaires is going to be tradesmen.
AI is not something we have to think about in the future.
The future is now.
AI is now.
Yeah, we need to invest in our electric engineering and the computer coders and everything.
But we have to have our labor force ready.
And making more lawyers isn't going to do it.
We need to tax dollars to go to radicalizing the next generation of elites just to fight us every step of the way.
Appreciate the good call.
Thank you, Daphne.
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So I'm talking to this guy that is an AI expert.
And literally, he said, I could program something for you, just putting your voice and your views into artificial intelligence.
And that long past my death, Linda, I could literally be giving you comments that I would give you on any given day based on the news of that day.
I could program it that my kids at any point in their life, regardless of how old they are, they could hear my voice talking to them about anything they might ask me about where they are in their lives.
How crazy is that?
I think that's really scary personally.
I'm not a fan of it.
I don't find that scary.
Yeah, you and I probably don't agree on this.
I am not a big fan of AI.
I am not a big fan of robotics outside of Neuralink, which would help people who are blind to see and people who are paralyzed to walk potentially beyond that.
Here's what you're missing.
It's bigger than that.
I mean, there's going to be scientific breakthroughs because of AI that are probably going to extend life expectancies for human beings for decades.
I don't know that that's a good prediction.
I mean, honestly, I don't know that that's God's plan, but I like the idea of helping people.
It could be used for good or evil.
Why wouldn't it be God's plan to use it for good and help people live longer, healthier lives?
Well, Earth is a devil's playground.
So, you know, unfortunately, I'm not sure.
So you want to get to heaven as quickly as you can.
Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah, pretty much.
I'm like, I'm good.
I hit like 80.
I'm out.
I'm all set.
This day I'll be with you in paradise.
I want to go to paradise.
I'm done.
I've given it my best.
I'll say that.
I'll say I, you know, once I told Linda that she might be able to live to over 100, and she's like, nah, I'd rather I'm good.
I'm checking out at 80.
Yeah, I'm ready to go home.
I'm all set.
I don't know.
My great-grandmother lived to 103.
Her quality of life was not all that great.
And I don't know that I want my quality of life to improve because I have a robotic arm or a robotic this or a robotic leg or I don't think it's going to be that.
I know people that have had knee replacements, hip replacements, this replacement, that replacement.
It's different.
I mean, if it's helping you get through your day-to-day, everyday life, that's fine.
If you're trying to, you know, avoid death, defeat death, beat death, I just don't think that it works like that.
But I do think there are positive things that come from AI.
I don't like AI in the grand scheme of things when it could potentially replace people, take away those everyday jobs that we give to young people when they're in high school.
It's already doing it.
It's already doing it.
Good talk.
And we have to adapt to it.
That's part of it.
That's why you bring up the trade school issue, or last caller bringing up the trade school issue.
You learn, guess what?
AI is not going to be able to build the house.
Anyway, let's get back to our phones.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Steve, Kentucky, next Sean Hennedy show.
Hey, thanks for taking the call here, Sean.
What's going on?
Just chime in.
Going back to Friday, and we started off the weekend with the whole MS-13 gang member from Maryland and the senator.
Democrats have picked a lot of hills to die on.
They know their approval ratings are in the tank.
And I think what's going on, whether it's this guy or whether it's the Bernie AOC rally or whoever else, you know, or the Hegsis thing about, oh, he's spitting out confidential information, which we all don't know that's true either, is the Democrats are putting someone out there because they need a presidential candidate.
They want to see who can garner sympathy on a topic, not caring what the topic is.
They don't care.
Who gets the traction?
Who's going to be our star?
Who are we going to be able to use to attract voters?
Not even their base.
At this point, they don't even care about their base, I think.
It's about who can we use to attract.
I think that's all they care about is their base.
And I think their base, too, has been radicalized.
I don't think a moderate is really going to have a really good shot at winning the nomination.
And I think you'll see some of the more pragmatic Democrats, you know, guys like Axelrod and people like that, that are going to say, you know, don't go with the AOC wing or the Jasmine Crockett wing or the squad wing.
But unfortunately, that represents most of the party.
And I think what we have to do as either a moderate or a right-leaning individual is that we need to keep pressure on every time they bring this crap up.
Say, no, you're wrong.
This is why.
This is why.
We've got to fight them just like they fight us.
And then not get so hung up on this that, oh, we've got to worry just about this guy from Maryland who was in the country illegally.
No, we need to keep fighting.
We need to keep going forward and keep moving forward with what we're doing in this country because everybody wants to live good, even left-wingers.
They want to have a good job.
They want to make money.
But they think the best way to live well is, in my view, is to have the government take care of everything.
What is the radical Green New Deal?
It's guaranteed government daycare and preschool and guaranteed college and guaranteed healthy food and guaranteed health care and guaranteed cradle to grave, womb to the tomb.
Now, it may sound great on paper, but that is the essence of Marxism, communism, to each according to his need, from each according to his ability.
And unfortunately, it's been tried in, it's taken on many manifestations, many forms, and it always results in the same, the results are always the same.
Failure, unfulfilled promises, more poverty, and a loss of freedom, and a bigger bureaucratic state that becomes more oppressive.
That is the predictable outcome.
That's why it's that imperative that we help Donald Trump succeed in eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, securing our borders, Opening up energy dominance, getting free and fair trade deals, hopefully trying a new approach to find peace in Europe and the Middle East.
Those are all going to be things that will benefit not just America, but the world in general.
And every one of those items is a heavy lift.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
God bless you.
800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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