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Hannity to Alaska - August 12th, Hour 3
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Linda was off yesterday because it was her 21st birthday and she's been with me 20 years.
I was not off for my birthday, nor would I ever be so ridiculous about celebrate a birthday with a day off.
I am an adult.
That is not something we do after the age of and give you 18, and even that's pushing it.
Why are you so sensitive of the fact that I'm trying to wish you a happy birthday?
You're not wishing me a happy birthday.
You're trying to say I'm a birthday.
Happy birthday.
I said yesterday to you, happy birthday.
And then you completely.
How do you know?
I worked all day.
How do you know that it's my birthday?
You worked all day by choice.
I purposely bypassed you.
You find out from Ethan.
I hope you're sitting in a cinder block because the lightning is going to strike through the glass.
No lightning that's going to strike your ass.
What did I do?
No, you wrap me out.
He changed the show.
I did not tell her a thing.
I didn't tell you.
Oh, really?
How did she find out you changed the show?
Listen, on my eyes, on my eyes, he did not tell me anything.
Do you know who texted me?
You want to know who texted me?
Newt Gingrich.
Now, go after New York.
It was Nuke.
That's right.
It was Newt Gingrich.
And he was like, I'm really sorry.
And Sean's changing everything.
I said, oh, is he really?
Let me give Sean a quick call.
Why don't you on your birthday and on your day off?
Why don't you just worry about being off and being present with your family instead of being in?
I'm going to go to the whole team.
Then I changed it three times.
I sat on the floor of the location in which you were going to be able to get away from it.
You're going to hear what the words back into college.
Have you heard the term control freak?
Have you ever heard that?
I've never heard that term.
Stick with the plan?
Does that phrase exist in your history?
Okay, we never stick with the plan.
We change the day off.
Then we change it 37 times.
Oh, my gosh.
I got to hang out with you in Alaska.
Thank God I'm in a different hotel.
You know, it's very cold in Alaska.
Very cold.
You're going to be a little bit more.
Was it going to be cold in Anchorage this week?
Yes, it's 45 degrees.
No way.
You're cold in 78 degrees.
You're a proper snowbird.
I live in the free state of Florida.
My blood is thin by now.
I've been here a long time.
I'm loving it.
Well, you're going to be cold this week, brother.
What do you think?
A little caribou, maybe?
Want to try it?
No.
What do you mean, no?
First of all, I was a vegetarian for 12 years.
I'm barely back getting into red meat as it is.
Be delicious.
You know, you never know.
You might like it.
You know, most people, when they went to a place like Alaska, would be like, oh, let's go see the sites.
You're like, let's eat the first large animal we can find.
What's the matter with you?
There's a lot of great fish there and king crab legs, Sean.
All right.
All right.
This is the oddest thing, though, because I've been to 49 states and there's only one state I haven't been to.
And I'm going there this week, and that's Alaska.
And the thing is, is everybody, anyone that's listening to the show for any period of time, knows I'm obsessed with Alaska.
I love the show Life Below Zero.
I cannot believe people live in this frozen tundra in the wilderness, living off the land, off the grid, and they're completely independent.
And, you know, God help you generate.
Crap, you could never live off the grid.
I said I could.
I said I admired the people that do.
I have no desire to live in the middle of a frozen tundra alone, having to fix everything myself and living off the land and going out in sub-zero temperatures hunting for whatever I might be able to find on any given day and worried about worrying about polar bears coming into my house.
No, thank you.
You and Linda should go on a fishing trip in Alaska and work the same thing.
No, I think you should go on a fishing trip in Alaska.
You go on the fishing trip with her in Alaska.
You good luck.
Ethan is quite the connoisseur of all things fishing.
I do.
Okay, you know who else is?
My son.
He drives me nuts because he does spear fishing and he goes down.
He can dive down 40 feet and it freaks me out.
It draws me.
That sounds very violent.
He's diving with a spear.
Why can't he use a rod like a spear gun?
He's doing free diving with a spear gun, right?
He does free diving, but I don't like.
I mean, now he goes out with a professional and it's all his friends, and they go down there.
I mean, you should see the fish they caught last weekend.
It's crazy.
The lobsters, they just pick them up.
It's insane.
And I just don't, you know, how far down, let's start at 20 feet, 25 feet.
And then you have to find the fish, then you have to catch the fish all the while you're holding your breath.
It's not like you have an oxygen tank on.
And he loves to do it.
Then he loves to come back and he loves to cook for everybody.
And he got that from his father.
And so, but he's good.
He honestly, he's very, very good.
Because remember, we used to have a Father's Sunday.
We used to call him.
You used to do that with both your kids, yeah, for your daughter and your son.
Yeah, a daddy-daughter day, and you know, Father's Sunday, we used to call it.
And for daddy-daughter day, that was a little more difficult because I'd let my daughter pick one store at the mall, one, and I'd give her 10, maybe 15 minutes to get whatever she wanted, one store.
And then she'd go in there, and she was like kind of naive.
I mean, until one day I took a friend of hers with her, and then the girls takes like a shopping cart and starts dumping everything from the store into the shopping cart.
But she, you know, she would agonize over picking one item.
And I'd be like, you got two minutes, 60 seconds, 30 seconds.
And then I'd say, okay, well, then now we can go out to eat.
And for like 10 years of my life, I had to go to Subway every time we had Daddy-Daughter Day.
And I'm like, honey, we can eat like, we can have steak, we can go to, you know, get lobster.
We can get this.
No, she wanted to go to Subway.
I'm traumatized.
There's nothing more calming and relaxing than going out with a dad who wants to spend time with you.
And the entire time he has a stopwatch.
That just sounds like heaven on earth.
No, that's only for one part of Daddy-Daughter Day.
Yeah, the most relaxing part where someone's supposed to be taking care of you and giving you like a pampered service.
And you're like, okay, speed it up.
Let's go.
Well, I got in trouble once because I used to take my daughter to get, you know, manicures and pedicures and all that stuff.
And it drove me crazy.
Do you know how long it takes to get a Mani and Fetty?
Oh, my gosh.
It is.
It is.
I can't.
Thank God.
I was born a man.
I would never want to do that.
And so the first time I took her, it took like an hour and a half.
And I'm like, it's torture.
And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm the only guy.
And then they're begging me, well, do you want to get your feet done?
And I'm like, no, nobody's touching my feet.
And they go, no.
And they walk me over and you're supposed to put your feet in a like a tub.
And then they rub your feet.
And then they remove the calluses.
And then all that.
I'm like, that's not a guy thing to me.
I'm not, by the way, judging people like Ethan that do this.
I'm perfectly safe.
They're just naturally smooth.
I mean, you know.
Okay.
So then the next time I went, I said, I'm going to be smart.
I'm going to ask to hire two people to make it go twice as fast.
One person do one side or one person do the feet and one people, one person do the hand.
Then, when I got to up to three people, because it did go twice as fast, and my daughter walks out and she said, Dad, can we not do that again?
It's really embarrassing.
Sean Inujoisey, what's up, Sean?
How are you, sir?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Thanks for taking my call.
As I told your screeners, we've crossed past many times out in the Badlands of Long Island.
Where do we cross paths?
At the HCCWC, I coached your son in hockey.
Oh, absolutely.
I remember.
And then he broke his leg, and then he stopped playing hockey, and then he got into tennis.
I think the first time I actually met you in person, I was dressing him for practice, and you walked in.
I'm like, oh, Jesus.
But I was invited to one of your Christmas parties, and there were other things that happened, which I don't need to bring up.
But if I may indulge.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are the things that happened that you can't bring up or you don't want to bring up?
No, I'll bring them up if you want to listen.
I mean, I'm the guy that tried to take over the New York Islanders and see if you were interested in being a part of it.
I do remember that.
By the way, I seriously did consider it.
Yeah, with Patty L and the late Clark, who I loved.
Yeah.
And they're in good hands now, but you're a Florida Panther fan now, so that would have been tricky.
I'm a big-time Florida Panther fan.
I got seasons tickets.
I wish I could go to more games.
And they re-signed everybody.
Two-time Stanley Cup champions.
I think they got a great shot next year of being, you know, to get a third one in a row.
I think the Islanders are starting to get their act together, but we'll see.
I think you're dreaming.
Obviously.
I think we should buy it and fix it.
First thing I do is hire the Kachuk brothers.
Yeah, no, I'm in construction now.
I was one of the Wall Street people that you loathe, but I did make an honest living on Wall Street.
May I indulge?
I have an anniversary today, my forever fiancé Meredith.
It's her fifth anniversary.
And her great kids were excited that I might be talking to you, Sean, Cole, and Bridget.
But anyway.
Well, happy, happy anniversary to them, and congratulations.
Our best wishes and prayers for everybody.
Yeah, thank you.
We both did the 25-year marriage census, and now we're happy.
I'm calling about Azerbaijan in Armenia.
Earlier on in my new life, I had the opportunity to go to a project to Baku, and it is a stunningly beautiful city and country.
And actually, Trump has a course there, Trump Baku.
And I was sitting at dinner with the defense minister and like 13 other Russians who didn't speak English.
And I didn't realize where I was until he told me we were sitting in his palace looking down towards the Caspian Sea.
He's like, you realize that 40 miles to your right is Iran and 85 miles to your left is Russia.
You're going to jump over Armenia and a small country of Georgia.
Now, we really have no need for either of those two countries, but for Trump to bring them together after 40 years of terrorism and infighting is amazing.
And no one's really talking about it too much because I don't think they understand where it is.
But to have a friendly beachhead between Iran and Russia, I think, is another great achievement.
In hockey terms, you know, Trump's staring at the blue line, firing pucks into the back of the net every day.
This one kind of no one took notice of.
Well, I gave the list earlier in the week of all of the examples of peace that Donald Trump has brought to the world.
And it's actually pretty amazing.
I mean, you have India-Pakistan.
Remember, they were on the verge of a major conflict.
President Trump involved himself.
Israel, Iran, Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia.
You mentioned Armenia, Azerbaijan, and don't forget Egypt and Ethiopia.
I think those, you know, and if you really want to go back, you could look at, you know, what he did with the Abraham Accords, and that would include Israel in Bahrain and Israel in Morocco, Israel in Sudan, Israel in the UAE.
I mean, add all of that together.
I mean, a lot of people wouldn't put it the top of their list.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
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Back to our phones.
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Straight ahead.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones: 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Brandon in Alabama.
What's up, Brandon?
How are you?
Where in Alabama are you?
Hey, Sean.
I live in Winfield, one county, Mississippi Line.
Yeah, what's going on?
Glad you called.
I lived in Huntsville for two years.
I had a great time.
Oh, yes.
It's really a great city, and it's growing by leaps and bounds.
First of all, I wanted to tell Linda a happy belated birthday.
Linda loves when people celebrate her birthday.
Loves it.
It's her 22nd birthday, is it not?
It is indeed.
I don't know.
Thank you.
How many years have you worked for me?
Two.
That's why I'm 2022.
I think the numbers you started when you were two because you've been with me for 20 years.
I know, but I identify as somebody who's worked for you for 20 years that have been tricky to do this.
There you go.
2022.
It's this since in 2025.
Brendan, what's going on?
I wanted to call and talk to you about the guy that called that did his manifesto on Friday's show.
I like to burn my battery up trying to call your radio station.
And I've been listening to your show for since 2006.
I've never heard you say one word about hate speech ever to anybody.
I don't hate people.
I'm a Christian.
I believe you should love everybody.
Think a lot of people are stupid and I don't like their ideas and I think they're dangerous, but that doesn't mean that I hate them.
Right.
Even a drunk monkey could have heard that he was reading a manifesto that somebody's pay printed off or somebody gave to him.
It made no sense.
Listen, Rush identified these people as seminar callers.
And when somebody starts reading, it usually is a sign that they have a script.
And once I started to have a conversation and challenged him to give me examples, he didn't have any.
And if somebody does have a genuine criticism of me and they're correct, I'll listen and I will always want to be better.
And I'll try to make the adjustments so I can make people happy and do a better show.
I'm all for it.
Brandon, God bless you, man.
Glad you're out there.
God bless Alabama.
Roll tight, sir.
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Jimmy Kimmel, I guess maybe he's thinking about Jimmy Kimmel, must know.
He's got to know.
His audience is lower than Colbert's.
He's got to know that he's officially on cancellation watch.
And it might surprise people.
I don't take great joy in people's shows getting canceled, except that it's obvious why these shows are getting canceled.
They're getting canceled because of massive audience attrition, number one.
Number two, they're supposed to be comedy shows and they're not funny.
And number three, they're losing the networks they work for, in the case of Colbert, $40 plus million dollars a year.
That is not sustainable.
And I know it's a simple, quick, cheap way to blame Donald Trump.
Donald Trump had nothing to do with Stephen Colbert's firing.
And it's just a typical lazy argument.
So it sounds like Kimmel, when he went on with Sarah Silver, Silverman, is that her name?
Went on.
Do you know who she is?
I have no clue who she is.
Yeah, I do, actually.
Who is she?
She's a comedian, very liberal, but she was also the voice in Wreck-It Ralph of the girl, which is a crazy funny movie.
If she's liberal and funny, I can live with liberal and funny.
She's not as funny as she thinks she is.
That's for sure.
You know what's good about, for example, I was watching Bill Maher, and I don't know why I was watching this.
Bill Maher in his club random podcast was interviewing Drew Barrymore.
And the headline was something that he had said about the view and why the ladies of the view are not a good representation for women.
And that kind of caught my attention.
So I started watching the podcast.
He's just kind of an interesting guy, and he's got a level of honesty that I find interesting.
I also think at times he's funny.
I also think at times he's got, you know, at least a level of honesty that Trump is not Satan the way these late night hosts anyway.
So, and I think the same thing about Jon Stewart.
I think Jon Stewart is smart.
I think Jon Stewart can be very funny.
Whoever picked Stephen Colbert over Jon Stewart for CBS was out of their mind.
That was a bad choice in my view.
And Stewart doesn't like me either.
None of these people like me, but he's made fun of me and I've laughed at it.
I don't care if you're liberal, but be liberal and funny.
Now, the idea that you're only going to be liberal and you're going to alienate half the country because people don't want your constant obsessive, compulsive Trump derangement syndrome, and that that's basically your whole topic every day.
And you sit around in a room and you have 100 writers and that's all you can come up with.
I mean, you're not funny.
It gets old really quick.
Anyway, so Kimmel sounds like he knows he's defeated and is talking in this podcast about how he has Italian citizenship and sounds like he's ready to move because he's so afraid Donald Trump is coming after him.
The irony of all of this is the people that were gone after unfairly were all people associated with Trump, and not one of these people ever spoke out and said, you know what?
This has got to stop.
You know what?
The valuation of Mar-a-Lago is wrong.
You know what?
They didn't raid Hillary Clinton's house or office.
They didn't raid Joe Biden's house or office.
And Donald Trump was president, and he has more of a right legally to top secret classified information than both of them combined, you know, with the Presidential Records Act.
But they didn't care.
They didn't care that the statute of limitations had run out on a misdemeanor, and that was the legal non-disclosure agreement that somehow they created a novel legal theory with 34 felony counts.
Nobody on the left cared.
And anyway, he says, I guess to me, when I hear him here, he sounds like he's surrendering and acknowledging that his days are numbered.
A lot of people I know are thinking about where they can get citizenship.
I do have Italian, I did get Italian citizenship.
You do?
Oh, that's amazing.
I do have that.
And what's going on is as bad as you thought it was going to be.
Way worse.
It's so much worse.
It's just unbelievable.
Like, I feel like it's probably even worse than he would like it to be.
I don't even know what that means.
I think they have so convinced themselves and have lived in this state of Trump derangement syndrome for so long, they don't know any other way out of it.
I don't think that it's almost like the left in America is cheering for the country to fail because they don't want Donald Trump to be successful.
I actually would have liked it if Joe Biden was successful.
I wish Joe Biden didn't dump 12 to 20 million unvetted illegals on the country.
I wish he would have been able to fix the economy.
I wish Kamala, I wish they didn't force the Green New Deal on us, DEI on us, woke politics on us.
It's just a philosophical difference.
I have never heard of this Jennifer Welch person.
You know this former Bravo star?
Do you know who she is?
Because I don't know who she is either.
Bravo is like the network of reality TV, so I avoid it at all costs.
So you don't like to watch any of the Housewife shows?
None of you.
You have to have seen some of them.
No, I never have.
I think it's a very good idea.
I really wear it as a badge of honor.
No.
I'm also very, I mean, you can ask anyone on our team.
I'm very, very bad with like movies, television.
I basically just watch news.
And then if the kids are in the room, like cartoons or one of their things, but I don't know any of that stuff.
So the idea that conservatives believe that you should come into the country legally, not illegally, respect our laws, our borders, and our sovereignty.
And the fact that people that didn't respect our laws, border, and sovereignty are now going to be deported, especially criminal illegal immigrants.
Now, among the people are known terrorists, and we know about murderers and rapists and other violent criminals and cartel members and gang members and drug dealers.
You would think that every liberal would want to get rid of them, but no.
Anyway, she thinks that it's all based on race.
I happen to be of the view, I don't care where you come from.
I've said this many, many times.
As long as you come into the country legally, we have an opportunity to do a background check to make sure you don't have radical connections, a health check in a post-COVID world, and that you're not going to be a financial burden on the American people.
You come in legally, and I don't care where you come from, then I would say to you, Welcome to our family.
And I'd welcome people with open arms, and I wish them the best and enjoy your shot of freedom.
And I wish you all of God's blessings.
But the left takes opposition to, you know, just to not accepting all the 10 plus million to 20 million unvetted illegals as racism.
And this is what she says.
I've had it with white people that triple Trumped, that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant.
I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel.
Get your fat over to cracker barrel.
I like Chinese and Mexican food, but I love cracker barrel more, so I'm okay with that.
But also, to that point, how disgusting of her to say that all restaurants that are Chinese and Mexican are owned and operated by people who broke the law.
I know plenty of people who have come here legally from places like China, like Mexico, from Latin America that have beautiful restaurants in New York City and other places in the country.
And they came here illegally and they built that restaurant on blood, sweat, and tears.
So now she's saying she wants them to go broke because half of the population or even more than that don't like liberalism and they're the audacity of these audacity to go in there and patronize these places.
And she can speak for herself because I, as far as I'm concerned, I'm in good shape.
You know what?
Everything is predicated on this ridiculous notion that conservatives are racist and that's their reason for opposition to not grant blanket amnesty to people that we never even vetted that didn't respect our laws.
You know what the problem is?
I mean, that should be a prerequisite.
If you want to come to the country, you've got to first get to our laws.
You got to come here legally.
When you come here illegally, you are saying, hey, guess what?
I don't give a rip about your laws.
And not only do I not give a rip, but the liberals in your country are going to give me free room and board and credit cards and cell phones.
And they're going to pay me under the table because they believe in slave labor.
That's what's happening.
Instead of saying, hey, I'd love you to come here.
I'd love you to come here legally.
And I would love you to contribute and benefit because that's how this country works and was built.
John in Connecticut, what's up, John?
How are you?
I'm very good.
How are you?
Big fan of yours.
Thank you, my friend.
What's going on?
Well, the reason I called is because I think Fox is giving Mangami, Crockett, Beto.
I think they're giving them too much airtime.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me tell you why you're wrong.
Can I help you?
Well, you can help me.
You mean, for example, like last night, I played Beto Bozo.
I played, I don't think we didn't have time.
We didn't get to Jasmine Crockett.
I love when Jasmine Crockett talks.
I love when Mom Donnie talks.
I love when AOC talks.
I love when Bernie and Pocahontas speak.
I love when squad members speak.
You want to know why?
Yes.
Because it shows the country how nuts they are.
But that's true.
But the problem is, is that, well, you may be given a different point of view.
I'm bombarded from early in the morning with Fox.
There are really no fight backs against him.
There's not enough of Slever, Como, and Abrams to go after this guy.
It's really like he's getting three airtime.
And it's like, oh, here's what Mangami has to say about Trump today.
Here's what Crockett has to say about Trump today.
Here's what O'Rourke has to say.
And it's all disgusting.
If you look at it on a cumulative basis, what does it tell you?
It tells you that the left is run by crazy people with crazy ideas that have gotten more radical and more extreme.
And then the more people are familiar with who they are, what they stand for, and what they're saying, the less likely it is that people will ever, ever want to put them back in power.
So there's a method to my madness.
And I try to play, we try to find stuff that's different from everybody else.
But I hear what you're saying.
I mean, they can be annoying.
I understand.
It's annoying sometimes.
John, appreciate you, man.
Kevin in Florida.
Hey, Kevin.
Long time listener.
What's up?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, good.
A long time listener from the free state of Florida.
Yes, my fellow Floridian, what's on your mind?
Oh, I'm glad that Trump's going to Alaska.
You know, I think that it's about time that Trump deals with this bait and switch that Putin's been doing for the last couple years.
You know, with all of Trump's stuff all over the world and peace and stuff, he needs a Nobel Peace Prize, which they probably won't give him because nobody likes him.
But, you know, here in Florida, we love the guy.
What Trump needs to do is if Putin boxing doesn't want to play ball, then he needs to give Ukraine whatever it takes to basically bomb him back, to bomb Russia back to the Stone Age.
Listen, we don't want to get into a shooting war with Russia.
The best case scenario and how we define victory is we have an end to war in Europe.
Donald Trump leads the way.
And hopefully everybody begins to focus on things that matter.
And that is a better life for our individual country, men and women.
That's it.
You know, who wants to be killing innocent men, women, and children?
Who wants to be at war?
Who wants to live among rubble?
And, you know, if Trump's able to pull this off, he's now got, you know, eight peace deals in eight months.
And I don't think people looked at Donald Trump as the guy that would be the peacemaker.
Blessed are the peacemakers, right?
They're going to inherit the earth.
Anyway, I'm hoping I'm wishing the president the best, but I would say there's a 25% chance he has to stand up, walk out like Reagan did at Reykjavik and say, yet, nope, not happening.
Nice try.
You know, call me when you're ready.
But I hope it doesn't get to that point.
Wrap things up for tonight.
Newt Gingrich tonight.
Charlie Hurt, Horace Cooper, Clay Travis, John Solomon with breaking news.
James Comer with breaking news.
Governor Ron DeSantis and his new lieutenant governor, Jay Collins, Nine Eastern, Sety DVR, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here tomorrow.
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