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Jan. 2, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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"Best of Hannity": O’Reilly on Evil, Campus Security, and Christmas Traditions
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All Things Self-Proclaimed Simple Man 00:02:53
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All right, Leonard Skinner, simple man.
That can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
And I know it sounds a little nuts, but there's a lot of evil in the world, but it would make a great Christmas gift.
I'm sure somebody that likes to read in your life would love Bill's number one New York Times best-selling book, Confronting Evil, Assessing the Worst of the Worst.
On page one, there's a picture of me, which kind of pissed me off, but I'm over it at this point.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I think you're a force of good, but I also think that there's something wrong with me.
What's wrong with you?
I'm thinking you're a force of good.
No, there's nothing wrong with you because I am a force of good.
Now, I have predicted years ago, and you and I have talked about this privately, that at some point in American history, down the line, everybody's going to have their own talk show.
Everybody.
Yep.
And the loons, as you call them, I'll use Bill O'Reilly vernacular word of the day.
The loons seem to just be saying crazy Adam Schiff to get clicks.
And there are a lot of loons out there, Bill, and some of them claim to be MAGA.
And it really pisses me off because they're not MAGA.
You know more than anybody that in terms of a conservative commentator who is also a member of the press, yours truly, that I probably was the first to go out there hard for Donald Trump.
You remember that time?
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
These are Johnny come lately's.
These are, you know, people that are in and out of Trump world, and I have no idea where they really stand in life.
I think they stand wherever the wind blows on any given day.
Am I wrong, Mr. O'Reilly, sir?
No, because these people are all in it for themselves, but not for a greater good or not for the benefit of the country.
So I'm not blindly loyal to anybody.
My mantra has been for 50 years, A, do the right thing personally.
Do the right thing, right?
Because people know really what the right thing is.
Even if they don't do it, they rationalize.
And B, try to help your country.
All right, I got two serious topics.
Then I got to, I want to find out what Bill O'Reilly's Christmas is like, considering this is our last show of the year before Christmas.
All right.
So Brown University, here's what pisses me off about this, Bill.
Confronting Evil on Campus 00:10:01
Now, you and I over the years, and we've discussed it on the periphery, not too much detail.
We have had our fair share of death threats and incidences where we had to, you know, protect ourselves.
And so it's just basic common sense.
The world is dark and evil, hence confronting evil, your new book, which was number one.
And there's a lot of evil in the world.
Brown University has an endowment of over $8 billion.
They have spent a fortune on DEI programs.
Now, most people, it's very affordable to get high-tech AI security cameras with even facial recognition, and you could cover an entire campus relatively inexpensively like Brown University.
I've been to Brown University.
I've walked on the campus of Brown University.
How do you explain they didn't have cameras all over that university and around the perimeter of that university?
To me, that's unforgivable because we still don't have a picture of the face, the perpetrator, involved in this terrible incident.
Because they have poor leadership at Brown.
So in order to have cameras, you have to have a top-notch security force on the campus.
I'm sure they do have a security force, but I know it's not top-notch because if it were top-notch, then the leader of the Brown security force would have said, we ought to have security cameras.
So it's all about leadership in any of these preventive activities, not just at Brown, but any public place that carnage could occur.
You've got to have security, and you have to have people who know what they're doing.
Brown, obviously, the president of Brown should resign because he or she, I don't even know who it is, did not do their job.
Their main job is to not only educate, but protect their students from a variety of calamities.
You have to assume in this day and age, and this is every college campus, that something bad can potentially happen.
And you've got to be prepared.
And look, I know liberals will disagree with this.
I think you need armed security in every building of every school in the country.
Now, they could be undercover.
I would have metal detectors at every school in the country.
You want to stop school shootings?
I could stop school shootings.
You have retired police, retired military, give them a tax break if they work 15 hours a week.
I'm sorry, 15 hours a month every month for like five years, and they don't have to pay taxes, local, state, federal, for the rest of their life.
And we can keep every school safe.
Good idea or bad idea?
Good idea.
But remember, all schools, including the private colleges, are independent in the sense that their school boards, their local people elected to those seats, make those decisions.
I mean, the same people making the decision that men can play, biological men can play women's sports and go in women's locker rooms, those people?
And when you get back from Breg, look at what's happening out in San Diego, where there's a law they're enforcing not to tell parents whether their children are changing their names.
Well, that's what Tim Walz wanted to do.
He wanted gender-affirming care without parental consents, as though parents are potted plants.
Right.
You know, I do my YouTube commentary on him, on Walls, who is absolutely racist in the Somali thing.
And if people are interested in it, it's youtube.com slash Bill O'Reilly.
But I'm going, this is one of the most racist things I've ever seen.
And this guy was almost vice president of the United States.
I'm more cynical than you, and I don't doubt there is a racial component to it, there's no doubt, but it is institutionalized corruption.
But it's even worse than that.
You know what it is?
He was looking at a massive voting block, and he didn't want to piss them off.
And whistleblowers told him every freaking thing that was happening, and he turned a blind eye because he wanted the votes.
But after the fact, you would think he would apologize to the people of Minnesota.
Are you smoking weed?
Seriously, do you think that guy would ever apologize?
It's my job to analyze what he's doing.
He's blaming white.
Bill, you should be laughing.
If anybody knew about Bill Orr.
Bill O'Reilly doesn't even drink.
No, but my job is to analyze what he's doing.
And this is my money that the Somalis stole.
He's blaming white men for this crime.
All right, let me ask you about another topic.
I think this is so tragic.
I don't care about Rob Reiner's idiotic left-wing radical political views.
I just don't care.
What happened is horrible.
It's terrible.
And, you know, here's the problem.
And we both have Irish backgrounds.
Sure, within your family you had people that were alcoholics because I did.
Yeah, I had a grandfather and a cousin okay, so I could name a couple of people in my family that that had the disease, if you will, or had the gene, as some people say.
But whatever, everybody listening to this show knows somebody who has had to deal with somebody that has addiction issues either themselves or in their family.
It's horrible.
This kid was in and out of rehab 17 times and then, when he wouldn't cooperate, they said okay, we're not gonna help you.
And then he was homeless like three times.
He lived in three separate states Texas, New Jersey and Maine at one point homeless.
Um, I don't know what to make of it.
I mean, is there a defense there for this kid, for cold-blooded murder?
No, he's evil.
So you combine evil with uh, constant intoxication and this is gonna happen.
It's psychosis.
So yes, you feel sorry sometimes for addicted people, substance abusers, but if that person is evil in addition to being an addict, then you really, really have a problem.
What comes first?
The chicken of the egg?
Does all that drug use alter their brain and the chemistry in their brain and and they're inviting evil in every time they get wasted.
Yeah, but this, this kid anybody would do that to their parents is just evil.
So he's probably born way.
But then when you take drugs for 15 years, then you lose all ability to control yourself.
So tragic and unfortunately it's too common.
All right, i'm gonna move on to a fun topic because uh, we got to make it a little lighter-hearted as we head into the holiday.
Absolutely so.
For those that are um unaware uh, let me educate you and tell you Bill O'reilly refers to his children.
He has two really cool kids, all right as urchins, and they really are great kids and I know his, I know his kids.
I have two great kids.
I'm blessed beyond what I deserve.
And so what does Bill O'reilly do for the urchins?
What is the Bill O'reilly christmas like?
It's like you seem like a ba humbug kind of guy in real life.
Yeah, it's like it was 60 years ago.
So I have not changed christmas ritual since I was a boy in Left Town because it was so.
Uh, I don't.
I hate idyllic, it was.
So I hate the word magical.
I sound like Drew Barry more.
You do.
All you have to say is, well, we need a mama and you really go there.
I I, but we would go out.
Every house was welcoming, all the kids were there, hot chocolate, ods all over the place.
Everybody was caroling.
That's the way it was in the 1950s and it was so uplifting and everybody was in the same economic circumstance.
Talk about affordability, by god.
Anyway, I tried to capture that spirit that I knew when I was an urchin.
And believe me, I was one.
You were like, we would have been best friends as kids because I was probably way more incorrigible than you.
Way more.
But we weren't nasty or anything like that.
We just mischievous is the word.
Constantly getting in trouble.
I mean, when my poor prison guard mother would say, don't leave this house.
And I'd say, at 10 years old, you can't stop me.
Not good.
No, I would have pitched in cuffs myself.
When I was 12 years old, I'd light a cigarette in front of my parents.
12 years old.
How arrogant is that?
I would not have gone over with my father, but my parents smoked.
I mean, I'm like, you know.
No, no, no, no.
But anyway, the question you're raising is people in America respect Christmas more than any other holiday by far, even the 4th of July.
And the reason they do is because it brings a sense of calm and goodness.
So I wrote Confronting Evil, but I wrote it because I'm more interested in goodness.
And this is the time of year when that should descend.
So I set up a very simple Christmas taboo in my nice house on Long Island where there's three fireplaces going.
Bill's Favorite Christmas Music 00:13:37
There's the greatest Christmas albums going.
That's The Carpenters, Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole.
Oh, good.
Oh, that is pathetic.
I know.
The Carpenters.
The best.
We've only just begun to live.
Okay.
I've got Bill promised.
Please tell me it's better than this rendition.
Yeah, well, Henry, he's into it.
Dude, Johnny Mathis, the Carpenters?
What is wrong with you?
Yeah, yeah, I know you're interested in the Eminem Christmas album.
Is there such a thing as the Eminem Christmas album?
That's what you do.
That is not what I do.
What am I going to rep?
Yo, yo, yo, how you doing this Christmas?
Ho, ho, ho.
Yo, yo, yo.
I mean, what am I supposed to do?
I got a real belly laugh out of Bill O'Reilly.
That made my year.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to hold you over through the break, and I'll tell you why.
Okay.
Because Linda and I have been having a fight, and I'm just going to hold you for like two minutes.
I'm going to play you her Christmas music, although you kind of gave me an indication where you're headed with this, which really pisses me off.
But, you know, that's private, and it's okay.
It's Christmas.
I'm in a holly jolly mood.
And I just want to see which music you like better will give you a chance.
You get to be the deciding vote, okay?
On the other side.
All things simple, man, Bill O'Reilly, BillO'reilly.com.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
We will hit the phones after Bill is the tiebreak vote.
Next, 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, Bill O'Reilly, I guess it was going to be a tiebreaker, but you know what?
I'm not going to let you decide, Mr. O'Reilly.
I'm going to actually add your song.
I'm going to take one of your Carpenter songs, you know, your favorite Christmas music that you revealed embarrassingly in the last segment, The Carpenters.
We've only just begun to live.
You sing it.
You want to sing it?
Go ahead.
No, you, you see, Hanity, you are a bar.
I think Bill should sing it.
Bill, you sing it.
I can't.
Karen Carpenter is the best female vocalist.
She's great.
I'm not disagreeing.
I just like that.
It's sort of like saying you like the, you know, the Osmond family.
And Donnie Osmond was a cool guy.
I actually met him once.
Good guy.
I like Donnie and Marie, but if you listen to the pitch and the clarity of tone of Karen Carpenter, there is no one better.
No one better.
She had a beautiful voice.
By the way, that whole life story of hers is so tragic.
Yes, it is.
All right.
This is Bill O'Reilly's favorite Christmas music.
Let's play a little of it.
From now on, Give yourself a merry Christmas.
Make you tight gay.
All right, that's Bill O'Reilly's favorite Christmas music.
Now, let's play.
What's his name?
Burl Ives.
This is Linda's favorite Christmas music.
I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.
Have a Holly and Jolly Christmas.
And when you say you have to be a little bit more sick, I need bourbon listening to this.
Let's listen to your music.
All right.
Now, I think the best Christmas music by far, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamrollers.
Listen to this.
Just embrace this in your soul.
All right, sweet baby James.
Who are you voting for?
Well, Rush introduced us to Mannheim Steamrollers.
You know, the Trans Siberian Orchestra.
They're similar, but I mean, they're both great.
And Rush did, I mean, he put them on the map.
Well, ask Bill, who does it?
All right, Bill.
So now you have three choices.
And let me guess, you're going to stick with your choice.
But I'm going to run down the other two if you don't mind.
So the Siberian people are communists, so I can't vote for them.
Burl Ives is living in some kind of cabin up in the Rainy Lake of Minnesota.
So, I mean, I don't know what Holly Golly means.
No, it's Holly Jolly.
I mean, you're getting deaf in your old years.
He hits the golly, too.
No.
Okay.
No.
No.
Karen Carpenter and everyone listening.
Right.
I can't believe we got Bill O'Reilly to admit Karen Carpenter is his favorite singer.
I mean, that is priceless.
You can say Barbara Streisand.
She's an excellent.
But she belts everything.
Everything's belted by Barbara.
No way.
Karen Carpenter are amazing.
Aren't you impressed that I knew a Karen Carpenter song?
No.
Only just begun.
Man of all seasons.
You know, people.
I'm telling you.
You're right about that.
Guy, not you.
You know a lot about a lot of things.
The most important thing you know is that I'm the best guest that you have.
Oh, good grief.
Is it always got to go right back to you?
I mean, this is your favorite time of the week.
Admit it, Mr. O'Reilly.
You are bored.
If you didn't do this show, your life would be a boring, living hell.
Well, I don't know about boring, but the latter part might be true.
That's true.
Mr. O'Reilly, in all sincerity, to you, your children, not the urchins.
I don't know.
The only parent I know the calls are kid urchins.
I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.
God bless you and your family in the new year.
And I just hope you have a great vacation.
And I hope you and Linda do too.
You guys deserve the rest.
We're not going on vacation together.
No, thanks.
I need a break.
Holly Jolly.
No.
That's why she's going to be Holly Jolly.
She's trying to find Burl Ives and you'll be in Siberia.
By the way, I am in the Washington swamp today, Bill.
I don't stop working until the year really ends, and the president's given a White House speech tonight.
And it starts at 9 Eastern.
We're going to carry it on Hannity, and then we'll have full reaction after.
I know you'll be watching.
I will be.
And I appreciate you having me on all year.
It means a lot.
And we had a great year.
And you know what?
It's man, these are crazy times we're living in.
I'll tell you that.
Yeah, but I really, you and Linda have been very kind to me, so I hope you guys really enjoyed the season.
Merry Christmas, Bill.
Bill, I'm just going to work on your music selections.
What's your favorite band?
Do you have a favorite band before we go?
The favorite band would be the Beach Boys.
Oh, my God.
Timeless Americana.
Timeless.
Wow.
Wow.
Surf in USA.
Come on now.
All right.
We have a whole, we're now opening a whole Pandora's box of material for next year.
Mr. O'Reilly, God bless you.
Bill on a surfboard.
I guess.
All right.
Bill O'Reilly.
Thank you.
800-941-Sean.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we're going to put a poll on Hannity.com.
Whose Christmas music is the best?
At the top of the poll, it will be me, Sean Hannity, because it's my show.
Then it will be Linda.
Then it will be Bill O'Reilly, the Carpenters, and it's going to be, what's his name, Burl Ives or the Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Yeah.
So option B, duh.
No, option A, me.
Yes, I'm going to win.
I'm going to win.
How much do you want to bet?
$1,000.
In.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue on the other side.
Rhonda holding down the fort while I'm up here in freezing cold, the Washington swamp.
Although it's not as dangerous as it used to be, there's a discernible difference.
She's holding down the fort while I'm away.
We're here, obviously, for President Trump's address to the nation during my show, 9 p.m. Eastern tonight.
Hope you'll watch, and then we'll have a reaction.
Rhonda, I miss my free state of Florida even for one day.
Well, I can't blame you for that.
It's the best place on earth to live by far.
Not even close.
I want to say I really appreciate you.
And I think I just love you.
But the problem I'm having right now with you is the Christmas thing with to have a holly jolly Christmas.
My mother used to sing that my mother's gone now.
My family's gone.
And it just brings me back to my family.
And when you get down on that, it's like, wow, where's the peace?
Where's the love?
Where's the joy?
You're in Jesus' Jesus.
And, you know, your song is better because it's more Christmassy.
But then you make fun of.
Well, I mean, Christmas should be about Jesus, not Holly Jolly and Frosty the snowman.
It's amazing.
The family, though.
I mean, everybody has their own opinion, right?
I mean, it's fine.
You can jingle bellows your way all the way, you know, for your kids and make it all, you know, sunshine, rainbows, and cotton candy.
I'm just saying as an adult, I like to be moved by Christmas music that really was about the season and especially how deep Trans-Siberian Orchestra is.
Okay, if that's the case, then be about it, you know, and that's okay.
I like your song too.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting me be me and choosing who I really am inside.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you for accepting me for who I am.
Absolutely.
But the point is, the whole point is, is if you're going to be like that, then be like that.
Because Linda, man, you bastard, then you call people idiots.
It's almost hypocritical, and then you talk about...
I'd never call Linda an idiot.
No, no, you don't.
You never said that.
Linda, did I ever say that?
No, you.
You don't think she was talking about me.
She was talking about her.
A caller, an idiot.
When they hung up, he went, idiot.
And I went, you know, I understand.
Oh, no.
He's doing the Mark Levin impersonation when he does that.
Yeah.
Get off my phone, you big dope, you idiot.
I get it.
Okay, so anyway, Sean, I really love and appreciate you.
But Linda, you're a little hard on Linda, man.
You are.
Okay, let me tell you something.
Don't ever feel sorry for Linda.
Ever.
Ever feel sorry for Linda.
I'm like brass tacks.
I can take it.
No, it's not that.
That's what it is.
Linda, behind the scenes, you know, you hear one Linda, you know, the talk radio, New York, coffee, how you doing?
You know, and all the other words she uses.
But I'm just telling you, behind the scenes, she is poking and prodding and sticking and trying to piss me off every day on purpose.
Most days I succeed.
No, you don't.
I'm doing pretty good.
No, I'm very disciplined.
I have an impenetrable shield.
All right, Rhonda, God bless you.
Merry Christmas, by the way.
Bill, New Jersey, Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Mr. Hannity, how are you?
I'm good, Mr. Bill.
What's going on?
Just following up on the whole shriek metal Christmas tunes thing.
I was wondering, what's next?
Like hip-hop, dingle bells?
Oh, we did hip-hop with O'Reilly.
Yo, yo, yo, ho, ho, ho.
I mean, I don't know.
Does that work?
Yeah.
No, but I just wanted to say, I love Trans-Siberian, Love Mannheim.
I love, you know, you see quality musicianship there.
But to me, it's about the words and what you're hearing in these songs.
That's why I always go back to the great albums that have been done over the years.
And my all-time favorite, one of my family's all-time favorite, Nat King Cole, without a doubt.
The quality of the production, the way he sings things.
No, I mean, okay, you can't match that voice.
That voice is amazing.
How great was it when his daughter and they did that duet together, Unforgettable?
And then they did it together?
I mean, was that not one of the greatest remixes of all time?
Unforgettable Nat King Cole 00:01:24
And they pull it up.
Nothing.
If you had a top five list of greatest produced and put out their songs of all time, Unforgettable is one of them.
So good.
We agree on that.
Nat King Cole.
Yeah, absolutely.
The Nat King Cole Christmas album, just have a listen to it.
There's some great uplifting songs, the traditional songs and things like that, but the way he sings, his voice, the words.
And, you know, Rush always said words have meaning.
Rush was right.
We miss him this Christmas season, don't we?
I mean, he was the one that introduced the world.
I mean, he really put Mannheim's steamroller on the map as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, appreciate you.
Where's Unforgettable, Lethan?
Where are you slipping?
Do you have this is with Nat and his daughter?
Just a little turn.
Unforgettable.
That's what you are I'm so near I mean, what's amazing, I mean, she cut that after her father had passed away, and they put this together like they're singing in a duet.
It's beautiful.
Just amazing.
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