Sean Hannity dismisses Super Bowl halftime show debates, mocking boycotts while praising Christian Gonzalez’s defensive plays. He shifts to Savannah Guthrie’s $6M Bitcoin ransom demand for her mother, questioning its authenticity and law enforcement’s response. Economically, he touts Trump’s record stock highs, dropping gas prices, and tax cuts, contrasting with Democratic policies like anti-ICE riots and L.A.’s socialist mayoral candidate. Highlighting Iran’s nuclear defiance and Elon Musk’s $20M GOP donations, Hannity frames Trump’s election push as necessary, accusing Democrats of hypocrisy in selective outrage and prioritizing divisive issues over real solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
If you want to be a part of the program, it's 800-941 Sean.
If you want to join us, I know that some people probably expect me to get all worked up and all outraged over the Super Bowl.
I don't care.
I just don't.
And I've just kind of come to expect that, you know, they seem to thrive on building these controversies and what I would argue is woke and DEI and all that sort of thing.
None of this surprises me.
You know, I don't care if it's Green Day.
I don't care if it's Bad Bunny, affectionately referred to on this program as Bugs Bunny.
I just don't care about much of any of it at all.
I was hoping for a good game, and it was anything but a good game, which frustrated me.
Nobody really wants to see a defensive game.
And that's what it mostly turned out to be.
And everyone wants to get involved in the controversial side of it.
Look, I made a decision a long time ago, and I'm glad I made my decision.
And that is that if you don't like something, you don't have to watch something.
Because I knew that maybe some of you would want to talk about it in the course of the program today.
Knew that it was going to be controversial going into it.
And Turning Point had their alternative halftime show.
So I kind of watched both together while I was fixing food, which is all I really care about the most on Super Bowl Sunday anyway, but that's a different story for a different day.
And I've always just believed in freedom.
And what does that mean?
This show has never supported boycotts.
We've never called for firings.
We don't call for cancellations.
And the bottom line is you get to vote and decide if you want to see something or not see something.
When I tuned into the Turning Point halftime show, they were at least on their YouTube channel only, but they were also on Rumble and a bunch of other platforms.
So I don't know what the total number was, but they had 5 million on that one platform watching in real Kid Rock and others in real time.
And then I'm watching everyone else's outrage to it.
I just like, okay, let me heat up some wings and let me pull pork.
I care more about the food that I made.
I was more happy with that part of it.
You know, one thing that really, maybe it's just the way my mind works.
There are other things that I found fascinating about the Super Bowl that, I mean, I really wanted to see Drake made play better.
Sam Darnell, I thought, did play a little bit better.
He threw some really tight passes.
You think Sam Darnold played well?
I thought he played pretty well considering it was a defensive game.
I mean, I think both defenses were phenomenal.
If it wasn't for the, what's the guy's name?
Is it Gonzalez?
I think.
Christian Gonzalez.
Christian Gonzalez, I mean, he stopped at least three touchdowns single-handedly.
I mean, I thought he played phenomenal.
He was great.
Yeah, if the Patriots had won, he might have been the MVP of that game.
No, that's true.
I think he might have been the MVP of that game.
And I know you love football, too.
But those plays were pretty spectacular.
I thought Drake May did have two good moments.
I mean, late in the game, unfortunately, but they were not able to get off the line.
They just couldn't get a first down.
What did they go?
Six, you know, they had no points in a row.
It was crazy.
It never happened before, I don't think, or maybe one other time.
It was never, I think there was only one other game where there was no touchdown through three quarters.
You know, I often think of the Super Bowl as kind of being anticlimatic anyway because we had all these great games leading up to it.
I think we are both in the same camp.
We care about the football side of it more than the other noise surrounding it.
But look, my personal, if anyone asked me my advice, I would be the most inclusive halftime show ever and understand that you don't want to get involved in politics.
I think this is the last thing that should be injected in any event like the Super Bowl.
You want to include as many people in the Super Bowl.
I didn't even think the commercials were as great as they usually are.
Did you?
Anything stand out in your mind?
I'm just about the game.
The commercials, like I was hoping for some decent movie trailers.
They didn't even do that this year.
I'm just kind of like, just give me the game.
I watch football.
I'm not interested in Manning Cast stuff.
Like, just give me the football.
No.
You know, look, this is a disagreement that I have with Linda.
Linda does believe in boycotts, and she's just, she had a family brunch.
How many Bloody Marys did you drink?
How many mimosas?
You know, I wanted to drink a lot more.
That was my whole goal, was to drink as many Bloody Marys as possible, but it didn't happen.
I had mimosas instead.
How many mimosas?
I have five.
It was wonderful.
Oh, Linda was hammered before halftime.
You know what?
It wouldn't have mattered if they watched or not.
It was the best thing.
It was the best thing in the world.
It was like the Super Bowl wasn't happening.
There was not even a figment of imagination of any mention of it in my home at any time.
It was wonderful.
It was absolutely.
I don't want to be like the Democrats.
Democrats, everything outrages them.
Outrage, outrage, outrage, outrage.
I'm not outraged by it.
I mean, I know that there are many people that were.
I'm not.
Well, if you read the Bad Bunny lyrics and you're not outraged, I need to.
I saw the lyrics.
I've read the lyrics.
I understand, but nobody under nobody I is nobody that I knew that liked the halftime show.
And I think that's their mistake.
I think they ought to put on an entertaining halftime show.
One way you could do it, you could have different genres of music.
For example, you know, have a rap singer have, you know, have Green Day or U2 or something like that.
You could put a country artist up there, classic rock guy up there.
Heck, yep, never happened, but even a Christian contemporary singer up there, whatever.
Maybe they don't want that.
Roger Goodell was hugging Bad Bunny like he was a long-lost brother after that performance.
And not to mention the fact that if you look at it.
Well, you live in a free country and you don't have to watch it.
You can, you know, you can watch the puppy bowl.
I didn't tell you.
I love the puppy bowl.
Of course you'd love the puppy bowl.
I do love the puppy bowl.
Actually, because I know you watch it, I actually tuned in for a few minutes to watch the puppy bowl.
It's a mess.
It's a complete mess.
The dog's not going to be a bad person.
It's the best.
But it's the best kind of mess.
It's sweet.
It's fluffy.
It's kind.
It's all things America.
I'm like, oh, finally, something nice.
I didn't tell you I'm in the process of getting a new dog.
Oh, you are?
Oh, congratulations.
Breaking news now.
Except this dog's going to be super trained by the time I get it.
You don't have to train them.
You give them love.
Uh-uh.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
I am an expert on all things animal.
I love my own.
Okay, that is fake, phony, fraudulent news.
You're worse than fake news media.
My dog Winston was one of the most amazing, well-behaved living creatures that ever walked this earth.
And let me tell you something.
I never trained him for one second.
Yeah, never did.
Okay.
Well, that's the problem.
Most people don't know how to train their dogs.
You got to train them.
It's all about not knowing how.
It's about loving something and showing them kindness, and they will return with kindness.
Okay.
That is a big part of being a loving dog owner.
What kind of dog is it?
I'll tell you when it's time.
When the announcement comes.
But Lawrence Jones is like, he's got the greatest team of trainers ever.
And this dog is special.
This dog is athletic.
It is smart.
This dog is.
Oh, you're not rescuing a dog?
Of course not.
Ah, gross.
I'm sorry.
I've had a rescue dog.
There are so many dogs that need love.
And you're going to buy a dog?
And the one I have needs love.
And it's already born and it's alive.
So, yeah, I'm going to rescue that dog and bring it to my house and love on it and take good care of it.
This dog is, I'm telling you, when you get to see this dog finally and I introduce the dog to the world, this dog is amazing.
It is a very special dog.
Celebrating Hope00:05:06
Let me get to it.
We have, and later on in the program, we'll have our friend Nancy Grace.
We do have a lot of updates.
I don't know what to make of this.
And I probably listened to the message of Savannah Guthrie alongside her brother, Cameron, and her sister Annie.
And I've talked to a lot of people.
And there's a lot of stuff that I think is going on that the public is not aware of.
And I really don't want to go there.
But it's so cryptic, this message, and it's so obvious to me that it was crafted by law enforcement.
Savannah Guthrie is a broadcaster.
She's more than capable of putting forth, you know, a message to somebody that might be holding her mom, kidnapping her mom, and holding out for ransom for her mom.
But it says, I want you to hear it because so many people have opined to me about it.
And I know people interpret it different ways.
I don't really know what to make of it because on the one hand, I'm thinking, uh-oh, you know, this doesn't sound good.
I didn't like the presentation of it in terms of the tone.
I'm not anything bad against her, them.
It's just they were doing what law enforcement is telling them to do, but meaning that what the ultimate outcome may be, there's part of this that made me feel pessimistic, and then part of it that gave me some hope for them.
And this is why we say on this program, every life does matter.
And I think anybody with a heart and a soul and a conscience wants her mother to be returned safely to her family.
And before I play, we beg, well, she went on to say, we received your message and we understand.
That's somewhat cryptic.
Is it another message besides the ones that had been made publicly?
We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
Now, the word celebrate, in many people's mind, they think, well, a celebration of life, meaning that maybe they believe that she's not alive.
But it says celebrate with her, which gives me hope.
This is the only way we will have peace.
This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
And that's the end of it.
Let me play it.
We received your message, and we understand.
We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her.
This is the only way we will have peace.
This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
Now, I don't know why this would even be controversial.
This has got to be a family decision.
I totally support their decision in paying.
We now know what the amount is.
It's $6 million to free her mother.
And, you know, for example, there was one former FBI National Academy leader who he oversaw the National Academy of the FBI, Michael Harrigan, who said, proof of life is everything.
They need to have a dialogue, and the family's looking for a dialogue.
The problem is, as of 5 o'clock Tucson time, which is, you know, 7 o'clock Eastern time, tonight, that deadline passes.
And if there's no two-way communication, what this guy is arguing, you know, no good comes from sending the money, except that, you know, do you want to, as a child of a mother, you know, to do everything humanly possible, everything within your power to get your loved one back?
And what would you do to make that happen?
And obviously, she's in some position between herself, her siblings, her place of work.
I'm sure she's not going to have a hard time raising the money, apparently wants to be paid in Bitcoin, et cetera.
There are a bunch of other developments that I don't know what to make of.
I'm not sure why the car was removed.
I'm not sure why law enforcement keeps returning to the home.
I'm not sure why they were, you know, poking down into a septic tank on the property.
I'm not sure what to make of any of it.
And I'm just, my hope and prayer for that family and for any family is that they get their loved one back and that, however, that, and whoever's responsible for this gets brought to justice.
You know, this is why I say every life absolutely matters.
You know, this is my big criticism of the Democrats.
They couldn't stand for Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nungarry's families.
Why not?
It shouldn't be political.
Life shouldn't be political.
That's why we highlight the number of people shot, shot, and killed in Chicago because we want it to end because we believe those lives are precious.
That talent is God-given.
And that's why we want people that have been unvetted, the worst of the worst, allowed in our country to be removed.
And we applaud the good, dangerous work that ICE has been doing under heavy criticism.
Amazing Times00:03:25
I mean, amazing times that we're living in, I'll tell you that.
All right, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I guarantee you, if you did eat for the Super Bowl, if you would have eaten at my house versus Linda's house, you would have preferred my food over her food any day.
That I can promise you.
Although maybe you would have liked mimosas, which I don't like mimosas either because it's made with champagne, which I think is gross on top of everything else.
800.
Did you like champagne, right?
I love champagne.
I could drink it all day.
Yesterday I did.
The bubbly.
What kind of champagne did you drink?
Expensive.
Oh, God.
I drank Prosecco.
I didn't drink champagne.
I drank the cheap stuff, but it was delicious.
By the way, Jason, grab the song by Kid Rock Till You Can't, if you don't mind, if you're able to pull that up.
Yeah, you see, one of the reasons I just, and my phone was blown up during the halftime show, and people, you know, are angry.
And I'm like, well, I mean, there are choices that you can make in life.
You don't have to watch the halftime show.
You can just watch the game or you can watch Turning Point.
Kid Rock performed.
I never heard this song Till You Can't.
And I thought, wow, I think it was one of his best songs ever.
There's kind of a little shock in the music industry.
Where's this from?
Benny Johnson posted this, Linda.
What website is that from where apparently Kid Rock's song, Till You Can't, is number one, and Bad Bunny's song is number three.
I thought that was.
Right, so he's looking on, it looks like he's on iTunes and he's looking to buy the song.
And so right now, Kid Rock is beating.
Yeah, it's Apple.
So if you go to Apple Music and you look at the number one song in the world right now, it's Kid Rock and not Bad Bunny.
And Gabby Barrett, didn't she perform too?
I think.
I think so.
I forget.
I don't remember everything.
You know, but I was watching both simultaneously, and I could not stop listening to that song until you can't.
Let's play a little of it.
You can always put a rage in his hand until you can't till you can.
You can keep putting off forever with that girl whose heart you hold.
Swearing that you'll ask someday further down the road, you can always put a dime on her hand.
I mean, until you can't.
I mean, and this is the precarious nature of life.
It just made me think of all that.
And, you know, if you've ever lost a loved one, you know what that's like.
And, you know, what's also interesting about that is it was Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett.
Gabby Barrett is number four on this, which I think is pretty amazing.
So, you know, this is why I say, I know that everybody wanted me to get worked up.
I did not get worked up.
And I think that's what Democrats do all the time.
Americans' View on Taxes Improves00:11:37
They bubble and fizz like Alco Celts over everything that Donald Trump says.
And if they don't want to hear him, they don't have to listen to him all the time.
But they like hate listen and they can't stop.
And they're addicted to it.
And, you know, one of the beauties of liberty and freedom is you live in a free society.
You get to make your own choices in life about the music you listen to, the shows you watch.
I hope it's Hannity.
And the radio shows you listen to and the podcasters that you like, whoever it happens to be, you get to decide.
We are seeing massive, there's going to be an explosion in the economy.
And I'm making that firm prediction.
I know the Dow hitting 50,000.
That's never been my measuring stick.
However, when you have between the NASDAQ SP and the Dow Jones, you have over 100 record sets since Donald Trump has become president.
It's something to pay attention to because, you know, people's net worth, wealth has gone up significantly.
I think the most impactful measure that is really benefiting Americans, first and foremost, is the price of a gallon of gasoline.
Now, many states, even below $2 a gallon, most states below $3 a gallon.
And we were paying $4 and $5.
And only states like California with their ridiculously high gas taxes because of green new climate alarmers, alarmist religious cultism.
It's crazy.
But, you know, now we're beginning to see more Americans expect the economy to improve the next six months.
49% of those surveyed said that they were optimistic about economic growth.
Only 36% pessimistic by a 50 to 25% margin.
Americans now have a more positive than negative view about the stock market.
And Americans are more likely to predict that interest rates will go down.
And I think they will.
The president is predicting the Dow might hit 100,000 by the end of his term.
That's how much growth he wants.
When you have trillions of manufacturing, largest tax cuts in history, that's another area.
You're now noticing this year, people have more take-home pay, and people are paying less in taxes.
And especially if you're in the service industry, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
Not sure why the unions have been out there, you know, as fueling a lot of this chaos as it relates to illegal immigration because when you have more people in the workforce that are here illegally that are willing to work for lower wages, they're competing with Americans for American jobs.
A new survey by the New York Fed shows Americans are more optimistic also about inflation and jobs.
Anyway, Americans grew less worried about the near-term path of inflation and hiring in January.
And, you know, that's all going to hit, I'd say, no later than the third quarter of this year.
U.S. consumer sentiment increased to a six-month high in February.
University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, you know, the highest reading since last August from a final reading of 56.4 in January.
Economists, you know, had forecast only 55%.
It's 57.3.
That's a big difference.
The ICE battle continues, you know, the battle over ICE.
You know, this is going to be an interesting fight that I think really takes place this week, and that is that if the left wants to shut down the Department of Homeland Security and they want to defund ICE, I'm willing to have that fight.
If Republicans are smart, they need to get Democrats on record on the SAVE Act, which would, you know, force people to have proof of citizenship, legal ID, and it would eliminate a lot of mail-in ballots, et cetera.
I think that's a good vote to have.
I think defunding ICE, if the Democrats want to now expand out from defund, dismantle, no bail laws, defund the police, reimagine the police, fine.
I'm okay with that debate.
They already voted for the largest tax increase in history.
They've already showed that they think it's the cost of democracy to buy into climate alarm-ism.
And if they want to be the party of chaos and not the party of law and order, then I think that that sets up the biggest choice midterm election will ever have in our lifetime.
Democratic-backed anti-ICE riots are costing Minneapolis businesses $20 million a week, K-A-R-E-1.
Operation Metro Surge enters its third month.
Minneapolis City officials say its economy is reeling.
Of course it is.
And they're not doing anything but putting fuel on the fire.
And all Democrats keep asking for is they want to either abolish ICE outright.
ICE agents currently do not need a judicial warrant to arrest someone suspected of being in the country illegally.
They want to stop them.
They want to unmask agents.
I don't have a problem with body cams.
I think those are actually good things for agents, you know, in the end for their own personal safety.
And they want to go into this whole effort.
And, you know, you have Jerry Natler out there.
I mean, the amount of rhetoric is so incendiary.
I was surprised justthheenews.com.
Labor unions leading the anti-ICE resistance, but they once opposed illegal immigration because labor unions wanted to protect American jobs, high-paying career jobs.
Now, a lot of that's going to come online anyway because we're now moving into manufacturing on steroids and human growth hormone because we never had trillions of dollars in committed investments in manufacturing for automobiles, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor chips, and also mining for rare earth minerals.
Those are going to be really high-paying career jobs.
The jobs in the energy sector are going to be high-paying career jobs.
And that's going to be great for the American people.
That's going to be great for working men and women.
What is a high-paying job?
It makes all the difference.
It makes the difference between being able to afford a home and not being able to afford a home.
It makes the difference between being able to buy a safe car or truck for you and your family.
It makes a difference.
Maybe you can take a family vacation.
Maybe you can go out to eat and not have to worry about the cost of going out to eat.
The Democratic socialist candidate for L.A. mayor wants to disarm the police and close all jails.
And I thought Mamdani was bad.
I thought it couldn't get any worse.
L.A. City Council member Raymond announced she is running for mayor in a surprise bid that pits her against her ally, former ally, I guess, Karen Bass.
Karen Bass just came out with this watered-down version of what happened in the Pacific Palisades.
But, you know, Michael Goodwin points out the Democratic Party we once knew is dead.
He's not wrong.
That's why Hakeem Jeffries is getting more extreme.
That's why Chucky Schumer is getting more extreme.
You know, asking for voter ID somehow evolved into Jim Crow 2.0.
It was funny.
If you look at the critics, the movie Melania, you know, the critics' score was 6%.
Audience rating, which is Rotten Tomatoes, is the 99% audience rating.
And they're like, oh, people must be stacking the deck.
And Rotten Tomatoes said, no, we're not.
That's what the rating is.
Good news, Elon Musk is back in the political fray, and he's injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the midterm elections.
He's already given $20 million to two top Republican groups by the end of 2025, according to federal filings.
One $10 million donation into the Kentucky Senate race, signaling that he could play a pivotal role in the fight for Congress.
I think that would be great.
Hakeem Jeffries pressed on the Democratic opposition of voter ID.
Why would you be against voter ID?
Why would you be against that?
But I mean, Burger is a good example.
They have a requirement to show your ID, and Democrats won very, very handily across the way.
So why not maybe even just take that off the table and say, okay, maybe not a passport or birth certificate, but show ID.
Well, first of all, every state is empowered to be able to make the decision on their own, and we completely and totally support that.
What Donald Trump wants to do is try to nationalize the election.
Translation, steal it, and we're not going to let it happen.
We're not going to let it happen.
Why would you be against that?
Why would anybody be against that?
By the way, just the news also: broke bureaucracies, America's five largest U.S. cities don't have enough money to pay their bills.
You want to guess which cities they are?
Oh, Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York City.
New York City leading the way.
California pushing this billionaires tax, which is a wealth tax.
This is money post-paying taxes.
Another bite at the apple, basically wealth confiscation, is chasing billionaires and with it, all of the money they generate.
It's ridiculous.
Blaine is in Texas.
Hey, Blaine, how are you?
What's going on?
Dan Eddie, it sure is a pleasure to talk to you.
Longtime listener.
First time I've had the pleasure of talking to you, my friend, down here in the great state of Texas.
We sure love you, brother.
What's going on?
We love Texas.
God bless Texas.
What's happening?
Love to hear that.
Hey, man, I just wanted to thank you for shouting out to Kid Rock last night.
What a beautiful rendition of Till You Can't.
I wanted to give credit to Cody Johnson, one of our fellow South Texas guys that wrote that song and sang it.
And Kid Rock covered it last night.
What an amazing, what an amazing rendition.
And that verse that he added to it was super special.
It was just something that really hits you hard, especially with faith and family that we're talking about with everything going on in the world.
Cody is, when you see Cody in concert, he talks about faith.
He talks about family.
He praises our first responders, our law enforcement, our military.
And, man, he sure, Kid Rock sure tied it in last night, my friend.
Yeah, I thought especially, I thought that was a great way to end their halftime show.
I liked it.
I thought it was well done.
Again, everybody's got choices.
They really do.
I find this amazing.
Iran trying to reject a U.S. demand to halt all enrichment.
They don't have a nuclear program, although they're trying to rebuild their missile sites.
And I don't really think they're in a position to negotiate.
Go back to Zelensky in the Oval Office with President Trump.
What did he say?
You don't have any cards here.
U.S. calling for Americans to leave Iran immediately.
But, you know, obviously, you know, the only thing they really have to negotiate is when they're going to leave.
That's the only thing I see that they have to negotiate.
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