Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly revisit their Fox News friendship, debating Stephen Colbert's anti-Trump mockery and Barack Obama's alleged socialist ambitions to control the Democratic Party. They discuss upcoming China trips with President Trump, contrasting O'Reilly's surveillance fears with Hannity's personal experiences in Vietnam and Singapore. The segment concludes with caller Charlie praising Hannity as a truth beacon while warning of security lapses involving DEI personnel at recent presidential events. [Automatically generated summary]
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Obama Media Comments00:14:38
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Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I know this is your favorite day of the week.
Yeah, I'm the same, which is tragic for everyone.
No evolution at all.
By the way, what the hell is up with you and Cuomo?
I mean, why doesn't Cuomo just listen to what you have to say?
Why does he feel he has to debate you?
Because he's not going to win that debate, in my opinion.
Well, thanks for the compliment, I think, but, you know, his job is to be a provocateur, challenge.
You and I both do that.
So I don't have any beef with him at all.
I mean, I think the segment works.
I know you don't have a beef with him.
I know it's not personal, but.
You know, actually, you know, what people don't know, we've discussed this on air before, is that when we worked together at Fox, I mean, you were kind of a jerk to me and we didn't get along.
And now we became really good friends, you know, since you left.
And I've come to really understand and admire you.
You like to put on this tough guy image, but you're not the tough guy you project to be.
You're just not.
I may have to commit suicide after that comment.
And the other part of it is, Nobody knows that you're actually way more funny than people would expect.
You are funnier than people know.
Yeah, but that's a low bar.
That's true.
By the way, what is the bar?
Colbert and Kimmel?
I mean, that would be a low bar.
Well, they don't do humor anymore, and we discussed this last week.
And it's not just Kimmel.
They're just haters.
They just hate across the board.
And that's what I object to.
I don't care about dissent or mocking politics.
That doesn't mean anything to me at all.
But when you devote your whole life to hating, whether it be Jews or blacks or Donald Trump, whatever it may be, that's wrong.
And it should be called out.
All right.
So let me call you out on something.
So I want to play for you.
You know, whenever I brought up the issue, and you've interviewed Barack Obama a number of times, and, you know, you will say decent things about him.
Which infuriates me because I think it was one of the worst presidents in our lifetime.
I want to play for you him praising Zoran, Marxist, Kami, Mamdani as an extraordinary talent and then trashing the president.
Listen.
You look at somebody like Mamdani, who I think is an extraordinary talent, he wants people to be able to afford housing in New York.
Well, you know, I would assume liberals and New York wants the same thing.
That's like spread the wealth around.
Remember Joe the plumber back in the day, and Obama said the quiet part out loud, and it became a big controversy because that's what he's always believed.
And now, although he is claiming that his marriage is apparently suffering somewhat because he feels compelled to go out and campaign and be involved in politics because of Donald Trump, and his wife apparently is very angry at the fact that he does that.
Okay, a couple of things on President Obama.
Number one, he's always believed in semi-socialism.
I remember a go-around I had with him on one of the Super Bowl interviews where he said, Hey, you didn't do that, Bill.
You're not responsible for your success, which I just think is, number one, it's insulting.
And number two, you know, look, if you think Cuba is a great system, then you ought to go over and spend a few months there.
And so he's always been in that realm.
Of, yeah, the government is so responsible for individual success that you owe the government all of this stuff.
So that's a mindset, and he's had the mindset.
Then that's why he doesn't condemn Mandami.
He knows Mandami is dangerous.
And this is the second point I want to make.
What Barack Obama is doing now is trying to take over the Democratic Party.
And I know this to be true.
So he sees a dearth of leadership.
He sees no one on the horizon who could become president in 28.
No one.
On the Democratic side.
He doesn't have any respect for Kamala Harris at all or Joe Biden.
Never liked them, thought they were buffoons, and wants to get away from them.
But he wants to be the king maker.
Whereas that's why you're seeing him pop up now taking the shots, and he did Colbert last night.
It was ridiculous.
It was just a whole foolish, ridiculous thing.
Colbert goes, Well, maybe I should run for president.
Well, maybe you should self deport to Lithuania.
Okay, Colbert, my God.
So that's what Barack Obama's agenda is.
Now, I don't know anything about his marriage.
I would never comment on that.
We don't do that.
You don't do that.
You know, Hannity and O'Reilly, one of the two, one of the few, I should say, that don't get into the gutter.
We don't do this stuff.
I don't get into it, but it was a comment that he himself made.
That Michelle wants her husband to ease up on the politics and spend more time with her, which I actually would think would be a noble goal.
And I've never said a bad word about their children.
As a matter of fact, I've complimented them.
They seem like good kids because I think it's very hard for children to grow up in the White House and be under the scrutiny that comes with that.
Look, whatever's going on between Barack and Michelle Obama is their business.
I have no.
Insight into it, nor do I want to intrude into it.
That's why I believe I've been successful all these years, and you too, because we don't get down in the gutter.
That's not in the gutter.
I mean, I'm just making an observation based on his comment about that topic.
You should see the social media on it.
I'm sure it's.
By the way, social media is cancer, it's vile, it's awful.
Do you actually read this stuff?
No, but it's translated to me.
I can barely turn my cell phone on as far as reading stuff.
That the trend in the United States is away from traditional linear information flow into this unregulated, savage land of social media where there are terrible things being said.
And I don't want to be a part of it.
You know, it's very interesting.
There was Barrett Media recently did a study.
About radio, and the one format by far that has retained its audience is talk radio, and that people have been loyal to the hosts that they like.
We're now on 760 stations and Sirius XM, and we podcast it, and we're pretty much everywhere.
And Fox News Channel, you see the ratings every day.
I mean, the numbers are remarkable, especially considering the attrition levels in terms of cable watching, but people are watching now on YouTube.
I went into the podcast spaces, although I didn't name it, we'll do it live like you did.
And I will tell you, it's been a huge success out of the box.
And I like the idea of people being able to find me everywhere, wherever they are, and then also having the opportunity to bring in new people to what it is that we do because I think people want smart, intelligent conversation, you know, not this vitriol that people spew every day and these conspiracies that people are making their money on.
It's awful.
Yeah, I'm doing the same thing that you're doing.
We both have long form now.
And the reason is that.
There is a segment, a large segment of the population that doesn't want to sit through commercials, doesn't want to sit through television programs any longer.
My kids never watch them.
And they are attracted.
Bill, you should insist that they watch Hannity every night at nine.
I don't get that.
I have them tied up.
They have to watch it, David.
I appreciate it, Bill.
I hope they're a Nielsen family at the same time.
Right.
But you know what I'm talking about here.
We've established the Fox News channel because both Hannity and I were the genesis of it.
We were there first day.
We've established that in the minds of the American public and the world.
But now it's very hard to do that.
And the only way these people can get attention on social media is to say the most outrageous, heinous things about other human beings.
And it's just not worth it.
And when I speak to President Trump, I speak to him.
Get down a little bit.
You don't need to, you know, make the personal attacks because you're the president.
And the president is elevated just by his job, just by the performance.
Now, he's not going to listen to me.
I know, but at least I'm trying.
Well, I've had the same conversation with him.
I, you know, the way I've said it to him is we don't need to hear every thought that goes through your head.
And I think I said it after he made comments about Rob Reiner after that horrible incident occurred.
He made similar comments after Mueller.
But with that said, that has been the person that's been on the world stage for 11 years, and I don't think you're going to change Donald Trump and who he is.
And I think people have pretty much come to accept that that's who he is.
And it's a very fascinating dynamic because he's right in a way.
He could have never done and accomplished what he's accomplished without being bombastic, without being unpredictable, without taking on perceived enemies the way he does.
He could have never done it.
I've got a question for you because you recently went to China.
Next week, I will be in China.
I'm going with the president on his trip to China.
Now, I can't take my own phone.
I'm told I can't even bring it on the plane.
So I'll be using a fake phone.
What do you call that?
A burner phone.
Right.
Now, any advice?
So this is what I've been told.
And I've been told that my room is going to be bugged, that they're going to watch me taking a shower.
And that I better be on my best behavior, which I am anyway.
And I'm like, why would they care about me taking a shower?
Do you believe that's true?
Yeah, that's bold.
They're not going to take you a video of you taking a shower.
There is audio, though, that you're going to have to negotiate around.
And that's part of it.
You mean if I call Bill O'Reilly next week, it's going to be what?
They're going to record every word?
Well, I'm serious about this.
If you're over there, I'm your first call because I'll get my boys in there to fix your problem, whatever it may be.
I'm with Donald Trump.
I mean, how is it that I have to call Bill O'Reilly when I have the president?
That I'm sure is not going to take off with me left behind.
No, but he's busy.
And I'm not.
He's busy.
You're not busy.
So I had a caller yesterday say to me, begging me not to go, thinking that something terrible may happen to me.
Now, look, we're on God's time in this world.
And whenever God calls us home, he calls us home.
And I said, well, if that happens, please know I'm very grateful to all of you in this audience.
I love all of you.
I'll pray for all of you.
And I'm very grateful for an undeserved life that you gave me.
And I have one message.
Please keep up the fight in my absence.
That was my message.
What's going to happen to you in China?
The security apparatus there is so tight that they're not going to mess around with any Americans at all or give them a hard time, other than what they usually do, which is surveil you.
So, from the moment you get in your Mercedes.
So, I'm going to be in a Mercedes.
All right, Bill.
I appreciate the update.
I have no idea what car.
Usually, I'm in a van.
And it's going to be driven by a security guy.
Okay, who's going to tell you that he's an Uber driver?
But he's not.
But anyway, the security apparatus is so tight over there that we don't have the freedom, they don't have the freedom that we have.
It could never be a dinner where Xi is in danger of being assassinated in China.
It just couldn't happen.
That's how tight they are.
But if anybody.
I've been trying to get an interview with President Xi.
If there's anything you can do to help me, now I helped you get a couple of interviews for your show.
If you can help me get an interview with President Xi, it'd be a perfect way to pay me back.
He's not going to do it, but I might be able to get you his second in command.
And you know, I mean, he's a former ambassador from China to the United States under Trump.
Listen, I got to roll, man.
We do appreciate you.
All things Bill O'Reilly or BillO'Reilly.com.
We appreciate you being with us, Bill.
Thank you.
All right.
Have a good trip.
I'll be interested to hear about it.
All right.
Quick break.
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Fear of China Travel00:05:33
Hannity is on right now.
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Sean Hannity is back on the radio right now.
Brian in Kentucky on the Sean Hannity Show.
Brian, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, thank you, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Well, thank you for checking in and glad you're out there.
What's going on?
Well, I heard your discussion yesterday.
You're going to take a trip to China and you just talked to Bill O'Reilly about that.
You're going to go to China next week.
And I heard the caller yesterday, you know, just talk about.
Um, how you, I don't know, that you ought to be afraid and maybe not go or whatever.
But I've been to China twice in recent years, and it was just a great experience.
Great experience.
Great people.
Now, what brought you to China?
Why'd you go?
Well, um, I went first of all in 2018 for basically sightseeing, and I had Chinese tour guides and all that stuff.
And then in 2024, um, I went there basically to just to let me just say, I went there to build relationships.
All right.
I mean, are you doing business with Chinese companies or what are you doing?
No, I won't go into it, I guess I shouldn't go into a lot of detail about why I went, but basically just to build relationships and had a great time doing that.
Great people there.
I mean, did you go to find a bride?
I mean, I don't know.
I have no idea how to interpret that.
Well, maybe there's different ways, but just to build relationships.
And I wouldn't want to say too much more than that because I wouldn't want to get my.
My Chinese friends there in any kind of trouble.
So it sounds like you went to find a girlfriend.
No, I'm happily married.
No, for I'm glad to hear that.
All right.
Yes.
I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm half kidding you, of course.
Okay.
Of course.
Look, I'm not worried about going there.
I'm never going to live my life in fear.
I just refuse to.
And there, there are people that do live their lives in fear.
And I think fear can paralyze a lot of people.
And if you're one of those people, You know, I would urge you to look at whatever it is that makes you fearful or anxious, and you've got to get over it.
You have got to be in a position in this world, in this life, and faith actually helps overcome fear.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Be not afraid.
I mean, I just put all of my hope in my Lord and Savior, and I believe that, you know, He's in charge of all of our lives, and He's in charge of when we live and when we die.
I'm not fatalistic about it.
I'm just realistic about it.
If he decides it's time for me to go home, I'm going home.
Nothing I can do about it.
Who, by taking thought, can add one second to their life?
The Bible says that too.
And the answer is we can't.
Yes, that's exactly right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
No, I'm looking forward to it.
I'm very aware that the Chinese will likely be spying on me and everyone else that's with the president.
And I'm not at all uncomfortable with that.
I had the same situation in Vietnam and Singapore and Helsinki.
And when I was in the Gulf States, I know for sure that I was being watched.
And I remember at one point, I think it was, I'm not sure you were on the trip.
I think it was Vietnam, Linda.
Remember we were in that weird hotel and everybody that worked in the hotel was a Chinese spy?
Yep.
Okay.
And we knew they were Chinese spies.
And at one point, I had my room swept and they found a bug in the room.
Not a bug bug.
I was with Sarah Carter.
We walked on them.
We walked in on them in the room.
I knew.
I knew.
Going through her stuff.
I was like, hello.
They're like, yeah, sorry.
We're on our way.
I'm like, oh.
Yeah, we're on our way.
Sorry.
We didn't mean to leave that bug there.
We didn't mean to find anything.
We left some presents.
Have a good night.
Yeah.
We left some chocolates for your bed.
But I knew that that was happening, and they paid very special attention to me, and I knew it.
So I had a burner phone, but I gave the president my number.
And at one point, I'm outside the hotel, and I'm talking to President Trump, and I said, just be aware that this is likely being listened to.
And if I gave you his answer, Verbatim, you would laugh your ass off.
It was so funny.
He doesn't care.
He sent a direct message to the people that were listening.
Let's put it that way.
It was funny.
I'll bet.
Anyway, Brian, I appreciate it.
Is there anything I should see if I have any?
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I doubt I'll have any time to do sightseeing.
Is there anything you'd recommend?
Oh, the Terracotta Warriors.
That's near the city of CN, but that's in the middle of the country.
And the Great Wall, of course.
I've been to the Great Wall twice, and that's a great experience.
You know, and I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Linda, you're going to think this is the strangest thing in the world.
I have an ability to go online and look at famous sites, and I feel like in my mind's eye that I can experience exactly how I would feel if I was in that space.
And I've been to places where I've done that before.
And then when I get there, it's exactly how I felt looking at it online.
And I usually go, you know, for my kids' sake or for other people in my life that want to go visit places.
And I'm like, it doesn't feel any different than what I looked at online.
Is that terrible?
What is wrong with me?
I don't know that it's terrible.
I think it's a little strange.
I mean, I know you've been in Europe.
Have you ever been to any like famous place in Europe and you're standing in it and you go, huh, that's a little different?
No.
Really?
No.
It's exactly as I imagine it in my mind's eye.
Okay, so here's a different example.
If you saw a picture of the ocean, do you think that's the same as standing on the sand in front of it?
That's a hard question to answer because I see the ocean every day.
But that's what I mean.
Like, you love the ocean.
So if you were, I don't know, let's say you were when we were in Alaska, right?
You're like, Alaska.
I really miss being home in the ocean.
And I said, Oh, don't worry.
Here, I got a picture.
Fit you right out.
There you go.
I mean, would that have been?
You know what I mean?
No, I would imagine how I would.
Feel if I was there, but it wouldn't take me away from the reality of where I was in the moment, which is it's freezing cold.
You know what I've been watching?
Gold Rush.
Did you ever watch that show?
Ask Ethan.
Yes, I watch it.
It's a great show.
Very interesting.
I think I was going to actually piggyback off of Linda.
I think that you can't watch those shows or Deadliest Catch or Wicked Tuna.
If you watch those shows, I think for you, it'd probably be different if you experience in real life.
The actual, you know, energy.
I know enough that I admire the guys that are in the, you know, out at sea in deadliest catch.
By the way, many of them had died.
Many people on that show have died because it's so dangerous as they, you know, are out there fishing and they go for, you know, these big crabs out there.
Wicked tuna.
I've been out tuna fishing.
I've caught a tuna before, been there, done that.
Love watching it.
Don't love, Don't love boats enough to want to go out for an entire day, never mind days on end.
And however, I admire the people that do it.
I admire the people in Deadliest Catch.
Black Pearl Island Tales00:04:45
I mean, they're gone for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time.
And I mean, when they pick up a pot and it doesn't have any crabs in it, I mean, I'm like heart falling for them.
You know, the number of problems these guys have with Gold Rush as, you know, they're trying to get dust of gold and, you know, they're just digging and digging and digging and digging.
And all of the equipment is constantly breaking.
It drives me up a wall.
I'm like, can't you guys buy new equipment every year?
Because this is ridiculous.
Every show, somebody's equipment breaks.
But that's what makes it exciting, in addition to the astronomical price of gold right now.
I mean, which is crazy.
No, I mean, all of my life, I never thought it would go that high or that crazy.
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Let us say hello to Charlie in Rhode Island.
Charlie, where in Rhode Island are you?
Hey, how's it going, Sean?
Thanks for taking my call.
What's going on?
Because I slipped out of work.
Where do you live in Rhode Island?
I live in Middletown next to Newport.
Okay, so you've been to the Black Pearl?
I used to bartend at the Clark Cookhouse.
Oh, wow.
Is the Black Pearl not the greatest clam chowder in the world or what?
Oh, come on, man.
It snows with a little cooking sherry.
Wow, dude, you're cold.
It's the best I've ever had in my life.
You can make it at home just by in the can and do a little cooking sherry.
No, I'm telling you, the can doesn't do it.
You can get frozen black pearl chowder, and that's great because it's actually made there.
But the can does not do justice to what you get when you go there.
We shared the same dumpster, we made ours from scratch.
Yeah, sorry.
It didn't compare to the Black Pearl.
What's going on?
First off, I wanted to say thank you.
I love your show.
You're a beacon of truth, and God bless you.
We need it.
Two, thank you.
Every morning, I'm driving to the post office in Providence, and I say a prayer.
I say a prayer, and I thank God for President Trump.
I thank God for his administration.
I believe in him.
I really do.
Until recently, I haven't been politically active.
That being said, with everything that's going on, I've got nothing but progressive fatigue.
The left, they just spew so much hatred.
And being a former Marine One security Marine, HMX, our security's never been penetrated.
And watching that video when that guy ran with that shotgun at the correspondence dinner, It just made me ill.
All it takes is one person to get lucky.
And it's really.
That's why I've been so critical of.
I'm not happy that the perimeter was as close to the actual ballroom.
I'm not happy they didn't have multiple perimeters.
I'm not happy that the whole hotel was not swept.
And it's the same problem we had in Butler and the same problems we've had at Trump International.
I'm like, when are we going to learn the lessons here, guys?
It's, you know, and I don't subscribe to the DEI, and I see the same people on the same personal detail.
And I can tell you, President Reagan had some guys up near Camp David that were squirrel chasers, and they looked like they could have played for the Washington Redskins.
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I'll just say that.
There was security back then.
I don't see it right now.
Well, let me remember he got shot too.
He got shot at the same hotel as the correspondence dinner.
I remember that.
I remember that.
I was in high school when that happened.
Well, Semperify, my friend.
Go to the Black Pearl, tell them Sean Hannity says hello.
I think they know me by now.
I was there once.
Nobody recognized me except people in the restaurant.
And then later I found out, oh, we didn't know you were there.
I'm like, well, I plug your restaurant constantly.
You ought to, you know, one bowl of chowder for free would have been appropriate.