WEBVTT - UFC, Knicks and America's 250th 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.880 Hour two Sean Hannity Show, toll free. It is eight 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:04.600 hundred and nine point one, Shawn, you want to be 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.720 a part of the program. So we had competing Americana 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:09.560 on display. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:10.160 Last night. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.640 We had the UFC at the White House, which was 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.040 I thought spectacular on every single level. And it was 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.239 a really cool moment. At the very beginning. I did 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.040 not expect it. I was not there, but I thought 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.680 it was worth I just it just kind of took 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:33.280 me by surprise. It was President Trump playing Ronald Reagan 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.600 a radio address from Flag Day June fourteenth, nineteen eighty 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.599 six before the UFC America two fifty and I want 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:43.200 to play it here. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.000 Nice fellow Americans. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.040 Today we celebrate Flag Day, the birthday of our stars 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.400 and stripes. So we think back over the history of 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.599 our nation's flag. We remember that the story of US 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.960 early years was often one of hardship and trials, sometimes 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.280 a fight for simple survival. It was two years into 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.760 the War of eighteen twelve when America seemed a teetering 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.720 on the edge of the feet. The British had already 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.640 taken our capitol and burned the White House. All it 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.280 stood between the British and Baltimore with the guns of 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:16.760 Fort McKenny. British bombardment lasted for twenty five hours, through 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:17.880 the dark hours of the night. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.000 The rockets fired and the bombs exploded. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.800 That a young American patriot named Key, felt captive aboard 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.000 a British ship, watched anxiously for some proof. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:33.679 Some sign that liberty would prevail. You can imagine his 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.440 joy when the next morning, in the dawn's early light, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.840 he looked out and saw the banner still flying, a 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.959 little tattered and torn, but still flying proudly above the ramparts. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.640 But with the birth of our nation, the cause of 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.000 human freedom had become. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.760 Forever tied to that flag and its survival. As the 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.000 American Republic grew imposperate and new stars were added to 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.720 the flag, the idea of freedom we were prospered when 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.760 the Rory Hills of Kentucky, to the shores of California, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.680 to the Sea of tran Croak beyond. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:11.120 The men and let us never forget they're honoring our flag. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.119 We honored the American men and women who have courageously 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.359 fought and died for it. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.480 These anniversaries remind. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.000 Us that the great American experiment in freedom and democracy 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.480 has really just begun, and they challenge us to match. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.480 That great and s of spirit in our own time. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.520 We are, after all, the land of the free and 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.440 the home of the brave. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.320 Now, there was a liberal alternative that was airing I 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.400 don't know where was that on Emma's Now or something, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.440 and a bunch of liberals crazy, I don't know, Jane 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:53.280 Fonda and Pete Midler and Joy Reid, and they had 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.960 their alternative, This is America two fifty to them, listen. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.880 Left because. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.799 No one is getting. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.000 Not this time. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:15.000 No one is getting left because time. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.680 How do we get there together? 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:18.480 Or never? 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:19.720 Get out? 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.600 All you fascist boues your bow? 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.800 You fascist downlu. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.680 Hey there, I am fascist. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.480 Let me put you straight. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.920 When you come for the rest. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.200 Of us, we'll fight you at the gate and you 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:37.120 will lose. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.920 You fascist down louse. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.280 I mean, they're singing at another big DNC event. Anyway, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 With all of that said, I love the fact that 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.160 this president loves sports as much as he does. Our 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.120 friend Stephen A. Smith could not believe that Donald Trump, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.240 lifelong Nick fan, showed up at you know, the first 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.000 game at the Garden. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:56.800 Game three. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.200 The Knicks did win the championship over the weekend, as 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.120 everybody knows, first time in fifty three years. Congratulations to 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.360 Knicks fans. But anyway, it was I just love the Americana. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.520 Now we're gonna have a series of events that we're 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.360 going to be going to and bringing you to radio 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.480 and TV that I think you're gonna like, I know 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.599 a lot of you and your families that you will 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.400 also be going to a lot of these events. Anyway, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.440 a great time. I think he's probably one of the 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.560 nicest people in broadcasting, if not the one of the 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.760 greatest sports analysts, play by play, you name it. He's 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.480 been there for every big sporting event for decades now. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.680 Jim Gray is with us a Fox News sports analyst, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.719 host of Westwood Ones Monday Night Football, and good friend 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.640 of mine. He also wrote the book Goats. He knows 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.719 every most dominant player in every sport ever. Mister Gray, sir, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:54.919 how are you. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.520 I'm great, Sean, thank you for that beautiful introduction. That's 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.000 so nice of you. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.679 One of the nicest guys I've ever met. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.479 And that's it's a compliment because it's not as common, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.800 be it political commentary or news commentary or sports commentary, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.080 there's a lot of intramural battling. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.640 Well, you know, I've not been involved in any of that. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.880 I've gotten along so much for so many years, coming 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.080 up on fifty years of this next year started in 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.600 nineteen seventy seven, So you know, I've genuinely looked at 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.920 other people's work. Bud Greenspan, who was the great documentarian 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.800 and historian for the Olympic Games, used to do all 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.840 those great simpls s he Owen's Returns to Berlin, the 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.680 last African Runner, the Wilma Rudolph story. Billy Frisk, the 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.000 first World War pilot to be in an Olympics, And 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.640 he said something to me one time that you know, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.680 took me, took me by surprise. And then I thought 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.960 about it and I thought, boy, isn't this beautifully he said. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.320 I knew I was good when I could look at 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.760 other people's work and admire it. I love looking at 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.520 my colleagues's work and admiring it. Stephen A. Smith, Mile Rico, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.200 Dan Patrick, all these people do all this work. Jim 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.560 Nantz is phenomenal, Joe Buck and you know what, they 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.160 do a great job. So we don't have to diminish 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.680 other people to try and make ourselves look better, you know. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.760 But for a lot of people it is a zero 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:18.839 sum game. You know this. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.480 I know this, And a lot of people feel any 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.920 success they may have in life will be predicated on 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.040 someone else's failure. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.000 I've never believed that. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.600 Well, there are a lot, and unfortunately there are a 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.600 lot in broadcasting who behave in that fashion. It's shameful, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.719 it's disgraceful because if you're good enough, you can stand 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.599 on your own two feet, so you don't have to 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.080 make others look bad or point out their mistakes. Say look, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.080 when you make a mistake, Sean, nobody has to tell you. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.600 You know, you know, you don't have to be pounded 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.520 over the hindside. And by the way, you don't need 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.039 to be pat on the head when you do something 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.400 well you know it too, and you don't have to 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:55.880 stand on. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.000 The top of the Actually you did pat me on 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:58.320 the head. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.200 Recently, you watched my podcast as for Bill Belichick, and 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:03.000 was great. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:03.960 I was. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.080 I'll tell you what shocked me about him, because if 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.360 you go to his press conferences after football games, for example, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.560 he gives these notorious one word answers. He does not 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.560 like the press he doesn't like the media, and I 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.680 felt he really opened up and was so I don't 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.480 just open and I think he knew that I was 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.000 a fan. Number one, I said so. But number two, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.040 this is not a hostile environment for people. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:29.360 I want. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.040 I want to learn from one of the best coaches 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.000 ever in the NFL history, and I felt like I 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.400 did learn about a lot about him. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.120 Bill is Bill is so good. You know we've had 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:39.920 him on Let's Go. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.720 He had him mine with Tom Brady. That was maybe 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.040 I watched that before the podcast. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.600 And I know you did, and thank you for your 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:47.960 kind words of what you said. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.280 I was not wrong. It was great. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.880 Beyond that, that was really that was really kind and 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.920 you know that touched me. I really appreciate it. The 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.680 really appreciate it. John. But Bill is Bill is a genius. Okay. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.960 Bill hasaneous recall, he's so far ahead of all of 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.520 these other people. He's won eight Super Bowls, and he 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.880 can tell you about some innocuous play when he was 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.160 coaching as an assistant coach Denver Broncos back in the seventies, Okay, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.040 and he can pull it up and he can tell 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.520 you all twenty two that were on the field and 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.720 what they did and how they did it, and it's 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.200 just astonishing his knowledge of football history, how he's kept 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.640 current contemporary, and you know, he's really you know, it's 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.000 you look, there were certain aspects of him that was 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.840 just not going to divulge anything at any time, and 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.959 so he got surly at times and he got you know, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.360 people got underneath his skin and he just wasn't going 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.920 to give them anything. 'ron to Cincinnati, 'ronda Cincinnati, 'ronda Cincinnati. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.760 But you know what, when you get to know Bill, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.840 or when you spend time with Bill, he is really 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.640 really likable. He's considerate, he cares about his players, he 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.319 cares about other people in his life. He'll go out 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.320 of his way for you and expect nothing in return. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.360 So I have a really good feeling about Bill, a 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.400 great relationship with him. I wish him nothing but success 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.280 here in North Carolina. And he is the greatest coach ever. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.080 He's one of the goats. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.679 You wrote I think one of the best sports books 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.200 ever about goats. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.520 What is it that makes the best the best? What 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.600 is that? Is it work? Ethic? 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.920 Is it natural talent? Is it a combination? Is it coaching? 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.400 Is it collaborative, Is it instinctive? What is that special something? 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.079 Because you run the gamut from Mike Tyson all the 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.240 way to Tom Brady, all the way to the you know, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.400 every big Goat and every big sport, Tiger Woods. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:40.760 You know all of these guys. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:48.000 Well, when you look at Kobe, Ali Jordan, Yeah, these guys, Tyson, Phelps, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.840 they all have one thing. They are myopic in their 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.080 pursuit and they will let nothing, nothing stop them from 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.120 getting to what it is that they do and how 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.520 they continue to do it. Tom Brady said this to 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.839 me many many years ago, and he says it repeatedly. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.600 If all you ever do is all you've ever done, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.880 then all you'll ever get is all you've ever gotten. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.719 Imagine if Tom would have stopped after one. But no 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.000 he didn't. He took what he just said, that wasn't 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.240 all he ever did, and so he wasn't going to 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:20.760 get just that. He was going to go for two, three, four, five, six, seven. Okay, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.920 So he's never satisfied. And you know they're all trying 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.079 to touch perfection, Sean, and the ones who are realistic, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.320 like Kobe, I said, Kobe, you're trying to be perfect. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.920 He says, I know I never will be, but it 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.760 sure is fun to try. They touch it for a moment. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.080 Tiger Woods can touch it for a moment and it's 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.640 like a jellyfish. It slips away, But he wants to 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.880 touch it again again and again. And that's what drives them, 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.720 that feeling, that ability to be perfect for the moment. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.319 But know that it's so elusive that you could never 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.640 be perfect all the time. And that's the distinguishing difference. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.440 That's the difference between good and great and great and excellent. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.520 All right, quick break right back more with sports broadcaster 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.360 Are Good and Jim Gray on the other side, eight 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.120 hundred and ninety four one sewn on number. If you 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:04.640 want to be a part of the program, your calls 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:05.079 coming up. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:05.960 Hey listen. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.719 If you want to open your business, you know what 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.199 it's like. You need this insurance, that insurance, this one, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.520 that one. I mean, the bureaucracy is absolutely insane. And 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.680 then you have to deal with one agent another agent. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.640 It is it's worse than dealing with the healthcare system. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.040 To be honest, you sign your deal. How many of 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.360 you have ever read the fine print of any insurance policy? 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.319 Probably most of. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:26.720 You have not. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.880 If you did read it, you probably didn't understand it. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:35.520 Your broker probably explained it in ways that are inaccurate themselves. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.720 I don't even think they take the time to read it. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.320 You know, we all know people that have made insurance 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.680 claims only to find out when they file that claim, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:44.960 oh sorry, that's not covered. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:12:05.360 But they thought it was covered, right. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.320 We continue now with sports broadcaster Jim Bray analyzing last 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.320 night's big UFC two fifty event at the White House, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:17.240 which was unbelievably spectacular in my view. You know, one 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.760 of the problems I've had in my career, and we're 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.520 in broadcasting, is I don't like to watch my show, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.479 or listen to my show, or go back and analyze 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:27.880 the show. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.560 However, if you want to improve, you have to. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.160 You have to you have to have that self reflection 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.199 and you have to be able to take criticism. No 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.000 one takes criticism better than Tom Brady. And that's why 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.319 Belichick was so great for him, because he treated him 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.520 like everybody else, and he criticized him and he went 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.959 after him. And you know what, no one else also 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.120 takes praise better than Tom Brady. So when you're able 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.640 to do both with humility and have a gratitude and 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.640 a sense of knowing that you've arrived still trying to 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.640 get better. Most of those guys that we talk about, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.760 these goats, Muhammad Ali, until his last breath, was trying 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.240 to be better tomorrow than he was yesterday as a 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.800 human being, as a husband, as a societal impact person 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.840 around the world, as a fighter. So the growth never 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.359 stops with the great ones. None of them get complacent. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.920 And Sean, you've you've had a top show now, I 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.520 don't know for twenty years, you've been number one. I 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.360 don't know how it was maybe longer in. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.200 My thirtieth year of Fox, maybe my thirty sixth year 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.800 in radio, I've been on. Oh whah, I'm not I'm 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.439 not a fifty like you though, but I'm going to 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:38.000 be there. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:38.679 Not willing. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:39.959 I didn't mean to take that. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:42.280 No worries. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.200 You know, how are we going to look back at 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.880 this event that took place at the White House last 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.360 night in your view and what was your overall take 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:51.679 on it? 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.720 Well, it was just a spectacle, okay, and it all 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.080 went well. There was no controversies, all the fights went well. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.240 It looked Dana White what he has been able to 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.560 do with the UFC to take that sport from where 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.680 it was to where it is. You know, it's it's 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.760 it's just been phenomenal, and so you know this was 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.160 something different. It's a celebration of American life. Look, the 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.480 UFC cells out all over America, all over the world 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.400 wherever they go. So you're giving the people what they want, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.000 and the people got what they wanted. So you know 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.720 you're going to find controversy. Mike Ditka said this to 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.480 me many years ago when I was inducted into one 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.640 of the Hall of Fames. He gave the induction speech 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.040 and he said, if you have no successes, you have 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.840 no critics. So all these people are going to criticize, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.160 and they're going to sit around with their typewriters or 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.360 on the internet or you know, speak into whatever forum 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.960 they have or or platform. And guess what it's because 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.320 he's successful and they all wish that they could be 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.120 him and so and they wish that they had the 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.400 success that these people have had. So I just got 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.960 to take the criticism where it needs to be applied, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.240 apply it and where it's a bunch of bs, let 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.640 it go in one ear and out the other. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:09.320 We love Jim Gray. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.400 If you've not read his book Goats, go find it 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.520 on Amazon or a bookstore and you will not regret 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.720 reading that book. Honored to call this man a friend 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.840 and getting his take after this historic day yesterday at 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.480 the White House. Jim Gray, God bless you. You're a 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.760 dear friend. I think the world of you, and we 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.080 appreciate your take on everything vice versa. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.240 Sean, thank you so much for having me on. Love you, buddy, 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.400 and love you back getting after it, Sean, keep doing it, buddy. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.200 And by the way, can I say one thing. Yeah, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.160 having been you know, broadcast the NBA for forty years, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.240 it's so great. What's happening in New York with the Knicks. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.240 I'm happy for my friends. I gave him a hard 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.480 time during this series. I was given Steven a hard 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.240 time too. If they lose, it's Donald Trump's fault. I'm like, no, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.200 if they lose, it's on them, Donald Trump's fault. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.120 We'll due respect to the presidents. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.920 I know, I mean they blame him for everything and 0:16:03.040 --> 0:17:11.080 give them but whatever, Jim Gray, appreciate you, Mam. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.160 Paor Hannity less big government. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.040 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.880 I guess, especially with Jason here and Jason wanted the 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.000 New York Knicks to win so bad. Jason, Jason and 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.320 Katie are probably the two biggest sports fans we have 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.760 working on the show. Katie wanted San Antonio, Jason wanted 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.080 to New York Knicks. I wanted the games over so 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.080 I didn't have to compete against the highest NBA rating 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.200 since Michael Jordan. Obviously it's been fifty three years since 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.359 the next one. But you know, I really have a 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.040 hard time understanding. And I was getting into this with 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.800 Stephen A. Smith on TV last week. We talked about it. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.680 Here is why why did Nick fans? If they win, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.119 they go crazy and they get violent. If they lose, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.359 they go crazy and they get violent. You know, sure enough, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.560 it happened again over the weekend, and I'm watching all 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.720 of this unfollowed. I'm like, what are you Everybody should 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:43.639 be happy and celebrating. You have cop cars ruined, you know, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.240 buses were torched, riding in the streets, fighting goalre and 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.560 I'm like, how is that a celebration fifty three years 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.320 you should be celebrating your city, not wrecking it. Here's 0:17:55.320 --> 0:18:10.800 some of the sights and sounds of that, Josie. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:28.920 What is the point? 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.040 I don't know, but I guess if that's how they 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.320 celebrate in New York City, That's why I love the 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.000 Free State of Larda. I will say the star by 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.520 far in the series, he deserved the MVP. Jalen Brunson. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.600 I was so impressed with his play. But the bigger 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:47.080 story of Jalen Brunson to me is he he gave 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:52.840 back about one hundred million dollars for salary expansion for 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.840 the team, money that he could have had himself, and 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:01.280 which is very selfless. Most players don't do this because 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.280 in sports you often get one, maybe two if you're lucky, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.280 three and I mean lucky career contracts like this. But 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.320 he wanted a team to win a championship and he 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.040 was willing to give up money to get it to 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.040 build a better team around him. But he still misses 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.000 Texas taxes. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:25.640 Listen, every championship that you've won has been one in Texas. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.480 The first one at Villanova in Houston, the second one 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.360 in San Antonio, and now this one here in San Antonio. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:36.080 What do you have against Texas? And how special is 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.159 it for you to be able to win this title 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.120 with Michel and Josh. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.040 I have nothing against Texas. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:44.640 I love Texas. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.720 I miss I missed the Texas Texas. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.720 I missed the Texas taxes. Like why is New York 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.440 losing so many people to mass migration out of New York, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.960 the state out of New Jersey, the state out of Illinois, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.639 out of California, you know, all things talk about all 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:01.119 the time. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:02.960 All right, let's get to our phones. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.400 James is in Pennsylvania, James High, how are you glad 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:06.920 you called. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:07.560 Sara doing great? 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.000 Sean, I've been a fan forever, back to Hannity and 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.200 Comb's days, and thank you the reason for the Yeah, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.720 I just love what you do. And one of my 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.880 concerns is with this the deal that President Trump is 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.320 working on here has signed is given money back to 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.919 Rian and that the people themselves, the Iranian people, who 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.400 are fantastic people, are not really in control of their 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.280 country yet and to keep any of the muddls in 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.280 place and have to deal with them and they can't 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:37.840 be trusted. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.840 It's well they can't. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.399 But remember they're not getting any American money, number one, 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.080 they are. They're not getting money up front. That was clarified, 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.280 and we have JD Vance on tonight and he will 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:50.960 go over all of these points with. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:51.440 Us on TV. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.560 They basically get paid on per action basis, based on 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.959 what they are agreeing to do, and so if they 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.760 want a chance to rebuild their country. At any point, 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.440 did you ever hear Donald Trump say that regime change 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:08.960 was the goal? 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.680 Oh no, he didn't go in there. I don't believe 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.000