"Balls: Trump, Sports and Saving America"
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The lead event is Sean Hannity's special Patriot Awards broadcast, which features bestselling author and Outkick founder Clay Travis. Sean frames their discussion around Clay's new book, "Balls: How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Saved America," highlighting how sports act as a unifying force above politics while also exploring the intersection of culture, masculinity, and politics in America. Guest Clay Travis dives deep into why he believes sports are the last meritocratic institution and how the politicization of athletics parallels broader societal shifts. This matters because, as Sean and Clay explain, issues like identity politics, the erosion of traditional manhood, and the future of political movements are all at stake and the answers may reside in unexpected places like the scoreboard and locker room.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, 800941, Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program. |
| 0:12.2 | So here we are. |
| 0:13.7 | We have the Patriot Awards tonight. |
| 0:15.8 | It is sold out. |
| 0:17.9 | It is going to be spectacular. |
| 0:28.1 | Melania Trump will be here. Erica Kirk will be here. Jason Aldine is here. He's in the house. And we have the greatest lineup of American heroes that you'd ever want to know in your life um so pleased and |
| 0:40.8 | honored uh to have all of my my colleagues my friends among them clay Travis you know he founded |
| 0:47.7 | outkick uh the most influential sports media site on the internet and a co-host of the |
| 0:53.8 | extraordinarily successful Clay Travis |
| 0:56.1 | Buck Sexton Show. |
| 0:58.2 | And the author of five books, he now has beat me by one, Dixie Land Delight on Rocky |
| 1:04.5 | Top, Republicans Buy Sneakers 2, American Playbook. |
| 1:09.5 | And his new book is just out today. |
| 1:11.4 | It's called Balls. |
| 1:13.0 | How Trump, Young Men in Sports Saved America, which I agree with. |
| 1:16.7 | My friend Clay Travis, so glad to have you on the show. |
| 1:19.7 | Every once in a while, our studios, when I used to be in New York, his studio was next to my studio. |
| 1:24.8 | And I jump in with him and Buck, him and Buck and we just start shooting |
| 1:29.9 | the Adam Schiff and we had a great time together always and he's been great on TV. He's been |
| 1:33.8 | great on Fox and I consider him now a close friend. Sean, that's an incredible introduction. |
| 1:39.5 | Let me continue to praise a little bit. I think you are the most successful and influential person in the history of television. |
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