Best of Hannity: Neil Boortz and Sean Hannity Remember When
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Sean Hannity
3.7 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this riveting “Best of Hannity,” Sean Hannity dives into the behind-the-scenes radio war from his early days in Atlanta, featuring broadcasting legends Neil Boortz and Eric Sluggo Seidel. Sean frames the conversation around old-school competition, relentless preparation, and the transformative lessons he learned by facing off against Boortz, a market giant. Special guest Neil Boortz joins in to verify wild stories and share his radio beginnings, while Sluggo chimes in with key moments of rivalry and on-air strategies. This candid and humorous reunion highlights the grit, mutual respect, and sometimes-cold tactics that defined an era of talk radio and why those lessons still matter to broadcasters and listeners today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:24.2 | All right. News roundup and information overload hour. Here's a toll-free telephone number. If you want to be a part of the program, it's 800, 9-4-1, Sean, if you want to join us. So we had Matt Towery joining us in Washington, D.C. yesterday. And by the way, we have part two of my interview with J.D. Vance. we've gotten so much so much feedback on it. |
| 0:22.8 | Linda, did you see all the social media pick up on it? It was massive. |
| 0:27.9 | Oh, yeah. People were very excited about that segment. And Pam Bondi, we also had. And I spent |
| 0:34.7 | time with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz and they'll join us tonight. |
| 0:40.9 | Really, really productive day. I did other things that I can't talk about yet. |
| 0:45.5 | And as soon as I can, I will. And important things. And I'm actually headed back to D.C. |
| 0:52.2 | I have another trip planned for reasons that I can't disclose either. |
| 0:56.5 | Boy, I'm really sharing a lot with the audience today. |
| 0:59.4 | But anyway, so we had our friend Matt Towery in studio, |
| 1:02.9 | and I was a local radio host in Huntsville, Alabama, |
| 1:07.8 | and I got a call one day from Eric Seidel, |
| 1:13.1 | better known as Sluggo on this program, |
| 1:18.2 | still friends with him to this day, still friends with the owner of the radio station at the time when I worked in Huntsville. As a matter of fact, I'm friends with everybody I've ever worked for. |
| 1:22.7 | It's crazy. And anyway, and I go to Atlanta. I audition for two days. |
| 1:27.8 | And I realize why I am auditioning because the star radio host in the market at the time for somewhat 30 years was a guy by the name of Neil Bortz. |
| 1:40.3 | And he had jump ship from Seidel Station, the news monster we called it, back in the day, |
| 1:48.5 | to what he referred to affectionately as the ex-wife to another station. |
| 1:53.9 | And I got hired over, you know, after the two-day audition. |
| 1:59.4 | Little did I know I was going up against a monster in the market, |
| 2:03.1 | but it was originally not planned to be that. |
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