Hostage and High Stakes - October 22nd, Hour 1
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity opens the hour with a powerful interview featuring Elie Sharabi, who spent 491 days held hostage by Hamas following the October 7th terrorist attacks. Sharabi shares his extraordinary story of survival, the loss of his family, and the lessons he learned about strength, faith, and evil. Hannity also breaks down the chaos in the New York City mayoral race, the growing panic among Democrats, and why this election could become a turning point for the city and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
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| 0:38.1 | If you'd like to be a part of this extravaganza, it's 800-9-4-1, Sean, if you want to join us. |
| 0:44.4 | I will introduce you today to Ellie Shirabi. |
| 0:49.4 | He was held for 491 days by Hamas after October the 7th. |
| 0:56.7 | He lost his wife and child that day. |
| 1:00.6 | They were murdered. |
| 1:01.3 | He didn't know it the whole time. |
| 1:02.6 | He was in captivity. |
| 1:04.4 | He has written a book hostage. |
| 1:06.6 | It's debuted as a New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:09.3 | His story is beyond compelling and one that everybody |
| 1:12.3 | needs to know, especially those that really seem to have absolutely no clue about what it means |
| 1:20.5 | to what radical Islamic terrorists and terror groups like Hamas are all about. He will give you a firsthand account, 491 days, |
| 1:30.7 | and he was one of the lucky ones that was released and survived. How did he survive? What did he |
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