Lessons from Venezuela
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
=On the Sean Hannity Show, Sean opens by unpacking recent political maneuvers, highlighting Bill Maher's rude "awokening" warning on socialism echoed by Zoran Mamdani's rise in Democratic ranks. Daniel Di Martino, a Manhattan Institute fellow, brings a personal story detailing Venezuela's collapse from prosperity to poverty. Sean frames Di Martino's experience as a wake-up call, urging listeners not to ignore socialisms failures and to embrace innovation, like AI, for Americas economic future. This episode stands out for blending real-world testimony with strategic advice, emphasizing why political and technological awareness is vital right now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | News Roundup and Information Overload Hour. |
| 0:06.1 | Here is our toll-free telephone number. |
| 0:08.5 | If you want to be a part of the program, it's 800.941, Sean, if you want to join us. |
| 0:12.9 | Really fascinating comments and a bit of a history lesson. |
| 0:18.1 | Shockingly from Bill Maher, I mean, really rooted in, in truth, history and |
| 0:23.0 | understanding of reality. |
| 0:25.3 | I mean, it sounds great. |
| 0:26.6 | Everything is going to be free. |
| 0:28.3 | Everything's free, free, free, free. |
| 0:30.6 | And so he delivered this really profound, in my view, warning, uh, about Mamdani and how Democrats must recognize that Zora |
| 0:41.4 | Mamdani is the future of the party. |
| 0:43.8 | Unfortunately, it's the Republican Party. |
| 0:45.7 | And I said when he got elected, he will be the face of the Democratic Party. |
| 0:49.6 | AOC now is exerting the power that I've been telling you for years that she really had |
| 0:55.6 | within Democratic Party ranks. It's very real. Pelosi was Speaker in name only. Now, |
| 1:00.8 | Hakeem Jeffries is leader in name only. Chuckie Schumer's leader in name only and his |
| 1:06.1 | career is all but finished as announcement today that, in fact, |
| 1:16.6 | a Mamdani ally has filed paperwork to run against the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. |
| 1:18.5 | And Kathy Hokel had to admit the governor of New York that she, oh, yeah, I think these |
| 1:25.0 | momdani ideas are really good. |
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