O’Reilly, Schumer & The Emotional Voter Divide
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 2, Sean Hannity sits down with longtime colleague and friend Bill O'Reilly for an extended “Simple Man” conversation that spans media evolution, political hypocrisy, and the emotional state of the electorate.
The two reflect on nearly three decades in broadcasting, the rise of podcasts and social media, and how modern audiences consume news differently than ever before.
Hannity presses O’Reilly on shifting positions from Democratic leaders — including past comments from Chuck Schumer regarding voter ID and immigration enforcement — contrasting them with today’s rhetoric surrounding the SAVE Act and border security.
The discussion broadens into whether voters are driven more by logic or emotion heading into future elections, and whether the Democratic Party is offering solutions or simply opposition.
The hour also covers rising tax proposals in New York, migration trends toward Florida and Texas, concerns about public safety, and heated listener calls about ICE enforcement and constitutional rights. It’s a fast-moving, opinion-driven hour that examines political consistency, media transformation, and the battle for the persuadable middle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.8 | All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program. |
| 0:15.4 | That is all things, self-proclaimed, simple man. |
| 0:18.0 | That means all things Bill O'Reilly things bill o'reilly a bill o'reilly |
| 0:21.9 | riley dot com mr o'reilly sir how is you weak ben i know it's better right now always uh a pleasure |
| 0:30.9 | to talk with the uh biggest radio guy in the world sean annity how about that about that? Was that good? You wrote it. |
| 0:39.0 | You know, I just got a note from PR people, and they said the National Enquirer is implying |
| 0:48.6 | that the reason that I'm doing a podcast, which we announced yesterday, |
| 0:59.3 | is because I want to compete with this person, this person, and I'm like, no, it's not. |
| 1:02.5 | And so I actually responded, which I never do. |
| 1:07.3 | And I said, there's zero rivalry with anyone in the podcast space. I'm way past the petty, often contrived rivalries in my career. Right now, I do host the number one |
| 1:13.6 | talk radio show in the country on 760 stations. Remain the number one rated show in cable news at |
| 1:19.3 | 9 o'clock. I have nothing to prove to anybody. The podcast is simply an opportunity for me to have |
| 1:25.1 | extended discussions about other passions of mine with the most |
| 1:28.8 | interesting people in the country. It's a brand new space. My plan is to simply build, |
| 1:35.2 | keyword, build, if you build it, they will come, a great compelling show that people will |
| 1:40.3 | discover over time and enjoy and learn from all while having fun. Any suggestion to the contrary is |
| 1:47.0 | simply, you know, people lie. Well, that's not unusual in this society, is it? People lie. Well, I mean, |
| 1:54.1 | we live with this our whole career. Yeah. Now, we can go back early in our career and you are a pain in the ass, |
| 2:00.0 | but I'm just saying and |
| 2:01.8 | then we became friends in the end because we matured and we grew up and we realized that a rising |
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