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Sean Hannity is getting ready to show his fans a very different facet of his personality.<\/p>\n
When his new podcast, \u201cHang Out With Sean Hannity,\u201d debuts Tuesday, followers will get to see the garrulous Fox News Channel host \u2014 who also leads a multi-hour radio program each weekday in addition to his primetime slot on cable \u2014 tilt back and forth with interesting guests, and not just the commentators upon whom he relies on TV. Among his coming guests: ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, Team USA hockey player Matthew Tkachuk, and, Hannity says, at least two Democrats \u2014 Senator John Fetterman and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe will talk about personal stuff, real stuff, politics, sports, cultural issues,\u201d Hannity says during a recent interview from his base in Florida. And the talk can be more loose and long-form than anything he might say on the mainstream media outlets that have carried him for more than three decades. On a podcast, says Hannity, \u201cI can say bulls\u2013t, and no one is going to yell at me. I do talk like that in real life.\u201d He can, he says, also wear causal clothes rather than the sports jacket required of TV hosts.<\/p>\n Hannity tested this format in the not-so-distant past. In 2024, he launched a long-form interview program on the Fox Nation streaming service<\/a> that had him talking things over with Smith and celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels, among others. That show, \u201cSean,\u201d will end, and the decision to put Hannity out via podcast makes him available to people who may not pay for cable or streaming outlets \u2014 a big move that will make one of Fox News\u2019 truly signature personalities available to consumers off its traditional subscription-based platforms, yet with its corporate backing.<\/p>\n Fox News, and its parent, Fox Corp, have rushed into the world of so-called creator-based media<\/a>, which relies on smaller-scale shows to reach sizable, younger audiences. Many of the company\u2019s efforts have relied on crafting alliances with personalities who haven\u2019t resided under the Fox umbrella. Fox struck a deal last year with members of the popular conservative \u201cRuthless\u201d podcast<\/a> that makes them contributors to Fox News, and Fox Corp,. has expanded its reach into upstart conservative media by acquiring Red Seat Ventures, a digital-content studio that works wit<\/a>h Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, among others. Fox News has already placed some of its talent, including Will Cain and Tyrus, into podcasts with its imprimatur.<\/p>\n People who tune into \u201cHang Out\u201d might not see the Hannity they expect. The host says he is looking for more freewheeling conversation than he is oratory on \u201cthe Biden crime family\u201d or \u201cthe liberal media,\u201d two favorite targets in years past. In his own survey of podcasts, Hannity notes, \u201cI see a lot of people that are very angry, attacking,\u201d with some hosts who have \u201cscores to settle. I have no scores to settle.\u201d<\/p>\n An off-camera conversation between\u00a0Hannity and Stephen A. Smith might go into the wee hours of the morning. Hannity now hopes \u00a0to bring such an exchange into the spotlight. \u201cI do a hard-hitting news show every night. You do it in like six- or seven-minute blocks and you have to take a break.\u201d \u00a0He would like the podcast interviews to be less regimented and \u201cgo everywhere.\u201d He even says he\u2019s open to doing the show with more than the twice-a-week cadence for which it is currently scheduled.<\/p>\n Hannity expands his media palette at an\u00a0age, 64, when some personalities tend to stick to what they know already works. He says he\u2019s not looking for immediate success in the podcasting field and won\u2019t emulate others to find it. \u201cI always maintain my own identity, \u2018he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m arrogant enough to think I can\u2019t learn something from other people, or do things in a better way. I am always open to ideas. But honestly, I want to be uniquely myself and not pick up what other people are already doing.\u201d<\/p>\n He says he\u2019s grateful for the success he\u2019s had, because when he first landed at Fox News, such an outcome was not guaranteed. Longtime viewers may recall that Hannity, once a regional radio host, was initially paired with the liberal commentator Alan B. Colmes in the hopes sparks would fly between the pair on TV.\u00a0 \u201cAt one point, I was so bad at it,\u201d he says in a candid exchange. \u201cI was a radio guy trying to do TV. I was struggling a little bit.\u201d Years later, he asked why he wasn\u2019t taken off the schedule. \u201cThe answer was, \u2018Nobody was watching and we figured you\u2019d get better at it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Such strategy probably would not be followed today.<\/p>\n Hannity says he wants to keep at it. \u201cI feel more passion today than I\u2019ve ever felt in my career,\u201d he says. Now he will have a chance to see how his energy translates to a less strait-laced medium.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sean Hannity is getting ready to show his fans a very different facet of his personality. 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