BERENSON: I warned about cannabis dangers 7 years ago and nobody wanted to listen
Suddenly warnings about cannabis are everywhere.
At the beginning of February, researchers reported severe mental illness has spiked in young people in Canada alongside access to high-potency cannabis.
The next day came the release of “A Killing In Cannabis,” a book about a 2019 murder in California — and the violence that plagues the marijuana business and that legalization has not resolved.
Then, on Feb. 9, the New York Times dropped its support for full cannabis legalization. Writing that the United States has “a Marijuana Problem,” the paper admitted cannabis addiction and psychosis have become a crisis. It called for a ban on THC extracts, a move that would recriminalize much of the legal industry. (THC is the chemical in the plant that gets users high, and vapes offering near-pure hits of THC are now popular among users — and a big driver of industry profits.)
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I don’t want to say I told you so.
But I did.
In 2019, I wrote “Tell Your Children,” meticulously documenting the decades of research linking cannabis and THC to mental illness, especially psychosis and schizophrenia.
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The runaway legalization of cannabis risked the mental health of teens and young adults, I wrote. And cannabis advocates and companies had spent a generation pretending the drug was a medicine, not a recreational intoxicant. That marketing trick encouraged its use in the most dangerous way, for conditions like anxiety and depression by people already at high risk of mental illness.
When “Tell Your Children” came out in 2019, the industry tried to discredit it, as I’d expected.
But I didn’t expect the Times and other supposedly independent, fact-driven legacy media outlets would help them.
The Times refused to review “Tell Your Children,” even though I had been a reporter there for a decade and the book offered new research on an important issue. Outlets like NPR scheduled and then canceled interviews with me. The Washington Post outright attacked it, calling it a “polemic.”
As I wrote in “Pandemia,” the storm over “Tell Your Children” showed me personally just how bad the woke groupthink in the legacy media had become. Reporters at the Times believed — wrongly — many Black Americans were in prison for minor cannabis-related crimes. Therefore, cannabis legalization was an issue of racial equality. Any debate over it ended there. And anyone who said otherwise was a racist.
I suspect that the real reason people are waking up to the psychiatric harms of cannabis is that they have seen the problems for themselves — in their friends, their cousins, their siblings and their children.
So, I took my lumps. And I waited for the truth to come out.
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Now it has.
But why?
The wall of woke media groupthink is still mostly intact.
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I suspect that the real reason people are waking up to the psychiatric harms of cannabis is that they have seen the problems for themselves — in their friends, their cousins, their siblings and their children.
On Feb. 10, conservative commentator Brett Cooper offered personal testimony to the drug’s psychiatric risks.
In a post on X, Cooper wrote she had learned that cannabis has caused her brother’s schizophrenia, the devastating brain disease, marked by episodes of hallucinations, delusions and paranoia in its sufferers. Later, in a podcast, she did not disguise her pain as she spoke about his episodes of homelessness.
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Unfortunately, Cooper’s story is all-too-typical. People with schizophrenia rarely work, marry or have kids. Many spend their lives shuttling through institutions and taking antipsychotic drugs that have serious side effects. The disease frequently devastates their families, too.
Cooper’s post has been seen almost 5 million times on X.
And despite the Times’s reach and the importance of the Canadian research, her words may have more impact than anything else over the last two weeks.
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First-person stories have an emotional impact that the most thoughtful editorial or research paper cannot match. As a friend of mine told me many years ago in critiquing something I’d written, “People like to read about people.”
The Times refused to review “Tell Your Children,” even though I had been a reporter there for a decade and the book offered new research on an important issue.
We are a long way from undoing the mess of cannabis legalization and unrestrained commercialization — and President Donald Trump’s decision in December to “reschedule” cannabis is a step in the wrong direction.
But it has been clear to me for years that the fight over cannabis is fundamentally cultural and medical, not legal and political. A majority of Americans now support full legalization. Most of them do not use cannabis and do not realize how dangerous it can be, particularly for young people who use heavily.
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Only when they see for themselves — or hear from people that they trust — that the industry has lied will support for legalization decrease.
That cycle seems to be starting, because the risks that I wrote about in “Tell Your Children” are becoming too obvious to be ignored. Even before the flurry of the last two weeks, sales were ticking up, an unusual gain for a book released over seven years ago. I can only assume that parents are seeing their teenaged and young adult children fall victim to the harms of cannabis and looking for answers.
And now, with the sudden wave of attention, “Tell Your Children” is out of stock on Amazon. (It will be back.)
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A majority of Americans now support full legalization. Most of them do not use cannabis and do not realize how dangerous it can be, particularly for young people who use heavily.
This particular wave of attention to the harms of cannabis will fade. And the industry still has powerful momentum after decades of propaganda, paid and free, about the drug’s wonders.
But for the first time since I wrote “Tell Your Children,” I wonder if the pendulum is swinging back, reality is overcoming the myths so many legacy outlets have offered and the billions spent to promote commercialization.
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Only time will tell. But voices like Brett Cooper’s are hard to ignore.
Tell Your Children.
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Major mistake proves costly for American figure skating star Amber Glenn
American figure skater Amber Glenn, one third of the trio known as the “Blade Angels,” had a rough performance in the women’s singles short program at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday.
Glenn, three-time reigning U.S. champion, was in the mix for a medal until the very end of her routine. She landed a huge triple axel, which led into a triple-flip-triple toe loop. However, Glenn was just a little off kilter and bailed out of the triple loop.
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She received no points as the double loop became an invalid element. She lost seven or eight points with the bailout and nixed her chances of reaching the medal podium when the free skate competition ends on Thursday.
Glenn was emotional as she came off the ice, telling her coach, “I had it.”
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She scored a 67.39 and was in 13th place at the end of the run. She tried to keep her head up in a social media post.
“The world has ended for me many times and yet tomorrow still comes,” she wrote Wednesday in an Instagram post with a picture of a smiling dog. “Keep going.”
Glenn had a rough outing during the team event earlier in the Olympics as well. She finished third in the women’s singles group behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Georgia’s Anastasiia Gubanova. Luckily, Ilia Malinin blew the competition away in the men’s singles and the U.S. picked up a gold medal.
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In the women’s singles competition, Alysa Liu represents the best chance the U.S. has at making the podium. She ended the day in third place behind two Japanese stars, Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.
Whoopi Goldberg addresses appearance in Epstein documents during ‘The View’
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg addressed her name coming up in the Jeffrey Epstein files during the show on Tuesday, shutting down any link to the late convicted child sex offender.
“In the name of transparency,” Goldberg began as she asked for the email to appear on the screen. “My name is in the files.”
Goldberg’s name is mentioned in an email from 2013, where someone says that she needs a plane to Monaco and that “John Lennon’s charity is paying for it.” Goldberg said that it should have said Julian Lennon’s charity and explained that the email went on to ask Epstein if he would offer his private plane. The document released by the Justice Department showed Epstein responding with “no thnaks [sic].”
Co-host Joy Behar said Goldberg’s point in addressing the message was that “anybody can be on this list.”
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“Well, this is my point! Because I’m telling you, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into, I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” Goldberg said, as Behar quipped she was “too old” for him. “I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not – you used to have facts before you said stuff!”
When Behar then brought up President Donald Trump being in the files, Goldberg said she was speaking about herself.
“I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,” she said. “People actually believe that I was with him, it’s like, ‘Honey, come on.’ Every man that I’ve ever been with, you’ve known about because either the Enquirer wrote about it, people wrote about this stuff. So no, I never had this, and no, I didn’t get on the plane because you know what I would have to do to get on the plane?”
Her co-hosts then said, “fly,” as Goldberg acknowledged that she doesn’t fly.
“So they’re trying to get me to get on a plane to get to this thing for Julian Lennon,” she continued.
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The co-hosts have discussed the files at length both before and after the DOJ began releasing the documents.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a letter on Saturday that “all” Epstein files have been released consistent with Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The letter includes a list of more than 300 high-profile names, including Trump, Barack and Michelle Obama, Prince Harry, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Mark Zuckerberg and Bruce Springsteen.
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In accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump in November, the list of names includes “all persons where (1) they are or were a government official or politically exposed person and (2) their name appears in the files released under the Act at least once,” the letter said, adding that the names appear in a “wide variety of contexts.”
Emerging fungal STD spreads throughout state as experts issue warning
Minnesota health officials are warning of an outbreak of a contagious fungal skin infection.
The condition is triggered by Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII), the same fungal species that causes ringworm.
The primary symptom is round, red, irritated rashes that spread across the body, which can be itchy and painful, according to the state’s health alert.
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“TMVII is a specific type of fungus that is part of a larger family that causes the usually benign but irksome conditions such as ringworm, jock itch and athlete’s foot,” Dr. Hayden Andrews, an infectious disease expert at UT Southwestern Medical Center, told Fox News Digital.
“The symptoms are similar to that of the usual cases of ringworm or jock itch and depend on the part of the body that became infected,” he went on. “These usually manifest as round, itchy spots that may have a rough appearance and could be mistaken as eczema.”
The first case of TMVII in Minnesota was confirmed in July 2025, according to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Since then, an additional 13 cases have been confirmed and another 27 are suspected in the area.
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The first U.S. case was identified in New York in 2024. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed cases in multiple U.S. cities.
“In response to several individuals seeking care and providing information on other individuals that may also have been infected, MDH established an enhanced surveillance system to identify cases in Minnesota,” MDH said in a statement.
“This suggests it is spreading in networks and thus can cause outbreaks.”
TMVII spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact with the fungus, including sexual activity, according to the alert.
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Fungal spores can also spread via contaminated objects and surfaces, such as sharing towels at the gym or walking around barefoot in communal bathing facilities.
Todd Wills, MD, professor of internal medicine at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, noted that TMVII is the only identified fungal sexually transmitted disease.
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“The populations currently at greatest risk are men who have sex with men and commercial sex workers; however, the infection can be spread from any infected individual,” he told Fox News Digital.
Those with a history of sexually transmitted infections are also at higher risk.
“Diagnosis is often made based on the appearance of the rash and its lack of responsiveness to typical over-the-counter antifungal medications,” Wills said. “A confirmed diagnosis may require a sample of the rash via skin scraping, although treatment is often initiated before results of these tests are available.”
The Minnesota outbreak is unique not in the type of infection, but in the way it is spread, according to Andrews.
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“The cases in Minnesota, and previously in New York in 2024, were spread by sexual contact and genetically found to be TMVII. This suggests it is spreading in networks and thus can cause outbreaks,” he said.
The lesions can be more widespread and serious in people who are immunocompromised, Andrews noted. If left treated, some rashes may lead to scarring or worsening infections.
“While routine cases of ringworm or athlete’s foot typically resolve with antifungal creams in a few days, we are finding that TMVII often requires antifungal pills, sometimes for several weeks for complete resolution,” the doctor said. “Fortunately, our current antifungal medications appear to work against TMVII.”
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To help decrease the spread, the doctors agreed that people with symptoms should avoid close, skin-to-skin contact and refrain from sharing personal items, like towels and linens.
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“Similarly, all linens and towels in the household should be thoroughly washed on high heat and bathing areas sanitized,” Andrews added.
Anyone with symptoms should seek immediate medical care, health officials advised. Minnesota healthcare providers are urged to report any suspected cases for lab testing.
Mistrial declared in Texas ICE detention center ambush trial over defense lawyer’s T-shirt
A federal judge on Tuesday declared a mistrial in the case of nine alleged Antifia members charged in connection with the ambush shooting of a police officer at a Texas U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center over a T-shirt worn by one of the defense attorneys.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman cited the shirt worn by attorney MarQuetta Clayton under a blazer, which depicted civil rights icons. Clayton, who is defending Maricela Rueda, apparently wore the shirt during jury selection.
“I don’t know why in the world you would think that’s appropriate,” Pittman told Clayton, the Texas Standard reported.
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Pittman learned of the shirt, which featured images of Shirley Chisholm and Martin Luther King Jr., after Clayton had asked questions of the panel for 22 minutes, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
“This has to be a first in the history of American jurisprudence, I would think,” Pittman said. “I’m left with no other choice.”
The other defense attorneys opposed a mistrial. The judge said he would schedule a show-cause hearing in which Clayton will have to explain why she should not be sanctioned, according to the newspaper.
Jury selection began Tuesday with 75 potential jurors. A pool of 130 jurors will be brought in next Tuesday to start the process again, Pittman said.
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Around 20 potential jurors said they opposed ICE efforts to combat illegal immigration.
“We’re a family of immigrants,” one potential juror reportedly said.
The nine defendants are accused of participating in an alleged ambush at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4, 2025.
The defendants ignited fireworks and damaged buildings and vehicles before firing on federal officers, federal prosecutors said. An Alvarado police officer responding to a 911 call was shot in the neck and survived.
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Prosecutors said the attack was orchestrated by members of what they describe as a North Texas Antifa cell. The defendants have denied wrongdoing.
US Olympic skating star targeted by Chinese spies opens up on FBI protection
American figure skater Alyssa Liu is America’s last hope at winning a gold medal in an individual figure skating event at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Liu has become a fan favorite for the U.S. this year, playing a key role in helping her country win gold in the team event after her dramatic comeback story. She only just returned to the world stage after a brief retirement following her performance at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
But there was a moment in her story that wasn’t all feel-good sports joy. There was a moment where she had to face the fear of geopolitical espionage.
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Just prior to her appearance in the 2022 Beijing games, she and her father were the targets of a spying operation by the Chinese government.
Her father, Arthur, fled China as a refugee decades earlier. But his past followed him, as his past involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests made him and his daughter the targets of spies in 2022.
Liu called the experience “a little bit freaky and exciting.”
“You know what I mean? It’s so … unbelievable. You know what I mean like, that’s crazy,” Liu previously told Fox News Digital at a roundtable interview at the USOPC Media Summit in October.
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“Like, imagine finding that out at such a young age, I mean, like In a weird way, I was like, ‘Am I like in some prank show?’ Like, is this world real like I must be some movie character. But, I mean, it was like it made sense to me, you know, from like everything my dad did back in his activist days.”
One of the five men who were charged Wednesday with spying on Chinese dissidents living in the U.S., Matthew Ziburis, allegedly contacted Arthur in November 2021, impersonating a USOPC official and asking for his and Liu’s passport numbers, The Associated Press reported at the time.
Ziburis allegedly traveled to California’s Bay Area, where the Liu family lived, to surveil them and try to coax private information from the family that he could then supply to the Chinese government.
Her father told The Associated Press at the time, “They are probably just trying to intimidate us, to … in a way threaten us not to say anything, to cause trouble to them and say anything political or related to human rights violations in China… I had concerns about her safety. The U.S. government did a good job protecting her.”
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI came to Liu’s aid.
She first spoke with the FBI agent who would protect her family at length at a local Japanese restaurant.
“I went like to eat dinner with her a couple times I mostly talk, because like, I’m also like, really interested in what she does, like guys like, that’s so cool to me like, I don’t know, just like meeting with an FBI agent like that’s crazy work,” she said.
“You know, and I mean, like not many people can do that. So I, you know, I have so many questions and like I’ve met with, like a psychologist there, not for me like because, I was like, so curious about like what she does.”
Liu added the FBI made her feel “safe,” throughout the situation.
The spy operation didn’t scare Liu off from competing in Beijing. But she had heightened security assurances from the U.S. State Department and USOPC, as at least two people escorted her at all times when she was there.
She hasn’t ruled out seeing her life, and experience in an international spying incident, adapted into a movie.
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Still, she has some preferences if her story makes it onto the big screen.
“They gotta make me look like super cool hero or something. And just, I can’t just be the kid that got spied on and did nothing about it,” she said. “But Honestly, I would just have the main focus be like my dad’s story, because like his story is so cool and like also just like everything that only happened because of what he did, so, like I feel like we got to start with the roots.”
Liu will now do what she can to ensure her country doesn’t leave Milan Cortina without an individual gold medal in figure skating, as she put herself in contention for gold after the short program on Tuesday night.
Liu landed a triple Lutz-triple loop, the hardest combination that any woman attempted. She will have to usurp Japanese rivals Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto.
After court losses, Trump broadens push for state voter data
Arguing that noncitizens could be on state voter rolls — something that is illegal under federal law — the Trump administration is escalating its campaign to obtain registration data ahead of the 2026 midterms, despite a string of federal court setbacks.
The strategy has unfolded on three fronts: cooperation from Republican-led states willing to share voter data, lawsuits against roughly two dozen blue and purple states that have refused, and a legislative push in Congress to tighten national voting requirements. Federal judges have so far rebuffed the administration’s legal demands, but the Justice Department is widening its campaign as Election Day draws near.
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the conservative group Advancing American Freedom, said voter rolls are a central focus ahead of the midterms because of the Trump administration’s concerns that noncitizens are on them and could end up voting. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.
“The problem is, blue states, like Oregon, they have no interest in that kind of verification, so they’re not actually doing what they ought to be doing, which is running data-based comparisons with the [Department of Homeland Security],” von Spakovsky told Fox News Digital.
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The DOJ has made sweeping demands for not just publicly available voter roll data, but also sensitive information, such as voters’ partial Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The latest state to successfully fight the DOJ’s request is Michigan, where Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said the federal government was not entitled to its 7 million voters’ personal information beyond what was already available.
The DOJ cited three federal laws, the Civil Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act, that it said gave the Trump administration the right to the confidential information. Judge Hala Jarbou disagreed.
“The Court concludes that (1) HAVA does not require the disclosure of any records, (2) the NVRA does not require the disclosure of voter registration lists because they are not records concerning the implementation of list maintenance procedures, and (3) the CRA does not require the disclosure of voter registration lists because they are not documents that come into the possession of election officials,” Jarbou, a Trump appointee wrote.
Federal judges in Oregon and California have also thrown out the DOJ’s lawsuits. The DOJ could appeal the decisions. A department spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
But the DOJ has seen cooperation from red states, such as Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, who were among several to reach a “Memorandum of Understanding” that led the states to hand over the information the department wanted.
In another maneuver, Attorney General Pam Bondi pressured Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, to provide the Midwest battleground’s voter rolls, saying in a warning letter that such action would help ease unrest in the state that stemmed from a federal immigration crackdown there.
Democrats were enraged by the letter and have argued the Trump administration is infringing on states’ rights to conduct their own elections.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Ct., argued the letter was a “pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states,” while a state lawyer described the letter as a “ransom note.” The DOJ, at the time, told Fox News Digital Democrats were “shamelessly lying” about the letter’s purpose. Bondi said that handing over the voter rolls was among several “simple steps” Minnesota could take to “bring back law and order.” A lawsuit is still pending in Minnesota over the voter rolls.
In Congress, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would make it a national requirement that people registering to vote provide in-person proof of citizenship, such as birth certificates or passports. The legislation also includes a new national requirement for photo ID at the polls.
The bill has widespread Republican support. The House passed the SAVE Act last week, and even moderate Republican senators like Sen. Susan Collins, R-Me., have said they are on board with it. The bill is still stalled in the Senate, however, because it needs 60 votes to pass, meaning several Democrats would need to support it. Currently, none do.
Von Spakovsky noted that the SAVE Act had a key provision that would allow private citizens to bring lawsuits over it.
“There’s no question in my mind that if the Save Act gets passed, there are election officials in blue states that will be reluctant to or may refuse to enforce the proof of citizenship requirement,” von Spakovsky said. “The Save Act provides a private right of action, so that means that citizens in Oregon could sue those election officials if they’re refusing to comply with the Save Act.”
He said the private right of action provision would also provide recourse for citizens if Democrats take over the DOJ in the next administration and refuse to enforce the SAVE Act.
Trump has repeatedly argued that noncitizen voting poses a threat to election integrity and has pressed Republican lawmakers to tighten federal requirements. Last week, he floated attempting to impose identification requirements through executive order if Congress does not act.
“This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
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A much broader bill called the Make Elections Great Again Act is still moving through the House and faces a steeper uphill climb to passage.
In addition to national documented proof of citizenship requirement, the MEGA Act would end universal mail voting, eliminate ranked-choice voting and ban ballots postmarked by Election Day from being accepted after that day, which would outlaw postmark rules in 14 states and Washington, D.C.
Fox News to launch ‘Hang Out with Sean Hannity’ podcast as part of new media expansion
Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity will launch a new podcast, “Hang Out with Sean Hannity,” on March 3, FOX News Media President Porter Berry announced on Wednesday.
Hannity will deliver long-form, unfiltered conversations with compelling figures across culture, business, sports, politics and beyond. The twice-weekly podcast will offer a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the real, down-to-earth conversations that take place when the cameras stop rolling.
“Sean Hannity remains one of the most influential voices in media, grounded by the same values and work ethic that defined his early days. We’re thrilled to expand our podcast portfolio with one of the most accomplished broadcasters to ever pick up a microphone,” Berry said.
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“Hang Out with Sean Hannity” joins “Ruthless,” “Will Cain Country,” “Planet Tyrus” and “The Riley Gaines Show” as part of FOX News Media’s new media division.
“I’ve always been interested in how people got to where they are. The risks they took, the failures they pushed through, and the lessons that don’t make it on TV. This podcast is a chance to slow down and have those conversations, no scripts, no talking points, just real discussions with people who have something meaningful to say,” Hannity said.
“Hang Out with Sean Hannity” will spotlight guests’ defining moments, personal setbacks, hard-earned lessons, and the true grit that drives achievement. The podcast will be filmed from the Fox News host’s new set in Florida, dubbed his personal “man cave.”
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Hannity, the longest running cable news host in history, will bring the curiosity and perspective that built his career to the new podcast, drawing on the resilience and hustle that shaped him into one of the most formative voices in modern media.
Leading up to the first episode, FOX News Media will release a series of videos featuring members of Hannity’s inner circle sharing their favorite thing about hanging out with the cable news legend. Ainsley Earhardt, Dan Bongino, Clay Travis, Sean “Sensei,” Bill Hemmer, Lawrence Jones, Jimmy Failla and a massive surprise guest are expected to appear.
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A Fox News original, Hannity joined the network when it launched in 1996, previously co-hosting “Hannity & Colmes.” He now hosts the primetime hit, “Hannity,” which averaged 3.2 million viewers in 2025 to dominate its timeslot while regularly placing among the most-watched programs in all of cable news.
Hannity also reaches millions on his hit radio show, which syndicates to 750 stations across the country.
In addition to the podcast, Hannity will continue to host his nationally syndicated radio program “The Sean Hannity Show,” while sunsetting “Sean” on FOX Nation.
“Hang Out with Sean Hannity” debuts March 3. Subscribe now on YouTube and Spotify.
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