iplaycorn hole.com. >> sean: thank you for joining us. good luck in the competition. thank you for watching jesse watters prime time. don't miss the celebration this sunday at 10:00. my wife and pete hegseth will be hosting all night long. right now we are going to tucker carlson. i'm sean duffy. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight". we are nearing 200 interviews for tucker carlson on fox nation. these are extended and very wide ranging interviews for people who never have time to sit down on a regular nightly show on fox. that include some prominent entertainers, authors, thinkers and generally interesting and entertaining people of our time. you may have seen some interview since we broadcast them at night sometimes. on this show this evening we are focusing on just two people.

first football legend brett favre and second hollywood actor john. we're bringing you two extended portion so you can get a sense of what our fox nation show is all about. here is part one of hour conversation with brett favre. >> who is your dad and what was he like? >> if you are familiar with gomer pyle and our generation who are older or familiar with gomer pyle. sergeant carter, who yelled, had a flat top, was constantly and everything he said was yelling. even when he was polite and speaking softly. that was my dad. he was my baseball coach and coached american legion baseball for 35 or 40 years. he coached high school football for about 35 years. me and my two brothers grew up

playing and being coached by him even when he was not officially our coach. there was a lot of hard work, a lot of spanking, yelling. but that was the way we grew up. my dad, like i said, he was coaching high school football since i was a little kid. >> so he did not make excuses for you? >> he never felt sorry for me. i was probably treated the worst on the whole team. strangely, i got that. i didn't particularly like it, but i got it. the things that he said to me, and i think sometimes, don't get me wrong, i think i told you the story last night. had he and i been riding back from a practice one evening and

my dad was driving and he had a little small pickup truck. he looked over to me and said, son, how are you doing in school? are you indiana okay? i would have thought that he had lost his mind. that which is not in his nature. another example, while i'm in green bay, especially three or four years in when i was playing exceptionally well, he would come to games. after the game he would ride to the game with me in my truck and would ride back home after the game with me in my truck and he would critique the way i played. my dad was not really a technician from a coaches perspective. it was more work hard, be tough,

be a great teammate. that was kind of his three things. it wasn't like we are going to scheme them to death. he was not a schemer. we ran the football and i am going way back to the younger generation who knows what a wishbone is. the wishbone was prolific back when barry switzer was doing it. >> what is the wishbone? >> it's a quarterback at center with a fullback and a half back and a half back. then you run this direction option. i would say if you have 70 plays in a game, 68 of them are runs. some type of vere option. i don't even know how to explain it. that is what we ran. i say that because when my dad would critique me, for example, maybe i was 28 for 32 in a game,

which is great. 300 yards, two touchdowns, may be an interception or no interceptions. my dad would get in the truck and rather than say i am proud of you and you did a good job, he would say, you know, you could have completed those other four passes. i would say, dad, don't even think about trying to critique me for a man that wouldn't throw a pass or allow his son to throw a pass. you are going to tell me how i should throw or what i should have done better? he would get all bent out of shape. i thought i had a fair argument. >> you had to be able to take criticism? >> yeah. certainly from him is where it started. i've had some great coaches after him. the really good coaches will get on your tran ass a little bit.

no matter who you are. that's okay that i particularly like it, but i understood that was part of the process and needed to be done. i'd even had coaches say i will chew your ass a little bit but i want the other guys to know that you are no different than anybody else on the team. i am all in on that. that is fine. but that started with my dad. >> you told me a story last night about being a kid riding your bike with your brother. would you mind repeating that story? >> my wife loves this story. me and my brother, my older brother scott. we are two years apart. i am guessing he was 12 and i was nine or 10. we lived on a half mile dirt road, one way in and one way out. no neighbors anywhere remotely close. several miles away. for whatever reason we didn't ride bikes a lot.

there was one particular day we were riding writing down the gravel road and you rode bikes as a kid and you've got your pant leg caught in a chase at some point. i got my pants leg caught in the chain and it got wrapped up pretty good. we were trying to get it out, me and my brother scott. my dad comes driving down the road from home going out. you could hear the truck coming and you see the dust. he stops and i was telling the truth. the passenger window, there was no passenger window and the door was held shut or somewhat shut with an extension cord. he pulls up and looks out the window and says what are you all doing? we were riding bikes and my pant leg got caught in the chain. will you help me get it out? i ain't got time for that. he takes off. he gets about 50 or 100 yards down the road and i do that.

all of a sudden brake lights and you see the truck stopping and gravel is flying any hits reverse and starts coming back. my brother scott says, you better run. keep in mind i've got my pants leg caught in the chain and i am not running anywhere. i am trying to hop into the woods. needless to say at the last time i flipped anyone off for a long time. this is the gods honest truth. i told my dad that i only did that because i saw people do it when they were mad at other people. he didn't buy it. >> he didn't know what it meant? >> i didn't know what it meant. i just knew people did it when they were. it was a bit longer before i ever did that again. that was my dad. again, it was very little compassion. if my dad would have said to me,

i love you. i would say dad, are you okay? do you have a fever? but i knew he loved me and his weird sort of way. >> when he died, famously, suddenly, you played one of the best games of your life in the next day. >> i would say it was the best game statistically speaking. i don't thank anyone can argue. the first have alone. when i left the game after 20 years, and i will say this, i had every passing record good and bad that you can possibly own. since they have all been passed. i say that only because only once in my career, i think once or maybe twice that i throw for 400 yards ever. guys do that all the time. at one time i had the yardage passing record, but it wasn't because i was throwing for 4050.

at half time in this game i had 399 yards. guys do it all the time now. but for me and the way i played, that was nothing short of a miracle and four touchdowns at the end of the first half. at the end of the game, right there, i had better statistics than i had had in any other full game in my career. >> the day after your father died? how did you do that? >> well, it was the hardest thing i ever had to do. there was a lot of talk prior to the game on weather or not i would play, speculation. meanwhile, at the hotel in oakland i knew i was going to play because that's what my dad would have wanted me to do. the people who knew my dad and in the way he carried himself all understood. you better play in that game. i can just hear him. don't you sit out for this.

the hard part to me was not playing in the game, but playing well enough to honor my father in my mind. that was exceptionally hard because it was hard to focus on the job at hand. it was the second to the last regular-season game. we had to win the game to continue our playoff possibilities. we had to win that game and quite frankly when the next game and hope for a loss by another team to get in. we needed to win. i knew that my teammates were counting on me. but i lost track of the game plan for obvious reasons. there was a lot going on and the least of which was scheming and game plan issues. so the pressure to perform that i placed on myself, and i had played in two super bowls and pro bowls and a lot of big

games, but the pressure to perform at the level that i ended up performing at was almost unreachable. but yet it happens.

it's dinner time with family and you settle in to dine. your son is watching something, but you think it must be fine. you know it's only kid shows, so you have some peace of mind. but as you eat the roasted goose, your little sport incists. hey dad, did you know america is racist? your mind goes numb, your skin turns pale and your heart aches with fear. your child is being filled with lies, the babe you once held dear. but in that shocking moment, a man pops into frame. could it be george washington, here to save your child's brain? he snatched the screen and changed the thing to something that is true. it's an app with shows for kids, they call it prageru. there's content for your child's mind to fight the leftist lies. and if you give your child a chance to watch and think and grow. they might burst forth like washington, a true american hero.

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i said this on the field. divine intervention.

if they're ever was an example of it in football, it was the way i played in this game. >> did you say a prayer before hand? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> almost as surprising to me like a lot of professional athletes you've got handed a bunch of pain pills and got dependent on them. even as you are going through that you continued to win. how did you do that? >> i have no idea. i won three mvps in '94, '95 and '96. or '96, '97, '98. i am not sure. in the middle of my drug addiction, it all started. we were playing philadelphia and milwaukee and i need four.

reggie white, who was a teammate of mine the following year, slammed me to the ground and separated my shoulder. sometimes you will watch a game and go, that hit has got to hurt. and it does. and on others you go, i cannot believe he is not getting up from that. this one in particular that reggie did, it was like every force he had along with his weight drove my shoulder. i wanted to keep playing so i had to get it injected at halftime to keep playing. i played the second half and played okay. we won the game. i was given two pain pills after the game for the ride back from milwaukee to green bay. an hour and a half drive. it worked. i didn't feel the shoulder. i felt more kind of fuzziness than i did pain.

i kind of liked it. it just spiraled out of control from there. i found the most minor injury kind of provoked me into asking for pills. that happened more and more. i sprained my ankle. i could still play, but i need some pills. it just got worse and worse. as you know, you take so many for so long and then those are not good enough. you have to add one or two more. at my worse i was taking 16 vicodin es, just a handful, at one time. >> man! >> we talked about it last night. i knew it was a problem. i knew it was a problem way before that. but there was still a point where i would throw up. i have a gag reflex. i got to the point where there

were so many pills that i would throw them back up and pick the pills out of the vomit and swallow them again. i certainly new that was a problem. >> the people around you know? >> i thought no. i think when you are in the midst of the addiction, whatever that may be, you think you are the only one that knows. you've got it all figured out. when in fact, everyone knows and they are trying to figure out how best to approach you or how to handle this. that was the case with me. my wife did not want to give it away but she was blushing pills from time to time, making my job harder to try to find these pills. but obviously she had my best interests in mind.

meanwhile, as i am playing i am taking pills. i took them every night, no matter what. i had two seizures. one during the season and one after routine ankle surgery after the '95 season. the second one, they were not that far apart. it really was we have to do something. that kick started going to treatment and getting some help. i was one that was thinking i am playing my best football. it can't be that bad. that was the reasoning i had within myself. i knew it was wrong, but i was playing exceptionally well. i was justifying my actions because it can't be too bad. >> that's a fair point. opioid addiction is the worst thing imaginable, but most

people get passive and out of it and you are winning a super bowl how did you do that? >> what got me to where i was at that point, and from a professional perspective, also got me in the addiction cycle i was in. i am all or nothing. i was sort of all on those two fronts. football, i was devoted to my team but i was also devoted to the pill or pills. that got to a point where had i continued it much longer, rather after a seizure, maybe i woulde never wake up. 16 vicodin es for anyone will kiou. no question about it. i am just fortunate that i quit

as quickly as it started. >> did it affect your game when you've got off them? speak. >> not really. for about a month or two i have to admit i had cold sweats, i shook. i took my last pill that season, thank goodness. i flushed six down the toilet. i almost went back in after them. but sixth was not enough. that's the problem when you are in an addiction cycle. you know what you need and that becomes really hard, the more you elevate how many you take. that becomes harder to get and it becomes-you are consumed every day by taking those pills and getting those pills. so when i quit, i didn't think

about-i went to treatment three times. i think most people know or our familiar with me and no one for sure. the 73 day stent prior to the super bowl . i went prior to that for 28 days in louisiana and then went back for 28 days after the 73 days. mock so, a year later. each time i learned a lot more and i also learned don't ever quit on your own cold turkey. that is what i did. it can kill you. fortunately, i survived it. but for two months i struggled with cold sweats, shook a bunch, had night sweats. but eventually i got over it. >> damn! you started on this addiction because you've got an injury.

your shoulder, you've got hit so hard. who are the scariest people you played against? we're their people on the field that you thought i don't want them near me? >> first and foremost of would have to be reggie white, the guy who hurt me and later joined me as a teammate, thank goodness. one of the nicest, biggest teddy bears you would ever meet, but was ferocious. he didn't talk smack. he was a preacher. one of the nicest guys. funny, and can impersonate anyone. but you couldn't block him. he wasn't out to hurt you. he just played within the game. the confines of the game. but at his peak he was probably 330 pounds and ran like a deer and hit like a mack truck. i know firsthand. he was the first and i was thankful when he joined our team.

the many battles i had with warren sapp. i wasn't blocking him. he was chasing me with tampa bay. great player. one of the greatest trash talkers in history. >> what makes a good trash talker? >> i will give you an example. when warren was drafted he was in a great class. ronde barber, derek brooks, all these great hall of fame guys. but they were kind of young. we were beating up on them a little bit. he was telling everyone to be good. every pass, even completed, successful passes i threw, warren sapp would hit me either right before i threw or right after i threw it or way after i threw it. see not just on principle? >> just because he could. i would be getting up and he would say i am kicking your ass all day.

i said, warren, look at the scoreboard. 28-7. we are winning. i don't give a damn. i am kicking your ass all day. that's what matters. that's the kind of guy warren sapp was. he wanted to win. they started winning a lot of games. he was relentless. he would let you know that he was close or he was hitting you or he was going to continue what he has been doing the rest of the game, regardless of what the score was. you were like, i would tell my guys, just block him. trip him, grabbed him, choke him. do whatever you have got to do. we cannot block him. that was the type of player, and he knew it. when you beat him, you knew you did something well. he gave you his best for whatever the average game is 75

offense, 75 defense, 15 special plays. he gave you everything he had every play. >> did you ever talk to him off the field? >> we became friends after, believe it or not. after one game when we were jawing back and forth you said you were going to be friends and you are going to laugh about these moments. i said you are crazier than hell. >> when you get out of bed in the morning at 52 and your back and hip hurts, do you think of him? >> surprisingly, i don't. but i think of the 20 years just flashing .

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i think that is good. i knew what i was getting into. i fed off of the toughest and relish the opportunity to play hurt. not that i wanted to be heard. don't get me wrong. i broke my thumb and played the next week. here if you would have asked me prior to my career about these injuries, which one would you think would keep you out the following week? torn knee ligament? sprained ankle? separated shoulder? broken thumb on your throwing hand? >> broken thumb on your throwing hand hands down. you cannot throw. but i chose to try because i

felt like it was in my dna. i ended up playing and having the best nine-game stretch of my career with a splint on my throwing thumb. again, i just fed off of that. the more i did it the better i played. not that my chest stuck out, but i felt like the team never had to worry about that position because i was always going to be there. i was always going to be reliable, durable and a good leader. there was a lot to be said for that. i live for that persona. now at 52, i go, you maybe should have taken a break. >> it's funny, i am no football expert but you didn't play as the most protected person on the field. >> you are right. absolutely.

whether you want to play that way or not. the game does not allow you to play that way. they are throwing flags. even if you try to run to get tackled, guys will shy away from hitting you. you can still get hit hard, don't get me wrong. but you have to try real hard to get hurt. when i played, not that i tried to get hurt, but when you would hit me or hit me hard and i would feel it, to me it was a challenge to see if i could get it quicker then the guy pat him on the ass and say that was a good hit. that would add insult to injury. now at 52 i am saying maybe you should have shown a little restraint. >> you said you did it in part because you were the leader of the team and the quarterbacks. how important is it for the

leader to show physical courage, durability, to play hurt? >> the quarterback position is so important. some may say it's more important than any position on the field. i don't know if i necessarily agree with that. a kicker misses a field goal at the end of the game and you tend to thank he was the most important person. it's a matter of circumstances. in general, overall, the quarterback is the one position that you really can't afford to not have someone good enough to play that position, but play week in and week out. leadership goes hand in hand with that. if you are out there and are at practice every day, you are showing up for games, you have a torn hamstring and a bruised shoulder. we know that. a lot is expected of you, brett.

we expect your best even when you feel your worst. that goes back for me the way i was raised. there wasn't much room for sitting in our household. not much feeling sorry for each other. believe me, i wanted some compassion every once in a while. but very little of it came our way. our mom would pamper us some, but dad would not. that translated over in my professional career. a lot of people are expecting you to be your best week in and week out. so, live up to that. >> that was a good chunk of our conversation with brett favre. hope you enjoyed it. interesting guy. up next, a discussion with legendary hollywood actor jon voight, straight ahead.

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half a century, won an academy award and is out of step politically. he is conservative. we want to talk to him about that. but quickly into our interview, the conversation turned to his faith. >> i think the biggest lesson that i learned to date has to do with god. i was raised catholic. i was a good catholic boy. >> your parents were catholic? >> my mother was developed. my dad did not go to church much. he had a bad back so it was hard for him to go to church and sit in a queue for any length of time. somebody he had his own spiritual way. he had his own individual way.

he watched a fellow who reminds me of you. his name was bishop sheen. did you ever see the archbishop? >> famous guy. >> great guy. he has that charisma you have. that's a big complement. you have great charisma. he is a highly intelligent guy. he had this chalkboard and would design these things weekly. he would have a show. so far as i know he never referred to any notes of any kind and had this show perfectly blocked. this was the old days where he would move around and they had a problem with the cameras. he was so brilliant. anyway, my father used to watch him. that's where he got his spiritual weekly lift. >> did it rub off on you as a kid? >> it didn't really early on. i lost my weight a little bit

when i got older. my mother used to go to mass every week and sometimes in the middle of the week. she never scolded us for not getting up and going to mass as we grew, but she was always very devout. i didn't have that connection. i didn't feel that sense of god. i knew what right and wrong was, up to a point, before i overstepped the boundaries. there was a time in my life win i was really suffering and then i experienced something that brought me to this understanding that i wasn't alone. >> what happened? >> you want me to tell you? >> i do. >> i am in trouble. why did you bring it up. tucker carlson got it on me. >> i will not tell anyone.

>> listen, i was in a lot of trouble at one point. i had a divorce and had some problems. i was in this little house that i had and i was really suffering for many reasons. my career was in flux at that time and lots of things were going on. my relationship with my kids and wife and stuff. i was on the floor. i found myself on the floor saying, it's so difficult. so difficult. i said it out loud and i heard in my ear, it's supposed to be difficult. can you imagine? >> a separate voice telling you

that? >> it's supposed to be difficult. a voice of wisdom, kindness, clarity. it had so much resonance, this voice. >> what a message! >> it's supposed to be. can you imagine? i said, what? i got up and i can tell you, tucker, at that time i knew. what it meant was i am not alone. everything is known. everything is known. i am known. that is what it meant to me. >> whoa. >> did you expect it? we're you calling out for god? >> expected? no. now i have to proceed with my life, right?

but i felt this tremendous energy somebody is rooting for me. don't give up. there's a purpose here. you know? you have a ways to go. you know what i am saying? whatever you might imagine that it meant. you see? i felt great. the next morning-i am not a person that prays with the idea that anybody is listening at that moment. now i know we are covered. everything we think, everything we say, everything. you are known. like they say, god knows everything. this is us too, kids. we all are known.

we are being observed and helped and loved. we are expected to get up and do battle, do something, do what is right. whatever it is. there is a purpose here. the purpose here is to learn our lessons and grow and that was a big deal to give to each other. to be here, to be of help. that's what you figure out. at that moment i was just interested in me surviving. the next morning i get up and i said, what have you've got for me today? i turned on the radio and here is what came on. i swear. this is what happens. i turned the radio on having fun. i'm not taking myself too seriously, but it's serious. i turned on the radio and it

says i will build a stairway to paradise with a new step every day. what? that's another one. wait a minute. what is going on here? anyway, i had that thing going on for several days.

it's dinner time with family and your heart is filled with bliss. but as you eat the roasted goose, your little sport incists. hey dad, did you know america is racist? your shocked with grief when suddenly george washington bursts through. he snatched the screen and changed the thing to an app called prageru.

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initially when i was speaking out or taking a stand, i made a major mistake, so i didn't speak out for a long time. then i started to realize it was necessary. someone has to stand up and say a few things. i have been speaking out for quite a while now. and making my place in support of the good and the sane. >> what kind of reaction did you get? >> well, many people are upset with me, the hollywood group and

family too. but no one really confronts me because they don't have the answers. they fear my knowledge in a certain sense, like yourself. you have too many facts and too much information and you are too elegant to be argued with. if somebody says something to me and i say do you want to talk about it? come in my camper and we will talk. we sit down and do you know this or this? in about a minute they say i really don't know too much about this stuff and they leave. but i want to judge you anyway. it's funny. the people who don't want to know things are the people who want to follow. they want to follow because

obviously careers are on their minds. they think their career will be hurt if they know too much against what the current flavor is of thought. it's too bad. i have seen the schools being overtaken in my life. the teachers. there are no great teachers, it seems, anymore. they are few and far between, the ones able to stand up to what is going on. our colleges are unbelievable. i know enough to know that this didn't happen accidentally. this didn't happen because a lot of people dulled. it happened because there were forces that wanted to propagandize and wanted to bring us around and attack america. >> what a truly decent man. not much to expect from

hollywood and we were pleased by. that's it for us. we hope you enjoyed our special and the interviews you saw and many more like them are available on fox nation. you can get an account for free at tucker carlson.com. we will be back every night at 8:00 p.m. it's the sworn enemy from lying and smugness and the group thing. have a great night with the ones you love. hello everyone and welcome to the special edition of "hannity". happy fourth of july weekend. it's an honor to be with you. i am in tonight for sean. we begin with the conflict in ukraine. the biden administration is using the war as a scapegoat for all of our economic problems at home. while also pumping money into the region as americans struggle with record high gas prices and spiking inflation. the president is generously