Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - China's Lab Leak Censorship, a New Mask Study, the Biden Administration's Border Fiasco with Todd Bensman, & More

Episode Date: February 28, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: A new report says that COVID may have originated from a lab in China. Why did so many cover for the communist country? Masks didn't really help when it ca...me to the pandemic, says a new study Author Todd Bensman joins the No Spin News to break down the Biden administration's failed border policies The GOP's latest blunder This Day in History: Cronkite's Vietnam commentary Final Thought: Florida Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News from Monday, February 27, 2003, stand up for your country. Well, I was on the move again this weekend, went down to Florida. I had some business to do down there. And I have some things to report to you later on the broadcast. I think you'll find interesting and maybe even amusing. But first, the Taki Point's memo, the COVID leak. So as you know, COVID devastated the world and America for about two years.
Starting point is 00:00:45 And all of us were disrupted. Some of us still haven't recovered. Some of us died. Some of us have long COVID to this day, a weakened immune system and all of that. In my lifetime, next to 9-11, that was the worst thing that's happened to this country, the COVID pandemic. And we still don't know how it got here, all right, and how it was developed, because the Chinese will not cooperate. They will not let United Nations investigators, World Health Organization people, go to the Wuhan Lab, which was the center ground zero. of COVID. So the Chinese are villains and they're covering something up. Nobody knows what.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Okay, there's speculation. COVID has been used for political gain. Okay, all that has been in play. It is my job to cut through all that and to tell you the truth, as I can ascertain it. So here we go. The Wall Street Journal, got a hold of information from the federal government. Okay? And the information says that COVID probably leaked out of the Wuhan lab. This is from the Department of Energy. But in that assessment, the DOE says it has low confidence, low confidence in the conclusion. What does that mean? It means it can't prove it primarily. The FBI says the exact same thing. COVID came out of the lab. It has moderate confidence in its conclusion, which means it has more evidence, the FBI does, than the
Starting point is 00:02:54 Department of Energy. Third, the CIA has not weighed in in at all. Now, they're the agency that should know because they're in charge of foreign intel. They haven't weighed in. Okay. When I read this, I believe it. I believe that COVID leaked out of that lab, that scientists there, were investigating a virus, okay, trying to find out where it came from, if it came from a bat, if it came from a snake, a dog. They were analyzing it, Chinese scientists, and somebody in that lab got infected and walked out to the streets of Wuhan, 8 million people in the city, and boom, there you go. That's what I think happened based upon my reportage over the last two and a half years.
Starting point is 00:03:59 I could be wrong. Now, immediately the pinheads, and I'm including Dr. Fauci from the CDC in the pinhead description, sought to politicize the COVID situation. Roll the tape. Now, a lot of people that write love that phrase, escape from the lab, because it sounds It sounds like something from a Marvel movie or a comic book. It sounds like they're talking about a man-made virus that China was weaponizing that got out of control. I have always said that the high likelihood
Starting point is 00:04:32 is that this is a natural occurrence. I didn't dismiss anything. I just said it's a high likelihood that this is a natural occurrence from the environment of an animal reservoir that we have not yet identified. He's the worst. And I didn't come to that conclusion
Starting point is 00:04:51 in any kind of quick way. While the conservative combinators were killing him in the beginning, I held back. But now I can tell you, he's an absolute worst. Doesn't know what he's doing.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Okay. So, you had that situation where it was politicized and people believe what they want to believe. It always goes back to that. Okay? Some people on the right believe that this was a weapon from China, and China did it on purpose, and China infected the world on purpose.
Starting point is 00:05:28 It's what they believe. They want to believe that. On the left, I don't know what the heck. Why does Hayes, who's ridiculous, he's just a ridiculous human being, why does he object to somebody saying, you know, I think it might have come out of that lap? Why? There's no answer to that question. Okay. But the worst part of this story isn't to speculate. Fauci was bad, but this is worse than Fauci, was the social media that censored it. So Facebook removed any discussion from the lab leak story in in May 2021. Just wiped it out. It wasn't allowed to be discussed.
Starting point is 00:06:16 And YouTube did the same thing. So if you said, you know, like I just did. I think it came from that Wuhan lab, boom, you were wiped out. That's serious business now, and this new Congress has got to really zero in on this kind of totalitarian censorship. Now, to its credit, Twitter did not do that. Okay? Just so we're trying to be fair across the board here. So let's sum up.
Starting point is 00:06:45 The evidence so far compiled says that COVID, Infected someone in the Wuhan lab, the person walked out and infected the world. That's how it happened. That's the evidence that we have. But it's not conclusive. That's not conclusive. Will it ever be? I don't think so because China will not cooperate.
Starting point is 00:07:13 That's the memo. Masks. I hated those masks. I got to upfront tell you I hated it. I wore them. didn't want to wear them. I stayed out of crowds. I just hated them.
Starting point is 00:07:26 So now we have a new report from the Cochrane database of systematic reviews. Wow, huh? I don't know what this is. I gotta be honest. I never heard of this, but they have reviewed, all right, 87 studies, 78 studies. I'm a little disillessic today.
Starting point is 00:07:50 78 studies reviewed by Cochran about masks and whether masks protect us. They say their conclusion is that masks make little or no difference to the spread of COVID. I can't verify it. I don't know what Cochran is. I don't know whether they have any kind of dog in the hunt here. I don't know. But it's worth mentioning. If you want to read that thing, it's all over the Internet.
Starting point is 00:08:27 You can read it. It's a lot of facts there, but the conclusion is the mass don't work. President Biden, nothing today except a reception. Celebrating Black History Month, I was not invited. I'm stunned. I know a lot about Black history. a lot more than Joe Biden knows, but I didn't get invited. Anyways, having our reception at 5 p.m.
Starting point is 00:08:57 I hope everybody has a good time. Vice President Harris, you know, this is what they call in the cliché, low-hanging fruit going after her. And I avoid it on most occasions. I wrote a column yesterday, posted on bill o'Reilly.com. you all can read it don't have to be a premium member or anything like that about how comala Harris is the mistress of deception that could be a tv show right the mistress of deception now whether or not she knows she's deceiving i don't know i can't read her mind but this is the most obvious blatant uh best example i
Starting point is 00:09:47 I can ever bring you. And it's what my column was based on. She goes to Bowie State University, primarily black school, on February 22nd, and says this. Go. Every day, Joe Biden and I talk about and work together with our partners, like former leader Hoyer, current leader Hoyer, to lower the cost for the people
Starting point is 00:10:15 of our nation, because you are a leader. For working families, we have reduced heating and electricity bills, so folks have more money in their pocket to buy things like school supplies, replace the dishwasher, or take a family vacation. Not true. It's not even close to being true. Here are the facts. Over the past year, the American consumer has paid 12% more for electricity. and 27% more for natural gas. Overall, under President Biden, a little more than 13 months now, okay? The price of fuel, all fuel, not of what you use, is up 28%. Okay? So the Biden administration is not cutting fuel costs, just,
Starting point is 00:11:17 check your fuel bills. I do. Up, up, up, and up. Gasoline in your car goes up and goes down. That depends on a lot of different forces. So, Kamala Harris says this to the students and the faculty at Bowie State. People in the audience, they don't know, right? Media? Nothing. this. They know they can say anything. And nobody's going to call them on it. All right? When I did the Andrea Mitchell thing last week, and I hope you saw that, where she was interviewing Kamala Harris and said that DeSantis in Florida refused to teach black history. This is NBC news correspondent Andrea Mitchell. I was the only one on television. The only one who called her out. No one else. And then NBC made her apologize. It's shocking. But the Biden administration
Starting point is 00:12:24 knows he can get away with saying anything. It's go to Arizona. So Tempe, Arizona is a suburb of Phoenix. Arizona, tremendous drug problem, tremendous migrant problem. I was down there a few weeks ago, and it's just insane. So the DEA works in partnership with the Tempea, Arizona police, which is a compliment to that police agency, by the way. So they seize, when was this, February 23rd. I just learned of this. They seize 4.5 million fentanyl pills, 30 million lethal doses of fentanyl in one operation. more narcotics are coming into the United States today than ever before in the history of this nation
Starting point is 00:13:21 and it's there's no dispute about it everybody knows it because of the open border so we are fortunate to have a guest tonight who has written a brand new book it is called overrun how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history, all right? It's been out about a week, and I have read most of the book. Every fact you ever wanted to know about the border is in this book. So if you are somebody who wants the debate or I mean, you need to pick up overrun. The author is Todd Benzman. He is a senior national security fellow to the Center for Immigration Studies. He joins us now from Austin, Texas.
Starting point is 00:14:09 All right, good job on the book. Everybody knows what's happening. You know, even though Mayorkas and Biden and Harris keeps saying the board is secure, everybody knows that's a deceit, just like I proved on the electric and the fuel bills. All right. They just are deceivers.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Okay. But what we don't know is why would a sitting president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, want his own country overrun by migrants and dangerous drugs. Why would he want that? Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides,
Starting point is 00:15:02 especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist,
Starting point is 00:15:27 and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. So, Bill, there's a chapter in the book called The New Theologians, a big, long chapter about how the Biden administration, especially during the campaign, the 2020 campaign leading up to the election, became dependent on a very far left fringe of the Democratic Party coalition. think kind of the Bernie Sanders people, but even to the left of them, to be able to emerge from a crowded field of primary candidates and then to go on and win against Donald Trump. Everybody thought it was going to be a very thin margin of victory, whoever won.
Starting point is 00:16:46 And for their reward, they were given power, real power in the White House, and they took the immigration portfolio. This is all described in much more detail than that, but the ideology, the theology that these people hold has been held at bay for years and years by regular mainstream Democrats, but they couldn't do it this time because they were so needed. They were going to tip the balance sheet for Biden, and those people still have the immigration portfolio to this day. And they have this ideology, this theology of open borders equals human rights, equals civil rights, that somehow U.S. civil rights apply to the entire world, that borders are an anachronism, that they are cruel and inhumane, that anybody should be able to walk anywhere they want into anybody's country. So that's one thing. It's the gratification of seeing a rejected ideology implemented in reality in reality. Now, the Biden administration was beholden to George Soros, he's one of the crew you're referring to, and the big money on the far left, Hollywood money also, that gave him enough funds to win the election. All right. Remember, Mark Zuckerberg pumped in $400 million to the 2020 election, most of which went to people to help harvest votes for Joe Biden.
Starting point is 00:18:33 So you're correct. There was a tremendous debt owed the far left. However, Biden could have easily swatted that away and said, look, we appreciate what you did for us. I can't enforce because I raised my right hand to enforce the laws of this nation. So I have to. He could have done that, Todd. He didn't do it. Any idea why? And still hasn't done it. So I have a couple of theories about this.
Starting point is 00:19:08 One is that the president is not fully there. There's a power vacuum. him. He's, you know, there's lots of speculation about his mental state, but I believe that he's not all there and he's unable to kind of wrap his mind around that issue along with other issues at the same time in that people like Alejandro Mayorkas and those far left theologians, as I call them, are taking advantage and exploiting. That makes sense. And I, have reported that as well we can't prove it but that's the only avenue is there another avenue beside the diminishment of his mental capacity to understand complicated issues is there anything else
Starting point is 00:20:00 yes there is one other issue and that is the the people and the ideology that are running our immigration policy today they come from what i call the uh migrant advocacy industrial complex which which is to say that it's this vast constellation of NGOs, of organizations that profit very, very handsomely on huge numbers of immigrants crossing that border. They are gaining government contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars. All right, but those that aren't getting government. That could be stopped with a stroke of the pen. And then what I led into you with was the narcotics, which is going to be for the next 10 to 20 years because of all of the addiction now that is happening. There's no justification there. There's no human rights there.
Starting point is 00:21:01 There's nothing there but crime. So let's help the drug cartels make more billions, right? Well, as a matter of fact, the drug cartels, there's good credible reporting. that the drug cartels are starting to make more money now on human smuggling than they are in some cases on drug traffic. And I don't just, but let's put that aside. The people who want open borders don't care how the migrants get here. But who wants 4.5 million pills of fentanyl found in Tempe, Arizona. Who? Right. Well, what you do there is you just ignore. that you swap that information away so that you can because they just don't care bill they don't okay they don't care they couldn't it's not that they don't right they couldn't care
Starting point is 00:21:58 and allow the border to be open to the extent it is final question for you you've been to the border probably more than any other reporter that i know and there are all kinds of stuff scams about children. I mean, these cartels in Mexico, they control the entire country of Mexico, in my opinion. There's no restraints on the cartels inside Mexico. But you're a much more, you're much more authoritative in this area than I am, because I've been down here a few times, but you've been done in a while. Am I right that these cartels are controlling that whole country yes they they control physically the the geospatial control is something like uh you know 35 percent of Mexico like physically control it and the rest of it they can control by
Starting point is 00:22:55 dent of uh payoffs and threats and intimidation of the central government remember these cartels have huge, well-equipped paramilitary armies. And I mean full-on armies. Right. With tanks and machine guns and everything. And you can't push them around. Quite the contrary, they are pushing the Central Mexican government around. That president down there embraces a policy that he calls hugs, not bullets. I know. That's the... One of the worst things I saw was the three amigos going down there, Biden, Justin Trudeau, and over door, and they just, there they were. And this didn't even come up. It didn't even come up. It was such a far, such an insult. All right, the book again is overrun how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history can get it anywhere.
Starting point is 00:23:50 All right. The author is Todd Benzman. So Todd, I hope you'll come back and we really appreciate the good work on the book. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate the attention to it. All right. Let's go to politics, the Republican Party. You know, I'm a registered independent. And I, you know, my value system, my traditional belief system, is better reflected by the Republicans than the Democrats. I believe in limited government. Democrats want huge government. I believe in the free marketplace. Democrats want to control the marketplace from Washington. So my value system is better reflected in the GOP, grand old party. This party is so dumb, I can't even tell you.
Starting point is 00:24:42 The latest is that the chairwoman, Rona McDaniel, goes on television and says, if a Republican presidential contender doesn't swear. that he or she will support the eventual nominee, that contender cannot participate in an RNC debate. Roll the tape. As R&C chair, if I said I wouldn't support the Republican nominee, I would be removed from office. I would. I'd be rightly removed. It'd be part of our bylaws, and I would be kicked out as RNC chair. Anybody getting on the Republican National Committee debate stage should be able to say I will support the will of the voter.
Starting point is 00:25:30 and the eventual nominee of our party. So she's going to ban anybody who won't do that. I would never do that. So say you are a Republican contender and you give it your best shot and you don't win and then the person who does win turns out to be a monster. You've got to support the monster?
Starting point is 00:25:51 No. And it's unconstitutional. What she just said, you can't do that. You can't deny somebody's freedom of expression. If they change their mind about a candidate or the candidate does something hence forward, this is the stupidity that drives me crazy. Isn't there anybody in the Republican National Committee that can say, no, I don't think this is a good policy.
Starting point is 00:26:19 All right, so I'm down in Florida, mid-80s, sun is shining, and I had a lot of business to do down there, but I was nice to get. out of the cold my message of the day is about you know my little trip it's very fast to 48 hours so i'm staying in a very nice area south of palm beach and across the street almost literally is a three-day fundraiser three days for dissantis i don't even know i i'm never invited to any party stuff because i'm not a party guy so So he's at the Four Seasons Hotel, $2,000 a night for a room. And you don't have to, you don't even see the waterfront.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Read my message of the day. Okay, it's like, it's insane. Anyway, three-day fundraiser. And here are some of the people who showed up. Ron Johnson, Senator in Wisconsin. Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas. Anne Coulter, Dana Loche, Laura Engram. Mick Mulvaney, all right, Trump's White House Chief of Staff.
Starting point is 00:27:36 They all kind of went on in to this. Now, I'm driving past this place. I don't even know what's going on here. If I had known, and I'm mad I didn't, I would have snuck in there. I'm not going to pay him anything, but I would have gotten in just to check us out. Now, I don't think DeSantis was there for three days. I think he just pops in and out. But he's run of a president.
Starting point is 00:28:04 There's no doubt about it. It's just a matter when he's going to make the announcement. New Orleans. All right. So it's just after Mardi Gras. And now they want to recall the mayor of New Orleans, La Toya Cantrell. All right. There's LaToya.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And according to many New Orleans people, she is a disaster. One stat. All right. Last year, 22, there was a 116% increase in homicides in New Orleans. And it is now ranked one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the world. Now, Latoya apparently not just crime. She's just screwed up everything. So she's going to be recalled.
Starting point is 00:28:53 I believe she will be. call. Update on Kim Gardner, District Attorney in St. Louis. There is now a court proceeding. Missouri Court of Appeals Judge John Torbitsky is presiding to boot her out. She has been fired by the Attorney General Andrew Bailey. But she's not leaving of her own accord. So now it's in the Missouri State Court. She will be booted. The Attorney General has the power to fire her. It'll be interesting to see if Missouri State Troopers have to walk into her office and escort her out. We're on it. We'll update you. Smart life. So you know how I feel about drugs, including pot. Never used it. It's bad. I'm sorry for you pot smokers out there.
Starting point is 00:29:49 It may relieve some pain. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about that. I'm talking about recreational marijuana on a regular basis it's bad okay and the younger you are the worse it is so the american college of cardiology okay uh and the lead author is at stanford university very prestigious says daily use of marijuana and more and more americans are using it every day makes the user 34% more likely to develop carinary artery disease. 34%. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.
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Starting point is 00:31:02 If you are living a smart life, you are avoiding intoxicants. A few drinks, a few beers, wine, nothing more than it. But if you are inebriating yourself on a regular basis, you are not living in. a smart life. This is not a lecture. This is not based on anything other that I want you listening and watching me right now to be healthy. That's what it's based on. This day in history, February 27, 1968, 55 years ago today, the Vietnam War never a good thing took a terrible turn when CBS newsman Walter Cronkite said this. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence
Starting point is 00:32:02 the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic if unsatisfactory conclusion. conclusions. That was it. So when that was said, February 27, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson said, I've lost Kronkite, I've lost the country, and he was right. Now, why did Kronkite say that? Because leading up to today, 55 years ago, was the Tet Offensive. And this is an incredible story. So the American and South Vietnamese allies killed 60,000
Starting point is 00:32:50 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. 60,000. Okay? And the U.S. lost 2,600. So you would say,
Starting point is 00:33:02 wow, that's an unbelievable victory for America, right? 60,000 dead and wounded against 2,600? No. Because the cameras, the TV news,
Starting point is 00:33:15 captured the communists invading the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and causing all kinds of mayhem all over the country. And people saw it. And they go, wait a way, we were supposed to be winning this thing. So even though we won that battle, we lost the war. Because after that, the support to get out of Vietnam rose dramatically. That happened 55 years ago today. I'm back with the mail, and a little bit more on my trip to Florida, but it's a little lighter in the final thought. Okay, let's go to the mail.
Starting point is 00:33:53 We got George, concierge member. We've had a surge in concierge membership lately, and the reason is that people are starting to figure out that if you have a serious problem, I will help you solve it. Okay? That's not a bad backup to hat. So George says, Mayor Pete looked so out of place
Starting point is 00:34:12 walking around with his hard hat on in Ohio. I couldn't help that think he looked more like he was going to join the village people. You know, get the hard hat guy, why am, okay. If you don't know who the village people are, look them up. They're worth it. David Abernathy, England, and again, we've expanded overseas now. We want to hear from you all over the world. David says, good analysis on the Andrea Mitchell story bill. guess her ideology got in the way of the facts, but you would think that Vice President Harris
Starting point is 00:34:52 was somehow complicit by not correcting Andrea Mitchell. Listen, in our country, David, these politicians will never do that. I don't know how it is in England. I haven't been over there in a while. But Harris, you know, if Harris is going to get a softball that attacks Desantis, you're going to run with that all day long. True or not. Mark from West Virginia, said it, Lester Holt was a good newsman. All he is now is a yes man, and I have zero respect for him. I can't crawl inside his head, but I bet he enjoys being NBC's yes man. I don't think so. And I know, I mean, you don't. Look, it's hard to walk away from a job like that. That's all I can tell you. Lester was really a good, honest reporter.
Starting point is 00:35:42 Carol, concierge member, Biden went to Ukraine for the photo op to use. during the 24 presidential campaign. The fake danger's siren went off while Biden was strolling down the street with the Winski. Well, how do you know it's fake? How do you know? Again, we go back to people believe what they want to believe. Now, Carol, you're entitled to your belief.
Starting point is 00:36:09 If you want to believe it was fake, absolutely. But you can't state it as a fact because that's not right. Lyle Johnson, Jackson, Missouri, Bill, have you noticed how 80% of TV commercials now involve black actors? Yeah, I've noticed, but I'm happy that they're getting work. It's hard. If you're an actor and you get a commercial, I mean, that pays six months rent. So I'm not one of these people that keeps a scorecard on color, skin color.
Starting point is 00:36:41 Yeah, but it's going on. It's woke, I understand, but that's not a bad woke thing, in my opinion. You know, I don't know the demographics of it. I don't want other people to be denied work based on skin color. That would be wrong. But, you know, if somebody gets something good, I usually support it. Bruce Nielsen, Duluth, Minnesota, whatever became of Ray Epps, the prominent figure in the crowds outside the Capitol on January 6th. Ray Epps.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Okay. Now, you remember that he was the center of all these conspiracies. He was an FBI agent. He was this. He was that. So he was not arrested or prosecuted. Almost 1,000 people were in the Capitol riot. Ray never went inside the Capitol.
Starting point is 00:37:33 He did testify in front of the January 6th Committee, what he was doing there, what he was saying, incident. I read it. It wasn't much. He was a Trump supporter. He wanted to go out and show. that you know he believed the election was a fraud but he was not charged with anything Tammy Nelson Brookfield Illinois I'm a premium member and want to thank you O'Reilly for bringing the truth to the people love the smart life tips and the
Starting point is 00:37:59 word of the day your killing books are all phenomenal you are an amazing man and I pray for you and your family every day I'm not an amazing guy just work really hard Tammy and my philosophy is to help other people so I don't know if that's amazing but I appreciate the compliment but most important are your prayers for me and my family that's the most important thing you could do for me thank you very much okay the team normal stuff is going to be here soon I'm torturing the manufacturer and there's a good story here I'm going to tell you when I come in why it's hard to get the stuff that we uh the pre-orders were already sold out of the white team normal hats we ordered more
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Starting point is 00:39:39 Where the day? Do not be pawking. P-A-W-K-Y. Love that word, Pocky. Back with a final thought in a moment. Okay, so here is the final thought of the day. South Florida is packed. It was packed everywhere because it's winter break.
Starting point is 00:40:00 And it's, again, my message of the day. And people everywhere. And the prices were just insane in Palm Beach, just so you know. I love Palm Beach. There's a lot going on. I've got a lot of friends down there. Coastline is beautiful. There's a reason it's the most expensive real estate in Florida.
Starting point is 00:40:19 But believe me, they're not giving anything away down there. So anyway, I go to church. I go to 9 o'clock mass, and then I had a meeting at the Breakers Hotel, which is a nice old hotel on Palm Beach. So I go to my meeting, and then we have a little breakfast to me, that kind of thing. And then I say to everybody, we wrap up. up the meeting. I said, okay, I'm going to walk back to my car, which is parked in a St. I was parking lot. Had to be about 85, 86 degrees. I would tell you, boy, it's hot. And it's
Starting point is 00:40:56 the end of February. And I'm going, I don't know if I can make it. Now, I lived in Florida. I taught high school there for two years. I was based out of there. when I covered the war in El Salvador and the Falkland Island situation. Okay? So I know South Florida pretty well. But I know as I get older, the extreme heat, cold thing, and I'm walking, it was about a half mile, which I'm glad I did.
Starting point is 00:41:31 I needed the exercise after the breakfast thing. But I'm going to myself, could I live down here? So the only reason I'm telling you that is, if you are contemplating a move to Florida or Texas, remember I lived in Dallas for two years, talking about hot in the summer, or the Carolinas or Georgia or Tennessee, you have to be able to accept the heat. All right? Yeah, you can say, well, I'll stay in most of the time with the air conditioning. That's no way to live, you know.
Starting point is 00:42:05 You've got it. Now, some people can. Some people love it. Ah, you mean, it's only 90? How about 98? To me, because I'm Irish. All right, the DNA is in there. If it gets over 80 in Ireland, everybody panics.
Starting point is 00:42:25 So, anyway, I noticed that heat end of February. But I saw it a great time. It was still good to get out of the cold. Thank you for watching and listening to the no-spin news. We'll see you tomorrow.

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