Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Christianity Fading Around the World, Biden's Sneaky Change of Course, Americans Dealing With Inflation & Taxation, and Guest Geraldo Rivera

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

Tonight’s rundown: The Russian Orthodox Church once again justifies Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine, while the Pope calls for peace in Ukraine without mentioning Russia or Putin The Biden administration announced Friday it planned to resume onshore oil and gas lease sales on federal land, reversing course as the nation faces rising costs Inflation continues to hurt Joe Biden but who's fault is it? The U.S. government sets a record for tax collections, taking in over $2 trillion. But just how much did the President and Vice President pay? Journalist Geraldo Rivera joins the No Spin News to talk about giving and his latest charity venture. This Day in History: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Final Thought: Summer planning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, April 18th, 2020, stand up for your country. I got a lot of tell you about Heraldo is going to be on tonight. We're going to talk about its charity, immigration, and you'll remember the very I don't know I don't know what word to use maybe I'll ask Rivera but if you Google O'Reilly Rivera immigration one of the liveliest chats ever in the history of cable news will appear before your eyes so anyway I'll all this warm up in a bullpen I'll be here in a minute the beginning of Holy Week for the Orthodox Christian world and that world is in big

trouble. That is the subject of this evening's talking points. Memo, as you know, as we have reported, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, Patriarcheerial, supports Putin and Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Now, how on earth is that possible? How could a man who oversees 1001 million Christians in Russia support this invasion. Do you think Jesus would support the invasion? I don't think so. And this is the problem with Christianity all over the world. Now, the surrounding countries also are in the Orthodox zone. They are Ethiopia and Africa, Ukraine. Ukraine is Orthodox. Romania, Greece, and they have not one leader as the Roman Catholic Church has. So the Greek Orthodox Church, for example, has another leader, and he has condemned

the Russian invasion, but not Kirill, who's Putin's buddy, all right? But again, 101 million Russian Orthodox. So the Pope over the weekend, throw his statement up, gives an annual Easter address. He said quite clearly, may there be peaceful war-torn Ukraine so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged. This terrible night of suffering and death may a new dawn of hope soon appear. Now, Pope Franz got been criticized because he didn't name Putin and he didn't name Russia, but that's not what the Pope does. He does not want Roman Catholics who live in Russia to be persecuted. The same thing with Communist China.

So he doesn't launch head-on-head attacks. Why would he? But it's clear that the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church feels rightfully that this is a violation of all Christian tenets, but not the Russian Orthodox leader. It's just really unbelievable. He said, quote, this is curious. all matters can be resolved with dialogue and understanding but never with violence i'm sorry this is the greek this is the greek orthodox guy uh never with violence greek orthodox um leader announced

in his easter address now key real he said put put up what he said let the lord help us unite during this difficult time for our fatherland including around the authorities may the authorities that's Putin be filled with responsibility for the people, humility, and readiness to serve them even across their life. What does that mean? What a gobbly gook is that? Okay. So now let's go to the wider picture. Ukrainian civilian deaths, about 2,000, including about 200 children. Civilian injuries, about 2,700, including 252 children. This comes from CBS News, all right, four million plus refugees all over Europe, having to leave their home, cities destroyed, yet the Russian Orthodox Church leader is okay with it. So you, on Thursday, Holy Thursday, gave you the Christian stats, all right? They're declining in the modern world.

They're actually going up in Africa, but declining in most other places. in the world and this is why this is why now one final word and this is personal because it is the Orthodox holy week as I said Easter Sunday next is their celebration if I'm key real I got to be worried about judgment day when you think unless he's a total charlatan just in it for money and power which he may be but you can't justify what you're doing and here's the kicker if key real were to condemn Putin and the invasion, Putin would have to withdraw. He'd have to. He couldn't stand up to him. Now, Kyrio might get shot in the head or poison, but hey, you know, that's what

martyrdom is all about, and that's the memo. It disturbs me, I have to say. It really disturbs me. This guy's doing this in Russia. All right, the Easter Egg Hunt was held in the White House today. Roll that tape. event was started in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. All right. So Hayes started the Easter Egg hunt. And the President, First Lady, Vice President's second gentleman all were there, and the kids had a good time. And I like this tradition. I'm not going to mock it. But there are two things that happened that I am going to mention that are much more serious than the Easter Egg deal. Number one, on Friday, late, good Friday, President Biden announced he is now going to reopen

drilling of oil on federal land. Do you hear that? He wanted to sneak it by you. And today, a federal judge said, no more mass mandates on airplanes, trains, and buses. That the president's order of mass mandates, which he extended, is illegal. So, if you go to the airport tonight, I guess the individual airlines could enforce it, but it's all over for Biden. Now, maybe he'll get a stay. I'm sure he'll appeal, but, you know, it's not going real well for Joe Biden. I think we all know that. And it's because of inflation primarily. Now, I promise you last week we do very specifics here. Okay, so we picked out some things that almost everybody buys and eats, put it up.

on the screen. Bacon up almost 20% in the past year. Beef roast, roast beef, pot roast, that kind of thing, up almost 20%. Cereal bakery products up almost 10%. Eggs, 10%. Meat and seafood, 14% price rise. Milk, 7% price increase. Vegetables, almost 9% price increase. Orange. just oranges, 14%. That means your orange juice is going up. Everything's going. Now, I could have put a hundred on there. Everything is up. And that's going to kill the Biden administration in November. There's no doubt about it. So, the president continues to try to mitigate this somehow. Roll a take. I want to talk about one aspect of Putin's war that affects and has real effects on America. people. Putin's price hike that Americans and our allies are feeling at the pump. I know how much it hurts. Yeah, well, you're going to know a little bit more how much it hurts when November rolls around. Now, I wrote a column posted yesterday, Easter Sunday, blame Putin. The Putin

price rise. I think you'll enjoy reading a column. I hope you go to Bill O'Reilly.com and do so. So in addition to pan more for everything, taxes across the board for everybody are way up in the first six months of this fiscal year. The federal government collected a record $2 trillion, $121,987 million in tax revenue, a record not even close to the second. It's spent in six months, 66,6,6,8 billion, 267 million. So there should be a deficit, they should be a surplus, right? And that should pay down a debt, right? No, no, because in the second half of the fiscal year, federal government is going to find a way to spend that money by sending you stuff

because that's what the Biden administration's going to do. Just like they're doing in California, do you know in California, highest gas prices in the nation by far. They're now sending all Californians 400 bucks courtesy of Governor Newsom, trying to bribe you to thinking, well, maybe it's not so bad.

It is bad. That's what the Biden administration is going to do. There's going to be another round of check mailings to try to bribe voters. in November. Watch that prediction. Biden tax returns. Put them on up. All right? 610,702 in earnings last year. He paid 25% in federal taxes. Remember Biden's filing in Delaware, which is a low-tax state. The Bidens gave less than 3% of their gross income to charity. That is a pattern. They very rarely give money to charity, the Bidens, even though they're very wealthy.

But here's the most important part. On Joe Biden's tax returns this year and previous years, he has never cited any income from Hunter Biden, ever. So, if it is proven in court that Hunter Biden gave his dad money from all his overseas adventures, that's tax evasion. Keep that in mind. That's a long way away and a big it, but you should know it. Kamala Harris and her husband,

they made $1.6 million last year, paid 32% in federal taxes, and they live in California, so it's a high tax aid. But look at the last number. 1.4% of their income to charity. Can you believe it? 1.4%.

So the next time you hear Biden, and or Harris say the rich should pay their fair share, hit them with their tax returns. Hey, you're both rich. You're not giving any money to charity. Bad. All right, despite this, Americans, despite getting here with inflation, high taxes

across the board, Americans remain the most generous people on Earth. As I reported on April 1, I give the keynote address. to Geraldo Rivera's charity life work, 50th anniversary. It helps people, children, and adults with autism. Autism, as you may know, takes you off the board socially and many times economically. That is, you cannot operate because of your physical impairment, okay, the way that other Americans do. So therefore, you cannot pursue happiness at the same level that I can or you can or Geraldo can. And that was the main point I made in my address. Roll the tape. There was a guy in England named John Locke, and he was a philosopher, kind of quasi-politician guy.

And he came up with the concept of the pursuit of happiness. In 1689, Thomas Jefferson, a very learned and brilliant man, picked up on that concept and incorporated life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as a right, a human right, that had never been done before in any, country on the face of the earth now if you think about your life everybody here all of us here have obtained some kind of success and we were able I believe to pursue happiness right and the key to our whole society in the battle culture battle that we have is giving everyone else that opportunity and there

are segments of our society who say well we don't have that same as you the white privilege has, or whatever. I throw all that out out the window. I don't buy into any of that. What I buy into is people helping other people to succeed. And joining us now from Cleveland, Ohio, is Geraldo Rivera, who on Monday, May 16th, has a golf outing to benefit Life Work, L-I-F-E-S-W-O-R-C-D-O-R-C.

You're not going to play golf Rivera unless it's miniature golf. You're not going to, are you going to be out there? I'll be hobbling using the seven iron as my crutch. Boy, that'll be a gruesome, that'll be a gruesome sight. But I want people to support life's work. And I want to mention that this is at the Old Westbury, Long Island Golf and Country Club. And people can sign up and come and play, and you'll be there, correct? That's absolutely right.

It's the, I think, the 35th year, Sean Hannity always makes a cameo. I'd love to get you there. I don't know what your golf game is like, probably a lot better than mine. I can tell you, I can usually get it through the windmill. I can usually get that I'm not a golfer, but I'll try to get there if I can. I just want to thank you again for coming and giving that stirring speech. I thought that it was really right on. everybody understood the concept there, the pursuit of happiness, very, I think, articulately

zeroing in what it is that we do. We allow people with developmental disabilities who otherwise would be warehoused to have a life and pursue happiness to the extent that they are able. And you are very generous with your contribution. Sean also weighed in. You know, we raised over $900,000 that night for the cause. So I want to thank you again. You've always been a very generous, even though I disagree with you on, you know, almost everything, including that today was Monday.

We'd probably say today was. But that aside, you've always been very generous. You've always responded to any of the requests I had to help these nonprofits and life's works near and dear to me, obviously because of the exposés I did on the institutions way back when. Bill. Yeah, 50 years you've been involved with this. Have you seen an improvement, a basic improvement in the autism world? You know, 50 years a long time. And to remind people, Heraldo, as a young reporter for WABC, Channel 7 in New York, went to Staten Island when there was a terrible facility. They were abusing people with autism like crazy. He exposed what they call Willowbrook. It shut down. And then Heraldo got involved, which is extremely noble.

of course. Have you seen improvement in this whole area? Well, the biggest improvement, Bill, as you as you cite, is the closing of the institutions, the big institutions, the warehousing where despicable conditions were allowed to exist because the population was essentially voiceless. You know, no one was defending the handicapped and they couldn't defend themselves in the state of New York and other states as a result, you know, try to maximize the number of people they could care for rather than emphasizing the quality of care. Plus, the concept of institutionalizing the disabled was, they're not criminals. They're disabled people emotionally, physically disabled people.

They're not people with schizophrenia. They're not people with polar, bipolar disorder. They're not dangerous people. They're not crazy people. They're handicapped people. And what Geraldo does once again is they build houses, they buy houses, they put the autistic people in the houses with supervision, with medical care, and it's a thousand, a million times better than what was happening. Let's go into some politics. I'm going to ask you a series of questions. I just want simple answers, so I'm a simple man. I don't want a lot of philosophizing here, okay? So it is estimated by the Board of Patrol that they're going to have to encounter 8,000 migrants when the COVID Title 42 is lifted in May by the Biden administration. First of all, do you understand why President Biden in the face of massive illegal migration and drug smuggling, and that's something you report on as well from Mexico? Massive. All right. Fenton all overdoses, all time high. Heroin doses, all time high. Do you know why? Mr. Biden, who has never even been to the border during his administration, okay, has such a lax policy down there.

Do you understand why? Well, I would make the assumption, Bill, that, you know, it is a liberal, Democratic agenda item, and he's following the strong-arming by the squad, AOC, and others to be as favorable as he possibly can toward this population. I think it's a terrible idea of what you have Title 42. We're talking about new variants. And I thought that it was always kind of a phony reason to restrict immigration by single males. Those are the ones who were being turned back.

But at least it was something. I believe that Title 42 should, if the rationale for 42 is existing anywhere, then I think, Why not keep it? Why not, at least it's a piece legislation. Just to recap so people know, that gives the border authorities because of COVID the right to send anybody back to Mexico, including asylum seekers. I don't know whether you saw the article.

We're going to do it tomorrow here on the NOSPA News. Great Britain is now trying to implement a policy where all people asking for asylum to live in Great Britain would be. expedited to Rwanda, Africa, and would have to live there while their asylum hearing is adjudicated. They can't live in England any longer, or Scotland, or Wales, or Northern Ireland. Now, all I'm doing, why I want to mention this is, we're not extremists here in America. This is a problem, this unfettered migration in every single country in the world. Do you understand that? I do. The whole world wants to live in the United States, more importantly. I mean, everybody wants to live here if you, but there are some great, let me just very briefly tell you that. My translator and driver in Afghanistan was with me for 11 very rigorous, dangerous assignments, very loyal, saved my life, Craig's life. We succeeded through Fox News to get him, Akbar Shenwari, here to Cleveland with his family. They are also,

There's some great mosques here. There's a substantial Afghan population here. We're also expecting a large group of Ukrainians to come. There are a lot of Ukrainian immigrants already here in the Cleveland area. America welcomes refugees. We welcome asylum seekers. We just need order. We need to do it in a way that not only is humane and compassionate, but also is practical.

Right. For the rest of the country. Yes or no question. question. Is Biden's immigration policy a good thing for America? No, it's not. Okay. All right. See, now we didn't have to yell or anything. That was an epic battle. That's as close as I ever came to a fist fight and not had one. Yeah, well, you know, I'm glad you would have probably kicked my butt, Geraldo, you know? And I wouldn't be as handsome today as I am if that happened.

All right, so 35 years ago today, Geraldo Rivera launched, the most successful syndicated broadcast of all time. You may remember the mystery of Al Capone's vaults. So Rivera relentlessly promoted this. 30 million people, as I said, showed up to watch it. And it was alive April 21st, 1986. So it wasn't exactly 35 years ago, but close. two-hour broadcast, and they opened the ball and nothing was in it, Rivera. I still don't have those two hours back. It's 36 years, and it was not empty. There was a Gilby's gin bottle in there.

There was a stop sign and some other trash from the era. So put yourself back there. You know what was really in there? The biggest ratings of all time, and I was unemployed at the time. So the day after a day, the ratings came out. I was ridiculed from coast to coast. Actually, it was in 16 different countries live. I was ridiculed.

I was embarrassed. I opened up, you know, the room service waiter came up and he handed me 22 messages, written messages, all job offers. So I went from being the most unemployed man in America, being one of the most. You know, I mentioned the Al Capone thing in killing the mob. And but when you were there and you saw there was nothing there, did you panic? Did stuff go through your mind? Like, holy, you know what? I got to fill another hour or so.

What was going through? I was not going to, they were digging and digging and digging. There was not going to find anything. And I thought to myself, I've been, I've been fired by ABC. Everybody I know, everybody in the world is going to be watching. I am absolutely humiliated. this is the end of everything and i uh at the end of the show 15 minutes later i gathered my wife we went across the street to a mexican restaurant that's what it's not not there anymore

the hotel lexon's gone also so i went to this mexican restaurant and got tequila drunk and then i we dragged i was dragged uh to the high hotel very good and i really go it was the end of my professional life you know but uh as i as it turned out it was the beginning outside of me you've had the most flamboyant career ever. Final thing, two weeks from tomorrow, killing the killers, the secret war against terrorists comes out. I sent you the book because your daughter is in the book. She was in a terror attack in Paris, France, and we were able to go very, very deep into that attack, thanks to your daughter, who I guess is at Yale now, right? Yeah, Los Angeles. She graduated. next month. Okay. And I want everybody to know it's an extremely compelling story. I just said to

I don't know if you have time to read it or not, but the whole book is just, you're going to love this book because you know so much about terrorism. Right. I can't wait. It was 2015 in Paris. We knew that she was out for the evening. We worried first that she was in that theater where over 150 people were killed. I think she was at the soccer stadium, but we didn't know that. The president, Olaan, at that time, France's president, was in the soccer stadium. So three suicide bombers attacked the soccer stadium. Our daughter was inside, and they blew themselves up. They couldn't get past the French security.

They blew themselves up. But then my daughter was stranded there, and we were live on the air, you know, talking. I remember it. Yeah. I remember it. Well, it was quite an adventure, and that is chronicled in killing the killers. Hey, Herala, once again, the golf outing is at the Old Westbury Country Club on May 16th, so you can putt with Heraldo, give them a hard time if you sign up.

I'll try to stop by on that Monday. It'd be great. And look, good work with the Life's Work. It's Life's Work.org, and we want everybody to try to help out if they can. Thanks, Geraldo. I appreciate it. Good to see you. Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter.

You know all that. He's bid $43 billion to take it over. He wants to establish or reestablish free speech on Twitter. We are rooting for Ilan. We hope he does take it over. JetBlue update, more chaos over the Easter weekend. First of all, we asked the international president for the Transport Workers Union to give us a quote on JetBlue's performance in general.

Throw it on up on the screen, quote. JetBlue is definitely lying about the primary and underlying causes of the reliability issues they are experiencing. They have blamed the weather for the most part, but that is not their primary problem. If it was, then every other character would be suffering, carrier would be suffering the same fate, unquote. So here is over the weekend a JetBlue versus Delta situation. Remember, they fly those same routes much of the time. So on Good Friday, April 15th, Delta had delays 24%, all right. JetBlue 51%, 51, double Delta, and 5% of flights were canceled on JetBlue.

Saturday, April 16th, delays on Delta, 19%, JetBlue, 44%. unbelievable Easter Sunday delays 22% on Delta jet blue 37% and those delays on Delta are high that shouldn't be happening either but jet blue is off the chart where's put buddhajudge transportation secretary I don't know the Biden administration top to bottom not interested they cause problems they don't solve them interesting story the NBA playoffs are underway and we don't know exactly when this happened but a Charlotte Hornets player Lamello ball was caught on camera smoking marijuana now some people say he was doing this before the game we cannot confirm that

We don't know. Okay? However, the NBA has no policy about being stoned during a game. They have no testing at all. It's incredible. You could show up drunk during a game. Can you be drunk? Well, you can be high because who's going to stop you?

not the National Basketball Association. It's an incredible situation. Marijuana remains prohibited, the NBA says, but they're not going to test for it. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings. with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.

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1775, the midnight ride of Paul Revere. All right, you all know this story. Okay, but here are some very interesting parts of it that you may not know. If you go to Boston, you can see this thing right now. They have done a great job, the city of Boston, in keeping all the things that were in play in 1775 there. So Paul Revere, he was a iron worker. He cast Bell. He made illustrations for books. He worked with his hand. He had his own business. But he was also a patriot.

He was involved with the Sons of Liberty. They were the ones they were trying to boot England out of here. Okay? So two of their leaders were hiding in Lexington, which is, I don't know, 15 miles outside of Boston, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, because British authorities were looking for them to arrest them. So they ran out.

So they wanted to know when the British regulars were going to come and hunt them down. That's what Paul Revere and another guy, William Dawes, were tasked with finding out. So you know the poem. One if by land, two if I see. Well, it was two. Two lanterns in the Trinity Church, which again is there in Boston. Revere sees it. The lanterns around midnight gets on its horse.

out to Lexington where he finds Hancock and Adams. This is, hey, they're coming out. That gives all of the minute men armed militia time to get behind the stone walls and crush the British when they came out to Lexington and Concord. Okay, so after the war, after our freedom, Revere settled down in Boston's north end. His house is there. Listen to this. Paul Reveen his home in the north end of Boston is the second most visited historical home in the country next to the White House. I didn't know that. We reported on it in radio today. I said, whoa, look at that. So Revere was a very patriotic guy. He died at age 83 and 1818. Lived the long life this day in history. All right, good mail segment, a lot of it about

My analysis of Jesus, the Nazarene, and then a final thought that you're going to want to hear right back. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn 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, 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, 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast,

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All right, let's get to The Mail. Kevin Ryan, Scottsdale, Arizona, Bill just finished the book, Killing Jesus. I have tried many times to read the Bible and couldn't understand it. Killing Jesus simplified that important era in history. help me understand the life and teachings of Jesus. Well, killing Jesus is, it was out, what do we put it out? 2015, I believe, sold more than 3 million copies all over the world. And I know a lot of people are reading it around Easter time and watching the movie.

Anthony Grasso, Morristown, New Jersey is a Roman Catholic taught by the Sisters of Charity and Jesuits in high school. My faith is an important part of my life. I have your book, Killing Jesus, which I started to read. Your Talking Points Memo about Jesus brought tears to my eyes. The way you explained is rise from poverty to the most famous person in the world was logical and fact-based. And that's what we did. Killing Jesus doesn't have any religion in it. You know, I was disappointed that it wasn't run.

The movie wasn't run on commercial or cable TV over the weekend. But I looked around there were very, very few films about Jesus on. Instead, you had wicked tuna. life underrated. I don't know what they do. But, you know, there's a big audience, huge audience, but the secular media companies are only part of it. Robert on the message board, not sure I am buying the premise that Jesus was a stone cutter. It was not impossible that he was a carpenter as there was much commerce and trade with other kingdoms and nations in those days. Robert, people believe what they want to believe.

If you want to believe that Jesus was a carpenter, Jesus is not going to be man. There weren't any trees in Judea, not nearly enough to have a wood industry. There was no importation there, okay? Nations weren't trading. Rome ruled the world. So Jesus and his father Joseph cut stone because people lived in stone, homes. If he were a carpenter, that would have been a miracle. And maybe that happened. Perry, hey Bill, how do you know that people in large gatherings could not hear Jesus? How do I know?

Well, number one, I went there. I went to all the places that Jesus was. And there were some places where thousands of people gathered to hear him. So let me give you this modern analogy. Perry walk out to a pitching mound in a baseball stadium and try to talk to the people in the box seats

they cannot hear you okay it's too far so you maybe scream they might be able to hear a scream no microphones no megaphones back then just

telling you the record But again, you believe what you want to believe. Alice, I think today was my favorite podcast. This is last Thursday's podcast. Your story of Jesus was so informative and interesting. I made my husband sit and listen. And your ideas about stress reduction were spot on. So I love that I made my husband.

Good. He should have sat there and listened. Good for him. Stephen, my all-time stress buster, the frozen pizza section. with the pizza. If you want to be corpulent, I limit the pizza in my life once a week. Puts on the weight. Pat Rhodes, Rockland, California. Thanks for the good laugh on Sunday. Happy Easter. Pat is talking about my column. Putin did it. Blame Putin. Okay, I think you'll get a chuckle out of it on bill o'Reilly.com. I appreciate you reading it, Pat. Okay.

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Word of the day, do not be peevish. P-E-E-E-V-I-S-H. Love that word. Do not be peevich. Right back with a final thought that it's going to be important in your life if you listen to me. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, 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, 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. Okay, here is the final thought of the day. So I have to go out to California the third week in May.

I got some business and I got to see some people out there. I booked that trip in January. Why? Because I know it's going to be insane to travel from May 1st until October 1st. So here are the stats. According to Trip Advisor, which is a good website. 56% of American households are planning a vacation from May to October, 56%, 70% travel by car, 20% on the planes, watch it on JetBlue, 10% bus or train.

Eight in 10 families have not taken a vacation since COVID hit two years ago. So, in the words of Hyman Roth from the Godfather, what does this tell you, Michael? It tells you you better book your trip now, all right, because it's going to be insane, particularly if you're going to places that are popular. Now, if you're going in August to Death Valley, you're not going to have a problem. all right but if you're going to the beach or the national parks you got to book it and unfortunately all of them are jacking up their prices to make up for the COVID losses I saw that in Turks Caicos two weeks ago okay they almost double the hotels almost double their prices

it's insane and that's what they're doing in America so if you plan a head. Then you'll have options. Some places too expensive, you go to another place, you go a little bit outside of town, whatever. But if you don't and you try to book two, three weeks out, you're going to get hosed big time. Now, I wouldn't worry about the gas prices. They're going to hover around four bucks, go up a little running up to the 4th of July, but the supply of gasoline is starting to rise, as we reported Biden. That's not going to have anything to do between now and the election with the opening up of the drilling. That's just to send a signal. Biden's sending a signal to the oil companies that he's not going to hurt them in the near

future. That's what that's all about. And that kind of signal drives down a price, worldwide price of oil. When Putin finally stops the madness, which he has to, all right, then you'll sea oil drop as well. But this is a difficult summer economically for all of us. That's why I'm giving you the final thought of the day. Book ahead. And if you go in some place, you're going to spend a lot of money, buy trip insurance. Because COVID could come back. Anything can happen. Buy that insurance. If you're taking a cruise, you're going overseas, got to have that insurance. Spend the money. Or you're going to get hosed. I can't tell you how many people have written me and you know you'll get a credit but you're not going to get a refund

from these travel operations so anyway that is a final thought of the day we are in business to look out for you and I think that is a very good final tip thank you for watching the no spend news tonight we'll see you tomorrow