Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Colorado Supreme Court Removes Trump From Ballot, a Special Look Back at 2023, Bill's Predictions That Were Right and the Ones That Were Wrong

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

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Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, December 20th, 2020, stand up for your country. This is our last broadcast of the year, and it will be one of our best. I am predicting right now. It's up to me to deliver on that promise. and I will, wait and see.

So remember, this is not a podcast. This is a newscast with all of the rules and regulations that apply to honest journalism. Now, I'm not diminishing podcasts at all. I'm just saying this is not that. And we present to you throughout the year information, honest information, and analysis backed up by facts, that can enhance your life.

Tonight, we're going to begin with the talking points memo about this unbelievably ridiculous Colorado Supreme Court decision that removes Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, which takes place on March 5th, 2004. So the Colorado Supreme Court all leftists, all Democrats, rule four to three, that Trump can't be on a ballot. And here's what the court said, quote, the sum of these parts is this. President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3. Because he has disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the Secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. As I detailed, recitation of the evidence shows, President Trump

did not merely incite the insurrection. Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding the vice president refused to perform his constitutional duty and by calling senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes. These actions constituted overt, voluntary, and direct participation in the insurrection, unquote. Well, that is not a fact. That is an opinion. Of course, it's opinion, okay?

Because Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of anything, insurrection, anything else. So he is innocent until proven guilty under our Constitution. So the Colorado Supreme Court is violating its rights. No question about it. We think you did this. And not all of us. Three think this is ridiculous. Three of the judges out there.

But the four Uber leftists, now we don't like them, we don't want him. He's not going to be on a ballot. So read my message of the day on bill o'Reilly.com. I just go down the violations of the Constitution that the Colorado judge is embraced. Now, everybody knows, even the leftists know. The U.S. Supreme Court is not going to tolerate this.

It's going to be thrown out. And that means that Colorado, has done the country a great service. Because not only will the Supreme Court justices rule on this Colorado action, but they're going to rule on a lot of things involving the Trump prosecution. And they've got to do it fast. Okay? So Colorado is going to lose.

Trump will win and the country will win because due process has to be honored. Or am I wrong? Do you not want due process anymore? Is that? In Colorado, apparently they don't. They want four judges to decide whether Donald Trump committed a crime, because insurrection is a crime. Four judges, no jury, no cross-examination, no depositions, no defense,

they'll decide. Is that what you want? If you do, there are planes that go to Moscow. Okay, right out of JFK airport in New York and Dulles and Washington. You can get on a plane, you can fly to Russia, and you can watch how that system, because that's what they do there. China didn't even bother with judges. The government just tells you, you're guilty, you're like that.

Okay. This is so outrageous, I can't believe it. And that's the memo. All right, now, we're going to go over some highlights of what we've done this year. And one of them happened last night that you didn't see yet. So it's on the subject of Donald Trump. I did Bernardgoldberg.com podcast, Bernie Goldberg. Told him I would do it.

I'm a man of my word. Always. When I say, I'll do something, I do it. Always. That is the O'Reilly philosophy. So, as you know, Bernie Goldberg is no use for Donald Trump. And a lot of people who follow Bernie are in the same category. They don't like him.

Fine, no problem. I have any problem with that at all. So on the podcast, because Bernie does run a podcast, I was on there, you know, just short of a half hour. And he asked me a lot of questions about the media and this and that. And at the end, he got to Donald Trump. And one of his viewers wrote a letter, and the letter said, O'Reilly's too soft on Trump. Here's how I replied. No. I'm not hostile to Donald Trump. However, I don't apologize for anything he says. And when he says something dopey, I pointed out. And I can prove it by the United States of Trump. Do you read that book. That's not a kiss-up book. And, you know, I bet you your letter writer didn't read it. And I stay away from, the Nazi stuff, from this and that. Let me tell you why. I've known a man for more than three

decades. What he says changes from hour to hour. Right. Right. It's like a stream of consciousness. It's like a political Tourette syndrome. Whatever pops into his mind, he says. No sense, sir. Okay? And the reason for that is, he's a rich guy, and his whole life, he's been able to say whatever he wanted to say because he had all his money, and so what? You don't like it? So what he says, unless it's hurting the individual American, I ignore what he did in four years as president was good for the country in my assessment. And I can run down the list. It was good for the country.

It's just his verbiage and his demeanor from day to day that upsets a lot of people. But it doesn't upset me because I think it's meaningless. All right. And then we had a lot more, bernard goldberg.com. You can go and watch the podcast and sign up and, you know, make Bernie happy. But the point of the matter is that I am a man who evaluates people on what they do. Not necessarily what they say. If they're defamatory, gutter snipes, yeah, I'll go after you. But if you're a politician that's just throwing out slogans on either side,

liberal, conservative, what do I care? It's what you do that matters. And I went on and there was a little bit more to that discussion and say, in my assessment, as a historian slash, journalists, Donald Trump governed better than Barack Obama and Joe Biden, light years better than Biden. But I thought Trump was more effective for the folks, particularly economically, than Barack Obama. Now, you can disagree with me all day long. That's fine. I like that. But that's my opinion. Trump gives opinions all the time. And now the courts are trying to convict him on his His opinion was that the Vice President could stop the electoral vote count. That's his opinion.

It was wrong. I said it was wrong at the time. I praised Mike Pence for doing what he did. Trump's has a right to his opinion. That's not insurrection. 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 stock pie

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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, 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. Okay. Biden goes to Wisconsin. I can't figure this out. I cannot figure this out.

He goes all the way to Wisconsin on the taxpayer dime for two hours and ten minutes to talk to the Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee. For what? Why? Why are you wasting millions of taxpayer dollars going to Milwaukee to talk to the black chamber of commerce it's nothing wrong with talking to the black chamber of commerce but you do it when you swing through and do five or six other things you fly all the way out there and all the way back for that two hours and 10 minutes as usual meantime 15,000 migrants 15,000 encountered border patrol yesterday 15,000 in one day and there's Biden up with the Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee? Come on. Come on.

Oh, I, it's just, if you don't know by now, and you do, anybody watching and listen to me on a radio now, you know, I don't have to convince you about the incompetence of the Biden administration. So on the border chaos, here to numbers, since Joe Biden has been president, about 8 million foreign nationals have a countered border patrol. 8 million in less than three years. And that doesn't count the 2 million you just got away. That's 10.

I think it's more than 2 million I got away. That's an estimate. All right. 36,000 aliens who were encountered by the Border Patrol have criminal records in their home country. 36,000. Just, it's incredible. 28,000 pounds of fentanyl was seized by Border Patrol under Biden. Okay, in one year, this year, one year,

28,000 pounds of fentanyl. You wonder why 150,000 Americans are dead. And where's Joe Biden? Milwaukee. Now, on January 12th, almost a year ago, here's what I said about the border. So the border is not going to get any better under Biden, because as I've said, probably too much, and I apologize if I'm repetitive, President Biden doesn't care about this at all. All right, it's way too complicated for him. He's afraid of the progressive left who wants open borders. Everybody knows that. Okay.

he's not going to do anything. And when he went to El Paso, he didn't want to be there, he didn't do anything there, it's a whole charade. So Biden's got two more years in office, nothing's going to get better at the border. Hello, here I am, an Oracle. Now it wasn't hard, I admit. All right, that's what I said on January 12th of this year. Let's go to a little remembered story.

The Durham Report, one of my favorites. So you'll remember the hysteria, the media cooked up about. Russian collusion. All right. First, it was the Trump campaign was being helped by Russia and Putin against Hillary Clinton. That was first. Then after he got into office, it didn't stop. Trump did this and they did that and they met with Don Jr. and it went on and on and on. Okay. So the Trump administration was forced to appoint a special counsel, John Dura. Attorney General William Barr made that appointment on October 19th, in 20. All right, there's Dora. It took Durham two and a half years, two and a half years to get

basically nothing. He slammed the FBI, so the FBI didn't investigate this the way it should have, but, you know, we're really not going to do anything to anybody. So two and a half years, Durham made a lot of money, staff made a lot of money, taxpayer money, nothing happened. Here's what I said on May 16th of this year. Go. We'll get right to the heart of the report so you don't have to read 300 pages. Here is the key passage. Quote, the DOJ and FBI should recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents, cause investigation to fail to adequately consider alternative hypothesis and to act without appropriate objectivity

or restraint in pursuing allegations of collusion or conspiracy between a U.S. political campaign and a foreign power." That, of course, is the Trump campaign and Russia. So basically, that boils down to, in pinheady, bureaucratic language, the FBI did not conduct the investigation in a fair manner. Why? Because it wanted Hillary Clinton to beat Donald Trump. There you go.

Nothing happened to any of them. Okay. The corruption at the federal government, in my humble opinion, is at an all-time high, worse than the Warren Harding administration. Because powers are being abused here. So we wanted to find out why. Why is the corruption so bad? And Senator Ted Cruz had a fairly good explanation.

Go. The last book I wrote is entitled Justice Corrupted, how the left has weaponized our legal system. And it walks through how, starting with Barack Obama, the machinery of justice began directed at the opponents of the Obama White House, whether it was the IRS targeting conservatives, or the FBI or the Department of Justice going after those who were political opponents. It then traces how when Donald Trump became president,

many of those hardcore partisans burrowed into career positions at the Department of Justice and throughout the federal government. And for the four years Trump was president, they waged war against Donald Trump. They wanted to bring down the democratically elected president of the United States. Pretty good explanation. But it's not just the federal employee. that are corrupt. It's almost every part of state and federal governments. And here's what I said on August 30th ago. Now, the reason a progressive movement has taken over the Democratic Party,

and it has, and they have the perfect president in Biden, who is so hapless, H-A-P-L-E-S-S, he'll do anything your progressives tell him to do. Because Biden has no principles, no values, no belief system. He's a man for no see. reasons. The reason that the progressives have taken control of the Democratic Party is money. You all know George Soros. You all know hundreds of millions of dollars and he pumps in to help progressive candidates all over the country. You might know about Mark Zuckerberg, the internet baron, who pumped $400 million into the 2020 presidential election. And nobody knows where that money went or what it did. That's the big election scandal. That's what Trump and

his accolades should have been zeroing in on rather than Adobe voting machines. Zuckerberg with 400 million into selected counties through political action committees to do what? Where's that money? Who got it? No investigation at all, to this day, no investigation at all. That's not corruption, nothing is. Okay, then we go to Hunter Biden. So there's a lot of cynicism here because, obviously, the president's son is a grifter. To the tune of up to $30 million, all of the money coming from foreign nationals.

Huge scandal. There's no way you can diminish that scandal. Okay? The guy did nothing for the money. Nothing. He sold influence because his father was vice president at the time. The hunter was flying around the world on Air Force, too. Okay. So they get him for not paying taxes. All right. And he, remember he amassed millions of dollars and he paid taxes on it. And then the Justice Department tries a sneaky plea bargain. where Hunter would not do any prison time, and the Justice Department could never again

prosecute him for anything. So the judge, Mary Ellen, Nuriaka, says, no, that's insane on August 17th of this year, okay, and throws the plea bargain out. I predicted that was going to happen on May 4th, okay, June, July, three months before it actually happened, I predicted it. Go. My gut tells me, and I have a pretty good gut, journalistically, it's going to happen

because there's so much pressure on the White House that they'll say, these are low-level beefs, Hunter won't go to jail, he'll plead guilty, no doubt in my mind, he'll plead guilty. guilty. Not going to fight it, not going in with a jury trial in federal court. Won't do it. Okay. And then he'll get a fine, which some friend will pay, and he'll get probation or public service, something like that. That's what I believe will happen.

So we're marking this down, and when it happens, we'll play the tape. And that's what would have happened if the judge didn't throw it out, embarrassing the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, the prosecutor in the case, David Weiss, who then had to go back to the drawing board under enormous worldwide pressure. Remember, people overseas follow this. And now they've indicted Hunter again on nine charges, not three. Presto magic. So Hunter Biden answers, I think it's January 11th. A lot of people say, oh, the Biden's, they don't care, you know, all that kind of stuff.

Number one, if Hunter Biden is convicted of anything, and he will be, I think. He's going to plead not guilty in January, but they'll do another plea bargain, I believe. Joe Biden will pardon him the next day. Maybe not the next day, but he's going to part it. Biden will not resign until he pardons Hunter. That'll happen.

and his brother Jim, too. Okay, so on September 28th of this year, I summed up the Biden dilemma. Go. But if you combine all the money that the Biden family derived for doing nothing, all of the assistance Joe Biden gave his son and brother by getting on the phone, having dinner,

whatever it may be, and the subsequent cover, up by the Justice Department FBI, when you combine it all, it's going to bring Biden down. Almost has to, because there's going to be more and more and more and more and more, right up to Election Day 24, if he's the candidate, which I don't believe he will be, as I've stayed. Okay, so the House committees are going to find out more stuff about Joe Biden. And I'll stick to it.

I do not think he is going to be the candidate. In the convention, Democratic convention, Chicago, August, we all have somebody else. Not going to be in the primaries. Now the primaries will go ahead. But you wait and see. And I could be wrong. I'm not going to be arrogant about the prediction,

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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. 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 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right. Now we do smart life here almost every day. It's one of our, I think, best

segments because it helps you. It's designed to help you in your life, your loved ones, your friends, everybody. So earlier this year, late summer, early fall, stock market was imploding. People were panicking. Most Americans hold stock of some kind, 401Ks and education funds, whatever it may be. Most Americans have stocks. Stock market was going way down. A lot of people panicked and sold. Smart life, me, right, said this, go. Smart life. All right, we talked about this top program. So the stock market since August 1st is down about 2,500 points, 2,500 points. This is the Dow. Brutal. Why? Because of the political uncertainty. But if you said, then you lose and you don't you're not going to recoup that's what i'm doing not telling you to do

that but this is bad and this is going to be another factor into the biden re-election campaign binomics is a joke but it's not a funny joke there's a lot of people particularly older people their retirement funds are tied into the stock market And we're getting killed here because we have an incompetent president and a challenger, Mr. Trump, who is volatile. So I told everybody not to sell. Don't sell. Hang on. Because as I quoted, if you sell, you lose, you cannot recoup.

If you hang on and things reverse, which they have, you get your money. back. I hope you followed my advice because now the stock market is heading toward new highs in just a short period of time. I don't know why. I can't tell you why. And I know in January and February it might get down another 3,000 points because we have instability in this country, poor leadership. We have a social civil war. But the market might go up another 3,000 points. No one can predict. No one knows. So the prudent thing to do, smart life, your money, your future, your family, I have 22% of my portfolio in the stock market. No more that I'm not putting any more in. That's it. The rest are in municipal bonds,

which are insured. Now, not making nearly as much money as if I speculated and hit it. But I don't want to do that. I'm a conservative investor. I want my money to be protected. I don't put it under the bed. I don't think the banks are going to collapse.

I don't think cryptocurrency is taken over. I don't believe any of that. I'm very cautious. And it's my age, too. I'm a younger man. I'm taking more chances. Smart life. So I hope you liked the segment. We've designed it for you. It's working very well. This day in history, okay, 77 years ago, December 20th, 1946, a movie debuted in New York City called A Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart. Roll it. God. Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me,

show me the way. Not the end of my rope, I... Show me the way. Oh, God. Okay, so Stuart Ad lived that. last part. That wasn't in a script. That was all him. Now, the movie was a bomb when it came out 77 years ago, 1946, right after the war. They spent about six million making the movie. It made three million. And it was so unsuccessful, even though it was nominated for a couple of Academy

awards, that the movie company, RKO, let it go, didn't protect the rights on it. Anybody could run it because they didn't want it anymore. That's a big Obama it is. Well, now it's part of the American landscape at Christmas time. In fact, NBC will run it again Christmas Eve. Millions of people love the movie. It's a little mawkish for me. W. W.K.I.S.H. I like Donna Reid. I think Donna's good. But Jimmy Stewart's a very, you know, iconish actor. But am I going to sit there and watch a wonderful life on Christmas Eve? I am not, but I know my members of my family will, and I'm happy they will, all right,

this day in history. All right, we got a mail segment, and then we have a gift for you, a special gift for you. So remember in October, late October, when I did the live show at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island, blast. Everybody, great time, place was mobbed, and the show went off very well.

So we have not distributed, that show because it wasn't fair to the ticket holder that people paid to see us. But I'm going to run about four minutes of it, and I think you're going to like this clip, and that's my present to you. We'll take a short break. We'll be right back. Okay, let's go to The Mail. We've got Sharon. So the priests can bless same-sex couples, but they still can't be married in the Catholic Church. This sounds like an appeasement to the DEI people to include gays in the Catholic Church's recognition.

Why not recognize them, though? Look, you're gay, you're gay, you're gay. What do I care? I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. I stay out of all of that. But the church is trying to bring compassion to the world. So Catholic Church is not condoning homosexuality. They're not promoting it.

They're just saying if a gay couple comes in and wants to get a blessing that the priest can give them a blow. I don't see what the downside to that is. You know, I just don't. And, you know, I always go back to Jesus with the woman who is going to be stoned to death for adultery. And he stood next to her and said, cast the first stone if you're without sin. Nobody could. That is a key portion of the movie, Killing Jesus, based on my book, really well done scene. I was the executive producer of the film, so I know.

Killing Jesus might be a good thing to watch. you can get it, you know, rent it, uh, for Christmas season. I think that was the best of the killing movies. Okay. Scott banning Tucson, Arizona. Bill, you're not short on courage. Thank you for all you do. I appreciate that compliment, Scott. You said you think Ronda Santas voters will flow to Trump if he drops out of the race. I disagree. I think they'll go to Nikki Haley because both served as governors and ran southern states, and the reason they're voting for DeSantis is they don't like Trump. In all of the polling, they're on the Republican side, Scott, they ask, if you don't have this person, who's your second choice? And the DeSantis voters overwhelmingly say

Trump. So you can disagree with me. I'm just giving you the facts, because we do fact-based analysis. If DeSantis drops out after Iowa, which I believe he will get waxed there, I think Trump will benefit. Mike Johnson, Atlanta, Georgia, I do believe that if Trump ran his campaign on his accomplishments, he would win. He'd pull the majority of independent voters over. Many of the undecideds are fearful. It's going to be four years of revenge from Trump. Okay. I absolutely understand every word of it. I don't know what Donald Trump would do if re-elected. All I know is what he did when he was in there.

Barbara Flaherty, Hallam, Pennsylvania, Merry Christmas, Bill. Thank you, Barbara. Another fact-filled year on the record, wishing you and yours all the best. You and your team work very hard to present the best information. I am relieved. Holly is better. Enjoy your time off. My staff works very hard.

You know, they're all over the country. Used to be when I was on Fox, everybody was in New York, and we'd have our meetings in play. Now we have the meetings on the phone, and they're everything, all over the place. But the discipline is the same. They get segments, they get research, and they have to do it, and it has to be accurate. And when it's not accurate, I can be a little testy. I admit it, because I have to impose that discipline on my staff. Can't make mistakes here.

Because we are so much better than the network news. and the cable news. We are light ears better than they are. And if you think I'm bragging okay, I'm just sitting in a fact. You watch an hour of the no-spin news, listen on a radio, and then you tune it to any other national broadcasts, and you compare information flow here to there? I rest my case. Alice, so happy Holly is doing well. I have great admiration for all the outstanding vets. Hats off to Dr. Jeff Young of Denver. Well, a doctor would be happy to hear from you, Alice. Look, it's not easy to find good doctors for people, much less animals, but they're out there. I told you, I had to go through a number of them

before I got the guy that saved Holly's life, and he literally saved her life. All right, Bill O'Reilly.com store, no Spinell, still on the payroll. Okay, still working up to Christmas. gift cards are the best easiest gift we had a surge of premium members last night hundreds and hundreds of them because this is easy you buy a gift card to premium or concierge membership you just we get it to you instantly you give it to wherever you want to give it to and then the free book comes a couple of days later killing witches or any of my others your choice fabulous gifts you know if you respect people if you know that they are uh good folks who want honest information, do you give them a premium membership?

I mean, that's a year, a whole year, a gift that keeps on giving as the cliche goes. You know, don't give it to some people who don't care. Give it to somebody you know really wants the truth, because we'll give it to you. And next year, 2024, as I said, one of the most important years in American history. How big that is, that election. And so we have other stuff, but we can, we'll do the best that we can to get it to you. Bill O'Reilly.com Christmas store. Where do the day do not be obsequious, O B-S-E, Q-U, I-O-U-U-U-S, do not be obsequious.

Riding to me, Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, name in town. Name in town, if you wish to opine, write back with my Christmas gift to you. Okay, final thought of the day. Merry Christmas to everybody. and I got a gift. So we did a show, live show, Sid Rosenberg and myself at the Paramount Theater, Huntington. We love that place. About a two-hour show, big hit.

Everybody loved it. And we know that because we had people in the lobby afterward asking them. And the show was a New York state of mine, basically how New York was when I was growing up and how it is now. When I was an urchin, we had a gang. Not a gang like West Side Story, the sharks and the jets. We didn't have switch blades, but we had a guy, you know, hang, guys, with a gang, a crew. They didn't call it a crew, they called a gang. We were harmless but annoying, okay?

And some of the people in the neighborhood did not like us very much. I told that story and here it is go so my gang were wise guys we weren't destructive we weren't the charts

and the jets you know with the switch blades we didn't do that but we were annoying very annoying so play a stickball and patience only one time and again to the value system there

everybody in the neighborhood respected the right of the children to play in the street. That was part of the culture of New York. You played in the street, right? So we had a couple of Spaldines. Remember Spaldines, you guys out there? And they went about 35 cents apiece, which was big money back then. So one of the guys, it's this humongous home run, and it goes on a guy's long. And a guy's name was Oberwagger. And no one liked him. He runs out, he takes the ball.

He takes it, he runs in the house with our ball, our small need. You're going to stay out by law. Silence. Okay. Board meeting. Over at Justin McDevitt's house. What are we going to do? I'm a genius at this.

I said, here's what we're going to do. Oberwagger has two little kids, two and four, something like that. At nine o'clock tonight, Dave McDevitt, who is maybe eight, is going to climb a tree outside Oberwagger's house. And he's going to tape an alarm clock to the tree. And we're going to set it for 10 o'clock. I had the alarm clock. It was the loudest alarm clock in the history of alarm clocks.

So Dave, who didn't know anything, he's eight. We gave me three musketeers and said, Dave, get up that tree. Take the thing. But she did. So there we are. We're across the street in the bushes. 10 o'clock. Big, me, me, me, me, me, make, make.

And it doesn't stop. and then the kids start to cry and then all the lights come on in the house and then he runs out in his shorts and he doesn't know what to do he doesn't know where it is it's in the tree but he doesn't know where it is are we hysterical

I was it was so he calls the police we split you know so we run i literally ran through the backs of all the houses to get to my house and go up the back stairs to bed boy i made it but it was a close call i wouldn't be here right now if my father, and he got a call. My father got a call because they knew after a while that I was behind it

and my gang was behind it. But I'm up, and I hear his walking up the, remember that, walking up the stairs if you had a bedroom, you were a kid up like this. I got away with it. That was one of the funniest things. So anyway, I hope you liked this story. It was an age of innocence.

That was, I would say, 1964, 63 in there, not range. Beatles are just coming around. And I had dinner with some of my crew that I mentioned in that piece about three weeks ago. Everybody still keeps in touch at Levittown. And it was just, it was like when you are thinking about past Christmases, you know, you conjure up these really,

good funny memories and um you know this is the first time i ever admitted to doing that i think the statute of limitations has run out on waking up little kids in the middle of the night but actually happened so i i hope you like the story it's my gift to you and um you know the whole thing if you buy the bundle of uh all 13 killing books you get the whole show uh downloaded to you um so i'm not doing this for a promotion. I genuinely thought you would like that story, and that's my Christmas gift to you. But if you want to see the whole thing, you can by getting a bundle. Okay, thank you very much, as usual. This is our last show of the year, and I appreciate, you know, most loyal, smartest audience in the world. That's you guys. We've got millions of people now watching us on

YouTube and on Bill O'Reilly.com, on the first, all our partners, our distribution, all over the world. There are some countries to block us, by the way. I'm going to tell you about them in January, but a lot of countries don't, and now we're getting reaction from everywhere. But it's you here in the United States, that's the core crew, and makes us the most successful independent news agency in the world. That's who we are named. So thank you very much.

I want you to have a very, Merry Christmas, very happy New Year. We'll see you January 2nd.