Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Election Subversion, Epstein Transcript Release, Brett Tolman Weighs in on Sanctuary Cities and FBI Leadership, & Columbia Punishes Anti-Israel Rioters

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill gives a... rundown of a newly declassified 2020 House Intelligence report on Russia’s 2016 election interference, released by Tulsi Gabbard. An update on whether Epstein grand jury transcripts will be released. Former US Attorney for Utah, Brett Tolman, joins the No Spin News to discuss the federal government’s options for addressing sanctuary cities and to share his opinion on the FBI’s current leadership. Will these 21 states be able to successfully sue the Trump administration over the migrant social services ban? Over a year since the protests, Columbia University has finally punished anti-Israel rioters. Final Thought: The latest movie Bill has watched on Turned Classic Movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 MUSIC Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025. Stand up for your country. Revenge versus retribution, that is the world that President Trump lives in and because he lives there, we all are affected by it. Now, pen, paper, I'm going to give you a lot of information and I'm going to slow it all down because it's very important. It has to do with the subversion of the 2016
Starting point is 00:00:48 presidential race and the 2020 presidential race. I did talk about it in depth with Hannity on his radio program. If you want to get a little bit more, because I was on there almost a half an hour today, it's on BillOReilly.com. But we're going to lay this out in a succinct, methodical way. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Overarch, Donald Trump believes that the election of 2020 was a fraud. And he's never going to not believe it, even though there is not enough evidence to take that at the court or to really do much about it, he believes it fervently because people believe what they want to believe.
Starting point is 00:01:33 The election of 2016 was a whole different thing. The Democrats believed that Hillary Clinton was going to absolutely walk into that office with no problem. Right about that in the United States of Trump. If you haven't read that book, that might be a good pickup for beach reading if you've read Confronting the Presidents, all the other killing books. But anyway, Democrats believed in 16 that they had it.
Starting point is 00:02:01 And so there wasn't a lot of subterfuge or all of this. Well, when they lost, Barack Obama in particular, the president was very insulted because he thought that his two terms would carry over to a third Democratic term. And he booted Joe Biden off the ticket in place of Hillary Clinton, if I could, would be a more formidable opponent to Trump. Okay, so after Trump was elected in 16, then all kinds of terrible things started to come out about Russia and Putin trying to interfere or actually interfering with the election
Starting point is 00:02:38 to throw it to Trump. Enter today or last night. So the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, releases classified information about a house investigation, okay, after this was at September 18th, 2020, the report was issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, but it was immediately classified. So we didn't know it. Last night, Ms. Gabbard put out everything.
Starting point is 00:03:14 So here's what we know. Ready? Okay. Charges against John Brennan, the former CIA director, okay, under Barack Obama, are very powerful. I believe Mr. Brennan will be indicted by the federal government. Okay? Here is what the report says about Brennan. Quote, the director of the CIA ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected,
Starting point is 00:03:54 but unpublished intelligence, three of which were substandard, containing information that was unclear of uncertain origin, potentially biased, or implausible. Those became foundational sources for the intelligence community assessment judgments that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton. The ICA misrepresented those reports as reliable, without mentioning their significant underlying flaws. That was under the direction of John Brennan. That is election fraud. That's fraud and a myriad
Starting point is 00:04:36 of other federal crimes. So if I'm John Brennan, I'm getting a good lawyer. All right, let's run down the other ones. James Comey was the FBI chief, okay? He started in 13 under Obama, convinced Trump to keep him on. That was crazy, but Trump did. And then Trump fired him in 17. So Comey was there for four years. Now, the CIA and the FBI don't cooperate, so I'm not accusing Comey of knowing what Brennan was doing. But Comey himself had information that debunked a lot of these accusations that Putin interfered in the election. Okay?
Starting point is 00:05:22 The FBI never put him out, didn't do a thing about him. Now, Comey's not mentioned in the report by name. So I don't think that the federal government is gonna indict him. But here's what his deputy, Andrew McCabe said on CNN, I believe, is it CNN? Now this is a full screen. Here's what the director, deputy director of the FBI said,
Starting point is 00:05:51 Andrew McCabe, to the investigating committee. Okay, quote, Congress from Chris Stewart of Utah asked him, tell me the most damaging thing that you know of in the dossier that you have been able to verify is true The most thing that strengthens mr. McCabe sir. I can't answer that question off the top of my head and That is an unquote So McCabe says if I didn't have any information at all
Starting point is 00:06:21 Not so if that's true and Brennan was giving this phony scenario, the FBI had an obligation to step forward. I don't know if it's enough to indict Comott. The chairman of the committee that did the investigation, the Intel committee, was at the time Congressman Adam Schiff from California. He is now a senator. Schiff lied about it by by my count, about 50 times. Five-zero.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Okay, here's what he said. Face the nation. Margaret Brennan, April 5th, 2018. Go. Can you agree that there has been no evidence of collusion coordination or conspiracy that has been presented thus far between the Trump campaign and Russia? No, I don't agree with that at all.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I think there's plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. That was not true. And his own report said it was not true. Okay? Your own report said it was not true. Schiff lied. What should happen now? The FBI should re-interview Adam Schiff in his Senate office.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Now, he's been pardoned by President Biden. I don't even know if Biden knows that he pardoned. Nobody's pardoned. But that does not extend to crimes committed after the pardon. If Schiff lies to the FBI now, and this is Cash Patel, I'd send those agents in tomorrow, say, why did you say that when you knew it wasn't true? Where's your backup for that? Schiff would have to explain why he lied so many times. You just take every lie he told and I give you 50 of them. And if he lies to the FBI agents, then he's charged with a felony. If he tells the truth,
Starting point is 00:08:15 there'll be other people involved. Schiff would have to say, well, so-and-so told me this. So-and-so told me this. You know, that person gave me this. That's a key here, a key to this whole thing. Shift. Boy, I'd come down on him as hard as humanly possible because you cannot have presidential elections subverted. You can't. Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast.
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Starting point is 00:09:16 start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast, listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify my opinion, and will be charged. Okay. Let's see if there's anything else. This is very important in the report.
Starting point is 00:09:55 So there is an unnamed advisor to Vladimir Putin, who the committee had access to. His name is redacted in the declassification by Tulsi Gabbert because they don't want him to be assassinated. But Putin is going to know who this is. Here's the quote from the report. Putin's ambivalence about the two candidates is further supported by redacted name, also omitted from the ICA. That means Brennan did not put the man's testimony in a report, made no positive mention of Trump. Instead, it revealed his pessimism that neither Trump nor Clinton would be able to correct the strained relationship with Russia.
Starting point is 00:10:41 So Vladimir Putin didn't say, I want Trump to get elected. He didn't care. I believe that is true. When you read my book, Confronting Evil, huge chapter on Putin, one of the most evil men to ever live, he knew that it didn't matter between Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to him. Now it did matter, okay, with Trump and Biden. He wanted Biden to win because he could invade Ukraine. Putin and Biden All right, so finally, very far right precincts are screaming about Barack Obama, and I think President Trump mentioned it too, that he's going to be arrested or indicted or whatever. That will not happen.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Now, sorry, I got to tell you the truth. I know some of you don't like President Obama and you feel he's up to his eyebrows in this whole conspiracy to defraud the election. I understand that. But in this report, nothing about Obama. Now it strains credulity that Obama wouldn't know what his director, CIA Brennan was up to and what Comey was up to. I have to know, but did he know that they were falsifying? That's tough to prove. And then he has executive
Starting point is 00:12:16 privilege, just like Trump. He can say, look, I'm not going to tell you anything. And under our Constitution, you didn't have to. So do not expect that. And those people who are saying it's going to happen are misleading you. And we will never do that here. And that's a memo. Any questions at all? Bill at BillOReilly.com, Bill at BillOReilly.com. I will do a segment tomorrow on the NosePA news just about this and your mail and your
Starting point is 00:12:48 questions. So, I'm sure you have some. But again, if you're a premium or concierge member, you get a transcript, free. You can just download it. They'll have everything there. Everything I told you is 100% true. If you're interested in this story, and I hope you are, because you can't have presidential elections subverted
Starting point is 00:13:09 by corrupt politicians or political appointees like Brennan. Well, I'd like to see Brennan get whacked. All right, Epstein update. We got a report from CNN that President Trump hung up on a reporter when he asked him about Epstein. I think that's probably accurate. Trump didn't want to answer any more questions about Epstein, and he shouldn't until the grand jury transcripts come out or some hard news is developed. If I were Trump, I wouldn't answer any questions. I'd say, look, we're investigating it, which the Justice Department is. They sent down an assistant attorney general to interview this Maxwell woman who's an independent entry. They're making her a
Starting point is 00:13:56 Trumpagong. I'm not going to do that. So I'm not mad about that. And the court ruling about the grand jury testimony is now being deliberated. There are two judges involved here, both in DC, Richard Berman and Paul Engelmeier. Berman appointed by Clinton, Engelmeier appointed by Obama, so they're liberal judges. They have asked the federal government to give them more information about why they should make the grand jury transcripts public. They know why. And they're covering their butts.
Starting point is 00:14:33 And by August 5th, they have to have all the information. Okay? Now, I don't know who would be objecting to this. I don't think anybody is. If there is, I need to report on it, but I don't know who would be objecting to this. I don't think anybody is. If there is, I need to report on it, but I don't know of anybody. So I think it's gonna come out, but we'll know by August 5th. If the grand jury testimony does come out,
Starting point is 00:14:55 then we'll get a clearer view of what Epstein himself did and what he said and who he hung around with. Fair? Now there is a report from a tabloid paper that Bill Clinton also sent Epstein a birthday card on his 50th. And again, this was three years before there was any kind of criminal exposure,
Starting point is 00:15:19 but you'll never hear that on the network news, will you? No, you won't. All right, joining us now is one of our favorite guests. He's in South Dakota, where he is rehearsing to be Wild Bill Hickok. His name is Brett Tallman. Check the beard out on Tallman. And he's a former US attorney for Utah. He's the head of the Taumann Group now. He knows the federal justice department as well as anybody does. Okay, so this is a busy day for the feds.
Starting point is 00:15:54 And I wanna run it down very methodically with you. The Epstein situation overall, do you have any thoughts on it? Yeah, I think we're gonna be underwhelmed if they do release the transcript. It's my prediction that even the grand jury transcript is going to be singularly focused along the lines of what the charges were. And the charges were very, very centered on Epstein's conduct and Ghislaine Maxwell and the individuals that he assaulted. And I think that's going to be the bulk of what that grand jury transcript is going to
Starting point is 00:16:36 give us. And I think as a result, I don't think there's going to be much satisfaction if they are released. All right. So you don't have to expect any revelation revelation but surely in the indictment presented to the grand jurors and the evidence, if there were other people involved those names would be front and center, right? You would, you know Bill, I've scratched my head at this because if you were doing the investigation properly you would have included all the other John Doe's and you would have named them.
Starting point is 00:17:07 You would have named them and revealed them. And his... There wasn't a defense lawyer there. The government just presented a case, but if they want to do a conspiracy case, it's got to be other people. That's correct. Do you expect these two judges to put it out? I don't know if there's any resistance to putting it out.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Do you expect them to put it out? I don't know if there's any resistance to putting it out. Do you expect them to put it out? You know, it's a great question. They could hang it on a technicality if they don't feel like the government has met the burden of the interest, the public interest in it, but I can't imagine. How could that possibly be? Everybody's trying to tie it in
Starting point is 00:17:43 as public interest is through the roof. How could they possibly say that? Would they be laughed off the bench? I think they would. And I think it would do more harm than good. Let it out. Let the people see it. And let us get past and beyond it.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Okay. Let's get to Brennan and the Tulsi-Gabbert drop declassification. Do you agree with me that John Brennan's in trouble? I do agree. I do agree. I think John Brennan, especially if you look at what was released today, the additional documents that were released, Brennan had direct involvement in the conspiracy and in the decision-making to put out,
Starting point is 00:18:26 I mean, look at what we know. He put out not just a bad report, he fabricated the support that would be necessary in order to get others on board. I would say, Bill, I also would include though, a couple of things that we learned today that may be trouble for Clapper and may be trouble for Jim Comey. It was the FBI, we now know, that insisted on the Steele dossier being included as support for the ICA. That was on the FBI.
Starting point is 00:19:00 But what if Comey didn't know that the Russian collusion stuff was bogus? That's why I like your idea. Brennan knew, but what if Comey didn't know? As I said, there's not a lot of back and forth between the CIA and FBI. I agree. And that's why I think your point is one I've tried to make, which is open a grand jury investigation, then issue your subpoenas to Comey and to others where you're not sure or you're on the fence on
Starting point is 00:19:32 or you don't know what they knew when they knew it, and force them to testify and force them to actually answer the tough questions and find out what happened. And I don't think they can get that without a grand jury subpoena and requiring them to appear in front of the court. So that you would bring them before a grand jury and the justice department would then ask them
Starting point is 00:19:56 specific questions about their participation. And if those questions were not answered in a effective way by them, then they could be indicted, right? That's correct. Then you can bring that 1001 charge. Would you call Senator Schiff in? I would.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Yes, absolutely. I think you're the first one I've heard say this. But right now, I would be focusing on Schiff because he has told so many lies and he's going to have a real hard time when he's under oath. Yeah. So that should be top priority. The new BMO VI Porter MasterCard is your ticket to more.
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Starting point is 00:20:58 Visit bmo.com slash VI Porter to learn more. 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.
Starting point is 00:21:21 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 2pm East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, he's the guy that said, oh, I have different proof. I'm going to show it, of course, he never did. Okay, so that's the pathway to getting holding people accountable who may have and we want to emphasize and Talman is on board with this, that we're not convicting these people. I mean, we're giving you the evidence that's been presented today by declassification. They're entitled to do
Starting point is 00:22:00 process and they're entitled to have a lawyer.. Although when you do present in front of a grand jury, as you have many times, Brett, you don't get a defense lawyer defending you. You can't take the fifth, right? You do not get your lawyer. What's interesting is they can take the fifth in the grand jury. And if they do take the fifth in the grand jury then the Department of Justice can force them through giving them limited immunity can force them to actually testify so it's a very limited you know use of the Fifth Amendment right okay the immunity the immunity factor is interesting all right okay so the big three would be Brennan I I guess, Comey, and Schiff. Now, Clapper is not mentioned in the
Starting point is 00:22:50 drop today by Tulsi Gabbard, is he? Is he? What happens is Clapper actually adds a statement vouching for the veracity of the support for the ICA. And that's an interesting thing to me. All right, so he just said he thinks it was true. And he was the director of national intelligence. He held the same position that Gabbard holds now. That's right. Okay. All right, would you please-
Starting point is 00:23:18 I would at least question him. I would at least question him and find out what he did. No, there's no downside. What he did know. You know, why did you come to that conclusion? Who told you that? Did you see documents? Did you know about these phony documents?
Starting point is 00:23:31 The documents that were unsubstantiated? All those questions you'd be asked. Would you do me a favor and just follow this for us? Cause I'm not smart enough to do it all by myself. So, and we really appreciate. I will follow it closely. Yeah, this is big. Can't have elections subverted. You just can't. All right, let's get on to sanctuary cities. Now in New York, terrible thing happened over the weekend. I'm sure you know about it. There was an ICE agent, border patrol guy, shot in the face, two muggers,
Starting point is 00:24:00 zipped up to him, demanded they shot him, and then he shot one of them, or the cops did and whatever. And those muggers are migrant criminals who had been charged and released at least four times each by New York authorities. And they did not tell ICE that they had them in custody. What can the federal government do to New York City in this case?
Starting point is 00:24:29 Immediately, the Department of Justice can file for injunctive relief, meaning they file an action to enjoin them from taking some of the conduct that they are, which is, in essence, they're aiding and abetting or assisting in the harboring of fugitives. Now, they can file the injunction because I think it puts everyone on notice that the feds are not going to mess around. The other thing is... Now, when you say file an injunction, most people, including me, don't really understand what that entails. So they, they can in essence invalidate the rules that the city has passed, making it a
Starting point is 00:25:10 sanctuary city, allowing it to operate under the guise of law by arguing that the rules they've passed violate the supremacy clause, for example, and other laws. That hasn't been done after all of this time? No. Oh my God. Now say they do that and they invalidate the sanctuary city law in New York and other cities, and the mayors and the police chiefs still don't uphold the law. Can they arrest the mayors and the police chiefs? And they can and they should be arrested.
Starting point is 00:25:44 And it should happen swiftly and unapologetically. Yeah. All right. If you don't do it others will be in the following suit. And that falls under Pam Bondi. Now she's got to start to take action against these sanctuary places. Finally, what's your opinion of Patel and Bongino and the FBI? I'm hearing very mixed things about these guys, that they're political appointees above
Starting point is 00:26:11 all, they're not real crime fighters. What do you think? I know Cash Patel and I have a lot of respect for him. I don't know Dan as well. I know he had it served honorably and there's many that speak highly. But I will tell you the one thing that I gauge, you know, I like to gauge the approval or you know, the performance of these folks in these positions. I have a lot of friends in the FBI and I ask them, you know, what's your impression?
Starting point is 00:26:42 What are the thoughts? What are people saying? And what's fascinating about Cash Patel at the helm is there's a sense that the agents on the ground feel like someone has their back. And there's also a sense that they're pushing the FBI back towards violent crime and investigating that, and if those two things are accurate, then I think they've improved the situation and I'm more optimistic. The morale is up.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Yeah, I have friends in the Bureau as well. And the morale is up and they dumped a whole bunch of political people out of Washington and they transferred them to Tulsa and Butte. They punish people who they feel are quote unquote, suspects, suspect, not suspect for a crime, suspect. They punish people who they feel are quote unquote suspects. Suspect, not suspects for a crime, suspect. All right, Brad, very nice of you to help us
Starting point is 00:27:32 during your summer vacation. And you're gonna be our go-to guy on all of this subversion of the election and alleged subversion. We really appreciate your time tonight. All right, Department of Homeland Security under fire for taking up peaceful, law abiding migrants into custody. Yes, you can make the argument they're not law abiding because they broke
Starting point is 00:27:53 immigration law to come into the country. That is a valid argument. But you know what I'm talking about. So they're fighting back. The DHS issued a statement. I am going to read it to you. It's a summation of what they have been doing the past six months. Quote, Trump administration empowered our brave men and women in law enforcement to use common sense to do their jobs effectively. DHS returned to using the term illegal alien, which is a statutory language. President Trump will not allow political correctness to hinder law enforcement.
Starting point is 00:28:27 Trump administration arrested more than 300,000 illegal aliens in 2025 alone. 70% of ICE arrests are criminal illegal aliens with criminal charges or convictions. The big beautiful bill will allow ICE to arrest and remove even more criminal aliens by provoking, by providing 14.4 billion for removals, 10,000 new ICE agents, 80,000 new ICE beds, and a 10,000 signing bonus for new ICE agents.
Starting point is 00:28:54 I will help ICE achieve as many as 1 million deportations per year. That is the Department of Homeland Security. 21 states are suing the federal government, the Trump administration, for the big bill, which says, hey, illegal aliens, undocumented migrants, are not to receive government money in healthcare or food assistance or housing or anything. Okay? So, 21 states, all liberal, except Nevada and Michigan, which are, you know, back and forth, say, hey, we want to give, our state wants to give healthcare and entitlements and whatever to undocumented, and we're suing suing you Trump administration to make that happen.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Heading this up is Letitia James, a New York state attorney general, uber liberal. Now, is this going to work? No. The federal government, Trump administration's EO, that says ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders, that will be upheld, in my opinion, my humble opinion. But it's gonna take a while. In the meantime, you know, there's chaos. States are gonna do what they want, spend tax money the way they want, but this is what's happening and, you know, there you go, another lawsuit. Louisville, Kentucky dropping sanctuary city status. Mayor says, hey, we're getting pounded, we're getting hurt, we're no longer a sanctuary
Starting point is 00:30:43 city, but the mayor is sympathetic. So his name is Craig Greenberg, a Democrat. He's sympathetic, so I'm not... He's going to say one thing. Whether the city of Louisville does enforce federal law is quite something else. We will watch it. Media Madness, NPR, as you know, being denied federal funding, so their top editor is out. A woman named Edith Chapin.
Starting point is 00:31:08 I don't know anything about Edith. I asked my staff to check her out. We don't find much, but NPR is very, very left. So Edith was in that cabal, and she is gone. Columbia University finally punishing students who were violent, who wrecked things in the demonstrations in 2024 and recently. It's basically they support Palestine, these students. them, have been suspended or expelled, and the university is doing this, took them long enough, because they're losing federal money. Now, Trump is punishing these people and getting some results.
Starting point is 00:31:57 I would never in a million years send my kid to Colombia. It's my life. Important segment. I hope you will listen up. So I got a letter from a concierge member this morning, and he's a good guy. And he says, listen, I have a number of friends who are asking me for loans to borrow money. Not a lot of money, but you know, they need some money. And I'm a generous guy, and these are my pals and whatever. And I usually do give them the money, but rarely is it paid back. What do I do?
Starting point is 00:32:33 And I told the guy, look, if you're going to lend somebody money, you've got to get a note. The guy's got to acknowledge that he's taking money from you, and then you've got to have a date when it's supposed to be paid back. The reason is you just have to have that kind of documentation, particularly if it's a larger sum, but anything, even if it's 200 bucks.
Starting point is 00:32:58 I said, anybody who would not pay you back doesn't care about you. That's the key to the smart life segment. You cannot make people care about you. That's the key to the smart life segment. You cannot make people care about you. You can't make people care about their job, care about their country, care about anything. And that I spent a lot of time in my life trying to make people care. And I've always felt you can't do it. If you think that somebody doesn't care for you, and the indicators are just lending of the money is just one, there are a thousand indicators. That's it. That's all. It's over. And it's so painful because sometimes there are children, spouses, relatives, they don't care about you. And you can't make them.
Starting point is 00:33:54 And on the other front, I walked into a bagel place the other day and I looked around and it was obvious that nobody working in that place cared about their job at all. Nobody. And I couldn't even get an order in. They were so rude at the counties, walked out. I could not make those people care about their job. There was no supervision on the floor for them. They didn't care. And you can't make them care about anything. Smart life. Don't even try. Just evaluate fairly. It's a very important tip. California raised the minimum wage of 20 bucks and lost 18,000 jobs in the fast food restaurants. There are, it's unbelievable, the socialists and communists say, oh yeah, I work in people with $20 an hour and then
Starting point is 00:34:45 the jobs go away. 18,000 jobs, gone. After Newsom signed a $20 an hour minimum wage. Stay in history, July 23rd, 1904, 121 years ago, the ice cream cone was invented. How about that? So welfare in St. Louis is a big deal. There was a guy, Charles Menchez, who was a chef, and he said, you know what? I'm going to take some vanilla ice cream. I'm going to put it between a pastry, two little pastry things.
Starting point is 00:35:18 I'm going to sell it. And I was the first ice cream cone since that time. 300 million Americans each year buy ice cream. 300 million Americans, there's only 350 million of us. So everybody buys ice cream. All right, the average American eats five gallons of ice cream a year. It's why everybody's fat. Okay, here are the flavors that are most popular. American eats five gallons of ice cream a year. It's why everybody's fat. Okay. Here are the flavors that are most popular.
Starting point is 00:35:47 Vanilla chocolate, strawberry, butter pecan, cookie dough. Oh no. Now my favorite ice cream flavor is coffee, but I'm down a once a week, okay. Because you get it's sugar, I'm gonna nail you. Topping, so if you're going for sundae, by far hot fudge is the most popular. When I worked at Carvel when I was 17 years old,
Starting point is 00:36:10 I was the greatest sundae maker in the country. I could make you that sundae and you would weep. All right, so first ice cream cone, 121 years ago today. Final thought coming right up. Time now for the final thought. You know, there's not much on TV. It's not worth watching. I look once in a while when I have a little time at night,
Starting point is 00:36:34 which is rare, but something I always check out is Turner Classic Movies, TCM. Because some of those classic movies are really worth watching again. When I was seven years old, my father took me to see a film called To Hell and Back. It was about Audie Murphy. Do you know the name Audie Murphy? The most decorated war hero in American history. Well, it was on this week and I plunked down
Starting point is 00:37:07 and I watched it. Audie Murphy started as himself, very unusual, okay? And he was a Hollywood actor. You know, he made westerns most of the time, but he's a fascinating story. So you might wanna Google him, Audie, A-U-D-I-E Murphy. But man, that brought a lot of memories back about me and my father and my urchinhood.
Starting point is 00:37:30 And so every night I check out TCM and that's a final thought. You might wanna do that as well. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We will see you again tomorrow.

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