Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Ex-Informant Accused of Lying About Bidens, Russia Sanctions, Israel and Iran with Philip Balboni, Trump and Putin, the Nikki Haley Campaign Continues, Kansas City Update, & More

Episode Date: February 22, 2024

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, stand up for your country. So James Biden testifies today under oath behind closed doors in front of the House Oversight Committee. Took about two hours, they broke for lunch, and then the leaks started to come out, which we knew was gonna happen. The first leak is that James Biden told the committee that Hunter and he had a business

and had nothing to do with Joe Biden, as vice president or president. Shocked? No, come on. Everybody knew he was gonna say that, and he said it. So, um, We are going to wait to see what the total testimony is. I'm more interested in the questions than the answers because I know the answers.

I know what Joe Biden is going to say. Not Joe Biden, Jim Biden. I mean, he's been briefed by his attorneys. He knows the game. But I'm interested in the question, both sides. And we'll have that for you tomorrow. Tonight, the talking points memo is about a man named Alexander Smyranov. Come on. Do you know Alexander? Alexander Smyrnav. There he is, little hoodie, Ukrainian guy.

So he will remember said to the FBI that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company. Remember that? So that's what Alexander said to the FBI. Now, it is a crime to lie to the FBI. So if they come to your house and ask you, you better tell the truth. So after he said that, there was all kinds of reporting, mostly on the right-wing media, from the right-wing media. The left pretty much ignored the story, saying, look, we told you, look, $5 million. How many times did you hear that? That was all over Fox News, all over talk radio. But it wasn't here.

You didn't hear it here. We didn't mention it. Alexander Smyrnav got zero air time on the no-spin-news or my radio broadcasts. Why? Because we couldn't verify it. And we don't do that. So, if accusations are lodged against anybody, anybody, and we can't verify at least some kind of facts in the case, we're not going to report it.

That is why I think, part of the reason you're listening and watching me right this second. So I'm not going to deal with this stuff. That's what they do on the internet. what they do in the ideological precincts of the corporate media all day long. Now, I've been quite clear that I believe the Biden family are grifters, that they used the vice president position to amass perhaps as much as $30 million for doing nothing. How can I say that? See? That's evidence. Banking records. Hunter Biden is a drug addict, right? His brother, the president's brother, Jim, I don't know what Jim is. I don't know what he's ever done.

There's nothing distinguished about his resume. And all of a sudden, his money's born in? doesn't take a Ph.D. in political science or economics to figure this out, particularly when banking records prove the flow of money to the Bidens. Now, Joe Biden himself, we don't know whether he benefited economically. But this guy, Smirnov, says he did, and now he has been charged. He faces two charges making false statements, obstructing the government's investigation into Hunter Biden. So they got him. I think he's in Vegas in custody there because they took him off a flight. He came to the United States and the FBI was waiting for him.

And now he's basically admitting that he lied. And he's saying, oh, well, the Russians told me to do it or this one or that one, whatever it may be. But the important thing for you to know, the honest American who is seeking valid information so you can protect yourself and your family, important thing for you to know is I am not going to report stuff I cannot verify. I'm not going to do conspiracies. And the reason the right-wing media did this is because they wanted it to be true. They wanted it to be true.

And the reason the left-wing media ignored the Smyrna off the story is not the same reason I did. They ignored it because they didn't want it to be true. They didn't want the people to know. Okay, we imposed journalistic discipline on the story. So, yeah, am I bragging, am I tooting my own horn? Yeah, I am, because it's so rare. Okay. So we don't know at this point where this impeachment inquiry is going to lead.

But from what I'm getting, I do not believe that President Biden is going to be impeached. I don't believe the Republicans are going to do that. They're going to allow this flow unless, of course, there's other information that comes out. valid information, but they're going to let this build and build and build, and in conjunction to Mr. Biden's mental problems, hope that's enough to eliminate him from a victory in November. And that is the memo. Again, we will have an assessment of the Jim Biden testimony tomorrow. So President Biden's in California. He's not doing the people's business, as we reported yesterday, he's just cleaning up money from the liberals out there.

And there's a lot of money to be cleaned up. Okay? So he runs around. And then on Friday, the president's going to put more sanctions on Putin. So my question is, how many more sanctions can we put? I think we were sanctioned out, right? What else can we do? And if we haven't done it, why?

the guy is killing hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine. So we got more sanctions now because of Alexei Navalny's murder? So Biden's a yeah, we got more sanctions. Okay. I don't think it's going to matter to Putin. He's hurting, by the way. And we have a segment coming up on that. But Putin's going to get down with the ship.

I mean, he's going down. He's not giving up, so got to know that. But anyway, Friday, Navalny, by the way, was sentenced to 19 years in a Soviet prison for, quote, extremism. So if we had the same law here, everybody in MSNBC would be in a federal penitentiary. All right, cheap shot, but, you know, I'm allowed to do that. UN. So the UN hates Israel. And they was a resolution calling for Israel to immediately stop fighting embassies fire. All right. 13 members of the Security Council voted yes. The only member of the Security Council that did not vote yes was the USA. Sticking up for Israel. Okay? The UK

didn't vote. They abstained. But there's a veto, and we were able to veto this resolution in the United Nations. Now, Biden's putting out his own what Israel should do, and of course, Netanyahu will totally ignore it, because the Israel is going to do what they want to do. And I'm not saying that's justified 100%. I'm not. I think that the Israelis should be looking for a way all right, to tamp this down a bit. But with the hostages not being released, that's pretty hard to do. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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please call 866, 326, 5576, or text bill to 998899. Again, that's 866, 326-5576, or text bill to 998899. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, 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. So you may know that we have a foreign news partner. I've mentioned it.

before. It's the daily chatter.com. And we work with daily chatter because we don't have our own foreign correspondence and they do to accumulate information all over the world. And if you go to daily chatter.com every day, there's a very readable, I dispatch, and you'll learn a lot. I do. I get it every morning. Okay. The guy who runs it is named Phil Balboni, and I used to work for Mr. Balboni. He has a local reporter slash analyst in Boston at WCBBTV, a classic television station. All right, Phil, I got to ask you a series of questions, and I want your best take on it. So all over the Internet, it's Russia's now winning the war against, you know,

Ukraine. Is that true? They're beginning to advance on the front lines in some key places. So they're not winning yet, but they are definitely, they have momentum, whereas the war was stalemated for quite a long time. So the Russians took Bakht, many of your viewers who will remember that name. And now just last week, they took Avdivka, another kind of strategic town, and they're attacking in a couple of other places along the line, which is 600 miles long. So I would say Russia is not winning, but they are moving in the direction of winning. Okay.

What is the goal for Putin, total domination of Ukraine? I don't think so. I think he wants to keep what he's won. So Crimea, which Russia took in 2014, along with part of the eastern part of Ukraine. But getting Crimea was a huge thing for Putin personally, and I think he wants to protect that. All right. So he wants a treaty that says, we're going to stop this war, but wherever Russia is in Ukraine, Russia gets to keep. I think yeah well he's made a lot of advances since 2014 so now the territory that Russia took

yeah the eastern part of the country when the war when the war began two years ago this Sunday by the way so it's the second anniversary of the war already they gained a lot of territory I think Putin would like to keep that I don't think he feels now that he is any way he is going to take all of Ukraine that's not going to happen okay so There's one to occupy the whole country that would be, you know, because he's taking a lot of casualties. There was a British report out yesterday that 300,000 casualties the Russians have taken. Do you believe it's that high? I do.

Yeah, I do. I think the Ukrainians have lost over 100. Wow. 300,000 Russians, 100,000 Ukrainians. Now, as you know, there's a 90 million, I'm sorry, billion with a big, $90 billion aid package that's being held up in Congress now. although it passed the Senate by a wide margin, 70 to 29, to send more material and to Ukraine. I think this will get through eventually, but the delay is helping Putin, correct? It definitely is, yeah. I mean, I think the Ukrainians are running out of soldiers.

They're running out of weapons, ammunition, artillery shells. So every day, every week that goes by that more aid isn't delivered to them, they are losing. And I think that's been part of some of the recent setbacks that they've had is because- Well, why aren't the NATO countries delivering ordinance and arms to them? Why is it all on us? They are. No, the Germans are. The French have been, the Dutch, the Polish.

and others have been delivering money and weapons, but it's not enough because, you know, they stopped really preparing for Russia during the end after the end of the Cold War. So believe it or not, they don't have enough weapons factories to build the artillery shells, the tanks, make the bullet. So they can't manufacture stuff like we can. All right, let's switch you over to Israel. So Netanyahu is a guy who's going to do what Netanyahu wants. It doesn't matter who pressures him. Am I right in that assessment? Yeah, you are.

Okay. So you're going to do what he wants. And the Israeli people want Hamas to be destroyed. But I don't think you can destroy the entire terror network of Hamas. Am I wrong? You can. No, you're right there too. So, you know, Israel, the IDF, the Israeli defense forces claim they've killed 14,000 Hamas fighters since the war began.

Today is day 138 of the war. But, you know, by all estimates, there were up to 40,000 Hamas fighters before the war began on October 7th. So, you know, simple math tells you that there's a lot of people left to fight. And that doesn't include the young men in Gaza who probably would do anything to put on a uniform or whatever they wear and join the battle. And fight the Jews. All right. So Netanyahu's end game then is getting the hostages back and killing as many radical Palestinians as he can. And that seems to be what we're looking at.

It does. He does not have a game plan for when the war stops, when the shooting stops. And that is the biggest problem of all, is that, you know, since 1948, the Jews and the Palestinians have lived sometimes in peace, sometimes in war. But they've never found a permanent solution. And until one is found, even if the fighting stopped tomorrow, it wouldn't stop forever. No, I know. And when you hear this two-party state, there aren't two parties.

There's Israel, but there's no Palestinian united front to negotiate with it. So there's the Palestinian authority, but they're very weak. They're weak. I mean, yeah, very weak. Okay, so Iran is involved with Hezbollah, to some extent, Hamas. And they want this war to continue for, forever, correct? They do because it's all to their advantage.

They have all of their proxies in Lebanon, you know, in Gaza itself, in Syria, in particular, in Iraq, in Yemen, you know, militias and others that they arm in support and train. So anything that ties down the United States is a plus for Iran. Right. And they're not going to stop. I mean, they're going to create violent chaos wherever they are. And they are arming and financing, Hamas, Hezbollah, as you mentioned, the hooties in Yemen, and on and on and on. So that doesn't seem like there's any hope there at all, because the mullers are just not going to stop. No. But you know, there are good actors here. So the Saudis would like the fighting to stop. The Qataris who are helping negotiate for business.

Right. And Egypt's right. That's right. Batchez, Egypt, you know, wants the fighting to stop. So there are people who will help and support and help to rebuild Gaza, but the Israeli government has to be willing to compromise, and they've not so far. Okay, but they had before October 7th. And if we were the United States that had suffer, and we, you know, you saw what happened after 9-11, I mean, what we did. So you got to keep that in mind. Why do you think the United Nations hates Israel so much? Well, I don't think I would put it that way, Bill. I mean, I think the United Nations, do you mean the Secretariat or do you

mean the countries that make up to you? The countries, I mean, when you vote, every country votes for an immediate ceasefire with no hostage release or anything else, that works to Israel's disadvantage. I think the United Nations hates Israel. I don't agree. I think that it's hard for us in the United States, which is one of the reasons why I created my company to help people get more information about the world. The rest of the world is not supportive of what Israel is doing right now. And, you know, 29,000. Why, after that horror on October 7, you would feel everybody say, look, Israel is justified to try to get these Hamas terrorists? out of there. Why are they sympathetic? They are sympathetic to that. But I mean, I'm sure you realize

that 29,000 Gazans have been killed since the war began. Most of them women and children, they have had 30,000 airstrikes. That's over 200 every day. 80% of all the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, it's been a, I think by any measure, they've overdone it. Nobody objects or disagrees they have a right to defend themselves. It's how they've gone about it. Did we overdo it on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Personally, I think we did what we had to do. All right.

So it's a debatable issue, but I still think that. there is an anti-Israel bent inside the United Nations. Led by African countries, interestingly enough, South Africa and this and that. I'm going, wait a minute, you guys are the underdogs in Africa. Israel is certainly the underdog. Why aren't you sympathetic? Do you have any perspective on that? I think it's their colonialist history.

Colonial thing? Yeah. Okay. I got it. All right. last question for you. You managed me for a little while in the 1980s. I must have been hell. It wasn't actually. I mean, I want your viewers to know that you were a damn good reporter. And, you know, you were a pleasure to work with. I mean, you're the same guy you were 40 years

ago, you know, very confident, smart, sometimes a little opinionated. Maybe you rub some of your colleagues the wrong way from time to time. But no, you were great. And that's why you've been friends, 40 years. There were two news directors that were outstanding. And I'm going to have the other one from WCBS TV on next week. Steve Cohen, you know him. But when I was working for you in Boston, and Boston is my second home, as you know. I mean, when I go to Boston, everybody thinks I'm from Southie. I was. different than most of the other reporters because I was so brash B-R-A-S-H and I remember that you do something we'd never let anybody else do before which was

to do commentary on the 11 o'clock news that was that was a first you know and that was interesting because the ratings went up because I was monitoring them and the reason that you and Copper Smith the general manager put me on was that and this is fascinating after the the weather in Boston, everybody turned off and go to sleep. But then you put this madman O'Reilly on at the end of the show, hoping that people would stay up, which they did. But the funny thing about it was that the reigning queen of news in Boston, Natalie Jacobson, huge, huge anchor up there, she hated me. She would just look at me like, what is this?

I think you threatened her a little bit. Well, I threatened everybody. But you stuck up to her. I mean, you said, we're doing it for the good of the whole newscast here, Natalie. And I admired that very much because I knew she wouldn't even introduce me. She wouldn't even read the lead. Her husband, Jet Curtis, who was the co-anchor, had to do it. Right.

So anyway. We had an amazing team. I mean, I'm sure many of your viewers remember the 1980s in television news. It really was the golden age. That was the apex. Absolutely. We had standards. You sent reporters all over the world.

I remember Martha Radditz, who's now on ABC. She sent her to the Philippines when they had the big uproar there. I mean, it was really, it was really, number one, a pleasure to work with you, which is why we've stayed in touch all these years. And number two, it had a tremendous impact, Channel 5. in Boston, on the whole New England area, that's gone. And I'm not quite sure why it disappeared. Last word, do you know why? Because of viewers aren't there anymore.

I mean, you know, people have migrated off to, you know, 100 or a thousand or a million different places. You know, that 11 o'clock news that people watched you on in the 1980s, I bet the audience is maybe 25% of what it used to. Of what it was. Yeah, they're all scattered. Yeah. All right, Phil Boboni, it's daily chatter, one word.

Dot com. Can't get much easier than that. If you're interested in foreign news, and it's straight. It's straight. It's straight. Okay? Nonpartisan. Yeah.

I want everybody to go and check it out. Thanks, Phil. Good to see you, man. Pay care. Great to see you, Bill. Be good. Okay. Okay, so there's a little controversy about Donald Trump not condemning Putin.

You know it. Okay. You know the controversy about it. And there's a reason why Trump doesn't condemn him. And I'm going to tell you that reason in a moment. Trump is on Fox last night. Here's what he said. Go.

Putin took land from every president of our last five, except for one, me. And now he's going for the big one. He's going for all of Ukraine. He's going for all of Ukraine. Not this a little piece. He's going for all. And that's under Biden. Okay.

So the reason Trump doesn't condemn and I know this to be true, Putin, is because he feels that if he's reelected, he can stop that Ukraine war because he has an understanding with the evil Vlad man. And they do. Putin misbehaved a little bit under Trump with the hacking and all that, but he didn't do this. And Trump believes that he can somehow reason with Putin to stop the carnage. That's why he doesn't criticize it. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.

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You don't want to miss an episode. Okay, got a lot of mail about Nikki Haley donations coming from Democrats, and it's true. According to Politico, due an analysis, 5,200 donors who gave money to Biden, also giving money to Nikki Haley. And obviously, they want to take Trump off the board. Now, the question would be, look, if Haley's polling numbers are better against Biden than Trump's, which they are, why would the Democrats want Haley to run against Biden?

Interesting question. But the Democrats hate Trump so much that they're actually. giving money to Nikki Haley. And one of the biggest is a guy named Reid Hoffman, the founder of Lincoln, some internet thing. He's a big, big liberal guy, gives a lot of money to left wing causes. Okay, there is a lawsuit, Dominion, that's the voting machine, that fleece Fox for 800 million.

Well, they're suing newsmax. A case is supposed to come up in August, I'm following it, because I know it. everybody over at Newsmax. And, you know, Dominion, those lawyers over there working for them, they're good. I mean, they kicked FNC's butt. And now they're looking for every text and email from all of the Newsmax personnel. But I figured I'd give it up. It's the trial scheduled late September. It could be delayed till after the election. possible. Kansas City, this is outrageous. So now we know there are four men, two of the minors, charged in this terrible mass shooting one week ago in the Super Bowl parade. Four.

The two miners don't know anything about. And I told you it's because of skin color. Well, now we got a mugshot of one of the adults charged. And here it is. All right, this guy, Lindell Mays, 23 years old. Okay, he's got a rap sheet. They got him, and they're charging him. He's being held with $1 million bail. He'll be charged with murder. And there's another guy, Dominic Miller, no rap sheet, no mugshot yet, but he's black. And I can almost guarantee you the two minors are black.

Okay? And the reason it took seven days to get this information out is if you're African American criminal or charged with a crime, the cops and the mayor and all of the prosecutors, they're not going to put out any information about it. This is wrong. It's wrong. The people in Kansas City have a right to know what the deuce happened. And so do the people in the United States in the world. And we don't know.

After a week, the cops know what happened, but they won't put it out because of skin color. Wrong. I told you in the beginning what this was going to be, and I'm coming true. New York City, migrant families coming here, hundreds of thousands of them. They're now going to get $15,000 a year, courtesy of the city. Did he going to pay him? $53 million is designated for prepaid credit cards to asylum seekers, $53 million. The city is $7 billion in debt.

New York City is $7 billion in debt. $53 million going to people who shouldn't be here. Thank you, Joe Biden. The mayor and the governor of New York, they're not responsible for these people coming here other than they were cheerleaders for the sanctuary movement. Now, New York City is going broke. And you know what that means?

that hire taxes on the way for working Americans. They're punishing, punishing working New Yorkers. California, Gavin Newsom, ready? When Gavin Newsom took over from Jerry Brown as governor of the state, California had a surplus in its treasury. Now, the legislative analyst office, office, L-A-O in Sacramento, says that the deficit in California could reach, ready, $73 billion. Same thing, same thing.

Payments to the migrants, asylum seekers, payments to everybody, $73 billion in the whole. You want Gavin Newsom as president? Biden is the biggest spending president in history by far. No one's come close to him. $34 trillion debt. You put Newsom in there? I think he doubled. Smart life.

Okay. So if you go on a trip and check a bag with the airline taking you anywhere, you are insane. The bag cost now is running a, up to 40 bucks a bag, okay, maybe more to check a bag. And you may not even get it. Smart life. Go to the UPS office. Take the bag. Send it ahead to wherever you're going. Now if you're going to a hotel, you need to call the hotel and get the name of the concierge or the head. of the bellman, whatever, so you have a name where the bag is going.

And then you call the hotel and say, this bag is coming in. And when the guy gives you the bag or the gal, you give him 10, 20 bucks. I'm telling you, that'll save you so much grief. Smart life. Stay in history, February 21st, 1848. The Communist Manifesto is published in London, England. Carl Marx, Friedrich Engels, puts out the Communist Manifesto. It is the third best-selling book of all time, behind the Quran and the Bible.

The Communist Manifesto. At one point, in this world, a third of the population were under communism. Up to 200 million people have been executed or starved to death. by communist leaders, up to 200 million. Okay, all because of the Communist Manifesto. Okay, we got mail and a final thought coming up. Okay, let's segue right into the mail. John Vanneman, Oceanside, California.

Hey Bill, most people realize that the media spins facts and puts out propaganda. out propaganda. Even newspapers don't seem reliable. That's why I have paid attention to your updates on various stations since the 1990s. Thank you. I appreciate that. And now I watched the no-spin news. As you stated yesterday, the news used to be facts. I remember this when I was young. What would be the easiest way to cut through all the spin and get the facts today? There's no easy way. It just isn't. So I get the Wall Street journal delivered every day their editorial page is usually very accurate sem4 is a website okay i look at it um pangle you had the guy on a couple of weeks ago seems to be fairly accurate but you got a search and of course bill o're

And we have loaded that website up. You need to just go there and look at all the things that we have. So, but it's not easy. Bill Blackwell, Meneffi, California. Do you think George Soros is putting money into Nikki Haley's campaign to keep her in the race? George Soros is not putting money into Nikki Haley's campaign as far as we know. So whoever told you that is misleading you, Bill. than of mine. Harold Whitkoff, Boynton Beach, Florida. Hey Bill, how about you consider how the

Republican House is blocking everything, and they're the ones who are not governing? Well, I don't have a lot of faith in the Republican House representatives. I mean, they think some of their conduct is abysmal. But I analyze each issue as it comes down. I don't generalize. There is a fringe group of Republicans in the House. It's damage, just like the squad on the left. Michael Knox, Long Beach, Indiana. I know you have a certain focus to restore order through the election Donald Trump. Please spotlight the need to vote back a Republican majority.

That's not what we do. You're smart enough to know who you want to vote for. I'm not telling you who to vote for. I'm not a party guy. I don't do that. We are independent, and we like it that way. David, that Ross Perrault is such an odd duck. Talk about a brilliant nut job.

I still contend that had Perot not entered the race, Bush the elder would have been reelected. It's a tight one. I analyze it for my upcoming book confronting the presidents. Clinton won because Perot took time. 19 million votes away. Was it enough? I'm not sure. Probably was. So Bill Clinton's best friend back then was Ross Perrault. Michael LeBott, Shiboygan, Michigan. I recently finished the excellent Killing the Witch's Book. Coincidentally, a few days later, I received from my cousin a genealogist, the history of my mother's family. I was shocked to find. My relative,

Nathaniel Felton, was living in Salem and 16. 1992, my cousin found a letter that he wrote defending John Proctor, who was one of the convicted witches. That letter is worth some money. Isn't that amazing? It's not worth a lot of money, but it's worth some. But I wouldn't sell it. I would just keep it. Okay, bill o'Reilly.com's store wants you to check us out. We are making some new mugs, by the way, which you're going to like. But I'm not going to pitch them until we have mint. I like my team normal mug, all right? Team normal mug, made in America, beautiful.

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use because I don't know if you're a real person. Name in town if you wish to a pond. Okay, final thought in a moment. So here is a final thought of the day. Yesterday we said that the elder people over 65 is booming as a baby boomers hit 65 years old, a record amount. So I was thinking about it last night and I'm a baby boomer. And I said myself, you know, I changed my point of view about life. I would say about five years ago, and I said to myself, look, I've done pretty much all I can do in my career and in my life. I think I've led a good life, and I've been lucky. So now, in the years that I have left on this planet, and remember, a lot of people, they don't think they're ever going to die. Okay. I'm going to try to change for being self-absorbed.

all right to putting other people as a priority first thing i did was i reorganized my entire estate which is complicated all right to make sure that my family the charitable foundation that i have everybody was taking care of and the minute and i wanted to minimize the tax on it okay It took a year, one year to do that. And I have great accountants and lawyers, but it was so complicated. That's number one, and I did it, and I'm happy with the way it came out. And number two, then I kind of said, all right, this is what I can do for these people. And I did it.

I'm not going to tell you what it was, because it's just personal, but the number of people that I knew I could help, and I did it. I did it like that. It didn't wait. So when you reach a certain age, then it's time to swing into action. All right, it's fine if you're down in the villages and you're having a great time, playing pickleball, whatever they do down there. I've got to get down to the villages, by the way. I know a lot of people down there.

But that's fine. Have a blast. Have a great time. Treat yourself. You've earned it. But also think about your legacy and think about other people what you can do for them. and do it now because boy stuff happens fast all right so that is the final thought we thank you for watching and listening to the no spin news on our 300 radio stations across the country

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