Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Getting Through on Mexico, Political Dishonesty, America Headed to Socialism, Alec Baldwin Charged, Bad NYC Justice Reform, & More

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Are Americans listening when it comes to the danger Mexico presents to the U.S.? Bill breaks it down. Politicians are becoming more and more brazen with their dishonesty. We take a look at what California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently claimed A new poll says Americans believe the country is headed for socialism Alec Baldwin charged with the death of a cinematographer Justice reform is having a negative impact on criminal cases in New York City This Day in History: The Beatles turn down $30 million to reunite Final Thought: Grooming yourself and your property  In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Blame Mexico" Let your people know you're a No Spin guy or gal! Get the new No Spin Mug at BillOReilly.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, January 19th, 2020, stand up for your country. So we're making some progress here, spreading the word about what's good for America. and I think I know pretty much what is good for all of us and what isn't good. And that comes from experience and training and observation. And I come at it from a historian slash journalist point of view. So I'm pretty confident what I tell you every day and what you hear on the radio

is advancing a positive scenario for the United States of America. Now, you can call me cocky, you can say I'm bragging, you can do it all you want. But in my heart, I know I am trying to do the right thing, and it's good that we are making progress. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So here's a vivid demonstration of that. As you know, we have been saying that the open border policy of President Biden is a disaster for everybody. It's a disaster for the American people. It's a disaster for the migrants themselves.

And earlier this week, we showed you that horrendous video, the three little girls from El Salvador, nine, seven, and 18 months, sobbing on the banks of the Rio Grande River, Mexican authorities rescued them, no adult in sight. These girls are now in a foster home in Mexico, and you can imagine what their lives are going to be. Somebody just dumped them on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River. And they did that because there are millions of people trying to get into the United States through the southern border, and that's controlled. by the cartels. So God knows what happened to the adults who took these precious girls from El Salvador and moved them thousands of miles north. We don't know. Cartels might have killed them. Anything

could have happened. But the fact remains that girls were abandoned. And I made a big deal out of it because Biden doesn't care. I think he addressed the issue? He did not. No senator that I know of Democrat or Republican addressed it. And this video's out there. And then the corrupt mainstream media didn't address it. I'll get into that in a moment. Anyway, I was on News Nation last night. I do a hit with Chris Cuomo every Wednesday night. And I said to them, they said, well, what do you want to talk about? I said this. I want to talk about this migrants getting hurt and this open border insanity and Biden's dereliction of duty. And they said, oh, Okay, and that's what we did. Roll the tape.

I want you to understand the big picture, how dangerous Mexico is to America. If you combine the outer control migration with the narcotics, you have a problem far beyond the jihadists. So why is the president of the United States and the corporate media ignoring the problem? Why? because it makes Biden and the Democrats look bad. Now, Trump at least did something. He forced over door. Yeah, he did more than something.

Trump forced over door. Yeah, he did more than something. His best foreign policy. The military on the board. Trump's best foreign policy decision, okay? And probably, you know, I'm surprised he didn't blow his horn more about this at the time, frankly, because I was covering it when he was doing it. Um, him threatening the tariff against Mexico made the difference to Obrador, certainly with migration.

And that's true. Oberdor, because Trump threatened Mexico, not only with a tariff, but with designating the cartels as terrorists so that the United States could kill them, all right, under the Patriot Act. Obador put his army on the southern border, Guatemala, and that chokes off all Central American and South American migration and on the northern border. And the cartels couldn't easily move people in and out. And the day that Biden was inaugurated, he knocked all of Trump's progress on the border out, destroyed it, and then instituted an open border. So Chris Cuomo, a liberal, all right, he is.

Now, he's trying to be fair now in a different forum on CNN. Well, you know what he was doing on CNN, but now's a whole different game. And he's reasonable in our discussions. They're good discussions. If you want to see more of that, it's on bill o'Reilly.com. We post it. I understand, and I don't know this for a fact, but Twitter blows up every time I go on there and people are back and forthing about the debate, and it's a healthy debate.

And the other cables don't do debates anymore, okay, because it's too hard. hard. So they just say, the host will come on and say, well, this is what I think, and now joining us as somebody who agrees with me 100%, and here they are, and CNN still brings in the panel of seven people who all agree with Wolfe Blitzer or whatever it is. It's just boring. Anyway, News Nation is trying to have debate, which is what made the O'Reilly factory, the success it is. Okay, so Bill O'Reilly.com is an independent news agency. News Nation high. me to go on and do commentary, as many other businesses do. I do a variety of things, and we have expanded now worldwide. And not only that, but the NOSPA news that you are watching

is on 100 radio stations, and soon to be many more at night. So they take us at night. Jim Bo Hammond retired and then died. Jim was a good guy in Westwood One, so there's a big opening night. And radio stations from Alaska to Florida are taking the no-spin news and broadcasting the audio to their audiences. WABC is colossally successful with doing that at 9 o'clock. And they've branded the no-spin News Common Sense on WABC. So our reach now, it's not, I wouldn't say it's as powerful as when I was on Fox News, but it's getting there. all right and and so what i say goes many many different places it's not centralized like fnc all right but it's getting out there and our commentary here is based on facts you all know that

i'm not emotional i'm not an ideologue i'm not getting into conspiracy stuff and ridiculous i'm not wasting your time i'm giving you information that hopefully will help your life and protect your family. Okay, so that's the memo. This is a good thing, all right, out of horror, and that's what this open border thing is. This is a good down in history is one of the worst presidential policies ever. Okay, there's no excuse for it. Biden's lazy. He's incompetent. It's his fault. You can write an executive order tomorrow and stop it, he won't. It's 100% on him. And how people on the midterm election voted for the Democrats, I just can't even I've been through this with you.

It's not that Republicans are so good. They're not. Okay? Again, no Republican senator brought this video up and made a big deal out of it. Mitch McConnell couldn't care less. All right? So, you know, you can't promote one party, and I won't. All right.

Biden, California, visit the flooding. You know, okay. This is what a president is supposed to do, go out and sympathize, and he'll throw money at it. You know, Biden's the biggest spending president. in the history of the Republic by far. We have a letter that I'm going to answer later on the broadcasts that we'll put that in perspective. But Biden's solution to everything is more spending, spend, spend, spend, spend.

Nobody watches it, of course. Nobody wants, you know, say Biden gives California $100 billion to clean up after this terrible storm situation. All right, say federal money goes in. All right, well, nobody knows how that federal money is used. there's no accountability for it it goes there it's distributed by FEMA a federal agency and it goes to towns and counties and all but that's it I don't know now I'm not accusing American counties and towns of corruption but certainly it's possible so we don't know but that's a Biden let's give them a 50 million here two billion there whatever it may be

All right, he's not going to throw billions in California. Well, maybe he will. Maybe he'll give him one or two billion. Who knows? All right, Gavin Newsom is the governor of California. He's run the state into the ground. Gavin wants to be president. And he said something very interesting.

That was astounding, not interesting, about taxes in California. Go. I just want to remind everybody out there, 95% of Texans pay higher taxes in Californians. We have the highest tax rate among them with New York. But not everybody lives in that rarefied world. In fact, 99% of you don't. So you pay less taxes. It's just so important to get that out.

Of course, that's not true. So the Sacramento B, a newspaper, to its credit, said, where did you get that stat? So I love this. So Newsom cites some crazy, and I mean crazy left institute. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, ITEP, which is in business to promote socialism. That's what it does. And he takes those stats. So we, at the No Spin News, say, let's get the real stats from the Tax Foundation.

And here they are. So the corporate tax rate, the business tax rate, California is 8.8%. Texas has no corporate tax. so come on i mean that's number one um the sales tax in tex is 8.2 in california it's 8.8 okay everybody buys stuff that's higher um and then you have the overall taxes paid per person okay again this is from the tax foundation texans pay $6,335 per person. They have no state income tax, okay, $6,335 a person.

California, $12,000 a person, almost a double. And there's Newsom going, oh, no, no, it's like, and that doesn't even count. The gasoline tax, 54 cents a gallon in California. Texas, $0.20 a gallon. So this is just another example of politicians. I mean, you heard Biden earlier this week go, oh, I drove that deficit down a trillion dollars.

And he was totally distorting it because the reason the deficit went down a trillion is because all the COVID spending stopped by law. They do with it? And this is Newsomers. Oh, geez, that word. so it's my job to watch all of these people and it's just astounding how bad it's getting you know it was always bad but not nearly like this airline rankings you know i got to tell you i'll reiterate if you're going on a trip and it's and it's 12 hours by car or less

drive. Here are the best and worst airlines, Delta to the best, Alaska. Now, Southwest, this is according to Wall Street Journal. I mean, I don't know how to equates with the meltdown. United, Allegiant, American Spirit, Frontier, the worst is JetBlue. Now, that makes me happy because I had to take them on last April, as you know, JetBlue. It was insane. It was far worse than I even told you it was. I mean, that company was lying to the passengers and I've never seen anything like it. So now the Walter Journal is correct. JetBlue's the worst airline in the United States. Now, unfortunately, where I live in the Northeast, all right, JetBlue flies everywhere from here, from New York and Boston. And, you know, you want to go somewhere.

someplace, they got most of the roots. But they're the worst. Now, here's an interesting poll by TIPP. You know, it's a so-so, it's an internet operation. They, online poll, which means you have to go to them. 1356 Americans, they don't put out a party registration. But they ask an interesting question, that's why I'm doing it. Do you agree or disagree the United States is evolving into a big government socialist state. All right. Agree 51%, disagree 31, unsure 18 because 18% of the people don't know what a socialist state is. Okay. Second question, agree or disagree. I am willing to pay higher taxes support more social programs. Again, these are the programs that are discretionary okay 35% say I'm willing to pay more tax to support those programs 57 no

no I don't know Democrat very tight okay 52 say okay I'll pay more 40% of Democrats don't want pay anymore Republicans only 16% of Republicans I don't know who those people are say yeah I'll pay more tax and 78% say no independent it's 26, say, yeah, we'll pay more, 62%. No. So it's clear that the American voter is up to here with the taxes. And again, if all the money were being put to good use, by good use, I mean spent responsibly and that there was an accounting of the money and all of that. Look at this Ukraine. Now, I know, and I would do the same thing if I were president. try to break Putin and the Russian expansionism in Ukraine.

I would do it. But do I believe that the American money going over there and arms and everything else are being used honestly? No. I'm not confident that's happening. Because we, the USA, have no say in a matter. It's like Haiti. Haiti's now run just like Mexico by the drug cartels. There's no freedom in Haiti. Drug cartels out of port of prints run the country.

How many billions, hundreds of billions of dollars, both public money and private money, have gone into Haiti. None of it gets to the people. And now that's, that country's not even a functioning country anymore. It's so violent, and the gangsters run it, just like gangsters run Mexico. What we're doing is it run Mexico. He's afraid of them. I mean, if he wanted to get the cartels out, he would just ally with the United States and do joint missions. DEA agents, American DEAers, can't carry guns in Mexico. So, well, they can't go there or they'll get killed.

Cartels will kill them. They don't kill everybody. Kill journalists, kill nuns. They don't care. So anyway. the socialism are we headed for socialism the progressive left wants socialism no doubt about it is elizabeth warren bernie sanders a o c a lot of city governments um they want it and again i'll just i don't want to bore you i know you know this but for the younger viewers and listeners socialism is

when the government controls the private economy so the federal government would take over the social media companies. Tell them, this is what you do, it's what you don't do. The no-spin news, my corporation, would be subject to government regulation. They'd come in and say, well, Riley, we don't like this. We don't like you saying that Biden's incompetent and lazy. Okay, so you better not say it, or we're going to fine you a lot of money. That's socialism, all right? And then the government imposes draconian taxation. So takes money away from the achievers and gives it redistributes it to those who don't have any much. That's the goal of socialism.

So corporate tax would go up 500%. Taxes on the wealthy. They're already trying this wealth tax stuff here in New York and a bunch of other states, way up. And that would cripple and constrict the capitalistic marketplace. I mean, it would collapse. Now, socialism has never worked. Anywhere in a world, it's never worked. But they still want it because power, power, power, power, power.

That is what socialism is. And a lot of Americans are voting for socialist candidates. So Elizabeth Warren is the senator from Massachusetts and doesn't have any competition. She wins easily. Sanders is a senator from Vermont. AOC wins her district easy. doesn't even have the campaign. So it's, there are a lot of people want this.

And those people, by and large, are the people who will get money from the federal government. Money taken from me and you, probably. Okay. So is it going to happen? No. It's not going to happen. It's going to be a course correction. I think after Biden, I think.

The problem is Donald Trump. He's a problem. Because if the Republican Party would run a non-controversial person, they just win easily in 24. But Trump is so controversial that, again, people will go to the polls to vote against him. They don't care how bad the Democrat is. See? The problem, and it's a complicated, layered problem, is that Trump did very well. in most of his policies.

In the economy, certainly, certainly he did well. And if COVID didn't come, he would have been reelected, handle it. But COVID just wiped everybody out, discombobulated everybody, and then Trump became obsessed with the election, and then it just got way out of control. But Trump knows how to run the federal government, and he runs it like a business, deal after deal after deal after deal.

And most of those deals were good for the American people. So you take his bombast out and his obsessions out of the equation. He should win like Reagan beat Mondale. Okay? If you're just going policy, but of course you're not. And while Reagan was very disciplined in the way he presented, never saw him lose his cool. I saw him, you know, I got letters from Reagan that he wrote, all right, that he's spouting off.

He hated the press. He hated the media, Reagan, but he didn't, you know, you got a little annoyance sometimes, but he hated them. I have, I can prove it. In fact, next week, I'll read you one of the letters that I have in my possession. But anyway, so in the 24 election, it should be a landslide to get rid of these crazy Democrats that are hurting everybody. But if it's Trump, and Trump could very well win the nomination, he's ahead in the polls for the Republican primaries. He's ahead.

Okay. Then you get the, well, anybody but Trump vote, which, as we saw in the midterm, is significant. So it's very, very complicated situation in this country. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to 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, or wherever you get your podcasts.

All right, let's go to crime. Alec Baldwin, charged with involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico on a movie set, a photographer named Halna Hutchins, 42 years old, was shot dead by Baldwin in a rehearsal. It's a Western, and it was supposed to be blanks in the gun. You know the story, and somebody put a real bullet in a gun. Now, nobody, the authorities in New Mexico don't know who put the real bullet in the gun. I don't think Alec Baldwin knew there was a real bullet in a gun. Do you?

Why would he, that's insane. You play Russian roulette? So, but involuntary manslaughter means they didn't take enough precaution. and Alec Baldwin was the EP of the movie. And not only was he the guy with the gun, but he was in charge of a lot of things that happened. And another person has been charged Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. She was the armorer.

She was in charge of all the guns on the set. So anyway, I feel bad for Alec Baldwin, because this, you know, I feel worse for the Hutchins, family, the dead woman, but I don't think Baldwin had any idea that this would unfold. And now he's charged with involuntary manslaughter, and there's a civil suit against him, and it's going to cost the guy tens of millions of dollars. All right, San Francisco, as I predicted, the gallery owner who hosed down the homeless woman. 13 million people watched this video because he was fed up with homeless people

disrupting his gallery business. You know, the homeless in San Francisco defecate on the streets. You know the drill. So he hoses the woman down. Okay? And a woman is defenseless. That was cruel what that guy did.

Now, everybody knows the justification that everybody in San Francisco with a business is subjected to horror every day because the San Francisco progressives who run into town won't do anything about it. It's like the open border. I'm not going to do anything about it.

it. San Francisco authorities. Somebody disrupts, defiles your business. They're not going to do anything about it. In fact, if the homeless woman had hosed down the gallery guy, Collier Gwynn, 71 years old, okay, she wouldn't have been charged. I can guarantee you. If it were reversed, she never would have been charged. But Collier Gwyn is charged, $2,500 bail. He made. he's out convicted six months in jail two thousand dollar fine he'll plea it down his lawyers will plea it down and he should be punished he should you can't do vigilanteism you know I know some people don't have any problem with being a vigilante but I do so this poor woman and she is a poor woman and now she's in the now the San Francisco says well we have taken

her somewhere and she's receiving quote assistance from the san francisco department of public health who knows what they're doing with but what i do know is that there are thousands of people running around san francisco disrupting business breaking the law putting children at risk and authorities do nothing that's what i do know so this guy you know but you can't do this vigilante stuff. Let's go up to Seattle. Do I got another one? Okay, New York City. Not quite as bad as San Francisco, but bad. So, according to Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, very credible organization. Sixty-nine percent of arrests, okay, the police arrest people. Sixty-nine percent of those arrests thrown out by the four liberal district attorneys

in New York City. Sixty-nine percent. And the DA say, well, the new bail law, no bail law, requires that you have all the paperwork under a certain period of time if you're going to prosecute, and we can't get the paperwork done, and that's why we're not prosecuting any crimes. That's the excuse, the paperwork excuse. Meantime, every criminal in New York City knows that he or she can do pretty much anything they want, short of murder, rape, you can steal a car, it's not going to be a heavy penalty for you. You know, it's serious bodily harm.

If you do serious bodily harm, they have to prosecute. Anything else is a free-fire zone, okay, New York City. Seattle. Listen to this stat. Okay. Seattle is a crime rate, a hundred and thirty-four percent higher than the national crime rate. Seattle. A hundred and thirty-four percent higher. So Nike, one of their flagship stores, been downtown Seattle since 1996. Bye. We're going. Too much stealing people and any people in Seattle won't do anything about it. Authorities won't do anything about it. So Starbucks left, Seattle Credit Union left. Now Nike's leaving. And it's all because of this crime. It's all because they won't prosecute the crime. Going. Bye. All right. And I'm just flabbergasted here that the people, of New York City, of San Francisco, of Seattle aren't rising up. They're not. They're not.

If they were, we wouldn't have this. There's no demonstrations in San Francisco demanding that the homeless problem be solved. There's no demonstrations in New York City that the district attorneys won't prosecute criminals. You don't see any of that. All right. In Brooklyn, New York, Gennaro Garcia Luna, I reported this yesterday. He was the head of the Mexican FBI for six years, 2006-12, under President Calderon. He now is on trial for corruption, and estimated he took $5 million in bribes from the cartels. So what this guy did, Luna, was he got the money, and I'm convicting him. I am convicting him, all right? He got the money, and he said, I don't want to be here in Mexico City. I'm moving to New York, okay, where the feds immediately made a RICO case against him,

the American authorities, and now he might be life-in-prisonist guy. All right, he's terrible. He is terrible. And the Mexican government knew that he was doing it. They didn't care. Are there Mexican big shots that have taken bribes? Salvador, Sienfuegos, Zepeda, former Mexican defense secretary. Okay?

So he was arrested October 2020 on charges of international drug trafficking. Not only he take bribes, but he trafficked the drugs himself using the Mexican military. Okay? Okay? So Mexico, that's Obrador, went to Biden and said, you have to let us try him. We want Zepeda here. So the Justice Department did. They sent Zepeda back to Mexico. Do you think anything's going to happen to Zepeda? And why did Obrador do that? Because Zepeda knows everybody. an obrador's cabinet is taking bribes.

That's why. I can't even tell you, I'll never go to Mexico again in my life. That's how corrupt that place is. Smart life. So if you're a new Bill O'Reilly.com premium member

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kind of a payday to do a concert. Now, killing the legends. Here we go. I go right through this whole thing about what happened in the John Lennon Beatle saga. And nobody knows what happened, but I do, which is why that book remains a bestseller. It's been in the marketplace in September. So anyway, George Harrison, the late George Harrison, he in a book said the following. That was a sick offer. It's putting pressure on us. and I don't like that. I'm not saying a Beatles reunion is never going to happen, but I don't see us ever getting together

because people are bringing pressure on us, George. Okay, $30 million offer isn't pressure, all right? It's an offer. You take it or you leave it. You left it. Fine. Never got the Beatles reunion. All right, a mail segment and a final thought

that I think you'll find amusing right back. 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.

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Augustine, Huntington, New York. Why was Obama storing top secret? documents in Biden's garage. Obama? Gus. Is this on a website someplace that Obama is involved with this Biden document thing? Please let me know what website that is. Obama had anything to do with this.

All right, Susan, on the message board. Remember when the Democrats were chastising President Trump, when children were separated from adults, who crossed the border is because the vast majority of those adults were not related to the children. That was confirmed by DNA testing. It was a massive trafficking situation. Some truth to that. Under the Trump administration, they were trying to figure out who was who. Okay? These kids come across the board with Uncle Jose. Well, is he really the uncle? And they had to separate because the kids were scared. So you make a good point that has never been

really reported accurately in the press, Susan. Thank you. Christopher, Sylvania, LaTro, Pennsylvania. Bill, can you do a segment on systematic racism and the growing threat of white supremacy because I don't see it? It's there. Stormfront in those organizations, they're white supremacists, neo-Nazis. It's there on the Internet. You can find it. I don't know why you would look for it. But it's not anything that is growing. I assume the FBI has infiltrated all of these groups. They don't really surface very much. But it's there.

Richard Emkey, Syracuse, New York, what mechanism is in place to oversee the Department of Justice? The Inspector General oversees the Department of Justice. And Congress oversees all the department. That's who regulates. Jerry DeVore, Honolulu, seems odd whenever there's a Democratic president, congressional Republicans threaten to shut down a government, but whenever a Republican president, they're willing to spend like drunken sailors.

Okay, Jerry, there is some truth to what you are saying. Under Trump, the spending was massive. Okay, first on rebuilding the military, and then COVID kicked in. We taxpayers had to pay for all of those vaccines. Massive spending. Biden's worse. Biden's spending far more than Trump, and we'll never stop. Trump didn't really care about the budget and the deficit very much.

He wanted results. And he got him. He got the vaccine up and running fast. We had to pay plenty for that. But you're right in a sense that neither political party, okay, is disciplined. However, the Republicans want a balanced budget amendment. If that were put up, most Republicans would vote for it. Bob Headfeefe, Thornton, Colorado, I ate out the other day, took your advice, Bill. I ordered an appetizer and a dinner salad and was just right.

Your smart like statements are great. You know, it depends on a restaurant, but if they give you a healthy appetizer, you know, a bunch of stuff there, and you get a salad, and you drink some water, you can get out of there for not a lot of money, and you'll be full. Scott Banning, Charleston, South Carolina, this day in history, last evening was interesting. You quoted prohibition as one of the worst laws ever, it was, and today 75% of Americans drink regularly. But why does the USA continue to support the drinking age of 21? It should be 18. No, why would you make it 18? Since it was raised at 21, the drunk driving stats have gone down.

That's what it's all about. Danger on the road. And where do you see what happens with this pot stuff? In your own state, Colorado. The DUI is way up since marijuana has been legalized. All right. Let me do one more here because we got a final thought. I want to spend a little time on.

Craig Netlinger, Dillsborough, North Carolina. Mr. O'Reilly just finished reading, Killing the Legends. Excellent. I highly recommend the book to everyone. I look forward to reading the next book, and I've decided on killing the killers. You will not be disappointed, Craig. Killing the Killers,

Dugard and I's best reporting that we did in any of the 12 killing books. Legends is very entertaining. killers hard news all right we have new polo shirts summer spring coming fast and there are no spin polo shirts okay no spin logo if you're a premium concierge member will give you seven bucks off they're not expensive anyway they're great looking shirts send a message no spin in your life okay and uh word of the day not be odious o die i o u s odious back with the final thought on grooming in a moment here is the final thought of the day so uh the urchins are around over the uh christmas break my daughter doesn't have any problem with grooming

she always looks good and uh you know she understands that when you go out in public you're judged might not be right might not be fair by the way you look and the way you're present yourself. So my son, good-looking kid, he's in college, he's a sophomore. He comes out and decides not going to shave. So after day four, I'm having breakfast with Lon Cheney Jr. If you don't know who that is, the wolf man. Okay, and the moon wasn't even out. It was morning. And I'm looking at him, I'm going, what is this message? What are we? Oh, it's vacation. I'm taking it easy. I said, look, I'm going to start, you know, putting a bag over your head here. This is not a good look. What does it matter? It matters. And not only just personal appearance

matter, it's a discipline. You shower up every day. And if you want to grow up beard or that's fine. It's your own business. As long as it's trim and it looks good. Okay. And your hair should be, you know, washed and whatever. Okay. Because the message it sends is, I'm I'm proud of myself. I value myself. And I'm going to look the best I can look. And your property, too. If you're like the Adams family, I mean, people go by and I go, what's the matter with those people? If you have a nice piece of property, no matter what it is, you keep it nice. I mean, it reflects on you. Again, it's a discipline that you're proud, that you know, you want to put forth a view of yourself, your property or whatever. That is, look, we respect ourselves and we respect what we have. So grooming and the other stuff is important. Thank you for watching and listening to the NOSPN News. New column on Sunday noon.

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