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Episode Date: December 4, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is pretty interesting of the COVID deaths in the USA. So for all of 2020, Donald Trump, there were 385,000, 343 people die of COVID in the USA. So far this year, with a month to go, 389,329 of died. More people this year than when Trump was in office. So listen to Joe Biden, the candidate, when he said this on September 9th, 2020. Now, while this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. It was a life and death betrayal of the American people. Experts say that if he had acted just one week sooner, 36,000 people would have been saved.
Starting point is 00:01:07 If he acted two weeks sooner back in March, 54,000 lives would have been spared in March and April alone. Okay, so we all expect propaganda on a campaign trail. And this fact that there were more deaths under Biden's first year than in Trump's last year is pretty startling. So you think the White House press corps might ask about it now? No. So my cracks, deaf, and they are the best in the business, I think. We went through two weeks of transcripts from the White House Press Corps asking the press secretary. Biden doesn't give press conferences, as you know, Jen Saki, about COVID deaths.
Starting point is 00:01:52 No. Not once. no crime questions either not one so what you have here is a zombie white house press corps that doesn't care to ask anything that might upset or make president Biden look bad that is the state of affairs in america right now okay so you know about the select committee in the House investigating the January 6th intrusion in the state in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. So they want all Trump's records. And Trump says no. They're in the National Archives. We're not handing them over. And now it's in court. So the federal court
Starting point is 00:02:43 is a rule whether the House Select Committee overrides executive privilege and gets these documents. I'm going to predict that the Court of Appeals will say no, but it's possible that they say yes, and that'll be overturned by the Supreme Court. So the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to liberal court. But even a liberal court has to know that all presidents have executive privilege and that a House committee looking to embarrass a president, all right doesn't have the right to demand privileged documents doesn't have it now should president trump hand over the documents himself voluntarily no because this isn't some kind of independent investigative body this is a blatantly partisan we want to damage Donald Trump so he doesn't run for
Starting point is 00:03:45 president again. So no matter what you hand over, they'll cherry pick and make me look bad. Everybody knows that. So while I would love to know, and I think I do know, but I'm not 100%, what Donald Trump did on that day from moment to moment to moment to moment, I would really like to know that. Based upon my reporting, but I, I, I, can't report it as fact because it's anonymous sources. People in the White House, they said, look, O'Reilly will tell you what happened, but we don't want you to tell our name. And so, yeah, I'll take the background, but I'm not going to report it because I can't confirm it. And there's no name on it. That's called journalism. But anyway, from what I
Starting point is 00:04:35 understand, it was chaos, absolute chaos in the White House when this thing started. I didn't know what to do. They were watching television. like everybody else, okay, and they were trying to figure out a strategy because the president and everybody else knew most of the people breaking into the Capitol were Trump supporters. So eventually he told everybody to stop and go home, but was it quick enough, what was the debate, all of that. I can't, and I've had no preconceived evidence that the White House knew this is going to happen or encouraged it at any level. So just as Joe Biden, you just heard him accused Donald Trump of actually killing people
Starting point is 00:05:23 because of incompetence, which is a total lie. And Biden's far more incompetent than Donald Trump ever was on COVID and everything else. This claim that somehow President Trump encouraged this, I can't find a shred evidence to back that up. Maybe there is, but I can't find it. and I looked. My reputation's on the line because I'm going to be doing four shows with Donald Trump, the history tour. I can't be in a tank. I've got to find out what happened as best I can. All right. New Trafalgar group poll. This is pretty accurate poll. 39 Democrat, 36 Republican,
Starting point is 00:06:06 25 nonpartisan. Question is, to what extent do you believe President Biden is responsible for the division in the American people. Responsible 54, not responsible 46. Okay, by party, Democrats. Responsible 21, not responsible, 79. Well, 21% of Democrats, they say Biden's responsible for this deep division. Publicans, 88% responsible,
Starting point is 00:06:42 13, not responsible. Nonpartisan, these are the independent people, 64% responsible, 36% not responsible. So Biden's responsible. I mean, come on. On his first day in office, first hours, he was inside the White House. Biden stopped the wall, closed down the pipeline, stopped a lot of fracking and stopped a lot of drilling. First day, first hour. You didn't think that was going to cause a problem with some Americans? And then subsequently, we've seen what happened. But he's responsible.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Now, I get a lot of mail that says, look, is it over or will Americans come together ever again? The only thing that would put Americans side by side is an attack on us by a foreign nation or a terror group. Other than that, maybe an assassination of a president, maybe. But the culture divide is so enormous in this country. in families and among friends and workplaces bitterness because it all comes back to people believe what they want to believe and there are a lot of Americans perhaps most that don't know the facts that don't seek the truth and they just spout what they're what they hear or whatever And it's across a board, but when intelligent people, people who do care about fact-based analysis and news reportage, when they hear this gibberish, how do you think they react?
Starting point is 00:08:47 I mean, when I hear somebody say something like that, I just look, I always have the same, I don't pounce, okay? I look them in the eye and I say, where did you hear that? Where did you get that? Oh, on the Internet, or, you know, or I heard it on Rachel Maddow or something like that. And then I go, do you believe what you hear? And then they're like flummoxed, all right? They really don't know. But that's all I do.
Starting point is 00:09:19 I don't try to correct them. I don't try to steer them on the right course. But I got to tell you, 10 years ago when I was doing a factor, I didn't get annoyed by this. I didn't I didn't get annoyed by Juan Williams or the other lefties and I had one or two on every night Mark Lamont Hill
Starting point is 00:09:39 I didn't get annoyed by them I mean I out debated them I think clearly but did they team me off no now it does because there's so much at stake now in the country these radical leftists these progressives
Starting point is 00:09:56 they want to change the country in a way that's so harmful that it gets me annoyed now where it didn't used to okay here's a good example so Newton North high school in Massachusetts is a school for rich kids Newton Massachusetts is very affluent suburb of Boston and in that school there's a principal Henry Turner okay there is Henry he's a big lefty always has been a lefty, everybody knows he's a lefty, and that's fine. You can hold liberal points of view and be a high school principal. So after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Principal Turner says, we're going to have a segregated space for staff and students of color to process the jury verdict.
Starting point is 00:10:49 That means if you are a student at Newton North High School, you can't go to a certain part of the building. That's off limits to you unless you're black. Okay. Now, you say, isn't that a violation of civil rights? No, it's not the way the civil rights laws are written, but it is in spirit. So Henry Turner is dividing the school based upon what? A jury verdict that was legitimate? that's what you should be teaching the students in Newton North High, that the jury system works. The evidence always, not always, but should always be the determining factor, not Henry. Now, we also got a report that the University of Michigan's medical school was doing the same
Starting point is 00:11:48 thing, okay, and basically saying, and by the way, Henry, told his students if Kyle Rittenhouse had been black, he would have been convicted. Outrageous. Outrageous that someone won't even say something like it. Because it creates racial strife. The principal of the school is stoking racial strife among the students and faculty. So we looked into this University of Michigan Medical School, I can't confirm it. And that separates me from everybody else because everybody else would have used it along the
Starting point is 00:12:30 same lines, but I'm not going to do it. Now this kind of hateful stuff is on display almost every day on Disney, ABC. Rolling. Sunny, if he were black, would he be free now? No. He wouldn't be alive now. Look, I don't, I don't, I, I just agree that it was a cut and, a cut and dry case of self-defense. Now, that woman's a moron, okay?
Starting point is 00:13:00 I mean, she's just dumb. I don't care what color she is. She's dumb. So she doesn't agree with the verdict. Was she in the courtroom? No. Okay? Did she discuss it with the other jurors?
Starting point is 00:13:14 No. And she says that if Kyle Rittenhouse had been black, it would be dead. Just think of a step back, step back, okay? And think about that statement. Disney pays this woman, millions of dollars, to spew this kind of hatred. Disney, it's just staggering when you really break it down to its essential level. It's what it is. Now, I'm not a big podcast guy.
Starting point is 00:13:47 I'm way too busy for that. And I don't consider this broadcast, a podcast. This is a news broadcast that knows Finn news. Podcasts are mostly audio, but they are sweeping the world. It's estimated 100 million people listen to podcasts on a regular basis. And the most popular podcasts are crime podcasts, like serial. and my favorite murder so people go in and they discuss or listen to or whatever all of these criminal situations and then you have books so my book killing the mob one of the best-selling
Starting point is 00:14:35 books of 2020 and 21 okay this book is so this book is so hundreds of thousands of copies, killing them off. And now there's another book, and I'm sure the two authors would like to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, and maybe they will, call Woke Up This Morning the Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos by Steve Sharipa and Michael Imperioli, who starred in that program and who do a podcast about. about the Sopranos. Mr. Sharipa joins us now from New York City.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Hey, Bill, how are you, pal? What was that? How are you? I'm the same, which is tragic for everybody. Okay, so there's been no improvement here from the last time you were on. What is it about criminals that fascinates the American public?
Starting point is 00:15:44 you know i i you know this has been going back since the beginning of movies mob movies you know uh just like westerns you know mob movies are kind of like even the modern day westerns people are fascinated with this life which is a horrible life bill you know i grew up around this in bensonhurst in the 60s and 70s these are bad people that do bad things not just to each other. Let's not, you know, people mistaken that. Oh, they just hurt each other. No, they don't. They hurt a lot of innocent people. But yet, for whatever reason, we continue to like them, dress like them. There's a lot of wannabes, the cigars, conventions, nonsense. I can't put my figure on it. I used to watch ID Discovery. I did a couple of shows for them about murders.
Starting point is 00:16:42 And then it just got too much for me. And it was like, if I want to see murders and horrific things, I'll just put on the news. That's all you need. I don't need to watch that for recreation. So I don't quite know. Okay. So I watch you on Blue Bloods as the detectives, the good guy who wants to protect people. And then I contrast you to Bobby Bacala.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Am I saying that correctly? Yes. In the Sopranos. And in the Sopranos, you're not a hardcore bad guy. You got the trains going on. Chase is smart enough to humanize everybody in that cast. And that's part of your book that you in Imperiali give you the inside stuff on how all the scenes went down. But Chase, the creator, smart enough to humanize you and the other band.
Starting point is 00:17:42 guys. Coppola did it in the Godfather. I mean, you don't get more evil than Michael Corleone. He's just a quintessential evil SOB. Yet, in the beginning, he was a good guy. So I think it's this dichotomy between good and evil. But getting back to you, you, I'm sure, get still more reaction to Sopranos than Blue Bloods, and Blue Blood's a big hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's kind of evened out quite a bit. I mean, Blue Blas is a terrific show, and people love it. They love the family dinner. They love the prayer.
Starting point is 00:18:22 They love that they don't cowtow to what's going on in the world now, you know, they don't. And people find the refreshing. We're in our 12th season, and I think it's great. And I tell you what, personally, I'd much rather have cops and retired cops come up to me and say, hey, I like what you're doing, as opposed to some fat, wise guy downtown, you know. Yeah, man, I used to kill guys. Can I buy a steak? Could I buy a beer?
Starting point is 00:18:53 That's not how you doing. A guy that stopped me in the street. You know, I love the show. Last night, you know, that's not the way you whack people. I went, okay, I got to get going. I really don't really want to know why you whack people. people. It's a fascinating thing, though, particularly to Sopranos. So my son, 18 years old, he didn't watch the original Soprano band. I did. But now he loves watching it. And I ask him,
Starting point is 00:19:27 very intelligent kid. I said, look, because he doesn't watch any TV. Kids don't watch TV anymore. They're too busy texting about their new sneakers. But he watches, you know, the whole. I said, what is it? Why are you watching the Sopranos? What are you getting out of it? And you know what he says? He says it's different from my life. It's like people are transported into a different life that they would never ever do, although I think, you know, some of disturbed people do pick up stuff. But it's almost like a car accident. It's almost like, whoa, does that really happen? And I think that's why they're so fascinated with the Sopranos, which was so well done. Yeah, I mean, it's a very smart show, and you said your son is smart, and a lot of
Starting point is 00:20:16 these kids are smart, and it holds up, Bill, every bit as if it was written yesterday, besides the obvious the cars, the computers, and phones. It's a very, very intelligent show, funny show, and it's a whole new generation. It's a whole new generation. Listen, you can do this until you're 98, because that thing will loop and people it's like the godfather how many times have you seen it i mean is on over thanksgiving weekend and i'm i'm going like and there's uh there's a veto corleone and i stop even though i see everybody right everybody that's one of those shows one of those movies you see it you got to watch it okay you know in our meeting today as we were discussing your appearance in the rundown
Starting point is 00:21:02 so one of my staff members said hey you got to ask them about tony support soprano and the ending and i'm go why they just went to the diner you heard the journey song and then they faded to black and everybody got mad and so what was your reaction to that ending and is there any update on that okay so we watched it together nine of us were down at the hard rock you know nine of the cast the main cast we watched it we knew what was going to happen and it was still stunning to us. Some people liked it. Some people didn't know what went on. Michael Imperiali loved it. I listened to all these people, conspiracy theories. There was different endings. All lies. All lies, all lies, all lies. So a matter of fact, December 20th,
Starting point is 00:21:55 David Chase comes on. The finale of the podcast, the podcast is ending. We asked them flat out. He did not give us an answer. It's up to you. It's ambiguous. I think Tony Soprano was alive and well in living in New Jersey. Some people are adamant that he died. There is no answer. It's like a book. I heard that I close a book. And it's what you thought of the book, you know?
Starting point is 00:22:25 Well, in killing the mob, we get everybody whacked. All the bad guys are out. But I heard that Tony Soprano is Chris Christie's caterer. Did you hear that? It's very good an ending as anybody, right? And Carmela is in the business, too. All right, the book is, woke up this morning,
Starting point is 00:22:47 the definitive oral history of the Sopranos. Obviously, if you know a Sopranos fan, makes a tremendous Christmas gift. Steve Sharip is a good guy. I've known him for many years. We commiserate at the New York Knick game sometimes. And excellent actor, Steve. I mean, how you can play the gangster
Starting point is 00:23:04 and the good detective. As effectively as you do, that just proves it all. So I have a good holiday season. Thanks for helping us out. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Thank you, man. In my opinion, based on the facts that I'm seeing, there is a new subculture in America,
Starting point is 00:23:21 younger, maybe age 12, 13 to 26, that zone, of people, mostly males who are sociopaths. That means they have no human feeling. They can hurt you and then go over and have a Big Mac. They don't care about hurting other people. They don't care about the law. They don't care about school, education, their country, their parents. They don't care about anything but themselves. They're sociopaths.
Starting point is 00:23:55 That's why you're seeing these horrendous violent crimes all over the inner cities of America. Because this crew, and they number millions now. It's like a contagion. It used to be a sociopathic person was isolated and scorn. Now that's not true. There are excuses made. Starts in the public school system when a disruptive student is allowed to disrupt all the way through, handed a diploma that he or she didn't earn, and goes out, can't make a living because they can probably not read or write,
Starting point is 00:24:31 and then enters the gang system and a life of crime. But these people are particularly vicious. So y'all know I wrote Killing the Ma'am. And you don't get more vicious than the people I was talking about in that book. But it was a totally different mindset. They were criminals based upon an organization that was solely driven for money. This new subculture is driven by violence. violence. Violence was bad for the mob's business. These people love violence. They love it. And they
Starting point is 00:25:11 have guns and they will kill you. So I ask my staff to find a somebody who works in this area. And we have Dr. Lisa Palmer coming to us from West Palm Beach, Florida. She's a psychotherapist. and she's the founder of the Renew Center of Florida, which deals with a lot of extreme personality disorders. So first of all, doctor, my subculture theory, that's what it is, but I believe it's true, do you subscribe? Well, I know a heck of a lot about sociopaths, unfortunately, so you've come to the right place, Bill.
Starting point is 00:25:52 It is definitely rampant in our culture now. due to the narcissism and a lot of entitlement you hear a lot of parents complaining about that. But I owe a lot of it to media, to social media. And a lot of kids, you know, trying to live up to standards that they're seeing out there. You know, they think that, you know, they think that success is something that they can grab onto outside of themselves instead of inside of themselves. they have a lot of healing that need to be done, Bill. A lot of healing. Well, let's start at the beginning.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Has parenting in the United States decline so drastically that we are now as a nation producing more sociopathic young people? Well, there's definitely been a change in the family in the last 20 years or so. Some people will call it a breakdown of the family. Some people will call it a change of the family. A lot of kids, you know, they went home
Starting point is 00:26:53 know parents. They went home to parents that were using drugs, alcohol, problems. They have a lot of trauma and a lot of that trauma has been unheeled. And as we say, hurt people, hurt people. So when you don't heal that trauma, a lot of bad can happen. And a lot of these kids are exposed to media that is promoting violence and they're playing video games and they're running away in fantasy and they're really not healing themselves. and they think that's the way. I don't know if any child can heal themselves. I understand the video game component,
Starting point is 00:27:31 but you can make the argument that millions and millions of children play video games, they don't turn about to be sociopaths. I think the rap music industry has done tremendous damage to the inner city children of color by pumping into their brains that anti-social behavior should be celebrated. Am I wrong there? Well, there's something different inside the mind of a sociopath where they lack morality. They lack ethics in the first place.
Starting point is 00:28:03 So their brains are a bit different. But we generally are seeing a trend toward a lack of empathy in our culture due to narcissism, due to media promoting violence. You know, a couple of years ago, Bill, producers approached executives at a major network and said, hey, we have this great show about healing from trauma. Dr. Palmer could be the host of the show. They said, oh, Dr. Palmer would be a great host of the show. But we're featuring crime on our network now. I don't know if that's what people want to see or they want to see it because producers are featuring it. But that's what's happening. Well, you should go back because now cops and all that are gone because of the defund police. So maybe you get a second shot.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Now, let's talk about the public school system. It used to be that if the parents were derelict, and millions and millions and millions of parents are, in a variety of different ways. I mean, you can understand how a young child who's beaten, ignored, subject to terrible behavior by their parents, watching all this, live in chaos, they come out at six or seven years old, all right, and they're already so damaged emotionally, they don't know what to do. And as you said, hurt people, hurting inside, hurt other people. But it used to be that the public school system had an apparatus to at least try to deal
Starting point is 00:29:32 with these very, very disturbed young children. That seems to have evaporated. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stock pie. gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax advantage, gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401K,
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Starting point is 00:30:55 And I can tell you, it was something like I've never seen. I went to public school. I went to parochial school and I went to private school. But that school was chaos. There was no learning that was had there. It was just like they were trying to control the kids. They were trying to parent the kids. It was nuts, to be honest with you.
Starting point is 00:31:15 And I don't know how any kid can even learn in an environment like that. So they're more focused on parenting kids or trying to parent kids in those schools, and they're even teaching them what they need to learn to get to the next level. Well, they're not even about trying to do that. Yeah, that's not even, see, look, the nationwide progressive trend is no grades and no attendance either. So they're not even trying anymore. But it used to be when I was teaching high school in Opa Laca, Florida, you may know that area.
Starting point is 00:31:49 don't get worse than that okay it used to be and it was a private school um that a troubled kid would be red flagged and there would be an attempt often failed to try to bring some therapy to that child within the school day that's gone that doesn't even happen anymore you know they have a lot of interns working at the schools you know it's you know it's a matter of money as well. And a lot of the schools are overcrowded. Class sizes are big. They don't have a proper environment in a lot of these schools for kids to learn, you know, open walls and, you know, you can't learn in that kind of environment. It's very difficult. That's exactly right. And every test score, every study shows it. No discipline in a school,
Starting point is 00:32:41 no learning in a school. Final question for you. It looks to me that this downward spiral that has led to this rise of a subculture, which is ultra-violent, is not going to be turned around anytime soon. I don't see any mechanism in this country to do it. Faith-based, collapsed. All right? Religion, church, collapsing. Public school system, collapsing. All right?
Starting point is 00:33:08 Progressive left doesn't want to deal with it and, in fact, makes excuses for it. So I don't see how this gets any better. Can you give me some hope? Honestly, neither do I, but I am developing an app that will hopefully help to change things globally by bringing more balance and peace and mind to people. And that's all that we can do for those of us who have that purpose and have that mission to just spread the word, you know, to really help people to bring wealth from within themselves. But I absolutely agree with you.
Starting point is 00:33:40 A lot of people look into social media, look into become famous and not really knowing how to become successful, you know, what reality really, Bill, not knowing the reality of what it takes to achieve success and to be truly happy from within. They're living in some kind of fantasy land. And now they won't even isolate those people to protect most other people who are not sociopathic. Now they let them out on the streets to run wild and hurt. Hey, doctor, always a pleasure to talk with you. Thanks very much for helping us out. 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.
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Starting point is 00:35:24 I don't advise that, by the way, unless you have people and established ties living in another country, not easy. But there's a study from expat insider, which I never heard of. and they quiz 12,000 expats. When you're an expat, that means expatriate. You leave the country, lives someplace else. Expat. And they got the five places where Americans are happiest. So they basis on quality of life, ease of settling in,
Starting point is 00:36:05 working abroad, personal finance. You ready for the countries? All right. Here they are. Number one, Malaysia, and specifically the capital, Kuala Lumpur. 85% of American expats are happy over there. Wow. Now, I have been to Malaysia.
Starting point is 00:36:28 It's hot. A lot of Muslims, some of them dangerous, a lot of strife. Malaysia, third world, but it's very inexpensive. So you can have a nice little house on the beach, you can have a cook, you can have a maid, you can have a driver, it doesn't cost a lot. Would I live in Malaysia? No way. No way.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Second, Spain, specifically Malaga, Spain on the coast of the Seoul. Spend some time in Malaga. Nice town. It's like Miami. Okay. Big high rises, nice beach. Not that expensive, but for Spain it is, but you know, you can do okay there. 86% of American expats happy in Malaga, Spain. It's a nice environment. It gets hot, but the Mediterranean is right there. Three, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Seventy-two percent are happy there, Dubai. So I've been there. But I've been to Kuwait, which is just up the road, and it's hot, all the time.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Hot. But Dubai is like a theme park. Now, Kuwait, you don't want to go to. But Dubai has got all these giant malls and very wealthy. The government there controls everything, safe, whatever you want in the world. you want with caviar, there it is, whatever you want. And a lot of Americans have no one to Dubai. Number four, Sydney, Australia.
Starting point is 00:38:21 Now, this was before the COVID lockdown. So Sydney in Good Town, very similar to America. All the conveniences. People have the same mentality, capitalism. But now the government of Australia is telling you you can't get out of the house if you do this, that, and the other thing, COVID has really changed over there. But if you're interested in Australia, not an easy place to get to, by the way. You've got to buy your way in there. They don't want a lot of foreigners, even if you're Americans.
Starting point is 00:38:55 But Sydney, you can have a nice life in Sydney. And finally, Singapore, 79% happy with life in Singapore. So I spent a considerable amount of time there. It's a fascist dictatorship, no crime. Everything runs, everything works. Hot. Again, all these places are hot. Sydney, not quite like Singapore. But if you are into finance and the finer things in life, Singapore, everybody speaks English.
Starting point is 00:39:37 You know, everybody speaks English except in Malaysia and Spain. In Dubai, every speaks English. So those are the five. The five worst for expats, where they don't like it, Rome is unbelievably expensive. Milan, no reason to go there. Johannesburg, dangerous all day long, Istanbul, exotic but dangerous. And Tokyo, chaos. I've been to all of those cities.
Starting point is 00:40:05 I would never, ever live in any of them. I visit, but not living. So if you're thinking about leaving the good old USA, you've got to go there first for a month or two before you make any decision. You've got to get a taste of it. But it would take a lot for me to leave this country. the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist and the host of the
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Starting point is 00:41:32 to Bill O'Reilly.com. Christmas store. So if you don't take advantage of that, you're going to spend more money than you should. And I've been over time. I'm not even going to bother telling you, but we have great stuff. Look, killing the mob is a fantastic Christmas gift. And so are the other nine killing books. They're all there in Bill O'Reilly.com. You get big discounts if you're a premium concierge member. We got Christmas orderment, stand up for your country. But anyway, who are you going to give stuff to? Got to make a list like Santa. You got to have a list. So my list says Christmas gifts and the names. And then next to the names, what I think they might like. But it's not that easy you got to think about it. Okay?
Starting point is 00:42:21 So that's number one. Put down in a list, write it down, what you might want to give to people. Second is Christmas events. parties, you have to go places, you have to do stuff, you got to write it all down, all right, and a big calendar. I've got to go here at this time, blah, blah, blah, blah, because if you don't do it, you get overwhelmed, and then the fun of Christmas is lost because you're panicking, you're running around, what do I've got to do, whatever I got to do it, got to be there.
Starting point is 00:42:54 And you don't do it on the internet, you just do it, take a paper and a pen and write it down. I'm telling you, if you follow my advice, and don't forget the people, like, I give a nice tip to my newspaper people who bring the newspapers every morning. Okay? And I give tips to everybody that helps me throughout the year. Don't forget those people. And you might forget them if you don't write their names now. Now, they want cash, mostly. Workers want cash.
Starting point is 00:43:27 Gift cards are okay. I like to do some personal stuff, you know, for Christmas. Sometimes it doesn't work, but most of the time it does. But if I don't know, I'll ask. I will, I will ask. The surprise thing is a little overrated. You'd like, better get something that you like. And as far as me, I don't want anything.
Starting point is 00:43:48 I have everything I need. I want people to make donations to charity. Okay. that's what I tell all my friends. It's Friday check to Independence Fund.org or whatever. Big brothers, big sisters. We got a million of them.
Starting point is 00:44:07 And they're listed on bill o'Reilly.com. So I hope this helps. Next three weeks, a great season. Enjoy it. Have a good weekend. Call them on Sunday. We'll be checking in every day with a message of the day.
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