Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - March 28, 2024

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

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You know, most Americans believe the country's heading in the wrong direction. All the polls show that, and by a wide margin. And one of the big reasons we are heading in the wrong direction is lack of accountability. Politicians and others are getting away with a lot. And the reason it is easier to be a miscreant is that the corrupt media doesn't really cover the news anymore. It does not tell you the truth. It's ideological. It slants the news.

It spins the news, all right, which is why we do the no-spin news. Anyway, the reason this is happening is because money has taken over from professionalism. And I'm speaking generally, but you know, because we've done a lot of reporting on this, in the media. And that is a subject of this evening's talking points memo. This is a very interesting story. So on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, I wrote a column. That's a Sunday. And the column said that on network TV, ABC, CBS, NBC, there are literally no conservative or traditional

voices heard. They've been banned. Talking late night TV, early morning TV, we're talking in the newscasts. You will not find a conservative voice on those three networks. And we told you in the column, it's because of the management. Okay, they don't hire people. And they won't even book a guest most of the time, particularly if the guest supports Donald Trump. So six days later, after that column, all right, NBC announces it has hired Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee, as a pundit. I'm going to pay her to be on their air. Okay, almost immediately there was a revolt among NBC News personnel objecting to the hiring of Ms. McDaniel. And almost immediately, the president of NBC News, Rebecca Blumenstein, panicked and folded and said,

oh, Ms. McDaniel will never appear on MSNBC, just on NBC News. That did not calm the liberal employees of NBC News. So yesterday, Ms. McDaniel showed up on Meet the Press and was immediately grilled by Kristen Welker. Go. Did you not have a responsibility as the RNC chair to say before January 6th, the election is not rigged, that Donald Trump lost, given that there were audits, given that there were more than 60 court cases that occurred on? all across the country. And that Donald Trump lost. The reality is Joe Biden won. He's the president. He's the legitimate president. I have always said, and I continue to say, there were issues in 2020. I believe that both can be true. Okay. So the crux of the matter is that Ms. McDaniel made

a mistake by trying to influence people not to certify the electoral vote. in January of 2021. That was a mistake on her part. Should she be canceled forever because of that? Banished? Because of that? According to the NBC personnel, yes. So she made a mistake.

She now admits that Joe Biden won the election, but no, no. You make that mistake, you're gone. Canceled out, banished. Okay, according to this people at NBC. But interestingly enough, if you are on the left side of the specter, may make a mistake, no, that's okay. That's all right. So in a sane world, Ms. McDaniel admits her mistake, but you can't have an opinion that the election of 2020 was flawed.

You can't say it as fact, which is what she did and others did. You say it as fact, that's wrong, and the huge judgment against the Fox News Channel proves that. You can say it's my opinion that there was something wrong in that election. Look, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into a few American counties. It's never been explained where that money went. Yeah, I got some questions about that because I hold that opinion. Should I be canceled? Yes, absolutely, on the part of the networks.

So, this was pretty bold. Chuck Todd, who was fired as meet the press anchor because of low ratings and his sneering condescension toward anybody who wasn't agreeing with him, he went on right after Ronna McDaniel with with Kristen Welker. Roll the tape. I think our boss is owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because I don't know what to believe. She is now a paid contributor

by NBC News. And so when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News's credibility, you've got to ask yourself, what does she bring NBC News? And when we make deals like this, and I've been at this company a long time, you're doing it for access.

Access to audience. Well, that's true. NBC is hemorrhaging viewers. I mean, MSNBC, they don't even get 2 million people in prime time to watch it. It's insane. The 120 million homes with TV in America, they can't even get 2 million. That's how bad it is. So, yeah, they'd like to get some Republicans to watch them.

That's why they hired it. And plus, guys like me are hammering them for being 100% liberal network. All right. So they go, oh, no, no, no, we have Ron McDonnell. All right. But Ms. Welker's participation in all, this is fascinating as well. Let's go back to the debate, the GOP debate, on November 8, 2003, where Kristen Welker was one of the moderators. Roll it. Chris, I'm going to use this time, because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment, ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hopes that you pushed on this network for years. Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation?

There you go. Welker didn't have any answer for that. NBC News embraced the phony Russian collusion thing at a level that has never been seen because of MSNBC. Every night they convicted the Trump organization, the Trump campaign, Donald Trump himself, of colluding with Russia. Every blanket in night, they did it. So they should cancel themselves, right? Right? Didn't they push a false narrative? Of course they did. So if Ronna McDaniel pushed a false narrative, which she did, I'm not making an equivalency here. I'm just showing hypocrisy. And it really is, really is. So I wrote a message of the day on bill o'Reilly.com about this thing to clarify it in very specific ways, but you get it. NBC is in serious trouble.

When the inmates, to use a cliche, run the asylum, you've lost control. Okay, we really have, and that's a memo. Almost 200,000 migrants crossed into the USA in February, in the middle of winter, cold. There they come. Biden could do something, doesn't do it. Doesn't even work. Doesn't care. said it a million times, and a million times it's true.

All right, let's go to Donald Trump. You've got a break today. An appeals court in New York State says you don't have to pay a half billion dollars just to pay $175 million in bond. He has 10 days to come up with the $175 million. I don't know. I guess he could do it. I don't know.

I do know that trying to get, they being the Trump lawyers, the whole New York State case, which is a civil case, okay, into the federal system, saying this is cruel and unusual punishment, Eighth Amendment, all of that. But today it was a good day for Donald Trump. On the other front, hush money, the trial is supposed to start April 15. Okay, now this is a criminal trial in New York. The other one, the other judgment was civil. This would be criminal, okay?

that Trump forged documents to cover up stormy Daniels, you know, you know the whole thing. But there's going to be appeal after appeal after appeal after appeal. Now remember, this case is in Manhattan. So Trump has no chance. He has no chance in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. The case never would have been brought in 30 states. But in Manhattan, if the trial does start on April 15th, Trump is guilty. He has no chance at all in this.

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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. So joining us now is Penny's defense attorney, Thomas Kenneth, a law firm of Riser Kenneth. A couple of facts about you, counselor, you took the case after a go send go fund. Give send, go fund was set up. It's raised more than $3 million, so you're getting paid.

Your firm's getting paid. Nothing wrong with that, all right? But people were generous enough to help Daniel Penny. So as you go into the trial, it's going to come up fast, six months from now, less. Have you seen all the discovery in the case so far? Have you seen everything that the police have? At this point, we have a very voluminous discovery. I point out that we originally took Mr. Penny's case on as pro bono

because both my partner, Stephen Razor and I are Iraq war veterans and Mr. Penny being a Marine. And we set up the give send go campaign within the firm. Of course, we never knew. We could never know it was going to be as successful as it was. It wound up taking off and raising millions of dollars. So you have not seen what Bragg's office is going to present, even though they had to present it to a grand jury.

You're privy to that, right? We're privy. First of all, we saw the transcripts of the whole grand jury presentation, about 550 pages of testimony from including about a dozen individuals who were on the train. And that was probably the most eye-opening thing. Let me stop you there, because I want to walk through this. Did any of the individuals in the subway car, according to the grand jury testimony, say that your client, Daniel Penny, was hostile, aggressive, should not have done what he did.

Did they have witnesses that are going to come in and say, hey, Penny killed him and he shouldn't have done it? They don't. The closest they have to that is one individual who has approaching 50. prior criminal convictions had just been convicted and sentenced for bludgeoning one of his friends with a baseball bat about a year before. That's all they have. It was not in the subway car, but walked up as the incident was already. According to the grand jury testimony, they have nothing. They have nobody pointing a finger at your client. Why then did the grand jury indict? So those who understand the grand jury process and I've been practicing criminal law as a prosecutor,

a defense attorney for over 20 years in this city. The standard that a grand jury applies is reasonable cause. That's lower than the standard a police officer would need to summons you on the street for a petty offense. Moreover, a grand jury is comprised in 23 individuals. Only 12 of those 23 have to vote to indict, unlike a criminal trial where you obviously need a unanimous verdict. In addition, in a grand jury, the defense plays no role. The only time a defense attorney would be anywhere near the grand jury would be if the defendant is testified, which almost never happens. With 500 pages of testimony and no one pointing the finger at your client as being the aggressor or out of line here, it seems to me that it's almost impossible. But it is New York City.

And this is not really America anymore. Now, on your side, you're going to be able to bring in a bevy of witnesses, I assume, They're going to say they feared for their life, that they thought this Jordan Neely was a dangerous character and that your client, Penny, did the right thing in protecting them. I assume you have that locked down, right? Absolutely. It's overwhelming. I mean, it's locked down, one, because it's already to testify to in the grand juries. No one could run away from it, not that they'd want to. And secondly, I mean, it's really going to be the district attorney is going to be incumbent upon them to call these witnesses. And if they don't, then obviously we have subpoena power. So we're not going to have any issue, we never go.

Okay. How many people approximately do you have that are going to testify that Daniel help them? How many? There are, as I said, there are approximately a dozen witnesses, give or take a couple that. So you got it. I'm just trying to. I got it. So you have an accord.

Going in in October, 12 Americans that are going to say, we were, afraid of this guy. He was at the level where anything could have happened. And you have one convicted felon who wasn't even on the train saying the opposite. So it seems to me that any district attorney faced with on the record, because all this on the record, would drop the case. Doesn't that seem to you that any honest district attorney would? Particularly in of what we've seen just in the last few weeks, right? You know, the incident in Brooklyn, you know, before that, there were the shootings and the subways in the Bronx.

And immediate aftermath of this incident, about week later, there was a case in Brooklyn. So, you know, yeah, you would hope, and I still hope, I still have some hope that somehow, some way, someone, cooler heads will prevail in this case, won't have to go to trial. Could the judge in the case dismiss it before it goes to trial? So we have already submitted and had the judge rule on motions to dismiss. They were denied, obviously, or we still wouldn't be here. But you have to remember, the judge, and I like the judge in this case, I've tried cases in front of him before.

He's a very good judge, but he is constrained by the same legal standard that the grand jury is constrained by. So he has to review it based on that standard. You know, the old cliche, you can indict a ham sandwich. It may be a cliche, but it's pretty accurate. So, you know, getting an indictment and dismiss is next thing. impossible. Remember, and I'm sure you do. Brad pulled this in a bodega owner and charged him and it was obvious because they had it on sale. Right. That the bodega owner was defending himself against an

armed criminal. And Bragg charged him, Alba, but then dropped it because of their public outcry. And I think the public outcry on Penny is going to be even worse. So here's the final question. And I don't want you to be a psychiatrist, but certainly you're a savvy defense attorney. The villain here, in addition to the deceased, Jordan Neely, is Alvin Bragg, the district attorney. He didn't have to do this. Do you have any idea why he's doing it? You know, I've been asked these questions before. I ran against DA Bragg in 2021. We have, you know, stark differences as we've been the criminal justice system. But I'd like to think that Alvin Prague is a decent human being.

I can't opine on why this case is going forward and so many others aren't. To some extent, look, you know, for my position, I got a case to defend. And I'm not doing my client any favors by, you know, pontificating on why a case may be going to call. But as I said before, you know, I do still hold out hope and maybe aspirational, it probably is. that, you know, somehow there'll be an off-ramp here. I don't know what that is. I'm going to be embarrassed, but I don't think Brad cares at this point.

I mean, he's been the worst district attorney in the history of this city. And it's not even close, by the way. The amount of horrific crime on his watch, I mean, you're looking at, you know, we're being compared to Haiti here in New York City. That's how violent and bad the city is. at this point. We saw that just last night. And look, if I hope if nothing else,

if the two sides of the political spectrum can't agree on anything else, can we at least come together now with the death of a hero NYPD cop in cold blood, me yesterday, and come together and say, look, you know, this progressive new age criminal justice experiment

just doesn't work. And let's put it in the ass heap of history and move on and we'll argue about everything else that is to argue about in the world. That's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. These people will never admit a mistake ever. And I know that from, you know, 25 years of experience.

All right, counselor, we really appreciate your time. It's nice of you to come on and explain the case to the international and national audience who may not be up to speed on it. And please keep us posted every step of the way. I do think there is a good chance that this will not go to trial. it's a guess but Bragg if he loses this case

it's just going to be a very embarrassing that's going to be the final nail for him and I think he knows that but I could be wrong all right council thanks again we really appreciate it

okay so very disturbing because I live here I live here and I see it and I know it and I know the cops and I know people in a DA's law office. And I know people in Albany. And I see it. It's so bad. I can't tell you how bad it is. Is it as bad as San Francisco? No. But it's approaching.

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I do. And I'm going to lay it on you in a little while. My mind is going to be on that the whole time we talk here. But go ahead. Okay. You'll be able to handle it. So, Ron and Daniel, I saw some of your coverage. I mean, you know this is ridiculous.

listen, but the bigger story, and I talked about this for an hour with Sean Hannity on its radio program. Today, we have it on billowellie.com, is that NBC News will never come back from this. It's like CNN. Remember when CNN was a trusted source of news information? All in the world, that's gone. It's the lowest rated news agency on television now, and they destroyed themselves by hating Trump. NBC now is going to follow CNN. I'm wrong? I think you're wrong in this regard. There's a big difference, a very big difference between whether NBC should be hurt by what it did to Rhonda McDaniel, which was horrible, and whether they actually will be hurt. Liberals, progressives, and other Democrats aren't

angry over what MS, what NBC did to Ms. McDaniels. They're not angry at all. They're happy about what NBC did to her. They're cheering about it. So, of course, NBC should be tarnished by what it did, by publicly humiliating her. Of course, they should be damaged and tarnished and all that, but I don't think they will be. Well, wait a minute, though. You're talking about MSNBC, which programs exclusively for far-left loons. That's all they do.

NBC news, this is Lester Holt, the Today Show, okay? Right. Dateline. They're going to be tarnished with the same brush here because the same executives that run that assassinated, you know, figuratively speaking, Ronna McDaniel. You haven't heard a word from Lester Holt or the women on the Today Show. And you're not going to. Right.

Believe me, you're not going to. But anybody consuming information has to have some sign of awareness. And NBC is just going to be linked now because their own executives did this. There's no delineation between MSNBC and NBC. NBC News executives did it. Now it's going to be, oh, yeah, they're the left-wing network. And so you're writing off at least 50% of the country and potential viewership. I think you're wrong about that too, respectfully, Bill.

and I think you're wrong because we're news junkies. We follow the news because that's what we do. I think ordinary Americans, and I use the word ordinary in the best sense, not in some pejorative sense. Ordinary Americans don't think what Lester Holt does, has anything to do with what Rachel Maddo does or what Morning Scarborough does or any of the others. I think ordinary Americans

who go about their lives who aren't political junkies or news junkies watch Lester Holt because they think he's a good anchor or they like him, whatever it is. I just agree. You know, when

George Stephanopoulos at ABC attacked Nancy Mace with the rape thing, there was big trouble at ABC News because of that, big trouble. Because ABC realized that people watching that interview, we're going to say, I've had enough. And I'm telling you, and we'll track it every

month, NBC is going to be hurt by this. And they're never going to come back as a news agency for all Americans. Now, let me say, go ahead. Let me say, I hope you're right. I genuinely. I'm very, really wrong. As you know. Okay. So now the bigger story is, the bigger story, the bigger story is the black ball. So on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, I wrote a column, and I think you read it, that this has been going on since 2016 than anybody who supported Donald Trump or said anything good about Trump at all was banished from not only news coverage on the networks, but entertainment coverage, late night coverage, morning coverage, whatever it may be. You were not welcome. This was not an accident. This was by design. And it's exactly the same thing.

happened in the 1950s with the communist witch hunt. And interestingly enough, CAA, the big talent agency in Hollywood, dropped Ronna McDonnell as a client. Why? Why? Would they drop her? She didn't do anything. So they took her on. She signed a two-year deal from hundreds of thousands of dollars. They took their commission. And then as soon as she got thrown overboard by NBC, CAA dropped. sir. You know why they did it? I'm going to ask you. You know why they did it? I do. It may not be why you think, but you go first. No, no, you go first. I think there's a broader issue than Ronald McDaniel. It's about how liberals have forgotten how to be liberal. These liberals you're talking about aren't liberals in the old sense of the word, meaning open-minded. We respect your right to say things, even if we disagree with them. These are illiberal. liberals. But then why would they take her on in the first place? Okay, they knew that she was a head of the Republican National Committee and she sided her with Trump and the election stuff. They knew it. They took her on anyway and as soon as she gets in trouble, they dump her. Here's

why they dumped her. Because a lot of their clientele, about 90% of it is exactly the category that you described. They're happy about it. And they, CIA didn't want to continue to representative if they're going to lose clients left wing movie stars tv people so they said i get rid around that's why they did it yeah i don't want to i don't want to go overboard with an exaggeration here but these are Stalinist liberals you bet that's not exaggeration that's exactly um and not only Stalin but Mao Hitler the same playbook all let's get on it's one thing if conservatives did that because conservatives never had the reputation of, oh, we're open-minded. Liberals brag about that BS.

Liberals are so damn sanctimonious that they brag about how open-minded they are. And then we have all this, all this is, this makes them look like it's black-balling. Look, the council culture is solely in the left-wing precincts. That's who invented it. All right, let's get on to your website. So I'm perusing Goldberg's website, you know, and this is that shows you what kind of exciting guy I am. So I'm on Goldberg's website,

and he's got a guy yelling about me, criticizing me, saying, O'Reilly's arrogant, he said that if he had still been in the chair at 8 o'clock at Fox News, the Dominion lawsuit never would have happened. And instead of defending me, Goldberg, your first line is, yeah, Bill can get a little arrogant. Come on, you should have been all over that guy. I didn't have anybody on the quote unquote air. It was a commentator.

You see, you're wrong about everything you're saying today. Here's one. This guy posted a comment under a column that I wrote a column that probably attacked liberals and you'd agree with it. and he had a comment about you. Am I supposed to shut him down? No, you're supposed to say you're ridiculous because what O'Reilly said was true because he did the same thing.

What was the second sentence after I said that Bill can be seen as arrogant at times? I don't know. You wandered off into Burry. You didn't address it. You wandered off into Bernie land. But what you could have said, if you had remembered, was that I, your humble correspondent, completely shut down the Barack Obama

bogus birth certificate stuff on the Fox News Channel. I did it single-handedly by sending people to the two newspapers in Honolulu who, simultaneously on the same day, printed the birth announcement. It would have been impossible to fake that. And that was the end of it. Okay. So you could have said, yeah, I think you're wrong here. Bill has done this in the past. Shut down crazy conspiracy theory.

I did not say he was right. No, you didn't say anything. Your punches pilot. You wash your hands of it. I threw him a bone and I said, I could see where some people might think that. Are you telling me, you can't tell me with a straight face that you don't. think some people might think you're arrogant there's no validity to it right now i'm thinking you're arrogant look they can think whatever they want about me and i don't care but when they i specifically

say something like the dominion thing never would have happened everybody knows that's true that got no pushback from anybody at fox news none okay because they know that never would have happened that That costs him a billion bucks, though I not having married there at 8 o'clock. But anyway, I wanted people to know that I do go to your website, and I'm scolding you for not defending me in a more fact-based way, because I know you criticize me when you think I'm wrong, and that's why we like you. All right, so it's bernardgolberg.com. How easy is that?

If I don't talk to again. I want to emphasize before we go, the second sentence after I said, some people might see Bill is arrogant. I said, Bill is a loyal friend. A loyal. Loyal was the key word. You don't think that's a big deal. No, I do, and I appreciate the comment, but it had nothing to do with the accusation. It had nothing to do with this man. I think that you should, you should try to guide your followers into a better place. That's what I'm saying. I want you to, I want you to guide them. Now, now I get it. Now I, now I'm sorry.

Can I apologize? Bernie Goldberg, everybody. Make them happy. I got to apologize. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I said that some people might see you as arrogant. It's just beyond belief.

I don't know what I'm thinking about. Hey, if I don't talk to you again, happy Passover, enjoy it down in Florida. And a very happy Easter. Thank you, Bernie. Okay, I'll be on Cuomo News Nation. tonight, 8 o'clock. I don't know what the hit time is for me, but it's 8 o'clock show, and I'm sure the NBC thing will come up. All right, let's go to prison, Oberdour in Mexico. Thank God he's out in September. He can't run again. He's gone.

Now, I don't know whether Obrador is taking money from the cartels. I know people around him are. Okay? This guy is a socialist, communist. He doesn't like the United States. he is helping the drug cartels sell narcotics and smuggle migrants into the United States. Obador helps them. So on 60 minutes, he was confronted. Go. The State Department says most of it's coming from Mexico.

Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia. You know why we don't have the drug consumption that you have in the United States? because we have customs, traditions, and we don't have the problem of the disintegration of the family. But there is drug consumption in Mexico?

But very little. So why the violence then in Mexico? Because drug trafficking exists, but not the consumption. Well, that's what you're bull. But Overdor was forced by Donald Trump to close the border. Trump said to Oberdor, if you do not put Mexican troops on the Guatemalan border and the USA border,

if you do not, then we're going to raise tariffs through the roof on Mexican goods. And we're going to slow everything down the border. So Obador folded, had to do it. First day in office, as you know, Biden threw all of that out the window. But Obador is a villain. He is right about drug consumption in the USA.

As you know, I don't feel sorry for most drug addicts. I have compassion for those who are trying trying to get off the narcotics and the booze. And I do give money to charities that help them do that. But if you are an active alcoholic or drug addict, you are hurting not only yourself, but this country. I have no respect for you. But there's plenty of drug consumption in Mexico. All right, Donald Trump getting involved in the Israeli situation.

He does an interview with some Israeli press at Maulago. yesterday it was released here's what he said go you have to finish up your war you have to finish it up you got to get it done and i'm sure you'll do that and we got to get to peace you can't have this going on and i will say israel has to be very careful because you're losing a lot of the world you're losing a lot of support but you have to finish up you have to get the job done Okay, but that's not that easy because Hamas won't release the hostages. You know, if they're not going to release the hostages, you can't have a ceasefire. Smart life.

Okay, a survey of 2,000 American adults by one poll finds that two-thirds of us, 67% are strong. stressed out when we eat in a restaurant. I believe it. Okay? 48% are more likely only to eat out after they get paid. So the prices are high. You know how crazy the prices are. And the people going to the restaurants feel guilty

because they don't have enough money to get by yet they're going in. Well, here's Smart Life, and I've said this before. I don't want to be repetitive, but this is a good strategy. I think that we all should get a break and go to a restaurant that we like that has good food. I don't go to the ultra-expensive places. Once in a while for business, I have to, but in my own time, I never do. All right?

I got my own places that I can live with that, the pricing. If I do go to an upscale restaurant, Smart Life. Number one, I do not buy booze. It's $15 a pop. You're crazy. I don't drink anyway, but even if I did drink, I wouldn't buy $15 drink. Okay. Me, two, just a sprite is $6 or $7.

I drink water. And it's fine. Many times I will order two appetizers, and that's more than enough food. So you get two nice appetizers instead of an appetizer and an entree. Never dessert. I got a Carvel down the street. If I want dessert, I whip in there. I got 18 Dunkin' Donuts around here.

So picking up dessert on a way home is not a problem. If I want it anyway, but I'm cutting the sugar down. But anyway, if you do two appetizers and water, and you get a little bread or whatever it may be, you should be satisfied there and you'll cut your bill down 30 40 percent now they're not going to like you very but tip well okay if you go in and do that smart life okay so here's a final thought of the day uh the mug self-reliance in order to have self-reliance you have to have two things discipline and self-awareness so if you make a

mistake got on up now a lot of people will do that in our narcissistic age you know them never admit a mistake ever no matter what no much have no matter how much evidence there is will not and then when they're caught they make excuses well so-and-so did something worse or I was under the influence of LSD I mean you know excuses you know rationalization so anyway I'm walking into a dining and have breakfast this morning and the door opens there's a little stairs like this and a family comes out so there's three kids mom and a dad typical american family well the kids wham down the stairs on the stairs already okay almost knocking me over i'm a big guy so i wasn't in

any peril but they're like this and it was like what do you do and block in my way. Now, they were younger. So I didn't say anything, but I expected the parents to say something. No. So I got to look at the father like this. He looks away. He knew. Awareness. Now, you can't expect the kids to be aware of anything unless you teach them to be aware. So, for example, when an elevator door opens, you let the people inside the elevator get off first. And that makes sense. Okay, but how many times have you seen people go in while there were people in the elevator? When there is an elderly senior citizen going up against the door and you're right there, you open the door. I open the door for everybody. If I'm in a

position and there's a bunch of people, I just yank the door open and everybody goes in. Okay? Because I'm aware that that gets people moving quicker than everybody having to close and open, closing open. This is called self-awareness, but you also have to be aware of other people and their feelings. So you can hurt people's feelings and you don't even know about it, right? But you can read it if you care, and that's the key. So if you care about yourself, you want to be operating at the highest level. that's self-reliance if you're dependent on anybody that's not the highest level and you're gonna get hosed 90% chance if you are dependent upon another person or the government you

will get hosed and I mean bad you're dependent on yourself and you protect yourself and build you know protective measures like a nice bank account count, things like that, going to be far better off. But in order to do that, you've got to be aware. How many of you have elderly parents that are broke? I had to support my mother for 15 years, and I was happy to do it. I'm of the Japanese philosophy where the elders are venerated. That's my philosophy. I was happy to support my mother. Kept her in the home, whatever she needed. It was there. the end 24-hour care in the home. I didn't have to put her in facility. But I knew that I would

have to budget for that years before because I wasn't always thinking about myself. I was thinking about awareness. It was awareness of my life, my situation, others around me. There's a key. And you know what the shame of it is in America is not taught anymore. It's all immediate gratification. Where it me, me, me, me, my, my, my, you know, I got to have this. I got to have that, oh, no, no, no. I'm not going to save. I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to deprive myself. I'm going to, no, no, no, man, you're going to get it. And, you know, your parents, your elderly parents or whatever. We got to think. So anyway, this is a lecture. It's wholly weak, and I decided to do it. Awareness, very important to self-reliance, very important

to your life. If you start now, then you'll see a big turnaround fast. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you tomorrow.