Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, June 13, 2025

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Mortality gets a little bit closer for the baby boomer generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition. On this Friday, mortality got closer to the baby boom generation this week with the deaths of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Both are pop icons, both succumbing in their early 80s. Now these men were creative geniuses, no question, but they destroyed their lives with drugs, not uncommon in the music industry, where permissive and self-destructive behavior is often acceptable. I met Brian Wilson one time when the Beach Boys were on their 50th anniversary tour.

I know Mike Love and Bruce Johnson pretty well and understand how this amazingly talented band fell apart. The Unsteady Wilson simply could not function in the real world. He was so fogged out when I shook hands with him, there was nothing to say. Sly Stone was even worse, sacrificing his immense talent on the altar of cocaine and hurting those around him in profound ways. The guy delivered amazing performances before he flamed out. You should watch on YouTube. The insidious world of narcotics came in strong during the 1960s, when Wilts,

Wilson and Stone were red hot. Their God-given talent could not save them. They squandered it all as millions of human beings have done. A shame, a lesson, one that should be noted. Back after this. 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 1. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most

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