Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 22, 2025

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Tanker seized, lights out, shots fired, and a big movie weekend. Plus, the Message of the Day, a Christmas story by Bill O’Reilly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Monday, December 22nd. Merry Christmas. Here's what's happening today in America. A tanker seized, lights out, shots fired,

and a big movie weekend. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. First, the Coast Guard has seized. Now, three oil tankers that are part of the dark fleet of Venezuela's sanction evasions. These sanctions have been around since 2017, but they've never been enforced like this. Christy Noam said the United States will continue to pursue the illicit movement of sanctioned oil that is used to fund narco-terrorism in the region. We will find you and we will

stop you. If the president continues this proper blockade of illicit oil leaving Venezuela, then Maduro's regime can't last long. It took a long time for power to be restored for tens of thousands of businesses and residents in San Francisco. There's a power outage that to 130,000 customers without electricity. The outages were caused by a fire at an electrical substation. The first outages were reported at around 1 p.m. on Saturday. The grid was stabilized by 4.30, so no more additional outages. But fire officials didn't bring the substation fire under control until 6 p.m.

That's Saturday. Saturday before Christmas. One of the busiest shopping days of the year. Not good for the San Francisco businesses that remain. And it also left plenty of traffic issues when not only were the traffic lights not working, but all the self-driving cars that are all over San Francisco, they just stopped right where they were, often in the middle of the street. Shots were fired during an ICE operation. Ice was trying to detain a Cuban illegal alien in St. Paul on Sunday morning.

I saw the man get into his vehicle, so they identified themselves as ICE. The man refused to roll down his window. He drove off hitting one of the ICE agents. He then was able to drive off into the parking lot of his apartment complex. Agents were able to stop him again, but then he rammed another. ice vehicle and ran him to do another ice agent. That's when an ice agent shot at him but did not hit him. He then jumped out of the car and ran into his apartment, but before he could get there, ice took him down. Avatar, Fire and Ash, opened with $345 million in sales over the weekend,

16 years after the first Avatar movie. This is the third of the James Cameron franchise, $88 million domestic 257 internationally. The only film with a bigger opening this, year was Zootopia 2 with almost $500 million over three days. This third Avatar movie was a 35% drop from the second installment that came out three years ago. Before this weekend, James Cameron had the number one, number three, and four highest grossing movies of all time, Avatar, Avatar 2, and Titanic. Avengers Endgame was in there for number three. The number two movie of the weekend was an animated movie about David and Goliath, $22 million, the biggest opening weekend for Angel Studios ever.

That's a wonderful Christian studio. I'm excited from politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. 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 stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver.

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I'm traveling around Europe because I was attending the University of London. And instead of going back home for Christmas, I said, you know, and I'll take the two or three weeks, and I'll zip around a continent and see different things. But nobody else wanted to do that. Everybody else, all the Americans studying, went home. So I wound up in Vienna on Christmas Eve. My plan was to see the Vienna Boys Choir at the magnificent St. Stephen's Cathedral for Midnight Bass. Sounds like a great plan, right? I was jazzed. So I show up for Mass and I can't get in because it like cost thousands of dollars to attend

the mass to see the boy's choir. I said, are you kidding me? I'm Catholic. All I want to do is go to Mass or Christmas Eve. They go, no, you've got to pay all these marks. Austrian currency. I said, what? And so I tried to sneak in, and I failed. They had great security. So I went back to my pension, and I was alone, Christmas Eve. And the lady who ran The little hotel where I was, gave me a nice little present, a cake, and a candle. That was some Christmas. Hope you enjoy yours. I'm Bill O'Reilly.

I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Okay, Zach Washburn is in Oklahoma City with the best basketball team on the planet. Mr. O'Reilly, we just want to thank you for giving me power through knowledge.

It's the theme that you have repeated on your program. And recently I've come to understand how true it is. In trying to find actual fact-based news broadcasts, I came across your program last year. I've been a faithful listener ever since. This, in combination with your amazing books, is giving me power through knowledge. Listen, if you're in any kind of job, okay, where you have to talk to other people, the conversations are going to come around to serious things. And the more you know and the better you present yourself,

the quicker you're going to rise in your job. Man, you don't have to be a partisan. I'm just giving you fact after fact, to fact, if to fact. So I appreciate it, Zach. Thank you. Donald Warner, Four Oaks, North Carolina, Bill, how do uneducated people like Candace Owens and others get public forums to find

their way into conservative politics. Because they're Americans. Everybody's going to have a talk show. Everybody will have a website. You can have it. I don't go into that world. I do not follow that world. Did a total waste of time for me. I know what they do. Attack and attack, attack, attack, click, click, click, click, conspiracy, conspiracy. You like it? Take it. Not me. My time is valuable. White Lake, Michigan. I was wondering if you're thinking about a subject for another confronting book. Yeah, I'm writing it called Confronting America What Has to Change. Okay, this is my last book under contract.

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Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might, not know. 67 years ago today, a novelty Christmas song hit number one on the Billboard chart. The tune featured three rambunctious rodents and their adopted human father, Dave. Here is the story behind Alvin and the chipmunks. The man behind the holiday classic was, Ross Bagsarian, also known as Dave Seville. In early 1958, the 40-year-old musician began experimenting with a broken tape recorder. He used the device to speed up his own voice, drastically increasing the pitch.

Dave soon released a popular song, Witch Doctor. If you're old enough, you might remember the refrain, O-E-Wawa. Well, with a hit under his belt, the record label asked Seville to write a song for the holidays. He created three youthful chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. In November, Dave Seville and his trio released the chipmunk song, Christmas Don't Be Late. The tune was an immediate sensation. On December 22nd, 1958, it hit number one. One.

Christmas, Christmas time is new. Time for toys and time for cheer. We've been good, but we can't laugh. Merry Christmas, hurry fat. Well, a song made Alvin, a household name. In 1961, the chipmunks got their own animated show on CBS. CBS. The group was then featured in cartoons, comics, movies, and more music, if you want to call it music. Dave Seville died in 1972 from a heart attack. He was 53 years old. And

here's something else you might not know. Before making it big with the chipmunks, Mr. Seville worked as a lounge singer in Hollywood. In 1954, he caught the attention of director Alfred Hitchcock. If you look very close, Seville. Bill is playing piano in the apartment across from Jimmy Stewart in the movie Rear Window. Back after this. I usually ask potential criminals to have a seat, but now I'm asking you to join me. Chris Hansen for my new series, Have a Seat with Chris Hansen. Guests each week are fascinating personalities who are grabbing headlines, making waves or changing our lives for the better.

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