Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 30, 2022

Episode Date: December 30, 2022

The January 6 Committee withdraws its subpoena of Donald Trump, Time Magazine claims ‘exercise’ has roots in racism, rent prices hit a record high, college graduates rank the most useless degrees in the USA. Plus, the O'Reilly Update Message of the Day, the worldview of the American people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, I'm Mike Slater, host of the podcast Politics by Faith. My last day filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly. It is Friday, December 30th, 2020. Say it while you still can. You're listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening today in America. The January 6th committee withdraws its subpoena of Donald Trump. Interesting.

Time magazine claims exercise has roots in, In racism, exercise, rent prices hit a record high, and college graduates ranked the most useless degrees in the United States. Also coming up, the message of the day about the biggest postmodern lies we've been told these last few decades. But first, the January 6th Special Committee withdrawing its subpoena of former President Trump as it wraps the 18-month investigation up. According to the panel's chairman, Trump's testimony was no longer.

needed. Trump released the following statement on his truth social platform. He said was just advised that the unselect committee of political thugs has withdrawn the subpoena of me concerning the January 6th protest. They probably did so because they knew I did nothing wrong or they were about to lose in court. Time magazine facing some backlash after publishing an article outlining the so-called racist roots of physical exercise. The author said, quote, how did U.S. exercise go from reinforcing white supremacy to celebrating Richard Simmons. It's really not about the 1980s that you start to have a consensus that everybody should be doing some form of exercise.

Read about the white supremacist origins of exercise. Wow, these people, their sole purpose for existence, I'm not kidding. They've decided it's to find racism and everything. The cost of rent smashing records all over the country. Price is jumping 20% in most markets. A one-bedroom apartment to Chicago will set you back $2,500 a month. That figure rises to $3,000 in New York City, $4,500 in San Francisco. Economists blame the spike on the weak housing market, supply chain problems,

and lack of workers in the construction industry. A recent survey from ZipRecruiter ranks the most useless college degrees in America. Folks under the age of 40 were asked whether their field of study led to a decent job. 61% regret their degree in education, 61% followed by communications, that's 64%. Liberal arts, 72%, sociology, 73%, and number one, most useless degree, journalism. 87% think their degree in journalism is totally useless. Message of the day coming up next. 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. Hey, I'm Mike Slater, host of the podcast, Politics by Faith, Philanard for the great Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update message of the day. If we want to fix our country, starting

in the new year, we need to first look at the majority of Americans' worldview. It's a very important term and concept that I think we need to talk more about, someone's world view. most people have a modern worldview and this affects everything they feel and think and then do and of course who they vote for and I think all of these aspects of the worldview are wrong so I'll call them lies that we've been told

certainly my whole life but you can frame them however you'd like lie number one life is random that's what most people think there's no real order no purpose no reason for it you don't have to answer to anyone it's all randomness and chaos and the best you can do is just try something and see what happens, see if it works.

And I don't know, maybe keep doing it. Maybe it'll keep working. Who knows? We're just told that life happens and you got to make the best of it. Lie number two. Truth is relative. It's whatever you feel. And we all have our own truth.

There's no absolute truth. It's just whatever any of us want. Really all the madness of our modern world can be traced back to this lie in particular that everyone is entitled to their own truth. Lie number three, man is basically good. This is a belief. that most people have. Most, even many Christians, but most people in America believe that you are born good. This is a very Rousseauian idea. It was a French philosopher in the mid-1700s.

He said that every man is born good until you become corrupted by society. By the way, Rousseau fathered five children and left them all to die at the local orphanage. He didn't know their birth dates, didn't know if there were boys or girls. But we all take parenting advice from him in our modern world. So we're all born good and we were corrupted by society, whether that's your parents or you had some trauma or the system, capitalism or the man has been oppressing you. So you can always blame someone or something else for your problems because you're good,

naturally. So line number four, let's put them together. If life is random, if truth is relative, and if we're basically good, then the highest virtue is tolerance. And line number five,

the most important thing in life, we are told, is what you possess, whether things you own, but also accolades and awards and degrees and achievement and fame and all this. So when you have a majority of people who believe these things, that life is random, truth is relative, man is basically good, tolerance is the highest virtue, and the meaning of life is what you possess, it won't go well. We see it now. Every prime, problem in our culture today. We traced back to one or many of these lies. The Christian worldview, by the way, is the exact opposite. This is also the view that most Americans held for our entire existence as a country until recently. And it's the exact opposite of each of these. The exact

opposite. So line number one is life is random, but the Christian worldview says that God is in control. Line number two, there's no such thing as true. Truth is relative. The Christian view is truth is absolute. Line number three, that man is born good. The Christian worldview is man is born wicked. The modern worldview, line number four, is that the highest virtue is tolerance. The Christian worldview says the highest virtue is righteousness. And the modern worldview says the most important thing is what you possess.

And the Christian worldview says the most important thing is what you believe. Specifically, what you believe about the person whose birth we celebrated just a few days ago. Everything's off the rails. and it's because we have the wrong worldview. You want to fix our country? Got to strike the route. And realize which lies you've been told your whole life. 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 world's 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. Hey, I'm Mike Slater, host of the podcast, Politics by Faith, and now it's time for something you might not know. The slippery slope is real. I'm sick of people calling it the slippery slope fallacy. No, no, it's real. Look at a music video or some pop performance today. and tell me that the old fogies weren't right about Elvis shaking his hips.

If the adults who did not want the CBS to show Elvis below the hips were alive today, that you know they'd be screaming, I told you so. This is worse than I ever could have imagined. I'll give you a new example. California is right now considering banning psychedelic drugs. Sure, at this point, why not? Everyone's stoned already. Why not live in a society where everyone's tripping out to?

This is really soaps real. Do you remember when legalizing marijuana was first proposed? It was just for medicinal purposes. That's all, right? Prescribed safely by a doctor to dying cancer patients or whatever sob story they showed. They weaponized your compassion against you, and most people agreed with it.

And then instantly, a ton of 17-year-olds had glaucoma. Weird. Now there's pot stores on every corner. every billboard is marijuana delivery awesome great society but slopes don't stop slipping now in california they're talking about legalizing psychedelics magic mushrooms listen i was wrong about legalizing marijuana a couple years ago i took the libertarian approach and i was for legalizing all drugs and one of my arguments was if they legalized cocaine tomorrow would you all of a sudden just start using cocaine of course not so why not just legalizing legalizing

it. Well, I did not consider that maybe 10% of people or so would just start using it if it were more available and that that might be just enough to completely destroy society. I also thought that legalizing marijuana would cut out the Mexican drug cartels.

Turns out it brought the Mexican drug cartels into California. They're now growing marijuana in California. The cartels. L.A. Times headline the reality of legal weed in California, huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation, and death, super. I thought legalizing drugs would be the end of the cartels power.

I didn't think it would bring them into my backyard with even more power. I was very wrong about legalizing marijuana. And I'm not going to be fooled again, not with magic mushrooms. And hopefully, with nothing ever again. Because the slippery slope is not only real, it's undefeated. More coming up. 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. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. It's been an absolute honor to be with you these past two weeks.

Bill will be back next week. Politics by Faith with Mike Slater. Have a wonderful weekend.