Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 6, 2023

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

Chinese spy balloon goes boom, a preview of Joe Biden's State of the Union address, and frigid temperatures hit New Hampshire. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Freedom in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, February 6th, 2023. Here's what's happening today in America. How big was that balloon anyway? The State of the Union coming up.

Will people buy what Biden is selling? And it's very cold in New Hampshire. Then Bill, we'll be here with the message of the day. But first, the Chinese spy balloon. It's no longer an F-22 blue one. it up six miles offshore in Myrtle Beach. Debris landed in the ocean. That's 47 feet deep. Our

military recovering as many pieces as possible. But the question is, when did the administration know there was a spy balloon over America? And were they just hoping no one noticed? If it wasn't for some guy in Montana, Larry Mayer, a newspaper photographer

who just happened to be outside and look up, maybe no one would have noticed. Republicans criticized Biden for not shooting it down sooner. So the Pentagon shot back, saying, You know, this happened three times when Donald Trump was president. What? So now the question is, why do we keep letting this happen? These balloons are huge, by the way.

We don't know exactly how big this one was, but we have balloons like this. NASA does. The volume of the balloons we have, it's the size of not one Goodyear blimp, but 195 good year blimps. NASA says a football stadium could fit inside one of them. Biden getting ready for a state of the union on two. We'll see how he addresses the balloon. 9 o'clock Eastern, this is the first state of the union. He did give a speech to a joint session of Congress in 2021.

It was the 99th day of his presidency. After the speech, he's off to Wisconsin, then Florida, home of Trump and DeSantis. So he's going to talk clearly about how swimmingly everything is going, but will people believe him? 41% of Americans say they've gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden has become president. That is the highest number since Washington Post has been. asking this question in 37 years. They started asking this question in 1986

when Reagan coined the Are You Better Off question? Only 16% say they are. 60% of Democrats don't want Biden to be the nominee and 50% of Republicans don't want Trump to be the nominee. But if those were the two nominees in 2024 and the election was today,

Trump would win, 48 to 44. Bundle up if you're headed to Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It hit a chilly windchill of negative one. 108 degrees. How is that even possible? Technically, it was negative 52, but with wind gusts of 127 miles per hour, it felt a little cooler. A little fact for the global warming crowd. The Lancet in 2021 concluded that every year there's 600,000 people around the world who die from extreme heat and 4.5 million who die from extreme cold. Global warming will save lives.

I'm Mike Slater. Bill's message of the day next. 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 worlds of 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Monday, I wrote a column posted yesterday on Bill O'Reilly.com about freedom.

So most Americans think they're free. We are the land of the free and home of the brave as the star-spangled banner goes. Yet many of us are not free. If you have no money, you are not free. If you are addicted to substance, you are not. not free. If you are dependent on another person for your welfare or on a government agency for that matter, you are not free. Freedom means options, the ability for you the American to do different things that you would like to do, to buy wholesome food, to have a nice dwelling, to get around in a decent

car. Well, all of that takes money. So money is the freedom component. And we never admit to that in America. We have this constitutional mandate that we're all free, but we don't understand what freedom requires. You have to be self-sufficient. You have to have enough resources to satisfy your debts and then leave room for you to pursue happiness. And that's the bottom line to use a cliche. Your ability to pursue happiness the way you want equates to your freedom. Don't let the government take it away from you. 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.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Nicole Calta Gironne, Flushing, New York. I just heard that the SUNY schools in New York

have made CRT courses of requirement for graduation. Okay? What is the end game? Indctrination. New York is run by Progressive Left. They want all the students to be progressive left. That's what they want. I would not send my kid to a state university in New York with that requirement, period.

Alfred Bays, Paris, California, I just received my gas bill. Last month it was 190, and this one was 400. I used to worry about gas for my car, now I worry about natural gas for my home. California, with all of the regulations and the taxes, you guys are the worst. energy bills, I think, in the world, not just in a country. West Richardson, Circleville, Ohio. I appreciate your tagline, no spin. Your analysis is fair.

Example, you discussed the classified documents, both Biden and Trump, and people pack up their stuff and they grabbed it all. That's fair. I read both your daily and weekly column consistently, I trust you, Bill. It means a lot to me, West. You know, that's why we are here. I will never mislead you, ever. And all of our analysis is based on facts.

And if it's not, if I have to guess, I tell you it's a guess. Like the Super Bowl, I don't know who's going to win that. I'm guessing Philadelphia has a slight advantage, but depends on Mahomes' ankle. All right, but I don't know, two very evenly matched teams. In a moment, something you might not know. 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 Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. Every year, Americans spend more than $1 billion at auctions. From lavish New York City ballrooms to barns in the Midwest, folks hand out hard-earned cash to own a piece of history. Here are some very high-priced items sold at auction recently. First, monster movie posters. Ten years ago, a collector purchased an original print for the 1931 film Dracula at Sotheby's for $525,000.

It's worth far more today. Next, Star Wars action figures. Min-conditioned toys now sell for $6,000 each. The original price back in 1979, $10. dollars. Music memorabilia. Last year, Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for the song Hey Jude sold in New York City for $900,000. Comic books also a bestseller. Amazing Fantasy number 15, the most prize in any collection. Spider-Man's first appearance will cost you $1.2 million. New the top of any

autograph auction is history. In 1864, a year before he was assassinated, Abraham Lincoln signed 48 copies of the Emancipation Proclamation. The documents obviously highly prized. One collector paid $4 million back in 2009. It's probably worth about $7 million now. George Washington has the honor of having the most expensive signature. In 2012, Sotheby, auctioned off Washington's personal copy of the Constitution. The book sold for $10 million. The most expensive items sold at auction, art. Leonardo da Vinci's painting titled Salvatore Mundi,

bought by a Saudi print since 2017, for $500 million. But don't expect to see it anytime soon. It's only shown to foreign diplomats during visits to Saudi Arabia. And here's something else you might not know. The history of auctions dates all the way back to 500 B.C. According to Greek historians, the first recorded auction sold just two items. Slaves, human beings, and women for marriage. Back after this. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines.

I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, 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. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly, no spin, just facts, and always looking out for you.