Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 2, 2024

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Japan rocked by a massive earthquake, Green Day rips Republicans, economists rank the highest ranked cities in the country, and a new report names the happiest countries on earth. Plus, the O'Reilly Update Message of the Day, how to keep your New Year's resolutions. 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 Tuesday, although it feels like a Monday, January 2nd, 2024. What? You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America.

Japan rattled. Green Day rips Republicans. Economists rank the highest. taxed cities in the country, and a new report lists the happiest countries on Earth. That's all coming up. And then my message of the day as to why we should make New Year's resolutions and how to actually keep them. It's all coming up.

But first, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shaking central Japan on New Year's Day. The number of victims remains unclear. Major tsunami warnings were issued for the entire northern coast of the country and extend as far as Russia and South Korea. Japan sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, as it's known, a belt of significant seismic activity. Over the past century, the nation has made its skyscrapers the most earthquake resilient in the world. The rock band Green Day trashed Republican voters during a New Year's E performance on ABC. The group changed the lyrics from their 2004 hit song, American Idiot.

The lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong said, quote, I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda. The original line is Redneck Agenda. The group also made global headlines in 2022, v. The United States, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. They did not, though. It's nearly tax season, Forbes magazine,

ranking the highest taxed towns in the country. Number one last year was a tie between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Each city spends $1.5 billion on pay payroll alone. Folks there are making $100,000 give half their salary to the government. Think about that. $100,000, you give half of it to the government. Lowest tax cities in America, Anchorage, Alaska. People up north take home 80% of their income. A new report from Oxford University lists the happiest countries on the planet for 2024. The nations are judged on life expectancy, voting rights, health care, homicide rates, drug addiction, and the cost of living.

The top five countries, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, and number one, Finland. Maybe Green Day can just move to Finland. The unhappiest countries are Botswana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, and the worst place for the 10th year in a row, Afghanistan. Message of the day about keeping New Year's resolutions coming up next, and then we will get our minds right. For 2024, the election year that is to come, gird your loins. That's next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.

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Please call 866-3-2-6, 55-70. or text Bill to 998899. Again, that's 866-326-5576-5576 or text Bill to 998899. I'm Mike Slater, filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update message of the day, and we have to do the obligatory New Year's resolution message of the day. The kids these days, they don't call them New Year's resolutions. They call them ins and out.

so out is some unhelpful toxic habit in is a new new way of life i'm actually okay with this ins and outs i think that's pretty good either way everyone bombs out of them pretty quick like within a month certainly and there's a reason why i'll explain in a second but before that um do you have a year's rather you should make one and i even fall into this cynical like oh what's the point anyway or something like that. No, no, it's good. It's healthy to make resolutions, not just on a new year, but all the time. And now's as good a time as any right. The great Samuel Johnson back in 1776, he wrote in his journal, he said, when I look back on resolutions of improvement, which have year after year been made and broken, either by negligence, forgetfulness, vicious idleness,

casual interruption, or morbid infirmity, when I find that so much of my life has been stolen unprofitably away and that I can describe by retrospections scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed I look back like a couple days of the year when I did what I was supposed to do why do I yet try to resolve again I try because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal so let's make a good resolution all right but how this is advice from James Clear in his book Atomic Habits, which has been one of the top selling books for five years now. So the reason why resolutions don't stick is because people make outcome-based resolutions.

I want to lose 20 pounds. It's never going to happen. So then people figure out, okay, I need to make process goals. So instead of I'm going to lose 20 pounds, which is the outcome, the process, I'm going to work out five days a week. Still not going to work. Got to keep digging. The secret sauce is making, I dare.

entity-based goals. So you resolve that I am the kind of person who never misses a workout. That's who I am. Exercise is a priority for me. So now that's your new identity. So whenever you're in doubt, you fall back on that identity. Okay. Well, what would a person who never misses a workout do right now?

They probably wouldn't go sit on the couch and eat ice cream. They would go work out. What would a person who loves to exercise do right now? Well, I am that person. I am going to go do that. It's about changing your identity. This is nothing new. James Clear didn't come up with this.

Epicetus 2,000 years ago. He said, first, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do to be that person. Your New Year's resolution could be to read more books. Okay, it's not going to happen. Okay, no, process, process. I'm going to read five pages a day. No, you won't. You have to change your identity.

I'm a reader. I read. readers read if you change your identity the process and then of course the outcome will follow so who am i what type of person do i want to be and then prove it to yourself every day with the small wins that's all it is it's just the small wins maybe an identity resolution this year is you want to be the type of person who always stays in touch with friends it's called one every saturday that's it do that for a whole year you'll be a different person let's not be like those The losers who don't want to get better every day and every year.

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podcasts. I'm Mike Slater, filling it for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. Gird up your loins. Are you ready for 2024? Selection year? No question. It's going to be unlike anything we've

ever seen. We'll probably get violent. We must not. But people will when they get desperate. The closer Trump gets to winning. We can't let Hitler win. It's all the justification they'll need. Listen, it's going to be crazy. And it's our job to not run away, to not cower, to not give up. We have to gird up our loins. What does that expression mean? So to gird means to insults. circle as in with a belt and your loins are your nether region and the deal is back in the day men wore tunics that were long hard to run so you had to to hoist up the tunic hoist up the fabric and get it up above your knees and tie it around your waist so now you can run and fight with agility so gird up your loins it's going to be a time this year this expression is in the

Bible 1. Peter 1. But few people see it there because many translations have changed to gird up your loins to prepare, which is way lamer than gird up your loins. But the Greek says to gird up your loins. And we need to because anything less, it's not going to work for us. It's not going to work for our country. We need to be here. We need to stand in front of it. We need to face what is coming our way. You are going to be deluged with hate and hysteria. And they're going to try to fill you with hate and hysteria. The best thing for a hysterical person to do is to make you hysterical too. So we need to stay calm and focused. And the best part, 1st Peter 1, the rest of that, the gird up your loins. It actually says gird up the loins of your mind.

Why? Because we need to be alert and fully sober. And the Greek word here for alert means calm and collected in spirit. That's all the things we need to be in this coming year. We have to be steadfast. That's a great word too. Stead just means to stay but the Hebrew word means to rely on and trust and the original definition of the word fast means immovable like a fastener you're making something immovable so we need to be immovable and trust in what is true and right and that is how we will make it out of this year to come we have to remain steadfast so gird up your loins happy warriors it's going to be fun Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics.

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