Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 30, 2023

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

A debt ceiling deal nears, The Little Mermaid wins at the box office, Russia issues an arrest warrant for a U.S. Senator, and a toddler in North Korea sentenced to life in prison. Plus, the Message of the Day, America’s failing schools. 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 a Tuesday that feels like a Monday, May 30th. I hope you had a meaningful memorial day. You're listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening today in America.

D.C. moves closer to a debt deal. The woke little mermaid actually wins at the box office. Russia wants to arrest one of our senators and a toddler in North Korea is sentenced to life in prison. We'll tell you why coming up. And then we have your message of the day. But first, Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reportedly struck a deal to raise the nation's debt limit. The agreement includes caps on federal spending, additional work requirements for food stamps and welfare, and reforms to build more green energy projects.

The Treasury Department believes the U.S. will run out of money as early as June 5th. The deal now heads to Congress for a full vote. Disney's live action remade of The Little Mermaid earned $120 million over the weekend. That's the fourth biggest opening during the Memorial Day holiday. Have you seen it? The trailer, it looks bizarre. The New York Times getting some heat after the following review. Quote, The Little Mermaid reeks of obligation of noble intentions, but joy, fun, mystery,

risk, and kink they're missing. The Kremlin issuing an arrest warrant for Senator Lindsey Graham. The Republican recently told Ukrainian President Zelensky that American money was well spent because it's being used to kill Russians. Moscow's investigative committee opened a criminal investigation against Graham and the Interior Ministry followed up with a warrant for his arrest. Graham said, quote, to know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin's regime brings me immense joy. A two-year-old and his entire family were sentenced to life in prison in North Korea. Why? What gets you life in prison these days in wonderful North Korea? Owning a Bible.

Now, the incident took place in 2009, but was recently confirmed in a new report from the U.S. State Department on human rights abuses by the communist dictatorship. The agency believes that there are up to 400,000 Christians in North Korea. That is a country where any religious display will get you killed. Can you imagine that? Imagine being a Christian in North Korea. And there's people here in America who don't go to church because they're tired or something. Also, this ties in perfectly to the something you may not know segment where we are going to be talking about literal mind control here in America, literal actual mind control. I talked to a defector from North Korea years ago.

And they believe that Kim Jong-un can read your mind. Our government's not that far from that. We'll talk about that coming up. Mike Slater, filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly. 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, lawmakers 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, this is Mike Slater, Filner for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update Message of the Day. So the 2022 U.S. history test scores came out for eighth graders. This is known as the Nation's Report Card. What percentage of kids do you believe are proficient?

in U.S. history. Now, let's keep in mind the low bar for proficiency. We're not asking a lot here. So what percent do you think are proficient? 80 percent. I couldn't even get that one. Now, 50 percent? Wow, that'd be bad.

If only 50 percent of kids were proficient to the very basics of our country, 30 percent proficient? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It can't be that low. So what do you think? What percent of kids are proficient? Try 13.

percent that is unsustainably bad this should be a great national outcry this should be the headline of every new show in america and in a sane nation in a nation that wanted to survive this is all anyone would be talking about and every news out every tv show would be like we we interrupt your our normal programming go by a u.s history book and read it tonight instead of watching this dumb show read the basics of u.s history but we we don't. No one even cares. It is absolutely shameful. We should be disgusted with ourselves. We should not be able to go on another day like this. We are turning into idiocracy. Elon Musk was on Bill Mars show the other day and he was telling the story about a friend of his who has

kids in school. And he asked his kids, name a president. And they miraculously were able to come up with one of them, George Washington. They said, okay, tell me something about him. And all they could say was slave owner and Elon was a gas he's like yeah but you gotta know something else about him right right no just the slave thing that's all the kids were taught i didn't know this but many of our founders near the end of their life were very worried about the republic that they built john adams many times made the point that we could make the best system of government but without a religious and moral people, it won't work. And he lamented later in life, he said, there's so much dishonesty and corruption and greed

and ambition, such a rage for profit among all ranks and degrees of men that I sometimes doubt whether there is public virtue enough to support a republic. Thomas Jefferson, he said at some future day, which I hoped to be very distant, the free principles of our government might change. But I certainly did not expect that they would not outlive the generation which established them. That's Thomas Jefferson being like, yeah, listen, I really hoped that this thing would last a long time.

Not going to last forever, but I thought it'd last a long time. I certainly thought it would last longer than my lifetime. Thomas Jefferson said that about 200 years ago. So maybe in some ways we're already on. borrowed time. Maybe it's a miracle that we lasted even this long. And when 13% of eighth graders are proficient in our history, can a country survive that? And when the only thing that those kids do know about our history is made up bad stuff, gosh, it makes me wonder if people even want it to survive. We got to take matters in our own hands. We need to

know our history. Our kids need to know our history. It'll be like a superpower to have kids who know where we came from and who we are and where we should go. What a joy it is to be the keepers of our national purpose. I'm Mike Slater, filling in it for Bill O'Reilly. Something you might not know. 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 Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Mike Slater, filling up for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. The FDA just approved the next step of Elon Musk's NeurLink. Every day, there's a new story about artificial. intelligence. Is this something you need to be concerned about?

Yes, very much. Artificial intelligence on net, I believe, will be a very bad thing. Here's the problem with new technologies like artificial intelligence. One, it will change everything. Just like the printing press. There was no old Europe plus a printing press.

It was a new Europe. Just like television. It wasn't America before TV, but they just added TV to it. No, TV changed everything. And it's the same with Artificial. artificial intelligence and major technological breakthroughs like that second we only consider the good things of a new technology we never consider the unintended consequences or the bad things take the

internet itself we were pitched on the internet being this amazing thing that would bring us closer together has it or is the internet made us more isolated and depressed and miserable and lonely than ever before third once a new technology comes around we can't imagine life without it so there's no going back. And fourth, new technologies change how we think. Case in point, Elon Musk's Neurilink. So the FDA just approved this company to test their product in human beings. Human testing.

Test for what, you ask? Implanting computer chips into people's brains. So Elon says that the biggest hindrance in technological growth is the speed of your thumbs. you can only text someone so fast. So his idea is let's just insert the computer chip directly into your brain. Problem solved. So now his goal is you can just think things

and you'll know the answer because you'll constantly be connected to the internet. It's great, right? But very few have noticed that if you are constantly connected to the internet, then the internet is also constantly connected to you. and who is in charge of said internet and what they're feeding directly into your brain.

It's insane. So be careful with all Elon. Over here he's saying, we need to pause artificial intelligence for the next six months to really make sure we know what we're doing here. And then he goes to his day job of implanting computer chips into people's brains.

And of course, the FDA is approving this. Why wouldn't they? It's literal mind control. You don't think bad people would love to get their hands all over this. Watch out. It's a brave new world. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer

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