Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, November 23, 2022

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Mike Slater fills in for Bill O'Reilly! The average household paying more for heat this winter, the White House urges Americans to wear facemasks, Covid causing a surge in alcoholism, a new survey ranks the unhappiest places in the country. Plus, the true story of the pilgrims and the voyage of the Mayflower. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, this is Mike Slater, host of the podcast, Politics by Faith. Filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly on this Thanksgiving Eve. It's Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022. You're listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. The average household paying more for heat this winter. The White House urges Americans to wear face masks. COVID causing a surge in alcoholism.

And a new survey ranks the unhappiest places in the United States. country also coming up the message of the day we're going to tell the story the pilgrims and the unfathomable suffering that they endured while on the mayflower and when they landed here in america is unbelievable story we'll share that in just a few minutes first energy producers confirming households now paying more for heat this winter prices are up 54 percent compared to last year what the average family spends about a thousand dollars on fuel between october and March, the industry blaming the increase on Joe Biden's war on fossil fuels, of course. At least 15,000 full-time positions have left the energy sector since inauguration day.

The cost of gasoline is up 50% compared to last January, and still Western Pennsylvania voter for Joe Biden. The pandemic causing a spike in heavy drinking among Americans, according to the Rand Corporation, 69% of adult males experienced at least one alcohol-related problem. in 2021 compared to 49% of women. Wow, 69%. Researchers blame all the booze on pandemic-related issues like depression, anxiety, lack of sleep, and loneliness,

and the sale of cigarettes also up for the first time in two decades. Remember, as Thomas Sol said, there's no such thing as solutions, only trade-offs. So we're going to shut down the country to save lives from COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what are the trade-offs to that? The White House urging Americans to bring back the face mask, The Department of Health and Human Services releasing a statement as cases rise in some states,

quote, the lifting of mask mandates and indifferent attitude towards masking. I'm not indifferent about it towards masking and social distancing, typical in many public and private places, further isolates people with long COVID. And this is a weird sentence. We encourage or mandate policies and protocols regarding masking and social distancing in public places. LA County is going to jump on that and probably mandate masks, which is insane. It's 22. A study from Business Insider listing the unhappiest places in America.

Most are located in California, New Jersey. Towns are ranked by crime, addiction rates, income, and life expectancy. The worst spots include Compton, San Bernardino, Camden, Newark, and Trenton. Unbelievable California, New Jersey. The happiest cities in 2023, Scottsdale, Arizona, Honolulu, Plano, Texas, and number one, Tampa, and the great state of Free Florida. The message of the day about the Pilgrims next. 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.

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This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the Pilgrims. We don't talk about the Pilgrims enough. We don't talk about the suffering that the pilgrims endured. So check this out. Mayflower, 1620, 102 passengers, 30 crew. I don't know what you're imagining this Mayflower boat looking like. I imagine this grand, epic, ship it was a tiny little bathtub 25 feet wide 100 feet long below the deck it was a five foot

ceiling so you had to slouch when you walked not that there was anywhere to walk so the deck was 1500 square feet so imagine a 1500 square foot house with 132 people living in it but don't worry it was a short trip across the ocean it only took 10 weeks 10 weeks so if you got on a boat on September 14th, you'd finally land today. And we complained about a delay at the airport. So the craziest thing for me is when they finally got here, they landed Massachusetts, right, in November. But it was so freezing cold, they had to stay in the boat.

So they anchored off the coast and they stayed in the boat. Again, what's the longest you've had to taxi on an airplane? 30 minutes, maybe an hour. Imagine months on the boat. They didn't leave the boat. They didn't go on land until March. March 31st, four months on the boat, and that's where everyone died. Two people died on the journey and 77 died, just anchored out off the coast. Freezing cold, no food, no bathrooms,

hopeless. And people dying all around you. Could you imagine? Absolute misery. So March comes around. And finally, so this is 1621. There's, out of the original 132, there's 53 left. But then it's not like they showed up to anything. There's nothing there. It's one thing if you have a harrowing flight and then you land and you take an Uber to the hotel and take a shower and sleep in a bed. These pilgrims got to America and there was nothing there. They had to cut down trees, make houses, grow food. Start from scratch. Unbelievable. Sufferable. Suffer. and misery the pilgrims went through. And we have completely forgotten that story.

The only time I ever hear the pilgrims talked about, it's like a kindergarten Thanksgiving play or something, and they dress up cute like pilgrims. But no one's really talking about the story of the pilgrims. How is William Bradford's diary, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, how is his diary not required reading for every American? But they endured because these pilgrims believed themselves to be, as William Bradford said, the great hope for advancing the kingdom of Christ. Thanksgiving used to be

a religious holiday. It used to be a day of fasting and prayer. And today it's the opposite. It's a day of gluttony and football. But look at the early presidential proclamations about Thanksgiving. Look at John Adams, George Washington. It's all about prayer and humiliation and supplication and fasting. But even if you want to make it a secular holiday, we've lost that story. We've lost our story of the pilgrims. It's as if it never happened. We forgot why they came here. We've forgotten what they overcame to be here. And therefore, we've forgotten our gratitude to God for bringing them through so that we can be here today. This Thanksgiving, join me in being grateful for the pilgrims. More coming up next.

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Now it's time for something you might not know. So we've heard the Thanksgiving story before, of course, the Indians helped the natives grow food and kumbaya and they had a huge feast and gave thanks and all the rest. That's the story. There's a ton more to that story, of course. But what's fascinating is there's no record of anyone in that first Thanksgiving ever using the word Thanksgiving. The first time we have a record of the governor of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, using the word Thanksgiving, was two years later in 1623. But what happened two years later, what happened in 1623 that caused them to be so grateful two years after the first Thanksgiving? there was a terrible drought months long may june and july with no rain see we have this illusion in our modern

culture of control because when it doesn't rain it's okay we can collect the rain and we have irrigation systems and our crops can still grow and we can still have food and we can still live but the pilgrims didn't have any of that they were totally at the mercy of the weather so there's a terrible drought and all their crops were dying they've only been there for like a year and a half. And they planted the crops with the fish, just like the Indians told him to do the whole thing. But it wasn't working. There's no rain. Needed to rain. So this is what William Bradford wrote in the history that he wrote 10 years after the Plymouth Colony. He said, upon which we set apart a solemn day of humiliation, that just means to make yourself humble, to seek the

Lord by humble and fervent prayer in our great distress. So what happened then? Toward evening it began to overcast, and shortly after to rain with such sweet and gentle showers as to give us cause of rejoicing and blessing God. It came without either wind or thunder or any violence, and it revived and quickened the corn and other fruits and was wonderful to see. They prayed for rain, but they couldn't control the rain. They needed to pray for it and God provided.

That's the first time William Bradford used the word Thanksgiving. It was for rain. Our pilgrims endured through so much suffering. I know that if we learn more of their story, there'd be so much less whining, complaining, and victim of today. And a lot more gratitude. More coming up. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast,

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