Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The World View of America, Covering Trump Fairly, the Judge's Daughter, the Latest on the Fox News Trial & More

Episode Date: April 7, 2023

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Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, April 6, 2003, stand up for your country. Wild week, not a good week for America. I write a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com about how totalitarian dictators and villains are laughing at us because of this Trump fiasco. I hope you read the message of the day. You don't have to be a premium member or anything like that. Just go to Bill O'Reilly.com, pops it right up in front of you.

I do it six days a week. You'll have something there. Anyway, the political war, obviously, that we talked about yesterday is on in America. It's not going to get any lighter. In fact, it'll get worse. And here is the latest, which will comprise this evening the Talking Points memo. So Donald Trump is benefiting short-term from being persecuted by the New York City authorities. His money raising is up.

His poll numbers are up. A lot of people are sympathizing with him. who ordinarily would not. Here's what I said on John Solomon's just the news broadcast last night. I was interested in what the reaction of Americans would be. And the first poll that has been released since the announcement of these indictments last week

was a Rasmussen poll. President Trump moved ahead of President Biden by seven points with independence and women. Are there going to be some serious unintended consequences for Democrats with respect to the 2024 election? Short term, this helps Trump as far as he's, and you really have to go quite a way to make Donald Trump a victim. I mean, that's true. You really have to take a long journey to do that, but they managed to do it.

They did. And so there are independents going, look, I may not like the man, but this is absurd. This is dangerous to our democracy, so I'm going to support him. And that will now be the theme of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. campaign that the country is so corrupt that only he can uncorrupted. And then on top of that, Trump will throw in the economic picture, the border, and all the problems that Joe Biden has not solved. So in the short term, because nobody can predict the long term.

That's impossible. And I'll tell you why. There are three outstanding investigations against Donald Trump. January 6 is the first one. And it's easy for the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, to charge Trump with conspiracy. I don't think you'd ever get convicted in a million years, because conspiracy is a murky thing. But it's an easy indictment, should Smith want to do it. Then you have the classified documents in Florida. Now, I don't know what the FBI has, but you would have to have a smoking gun here

that Trump said, oh, I'm going to hide this. I'm not giving it back. Something like that. Okay. Otherwise, it's BS, and you got Biden was the same problem, and it's not being investigated. So that is a, I hate to overuse a word, but that's a fiasco.

And the third one is the Georgia presidential election where Georgia authorities, some of them believe that Donald Trump interfered, I just can't see it. Trump did say in a phone call, find me 11,000 votes. But that doesn't mean he's saying make them up or get them fraudulent.

He goes, you know, find me could be, hey, if there's 11,000 people who voted for me and they're not counted, find them. I'm just, I'm not playing Trump lawyer here. I'm just saying you have to indict when it's beyond a reasonable doubt that you have the evidence.

I mean, that's our standard. You don't bring a case unless you're almost assured to win it. This isn't television. So anyway, all of those things are going to play out in the next few months. And then you have the Biden stuff also, which is going to be ramped up

in the next few months. So Abraham Lincoln said, In 1858, in Illinois, at the Republican Convention in Springfield, he said this quote. A house divided against cannot stand. A house divided against itself cannot stand. And we're divided against ourselves now in America. Just think about that. We are divided.

And I don't see a day time. And I'm, you know, I take temperatures of people who hate Trump. and new people who like him. I talked to both sides. And they're just, the gulf is too big. And Abraham Lincoln, unfortunately, wanted to try to heal the nation before the Civil War could not do it. Could not do it.

It got worse and worse and worse, and then the guns came out. Guns are not going to come out here. Okay, that's not going to happen. There's not going to be a secession. It's not going to be red states and blue states set up their own country. It's not going to happen. Okay, however, the hatred, the animus, even among families, and you guys know, I get tons of mail, my son, my daughter, my husband, my wife, my mother, my father, they don't see

it your way, and tensions, tensions, tensions, you know, you got to bring that down. If you have an Easter dinner, a Passover meal, and you know there's somebody at the table who sees it differently, just stay away. It's not worth it. worth it. The person wants to engage a conversation, say, after dessert, we'll go out and take a walk. Okay? Control your environment. Anyway, Abraham Lincoln was our most brilliant president, and he couldn't stop the madness, and the war, civil war broke out. Here, I think we are going to, something will happen, and I can't possibly predict what that would be, where things will change

and snapped back. The Chicago thing was distressing this week. No doubt about it. Okay? There are different voting patterns now in America. It's not like it was. Jimmy Carter was a disaster. So in 1980, the American people said,

we've got to get him out of there. Not like that anymore. Biden is a certified disaster. He runs against Trump. He could beat him. Crazy. That's a memo. All right.

I was also on Chris Cuomo's show on News Nation last night, which was pretty combative. I'm going to play a little bit of it. And Cuomo, who I have a good rapport with, by the way, he opens his show by saying that I, your humble correspondent, am Trump's, quote, defender in chief. Right away my head went up. If you Google O'Reilly Trump interviews, you will see. I gave him the toughest interviews he has ever done. There's no doubt about it.

So that was misleading, I thought, for Cuomo to tell his audience that. And then it went downhill from there. I don't know. Roll the tape. Let's start with one of the devoted who believes that the former president is the victim of a witch hunt and that this is a sign of the demise of our democracy. But the question remains. remains. How can he see

Trump as the fix? Bill O'Reilly joins us now in advance Happy Easter. So is the Easter bunny right in your scripts here, Cuomo? Defender in Chief? All of this, you paint me a picture that's not true. You see a silver lining

in every cloud that guy puts up. That's not true. I have done some of the hardest interviews that the man has ever submitted himself. Two, all you have to do is Google at. Everything. Tell me.

Give me one thing before everything. Go ahead. Okay. This is an international problem now, not just a national problem, and you failed to mention that. So that's a big omission. So she and China and Putin, I mean, they're just having a blast watching this. It's another sign of America's disarray. And they're selling to their own people, the Russians and the Chinese, that are

America is a power in decline. Trump seizes on that for his speech, and that's what he's gonna campaign on, all right? So whether you like him or not, the reality is that he's gonna campaign for president on the fact, as he sees it, that America's in decline and that he can reverse that decline. Here's what I'm saying.

You're a historian, you're super smart, you're hyper-analytical. Trump does not offer you a promise of better than the behaviors you're condemning right now. right now. He's not a law and order guy. He wanted people investigated. He wanted people locked up. He had a bunch of guys who were around him. We had more people kicked out of his administration for miss and malfeasance that we've ever seen. He never condemned any of them unless it was convenient. And yet, you prop him up as if somehow he's better. I'm trying to think back

on who was kicked out. I know. You can't even remember because there were so many. He had several different cabinet-level people get him problems. He had problems all over his political class. I'll get you a whole list. Give me one name, Cuomo. I'll get you a whole list. I'll get your whole list of secretaries. No, give it to me now. And he could not give me a list.

So he mentioned a guy named Rob Nelson. We can't find a Rob Nelson in the Trump administration. Then he mentioned the Department of Interior Chief, a man named David Barnhart, who apparently, according to Chris Cuomo, got in trouble of some kind. No, he didn't. He served to the last day of the Trump administration. And look, if you're going to make an accusation, and this is all due respect to Chris Cuomo,

because I'm not trying to harpoon him here, I'm just trying to tell you the difficulty of having a discourse on television or anywhere else. So if Mr. Cuomo is going to purport that there was all of this corruption within the Trump administration, Malfeasins, as he calls it, And all these people got booted out and he can't name one, there you go. So I'm sitting there going, well, who? Who? Well, I'll get you a list. No. You can't make the statement unless you have the backup for the statement.

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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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, as far as me being the defender-in-chief, I don't really know how to process that. So I've been fair to Trump, okay, but I criticize him when I feel that he's not doing the right thing. I clearly said on a number of occasions, I got the mail-approved it, all right,

that his demeanor often hurts the country. So his, what he did in office, and I think he governed well, was overshadowed by his demeanor, that's not a good thing. And then there's the 2020 election where I said to you that unless hard evidence surface, there was not gonna be any change in the vote

and there shouldn't be. You've got to have hard evidence. I lost a thousand premium members in one day for that statement, okay? But I had absolutely had to say it. Now, I purport that I treat Donald Trump in a fair manner, but I'm not in his pocket. If you see it differently, I would love to hear from you. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, but be specific. Now, NBC News does not treat Donald Trump fairly.

Everybody in the world knows that. Here's the latest from Andrea Mitchell. And it may or may not be coincidental, but both the DA and the judge are people of color, or the judge, as Judge Kiro was, was ethnically Hispanic, I believe, Latino, and, of course, the DA is black. So they have certainly become targets of his, in any case, and their families. All right, so that's just absurd. So Andrea Mitchell, at the behest of her corporate masters at Comcast, tries to inject race into this case. Does anybody believe Calvin Bragg was white?

Trump wouldn't go after him? Come on, anybody who attacks Trump, no matter what skin color they have, is going to get Trump? Trump lashing back at him. But no, no, no, we have to have race in it. This is NBC News all day long. And what about the family thing? Well, that's interesting. So the judge in the case, Mershan, is a daughter named Lauren, 34 years old. Okay, she's not in nursery school. And she is an activist, a progressive left activist. She's the president of authentic campaigns, which has raised more than $250 million for progressive politicians. And Donald Trump Jr. is not supposed to mention that?

Come on. The judge presiding over this case's 34-year-old daughter is running a colossal progressive organization. And what are we supposed to do? hide that? Oh, it's just beyond belief. It really is beyond belief. I'm trying to get Don Jr. on here Monday. I hope we'll be successful. Anyway, the race thing really bothers me. Really, really does. No element of race in this Trump prosecution, none. Let's go to Fox News. on trial. And this is dubbed the media trial of the century. It's supposed to begin April 17th in Delaware. Dominion voting systems, those are the machine people, are suing Fox News for

$1.6 billion. It's a lot of jack. Okay. So the trial's going ahead. All the prime time Fox hosts are going to have to appear in court, and the Fox hierarchy, the Murdox and the others who run the organization have to appear too. We don't know, and we weren't able to find out today where the cameras will be in that courtroom. If they are, that's not good for Fox News. It's not good for Fox News anyway. Now, to be fair to that organization, they are saying, we have a right, we as a news organization, to allow opinions on the air. And maybe we disagree, maybe we don't, but we have a right, you can't punish us under the First Amendment for that.

Now, the judge in the case is Eric Davis, and of course, my producers did a search on him, and he has given money to Joe Biden. Barack Obama, John Kerry, on and on and on, he's a Democrat. And that's not good for Fox News, but I'm not going to besmirch the judge because judges are entitled to give campaign contributions. So if you do one, you have to do the Republican judges, and that wouldn't be right. But you should know this, all right? The American people should know all of this, not hide it. Now, I have no. I'm agnostic on this trial. I don't have a rooting interest in this. I mean, I have friends who are going to have to testify, and I feel bad for them. Nobody wants to do this, okay? But I will tell you that I did the O'Reilly Factor for more than 20 years. We were never hauled it to court. I think there were a couple of low-level beefs, but they went nowhere in more than 20 years.

and the reason was very simple if i put on a provocative opinion that i didn't challenge in a very very dramatic way i would put the other side on as well so say somebody had a really provocative opinion that the election of 2020 was a fraud okay i'll put them on but i'll challenge And if I agree with them in some areas, then I'll bring on somebody else who doesn't. It's easy. It's easy. And that way, all opinions are heard. And Dominion or anybody else can't sue and get anywhere.

But all of cable news has banished that and now brings on people. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything's agree, agree, agree, agree. If you watch the Trump coverage on all the cable channels, everybody agreed with everybody on the specific show. So if it was Maddow, then everybody hated Trump. Then if it was somebody on Fox, everybody loved Trump. Very, very little dissent. Now, the five does it, but it's an outnumbered kind of deal. They got one liberal there, and then four conservatives.

That's all right. I mean, it's an entertainment show primarily the five. I don't think it's, I think it's well produced. But if you're going to get into telling the American people that the election was a fraud and that voting machines were skewed to give Joe Biden votes, you've got to prove it. Or have somebody on the forum that says, that's a lot of bull. Couldn't possibly happen. If you have that person that says, it's a lot of bull. It couldn't possibly happen. If you have that person that says, lot of, well, you won't be sued. So this trial, and I'm not going to cover it day by day, I'm not going to do that. I don't think it's right for me to do it. But when there's a big thing, you know, then we'll go in and we'll analyze a specific thing. But if Fox News loses, and remember the $1.6 billion that Dominion is asking for doesn't include any punitive damages. So this is a jury trial. There'll be a jury here. And the jury will listen to the evidence and hear all the witnesses.

Probably take four weeks. But if the jury comes to the conclusion, as the judge has, the judge stated that Fox News did it, misled its audience. The judge already said that based upon the evidence and depositions and everything that he's seen. And he said that in the context of a... request by Fox News to throw the case out, summary judgment, throw it out. The judge said, no, I'm not. Dominion's proved its point that you, Fox News said defamatory things about them. Get it's stuff that wasn't true. But now the jury has to decide, okay, if the judge's opinion stands up. But the jury can bring back punitive damages. So say the jury hates Fox News,

hates all the people on the stand, all right? And they said, okay, not only we're going to give you $1.6 billion, but we'll give you a tack on another billion in punitive damages. Now, a federal judge will bring that down. You know, that's not going to stand, that kind of money. But there's a lot of jeopardy here. And it's a big, big First Amendment freedom of the press trial. So I think that setup was fair.

again if you don't um bill at bill o'reilly dot com now there's one aspect of the uh 2020 election that's still outstanding that is just bothering that heck out of me and that's mark Zuckerberg and his wife donating about 400 million dollars into that vote nobody's looking into this where did that money go we have a gauzy hazy well it went to 28 counties. But where? What was $400 million used for? Zuckerberg and his wife did not want Donald Trump to win. Did not. That's huge. And rather than the stupid Dominion voting machines are flipping votes over to Biden, which is just ridiculous. It never happened. Couldn't have happened. That's where everybody should have zeroed in.

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 that Apple Podcasts. Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Okay. Nikki Haley has raised a lot of money. Good for her.

$11 million first six weeks of this year outraised Trump. Trump raised 9.5 and Nikki Haley 11. This is the first six weeks now after this indictment. Trump's fundraising has gone through the route. So who's given money to Nikki Haley? 70,000 individual donations, all 50 states, 67,000 of those under 200 bucks. The folks, top states donating to Nikki Haley, South Carolina. She used to be governor there, Florida and Texas.

Okay. Robert Kennedy Jr. running for president against Joe Biden. Wow. So he's going to make an announcement in Boston, April 19th, formal announcement. But it got out. We don't know what his platform will be. He has not put out anything. As you know, he's an anti-vaxxer, big anti-vaxxer guy. 69 years old, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., I know him, have a pretty good relationship with him. We hope to get him on here. And he's going to challenge Joe Biden, bringing the Kennedy name up against Old Joe. So we'll keep an eye on that. Old Joe, I didn't do anything today.

What a shock, right? Presidential schedule, this is it. 4.30, he takes off to Camp David in a helicopter with Jill. and probably a dog and they go up for easter in maryland um okay so all week he hasn't done anything every day i tell you his schedule i hadn't done anything yesterday he had lunch with camilla that's it but next week he's going to ireland joe biden's going to ireland next week next tuesday agreement, okay, which ended the troubles in Northern Ireland, 30 years of fighting between Catholics and Protestants there. Terrible situation. I covered it. And actually going to

Ireland myself in the middle of June, and I'm going to Belfast because the people that are going with me, I'm taking them to where I was and what I did. It's kind of a historical thing. So anyway, Biden's going to be there from Tuesday to Friday. That's a nice little Irish tour. He's going to Dublin, Belfast, County Loth, County Mayo. Now, that's nice. But does it help America? No.

We have plenty of troubles here. Do we not? I don't begrudge him. having a little junk in in Ireland, but it, do like this any good? Zero good. What does it just take a vacation and go to Ireland? Now, taxpayers to pay all this, for what? So, you know, I'm just going to myself, second worst president of all time.

There's no doubt in my mind, James Buchanan is the worst. You can look them up. Ukraine. So another 2.6 billion in military aid, we have promised, the USA has promised. That brings it up to $35 billion of U.S. taxpayer money going in to help Ukraine against Putin. Big gamble, big investment, obviously, and that doesn't count the 400 million in humanitarian aid, and there'll be a lot more after the war coming end. I figured by the time this ends, it'll be 60, billion that we the taxpayer pumping into Ukraine. Now, I would do it because you've got to bring down Putin and you can't allow the Chinese to see that Putin's victorious because they'll do Taiwan. You all know what you've heard. Now, NATO has donated 70 billion in military aid twice what we have but what are there 28 countries in NATO something like that so there's a lot of countries so but they're kicking in money too I thought you mean smart life so there are a bunch

of studies that come out of Great Britain and English people are different than us I mean they allow themselves to be called English subjects I would never allow myself to be called a subject to anybody. I'm an American citizen. But anyway, they're different than we are, but the culture is kind of similar. Interestingly enough, Australians are more in tune with the USA culturally than British. British are a lot of traditions. And I live there for a year. I know what I'm talking about. So 2,000 adults. This was a virgin media study published this week about significant changes in your life? Do you need them? And I'm telling you this because I think it mirrors somewhat in America. Fifty-nine percent say they do need a change in their lives. Sixty-one percent feel

they're in a rut. Thirty-six percent say they are indecisive about their lives. Fifty-two percent believe making a big change would cost too much money. That might be a divorce thing there. And 40 percent, live in fear of making a change. Okay. The top 20 things adults want to change about their lives in Great Britain. Fitness number one, social life, house career, house decor. Okay. The area they live in, car, hairstyle, and where they go on vacation. Their partner, their spouse, that's 16. down the list so the brits don't want to toss the wife or the husband overboard so much they'd rather get a new hair style okay smart life now you want a big change in your life be very cautious so you want to move go to the place

you're looking to move and spend three or four weeks there before you make the decision okay three or four weeks enough time to give you the flavor okay you want to dump your spouse think hard go to counseling I mean if there's any chance you can save it try to because it's a horror particularly if you have kids you got to get a good lawyer I keep telling you that and the lawyer's got to lay out how much is gonna cost you what steps you're gonna have to go through okay you want to change your haircut, that's fine. You don't have to do anything, just change it. Want to change your house decor? No problem. But fundamental changes in your life that involve other people,

very cautious. Step back, write pros and cons down on a piece of paper so you can see them right before your eyes. Don't do anything emotionally. That is one of the best smart life tips I can never give you all right paul mccartney goes down to jamaica and apparently he's smoking a little weed but we don't know if it's weed but it's jamaica and uh i'm bedding his weed there he is and the media loves this love can't get enough of the macker all right getting high so mccartney's life has been arrested for pot four times all right once in sweden once in scotland once in los Angeles, and once in Japan, he was deported from Japan, I believe. They kicked him out of the country. So he's 80 years old, and he's still getting buzzed, Paul McCartney.

The stay in history, April 6th, 1841, President John Tyler sworn in after the death of William Henry Harrison. I know you know both of those guys really well. So Harrison, a Indian fighter, was elected president um in 1841 he took over and he died 31 days after his inauguration because he didn't wear a coat it was freezing and he spoke for three two hours outside and he got pneumonia or something and he died so tyler who nobody knew virginian became president all right he ran on the wig ticket and everybody hated him because tyler didn't want the national bank and his party did and he got in trouble there. He was sympathetic to slavery, Tyler was, so the North hated him.

Everybody hated John. And he was a terrible president. He didn't do anything. Okay, only served three years. He wanted to run again. They said, no. So, Polk, James Polk, ran and got elected. So that happened 182 years ago today.

One footnote on John Tyler, he fathered 15 children. And Viagra was not invented then. I got the mail. I got a final thought on Easter. We'll be right back. Okay, let's go to the mail. Todd Firtag, New York City. As of now, Donald Trump is on target to be the Republican nominee.

If this stands months down a road, at some point, Ronda Santis is going to realize there's no chance he will win the nomination. Then maybe the two can come together on a Republican ticket. for 2024. That's a good letter, Todd. If you're a Republican, I mean, if Trump could get DeSantis to run us too, that ticket would be much stronger. There's no doubt about it in my mind. Paul Butko, Sarasota, Florida, America will never be looked upon the same way since Alvin Bragg was the indictment heard around the world. That's true. We are not looked upon with favor in many places right now. James Jubin, Homer Glen, Illinois,

what can Congress do about Hunter and Biden? As far as I know, they can't do much. Yeah, they can. So they're investigating Hunter Biden now, and they're going to compile the information, and they're going to make it all public, and they're going to refer it to Merrick Garland. But if it's beyond any doubt,

and there's a smoking gun that says Hunter Biden took illegal money and didn't put it on its tax returns, and gave his father the vice president some of that money blows up everything blows up so that's where we are there uh randy mccoy dallas thanks for the solid no nonsense reporting bill what d a can bring charges against the biden's the delaware district attorney in wilmington he could bring charges against hunter biden but he won't but he could um i don't know about any other DAs. We have to be places where Hunter Biden did business to have jurisdiction. But they could do it nowhere. Debbie Jackson, Mogadour, Ohio, it's assounding to me that after Chicago voters

crushed by crime and dissents to boot, Lori Lightfoot then voted in another progressive who did not get the backing of the police union. They are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. Absolutely, Debbie. Chicago will be a mess for the next four years. Brian Pierce, West Boylston, Massachusetts, that's Boston. Bill, you say that there is a backlash coming. I don't see it. The Chicago voters picked a Bernie Sanders back progressive. You may be right. The voting patterns have changed. As I said yesterday, it's frightening. It really is. On the message board, Scott. in the beginning of the Cuomo segment, I liked Chris, but then his Trump hatred started to come through. And the way you handle that by calling out the hatred and avoiding the

rhetoric was brilliant. Well, look, I'm a fact-based guy. You know, I'm not going to get into theoretical stuff about Joe Biden or Donald Trump. There's enough facts. I don't have to get into theory. Well, who is the most enlightened of the two? I don't care. Brunswald, Salt Lake City. I sure enjoy reading your message of the day, O'Reilly. Your writing style is reminiscent of Samuel Clemens. Pithy, slightly cynical in a very comedic way. Many times you make me laugh and laughter is good medicine. Good. I hope you're laughing with me and not at me, Bruce, but I'm glad to read the message. You don't have to be a premier and concierge member to read the message of the day. You just go in there. There it is. You read it. Same thing with the column, which we will have on Sunday Easter Sunday. I'm going to write. out of column. All right, so Team Normal. I plug this on News Nation. We got a lot of News Nation viewers buying Team Normal stuff, which is a very, very good sign. Shirts, hats, mugs. Team Normal once again are people who love America, want to see it improved, but believe it's a noble nation. The Lurreilly.com store. Remember Mothers and Fathers Day is coming up and spring and summer.

So get them normally happen. You golfers out there, no better shirt to golf in. All right. Word of the day, do not vilipend. V-I-L-I-P-E-N-V. It's a verb. So he vilipended. Great word. Nobody knows it. Final thought in a moment. All right, here is the final thought of the day. It's Holy Thursday. And good Friday tomorrow, federal holiday, interestingly enough. Easter on Sunday, Passover. over when we're in that now as well and this is a good time for me and I my past along to you to reevaluate my position in life I you know people do that on New Year's Eve and you know I do it on Easter because it's the you know Christians is a resurrection it's a new time all right every all the circumstances of the past changed on Easter Sunday Christians

believe that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead and took his place as God. Okay? So I use Easter to reassess where I am in life. And again, it's good to have a pad and a pen down and, okay, these are the things that are going well. You write them down because a human mind can't always hold everything together, particularly when you get older like me. I know. It's hard to believe, but like Stevie Nix, I'm getting older, too.

And so you reassess. These are things are going well here. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And here's not so good. So when you look at the not so good list, then you say, what can I do to improve it? All right. And that's the essence of resurrection. yourself, okay, you're changing your tempo. What can I do? And then you should absolutely say some prayers, go to church, go to synagogue, and thank the Lord for the good things that you have

because a lot of us take them for granted, particularly the urchins, the younger people. I drag my urchins all around the world. I took my son to Cuba, and I wanted him to seek. him see with his own eyes how people live 90 miles away from key west how they live how they live okay so they would have a more appreciative outlook of what we have yes we're in a down cycle no doubt about it and i'm doing my best to try to improve that by telling you

the truth based on facts many people don't want to hear the truth they believe what they want to believe we've been older that but on this Easter Sunday and this Passover season take a piece of paper good in my life not so good write it down reassess and I think if you do that you'll you know it'll be a positive thing you don't have to do it all once you got to think about it okay as we said in a smart life thing if you're gonna make a big change Very deliberate. Don't hurt yourself. Thank you for watching and listening to the No Spin News. New column Easter Sunday at noon and we'll see you on Monday.