Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Why the Democrats Should Lose in November, Senate Races Breakdown, Border Arrests Rise, Food Supply Shortage & Guest Doug Schoen
Episode Date: September 21, 2022Tonight's Rundown: Talking Points Memo: Bill the problem solver Democratic pollster Doug Schoen breaks down the Senate election races Migrant arrests at the border reached a new high When will fo...od supply numbers normalize? This Day in History: Happy Days 'jumps the shark' Final Thought: Killing the Legends out next week In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, 'Crime, No Punishment.' Get a BillOReilly.com Premium Membership today and get "Killing the Legends" free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey Bill O'Reilly here.
Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, September 20th, 2022, stand up for your country.
Well, it is late September, and we still don't have a good polling profile on the midterm election.
It's back and forth in and out, depending on the poll.
Some of the polls are crooked, as you know.
Some are better, but I can't get a handle on this, so we'll try again tonight to give you an idea of what it may happen on November 8.
Now, all Americans, every one of us, should vote for problem solvers.
I've said this from the beginning of my career.
Ideology is okay if you believe strongly in a conservative principles.
That's good.
Same thing with liberal principles.
But you got to put that aside somewhat when there is an election that affects you directly.
And you have to vote for the person who can solve the problems rather than just blow V8 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and do nothing.
That's why it was a shame that Donald Trump lost.
I don't care.
He could have run on the mugwump ticket.
Trump solved some pretty difficult problems, including the border and kept inflation at one point.
0.3%. Come on. But because of his personality, Americans voted a motion and they voted in a man,
Joe Biden, who can't solve any problems. And he hasn't. And he's made things worse. That's a good
example. So you might not even like a candidate that's running. But if that candidate is smart
and you believe that candidate's background proves he or she can solve problems, vote for,
or her. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.
So there are a number of unresolved problems in this country.
You know what they are, but I'm going to put them on the screen.
For those listening on the radio, I will read them.
These are problems that are not being addressed, not being solved.
All right, number one, southern border, okay?
Two, inflation.
Three, drug smuggling and drug use.
Four, social media censorship.
ship. Five, wild government spending. Six, high prescription drug prices. Seven, violent crime.
Eight, political division. Nine, airline chaos. Ten, Putin and China. All of those things are
serious problems. Joe Biden got any solutions to it? Now, you're going to say, well, do the
Republicans? I don't know. I don't know.
What I do know is we have a president who, after 21 months, doesn't have a solution for any of that.
That's what I do know.
So it's like a guy batting zero zero zero on the Mets.
Well, I don't know if the other player that I bring in is going to hit better, but the guy hitting zero, zero, zero, not doing a job.
But I got to give somebody else a chance.
Simple man, simple logic.
Now, in November, we have a number of races in the House and Senate,
which will either strengthen Joe Biden's position as president or weaken it.
So I want a week in it.
Is that mean?
No, I don't want Joe Biden to do any more damage to me and my family.
family. He's done plenty. He's done enough damage to me and my family. Now, I'm giving
it a personal touch. I'm not being selfish. I don't want to do damage to you and your family
either. But I'm trying to explain that I can't vote for Democrats in November. I vote
every Democrats last time around a couple here on Long Island, but I can't do that now
because the Democratic Party is hurting me and you, unless you think those problems I just told you
about are not significant.
All right, so partisanship, no.
All right, that's why network and cable news is failing.
People had enough of partisanship.
I mean, I know some people are zombies and they just want to hear what they believe over and over and over again.
I know it. But not many. They want a clearly defined solution to a problem. They want to think
things may get better. Under President Biden, they are not going to get better. In fact,
they'll get worse. And that is the memo. Now, I'm going to give you two tips here.
The excuse for not solving problems is very interesting.
thing. Roll the tape.
There's a lot of hard work to do.
Look, the president and the party has delivered.
We still have work to do, but there's a plan to get it done.
So we're making a lot of progress on the agenda.
We have a lot more work to do.
With all of this progress, it's important to acknowledge that there's more work we must do together.
We understand there's more work to do, of course.
I think the Republicans can win a redway, but there's a lot of work.
still have to do.
It's work we have to do.
You know, I ain't got any work.
When you hear that, that means I don't have a clue on how to solve anything, but we
have work to do.
We're going to do that work.
You know, look, if you watch and listen to me every night, I have the solutions to the
problems.
Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, you got a problem, send it to me and I'll give you a solution.
have more work to do. That's my work. I've solved problems. So these cliches over and over
and over. It's like watching these interviewers on television who get paid a lot of money. What do you
make of that? When you hear an interviewer say that to an interview subject, what do you
make of that? That means the interviewer is too lazy to think of a question.
He said he dump it in the lap of the guests.
What do you make it that?
It's so ridiculous.
When you hear that, you know that the interview is no clue.
When you hear it, we have work to do.
You know the politician or the pundit does not have any idea on how to deal with the subject matter.
All right, President Biden's schedule today at 1.45, he delivered remarks on
the Disclosure Act. Now, I like this Disclosure Act. Somebody tell Joe Biden, I like this.
This would, if it passes into law, require dark money people like George Soros to be exposed.
So if you were a political action committee, you got more than $10,000 from somebody,
you have to put that person's name down in a public disclosure.
That's why it's the Disclosure Act.
Yes.
Good, Joe Biden.
Good.
Dark money is horrible for this country.
All right.
At 7.30, I got invited to dinner tonight with big shots at the U.N.
in New York City.
I don't know why they wanted me, but they invited me.
Very kind to invite me.
And I told them I can't go because I can't get into New York City.
I live 20 miles away.
I can't get there.
Why?
Because Joe Biden's coming in to the UN Confab.
And no one will be able to get in and out of that city.
You can't.
On a regular day, it takes me about an hour and 45 minutes to go 20 miles to get into Manhattan.
Now, I'd have to bring a tent.
I'd have to sleep on the side of the road.
So I had to decline the invitation because I couldn't.
get into New York City. Now, Biden's got no problem. He lands at 525 at Kennedy Airport, Air Force
1, and then there's a motorcade. So everybody else has to stop, and you can imagine it backs
traffic up to Montauk, all right, and Albany and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the west side.
So he zooms in, but nobody else can move. This is not an exaggeration. This is not an exaggeration.
If I had accepted my dinner invitation, which would have been about 7.30, I would have had to leave my house at about 3.30, 4 hours to go 20 miles.
I get one of these little scooters, I guess. But even then, you know, the cops are going to stop everybody.
So Biden's here in New York. There's a report today from the Heritage Foundation.
We like the Heritage Foundation.
A conservative, but they're pretty accurate.
The conservative Heritage Foundation says that Joe Biden's 100 executive orders,
since he's been in office, he's signed 100 of them,
have cost the taxpayers $1.5 trillion.
It's just staggering.
Because all Biden does is buy votes.
That's what this college loan forgiveness thing was all about.
Buy votes give people stuff.
When Biden said on 60 minutes, the COVID epidemic,
is over, Scott Pelly, who slept through the whole interview, read my message of the day, please,
should have said, well, are you going to then revoke the Emergency Powers Act in COVID, Mr. President?
Of course, Pellie didn't do it. He wasn't even listening to him. And Biden isn't.
He's keeping the COVID emergency in place, but saying the epidemic is over it. Why? Because under
the COVID Emergency Act, Biden give money out to anybody who wants. Anybody who wants, here, take it, take it.
Buying votes.
That's what the Democratic Party does.
All right, there's a mention to top.
The polls are all over the place on the midterm elections coming up fast, very, very fast.
So we put in an emergency call to our Batman, put the little signal up in Gotham for Doug Schoen to appear, to straighten us out, to tell us what's happening.
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It's insane.
People have no idea I don't live in New York.
How they're how crazy this is here.
All right, so look, I'm a simple man, as you know, far too simple to do what I do.
So I've got some questions, all right?
In the last two weeks since Labor Day, all we've heard from the leftist media is that the Democrats are making a comeback, all right, a comeback and that they may not even lose the House.
You wrote a column on the Hill. It says, I don't think so. And then the NBC Newspoke that's out this week says on the issues that are vital to Americans, inflation, things like that, Republicans are ahead 60 to 40.
So who's lying here?
Can you clear it up?
Sure.
Bill, it's a tight race now.
The Republicans are either even or a little bit of head on the generic vote, district by district, again, relatively close.
But reports of Democratic momentum are vastly exaggerated.
They're based on one special election and a little momentum that was generated by the,
inaptly named inflation reduction act, which, as you know, and I've told your viewers,
doesn't really reduce inflation at all. Maybe increases it. A bottom line, Bill, from what I see,
the House is still going to go Republican, the Senate 50-50. Okay, but in 50-50, I don't really
understand that. So Georgia, you've got Herschel Walker, not the strongest,
candidate in the world. I mean, very inarticulate, personal problems. Up against Warnock,
a far-left guy. Georgians are getting hammered economically. Everybody's suffering in a peach
state. Camp, the governor, is well ahead of Stacey Abrams. I think Kemp will walk in fairly
easily. But I said, I'm betting my liberal friend in Atlanta, that Hersch Walker will win that
race, that they're not going to be that many people crossing from Kemp to Warnock and that
I think Kemp will carry Herschel Walker in. Polls have Walker up one or two, which is essentially
a tie. I agree with your analysis. I've looked at a lot of polling data. And if Kemp wins by,
as I suspect he will, more than seven or eight points, I think you give Herschel Walker
a very slight advantage, especially in a midterm election, where the inclination of voters
is to vote against the party and power to with the government.
Okay. Florida, Rubio is going to win. I don't care what the Miami Herald says.
I can't see him losing. Can you?
It's a tight race, but again, I believe DeSantis is likely to beat Charlie Chris, though
DeSantis has come down a bit.
I think what we saw in 2020 is that there was an outpouring of Democrat,
I'm sorry, Republican turnout for Trump at the end that exceeded the pollster's expectations.
So I'd make Rubio a narrow favorite in a state that is likely to stay Republican.
Why is it so narrow for Rubio?
He seems to be a good senator to me.
He's not screwing up, is he?
No, he hasn't been screwing up, but Val Demings is the kind of Democrat.
you and I like. Tough on crime, former police officer, and running away from the national
party. All right. And she is a woman of color, and that is a boost in Florida.
It is, indeed. Okay. So we go to Arizona. Now, if I'm in Maricopa County, that's Phoenix,
which is dominates the state of Arizona, I don't want Mark Kelly in there. Not that I think
Kelly's a bad guy, but he's a rubber stamp progressive. Whatever the
Congress is Juan Kelly's going to do, and Arizona's a state under siege from migrants, from undocumented migrants.
So why wouldn't everybody in Arizona vote against the Democrats?
The simple answer to that is Donald Trump and Blake Masters being an election denier and very, very far to the right.
If they had nominated a candidate who was more centrist like the former governor, they would.
They have a better chance.
Do you think Masters has a chance to beat Kelly?
I think it does.
The most recent poll I saw over the weekend had the race plus two for Kelly down from about seven or eight.
So yes, Masters has a chance.
If he uses the border issue, as you wisely suggest, it can only help.
And inflation.
So then you go up to Nevada, north of Arizona, and you got Laxel, very experienced politicians.
in that state. Again, very tight race for Senate. But I say Laxfault wins. Again, people in Nevada
are suffering through inflation. They're getting hammered. And the border issue is an issue there
as well. And the polling most recently has shown an uptick for Laxalt. The most recent numbers
have about a point ahead. Do you think Laxalt wins that race? I think it's 50.
There is a very strong democratic machine used to be Harry Reid's in Nevada.
They are very active on behalf of Kathy Cortez.
Yeah, and that's all Vegas-centered.
Exactly.
That machine that represents the unions and the service workers.
Okay, so then you go to New Hampshire.
And it's another very conservative man, Bulldoch running on a Republican side.
So you've got to figure the incumbent Maggie Hasson.
will win in the Granite State, but boy, oh, boy, there's not a lot of discretionary income up there.
And I'm going, you're going to really vote a Democrat in who's going to rubber stamp everything Biden does?
And again, the polls there are now within five or six points.
I would agree with you.
If I had to bet, I'd bet on Maggie Hasson.
But Bullduck has got a chance, especially if he can broaden his appeal.
And I think that the Republican will win in Ohio.
even though he's a controversial guy.
But Ohio seems to be trending red more and more and more, correct?
It is.
And while J.D. Vance came out of the box a little slowly,
the polling recently I've seen has him a couple of points ahead.
And as you point out, the preference in the state is Republican.
And then Pennsylvania, finally you have Federman,
the Democrat who can barely speak because of the
speak because of a physical stroke that he had. But if he could speak, he'd be perhaps the
most far-left senatorial candidate in the country. And he's ahead of Oz.
He is. I mean, Oz has few, if any, ties to Pennsylvania and was beaten up badly by Dave
McCormick and the Republican primary. So he's got a high negative. I'd make Federman a narrow
favorite. The polls have the race within four or five points.
now. Federman had started 10 to 12 points up. So Oz has a chance, but I bet narrowly on
Federer. See, I'm going to bet on Oz because of the debate. And if Oz can't take him the
school on a debate, and that's happening, right? There is a debate between Oz.
Yes. Betterman decided to debate finally. I think that's going to be it for Federman. I mean,
this guy is so far out there, you know, in 90 minutes on a stage, but Oz has to perform.
here in New York where both of us are.
You think Lee Zeldon has a chance to beat Kathy Hokel?
I mean, two to one Democratic over Republican registered voters,
machine Democrat.
Hockel is so bad, so incompetent.
City is so brutal and out of control.
Highest tax burden in the country on New Yorkers.
I mean, I'm looking at it going, I can't imagine people voting for Hogle.
Does Zeldon have a chance?
This is the governor's race.
Yeah.
outside chance, Bill, I'd make her the favorite. Two reasons. Zeldon has been positioned
too far right for New York. He's pro-life. And he has been a longtime supporter of Donald Trump,
which in New York is toxic. You know, I don't know how much independence, though, are going to
weigh that against violent crime out of control. And that's directly because of Governor
Hockel, who won't revoke the Nobel law when she could, and the unbelievable inflation tax
burden in the state.
So you're probably right.
The numbers are there, but if there were one upset that I could go to Vegas on, that might
be it.
All right, Doug, Sean, everyone, one of the smartest political guys in the country.
Appreciate it.
Doug, talk to you soon.
Thank you so much.
Okay, some data here from the Border Patrol.
arrests on the southern border, first 11 months of the fiscal year, okay, 2,150,000, 2,000, 150,000.
For the entire year, under Trump, in August 2020, 5, I'm sorry, I'm misquoting here, 700,000, 700,000.
So it's now, with a month to go, so you might hit $3 million to Trump's $700,000.
In August, the month just passed, 204,000 migrant encounters in Trump's August, last August, 50,000.
So you can see that Biden's made the situation worse.
There's no doubt about it.
The border is not secure.
It doesn't matter where Kamala Harris says.
All right.
you can see that Biden has done it.
But again, if no one cares, the press certainly doesn't care.
So they put them out.
But if the individual voters don't care, then everything gets worse.
So if you don't, if you have a leak in your ceiling and you don't care and you don't
patch it, it's going to get worse and worse and soon you'll be flooded out.
It's the same thing.
food supply i get a lot of letters about food supply food supply food supply okay food prices are going
up how do i know that well the chicago board of trade has a futures market in food
did you know that okay wheat prices are up 17 percent in past 12 months corn 28 percent soybeans 14
percent so all of the basic foods are going up on the futures market which means that's what the
prices are going to be in the future so while gas is going down food is going up okay now
the food supply in the USA is being constrained by a poor harvest you know all the bad
weather and the heat and the floods and everything like that so food production the
USA is down, but it's not down so that we're not going to have stuff at the grocery
store.
What is worrisome is the worldwide food supply.
Now we, the United States, usually export food over to foreign nations.
We sell food.
We may not be able to do as much of that because we have to supply our own, but you will
have enough food to survive and have a nice Thanksgiving Christmas.
dinner. So don't panic. It's my job to do this. So we instituted a new segment last week called
the No Spin Flashback. And I'm looking for things that are interesting that have been said,
obviously, in the past, that we can spotlight for you. Now, the first one, we had Biden saying
something dopey. Thursday, we're going to have Trump saying something. So that's what we'll use
on Thursday. But today we're going to use a soundbite by a science fiction writer named Arthur
Clark. The name ring a bell? So he died in 2008 at age 90. And this guy, you know, he wrote
a lot of stuff, including the screenplay for 2001, a space odyssey. He wrote that. So in 1964,
September 21st, this day, no, tomorrow, tomorrow, 1964, okay, here's what Arthur Clark said.
Go.
But what about the city of the day after tomorrow, say the year 2000?
I think it will be completely different.
I'm thinking of the incredible breakthrough, which has been made possible by developments in communications,
particularly the transistor, and above all, the communications satellite.
These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other,
wherever we may be, where we can contact our friends anywhere on Earth,
even if we don't know their actual physical occasion.
Wow, huh?
1964!
And now you can contact anybody on email and text anywhere, anytime?
That's pretty impressive, Arthur Clark.
This day in history is a good one.
September 20th, 1977, 45 years ago,
Happy Days, one of the most popular sitcoms
in the United States.
But they're running out of ideas,
the Happy Days writers running out of ideas.
And so they put on a scene.
Roll the tape.
There we go!
All right!
Oh!
Ah!
Oh!
Hey!
All right!
So he goes water skiing in a leather jacket, number one, I love that, and then, I love that.
And then in the beginning, they have a shark.
All right, under the water.
This is in Malibu, California, right?
So this episode was so dopey that the expression, jumped the shark, entered the American lexicon.
That's where jumped the shark started with Fonzie Happy Days water skiing in a leather
jacket with a shark somewhere in Malibu.
happened 45 years ago today. I'm proud to say I did not see that episode. By that time,
Happy Days had run out of gas and you can see what the result was. Back with Mel and a final
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All right, let's go to the mail. Lee, concierge member. Lee gets direct access to me in a private setting. Bill, you have hit the hypocrisy now on the head, flights of hundreds of illegal migrants going all over the country is okay if the Biden administration does it. But if Republican governors consent to send a few to sanctuary cities, it is torture.
So everybody knows the hypocrisy of this. So we're waiting for Governor DeSantis to send
illegals to Delaware to President Biden's home. But there may be a problem with doing that,
a legal problem. So I'm not going to get into it until when and if it happens. But it's,
you know, but this is, as we explained yesterday, for a lot of good publicity to DeSantis in the
conservative precincts.
Carrie Fosburg, Groverton, Indiana, Bill, I believe the Biden administration is going to grant
voting rights to illegal immigrants just before the 2024 election.
Carrie, that would be unconstitutional, and it will never happen.
Okay.
So, again, it's like the food supply.
This stuff goes out on the Internet.
People read it.
They get nervous.
They get worried.
no one in the legislative branch of our government can do a magic wand amnesty and give
non-citizens the right to vote. It's not going to happen. It can't happen. And the
Supreme Court would prevent it from happening. All right. James Boslow, Loveland, Colorado.
Conservatives and traditionalists listen and watch conservative media, likewise with liberal
and liberal media.
Most Americans are ignorant and lack sedation.
Not many Americans read or pay attention to any politics, just their pocketbook.
So why bother with politics?
Because your pocketbook is hooked right into politics.
Trump last year in office, inflation, 1.2%.
That's politics.
You got rid of Trump, and now we have 8.3% inflation in less than two years.
So you're right, James.
Millions and millions of voters don't pay attention, but you do that at your own peril.
Frank Woods, Buffalo, New York.
Question checking your prediction on Biden.
He does not run in 2024.
Handicap it at 50% he doesn't finish out his first term.
Lastly, he does everything progressives ask or Robert.
stamp, why wouldn't they want them again? Because by that point, Joe Biden is going to be such
a diminished man and president, couldn't possibly win in 24. That's why. And they know that's
where it's heading. It's not like there's going to be this miraculous turnaround like Ronald
Reagan. If you read, killing Reagan, that was miraculous after he was shot. That's not going to happen
with Biden. And the Democratic Party knows it.
Lois Bohm, Tucson, Arizona. Bill, you're absolutely correct about being proactive regarding your
health. By having regular checkups and addressing certain health issues promptly, I am a two-time
survivor of cancer. I caught it early, and it was successfully treated. Well, there you go,
Lois, and we're glad you're here. We want everybody to be here. You see a lump. You see something that
shouldn't be there. You're not feeling well. You got to go. I know it's inconvenient. I mean,
I'm the busiest guy on a planet. I have to do it. All right. It kills me. All right, but I got
to get the tests. I got to get this. I got to get the stuff off my skin. Or I'm going to be
in a grave. Simple as that. David Concierge member, Bill looking forward to killing legends,
watched Elvis, the movie over the weekend, and it left with more questions and answers. I'm going to
address that in the final thought because it's coming up fast two weeks from today
killing the legends I'll address it in the final thought okay so we hope you
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Okay, so Killing the Legends, the lethal danger of celebrity coming up fast, one week from today.
And advanced sales are strong. It is a different kind of killing book.
It is contemporary history. It is social history.
in a sense that these men were not politicians,
but each of them influenced the way we live right now, right now.
And each of them died after being crushed by their celebrity.
And they were all betrayed.
And I get into this in a way that I think you're going to find mesmerizing.
I got a friend of mine who's seen it all.
All right, media guy.
and he loves Ali, but he's interested in Elvis Presley and John Lennon as well.
You know, he's in a culture. He knows.
And he says, I thought I knew about these guys, all right?
And I didn't know anything really about them.
And he read the book. I sent him the book.
I sent it to certain people that I wanted to get feedback from,
and I know they would give me honest feedback.
So that pleased me because our research, Dugard and I,
we really went, the movie Elvis is okay.
But it doesn't teach you anything about Elvis, teaches you nothing about him, okay?
It's just basically a hit reel, a highlight reel.
And then at the end you can see him dissipating.
The actor's great, it plays Elvis.
But you don't know why.
You really don't know what happened.
And when you find out what happened, then you can correspond it to today.
So famous people, all famous people in America, are in danger.
And that's because of the Internet.
Now, when I was younger, working my way up, I wanted to be famous.
I remember having a conversation with my father when I told him I was leaving Channel 2,
W-CBS TV in New York, where he could watch me every night.
And he goes, why are you doing that?
And I said, because I want to be a national.
I want to be a national journalist correspondent.
He goes, oh, you're crazy, you got it made here in New York, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
So I went against his advice and I went national and it was very hard.
But I really wanted to be famous.
Now if you had asked me back then why I would not have been able to tell you.
I think it was recognition of my work rather than, you know, I'm a private guy, I don't put
pictures and stuff on the internet, I think that's just stupid.
I mean, look what's happening at Tom Brady and his wife now because they would do way too
much on the internet.
All right, Ben Affleck and, what's her name, J-Lo, every day, you know, enough.
You're putting yourself at risk.
But all famous people in America are in danger now, because it's a national sport to see them go down.
And then sometimes they come back up, but sometimes they don't.
All right, but it's like fun for people to see other people destroyed.
And that's wrong.
But it's celebrated on Twitter.
It's celebrated on Instagram.
You know it.
Go in there right now and look at the vile stuff that's posted.
And this mainstreams it that you can attack famous people.
All right.
So I have nothing against President Biden at all.
Personally, I don't think he's doing a good job for the country.
And that's what I base my reporting on.
All right?
But it's all fact-based.
I don't accuse them of stuff that I can't back off.
same thing with Trump. Okay, same thing with Trump. I mean, a man was accused of everything under the sun.
It was a sport. Destroyed Trump. And now, on a lesser level, destroy Biden. And these are presidents,
so you understand the intensity of that position. But in the entertainment and sports world,
it's just as intense. People will hurt you. I mean, the quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals after they won
the game on Sunday, went over to high five some of the fans and the stands, and somebody
slapped them across the face. I mean, it's just incomprehensible. And Lenin, when you see
John Lennon, we all know he was assassinated, okay? But when you see what it led up to that, all right,
and how vulnerable he was, he left himself open.
And it was because he didn't have anybody there saying, hey, John.
Now, Presley, he did have guards and he had guys around him.
That was a different situation.
And Ali, which may be the most horrendous of the three,
Mohammed Ali, what happened to him?
Nobody knows what happened to him because the press wouldn't tell you.
I don't think the press knows, but they could have found out because we did.
we found out and where do you see what happened to that man one of the most magnificent athletes
the world has ever seen and african-americans and blacks the world over idolized his achievements
mohammed ali they idolized his achievements he he was an uplifter a very important historical figure
I would say he's more important historically than Elvis and Lennon.
But Elvis was extremely important because when he came on the scene, the whole American culture changed.
Before Elvis, it wasn't rock and roll at a major level.
He comes on the scene, everything, all hell breaks loose because of his entertainment, because of his charisma,
what he was doing. It changed everything. Change how younger people interacted with their parents,
changed how entertainment was presented, changed every single thing in this country. Elvis. And he got
crushed by it. He didn't understand all of it. Wasn't a well-educated man, but he wasn't stupid.
Elvis Presley was fairly smart in his evaluation of things. Okay.
Uneducated, so was Lenin, so was Ali.
None of them had education.
But anyway, the book, I wrote the book, because I want people to know that being famous in all regards in the United States is dangerous.
It can kill you.
And that's why so many people go to drugs.
That's why so many of them are married five, six times, all right?
because they lose control of it.
Upside money, upside everybody's saying how great you are, all of that, yeah.
But the downside is a hundred times worse than the upside.
So I think that if you pre-order Killing the Legends, it'll be a book that you can't put down.
My friend couldn't put it down.
He just read it cover to cover, went up, ate a little, got some drinks, and then came back and ran anyway.
I think that's what's going to happen.
and I want your feedback.
Different book, different killing book, but believe me, when I tell you, it will be worth your time.
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