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Bill Confronts China, MIT Graduation Speech Walkout, Victor Davis Hanson on U.S.-China Relations, & Public Broadcasts Take Legal Action Against Trump
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Bill O'Reilly
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Victor Davis Hanson
Foreign.
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Bill O'Reilly
Here. Welcome to the no spin news. Monday, June 2, 2025 Stand up for your country. Well, millions of people all over the world followed by Marco Polo adventures to Japan, South Korea and especially China got back late Saturday night, still a little woozy. You cross the international date line. You don't know what day it is, what time it is. But I have a lot to report from the nine day trip to you tonight. And I hope you read my Sunday column and the messages of the day today and last Friday, because I don't want to be redundant, I go into detail there. So if you didn't read them, you can read them after this and everything will come into focus. This was an extraordinary journey, one that I did not anticipate, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So I got a call, I don't know, six weeks ago from a friend of mine at Harvard, and he said, you're going to China? And I said, yeah, how do you know? And he said, because the Chinese government just called me. Now why would they do that? Because Beijing puts a lot of people in the Kennedy School at Harvard, where I received a master's degree and they do a lot of business China with Harvard. It's very prestigious for a Chinese government official to attend Harvard University. So they keep an eye on things. And they knew that I was an alumni. Now, how did they know I was going to China? Because I made a reservation at the Four Seasons Hotel across an American embassy. And everybody who's from America that goes in there, the Chinese government knows within two hours. Isn't that interesting? China is the most intense surveillance state this world has ever seen by far. And I document that in my column. And again, I hope you you read it. So anyway, the offer was we would like Mr. O'Reilly to come to Beijing to do a seminar, a question and answer with some Chinese government officials who are very worried about the second Trump administration. So I said, okay, because that's my job, right? My job is to look out for you by being a journalist and assembling facts and also to look out for my country. So I'm going in. And I did. It worked out great. The Chinese are very, very respectful to me. And the rules were simple. Everything was off the record in the sense that no quotations and no names mentioned except mine, which is all right with me. They videotaped the entire as close to two hours. But if they use it, any of it, then I get to use it, too. That's the deal we have, and I do believe they will adhere to that deal. The reason they taped it was there were even bigger shots watching this on closed circuit. Okay? Now, when I go in, I tell the truth, but I was not as bellicose as I can be, and I told them I wouldn't be. I said, I'm not here to debate you on policy. That's not what I'm here to do. You want to know something about the USA or President Trump, I will answer your question. If I don't know the answer, I will tell you. But I'm not debating. So tariffs and all of that. Not my job to debate. My job is to tell you what's happening in America, which I did. They accepted that, and they asked good questions. But it took a turn when I said, I have a proposal for you which I've been working on for a while, and it's called the Partnership for Peace and Prosperity between the United States and China. And I laid it out, and they were stunned. I said, if the United States and China were to ally together and control the crazies of the world, Iran, Putin, other insane things, North Korea, if we were to establish an economic partnership that led to stability, that would be an unbelievable thing. Now, most Americans do not know that China and the United States is the most important story by far in the world. You mentioned China. Their eyes glaze over. They don't pay attention. They want to hear about Puff Daddy. They don't know. This is by far the most important story for you. Because what happens with the United States and China will influence how much money you get and how much money you will keep. And it is a life and death situation. Again, it is not my job to make policy for the Trump administration, but I laid out a pathway where both countries could work together. I did inform President Trump I was going, and yesterday I debriefed him for 30 minutes on the telephone. That was off the record. I cannot tell you what I said, but he got Pretty much everything you're going to get, okay? Including the columns. And the President listened very intently and asked very good questions, which he always does when I talk to him. And I'm not patronizing anybody. I'm telling you the truth. Anyway, by far the most important thing to the Chinese government is Taiwan. Not the tariffs and not the day to day. You violated this. You can't have Chinese students. This is that. No, all of that can be taken care of. Taiwan is the big one. And I basically said, after they came at me with Taiwan, I said, look, the United States government under President Trump is not going to let you invade Taiwan and take it over without a brutal, and I mean that literally, a brutal reprisal. Donald Trump does not want to look like a weakling. He doesn't want to look like President, President Biden. And this was interesting. The Chinese government, no use for Biden at all. Calling him weak and unfocused. No use. They're happy Trump's in there because they think they might be able to get some deals out of this. Now, when I was driving around China because we went up to the Great Wall and all the Pictures are on billoriley.com I didn't see one American car. My son saw a couple. I, I didn't see any in Japan. I didn't see any in South Korea. So that whole tariff thing is real. There are no cars for Americans in there. And China's 1.5 billion people, five times our population now, a lot. I'm going to read you some questions coming up. A lot of people don't understand why the Chinese people allow this surveillance communist state, because they have never for one day known freedom in their entire history. China has never known a day of freedom. It's exactly the same thing in the revolutionary war. And 50% of the colonists, the Americans supported the King. It drove George Washington crazy and John Hancock and Samuel Adams. They couldn't get the Tories. They were called to support the revolution because those people never knew a day of freedom. They were under the King in England. They come over here. I got freedom. What's freedom In Beijing, the concept is just, you know, they don't have a free press. They don't see their every single thing is controlled. When you are born in China, you get an ID card, okay? You have to carry the ID card in your diaper, okay? If you don't have it and the authorities stop you, you're arrested. Let's face it, the US Economy is under stress. 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The year 2049 is the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedong's takeover. Communist takeover. That's when the government wants Taiwan in the fold. But they're going to have to carve out autonomy for Taiwan for the west to go along with it. Doable. Hard. Very hard. Tariffs are hard. All of this is hard. Okay, so I got a bunch of mail. Richard, Chinese government not trustworthy. Okay? They've been lying, cheating and stealing for decades. I find it interesting that you would propose a deal that would allow them to jointly police the world. Your proposal sounds a lot like a one world government laid out in the book of Revelations. Okay, look, Rich, it. If you want to be a pinhead and say we're not dealing with the Chinese because we don't trust them, then you're going to have World War 3 come in, get ready, get your food, get your bunker. Barry Taiwan will make or break Point of closure Cooperation between China and USA Their enthusiastic response for you when you said a closer partnership may be necessary was a good sign. I live in Saipan. That's Japan territory. Barry. I don't know if they were enthusiastic about me, but they weren't bored. They listened. Nancy, California, during your recent trip to China, you spoke with the heads of the Chinese Communist Party in an effort to obtain a close relationship with the US Stated the Chinese wanted most was the annexation of Taiwan, which is a free country. Are you willing to sell out Taiwan? Not selling out anybody. I'm trying to get an arrangement. I'm trying to avert World War 3. That's what I'm trying to do. Arrangement could be made. Andrea Malcuso, Carrollton, Texas. Regarding your off the record trip to China, you allowed to discuss the Q and A with President Trump? No, I don't. When I talked to the president, this, you know, I said, this is off the record. This was off the record. Now, the Chinese knew I was talking to Trump because I told them that up top. I tell everybody up front, they knew. I said, what happens here is going back to him. Richard, I thank God every day I was born in the USA greatest country. Fortunately, a politician, radical activist in the country would love to have totalitarianism. China is not the only country guilty of this oppression. True, but it's way beyond anything. I was in Spain when Franco was there. Been to Cuba, Romania when the Soviets ran it. Not close. One more. Lisa far left, could learn a thing or two about the brutal Communists as far as social order goes. Yeah. And San Francisco was big. I wrote about that in a message of the day on billorilly.com they're appalled. They go, what is this? Because they all have relatives living in San Francisco. I go, this is progressivism. This is what happens. Okay, Bill O'Reilly here. 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Big mistake. I haven't heard much about it, so maybe they're pulling back. You don't insult your adversary, just like you don't insult Putin, okay? That gets you nowhere. If you want peace, okay? That's not helpful in the big picture. And then at mit, there was a nut, Megha Vermore, who gave she's the president, senior class, mit. And then she gets up there and bashes Israel. Roll tape. Last spring, MIT's Undergraduate Body and graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with the genocidal Israeli military. You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials. But you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide. All right, you know, radical left people, genocide, blah, blah, blah. MIT is not letting her graduate with everybody else, and they're trying to punish her like that, but they had to know she was going to do that because she's a known radical. Jonas now is a guy I personally requested to analyze my utterings about China because I think he's one of the smartest guys in the country. And he's an honest man as well. He's Victor Davis Hansen. You know him. He's a syndicated columnist. He works at the Hoover Institution, which is on a. On the campus of Stanford University. Right, professor, that's where you're. Hoover is. Right? Okay, so, you know, you know, the. And there are tons. One of the. There was only one woman in the. And these were hard men, by the way, in the. On. In the room where I gave the seminar, about 14 of them, 13 men. One woman who was a Stanford grad, very articulate woman, powerful woman. The other guy, she, she put the other guys to shame because she understood a little bit about the flow in and out of the usa, where the. A lot of them didn't. They really you know, they were very hardcore Maoists. Anyway, you've read my column, you listen to my bloviating here. What say you?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, I think China has a. If you compare the cold. If we were in a cold war and a lot of people think we are, and you compare that to the Soviet Union 50 years, China has a, a very different place in the relationship. The United States. We had no Soviet students here. We had no trade agreements. It was a cold war. But I would like to see more of a normalization of what I think is kind of an aberrant. We have 300,000 students at Stanford. We just have a series of Stanford Review articles revealing that there was an organized espionage group of students. We had a member of the People's Liberation army on the faculty as a visiting neuroscientist. About four years ago, the Confucius Institute was shut down. The devos a first term Trump Department of Education fined Stanford for not reporting a lot of contributions. So it's a.
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Bill O'Reilly
It.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I guess what I'm saying, Bill, is that the view of George H.W. bush and, and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and to a lesser extent, to a greater extent Obama, that the more engagement you have with China, they were going to be impressed with American culture, tolerance, and they were going to become emulate us and then they would.
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Bill O'Reilly
That's not happening.
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Victor Davis Hanson
No, it's not happening. It's not happening. So I think the Trump position was that we had given them a sense of appeasement or laxity and our magnanimity was reciprocated by aggression taking advantages of rather than reciprocity. And I think right now we're in a period where when you look at China, they're building three or four nuclear warheads a month and they plan to get up to about 1200 in five years. They run, they have violated that. We don't have much success with them on copyrights, patents, dumping the product, currency manipulation. I would like to think that maybe Hong Kong would have been an example for Taiwan. But when you look what's happened to Hong Kong, Johnny Lai, Jimmy lies in prison and they pretty much suppress free speech. So I guess what I'm saying is because of World War II and we have a large Chinese population here, there was a natural empathy for closer relationships. And it wasn't the Cold War. Truman, Eisenhower, Cold War. There was a. There was a real opportunity, the Americans thought, to reach out to China and to give them indulgences that we didn't. Other countries that we had been.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, it worked for a Little while. It worked for a little while, but then she got in and she is, you know, it's. Xi's personal legacy is tied in with Taiwan. Do you believe I said that? I came up with this Partnership for Prosperity and Peace. And the reason that I did is because China has to feed 1.5 billion. They're hurting, okay? Their economy needs the United States. That is the big leverage we have over them. And they are willing to make a deal, I believe. Do you believe that?
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Victor Davis Hanson
I think they're willing to make a deal in the economic realm because they're suffering, kind of a historic phenomenon, that the more they have upward mobility rather than the population being satisfied. It's just a human trait, human nature. They're even more ambitious for a better life. And it's very hard to fulfill the expectations of the Chinese growing middle class because they're not spending what they should on domestic.
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Bill O'Reilly
It's all military stuff.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yeah, it's all military, but they're Spartans over there.
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Bill O'Reilly
But what I saw, I tested them a couple of times. I said, you're not going to get anywhere with Trump because it was all Trump centric. You know, you gave a very logical and good historical analysis. That's not what they're interested in. There isn't Trump, okay? And I said, the first thing you have to do is knock out the fentanyl, okay? And you know, you have to knock it out. And they go, well, we are. But the precursor. I said, I don't want to hear precursor. And remember that this was translated. You know, they had the little things. And because half the room spoke English, half didn't. But the instant translation, I said, I want to hear precursor. You don't need fentanyl. You don't need any of it. Knock it out. Give President Trump that. That's where you start. You don't need to be in bed with Putin. And I warned them about Putin. I said, you can try to be his friend, but he'll turn on you like a snake. You don't need to be cutting up to the Mullers, okay? United States will supply your energy needs in a much more benign way. They could not answer any of those things, Professor. None. And I just laid it out. I said, you're going to. If you're going to consort with bad guys, evil guys, and that's what the label you're going to get, why do you need it? You don't need it. Doesn't help you. And that was the thrust of the 90 minutes.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yeah, I think the Trump and I can't speak for them, but, and you know them better than I do. But I think they're, they're in this narrow Soviet, Russia, China, American relationship. They're trying to have a Kissinger paradigm where China is no better friend to Russia than it is to us. Russia is no better friend or enemy whatever to China than it is to us. And triangulate and check power because they have historic animosities, China and Russia. Oh yeah, for some reason the Ukrainian. I think we're in a period of a real problem because they are in an alignment. But it's going to be very hard for any Chinese Communist Party leader as it is for Putin in a dictatorial. But even more so, I think when you have an idea totalitarian ideology, Putin is kind of like a dictator that makes it up as he goes along ideologically. But whether it's Iran that is ideological and totalitarian or China, it's very hard for those leaders to compromise their ideology because they have a whole group of people surrounding them that don't respond to the same incentives as either Western democracies or dictatorships where they.
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Bill O'Reilly
I'll tell you why there wasn't a lot of love for Putin or Iran in that room. They don't care about the Ukraine, the Chinese and they don't care about Gaza. Okay, but there wasn't a lot of love. All right, let's pivot to the attack by the Trump administration on the universities. We all know the indoctrination across the country at Harvard, at Stanford, you know, the finest educational institutes have basically set themselves up as progressive left institutions. And that's what Trump is trying to break down and he's using a hammer to do it. Can you predict the outcome?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yeah, I think they're going to have to cut a deal with him. It's analogous Bill, to illegal immigration. The left keeps saying that there's no criminals here, we don't have a problem. Then almost every day we have an illegal immigrant that kills somebody or as we saw in Colorado, commits a terrorist act. The universities have so many things that are so antithetical to the public. And I just, for years, Stanford, Harvard, they had been charging the federal government anywhere from 45 to 55% surcharges on individual grants. That was about $190 million in annual income from Stanford. Now they got to go down to 15%. For years they have defied the last three years of supreme Court decision on the end of affirmative action and basically racial preference. They have, but they, they have self righteous euphemism. So we call it auxiliary graduations, a theme house, but basically they're segregated dorms, segregated by race. Graduation ceremonies. If you are accused of sexual harassment, they do not give you. And that was title nine. That came from the Obama administration where they said, you will not give them beyond reasonable a doubt or you're going to lose federal funds. So the defendant can't face his accuser. They know that that's a violation of the Constitution. They also know that the Chinese government and especially gutter have been giving them aggregate $50 billion. And that has really affected our foreign policy because for a generation now, people coming out of these graduate programs have taken classes, they've experienced professors that were subsidized by these two governments. And so I could go on, but there's a lot of anti. Semitism is endemic at Stanford. We had a 900 page report by Liberal professors. It was one of the most damning documents I've ever seen. So. So they don't want to get in a fight with Trump because they have so much exposure, that culpability. They charge 110% for foreign students. They've got a third of the student body.
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Bill O'Reilly
Talk about money. But the ideology, they won't even pull back. At Harvard, they acknowledge that 80% of the hires are progressives. Maybe there's five conservative teachers they wouldn't even acknowledge that's wrong. And yeah, so I'm, I'm basically hoping that, you know, Trump is going to.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Win all the cards. Yeah, Trump has all the cards. A recent Gallup poll said public support was 65% confidence in higher education, but.
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Bill O'Reilly
Driving the media nuts. Oh, they had it down.
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Victor Davis Hanson
It's down to 30%. And Trump has. He's looking at taxing the endowment income.
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Bill O'Reilly
Oh, yeah, he's going to go everywhere. That's.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They're going to have to. Yeah, they're going to have to cut a deal with him. I think he'll win. He'll. He'll win that. I think he's.
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Bill O'Reilly
And I think that if she and Trump get in the building together that they'll, they'll cut some deals there, too. Thank you, Professor. We really appreciate your expertise. And thanks for putting up with me. I appreciate it.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Thank you.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay. Boulder. That guy who attacked anti Semitic guy Mohammed Sabri Soliman overstayed his visa and then did the Biden con. Oh, I want asylum. And the Biden people said, sure, they kept men in the country. It's just so bad. I can't tell you how bad Biden was. And once again, the Chinese had No use for him at all. None. Okay. But here's what I said about Biden's not enforcing immigration law. And I said this On 6-12-24, about a year ago. Go. Do I believe there are terrorists here right now plotting to kill us? Yes. Do I believe they came across the open border between the USA and Mexico? Yes, I do. That's why I would never, under any circumstances, even consider voting for Joe Biden. And you're going to see more. Unfortunately, people who were here got in under Biden failing to obey the law, and boom. Just a note to my producers. We'll do the sanctuary city tomorrow. I want to spend a little time on that. The Trump administration put out a list of sanctuary counties and cities that they're going after. We'll do it tomorrow. Along with Washington, D.C. is receding now, saying maybe we don't want to be a sanctuary place. Pbs, NPR are suing Trump because Trump says, we're not going to give you 55 billion anymore. Is exactly the same as the universities. Exactly the same. So PBS and NPR are just left wing and we're paying for it. No, no. Now they say, oh, well, we're going to see you because it's violation our freedom of speech. And then the loopy person who runs npr, Katherine Marr, says this. Go. The former NPR editor, Yuri Berliner. He accused the network of having what.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He called a lack of viewpoint diversity.
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Bill O'Reilly
How do you respond to those critiques?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, I first of all respond by saying, we're a nonpartisan news organization. We seek to be able to provide a range of different viewpoints in terms of who we bring on air, the stories that we tell.
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Bill O'Reilly
It's just bull, you know, it really is. She knows what she's saying isn't true. Okay. I don't know whether she lives in a bubble or not. I don't care. But anybody who listens to NPR watches PBS. Anybody 5 years old, you would know. Ukraine attacked Russian aircraft within Russia, five different bases blew up a whole bunch of planes. Another embarrassment for Putin, doesn't really care. And this Istanbul, Ukraine things living nowhere. I don't know if Trump can get Putin. I think Putin may be so psychologically damaged at this point, I'm not sure. But my thrust in Beijing was don't, don't get in bed with Putin. Things are not going to end well for Putin. You heard it here. New York City has an epidemic of thugs, violent thugs attacking police, no question. Why, why wouldn't you? You're not, you're not held accountable. Two guys Beat up two cops in the Bronx. Sixteen adjournments, one six going on for a year and a half. Still hasn't gotten into court.
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Now I'm starting to sell some of my stocks. Not all of them, but the ones that are speculative. And I'll tell you why. I don't think that this turbulence in the world with China, with Ukraine, Putin, Iran. I think they're going to have to surrender the mullahs. But this economic war and this, this is not going to be short term. And it goes up and it goes down, it goes in and it goes out. It's your money, my money. I work hard for it. I'm trimming back a bit now. Right away, I'm watching Smart Life. I got to be honest with you. That's what we do here, all right? I'm not panicking. I'm keeping my core. But the more speculative I'm selling. Bill's Book Club. If Oprah can have one, why can't I? Killing Lincoln is our best seller of all the books, more than 3 million copies. That was our first one. There's a new book on Lincoln out called 1861, the Lost Peace. It's by Jay Winick. All right, so if you're a Lincoln Civil War person, you want to check out Jay's work. That's the Bill's Book Club. State of History. June 2, 1714. The Intolerable Acts. Now, this is how stupid. All right, King George was. What a moron. And if you read Killing England Laughing, I shouldn't laugh because this king was so stupid. So he signs an act that says that the colonists, primarily in New England, all right, had to shelter British troops in their own homes, in their barns, anywhere. So they just walk in. Now, a lot of these troops were drunk because they got days off. They just get blasted out of their mind. They come home, they're recognize. This was the turning point. But again, as I said up top, 50% of the colonists, they. They didn't want to get away from the king because they never knew freedom ever. I don't know what it was, but this act, that was it. The two radicals. Samuel Adams was the biggest radical, and John Hancock, he was a very wealthy guy. There's Adams and Hancock. They used this act where it outraged so many people to foster arms. And that was really it. King George, 251 years ago today, and one of the dumbest pieces of legislation I've ever seen. Okay, got a lot more to tell you about the trip and stuff like that. Take a quick break. Back in a moment. Okay, final thought of the day. So here's how it went down. JFK in New York got on Japan Air. Great. Only problem with Japan Air, they couldn't speak English. Flight crew had a lot of problem with English. So. But the flight and the plane, clockwork. Nothing in America comes close as far as the plane's concerned. It's disturbing. Boom. Right over to Tokyo. Okay, out of the car for where we say. We say the Intercontinental on a hotel. Beautiful. Go to Tokyo Intercontinental. Okay. Then I went out to Kamakura Buddha. You saw the picture, I hope, of my father in 1945 and the occupation. My son and I took the same picture. Okay. This was a very emotional thing. As my dad, he was in Japan for, I think, eight months. And there are the guys. I'm going to frame that up. And that is a legacy picture. They went to Kyoto, the imperial city, which was not bombed. Hung around there for a little while. Then Osaka. Flew from Osaka to Beijing on air China. Beautiful. Beautiful. Much better than anything in the United States. We land. They confiscated my pens. Got to the hotel forces and beautiful. But. And I told you about it. Then we went from Beijing to Seoul, South Korea again, China Air. And great. Then went up to dmz, disappointing only Americans up there. I was stunned. There were a lot of Koreans. Okay. This was Saturday. No Americans. And you couldn't see very much. You really couldn't get it in perspective. I know it's dangerous. I understand Kim Jong Un is a total ridiculous idiot, but I Was disappointed with that. Now in Korea, that is the closest society to America because American troops are there and save their butts over there. In the Korean War they'd all be communists. Now one for us, Seoul, bustling, big city. Not a lot to see there, but I like walking around and checking it out. But their economy is booming in Tokyo too. A lot of commerce, no American stuff. I mean there's Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken that. But there are franchises that are run by the locals. But again, as I mentioned, no cars. And I didn't see a lot of big heavy American stuff there. So we're taking it all in. The folks across the board, everybody was very nice. I ran into a lot of Americans in Japan in particular. There were a bunch of people that were there and everybody knows me, which is good. I like talking to people. And then we talked to this Korean guy@ the DMZ lives this all he knew. And he gave us some tips about where to go and what to do. You got to be in shape, by the way, to go on these trips. That Great Wall was some kind of wall. As you know, the Great Wall. Listen to this. This is to me the most spectacular place to visit in the world. It's better than the pyramids. And I seen all the pyramids. So the Ming dynasty built a wall. 1368 to 1644. It was a 300 year experience. Goes more than 13,000 miles of this wall. Okay, 400,000 people were killed in the 300 years building a wall because it's way up on a mountain. I don't know how they even got the stuff up there. You see it. And the Chinese government, that's their big tourist thing. They keep it in good shape. But I did about half what you could have done. My son did more. He's a lacrosse player. His legs are better shape. But it is. I was just in awe of how human beings could do this. Now they built the war originally because of the Mongol warriors on horse horseback coming in and doing all kinds of stuff like the Vikings did in Ireland and England. Same thing. But I'll tell you What, I've been 86 countries now, seen it all. That was the most impressive attraction I've seen on the surf. So we're glad we're back. No place like home, right? No place like the usa. Thank you for watching and listening to the no Spin news. 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