Confronting Insanity, Putin Backs Out of Peace Talks, Will Trump End Birthright Citizenship? & Comedian Jeff Ahern on Hollywood’s Comedy Divide

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis Episode: Confronting Insanity, Putin Backs Out of Peace Talks, Will Trump End Birthright Citizenship? & Comedian Jeff Ahern on Hollywood’s Comedy Divide
Release Date: May 16, 2025

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1. Lack of Unity and Rising Delusion in America

Timestamp: [01:42] – [05:28]

Riley opens the discussion by highlighting a significant division within the United States, contrasting the unity witnessed during World War II with the current split. He states, “99% of Americans were united to defeat the totalitarians in Germany and Italy and Japan. But now, I don't know, it's a 60, 40 split” ([02:15]).

Riley attributes this division to two main factors:

• Selective Belief: “People believe what they want to believe” ([02:25]).
• Delusional Thinking: He argues that many Americans live in a “delusional bubble,” avoiding reality through narcotics and alcohol, leading to a disconnect from factual discourse ([03:00]).

He emphasizes the difficulty in overcoming this situation, noting, “It's a very difficult situation to overcome” ([04:50]).

2. Robert Kennedy Jr. and Medicaid Funding Claims

Timestamp: [05:28] – [11:39]

Riley critiques Robert Kennedy Jr.'s testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, accusing him of misleading statements regarding Medicaid funding. He references an incident where radical leftists, including Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's, disrupted the hearing, leading to the suspension of the witness ([05:33]).

Key Points:

• Misrepresentation of Medicaid Cuts: Riley asserts, “There have been no cuts in Medicaid because that bill hasn't passed” ([08:10]).
• Gaza Aid Platform Fiasco: He recounts President Biden’s failed initiative to deliver food aid to Gaza via a Mediterranean platform, which was sabotaged by Hamas, resulting in the withdrawal of U.S. forces after significant losses ([09:45]).

Notable Quote: “American money is not being diverted from our entitlement programs to Israel so they can bomb poor kids. That's about as fallacious a statement as you could possibly have” ([10:30]).

3. Supreme Court and the 14th Amendment on Birthright Citizenship

Timestamp: [11:39] – [26:59]

Riley delves into the ongoing Supreme Court case challenging the 14th Amendment’s clause on birthright citizenship. He explains that the amendment grants citizenship to all persons born on U.S. soil, regardless of legal status, a provision established post-Civil War to grant citizenship to emancipated slaves.

Key Points:

• Trump Administration’s Stance: The administration seeks to reinterpret the 14th Amendment to exclude children of undocumented immigrants from automatically obtaining citizenship.
• Constitutional Hurdles: Riley outlines the immense difficulty in overturning the amendment, emphasizing the need for a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, followed by ratification from two-thirds of the states. He remains skeptical, stating, “It can't happen” ([20:15]).

4. Governor Gavin Newsom’s Policies and California’s Deficit

Timestamp: [26:59] – [33:50]

The discussion shifts to Governor Gavin Newsom of California, scrutinizing his recent policy shifts and the state’s financial health.

Key Points:

• Homelessness and Health Care: Riley criticizes Newsom for delayed actions on dismantling homeless camps and freezing healthcare payments to undocumented immigrants. He points out the inconsistency in Newsom’s approach, questioning why significant measures were not implemented earlier ([28:00]).
• California’s Deficit: Highlighting that California has the highest state deficit at $12 billion annually, Riley attributes the financial woes to federal policies, blaming former President Trump for creating economic uncertainty that adversely affects California ([30:05]).

Notable Quote: “California is broke. It’s as simple as that” ([31:00]).

5. Smart Life and Book Recommendations

Timestamp: [33:50] – [41:18]

Riley introduces the concept of the “Smart Life” and announces the launch of Bill’s Book Club, aimed at recommending informative and intellectually stimulating books.

Book Recommendations:

1. "Mark Twain" by Ron Chernow: An 800-page comprehensive biography that also explores 19th-century America ([35:00]).
2. "The War for America, from Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777 to 1780" by Atkinson: A detailed account of the Revolutionary War, showcasing Riley’s preference for thorough historical narratives ([37:00]).

Riley shares his personal journey toward building a “smart life” through extensive reading and education, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning: “You gotta learn stuff, that's how” ([34:10]).

6. Hollywood’s Comedy Divide: Interview with Jeff Ahern

Timestamp: [41:18] – [38:16]

Riley engages in a conversation with Jeff Ahern, a conservative comedian based in California, discussing the shifting landscape of comedy in Hollywood.

Key Insights from Jeff Ahern:

• Censorship and Fear: Jeff explains how, over the past seven to eight years, comedians in California face increasing restrictions. “You literally couldn't say anything that was not narrative friendly” ([30:04]).
• Survival Tactics: Many comedians with similar beliefs to Jeff have had to perform out of state or refrain from expressing their true viewpoints to secure bookings ([30:42]).
• Left-Leaning Industry: Despite personal changes in perspective, Jeff notes the overwhelming dominance of leftist ideology in comedy clubs, making it challenging for conservative voices to thrive ([32:00]).

Notable Quote from Jeff Ahern: “I was just like, oh yeah, whatever. ... Now I'm like, what am I doing? This is a terrible idea” ([31:05]).

Riley further comments on the lack of opportunities for conservative comedians in mainstream media, contrasting them with the proliferation of left-wing comedy on platforms like late-night TV ([32:48]).

7. Personal Anecdotes and Closing Remarks

Timestamp: [38:16] – [41:18]

Riley wraps up the episode by sharing a personal story about his son’s graduation from Salve Regina University, expressing pride in his achievements. He mentions his son’s academic prowess and future plans, predicting a promising political career: “I'm predicting right here, Spencer O'Reilly will be president of the United States someday” ([40:50]).

Riley concludes by balancing his professional discourse with personal reflection, emphasizing the importance of family and celebrating personal milestones despite ongoing national challenges.

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Concluding Thoughts

This episode of Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis navigates through critical issues facing America, from political divisions and policy debates to cultural shifts in comedy. Riley provides a blend of analysis, personal insight, and interviews that offer listeners a comprehensive look at the current socio-political landscape.

Highlighted Quotes:

• “People believe what they want to believe. And we'll get into that in a moment.” – Riley ([02:25])
• “American money is not being diverted from our entitlement programs to Israel so they can bomb poor kids.” – Riley ([10:30])
• “California is broke. It’s as simple as that.” – Riley ([31:00])
• “You gotta learn stuff, that's how.” – Riley ([34:10])
• “I was just like, oh yeah, whatever. ... Now I'm like, what am I doing? This is a terrible idea.” – Jeff Ahern ([31:05])

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Transcript

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Hello, Riley here. Welcome to the Nose Bin News for Thursday, May 15, 2025. Stand up for your country. You know, one of the big problems we have in the USA is a lack of unity. We all know that. I guess the height of our assemblage was World War II. 99% of Americans were united to defeat the totalitarians in Germany and Italy and Japan. But now, I don't know, it's a 60, 40 split. 60% traditional Americans 40 don't like the country very much. You know, they're, they're on that side that it's basically everything needs to change. So anyway, there are opposing points of view and that's a good thing, but they're not respected as much as they used to be. And one of the reasons is people believe what they want to believe. And we'll get into that in a moment. But there's another big reason why this division is taking place, and that is delusion. Many of us in America live in a delusional. Bubble, not in the real world. We don't want the real world. We don't want to go anywhere near the real world. We want to take narcotics, we want to drink ourselves into a stupor. We want to believe stuff that's insane and we seek it out. We don't want to deal with reality. That is a very difficult situation to overcome. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So again, people believe what they want to believe. And you know them. I, I know them in my life. Not close to me. I can't deal with delusional people, but in a periphery. And you could go in with 10 facts and they'll just don't even listen. No, no, no, no. You know them, there's nothing you can do. And maybe you can get them hypnotized, but there's nothing you can do. So I've come to the point in my life where I don't try. Like, okay, you want to believe that, you go believe it's not true. But I did all I can do. Also, there are a lot of people who just don't care about what's true. It doesn't matter to them. Now, I was raised in a home where there was a right and a wrong. And then I went to Catholic school where there was a right and a wrong. I was usually in the wrong. So I experienced that very vividly. But now we don't live in that world right and wrong anymore. Traditional homes have it, but secular homes don't. It's like, oh, well, whatever you want to do is fine. All right? Now once you get into that world, then if you act out, you're going to hurt people. And I'm going to give you a very vivid example of this. So Yesterday, Robert Kennedy Jr. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified front of the House Appropriations Committee. There are a bunch of radical leftists in the audience and they don't like Kennedy, they don't like America, they don't like anybody. One of these radical Americans, a guy named Ben Cohen. That's Ben and Jerry. I'm sure if you follow politics, you know he's a far left loon. Okay, here's what happened. Go. The witness will suspend. The committee will come to order.

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All right? Congress pays for bombs, kill kids and gossip, okay? That's anarchy. Those people ever got control, there'd be massive violence. They'd kill you if you disagree with them. And my opinion, but I've seen it throughout history. You're irrational. You live in that far. And you could be on the right, too. You could be Adolf. Hey, hey. He's great. We love the Nazis. Holocaust didn't happen. Same thing. No difference. But we see it played out more in America on the far left, because the media accepts the far left where it doesn't accept the far right or even conservative Americans. Okay? So later on, Mr. Cohen appears on News Nation with Cuomo. Go. It didn't really have anything to do with Bobby Kennedy. What it had to do with is that Congress has been cutting money for Medicaid health care for poor kids, and they're using the money they saved doing that to bomb other poor kids in Gaza. And, and now, you know, there's. There's this. They're halting all the food aid that's going in, so they're starving the people of Gaza. That's just insane. All right, so run down the facts, but I'm only doing this as an intellectual exercise. I. I don't care what Ben Cohen says. I would never buy any Ben and Jerry's. Even though they don't own it anymore, I don't want any. Do it. Okay, so there have been no cuts in Medicaid because that bill hasn't passed. They want to reform the waste because it's totally out of control in that program. But there's no cuts, okay? There's no cuts for health care for poor kids. In fact, entitlement spending is at all time high. All right? American money is not being diverted from our entitlement programs to Israel so they can bomb poor kids. That's about as fallacious a statement as you could possibly have. Israel is defending itself against terror attacks from Hamas. Hamas lives in civilian areas in Gaza, and children have gotten hurt in the crossfire every war that's happened. I'm not justifying anything. I'm just telling you what the facts are. Okay, so Israel is supposed to say, oh, yeah, come on, you attack our people, you kill our children. We're not going to do anything because you're hiding behind your children. And that's what Hamas is doing. Always, though. Okay, so Cohen is delusional, doesn't care. And then he raises a very interesting question. The United States, he says, is helping the bomb or actually bombing, killing the kids. Here are the facts you will remember. And this story died fast, but I've resurrected it today. You remember President Biden allocating millions of dollars, 230 million to be exact, to build A platform in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza to get food to the hungry people there. Remember that story? Okay? It went nowhere. They built the pier. It operated for 20 days and then devolved into chaos. 62 U.S. servicemen were hurt because of terrorist activity over there. 62, okay. They couldn't get the food to the Gazan because the terrorists, Hamas, stole it. As soon as it got from the platform built into the sea into the mainland, the guys at the machine guns came out, took it all. Ben know that. Hey, Ben, you know that. That's why you can't get any food in there, Because Hamas steals it. That's why they're starving. Now the United States, Biden tried to do something. And of course it was a fiasco because everything under Biden pretty much was a fiasco. The goal was to feed a half million people each month for three months. They didn't get any food in there to speak of. All right? And then it took 1,000 US forces to evacuate the people who were in there trying to feed the Gazans because they would have been murdered. That's what happened. No reportage on it. Biden. Did Biden say anything about it? No. Let's face it, the US economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax Advantage Gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401k tax and penalty free with billions in precious metals delivered thousands of five star reviews and an A plus from the Better Business Bureau. You can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866-326-5576 or text BILL to 998899. Again, that's 866-326-5576, or text BILL to 9988.

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So actually the. The intent was noble to get food to starving people. But Biden couldn't carry it out. He couldn't carry out anything. Nothing. And that's what happened. So when I hear this irrational stuff, and I said, I'm giving you one very clear example tonight, it drives me crazy, because this is surging in America, this kind of crazy stuff. This is what's going on on college campuses. Oh, they're starving. The US Government's bombing the poor kids. They're starving about. That's what's going on at Harvard and Columbia. And if a guy like me walks in with a sheet of facts, then they're going to hate me and they won't believe anything. And that's a memo. We don't know where President Trump. We know he's sleeping in Qatar, in Doha, but we don't know what he's going to do tomorrow. I think he's going to come back because there's nowhere else for him to go at this point. But it's been a successful Gulf trip economically for him, I believe. Now, there was supposed to be peace talks between Zelensky and Putin in Turkey. That's a fiasco. There are Russians and Ukrainians there in Turkey, but they're not meeting together. And Zelensky showed up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was supposed to show up, but he's not going now because Putin didn't show up. So this is nothing. It's nothing. It's Aragon and Zelensky and, you know, but there's no. Putin doesn't want a ceasefire. So I didn't know that, and Trump certainly didn't know it. I thought that Putin would come around, you know, when the west offered him money and stuff like that, I thought, you know, you lost. You're losing hundreds of thousands of Russians dead and wounded in there. You're not getting anywhere. The world hates you. I thought he'd come to, but he didn't want to. Now, ultimately, the only thing that's going to force Vlad to the table is if we punish him more, we being Europe and America, and that's what we should do now. So Trump should go back to Washington, okay, sending Zelensky all the weapons he needs. EU will send him all the weapons he needs, NATO, and then we'll slap more sanctions on Putin. You won't be able to do banking, business, and we'll just make it as painful as possible. That's what you're going to have to do. Putin does not want to solve this, doesn't care if people die. And when you read my book, Confronting evil, which will be out in September. You'll see that all these people have that in common. All these tyrants, all these evil do. They don't care. People die. They don't care as long as they're not dying. Okay, supposed to be another meeting tomorrow. Steve Wyckoff is over there. Who knows? But unless there's a miracle, we're going to have to punish Vlad, and we should. Supreme Court back here. Fascinating case. 14th amendment says that all persons, all A L L in the Constitution that are born on American soil are American citizens. It doesn't say you have to be here legally. Doesn't say anything about that. All persons born on the soil get American citizenship automatically. 14th amendment passed in 1868, and as you probably know, it was passed because of slaves and they were citizen less. Slaves weren't citizens in the south during the Civil War. They were emancipated and then they became citizens. But it was all murky. So they had to have the 14th Amendment saying, Look, if a black baby or any baby born on US Soil is to citizen, and they did. They passed it. 14th amendment. Well, now the Trump administration doesn't think that is good for the country because there are so many undocumented people here, 15 million at least, they're having babies. And President Trump's going, we're rewarding illegality. They shouldn't be here by granting their offspring citizenship. So it's in the Supreme Court. Isn't that an interesting, fascinating case. In order to overturn the 14th amendment, you would have to get two thirds of the House and the Senate to okay it, and that'll never happen because there's not one Democrat that I know of who would vote to overturn the 14th Amendment, not one. And even if it did happen, then you have to go to the states, and two thirds of the states would have to ratify it. That's how hard it is to get rid of a constitutional amendment. So it can't happen. And the Supreme Court can't just say, I'm waving the wand and this constitutional amendment is gone. So the Trump administration is going to lose. It knows it'll lose, but it wants to bring this to the attention of the nation and it wants to try to get some regulations involved here. But I can't see any fundamental overturn of the 14th Amendment, just our system. Gavin Newsom running for president, I told you this earlier this week, and he sees an opportunity because there's no competition on the Democratic side for him at this point. So Newsom, I mean, talk About a hypocrite. This is. This is hypocrite number one. And I don't even know Newsom. Okay, so earlier, he says he wants all the homeless camps to be dismantled in California. Well, what took you so long? You've been governor for six years. Well, you know, this cost the state billions of dollars, and it's destroyed San Francisco and other cities, and all of a sudden, you're enlightened, you want the homeless camps dismantled. It was a public safety problem. Then when it started six years ago when you were governor, when you came in, still a public safety and public health. You can knock it out in a second under the law. Now, he says, we're going to freeze health care payments to the undocumented. Remember, California is the biggest undocumented population the country. It spends more than $5 billion. California spent $5 billion giving free health care to illegal aliens and their families. Okay? So now Newsom goes, oh, we're going to stop that roll of tape. So here are the solutions. $5 billion on a freeze on our Medi Cal expansion. We're not cutting or rolling back those that are enrolled in our Medi Cal system. We're just capping it, particularly for those without documentation. Yeah, they're not cutting, they're capping. What, you weasel. This guy is. So why didn't you do it five years ago? Why do you do it? It's so ridiculous. All right, so in addition to that, California is the highest deficit of any state. It is the largest state in the union. About 40 million people live there, and has a $12 billion a year deficit. So it's broke. Essentially, it's broke. Here's what Newsom says about that. Go. California is under assault. The United States of America, in many respects, is under assault because we have a president that's been reckless in terms of assaulting those growth engines, has created a climate of deep uncertainty, and certainly has California in his sights. So it's Trump's fault. It's Trump's fault that California has a $12 billion a year deficit. Okay, Democrats, this is what you want. This is what you're going to put up. J.D. vance got to be the happiest guy in the world. Gotta be the happiest guy in the world. Yeah, bring it on. Unbelievable. Okay, smart life. There are a lot of things involved with having a smart life, and one of them is actually being smart. Now, how do you get smart? You gotta learn stuff, that's how. Okay. I wasn't particularly smart when I graduated from college, and that'll play into my final thought. I wasn't dumb. I mean, I, I went through rigorous schools, but I, you know, I was a dopey young man, I would say, but I read like crazy. I read everything I could get. And I started to learn and learn and learn and learn and learn. And then I went to grad school and got a master's degree in broadcast journalism. And then I started my career. And every story I covered, I learned from. So I got, I built myself my smart life up to a point where I was admitted to Harvard. Okay. And that wasn't easy to get into the graduate program there. Now I'm going to start Bill's Book Club. With all apologies to Oprah. Oprah started the Oprah Book Club. Oprah goes for the kind of weepy women's kind of thing. Self help. I'm not doing that. I'm going for the information books. So there are two out now I want to recommend to you. The first one is Mark Twain by the historian Ron Chernow. Now, if you've ever read Chernow stuff, he is a brilliant historian. But Mark twain book is 800 pages. I got it sitting on my shelf over here, and I'm going, do I have time to read 800 pages? And the answer is I don't. I don't have time to read 800 pages, but I'm going to read some of it. And not only is it about Mark Twain, but It's about the 19th century. All right. And I want to learn a little bit more about what happened between after the Civil War and Teddy Roosevelt. A little bit of gap there. Now, I wrote Killing Crazy Horse, and that fills in a lot of it. But I'm going to look. But I know I'm not going to get through 800 pages of that. But it's worth me having it around. And I have in my library a book on Machiavelli owned by Mark Twain. And Mark Twain wrote notes inside the book. So I've got a connection with Mark Twain, whose name was Samuel Clemens, of course. Second book is the War for America, for ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-to. To 1780, fate of the day. Now, Atkinson is really a good historian. Okay. But again, big book, dense book. This is. He's writing three books about the Revolutionary War. This is the second. I will read this book. Okay. It's on my nightstand. I'm going to start it. I've already perused it, but I'm going to start it in earnest tonight. I'm going to read that book because I wrote Killing England.

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Okay. And I want to know you know where like Atkinson is much more detailed. See, my books are 300, 310 pages and they whip through. It's like boom. All right, so you get an idea. All the essentials are in the book, particularly with confronting the president as we do every president. And that's about 400 pages. But whoa, it's lightning. These books are much more deliberative. They will make you smarter. You will know things that most people don't know. And that's what I want to get into in the Smart Life Bills Book club. But if I read a book that's really entertaining and doesn't have that much, I'll recommend that as well. Comedy. And this is part of Smart Life too. So I need. I wrote a Message of the day about this book, Let Them, which has been number one for like five weeks by Mel Robbins. A self help book. And I don't read self help books because I'm beyond help. And that's why I wrote in the Message of the Day if you want to check it out. But another Mel is a guy that I is desperate. I'm desperate to see what he does. And that's Mel Brooks because he's the funniest guy. The Producers in Young Frankenstein. You want laughs. Those two movies, you know, I know Blazing Saddles, that a little crude for me, but boy, the Producers zero mustow Gene Wilder and Young Frankenstein. So I gotta have laughs. So I was looking at the comedy Landscape in the United States. Most comedians are left wingers, but that's changing. There's a guy named Nate Burgaz or something and I looked at. He did a pretty good set, clean, not particularly political. Jeff Dunham, the guy with the puppets. Fantastic. That guy is so talented. But they're not liberals and I started this. I'm taking credit for the non liberal comedy surge. So I want to show you on Back it Up as we always do. October 7, 2015. Dennis Miller and O'Reilly go now. Trump. I got him a bumper sticker that said my other plane is Air Force One and he'll be the only guy.

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While his plugs are bad, William can be worse. I haven't heard that name in about 30 years. All right, so Miller and O'Reilly, huge hit, okay? We went on a road and we had a lot of fun. And Miller's doing very well out in California. I think he's semi retired now. So after that, then you had Gutfeld on Fox. He had a very successful program at 10. He's very right wing. You still have the liberal guys late night. You got Colbert. He's not even a comedian. I don't know what he is, but I don't know what he's doing there. Kimmel. Yeah, he's funny, but he's very left too. Fallon doesn't care about politics. Fallon just wants to be in the band. That's all he wants to do. But if you watch late night TV, it's 90% left wing. Guess and Point of View and all of that. But on the Internet, no. There are more and more and more traditional conservative comedians. One of them is a guy named Jeff Ahearn out of California. Roll the tape.

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[Riley]

All right, Jeff Ahearn joins us now from Glendale, California outside of la. He's a host of News on the Day on Rumble. See, I don't even know what Rumble is. I don't know. Roku, Rumble, Toku, Tofu, I get. But I know that you're pretty hot. But you've been around 30 years. You've been around a long time doing stand up. Have things changed in your industry?

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Oh, yeah, very dramatically. You used to be able to just go out and do jokes and people would laugh and, you know, it's pretty easy. You know, you just do your act and then. I live in California. So there came a time, you know, probably, I don't know, I'd say seven, eight years ago, you literally couldn't say anything that was not narrative friendly. And if you did so the club owners wouldn't book you. You would. You have to play out of state. Other comics would, you know, pull, kick you out of the group, so to speak. And the thing is, a lot of them held the same exact beliefs that you did, but they were afraid to say it. So it's often interesting to me when someone is a leftist comedian, are they really leftist or are they leftists for the work, so to speak?

[Riley]

All right, let's get specific though. You've worked with almost everybody. You know them all. You work with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. You can't get more woke than those two. Can't get more left wing. When I did my gig on Saturday Night Live, I walked in, I thought that Amy Poehler was going to throw up when I showed up. I mean, the look, I Got like, what the deuce? Who let him in and why isn't security dragging him out? Both of those women are about as far left as you can get. Now, when you interacted with them, do you have any problem?

[Sponsor]

No, no. When I, When I interacted with them, I was, you know, I was. I was on the left too. I was. I was an idiot. This is, you know, when I was a moron in my 20s and I was just like, oh, yeah, whatever. What are we supposed to do? You know, I just took instructions. I didn't think for myself. And then I got to the point where I started thinking for myself and I'm like, what am I doing? This is a terrible idea. You know, what, what are we. What are we letting criminals out of jail free? For? What are we hiring based on race? For what? You know, to end race. All these things. Basically, everything that the left had as a narrative point, you'd look at intellectually and be like, this is insane.

[Riley]

Was that a St. Paul moment? Was that a St. Paul, like lightning hit you? Or did that evolve over a period of time? It.

[Sponsor]

I wish it was like a spontaneous, like, lightning strike. No, it evolved over time where I'll just one more thing after another after another after another. I'm like, you know, I don't actually think for myself. I just sit here and I just do what everyone tells me I'm supposed to do. If I actually analyze this. And then it got to the point where I'm like, well, now where do I go to get my news sources from? Because it's all basically just leftist dribble, you know, but, but here's my dilemma here.

[Riley]

I know what you're saying, but there. A lot of these people are very, very smart. Okay? So Kimmel is no idiot, but he is so deeply ingrained. But it helps him. Because if you are a conservative comic or a traditional comic, your job opportunities in these corporations are far fewer than if you're left. Isn't that correct?

[Sponsor]

Yeah, they're almost non existent. It's the status quo. And I feel like a lot of these comedians, I don't know, I think Kimmel is a leftist, but I feel like they've gone so far forward in that direction, there is no turning back. They got to keep going.

[Riley]

No, for them, there is a but. Remember Kimmel was on the man show? Yes. Okay. And he was not a raving lunatic on ideology back then. He was funny and he was way politically incorrect. He was a woke. I mean, my God, the guy. What the guy was doing. But Anyway, so the industry in Hollywood has not evolved, has not changed. And I'm taking the three Americans concept out now with Stephen A. Smith and Chris Cuomo and me, which is a really good concept. It's funny, it's sharp, it's this, it's that. But when we go out to talk to these people in Hollywood, I mean, these are living in a totally different world than the world that you and I live in, Jeff. They're not in our world here.

[Jeff Ahearn]

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[Mike Slater]

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[Sponsor]

No, they're in an insulated bubble. And it's kind of. You brought up Newsom, and it was shocking to me when I heard what Newsom speech today and how he's literally pivoting.

[Riley]

He. He's.

[Sponsor]

He's trying to become a Republican. He's trying to.

[Riley]

Well, he has to. He wants to be President. But that just shows you who he is. It just shows you who he is now. One of the guys who helped you do what you do. And I, I should mention that you do five days a week political commentary. That's a lot. And you can find Jeff on Rumble if you know what Rumble is. And that's just.

[Sponsor]

Nobody knows what Rumble is.

[Riley]

Well, anybody under 50 knows you could find it anyway. The what? There was a turning point before Gutfeld. Gutfeld was a big turning point. He made a ton of money for Fox doing the right wing humor. Yeah, but Norm MacDonald, I love Norm. Norm MacDonald was the first one to really say, you know what? This is a bunch of bull. I'm going to play it straight as far as looking at the world the way it is. Am I wrong there?

[Sponsor]

No. Norm was ahead of his time. And it was just. That's why everyone loved Norm because he just didn't care. If you told him not to do something, he would do it even harder. No, he was pushing around.

[Riley]

But his point of view, and I got to know Norm before he died, was very sharp, but he just rejected the insanity on both sides. Final thing, you see a guy like Bill Maher, who's really the only one now at that level on hbo, and HBO is a very left wing organization.

[Sponsor]

Oh, for sure.

[Riley]

He goes to see Trump mar. And says good things about Trump. The vitriol directed at Mars. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Right?

[Sponsor]

They know. They know they're losing it. And Maher is just a, a flaming firework example of just how bad they're losing. He's even like coming over to our side because he's like, enough, enough. I can't do it anymore. Enough.

[Riley]

Well, he's not. Don't think he's coming over. He's not, because he knows where his paycheck comes from.

[Sponsor]

He's tipping his toe in the water. You know, he's marked.

[Riley]

But the things he's. He's a contrarian. Yeah, he's a contrarian. But he'll stay where HBO wants him to stay. He will.

[Sponsor]

Yeah.

[Riley]

I. Jeff. Yeah. When you get something that you feel is ridiculous and not just on the left, though, but just absurd, you let us know. All right, so I'll kind of treat you a little like Miller. I'll actually treat you better than Miller because I made fun of Miller all the time. You let us know and we'll pop you right in. We wish you the best and thank you for helping us out tonight.

[Sponsor]

Oh, I had a great time, Bill. Thank you.

[Riley]

Okay. Harvard Prison says taking a 25% cut because Trump's cutting the money to Harvard. His name is Alan Garber, 70 years old. He's just recently been appointed president because of the chaos up in Cambridge. He's probably making about one, two a million two. That's what I figure he's making. He says he's going to take a 25% cut. And Harvard, you know, I hope they wise up. I do. Because they're not going to win against Trump. They're not. If a Democrats elected after, okay, but going to have a bleak three and a half years stay in history. May 15, 2023. Just two years ago, and everybody's forgotten, special counsel John Durham issued his report that said essentially the FBI was crooked in investigating the Russian collusion accusation. Quote, FBI used raw, unanalyzed, uncorroborated intelligence to launch Crossfire Hurricane into Trump and Russia. But use a different standard when weighing concerns about election interference regarding Hillary Clinton. This is the FBI. They were crooked according to dorm. Okay. And I'll remind you, one of the men who was behind that Clinton Russian collusion stuff was a guy named Mark Elias. The attorney was glorified by 60 Minutes just two weeks ago. Okay, so Durham prosecuted three people. Two were acquitted, one one pled guilty, got nothing. And that was the big investigation. Two years, $55 million. John Durham issued his report two years ago today. Okay. We got a very, I think, important final thought, at least for the O'Reilly family. We are right back. So this weekend, I got invited to the Knicks Celtic game on Friday night. I got invited to the Met Yankee game on Saturday night. I can't go to either. Breaking my heart. Why? Because my son is graduating from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He got a 3, 9 his last semester out of four. He is so much smarter than I am in every way. It's unbelievable. I keep asking him. Really? My son. Anyway, I'm so proud of Spencer O'Reilly. He's my wingman. He's going to be going with me to China, Japan, South Korea in our upcoming trip. And he got into Georgetown University. He's going to be taking a master's in American government. I'm predicting right here, Spencer O'Reilly will be president of the United States someday. Now, I know, I know you're hooting. I know you're throwing your slippers at the television set or the radio. This is a very smart, honest kid. Boy.

[Sponsor]

Boy.

[Riley]

Very proud. Yes. I wanted to tell you all that I don't do a lot of that stuff, you know, I don't. But very special weekend. And even though I'm missing Mets, Yanks and Knicks, Celtics, nowhere else I'd rather be but at Salvatore Regina for that graduation. And it's an excellent school, by the way. Have a great weekend. We'll do a Sunday column for you. See you on Monday.