O'Round the World - August 2, 2026

Summary

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Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Episode: O’Round the World – August 2, 2026

Release Date: August 2, 2026
Host: Bill O’Reilly
Guests/Contributors: Marc Simone, Sid Rosenberg

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Overview of the Episode

This episode of "No Spin News and Analysis" sees Bill O’Reilly and his co-hosts conduct an energetic and opinionated sweep of several heated topics in American political and cultural life. The discussion ranges from controversy in women’s basketball (namely, Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham), through the supposed biases and political plays at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, to scathing criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s public service record and the legacy of COVID policies. Throughout, the conversation is punctuated with O’Reilly’s trademark skepticism of mainstream media, government intervention, and progressive policies.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Women's Basketball Culture Wars

(Start – 09:22)

• Caitlin Clark and WNBA Tensions:

  • The episode delves into race and sexuality tensions surrounding WNBA star Caitlin Clark.
  • O’Reilly recounts journalist Jemele Hill’s view that Clark has “an extra advantage” due to being white and straight in a league where most players are women of color and/or lesbians.
    • O’Reilly is skeptical but says, “Some players… were pushing her around on a court. Caitlin Clark, hard fouls, you know, derogatory statements, zeroing in on trying to break her. That happened.” (02:25)
  • Clark’s response is described as “classy,” declining to stoke controversy herself.

• Sophie Cunningham and Trans Athlete Debate:

  • Cunningham voiced opposition to biological men competing in women’s sports. O’Reilly and Rosenberg support her stance, arguing for protection of girls and fairness in women’s sports.
  • Notable quote from Cunningham:

    “I think it’s really important to protect children, and that’s girls who are also involved in that category. ... I have never once said I hated the trans community. Like I said, I think there’s space for everyone.” (07:03)

• Societal Implications:

  • O’Reilly and team suggest that about 20% of America is “way out of whack” on these social issues.
  • O’Reilly warns of physical intimidation in sports, advocating “If I’m commissioner, you’re going to sit for a while” if conduct crosses the line. (08:07)
  • The men’s sport comparison is used to highlight the unique culture war in women’s sports.

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2. White House Correspondents' Dinner: Bias & Setup

(09:22 – 14:52)

• Award Gimmick Allegations:

  • O’Reilly and Marc Simone argue the correspondents' dinner was designed to embarrass Trump by granting awards to known anti-Trump journalists and outlets.
  • Notable example: Kaitlan Collins gets an award for reporting on Trump/Zelensky, which O’Reilly describes as “a setup,” asserting that “the three people who voted to give Caitlin Collins this award are all anti-Trump people.” (11:35)
  • Wall Street Journal also receives an award for a Trump-Epstein story; O’Reilly points out the story is still under legal scrutiny.
  • The duo laments the lack of accountability in journalism, recalling how the NYT retained bogus Pulitzers for Russia investigation coverage.

• Career Risk for Laughter:

  • O’Reilly quips, “If you were seen laughing at Trump’s jokes, your career in D.C. is over.” (13:16)

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3. NYC Politics & Economic Frustrations

(14:52 – 18:18)

• “Doxxing” Issue:

  • O’Reilly claims a NYC politician is releasing personal info (“doxxing”) of certain individuals, calling it “a crime” (14:52).

• City-Run Grocery Store Plan:

  • O’Reilly and Simone ridicule a proposal to drop prices at city-owned grocery stores by 30%, questioning its feasibility and funding.
  • “Who’s going to pay for the groceries?” (16:50)
  • They predict tax hikes and greater deficits, criticizing state leadership as inactive.

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4. Dr. Fauci, COVID, and Media Blackouts

(18:54 – 37:34)

• Fauci’s Testimony & Fifth Amendment:

  • The episode lampoons Fauci’s repeated pleading of the Fifth Amendment during Congressional testimony:

    “What day of the week is it today?”
    O’Reilly (impersonating Fauci): “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.” (19:11)

  • Accusations abound that Fauci misled the nation, especially around school closures, the origins of COVID, NIH funding to Wuhan, and general “swamp” behavior.

    • Sid Rosenberg: “Dr. Fauci’s a weasel. … He actually did look at the carpet when Holly asked him about the carpet like this.” (19:54)

    • “Fauci knew, had to know that this kind of money was going in for, quote, unquote, research. The research turned into weaponization, biological warfare.” (Sid Rosenberg, 24:13)

  • The group laments the lack of accountability and criticizes media figures and networks (especially CNN’s Abby Phillip) for refusing to revisit Fauci’s record:

    • “There’s a media blackout. … They were complicit.” (24:36)

• Media Partisanship and Propaganda:

  • Long rants criticize CNN, MSNBC for hard-left partisanship and for previously boosting Fauci uncritically.

    • Marc Simone: “It’s like Mad Magazine, all right? Joe Scarborough will be on a cover with the tooth missing.” (36:41)

    • “Everything is going to be reported from a hard left point of view and that’s what’s happening.” (Marc Simone, 37:26)

  • O’Reilly and Simone muse on the “utility” of the Fifth Amendment, predicting Trump allies will need it if progressives gain federal power.

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5. Trump, Pardons, and Legal Jeopardy

(39:24 – 42:18)

• The Pardon Power:

  • It’s suggested Trump will need to use his pardon powers to protect family and allies, with O’Reilly warning: “Once you’re indicted or once you go in, you gotta have a million dollars to hire ... to come save you.” (40:04)

• Impeachments & Political Double Standards:

  • O’Reilly bemoans “four” Trump indictments and predicts more impeachment drama if the GOP loses the House in November.

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6. Podcast Successes, Food Policy, and American Health

(42:18 – End)

• Podcast Plaudits:

  • O’Reilly and Simone discuss their success with “We’ll Do It Now,” referencing a well-watched Howard Stern segment and teasing an upcoming Dr. Oz feature on health.

• Food Labeling Debate:

  • Simone:

    “Why on Oreos don’t you have a label that says caution sugar can give you diabetes?” (44:20)

  • O’Reilly:

    “I can’t walk down the city street without getting high every day. I don’t even smoke weed, but … New York City, I get a high.” (46:42)

  • They joke about American diets, the pervasiveness of junk food, legalization’s effects, and ineffectual public health interventions.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |------------|-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:43 | Guest (Clark) | “When I walk out of the locker room, I shouldn’t be not fearful of what the conversation is going to be. But… emotionally exhausting…” | | 07:03 | Cunningham | “I think it’s really important to protect children, and that’s girls who are also involved… but I have never once said I hated the trans community.” | | 13:16 | O’Reilly | “If you were seen laughing at Trump’s jokes, your career in D.C. is over. It’s finished.” | | 19:11 | O’Reilly | [In Fauci imitation] “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer…” | | 19:54 | Sid Rosenberg | “Dr. Fauci’s a weasel. … He actually did look at the carpet when Holly asked him.” | | 24:13 | Sid Rosenberg | “The research turned into weaponization, biological warfare. … We have a disease here that we can use to decimate people.” | | 36:41 | Marc Simone | “It’s like Mad Magazine, all right? Joe Scarborough will be on a cover with the tooth missing.” | | 44:20 | Marc Simone | “Why on Oreos don’t you have a label that says caution sugar can give you diabetes?” |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Women’s Basketball, Caitlin Clark & Sophie Cunningham: 01:04 – 09:22
• White House Correspondents’ Dinner Setup: 09:22 – 14:52
• NYC Doxxing and Grocery Store Plan: 14:52 – 18:18
• Fauci, The Fifth Amendment, & Media Coverup: 18:54 – 37:34
• Trump, Pardons & Legal Warnings: 39:24 – 42:18
• Podcast, Food Policy & Health: 42:18 – End

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Tone and Style

Bill O’Reilly and his co-hosts maintain a combative, sarcastic, and skeptical tone throughout the show. The language is direct, sometimes coarse ("weasel," "swamp creature," "Mad Magazine"), frequently blending ridicule, indignation, and self-congratulatory asides. The atmosphere is lively, conversational, and heavy on editorial color, in keeping with O’Reilly’s “No Spin” brand.

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Conclusion

This episode is a hallmark of O’Reilly’s current affairs coverage: sharp, polemical, and sweeping through the headlines with little patience for what he and his guests perceive as hypocrisy or incompetence in sports, government, and the media. Listeners are left with strong opinions, caustic humor, and an open invitation to check out related analysis at BillOReilly.com.

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Transcript

[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Sid Rosenberg]

you're listening to around the World. Let's begin. So the women's basketball controversy. All right, you may not think it's that important, but it, it kind of is. In a culture war situation, you got two ladies that play for the Indiana Fever. One of them is Caitlin Clark, superstar, in high demand for commercials and all of that. And the other one is Sophie Cunningham. Now, both ladies are, I would say, moderate to traditional in their thinking, but not crazy. We're not talking Colin Kaepernick here. They're, you know, they answer questions, but they're all, both of them are in trouble. Now, the first one is Caitlin Clark. So I can't nail this down as much as I would like to, but I believe what I'm about to tell you is true. And it comes from a journalist named Jamel Hill. She writes for the Atlantic. She was on espn. They booted her out because she's a radical leftist and does racing all day long. Okay, so Ms. Hill believes that because Caitlin Clark is white, she has an extra advantage somewhere in the basketball hierarchy. All right. Because most of the other players are black. She also says Ms. Hill does that there's a lesbian factor here. I don't know anything about this, that many of the players, the wnba, are lesbians and women of color. And Kalyn Clark is straight and fairly traditional. So some players, and this is beyond any speculation, were pushing her around on a court. Caitlin Clark, hard fouls, you know, derogatory statements, zeroing in on trying to break her. That happened. And here's how Ms. Clark reacted. Go.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

When I walk out of the locker room, I shouldn't be not fearful of what the conversation is going to be. But, you know, you just like. It's emotionally exhausting. It's draining. It makes your shoulders tense because, you know, people don't want to talk about the basketball. They just want to stir it up and make something else.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Okay, so Ms. Clark's been relatively classy about this. She has not made any accusations herself, as we could find. But this is around. There's no doubt about it. It's around. This from USA Today, extremely liberal newspaper getting worse over the past few years as women's basketball has exploded in popularity, much of the media and marketing attention is focused on three prominent White Clark, UConn Page junior Paige Buckers, and Oregon Sabrina Onescue. Too often black players who built women's hoops haven't been acknowledged.

[Marc Simone]

I.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I don't think anybody should be talking about anybody's skin color or sexual preference. All right? I just don't. It's basketball. That's it. But this has grown up, particularly on social media, and it's gotten into the league hierarchy because, you know, Ms. Clark could get hurt, physically hurt. This continues, and it's wrong. Now we got a lot of this USA Today stuff and Jamal Hill, but you don't have anybody sticking up for Clark. Many in the sports profession, most people think sports writers and reporters are traditional conservative. They're not the far left. I had a long conversation with Stephen A. Smith about that. All right? The other one in the news is Sophie Cunningham, a teammate to Caitlin Clark. She got involved in the trans stuff, which most Americans know is a bunch of bull. You know, if you're born a biological man, you shouldn't be playing sports with biological women. I don't care what you're transing. I don't care what you're doing. Doesn't matter to me. Pursuit of happiness. You want to be a trans? Fine. You get off the court or the soccer field because your physiology is different than the woman you're facing, okay? No matter what you do, no matter how many stuff you take, you're born. And your biological DNA sets you up with an advantage. If you're a man over a woman, that's it. Good night. That's all the rest of these nuts that exploit this trans stuff, to me, are bad people. They're not misguided. They're bad people. They're stupid people. So Cunningham says, hey, I don't think biological men should be playing sports with girls. Biological girls, roll tape.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense, and I think I'll always believe in that. I think it's really important to protect children, and that's girls who are also involved in that category. And so I stand on what I said, and I always believe that I'm there to love, but I'm also there to love biological women. And I think that there are rights that need to be protected. And like I said, I'm going to stand true to that. I'll never falter in my beliefs in that. But I have never once said I hated the trans community. Like I said, I think there's space for everyone.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Okay. I admire both of these women for going through this, and they shouldn't act. They're young women. It's hard enough to play professional sports without all this stuff swirling around them. But it sends a signal to the rest of the world that our society in America is really an element of it. I put it at 20%, way out of whack. Yeah. It's my opinion they have a right to it under the Constitution. I understand, but these people's thinking process, really, really deficient. And if you start to be violent towards somebody because they don't agree with you, if you're pushing Caitlin Clark over when she's not looking, big, big action. If I'm commissioner, you're going to sit for a while. So anyway, it's a. It's an interesting story. You don't have that problem in the men's sports because no woman transitioning is going to be on the field with these guys. You know, I don't have to say anymore what the story is. Indiana Fever. I actually watch now if I see their game on just to see if Ms. Clark or Ms. Cunningham are terrorized by anybody. If they are, I'm going to get involved. Here's my weekly appearance with WOR's Marc Simone.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Talk about the White House Correspondent's Dinner. You know, you watched it. Nobody ever watches the first few hours.

[Marc Simone]

But.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But these idiots give themselves awards for like three hours. What, what kind of egos do they have, those White House correspondents?

[Marc Simone]

You know, it was a setup. And I'm saying, reporting that tonight. We were not on the air yesterday, but I wanted to investigate it anyway because I don't like to go on and throw some bombs and then can't back them up. So this whole thing was a setup with a couple of exceptions. A woman, what's her name? We just. The CBS woman, I guess. I don't know she was okay. I think she tried to control it, but she failed. And here's what the setup was. It was like, remember the movie the Sting?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

With Redford and Newman Stoltman. They invite Trump. They don't think he's going to show, but he does show. And then McBridement comes out, and that wipes that out. So then Trump, Mr. The king of bravado. I have another one. Nobody really wanted another one, including him. But. Okay, so then the Correspondence association, the militants who run it, said, all right, we'll do it in a smaller venue. We won't have the large crowd, and we'll give him some jazz. We'll bring in people that we know he hates and try to bait him into conduct unbecoming. Ah. And who starred in that show? Well, that would be Kaitlyn Collins, right? Yeah. Okay, so I have my investigators and I did this too, say, analyze Ms. Collins's report. She got the award for reporting on CNN the night that Trump and Zelensky's talks broke down. And she did an hour on it, interviewed Marco Rubio and the usual suspects that anybody would interview. And she gets a big award for this. Okay. I didn't. I didn't see the competition. I don't know who was up against Ms. Collins. I do know they gave it to her because they knew that would annoy Trump. And now we're tracking down the three judges, and the initial indicators are the three people who voted to give Caitlin Collins this award are all anti Trump people. I'll have that tonight on the no spin news. But we want to. Again, we're very methodical in what we do. In addition, the correspondence people bring in and give it another award to the Wall Street Journal for an article tying Trump, a young Trump into Epstein. You remember that? Yeah. And Trump sues the Wall Street Journal for a billion dollars or whatever. And that the case is still being adjudicated has not been resolve one way or the other. Now, you'll remember that the New York Times won two Pulitzers for the Russian investigation. That was totally phony story was totally bogus. And the Pulitzers came. The Times as way, give him back. They said, oh, well, yeah, we won. And. But sorry, it was phony. So is your award back? Because we should have known it was phony. Because I knew it was phony, and I bet you did, too. So they bring in Collins and the Wall Street Journal people, and now the Wall Street Journal story will be defined in the courtroom. We will know whether that story about Trump sending Epstein stuff, it's True or not. Unless the case is dropped. And it could be, but at this point, there's no outstanding resolution. Whether the Wall Street Journal had the case right or wrong, we don't know yet. They get a big award so they can all flounce up there in front of Trump. Yeah. So if that's not a setup. Two, and then the third thing is, Trump could have been Sebastian Maniscalco up there and nobody would have laughed at his stuff. Yeah, nobody. Because if you were seen laughing at Trump's jokes, your career in D.C. is over. It's finished. You're finished. So, you know, to me, I think the people should know really what this was all about. And it was an attempt to embarrass President Trump. Wow.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, we'll be watching that tonight. Hey, you know this crazy mom, Donnie. First he's going to arrest Netanyahu. He knows he can't do that. And now he's releasing the name and address of everybody who has a Pieter. That's what they call doxing is, that's a crime, isn't it, to do that?

[Marc Simone]

Yes. Well, it's a civil crime. Boy, I, I mean, if I were one of those people, I would be already in court suing this guy named me saying he put my family in danger and he did it on purpose for political reasons. I, I, when I said I. There's gonna be a lot of, a lot of action against the city of New York. But here, here's the big story, Simone. And you can probably do something on this yourself and get more information than I have. Yeah. With your contacts. So Mamdani announces that all city owned or city run grocery stores. And I haven't seen any of them. Have you seen any of them?

[Bill O'Reilly]

No, we never will. They'll never come.

[Marc Simone]

Okay. Are going to drop the prices of essential stuff 30%. So he's basically giving people who live in New York City, because I don't think you're going to have to bring in your IRS statement about whether you're poor or rich to buy the 30% discount stuff. But I could be wrong. Anyway, so he announces this. Your Ms. That's going to cost. Who the deuce is going to pay for that? The city is running an enormous deficit now inherited from Eric Adams. Enormous. And Hochul's got no money at all. Hochul's broke. Who's going to pay for the groceries?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, you and me.

[Marc Simone]

Traffic tickets.

[Bill O'Reilly]

We're all going to pay for it.

[Marc Simone]

But that's right, he's going to have to raise taxes again on something they're going to have to find a way to raise taxes on everybody. I don't know how many more wealth taxes they can put in. I mean, if they can find them, they'll put them in. But you know, you're looking at yourself going, this is crazy. Do people not understand that when food is chucked into a store in New York City that that has to be paid for? Where's the money going to come from? And Hochul sits up there in Albany, says not a word, nothing. And of course, the New York state press covering Hogel doesn't even ask her who's going to pay for it. And this is going to happen for the next three and a half years. He's going to do every crazy thing he can, run up enormous amounts of debt. I don't think he'll be reelected. And then once out of there, and whoever comes next, including the governor, is going to have this bill and the New Yorkers are going to have it. Even more taxes. Well. Than they have now. Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, Everybody watch Bill O'Reilly tonight. You can get the show, [e-mail] and billor.com and the great podcast. We'll do it live. I love the Geraldo episode.

[Marc Simone]

Thank you. Thank you. We got Oz coming up on Thursday.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, Dr. Oz.

[Marc Simone]

We got Dr. Oz.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Very good.

[Marc Simone]

And faces the Grim Reaper.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, that's me, Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for being with us.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Listen to me as I join News Nation.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

It wasn't just questions about COVID 19 or his dangerous gain of function research that Dr. Fauci refused to answer during his testimony on Capitol Hill. Here's how ridiculous things got.

[Marc Simone]

What day of the week is it today?

[Bill O'Reilly]

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

[Sid Rosenberg]

What color tie are you wearing?

[Bill O'Reilly]

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

[Marc Simone]

What color is the carpet in front of you?

[Bill O'Reilly]

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

So, Bill, I'm not sure that an exchange like that is very helpful to the American taxpayer. But Ms. Now is warning that Fauci pleading the Fifth is setting the playbook for Trump officials in the future as if they're the same thing. What do you think about that?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Well, I hate to say this about an 85 year old man who was in public service for 35 years, but Dr. Fauci's a weasel. And the reason I say that Is because he's purely a swamp creature, Purely somebody who uses his position to try to advance himself. He actually did look at the carpet when Holly asked him about the carpet like this. But, you know, it was. The instructions were, look, you got the blanket pardon from president Biden. If you go away from that, if you deviate out of the fifth, they can make it a lot easier to bring you in on contempt of congress and other charges. So no matter what they do, you just say fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment, okay, That's his right to do it. But the damage that he did to the nation, particularly children, is so immense that anybodyand, I mean anybody, any party, any person supporting this Fauci should be ashamed. And let me give you one very stark example. So very early on, the European nations recognized that Covid was not easily spread among children. So they didn't shut the schools down over there, and they're a liberal continent and they allow the kids to go to school. Fauci knew all that information. He had it all. Yet he was one of the drivers in not having American children go to school, which damaged them in a way that I don't think will ever be repaired for some of them. So when you get to that level, and the Biden people knew what Fauci did, which is why he got the pardon.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And they knew, I don't think that Biden signed the pardon and they might go in that way. I think it was an auto pen deal. At that point in his administration, Biden was not able to function on a day to day basis. That's just a guess on my part. Yeah, but Fauci is the ultimate swamp thing indeed. Yes, and everybody should know it.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

Yeah, 100%. But you know, the thing that Americans hate about Washington D.C. is that there's a lack of accountability for people like Fauci, who at the time we could see as in your words, was being a weasel. And now we really know it, given the publishing of his diaries, where he's saying one thing and those and saying publicly that the American people need to be very scared that the death rate was higher, etc. Contradicting himself in terms of what he was telling people to push policies like keeping the schools closed, for example. So is there any accountability at all for him, for the American people for generations that were destroyed by his decisions? I mean, is there a way that state attorney generals could look into potential criminality here, or does it really hinge on whether this auto pen pardon by president Biden holds together for him?

[Sid Rosenberg]

It'd be Hard for the states to go after him, and I don't think many will, because the presidential pardon is sacrosanct and overrides any state issues. The thing that offends me, second to the children deal, is that Fauci knew that the National Institute of Health was funneling money into the Wuhan lab. He knew that. I mean, and the money was $660,000, big money. And it was going in there in partnership with the Chinese, who shut everything down in Wuhan. By the way, we're never going to get information about Wuhan ever. So the Chinese shut it all down.

[Marc Simone]

But.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But Fauci knew, had to know that this kind of money was going in for, quote, unquote, research. The research turned into weaponization, biological warfare. Okay. We have a disease here that we can use to decimate people, and so we're going to study how to do that. That's what they were doing.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

Yep.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's the. There's no other explanation. At the same time, Fauci is saying, I don't know, it's two bats in a cave someplace exchanging.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

Ate at a wet market that made its way to a market that then somebody ate. Yeah.

[Sid Rosenberg]

So again, if you're just an American with. Not an ideologue, all right, you step back and you go, this is a bad guy. Fauci, he put himself in a position where he's getting all kinds of. He was getting all kinds of applause from the left, primarily. I never understood that. Anyway, why would the left want

[Marc Simone]

not

[Sid Rosenberg]

to know what happened in the Wuhan lab?

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

Well, he was, to this day, President Trump. That's why. You know the answer to that.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, no, no. But he was mostly Biden. So the left, even to this day, Abby Phillip, you know her?

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

I know who she is, yes.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Okay. Okay. So on her program, she says to a guest, oh, we're not going to talk about Fauci.

[Marc Simone]

Why? There's a blackout.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

There's a media blackout. Actually, there's a lot of people who are covering with Fauci because they were.

[Marc Simone]

Because they were.

[Guest/Caller or Advertiser Voice]

They were complicit. I mean, a lot of them went along with Fauci. They didn't question the storyline. They didn't question the inconsistencies and the illogical statements that he was making, particularly when he was saying, you need to skip Thanksgiving dinner, but it's okay if you want to go out and protest on behalf of the left in the streets during the Summer of Love. I mean, these things were out in the open, and the majority of the media was happy to go along with it for the sake of boosting up his power. You can't, you know, cover something when you were complicit in it. That would be, you know, admitting you were wrong.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I don't know why you're smarter than I am, but I don't know why the progressive movement didn't want to know what happened in the Wuhan lab. Why don't you want to know? Normal human beings want to know. Please join me in Sid Rosenberg on WABC Radio.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And I do want to ask him about Anthony Fauci, but I will give you the choice. Bill O'Reilly, would you rather plead the fifth?

[Marc Simone]

I would. Because he's a weasel.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah. No other way to put it.

[Marc Simone]

You know, he's the kind of guy you're in Brooklyn. My father was born in Brooklyn. I was raised in Levittown. We slap these guys around.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's right.

[Marc Simone]

I'm sorry. Right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yes.

[Marc Simone]

When we were a kid. Yeah. This guy, I don't know if he'd get out of the stickball game.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You could add somebody else to that, too. You could add. He'd be slapped around, this Fauci creep, and so would Mom. Donnie Momdani wouldn't last a day in Brooklyn.

[Marc Simone]

Well, that's a whole different thing.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

I mean, Fauci just on demeanor.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

Just on. He's such a weasel.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Marc Simone]

You can just see him sitting there, you know, oh, boy, I'm getting famous. I don't really care what I'm seeing, and I don't really care whether it's accurate or not, which it wasn't. I'm getting famous. I'm on CNN tonight.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

You just see it, you know.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But what about. You say, too. But what about yesterday? Because people were saying to me that even yesterday when for the most part, outside of Peter Zen Blumenthal, for the most part, he was getting clobbered, humiliated, that he even enjoyed that because he was a center of attention. What are your thoughts on that?

[Marc Simone]

I think he knows he's going to die soon, so it doesn't matter, really. Sorry. Let me go. He had his. He has run, right? And now he goes, it's over. I can't come back from this. Anybody would know that. So I'll play it out. I don't want to go to jail. I don't want to, you know, be dragged in a courtroom. My lawyers told me to do this because they don't want to open up the 5th and I'll do it. But, you know, when, you know, someone and you do. We all know some people, they're narcissistic. So even though they do bad things on a regular basis, they never acknowledge it ever in their own mind. And I'm sure that's where his place is. Oh, I just did what I was told, or I really thought that, you know, the Wuhan lab didn't do it or whatever it may be. But he's not going to go home and weep, that maybe people died that shouldn't have died. Children were denied school. He misled the world on where the origin of COVID came from. He's not going to go home and go, oh, no. He's just going to go home and go, it's not my fault. Somebody else did it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And he's going to take the phone call from Barbra Streisand and Camila Kunis, and all these people are going to go. Let me tell you something. The way they treated yesterday was disgusting. You're still a hero as far as I'm concerned. And he's going to that.

[Marc Simone]

But not a lot of that. That crew. This is what I've noticed over the years, that crew, that progressive crew, once you start to embarrass them or once you get into a position where they are not morally justifiable and sticking up for you, they're gone. They're gone.

[Bill O'Reilly]

They just run.

[Marc Simone]

Huh? I mean, right? They're not Joan of Arc. I mean, they're not standing up to the fire. Okay. They'll turn on you very, very quickly. So you're not going to see Anthony Fauci on whatever channel loved and then he. Fauci. CNN was a big, big player.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Huge.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

And they covered for him this week. There's Abby. Yeah. Oh, we're not going to talk about it. Anthony, if I were on that panel with Abby, I would have said to her, you know, I would have done it. Why aren't we going to talk about Anthony Fauci? You stuck up for him for two years.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Wasn't. Isn't Scott Jennings on that panel? He would say that.

[Marc Simone]

No, I wasn't there.

[Bill O'Reilly]

He wasn't there.

[Marc Simone]

They were. They were doing some kind of other. It was Lydia Moynihan.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Oh, give me a break. Give me a break. Yeah, you know, see, but. But here's the thing.

[Marc Simone]

Some.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, but forget about Abby Phillips, the former CNN host who you're on the air with every week and you bought relevance to congratulations. I know I kill him every week, but I'm sorry. Chris Cuomo would probably still defend him. Would he Not.

[Marc Simone]

No, I wouldn't.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Really?

[Marc Simone]

No.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay, good.

[Marc Simone]

You got Cuomo a little bit wrong.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I do. Okay.

[Marc Simone]

All right. So he's a true believer in liberal causes, Democrat. But he's not irrational. He doesn't go in and say, look, I wanted to see. Because I would call him out on that if he did. He doesn't do that. So I would be shocked if Cuomo used his program to try to justify Anthony. I wouldn't think he would do it.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it wrong.

[Marc Simone]

But I'll bet you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, I think you're wrong. You wouldn't do it with you because you feel differently. He would do it with some other guests. The other 9,000 guests he brings on that are on his level of thinking.

[Marc Simone]

I don't think so. He's smarter than.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Well, bring it up. When are you on with him again?

[Marc Simone]

Well, I'm. I don't even know. I was on with Katie Pavlick last night. I'll be on with her again.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I like her a lot. I've done her show a couple of times to a 10 o'. Clock. She's very good.

[Marc Simone]

You know, News Nation is coming up in the ratings and they're kind of using me as a utility person person, as they should jack up numbers when they. But I like doing Cuomo show because it's. It's the best debate show on television right now. But you see how I want to be very. Including Cuomo. If he does it, then I'll come back on Sid and Friends and I'll say, you were right and I was wrong. And that will pain me. That will cause me angst. That.

[Bill O'Reilly]

That's funny. I don't know. Maybe. Listen, maybe you're right. And I know he's very pro Israel. I like that about Chris. I do. But I saw this guy way too many times, way too many times, defend Biden, take the pressure off Biden. Not because he thought he was physically inept. He just defended the guy at every turn. At every turn. It was moronic. It was stupid. So I can't tell you that I think this guy is rational, but when it comes to a lot of these subjects, because he still dug in as a Democrat. He's dug in.

[Marc Simone]

He's a Democrat. If your father were named Mario Cuomo, you'd be a Democrat, too. I mean, but I wasn't.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But I was a Democrat. I was a Democrat. But I. But I realized.

[Marc Simone]

But what I'm trying to tell you is he's indoctrinated. Into that world. But at times he'll go out of the world and there are pundits who will never go out.

[Bill O'Reilly]

When was the last time? When was the last time you're on with him and he had something nice to say about President Trump.

[Marc Simone]

Anything we did. I don't know the last time, but we did a photo with Trump and I know that he. That Cuomo does talk with Trump occasionally and Trump takes his call.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Angela. Chris.

[Marc Simone]

So he's not disrespectful. He just believes in the Democratic way. He believes it. He's not a Mandami supporter. Chris Cuomo, I mean, obvious his brother ran against him, but. But he's not happy about Mamdani. He's not. So you gotta look at the full canvas here. When you're analyzing people now I'm much more angry. I think that's a good word about a cnn. Yeah. Was use the entire network. All the power it had worldwide. Remember, these people are on all over the world. Okay. They bought up all of the cable systems to get that network on. And you're in Korea. There's Wolf Blitzer's. Frightens me to death. But he's there. They threw their whole weight behind Fauci.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, I know.

[Marc Simone]

Terrible. And if you step back and you look at the damage done, it dwarfs any one or two people who were misguided or whatever they did when they threw on the Fauci. And when you use that kind of power to drive something that turns out to be false and then you have no apology. You know, you didn't hear CNN going, oh, well, we're really sorry. We know. Or you know, you hear Abby, Phillip, we're not going to talk about him. Oh, I wish I were on that panel. I'd never be on that. I never put me on ever in a million years. But I want to get why not? Lady, for two years you're pound and how brilliant the man was. And now you don't want to talk about. Nope.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And all MSN now is doing this morning, just so you know. Ms. Now that nonsense. All they're talking about is how Todd Blanche should never be confirmed. They're upset that Jay Clayton got confirmed yesterday. DNI replaces Tulsi Gabbard. But now they're all over Todd Blanche, Joe and Mika. Now this Stephanie rule. That's all they care about. If President Trump wants somebody to work in the administration, they don't want them. Right. They should be talking about how Foushee lied and then of course took the fifth 111 times. None of that.

[Marc Simone]

No. I'm going to give you a little inside baseball. I never watched that network. It's like Mad Magazine, all right? Joe Scarborough will be on a cover with the tooth missing. Okay? To me, that's what it is. It's Mad Magazine. Why am I going to devote anything? And to my staff, my dictum is they are out of the loop when you are investigating anything. They don't even bother looking at what they say. Agreed. Because this is a purely propaganda situation. 100%. Usually you got a little dash of something in there once in a while. Yeah. You get somebody.

[Bill O'Reilly]

But cnn, Scott Jennings, lately, Liz Pipko, they've started to sprinkle in like, like Box does with the other side with people like Harold Ford and. But with CNN, it's 100%. We hate Trump. That's it. Not CNN. Ms. Now. Ms. Now. Ms. NOW.

[Marc Simone]

Scott Jennings made a name for himself being on that network.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Marc Simone]

And so it's not like. Ms. No. Where they just. I talked to a very big guy over there. Not going to give you his name because I kind of liked the guy. And he was, you know, we had a friend conversation and he just admitted that he's. Look, these people want to make money. That's all they want to do. They know where their audience is. Hard. Hard left. No, in the middle left. No, none of that. Hard left. And they are not going to go out of that profile. Everything is going to be reported from a hard left point of view and that's what's happening. So if you want to waste your time over there, good. It's America. You can waste your time any way you want. Just keep it legal. Yeah, yeah. So I wanted to also talk about just briefly because I know you're up against the gun. You got to bring in Travis. I'd be in on Travis's show. Show once in a while. Oh, you do? Pretty smart. But they're very confirmed right wingers as well. Go out. Fox doesn't go out too much into the area of, well, this is the key to the Fifth Amendment. Okay. And this is important and everybody should be listening up right now. Trump's going to need this. He's going to need the Fifth Amendment.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Why?

[Marc Simone]

Because when he gets out of there, they're going to come after everybody who even knows Trump. You and I are going to be indicted for something. I don't know.

[Bill O'Reilly]

No, we may not be indicted. But I'm serious. I've had people tell me the last couple of weeks, don't be Surprised if you are subpoenaed?

[Marc Simone]

Yeah. Look, if the progressives ever take over or, you know, get a majority in the House and Senate, then Trump is going to pardon a whole bunch of people in his last few weeks in office. Give me a laundry list. And starting with his family. And he should, he should. Okay. If you start to break down that presidential privilege by saying, oh, no states can override it, which they can't constitutionally, the federal government always trumps state. So if they try to lose. But Donald Trump's gonna need the part of the, the power of the part. He's gonna need it to keep people that have helped him and his own family safe from millions of dollars in legal fees. People don't, they don't understand it. Once you're indicted or once you go in, you gotta have a million dollars to hire Taina or wherever to come save you. And so you can't just be blowing the filibuster out of there, blowing the pardon out of that. You can't do it because it'll come back to hurt you. Right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

And don't forget, you know, you say indicted, this poor bastard was indicted four times. I mean, Dillinger, Gotti, the worst people. And I happen to like John Gotti, But I mean, some of the biggest criminals in history weren't indicted as much as President Trump.

[Marc Simone]

But that helped Trump.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It did in the end.

[Marc Simone]

Yes, yes, our country is right now the worst that the impeachment. And that was just so foolish. I can't believe it. All right. I mean, you know, you mentioned I wrote Confronting the President, so I know every president, I know what they went through. I know was out to get them, and I know what happened. There's nothing even comes close to in teaching somebody because he's on the phone with the leader of Ukraine going, hey, we think there's some illegality here. Look into it, please. It involves Ukraine and a Ukrainian company.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Even after, by the way, the sitting President Biden admitted to it on videotape, even after that he made that phone call, making it even more ridiculous. And by the way, if we do lose the House, I say we, me, not you. In November, here come more impeachments, more to write about. Bill.

[Marc Simone]

Now, I don't know whether you noticed this or not, but you did mention kindly, as you do every week, about my long form call, we'll do it now. And the reason we call, we'll do it now is when I was 11 years old, I cursed on television. Somebody taped it, right, okay. And then they sold it they sold the tape and it got out there in social media and it made me look like an idiot, which. Okay, that's just the way it is. So I'll do it now. Has become an enormous success. We. I cut two weeks ago, maybe 10 days ago, a 40 minute analysis of Howard Stern.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I saw it. It was great. I watched it. It was great.

[Marc Simone]

Thank you.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It was great. And you talk about seeing him at Boston University, which he still denies to this day, but you did a very good job of setting up just how you knew this guy.

[Marc Simone]

Well, I got him on tape admitting that he and I were classmates because he came on the Factor.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Correct.

[Marc Simone]

But he's kind of getting up there. But I didn't hatch it him. I didn't go in and eviscerate him.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, you didn't.

[Marc Simone]

I told the audience why his operation was disintegrating and that the viewership for that was crazy. Crazy. It was great. I'm not surprised. Today we're dropping Dr. Oz.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Love him.

[Marc Simone]

We have Oz. Yep. Okay.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's great.

[Marc Simone]

You've never seen him like this ever. And this one, I challenge you because I challenge everybody. And. But this one's about you and your health and why the government doesn't help you enough to throw off your maladies and live longer. It's fascinating. Okay. And Oz, I think, enjoyed the joust.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Sure.

[Marc Simone]

We got into why. I just want one example. You buy cigarettes. What do you got on the label caution? Cigarette smoking can be damaged to your health. Right. Okay. Why on Oreos don't you have a label that says caution sugar can give you diabetes?

[Bill O'Reilly]

It should say that. I think Bobby. I think Bobby Kennedy would want that. And Dr. Ross.

[Marc Simone]

Well, Bobby Kennedy doesn't eat Oreos because they're not wild animals. But there's no label.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Nope.

[Marc Simone]

And there's never been a suggestion of a label. That all is trash food. I have a 711 right around the corner. For me, there's nothing I can eat there.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Nothing?

[Marc Simone]

Nothing in the whole store?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Nope. Beef jerky. What about beef jerky, Bill?

[Marc Simone]

I go to the Pakistani guy behind the counter. Do you have anything that's not going to hurt me? In the whole store? You know what he gave me? What? Firewood.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay.

[Marc Simone]

Lioness and. Lioness and lie. It's all junk. It's all unbelievable. Why'd you put a picture of a dead kid on the product?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah, you should.

[Marc Simone]

Yeah. Or a cemetery. Yeah. See, and those are the questions, you know, you want to make America healthy again. Good, Good. That's a noble, noble Thing. But you got to get out there and spread the militant war. And cigarette smoking has disintegrated in America.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's basically gone. Yeah. That industry is dead.

[Marc Simone]

If you go to Greece, I mean, these people are. They got five cigarettes, two in their ears, all over. One in their nose. Yeah.

[Bill O'Reilly]

All over Europe and the Middle east is crazy.

[Marc Simone]

I know.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Israel, too.

[Marc Simone]

They smoke crazy.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I know.

[Marc Simone]

And then we find out this week that more people. Americans. Use pot every day.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Marc Simone]

Than smoke cigarettes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

I know.

[Marc Simone]

So now we have an inebriation problem all over the place. I don't know if you noticed, but to some of the delivery guys that come to my house, terrible.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Notice it.

[Marc Simone]

How did you get here? I didn't know where you are. I can't walk down any idea what state?

[Bill O'Reilly]

I can't walk down a city street without getting high every day. I don't even smoke weed, But I just have to walk down the street. New York City, I get. I get a high.

[Marc Simone]

Tragedy is if you plant yourself. And I did this physically outside of middle school in New York City, those kids are loading up before they go in, and you're talking 12, 13 years old.

[Bill O'Reilly]

It's terrible. It's terrible. I know. No, that'll be great. I had eyes in studio here two weeks ago. But nobody does it like you. I'll admit that. So I'm gonna watch that.

[Marc Simone]

All right. Let's, you know, try to isolate Fauci. You and me, we'll throw a little thing over his head. We won't hurt him. We'll just mock him.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Right.

[Marc Simone]

We'll just make fun of them.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay. All right, well, I'll meet you Manhattan later on today. We'll take care of that. Okay. All right, see you, buddy.

[Sid Rosenberg]

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