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Tariff Madness, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire Deal, Dr. Hal Brands on How Trump Sees the World & What Michelle Obama's New Venture Means
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No Spin News, March 11, 2025
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Josh Hammer
Welcome to the no Spin News. It is Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Stand up for your country. Well, we're officially in a trade war. Canadians are very mad at us. Is it necessary? I'm going to let you decide that because I'm going to present facts that you may not know. And I'm going to do it the simple man way, not the pinheady way. And after that, you can decide whether this trade war that we are officially in now is going to be good or bad for you in the country. I think that's fair. And that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. So let's begin with tariff madness. The overall philosophy of President Trump is that the USA is getting hosed in trade deals all over the world. Now, if you analyze the Biden administration for four years, it was only in the last few months that the Biden people started to impose or raise tariffs for four years. We just got murdered in trade imbalances everywhere. And it was business as usual. The foreign countries would charge us more for our goods than we would charge them. So Trump, he said, look, we're not going to do this anymore. It's that simple. And Trump has been very clear about where he stands. Roll it. Look, our country has been ripped off by everybody and that stops now. I had it stopped in my first term and we're going to really stop it now because this is, this has been very unfair. Our company from our country, from an economic standpoint and financial standpoint and a trade standpoint, has been absolutely ripped off by almost every country in the world. Canada, Mexico, and then you just go right down the line. China, eu, on and on. So countries abroad don't like this at all. You can understand that because China in particular, they make a lot of cheap stuff. Hats and shirts and clothing and on and on and on and on. And the labor in the communist nation of China is way, way less than it is here. So now Trump's trying to make more of a balance. Let me give you a few facts. Tariffs are paid by the company, not by governments. So you want to send a Ford Bronco to Germany, okay? Put it on the ship. It goes over once it reaches Hamburg, then the German customs people slap a tariff on it, whatever they want. And Ford has to pay that, okay? Not the U.S. government. But it makes the Bronco cost more in Dusseldorf than a German car. So the Germans buy fewer American cars. That's how it works. The United States historically has had lower tariffs than the EU and China and Canada and Mexico. Those countries and others want to protect certain products. So Canada, for example, big on dairy. They want to ship their dairy down here. They're big, high tariff. So that's how it works, okay? And Trump is going, look, you need to bring your tariffs down so we can sell more Fords and Dusseldorf. If you don't, we're going to slap the same tariff on your Mercedes BMWs here. It's going to jack the cost up if you want them, okay? So once you have this, the other countries don't like it because that hurts their businesses. Mercedes going to sell fewer cars here. Then you add on labor. So Apple moves a huge amount of manufacturing over to China because the Chinese people working for $3 a day. And now Trump said to Apple, hey, you better knock it off. And Apple's putting $500 billion back into the US economy. That's a big win for Trump. But it doesn't show up in the stock market, which is a disaster right now. And higher pricing is probably going to take hold in the long run. Apple investing 500 billion in one year and bringing back a lot of manufacturers is going to help the usa. So it's long run, short run. We are not a patient people here in America, so we react to day to day. But listen to these numbers just In January, China had $30 billion more in trade okay. With us than we had with them. They won by 30 billion. EU, 25 billion. Switzerland. Switzerland's not in the EU. Okay, 23 billion. Mexico 15 billion. Ireland 12. And on and on and on and on. So you can see. All right. And Trump is a deal maker. I don't know if he anticipated, though, how bad this trade war was going to hit the market. And that's what we are dealing with now. So in 2024, last year, the Biden administration had a $918 billion trade deficit with the rest of the world. Almost a trillion dollars trillion dollars more money out of here in trade. And came back. Trump's not going to stand for it. But a war is a war. There are casualties, and we the people going to get hurt, at least in a short term. So you have to decide whether this is right or wrong. Remember, most presidents don't get involved with this because they know people don't understand what the tariff, the trade is. They don't. Long as the American economy is doing okay. Stock market did all right under Biden. Last two years did okay. People made money. I'm not going to rock the boat too much. Little bit. He rocked it a little, but not much. Trump comes in like a tsunami. Since Trump was inaugurated, stock market has lost $4 trillion in value. Staggering. My accounts are down across the board. Dow Jones down 6, NASDAQ down 12. S&P down 8. Now, I think that's going to rebound. I'm not selling. In fact, I bought a little yesterday. Not much. I'm not a gambler, but a little a company that I think gonna go up. Who knows? I mean, it's like going to Vegas. Finally, there's a poll out today. Emerson College. You approve or disapprove Donald Trump job performance approved 47, disapproved 45. So in a month, Mr. Trump has lost 2%. And if the market keeps going down and prices keep going up, you're going to lose a lot more than that. And That's a memoir. Mr. Trump today had a business roundtable with some big shots, trying to reassure everybody, which is what he has to do. I said on News Nation last night that number one job right now for the president is to reassure Americans. Explain what he's doing, just like I did to you. If you have any questions, by the way, Bill, at billorilly.com billory.com and you might notice that the guy in Ontario runs a show, jacked up electric rates to northern New York State And I guess Ohio a little bit. 25% in retaliation for the tariffs. Well, it's. Trump slapped a 50% and Canada can't. Canada's economy is way too fragile. They can't absorb that. But it's real bad blood right now. Let's go over to the other problem that the Trump administration is dealing with. So in Saudi Arabia, is all kinds of hell breaking loose. There's the Ukraine negotiations, which are very difficult, I think. And as we finally beat Medicare. He's right. He did beat Medicaid. Beat it to death. Joe Biden's legacy for seniors. He raided Medicare, made premiums skyrocket and drove up drug costs. Worse, the Biden pill penalty is already slashing the development of affordable drugs, forcing seniors to pay the price of Biden's failed policy. Biden broke Medicare, but President Trump can fix it.
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Bill O'Reilly
It's probably the most dangerous situation we've faced as a country since the early Cold War because it's Russia and China that are working together. China has been a major supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, but it's also Iran and North Korea. Iran has provided a lot of the drones, and North Korea has even provided some of the manpower that Putin has used in this brutal assault on Ukraine. And so it's a situation where you have four of the bad guys working together at the heart of Eurasia to try to shape the wider world.
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Josh Hammer
But they're not trying to shape it in any good way. Right. They're totalitarian.
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Bill O'Reilly
That's right. I mean, these are all deeply autocratic, deeply undemocratic regimes. They all want to carve out big spheres of influence, which they would probably rule in a pretty brutal fashion. They want to bring about a world that is totally different than the one that Americans have known and have done so well in over the past.
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Josh Hammer
Yeah, well, there's no place for freedom or free enterprise at all. Reminds me of the late 1930s when you had the Axis powers, Hitler, Mussolini, and some others. Joining together to try to impose fascism on the world. And then you had Japan, which is a fascist state as well, in the Pacific. Is there any difference?
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Bill O'Reilly
I think there are some pretty strong parallels. Back then, the problem was that you had a handful of separate, aggressive countries that were all sort of doing their own thing in their particular regions, but the combined effect of that was to destabilize the wider world. And, of course, eventually the United States got dragged into the conflicts that resulted. Today you have a similar phenomenon where Russia and China and Iran and North Korea that, you know, they all want their own things, they all have their own agendas, but they're all putting pressure on the international system that America and its friends built at the same time. And if anything, they're cooperating more closely than the Axis powers did in the late 30s and early 40s.
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Josh Hammer
Yeah. Now, from your vantage point, is there anything that President Trump should be doing or should not be doing? If you were to have dinner with him tonight, would you have any suggestions for him?
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Bill O'Reilly
I think he's on the right track in terms of putting a lot of pressure on Iran. I think Iran is the weakest member of this autocratic axis, and it is the one that has been most softened up over the past year, mostly by Israel, for the imposition of this pressure. And so he's got a good chance to really squeeze the Iranians and maybe get a stronger nuclear deal than the US got back in 2015 under the Obama administration. The thing I would tell him not to do is not to think that he's going to be successful in prying Russia and China apart. You've sometimes heard this, not so much from Trump, but from people around him, that if the war on Ukraine ends, maybe the United States can enlist Russia to help contain China. I just don't think that's how it works.
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Josh Hammer
Let me challenge you. Let me challenge you on that. Okay, so we got Johns Hopkins, you. We got Harvard, me. All right. It was kind of like a little, little game show here. If Trump makes the Ukraine deal, part of that deal has to be that Putin gets back in G7, he gets back into the Western economies, we can sell his oil. That's primarily what he's got. Okay? China that he doesn't need. Putin doesn't need China as much as he needs it now. So what Trump is trying to do is lure him back into the European sector and then de emphasize, because, as you know, historically, the Russians and the Chinese hate each other. I don't know if that's gone away, but I Don't think they're buddies. And China's power dwarfs Putin's power. Putin can't be happy about that. Putin needs money, he needs commerce. So that's what Trump is thinking. Where is he going wrong?
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Bill O'Reilly
I think the theory of the case is exactly as you described it. I think the challenge is sort of twofold. One is, how much do you have to give Putin to get him to put some daylight between him and China? And I worry that the answer might be quite a lot. And the second point is that, you know, Putin knows that if he cuts a deal with Trump, there's no guarantee that deal is going to last beyond January 20, 2029. And so he will welcome, you know, reduced sanctions, greater economic engagement from with the west, because I'm sure he's not entirely comfortable with the degree of dependence he's developed on China. But he's not going to push China to the side of the road, because that's all.
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Josh Hammer
I don't think he's going to push it. But China can't do him too much good economically other than buying his oil. But anyway, that's Trump's mindset. And I think the deal is going to have to come down. Whereas Ukraine will lose 10% of its territory, but there'll be, you know, bogus elections. That's what they'll throw. And then EU will provide peacekeepers. USA will make the mineral deal, and that puts a structure for the USA inside Ukraine. And then Putin will be allowed back into the G7 and he'll go to all the meetings and all. That's what I think is going to happen. You got anything else that you think might pop in there?
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Bill O'Reilly
I would just say I still think the critical element is whether there's going to be a US Backstop for the European security.
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Josh Hammer
That would be. That would be the mineral deal.
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Bill O'Reilly
I think that's part of it. Yeah. I would just say, I think that the, you know, the Europeans know that they're going to be in trouble if they get attacked by the Russians, if the US Isn't there to help. And so they don't need the US There holding their hand every day. They just need a promise that the US Will be there in extremists if things really.
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Josh Hammer
No, but they'll up their spending. They're not suicidal over there. They're greedy, the Europeans. And interestingly enough, you look at the ambassadorships, you ought to have your students do this, who Trump has appointed in all of the European capitals. These are hard. These are tough guys. Yeah. So.
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Bill O'Reilly
And I think the Europeans have gotten the message on defense. It's just, it's just going to take them a few years to get to the point where they're a little bit more self reliant.
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Josh Hammer
Now. Americans by and large don't understand much of this. I'm not being supercilious, word of the day, but they just don't know. They don't know what tariffs are. It's why I took the time to explain it. They don't know the dynamic. They just want to live their lives. They don't want to get involved with geopolitics. They don't understand the dynamic that is taking place and the huge changes in the world. This is a deficit for America that they don't understand. Right?
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah. I think it's also a testament to the success of what the US has tried to do over the past 80 years. You know, we've been successful in, in preventing other global wars from breaking out, you know, Great depressions from breaking out. And so it's become a little bit easier to forget what all this is meant to achieve. You know, my, my grandfather, he flew, he was a navigator in B24s and B25s in Europe during World War II. And so nobody had to explain to him why American global engagement mattered. And I think we've lost a little bit of that over the years.
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Josh Hammer
Well, we have lost it now. We're in a deep age of narcissism and apathy. But here's the kicker on this. Got a lot of left wingers in the press screaming that Trump isn't pounding Putin as a fascist dog. If you look at Yalta, what Roosevelt did with Stalin, I mean he kissed him up and down, in and out, every way. And he had to know because Churchill knew that Stalin was going to break every treaty in the world, which he did, and come right across and try to dominate Europe, which he did. But Roosevelt said, look, I gotta stop this world war. I gotta stop it. I rely on physical precious metals like gold and silver to protect my savings. And the only company I trust is American Hartford Gold. A tax advantaged gold IRA can protect your savings from inflation, recessions and more. You can even roll over your 401k or IRA tax and penalty free with thousands of 5 star ratings and an A plus from the better Business Bureau. American Hartford Gold has delivered billions in precious metals. Trust American Hartford Gold to help you. Call or text American Hartford Gold, tell them Bill O'Reilly sent you for up to $15,000 of free silver on qualifying orders. 8663-265576-86326-5576 or you can text Bill to 998-899 again, 866-326-5576 or text Bill to 998-899.
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Josh Hammer
To what Trump is doing. Last word.
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Bill O'Reilly
I think there are definitely some parallels. I think Trump thinks we just need to get sort of the moralizing out of US Foreign policy and focus on hard power realities. There's something to be said for that. But I would just also point out that one of the great things about America is that we do stand up for principle in the world. And so I just hope we won't correct too far.
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Josh Hammer
Trump doesn't see it that way. He's not one of those guys. He's a businessman, cold blooded businessman. So you're right. The theory about, you know, here comes America to liberate everybody, not this president. He's looking out for Americans and he wants peace, he doesn't want war. He's not a warmonger at all. Okay. But he's not looking at it like we have a responsibility to the rest of the world to keep them safe. Would you say that was accurate?
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Bill O'Reilly
I think, I think that's a very accurate description of how Trump sees the world.
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Josh Hammer
All right, professor, we really appreciate you coming on. Thank you very much. Okay, just in my earpiece. As I said goodbye to the doctor, who was a good guest, we have learned the Secretary of State Rubio is announcing a ceasefire that Ukraine has agreed to. Aha. I mean, that's amazing. Right in the middle of this program. We're taping it late afternoon and this thing comes right in. Based upon what we're saying. Thank you, God. Now it's up to Putin. So now Witkoff is over in the Gulf talking to the Russians. What are you going to do? So I don't know the details. Obviously they'll be storming out, you'll get them. But I did predict it, you know that. But this is a very good thing. For the world. Do I have faith that a ceasefire will hold? Yeah, I think Putin needs it now. It's up to Vlad. We'll see. We'll see. You know, and Trump will punish Vlad. Trump's not afraid of him. He'll punish him. If Ukraine says, yeah, we'll, we'll stop and, and we'll negotiate in good faith. And Vlad doesn't stop, punish him. Fascinating. Fascinating, fascinating. All right, let's get back to USA politics. Michelle Obama's always fascinated me. So she is by far and away the most popular Democrat in the country. Not even close. She did not want any part of running against Donald Trump. Didn't want it. But now she's launched a podcast with her brother. Okay. And I'm not sure why she's doing it. Here's the announcement. Go. We are so excited for you to listen to our brand new podcast. It's called IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. And together, Craig and I are going to take your questions about the challenges.
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Dr. Hal Brands
You'Re grappling with in life. Because let's be real, we are living.
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Josh Hammer
Through some really complicated and confusing times and people are feeling more alone than ever. All right, now that sounds touchy feely. That's nice. Craig Robinson, her brother. All right. And they're going to talk about, you know, allaying fears and all of that kind of stuff. I think there's a little more to this, could be wrong. And this is not the Ukraine ceasefire prediction. I knew I was right on that. This one I don't know. But Michelle Obama does not need the money. Doesn't need it. Maybe she's bored. She's got the four big mansions she could just kind of run around. But she's doing this for a reason. Now her production company, all right, is running all this. She and Barack have a company called Higher Ground and they're paying for it. I don't know if Higher Ground has investors. We're going to look into that. That's a key. So if Higher Ground is a lot of money, you know, silent money coming in, I'm going to look into that. But they're funding. It's going to be twice a week. They're going to bloviate and chat and podcast it. But keep. If Michelle Obama wants the nomination for President, 2028 on the Democratic ticket, she gets it. Wouldn't be a primary. We walk right in. Okay. Black Lives Matter Mural DC Right near the White House. On a road. Not for much longer. So as we have explained, the federal government runs Washington D.C. but they have local officials. The mayor is Muriel Bowser, who totally BMW it on January 6th. And you know that. So they're removing this because some Republicans said, you better remove it or we're gonna do stuff to you. And Michelle doesn't want anything done to her, so she's removing it. Black Lives Matter mural gone. Smart Life. So I am hopefully going to get to Asia in the spring, late spring, and I'm booking a trip now, okay? Because you have to do that. You have to plan ahead more than ever before. And it's not easy even for a guy like me who's got, like, assistance and this and that. And I know everybody over in Asia. The hotels are insane. Some of them want $2,000 a night. The big chains up there, 2,000 a night, and they won't even give you breakfast. It's just like, no, I'm not doing that. So we're investigating. We're investigating small hotels, you know, that are more. Nobody. Nothing's reasonable, but tolerable. I'll take. I go on TripAdvisor. Okay? The reason I go on TripAdvisor is they have restaurants, they have hotels, and they have customer reviews. Some of the reviews are fake. And you can see the ones that are fake friends of the hotel. The hotel manager writes them. Yeah, that kind of thing. But if you go down and you look and you know what they have now on TripAdvisor? AI summaries. Fascinating. Like, they take all the reviews and the AI spits it out in three or four paragraphs. But the Smart Life profile is, if you are going to travel, particularly abroad, but you're in the USA as well, you gotta give it six months. You gotta get your plane, you gotta get your itinerary, you gotta get your hotels, you gotta get everything. You know, you're going to get host. And you don't want to be in a chaotic situation in Asia or anywhere, but particularly that far away. Smart Life. All right, in the United States, here are the seven most overrated tourist attractions according to study finds dot org. This is a consulting travel and tourism review. Study finds number one, Mount Rushmore. 2. Vegas. 3, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. 4, Times Square, New York. 5, Lombard Street, San Francisco. 6, Hollywood Walk of Fame. 7, Bourbon Street, New Orleans. Let's run them down for you in case you are planning to go to any of them. So Mount Rushmore is a good place to go. I don't care if they think it's overrated. They're full of baloney. It's majestic. They have a little light show there at dusk. But if you go to South Dakota, go up to the Black Hills after, okay? So you do your Mount Rushmore thing for a half day, a day, and you get in the car, you go up to the Black Hills. Black Hills, fascinating. A lot of history there. Number two, Vegas. You got to go to Vegas. I mean, I'm not a gambler, I don't do all of that. But the whole spectacle, what I do when I go to Las Vegas, I look at the shows and if there's something to see, I booked my trip around the shows. You don't want to go to Vegas past May 15th because it's 112, all right? You got to time the climate there. But Vegas is worth going to, not worth hanging out in a long time. All right? But it's worth it. Plymouth Rock, alright? It's not even, it's not even real. If you read Killing the Witches, you'll know they didn't land on Plymouth. No rock, okay? They're out in Cape Cod, the Pilgrims. And they kind of came across and just got out of the boat. It was freezing and wherever they could stand, they stood. There's a rock, however, Cape Cod is right around the corner from Plymouth, Massachusetts. And that's pretty primo. That's a great place to go. Times Square. Gotta go see Times Square. It's crowded, not particularly dangerous. There's a lot of cops down there now. It's like an occupied zone.
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Josh Hammer
But if you go to Manhattan, you gotta go away. I wouldn't spend a lot of time there. But you cruise on through Lombard Street, San Francisco, I could never figure it out. You're going to San Francisco and I would not go there now. It's just totally out of control. Go to Fisherman's Wharf. You take the boat over to Alcatraz. That's interesting. And Fisherman's Wharf's got some good restaurants. A little shaky because the whole town is. But that's the best play there. Hollywood, Walker Frame. No, it's dingy. It's dirty. You don't want to go anywhere near it. Louisiana is not a good place to go to now with the. With the fires and everything. Go to Orange County. Going out to Southern California. Orange County, San Diego. No, Hollywood. This stupid little thing in the concrete means nothing. Finally, Bourbon Street. Bourbon Street's a wreck. Okay, but two streets over is Royal street in the French Quarter. Royal street, very interesting architecture. You got Jackson Square, the Cathedral there. I love that. Cafe du Monde right around the corner. Bourbon Street. No, if you want to, just say you've been there, okay? But don't hang there. Every grifter in the world is there. New Orleans, very interesting place. I mean, they got The World War II Museum, the architecture. As I said, you go out to the Battle of New Orleans, about 10 miles outside of town. Well worth a visit. Don't go in, you know, July and August, but well worth a visit. So there's the skinny. Now, I do this every day for BillORiley.com concierge members who say, I'm going here. What should I do here, there, all over the world, been to 86 countries. I know what I'm doing, and I can steer you and save you a pile of money on your trips. Because the travel agents, they want to jack your. They want you to take the $2,000 hotel room because they got a commission on that. I don't get any commission. You send me where you're going if you're concierge member, and I'll. I'll help you out, okay? That's one of the advantages. Stay in history. March 11, 1945. Kamikaze warfare. Okay, so the Japanese are desperate, all right? The Americans have won most of the battles, starting with the battle of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, all of that surrounding the island. Japanese wouldn't give up. The Germans gave up, okay? They didn't give up on the Eastern Front because the Russians just kill them. So they had to fight the Germans on. They had to fight the Russians because they put their hands in the air, they get a bullet in the head. Japanese wouldn't give up to anybody. The Germans actually ran to the American lines to surrender. The Wehrmacht Japanese wouldn't give up. So they planning the Invasion and killing the rising sun. If you want to know more about it. That's it. So the Japanese decided we're going to do kamikaze warfare. And this is unbelievable. So they have on this date, 80 years ago, 24 kamikazes go up and they smash into the USS Randolph, almost sinking it, killing 26. And then they do kamikaze warfare until the war ended. Nagasaki, Hiroshima, atom bombs, and they kill 5,000Americans. 50 vessels sunk. And these idiots, and they were idiots, they get the plane, they crash the plane into the ship and they think they're going to some kind of heaven or something. It's like the Muslim fanatics. All right, so anyway, that kamikaze warfare started 80 years ago today. Good. Final thought, back in a moment. Okay, Final thought of the day. Things you can't control, don't dwell on them. That will ruin your quality of life. Okay? So as you know, Holly the Terror Dog passed last week. I have been that sad. I can't remember, but I couldn't dwell on it. I had to do the show. I had to do my work, I had to run my family. I had to do all of it. And then I decided to put a big album together with Holly Pictures, which helped, but there was nothing I can do. I couldn't do anything. All right, to save the Terror Dog, I tried. I spent an enormous amount of money and I'm glad I did. We extended her life with. She had a brain tumor. But if you cannot control what is happening, you have to accept it or flee it. So I think it's. 12% of Ukrainians bolted. They just got out because they were in the danger zone. I don't blame them. You have to either accept it or you flee it, but you can't let it consume your life because then a, you become depressed, miserable. The whole, you know, we're on this planet for a reason, all of us. A lot of people don't believe that, but if you don't believe that, you're a fool. You're here for a reason. Now, sometimes we don't know what that reason is in totality, but every day opportunities arise. There you can do some good. But if you're wallowing in misery about things you can't control, then you're not going to do that. Good. And took me a while to figure it all out because I was so busy in my younger years building a career and moving up the ladder. Think about this. But I know a lot of good people, really, really strong people, but when something bad happens, they can't get over it. You know, when your spouse dies, I can't even imagine a child dying. I can't even imagine that. But some of you have gone through it. Just have to step back. Everybody grieves differently. There's no right or way wrong way to grieve. And you got to talk to people. You got to get out. There's a lot. My sister runs a grieving operation, does a lot of good, and got to get into one of those if you have an insurmountable loss. The point of the matter is that you have to accept bad things that happen unless you can change them. And then if you can change them, you go and you try your hardest to do it. Don't accept evil. One of the themes of killing, confronting evil, not killing evil. I wish I could kill evil. I can't. But one of the things about confronting evil, a book coming out in September, is don't turn away. Usually something you can do when bad things happen, but not always. Like, I couldn't do anything more. And then that was just. I just had to accept it. Okay, well, we were. We got a big week, you know, with this Ukraine stuff and everything else and the market. We're watching. And bill@billoriley.com Any questions at all, I'm here to answer all of them that I can. Billorilly.com we'll see you again tomorrow.
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Mike Slater
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