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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Thank you, Bill. It is Monday, December 22nd. Merry Christmas. Here's what's happening today in America. Tanker seized, lights out, shots fired and a big movie weekend. That's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. First, the Coast Guard has seized now three oil tankers that are part of the dark fleet of Venezuela's sanction evasions. These sanctions have been around since 2017, but they've never been enforced like this. Kristi Noem said the United States will continue to pursue the illicit movement of sanctioned oil that is used to fund narco terrorism in the region. We will find you and we will stop you. If the president continues this proper blockade of illicit oil leaving Venezuela, then Maduro's regime can't last long. Took a long time for power to be restored for tens of thousands of businesses and residents. In San Francisco, there's a power outage that left 130,000 customers without electricity. The outage is caused by a fire at an electrical substation. The first outages were reported at around 1pm on Saturday. The grid was stabilized by 4:30, so no more additional outages. But fire officials didn't bring the substation fire under control till 6pm that Saturday, Saturday before Christmas, one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Not good for the San Francisco businesses that remain. And it also left plenty of traffic issues when not only were the traffic lights not working, but all the self driving cars that are all over San Francisco, they just stopped right where they were, often in the middle of the street. Shots were fired during an ICE operation. ICE was trying to detain a Cuban illegal alien in St. Paul. On Sunday morning I saw the man get into his vehicle. So they identified themselves as ice. The man refused to roll down his window. He drove off hitting with one of the ICE agents. He then was able to drive off into the parking lot of his apartment complex. Agents were able to stop him again, but then he rammed another ICE vehicle and rammed into another ICE agent. That's when an ICE agent shot at him but did not hit him. He then jumped out of the car and ran into his apartment. But before he could get there, Ice took him down. Avatar Fire and Ash opened with $345 million in sales over the weekend, 16 years after the first Avatar movie. This is the third of the James Cameron franchise. $88 million domestic, 257 internationally. The only film with a bigger opening this year was Zootopia 2 with almost $500 million over three days. This third Avatar movie was a 35% drop from the second installment that came out three years ago. Before this weekend, James Cameron had the number one, number three and four highest grossing movies of all time, Avatar, Avatar 2 and Titanic, Avengers Endgame was in there for number three. The number two movie of the weekend was an animated movie about David and Goliath. $22 million. The biggest opening weekend for Angel Studios ever. That's a wonderful Christian studio. I'm Mike Slider. From Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next.
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The O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 67 years ago today, a novelty Christmas song hit number one on the Billboard chart. The tune featured three rambunctious rodents and their adopted human father, Dave. Here is the story behind Alvin and the Chipmunks. The man behind the holiday classic was Ross Bagsarian, also known as Dave seville. In early 1958, the 40 year old musician began experimenting with a broken tape recorder. He used the device to speed up his own voice, drastically increasing the pitch. Dave soon released a popular song, which Dr. If you're old enough, you might remember the refrain ooh ee oo wa wa. Well, with a hit under his belt, the record label asked Seville to write a song for the holidays. He created three youthful chipmunks named Alvin, Simon and Theodore. In November, Dave Seville and his trio released the chipmunk song Christmas. Don't be Late. The tune was an immediate sensation. On December 22, 1958, it hit number one. Time for toys and time for cheer. We've been good. Well, a song made Alvin a household name. In 1961, the Chipmunks got their own animated show on CBS. The group was then featured in cartoons, comics, movies and more. Music. If you want to call it music. Dave Seville died in 1972 from a heart attack. He was 53 years old. And here's something else you might not know. Before making it big with the Chipmunks, Mr. Saville worked as a lounge singer in Hollywood. In 1954, he caught the attention of director Alfred Hitchcock. If you look very close, Seville is playing piano in the apartment across from Jimmy Stewart in the movie Rear Window. Back after this.
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Thursday night football is on Christmas night and it's only on prime video.
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Wide open touchdown.
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This week, the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs meet in a Christmas night showdown.
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Has the league ever seen anything like this?
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Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.
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