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Foreign. 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 a Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Camera footage released, murderers on the loose, Britney Spears catalog sold and Olympic latest. It's all coming up. Then. Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, we have more details on on the night that Nancy Guthrie was taken captive, it was Saturday, January 31st. She took an Uber to her daughter's home for dinner. Investigators have spoken to the Uber driver. She was dropped off back at her home by her family at 9:48pm her doorbell camera was disconnected at 1:47pm and her pacemaker app on her phone was disconnected at 2:28 in the morning. Investigators yesterday released pictures and a short video of an armed individual who was messing with the doorbell camera. Looks like a male, but he has this knit mask over his face. All you can see are his eyes and mouth. TMZ reported that activity has been seen on the bitcoin account associated with the search for Nancy Guthrie. Savannah said we believe she is still alive. Bring her home. A manhunt is underway for two people who escaped to prison. Two murder suspects, Ricky Martin, who's 20, and Contravius Holmes, 21, escaped Sumter County Jail in Georgia at around 9:30 on Sunday. Martin is 5 foot 4 and weighs 120 pounds. A black male with dreadlocks. Holmes is 5 foot 8 and 155 pounds. He's a black male with dreadlocks as well and multiple tattoos on his face and neck, including radar on his face, a dollar sign, a broken heart and the words Baby K over his right eye. I would think pretty easy to spot. Britney Spears has sold her entire music catalog all the way from her 1999 hit Oops, I Did it Again Baby, One more time. She's now 44. She was released from her 13 year long conservatorship five years ago. Bob Dylan sold his entire catalog for 300 million. Pink Floyd for 400 million, Bruce Springsteen for 500 million. Michael Jackson for 600 million. And Queen tops the list, 1.2 billion. Britney Spears sold it for a nice $200 million. In Olympics news, our mixed curling team had a great game, great match, but they got the silver. Women's hockey beat Canada 5 nothing. Our men's figure skater is first out of the first day of competition. We did get gold in the women's team combined downhill by 6/100 of a second silver in the men's cross country skiing, sprint, silver in men's freestyle and bronze in women's single luge today as ice dance medals, men's thousand meter speed skating and men's hockey begins. America plays on Thursday against Latvia in the medal count. Norway's in first with 12, Italy with 11, Japan with eight, and America in fourth with seven medals so far. I'm Mike Slater. From the podcast Politics by Faith. The great Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Wednesday. The enormous wealth being generated by establishment Internet media companies has now never been seen before on the planet. Hundreds of billions in profits are being generated, and now that wealth has crossed over into Bad Bunny land. But the bad guy was paid nothing by the National Football League for his halftime performance, not a penny. He received about a thousand dollars a day for rehearsal expenses. But the Bunny will soon hop on over to the bank because of Apple. And that is the story. CEO Tim Cook cooked up a deal with the NFL whereby close to $100 million apple dollars flowed to the league for advertising, but most of all to feature Bad Bunny at halftime. Why? Because Apple music outlets want people all over the world to download Bunny's songs, or whatever they are. Now, Cook understands that a man for whatever the Bunny is shouting about will explode on his Apple music service after the halftime show. So that was a deal, and it was a quiet deal. I learned about it and I'm telling you. So now they'll be rapping about Puerto Rico in Thailand. Cha ching, I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com billorilly.com name in town if you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Diane Kramer, Centennial, Colorado. The only explanation I have for the halftime show is that Bad Bunny was the most downloaded music on Spotify last year. Pretty sure that means he's not really meant to appeal to your and my generation. Well, correct. Diana and I don't. Look, all these people are getting all crazed about Bad Bunny. I got more important things to do here, okay? I got China trying to foster violence inside the United States. I got Iran maybe invaded for regime change. I don't Bad Bunny. I don't care what Bad Bunny does, Okay? I understand some people are indignant about it, but it's my job to report. And I'll say again, Bad Bunny didn't get paid a dollar for that show. He got a thousand bucks a day in expenses, probably less than 5,000 because he shows up, rehearses, NFL gave him expenses to move his stuff around. Didn't get paid. But Apple, and this will be my radio commentary tomorrow, they wanted bad money out there because they saw him on Apple Music. And believe me, Apple makes a lot more money now that Bad Bunny was in the halftime show. And that's what it's all about. Money. Capitalism. Eileen Pillar, Oceanside, California. Listened to the alternative halftime show instead of Bad Bunny. Then later on, I watched him just to see the talent level. Not impressed. Okay, but remember, the guy is phenomenally successful. He's just phenomenally successful. So I don't understand it. But not begrudging it in a moment, something you might not know.
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The O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 47 years ago today, the dictator of Iran was overthrown by a group of Islamic fundamentalists. Since then, Persia has been ruled by ruthless religious zealots, and we are dealing with them right now. But here is the story behind the final days of the Shah. Mohammed Pavlovi rose to power during World War II. In exchange for military support, he gave control of Iranian oil fields to the USA and Great Britain. It remains the largest transfer of wealth in human history. Total value, $7 trillion. Muhammad called himself Shah Persian for King of Kings. Educated in Switzerland, the monarch was obsessed with European opulence. He built himself mansions, drove Italian cars, even flew French chefs from Paris to Tehran for dinner parties. His wife, the Empress, had a shoe collection valued at $300,000. Can you believe that? Enraged by the Shah's lavish lifestyle, a group of Islamic extremists slowly gained support. Riots broke out. Despite brutal measures deployed by the secret police, the revolution grew. In January 1979, the Shah and his family fled the country under the guise of a vacation. They never returned. On February 11, the government collapsed. A fundamentalist cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini, returned from exile in France and was anointed the supreme leader. Immediately, the new regime created thousands of so called Islamic committees to enforce Muslim law. Women were ordered to cover their hair. Independent newspapers are banned. American media eliminated completely. Political opponents assassinated. And here's something else you might not know. Today, the clerics are even more fanatical than in 1979. Insulting the Prophet, same sex relationships or consuming alcohol can carry a death sentence. Transgender people are considered prostitutes and imprisoned. At least 5,000 Iranians are executed each year. Back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.