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I'm Piers Morgan, the host of the Piers Morgan Uncensored podcast. We do big interviews and, and we do big debates about whatever's getting people talking. We make news, we make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble, too. Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Piers Morgan uncensored on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Friday. The Trump administration has made a fairly significant mistake. It came from the Pentagon, the Defense Department and its chief, Pete Hegseth, who used to work for Fox News. Mr. Hegseth has told reporters who cover the Pentagon, about 90 of them, that they will not be able to disseminate information that they get without government approval. This is insane. So if a reporter gets information that a bathroom on a submarine cost $10 million, that reporter can't write that or broadcast it without Pete saying it's okay. Come on. Blatant violation of freedom of the press. And it would not hold up for 10 minutes. And in the federal court system, I don't know why this continues to happen. Pete Hegseth is a media guy. He knows the rules. You can't tell reporters what to report. That's what they do in Beijing, in Moscow, in Tehran. We are a free society here. Reporters have a right to ferret out stories. And if they are wrong, those reporters should be held responsible but never censored by the government. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com, billoriley.com name in town if you wish to opine. Let's go to mail. We got Brett Concierge member Bill, your column rightly highlights China's contempt for free expression, but where's the leadership to confront it? America's debate over speech is noisy, but at least it's free. Meantime, China jails the centers. Well, what kind of leadership do you want? China is going to be a totalitarian communist state forever. Never going to change. No leader could change it except God if he came down. It's just too powerful a nation. Carl Baker, Indio, California, Several months ago, you recommended a book on Mark Twain. It took me three months to read it. I still haven't read it. It's 800 pages. I got Confronting Evil and read it in two days. Congrats on being number one again. Yeah, our books move shoom. We don't need 800 pages. We got 300. And that's more than enough. Tim Concierge, remember, Tim gets direct access to me and a free copy of any of my books. Read Confronting Evil. Loved it. Scared me to death. Yeah, evil is frightening. Lynn Nueza, Clinton Township, Michigan. Mr. Oh, just want to say thank you for the word of the day. I couldn't agree more with your assessment that speaking properly, with good grammar, dictionary elocution is so important in life. People judge you by the way you speak and particularly when you're going for a job. Word of the day is important, all right, but not as important as a not woke doormat, which is our fastest selling item of the year. If you become a concierge or premium member on billoreilly.com, we'll give you a humongous discount on it. And you want you want this for the holidays coming up. So on Halloween, for example, you got the not woke up doormat, and I send this little message to the urchins that they get real candy. They're not getting some phony stuff in a moment, something you might not know.

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Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy and the biggest global stories going on of the day, this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon. And on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB Situation Report with excellent guests including national security insiders and foreign policy experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Also on our YouTube channel, Resident's Daily Brief.

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Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 37 years ago today, the United States government designated Rockefeller center in New York City a National landmark. While millions visit the Manhattan complex each year, few know about the life of the man himself. Here is the story of John D. Rockefeller, born in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. J.D. as he was called, was the youngest child of Standard Oil founder John Rockefeller Sr. He joined the family business after graduating from Brown University in rhode Island. In 1897, the firm moved to Manhattan. For the next 15 years, his operation used intimidation, coercion, extortion and even violence to create the largest monopoly in America. The Rockefeller group destroyed unions, intimidated political opponents, squashed all competition. The company orchestrated the massacre of workers. In Colorado, Cleveland and Pennsylvania. Tens of thousands of Americans toiled under brutal conditions. There were no safety regulations, no standard hours, no weekends. Children as young as eight years old perished on oil rigs, mines, dangerous refineries. To raise fuel prices, John D. Rockefeller slashed the supply of oil during the frigid winter months. Countless Americans froze to death. By 1910, Standard Oil controlled 90% of America's energy supply. Rockefeller himself owned 5% of the country's total gross domestic product product. His net worth, $1.4 billion. That's the equivalent today of 50 billion. Enter President Theodore Roosevelt, who despised Rockefeller and the other robber barons. He immediately sued the industrialists and he won. In 1911, the Supreme Court found John D. Rockefeller guilty of operating a monopoly. They ordered Standard Oil to be broken into 34 smaller companies. And here's something else you might not know. Many of those businesses formed by the breakup of Rockefeller's enterprise remain in operation to this day. ExxonMobil, Chevron. For more stories about the evil robber barons, please check out my best selling book, Confronting Evil. Back in a moment.

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Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer show podcast reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before. And we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer show podcast drop at 2pm East coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.

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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.