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Will Iran Talks Disrupt the 2026 Olympics?, Why Trump Is Fed up With CNN & Jonathan Turley on the Decline of Traditional America
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Foreign. Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the no Spin News. Wednesday, February 4, 2026. Stand up for your country. Well, it's a bit calmer today. That is a good thing. Still a lot of stories going on, but calm is something we need here because there's just so much strife, not only in the USA but all around the world. I did a Piers Morgan interview today. He's over in London. And it goes all over Europe, all around the world. And we'll post that on Friday in the message slot. And I think you should watch it because Europeans have no blanking clue what's going on here. And the media over there misreports stuff. It's not like here where the press in America is partisan. So the corporate media, about 80% of it, wants the Democratic Party to win the midterms. We know all that. And so they skew their coverage to try to make that happen. The other 20% love Donald Trump. They want the Republicans to retain power. But in Europe, it's different. They don't even understand the basics of the stories, like ice. So I explained it to Mr. Morgan, who gave me a lot of time to roam, and I think you'll enjoy that. Again, it will be posted billorily.com on Friday. Talking Boy's Memo is politics and the Olympics. Okay, Friday, opening ceremonies, Milan, Italy. So, so town, not one of my favorites. If you go to Italy, you got, you know, the south, which is warmer, Rome on down, love it there. And then the north is the Alps and beautiful malay industrial city in the north. And Cortina, a resort outside of Milan, is where the mountains are. And they're going to do all the snowboarding and skiing and bobsledding, and then the ice hockey and the indoor events will be done in the city of Milan. Now, here are the deal. Here's the deal on this. So the opening ceremony takes place at 2:30 on Friday. Okay. And I think it's going to get record viewership all around the world. I think the Olympics are going to be very big this year. And the games last until February 22nd. That's long. That's a long slog. Security is overseen by the Italian government. Not sure. Now, I know they have consulted, they being the Italian government with the United States. We have the best security in the world here. May not seem like it sometimes we do. And I know that American agents are there, but I'm worried about this a little bit. There are two countries banned from the Olympics, Russia and Belarus, both because of the Ukrainian war. So they cannot show Up. Not a lot of big stars. Lindsey vonn, the skier, 41 years old, is the biggest American name. She hurt herself in the practice runs. Up. She doesn't gonna compete, but boy, oh boy, it's gonna be tough on her. But otherwise, a lot of anonymous athletes, they will become famous fast when they win. And I'm looking forward to some very good stiff competition. Now, here's the downside. At the same time the Olympic ceremonies are opening on Friday, United States will be talking to Iran in Istanbul, Turkey, about a deal. Now, as I reported last night, I had an extensive conversation with President Trump yesterday, much of it about Iran. And you know, I can't give you the blow by blow because it wasn't on the record, but I can tell you that I know a lot about it. And he was asking, and I always give my opinion when asked. I never volunteer it. I don't know whether the deal that President Trump is going to offer will be accepted because if it is, it will humiliate the mullahs. And they deserve to be not only humiliated, they deserve to be executed. And I don't even believe in capital punishment. If you read my book Confronting Evil, I got the Ayatollah on a cover. It's exactly the same thing that happened to Shah. Ayatollah came in. Now the Persians want the mullahs out. They want to have secular government. Exactly the same. Okay, so anyway, in that conversation with President Trump, something's going to happen. It's not going to be like Obama walking away from Assad, Assad in Syria. You remember the poison gas red line thing? No, something will happen, but it coincides with the Olympics. This is an unreported story. So if you got the Olympics and, and everybody's, you know, watching, and all of a sudden you've got American air power leveling the Revolutionary Guard headquarters, which would be the first target. How do you do that? So keep that in mind. The other thing is that Putin's going to cause trouble. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. But I don't know how that trouble causes, is going to unfold. I probably would predict that he will do something heinous in Ukraine. Carpet bomb Kiev, something like that. But again, he wants to disrupt the Olympics, Putin. So that is all in play. Now, the biggest attraction for me, and I bet for a lot of you, is the hockey, because if the USA and Canada get to the finals, oh, boy, you know, bad blood between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canadian team is good. American team is good. Too, But Canadians are going to be favored. But, boy, what a match that would be, huh? So, anyway, keep all of that in mind. Things are unfolding quickly. All of that happens on Friday. And that is the memo. Okay. In Fort Pierce, Florida, Ryan Wesley Ruth, 59 years old, hiding in the bushes with a gun in an attempted assassination of President Trump, has been sentenced to life in prison. He will never get out. Good. Ruth represented himself. He's a loon, but he's a loon with a long record and he's got firearms all over the place. Dangerous guy. Now, I hate to do this, but this is the no spin zone. I think Ruth's gonna serve out his term because he'll be dead. He'll either kill himself or somebody will kill him inside of prison night. Probably shouldn't even mention it, but I think that's what's going to happen. All right. The Epstein hysteria continues. And I dealt with this with Piers Morgan, which the story is just totally out of control now. Everybody knows it. So yesterday it was announced that the Clintons, Bill and Hillary will testify in front of the House Ways House Government Reform Committee. Okay. And that'll happen on February 26th for Bill, February 27th for Hill. And transcribe film depositions. Okay. And they'll answer questions. Now, we went over this yesterday. Bill Clinton social relationship with Epstein, Hillary Clinton, Epstein Clinton foundation connection. That's what it's all about. And here's what President Trump said about this. Go.
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Today we heard that the Clinton set.
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Deposition dates to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Any reaction to that related to the.
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I think it's a shame, to be honest. I always liked him. Her? Yeah, She's a very capable woman. She was better in debating than some of the other people. I will tell you that. She was smarter, smart woman. I hate to see it. In many ways, I hate to see it. But, you know, then I look at me, they went after me like, you know, they wanted me to go to jail for the rest of my life. Then it turned out I was innocent. Very innocent.
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It. All right. So fun. Kind of a compassionate sound bite toward the Clintons there. Now it is apparent to everybody that President Trump is fed up with CNN because CNN is the main purveyor of the Epstein story. It's every day, every way. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. There's only one reason why they do it, is try to link Trump to Epstein. And we all know the ratings trouble at CNN is in. And Trump knows all this, okay? And it really doesn't sit well with him. So One of the primetime people, Kaitlin Collins, who is obsessed with Epstein, no doubt she is, asked the President a question yesterday. Go. What would you say to the survivors.
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Who feel like they haven't gotten.
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You are the worst reporter. No one to see. CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile on you.
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I'm asking you about survivors.
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You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not telling the truth.
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Well, with all due respect to Ms. Collins, who I think has got some ability as a reporter, why would you bother asking President Trump about survivors? Why? What news worthiness is that? Everybody, everybody sympathizes with people who were abused. So all she wants to do is try to get a provocative sound bite. And she did, which helped her. So whenever President Trump attacks you, that helps you short term, Don Lemon. But the big picture is every day. And I'll go back to this one more time. If President Trump had any linkage to the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, the Biden Justice Department would have trotted that out in 30 seconds. They had four years to look at it. That's it. USAA knows Dynamic Duos can save the day. Like superheroes and sidekicks or auto and home insurance. With usaa, you can bundle your auto and home and save up to 10%. Tap the B banner to learn more and get a'@usaa.com bundle restrictions apply. If something comes forth, which I don't believe it will, but there's hard evidence of something. I'll report it and I'll investigate it. But I, I want your opinion on the survivors. It's just fourth grade. And this is even worse because this comes from a sitting governor. So New York Governor Kathy Hochul, you know, the usual far left profile. She puts on her ex account a smear against Trump with Epstein, okay? And it says, quote, trump, it is time to turn the page on the Epstein scandal. And then the ridiculous post goes on. Won't matter. His name is on the next page, too. So this is a smear. And the governor of New York takes the smear and puts it on her X account. You don't that no class period. All right, There's a new book out, was released yesterday, and you might want to consider. It's called Rage in the the Unfinished Story of the American Revolution. Now, it's a little pinheady But I read it, and you'll learn a lot. The first part of the book is the difficulty of getting American society and the American government running in a way that benefited all Americans. Thomas Paine, very crusty guy. Everybody hated him except me. I liked him. And Jonathan Turley, the author, goes off, goes all through that. So if you like history and you read my books, you'll like this. Then the book takes a turn into, well, are we going to be able to keep what we have here? Our republic is going to keep it because we got now a surge in AI. We got new texts, we got a corrupt media, we got academia that's falling apart. Can we keep it? So joining us now is the aforementioned Jonathan Turley. He's a law professor at George Washington University, and you see him on TV all the time. Read his columns. All right, so I want to stay in the present day because you are right in the fire zone. So you teach at very liberal university, George Washington. Some of your columns and commentary are, I wouldn't say conservative, right wing, but they're not liberal. And you do go after some people on the left. What has happened to you because of that?
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Well, I'm one of the few libertarians, conservatives, contrarians, left in academia. Recent surveys have shown that many departments don't have a single conservative or Republican or libertarian. Yale reached nirvana stage not long ago where they found that not a single faculty member at Yale contributed to the Republican Party. There's been this purging that has gone on since I first went into teaching over 30 years ago. I talk about this in Rage and the Republic, because the second half of the book, as you note, Bill, is looking at whether we can this Republican survive in what we're facing now. Part of that is what I call the rise of the new Jacobins. And the Jacobins were, of course, those people who brought about the French Revolution. Because the book looks at both the American and French revolutions and the personalities involved and asks why did one, the American Revolution become the most successful, oldest democracy in history, and why did the other become the reign of terror and what we could learn from that? And the Jacobins began as professors, journalists, lawyers, who talked about due process and the rights of man, and then they became architects of the terror. And what the book suggests is we're hearing those voices again, these new Jacobins. You have the dean of Berkeley Law School saying that the U.S. constitution is a failure. This is on our 250th anniversary. You have the New York Times regularly publishing law professors saying we have to Break the system down, you know, pack or get rid of the Supreme Court, make these radical changes. And what the book raises is that these are people who are trying to remove the very elements that got us here today, the very elements that saved us historically from the demise that we saw in things like the French Revolution.
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And in modern times in the fascist states all around the world. But why? Why would intelligent people, number one, veer so far left? Do they fear robust debate? Do they fear allowing the American people to make their own decisions?
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Well, there is this echo chamber environment that benefits many of these, particularly law professors, also journalists. They write for each other. You know, the. If you eliminate anyone who's a dissenting voice, it helps you. You get more invitations to conferences, more publications, more control. The last thing you want is someone who's going to say you're wrong. And I never thought we would be in this position, quite frankly. You know, as I said, I went into teaching 30 years ago. But more importantly, as I talk about in the book, when I went to University of Chicago, it was an awakening for me. There were people. I grew up in a liberal, Democratic, politically active family. I knew there were young Republicans. I just never met one. And I went to University of Chicago, and in the basement, the Trotskyites would meet, and upstairs we had militant vegans, and next door we had these bizarre libertarians. It was like walking into the Star wars bar scene. And for me, it was absolutely just thrilling. I loved every minute of it. I was fascinated to see people that saw what I saw and saw something completely different. My students simply don't have that anymore. Most law schools, for example, don't even have a Republican or conservative. If they do, they just have a couple. Now, keep in mind, this country is a majority conservative or libertarian. And I had a debate at Harvard with one of their professors, and I raised with him, and I like him a great deal, but I raised with him this issue that the faculty at Harvard has only a handful of conservatives or Republicans, and the student body is less than 9% in a country that's divided equally and where the majority of judges are conservative. He immediately said, well, we're Harvard. We're an elite university. We don't have to look like America. And I said, but, Randall, you don't even look like Massachusetts. I mean, Massachusetts is over 30%.
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But see, that's the key to changing traditional American society, the classroom. So if you get the urchins at age 13, and by the time they get out of college, they're 22, and all they Hear is America's Bad Stolen Land. That amused me greatly at the Stupid Music Awards. If all they hear is that, then you're indoctrinating a whole new generation of Americans to move to the radical left. So I think this is a very well thought out plan.
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No, it is. And in fact, regional republic goes into that. Because I talk about Mondami, I talk about all these socialists. The polls show that socialism and even communism are being embraced by really record numbers of young people. And as I talk about in the book, these are people with no memory or experience with the socialist governments that collapsed in the 20th century. So all they know are these sound bites like Mandami saying, I'm going to introduce you to the warmth of collectivism.
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Right.
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It's very much like as I talk in the book, when Mitterrand was elected president of France, he actually appointed a minister of leisure because he was promising the French they'd have so much time and paid by the government that he was going to have someone manage to make sure they could get all the leisure they want.
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I know.
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And of course the economy collapsed, but these kids never saw that.
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Well, I mean, the warmth of collectivism is tough because Mannami can't even plow the snow off the streets.
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So that's collapsing pretty fast. But I think that you're correct in saying that when you have a monolithic left wing educational system, and you do in this country, that's going to change the voting patterns. It has to. Now the second thing is the corporate media has bought into that. They like that. You often appear on a Fox News Channel. George Washington University can't be happy about that. Are they?
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No. I've been shunned for years, but I've been shunned since I testified in the Clinton impeachment. So if you can't be fired because I have a chair, tenured professor. So instead you're largely shunned.
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What does that mean? Shunned? How does that.
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The thing is, this is a group that'll try to take away everything that has meaning to an intellectual publication of papers, joining conferences, those types of things go. If you really sort of violate this orthodoxy.
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Have you ever had words with these people who are trying to sabotage your career?
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No, because I don't have words with many academics because I am Persona non grata.
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They don't even talk to you.
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There are very few of us left in, in academia. And it's amazing because, you know, half of the students are coming in this country are coming from conservative or libertarian families and they get to law schools and there's. There's virtually no that can share that view.
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Right.
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But you know, one of the things that worries me most, and I go into this in, in raging the Republic, is that we're going to be facing challenges that we have never encountered before. I talk about robotics and AI, but also global governance systems like the eu. But even as the book goes into even taking the most conservative estimates, this book is a roaring endorsement of capitalism. I believe in capitalism. Milton Friedman ruined me at the University of Chicago. I do believe that capitalism will adjust. But we are looking at a massive job loss that we have never encountered before. And that means we're going to have a lot of people that may be on a subsidy of the government. And the book looks at how that would change us politically, not just economically.
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Sure.
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What if we have a kept citizenry that is being subsidized by the government?
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Well, that's what happened in the early 1930s. The Hoover people come in, very conservative people, capitalists to the top of their forehead, and they booted the recovery of the Great Depression. And then FDR came in and the whole electorate changed over. But I'm very interested in your personal story because you do write in a personal way in this book. So you get on the Fox News Channel now there's pressure there to toe that conservative line. Do you feel that I haven't?
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You know, I've worked twice as legal analyst for NBC, twice legal analyst for cbs, also with BBC. So I've worked for four networks and I have good memories of all four networks. I've never felt pressure At Fox.
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I'm glad to hear that because I never did when I was there. They never, ever interfere with what I did. But when you're on there, do you understand the vilification? Because that was crazy on my, from my experience, I got attacked every hour on the hour. I never understood it. So why do you care what I say? When you got five other news outlets that are saying what you want to hear, why is one outlier, me or you? If you say something the left doesn't like, why does it bother these people? I never got that.
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I think that, and I go into this in the book as well, that part of the problem with this orthodoxy, both in the media and in academia, is that it makes you increasingly intolerant to hear opposing views, because all you hear in your echo chamber, if you just go from Ms. Now to CNN or if you don't leave that, that, that silo, you become more and more entire intolerant, which is what we're seeing. And also social media has changed us a lot. You know, I've had a lot of death threats. My family's been threatened. That was the uptick was when I testified in the second impeachment involving Donald Trump and I received hundreds of threatening emails.
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What did you tell the people? Just so if people don't remember, what did you say your crux of your remarks were? What about Trump impeachment?
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Well, I, I test, I testified the hearing and I, I was the only Republican witness and I opposed the impeachment.
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Okay.
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Which I think was an abuse. And I do, I also think the second impeachment was an abuse. But you know, it, it having been in with one foot and, and on the, on the media side for 30 years, it has changed in that social media has unleashed a lot of that rage. And you know, this book talks about rage. You know, the all country, well, not all countries, but many countries are the product of revolution. And revolutions are caused by rage. And our revolution was caused by rage. That's what the Boston Tea Party was, was rage. The problem is it's easier to start a revolution than to end it. And the reason we succeeded is we had two absolute genius figures among many. But Thomas Paine was sort of the righteous rage of the revolution, but it was James Madison who was the pious logic. So Paine knew what it would take to move a people to rebellion, and it was Madison that knew what it would take to move a revolution to a Republican. And it was the combination of those two characters.
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Yeah, they were totally opposite. Those guys there could not Be more could not. All right, professor, it's a fascinating book, Rage and the Republic out now. Good to see you. Thanks for coming on and we'll talk again soon, I hope.
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Sounds good. Thanks.
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All right, Minnesota update. So I think Tom Holman is doing a good job out there. The borders are. He seems to have calmed it down. And now he announced today that 700 federal agents will leave Minneapolis. That leaves about 2,100 left, something like that. Now, it's not a retreat, I don't think. I mean, that's how the anti Trump forces are portraying it, but I just think it's a reorganization. So if you got 3,000, do you need 3,000? If you don't need them, then cut them back because the more you have it, the harder it is to control. I think Home has got pretty good hand on. But he said something interesting today and I don't know whether this is true. And I'm going to try to get home and on next week.
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Just a note to my producers. Let's try to get the borders are on. On Monday, he said that he's now getting unprecedented cooperation by the officials in Minnesota. He didn't expound upon it. Is that. What's that? So we'll try to find out for you. Super bowl ad in San Francisco. So there is a group which I'd never heard of called American Sovereignty. This group is committed to securing the borders and making American communities safe. It is a conservative group. So it spends money down a Fisherman's Wharf, big tourist attraction, San Francisco, on a billboard. It's a digital billboard that says all kinds of good things about ice. Okay, there it is. Driving, of course, the people in San Francisco absolutely nuts because San Francisco is going to be overrun this weekend by super bowl people. So there it is. Must have cost a lot of money. They grew. American sovereignty only has 200 followers on X. So it's not a big group, but they're certainly shaking it up out there. I wonder if Bad Bunny has seen that ad. Okay. Here on Long Island, I want to congratulate the county executive, Bruce Blakeman, the police commissioner, Patrick Ryder and the DA Ann Donnelly. Probably the biggest drug seizure ever on Long Island. 300 kilos. Of kilos. Kilos of cocaine. It's unbelievable. They busted two guys. Now, here's why I'm telling you this. Number one, I think the county in which I live is doing a very, very good job policing, protecting. Why would any human being buy cocaine? Do you not understand that the pushers, who are the evil people there's nothing good about them. Are lacing the cocaine with fentanyl to make it more addictive. Do you not understand that? So you could go out like that, like Tommy Lee Jones's daughter did in San Francisco. So if you got the biggest drug seizure cocaine ever on Long island, who the deuce is buying it? How stupid. I know that a lot of addicted people don't care whether they live or die. I know that. Which is why that problem is so intractable. You can't reason with them. They want to get high, that's it. They have to pay for that with their life. They'll pay for it with their life. But my God. All right, final thought on the Super Bowl. Final thought. I will be in California. I'll leave tomorrow. So we won't be here, but we have a special on the biggest super bowl upset of all time. I think the greatest super bowl moments. And here's a look at it go. The myth then says, and I'm going to play a sound clip now. The myth then says that you were at a kind of a press event and then predicted a victory. Roll that tape.
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I get up to the podium and a guy in the back of the room yells out, hey, Namath, we're going to kick your. You know what? And that just, you know, it was just. No, wait a minute. I've been hearing that all week long. I got news for you, buddy. We're going to win the game. I guarantee you that's all there was to it. One guy in the media picked up on that statement and everybody said, oh, guaranteeing a win. Guaranteeing a win.
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That was ballsy. Did you know when you were saying that how outrageous that was?
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I didn't care. It was a wise guy that yelled out, namath, we're going to kick your ass. You know what? I said, hey, buddy, I got news for you. We're going to win the game. I guarantee it.
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Okay, so you didn't care that this was going to be worldwide headlines and that, you know.
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Are you. If you had to do it again, would you do it again?
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Absolutely. It was a wise guy back there.
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You know, I think you'll enjoy the interview with Joe Namus. It'll be on tomorrow on all our outlets. Okay, 6:00pm on billow riley.com for members and then at 8:00 clock on the first TV streaming, DirecTV, YouTube, you. You name it. All right, now I'm going to do a YouTube commentary and a post tomorrow on the economics of the Super Bowl. This is unbelievable. It's capitalism run wild. Do you realize there the top ticket now in the secondary market is $30,000 a seated dopey game? I guarantee you I'm not paying that. But the hotel in San Francisco where I'm staying is so expensive, I thought I might bunk with the homeless. That's how big it is. I'm going to give you all the numbers, and they're astounding on our YouTube bonus, which will drop tomorrow. And we will be back here on Monday. I don't know whether I'm going to write a column or not. I probably will. I'm so busy out there. But I'm going to try to write a Sunday column. Thank you very much for watching the no Spin news and listening on our radio stations across the country. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again on Monday.