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All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man, that only means one thing on this radio show, and that's all things Simple Man, self-proclaimed, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly, at BillOReilly.com.
Sir, how are you?
You know, congratulations, Hannity.
That Barrett outfit lists the most popular radio shows in the nation every year.
You're number one.
Did you know that?
You know, I don't like to talk about myself like that.
Is that weird?
Oh, well, I'll do it then.
So you're number one.
I just don't, I feel uncomfortable doing it.
I've never done it in my entire career.
It's an believe me, it's an honor.
I'm grateful.
I'm grateful to this audience.
I know you're grateful when your books become number one, which is kind of like you release a book, it's number one.
It's not that complicated anymore.
But I'm very honored.
I'm humbled by it.
And it's not false humility.
But I don't know why.
I just, I feel like it's braggadocious if you go out there.
Word of the day, Bill.
I don't want to.
I'm not sure if my audience really cares about that stuff.
Well, that's okay.
I'm going to make them care, Hannity, right now.
So you're number one, the radio hierarchy in the nation, but I'm number 18 for the O'Reilly, the 15-minute broadcast, the Paul Harvey thing.
I'm number 18.
That's pretty good, I think.
You don't remember this because for a few years you did do longer form radio and you talked to me about it or I talked to you about it, whatever it was.
And I said, I'm telling you, there's a void in the marketplace after the passing of Paul Harvey, and I think you'd be perfect for it.
You just blew me off.
You threw me out of your office.
You threw books at me.
And then, you know, you didn't listen to me.
No, I listened to you, but it was at that point, you know, we were doing other things.
But anyway, so you and I have a very prosperous holiday season going on.
Killing the Legends, by the way, the book that's out now, it's the number five on the Barnes and Noble list.
And remember, it came out September 27th.
Your books sell forever and ever and ever.
I mean, they really go on for a long period of time, and it's a great Christmas gift.
I read the whole thing cover to cover now.
I'm finished with the book.
Maybe I should sell it for a buck and make more a couple of bucks and make some money.
I want to ask you a whole different question today, if that's okay with you.
What is Christmas like in Simple Man Bill O'Reilly's household?
What do you do?
What are your customs?
What are your traditions?
Like, for example, in my family, we've gone to the secret Santa route and we put a limit on how much people spend.
We don't want to make it all about gift giving and all about, you know, obviously the kids get taken care of.
And I have nieces and nephews, et cetera.
But whoever I get, there's no limit on how much I can spend.
But I'm the only exception to that rule.
Well, I'm looking forward to my gift, Hanni.
You have to be a family member, Bill.
You're a radio family member.
You know, I think I got voted in to the Hannity clan.
But I do very traditional, as you would imagine.
I mean, I have a nice 100-year home, and I put New England-type candles, white candles in all the windows.
And we have a tree, and then, you know, the gift-giving, everybody knows that it's not paramount.
And so, you know, I obviously give nice gifts to everybody, including.
See, but I would imagine, like, you give your kids, they're older now.
I would imagine you do what I do, which is giving them practical gifts.
Yeah, I give them money because they're in college, and when my daughter's in law school, but I also try to go give them something special.
I gave my daughter tickets to the Billie Joel concert for her and her six dopey friends.
I mean, that is a pretty darn good gift.
Bill, if your daughter's listening to this, you're calling her friends six dopey friends.
You know, what, seven five golden rings?
I mean, what are we going to call this song?
That's the 12 days of Christmas.
And by the way, there are 12 killing books.
Six dopey friends, one Billy Joel concert, and five golden rings.
I said, Look, is it 12 days of Christmas?
You don't want swans in the house, okay?
That's not going to lead to anything good.
And if lords are leaping on the front lawn, that might send a bad message.
So you got 12 killing books, 12 days of Christmas.
You can do the math.
But anyway, back to the O'Reilly, which is what your question was: traditional Christmas.
We go to Mass, okay?
And then I treat everybody to dinner.
On Christmas Eve, we have the home-cooked meal on Christmas Day.
Open the presents on Christmas Day, not Christmas Eve.
That's the O'Reilly tradition.
Now, do you cater the dinner or do you cook the dinner?
Because I usually cook.
My sister cooks, and she's a very good cook, by the way.
Yep.
And then we eat dinner in the dining room, which is furnished with my grandmother's furniture purchased in 1918.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it's real traditional.
Well, people don't know.
I really shouldn't even be saying this because I may end up getting you robbed, but Bill O'Reilly's house, and I've been there, is actually in many ways kind of like a mini-museum because you're a collector of historical items over the years.
And I know the expensive ones you put in a vault, you know, in a bank somewhere, but you have a lot of interesting things that you've collected over the years, and it's kind of fun to walk around and look at it all.
You know, that's my hobby, and it's a great investment, too, because American historical documents are rising in value much faster than everything else, including art, because there are obviously so few of them.
And I learn from whatever document or artifact I buy, I research it and learn.
So it's a great hobby.
And yeah, we got all that.
And we have, basically, I like Christmas to be relaxed with the capital R. Relax.
Everybody relax.
No political discussions.
None of that.
You're not throwing turkey legs at each other, nothing like that.
You know, come on.
By the way, that would make Christmas really fun if you started having one big Bill O'Reilly family war and fight.
We're similar in a lot of ways.
Like you mentioned, your daughter liked the Bill O'Joe concert.
Yeah.
Now, my son loves to go to football games, and I've often gotten him Super Bowl tickets, and I'll set up like a whole package for him.
And my daughter also now has gotten interested in it.
And so that's one gift that I like to give my kids.
I used to like to go, but I don't enjoy going to the Super Bowl anymore.
You know, it's when you're famous and that's, you know, it has its downside.
Oh, oh, no, you know, then I got the one drunk liberal jackass that I have to deal with in front of my kids, and I don't feel like dealing with it because unfortunately for them, if I have to really deal with it, it's going to get ugly fast.
Right.
So that's the downside of celebrity if you go to the Super Bowl and you're actually sitting in the stands.
And, you know, I know you're the same as I am.
I was in the deli this morning picking up a sandwich.
I posed for four pictures just at the deli counter.
And I like it.
You know, I'm not a fan.
And everybody's so nice.
I mean, they're really, very, very nice.
But you know what?
Aren't they like our customers?
And for example, whatever business you're in, you're in the service business.
And if people give you the microphone or give you the camera every day and they want a picture and they're a fan, to me, it's the least that we can do in terms of giving back.
Now, there might be inconvenient moments.
However, that has never bothered me, and I don't think it bothers you either.
No.
And 90% of the people that I encounter in New York are very, very nice.
And, you know, Long Island is our home turf.
And so it's 99% on Long Island.
You've got to stay out of East Hampton.
That's the problem.
I don't think I've been there since my kids played a tennis tournament years ago.
I walk on the street there.
Well, we've gone to lunch together and breakfast together, and people are always nice to us.
Yeah, and you pick up the tab most of the time, Ali.
I'm going to tell everybody.
You do?
Yeah.
I usually do, but I don't, but I do that as a matter of course.
I'm just interested.
And now, beyond going to mass, do you have any other religious tradition in your family?
There is a movie called Killing Jesus, okay, based upon my book.
Oh, it's based on your best-selling book?
Right.
Kelsey Grammar.
It's really excellent.
Really excellent.
But my urchins have watched it so many times that it's hard.
Do they know you call them urchins?
Do they know you say that their friends are dopey on air?
Listen, that's the least of it.
Oh, man.
You know, I would say this, though.
I've used the same term in terms of my kids' friends.
I don't want to hear about what your dopey friends' parents are letting them do.
That's meaningless to me.
That's a meaningless argument.
Come up with something better.
That's right.
Because kids can be bad influences on each other.
And we're both fortunate in that we have good kids that they don't get in trouble.
And their friends tend to be really nice, actually, in the end.
It's terrifying to me.
I mean, if you really got an idiot friend, they're not going to want to come and be in my presence.
But I tell you what, this generation, ages 16 to 30, I would say, this is the toughest generation in American history because of the internet and all of the things that they're exposed to and the culture clash and the academia when they go to college and all of the stuff that they have to see.
It is a burden.
When I was at college, it was like Animal House.
My roommate was John Belushi.
And we had a million laughs.
We would just laugh.
But the funny thing is, I'll tell a funny story.
We were at a dinner once.
I'm not going to say everybody that was there, but you were there.
I was there.
Geraldo was there.
The great one Mark Levin was there.
And Donald Trump was there.
Yeah.
And Geraldo and I drank wine at dinner.
And then I looked at you three, and then there was one other person at the dinner.
I'm not sure if that person would want me to mention them, so I won't.
And I said, you know, with all due respect, of all the people that I know, and I know all four of you don't drink at all, I said, you're the four people of my life that I think need to drink the most.
That's true.
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All right, we continue with Simple Man Bill O'Reilly.
So next year, Republicans take over the House, and they have two big powers that they can use.
One is the power of the purse.
The other, the second big power is the power of subpoena.
We know where they're headed with subpoenas.
There will be investigations into President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and their foreign business dealings.
There'll be investigations into whether the FBI is politicized, the DOJ is weaponized.
The horrific withdrawal from Afghanistan will be investigated.
The origins of COVID-19 and Dr. Fauci will be investigated.
And then the rest of the plan for Republicans, as I understand it, is to implement what they call their commitments to America.
Will that work?
It'll work to the extent that they have the goods.
So if the committees, if the oversight and judiciary committees, which are going to take on the Bidens and the FBI, Twitter, which is big story, if they have stuff that they can prove, then it's huge.
It's a game changer.
The country changes.
But if it's the January 6th committee, if it's just like, let's get them no matter what, and we're talking about Biden now, Americans are going to walk away from that.
They're going to turn their heads.
Let me ask this.
If Joe Biden lied to the country and was deeply involved in Hunter's foreign business dealings where he made millions without experience and we can show a money trail that proves that he benefited financially, is that going to be a big scandal?
Well, it's a felony because he put out his tax returns and there's no mention of that on his tax returns.
So that's a fairly easy one.
If they can trace actual cash going from Hunter Biden or services, by the way, that's what got the Trump organization in trouble in New York City, the services aspect of it.
So if they can show that as vice president Joe Biden accepted cash or services from his son, Biden's through.
He'd have to resign.
Democratic Party collapses.
That's how big a story this is.
Well, Bill O'Reilly, I want to wish you and your family a great holiday.
Merry Christmas.
Have a great time.
I hope you relax like you planned.
And we'll see you after the new year.
And it's going to be a hell of a year next year.
I'm looking forward to it.
Yeah, and I really appreciate you, me, on your program since it's number one.
If it were number four, I probably wouldn't do it.
But now that Annie's number one, I'm on every week, and it's a lot of fun.
Who's number four on the list?
I'm just wondering.
Who do you know?
I think Beck.
I thought you're friends with Clem Beck.
I am friends with him.
I do his show, too.
You know, I got a problem.
You just contradicted yourself.
You sound like a liberal.
No, I do it.
I do out of pity for Beck.
Oh, good Greek.
Get out of here.
Have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas to you, the urchins, and their dopey friends.
All right.
Have fun.
Bye.
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Corrine Jean-Pierre would not say if Biden is going to call on Democrats that took all this money from this, you know, this idiot, Sam Bankman Fried, you know, involved in this crypto scandal, and whether or not Democrats that took the campaign cash should return it.
Here's what she said.
But will the president return that donation or does he call on all politicians who got campaign donations that may have come from customer money that's returned?
So look, I'm covered here by the Hatch Act limited on what I can say and anything that's connected to political contributions.
From here, I would have to refer you to the DNC.
I'll refer you to the DNC.
I can't possibly say from the podium whether or not the people that got the benefit of money that was ripped off of innocent people, whether they have an obligation to return it, which I think they do.
And then she went into this issue.
You know, yesterday was Drag Queen Day at the White House.
And anyway, talked about extreme conservatives.
I guess they're mega MAGA conservatives bent on taking away fundamental rights from LGBTQI ⁇ .
What is the I, Linda?
I don't know what the I. What's the I part?
I wouldn't even attempt to guess.
Not a clue.
What's the plus part?
Do you know what the plus part is?
Nope.
It changes so often.
Every other day, there's a new part of the acronym.
I can't keep up with any of the acronyms.
I think I can get LGBTQ.
I think I can get that one down.
But anyway, here's what she said.
We understand, in spite of this important legislation, it is also true that there are extremist conservatives who appear bent on taking away fundamental rights, including marriage equality.
This bill provides an important measure of security and stability for LGBTQI plus families, but their children will also get attacked, right?
As we know, sadly, and their legal attacks on marriage equality will continue to persist.
That's just a lie.
Almost every conservative I know, They're libertarian in the sense that what consenting adults do is none of their business.
Nobody wants to get into other people's private lives, and I don't think they should get into their private lives.
However, when you want to indoctrinate a kid in school into a way of thinking that counters or contradicts the values that parents are trying to instill at home, and there's no age appropriateness associated with a lot of these topics, parents rightly want to speak out about it, and whenever they do, apparently they're being monitored as potential domestic terrorists, according to the Biden Department of Justice.
It's insane.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say hi.
Jay is in Arizona.
Jay, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, it's an absolute pleasure.
I appreciate it so much.
And I know you hear it a million times all the time, but thank you so much, my friend, for what you're doing.
Hey, thank you for letting me do it.
And I'm glad you checked in today.
Hope you have a great holiday, a great Christmas.
What's going on?
Well, you know, I just wanted to bring Hunter Biden up as a thought.
I keep thinking, you know, at first, Hunter Biden was, you know, where's Hunter?
We couldn't find Hunter.
Yeah, I remember.
Now they're parading him around like he's, you know, the family pet and every function at the White House, he's there.
So I'm asking, what's changed from hiding to being put out front?
I'm wondering, is there something that's possibly non-pardonable?
Or are they just finally realizing that it doesn't matter at the end?
Joe's just going to be able to pardon his son, and he's all going to get away with everything anyway.
So why as well just parade him?
Is that what's going on?
I have no idea.
Look, the president would have.
The right to pardon is absolute.
And if the president decided to give a pardon to Hunter, he would be able to do it, in my opinion.
I know some scholars, this came up during the Trump year, some scholars said, yeah, maybe not so quick, but I think it's a very clear cut that the right to pardon is absolute and Biden can do whatever he wants.
The problem is the investigation, if you listen to James Comer, is going to be against Joe.
You know, we already have the low-hanging fruit, which is Hunter Biden, zero experience, being paid millions of dollars, getting deals that he seemingly had no experience for or admittedly had no experience for.
Now the question is, did Joe Biden lie to the country when he said that he never spoke to his son, not a single time, about his foreign business dealings?
I think we already know the answer to that.
We've got photographic evidence of Joe and Hunter and foreign business partners.
We also have the laptop from hell and the implication of Hunter of his own father.
As far as what the Republicans ought to be doing, they need to focus on the positive agenda they ran on.
They need to keep those promises.
Even if they don't become law, they need to vote on every item they said they would vote on.
And then people can compare and contrast the differing political philosophies and governing philosophies and simultaneously get to the bottom of really serious issues.
One of them has to do with the Bidens.
Another has to do with whether our FBI is politicized, our DOJ is weaponized.
Another would have to do with this disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Another would have to do with the origins of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci, and whether or not we paid for COVID-19 or taxpayer dollars contributed to COVID-19.
So that's all part of their responsibility.
And with the power of the purse and the power to subpoena, the Republicans have an opportunity to get to the bottom of a lot of issues that we really need to get to the bottom of.
Can Joe pardon himself?
You know, it's an interesting question.
I believe he can.
And this came up during the Trump years.
There was speculation at the end of the Trump presidency that he might do such.
I believe that he can.
I believe that power is that absolute.
Others, constitutionalists, might disagree in some regards.
I don't see how.
Tell me where the president is forbidden for doing such because that power lies with him.
If he uses that power and it benefits him, tell me why that would then render it a power that he can't use.
Make sense?
But that's why, to me, I think that's why they're doing it.
Because they know at the end, worst case scenario, worst case scenario is they still win.
You know, somebody threw out a hypothesis to me yesterday saying that Democrats desperately want some type of conviction of Donald Trump because they're expecting one with Hunter, maybe with Joe, and that there would be a quid pro quo there.
Could that possibly be a scenario?
I have no idea.
It would be total speculation on my part.
Anyway, my friend, have a great holiday.
Appreciate you checking in.
Teresa, North Carolina, how are you?
Glad you called, Teresa.
What's going on?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for allowing me to call in.
You are an ultra MAGA patriot.
I'm a mega, MAGA troublemaker, I guess.
Go ahead.
No, I consider you a patriot.
So anyhow, I'll get to my question.
This Title 42 and the current invasion occurring at our border now.
And when they take away 42, it will be like an overtaking of the country.
Why can't Senate or the House Republicans get and their representatives with the state governors form an alliance to fight against this?
Listen, in fairness to border state governors and other governors, I think they have done their level best.
I mean, look at Governor Ducey out in Arizona.
I mean, he's welded cargo containers as barriers to prevent people from entering Arizona.
We know that Governor Abbott now has empowered his own state guard to be at the border and send people back and turn them away.
All of this, of course, being challenged by the Biden administration.
Then you have idiots like Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, saying, no, the border's secure.
It's anything but secure.
There's no definition any intelligent person could use that would convince anyone that that border is secure.
It just doesn't exist.
So with Title 42, which, by the way, it's seven days away until the end of Title 42, what that's going to result in.
Remember, it was invoked early in the pandemic by the Trump administration.
And anyway, a federal judge blocking the federal government from continuing to use the emergency health order.
And we are now expecting the biggest, largest surge at our border ever because once people get in the country, they're never leaving.
And we already know Chuck Schumer stated publicly after the election, not before the election, that he wants amnesty for every illegal immigrant in the country.
Get that.
This is total dereliction duties for safety and security on this country by the Biden admitted regime and the entire staff.
It's dangerous.
I mean, We're not checking the backgrounds of any of these people.
We know this year alone we had 100 people we caught on the terrorist watch list.
We don't know how many gotaways there might be that are on that list also.
And there's no vetting of anybody crossing that border.
And they're given false documents.
My greatest fear in this is that at some point down the road, we're going to find out out of the 5 million people in the last two years that Joe Biden's letting into the country and processing into the country with no checks and preferential treatment.
You know, unfortunately, I guarantee you, people that want to bring harm to this country are getting through and probably setting up cells within the United States.
And my fear is we're going to wake up one morning and there's going to be some terrorist activity that I can't predict.
I have a couple of ideas what I think will happen.
I have sources that I've talked to in government and I throw different scenarios at them, things that I would fear if I was in charge of Homeland Security.
And they usually look at me and say, yeah, you're pretty spot on.
Would you agree, maybe the power grid, the electrical grid?
Oh, I think the electrical grid.
You know, one thing I've worried about that should keep everybody up at night.
What if, God forbid, you know, they get a hold of these surface-to-air missiles and want to take commercial airlines out of the sky?
And what if they did it simultaneously in many cities at once?
That would scare the hell out of me.
You know, or another type of 9-11, whatever manifestation that took on.
The list is way too long of things that they can potentially do.
And God forbid, you know, we have an attack like that on our country.
But they're creating a vulnerability that need not exist.
Anyway, Teresa, have a great Christmas.
Appreciate you being with us.
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Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
Lewis is in Pennsylvania.
What's up, Lewis?
How are you?
Hi, yes.
I want to thank you guys for being there, for Linda, and you, Sean.
You guys are awesome patriots.
Thank you.
We appreciate it.
And I want to say about the 81 executive orders that Biden has signed.
It's like, what does he think is going to happen when he's putting restrictions on all these oil companies?
And it's coming down on people like me and you and all your listeners out there.
And I mean, I want to thank Mark Levin for giving me that information, you know, and you guys for doing all the research that you guys do and giving me information.
I appreciate it.
You know, and I just wanted to.
The bottom line is we have compromised national security.
We did it in two ways.
If we're energy independent and we would have held on to that, that means we don't have to be reliant on countries that don't like us for the lifeblood of our economy.
That would have been number one.
Number two, I mean, we could be helping out our Western European allies, some of whom are going to be freezing this winter.
Number three, we have high-paying career jobs in the energy sector that we're farming out to countries that hate our guts.
Number four, it would go a long way to lower gas prices and home heating prices.
That would save people money and it would have a big impact on the high rate of inflation still at a 40-year high.
And we're not doing any of these things.
So, you know, my only my plea, I would get on my hands and knees and beg Biden to get smart.
It's good for every single aspect of our economy.
It's good for national security.
It's good for job creation.
It's good for reducing inflation.
It saves the American consumers money.
Every item we buy would be cheaper because the price of diesel would be cheaper.
I mean, it just makes sense to be the master of your own destiny and not be dependent on people that don't like you.
But try and convince Democrats of that.
Good luck, because they're not particularly open-minded.
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