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| I have to add, I just can't resist, and I don't mean this as a criticism because I actually love it, but the most famous video on the internet is you shot off camera in a previous job before five. | ||
| What am I doing? | ||
| Going live? | ||
| You're going live. | ||
| We'll do it live. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Look. | ||
| We'll do it live. | ||
| Do it live. | ||
| I'll write it and we'll do it live. | ||
| Thing sucks. | ||
| I was in Iceland and I had some gnome come up to me and go, you're the going live guy. | ||
| I said, what? | ||
| I'm in Iceland. | ||
| That was in Reykjavik? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And it's all over the world. | ||
| I mean, there are Japanese guys going, live guy. | ||
| I mean, it's ridiculous. | ||
| So I'm on Inside Edition and they can't tape it every two minutes. | ||
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They go, oh, we didn't get the audio. | |
| Oh, you were out of frame. | ||
| Oh, there's a giant glob on your ear. | ||
| And they couldn't get it taped. | ||
| So finally, Irish guy went, all right, we'll do it live. | ||
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F it. | |
| Do it live. | ||
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I'll write it and we'll do it live. | |
| F ⁇ ing thing sucks. | ||
| And there it goes everywhere. | ||
| Exactly what happened. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| I've wondered about that. | ||
| But here's what people don't understand about television news. | ||
| It's like professional football, the NFL. | ||
| If you are a talent, both Carlson and I are a talent. | ||
| That's what they call us because we're on television. | ||
| You have to beat the shows that are up against you. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So when I was at Inside Edition, I had to beat Wheel of Fortune or whoever I was competing in. | ||
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Right. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Or at least come close. | ||
| You have to beat the other team. | ||
| And if you do meet them, like you did and I did, then you're rewarded with money. | ||
| Not love, not loyalty, money. | ||
| It's a pure play. | ||
| So when personnel changes, then it's all thrown into chaos. | ||
| So Tom Brady leaves the New England Patriots, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The entire dynamic of the organization changes. | ||
| Now, some might say for the better, some might say for the worse, but it's totally different without Tom Brady. | ||
| But here's where the analogy breaks down. | ||
| The Patriots didn't fire Tom Brady the minute he won the Super Bowl and then denounce him as a sex criminal or a racist. | ||
| So why would you fire the guy in your case, for example, who had dominated the space, was continuing, still number one? | ||
| Like that just seems acting against interest. | ||
| Like why would you ever fire the top guy? | ||
| Matt Lauer actually asked me that question. | ||
| Yeah, good question. | ||
| Okay, and he asked me it on the Today show in a kind of haughty way. | ||
| I said, it was business. | ||
| Pride goeth before the fall. | ||
| So I never asked them why they did what they did, ever. | ||
| But why attack them? | ||
| But listen to me for a minute. | ||
| This is important. | ||
| I never asked them why they did what they did. | ||
| I accepted it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then, as I said, we got the contracts in order. | ||
| But at the time, they were trying to buy Sky News. | ||
| And the Sky Operation runs all the soccer in Europe. | ||
| Huge money-making. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
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All right. | |
| News Corp trying to buy them. | ||
| The British regulators were giving them an awful hard time for a number of reasons. | ||
| And in my mind, I thought that might have something to do with it. | ||
| But I have to tell you this honestly. | ||
| I didn't care. | ||
| I had been there for 20 years. | ||
| It was time for a change. | ||
| When I started cable news, it was nothing, but I knew it was going to be huge. | ||
| And then I said, you know what's going to be the next huge alternative independent media. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And I just scampered on over to it. | ||
| I think there was a week, only a week before I started billoreilly.com. | ||
| We already ended up and running as a news operation. | ||
| I took a number of people from Fox with me, good people. | ||
| And to this day, it's been six and a half years. | ||
| It's the most successful independent news agency in the world. | ||
| But so you didn't spend any time locked in your bedroom with a bottle of vodka at all? | ||
| No, I don't drink. | ||
| I'm too boring to drink. | ||
| That's why I don't drink. | ||
| I don't think feeling sorry for yourself is a good use of anybody's time. | ||
| I accepted the situation, which is the key to life. | ||
| I knew I wasn't going to change it, right? | ||
| They made a decision. | ||
| They made a decision. | ||
| So why am I going to brood about it? | ||
| I mean, a lot of Irish guys brood. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| It's a brooding island. | ||
| It is. | ||
| But I'm not really a brooder. | ||
| I'm like, okay, that happened. | ||
| The concern I was for my children. | ||
| I protected my children as best I could, and I succeeded on that, I think. | ||
| But for me, it was now we're going to do this, and we're going to make this sing. | ||
| And we have. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| So you lost no time? | ||
| None. | ||
| None. | ||
| In fact, I was writing books. | ||
| I was doing radio. | ||
| I mean, my radio franchise stayed right where it was. | ||
| Nothing happened there at all. | ||
| Nothing happened in publishing. | ||
| I mean, you know, Killing the Witches is the 13th killing book. | ||
| There was no interruption in that. | ||
| The only interruption was on cable news. | ||
| And so I went to another news forum. | ||
| How did you keep yourself from getting bitter, though? | ||
| I'm just bitter about everything anyway. | ||
| So that's your easy default. | ||
| Yeah, I was like, oh, how much more bitter can I get? | ||
| I'm just bitter 24-7. | ||
| I have what they call an edge to me. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And so, but again. | ||
| Where's that from? | ||
| Levittown. | ||
| You know, after World War II, the baby boomers, 100 kids, and if they didn't like you, it was like, okay, here we go. | ||
| No kicking, though. | ||
| We had rules at Levittown. | ||
| No kicking. | ||
| Brawling, couldn't kick. | ||
| So it was pre-UFC. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No tattoos at that time. | ||
| But anyway, I have a philosophy for life that I've developed. | ||
| And I stick to it in that discipline. | ||
| I don't go to a psychiatrist because why drive them crazy? | ||
| You know, that's not fair to the psychiatrist. | ||
| If I would walk in, I don't do any of that. | ||
| You know, I think I'm here for a reason, put on the planet for a reason. | ||
| I'm trying to be an honest guy, and I make everybody that I work for money. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| The greatest thing is? | ||
| I'll never work for anybody again. | ||
| I run my own show now. | ||
| So is that the future? | ||
| I mean, what is it? | ||
| You said you worked everywhere in television. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like, what is the future of cable news? | ||
| What is the future of news? | ||
| Cable news will be there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it's like the network news. | ||
| I mean, when's the last time you said you heard somebody say, wow, did you see that on Nora O'Donnell? | ||
| When was the last time you heard somebody say that? | ||
| I don't think I ever have. | ||
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No. | |
| No. | ||
| But when Cronkite was there, and Rather and Broca and Jennings, there was juice. | ||
| Yeah, it was a real thing. | ||
| So cable will stay where it is. | ||
| And Fox will win, by the way, because Fox has better talent. | ||
| Fox wins, not because of this ideological, although they have an advantage because traditional Americans have nowhere else to go except Newsmax. | ||
| But Fox has better talent. | ||
| The talent's better. | ||
| And that's it. | ||
| So people gravitate toward talent. | ||
| I trained Waters, Jesse Waters. | ||
| I trained him. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So whether you like him or not, he's talented, for sure. | ||
| Hannah's talent. | ||
| Hannity's talented. | ||
| He can deliver a broadcast. | ||
| Did you give Jesse advice before he started? | ||
| I only give advice when people ask me. | ||
| So you yourself have never asked me for advice. | ||
| But that's totally false. | ||
| I asked some advice. | ||
| No, that is totally what I took over. | ||
| I waited in the ante-room of your office. | ||
| Yes, I did. | ||
| In fact, Ailes told me, go kiss O'Reilly's ass. | ||
| That's the first thing I did. | ||
| A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to kiss an ass. | ||
| What did I tell you? | ||
| You said it's a very treacherous business. | ||
| Mind your own business. | ||
| Just stay in your own lane. | ||
| Do your thing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I thought that was good advice. | ||
| Yes, it was. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm sorry, but I'm old now. | ||
| So I forget things. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What's your name again? | ||
| You'll hear people say the news is full of lies. |