Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Bill O'Reilly | WABC Radio Correspondent | 05-21-26
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- 0:07Speaker 2: Holiday sorted two Jesus he supply. I just saw Bill
- 0:11Speaker 2: on Friday night. He took us, me and Gabriel to Cityfield.
- 0:15Speaker 2: We sat together Steve Cohen's box for the Mets and
- 0:19Speaker 2: the Yankees. It was a great time. Bill's a lot
- 0:20Speaker 2: of fun. And in terms of this business, he was
- 0:23Speaker 2: the best. He still is the best. He'll always be
- 0:25Speaker 2: the best, whether it's Thursdays with Me, Mondays with Katz
- 0:29Speaker 2: and Cosby, his Morning Message, his own amazing website billo'reilly
- 0:33Speaker 2: dot com. Great stories, great interviews, just great television news
- 0:37Speaker 2: Nation every week, is books, The Killing Series all great,
- 0:41Speaker 2: his book on the President's Confronting Evil. No matter what
- 0:45Speaker 2: this guy does, it's a home run here. He is
- 0:48Speaker 2: the best ever. My friend, Bill O'Reilly, Bill, good morning, pal.
- 0:51Speaker 2: How are you you know?
- 0:52Speaker 1: I'm glad I could be the voice of reason between
- 0:56Speaker 1: you and mister Mett. We have a little aton there.
- 1:01Speaker 1: We did, But I did not notice that Tom Hanks
- 1:06Speaker 1: was at the game. Did you notice that?
- 1:08Speaker 2: You know? I noticed he was there a couple of
- 1:09Speaker 2: days later, so he must be going to a lot
- 1:12Speaker 2: of met games lately.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I think he was. And we were there and then
- 1:16Speaker 1: mister matt went down and I don't know what they
- 1:21Speaker 1: were doing down there, probably plotting another saving private met
- 1:31Speaker 1: and we could get mister Mettler and get plugged between
- 1:33Speaker 1: the eyes just when he gets off the landing craft,
- 1:36Speaker 1: so we don't have to deal with him throughout the movie.
- 1:38Speaker 2: He was He was nice though. Mister Mattie Cohen brought
- 1:41Speaker 2: him up to the box and about the sixth inning
- 1:44Speaker 2: and his wife came to missus mett very nice. It
- 1:49Speaker 2: was funny.
- 1:49Speaker 1: You sure they're married, though I think there might be
- 1:52Speaker 1: some Shenanigans going on here.
- 1:54Speaker 2: They may be living in sin now that you bring
- 1:56Speaker 2: that up. Yes, I gotta tell you on a serious note, Steve,
- 2:00Speaker 2: and I know you know him for a long time,
- 2:01Speaker 2: and he loves you. He's I heard him say to you, Bill,
- 2:03Speaker 2: you come every night, comedy game you want. He's a
- 2:06Speaker 2: very sweet guy. Get along really well with Randy Levine
- 2:09Speaker 2: now with the Yankees, and Randy and I talk quite
- 2:12Speaker 2: a bit, i'd say four or five times a week,
- 2:14Speaker 2: and I go to a bunch of games. I don't
- 2:15Speaker 2: know Steve nearly as well, but the Friday night and
- 2:19Speaker 2: the one other time I was with him because of you.
- 2:22Speaker 2: He's a very nice man, very nice esse.
- 2:25Speaker 1: And I think he's a positive for the city. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: think he really wants to win, and he is a
- 2:35Speaker 1: very patient guy. Gotta be patient with the Mets. Gotta
- 2:39Speaker 1: be patient, you know. Can you imagine stein Brenner is
- 2:44Speaker 1: still alive and.
- 2:46Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- 2:47Speaker 1: No, all members of the team would be on Devil's
- 2:50Speaker 1: Island right now. Okay, that's where they would be. Yeah,
- 2:54Speaker 1: So I like that. I'm going to the Nick game
- 2:57Speaker 1: to night listening to you and Carton going there tonight.
- 3:02Speaker 1: It's a whole different vibe when you go to the
- 3:04Speaker 1: Knicks than when you go to the baseball games. And
- 3:07Speaker 1: I agree with you that the Yankees in the Meds,
- 3:10Speaker 1: those franchises both to me as a working class guy
- 3:14Speaker 1: from Levittown have treated me very very well. The nixt
- 3:18Speaker 1: and more upper class situation because the tickets are so expensive.
- 3:25Speaker 1: But I think that when you are ahead twenty three points,
- 3:29Speaker 1: as the Cleveland Cavaliers were and you lose, you can't
- 3:35Speaker 1: hold that. I think it's over.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Already unless they win tonight because I say the same thing,
- 3:41Speaker 2: but I think sports fans, this is just my opinion.
- 3:45Speaker 2: So I'm out of sports because I couldn't stand on
- 3:47Speaker 2: the old cliches. I think momentum lasts about five minutes.
- 3:51Speaker 2: So if Cleveland comes out tonight and takes a twenty
- 3:54Speaker 2: point lead and holds on and wins, then all of
- 3:57Speaker 2: a sudden, it's not as easy as it looks. So
- 4:00Speaker 2: I never really bought into momentum. I don't think it
- 4:03Speaker 2: matters once the clock starts the first quarter tonight, I
- 4:06Speaker 2: really don't.
- 4:07Speaker 1: It's not about momentum. It's about self doubt, and it
- 4:12Speaker 1: ought to be a champion in any professional sports in America,
- 4:16Speaker 1: you have to banish self doubt.
- 4:19Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you this about Cleveland. They were
- 4:20Speaker 2: down two games to nothing to the team that won
- 4:22Speaker 2: the most games in the Eastern Conference at top seed
- 4:25Speaker 2: Detroit Distons, and they had to go to Detroit to
- 4:29Speaker 2: play a game seven on the road, and they beat
- 4:32Speaker 2: Detroit by twenty. So you know, I can go to
- 4:36Speaker 2: the last series, a game seven two games ago and
- 4:40Speaker 2: tell you self doubt. They won a game seven on
- 4:42Speaker 2: the road. That barely happens.
- 4:45Speaker 1: It's not new York. Yeah, New York is a whole
- 4:48Speaker 1: different place.
- 4:49Speaker 2: So you're convinced, like Joe b and everybody else, this
- 4:52Speaker 2: team is on the way to the finals. That's it.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I think they're going to win, to beat Cleveland. And
- 4:58Speaker 1: then they got a like this, a seven foot nine
- 5:02Speaker 1: guy at San Antonio. Cameras on him. He's giving somebody
- 5:07Speaker 1: a cheap shot. This guy. Did you see him the
- 5:10Speaker 1: other day? I mean he's throwing people in the stands.
- 5:13Speaker 2: You know he got a hot guy.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, okay, but New York likes bruisers, but
- 5:22Speaker 1: this guy. I don't like this guy. So we're pulling
- 5:26Speaker 1: for the Knicks. And I think that they have a
- 5:30Speaker 1: psychological advantage now, sports and real life. There's a connection
- 5:38Speaker 1: between the state of the city and New York state
- 5:43Speaker 1: itself and the performance of the sports teams. And the
- 5:48Speaker 1: connection is that people feel better about their environment if
- 5:54Speaker 1: they think they're on a winner, if they think that
- 5:59Speaker 1: they're represented by teams in the arenas that are something special.
- 6:09Speaker 1: And I'm a big Jet fan, and I mean, how
- 6:11Speaker 1: long have we been waiting for the Jets? You know?
- 6:13Speaker 1: And the Giants Now they have a whole new structure
- 6:17Speaker 1: heading Johnson do well coming up. But it has to
- 6:21Speaker 1: do with everybody, even people don't follow it. You know,
- 6:25Speaker 1: if you're invested in sports and your team is doing well,
- 6:29Speaker 1: you feel better, you work better, and that is a
- 6:33Speaker 1: very important thing in America.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you this. I'll emphasize what you're
- 6:37Speaker 2: saying and show you how right you want. Do you
- 6:39Speaker 2: need that? You know that Bud Rudy Giuliani the greatest
- 6:42Speaker 2: mayor in the history of this city, one of the
- 6:44Speaker 2: finest politicians ever. When you talk to Rudy about being
- 6:49Speaker 2: mayor of New York and we know nine to eleven,
- 6:50Speaker 2: all that amazing stuff that he did, you know what
- 6:53Speaker 2: he's quick to say, do you know when I was mayor,
- 6:56Speaker 2: we won five championships? The Rangers, the Giants, and the
- 7:01Speaker 2: Yankees all won World championships. He says that almost every time.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Is it by the way, he's Jim Laider's he had
- 7:09Speaker 2: a home run, or Zippy's you know he threw a
- 7:11Speaker 2: touchdown pass, or Mark Messan scored a goal. But to
- 7:14Speaker 2: your point, he's proud of that because he felt like
- 7:17Speaker 2: that was big for his city.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Yeah, it's civic pride, it's a unifier. So when you
- 7:24Speaker 1: have a city that's divided, as we do in a
- 7:28Speaker 1: country that's divided along political lines, and you can have
- 7:33Speaker 1: any kind of mechanism that bring people together, it's a
- 7:36Speaker 1: huge positive, you know, and it's I don't want to
- 7:40Speaker 1: get too wonky about it, but it's far more important
- 7:44Speaker 1: than most people believe. And if you live in a
- 7:48Speaker 1: place where they never win, and you know, then everybody's
- 7:51Speaker 1: making fun of the teams, and you know that kind
- 7:54Speaker 1: of thing, now, ma'am Donnie don't. I don't know if
- 7:58Speaker 1: he understands basketball. I think he's a soccer guy.
- 8:02Speaker 2: He is, buddy, but he's always quick to tweet. He's
- 8:06Speaker 2: a Met fan too, very big Met fan, but he's
- 8:08Speaker 2: very very quick to tweet. If you go to Twitter
- 8:11Speaker 2: seconds after the Knicks win the one eh raight playoff games,
- 8:14Speaker 2: you're gonna see tweets from both Mam Donnie and HULKL.
- 8:18Speaker 2: You're gonna see a picture that Mam Donnie tweeted last
- 8:21Speaker 2: week with him and Spike Lee watching a soccer game
- 8:25Speaker 2: together in a Williamsburg bar and an Arsenal soccer game
- 8:29Speaker 2: together and him screaming on Twitter, let's go nixt as
- 8:33Speaker 2: if he knows even knows Bill O'Reilly, who Dave the
- 8:36Speaker 2: busher is Yeah.
- 8:38Speaker 1: I mean, look, both Spike Lee and man Donnie are Communists,
- 8:42Speaker 1: so I understand it was a wooden meeting that night
- 8:45Speaker 1: and they went in. Did you ever the Spike Lee
- 8:49Speaker 1: the guys this terracle? Yeah?
- 8:51Speaker 2: Yeah, Opening Day is you know, I killed him on
- 8:54Speaker 2: the air and every paper wrote about it, every one
- 8:57Speaker 2: because he was wearing this pro Palestinian outfit at the
- 9:01Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game, So the Post wrote about it,
- 9:04Speaker 2: the news, it was everywhere. I know he saw it,
- 9:06Speaker 2: I know he did.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Opening Day, Yankee Stadium. I'm down by the dining room
- 9:10Speaker 2: for the Legends lounge. Who walks over Spike Lee puts
- 9:14Speaker 2: out his hand, says, hey, good to see you. That's you.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Did you check your watch after that? Now? I bet
- 9:23Speaker 1: I know Lee forever and Lee had one of the
- 9:27Speaker 1: best lines during the Iraq War. I was in the
- 9:31Speaker 1: men's room at the Garden, just freshening up, and he
- 9:35Speaker 1: comes walking in. All right, Spikelee is about five foot
- 9:38Speaker 1: two and I'm six foot four, and I make a
- 9:42Speaker 1: big show out of looking down at him. Okay, So
- 9:47Speaker 1: he looks up at me and he goes Heyl Riley.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Did you find any weapons, a mess destruction in here?
- 9:54Speaker 2: Oh that's funny, funny line, Yes, that's funny.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, run along, Sonny.
- 10:07Speaker 2: So you people don't know this, but I do. O'Riley
- 10:10Speaker 2: sits right by the court. I think you're right by
- 10:13Speaker 2: my friend Corey's Helnick. So you you're not far from
- 10:17Speaker 2: where Spike least. I think he sits on the other
- 10:19Speaker 2: side of the store side, right by Mike Breen. Right,
- 10:22Speaker 2: but you're right there. You'll be on the court at
- 10:24Speaker 2: the same time. Will you say a lo too, Spike
- 10:26Speaker 2: Lee Letter, I.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Say him, say lodo. I'm sure I'm not that kind
- 10:30Speaker 1: of guy, unless you're threatening me or doing something to
- 10:34Speaker 1: harm my family. Right, I say hello to mister met
- 10:39Speaker 1: I'm checking my wallet right after if he gets any
- 10:42Speaker 1: proximity to me, I'm checking everything right, making sure I
- 10:46Speaker 1: still have the cross around my neck. He said, you
- 10:49Speaker 1: know these commonists said take everything. Uh, you gotta check.
- 10:52Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 10:53Speaker 1: No, I don't have any animis towards Spike.
- 10:56Speaker 2: No, not toward Spike. But I'm not sure that's the
- 10:58Speaker 2: case with everyone. I mean, in the final three minutes,
- 11:00Speaker 2: if I said to you, Bill, O'Reilly that at the
- 11:04Speaker 2: Knickerbocker game tonight, sitting right next to you would be
- 11:08Speaker 2: one of the most and this is a silly hypothesis,
- 11:10Speaker 2: put it anyway, would be one of the most powerful
- 11:13Speaker 2: mullahs from Iran who hates Trump and hates American wants
- 11:17Speaker 2: to continue this war in Iran? Would you say, A
- 11:19Speaker 2: lord of that guy?
- 11:22Speaker 1: I don't think I share a load to him. I
- 11:24Speaker 1: drag him out to Eighth Avenue and go, Yo, take
- 11:27Speaker 1: care of this guy.
- 11:28Speaker 2: There you go, there you go, Because where are we?
- 11:31Speaker 2: You know, I have this conversation all morning long with
- 11:33Speaker 2: Victoria Coats and others, and you know this better than anybody.
- 11:38Speaker 2: It's a good question. You know, the straight and regime
- 11:41Speaker 2: and the uranium and here we yarn's another delay, another extension.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Trump says, I'm not worried about time. I'm not worried
- 11:49Speaker 2: about I'll take it as long as I have to. Yet,
- 11:51Speaker 2: in the meantime, the midterms are coming up in a
- 11:53Speaker 2: couple of months, and there are people nervous about that.
- 11:55Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on where we really are in
- 11:58Speaker 2: this conflict?
- 12:00Speaker 1: The change from day to day, so you can't really
- 12:03Speaker 1: analyze it because of the Inteller comes in. So I
- 12:08Speaker 1: think there is a better than even chance that the
- 12:11Speaker 1: United States will have to take more military action against Iran.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But it's not a lot. When you have a situation
- 12:18Speaker 1: that's fluid, as they say, when there's really nobody in
- 12:23Speaker 1: charge on the other side, things can fall into line quickly.
- 12:27Speaker 1: And that's what the President is hoping for. He doesn't
- 12:30Speaker 1: want to kill civilians in Iran because he knows that
- 12:34Speaker 1: unintended consequences is going to ripple out. But on the
- 12:39Speaker 1: other hand, most Americans are fed up with this. They're
- 12:44Speaker 1: fed up with it, and he's got to resolve it.
- 12:48Speaker 1: And not only that, but I'm looking all over Long
- 12:52Speaker 1: Island for soybeans. I mean, we have sold what eighteen
- 12:57Speaker 1: gazillion soybeans to China. Who's getting that money? Where are
- 13:01Speaker 1: the soybeans? I want to know where they are. Okay,
- 13:05Speaker 1: the all I hear about every time President Trump goes
- 13:08Speaker 1: to Beijing is we just seld them more soybeans. Where
- 13:12Speaker 1: are the soybeans?
- 13:13Speaker 2: I don't know. Listen, I I One of my favorite
- 13:16Speaker 2: movies ever is Trading Places. Eddie Murphy was brilliant in
- 13:21Speaker 2: that movie, an all time great film, and all he
- 13:23Speaker 2: talked about me in that movie was port bellies. And
- 13:26Speaker 2: I don't know where the hell those things are. What
- 13:28Speaker 2: those things are either? You know what a port belly is.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I don't know where the soybeans are. They in the
- 13:32Speaker 1: Pacific on their way over and when they get there.
- 13:35Speaker 1: What are the Chinese gonna do with soybeans? We put
- 13:38Speaker 1: soy sauce on soybeans. What do you do? I don't know.
- 13:42Speaker 1: So there's a lot of complicated stuff here. I would
- 13:48Speaker 1: drop the soybeans on the Iranians.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Instead of bombs, I mean and missiles, drop.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Amount of soybeans. And hey, China made me do this.
- 14:04Speaker 2: That's not a bad idea. You should actually text the president.
- 14:07Speaker 2: He loves you, takes your advice all the time. Hit
- 14:09Speaker 2: him with soybeans, mister potus. You know he's going to
- 14:12Speaker 2: be in New York tomorrow in Rockland County with Mike Lawler.
- 14:14Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there''s gonna be. They're probably in.
- 14:16Speaker 1: Montalkw No, going to Ireland.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Oh that's tomorrow. Yeah, Oh my god, you are looking
- 14:22Speaker 2: forward to this trip. You went twenty four of your
- 14:26Speaker 2: craziest friends.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I bailed them all out.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Hoping the immigration authorities in Ireland and allow them in.
- 14:35Speaker 1: But that's uh, that's awesome.
- 14:37Speaker 2: So you're all going to meet tomorrow morning at like
- 14:39Speaker 2: is it later at Kennedy Point.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Everybody's got separate flights. Oh okay, Shannon, and then we'll
- 14:44Speaker 1: go down at Kilarney at the Ring of Carrie Dingle beautiful. Oh,
- 14:48Speaker 1: I mean yeah. You know, if you tour the world
- 14:53Speaker 1: and you want to see natural beauty and folks that
- 14:57Speaker 1: are nice folks and everything, that's the place to go.
- 15:00Speaker 1: And then after we uh do some R and R
- 15:04Speaker 1: down there in Ireland, then I'm going over to London
- 15:08Speaker 1: to do a special for News Nation about the civil
- 15:11Speaker 1: war between Muslims and the Old English, the traditional English
- 15:16Speaker 1: people that is really getting out of.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Control, out of control. I'm glad you're doing that because
- 15:22Speaker 2: I know about it prost hand, spending as much time
- 15:25Speaker 2: as I have the last couple of years in London
- 15:27Speaker 2: because of Ava, as you have with Spencer. That is
- 15:30Speaker 2: a very important story. I'm glad you're doing that.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be doing it, and you know me, I'm
- 15:35Speaker 1: going right to the source of it, so it'll be
- 15:40Speaker 1: an interesting few days we'll be out of town. But
- 15:44Speaker 1: you know, with the cell phones, anybody call anybody, you
- 15:46Speaker 1: can get any score you want. And I'm telling you,
- 15:49Speaker 1: it's not like you're in Bhutan someplace even there, even now,
- 15:54Speaker 1: it's connected.
- 15:55Speaker 2: Even now you got I mean, you called me from
- 15:57Speaker 2: Beijing a couple of months ago.
- 15:58Speaker 1: You remember that, right, right, And so I'm just hoving. Look,
- 16:05Speaker 1: the United States is doing something noble by trying to
- 16:08Speaker 1: protect the world from a terrorist state that I believe
- 16:13Speaker 1: is close to developing a nuclear weapon. Now Chris Cuomo
- 16:16Speaker 1: does not believe that, okay, and people believe what they
- 16:19Speaker 1: want to believe. That's what they do. I could be wrong,
- 16:23Speaker 1: you know, but if I am wrong, that's not going
- 16:26Speaker 1: to be good, okay to the powers that be, because
- 16:29Speaker 1: that's how they're selling this, and I'm buying it and
- 16:34Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. We've done our research here at
- 16:38Speaker 1: the No Spin News and Bill O'Reilly dot com. All
- 16:41Speaker 1: the weapons and inspectors say they have urrich geranium very close.
- 16:45Speaker 1: So what are you supposed to do allow them to
- 16:47Speaker 1: do this?
- 16:48Speaker 2: Yeah, supposed to because you're America first, and you don't
- 16:50Speaker 2: care how many people dying Iran except they have a
- 16:53Speaker 2: nuclear weapon which can kill people on sun Island, but
- 16:55Speaker 2: we don't think about that because Tucker said not to.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Yeah, or five gas you know, right, and you put
- 17:02Speaker 1: your own self interest above the interests of the world, please,
- 17:05Speaker 1: So that's the way I look at it. And I'm
- 17:08Speaker 1: rooting for our country to knock out these heinous Mullers,
- 17:13Speaker 1: and I hope it happens me too, but gotta happen fairly.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Sickly totally agree. Those are the three things I wanted
- 17:20Speaker 2: to see happen. I want to see us take out Iran.
- 17:22Speaker 2: I want the Knix to win tonight. I wanted Thomas
- 17:24Speaker 2: Massey to lose. And I'm feeling pretty good about all
- 17:27Speaker 2: of it. Bill, I have a safe trip. This was
- 17:29Speaker 2: a very very funny segment and fun as always. I
- 17:31Speaker 2: love seeing you on Friday night. Have fun in Ireland
- 17:34Speaker 2: and we'll talk next week. Have a safe trip, okay, PM,
- 17:37Speaker 2: All right, thank you for having me sid I love you,
- 17:39Speaker 2: Billy the best of all time. Bill, O'Reilly right there,
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