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In 1638, poet John Milton met Galileo, who was elderly at the time and on house arrest.

just for the insistence that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Milton was 30 at the time.

Years later, he would include Galileo in his epic poem, Paradise Lost.

He wrote, By night, the glass so Galileo observes imagined land and regions in the moon.

Galileo was the first human to study the moon through a telescope, and he used this new technology to view the lunar surface.

For thousands of years, that's all we could do.

We could spy on the moon.

It was an impossible distance distance away.

It was only 50 years ago on July 20th, 1969, that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to actually step foot on the lunar surface.

It's only been 116 years since the Wright brothers invented the first successful airplane, and less than a century after the birth of aviation, humans made it to the moon.

They go have landed.

Not only did Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon, but they also returned safely with the third pilot, Michael Collins.

They even went through customs at the Honolulu airport in Hawaii and jokingly filled out the entry form.

They declared moon rocks and moon dust, and they reported that they had returned with no additional passengers.

They were lucky to be alive.

All three of them, but especially Armstrong and Aldrin.

You see, after detaching from the command module while moving around the cramped cabin of the lunar module, one of the men accidentally dislodged a circuit breaker that controlled the engines.

Then, 30,000 feet above the moon in rapid descent, the module's onboard computer began to send a signal of an alarm.

The computer was overloaded for some reason.

Each spaceflight only had two Apollo guidance computers.

One was in the command module and the other in the the lunar landing module.

So you understand, an iPhone today has 100,000 times the processing power of a computer that guided Apollo 11 to the moon.

That's enough memory to handle 120 million moon missions all at once from your phone.

NASA, Mission Control, they were about 17 seconds away from aborting the mission because of the computer issue, but luckily, thanks to the brilliant work of young coders and engineers, the crisis was averted.

The lunar module was dangerously low on fuel.

It had only 216 pounds, which Armstrong and Aldrin needed for the ascent.

If they had taken 26 seconds longer, Apollo 11 would not have landed.

Now imagine, as you're landing, you get a low gas sign on your dashboard.

Just as you're landing on the moon and knowing that if you run out of gas, there is no gas station and there's no way for anyone to rescue you.

Now, Apollo 11's forgotten third pilot, Michael Collins, was tasked with remaining in the command module as Aldrin and Armstrong descended onto the moon.

What happens if they don't make it back?

A million disasters could have happened.

Maybe they would crash, which they sort of did.

Maybe the clunky spacesuit would fail.

Maybe they would be affected by radiation.

Maybe they would get lost, bobbling through the moon's uneven gravity.

Maybe the lunar module wouldn't be able to launch.

I mean, if anything went wrong, they were stranded.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Collins later said he had nightmares about it, that there he was, alone in space, slowly unraveling, literally facing the dark side of the moon.

In an interview later with the New York Times, he said, I'm not going to commit suicide.

I was coming home by myself.

And Aldrin and Armstrong knew that.

I mean, I didn't have to discuss it with them.

They didn't have to discuss it with me.

But it would not have been a good trip home.

The scientists at NASA had considered every single possibility, including these ominous outcomes.

In fact, President Nixon had asked his speechwriter, William Sapphire, to write a speech and a contingency plan in the event of a tragedy, the Lunar Disaster Plan speech.

30 years later, Sapphire said in an interview, if they couldn't do it, they'd have to be abandoned on the moon and left to die there.

The men would either have to starve to death or they'd have to commit suicide.

The White House knew if that happened, Armstrong and Aldrin would be on their own.

NASA would have to cut off all communication, and Nixon would have to call the men's widows.

Then he would solemnly read Sapphire's speech to the nation.

That speech is gut-wrenching.

I had never heard it before.

It said,

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.

But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal, the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and their friends.

They will be mourned by their nation.

They will be mourned by the people of the world.

They will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one.

In their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

The speech concluded with a note of triumph, quote, In ancient days when men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations, they could not imagine that in modern times we'd do much the same, except our heroes are epic men.

of flesh and blood.

Others will follow and surely find their way home.

Man's search will not be denied.

But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being that looks up to the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

Thankfully, we don't know the words of that speech.

History played out differently.

The lunar module didn't exactly land gracefully.

The cabin wasn't properly depressurized, so when the lander detached, it shot out of the orbiter with enough force that the man landed four miles from their target, but they made it.

The door opened, and Neil Armstrong looked out at the landscape of gray mush.

They had no idea what they were about to feel as he leapt from the ladder onto the moon.

He spoke these immortal words:

one small step for man,

One giant leap for mankind.

President Nixon then made the first ever presidential call to the moon and told the astronauts that the whole world was proud of them and that because of what you have done, the heavens have become part of man's world.

Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours on the moon.

They ascended without any issues and returned from the command module, gritty from their time on the moon, much to the annoyance of Collins.

It's no coincidence that NASA's moon missions were named after Apollo.

A towering, complicated figure in ancient Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of music, poetry, and medicine, the patron of sailors, nurturer of the vulnerable, the god of light and sun and knowledge and truth.

Apollo represents the best that we as humans can achieve.

Our human spirit.

Because we're always dreaming of the next impossible discovery.

Before Apollo 11, humans had spent thousands of years desperate to find a way to launch themselves into space, or at the very least, they had intimately stared up at that gray rock above.

Because on a quiet night, if the sky is clear enough, We all feel a certain kinship with the moon.

And sometimes it looks so close.

For whatever reason, we wound up here, on Earth, mostly stuck on land.

Despite all of our certainty, we're still clueless about the universe surrounding us, including our own planet.

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean.

As for outer space, the more we learn about it, the more obvious it becomes that we're in way over our heads.

There are 10 times as many stars in space than there are grains of sand on Earth.

The Sahara Desert is 3.5 million square miles of sand.

And that's just one of our deserts.

The Apollo 11 moon landing, truly one of our greatest achievements, not as a country, but as mankind.

It inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

But there is plenty left over to discover.

We are only just beginning to understand our place in this universe.

We have an infinite amount of learning to do.

We've come to the conclusion that this has been far more

than three men on a voyage into the moon.

I guess it's time we all learn that there is no final frontier.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown, the unknown, or

I wish I could remember which astronaut it was.

I think it was on maybe 12 or Apollo 13

that was so calm.

His nerves were such steel that he actually fell asleep on the launch pad.

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine being strapped to a bomb and you're going to take off and you're going to the moon and you fall asleep?

You're that calm?

There's a

Greek paradox.

I'm sorry I don't remember the name of it, but

it's the paradox of a ship.

If you leave the harbor, And you have all of the replacement parts for your ship in the hole of the ship,

and you leave harbor, but as you're sailing, you replace each board with a new board.

Is it the same ship that you left with?

Is it the same ship if you replace it slowly?

Now you would say, yes.

Yeah, it's the same ship.

Okay, I replaced it part by part.

However, if it's in a museum, it's an old ship, and somebody wanted to steal that ancient ship, and they knew they couldn't just take it out all at once, they'd get caught.

And they came up with an idea: why don't we just steal it one board at a time and we'll make replacement boards, and we put the replacement in one piece at a time.

Who has the real ship?

When they're done, is it the same ship?

It's a paradox that they've been talking about since we were making up stories about the moon and moon gods.

But I want you to think: 50 years ago, we went to the moon, 50 years ago.

I don't remember the moon landing, but

I remember the excitement, and I remember the I remember my t-shirt that I wore.

But Stu remembers the Challenger explosion.

So his experience of the space program, it wasn't the excitement of Apollo that I experienced.

It was the tragedy of Challenger.

Now, the reason why I say this, and I want to point out our two experiences with the space program, is because

it was in 1826 that it was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

And both Adams and Jefferson died July 4th, 1826, on the 50th anniversary.

That'd be like Neil Armstrong and

Buzz Aldrin dying today within an hour of each other.

That's how remarkable that was.

But the people that were our age, my age, and Stu's age, one might not have remembered July 4th, 1776, but could remember

the excitement of the time.

The other,

their experience would probably be the War of 1812.

They both remembered different Americas.

I remember the America before 9-11.

Stu remembers that, but my children don't.

And as we have gone along, we keep changing different boards in this ship we call America.

We keep replacing its parts.

Are we even the same ship?

It's a paradox.

I'm not sure we are.

Because we're not the same crew.

We're not.

We're not the same.

We don't have the same planks.

So, what does it require?

to be able to claim, yeah, this is the same ship.

A renewal of our mission statement that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator, and governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.

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You know,

I saw a poll today where most Americans don't think the moon landing changed their life at all.

Really didn't.

It wasn't really worth it.

It didn't really affect, it didn't really affect us really at all.

Nah, it didn't.

You have no idea.

Let me give you just some of the things that came from the moon

launch.

Baby formula.

Baby formula.

They needed to figure out how to get nutrition into a liquid form, and that's the beginning of baby formulas.

Your computer mouse,

that was coming from the space program.

Believe it or not, comfortable running shoes.

You notice our shoes are very different than the converse we had in the 60s.

That's because they had to make a molding process for the helmets that the astronauts wore.

And they had to take this rubber and form it inside of the helmet.

And they realized, wow, that could work for shoes.

I didn't know about that one.

Yeah.

Cell phone and cell phone cameras.

The camera technology that we now have in your iPhone that was originally

designed for the space program, so you could have cameras.

The microwave oven.

We also have ice-resistant airplanes.

So

when you have icing, we wouldn't be flying in the winter if it wasn't for the space program.

You also have scratch-resistant lenses.

Those were a product of the space program.

Safer highways.

As they were trying to figure out how do we land some of these things when we got to the space shuttle, how do we land this?

They were very concerned.

Remember,

landing the space shuttle is like a flying brick.

You're just falling.

It's a controlled crash.

There's not much you can do.

And so you're traveling at this high rate of speed.

And they were afraid that if there was anything on the tarmac, if there was any kind of dust, rain, anything,

that thing could slide right off of the tarmac.

So they invented the grooved

pavement.

If you've ever lived in Seattle,

you have

most of your traffic accidents that didn't happen.

You have NASA to thank for it.

Water filtration, survival blankets, invisible braces originally developed for NASA for use in missile tracking.

Temper form, if you've ever had, or foam, if you've ever had a tempurpedic bed, that temper form

comes from NASA.

Can we back up for just a second?

You said NASA is responsible for survival blankets, the thing they're wrapping those poor children that have been separated from their families on the border in.

So NASA's responsible

racist.

Unbelievable.

Racist.

Yeah.

So anyway, GPS technology.

I can't get around without it.

Nobody knows how to use a map.

I would never get around anyway.

I couldn't get home this afternoon without it.

Think about without GPS, because I don't.

I use GPS on everything.

I used to be, remember how good I used to be on just navigating around?

You could drop me in any city, and I could be like, it's that way.

Now I'm completely lost.

I have no idea where I'm at at any time.

In the DFW, I have no idea because I always use GPS.

And so you don't learn it.

It's not good.

No, it's not probably not good.

Do you remember when I was talking to Ray Kurzweil?

And I said, he was talking about how you're going to interface with the internet, something that Elon Musk just introduced this week, but you're going to interface with the internet.

And he said, you can upgrade.

And I said, won't that make us weaker?

Because we won't have to really learn anything.

Won't that make us weaker?

And he said, no, no, it'll make us stronger.

I wish I would have thought of the GPS example

because I'm much weaker on directions now.

For sure.

Another example I would give is spelling.

Like, I mean, there was a time in which, you know,

people

had to learn how to spell.

Now you kind of, yeah, you type in the general word into Google.

It pops up.

You're like, oh, that's how you spell it.

And you change it.

Like, you know, you're typing an email and it just auto-corrects the way you're spelling it.

But it also makes you a quitter because after about three times of trying to spell the word and it won't give you a suggestion, you change the word.

Oh, that's the ultimate failure.

That ultimate failure moment.

You can take take it close enough for Google to try to figure out what you're trying to write.

That's bad.

That's like

I went on vacation last week, and I have a scale at home.

And the scale is one of these Wi-Fi scales that, like, you know, you get on it, and it tells, you know, it records your weight over time, which is what you'll see a freaking roller coaster.

Is it right of a vacuum?

Is it the one when Jeffy gets on, it says one at a time, please?

Is that one?

Yeah.

But in all seriousness, I went on vacation, and when I came back, it didn't recognize me as the same person.

Because it assumes when you step on it,

like you're just like, okay, well, this person weighs 100 pounds, and now they're 102, so it must be that person.

It like categorized, like my kid, when Zach steps on it, he's like, what, 50 pounds, and then he's 52, and it knows it's Zach.

I gained so much weight that it was like, who's this person?

Shut up.

Like, who the hell's this?

Really?

And then I swear, and I don't know about this part of it, but then I brought it home.

And on the day I flew back from the airport, I put put my iPhone up to my face, and it would not do the face ID.

I'm like, did I get so fat my iPhone can't recognize me anymore?

I got to tell you, I have

the face recognition thing.

It won't ever recognize my face.

I like hold it up and says, camera is covered.

I'm like, camera's not covered.

Doesn't recognize face.

I'm like, it's me.

It's me.

Oh, wait, that's your face covering the camera.

That's right.

It could be the same problem.

It could be.

It could be.

I mean,

it's just ridiculous.

You know, and I was thinking today about

how the mark of the beast, you know, I get up and take a shower and I'm thinking about the mark of the beast.

I was actually thinking about technology, which led me to the Elon Musk thing.

And would I take that?

Would I want my daughter to have that?

Because

she'll be a candidate for that.

Yeah.

And it will change her.

And then I thought.

Look at the benefits of that.

And then that's where I started with Mark of the Beast.

I'm like, injected into your head.

No, that's not forehead, so it probably wouldn't be that.

And then I started thinking about the people in Sweden that are putting it underneath their hand right now.

There's 4,000 people now that have put that little grain of rice thing that gives you access to everything.

You don't have to have ID.

You don't have to have money.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I thought, you know,

I remember saying, there's no way I'm going to give the government my fingerprints.

Never will I give the government my fingerprints.

I'm going this week to, or next week, to the

Department of Homeland Security or whatever it is to get global pass.

Oh, global entry?

Yeah, global entry, where you have to give them your whole handprint.

It's fantastic.

I'm doing it for,

yep,

I want the convenience.

Oh, it's going to save you a good 20 minutes in that line, and that's worth it.

Right.

Isn't that crazy?

I would have never given the government, but now for convenience, I will.

Next, no.

Remember when we used to talk about face recognition and how bad that is?

I just gave it to Apple.

Oh, yeah.

Who we know, I mean, all these guys are in bed with the government.

This is not good.

We know the walls are closing in, and we're like, yeah, let me give you my face print, too.

We're talking a good savings of a half second every time you get in.

So that adds up.

When it comes to the mark of the beast,

and you're implanting a chip because there is no other way to have money, Right.

Everyone's going to do it.

There's going to be such a small number of people, which then brought me to, I have got to teach the book of Revelation to my children because they didn't grow up with it like I did.

I mean, I went to a Catholic school.

They were like, and the devil is coming maybe tonight.

And you're like, whoa, I'm four.

Why do I have to learn this now?

Now we really need to teach our children about those signs because it could happen.

How long was was this shower?

That was actually about three minutes.

No, I used to think the same thing because I remember hearing that story as a kid, the whole Mark of the Beast thing, and thinking to myself, like,

wouldn't they just not do that then?

We all know this is a possibility, right?

And bad things are associated with it.

So maybe like right before when they're like, oh, we're going to inject you, everyone would just say, well, no, remember the whole Bible thing?

Like, we already talked about this.

We're losing that.

Oh, first of of all,

we're losing it.

And second of all, it is

we just don't think, like, it overwhelms us in slow spurts, right?

Because we assumed that the mark of the beast was going to be presented like, all right, you have to sign up for this or I'm going to show you dead.

We didn't see the convenience factor coming.

Did anybody see that the president was vomiting pea soup and his head was spinning around?

I don't think we should take this.

It's not going to be.

It's not that way.

It's that, hey, this technology is great.

In fact, it could save your children.

If they're ever kidnapped, it comes with GPS in it, and we'll be able to track down your kids and save them.

Try this out for size.

Think of the convenience and how

right now, we know that China is closing the doors on their society.

Google is part of it.

Google is part of it.

We also know all the surveillance technology is being built here in America, just not by the state.

And yet, we know that Facebook is silencing us.

We know that Facebook is bad for us.

We know that Google is really a dangerous company.

It is.

And we just keep doing it.

And we just keep doing it.

Deeper and deeper.

Do you remember the...

Did you watch the you?

I think you did watch Continuum, didn't you?

Yes, I did.

Which it starts out in 2077 in the future.

and then they come back to 2012 through time travel.

But the point of the future is that corporations have taken over and they are the government.

And I used to think, I used to think.

It's so ridiculous.

Come on.

Corporations are going to be the government.

Wow.

Are we headed in that direction or what?

Science fiction writers.

I've been reading a lot of science fiction lately, a lot.

And I've even gone back to...

Right now I'm just reading Frankenstein and going back and just seeing what, you know, why did Mary Shelley Shelley write Frankenstein?

It was what was going on in her life.

She was really a tortured soul.

She had lost her daughter, I think.

Really horrible things had happened, but she had attended a science

show, if you will,

that showed reanimation.

And it just showed electricity and how they took a dead frog, attached electrodes to it, then, you know, generated some electricity, hit those electrodes, and the frog moved.

Okay.

And so it was her sense.

She snapped back to life.

Yeah.

Just moved.

And nobody had ever seen that before.

And so the idea back then was science might be able to regenerate life.

Okay.

Didn't have that, don't have that ability.

But science.

The same thing happened with we can create the perfect human back in the 40s and 30s with the Nazis.

It didn't work.

We now have the technology to do some of these things.

So man has been going down this road for a very, very long time.

And

science is just catching up to man's most terrific and horrific dreams.

And it's here.

It's really here this time.

And I don't think we're thinking about it because we're so so distracted by, oh, I got so many likes on Facebook.

Yeah.

And we've just become used to all this stuff.

I remember when I was in Houston, and the toll tag thing was a big deal to

Texans.

Like, I'm going to get neck because they'll know wherever I am.

They'll see that on the toll.

They'll know where I am.

They'll know my name.

And they'll know all my.

Now we give up our information so quickly and so easily.

We don't even think about it anymore.

You know, and nobody is talking in Congress about protecting our information.

That one of the biggest things things that could be done right now and should be done is that you are in charge.

You are the only owner of any information that

is on you.

So in other words, any Facebook or anybody else collecting things, you have access to it and you can say,

dump it.

It's mine.

That's me.

That's part of me.

It's the way it should be.

It's the way it should be.

But we're not demanding it.

We're allowing people to do profiles on us.

Our spouses don't know us as well as Facebook knows us.

We most likely don't know ourselves as well as Facebook knows us.

And certainly Google.

How much information do they have?

And you have no access to it.

That's me.

That's mine.

That's part of me.

We've given it up for free.

The government needs to say, you have no right to that information.

Pat, anything in particular on the podcast you want to direct people to today?

Just Pat Gray Unleashed

in general, because it's all, you know, it's all just fantastic.

It's all fantastic.

Brilliant genius.

All right, all right.

Thank you very much.

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Bill O'Reilly is here to talk about it with us, and as well as all the other things that happened this weekend.

There's a lot revolving around the president, but

let's start with the moon landing.

Bill, how are you?

Good.

Can you, just before we get to that, can you spell that boot again?

No, I can't.

No, I can't.

I really can't.

Thank you.

Can you hold up big cards for Beck?

Yes, please, somebody.

Thank you.

All right.

So, Bill, you were, what, 68 when we landed on the moon?

I was there.

You were there?

Yeah.

I was there.

Nobody knew.

I stowed away on the Apollo spacecraft.

What is your memory of the day that we landed on the moon?

I don't really have too much of a memory of that.

Seriously?

No, you know, you got to understand my persona.

I have trouble putting gas gas in my car at the self-service.

Yeah.

You know, when I have to put the card in and then the nozzle in and then this button.

So technology just frightens me.

I do remember watching it and feeling proud of my country.

That was number one.

And number two, I just have no idea how they pull this stuff off.

But wait, wait, you were like 15, right?

Yeah, somewhere in there.

It was

in the teenage years, which for me were pretty grim, I must say.

I led the league in dopey teenage frolicking.

But

obviously, this was a big event.

Walter Croncott, I remember I watched his coverage.

Yeah, everybody's watching.

I liked the mustache on Walter.

It didn't have anything to do with his reportage or anything like that.

But anyway, you're right.

People don't really understand, number one, how complicated this is, and all you have to do is look at the astronauts who were killed when the spacecrafts exploded and all that.

I mean, very, very dangerous.

And number two, the technology that is developed along the way

has changed everybody's life.

So we wouldn't have the drones and the satellites and live shots from here, there, and everywhere.

And none of that would be happening unless we had the space situation.

Well, they say, people say, oh,

of course, look at Elon Musk.

What they don't understand is where we were at the time.

We might have, you know, we might be on the moon today,

maybe, maybe,

but at the time,

it took the entire country to rally around it.

And quite honestly, many of the things that we have now were from the inspiration of the moon program and the dedication of the

educators at the time to emphasize the science in young kids to try to get them to say I want to be an astronaut well to be honest everybody wanted to be an astronaut you know everybody's running around but the real motivator to go to the moon was to defeat the Soviet Union correct

that's why Kennedy and and Johnson and all these guys they basically put gazillions of dollars into this NASA development because we feared that the Soviet Union would get space weapons and then they'd be up there and the moon would be communist and all of that.

So the political component really led to the scientific achievement, which of course most people don't understand.

Well, why are we doing this?

Why don't we just take that money and rebuild Detroit?

You know, that kind of thing.

But I think the overarch for 50 years later is basically

your country did this.

And

your country

is the dominant force in the world then and now.

You know, it's weird, Bill, is

you say that, you know, your country did this.

And I think many Americans felt that way.

They were very proud of the moon landing and still are.

I am very proud of what our country did.

However, the rest of the world, it was one of those weird events where the rest of the world, yes, they knew that it was America that did it, but they interpreted it at the time as this wasn't just an American accomplishment.

This was an accomplishment of mankind because they still viewed America as a place of dreams where anyone could come and accomplish incredible things.

So they saw it, yes, as American, but it was

at a higher level.

And I think that what still is felt by most people is that was not American, that was humankind.

Yeah, I mean, Aldrin really was clever in the way he marketed that one small step for man and giant step for mankind.

Okay, so

I have no problem with that at all.

I'm not, you know, a jingoist or a nationalist or a Calvinist about American.

I want the world to be proud that human beings were able to accomplish this.

That's a good thing.

But I also want the world to recognize the nobility of America.

And they don't.

It doesn't.

It did at the time.

It doesn't.

Maybe, but

you still had a tremendous Cold War situation, and you had threats all over the place and expansion of communism.

And so you did have that back then.

But, you know, today,

the world watches news coverage from America, and the dominant theme is America is terrible.

Yeah.

Well, even the moon landing, the social justice warriors are saying this was just a white male event.

And we're not supposed to celebrate it because it's a white male event.

Well, I haven't heard that.

I don't doubt that it's happening.

Yeah, I'll give you the stories.

But, you know, it just folds into

the,

and this is so fascinating to me because this could never happen without the media's consent and approval.

It could never happen.

The four women, the radical women in Congress, nobody would even know who they are if not for the media embracing them.

And so, you know, we're going to have individual cranks and loons forever.

We've always had them.

But the difference today is the cranks and the loons, if they disparage the United States, are given a unique platform

by the New York Times and the Washington Post and the

B.C.

News and it's a nut.

And that never happened before other than Vietnam.

Now Vietnam was very, very similar

because

the crazier you got, the more famous you got, i.e.

Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, the Chicago Seven, the Black Panthers.

The nuttier you were, the more anti-American you were in the late 60s, early 70s, the more famous you got.

This is a replay of that that we're seeing now.

All right, I want to talk to you a little bit more about that and what happened this week, the controversy with Donald Trump and the Elon Omar and AOC and the quote squad when we come back.

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who is about to tell us what he thinks is going to happen in the next debate with the Democrats.

Okay.

So what I've done on billo'reilly.com, your second favorite website to your own,

is to basically try to stay ahead of the political story rather than do what cable news does, which to me I find incredibly boring, right?

is just to a contrived reaction

to

contrived events.

So here's what I think is going to happen in the Democratic debate 10 days from now.

You've got Biden holding a fairly significant lead in the polls.

If you go to real clear politics, you've got the numbers there.

So the challengers, the legitimate challengers, there are only three of them.

There is Bernie Sanders, who's on the fade and he's never in a million years going to get the nomination, but he's still in play.

Elizabeth Warren, who's coming up a little bit and believes that she can get the nomination.

And then you've got Camella Harris, who is quietly assembling a pretty powerful team.

However, you've got to knock Biden out of the box.

So they crippled him.

Maybe not crippled.

They hurt him last time around on the busing thing with Kamala Harris.

Now, Harris gets another shot at him because Harris is going to be on stage with him again at the CNN thing.

So it's going to be basically Bernie against Elizabeth in one night and Harris against Biden in the other night.

Here's how Harris is going to go against Biden.

You ready?

Under

President Obama for eight years, there were three

million illegal aliens deported in this country.

3 million.

By contrast, 2.5 years of Trump, 758,000.

Biden has already been asked about it and says, I have no problem with the 3 million being deported.

As everybody knows, open borders is a signature of the current Democratic Party.

Harris has got to go into that precinct and say, how dare you, how dare you

applaud the deportation of 3 million poor migrants, most of whom were fleeing injustice.

How can you possibly do that?

That's where Harris is going to go.

What's her record?

What's her record in California?

She was a president.

She really doesn't have much of a record as Attorney General there.

See, because California has never, ever,

since Ronald Reagan left the governorship, ever pursued a hard line against illegal immigration, which is why the state now,

okay, is dominated by foreign nationals.

They've never done it.

So Harris can basically say, I didn't persecute anybody.

I could have,

but as the DA in San Francisco, I didn't do that, and I didn't do that as Attorney General of California.

You're the mean guy, Joe Biden.

You're the anti-immigrant guy.

Okay.

Now,

that possibly will not happen if the deal is made.

Do you know what the deal is, Beck?

Yes, I do.

All right.

So let me just restate it.

The deal is that the Biden people will say to the Harris people,

ease up.

If our guy gets the nomination,

Kamala is going to be VP,

and he's only going to stay for four years.

All all right, and then she takes over.

She gets the shot at the presidency.

Harris will take that deal because Harris probably can't beat Biden one-on-one in the primary system because people don't really know her.

She's radical and her performance at the Kavanaugh hearing was a disgrace to our justice system.

So she probably can't beat him.

Plus, Harris has a lot of stuff in her background

that the press won't report, but it will come out.

And she doesn't want that.

She doesn't want to be scared in that way.

Well, let me just ask you this, because I saw the egos inside campaigns

in the last campaign.

And I saw how people

that could have made deals didn't make deals because they all just thought, I'm going to win.

No, I'm going to to win.

And I'm more important than that person.

And that person doesn't know.

I mean,

they have to be

arrogant enough to run for president.

And I mean that in a,

not in a pejorative sort of way.

They have to believe in themselves enough that they are the one to be able to go and do that.

And they don't seem to listen to deal making at least this early in the game.

Yes, there's validity what you say, but the polls are the polls.

And, you know, Harris, I don't believe,

and I could be wrong, obviously.

I mean, there may be a way for her to get some traction, but

I'm not so sure.

And this is a safe bet for her.

This saves her an awful lot of angst

to make this deal.

And Biden will make this deal in a heartbeat.

If he feels that this is going to, you know, stop the attacks on him, which he can't defend, how's he going to defend the deportation of 3 million migrants to a party that wants open borders?

How's he going to do it?

It's impossible.

And so you don't.

Obama couldn't do it.

You don't think Warren and Sanders alone,

with just Harris backing away, not defending, but you don't think Warren and Sanders alone could put enough dents into Biden?

Americans aren't going to elect or nominate socialists.

They're not.

Right.

Okay, that's so the same.

I'm not saying that they're gonna win, but you don't think that they can put enough bats.

No.

Look, uh Sanders is an old white man, and that's his problem right now.

Okay, so he's white.

If say if he was a person of color, it would be a different story.

All right.

Um Warren is an elderly white woman.

Um that's her problem.

And the party, the Democratic Party, is is basically marketing itself to younger Americans and minority Americans.

So Camilla Harris, she's not young, but she's not old.

So Harris checks off all the boxes,

but can't beat Biden in most of the states.

Do you think she could beat Trump?

Camilla Harris against Trump?

Yes.

Only if Trump makes a myriad of mistakes and the economy goes south on them fast.

I think Harris could probably get on the initial bump about 45% of the electorate to even take a look at her.

That's not bad.

That's not bad.

Harris has far more appeal than Sanders or Warren because they're so extreme.

Harris plays this kind of game.

She is an extremist, if you really listen to

what it is.

Yeah, she is.

But she doesn't come across that way.

All right.

So Harris is the threat.

Now you go Buddha Judge.

Buddha Judge is very articulate.

He's going to hang around.

Because why not?

What else does he have to do?

All right.

Well, really?

What else does he have to do?

Yeah, I know.

I mean, CNN wants him, and he'll go there.

You'll see him.

He'll get a show.

He's not going to be a

commentator.

See, ATT is going to wipe out everybody at CNN soon.

Because that's such a disaster.

And Buddha Judge is going to be on there.

You wait and see.

So wait, wait, wait.

Let me go back to this because I find this fascinating.

You say that CNN, they're going to fire everybody there.

Yeah.

The AT ⁇ T is going to wipe out the whole squad.

Now, I'll use the word squad for them.

Right, okay.

So when you say that,

does that mean a total rebrand of CNN?

I mean, how do they recipate this?

They have to.

But they don't do it by putting Buddha Judge in there.

Well, no, you do, because Buddha Judge is very charming and articulate.

He's not a crazy guy.

He may be a crazy guy.

So you're going to fire everybody and then replace them with a whole bunch of other people that are still far left?

That are more reasonable.

See, they won't fire Anderson Cooper.

You can't.

He's protected.

Okay?

But you've got to get rid of, and Lemon you can't get rid of either.

So you've got to move them around.

But you've got to inject some youth and some sensibility.

And Buddha Judge, whether you like him or not, is a very articulate, charming guy.

He is.

So he's going to be the centerpiece of what ATT tries to do with CNN.

They're not going to say we're not liberal anymore.

They're going to say, we're going to get back to our roots of reporting.

That's what they're going to say.

We'll go, yeah, ha ha.

But Buddha Judge is going to be front and center.

So it's worth his while to stay in and run around because A, right now he doesn't have anything to do.

And B, he knows he's got the CNN thing in his pocket.

All right.

Bill O'Reilly,

send me your galley as soon as you can.

I'm going on an 18-hour plane ride here in two weeks, and I can read it on that.

Where are you going, Deck?

I'm actually going to reunite a mother who thought her daughter was dead.

Everyone in the family was killed.

The Nazarene Fund, our charity at Mercury One, rescued the mother, moved her to Australia.

Three years after...

We found her daughter alive.

She was a sex slave for five years.

We just called the mother and said, Your daughter is alive, and I get to go bring her to a tremendous story.

Where was the daughter held captive?

I don't want to give you the details only because I don't know.

I think she was in Syria, but I don't know for sure.

Well, Vary, congratulations to you.

And I will send you the galley, but you got to keep it to yourself.

I will.

I will.

All right, okay.

It's great.

You got it.

You got it.

You got it.

I got it.

All right, Bill, thank you so much.

God bless you.

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