November 25, 2025 • 10 mins
Will Mark be on one of the floats at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year? Seafood may be a popular dish to have during Thanksgiving. The Democrats most likely lost support due to a video surfacing that allegedly undermines the military.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Simone on seven. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, the number one
TV anchor for decades, the number one best selling nonfiction
author on Earth. You should get his latest book. It's
already a huge best seller, Confronting Evil. Fascinating book, Confronting Evil.
You can get it on Amazon or wherever. Make sure
(00:20):
you watch this YouTube channel. You can get the TV show,
the column. Everything's at Billoreilly dot com. Billoreilly dot com.
Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How you doing getting ready for Thanksgiving? I heard the
rumor you're gonna be on one of the floats, Simone?
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
No, it's gonna be windy and cold and freezing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have you ever been to one of those parades?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, I've been in a few parades, not the Thanksgiving
Day one, but other parades. No, it's kind of strange
marching down the road.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I had to work it a few times when I
was at Channel two. I just don't know why people
like to see people on floats waving. Do you have
any idea why they like to see that? No?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't know why they even stand there for twelve
hours when you can watch the TV.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But right why do they millions of people turn on
TV's is to watch people on floats waving everyone like
animal house, and they will destroy each other. They'll be
all right, but I'm not getting it. They are, they're waving.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So what you know? It's also very generational. This Donald
Duck comes by and every kid goes, who the hell
is that? You know?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They right? How about the rockets? I don't know one
human being who's ever seen the rockets? Do you know
anybody who's ever seen the rockets?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, privately I've seen a few, but not the show them.
So hey, you're the great historian. The first Thanksgiving we
pictured the beautifully dressed Pilgrims. They came over in the
wonderful Mayflower. Tell us what really happened back then?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, sixteen twenty two, they're una may Flowers. Sixty six
days they show up. They think they're in Virginia, but
they're not. They're in Cape Cod and it's cold, windy,
but they want off the ship because sixty six days
and they couldn't go on top of the ship. They
(02:16):
had all stayed beneath the deck and you can imagine
the just the odor alone down there. So they all
want to can't where they were, just want to get
off the stupid mayflower. So they row in and they
show up Plymouth. If you go up to Massachusetts, the
(02:37):
town of Plymouth, there's no rock, all right, but they
show up and then they look at each other and goes, well,
what do we do now? Said and he driving restaurants
or any door dash He's like, Okay, we have to
find food or will die. Half of them die, half
of them whoa yeah, within a year and I read
(03:00):
about this and killing the witches, how this harrowing voyage
and the reason that they had to make it. And
they weren't called pilgrims to one hundred years later in
the nineteenth century they labeled them pilgrims. They were called
separatists or Puritans, and they were very harsh religious people,
and everybody in Europe hated them. The Dutch hated them,
(03:23):
the English hated them because they were like fanatics. They're
like the people that come to your door, you know,
and they want to convert you. That's what they were.
And so they somehow survived, somehow with the help of
the Native American and the guy named Squanto showed them
how to get food out of the forest. So I
(03:44):
have of them survived, but they're all quibbling and yelling
at each other and in church for five hours and
all of that. So it wasn't exactly club med there,
if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So the first Thanksgiving dinner everybody was fighting too, not
just today.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well now they had a dinner courtesy of Squanto in
his a few tribe members, most of the tribe with
white gap by smallpox. And Squanto was an Indian who
was kidnapped by an English sailor and brought the Spain,
learned how to speak English in Spain, and then somehow
(04:22):
got back to Massachusetts. I don't know whether he flew
jet blue. I don't know how he got back there,
but Squanto was a good guy and helped him out.
So they had a three day celebration where they all
got you know, they weren't supposed to get drunk, but
believe me, they were getting drunk. And they had oysters,
mostly seafood, not turkey, not turkey or you know, mashed potatoes.
(04:48):
It was mostly seafood day. But they had a good time.
And then from there the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So how come we have to have turkey and stuff
and all that? Why can't we have seafood?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, a better question is why do we have the
president of the United States pardoning the Turkey? Now. I
heard a rumor that Senator Kelly's going to be on
that line. He's going to get partnered along with the
Kelly but I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Hey, those Congress people with their silly stunt. Although it worked,
it was a pretty good stunt. But we going to
an era of trolling and stunts, and that's how we're
going to do our nation's politics.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I know, it's so ridiculous. And a man, Donnie Trump, mean,
he was a stunt too. I wrote a column on
Billowiley dot com about this, called a stunt Factor. Yeah,
I think you're right. I think this is the future
politics as you set up this contrived nonsense. But I
don't think this worked out well for the Democrats, the
(05:50):
six of these people. I don't think they gained any currency,
except for the far left cranks, because even if you
don't like Trump, you're going why they're undermining the military. Now,
is that what you're doing here? If they had to
beef a legitimate beef of an order that might be
beyond the constitutional authority, of the president. I'm willing to
(06:14):
listen to that. But they didn't have anything. They just
want to get on television and wail about how noble
they are with a bunch of garbage.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It was a bold solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And the problem is there in the sense that there
are all orders given in every campaign by every president.
They are dubious. You imagine being in Theanola gay I
wrote this in the column, and you got to drop
the a bomb on civilians and kill one hundred thousand
of them. I mean, that's still being debated to this day,
(06:47):
Harry Truman's order. But you're in the plane and go,
I don't think I think this is your leg I'm
not dropping a bomb. No, he can't. He can't have that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Co'm on, So hey are Ukraine. It seemed like a
silly kind of a peace plan, too much in favor
of Russia. But it looks like they've made some progress
on it looks like something could happen.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What do you think, Well, this is what usually happened.
Some slimeball leaked out the original outline of the peace
deal to the Telegraph newspaper in London. But you know,
any negotiator. If you've ever done a negotiation in your life,
you always start with craziness. I want this, I want that,
(07:29):
and then you come back to the center. So the
President don't care about any of that. They just report
the leak. I don't know exactly how this is going
to come out, but I do know that Russia is
much more powerful than Ukraine. And you know you're getting
all these dispatches from the White House saying, well, we
got this, we got that. I wouldn't count on Putin cooperating.
(07:54):
You know, if you read Confronting Evil and thank you
for mentioning it a pop, this is a bad guy.
I mean beyond I mean, if you really want evil,
if you really want to understand it, you can read
my book. But you can also look at this Putin.
This guy he enjoys killing women and children. He likes it,
and he can. There's no restraint on him. He's hitler,
(08:16):
he's stylin. He does what he wants. He's no like
he has to confer with somebody. So I don't get
too optimistic about this thing. And Zelenski's got no power
at all, none, And so where is his bargaining positioned?
He doesn't have one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, if you want to read an amazing book, Bill
O'Reilly's latest book, Confronting Evil. If you want to really
be stunned, read the Putin chapter. You won't believe this
guy height. But also, it's Christmas coming up. People need
to get gifts. What do you have a good deal
on your books for gifts?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh? You know, we had a lot of good stuff
because I feel bad for working men and women, particularly
in the New York area. We're being gouged every time
we turn around. Fifteen dollars the sandwiches now and come on,
you know. So what I did on Bill O'Reilly dot
com Christmas store was we have a bundle of all
(09:09):
of my books, all fifteen thirteen, Killing two Confronting for
a very good price. And these books are in demand.
Even if you don't like me, the books are good.
And see you buy the bundle keep something for yourself
if you want, but you can give them away. You
save a ton of money on gifts, and I'll sign them.
(09:29):
I can. I signed five thousand books tom and over
the weekend. Wow, five thousand books.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, people, you don't think, but a book is a
great Christmas gift for somebody perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, especially if it's a good book. Yeah, if they
like it. And then we got you know, the not
woke stuff we got. I have a knot woke Matt
in front of my house. I sat a little message,
you know, I don't want to really hear it. And
then we have Christmas ornaments and hats and shirts and
all that stuff. And what this does is it allows
me to give Christmas bonuses to my staff. Yeah, so
(10:03):
so everybody wins here.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
All right, Well we're out of time, but if you
want to do some Christmas shopping, you want to get
it all taken care of, go to Bill O'Reilly dot com.
Books are great gifts, and all those other gifts go
to Bill O'Reilly dot com. You also get the TV show,
the column. Everything is there Bill O'Reilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, Happy Thanksgiving, have fun.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mark to you, take care, Hey, don't forget Buck and
Clay coming up at noon today right after this show.
Then you got the most listened to radio show in America.
Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly at six, and Jimmy
Fayla does an excellent show. You love it you got
to listen to it tonight at nine on seven to
ten wor
Mark Simone on seven. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, the number one
TV anchor for decades, the number one best selling nonfiction
author on Earth. You should get his latest book. It's
already a huge best seller, Confronting Evil. Fascinating book, Confronting Evil.
You can get it on Amazon or wherever. Make sure
(00:20):
you watch this YouTube channel. You can get the TV show,
the column. Everything's at Billoreilly dot com. Billoreilly dot com.
Bill O'Reilly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How you doing getting ready for Thanksgiving? I heard the
rumor you're gonna be on one of the floats, Simone?
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
No, it's gonna be windy and cold and freezing.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have you ever been to one of those parades?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, I've been in a few parades, not the Thanksgiving
Day one, but other parades. No, it's kind of strange
marching down the road.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I had to work it a few times when I
was at Channel two. I just don't know why people
like to see people on floats waving. Do you have
any idea why they like to see that? No?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I don't know why they even stand there for twelve
hours when you can watch the TV.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But right why do they millions of people turn on
TV's is to watch people on floats waving everyone like
animal house, and they will destroy each other. They'll be
all right, but I'm not getting it. They are, they're waving.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So what you know? It's also very generational. This Donald
Duck comes by and every kid goes, who the hell
is that? You know?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They right? How about the rockets? I don't know one
human being who's ever seen the rockets? Do you know
anybody who's ever seen the rockets?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Well, privately I've seen a few, but not the show them.
So hey, you're the great historian. The first Thanksgiving we
pictured the beautifully dressed Pilgrims. They came over in the
wonderful Mayflower. Tell us what really happened back then?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, sixteen twenty two, they're una may Flowers. Sixty six
days they show up. They think they're in Virginia, but
they're not. They're in Cape Cod and it's cold, windy,
but they want off the ship because sixty six days
and they couldn't go on top of the ship. They
(02:16):
had all stayed beneath the deck and you can imagine
the just the odor alone down there. So they all
want to can't where they were, just want to get
off the stupid mayflower. So they row in and they
show up Plymouth. If you go up to Massachusetts, the
(02:37):
town of Plymouth, there's no rock, all right, but they
show up and then they look at each other and goes, well,
what do we do now? Said and he driving restaurants
or any door dash He's like, Okay, we have to
find food or will die. Half of them die, half
of them whoa yeah, within a year and I read
(03:00):
about this and killing the witches, how this harrowing voyage
and the reason that they had to make it. And
they weren't called pilgrims to one hundred years later in
the nineteenth century they labeled them pilgrims. They were called
separatists or Puritans, and they were very harsh religious people,
and everybody in Europe hated them. The Dutch hated them,
(03:23):
the English hated them because they were like fanatics. They're
like the people that come to your door, you know,
and they want to convert you. That's what they were.
And so they somehow survived, somehow with the help of
the Native American and the guy named Squanto showed them
how to get food out of the forest. So I
(03:44):
have of them survived, but they're all quibbling and yelling
at each other and in church for five hours and
all of that. So it wasn't exactly club med there,
if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So the first Thanksgiving dinner everybody was fighting too, not
just today.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well now they had a dinner courtesy of Squanto in
his a few tribe members, most of the tribe with
white gap by smallpox. And Squanto was an Indian who
was kidnapped by an English sailor and brought the Spain,
learned how to speak English in Spain, and then somehow
(04:22):
got back to Massachusetts. I don't know whether he flew
jet blue. I don't know how he got back there,
but Squanto was a good guy and helped him out.
So they had a three day celebration where they all
got you know, they weren't supposed to get drunk, but
believe me, they were getting drunk. And they had oysters,
mostly seafood, not turkey, not turkey or you know, mashed potatoes.
(04:48):
It was mostly seafood day. But they had a good time.
And then from there the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So how come we have to have turkey and stuff
and all that? Why can't we have seafood?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, a better question is why do we have the
president of the United States pardoning the Turkey? Now. I
heard a rumor that Senator Kelly's going to be on
that line. He's going to get partnered along with the
Kelly but I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Hey, those Congress people with their silly stunt. Although it worked,
it was a pretty good stunt. But we going to
an era of trolling and stunts, and that's how we're
going to do our nation's politics.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I know, it's so ridiculous. And a man, Donnie Trump, mean,
he was a stunt too. I wrote a column on
Billowiley dot com about this, called a stunt Factor. Yeah,
I think you're right. I think this is the future
politics as you set up this contrived nonsense. But I
don't think this worked out well for the Democrats, the
(05:50):
six of these people. I don't think they gained any currency,
except for the far left cranks, because even if you
don't like Trump, you're going why they're undermining the military. Now,
is that what you're doing here? If they had to
beef a legitimate beef of an order that might be
beyond the constitutional authority, of the president. I'm willing to
(06:14):
listen to that. But they didn't have anything. They just
want to get on television and wail about how noble
they are with a bunch of garbage.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It was a bold solution for a problem that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And the problem is there in the sense that there
are all orders given in every campaign by every president.
They are dubious. You imagine being in Theanola gay I
wrote this in the column, and you got to drop
the a bomb on civilians and kill one hundred thousand
of them. I mean, that's still being debated to this day,
(06:47):
Harry Truman's order. But you're in the plane and go,
I don't think I think this is your leg I'm
not dropping a bomb. No, he can't. He can't have that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Co'm on, So hey are Ukraine. It seemed like a
silly kind of a peace plan, too much in favor
of Russia. But it looks like they've made some progress
on it looks like something could happen.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What do you think, Well, this is what usually happened.
Some slimeball leaked out the original outline of the peace
deal to the Telegraph newspaper in London. But you know,
any negotiator. If you've ever done a negotiation in your life,
you always start with craziness. I want this, I want that,
(07:29):
and then you come back to the center. So the
President don't care about any of that. They just report
the leak. I don't know exactly how this is going
to come out, but I do know that Russia is
much more powerful than Ukraine. And you know you're getting
all these dispatches from the White House saying, well, we
got this, we got that. I wouldn't count on Putin cooperating.
(07:54):
You know, if you read Confronting Evil and thank you
for mentioning it a pop, this is a bad guy.
I mean beyond I mean, if you really want evil,
if you really want to understand it, you can read
my book. But you can also look at this Putin.
This guy he enjoys killing women and children. He likes it,
and he can. There's no restraint on him. He's hitler,
(08:16):
he's stylin. He does what he wants. He's no like
he has to confer with somebody. So I don't get
too optimistic about this thing. And Zelenski's got no power
at all, none, And so where is his bargaining positioned?
He doesn't have one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, if you want to read an amazing book, Bill
O'Reilly's latest book, Confronting Evil. If you want to really
be stunned, read the Putin chapter. You won't believe this
guy height. But also, it's Christmas coming up. People need
to get gifts. What do you have a good deal
on your books for gifts?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh? You know, we had a lot of good stuff
because I feel bad for working men and women, particularly
in the New York area. We're being gouged every time
we turn around. Fifteen dollars the sandwiches now and come on,
you know. So what I did on Bill O'Reilly dot
com Christmas store was we have a bundle of all
(09:09):
of my books, all fifteen thirteen, Killing two Confronting for
a very good price. And these books are in demand.
Even if you don't like me, the books are good.
And see you buy the bundle keep something for yourself
if you want, but you can give them away. You
save a ton of money on gifts, and I'll sign them.
(09:29):
I can. I signed five thousand books tom and over
the weekend. Wow, five thousand books.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, people, you don't think, but a book is a
great Christmas gift for somebody perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, especially if it's a good book. Yeah, if they
like it. And then we got you know, the not
woke stuff we got. I have a knot woke Matt
in front of my house. I sat a little message,
you know, I don't want to really hear it. And
then we have Christmas ornaments and hats and shirts and
all that stuff. And what this does is it allows
me to give Christmas bonuses to my staff. Yeah, so
(10:03):
so everybody wins here.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
All right, Well we're out of time, but if you
want to do some Christmas shopping, you want to get
it all taken care of, go to Bill O'Reilly dot com.
Books are great gifts, and all those other gifts go
to Bill O'Reilly dot com. You also get the TV show,
the column. Everything is there Bill O'Reilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly,
thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, Happy Thanksgiving, have fun.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mark to you, take care, Hey, don't forget Buck and
Clay coming up at noon today right after this show.
Then you got the most listened to radio show in America.
Sean Hannity at three, Jesse Kelly at six, and Jimmy
Fayla does an excellent show. You love it you got
to listen to it tonight at nine on seven to
ten wor
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