The conversation continues with Bill O’Reilly and rob Schneider as they discuss rich celebrities, Disney, RFK Jr., President Trump and more.
SCHNEIDER "They live in this little echo bubble like you have when, you know, when Oprah Winfrey could say on stage that like, we may never get to vote again. It's like, what are you talking about? I mean, anytime Trump is confronted by some district court judge, he stops, and they work their way up. If he just wanted to just bowl over and not pay attention, if he really was a dictator, he wouldn't pay attention to what any court said, but he does every single time and works its way through the courts. The fact that Oprah Winfrey and whatever rich celebrity, whether it's Ellen or Oprah, the fact that they can afford private security and can live behind a big fence, and they are not subject to the crazy policies that the Democrats have had with open borders, and then these other misogynistic attacks on women the last few years.".
O'REILLY The one I can't figure out the most is Disney. Disney hates Trump. I mean, they're at the forefront of all of the anti-Trump stuff.
SCHNEIDER "They also were, I would say, infiltrated by this woke."
O'REILLY Yeah, I don't know what Iger's doing. I just don't know what he's doing.
SCHNEIDER "Well, I think it's such a big company, and Disney's a..."
O'REILLY Yeah, but it's right out of Burbank, you know, it's a structure, it's top-down.
SCHNEIDER "It is, it is, but you do have, there's so many factions in it, it's hard to keep track of all of it. And I will tell you, they are definitely infiltrated by this woke stuff, and it hasn't gone away.".
O'REILLY Oh, there is no doubt about it.
SCHNEIDER "It's still there. And the same thing, like you take a great organization, like Netflix, it's also, I mean, the thing about it is like even the head of Netflix, who's a great guy, Ted Serrano's a great man, he didn't even know that there's, you know, what percentage in this, when he went to testify in Capitol Hill. He didn't know the percentage of what's happening that's the potentially used to indoctrinate children and his programming because it's such a gigantic big thing, but you have to be on it, and you have two be aware of it. And thankfully, this administration is calling people on it, and they don't like it. The left wants to just run ramshot, and they have, what really happened is in 2016, the liberals, the democrats specifically, they did not even imagine that Hillary Clinton was not going to win. And they, ideologically, could never get there. They could not find in any way. So they just went on the attack, and they're still on the attack. And thankfully, I think that because of that, that four-year gap, I think Trump ended up getting some, I mean, incredible people in this administration. I mean, the idea..."
O'REILLY Well, he learned a lot, Trump, from the first time.
SCHNEIDER "I mean, just to have Robert Kennedy, who's the Kennedy, the name. But also the fact that he, you know, is the most Democrat Democrat, and the most Democrat name in the history of the United States, Democrat, that he would come over and work with Trump. And to his credit, Robert Kennedy also called Kamala Harris at the same time that he called Trump. Kamala Harris, the campaign back in August of 2024, they wouldn't even return his phone call. Trump, within 30 minutes, was on the phone with him. Two hours later, they were on stage together. That's the thing that the Democrats do not understand. They can't get into their head. Trump loves this country. He wants to do what's best for it. Is he, does he sometimes, is he bombastic? Does he say things sometimes I wish he wouldn't have said? Yes, but look at the policy. Cover your ears, look at the policy. Look at the incredible people he has around him. You take a look at Secretary of State Rubio. He's the best Secretary of State in my lifetime. He's unbelievable. He's a, he's a man that is...".
O'REILLY That was little Marco. You remember that, right?
SCHNEIDER "That was. Well, that's, you know, Trump would give everybody a nickname, and that's how, you know, no, no energy jab or whatever was low energy."
O'REILLY Boring Jeb.
SCHNEIDER "Bored Jeb. I mean, you've got to understand how impossible it was. That's why I think it was God-given for Trump because he had 10 people in 2015, 10. That was all that was working on the campaign. But he knew from doing The Apprentice, he knew from years of years of being in the spotlight. How he could get..."
O'REILLY Attention.
SCHNEIDER "Media attention."
O'REILLY Right.
SCHNEIDER "Good or bad, and he realized just as bad as just...It's just as good as good."
O'REILLY He ran as a populist, but he's not a grudge holder, Trump.
SCHNEIDER "No, he doesn't. He gets over things, and even from..."
O'REILLY You should hear him on the phone with me. I never know. And it's like one in the morning. I have to keep my phone on.
SCHNEIDER "No, he has, he lets go of grudges. He really does."
O'REILLY He does, he doesn't hold it, you know, you can...
SCHNEIDER "He's told me to my face he hates me, he said I hate you. I hate you now. I remember, it's like 20 years ago. And then when I saw him again, I was like, do you still hate me? And he's like, ah, right. So, but I, you know, he loves this country. And that's something that the Democrats do not get, is that he does love this country."
O'REILLY Well, they don't want to get it.
SCHNEIDER "They don't wanna get it. He wants what's best for this country."
O'REILLY A million people believe what they want to believe.
SCHNEIDER "And he listens. He listens. I mean, he listened to the autistic community because he realized, you know, he had somebody who worked for him that, and she was, you know, one of the people who worked for Donald had, you know, had a kid who got autism, who was fine. And so he believes people and listens to people. And I think that that's really an important thing. A, to have a president that has a brain that actually functions, that's not using AutoPen, and he listens, and he takes... I mean, he's the most approachable president for the press that you can imagine. He's not gonna say what they wanna hear, and he'll call them out on it. But I really think he is by far the most consequential president of our lifetime."
O'REILLY Okay, he has got a tough road now.
SCHNEIDER "He's got a rough road, but I gotta tell you right now, I mean this is..."
O'REILLY If it works, he's elevated.
SCHNEIDER "Unequivocally. I mean, this is an evil regime, the Iranian regime. And to see liberal, white, middle-aged women holding up signs of the Ayatollah in New York City."
O'REILLY Right. It's sad.
SCHNEIDER "It is suicidal empathy, as Gad said."
O'REILLY I want to wrap it up with highlights of your career, okay? You've had a great career. It's not easy for a comedian to sustain that. They either blow up like Sam Kinison or they're here, and then they're gone. You don't know. What are the highlights for you, things that you have done that you look back and go, I really liked doing that.
SCHNEIDER "Well, I mean, being on the HBO Young Comedians special, which I saw when I was a little kid, to get on that was special. Doing standup on David Letterman was...
O'REILLY Was Letterman nice to you?
SCHNEIDER "Yeah, he was. He was."
O'REILLY Was he?
SCHNEIDER "You know, the best thing about it is I did a joke, and the audience didn't laugh yet because they weren't miked back then, this is the 80s, but David laughed. And you know when you're realizing you're out there, it's a small set."
O'REILLY Sure.
SCHNEIDER "It looks huge on TV, but he's like literally nine feet behind you, and he was like... I heard him laughing, and after you've been doing stand-up for thousands of times, your survival instinct kicks in. So let the audience hear it. And the second joke, he laughed. Heh heh heh heh. And so I said, just let it pause a little bit so the audience can hear that he's laughing. By the third joke, I was in, and I murdered. So that was amazing. That felt good. I mean, being on Saturday Night Live and saying live from New York Saturday night, I mean that's for a comedian who grew up watching that show with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and all the greats, Chevy Chase, and... And then, you know, being able to star in movies, you know Deuce Bigelow, and then because Adam Sandler produced it, he said, I said, why don't you write a movie? Just write, why don't you write a movie? And I said if it's funny, I'll produce it. If it's not, I won't. And so he was kind enough to invite me on his incredible successful journey. Being with him on 50 First Dates, and truthfully like, and that was an honor. And Adam has been so kind to all of us, especially me, more than anybody, I think, in show business. I'm older than him, but he treats me like I'm his little brother, which is so lovely. Standing next to him, doing some of those movies was special. And then also going back and doing standup again, during COVID, when it was, when clubs were saying we're only 50% open right now. And I said, well, just sell as many, do as many shows until people don't want to come anymore. And I did 14 shows in Nashville. And so anybody who wanted to come, and they weren't hearing it on the news, what I was saying. They weren't getting any conservative comedians talking about it, because you wouldn't get on TV. So I was able to give a viewpoint to people. And I'll tell you, Bill, I can't go anywhere without somebody coming up and saying, thank you for standing up for our country. Thank you."
O'REILLY You get that everywhere you go?
SCHNEIDER "Everywhere I go. And I feel like that, like for whatever, you know, the liberal intelligentsia doesn't have me make movies anymore."
O'REILLY Believe me, there aren't many liberal entertainers that get thank you for standing up for your country. I don't know any of them, you know.
SCHNEIDER "That feels very good, and I think we're gonna start our own. We're going to start doing our own things with Friendly Fire Media, and we have a good group of people that are gonna start making products. And there's a foundation, it's a free speech foundation called the You Can Do It, of course, Foundation, which supports free speech and also pro-American traditional values, and just the Christian values. Like we have, you know, we're helping fund this movie about the Nigerian Christian Massacre that I'm narrating that, and it's you know we have Christians being attacked all over the world, and it's not a coincidence, and why, you know, Catholicism is the is the church that Jesus founded, and that's why I'm there. It's the closest to the actual words of Jesus Christ, and for whatever God gives me left, I want it to be in service, and this nation is the beacon of freedom in the world."
O'REILLY When is this new project going to come up?
SCHNEIDER "Well, we have, right now, Friendly Fire is our studio. Friendly Fire Studio, no S. And You Can Do It, foundation, because we're making products. We're making stuff right now. The first two shows that we're going to do, the first show is a debate show with Andrew Doyle, the great journalist and comedian from Great Britain News. We brought him over here. And then the first, I'm going to a sitcom, it's like an all-in-the-family type sitcom. That's produced by Jack Jiraputa, who is the co-founder of Happy Madison.
O'REILLY And where's that gonna run?
SCHNEIDER "I think, I don't know where we're gonna take it yet. I mean, that might just be on YouTube. We'll see. We're gonna just do some episodes right away, and then in the next month."
O'REILLY Right.
SCHNEIDER "And we'll see where we take it. I mean, right now, there's more money in YouTube than anywhere else, to be honest."
O'REILLY You bet. That's why we're doing this. No, I don't do it for the money.
SCHNEIDER "No, why would you? What would we do with it?"
O'REILLY This is true, though. I would never get to be able to sit down with a guy like you for an hour if I didn't have this.
SCHNEIDER "No, it's a pleasure."
O'REILLY I mean, I've run into you places, but it's, hey, how you doing, you know, that kind of thing. But now I get to know you, I get to know exactly what makes you tick. So all it is is a bonus. And YouTube is the place because it's worldwide.
SCHNEIDER "Yeah, it's like the Colonel because Elvis and the Colonel had a deal 50-50. YouTube's like The New Colonel.
O'REILLY Colonel took 70.
SCHNEIDER "Did he take seventy?"
O'REILLY You've got to read my book, Killing the Legends.
SCHNEIDER "Oh, no!"
O'REILLY That Colonel, oh, oh!
SCHNEIDER "I thought 50. I remember, like, there was a manager who was managing Dave Chappelle in the early 90s. He was taking 35%. You're only supposed to take, you know, at the most 15."
O'REILLY Well, my pal Billy Joel's manager took everything. Billy was living in a lean-to in Hixville.
SCHNEIDER "But that ended up being just like with Leonard Cohen in a way that ended up being a blessing because then Billy had to go out and perform again."
O'REILLY He had to make it right all over again.
SCHNEIDER "But he got to realize from performing, it gave him something to do, but also to realize how many generations of people loved him, and that was beautiful. Same thing with Leonard Cohen, he got ripped off the same thing, and he got out, and he had generations, he had grandparents and then grandkids able to really enjoy that. And while that was, I'm sure, very painful, at the same time, it's rewarding, because you can't take it with you, and you gotta do something, so."
O'REILLY Yeah, there you go. Well, look, Rob, it's, let's see, I don't want to use a cliché, but I learned a lot during this interview.
SCHNEIDER "Oh, thank you."
O'REILLY And for a know-it-all like me, that's, you know, hey, O'Reilly thinks he knows everything, right? I don't think I know everything, I do! Okay, but I learned a lot, and you're a good guy.
SCHNEIDER "Thank you."
O'REILLY And he's a good guy because I'd known him before this, and that whole crew that you got with Sandler, you guys are awesome. You're on my A list. I really appreciate you coming in.
SCHNEIDER "You were one of the OGs, you were one of the originals to start getting people to think why conservatism is a better way to go. And you were the one that I would watch and go like, okay, that started to open up the door for us, seriously."
O'REILLY I'm glad.
SCHNEIDER "Thank you, brother." |