it's new york and it's now the mark simone show on seven 10 w o're well bill o'reilly

of course so you can go to bill o'reilly dot com see the tv show get the column but you got to get the

new book killing the legends it will it's a powerful amazing book killing the legends uhity Destroyed John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, already a bestseller, but get the book, Killing the Legends. Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? You well, I'm busy marketing the book. Appreciate you mentioning it and reading it, Mark. Thanks for having me in. There's a certain parts of the book. Now, I've gone back and read them again.

They're just very haunting this book, Muhammad Ali, because there was a smart guy

and how he let himself get taken advantage of it. It's an amazing story.

Yeah, and Americans don't really understand the implications of allowing people to make decisions

for you, and you don't have to be famous.

If you turn your life over to another human being and they are basically telling you

what to do, that's not going to end

well and that's what elie did i mean he's he uh allowed the nation of islam run now by louis

ferricon so you know what that's about um to basically run his life and they bled him white, took his money, had him in the ring when he shouldn't have

been there.

He almost died in the Frazier fight, Ali did.

And Prudy Pacheco, the doctor, as you read, said, look, you can't get back on the ring

for at least a year.

Four months later, who's back in the ring getting punched in the head,

Muhammad Ali.

So it was a tragedy, no doubt about it.

The man was best prize fighter in history and a charismatic individual who galvanized his race to fight for civil rights.

I mean, he was a titan.

But these three titans went down, no one.

Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, if you think you know the whole story, you don't,

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