Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - The Truth About 'It's A Wonderful Life'

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00:00:50.400 Christ is king.

00:00:51.440 What is it you want, Barry?

00:00:53.260 What do you want?

00:00:54.380 You want the moon?

00:00:56.100 Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. 0.99

00:00:58.920 Hey, that's a pretty good idea.

00:01:01.840 I'll give you the moon, all right?

00:01:03.520 I'll take it.

00:01:07.720 I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way.

00:01:17.580 I'm at the end of my rope, right?

00:01:19.900 Get me back.

00:01:20.640 I don't care what happens to me.

00:01:23.220 Get me back to my wife and kids.

00:01:26.000 Help me, Clarence, please.

00:01:28.660 Please.

00:01:29.980 I want to live again.

00:01:31.700 I want to live again.

00:01:34.640 I want to live again.

00:01:36.560 Please, God, let me live again.

00:01:42.520 Hey! 0.99

00:01:43.520 Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter!

00:01:45.960 Happy New Year to you!

00:01:47.740 In jail!

00:01:48.780 Go on home.

00:01:49.560 They're waiting for you.

00:01:52.420 Mary!

00:01:54.220 Mary!

00:01:57.060 Mary!

00:01:59.160 Well, hello, Mr. Bank Examiner.

00:02:01.600 How are you?

00:02:02.140 Mr. Bailey, there's a deficit.

00:02:03.360 I know, $8,000.

00:02:04.600 George, I've got a little paper.

00:02:05.800 I'll bet it's a warrant for my arrest.

00:02:07.180 Isn't it wonderful?

00:02:07.920 I'm going to jail.

00:02:09.760 Kids!

00:02:10.360 Janie! 0.99

00:02:11.160 Janie! 0.99

00:02:11.740 Tommy!

00:02:12.120 Tommy!

00:02:12.200 Look, Daddy.

00:02:16.240 Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

00:02:22.480 That's right.

00:02:24.100 That's right.

00:02:27.160 Atta boy, Clarence.

00:02:32.240 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to today's special episode of Human Events Daily

00:02:37.360 for Christmastime.

00:02:38.240 We're going to dive into the classic tale, It's a Wonderful Life, and see how its narrative

00:02:45.080 resonates with today's political landscape.

00:02:48.300 Now, I want you to imagine their town, Bedford Falls, as the heartland of America, a place

00:02:53.860 where family values, community spirit, and social prosperity thrive.

00:02:59.540 This is the world George Bailey, our protagonist, fights to maintain.

00:03:05.800 Bedford Falls, in our allegory, mirrors the ideals of MAGA.

00:03:11.080 See, here, people look out for each other.

00:03:15.060 Small businesses flourish, and there's a sense of belonging, much like the vision of a united,

00:03:21.320 prosperous America where the community comes first.

00:03:24.760 Where everyone knows your name, where the local bank run by George symbolizes trust and

00:03:32.520 mutual support rather than profit motive alone.

00:03:35.980 Now, you contrast that with Pottersville, the dark, dystopian, alternative reality where

00:03:42.520 George never existed.

00:03:44.120 Here, we see the consequences of unchecked greed, rampant crime, and moral decay.

00:03:49.980 Pottersville is an image of what America could turn into, and was turning into, if left to

00:03:57.320 the devices of those who prioritize personal gain over that community good.

00:04:03.040 Under this lens, Pottersville represents the fears that some may have about the direction

00:04:08.140 that America was heading under, under President Biden.

00:04:12.560 Where they saw an increase in crime, economic disparity, and social fragmentation.

00:04:19.240 Here, Mr. Potter, the antagonist, embodies the epitome of greed, controlling everything with

00:04:26.060 an iron fist, much like how critics view the policies and economic strategies of the left.

00:04:32.540 So, It's a Wonderful Life serves as a modern-day parable for America.

00:04:37.560 It's a story about the fight between the soul of the nation and the individualistic, profit-driven

00:04:44.620 forces that could threaten that.

00:04:47.060 George Bailey's journey through this nightmare alternate reality, without his influence, shows

00:04:54.200 us the value of every individual's contribution to community.

00:04:58.600 It's about recognizing that each person, no matter how small their role might seem, is vital

00:05:05.200 to the fabric of our society.

00:05:09.160 In political terms, this film warns against the loss of community values in favor of a 0.96

00:05:14.300 society where money, power, and personal gain reign supreme.

00:05:19.280 It is a reminder of what could be lost if we forget the importance of looking after one

00:05:25.460 another, of the dangers of allowing the few to control the many for their benefit.

00:05:30.360 It's a call to action to restore and preserve that sense of community, that American dream

00:05:36.380 where everyone has a chance to thrive, not just the Mr. Potters of the world.

00:05:42.320 So, as we approach another Christmas, let's ask ourselves, are we living in Bedford Falls or

00:05:48.040 are we sliding into Pottersville?

00:05:50.000 And more importantly, what can we each do to ensure we remain in or return to a place where

00:05:57.200 community, values, and shared family prosperity are not just ideals, but realities in America?

00:06:05.600 This, my friends, is why It's a Wonderful Life isn't just a Christmas movie, it's a political

00:06:11.400 statement, a reminder of what America could be, should we, and in many ways still yearns to

00:06:18.080 be.

00:06:20.080 And tonight, on this episode, we're going to be joined by none other than Glenn Jacobs,

00:06:23.320 the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.

00:06:25.080 Hi, Daddy.

00:06:30.080 What happened to you?

00:06:32.080 I want a flower.

00:06:34.080 Wait, where do you think you're going?

00:06:36.080 I want to give my flower a drink.

00:06:38.080 All right, all right.

00:06:39.080 I'll give Daddy the flower.

00:06:40.080 I'll give it a drink.

00:06:41.080 No, right here.

00:06:43.080 Look, Daddy.

00:06:44.080 I'll give it a drink.

00:06:45.080 Look, Daddy.

00:06:46.080 Paste it.

00:06:47.080 Yeah, all right, all right.

00:06:48.080 Yeah, all right.

00:06:49.080 Yeah, all right.

00:06:50.080 Yeah, man.

00:06:51.080 Oh, man.

00:06:52.080 I love, I love seeing it.

00:06:55.080 I can't wait to watch.

00:06:56.080 It's a Wonderful Life.

00:06:57.080 I haven't watched it again this year.

00:06:59.080 By the way, I am not, you know, I'm not one of those guys who says we have to do the black

00:07:04.080 and white or you have to do the colorized.

00:07:06.080 I think it's all good.

00:07:07.080 I think it's all good because I just love the story.

00:07:09.080 I love the where it is.

00:07:10.080 But I want to bring on our special guest.

00:07:12.080 Ladies and gentlemen, you know him from the WWE, but you also know him because of the role

00:07:17.080 he played in 2024, not just in the presidential election, but his role in really helping so

00:07:24.080 many people that were hit in Tennessee, not just Knox County, but all across Tennessee

00:07:29.080 and over into North Carolina.

00:07:31.080 It is Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, joins us now.

00:07:35.080 All right.

00:07:36.080 Glenn.

00:07:37.080 Hey, Jack.

00:07:38.080 Thanks for having me on.

00:07:39.080 Well, no, this is great.

00:07:40.080 So I happen to see you had tweeted something the other day and you had said you were talking

00:07:46.080 about, we were, and yeah, I sort of everybody does it this kind of Twitter this time of

00:07:49.080 year when X they'll say, what are your favorite Christmas movies?

00:07:52.080 And I had said, two of mine are it's a wonderful life and a Christmas story.

00:07:55.080 And then I also saw that you had thrown down the exact same thing.

00:08:00.080 So let's go into it's, it's a wonderful life a little bit.

00:08:04.080 What, what is it about this film for you that, that just puts it so high up there?

00:08:09.080 Well, I, it's just a great story.

00:08:12.080 And obviously you have George Bailey, who's done so many wonderful things in his life and

00:08:19.080 you know, has sacrificed in many cases, his own personal ambitions for whether it's family

00:08:27.080 or community or whatever, you know, he stays at home to run the savings loan after his

00:08:31.080 father passes away, which is the bedrock of the community.

00:08:35.080 Um, you know, and, and everybody else runs off and they're chasing their dreams and his

00:08:40.080 brother's war hero.

00:08:41.080 And, uh, Oh gosh, what's his name that the, uh, e-haw guys out, you know, with plastics 1.00

00:08:47.080 making a fortune.

00:08:48.080 Uh, and Oh yeah.

00:08:49.080 Yeah.

00:08:50.080 It was like his, it was like his, it was like classmate or something.

00:08:52.080 He said, Oh, do you want to go in?

00:08:53.080 And he didn't go into the company.

00:08:55.080 Yeah.

00:08:56.080 Exactly.

00:08:57.080 Yeah.

00:08:58.080 So George passes up all these opportunities, um, to, you know, serve, uh, his family and

00:09:03.080 his community.

00:09:04.080 And you think, Oh, you know, what, what a great guy.

00:09:08.080 Uh, but then obviously for those that don't know the story, what happens is, uh, there's,

00:09:12.080 there's kind of some embezzlement, not his fault.

00:09:15.080 Actually it's criminal on the other side, Mr. Potter, who is the antagonist, uh, George's

00:09:20.080 uncle, uh, tends to hit the bottle a little bit.

00:09:23.080 And, uh, he goes to make a deposit at Mr. Potter's bank.

00:09:26.080 Uh, and when he does, he forgets to actually make the deposit and just hands Mr. Potter

00:09:31.080 like five grand, which is a heck of a lot of money back, you know, back, this is before

00:09:36.080 Biden inflation.

00:09:37.080 Okay.

00:09:38.080 This is a heck of a lot of money back, uh, in the 1930s when this is set.

00:09:42.080 Um, and then Mr. Potter just, you know, just keeps it hoping he's going to run George

00:09:47.080 out of business.

00:09:48.080 And, you know, George, uh, basically freaks out and becomes depressed and is feeling sorry.

00:09:53.080 Sorry for himself, wants to jump off the bridge.

00:09:55.080 And, and he does, uh, where he's going to.

00:09:58.080 And a little beknownst to him, there's a dude named Clarence who's actually an angel that

00:10:03.080 jumps into the water.

00:10:04.080 First George being George jumps into saving.

00:10:07.080 And basically then the story is about what the world would look like and what Bedford

00:10:12.080 Falls would look like if it hadn't been for George Bailey.

00:10:15.080 And, you know, I think that'd be actually a great gift for a lot of people, uh, to see

00:10:20.080 what the world would look like if, if we didn't exist or had never lived.

00:10:24.080 And in George's case, yeah, it has monumental impacts on the community that he lives in and

00:10:29.080 his family.

00:10:30.080 By the way, I just wanted to fact check something that, uh, you mentioned that it was, it was

00:10:35.080 a lot more money back then than it is now.

00:10:38.080 And I was like, I thought about it.

00:10:39.080 I said, I wonder what that would be today.

00:10:41.080 So, and this is incredible.

00:10:42.080 Yeah.

00:10:43.080 $5,000 in 1940.

00:10:45.080 And so when you're watching these old movies and was it, was it, was it five Jack?

00:10:49.080 I forget the exact, let's just say five, let's say five.

00:10:52.080 So $5,000 in 1940 in purchasing power equivalents.

00:10:57.080 It is equivalent to $112,000 in 2024 money.

00:11:04.080 So in give or take the 80 some years since that movie has come out, five grand is now

00:11:12.080 equivalent to over 100 grand.

00:11:16.080 Boy, that sounds like something that would happen in Pottersville.

00:11:18.080 Wouldn't it?

00:11:19.080 Well, and, and you're exactly right.

00:11:24.080 You know, Pottersville is a place, um, yeah, it's literally centrally controlled.

00:11:29.080 Uh, and the whole idea is that, uh, folks pay rent and they're kind of stuck there.

00:11:36.080 They're trapped.

00:11:37.080 Um, and that's how Mr. Potter makes his money is basically by keeping people in his shanty

00:11:44.080 town and they never get an opportunity to improve their own lives.

00:11:47.080 Uh, so as you said, you know, it's a great illustration of, um, you know, of really centralized

00:11:54.080 control.

00:11:55.080 Uh, and, uh, when the elites take over and decide what's good for you, uh, as opposed

00:12:01.080 to how you want to live your life.

00:12:03.080 And to me, that's also a pretty big part of the story actually.

00:12:07.080 And it's big too, because my, uh, and you know, I didn't even mean to mention this here,

00:12:11.080 but here we are when, when you're watching some of these films and there's so many great

00:12:15.080 movies from this era, holiday affair, uh, bells of St. Mary's, just so many great Christmas,

00:12:20.080 the movie white Christmas itself with Bing Crosby, you know, so many great films from

00:12:24.080 this era, but people will say, you know, in holiday fair, there's a whole plot about,

00:12:29.080 you know, the boy wants to take train back cause he wants to get the money.

00:12:32.080 And it was an $80 train and you know, $80 is a little bit of money today, but it's not

00:12:37.080 something that's this huge outpouring of money so much that it becomes this major plot

00:12:42.080 point.

00:12:43.080 Back then it would have been.

00:12:44.080 So I almost feel like we might have to get, uh, the Glenn Jacobs inflation calculator for

00:12:50.080 classic movies so that people can add it to their film.

00:12:54.080 So every year when, when someone mentions $5,000, you can see what that is in 20, $4.

00:13:00.080 Yeah.

00:13:01.080 It's a, it's a ton more.

00:13:02.080 It's a lot more.

00:13:03.080 That's exactly right.

00:13:04.080 So yeah, $80, we're gonna do it right now.

00:13:06.080 $80 in 1940.

00:13:08.080 Yeah.

00:13:09.080 That that's almost $1,800 today.

00:13:12.080 That's, I mean, this is, it's incredible amount.

00:13:15.080 It's almost so $2,000 for, you know, a toy train obviously becomes, uh, would become something

00:13:22.080 that becomes a plot point because I, you know, I can't accept this gift.

00:13:25.080 That's way too much money for a child.

00:13:27.080 Anyway, totally separate movie, but man, we really, we really have to explain this to

00:13:31.080 people.

00:13:32.080 Yeah, man, your, your point is well taken in the fact that, uh, inflation has accomplished

00:13:39.080 what Pottersville did, you know, for so many people, they're working so hard, uh, just to

00:13:45.080 keep their heads above water, uh, because everything's gotten so expensive now, you know, so it's hard

00:13:51.080 to, it's hard to put away.

00:13:52.080 It's hard to, uh, plan for the future.

00:13:55.080 Uh, it's hard to save, uh, when, you know, when, when things are, have become this expensive.

00:14:00.080 So, uh, unfortunately I know this Christmas season, we're being a bit of grinches here,

00:14:04.080 but nevertheless, yeah, those are really important issues.

00:14:06.080 Well, and I think that, that gets into the heart of the movie as well.

00:14:10.080 And, and of course the film is it's a savings and loan.

00:14:13.080 And so, because he's been trying so hard to make good on these loans and put the loans

00:14:19.080 out and say, throw some money here, throw some money there.

00:14:21.080 And it's, it's actually a good financial tale as well, which is funny because, you know, it's,

00:14:27.080 you know, it's, you don't expect to get your financial literacy from, uh, from Christmas

00:14:31.080 films, but it does have a great scene at the very end.

00:14:34.080 You know, where's our money?

00:14:35.080 Where's our more towards the end?

00:14:36.080 I should say, where's our money.

00:14:37.080 I said, well, you don't, your money's not here in the savings and loan.

00:14:41.080 It's not just back in the safe.

00:14:43.080 It's in your house and it's in your house and it's your garage because that money goes

00:14:48.080 out by the way though.

00:14:49.080 That's the way those systems are supposed to work.

00:14:52.080 Yeah, sure.

00:14:53.080 Absolutely.

00:14:54.080 Uh, you know, and then it's funny just getting on banking for a second.

00:14:58.080 Yeah.

00:14:59.080 One of the issues that has happened now is, you know, it used to be that you had time

00:15:04.080 deposits, which would be like CDs and that's actually what banks would loan out.

00:15:08.080 Then you would have your savings account when those that did not bear interest.

00:15:12.080 In fact, sometimes you actually had to pay because that was kept at the bank.

00:15:17.080 Okay.

00:15:18.080 You kept your money.

00:15:19.080 They were two different things.

00:15:20.080 Now we've conflated that.

00:15:22.080 And now basically the bank, everything is loanable.

00:15:25.080 So you get into the whole thing about fractional reserve banking.

00:15:28.080 And, you know, that's part of what causes inflation.

00:15:30.080 When, when the fed creates money and it goes out to the banks and then they only keep a

00:15:34.080 little bit of it, but most of it actually goes out into circulation through loans.

00:15:38.080 Uh, yeah, that's a great example of how things have gone awry.

00:15:43.080 You know, back then people understood you were not going to go to the bank and get your money

00:15:48.080 out that day because it was being used loan to someone else, which is how you got interest

00:15:54.080 for that nowadays.

00:15:55.080 Yeah.

00:15:56.080 You know, everything goes out.

00:15:57.080 Banks make a lot of money and then you get a little bit through interest, but that's about

00:16:01.080 it.

00:16:02.080 But yeah, if you go to your bank and say, Hey, I've got, I don't know, $10,000 or let's say

00:16:08.080 $50,000 in a savings account.

00:16:11.080 Good luck trying to get that out.

00:16:12.080 Cause they still ain't got it at the bank.

00:16:14.080 Yeah, that's right.

00:16:15.080 That's exactly right.

00:16:16.080 If you walk out there and say, I want, you know, I want to pull this all out.

00:16:19.080 You know, it is very good.

00:16:20.080 That's why they put the limits on.

00:16:22.080 That's why they put it out there.

00:16:23.080 But to your point as well about how the feds been working, this is where you get that inflation

00:16:29.080 that has the inflation calculator that comes in because suddenly it's like, wait a minute.

00:16:33.080 Why doesn't my dollar go as much as it used to?

00:16:37.080 Why is it that, you know, it's wonderful life in, in it's a long time ago, but it's

00:16:42.080 not that long ago.

00:16:43.080 So why is it the $5,000 in that film could almost, you know, would be the equivalent of,

00:16:49.080 I mean, I guess you couldn't buy a house now, but you could buy a car.

00:16:52.080 You buy a pretty decent car or for that amount of money now.

00:16:56.080 But suddenly, you know, that's just a couple grand back then.

00:16:59.080 And that gets to what you're speaking of because it reduces the value of our money because

00:17:04.080 they're printing more of it.

00:17:05.080 Yeah.

00:17:06.080 And one of the most important things for young people is debt and how, you know, debt can be

00:17:13.080 used appropriately.

00:17:14.080 Obviously, you know, buying a house or these long term things that you can't buy up front.

00:17:20.080 However, you can also end up being a slave to debt.

00:17:23.080 And that's what we see in a wonderful life.

00:17:26.080 You know, with Mr. Potter, you're never going to get out of debt.

00:17:29.080 With George, you're eventually going to pay that loan off and own your house.

00:17:32.080 Mr. Potter's whole deal is to keep you there so you can keep on making money off.

00:17:36.080 This, this is such a good point.

00:17:38.080 We're coming up on our break, but I want to get into that in the next segment because

00:17:42.080 this gets into how this movie is, by the way, a Christmas movie because it has the very core of the Christian spirit at its heart.

00:17:51.080 Stay tuned.

00:17:52.080 We'll be right back.

00:17:53.080 Jack Posobiec, Glenn Jacobs, The Truth About It's A Wonderful Life.

00:17:56.080 Dear Father in Heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way.

00:18:03.080 I'm at the end of my rope, right?

00:18:04.080 Show me the way.

00:18:05.080 Show me the way.

00:18:06.080 Oh God, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way.

00:18:09.080 I'm at the end of my rope, right?

00:18:10.080 Show me the way.

00:18:12.080 Oh God.

00:18:13.080 I'm at the end of my rope, right?

00:18:19.080 Show me the way.

00:18:27.080 I'm at the end of my rope, right?

00:18:31.300 She's on the way.

00:18:32.660 Oh, God.

00:18:36.520 All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back.

00:18:38.360 Human Events Daily, The Truth About It's a Wonderful Life,

00:18:42.740 and we're on with Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Moxley County, Tennessee.

00:18:45.820 And, by the way, that scene just there with Jimmy Stewart,

00:18:49.600 that when this film was made, it was actually after the war,

00:18:53.720 but only a few years after.

00:18:55.160 So Jimmy Stewart himself, World War II veteran,

00:18:57.840 who actually had, now at the time they would have called it shell shock,

00:19:01.880 but actually had PTSD.

00:19:04.060 And this is something that people have referred to

00:19:07.480 as basically his actual emotions and his actual experiences in the war

00:19:13.760 and then coming back to the United States

00:19:16.940 and trying to re-ingratiate himself with normalcy,

00:19:20.800 and that's a huge issue with our veteran community even today.

00:19:24.100 By the way, incredibly progressive for its time,

00:19:27.980 like true progressive, not the false political progressive,

00:19:31.620 but the fact that they talk about it at the fact that suicides do go up

00:19:36.620 at Christmas Eve, and you're talking about a film like this

00:19:39.260 that comes out in the 1940s, not really the type.

00:19:42.360 It's a heavy film.

00:19:43.320 It's definitely a heavy film.

00:19:44.560 And the fact that it gets into the individual out of the spirit,

00:19:49.000 being stripped away from the individual through taxation,

00:19:53.140 the Christian sentiment of the film,

00:19:54.960 getting taken away by the state with Mr. Potter.

00:19:57.840 There's so much here.

00:19:59.080 And then Frank Capra himself, the director,

00:20:01.240 was a World War II veteran.

00:20:03.100 So I think with a lot of these films, too,

00:20:05.540 when you go back and look at them,

00:20:06.700 you have to put them in the context of what not only the audience

00:20:11.200 was going through and what their intent was,

00:20:13.820 but what the people who made it were going through.

00:20:16.620 Isn't that right, Glenn?

00:20:19.600 Yeah, absolutely.

00:20:20.540 And I did not know that, actually, that Capra was a veteran,

00:20:24.180 and I actually didn't know that about Jimmy Stewart either.

00:20:27.240 You know, but you see people, you know,

00:20:30.480 some of these celebrities back then, Jimmy Stewart, Ted Williams,

00:20:33.720 the great baseball player, you know,

00:20:36.040 who lost a couple years because he served in World War II as an aviator.

00:20:41.400 And we'll never know how great a baseball player Ted Williams

00:20:45.680 really would have been because he lost two years of his prime doing that.

00:20:50.220 But it was just a different world, you know,

00:20:53.060 and that's one of the things that you can see in the movie, too.

00:20:55.400 You know, just the importance of family, of community,

00:21:00.420 of all of those things.

00:21:02.720 And I wonder, Jack, I wonder, too,

00:21:04.900 if that's why the movie maybe doesn't resonate with some folks nowadays

00:21:09.800 like it once did,

00:21:11.920 is because some of these values, frankly, have been lost

00:21:16.100 or we don't talk about them that much anymore.

00:21:18.440 I couldn't agree more.

00:21:19.820 This is the type of stuff.

00:21:21.040 And by the way, you know, when we talk about community,

00:21:23.740 we're not doing so in sort of the false communist, collectivist ideal of,

00:21:29.840 oh, yes, the government must come in and be the arbiter of the state,

00:21:34.940 will form the community of the workers.

00:21:37.200 No, that's statism.

00:21:38.400 Okay, that's actual statism.

00:21:39.880 When I talk about community, I mean, no, I mean just an actual town

00:21:43.260 that has pride in its character,

00:21:45.580 a town that cares about its heritage,

00:21:47.380 that wants to protect itself,

00:21:48.600 and, oh, by the way, wants to provide for basic public services

00:21:53.960 and basic public goods.

00:21:55.960 So things like crime on the street

00:21:59.040 or things like fentanyl homeless zombies stomping around.

00:22:03.300 Like you'll see where I'm from in Philadelphia

00:22:05.900 in a place where in the 1980s and 1990s,

00:22:09.700 Kensington Avenue used to be a place where you could go shopping

00:22:12.700 and take your kids. 1.00

00:22:13.800 Nowadays, that's all it is, is druggies and homeless

00:22:16.800 and gang members shooting up at each other.

00:22:19.080 And so, you know, we sit there and say,

00:22:21.080 oh, well, life is better for them this way,

00:22:23.480 and they've got more choices. 0.99

00:22:24.740 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:22:25.600 It's completely ridiculous. 0.93

00:22:27.040 The quality of life has gone so far down in our cities

00:22:29.820 and so far down in so many places in America.

00:22:32.140 And we sit back and say, oh, don't worry about it.

00:22:34.480 You know, here's some new crypto.

00:22:35.860 Don't worry about it.

00:22:36.880 Here's a new government program that'll take care of you.

00:22:39.260 Take out another PPP loan.

00:22:41.020 And so these values, and we keep getting told again and again,

00:22:45.060 and by the way, from some people on the right as well,

00:22:48.120 I should say, and I'm not going to leave them out,

00:22:50.320 they say, oh, that stuff just doesn't matter.

00:22:52.740 You know, just go do something else.

00:22:54.260 And if that town, this is what J.D. Vance,

00:22:57.660 and this is what our good friend Kenny Cody

00:22:59.540 writes about all the time.

00:23:01.100 This is about the people of Appalachia saying,

00:23:03.440 we don't want to leave our towns.

00:23:05.460 So much of the 2024 election was about these very issues.

00:23:09.040 I really believe that.

00:23:11.020 Yeah, I do as well.

00:23:15.240 And I think you're exactly right.

00:23:17.240 You know, when we talk about community,

00:23:18.520 we're just talking about taking care of one another

00:23:20.640 and looking out for each other.

00:23:24.020 And it's not, no, the government coming in again.

00:23:26.500 That's what Mr. Potter basically does is,

00:23:30.520 you know, he's going to take care of everything

00:23:33.160 up to a certain point.

00:23:35.680 And that point is just survival.

00:23:38.300 And that's kind of how I see, you know,

00:23:41.540 with our government now, so many things are really-

00:23:44.940 Well, and that's a shanty town

00:23:45.700 that you were just talking about.

00:23:47.200 Yeah, it is, it is.

00:23:48.760 I mean, so many things now are just encouraging people,

00:23:52.300 not encouraging people, I'm sorry,

00:23:54.460 discouraging people from thriving

00:23:56.380 by ensuring that they can survive,

00:23:59.220 if that makes sense.

00:24:00.260 It's so true. 0.84

00:24:00.860 That's what welfare program is. 1.00

00:24:01.780 Well, because you're talking about dependence.

00:24:02.740 Welfare program.

00:24:03.620 It's making you dependent on his program.

00:24:08.900 Right, right.

00:24:10.080 You're promoting mediocrity by saying, you know,

00:24:13.400 it's okay to just be at this level

00:24:15.800 and you're never going to know what your life can really be.

00:24:18.760 You know, if you're literally forced to go out

00:24:22.100 and just go, to go out and take life by the horns.

00:24:28.060 And that's, you know, all the things

00:24:29.300 you were talking about before too.

00:24:30.620 I think so many of those things are really a result

00:24:33.360 of government getting way too involved in our lives,

00:24:35.760 doing way too many things.

00:24:37.380 So yeah, you know, you can do these destructive behaviors

00:24:40.720 because guess what?

00:24:41.720 There's a government program, you know,

00:24:43.840 that's food stamps or whatever.

00:24:46.220 So you're going to survive.

00:24:47.540 And in some cases, you know,

00:24:48.880 someone's going to come in and clean up your mess. 0.90

00:24:50.880 And that's not how human beings are wired.

00:24:54.460 You know, we have to be responsible for our actions.

00:24:57.780 And one of the biggest things the government actually does,

00:25:00.220 especially with the welfare system

00:25:01.760 and those sorts of things,

00:25:02.780 is to take that responsibility away from you

00:25:06.700 and to put it on the public at large.

00:25:08.600 And that's not what we're talking about.

00:25:10.260 You know, everybody gets down on their luck.

00:25:11.720 Everybody has issues, you know,

00:25:13.880 but as you're going through these things,

00:25:17.020 you know, you also have to be held accountable.

00:25:19.200 And actually, that's what the movie does as well.

00:25:22.540 You know, in the end, you know,

00:25:24.720 it's not like the Lord comes along

00:25:26.280 and just fixes George Bailey.

00:25:27.940 He shows him what's going on.

00:25:30.840 And George makes the decisions about his life

00:25:33.540 in the end himself.

00:25:34.840 And he realizes that, yeah, he's got some problems,

00:25:37.660 but there's nothing that he can't overcome.

00:25:41.760 And there's sometimes you actually have to ask for help too.

00:25:44.680 And you see it with what happens at the end of the movie

00:25:48.080 when all these folks basically open their hearts

00:25:50.760 and open their wallets, you know,

00:25:52.920 to rescue George in the situation.

00:25:54.900 But again, you know, it's not like anyone comes along

00:25:57.060 and fixes this stuff for George.

00:25:58.920 He has to figure it out himself first.

00:26:01.600 No, that's exactly right.

00:26:02.900 And, you know, God helps those who help themselves.

00:26:07.120 And I really believe that.

00:26:07.940 But what you just said about how you can make everyone dependent

00:26:12.860 on a central power

00:26:15.460 or you can make everyone personally independent

00:26:20.920 through having that.

00:26:23.660 And it is, by the way,

00:26:24.680 it's freedom of being financially independent

00:26:28.760 and having that,

00:26:31.320 which, by the way, doesn't necessarily mean rich.

00:26:33.200 You know, Dave Ramsey talks about this kind of stuff.

00:26:35.160 And it's what you just said before about freedom

00:26:37.460 from the slavery of debt.

00:26:39.640 Because when you get that far in debt,

00:26:42.360 and we do live, by the way, in a debt culture,

00:26:45.560 that your whole life,

00:26:47.280 and it is like this,

00:26:48.480 it's like having Glenn Jacobs on your back every day.

00:26:53.260 And, you know, every decision is like,

00:26:56.620 oh, man, what do I do?

00:27:00.980 What do I do?

00:27:02.040 How do I get Glenn Jacobs off my back?

00:27:04.040 And it is going to just cast a pallor

00:27:07.640 over all your decisions.

00:27:09.240 But meanwhile, it's why we put those lights on our homes

00:27:13.260 because we care about them

00:27:14.860 and we realize that those homes exist

00:27:16.760 through our financial success

00:27:19.340 and through the success of our families.

00:27:22.320 Right.

00:27:23.260 You know, and it was interesting you brought up

00:27:24.900 just about the whole debt thing.

00:27:29.280 You know, our monetary system is based on debt.

00:27:31.840 I mean, you know, if all the debt in our system

00:27:34.860 were eliminated, all the dollars would go away.

00:27:37.300 You know, and it's crazy to think about that,

00:27:39.000 but that's how the system works.

00:27:40.860 It encourages debt.

00:27:42.500 It encourages people to go into debt

00:27:44.300 and to stay into debt

00:27:45.540 and really discourages folks from acquiring assets.

00:27:49.320 And as you said, you know,

00:27:50.840 getting to the point to where

00:27:52.080 even if you're not wealthy,

00:27:54.520 you're at least financially secure enough

00:27:56.780 that you don't have to keep on the rat race

00:28:01.020 or keep in the rat race

00:28:01.860 and keep on the gerbil wheel all the time.

00:28:03.920 And it's literally like our entire culture now,

00:28:06.640 which is a result of what the government has done

00:28:09.180 and what the Federal Reserve has done, frankly.

00:28:11.040 Our entire culture is about more and more

00:28:15.320 and more and more debt

00:28:16.520 and just people working harder and harder

00:28:18.920 and harder and harder just to keep up.

00:28:21.780 And that's just no way for human beings to live.

00:28:25.080 And of course, it also gets,

00:28:27.400 and Pottersville shows this,

00:28:29.060 it leads to people, you know,

00:28:31.180 you get upset about the debt.

00:28:32.780 So where do you go?

00:28:33.760 You hit up the bar and then,

00:28:35.340 oh, what's right next to the bar is,

00:28:38.020 it's girls, girls, girls is right there.

00:28:40.260 And then you go across the street.

00:28:41.600 Oh, here's the casino.

00:28:43.060 Here's a way to get out of debt.

00:28:44.820 You go to the casino.

00:28:46.060 Hey, you got your, you know, you got your last,

00:28:48.100 I guess back then it would be like your last five bucks

00:28:50.360 or your bottom dollar.

00:28:51.420 So they used to call it the bottom dollar

00:28:52.700 and try your luck.

00:28:54.800 And then guess what?

00:28:55.900 You'll lose that too.

00:28:57.000 And then guess what?

00:28:57.980 You're going to end up right on the bridge

00:28:59.700 with George Bailey.

00:29:01.320 And Mr. Potter is going to say,

00:29:02.860 well, got another floater.

00:29:04.660 And he's going to say, step right up.

00:29:06.920 Who's next?

00:29:07.840 Because they ultimately don't care.

00:29:09.780 You're never going to beat the house.

00:29:11.220 You're never going to beat Mr. Potter.

00:29:13.000 And the bridge is right there as your way out.

00:29:15.620 And these people are punching out.

00:29:16.920 And what's great about It's a Wonderful Life,

00:29:18.680 I think, is that it's trying to show people

00:29:21.740 that there's another way.

00:29:24.080 One minute until the break, Glenn Jacobs.

00:29:27.780 Yeah, absolutely.

00:29:29.240 And as you said, you know, the other way is,

00:29:32.720 it's really the America, I think, 0.64

00:29:34.200 that we're all striving for,

00:29:35.440 or at least have a romantic version

00:29:38.900 of what it should be in our minds, right?

00:29:41.180 As opposed to whatever this thing

00:29:43.840 that we're currently living in.

00:29:46.060 And I think you made a great point during the intro

00:29:48.440 about how under the Biden administration

00:29:50.840 that it really accelerated.

00:29:52.680 And hopefully with the second Trump administration,

00:29:55.020 we're going to get back to the values

00:29:57.920 that have made us great to begin with.

00:30:00.500 It's so simple.

00:30:02.180 It's a big idea, but it's a simple idea

00:30:06.520 because there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way.

00:30:08.940 And that's why I keep saying, you got to watch

00:30:11.680 It's a Wonderful Life at least once a year.

00:30:14.800 Have it on while you're wrapping presents, right?

00:30:17.580 To remind us of what it is

00:30:20.160 that we're actually fighting for.

00:30:22.880 Stay tuned, be right back

00:30:23.860 on this special Christmas edition of Human Events Daily.

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00:30:41.060 and I thought maybe you,

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00:30:43.400 Are you sure you're all right?

00:30:44.640 What you?

00:30:49.840 My mouse bleeding, Bert!

00:30:51.940 My mouse bleeding!

00:30:53.280 Bert!

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00:30:57.000 All right, Jack Prosobiec, we're back live.

00:30:59.680 Christmas edition of Human Events Daily,

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00:32:37.740 Mayor Glenn Jacobs, I wanted to ask you

00:32:40.300 about that sense of things towards the end there

00:32:44.260 because it's ultimately, and it's a wonderful life,

00:32:47.880 you know, it plays on a lot of the same themes

00:32:50.160 as A Christmas Carol and Charles Dickens,

00:32:52.680 which came out, you know, a century prior there

00:32:54.820 where, in that case, it's Ebenezer Scrooge.

00:32:57.480 And, you know, Scrooge is a different character

00:32:59.160 from Bailey, but, you know, there's a lot

00:33:01.360 of similar themes in the sense, you know,

00:33:04.080 he's visited by the Christmas ghosts versus an angel,

00:33:07.100 but he's given these visions of what life was like

00:33:09.440 and what life is like for others

00:33:10.840 and remembering that spirit of the season.

00:33:13.220 But also, it teaches us something, I think,

00:33:18.120 because, look, we can all, you know,

00:33:21.280 we all have our dreams, and then we have reality.

00:33:24.260 And I think it's when, they always say

00:33:26.280 that when expectations don't meet reality,

00:33:28.700 that's when people turn to despair.

00:33:31.720 And it's like George, he has this, I can't get over it,

00:33:35.200 he lives in this massive house,

00:33:37.300 he's got a gorgeous wife,

00:33:38.900 he's got four incredible children,

00:33:42.020 and yet the whole time,

00:33:43.940 he is thinking about those dreams.

00:33:46.700 And it's like, I just want Clarence to go up to him 0.81

00:33:48.980 and start smacking him around. 0.99

00:33:50.400 Actually, the hardest part for me to watch in that film

00:33:53.360 is when, I forget his daughter's name,

00:33:56.780 but she's playing on the piano,

00:33:58.080 and he starts screaming at her.

00:33:59.780 He just starts laying into her.

00:34:01.120 I'm like, this is pretty dark stuff.

00:34:03.500 This is like child abuse, basically,

00:34:05.800 what he's doing to her.

00:34:06.980 And she's playing a beautiful Christmas song for them.

00:34:10.300 And yet, this is real.

00:34:12.940 This is a real thing that affects people.

00:34:15.960 And of course, we understand debt is a huge driver of this,

00:34:20.180 but there's other things out there

00:34:21.300 that can be those issues for us,

00:34:24.040 especially at Christmastime.

00:34:25.280 And it's almost like Christmas, in a sense,

00:34:27.720 is that it's a giant magnifier of whatever we're feeling.

00:34:32.520 If we're feeling life is good, then Christmas is great.

00:34:35.180 If we're feeling life is terrible, Christmas can be really, really bad.

00:34:39.160 And it really is, I think, a message of the movie

00:34:41.800 that you've got to reframe.

00:34:43.080 You've got to reframe and realize that, in fact,

00:34:47.140 quite possibly, your life is pretty good.

00:34:49.860 Yeah, 100% agree.

00:34:51.920 I think George's issue is he's looking at everyone else, right?

00:34:57.380 And he's comparing himself to them.

00:35:00.160 And I guarantee you that what's happening is,

00:35:04.000 if we were to make another It's a Wonderful Life,

00:35:06.960 and say, with George's brother or whoever,

00:35:10.520 they would look at George and go,

00:35:12.140 man, I wish I was George.

00:35:13.680 Because he's, like you said, he's got it made.

00:35:16.380 He's got a beautiful family.

00:35:18.680 He's super well-respected in the community.

00:35:21.500 All these things.

00:35:22.680 I absolutely agree.

00:35:24.580 I think so many times in our lives,

00:35:26.220 you know, what we do, and I'm guilty of this.

00:35:28.660 You know, we look at other people and go,

00:35:30.120 oh, man, they got it made.

00:35:31.340 And this is, you know, I wish I was them.

00:35:33.620 Well, you probably don't, actually,

00:35:35.660 because you don't know what kind of issues

00:35:37.180 they have going on in their life.

00:35:39.740 But that's just what human beings do.

00:35:43.920 Unfortunately, we all don't have a clearance

00:35:45.400 that can come down in a time of crisis.

00:35:48.420 And it's kind of what clearance does,

00:35:50.620 even though it doesn't slap him around.

00:35:52.040 In the end, you know, the whole story is about,

00:35:55.160 I guess, a psychological or a mental slapping around

00:35:58.540 and saying, George, dude, get your head on straight.

00:36:00.620 You know, this is what everything would look like

00:36:03.040 if it weren't for you.

00:36:05.080 And you need to quit feeling sorry for yourself.

00:36:07.160 Because in the end, that's what it is.

00:36:08.820 You know, and there are times you feel,

00:36:11.040 you know, you feel really sympathetic towards George.

00:36:13.080 There are other times you're just like, dude,

00:36:15.100 just quit feeling sorry for yourself, you know,

00:36:18.180 and move on.

00:36:19.000 But I guess you wouldn't have a movie

00:36:20.560 if that were the case, right?

00:36:22.760 No, no, of course not.

00:36:23.640 It's like sometimes when my wife, Tanya,

00:36:26.680 she's not big into horror movies.

00:36:28.680 And I always say, but though, you know,

00:36:30.120 the horror movie would never work

00:36:31.420 if they don't open the door.

00:36:32.580 So why don't they just leave the house?

00:36:33.880 Well, then you wouldn't have a movie.

00:36:35.340 You know, come on.

00:36:36.160 You gotta throw some of that stuff in there.

00:36:38.900 You gotta throw, but...

00:36:39.640 Exactly.

00:36:40.720 Suspend logic for a minute.

00:36:42.240 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:36:43.120 Why don't you just leave?

00:36:43.940 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:36:44.940 Suspension of disbelief.

00:36:45.840 A little bit of suspension of disbelief.

00:36:47.300 But, you know, with the film, too,

00:36:49.720 it's also something where this is where,

00:36:53.720 you know, if you do have religion in your life,

00:36:56.780 and look, I'm the kind of guy

00:36:58.260 where I always promote this for people,

00:37:00.280 is that if you have religion in your life,

00:37:02.780 that's when, you know, and I'm Catholic,

00:37:05.360 but, you know, any Christian

00:37:06.240 or just anyone who's got religion,

00:37:07.580 you can put it in your life and say,

00:37:08.860 you give it up to God.

00:37:10.240 You know, you don't have to have

00:37:12.120 Glenn Jacobs on your back carrying it by yourself.

00:37:15.000 You can say, you know what?

00:37:16.420 Maybe God's gonna help me with this burden.

00:37:18.480 Maybe God gave me this

00:37:19.860 because he wants me to see it through.

00:37:21.960 Maybe God...

00:37:22.500 And the story of Christ itself,

00:37:24.880 which is, of course, the center of Christmas,

00:37:26.760 is a story of sacrifice.

00:37:29.640 When, you know, when you're younger,

00:37:31.360 you look at the nativity scene,

00:37:32.640 and you see, okay, there's, you know,

00:37:33.860 it's beautiful, Jesus married baby Joseph.

00:37:36.340 But keep in mind, that's a manger.

00:37:38.120 That's a farm, you know, a barn, basically.

00:37:40.640 And you're surrounded by animals.

00:37:42.860 It's the worst possible place

00:37:44.260 that any baby could be born, really.

00:37:46.700 That's, you know, like within reason.

00:37:48.380 And then knowing what you know happens to Christ

00:37:52.140 along his life

00:37:53.980 and everything that his mother

00:37:55.780 has to see him go through,

00:37:57.860 has to watch him be tortured 0.99

00:38:01.060 and crucified and killed in public, right? 0.99

00:38:05.080 It's the utter, utmost humiliation 0.98

00:38:08.420 that he has to go through.

00:38:10.360 And then realizing that that's,

00:38:12.240 if you are a Christian,

00:38:13.220 I'm speaking to Christians on this,

00:38:14.600 or maybe anyone who's Christian curious,

00:38:16.880 that to understand

00:38:17.960 that if he's willing to go through that,

00:38:20.780 he's willing to do so

00:38:22.100 only because he would do so for you.

00:38:24.120 And that, by the way,

00:38:25.720 is my answer to why

00:38:27.180 It's a Wonderful Life

00:38:28.280 is a Christmas movie.

00:38:31.880 Yeah, I was,

00:38:32.940 I saw an argument that, you know,

00:38:35.780 is a non-believer, atheist, I guess.

00:38:38.160 And they were like, well, you know,

00:38:39.880 if Jesus Christ were so powerful,

00:38:42.460 why did he allow himself

00:38:44.740 to be tortured,

00:38:45.980 public humiliated, and crucified?

00:38:48.260 You know, he could have just said no, right?

00:38:50.120 And actually, in the Bible, he does.

00:38:53.400 He asks God, the Father,

00:38:55.540 he's like, you know,

00:38:56.020 let this cup pass over me.

00:38:57.840 And that just wasn't his fate.

00:39:00.420 But the response is amazing.

00:39:02.080 It's like, yeah,

00:39:02.660 he's the most powerful being imaginable.

00:39:05.020 He could have said,

00:39:06.040 no, I'm not going to do that.

00:39:07.740 But he didn't.

00:39:09.040 He chose himself

00:39:10.620 to sacrifice for us.

00:39:14.040 And therein actually lies

00:39:15.940 the ultimate power, right?

00:39:17.780 So, yeah, you're exactly right.

00:39:20.200 And it is the same

00:39:21.480 with The Wonderful Life.

00:39:23.460 You know, at the end of it,

00:39:24.540 I think that,

00:39:25.160 I would hope anyway

00:39:26.120 that George realizes

00:39:27.180 that he does have a wonderful life

00:39:29.220 because of all the people

00:39:31.020 that he's helped,

00:39:31.940 the tremendous impact

00:39:33.360 that he has made

00:39:34.640 on his local community,

00:39:36.860 all the things that he's done.

00:39:38.900 And yeah, the world

00:39:39.660 would be a different place

00:39:41.000 if it hadn't been for him.

00:39:42.880 So, you know,

00:39:44.100 certainly not the power

00:39:46.000 of Jesus Christ,

00:39:47.860 but nevertheless,

00:39:49.080 that same decision-making

00:39:50.840 along the way.

00:39:53.560 And in the end,

00:39:54.540 it did take an angel

00:39:55.760 to show him

00:39:56.720 that that's really

00:39:57.440 what the whole thing is about.

00:39:58.220 And that's really

00:39:58.620 what our lives are about.

00:40:00.060 You know, I mean, man, 0.94

00:40:00.520 you're going to die. 0.97

00:40:01.480 No one's going to care 0.91

00:40:02.100 how much money you had

00:40:03.080 or any of those things.

00:40:04.580 What they will care

00:40:05.640 is the impact

00:40:06.420 that he had on other people

00:40:07.400 and that he had on them.

00:40:08.060 There's a quote

00:40:10.320 from G.K. Chesterton

00:40:11.860 right before we go

00:40:12.860 to break here

00:40:13.420 that I'll say,

00:40:14.220 and it always stuck with me.

00:40:16.120 He said,

00:40:16.840 the most extraordinary thing

00:40:18.220 in the world

00:40:18.820 is an ordinary man

00:40:20.360 and an ordinary woman 0.93

00:40:21.920 and their ordinary children.

00:40:24.120 And in fact,

00:40:24.880 it actually is

00:40:26.180 the most extraordinary thing

00:40:28.440 in the world.

00:40:30.100 And you might even call it

00:40:31.200 a wonderful life.

00:40:33.100 Be right back.

00:40:34.140 Glenn Jacobs.

00:40:38.060 I want to live again.

00:41:08.060 I want to live again.

00:41:12.460 Jack Sobik back live.

00:41:14.340 Human Events Daily.

00:41:15.380 The truth about

00:41:16.160 It's a Wonderful Life.

00:41:18.420 And, you know,

00:41:19.300 we were talking earlier

00:41:20.160 about how Jimmy Stewart

00:41:21.960 was going through

00:41:23.720 his own PTSD

00:41:25.000 as he was making the film

00:41:27.800 after having served

00:41:29.020 in World War II.

00:41:29.920 And you just hear it

00:41:31.140 in that clip.

00:41:31.720 You just hear it there

00:41:32.820 where it's a man

00:41:35.240 who's lost everything,

00:41:36.860 but he's saying

00:41:38.280 the only thing

00:41:39.080 he wants back

00:41:39.920 is his wife,

00:41:41.280 his children,

00:41:42.380 his family.

00:41:43.320 He's totally understood

00:41:44.560 the importance of that.

00:41:45.680 And of course,

00:41:46.000 Jimmy Stewart had

00:41:46.800 all of those things as well.

00:41:48.300 But Glenn,

00:41:48.700 I got to ask you.

00:41:50.180 So, look, man,

00:41:51.760 you and I,

00:41:53.320 you know,

00:41:53.720 a lot of us

00:41:54.340 disagree with us on this.

00:41:56.100 There's some other

00:41:56.700 Christmas movies out there,

00:41:57.820 but there's also

00:41:58.740 a movie

00:41:59.400 that many people

00:42:00.340 claim is a Christmas movie

00:42:02.140 that you and I

00:42:03.940 are in agreement on

00:42:04.740 is not a Christmas movie.

00:42:06.080 And in fact,

00:42:06.580 Bruce Willis

00:42:07.500 agrees with us on this.

00:42:09.380 It's Die Hard.

00:42:10.320 They say Die Hard

00:42:11.480 is a Christmas movie

00:42:12.240 and I just got to say

00:42:13.100 it really is not.

00:42:14.400 It's really not.

00:42:16.180 No, it's not.

00:42:17.160 I mean,

00:42:17.640 it's set at Christmas.

00:42:19.300 And as I said

00:42:20.580 the other day

00:42:21.020 on X or Twitter,

00:42:22.600 whatever you want to call it,

00:42:24.660 you know,

00:42:24.940 there's two tests, okay?

00:42:26.160 You have the setting test.

00:42:27.520 Yes, it's set at Christmas,

00:42:28.680 but the plot

00:42:29.720 has nothing to do

00:42:30.820 with Christmas,

00:42:31.420 either on,

00:42:32.920 you know,

00:42:33.180 a religious level

00:42:33.980 or a secular level either.

00:42:35.580 I mean,

00:42:35.820 there's no,

00:42:36.480 there's just no,

00:42:37.420 it's not like a Christmas story,

00:42:38.900 you know,

00:42:39.440 where Ralphie's trying

00:42:40.360 to get his Christmas present,

00:42:42.040 right?

00:42:42.340 And along the way

00:42:43.220 he discovers

00:42:43.640 that his dad's

00:42:44.300 actually a really good guy

00:42:45.160 despite the rough exterior

00:42:46.260 and all that sort of stuff,

00:42:47.660 you know?

00:42:48.700 So,

00:42:49.360 and here's the thing.

00:42:50.800 By the way,

00:42:51.400 Christmas story,

00:42:52.260 I can watch that every year

00:42:53.520 because it is so darn funny

00:42:55.440 that I could quote

00:42:57.620 the entire thing verbatim.

00:42:59.660 It's,

00:42:59.980 it's just one of the funniest movies

00:43:01.160 I've ever seen.

00:43:02.400 Me too,

00:43:03.080 yes.

00:43:03.440 And yeah,

00:43:04.120 and it is a,

00:43:05.620 that makes it a Christmas movie.

00:43:07.380 The fact that you have

00:43:08.100 all the components.

00:43:09.840 Die Hard could have been,

00:43:11.280 they could have done it

00:43:12.000 the 4th of July.

00:43:13.040 They could have done it

00:43:13.920 just because the building

00:43:15.120 is having maintenance.

00:43:16.040 The reason it's set at Christmas

00:43:17.300 is because the security

00:43:19.320 is lax at the tower.

00:43:20.820 Now,

00:43:21.020 here's the deal.

00:43:22.100 If Hans Gruber

00:43:22.960 had been trying to steal

00:43:24.460 some advanced weaponry

00:43:26.580 from the tower,

00:43:27.860 say some surface-to-air missiles

00:43:29.080 to shoot down Santa's sleigh

00:43:30.480 and Bruce Willis stops him

00:43:32.020 and saves the spirit of Christmas,

00:43:33.440 it's a Christmas movie.

00:43:35.200 But that's not the case.

00:43:36.620 No,

00:43:36.880 it's not.

00:43:37.440 It's not.

00:43:37.800 If you want to remake the movie

00:43:38.960 and make it a Christmas movie,

00:43:39.980 that's what you need to do.

00:43:41.140 By the way,

00:43:41.720 for folks who don't know,

00:43:43.200 and I will say this,

00:43:44.300 by the way,

00:43:44.940 even though I disagree

00:43:45.660 with Die Hard being

00:43:46.460 a Christmas movie,

00:43:47.340 and honestly,

00:43:48.720 I think it's kind of a dead meme.

00:43:50.000 Like,

00:43:50.100 the joke was not funny

00:43:51.300 like five years ago

00:43:52.420 and for some reason

00:43:53.560 people just want to

00:43:54.220 keep bringing it along.

00:43:55.920 It's a great movie.

00:43:57.400 Okay?

00:43:57.720 There's nothing wrong

00:43:58.740 with that movie.

00:43:59.700 I love that movie.

00:44:00.940 But it's an action movie.

00:44:02.240 It's like the original action movie.

00:44:04.360 One thing,

00:44:04.800 though,

00:44:04.940 I will,

00:44:05.320 since you mentioned Hans Gruber,

00:44:06.580 a lot of people don't know this,

00:44:08.300 that that organization,

00:44:11.420 that terrorist organization

00:44:12.400 he's part of

00:44:13.140 was a real-life

00:44:15.380 terrorist organization,

00:44:17.460 communist terrorist organization

00:44:19.020 in West Germany

00:44:20.580 that was totally funded

00:44:21.780 by the Soviets

00:44:22.540 and the KGB.

00:44:24.020 They were called

00:44:24.340 the Red Army Faction.

00:44:26.880 They actually had,

00:44:27.820 one of their leaders

00:44:28.860 was named Ulrich Meinhof,

00:44:31.340 was a female,

00:44:32.640 used to be a former

00:44:33.460 liberal journalist,

00:44:34.880 then turned to

00:44:36.220 left-wing terrorism

00:44:37.700 throughout all of this.

00:44:39.320 I mean,

00:44:39.480 Of course you had to,

00:44:40.640 of course you had to

00:44:42.880 have been a liberal journalist.

00:44:43.900 Just saying,

00:44:44.820 I'm just saying,

00:44:45.880 all right,

00:44:46.240 that is the factual

00:44:47.580 basis

00:44:49.900 that Hans Gruber

00:44:51.680 is based on

00:44:52.460 and so,

00:44:53.320 you know,

00:44:53.800 I did a whole

00:44:54.500 communism book this year

00:44:55.580 and I'm not pitching it,

00:44:56.680 but it's true.

00:44:57.580 It's all true.

00:44:58.180 Little known fact

00:44:58.900 that Hans Gruber

00:45:00.020 is actually a CNN anchor.

00:45:02.000 No!

00:45:04.200 Oh man,

00:45:05.060 now we're getting

00:45:05.860 in big trouble.

00:45:06.880 But it's true.

00:45:07.520 It's entirely true.

00:45:08.440 Well,

00:45:08.660 the story goes

00:45:09.640 that she was writing

00:45:11.420 a story on,

00:45:12.680 so the group existed.

00:45:13.520 She didn't found the group,

00:45:14.400 the Red Army Faction,

00:45:16.180 and then she was doing

00:45:17.420 a story on them

00:45:19.180 and she was sort of

00:45:20.740 getting closer

00:45:21.460 and closer in

00:45:22.640 with the group

00:45:23.300 and then suddenly

00:45:24.760 she just kind of,

00:45:25.800 she just went native.

00:45:26.820 She just went native

00:45:27.900 and was like,

00:45:28.440 I'm in here

00:45:29.160 and there was like a,

00:45:29.960 I think it was a bank robbery

00:45:31.720 that they were,

00:45:32.200 because they were doing

00:45:32.600 bank robberies

00:45:33.280 to kind of finance themselves

00:45:35.200 as you do

00:45:36.140 when you're a communist,

00:45:37.380 by the way.

00:45:38.340 It kind of gets into the,

00:45:39.500 it's a wonderful life stuff

00:45:40.300 there a little bit.

00:45:41.580 But she then decides,

00:45:43.400 I'm going to get in the car

00:45:44.680 and go with them.

00:45:45.820 Leaves her kids, 0.95

00:45:46.800 by the way.

00:45:47.320 She had two little girls.

00:45:48.660 Leaves them

00:45:49.460 and the one girl

00:45:50.620 is now grown up

00:45:52.020 and actually

00:45:53.420 is an anti-communist

00:45:55.340 writer

00:45:55.860 and speaker

00:45:56.900 in Germany.

00:45:57.660 So there you go.

00:45:58.600 You guys didn't know that,

00:45:59.720 did you?

00:46:00.240 About Die Hard.

00:46:01.380 Full circle.

00:46:03.160 Full circle.

00:46:04.220 Yeah, full circle.

00:46:05.180 So no,

00:46:05.520 that was in,

00:46:06.280 I wrote that about that

00:46:06.920 in my Antifa book,

00:46:07.780 actually,

00:46:08.180 and then we touched

00:46:08.880 on it a little bit

00:46:09.680 because they were sort of

00:46:10.860 one of the original Antifas.

00:46:12.080 But no,

00:46:12.500 I think Die Hard's

00:46:13.460 a great movie.

00:46:14.500 Look,

00:46:14.760 A Christmas Story.

00:46:15.620 Christmas Story's

00:46:16.220 a great movie.

00:46:17.000 There's nothing wrong

00:46:17.760 with that.

00:46:18.240 And by the way,

00:46:18.860 it's a,

00:46:19.740 but even then,

00:46:21.220 the town that A Christmas Story

00:46:22.680 takes place in,

00:46:24.100 right,

00:46:24.440 it's got an actual community.

00:46:26.280 It's got kids

00:46:27.000 who know each other.

00:46:27.740 The fact that the mom

00:46:29.220 can call up the other mom

00:46:30.880 when,

00:46:31.160 when,

00:46:31.680 you know,

00:46:33.200 I guess it's Flick's mom

00:46:34.460 or something like that

00:46:35.240 when he says the bad word,

00:46:36.720 you know,

00:46:37.220 we've totally lost that

00:46:38.920 in society today.

00:46:39.940 We've totally lost that.

00:46:41.180 And that's something

00:46:42.100 when it comes to

00:46:42.840 all these films,

00:46:44.380 that's what MAGA

00:46:45.620 and,

00:46:46.500 you know,

00:46:46.600 it's not about Donald Trump

00:46:48.520 and,

00:46:49.000 you know,

00:46:49.100 they say,

00:46:49.400 oh,

00:46:49.480 you guys love Trump.

00:46:50.440 It's like,

00:46:50.780 no,

00:46:50.840 no,

00:46:51.040 no,

00:46:51.080 no,

00:46:51.200 no,

00:46:51.220 no,

00:46:51.280 no,

00:46:51.380 no,

00:46:51.400 no,

00:46:51.440 no,

00:46:51.460 no,

00:46:51.500 no,

00:46:51.520 no,

00:46:51.540 no,

00:46:51.560 no,

00:46:51.620 no,

00:46:51.800 no,

00:46:52.000 no,

00:46:52.100 no,

00:46:52.600 no,

00:46:52.960 no,

00:46:53.040 no,

00:46:53.100 no,

00:46:53.540 no,

00:46:53.600 no,

00:46:54.540 no,

00:46:55.040 no,

00:46:55.100 no,

00:46:55.600 no,

00:46:57.040 no,

00:46:57.600 no,

00:46:59.040 no,

00:46:59.600 no,

00:47:01.040 no,

00:47:01.600 no,

00:47:03.040 no,

00:47:03.600 no,

00:47:04.600 we're after the 40s

00:47:06.140 for folks who understand,

00:47:07.160 you know,

00:47:07.560 how mathematics work.

00:47:08.880 So,

00:47:09.160 you know,

00:47:10.300 you know,

00:47:10.660 all of these things can be had

00:47:12.180 if we just fight for them.

00:47:14.180 Last minute to you,

00:47:15.080 Glenn Jacobs.

00:47:17.920 We're talking about

00:47:18.700 the breakdown of the family unit here.

00:47:20.240 Yes.

00:47:20.580 That's what it is.

00:47:21.340 And I was talking with someone

00:47:22.120 the other day,

00:47:23.060 literally what the left

00:47:24.780 and what the communists

00:47:25.640 want to do

00:47:26.220 is they want to destroy

00:47:28.060 the family.

00:47:29.200 They want to take God 0.97

00:47:30.120 out of the public square

00:47:31.800 because they want government

00:47:33.540 to control everything.

00:47:34.600 And they want people

00:47:35.320 to worship government.

00:47:36.320 They want government

00:47:36.840 to be your family.

00:47:38.280 That's Pottersville.

00:47:39.860 That's just a wonderful example

00:47:41.500 as you pointed out.

00:47:42.720 You know,

00:47:43.120 in order for our country

00:47:45.740 to survive,

00:47:46.320 in order for a society

00:47:47.340 to survive,

00:47:48.480 you know,

00:47:48.640 we need strong

00:47:49.640 civic institutions.

00:47:51.220 It starts with the family.

00:47:52.500 I also believe that the church

00:47:53.580 is a big part of that.

00:47:54.840 And the further we get away

00:47:56.020 from those,

00:47:57.640 the more problems

00:47:58.900 that we're going to continue

00:47:59.580 to have as a country.

00:48:01.280 It's as simple as that, folks.

00:48:03.040 You didn't know

00:48:03.840 that you might actually get,

00:48:05.520 you know,

00:48:05.820 it's not just politics,

00:48:07.300 but it's a vision of America.

00:48:10.200 And the question that I have

00:48:11.560 whenever I watch,

00:48:12.320 and I hope when you watch

00:48:13.540 It's a Wonderful Life

00:48:14.540 this year,

00:48:15.620 sit down.

00:48:16.160 You can watch it

00:48:16.520 black and white or the colored.

00:48:17.700 I don't judge.

00:48:18.440 I watch them both.

00:48:19.180 They're all good.

00:48:20.120 It's a story of

00:48:21.140 which America

00:48:22.160 do you want

00:48:23.420 to live in?

00:48:24.720 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:48:25.500 as always,

00:48:26.080 you have my permission

00:48:26.740 to lay ashore.

00:48:36.520 Thank you.

00:48:37.020 Thank you.

00:48:37.080 Thank you.

00:48:37.100 Thank you.

00:48:37.140 Thank you.

00:48:37.160 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 23, 2024

The Truth About 'It's A Wonderful Life'

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