The Glenn Beck Program - 12⧸20⧸17 - The Christmas Episode (Luis Elizondo & Bill O'Reilly join Glenn)

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00:01:00.000 You think Frosty the Snowman, you think Bill O'Reilly.

00:01:06.480 Okay, maybe you don't, but you should think Bill O'Reilly right now.

00:01:09.620 Hello, Bill. Welcome to the program.

00:01:11.680 A Glenn Beck Christmas special, everyone, starring Andy, Andy Williams, Marie Osmond.

00:01:17.500 Yeah, it's great. And Dean Martin is going to be by in just a little while.

00:01:21.560 Excellent.

00:01:22.280 Yeah. So, Bill, Merry Christmas to you.

00:01:26.180 Same to you.

00:01:26.840 I want to talk to you about a couple of things.

00:01:31.220 I actually don't want you to leave before we talk about the story that broke in the hill,

00:01:35.440 because we haven't had a chance to talk about that.

00:01:37.820 But first, trying to keep our theme going here of Christmas and the end of the year.

00:01:43.700 Tell me what you think the three most important stories of the year were.

00:01:49.200 Okay. I think the most important story is the attack on Donald Trump by the media.

00:01:59.580 That's the number one most important story.

00:02:02.680 Yes.

00:02:03.160 Okay.

00:02:03.620 Because it's changed the way news reportage...

00:02:09.400 Ooh, word of the minute.

00:02:11.240 Word of the day, yeah.

00:02:12.540 Oh, of the day.

00:02:13.240 ...is expedited in this country.

00:02:17.180 So, that's number one.

00:02:18.700 Okay.

00:02:19.140 Number two would be the rise of the American economy.

00:02:25.200 And number three would be the defeat of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

00:02:31.280 Wow.

00:02:31.740 Those would be the top three stories, Beck.

00:02:34.040 You know what's amazing about those three things is none of them are correct.

00:02:40.100 None of them.

00:02:40.820 None of them are right.

00:02:43.020 No, by what yardstick are you making that determination?

00:02:46.340 By, you know, everything that is good and decent and holy and everything that is, you know, based in common sense.

00:02:53.520 All right.

00:02:53.860 So, your top three stories are?

00:02:56.180 My top three stories.

00:02:57.440 Now, I did this yesterday and I'm trying to remember what the first one was.

00:02:59.560 Are you saying his stories are not correct stories?

00:03:01.340 You don't even remember what the first one was.

00:03:02.220 Well, it's because they were so important.

00:03:04.100 Okay.

00:03:04.460 No, no.

00:03:05.060 So, here it is.

00:03:05.660 Here it is.

00:03:06.080 I got them.

00:03:06.420 I got them.

00:03:06.800 I got them.

00:03:07.420 I got them in my memory now.

00:03:08.580 Okay.

00:03:08.840 You ready?

00:03:09.540 Number one.

00:03:10.820 Gorsuch.

00:03:12.040 That's going to make a lasting impression and a lasting, leave a lasting mark one way or another, I'm hoping in a good way, on America.

00:03:21.140 Okay.

00:03:21.660 I'm not going to argue with it.

00:03:22.980 I don't think it's as important as my free, but it's certainly in the ballpark.

00:03:28.180 What's number two?

00:03:28.880 That's what Bill O'Reilly would say.

00:03:30.000 Number two is the charge of fake news and the American people's inability to recognize truth, being able to see it, and also the press not being able to see it.

00:03:50.000 You know, the right says this is fake news.

00:03:53.120 The left says this is fake news.

00:03:54.980 There is truth out there.

00:03:57.260 And without someone being trustworthy enough to say, no, guys, guys, this is the truth.

00:04:05.840 I don't know how we survive.

00:04:07.420 Well, your number two pick coincides with my number one pick.

00:04:12.620 Yeah, but mine was really kind of stated, you know, a little better.

00:04:18.080 Yeah, but people expect that of you.

00:04:20.980 And the third pick was because I think it has eternal and lasting ramifications if it's more than just talk, and that is calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

00:04:36.900 All right.

00:04:37.720 Well, that's a spiritual thing you're getting into now.

00:04:40.800 Now, I would not put that in the top stories because of the direct effect it has on people's lives.

00:04:48.320 Now, if you're an Israeli, of course, but as an American, we're looking at this on the outside.

00:04:54.580 So, you know, I was going my three stories were basically how they affect the folks.

00:04:58.900 So isn't it?

00:04:59.540 My thing is looking out for the folks back as you know.

00:05:02.220 Is it amazing that neither one of us put, and I think this is more of a question of how much has happened that is huge this year, the Harvey Weinstein effect and what has happened in the last year and where we're headed in the next year?

00:05:27.280 I mean, this is a remarkably huge story.

00:05:30.640 It is a big story, but it isn't touching the lives of the folks.

00:05:36.120 It's more of a sensationalistic piece of culture that most people are kind of just looking at going, wow.

00:05:48.700 But does it affect the way they live their lives, the way they go to work, the way they raise their children?

00:05:55.180 No.

00:05:55.860 It's salacious.

00:05:57.380 It's sensationalistic.

00:05:58.940 It is hysterical at this point in some precincts, but I just don't think it has a lasting effect on regular working people.

00:06:11.220 Certainly you're going to have an effect on politicians because now you're going to get muck raking all day long.

00:06:16.020 It's going to be going to have an effect on the media people.

00:06:18.280 Anybody who's ever done anything wrong in the last 50 years, sooner or later it's going to come down and get you right between the eyes.

00:06:26.180 There isn't a man in the country, a famous man in the country, that's safe.

00:06:30.740 All accusations are destructive.

00:06:33.800 It's trial by headline.

00:06:35.360 And that is a very, very troubling thing.

00:06:39.060 But important in the long run to people's lives, I don't think it makes it top three.

00:06:43.720 Okay.

00:06:44.340 Speaking of culture and how it has gone off the rails, love your thought.

00:06:48.260 This is CNN talking about a new Christmas book.

00:06:52.680 Listen, and I'd like to hear your comment.

00:06:54.700 Here it comes.

00:07:02.360 Anytime.

00:07:04.080 Oh, you don't have it?

00:07:04.720 She doesn't have it.

00:07:05.800 Well, we'll come back to that.

00:07:07.060 We'll come back to that.

00:07:08.260 Santa is very busy.

00:07:09.580 He's...

00:07:10.340 Do you have any...

00:07:11.000 If you tell me what it is, I can comment on it.

00:07:13.560 No, no, no.

00:07:14.040 I want you to hear it from...

00:07:15.420 You want me to hear it?

00:07:15.940 I want you to hear it from CNN.

00:07:17.360 Okay, so then let me...

00:07:18.780 Here's a new children's book out this Christmas.

00:07:21.140 Takes us inside Santa's wedding.

00:07:22.820 We meet Santa's husband, David.

00:07:25.860 What inspired Santa's husband?

00:07:28.160 Well, it was sort of inspired by the annual tradition we have in this country of pretending

00:07:34.920 that there's a giant war on Christmas and that traditional Christmas is under attack.

00:07:39.920 So, among other things, we were reading all of the news about the Mall of America hiring

00:07:46.200 a black Santa Claus last year.

00:07:47.720 And me and my now wife made a joke on Twitter that if we ever had a child, they would only

00:07:54.260 know about black Santa Claus.

00:07:55.880 And if they saw a white Santa Claus at the mall, we would just explain, well, that's his

00:07:59.020 husband.

00:08:00.020 It says, like any married couple, they have their disagreements, but they always manage

00:08:04.480 to kiss and make up, usually over a plate of milk and cookies.

00:08:09.380 Bill.

00:08:10.480 Yeah.

00:08:11.800 Okay, I wanted you to hear...

00:08:12.720 That's Don Lemon, right?

00:08:14.700 Yeah, that's Don Lemon doing that story, yes.

00:08:17.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:18.100 All right, well, look, here are my initial thoughts on it.

00:08:22.500 It is beyond shameful that CNN and others feel that they have a license to denigrate all

00:08:36.420 of our traditions.

00:08:38.260 And that's what they're doing there.

00:08:41.080 There's no doubt about it.

00:08:42.440 They're mocking the tradition of Santa Claus, which is St. Nicholas, generosity, pleasing

00:08:50.640 children, magical time, mocking it, injecting in social justice to the Christmas season.

00:09:00.860 Shameful, but predictable from these people who have disdain, not only for America, but

00:09:11.480 for traditional Americans who love Christmas.

00:09:14.800 So...

00:09:15.240 They despise us.

00:09:17.260 Okay, I said earlier this week, kind of a controversial statement, I said there was no

00:09:22.540 war on Christmas.

00:09:23.880 The war on Christmas has been lost.

00:09:26.220 No, we actually won the war on Christmas.

00:09:30.520 When you were working at Fox, I was there, and that's when I launched, because you reminded

00:09:35.520 me so much of Santa.

00:09:37.680 Yeah.

00:09:38.120 Kind of a little pudgy, and you know, didn't have a beard, but very generous, very popular.

00:09:44.840 Generous.

00:09:45.380 I like that part of fear.

00:09:46.560 I can see you in your jammies up in the North Pole making stuff.

00:09:49.840 Yes.

00:09:50.240 All right.

00:09:50.700 Drinking hot chocolate.

00:09:51.900 Right.

00:09:52.320 So when I saw you, I said, you know what, I'm getting tired of people like department

00:09:57.940 stores threatening their employees with firing if they say Merry Christmas.

00:10:02.440 Yes.

00:10:02.840 And we had a list of them, and we put the list on the screen, and then Americans said, you

00:10:07.620 know, we're not really going to shop in these places anymore, which the policy of firing

00:10:12.380 people for saying Merry Christmas stopped abruptly.

00:10:14.900 Yes.

00:10:15.780 All right.

00:10:16.300 So we won.

00:10:17.340 Well, I think here's what I meant by that, that I think we did win on people that aren't

00:10:23.200 afraid to say Merry Christmas, which is very nice.

00:10:26.160 However, when you look, and I gave the, you know, songs that are just on the playlists

00:10:32.540 for Christmas from iTunes, there's not a religious reference in the 50 of them that I saw.

00:10:40.600 Now, we are not, we are a secular, increasingly secular society.

00:10:48.180 That's why I send my kids to private school, because I don't want my children to be on the

00:10:57.480 defensive when it comes to their religious beliefs.

00:11:01.400 And that's what we've done in this country.

00:11:04.100 Thank you, Barack Obama.

00:11:05.780 Thank you, Bill Clinton.

00:11:07.560 Thank you, far left nuts.

00:11:09.520 You basically, if you're a man or a woman of faith, now you have to be cautious about 0.99

00:11:15.060 it.

00:11:15.520 You can't offend anyone by saying anything about it.

00:11:18.940 That's fascism.

00:11:20.500 That's Cuban stuff.

00:11:22.580 And I don't want my children to be a part of it.

00:11:25.040 So therefore, I choose to send them to private school where they don't have that oppression.

00:11:31.180 But you're absolutely right.

00:11:32.840 This is a secular society.

00:11:34.640 And in that regard, the far left kooks have won.

00:11:38.120 So let me let me ask you this, because you said that I reminded you of Santa and that

00:11:42.240 was very kind of you.

00:11:43.180 I was wondering, for traditions for you, what were the traditions when you were growing

00:11:51.740 up for Christmas around the Civil War?

00:11:54.680 You know, the muskets were outside, lined up, and the horses were whinnying. 0.90

00:12:00.640 No, seriously.

00:12:01.460 What is something that...

00:12:03.460 Oh, you don't want to know about the Civil War?

00:12:05.080 Yeah, I know.

00:12:05.640 What is the Christmas tradition that you either carry on or you miss that used to happen?

00:12:12.800 Here it is, Beck.

00:12:13.700 Get your pen, take some notes.

00:12:15.200 Stu can take the notes.

00:12:16.060 Got it.

00:12:16.820 My first memory on being on the planet is sitting on the stairs of my Levittown house.

00:12:23.200 All right?

00:12:23.940 Three bedrooms, one bath, little box house.

00:12:26.940 At about five in the morning, I got up before everybody else.

00:12:30.020 I must have been three, maybe two and a half, and the tree was lit, and all the presents

00:12:36.620 were under the tree.

00:12:38.860 And I would just sat there for about an hour just staring at it.

00:12:43.120 Okay?

00:12:43.520 That's my first memory on the planet.

00:12:45.700 So that I try to duplicate that.

00:12:47.640 We have a tree in the living room.

00:12:50.040 We put gifts under the tree.

00:12:52.500 That's odd.

00:12:53.300 So, you know, we go to church, and I usually go in and tell the priest, look, not too long.

00:13:01.920 Okay?

00:13:02.160 Keep it about 10 minutes with the sermon.

00:13:04.020 Right.

00:13:04.640 Sure.

00:13:05.140 We got people fainting.

00:13:06.440 We got kids screaming, you know, that kind of thing.

00:13:08.320 So do you get your kids up and force them to sit on the stairs at five o'clock in the

00:13:12.000 morning, or?

00:13:12.800 No.

00:13:13.400 No.

00:13:13.700 Okay.

00:13:13.940 No, I don't force.

00:13:15.240 I suggest.

00:13:16.200 Okay.

00:13:18.240 Okay, good.

00:13:19.120 Good.

00:13:20.220 Okay.

00:13:20.520 So, Bill, let me go back here to something that we didn't talk about last week, which

00:13:32.360 is the story that came out on the Hill and in the Hill, which is, you know, it adds a

00:13:39.320 lot of credibility to it.

00:13:40.540 Lisa Bloom, the attorney that orchestrated your departure at Fox, was shown to have been

00:13:51.780 offering women money to tell a story about Donald Trump.

00:13:59.840 She was accused, and she admitted to offering up to $750,000 just to help these poor women

00:14:07.940 out because they were afraid they'd lose everything if they came out against Donald Trump.

00:14:15.300 Look, I told you last Friday that big story was going to break, and it broke about an hour

00:14:21.440 after your program ended.

00:14:24.680 What the real disgrace is, too disgraceful.

00:14:27.180 I said to everybody when I left Fox, this was a hit job.

00:14:30.820 It was an orchestrated hit job.

00:14:32.420 We always knew there was big money in play on all different levels, not just with me,

00:14:37.160 but with Trump and a lot of other people.

00:14:39.740 And this is a fact now.

00:14:41.980 They have the memos.

00:14:43.200 They have the emails from Bloom.

00:14:44.900 They have all of this.

00:14:46.020 So they lay it out on thehill.com, and if your audience has not seen it, go there.

00:14:49.800 You can read the report.

00:14:51.740 But the really, really shocking and makes me furious is that the New York Times, the LA

00:14:57.600 Times, the Washington Post, the Network News, CNN, all ignored the story, didn't cover the

00:15:03.300 story.

00:15:03.940 Yet every sleazy allegation that comes down, they cover.

00:15:07.500 They can't wait to cover it.

00:15:09.200 All right?

00:15:09.640 They didn't want to cover Franken, and now they're backtracking.

00:15:12.720 Well, maybe he won't resign, you know, that kind of stuff.

00:15:15.080 But if it's a conservative or a Republican, they couldn't care less what's true.

00:15:20.020 They just slap it up.

00:15:20.860 But when this comes in, and it's absolutely 100% true, they won't cover.

00:15:25.240 That is corruption beyond redemption.

00:15:28.300 Okay?

00:15:28.820 All right.

00:15:29.020 Remember what I said.

00:15:30.200 Corruption beyond redemption.

00:15:31.940 We do not have a free press anymore in this country.

00:15:35.240 All right.

00:15:35.620 So all I'm going to ask your audiences to do is to read the story and then take it to the

00:15:43.800 next level, which the next level will be shown, that this is now an industry of destruction.

00:15:49.800 They found a way to destroy people.

00:15:52.420 It involves money and politics, not in every case.

00:15:56.980 There are women who have been hurt, women who have been hurt, and they deserve justice. 0.71

00:16:01.820 But in many cases, Lisa Bloom and her cadre should be put in prison, in my opinion.

00:16:08.320 Bill, I only have a minute.

00:16:10.060 Thank you for sharing time with us this year, and thank you for being on the program.

00:16:16.500 And is it going to be a better year or a tougher year?

00:16:19.880 I don't know.

00:16:20.080 You know, I got to tell everybody that, you know, you were very generous to me.

00:16:24.540 No, I mean next year.

00:16:27.300 Is it going to be a better year?

00:16:28.220 No, I don't know what's going to happen next year.

00:16:29.660 All right.

00:16:29.860 I know that I just can't.

00:16:31.960 But I want your listeners to know that you really are a fair man, and a man who doesn't

00:16:37.440 want to hurt people and wants to do good on this earth, and that's the Christmas spirit.

00:16:41.740 Thank you.

00:16:41.880 I also want to tell them to go to BillOReilly.com and all that other business.

00:16:46.200 But it's more important they like you than go to BillOReilly.com.

00:16:49.920 All right.

00:16:50.300 Bill, God bless.

00:16:51.320 Have a great holiday.

00:16:52.500 You too.

00:16:52.520 Have a good time.

00:16:53.340 See you in the new year.

00:16:55.160 In the new year.

00:16:55.980 Bye.

00:16:56.320 Bye-bye.

00:16:56.600 Oh, man.

00:16:59.080 He's nothing like spending Christmas with Bill O'Reilly.

00:17:02.660 I'll say that.

00:17:03.160 Yeah, no.

00:17:03.800 He's...

00:17:04.160 And it's BillOReilly.com, BillOReilly.com, BillOReilly.com, and the book Killing England

00:17:09.460 is the one he's pitching right now.

00:17:12.120 All right.

00:17:12.660 Our Christmas special continues with more eggnog and more cheer in a minute.

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00:20:37.820 Merry Christmas from the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:39.340 Some restrictions may apply.

00:20:43.760 Glenn Beck.

00:20:49.820 By the way, this is from the Christmas album Believe Again, which is a great, great CD.

00:21:18.080 Grab it for Christmas available, you know, on Amazon and everything else.

00:21:23.680 One of the things that has been really remarkable to me this year is our fascination on space.

00:21:31.980 From Elon Musk and what he is doing to go to Mars and last, what was it, last Friday, we sent something up for the International Space Station and we used Elon Musk's SpaceX.

00:21:46.860 And to watch that thing launch and within, I think, 10 minutes, you know, the booster rocket was back landing on the launch pad.

00:21:55.780 It was absolutely phenomenal.

00:21:58.940 There's something else that's going on.

00:22:01.200 And that is what the New York Times released this last week, which was, are we alone?

00:22:09.100 And the money that the government has spent looking at UFOs.

00:22:15.100 And one of the guys who is a career intelligence officer, he worked with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence, Director of the National Intelligence.

00:22:26.560 He was a special agent in charge, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:30.060 He has been around this now.

00:22:32.300 He is with To the Stars Academy and the Director of Global Security, Luis Elizondo.

00:22:40.780 Hello, Luis.

00:22:41.560 How are you, sir?

00:22:42.180 Good, Mr. Beck.

00:22:44.700 How are you, sir?

00:22:45.360 Very good.

00:22:46.220 So I would tell you to call me Glenn, but you're a career military man, so I have a feeling it's going to remain Mr. Beck.

00:22:53.420 Old habits are hard to break.

00:22:54.840 I know.

00:22:55.240 I know.

00:22:55.900 Thank you for your service, by the way.

00:22:58.500 Tell me, tell me what, do we believe that there is life that is visiting us or is this hype?

00:23:11.280 Well, when you say we, let me clarify, at least just from my perspective, because I certainly can't speak on behalf of every American.

00:23:23.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:23.700 I certainly will pretend to.

00:23:25.260 And as far as speaking for the department, it's been about two months now since I've been out of the Department of Defense, so I certainly can't speak on behalf of the department.

00:23:33.480 But what I can do is speak on behalf of myself and I think on behalf of my colleagues that work this particular portfolio.

00:23:43.080 And I think the evidence at this point is quite overwhelming.

00:23:49.280 I think as we are entering this, as you said just now, kind of this new era of space, I think we are entering a new era where the evidence is quite frankly overwhelming.

00:24:03.740 Yeah, you know, we saw the video that they released, and I would imagine that there's maybe even more compelling stuff than that.

00:24:11.780 But we saw the video and, you know, the airmen talking about, look at this, it has no wings.

00:24:21.080 I've heard you talk about, you know, seeing things and having, you know, documented footage of things without a propulsion unit.

00:24:30.740 No, you know, no wings, no surface, you know, that we would recognize as anything that would keep something afloat.

00:24:41.140 Is this the most compelling thing that you have?

00:24:45.620 Is this video or is there more that you have seen?

00:24:49.480 Yeah, no, there's significantly more.

00:24:51.980 These two videos that are out in the public domain are simply just a very, very small sample of the collective amount of information that we have over the years.

00:25:04.180 So, Luis, was there a conversation in the agency, you know, or in this, you know, group of we need to tell the American people this.

00:25:17.460 This is not information that the government should hoard.

00:25:19.780 This is really kind of important stuff.

00:25:21.980 Well, I think that's a fantastic observation.

00:25:26.420 In my perspective, it may be a little bit more selfish, and that was I needed to be able to tell the most senior levels of DOD leadership,

00:25:34.760 please keep in mind that, you know, as a former soldier and an employee of DOD, my loyalty is first and foremost to the American people.

00:25:44.600 Second is to the Department of Defense, and third is to the Secretary of Defense.

00:25:48.280 In this particular case, I think we're in a situation where this country has never had a better Secretary of Defense, in my opinion.

00:25:57.180 And, yes, I'm a little biased, but I think I can say that because I served with the man and have seen him in combat situations.

00:26:03.880 So my loyalty to the boss is paramount, and when you are in an organization, a department where silos and stovepipes restrict the ability to give the top commander the information he or she may need to make critical decisions,

00:26:22.460 regardless of resources, regardless of resources, we have an obligation to make sure that we have that ability.

00:26:28.360 So what kind of decision would somebody in the Defense Department need to know this information?

00:26:39.240 I mean, have you seen hostility or what?

00:26:45.960 Well, I'll get to that piece in a second.

00:26:48.680 And the answer, in short, is we haven't seen any overt hostility.

00:26:51.560 But keep in mind, in DOD, we are a national security organization.

00:26:57.480 And so I don't want to say we get paid to be paranoid, but we definitely get paid to make sure things aren't a threat.

00:27:03.600 So if we're not sure it's not a threat, then we have to presume it could be a threat.

00:27:08.940 Not that it is, but it could be.

00:27:10.460 And so we need to understand how these things work.

00:27:13.280 And from my perspective, you know, our secretary is a guy who likes more information, not less. 0.99

00:27:20.740 And I think the issue really being stigma within the department.

00:27:25.800 Secretary Madison inherited a wonderful department, but a department, no less, that over 70 years has developed some silos and stovepipes.

00:27:34.400 And the things that DOD does very well, obviously, looking at defined threats such as terrorism and potential nuclear weapons and chemical weapons and proliferation of, you know, issue du jour.

00:27:48.120 The one thing that it's not very comfortable with are those things that are very hard to define.

00:27:54.080 They tend to be a bit nebulous.

00:27:55.960 Things that we say, look, we don't know what it is.

00:27:58.780 We don't know how it works.

00:28:00.540 And we're not sure we can do anything to stop it.

00:28:02.860 What's the most amazing?

00:28:04.720 Go ahead.

00:28:06.620 No, no, please go ahead.

00:28:07.580 I'm sorry.

00:28:07.920 What was the most amazing thing that you, you know, it's one thing to say, well, we don't know if it's a plane or something.

00:28:14.120 What is the most amazing thing that you saw that you would be comfortable sharing with us?

00:28:19.420 Sure.

00:28:20.300 And thank you for saying that, because I will caveat that I still have a security clearance, or at least.

00:28:26.720 Yeah, sure.

00:28:27.300 Now, and I am obligated to protect any and all classified information.

00:28:31.840 So whatever I share, of course, has to be classified.

00:28:34.900 But what I can share with you is, I think, just the overwhelming amount of data and reports that we have received from people who are, keeping in mind, these are people with the highest levels of security clearances.

00:28:50.520 These are people who are trained observers.

00:28:53.640 They fly multimillion-dollar weapon platforms for their country on a daily basis.

00:28:58.300 And they are the most trustworthy of trustworthy.

00:29:00.900 And on top of that, these folks understand what they're looking at.

00:29:04.980 They, it's not the fact that they just happen to be astute observers.

00:29:08.540 They're actually trained observers.

00:29:10.560 And on top of that, we now have equipment that can very quickly ascertain what we're looking at, if it's an aircraft, if it's a missile, if it's a drone, to the point where we actually know what kind of drone it is.

00:29:22.580 And unfortunately, I can't go into detail than that.

00:29:25.920 But with that said, the most compelling thing I've ever seen, I think, is it's a bunch of things.

00:29:31.760 It's not just one thing.

00:29:32.840 I think when you, one thing is to look at an object in a radar return or on a screen.

00:29:38.880 And if you don't know what you're looking at, it's easy to say, oh, it's just a fuzzy dot, and the camera pans off screen.

00:29:45.240 When in reality, that's not what's happening.

00:29:46.960 When in reality, what you're looking at, if you understand what the radar return is telling you in infrared hot, infrared cold, et cetera, is an object that we can't get close to.

00:29:57.260 It is taking evasive measures to avoid us getting close.

00:30:01.020 And then when we do get close, it takes off at incredible velocities that, frankly, defy our understanding of logic, really.

00:30:11.520 We're talking about objects that can drop from 80,000 feet down to 50 feet in a hover and then instantaneously jump back up to 80,000 feet.

00:30:21.540 And when I say 80,000 feet, it's actually higher.

00:30:24.200 That's as high as we can see it with a particular system.

00:30:28.000 Of course, we have other systems that are better than that, too.

00:30:30.880 But in this particular case and other cases, we are seeing things that will interfere with equipment and our ability to further put information on these things.

00:30:44.580 Right, correct.

00:30:45.740 I only have 30 seconds.

00:30:47.820 Are we going to be seeing more of this, or are they still going to keep tight-lipped?

00:30:52.240 Is this pretty much what we're going to find out?

00:30:53.900 Well, I hope that we do more as a nation to insist that we see more.

00:31:03.100 I think we need to make sure that we engage who we need to engage our leaders and say, hey, look, this is worth investing.

00:31:11.720 I hate to say it, but $22 million, that's not enough.

00:31:14.760 I know everybody's getting wrapped around the axle about the money, when really the bigger story here is, folks, we've been looking at this stuff for a while, and it's real.

00:31:23.340 And as a nation, we need to decide, is it a national security imperative?

00:31:28.580 Former Pentagon UFO official Luis Elizondo.

00:31:32.480 Fascinating.

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00:31:45.360 I can't miss it.

00:31:46.080 It's all lit up.

00:31:47.680 And people are desperate.

00:31:49.980 And there are people that want stuff out of your house.

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00:33:28.180 Glenn Beck.

00:33:29.380 It's great to meet you guys.

00:33:41.440 Thank you.

00:33:41.900 We're so happy to be here.

00:33:43.120 So, let me start at the beginning.

00:33:46.360 Our company is called Radjoy, and we make wooden surrender crosses.

00:33:51.080 The purpose of the crosses is to help people let go of the problems that they're carrying.

00:33:56.660 They write their burdens down on a sheet of paper, nail them to the cross.

00:34:00.760 Our hope is that they feel that burden taken away.

00:34:05.320 We were just in a season of restlessness, I would say, and just really started praying

00:34:10.540 that God, the prayer that I prayed, that God would open doors widely or shut them loudly,

00:34:15.580 and that His will would just be so evident for us.

00:34:19.120 And so, actually, the morning he lost his job, I called him and said,

00:34:23.540 what would you think if you quit your job and we just did this full time?

00:34:28.960 Because I just, I could see as he was making the crosses, just this passion building in him.

00:34:38.520 That afternoon, whenever I got laid off, I mean, I got the biggest grin on my face

00:34:42.220 because all of a sudden, all of a sudden, it just, everything made sense.

00:34:45.200 All the experiences I had up at that point were leading up to something that I didn't know

00:34:48.240 what it was.

00:34:48.780 But in that moment, he gave me a quick glimpse of, hey, here's what I got in store for you.

00:34:53.220 There was just too many stars in alignment for this not to be what God intended.

00:34:57.700 It was the prayer that I had prayed, that God would make things very clear.

00:35:01.000 And I'm like, it couldn't be more clear than this.

00:35:03.140 It had to be really hard when you're like, no, no, no, this, this is it.

00:35:06.860 This made no sense to anyone, but we had to put our full faith in what this was going to be.

00:35:11.720 We just, we just knew in our hearts that, you know, it's going to be a good story, a really great story.

00:35:15.660 And people, they say they trust and they say they want things, but they don't really trust.

00:35:24.340 And they don't, they don't necessarily want it the way God gives it to you.

00:35:31.360 But what we have found too, is it's the perseverance that's the hard part.

00:35:35.000 Because at the beginning, everybody's standing behind you.

00:35:38.940 And we still have tons of support, but there's just, you know, there's months that are really hard.

00:35:44.980 And we think, how are we going to pay our bills this month?

00:35:47.860 Yeah.

00:35:48.400 And yet every single month something has happened.

00:35:53.760 To surrender is to let go.

00:35:56.060 It is to give yourself and to allow someone else, something else, in our case, Christ, take the reins.

00:36:02.260 It's the biggest thing is to let it go yourself.

00:36:07.460 It's so hard.

00:36:07.980 Just let it go.

00:36:09.760 It's just moment by moment.

00:36:11.800 I see it on there.

00:36:12.960 I'm like, I wrote it.

00:36:14.640 I see it on there.

00:36:16.160 And you can't help but not look at a cross and think, that's what we're supposed to, that's what we're supposed to do.

00:36:21.860 I mean, Jesus died, so we would be free.

00:36:23.800 It's not ours.

00:36:24.300 It's not ours anymore.

00:36:25.400 It's not ours.

00:36:25.820 Let it go.

00:36:26.320 It's right there.

00:36:27.200 I wrote it.

00:36:27.640 So, you know, that's kind of our little tagline is he's got this is so you remember that he said, I got this.

00:36:32.520 You do your job.

00:36:33.180 Let me do mine.

00:36:34.180 After we started using our cross, we said, OK, this is going to be the way that we are going to recognize how faithful God is.

00:36:42.520 This is now our family business.

00:36:44.480 We wanted to do our best to get our kids involved with that.

00:36:47.280 After Rick finishes creating the crosses, we have the kids write down different virtues.

00:36:54.060 Before we give the cross to somebody, we will choose one of those virtues.

00:36:57.640 And we pray over them.

00:36:59.180 So we blindly choose one before we give it to somebody.

00:37:03.800 We don't say random anymore.

00:37:05.020 We don't say it's not.

00:37:05.820 It's not random because we've had too many stories of people that have come back and said that word.

00:37:10.260 It was it was divine.

00:37:12.080 The reason why I got that word people that it was health and literally were healed after that.

00:37:16.940 You pray over literally every cross.

00:37:19.180 We do.

00:37:21.300 Where do people go to find out and get one?

00:37:23.840 So we have a website, rad-joy.com.

00:37:27.380 Thank you so much.

00:37:28.600 Thank you so much.

00:37:29.420 And it's really hard to start your own business, run your own business, really hard to keep faith.

00:37:37.580 It is you're exactly right.

00:37:40.500 Perseverance because you'll get into it and you're so convinced.

00:37:44.200 And about halfway through, you're like, this is the dumbest thing I've done.

00:37:50.240 There are days.

00:37:50.840 I cannot believe we thought this was divinely inspired.

00:37:54.920 This may have come directly from hell.

00:37:57.580 But each day you can choose joy.

00:37:59.460 Yes, you can.

00:37:59.880 That's a choice you can make.

00:38:00.840 Rad-joy. 0.87

00:38:04.080 Put them where they belong.

00:38:06.520 Put your burdens where they belong.

00:38:07.780 Glenn, back.

00:38:12.780 Glenn, back.

00:38:12.800 Glenn, back.

00:38:14.860 Glenn, back.

00:38:29.000 It's Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck.

00:38:51.940 Entertainment.

00:38:53.280 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:38:55.380 Hello, America.

00:38:58.400 It's a classic Christmas program for you.

00:39:01.380 We're so glad that you are here today.

00:39:03.100 It's our Christmas special.

00:39:04.580 We're going to be talking a little Christmas, going to talk a little news, a little year in review as well.

00:39:10.720 We're doing specials on television all this week.

00:39:13.300 I brought the band back, Stu and Pat and Jeffy on television at 5 o'clock.

00:39:17.860 And we're talking about all of the things that have happened in 2017.

00:39:22.340 Last night was the world.

00:39:24.980 Everything that had happened in the world.

00:39:26.900 Politics was on Monday.

00:39:28.540 And I believe tonight is culture.

00:39:30.420 And there has been a lot that has happened in culture.

00:39:35.700 And I want to play just some of some of the things that I have selected as these are probably going to be in the history book at some point, depending on who's writing them.

00:39:46.780 These are really pretty important.

00:39:50.360 And some of them you may not have even noticed.

00:39:53.380 This one, I'm pretty sure you did.

00:39:55.940 Cut one.

00:39:57.240 George Washington was a slave owner.

00:39:59.180 And we need to call slave owners out for what they are. 0.96

00:40:01.400 Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn't protecting my freedom.

00:40:06.020 I wasn't someone who my ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him.

00:40:09.400 And so to me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue or a Robert E. Lee statue.

00:40:15.460 They all need to come down.

00:40:18.540 Just moments after they were saying, oh, just because you take down Robert E. Lee, no one's going to ask for George Washington.

00:40:26.780 You guys are conspiracy theorists.

00:40:28.460 It was literally the next day.

00:40:29.980 It was literally the next day.

00:40:32.340 We have gone through.

00:40:34.040 And you know what stopped this nonsense or at least put it on pause?

00:40:38.020 Hurricane Harvey.

00:40:40.100 Jeez.

00:40:40.740 Yeah.

00:40:41.100 It was the hurricane.

00:40:42.120 It was right around that time.

00:40:42.940 Everybody was so gung-ho and pulling down all the statues.

00:40:46.840 Hurricane Harvey hit.

00:40:48.300 And we haven't gone back there, thank God.

00:40:51.760 That's true.

00:40:52.560 I mean, yeah.

00:40:53.860 I don't think these aren't fun trade-offs, though.

00:40:57.220 No, I'm not saying that.

00:40:59.000 I'm just saying that we're a country of squirrel.

00:41:01.160 Yeah, we really are.

00:41:01.840 That's all we are.

00:41:02.680 What were you just talking about?

00:41:03.440 I saw a squirrel run behind you.

00:41:04.680 Absolutely no idea.

00:41:05.720 One guy who I think is really coming into his own and I think is the leading voice for the millennials, for conservatives, and that's Ben Shapiro.

00:41:17.920 In case you missed this very important audio cut this year, listen to Ben Shapiro as he speaks to a pro-abortion student.

00:41:28.120 The problem is that any time you draw any line other than the inception of the child, you end up drawing a false line that can also be applied to people who are adults.

00:41:37.000 So either human life has intrinsic value or it doesn't.

00:41:39.400 I think we both agree that adults' human life has intrinsic value.

00:41:41.940 Can we start from that premise?

00:41:43.360 I believe that sentience is what gives something moral value.

00:41:48.560 Not necessarily being a human alone.

00:41:51.880 Okay, so when you're asleep, can I stab you?

00:41:56.160 I'm still considered sentient when I'm asleep.

00:41:59.140 Okay, if you are in a coma from which you may awake, can I stab you?

00:42:02.740 Well then, no.

00:42:06.240 I'm glad you answered that because I have no interest in actually remembering it.

00:42:08.980 So that's still potential sentience and it's still a potential...

00:42:12.300 I agree, it is potential sentience.

00:42:13.920 You know what else is potential sentience?

00:42:15.240 Being a fetus.

00:42:17.980 So good, man.

00:42:19.020 He is so good and he's so dangerous to the left.

00:42:24.700 And I really think that millennials, you know, I was talking to my older daughters the other day

00:42:32.260 and they were talking about some of their friends who are very, very, you know, New York-centric.

00:42:37.880 And they're just done with so many of the politicians.

00:42:44.300 Al Gore came up in the global warming thing.

00:42:46.780 They had no time for Al Gore.

00:42:49.580 I was so glad to hear this.

00:42:51.360 And I said, how come?

00:42:52.880 And my daughter said, he's not a vegan, dad.

00:42:56.000 If you actually care, you're a vegan.

00:42:59.620 And I said, do your friends know that?

00:43:02.300 And she said, oh, yeah.

00:43:04.320 And I think there is this...

00:43:06.280 I think there's this moment coming.

00:43:08.360 And I think we're already seeing it in politics where the reason why the millennials like Bernie Sanders is he is who he says he is.

00:43:17.160 That's it.

00:43:18.220 That's just him.

00:43:18.920 He's completely authentic.

00:43:20.800 He is who he says he is.

00:43:22.720 I am a socialist.

00:43:23.820 Yeah.

00:43:24.400 A lot of people don't like that, but that's what I am.

00:43:26.800 Yeah, I'm going to be raising your taxes.

00:43:27.960 Of course, they're going to go up.

00:43:28.680 Yeah.

00:43:29.020 He does say things like that.

00:43:30.160 He does.

00:43:30.620 He just said them last week when they were talking about, you know, the tax cut.

00:43:34.680 Yeah, well, under me, it would have to go up.

00:43:36.980 Yes.

00:43:38.280 Okay, good.

00:43:39.160 Well, you're at least you at least have some credibility.

00:43:42.780 And I think there's coming a time where somebody like Ben Shapiro, who just politely says the truth, and that's what it is, is going to be, you know, dearly loved.

00:43:53.380 And you will have your chance to love him the next couple of days as he fills in here for the radio show on Thursday and Friday of this week.

00:43:59.520 Boy, I wonder who's right on that.

00:44:01.060 I mean, that's fantastic.

00:44:02.360 He's pretty cool.

00:44:02.900 Yeah, that's great.

00:44:03.520 He's great.

00:44:04.240 He is great.

00:44:04.940 Cut three, a sign of the times, maybe.

00:44:10.340 Are they mistaken that their butt was grabbed?

00:44:14.900 Is that what you're saying?

00:44:16.500 I am not saying that.

00:44:18.140 I don't remember these.

00:44:20.700 As I said, I take thousands of photos.

00:44:22.740 I don't remember these particular photos.

00:44:25.760 I think with all due respect, I think people are going to look at this and find it hard to believe that someone such as yourself wouldn't know that they were grabbing somebody's butt.

00:44:37.220 I can understand how people would feel that way.

00:44:41.200 Have you ever placed a hand on some woman's butt? 1.00

00:44:44.820 You know, I can't say that that hasn't happened.

00:44:48.120 I take thousands and thousands of pictures.

00:44:51.440 This is crazy.

00:44:52.400 We sometimes in crowded and chaotic situations.

00:44:55.020 If any other situation, this would have been the clip of the year.

00:45:00.700 The clip of the year.

00:45:03.000 But it just shows how crazy this year has been.

00:45:06.140 That's true.

00:45:06.900 Here is, by the way, yes or no, Stu, he is going to resign next year.

00:45:13.300 Yes or no?

00:45:14.500 I'm feeling like I want to say no, but I'll go with yes.

00:45:18.600 Yeah, I want to go with no, and I'm going to go with no.

00:45:20.660 So we'll just I'll hedge the bet.

00:45:22.200 OK, for I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence.

00:45:27.060 If I were to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that.

00:45:33.860 So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.

00:45:39.460 I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight at the

00:45:46.700 national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

00:45:55.460 I mean, with artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.

00:45:58.500 This is Elon.

00:45:59.420 You know, all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water,

00:46:02.900 and he's like, yeah, you sure you can control the demon?

00:46:05.700 Doesn't work out.

00:46:07.800 I take it there will be no hell 9000 going up to Mars.

00:46:12.800 Hell 9000 would be easy.

00:46:15.940 It's way more complex than I mean, put hell 9000 to shame.

00:46:21.140 Yeah.

00:46:22.080 That's Elon Musk.

00:46:23.100 And I will tell you that I think this is I put this cut in there is one of the most important

00:46:27.420 because I think we are going to be asked by our children and grandchildren.

00:46:34.800 Were you guys paying attention at all?

00:46:38.320 No, we were talking and, you know, talking about, you know, how Hillary Clinton sucked and 1.00

00:46:45.000 and how Donald Trump sucked.

00:46:49.180 His people were kneeling on the field and his hair is ridiculous.

00:46:54.700 And then there were there were people that were, you know, dating each other.

00:46:57.900 And then five years later, they decided that wasn't a date.

00:47:00.640 That might have been rape. 1.00

00:47:02.460 Meanwhile, this is going on.

00:47:05.000 Yeah, it's the biggest story that nobody's talking about.

00:47:06.740 Yeah, and I think the if I had to pick a piece of audio that was the poster child for who

00:47:16.880 we are today, and I don't mean just this organization.

00:47:21.040 I mean, all of us.

00:47:24.280 We are all this clueless that we we stand most of us stand and say the same kind of stuff

00:47:33.540 and everybody around is like, I don't think they know what they're talking about.

00:47:37.340 Cut five.

00:47:38.780 This is an apple.

00:47:40.840 Some people might try to tell you that it's a banana.

00:47:44.340 They might scream banana, banana, banana over and over and over again.

00:47:49.960 They might put banana in all caps.

00:47:53.480 You might even start to believe that this is a banana.

00:47:57.940 But it's not.

00:48:00.240 This is an apple.

00:48:02.380 CNN finds truly finds nothing ironic there.

00:48:12.260 Yeah, I mean, it's a great spot if it wasn't for them.

00:48:14.980 Yeah, you know why?

00:48:16.400 You know why this this ad campaign didn't work?

00:48:19.600 The only reason why this ad campaign was seen by anybody is because people mocking it.

00:48:24.140 The only reason why this didn't work is because the promise versus performance.

00:48:28.680 It doesn't ring true with at least half of the country.

00:48:32.600 When CNN does it coming up next Christmas special, a story for our times.

00:48:40.620 Well, here we are in the holidays.

00:48:52.440 Are you excited?

00:48:53.940 Huh?

00:48:54.800 Huh?

00:48:55.300 I mean, if you're like me, you think there's a fan.

00:48:57.780 I can't wait till the family gets here.

00:48:59.460 And then ding dong.

00:49:00.460 The family comes and you're like, no, no.

00:49:04.180 I'm suddenly not as excited.

00:49:06.400 I remember now why we only see you people once a year.

00:49:10.600 Anyway, if you want to do something that is easy and will bring your family together and you can laugh, there's a great party game.

00:49:19.240 It is called Say Anything.

00:49:21.460 Say anything.

00:49:22.620 Get it as a gift.

00:49:23.520 Get it for yourself.

00:49:24.480 Get it for your sanity.

00:49:26.240 No stress.

00:49:27.640 There's no timer.

00:49:28.980 There's no rush.

00:49:29.800 It takes about 30 minutes to play.

00:49:31.580 You just gather around the table and you start talking and you say anything.

00:49:37.280 It's a great conversation starter that doesn't involve politics.

00:49:41.520 30 minutes to play.

00:49:43.120 Your kids can play.

00:49:44.360 Grandma can play everyone. 1.00

00:49:46.280 And you're going to learn a lot about your kids and your family is going to laugh a lot.

00:49:50.400 What else could I say?

00:49:51.500 Say anything.

00:49:52.380 Available at Target right now.

00:49:54.160 Say anything.

00:49:55.580 Pick it up for Christmas at Target.

00:49:57.260 Glenn Beck.

00:50:10.540 Glenn Beck.

00:50:11.820 Don't we now?

00:50:13.640 Our gay apparel.

00:50:15.760 One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

00:50:18.620 That was all.

00:50:20.300 And most of it was in pennies.

00:50:22.720 Pennies saved one or two at a time.

00:50:25.440 One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

00:50:27.240 And the next day would be Christmas.

00:50:31.840 There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and cry.

00:50:37.640 So Della did.

00:50:39.520 After she finished her cry, Della stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat

00:50:44.360 walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.

00:50:48.860 Tomorrow would be Christmas Day.

00:50:51.820 And she only had a dollar eighty-seven to which to buy her husband, Jim, a present.

00:50:57.820 Expenses had been greater than she calculated.

00:51:00.260 They always are.

00:51:01.400 Only a dollar eighty-seven to buy a present for Jim.

00:51:04.320 Her Jim.

00:51:04.880 She fantasized about buying something nice for him, something fine, something rare, something

00:51:10.140 sterling, something worthy of the honor of being married to Jim.

00:51:14.360 Even though they didn't have a lot, there were two possessions in which the young couple took great pride.

00:51:20.560 One was Jim's gold watch.

00:51:23.900 The other was Della's hair.

00:51:26.960 Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.

00:51:32.280 It reached below her knees and wrapped around her like a garment.

00:51:35.840 She nervously pulled her long hair up into a bun, faltering for a second, while a tear or two splashed down onto the worn red carpet.

00:51:45.740 On went her old brown jacket.

00:51:48.360 On went her old brown hat.

00:51:50.920 With a whirl of her skirt, she raced out the door and down the stairs and to the street and made her way to Madame's hair goods of all kinds. 1.00

00:52:00.520 Della ran up the flight of the stairs to the shop. 1.00

00:52:02.460 Will you buy my hair? asked Della.

00:52:06.120 I buy hair, said Madame.

00:52:08.840 Take your hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it. 0.99

00:52:12.520 Down rippled the brown cascade.

00:52:16.320 Hmm, twenty dollars, said Madame, lifting the mast with a practiced hand.

00:52:23.100 Oh, give it to me quick, said Della. 1.00

00:52:26.420 And within the next two hours, Della was ransacking stores for Jim's present.

00:52:32.460 She found it at last.

00:52:34.500 It surely had been made for Jim and no one else.

00:52:37.720 There was none other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out.

00:52:42.480 It was a platinum fob chain, simple and chased in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone, as all good things should do.

00:52:53.080 It was even worthy of Jim's watch.

00:52:56.720 As soon as she saw it, she knew it must be Jim's.

00:53:00.260 It was like him, quietness and value.

00:53:04.040 The description applied to both.

00:53:06.900 Twenty-one dollars they took from her, and she hurried home with the remaining eighty-seven cents.

00:53:13.720 With that chain on his watch, Jim might be anxious about the time in any company.

00:53:20.460 Grand as his gold watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly because of the old leather strap that had been used in place of a chain.

00:53:28.760 When Della reached home, she finally got out her curling irons and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity and love.

00:53:38.640 Within forty minutes, her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look, unfortunately, a little like a schoolboy.

00:53:46.040 She looked at the reflection in the mirror, long, carefully, and critically.

00:53:51.680 I hope Jim doesn't kill me, she said to herself.

00:53:55.960 At seven o'clock, the coffee was made, and the frying pan was on the back of the hot stove and ready to cook the pork chops.

00:54:02.320 Jim was never late.

00:54:03.880 Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat at the corner of the table near the door where he always entered.

00:54:09.860 Then she heard his step, and she turned white for just a moment.

00:54:13.760 She had the habit of saying a silent little prayer about the simplest of everyday things, and now she whispered,

00:54:19.840 Please, God, please, God, make him think I'm still pretty.

00:54:25.020 The door opened.

00:54:27.340 Jim stepped in and closed it.

00:54:29.740 He looked thin and very serious.

00:54:32.500 Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two and burdened with the family.

00:54:36.300 Jim stopped inside the door.

00:54:37.980 His eyes were fixed upon Della.

00:54:40.320 And there was an expression in him that she could not read.

00:54:44.580 It terrified her.

00:54:46.900 It wasn't anger or surprise or disapproval or any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for.

00:54:53.960 He simply stared at her with that peculiar expression on his face.

00:54:58.760 Della jumped off the table and went for him. 1.00

00:55:00.400 Jim, darling, she cried.

00:55:01.920 Don't look at me that way.

00:55:03.260 I cut my hair off, and I sold it because I couldn't have lived through another Christmas without giving you a present.

00:55:08.860 I'll grow it out again.

00:55:10.360 You won't mind, really.

00:55:12.200 You won't mind, will you?

00:55:13.900 I just had to do it.

00:55:15.760 My hair grows awfully fast.

00:55:18.140 Say Merry Christmas, Jim.

00:55:19.620 Say Merry Christmas, and let's be happy.

00:55:21.960 You don't know what a nice, beautiful, nice gift I got for you.

00:55:26.000 You cut off your hair, asked Jim.

00:55:31.380 Cut it off and sold it, said Della. 0.68

00:55:36.100 Don't you like me just as well, anyhow?

00:55:38.520 I mean, I'm still me without my hair, aren't I?

00:55:42.500 Jim looked around the room curiously.

00:55:44.500 You say your hair is gone, he said, almost with an air of idiocy.

00:55:51.140 Don't look for it, said Della.

00:55:53.200 It's sold.

00:55:54.260 I'll tell you, sold and gone, too.

00:55:56.700 Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered, she went on with a sudden serious sweetness.

00:56:01.440 But nobody could ever count my love for you, Jim.

00:56:06.380 Shall I put the pork chops on, Jim?

00:56:08.520 Jim quickly snapped out of his trance.

00:56:10.360 He unfolded his Della.

00:56:11.480 He then drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.

00:56:16.100 Don't make any mistake, Della, he said.

00:56:19.220 I don't think any haircut or any shampoo could ever make me like a girl any less.

00:56:25.060 But if you'll unwrap that package, you may see why you had me going for a while at first.

00:56:31.960 Della tore at the string in the paper.

00:56:35.420 And then came in a static scream of joy.

00:56:38.380 There on the table lay the combs.

00:56:43.320 The set of combs that Della had longed for in a Broadway store window.

00:56:47.800 Beautiful combs.

00:56:49.340 Pure turquoise shell with jeweled rims.

00:56:52.680 They were expensive combs, she knew.

00:56:55.320 Her heart had simply craved and yearned them over the many years without any hope of possession.

00:57:00.740 And now here they were, hers. 0.63

00:57:05.360 But the tresses that should have adorned the combs now were gone.

00:57:08.860 She picked up the combs and hugged the gift and looked with dim eyes and smiled and said,

00:57:14.560 My hair grows so fast, Jim.

00:57:18.820 Jim had not seen his beautiful present.

00:57:21.580 She held it out to him eagerly.

00:57:23.300 The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright, ardent spirit.

00:57:30.020 Isn't it beautiful, Jim?

00:57:31.900 I hunted all over town to find it.

00:57:34.480 You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now.

00:57:37.660 Give me your watch, Jim.

00:57:38.820 I want to see how it looks on it.

00:57:40.360 Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.

00:57:48.280 Del, he said,

00:57:49.560 Let's put our Christmas presents away and keep them a while.

00:57:54.520 I think they're just, they're just too nice to use right now.

00:57:59.480 You see, Del, I, I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs.

00:58:06.260 What do you say you put the pork chops on? 0.66

00:58:10.360 The Magi, as you know, were wise men, wonderfully wise, who brought gifts to the babe in the manger.

00:58:21.400 They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

00:58:25.100 And here I've related to you an uneventful chronicle of two foolish kids

00:58:29.500 who unwisely sacrificed the greatest treasures in their home for one another.

00:58:35.020 But in a last word to the wise, let it be said,

00:58:39.160 Of all who give and receive gifts, they are the wisest.

00:58:44.720 They are the Magi.

00:58:46.920 I was a little shocked yesterday when the house actually did something.

00:59:13.860 It was remarkable.

00:59:16.220 We'll talk about the Senate and the tax bill a little later on in the program.

00:59:22.020 Welcome to it.

00:59:22.680 It is our Christmas special.

00:59:24.300 It's the last day before Christmas.

00:59:26.560 So we have a lot of different things going on.

00:59:29.060 At glenbeck.com, we've compiled a few lists and we've checked them twice.

00:59:33.540 One of them I gave you yesterday.

00:59:35.980 It's all of the books that I've read in the last six months that I think you would enjoy

00:59:40.540 and that you could ask somebody for or if you're going on a trip or something, grab or grab for a friend.

00:59:48.740 And they run the whole spectrum from history to science to novels.

00:59:55.180 There is something there for everybody.

00:59:57.860 Also, we're going to tell you about something else next hour that we have as a list.

01:00:03.640 This one, I've made a list of a few things that I really love.

01:00:08.520 And they go from, you know, $10 to, you know, $1,500.

01:00:13.960 Actually, I'm sorry.

01:00:15.460 Something that just has 4K in the title is, I think, $4,000.

01:00:21.520 A little pricier.

01:00:22.280 That one's a little pricier.

01:00:23.300 That's one if you really, somebody in your life really loves you and has cash.

01:00:29.520 But there's a couple of them that I found.

01:00:32.740 One that I really, I think this is the coolest thing ever.

01:00:35.520 It is a copy.

01:00:38.200 If you go to glenbeck.com, look for my favorite things.

01:00:41.720 A copy of the gold albums that we sent into space on Voyager.

01:00:47.800 Click on that one, Stu.

01:00:49.100 Yep.

01:00:49.360 I'm looking at it now.

01:00:51.540 Voyager Golden Record 3LP box set.

01:00:56.740 Do you even remember Voyager?

01:00:59.180 I mean, yes.

01:01:01.040 This is the NASA situation.

01:01:03.480 Yeah, the NASA situation.

01:01:04.920 I think 76, 78, something like that.

01:01:07.620 We sent a spacecraft up, and its first stop was Jupiter.

01:01:13.800 I think it was maybe 76, and it got to Jupiter in 79, maybe.

01:01:18.680 And then it was supposed to just travel outside of our solar system.

01:01:21.920 And I think just did it, just left our solar system.

01:01:26.680 And one of the things is they had Carl Sagan oversee these gold albums that they made.

01:01:36.060 And on the album, you'll see there's a little etching on how to listen to them and how to make a stylus.

01:01:44.480 We included a stylus on, I hope you have a turntable, but we included a stylus on the ship.

01:01:51.120 They had to be made out of gold so they wouldn't decay in space in extreme heat and extreme cold.

01:01:57.880 And they run half of 33 and a half.

01:02:03.200 So they're half again as slow.

01:02:07.360 And I think it's an hour and a half on each side.

01:02:12.840 And some of them, one side's just music of the entire world.

01:02:17.380 Sounds from the entire world.

01:02:20.580 Greetings in every language.

01:02:23.120 I've never heard them, but for 98 bucks, that is a cool gift.

01:02:28.560 It's a cool gift for someone who really loves space, right?

01:02:31.000 If you really love this stuff, it's very, I mean, I feel like it is a one listen.

01:02:35.940 Oh, yeah, but it's cool to have.

01:02:37.840 I mean, I just think you have, you know, the gold records.

01:02:39.800 I mean, that's really cool to see.

01:02:41.880 The next one is, and I don't know why, and it's in space again.

01:02:46.800 I don't know why I want one of these, but I want one of these.

01:02:50.460 You see it?

01:02:51.740 Astro Reality Lunar Pro?

01:02:54.360 You are a space geek.

01:02:55.740 What is this?

01:02:56.240 I am.

01:02:56.900 Well, look at it.

01:02:58.180 An Astro Reality Lunar Pro is a 128,969,000th scale model of the moon that you can hold

01:03:05.260 in your hands.

01:03:06.100 It's exact.

01:03:07.340 It's super heavy, and it's all hand done.

01:03:11.740 How much is it?

01:03:12.360 It's not hand done.

01:03:13.120 It's precisely 3D printed.

01:03:15.000 Yeah, but it's hand painted.

01:03:16.640 Okay.

01:03:17.420 The resolution of 0.006 millimeters per pixel and features an unparalleled augmented reality

01:03:23.980 experience of the moon.

01:03:25.340 Yeah, so you're like holding the moon in your hand, and it's an exact copy of the moon.

01:03:33.660 Wow, that's really weird.

01:03:35.740 And you can go, oh, that's really cool.

01:03:37.540 You can show, like, if you put your phone up to the moon and look at it, it will pop

01:03:41.540 up details of what happened at that spot.

01:03:43.560 Yeah.

01:03:43.760 Like Project Apollo.

01:03:44.220 It shows where we landed and everything else.

01:03:46.640 It's real.

01:03:47.080 I think it's really.

01:03:47.640 Yeah, hand painted layers.

01:03:48.360 That's pretty cool.

01:03:49.460 That's pretty cool.

01:03:50.060 How much is it?

01:03:51.300 I don't see an order now.

01:03:54.520 Let's see.

01:03:55.020 If I click on the order now, I might get that.

01:03:57.280 Probably really cheap.

01:03:58.660 Yeah, probably.

01:04:01.880 Maybe $199?

01:04:03.980 Is that right?

01:04:04.520 That's shockingly inexpensive.

01:04:05.680 I thought it was about $100, $200.

01:04:07.620 It looks pretty amazing, though.

01:04:08.920 That's pretty cool.

01:04:09.460 Yeah.

01:04:11.100 Have you ever heard of Vivian Meyer?

01:04:13.240 She's the next on the list.

01:04:16.200 Vivian Meyer.

01:04:17.500 I don't think.

01:04:18.200 Not hitting you with any of these things, am I?

01:04:20.700 Not so far.

01:04:21.420 No, I will say.

01:04:22.440 These are cool things, but they're not things that I would necessarily dive into myself.

01:04:26.020 These are just things that are like, you know, they're just like cool, like, wow, that's

01:04:30.240 really cool.

01:04:30.620 You know, sitting on your desk, you know, an exact copy of The Moon is just kind of cool.

01:04:34.740 Yeah.

01:04:34.920 None of these gifts so far have queso on them.

01:04:37.180 So you have not connected with it yet.

01:04:38.660 I know.

01:04:38.700 Okay.

01:04:39.020 All right.

01:04:39.380 Okay.

01:04:40.080 So this one is Vivian Meyer.

01:04:42.580 And you have to watch the documentary.

01:04:45.760 And I think it's up on Netflix, maybe.

01:04:50.000 This guy went in.

01:04:51.620 He was a college student.

01:04:52.800 And he just, he was writing a thesis on something.

01:04:55.800 And he needed a bunch of old photographs.

01:04:58.860 So he goes to this local auction.

01:05:01.520 And it's just somebody, you know, selling off, you know, like they sell off the storage units.

01:05:05.580 He's selling off all of this photography and there's all these pictures and they're all

01:05:10.260 black and whites and it's from the era that he needs for his thesis.

01:05:13.700 And so he buys it and he doesn't realize it is boxes and boxes and boxes of film, some

01:05:21.120 of it undeveloped.

01:05:22.960 No idea who this woman is. 0.97

01:05:25.440 He starts looking at the pictures and they are so beautiful and so artistic and so odd.

01:05:33.440 And he starts taking them to, you know, people who know about photography and art houses and

01:05:40.540 the, the art houses are saying, you know, this is so-and-so a very famous.

01:05:45.860 No, it's not this.

01:05:46.680 Well, this is, well, this one is so-and-so.

01:05:48.700 No, it's not.

01:05:49.780 This was a woman who was just a, um, uh, what do you call them? 1.00

01:05:54.280 Um, a nanny in Chicago.

01:05:57.440 And she would go out every day and she would just shoot pictures in the 1960s of the people

01:06:02.960 on the streets in Chicago and the photography is amazing.

01:06:08.320 Amazing.

01:06:09.340 She was an unknown.

01:06:10.660 He bought the whole thing for like a hundred bucks.

01:06:12.700 It's now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because she'd be, she's become famous. 1.00

01:06:17.760 I do remember you talking about that documentary.

01:06:19.240 It really is an amazing story.

01:06:20.660 It's a great story.

01:06:21.680 And the, and the pictures look amazing.

01:06:22.600 Okay.

01:06:22.920 So you'll, I'll get you on this one.

01:06:24.400 Go to the boring company, go to the one on the boring company.

01:06:27.740 Okay.

01:06:28.140 Next up the boring company.

01:06:29.780 Okay.

01:06:30.120 Yep.

01:06:30.680 20 bucks.

01:06:32.140 You got to have a boring company hat.

01:06:34.300 And now this is, is this the company that's boring under Los Angeles?

01:06:37.660 This is the Elon Musk.

01:06:38.940 This is his hobby company that is boring under the company, boring under the streets of LA.

01:06:45.340 I mean, he is so punny.

01:06:47.860 He really like, he likes these little quirky things like he did with the Tesla where he

01:06:51.260 has plaid speed, which is beyond ludicrous speed, which is like all of the speeds of

01:06:56.220 his multi-billion dollar company are Spaceballs references.

01:07:00.140 Love it.

01:07:00.980 I love how quirky he is.

01:07:02.340 Again, if I'm a billionaire, that's how I'm doing it.

01:07:04.640 Yeah.

01:07:04.760 I mean, that's all the dumb memories I have, all the stupid little references that I laugh

01:07:08.620 about with my friends.

01:07:09.460 That's the name of all my, my cool crap.

01:07:11.240 Go to the next one.

01:07:12.120 Cause you, I got to get you on this one.

01:07:14.580 Uh, no, no, not, not standards manual, but the next one, I want one of these so bad.

01:07:20.140 Is this the star Wars thing?

01:07:21.180 Yes.

01:07:21.580 Yes.

01:07:21.880 Okay.

01:07:22.940 A hero, a BB eight fully interactive droid.

01:07:26.240 Okay.

01:07:27.160 So I know somebody who has one and I think I know who this is actually.

01:07:32.320 And it works and it fall, it will follow you around and it actually like it responds

01:07:38.440 to you.

01:07:38.800 Yeah.

01:07:39.140 Yeah.

01:07:39.880 I, I, I, I haven't seen it work.

01:07:42.260 So it's hard to believe because I mean, even when you, even just how it would move, like

01:07:47.580 it moves would be hard to put together in non a galaxy far, far away type of situations.

01:07:54.480 But apparently it actually will follow you around the house.

01:07:57.860 Um, which is, uh, and it's like a hundred and what?

01:08:01.460 One hundred ninety eight bucks.

01:08:02.380 $149, $149.

01:08:04.160 You get that and the moon, you, I mean, you got everything you need and the boring hat.

01:08:08.720 And again, like look at how much of the, the only thing is the photography book that

01:08:12.560 wasn't space related.

01:08:13.760 Basically, Elon Musk is, is you pick the one he's going under the earth, but all of his

01:08:18.200 other businesses go above it.

01:08:19.780 Well, I'm, I am skipping some stuff.

01:08:21.880 I am skipping, you know, stuff that's on, you know, on a list and I'm in and everything

01:08:26.360 on my list is quirky.

01:08:27.420 I mean, it's not like, you know, everything on my list is quirky.

01:08:31.980 Um, go to the other Amazon, uh, one just because it's cool.

01:08:39.800 How about that one?

01:08:40.960 Just because it's cool.

01:08:41.960 All right.

01:08:42.560 I'm clicking on just because it's cool.

01:08:44.480 And which one is that?

01:08:46.620 The endoscope.

01:08:49.500 Okay.

01:08:49.960 I saw this.

01:08:50.580 I do not know.

01:08:51.860 I don't know what this is made for, but it doesn't seem like it's made for anything good.

01:08:58.400 However, I think this is great.

01:09:01.580 You can plug it into your computer and it comes like, what is it?

01:09:04.120 Eight feet?

01:09:05.300 Uh, 16 feet, 16 feet.

01:09:08.240 So it's a little teeny camera that will run 16 feet in a bendable scope.

01:09:13.440 Now I got to believe that this has been used for something that you shouldn't be using cameras

01:09:18.660 for.

01:09:19.100 Did Jeffy get on your computer somehow?

01:09:20.700 I don't know what I want that for.

01:09:24.020 I don't know what I would use it for, but there's got to be something.

01:09:27.380 Something that you're like, you know what?

01:09:28.520 If I could just see 16 feet in that little teeny crack.

01:09:31.680 Well, I know they have, uh, they use this for like these types of cameras for surgery.

01:09:36.340 You're not planning any surgery.

01:09:37.520 No, I'm not.

01:09:38.140 No.

01:09:38.360 Um, they do it for like, if you're trying to fix your car or something, you can, or

01:09:41.280 like, you know, plumbing situations, you can go down.

01:09:44.100 They have those.

01:09:45.040 I don't, I mean, obviously there are some shadier uses.

01:09:48.260 Uh, those shadier uses did come to mind, which made me almost not put it on the list, but

01:09:54.460 20, it's only $25 and it's a little teeny camera, at least on Amazon.

01:09:59.440 They have a clear and save an extra 20%.

01:10:02.160 I mean, I just want to go in places in my house that I've never been to.

01:10:05.360 You just go, you know, go.

01:10:06.540 I just want to look in through the ducks.

01:10:07.840 And I mean, that's incredible.

01:10:09.980 Anyway, uh, I think I'm just going to buy that one for, I mean, it's 25.

01:10:14.660 Yeah.

01:10:14.980 It's like with the coupon, it's like $18.

01:10:17.320 I don't know what I would use it for either, but it's kind of cool.

01:10:19.440 So I put this on, uh, this one on my list and I don't know if anybody can, I don't know

01:10:24.420 if anybody can relate to this.

01:10:26.220 It's just on my personal list.

01:10:28.440 I walked into a store the other day and I was walking with Tanya.

01:10:32.100 We were doing some Christmas shopping and I walked in the store and I mean, I wasn't five

01:10:36.240 feet in the store and I said, oh my gosh, I feel like I'm home and I didn't know why.

01:10:42.440 And I kept walking around and I was like, I am thinking of my grandfather and my uncle

01:10:47.780 and my childhood like crazy.

01:10:51.600 And I thought it was just because of the clothing store.

01:10:54.260 And I thought it was just because, you know, it, it kind of, you know, looked like them

01:10:59.840 or felt like them.

01:11:01.280 Then I saw the label and it said Seattle underneath it.

01:11:06.240 And it's Filson and everybody I know had Filson stuff when I was a kid.

01:11:13.320 And it wasn't like now Filson apparently is a little like, oh, it's Filson.

01:11:17.240 I didn't know that.

01:11:18.280 It was one of those things that if you were going hunting or you were going fishing or

01:11:21.640 something, you, you had Filson.

01:11:24.700 You had a, everybody had a Seattle shirt, a moleskin Seattle shirt when I was growing

01:11:29.720 up from Filson.

01:11:31.760 I had completely forgotten about the brand.

01:11:34.300 It is the best brand.

01:11:36.720 If you were a hunter, the hunting shirts are unbelievable.

01:11:41.080 The, you know, the hunting vests.

01:11:44.060 It's just really good stuff.

01:11:46.580 It looks really cool.

01:11:47.520 Well, on the price of your side, for sure.

01:11:49.320 It looks very high quality.

01:11:50.300 Yeah, it's really, really high quality.

01:11:52.460 It's one of those things that was like normal people bought like a while ago and now it's

01:11:55.840 become cool.

01:11:56.620 No, it's, it's what normal people bought when I was growing up and then they continued to

01:12:02.860 make it exactly the way they used to make it.

01:12:05.860 And now to make it that way is really expensive.

01:12:09.940 That's what it is.

01:12:10.720 It's not like they jacked everything up.

01:12:12.140 They're like, no, unfortunately, this is what quality costs nowadays.

01:12:16.420 Well, I've got about 10 seconds to do my list.

01:12:17.900 So, uh, we're out of time.

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01:16:40.660 Sometimes death is a simple thing, a slip of the foot, a shift in the wind, a fall.

01:17:10.660 Agios had faced death often in his thirty-three years.

01:17:15.660 He had been an adventurer, a hunter, and to tell the truth, something of a rogue.

01:17:20.660 He had always expected to die by violence.

01:17:23.660 His blood spilled and his body wracked with agony.

01:17:26.660 After he married the gentle foreigner named Wylea, though, he had begun to consider his ways of life and death.

01:17:33.660 For her sake, he had hoped that when his time come, he would die well, as a man, not crying like a child or pleading for mercy.

01:17:43.660 For years now, the boy had been begging to go with his father to the savagely dangerous land of bare sun-struck stone and rocky crags where they now stood.

01:17:53.660 A muscular, broad-shouldered man with flowing midnight black hair and a long black beard, and beside him, a thin-limbed lad of only ten.

01:18:04.660 The previous winter, Wylea had died in a premature childbirth along with Phylos' stillborn younger brother.

01:18:12.660 The loss of his mother had left the boy pale and unsmiling, and left Agios feeling that his heart had turned to lead.

01:18:20.660 And so, Phylos' coming with him on this trip was not a gift, but a necessity, for Agios had no one to watch over the boy.

01:18:29.660 It had hurt, though, that the first faint smile that Agios had seen on his son's face in months had flickered there for a moment when Agios had said,

01:18:40.660 Let's go gather the frankincense.

01:18:42.660 Come on, let's go! 0.99

01:18:45.660 Now, they stood at the top of the cliffs where the trees grew, looking down at the sheer rock face.

01:18:53.660 Agios had already taken the resin from the first small grove of trees they had come to, and now they had reached the true orchard of wealth.

01:19:01.660 And you must pay close attention, Agios told Phylos.

01:19:05.660 The boy nodded solemnly.

01:19:07.660 You must take care. The resin is more valuable than gold because it is so hard to find and collect.

01:19:13.660 We will sell it to traders on their way to Egypt and Greece and Rome, even India, far away places where people covet it.

01:19:21.660 What we collect in one day will let us, my son, live for a whole year.

01:19:27.660 Phylos nodded impatiently.

01:19:29.660 I know, father.

01:19:31.660 You've seen the dangers when you've watched me gather the resin.

01:19:34.660 Remember how careful I've been and do the same things.

01:19:38.660 You understand?

01:19:40.660 Yes, father.

01:19:42.660 Phylos looked eager for the perilous work, and Agios well understood the intoxication of it.

01:19:48.660 The resin offered rich reward at high risk.

01:19:52.660 Of course, his son was captivated.

01:19:55.660 Of course, he had counted the days until he could follow in his father's steps.

01:19:59.660 Libanos trees, hunched and gnarled, clung to the cliff like weary climbers.

01:20:07.660 At the pitch of noon, no wind stirred their branches.

01:20:11.660 Many months earlier, Agios had climbed down to make careful incisions in the flaking bark so the golden tears would flow and dry.

01:20:19.660 And anyone else who discovered this remote ravine with its precious trees might try to investigate.

01:20:25.660 But they would soon hear the hiss of the snakes twining among its branches or feel the fatal sting of their fangs.

01:20:33.660 Agios had deliberately established this colony of adders, now guards of his precious grove. 0.96

01:20:40.660 Knowing the serpents were there made all the difference.

01:20:44.660 Together, father and son threw rocks at the snakes, forcing them to lower branches, to trees further from the edge where Agios had marked Phylos' first tree.

01:20:54.660 Because of Wailea's death, Agios had waited longer than usual to harvest, and the resin was nearly dry in the slash marks, golden and fragrant.

01:21:03.660 That made the frankincense even more valuable.

01:21:07.660 Agios knelt beside his son, and looped a coil of rope around the boy's waist.

01:21:12.660 Listen, when you gather the flakes, remember they're worth more than everything we own.

01:21:18.660 It's a great responsibility.

01:21:20.660 Yes, father. Be careful.

01:21:23.660 Yes, father.

01:21:26.660 Agios tossed a few more rocks to make sure the snakes had retreated.

01:21:30.660 Then tugged the rope to test it, and put his big hand on his son's neck.

01:21:34.660 He bent the scruffy head and inhaled the warm, woody scent of Phylos' hair.

01:21:39.660 Before they had set out, Agios had scattered the dust of his last harvest of frankincense, the residue from the bags, over the coals in their cabins.

01:21:48.660 And Phylos carried the lingering aroma of it, like pine and lemon and earth.

01:21:54.660 To Agios, frankincense smelled exactly like his son.

01:21:58.660 But Phylos drew back, grinning, his excitement palpable.

01:22:02.660 He edged toward the drop, his eagerness saying that this was not the time for affection, but for action.

01:22:09.660 Agios looped the free end of the rope around his own waist and took it in slack.

01:22:13.660 Phylos had grown up in the high mountains, and he didn't falter when he lowered himself over the rocky edge, rope tight, knees bent, feet braced on stone.

01:22:22.660 A misstep sent a shower of stones and gravel tumbling down the escarpment.

01:22:27.660 But Phylos adjusted himself and made it safely to the tree.

01:22:31.660 Agios found his son's weight absurdly easy to bear.

01:22:35.660 But just in case, he had doubled the rope around his own waist.

01:22:39.660 Almost there!

01:22:40.660 Phylos' life depended on it not slipping.

01:22:43.660 He leaned back, watched his boy find and peel off the bubbled resin,

01:22:48.660 the small sun-brown hands tucking each lump carefully away in the leather pouch at his waist before moving on to the next.

01:22:56.660 Pride tightened Agios's throat. Pride and the sort of love that reminded him that everything else he loved in life,

01:23:04.660 his wife, Phylos' brother, now lived only in the boy.

01:23:09.660 Agios knew Phylos was taking too long, but this was his first time.

01:23:14.660 He didn't urge the boy to hurry, because haste meant mistakes.

01:23:19.660 He saw him brace his feet and lean into the gnarled branches, reaching deep into the heart of them.

01:23:24.660 Then, Phylos screamed and jerked.

01:23:27.660 His arm flung wide.

01:23:29.660 A snake clung to it for half a heartbeat, then fell loose, tumbling, writhing.

01:23:33.660 Phylos' agonized face arched back and he shouted,

01:23:36.660 Father!

01:23:37.660 Though it had happened in less than a second, Agios was already hauling on the rope,

01:23:41.660 his hands strong and sure, while his heart beat wildly in his chest.

01:23:45.660 The boy flailed in agony, blood from the bite splattering his arm and his face as it spasmed.

01:23:51.660 His twisting caught the rope between the body and the rugged cliff.

01:23:55.660 Agios, frantic to recover him, didn't realize that the knot was abrading until the rope snapped,

01:24:00.660 with Phylos not yet at the top of the cliff.

01:24:03.660 Agios screamed as he watched his son fall, his dark eyes locked on the child that was everything good,

01:24:09.660 that held all the hope that he had left in the world.

01:24:13.660 And he could do nothing.

01:24:15.660 Phylos felt straight down to the lowest tree, smashed into it with the impact that surely ended his agony and fear.

01:24:25.660 His body hung caught there, broken and lifeless.

01:24:31.660 After his first wail of pain, he had not cried out again.

01:24:37.660 He died like a man. 0.99

01:24:41.660 It took Agios a day and part of the night to retrieve Phylos' shattered body and take him back home through a sudden rainstorm.

01:24:50.660 In their cabin, Agios rested before leaving for the warmth of the cool night.

01:24:56.660 The wind, soft on the heels of the rain that had preceded it, filled the air with a scent so warm and so rich, so full and verdant,

01:25:05.660 that it seemed an affront, whispering slyly of living things, of flowers, fresh leaves and green.

01:25:15.660 He held his breath.

01:25:18.660 From a lean-to shed behind the cabin, Agios took a homemade spade and pick

01:25:24.660 and carried them to the top of a low rise not far away.

01:25:28.660 All around the plateau that night lay soot dark, but Agios had a hunter's vision, and the stars sufficed for the work he had to do.

01:25:39.660 A cairn of pale, smooth stones marked the grave of Phylos' mother and stillborn younger brother.

01:25:47.660 Near it, Agios had begun to dig a second grave.

01:25:51.660 Difficult at first because of his weariness and because he didn't want to do this for his son.

01:25:58.660 His body was trying to refuse the errand, but Agios had no choice.

01:26:04.660 The rain had only slightly softened the soil and had not penetrated very far.

01:26:10.660 Agios swung the pick, chipped in the solid earth, moved to the side and did it again.

01:26:16.660 Gradually chopping the hard ground into solid chunks, and with that effort he could pry loose and stack on one side of the grave.

01:26:25.660 His shoulder muscles clenched and tightened, and Agios began to sweat from the exertion.

01:26:30.660 The rhythm of the pick and the burn of his arms was a relief in the pain he could lean into.

01:26:36.660 Here, in the shallow bowl of a mountainside glen, the soil had accumulated over centuries.

01:26:43.660 Some washed down on the slopes in the lower forests into the fertile river valleys, but much of it remained here.

01:26:51.660 It lay rich and dark, and in the spring and summer it yielded fruits and vegetables to supplement the meat that he brought home.

01:26:59.660 Agios was part hunter, part trapper, part farmer, part collector.

01:27:07.660 In all things he did well.

01:27:10.660 But now, now, what was he?

01:27:16.660 He pushed himself, not pausing to rest.

01:27:19.660 He didn't realize that he had fallen until the rocks began to dig into his knees.

01:27:24.660 He welcomed the pain, something sharp and insistent that drew a little of the agony from his chest.

01:27:31.660 He couldn't breathe.

01:27:33.660 He couldn't see.

01:27:35.660 He blinked against the dark night with the tears that clouded his vision.

01:27:39.660 The mountain cabin was solitary.

01:27:42.660 But Agios was past caring if anyone could hear his sobs.

01:27:46.660 The wracking cry of an animal dying.

01:27:49.660 Of a shattered man.

01:27:51.660 He wanted to die.

01:27:54.660 He felt dead already.

01:27:57.660 By the time the sun rose, Agios was an empty husk.

01:28:02.660 Some blood seeped into the ground beneath his legs and mixed with the dirt on his hands.

01:28:07.660 But he didn't know if it was his blood or Phylos.

01:28:12.660 The climb down the ravine and back up again with his broken son slung against his back had been a nightmare that no man should endure.

01:28:20.660 Agios could still feel the slight weight between his shoulders, though Phylos now lay wrapped beneath an olive tree, less than two strides away.

01:28:32.660 Agios glanced at Phylos' body and wished to see the slight rise and fall of his son's slender chest.

01:28:40.660 But there was no undoing what had been done.

01:28:43.660 The boy lay as still as stone and just as cold.

01:28:47.660 Mourning burnished the marble skin of Phylos' arm where it had fallen out from the folds of the cloak that Agios had wrapped him in.

01:28:56.660 It was an outrage.

01:28:58.660 A cruel joke that sunlight could make even this small portion of the child look so beautiful and so whole.

01:29:06.660 Agios scrambled over and tucked the slender arm back into the cloak before, with tenderness that belied the taut muscles of his forearm and the stern slant of his dark brows, he lifted the body.

01:29:20.660 He did not look like a compassionate man.

01:29:23.660 But he stepped into the grave himself that he had dug and placed his son into the center as gently as a mother laying down her newborn to sleep.

01:29:33.660 My son.

01:29:36.660 His mouth formed the words, but Agios made no sound, even though he tried again and again, his throat clenched with grief.

01:29:46.660 Still moving his lips, still groaning with the weight of all the yearning he couldn't voice, Agios touched the place where Phylos' face was shrouded by the dusty cloak.

01:29:58.660 It was the kind of blessing he offered in place of the words he could not say, a way to remember the feel of the boy's high cheekbones, the proud nose that he had shared with Agios, and the fine mouth that was his mother's.

01:30:13.660 It was a father's last goodbye.

01:30:17.660 The grave was small, but Agios bent his knees and back and lay beside Phylos, his cheek in the grainy dirt and his hand resting on the body of his son.

01:30:29.660 He wished he could have dug the grave larger, so large that he could creep in with his boy and pull the earth in after him.

01:30:36.660 He imagined the dirt filling his nostrils, choking off the air, bringing death, bringing peace.

01:30:46.660 But how could he share the grave when he had allowed his own son to die?

01:30:52.660 No.

01:30:53.660 No.

01:30:54.660 He would leave his bones elsewhere.

01:30:58.660 When Agios took up the spade and began to shovel the loose earth into the hole, his grief was already finding a new incarnation.

01:31:06.660 He burned with sorrow, but the flames began to ignite a fury in his belly, an anger that grew with each spade full of dirt.

01:31:16.660 He filled it in the grave and lunged stones from the bed of a nearby stream with a strength that seemed inhuman after his loss and his sleepless night.

01:31:27.660 He finished before the sun stood noon.

01:31:30.660 Agios looked at the fresh grave, the old grave, and the home that was no longer a home.

01:31:40.660 And then he dragged his steps back into the cabin.

01:31:43.660 The red embers of a fire still glared at the grate, and Agios blew them to life.

01:31:50.660 He threw wood on, all the firewood in the bin.

01:31:54.660 And then when that was gone, the stools that he had sat on, the short, crooked table that he had made before becoming used to carpentry, the olive wood bowl his own hands had carved.

01:32:05.660 What did he need to have these things now?

01:32:07.660 Of the small bed that he had shared with his wife, the pallet where his son had laid his head.

01:32:12.660 When the fire roared, he raked the burning coals out and scattered them across the floor.

01:32:17.660 No vagabond would find an empty house and live here, where the memories of Wylea and Phylos and the nameless little baby deserved peace.

01:32:27.660 Agios didn't leave it, until it was a blaze that could be seen for miles, a funeral pyre.

01:32:34.660 The smoke choked the sun bright sky, belching dark shadow across the mountain that spoke of evil things.

01:32:42.660 He left on foot, with nothing in his hands.

01:32:47.660 He didn't look back.

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01:36:38.660 you know, that week, just binge on it at the blaze.com slash TV.

01:36:43.660 Also, you can watch the Christmas twist of the Facebook page.

01:36:47.660 Glenn or myself, Stu, uh, check it out.

01:36:49.660 Watch it for free.

01:36:50.660 This holiday lifetime movie done right or wrong by us.

01:36:53.660 Let's put it that way.

01:36:54.660 Welcome to the program.

01:37:09.660 It's our Christmas, uh, episode.

01:37:12.660 Um, I'm looking for something to binge on, uh, cause I've, I've, I've binged on almost

01:37:18.660 everything, uh, you know, that, that, that immediately appeals to me on Netflix and Amazon.

01:37:24.660 Oh, Netflix and Amazon.

01:37:25.660 Cause you were talking about binging and I thought maybe it was drugs, alcohol, potentially salty.

01:37:31.660 This show makes me want to do it.

01:37:33.660 So I'm just keep, keep on, keep on, bro.

01:37:35.660 It does make sense.

01:37:36.660 Uh, you know, we, we were talking the other day.

01:37:38.660 Um, if you haven't seen the documentary Jim and Andy, you really need to.

01:37:42.660 Yeah.

01:37:43.660 Jim and Andy, the great beyond is the name of it.

01:37:45.660 Uh, it's the story of Jim Carrey as he played Andy Kaufman in the movie, the great beyond that

01:37:52.660 came out, uh, several years ago.

01:37:54.660 Man in the moon.

01:37:55.660 Yeah.

01:37:56.660 Um, uh, it was, uh, 2000, mid two thousands, right?

01:37:59.660 I don't remember.

01:38:00.660 I don't remember.

01:38:01.660 It was early two thousands maybe.

01:38:02.660 Yeah.

01:38:03.660 But the story, if you've never seen that movie, it's, I've always thought it was one of the

01:38:06.660 most underrated performances of all time.

01:38:08.660 Jim Carrey is brilliant.

01:38:09.660 Insane.

01:38:10.660 You just think it's him after a while.

01:38:11.660 Yeah.

01:38:12.660 You think it's Andy Kaufman.

01:38:13.660 And so he got some credit for it, but I don't, it wasn't as praised as I ever thought

01:38:17.660 it should be.

01:38:18.660 So this video is actually video that the studios made him hold back.

01:38:22.660 He took video all the, he had a production crew take video, all the behind the scenes.

01:38:27.660 He stayed in character and he caught, he was so Andy Kaufman and, uh, Tony Clifton that

01:38:35.660 the studio eventually said, um, we're not, you cannot release this, uh, video.

01:38:41.660 They will hate you.

01:38:42.660 Yeah.

01:38:43.660 They basically thought that Jim Carrey would, it would ruin his career if they released

01:38:48.660 this behind the scenes footage because he was so nuts.

01:38:50.660 And what happened in the interim is what we found out he had kind of actually was nuts.

01:38:54.660 So then now they actually think it will help him.

01:38:57.660 It's just kind of crazy.

01:38:58.660 I don't think I know you keep, you keep defending him on this.

01:39:01.660 Yeah.

01:39:02.660 Uh, but he's had such a crazy time and his career has gone downhill.

01:39:06.660 Um, and he's become such a, an, I think largely interesting person, but interesting in a very

01:39:13.660 strange way.

01:39:14.660 Absolutely.

01:39:15.660 He is either.

01:39:16.660 You will watch this and you will say to yourself and it will be, there will be no gray space.

01:39:21.660 Either Jim Carrey is full fledged out of his mind, nuts, or he is one of the most sane people

01:39:29.660 that you've, you'll ever meet.

01:39:30.660 And I believe he's, I believe he's operating at a different level.

01:39:34.660 I believe that he is, he has found that there is no meaning in stuff and money and fame and

01:39:42.660 everything else because he had all of it that he's like, this is not meaningful.

01:39:48.660 I just want to have a meaningful conversation.

01:39:51.660 And, um, I think that's what it is.

01:39:53.660 And he's not going to say anything to please anybody anymore.

01:39:56.660 You find when you, when he's talking in the documentary, cause they have interviews with

01:40:00.660 him today talking about his experience doing the movie.

01:40:02.660 Do we have a couple of clips?

01:40:03.660 Yeah.

01:40:04.660 Um, and I think you kind of noticed that he, it's almost hard to have a conversation with

01:40:07.660 him because he can't just take anything at face value.

01:40:11.660 He has to constantly examine what you're saying and how you're saying it and what you mean.

01:40:16.660 It's just, he, I think he's been very difficult to actually deal with in real life, but he's

01:40:20.660 very, it's very interesting to watch.

01:40:22.660 Yes.

01:40:23.660 Uh, this is, uh, him talking about, uh, kind of his experience back doing Andy Kaufman.

01:40:29.660 Um, and the questions that people kind of want to ask.

01:40:34.660 I was just doing things that were weird.

01:40:36.660 And then I go home and I'd lay on my bed and I think, what do they want?

01:40:39.660 What do they want?

01:40:40.660 What do they want?

01:40:41.660 What do they want?

01:40:42.660 Okay.

01:40:43.660 So let's practice.

01:40:44.660 It wasn't what I wanted.

01:40:45.660 I knew what I wanted.

01:40:46.660 I wanted to be successful.

01:40:47.660 I wanted to be a famous actor, but what do they want?

01:40:52.660 What do they want?

01:40:53.660 What do they want?

01:40:54.660 What do they want?

01:40:55.660 What do they want?

01:40:56.660 And then one day in the middle of the night, I woke up out of a sound sleep, like sat up

01:40:59.660 in bed and went, they want to be free from concern.

01:41:05.660 And the light bulb went off.

01:41:08.660 The very next night I went to the comedy store.

01:41:11.660 And the first thing I did was say, good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

01:41:17.660 And how are you this evening?

01:41:18.660 How are you this evening?

01:41:19.660 All righty then.

01:41:20.660 Like that.

01:41:21.660 And it killed, slaughtered.

01:41:24.660 Suddenly they just roared because they knew I didn't care.

01:41:28.660 What I had decided in that moment in my bed was they need to be free from concern.

01:41:35.660 So I'm going to be the guy that's free from concern.

01:41:38.660 I'm going to appear to be the guy that's free from concern.

01:41:46.660 All right.

01:41:47.660 So this is when he's talking about how he developed the character.

01:41:49.660 He was just crazy and he would just do crazy things.

01:41:52.660 However, later, after he has he has made it big, he's played Andy Kaufman and everything else.

01:42:01.660 And that played a role in getting him to where he is.

01:42:05.660 Listen to him here.

01:42:07.660 He wants to be like Jim Carrey wants to be like.

01:42:10.660 Now, this is him as Tony Clifton.

01:42:13.660 There's a scene where Tony is talking about Jim.

01:42:18.660 He's a coward.

01:42:19.660 And he's saying stuff like, you know, he wants to be liked by everyone.

01:42:22.660 He's a coward.

01:42:23.660 Yeah.

01:42:24.660 Do you?

01:42:25.660 Do you?

01:42:26.660 Yeah, I think at that time he was pretty.

01:42:29.660 He was pretty accurate, actually.

01:42:31.660 You know, but there's, you know, there's there's truth and then there's truth with charity.

01:42:36.660 I mean, and you notice he still talks about them, both of them him.

01:42:43.660 Right.

01:42:44.660 Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton, both of them played by him.

01:42:46.660 And he also was asked to come back to be in the REM music video as Andy Kaufman.

01:42:54.660 He wouldn't do it.

01:42:55.660 He said, no, I had to rediscover who I was again.

01:42:59.660 I didn't know who I was.

01:43:00.660 He lost himself.

01:43:02.660 Yeah.

01:43:03.660 Those characters.

01:43:04.660 The career arc of Jim Carrey was like, OK, he's his goofball.

01:43:07.660 Right.

01:43:08.660 Makes all this money.

01:43:09.660 Huge box office success.

01:43:10.660 And then everyone talked about him, joked about him for years that he was just doing

01:43:14.660 anything he could to win an Oscar.

01:43:16.660 Remember that?

01:43:17.660 It was like, you know, it was all of a sudden he was doing serious movies and these challenging

01:43:20.660 artistic movies.

01:43:21.660 And this was kind of in that phase.

01:43:23.660 And you realize I don't think it was about an Oscar, but you realize how much he actually

01:43:27.660 dove into these roles.

01:43:29.660 The Andy Kaufman thing.

01:43:30.660 It's insane to see him try to off camera doing all sorts of things when no cameras were around.

01:43:35.660 It's weird.

01:43:36.660 It's weird.

01:43:37.660 It's weird, but it's really interesting and makes you very it makes you think it really

01:43:43.660 makes you think about.

01:43:44.660 It's funny.

01:43:45.660 You said that about Jim Carrey, because I thought I'd really like to interview him.

01:43:48.660 And the more I watched, I thought, no, I bet he I bet he would be a bear of an interview.

01:43:53.660 Yeah, a bear of an interview.

01:43:55.660 It doesn't seem like he would have any fun with it.

01:43:57.660 So we put our list together on the things that we have watched on Netflix and Amazon that

01:44:03.660 we recommend to you.

01:44:04.660 And I've rated them by stars.

01:44:06.660 There's a couple of things I just want to point out.

01:44:08.660 Ryan Hamilton.

01:44:10.660 Happy face.

01:44:11.660 Yeah, as well.

01:44:12.660 Perfect for the holidays.

01:44:14.660 You've got to watch that with your family.

01:44:16.660 It's stand up comedy.

01:44:17.660 Hysterical.

01:44:18.660 Hysterical.

01:44:19.660 Ryan Hamilton.

01:44:20.660 Happy face.

01:44:21.660 If you like James Bond, watch Fleming, the man who would be Bond.

01:44:26.660 It's a four part series, you know, about Fleming, Ian Fleming.

01:44:33.660 And it is shocking and and wild.

01:44:36.660 The stuff that he that he really was.

01:44:40.660 Have you seen Mindhunter?

01:44:42.660 I have.

01:44:43.660 I've heard really good things about it, but I have not seen it.

01:44:45.660 Is it got to see mine?

01:44:47.660 It's really good.

01:44:48.660 It is really good.

01:44:49.660 Really.

01:44:50.660 And terrifying.

01:44:51.660 Because it's about serial killers, right?

01:44:53.660 It's about the truth is the true story ish about the FBI.

01:45:00.660 When they first started looking into serial killers, they had all these serial killers

01:45:04.660 and they were just like execute them.

01:45:05.660 And I remember the time I remember my parents and my grandparents saying, you know, they're

01:45:09.660 trying to make all these guys and give them excuses.

01:45:11.660 They just kill them.

01:45:12.660 They're all bad guys.

01:45:13.660 Well, that was the idea.

01:45:15.660 But back then they had never met real serial killers like this.

01:45:19.660 So they said we should talk to them.

01:45:21.660 And so there they go back and they talk to these real serial killers.

01:45:24.660 Now, this is all redone.

01:45:25.660 It's a drama, but it is based on that time period.

01:45:29.660 And it is fascinating.

01:45:31.660 Just fascinating.

01:45:32.660 And the last one, I mean, I've got there's probably 20 different things you can binge

01:45:36.660 on on my list, but the marvelous Miss Maisel is hysterical and so well done. 1.00

01:45:45.660 What is it?

01:45:46.660 What is it?

01:45:47.660 It is about a woman in the 1950s whose husband wants to be a standup comic.

01:45:52.660 He's awful in the first in the pilot.

01:45:57.660 He's you know, he's shown to be a total fraud.

01:46:00.660 She leave or he leaves her and he's like, I'm going to go live with my secretary.

01:46:06.660 And she's been this amazing wife.

01:46:09.660 So she goes down to the comedy club.

01:46:11.660 She just ties one on and she is upper class. 1.00

01:46:14.660 She ties one on in the 1950s and she goes down in her bathrobe onto the stage. 1.00

01:46:20.660 And she is hysterical because she's hammered.

01:46:26.660 And she's like, who doesn't want a piece of this?

01:46:28.660 You know, she's showing her.

01:46:30.660 And so the cops come in and arrest and she's arrested the same night as Lenny Bruce.

01:46:37.660 And so her and Lenny Bruce become friends.

01:46:40.660 And it's all about how this woman what life was like the guy who played monk.

01:46:45.660 What's his name?

01:46:46.660 Tony Shalhoub.

01:46:47.660 Tony Shalhoub.

01:46:48.660 Oh, my gosh, he's brilliant in this.

01:46:50.660 Really?

01:46:51.660 He's brilliant.

01:46:52.660 He's a really good actor.

01:46:53.660 He plays her father and he's brilliant.

01:46:55.660 If you're going to if you're good, if you like good comedy, laugh out loud comedy, but intelligent comedy, the marvelous Miss Maisel.

01:47:04.660 Just fantastic.

01:47:05.660 And I think it came from the woman who did.

01:47:08.660 Oh, what's that stupid show?

01:47:10.660 They just came back and they they had a big reunion show last Christmas.

01:47:15.660 You know, the girl Gilmore Girls.

01:47:19.660 I think the producer or the writer of Gilmore Girls did this.

01:47:22.660 Really?

01:47:23.660 You had me there for a minute.

01:47:24.660 I know.

01:47:25.660 I know.

01:47:26.660 That's all.

01:47:27.660 And that's a good one.

01:47:28.660 I'll give you a couple real quick for funny. 0.98

01:47:30.660 I think smart probably shouldn't be with watch with kids.

01:47:33.660 A couple of them.

01:47:34.660 Yeah, these probably should not.

01:47:35.660 None of these.

01:47:36.660 Okay, good.

01:47:37.660 Watch with documentary now.

01:47:38.660 Have you ever watched documentary now?

01:47:39.660 Yes.

01:47:40.660 Parody of documentaries.

01:47:41.660 Very funny.

01:47:42.660 Very funny.

01:47:43.660 So two episodes in particular I love.

01:47:44.660 Okay.

01:47:45.660 Episode two of season one and season two.

01:47:48.660 Both of them episode two.

01:47:49.660 Episode two.

01:47:50.660 Season one, season two.

01:47:51.660 One is a parody of like a vice documentary and one is the.

01:47:54.660 Hysterical.

01:47:55.660 I've seen it.

01:47:56.660 Hysterical.

01:47:57.660 Amazing.

01:47:58.660 Yeah.

01:47:59.660 And then there's one that's a parody of like a cooking.

01:48:00.660 Like they go to the middle of the forest for a restaurant that only you can't.

01:48:03.660 It's like one of those type of things.

01:48:04.660 Yeah.

01:48:05.660 It's really, really good.

01:48:06.660 American Vandal.

01:48:07.660 I loved American Vandal.

01:48:08.660 Didn't see it.

01:48:09.660 It's great.

01:48:10.660 Yeah.

01:48:11.660 It's very well done.

01:48:12.660 It kind of a parody of like making of a murderer, but with a stupid crime.

01:48:14.660 Again, not safe for kids.

01:48:15.660 Uh, Brockmire on Amazon is, is a, it's a very, very, uh, vulgar sports announcer story,

01:48:22.660 but it is really, really funny at times.

01:48:24.660 And for like, if you like true crime type stuff, the confession tapes, particularly episode

01:48:29.660 one and episode two, it's a, I was glued to it.

01:48:32.660 Uh, it's, it's a, it's a Netflix series.

01:48:34.660 It's about, it's called the confession tapes where they actually have tapes of people confessing

01:48:38.660 crimes kind of built on that structure.

01:48:40.660 Really, really good.

01:48:41.660 If you like that type of thing.

01:48:42.660 So you can find our list at glenbeck.com.

01:48:43.660 We wanted to put them there just in case, uh, you know, you've, you've got some family

01:48:47.660 over and you're like, I am going to the bathroom with the iPad and I am going to close myself

01:48:52.660 in and watch.

01:48:53.660 So, oh yeah, that's exactly how you use it.

01:48:55.660 Oh yeah, that's exactly the list of things you can binge on.

01:48:58.660 They're rated by stars by us by stars and also, uh, divided up in family, et cetera, et cetera.

01:49:12.660 So whose table are you going to be missing at this holiday season?

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01:50:37.660 It was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring,

01:50:47.660 not even a mouse.

01:50:50.660 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be

01:50:55.660 there.

01:50:56.660 The children were all nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in

01:51:01.660 their heads and Mama in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled down for a long

01:51:07.660 winter's nap.

01:51:08.660 When up on the lawn there arose such a clatter I sprang from the bed to see what was the

01:51:14.660 matter.

01:51:15.660 Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, threw up the sash.

01:51:20.660 The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow gave luster of midday to objects below.

01:51:27.660 When what to my wondering eyes should appear but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

01:51:37.660 With a little old driver so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

01:51:42.660 More rapid than eagles his coursers they came and he whistled and shouted and called them

01:51:47.660 by name.

01:51:48.660 Now Dasher!

01:51:49.660 Now Dancer! 0.64

01:51:50.660 Now Prancer and Vixen!

01:51:51.660 On Comet!

01:51:52.660 On Cupid!

01:51:53.660 On Donner and Blitzen!

01:51:54.660 To the top of the porch!

01:51:56.660 To the top of the wall!

01:51:57.660 Now dash away!

01:51:58.660 Dash away! 1.00

01:51:59.660 Dash away all!

01:52:01.660 As dry leaves that before the wild hurricanes fly.

01:52:05.660 When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky.

01:52:08.660 So up to the housetop the coursers they flew with a sleigh full of toys and St. Nicholas too.

01:52:16.660 Then in a twinkling I heard on the roof the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

01:52:24.660 As I drew in my head and was turning around down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

01:52:30.660 He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot.

01:52:34.660 And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

01:52:37.660 A bundle of toys he had flung on his back.

01:52:40.660 And he looked like a peddler just opening his sack.

01:52:43.660 His eyes!

01:52:45.660 How they twinkled!

01:52:47.660 His dimples how merry!

01:52:48.660 His cheeks were like roses and his nose like a cherry.

01:52:52.660 His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow.

01:52:55.660 And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

01:52:59.660 The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

01:53:06.660 He had a broad face and a round little belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly.

01:53:12.660 He was chubby and plump and a right jolly old elf.

01:53:17.660 And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself.

01:53:21.660 A wink of his eye and a twist of his head soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

01:53:28.660 But he spoke not a word but went straight to his work.

01:53:32.660 And he filled all the stockings then he turned with a jerk.

01:53:37.660 And laying his finger aside his nose and giving a nod.

01:53:41.660 Up the chimney he rose.

01:53:44.660 He sprang to his sleigh.

01:53:46.660 To his team gave a whistle.

01:53:48.660 And away they all flew like down on a thistle.

01:53:51.660 But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight.

01:53:56.660 Happy Christmas to all!

01:53:58.660 And to all a good night!

01:54:06.660 Glenn Beck

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