Best of Program ｜ Guests： Bill O'Reilly & Chad Prather ｜ 12⧸21⧸18
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Summary
Bill O'Reilly, Chad Prather, and special guest Chris Kringle join host Glenn Beck on today's episode of the Glenn Beck Program. They discuss how we should view things, and what we should do if we don't celebrate Christmas.
Transcript
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Well hello and welcome to the podcast. Merry Christmas. Merry, exactly. Unless of course you don't celebrate Christmas, then I'm very, I'm very sorry that I said that. And maybe we just go with Cardi B and just say brap. Brap, brap, brap, brap. Brap. You'll find out what that means on today's podcast, unfortunately for you. But also we can tell you, you can watch the podcast anytime if you want to listen. That's cool. But if you want to sign up and be part of Blaze TV, go to blazetv.com slash Beck. Use the code BeckChristmas. You get $20 off your subscription.
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And you get Glenn and the News and White Matters, which we're both on as well. And Pat and dozens of other new shows. Mark Levin, Stephen Crowder. I mean, the lineup is really awesome.
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On today's podcast, we're going to give you a little smorgasbord of a little, a little bit of everything. We have Bill O'Reilly. He'll, he'll run down the news events and we'll give you the, some of the highlights of the thing. Cause honestly, Bill O'Reilly listening to him for an hour. Holy mother. And then Chad Prather joins us.
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He's got some really interesting things to say about how we should view things. We talked about Mattis. We actually start the program with Mattis, but I thought that the podcast should begin with a little something that if you're feeling down,
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if you're feeling like you just can't make it and the world's against you, realize that out there somewhere is a guy who's working as a DJ at one of these really bad Christmas song stations.
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And he's much more suicidal than anyone else right now. And let's begin our podcast with his life.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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You know, there are times that I kind of wish, and, and, you know, Mattis, his resignation.
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There are times that I think, you know what, it might've been better if, um, you know, I was working and, you know, just, I would have stayed in music radio.
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I could have been happier, but then I realize I wasn't that good.
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Uh, and so I'd probably be working at that station that every market has.
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I know, I know who you are and I, I know what you're going through.
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And if you're at one of those stations, our prayers are with you this holiday season.
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Glenn Beck, TV, radio, everyone dancing merrily in the new old fashion world.
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Santa, 1099 FM, your home for the holidays, playing all of your favorite holiday music, like that one from Brenda Lee.
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I don't know about you, but I just can't hear that one often enough.
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Oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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Christmas, the snow's coming down, Christmas, I'm watching it fall, Christmas, lots of people around, Christmas, baby, please come home, Christmas, the church bells in town, Christmas, I'm reading a song, Christmas, for the happiest sound.
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Oh, baby, please come home, Christmas, I'm reading a song.
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And we've been playing all of your favorite holiday hits since October 28th.
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I don't know about you, but two days before, you know, Halloween, I'm still, I'm just ready for the holiday tunes to start jamming on Santa 1099.
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But don't forget, after the new year, sometime probably around mid-January, we'll be back to playing your favorite work music mix.
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Well, we'll play all of your favorites from Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow, and Elton Job, and Neil Diamond, and who could forget Michael Bolton.
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But now, it's nothing but Christmas music, wall to wall, like, like this one, from Kenny G, on Santa 1099.
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It is for this time, because you're making all of us take stupid names for Christmas.
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Your mic was on when you said you wanted to kill yourself.
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I just wanted to tell you about your last break with the Kenny G intro.
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Uh, you're talking about the G-Man, and there's no enthusiasm whatsoever.
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How could you possibly be enthusiastic about the G-Man?
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And I've had to put up, but I've had to play this since October 28th.
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We're playing Christmas music until April 15th?
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I mean, I think people actually would want to hear the Michael...
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Did you know that our ratings go from a 0.3 to a 19.4 for one month?
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But then think of Delilah if she had married an Osmond.
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So you're really down, but you're really excited.
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Hey, you know how you go Christmas shopping at the mall during the holidays, and it's crowded
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And then it's hard to find a parking space and things?
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Okay, let's get jolly with Sleigh Ride on Santa 1-0-9-9.
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I know I sent you an email about talking about the parking lot.
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You need to think about what it's like for you to be in a crowding parking lot.
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You need to relate and be enthusiastic, but calm and soft, but louder, but kind of in the
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Our research is showing you're 42% less jolly than you should be.
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Yeah, just did a likability focus group on you, and they hate you.
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I mean, you know, I used to be somebody, and now I'm working at this crappy station, and
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you call me every break, and you tell me what to do?
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That's right, because you can't grasp it for yourself.
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I'm the boss, and I know what we need to do to own the angry people in parking lot at
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We need to have these people coming back after the holidays.
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They're only going to do that if you're both calm and happy.
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Okay, nobody's going to come back after Christmas because we start playing all this crappy music,
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Santa has a lot of kids and stockholders to make happy.
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There it is on Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.
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Hi, I'm Chris Kringle, and don't forget about the rest of the year here on Santa 1099, when
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We play only the best music from the Dave Clark Five and Yanni, and only the biggest hits from Men Without Hats.
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But now, more Christmas favorites with the Beach Boys.
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Only the best music from Men Without Hats and Yanni.
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And who thinks of the Beach Boys when they're thinking about Christmas music?
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I think about kicking back on a nice beach chair with a towel.
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Do you know anybody who has the Beach Boys Christmas album?
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Do you ever, ever walked into somebody's house and they're playing the Beach Boys Christmas album?
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People have said in the past that they like the Beach Boys and they like Christmas.
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And then we go, and then we take them from the Beach Boys and we tell them, hey, make sure you stick around
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because Ann Murray is going to be happening after the Christmas music?
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Do you realize we are the number one station during the holidays because of this, what is it, Christmas?
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Well, you know, the rest of the year we average 14 listeners a day.
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I mean, and those are the ones that are stuck in an elevator at work or on drugs in a dentist's chair.
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All right, so you think maybe there's a possibility that's because we're playing the Dave Clark Five?
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No, our research shows that people aren't familiar with our product.
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That's because we change slogans every freaking holiday.
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We're Santa 1099, Thanksgiving 1099, Easter Bunny 1099.
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Our research shows that Peter Cottontail tests well with our women's 7 to 12 years old audience.
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Have you ever heard Dave Clark Five's version of Happy Kwanza?
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Research shows that diversity is one of the public's favorite words.
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There it is on Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.
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Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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We're just having a conversation here at the Glenn Beck program about James Mattis walking away and resigning yesterday.
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Because the president just announced, oh, we're going to leave Syria.
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And one of the reasons, supposedly, one of the reasons is because Turkey told the president, we're going to go in and get the Kurds.
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And now that would make me say, no, no, you're not, as the Kurds are always abandoned.
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How many times have we turned our back on the Kurds?
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And any Christian that was hoping things were going to get better, forget about that.
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We have just handed the region over to Iran, Turkey, and Russia.
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Pat said when he came in, I don't really care about the Mattis thing.
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Because I don't know that anybody, I don't know that Trump listens to anybody anyway.
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I don't, I think he's doing what he wants to do.
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And I think this is a really good indication of that.
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Because Mattis certainly doesn't want to pull out of Syria.
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It's always been said that he respects his generals.
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I don't know if they voted for Donald Trump or believed Donald Trump.
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I think those two served out of duty and responsibility to the Constitution and to the America that they understand and love.
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And I could see Mattis looking and saying, look, I don't necessarily agree with this guy on everything, but someone has to be a stable rod.
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But I think that's where, I think that's where people are with what's going on now.
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And when they can't convince him not to pull out of Syria because it's way too soon and there's way too much to be done.
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But you can look at what's happening now with the border wall.
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All of a sudden, he's talking about he's back on the border wall.
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Because he does listen to the voice of the people and his supporters.
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Well, yeah, I think when Fox News turns on him and starts saying negative things about him because they never do, I think that he took notice of that.
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Because you even had Brian Kilmeade criticizing him openly this week.
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I mean, his supporters were really, really harsh on him about that.
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Who was it that said, I thought this was a great quote.
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But I think this one has possibly even more significant ramifications.
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Going forward, straight up, strategically, this is a nightmare.
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If you don't like the United States to be the policeman of the world, then you want these 2,000 U.S. troops still there.
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But the moment we pull out of there, you are almost guaranteeing that a much larger U.S. force will have to go back in the very near future.
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Because you just handed the region over to Iran.
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Now, if you don't even think about what happened to the Kurds, if that doesn't bother you at all, that there are all about thousands and thousands of people are just about to die.
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A whole race of people, a whole culture is going to be wiped off the map.
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I haven't really seen, but they've got to be livid over this.
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Got to be like, you would not make this decision.
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Not only would you not make this decision without, you know, talking to General Mattis in the Pentagon, which it sounds like he didn't at all.
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But you also wouldn't make this decision without consulting your other allies.
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When Mattis says, you know, our allies are important, he's also talking about them.
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He's talking about everyone in the region who is now like, oh, my gosh, Iran is now back in play.
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Like they were getting beaten back, but they're now back in play.
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I'm convinced the Khashoggi thing is is was only really a story, not because he was a member of the press, but because those forces that were for the Iranian deal and are not necessarily on our side.
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You know, they were for the Arab Spring and they were for, oh, let's go topple Libya and and let's go arm what now is ISIS.
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Those people are the same people that were all upset about Khashoggi.
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Khashoggi has seriously damaged Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, also the whole world, obviously, but the Middle East and and has led to us making sure that we're not helping them in Yemen.
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I mean, Saudi Arabia is on the ropes in the last in the last month because of their mistake with Khashoggi.
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But the way it was portrayed by the press on you can now have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia will join with Russia if they don't have the United States.
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They will join with somebody who will help them because they are about out of money, believe it or not.
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This is if I were in Iran and I were in the ruling party, I'd be celebrating.
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And it's not like Trump has been light on Iran, right?
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I mean, he's done a lot of good things, I think, on that front.
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I think there's not a it doesn't seem like there's an overall picture.
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I mean, he is much more the way you think of a Democrat thinking on war.
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And and that's, you know, look, that's I keep hearing people on the news saying, well, he wants he's doing what his base wants.
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Pull the troops home like his base doesn't want to kick ISIS's ass.
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It is been spun to the American people by everybody that we have kicked ISIS's ass.
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And I'd like to point out that this has happened to ISIS before when they were in Iraq during the 2007 surge.
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See, I think that I feel differently, and I'd love your opinion on this, Jason, but I feel differently about Afghanistan.
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Keep them contained with the bad guys and keep your eye on them.
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But we can bring the troops home from Afghanistan, but that's totally different than Syria with Turkey and Iran and Israel.
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Afghanistan is very personal for me because I've actually fought there, and I've had friends die there.
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So it hurts me to give it back to the people that will eventually take the country back over the Taliban.
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But just to agree with you is that strategically it's less important.
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It's been called the place where empires go to die for a reason.
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I'm totally fine, and I celebrate him saying, okay, you know what, in a strategic way, we're going to call an end to Afghanistan.
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They're not there to – everyone needs to understand this.
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They're there literally just to make sure that Turkey or Russia or whoever else does not touch them.
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It's why when you're playing chess, we're not playing – those 2,000 guys, they're not the queen or the king.
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They're like the bishop or the rook, and you leave it there for a reason.
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Because if you move it, the other side can all of a sudden move around that board in ways that will kill you quickly.
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Mark my words, the Kurds will – they've made an alliance with someone that we really don't want,
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or they will be dead, and within months to maybe the very couple years,
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we're going to be having the same conversation about moving an extremely large U.S. force back in
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because Iran is now setting up shop on Israel's back door.
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And Lindsey Graham kind of said the same thing yesterday.
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And again, Lindsey Graham's a big Trump ally on – certainly recently.
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There is the – the reporting, however, is that Trump – and this is Trump – Trump wanted this, right, for a long time.
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And I think this has happened with other issues as well.
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He had advisors around him saying this would not be a good thing for the economy.
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I mean, I think they've shown to be right so far.
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But, you know, they kept saying no, no, no, no, no.
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And eventually it got to the point where I said I wanted it.
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And that seems what's happened here with Syria potentially.
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However, the added part of this is reportedly he was on a call with Erdogan from Turkey.
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And Erdogan said basically, look, why are you – these guys are terrorists.
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And we should be able to go in there and get them.
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And why are you siding with them instead of us?
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And he won Trump over with, of course, the baseline if he wanted to pull the troops out anyway.
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To me, and siding with his analysis of that situation seems like a terrible idea.
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This is a man-made border that we imposed on the region to keep everybody fighting with each other.
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And you're going to wipe out that entire tribe.
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And then the Christians will be slaughtered yet again.
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And I'm telling you, this time, they will be on the border of Israel.
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If we don't, if we don't, if we're not smart, this is Gog and Magog.
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This is Russia and Iran working together, trying to get Israel.
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This is, this is, this is not going to end well.
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And, uh, and, and losing somebody like Mattis is very bad.
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If you, if you support the president, please, please, Afghanistan, fine, leave.
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You know, they say that inflation isn't happening.
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Um, this year, the company buying, the companies buying back their own stock because they had
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that big tax break and they could repatriate their dollars.
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They poured $1 trillion into the stock market, buying back their own stock.
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$1 trillion of cash was poured into the system.
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It went directly to wall street for a trillion dollars to be poured into the stock market.
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And for us to be struggling the way we are, there's trouble because what you're seeing in,
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in, on wall street is inflation, inflation that is out of control.
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And we'll talk about that and, uh, help you prepare for what's coming next.
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I have assembled a team, uh, and we are going to be very, very serious.
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Unlike we have ever been ever before, even when we were on Fox connecting the dots and
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showing you what's coming and what to avoid and how to prepare.
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The horrible, terrible, no good, very bad couple of weeks for Donald Trump.
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I am Father Christmas, as you described me a couple of weeks ago.
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You're like, you're like Bing Crosby, who we later found out beat his children.
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Um, I would like to speak to start this off with Nervous Nellie.
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So let, let me just go through this list with you one by one.
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And I would like your perspective and your opinion on what's real, what really matters,
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what doesn't, um, for Christmas is standing by.
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I want what's real and matters in geopolitical or, or, um, uh, in real terms.
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So something may not make a difference at all geopolitically, but politically it makes
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Let's start with the resignation of James Mattis.
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Uh, last night, the president, uh, or yesterday, he said, we're pulling out of Syria.
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Uh, that is basically going to be an extermination order for the Kurds.
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Uh, and James Mattis was upset that he didn't know about it.
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According to his letter, there's some light between the two of them, uh, on, uh, how we
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And by the way, I was in the white house, uh, for an extensive period of time on Wednesday.
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And I had a pretty good inside view of a lot of things.
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So Mattis is a very successful defense secretary.
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So Mattis, very disciplined, four-star Marine general.
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Um, I think that he differed, uh, on policy with president Trump, but I think those differences
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could have been, uh, dealt with, but I, I don't think that, uh, Mattis wanted to be
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And he was an excellent defense secretary, um, dissembling ISIS, huge victory.
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I hope he, I hope he writes a book about that and explains exactly how that happened.
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No, because our allies don't really, um, file into effective foreign policy for America.
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There's really nobody right now, um, that's helping us, you know, to the, to the point
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that Tony Blair did, uh, with Britain in the Iraq war, that kind of a thing.
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Australia, very loyal to us, but the allies are basically looking for their own stuff.
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And I don't really, I'm not really concerned about them.
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When it comes to, can we get an importance level, but, uh, bill high, medium or low?
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Hi, Mattis is, uh, going to be hard to replace.
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Um, let's go to Syria, pulling the troops out of Syria.
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Uh, here's what Lindsey Graham said as a big supporter of Donald Trump.
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Had done this, we would be all over him as Republicans.
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We made a good record that the decision to withdraw from Iraq was, um, not based on sound
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He did it himself, which he has every right to do, but he needs to own it.
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And, uh, I don't think general Trump is going to be any better than, uh, general Obama.
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This is, uh, the bill O'Reilly.com man of the year.
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Uh, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, your thoughts on Syria.
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My view is 2000, uh, special forces in Syria were effective there and protecting many
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So, uh, the president made it clear he doesn't want U S troops on foreign soil unless, you
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know, it's a national security situation with, this is not, I am not that upset or worried
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We have bases around the area where, uh, American forces are stationed.
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We have air power that can hit that place very hard and very quick.
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So if Iran were to do something, um, that was dangerous, we could, uh, very quickly affect
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that Trump just didn't want these guys sitting there.
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We're not pulling out of the region as somebody who has helped move tens of thousands of Christians
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This is the most reckless thing I've ever seen a president do, uh, possibly only beaten
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I think that if anybody started to slaughter Christians, that we would be right back in there
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Uh, so, uh, importance level would be low there still or medium moderate moderate moderate because
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Um, it did have something to do with Mattis resigning.
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I think the department of defense is, uh, not happy with president Trump.
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So, whereas I don't see it as a strategic move that's going to harm the country directly.
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Um, the fact that it was done this way is not good for the USA.
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So I'm going to give, I'm going to, let me give mine as well, um, Mattis, I agree with
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Bill high Syria couldn't disagree more with bill high, very high.
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This should be interesting border and giving $5 billion to Mexico.
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He folded and now he listened to his, his, his tribe and he is trying to reverse that.
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Tell me your thoughts on the border and the 5 billion in Mexico.
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And what, what, what it was is, uh, we said we're going to give $10 billion, no border wall,
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and we're going to give $10 billion in aid about giving them economic aid.
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So there's a new president in Mexico and Trump apparently has a pretty good relationship with
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him and the NAFTA deal helps the United States economically.
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The new president of Mexico wants him to do his favors.
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So he's, he's basically backing away from the punitive aspect of, uh, U S Mexico relations
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unbeknownst to the public, Mexico helped with this migrant caravan a lot, a lot.
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So very few of these caravan people got into the United States, very few.
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And Mexico is paying for them to sit down in Tijuana, um, for the rest of their lives,
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Now, the bigger question is the PR debacle of the president waffling on the wall.
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I would have said to the American people, I need two months to solidify this wall and
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get, um, a marketing campaign so that you understand why this wall is absolutely necessary.
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So I'm going to extend the spending until February 8th.
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But if February 8th, I don't get my wall, then the government's going to shut down forever
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That's how I would have done it because of the stock market.
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And then I, so I would have delayed it a little bit instead of just one day saying, ah, yeah,
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all right, all right, I'll accept no money for the wall.
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And then the next day after Ann Coulter ran around the White House on fire saying, oh,
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nope, I'm reversing because that makes President Trump look weak.
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And I, and I also want to know, is this a big story on the border because of political
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or, or actual effect to all of our lives or a combination of both?
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Chad Prather, a comedian, a kind of the, the Will Rogers of the conservative side, if
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you will, um, who has been doing comedy tours and, and quite honestly, uh, has, has pinned
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and sung one of the greatest songs ever, uh, ever made.
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Uh, I've got friends in safe spaces, uh, which give me the, just give me the hook of that.
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I'm ready for Christmas and I thought we were going to take a little break, but no, it's
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You guys have had me in, had me on the shows this week and I've enjoyed coming over.
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You have, you're, you're a guy, what were you doing before YouTube?
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I was, I was in, I had gone, I used to travel all over the world and I was a motivational
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speaker and I, and I was all over the place and, and you know, I, then I went through kind
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of a breaking point in my life and I climbed into that proverbial cave for about five years.
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And I said, you know, instead of being entrepreneurial and stepping online landmines everywhere I go,
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I'm just going to go do what everybody else does.
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And I'm going to join the corporate world and get a paycheck.
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And so one day I was at the gym, I was not in the gym.
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And I was sitting under a shade tree making phone calls.
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I called my wife on the phone and I said, I said, I'm quitting my job.
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And I said, and it sounded so articulate in my head.
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And I said, I'm going to go make a living just being myself.
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And she said, Chad, what's the street value on your personality?
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I said, it's about the same as president Obama giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention.
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I just knew that I had, I felt like one of those things I felt like years ago, God said
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to me, one day you'll speak to thousands of people.
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I just had no idea I'd be sitting alone in my truck when I did it.
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God has interesting different plans and strategies for our lives because I was, I was on a bigger
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and bigger platform back in the day when I was working with ministries and organizations
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And I thought, well, I'm on the, I'm on the road.
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I'm headed up on the pedestal and you get knocked off.
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It is so strange because it's almost the same experience.
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When I was eight, um, I, I felt, um, a prompting that, uh, someday what you do will be a turning
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Uh, and I, I remember it and it, it, in, in some ways it screwed me up, uh, because later
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as I got further from it, I thought I knew what that was going to be.
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And so I became a little more arrogant and I know that I'm right.
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I, and it wasn't until I gave up on all of it and just said, well, that was a stupid
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little thing that I don't even know if that happened.
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I'm screwing up my whole life and I wasn't even me anymore.
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I mean, Stu knows he was there the day I looked at him on the air and said, I turned off my
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mic and said, write this down in your calendar.
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This is the day Glenn Beck ended his career because I started being me really me.
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If, if people only knew, uh, you know, who I really was and that's what they want to know.
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There's a psychological term and I can't remember it right now, but most celebrities have that
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sense of the curtain is going to be pulled back and they're going to expose the wizard and
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they're going to be seen for the talentless hacks that they all are.
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You know, Frederick Nietzsche said that you can only wear two faces to the world for so
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long before you forget which one's the real one.
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You know, I look at when I, when I just said, I'm going to be me because I was, you know,
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the Bible says John the Baptist was a voice crying out in the wilderness.
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And I said, I'm going to go find my voice and I'm going to be me.
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I put on this cowboy hat and that's the world I came out of.
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And I said, you know, I'm just going to enjoy being myself.
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And so that's the biggest response I get back from YouTube and Facebook videos.
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You say the things we want to say and we're afraid to say you articulate it in a way that
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So, you know, I'm a little bit tongue in cheek with everything I do.
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I'm self-deprecating in my humor and it's okay.
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I don't, I believe if you can't laugh at yourself, you know, I mean, my friend Gary Chapman,
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he said to me years ago, he said, he said, you know, when you hit rock bottom, look around,
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you'll see my name carved on the wall in a couple of places, three or four times.
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And I said, you know, I think life is really interpreted by the breaking points.
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I think when you look back at the journey of your life, how many times were you broken?
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How many times did you say, damn, I was on the wrong.
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I mean, this is, and I had to get broken down to a bare essential of humanity so that you become
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a dependent human being again on, on something stronger and more powerful than you.
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You know, I can remember going through a real hard time several years ago.
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And I called my mentor on the phone and I said, you know, I don't know how to deal with
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And he said, just get back on the cross and finish the job.
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He said, you know, just go ahead and get it over with.
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That's back when I realized that there's some things that God doesn't want to take to heaven.
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And now, and here you are now, you started YouTube, what, 2012?
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You know, I was doing, I had started doing a television show, which no one was watching
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It was an equestrian lifestyle, humor show, anyway.
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And so I had a production assistant who said, you know, you're always putting these videos
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And I say that tongue in cheek, but I really was a depressed person.
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Because my wife used to say all the time, she said, Chad, go talk to somebody.
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Go talk to, I said, I don't want to do that, you know.
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I said, I just feel weird being a dude that's going to go sit on a leather couch with a strange
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dude that every 15 seconds says, how does that make you feel?
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So I started putting little observational humor vignettes on Facebook.
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And she said, you know, you can make money off of that.
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So she kind of told me about YouTube and things like that.
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And for me, people think that I made all this money off of doing social media videos.
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Really, it was the doors that had opened up for me on the backside.
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And I had no idea when I put a camera phone on the dashboard of my truck while I was sitting
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in traffic that millions of people were going to be watching to the tune.
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We crossed it over a billion and a half views on Facebook alone in just two years.
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So we translated that into speaking tours and comedy tours.
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And I still don't see myself necessarily as a comedian, although I don't think many
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You're one of these guys that a lot of people will walk up and they'll see this huge auditorium
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It's it's weird how huge an audience can be now without people knowing it, unless you're
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I, I, because a lot of people say, well, I don't know who you are.
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And then somebody will show, I was sitting on a plane a couple of years ago on my way
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to Phoenix and I could hear my voice like three rows behind me.
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And then, and then I've had people who walk up to me at the airport and they're like,
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And the person with them says, I don't have a clue.
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And they show him in the context of me with the hat in the truck.
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And they're like, oh, okay, we know who that is.
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But what I think is, and I've got a good friend, Rob Long out in Hollywood.
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And, you know, this guy, he's, he's written so many shows out in Hollywood and he's conservative
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And, um, he just did a poll study recently that revealed that 65% of the people in America
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feel like that they're being underserved by the entertainment that's coming out of Hollywood.
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But Hollywood and that bubble of New York and Hollywood and those places, they don't realize
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And so what I said, and I didn't want to come out as a political flamethrower, although
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And I think I like to look at politics because I like to make fun of the fact that we're void
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of so much true leadership in a world today, but I don't want to be a flamethrower with
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And as long as Washington's writing the jokes for us, I'm going to try to tell them.
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And, and I said, there's this audience out there.
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There's 65 million people who voted for Donald Trump and they feel neglected.
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They've been called deplorables and all these things.
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And it's amazing to see the people who turn out.
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You can tell our fan base when they show up, you know, we can recognize them coming.
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We've sold out in cities like Seattle as in your birthplace, Everett, Washington.
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I don't know how I ran across that, but I remember seeing that somewhere.
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And I was like, yeah, we did a show in Everett a year and a half ago, something like that.
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And, uh, Portland and San Jose and New York, we sell out.
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And I keep telling my agents and these guys who booked for me in LA, I'm like, stop putting
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Cause all my guys are having to drive in for two hours.
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We've had tour stops like that too, where you're just like, they, no one in this theater has
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You know, what's really weird is when we did San Francisco, we did the Shrine auditorium
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auditorium in San Francisco, big, beautiful 3000 seat theater.
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We thought no one would come packed to the rafters and everybody in there.
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Everyone in there all of a sudden kind of felt like, Oh my God, I'm, I'm safe in here.
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It was, it's so bizarre when that happened, the blaze radio network on demand.