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00:03:40.320 So, we are just talking about how jobs and AI, that that's the bubble that everybody should be talking about, not the AI bubble.

00:03:47.980 Everybody should be talking about the jobs bubble.

00:03:49.780 And I think in some ways, everybody in America is.

00:03:53.600 I mean, why, honestly, why would you go to college?

00:04:00.860 I mean, anybody who is sending their kids to college, unless it's for something very specific or you just want, you know, your kid to find themselves and to, you know, whatever that is.

00:04:13.660 Um, why, why, why are you doing it?

00:04:18.560 I'm, I'm begging my kids, trade school, trade school, trade school, trade school.

00:04:24.580 Um, because that, that is the job.

00:04:27.000 Those are the jobs of the future.

00:04:28.540 Trade schools.

00:04:30.040 You know, you'd be a plumber.

00:04:31.500 I don't know how long that's going to last, maybe 10 or 15 years, but that will last longer than let's say truck driver.

00:04:36.960 That'll last a lot longer than attorney, uh, you know, physician's assistant. 0.95

00:04:42.840 Well, maybe a physician's assistant, a PA probably will last a while. 0.83

00:04:47.520 Nursing will last a while, but the doctors, I mean, it's your, it's, you don't need as many as your, as we have right now in the future because it'll be able to be done.

00:05:01.980 Robotically.

00:05:02.500 And I know this sounds crazy, but it's coming.

00:05:06.200 It is coming now.

00:05:07.940 We need doctors.

00:05:09.060 So yes, go to school for a doc.

00:05:10.600 But what, what, what else?

00:05:11.880 Why are you going to school?

00:05:13.900 Accounting.

00:05:16.120 Business.

00:05:17.780 Really?

00:05:18.360 You need that degree.

00:05:20.040 Had the same conversation with my son.

00:05:22.160 It doesn't like it.

00:05:22.940 Does not like, doesn't even want to talk about it.

00:05:25.540 This is where apathy.

00:05:26.780 Yeah, it's, it is depressing, but they completely shut down and get under interested over anything.

00:05:30.760 But I told him, I even offered him, I said, I will go to electrician school with you.

00:05:35.420 We were going to do it at night.

00:05:36.500 I was going to do it just to learn another skill.

00:05:38.740 And he didn't even want to talk about it.

00:05:39.920 You're that confident in the show?

00:05:42.700 No, a storage thing's going to work out, Glenn.

00:05:44.880 I'm taking night classes to be an electrician.

00:05:47.040 I was actually trying to get around my wife screaming at me the next time I blow the entire circuit in the house. 1.00

00:05:53.580 Right, sure, sure, I got it, I got it.

00:05:56.820 But they don't even, they don't even.

00:05:57.600 You know something I don't know.

00:05:59.080 They don't even want to talk about it.

00:06:00.660 I know.

00:06:01.220 And these are issues that I'm actually really, really scared about.

00:06:03.520 Because take a look, it's a, it's a complete crazy circle catch-22 situation that's going on right now.

00:06:08.460 On one hand, you have the youth, they're not able to basically survive in the economy right now.

00:06:14.280 They're looking at things like home ownership.

00:06:15.140 They're not able to survive in anything.

00:06:17.980 No.

00:06:18.420 In anything.

00:06:19.120 If it's not cooked in a microwave, how many of our kids know how to cook?

00:06:25.020 Even know where food comes from.

00:06:27.540 Yeah.

00:06:28.160 I mean, they're not able to survive.

00:06:31.040 You know, I read something about Teddy Roosevelt.

00:06:33.160 Robotics could definitely do that, right?

00:06:34.880 I mean, you think if all this stuff is coming away and these jobs are going away, who's going to need to know how to cook?

00:06:40.660 I just, this becomes a really depressing conversation. 0.96

00:06:42.860 I'm not surprised your son was like, gosh, this sucks and shuts down and that. 0.93

00:06:47.280 Like, because it's, you know, I have a relative who owns a plumbing business and he does great. 0.87

00:06:55.000 He does awesome.

00:06:56.300 And it's been incredible for him and his family.

00:06:59.540 That being said, not everybody wants to be a plumber or electrician, right?

00:07:03.600 Like, there's a.

00:07:04.300 No, I know that.

00:07:05.080 You know, so like if, if what you're, you're, you're, you're the, you're the bad parent in the afterschool special.

00:07:09.700 It's like, just screw your dreams. 0.95

00:07:12.180 You go be a plumber.

00:07:13.960 Like who wants to be that guy?

00:07:16.420 Not true.

00:07:16.820 My daughter wants to, my daughter wants to do the absolute impossible. 1.00

00:07:20.760 She wants to be an actress. 0.96

00:07:23.520 I would love to say, screw your dreams.

00:07:26.280 You're not doing that.

00:07:27.280 And she, she talked about going to school.

00:07:30.080 You know, I could go up to, you know, some university up in New York.

00:07:34.300 And I'm like, that's not happening.

00:07:35.940 You want me to pay for it?

00:07:37.800 Not doing that.

00:07:38.900 Um, but have a good time.

00:07:40.680 You want to earn it yourself?

00:07:41.960 Go ahead.

00:07:42.460 But I'm not sending you up into that viper's nest.

00:07:44.740 Um, but I said to her, let's design a school for you. 0.95

00:07:51.600 Let's, instead of paying all of this money, let me get private acting classes.

00:07:56.840 Let me get, you know, private dance classes.

00:07:59.860 It's less than a university.

00:08:02.160 And you know, what really got her was like, you then don't have to study all the stuff that you're never, ever going to use.

00:08:09.180 You don't, you don't, you don't need to take, you know, advanced calculus or any, you don't, cause you're never going to use that.

00:08:15.580 You're never going to use that.

00:08:16.960 Now, my son, he likes math.

00:08:20.140 That's fine with him.

00:08:21.360 He, you know, but there are things when, when they are driven for something, you don't have to say, be a plumber.

00:08:28.480 You can say, let's find ways for you to learn this in a better way.

00:08:33.380 Yeah.

00:08:33.900 See, if you're making a point against the university system, you do not need to sell me.

00:08:37.840 You know, it's like, it's like trying to sell me on the Jasmine Crockett, you know, candidacy.

00:08:41.900 You do have to do no work on that one.

00:08:44.700 Right.

00:08:44.900 But I do think that like, it's, it's interesting because I think you're right.

00:08:49.440 I think a lot of these jobs are going to go away.

00:08:51.240 In fact, they're already signs of this, you know, I mean, to the extent of, you know, the back and forth about, you know, tariffs and all this other stuff.

00:09:00.100 We've seen a decline in manufacturing jobs in this country this year, a decline.

00:09:06.720 Like, and I don't think that's because, you know, tariffs, you know, are shutting down manufacturing any more than they would have previously.

00:09:15.320 You know, there's arguments about that.

00:09:17.120 But I think more than anything else, people are just taking these jobs offline and automating them.

00:09:23.080 All these big companies are replacing thousands of jobs.

00:09:25.980 These, these announcements are in the news every day.

00:09:29.040 And, you know, it's, it's going to be tough to, to figure out what the next thing is.

00:09:33.560 I think you're right, like plumbing and, and, and, you know, electricians and all of these things are going to be very valuable, particularly in the short to medium term.

00:09:41.640 But, you know, it's tough to message that to a kid.

00:09:44.720 Hey, like, just find this job that you don't really like and just do it because it's the only job that exists.

00:09:49.480 It's not exactly an inspiring message.

00:09:52.140 So let me ask you a question, because maybe, maybe it's just me because of what I do, but I don't think it is.

00:09:58.320 You know, I married into the, the idea of AI.

00:10:04.100 I wrestled with it hard.

00:10:05.760 I mean, you know, I've been talking about this since the 1990s and I have been wrestling with this because it is a nuclear weapon in the hands of every single person.

00:10:14.780 It's the most dangerous thing man has ever created and the greatest thing man has ever created.

00:10:19.780 Okay.

00:10:20.760 And so you have to really be careful with it and you have to know how to use it.

00:10:24.060 Um, but you know, I told, who was it, Sarah?

00:10:28.340 I think I told you yesterday, I said, I am, I mean, I cried a Kleenex commercial, so, you know, this doesn't mean anything, but I, I've gotten emotional using it recently because there has been stuff inside of me since I was 10 things, dreams, ideas that I've always wanted to do.

00:10:48.580 And I'm now being able to not only do those things, but do those things in a way that would have cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:10:59.860 It would have taken me months to do.

00:11:02.480 It was just, I couldn't do it.

00:11:04.440 And I'm realizing now on, as I'm scratching the surface, I'm learning more about history right now because I can grab the resources so fast.

00:11:16.680 I can look into stuff and go, well, that doesn't seem right.

00:11:19.960 And I can go deeper.

00:11:21.160 What is the difference between doing that?

00:11:23.400 As long as you are using your, you're directing it and you're using it and checking the sources, et cetera, et cetera.

00:11:31.740 Um, what's that, what's the difference between that and almost like a book that was written for all of the questions you have.

00:11:38.900 And because it, all it's doing is it's taking what you have inside of you and following that and mining for things that will make that stronger.

00:11:52.020 I've, I've learned so much history in the last year.

00:11:54.840 I've learned so much about, uh, not just technology, but, uh, but by, about my own nature on how I work, what I believe is right, what I believe is wrong.

00:12:09.580 I mean, I've had this explosion because I'm using AI every day and I don't understand why that's not considered like a university in its own way.

00:12:19.900 Can I, can I, can I give you, so you have a perspective of that through as a creative and you're like, this is, I thinking of the amazing things you can do with it.

00:12:27.720 Can I give you the perspective of like my son's generation or at least him and his friends, this is how, this is what they're thinking. 0.95

00:12:33.400 While this sucks, the economy is so screwed. 0.70

00:12:36.220 I will never be able to own anything my entire life. 0.98

00:12:40.200 Now, this is what they're telling us being from my son's perspective, but everyone's telling us, don't worry about it.

00:12:45.800 We're going to build, build, build, and we're betting everything on AI.

00:12:49.900 Okay, great.

00:12:51.020 So it is going to get better, right?

00:12:53.060 Oh, how many jobs are going to be destroyed?

00:12:55.180 So I can't do that one thing that I wanted to do because of AI.

00:12:59.400 So the solution to why I can't ever take part of the American dream is what's going to eventually take the job that I want to get so that I can someday get the American.

00:13:10.120 They're in that circle and they're like, I'm screwed.

00:13:13.440 And then you look at people like Elon Musk that says, don't worry about it because automation, I'm going to be building all these robots.

00:13:18.480 It's going to completely solve world hunger.

00:13:20.640 Wait a minute, but I won't have a job.

00:13:23.480 So none of the math adds up.

00:13:25.860 They're like, wait a minute.

00:13:27.160 No, it does.

00:13:28.300 Remember, Stu, we've been talking about this problem for how many years?

00:13:32.060 And I could not get anybody to listen.

00:13:34.260 I can't get anybody to listen.

00:13:36.020 You know, I'll say, you know, truckers.

00:13:37.860 I can't remember the number.

00:13:39.680 Ask chat GPT.

00:13:40.940 What are the number of automated trucks on the road in Texas right now?

00:13:44.520 It's staggering.

00:13:46.480 OK, they're testing them in Texas.

00:13:48.340 It's staggering the amount of trucks that don't have a driver in it.

00:13:51.780 OK, when that really hits, you're going to see you're going to see mass unemployment.

00:13:59.600 And then the question is, well, how do I participate?

00:14:03.420 And the answer will be universal basic income, because that's the only answer anyone has explored.

00:14:12.040 That's the answer that everyone who is in power wants you to accept.

00:14:18.120 And so if we don't talk about these things right now, right now, people have no idea.

00:14:24.740 You're like, Stu, we were just talking about George AI.

00:14:27.380 George AI, what it is today and what it will be in 12 months, you will not recognize it.

00:14:33.920 Well, the same could be said for everybody's job and the country.

00:14:39.100 You you everything you thought was solid today.

00:14:43.320 I've said this to you for a long time and everybody knows, oh, my gosh, the whole world is upside down inside out.

00:14:49.060 What I thought was solid is now liquid.

00:14:50.740 I can't count on anything.

00:14:51.660 Right.

00:14:52.500 Let me say you can't count on anything right now.

00:14:55.660 Everything that you think you know about today is going to be liquid.

00:15:00.420 A year from now or 18 months from now, OK, it's going to be that much of a change to you.

00:15:08.380 And if we don't have these conversations, that's the problem.

00:15:12.940 The problem is, and I've been, gosh, you're having all of these conversations in Washington, D.C.

00:15:21.600 and with the tech bros.

00:15:23.760 But we're the ones whose lives are going to be affected.

00:15:29.100 You know, I've been thinking about all of the things that I'm going to be able to do and present and be able to teach and show and and change the way people learn things.

00:15:39.180 I'm going to be able to do so much, but then again, in two years or three years from now, I don't know if that's even going to be unique.

00:15:49.360 I don't know.

00:15:49.860 I mean, there are so many creators on the planet and so many people who have ideas and everything else.

00:15:54.520 It's going to get so crowded.

00:15:56.020 It's almost going to be just based on you.

00:15:59.860 What is it that you like?

00:16:01.520 What is it that it won't?

00:16:02.900 It won't even be these.

00:16:04.760 I don't think it's just going to be so crowded.

00:16:07.660 You think there are a lot of shows you watch on Netflix and Amazon and everything else.

00:16:11.960 And you're like, I there are shows that have five seasons into them and they're great.

00:16:15.740 And I've never even heard of them.

00:16:16.820 Yeah.

00:16:17.660 OK, that's it times that by a hundred thousand.

00:16:23.380 That's what life will be like in two years.

00:16:25.360 And you could see why people will be depressed by this.

00:16:27.500 I mean, from a societal standpoint, you always use this to collect disclaimer.

00:16:30.420 And it's the right disclaimer, which is you have to use it the right way.

00:16:34.780 You have to use it responsibly responsibly.

00:16:37.000 What evidence do you have that the American people have ever done this with anything?

00:16:41.760 They never use anything responsibly.

00:16:43.500 Look at cell phones.

00:16:44.700 They just take over their entire life with no knowledge of what the effects were.

00:16:49.880 And I think it's 10 times worse with AI.

00:16:52.680 I totally understand these concerns.

00:16:54.220 And I think, too, you know, there's a there's an element of this looks really appealing, I think, to the top of the food chain, you know, because there's a lot of things like what the typical pipeline issues you have and cost issues go away.

00:17:10.580 I have a hundred different ideas.

00:17:12.000 I want to do them this way.

00:17:13.260 I can create them in seconds.

00:17:14.380 And that sounds fantastic.

00:17:15.460 But if, like, you're a, you know, a young, I don't know, screenwriter, right?

00:17:22.680 Like, yeah, your passion to get into this was I want to create this amazing thing.

00:17:28.440 And now your new job is I need to figure out how to get AI to help me do that.

00:17:33.560 And while I agree, that is just like we adjusted to the Internet, right?

00:17:38.340 Like, there are adjustments to that.

00:17:40.060 And these things change over time.

00:17:41.920 But it's not as I don't think it's inspiring.

00:17:44.280 If I was an 18-year-old screenwriter right now, I'd be like, why bother?

00:17:48.420 They're just churning these things out.

00:17:49.840 And there's 900,000 movies on Netflix that were created in the last week.

00:17:53.380 Why am I bothering with this?

00:17:54.580 Depressing?

00:17:58.120 No.

00:17:58.460 I mean, at least you could see how it would be depressing.

00:18:01.120 No, I don't see it that way.

00:18:01.540 I can see it that way.

00:18:03.140 I can.

00:18:04.100 Yeah.

00:18:04.440 But if you're looking at it as it's enhancing, it's enhancing what I do and what I, because

00:18:12.640 I still make the choices.

00:18:14.480 I still say, no, not that line, that line.

00:18:18.180 And then I have to start it all by saying I want it to feel this way.

00:18:21.700 I want this character to be this way.

00:18:23.340 I want the whole thing to work out.

00:18:25.420 I might ask for prompts.

00:18:26.900 What would give me three different scenarios on where it would be even better?

00:18:31.680 I mean, you're still doing it.

00:18:34.280 It's just not, you know, I'm not a starving artist by myself.

00:18:37.820 And, you know, I guess if people like that, then they like that.

00:18:41.040 But I don't.

00:18:42.140 I want to be productive.

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00:20:11.640 Well, the season's here and the lights are bright.

00:20:24.160 But they tell me I can't say Merry Christmas tonight.

00:20:27.540 They want rhyme to Hannah Quines, my solid one breath.

00:20:32.720 Buddy, that phrase is going to bore me to death.

00:20:35.580 So grab some cocoa, let's reclaim this bliss.

00:20:38.500 It's the birthday of the baby, yeah.

00:20:41.900 Remember who that is.

00:20:45.640 So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.99

00:20:49.040 No microaggression here, my friend.

00:20:52.300 If words can break you, well, bless your heart.

00:20:55.080 Cause that's a battle we can't defend.

00:20:57.280 Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.95

00:21:00.680 Let common sense unfold.

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00:21:05.760 Merry Christmas, let the truth be told.

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00:21:23.100 They say intent don't matter.

00:21:24.900 Well, sure it does.

00:21:26.280 Ask Santa, he's judging hearts, not Twitter buzz.

00:21:29.620 So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.99

00:21:32.520 You can keep your outrage warm.

00:21:35.640 If every jingle is problematic.

00:21:38.500 Buddy, that's the real snowstorm.

00:21:41.060 Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.95

00:21:44.380 Not buying what they sold.

00:21:46.920 Out with the new, in with the old. 0.98

00:21:49.920 Merry Christmas, let the truth be told.

00:21:53.640 They say that greeting is oppressive.

00:21:55.820 Well, bless my soul, who knew?

00:21:58.020 If Merry Christmas makes you tremble, the problem ain't the phrase, it's you.

00:22:04.380 I'll question with boldness.

00:22:07.060 I'll reason with grace.

00:22:09.840 But don't rewrite my holiday to make it a safe space.

00:22:15.400 So here's to the manger, the star in the sky, the angels who sang up that holy night.

00:22:22.900 Here's to the story that still brings hope, even when cultures lost the remote.

00:22:28.680 Raise your voice, let the bells all ring.

00:22:31.220 This season was always about one king.

00:22:34.760 Yeah, I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.95

00:22:38.920 Let the real good news unfold.

00:22:42.140 The world may chase the wrapping paper, but the manger holds the gold.

00:22:47.380 So I'm putting the Christ back in Christmas. 0.99

00:22:50.440 From the young to the gray and old.

00:22:53.260 Out with the new, in with the old. 0.98

00:22:56.440 Merry Christmas.

00:22:57.380 Let the truth be told.

00:23:04.740 Welcome to the program, the first offering from Glenn AI, putting the Christ back in Christmas.

00:23:11.060 I have to tell you, I am working on so many different projects.

00:23:16.720 Jason is here.

00:23:17.420 He was with me this morning.

00:23:19.420 We drove in together and and I shared with him a project.

00:23:23.220 He didn't know I was I was working on something for history.

00:23:26.000 Um, and game changing.

00:23:30.200 Do you think Jason?

00:23:31.520 Oh, I was jamming out.

00:23:32.740 I mean, it's, it's game changing.

00:23:34.780 It's game changing.

00:23:35.860 We're going to hit you in so many different ways. 0.94

00:23:38.620 Um, to, I want to, my goal is to hit all five senses to be able to, you know, however, whatever your learning skill is, we're going to hit you there.

00:23:49.540 Um, and it's not going to happen right away, but man, we're so excited for the launch of, uh, of the torch.

00:23:55.780 Which is happening on January 5th.

00:23:58.300 You'll be able to, uh, go to glenbeck.com, get the app and get all of the information soon.

00:24:03.400 Uh, so, uh, stand by for that.

00:24:05.700 Also, I'm, I'm planning a Christmas tour next year.

00:24:09.980 Uh, and I'm in the midst of writing and, uh, putting that all together right now for next Christmas.

00:24:16.000 And it's, it's going to be, it's going to be great.

00:24:18.900 Going to go out on tour a couple of times, uh, next year for 2026.

00:24:23.340 We're going to be doing a few things.

00:24:25.900 One thing we're going to be doing, and I can't give you any of the details, but let me just tell you.

00:24:31.520 An incredible event from Ellis Island.

00:24:39.240 And, uh, that's going to be, that's just going to be loads of fun, loads of fun.

00:24:44.380 Um, so, you know, in between all of that, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to stay, uh, you know, abreast of all of the news and everything that's going on.

00:24:53.840 And we're doing that.

00:24:55.360 But I have to tell you, I mean, is it just me who is kind of like, okay, I just, I want to coast into Christmas right now.

00:25:01.880 I mean, I'm not my job, but I mean, I, I just kind of, Oh, I like this time of year because it just gives you a chance to reconnect with everything that is important and family.

00:25:13.580 And I'm trying to do presents that aren't real, you know, present-y, you know, not go out and spend a lot of money, but just do something, do something that is meaningful for everybody.

00:25:25.360 Everybody I want to give a gift to, you know, uh, yesterday, it was yesterday, the day before I was watching the Grinch stole Christmas and, you know, it was never one of my favorites as a kid.

00:25:37.660 I don't know why.

00:25:38.200 And maybe it was because it didn't have, you know, like frosty, the snowman or Rudolph, the red nose reindeer.

00:25:44.780 Um, you know, those, those were my favorites, uh, growing up, uh, but the Grinch and, you know, I think it was CBS that did the Grinch.

00:25:53.500 They didn't think that it would actually be, you know, a hit.

00:25:58.600 In fact, they didn't want to put any money into it at all.

00:26:01.540 It was Chuck Jones, uh, and, uh, Dr. Seuss.

00:26:05.820 What is his name?

00:26:06.860 Um, uh, what's his name?

00:26:09.800 Theodore Geisel, Dr. Seuss.

00:26:12.780 He had written, um, the Grinch.

00:26:15.560 Do you know why he wrote the Grinch?

00:26:19.060 He woke up the day after Christmas in the 1960s and he thought, what is wrong with me?

00:26:29.200 And he was standing and he's shaving and he's looking in the mirror and he's like, I'm the Grinch.

00:26:34.560 I've become the Grinch.

00:26:37.180 And so he wrote the book as a cure because he was, he was thinking it was all about packages

00:26:45.460 and boxes and bags.

00:26:47.980 He wrote the book, um, and you know, it sold and sold and sold, but nobody was trying to

00:26:54.080 bring it on TV because all of the networks thought there's never, ever going to be, nobody's

00:26:59.220 ever going to watch this.

00:26:59.900 And then a guy who was a friend of his, a buddy of Dr. Seuss in the military during the

00:27:08.500 war named Chuck Jones called him up and said, dude, I think we've got a smash hit on our

00:27:16.920 hands.

00:27:17.440 Now, if you don't know who Chuck Jones is, he did Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote.

00:27:22.460 He understood mischief just a little bit.

00:27:24.980 He understood timing and he understood that the Grinch was not just a Christmas story.

00:27:31.180 It was a warning.

00:27:33.260 And so Jones calls him up and says, let me make this for television.

00:27:37.400 I think I can sell it.

00:27:38.760 Well, the network, I mean, they almost threw him out and he said, Oh, I'll do it.

00:27:43.300 You know, we'll do it really cheaply.

00:27:45.280 And they were like, how cheap can you do it?

00:27:47.800 And so cheap, uh, and he started it because they were like, there's no Santa.

00:27:55.280 There's no jolliness.

00:27:56.540 The villain hates the holiday, but he said, I can do it really, really cheap.

00:28:03.100 And the network gave them almost no money to do it, but he kept planning and he kept animating

00:28:07.860 cuts here, cuts there.

00:28:09.620 They were cutting this, cutting that.

00:28:11.240 How do we, how do we make this without, you know, without any more money?

00:28:17.680 And the network kept saying no to him on money because they were like, we're not even sure

00:28:21.460 this is ever going to be seen.

00:28:23.100 Then the first miracle of the Grinch happened.

00:28:26.480 Boris Karloff heard about it.

00:28:28.780 Now, if you don't know who Boris Karloff was, he was the king of horror.

00:28:32.380 He was Frankenstein.

00:28:33.980 He was the mummy.

00:28:35.080 Um, I mean, he's just great.

00:28:38.620 And he said, are you really making this?

00:28:41.720 I'd like to narrate it.

00:28:43.500 And so he volunteered to narrate it.

00:28:46.040 Now you have Boris Karloff.

00:28:47.640 Now the network is like, okay, maybe we have something.

00:28:50.520 Okay.

00:28:52.240 But then they had to do music.

00:28:54.560 And as they get into the music, they needed somebody that could bring the Grinch, somebody

00:29:00.980 who had a scowl that could match the Grinch.

00:29:05.180 Um, and that's when the guy who was never named comes into the picture and walks into

00:29:14.140 the studio and somewhere in a Los Angeles recording booth late at night, I think 1966, he steps

00:29:21.480 up into a, into a booth up to a microphone and he, his voice is so deep.

00:29:27.340 It, it, it, it's almost as if it rolled out of the earth itself, you know?

00:29:32.380 Um, and he steps up to the microphone and he records the now really super famous, uh,

00:29:39.580 anthem in the Grinch.

00:29:40.960 This.

00:29:41.900 You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. 0.99

00:29:45.940 You really are a heel. 0.91

00:29:50.720 You're as cuddly as a...

00:29:51.340 So it's only six verses.

00:29:53.840 Razor, razor sharp.

00:29:55.200 It's dark.

00:29:56.740 It's perfectly wicked.

00:29:58.860 Um, and the crew in the room while they were listening to him do it, they're like, this

00:30:03.820 is amazing.

00:30:06.240 And the people that worked on it said they knew that that performance would outlive

00:30:10.320 all of them.

00:30:12.080 They put it in the show.

00:30:14.020 The show airs.

00:30:15.840 Credits roll.

00:30:17.440 His name's not on it.

00:30:19.140 Not a mention.

00:30:20.140 Not a whisper.

00:30:20.820 No one, everybody, everybody thought it was Boris Karloff that did it, but that wasn't

00:30:26.340 Boris Karloff.

00:30:28.240 Dr. Seuss was really upset about it.

00:30:31.900 So he started a campaign.

00:30:33.520 He wrote to the newspapers begging them to correct the mistake, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:37.540 And yet for years and years and years, most people watch it year after year and they have

00:30:42.200 no idea who this guy is.

00:30:44.680 Do you know who he is?

00:30:45.960 The man who actually delivered one of the, the most unforgettable performances in Christmas

00:30:51.340 history vanished behind the curtain.

00:30:54.400 Any idea who it is?

00:30:57.840 I'm not going to help you.

00:30:59.120 I'll give you the name, but it won't help you.

00:31:01.980 Thurl Ravenscroft.

00:31:04.760 You know who he is.

00:31:07.060 Thurl Ravenscroft.

00:31:08.380 Ever heard of him?

00:31:09.560 No.

00:31:10.380 Because his name's never attached to anything.

00:31:13.600 I mean, Thurl Ravenscroft.

00:31:16.160 If that's not written by Dickens, I mean, it certainly should be.

00:31:21.120 Here's who he is.

00:31:22.080 He was known for his work in music and animation, and you can hear him today.

00:31:30.380 He was one of Disney's most reliable deep voices.

00:31:34.560 If you go to a Disney park, you can still hear him.

00:31:37.440 He's in the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean.

00:31:42.140 He was in the Country Bear Jamboree, the Mark Twain Riverboat narrator.

00:31:47.540 And he is recognizable when you hear him, but you don't know who he is.

00:31:52.080 But he also did a whole bunch of other stuff that most people don't know.

00:31:57.620 He was a singer that backed a lot of people.

00:32:03.000 Elvis, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee.

00:32:09.400 He's a backup singer for all of those guys.

00:32:11.880 He's also done Horton Hears a Who.

00:32:15.200 He was the voice in 1997 of the Rankin and Bass Hobbit.

00:32:19.960 He was in the Brave Little Toaster.

00:32:22.960 He was in Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, The Jungle Book.

00:32:28.560 You'll hear him everywhere.

00:32:31.460 But that's not how you really know him.

00:32:34.360 You know how you really know him?

00:32:35.820 Because he already had a full-time job.

00:32:38.140 And that full-time job was really just to say one line.

00:32:42.300 And everyone knew that one line.

00:32:47.740 Here's that one line.

00:32:49.340 They're great.

00:32:53.280 Tony the Tiger.

00:32:54.720 Tony the cartoon titan of morning cereal is the secret voice that gave America the Grinch.

00:33:04.340 The greatest uncredited performance in all of television, just certainly, you know, holiday television.

00:33:12.220 Delivered by the same guy who convinced generations of children that Frosted Flakes were a part of a balanced breakfast.

00:33:19.260 Thurl Ravenscroft.

00:33:23.300 His name is nowhere to be found.

00:33:26.800 But it should be.

00:33:28.000 And it should be remembered.

00:33:30.000 Because he's great.

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00:33:42.080 Okay.

00:33:42.760 So let me go over what is, what's happening with, with care.

00:33:48.600 You know, the, the founding fathers, uh, were obsessed over accountability because they knew one thing, you know, they didn't, they didn't get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets.

00:34:02.740 They studied every single system of government, every single republic that survived, that didn't survive.

00:34:10.960 Why didn't it survive?

00:34:12.600 They studied all forms of government.

00:34:16.100 They were trying to come up with something that could, could set people free.

00:34:24.060 And they, they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place because they knew once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored for law, what rises is not a republic.

00:34:38.120 It's a machine.

00:34:39.440 And that's what you're seeing right now.

00:34:41.040 We're not living in a republic.

00:34:42.700 We're living in a machine.

00:34:44.080 We, I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever.

00:34:53.540 Okay.

00:34:55.140 There've been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping into investigations, uh, to watch club, uh, watchdog groups.

00:35:01.940 One of them is NCRI and the intelligent advocacy network.

00:35:06.160 And they have concluded now that the political arm of care known as care action has been operating nationwide with no legal authority to do the things that has been doing for years.

00:35:21.760 Now they're not allowed to raise money.

00:35:24.260 They've been raising money, coordinating political campaigns, not allowed to do it.

00:35:27.560 They're doing it.

00:35:28.080 Endorsing candidates, not allowed to do it.

00:35:29.940 They're doing it.

00:35:30.740 Mobilizing voters, shaping policy fights, functioning as a national advocacy network.

00:35:35.080 They don't have the legal authority to do any of it.

00:35:38.680 And no one has said anything now, according to the report care action, doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

00:35:48.100 Uh, investigators found state by state that it lacks the license, the registrations, the charitable authorizations required to legally solicit money, excuse me, or conduct political activity in any of the 22 states in which it operates.

00:36:07.100 Think of that.

00:36:09.440 I know how serious this is because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state for Mercury one.

00:36:18.680 So we could operate, we could raise money, we could do things in those states.

00:36:22.640 It's a lot of work.

00:36:23.940 And if you don't do it, you go to jail and they find out pretty quickly.

00:36:29.240 Okay.

00:36:31.180 22 states, they operate, not one, zero legal authorization.

00:36:37.100 In Washington, D.C., the city where care action is incorporated, the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection told investigators they have no record of care action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

00:36:56.000 Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial?

00:37:00.720 How long would you remain in business if you never had a business license?

00:37:07.240 You think somebody would figure that out in a sooner time than, I don't know, a couple of decades?

00:37:13.100 This report means that the organization, if true, is engaging in unlicensed interstate solicitation.

00:37:25.320 It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation, wire fraud, and false statements to the IRS.

00:37:32.700 These are big things, and this is not political rhetoric.

00:37:37.780 These are phrases written in black and white, in the law, and by investigators.

00:37:44.100 In California, one of care's most active hubs, the state attorney general, has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here.

00:37:55.400 The state of California, the state of California, the state of California, the attorney general is saying, yep, that's what's happening here.

00:38:02.480 Care action has never registered with California's charitable registry, never filed the required CT1 form, and has no authorization whatsoever to request donations, but they've been doing it in California anyway.

00:38:18.440 Fundraising, selling memberships, issuing endorsements, mobilizing voters, all of it been done by care action.

00:38:26.940 There's no record of any license, any permission ever going to care from California.

00:38:33.560 That's according to their attorney general.

00:38:37.420 Wow.

00:38:39.080 That's pretty remarkable, huh?

00:38:40.880 How does that happen?

00:38:42.920 It's not just the coasts.

00:38:44.500 It's also happening in the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West.

00:38:48.440 Every state hosting its own care action fundraising page, complete with the Donate Now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate.

00:39:03.600 That's bad.

00:39:05.100 Now, here's where the stakes rise.

00:39:06.540 Because care action presents itself openly as the political arm of care national, investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity could become care national's responsibility as well.

00:39:22.300 So, in other words, the parent care itself might be held responsible, meaning this is not just a rogue subdivision.

00:39:33.980 This could implicate the entire national organization of care.

00:39:45.700 Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny.

00:39:49.900 It's also Texas, and I think Florida, have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization.

00:39:56.020 Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations.

00:40:05.360 I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

00:40:09.360 How long have we been saying this?

00:40:13.160 But every time I have pointed out anything about care, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down.

00:40:23.380 That is a word developed by people like care to shut people down so you'll never look into them.

00:40:31.580 So, what happens next?

00:40:34.700 First of all, the reports have to hold up.

00:40:38.780 Regulators now have an obligation, not a choice, an obligation to act.

00:40:46.300 State attorney generals in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

00:40:53.920 All of them need to take action.

00:40:56.760 The IRS needs to take action, investigate tax-exempt fraud.

00:41:01.580 Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations, anything coming from overseas.

00:41:08.900 Oh, I can't imagine it.

00:41:10.100 They're so buttoned up right now.

00:41:12.560 D.C. regulators may determine whether care action's entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

00:41:20.320 But here's the deeper question, and it's not bureaucratic.

00:41:25.780 This one is constitutional.

00:41:27.280 Can the United States tolerate an influence machine that operates outside of the legal framework designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

00:41:42.360 If I hear one more time talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated, fine, investigate them.

00:41:50.780 I'm not against it.

00:41:51.840 Investigate.

00:41:53.020 Why aren't you saying anything about care?

00:41:55.140 It feels like you might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

00:41:59.860 Why aren't you saying anything about this?

00:42:03.120 Because here it is.

00:42:04.780 It's not like, hey, I wonder why.

00:42:07.700 This is it.

00:42:08.960 This is it.

00:42:11.420 This isn't about silencing care.

00:42:17.160 Muslim Americans that are full citizens, they have every right to speak, every right to vote, every right to organize, participate in public life.

00:42:25.740 No question.

00:42:27.480 They can disagree with me all they want.

00:42:30.600 But no organization, none, not mine, not yours, not theirs, none, should operate a nationwide political network in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow.

00:42:48.500 That's called a fourth branch of government.

00:42:52.060 That's how a fourth branch grows.

00:42:54.120 By the way, care has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security, et cetera, et cetera.

00:43:00.860 This organization has done it.

00:43:04.220 This is you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

00:43:07.760 They must abide by the laws.

00:43:10.680 No, you can't have a branch that nobody elected.

00:43:14.060 Nobody oversees.

00:43:15.280 Nobody holds accountable.

00:43:16.340 We talked about this yesterday on yesterday's podcast.

00:43:18.940 So what needs to happen is total transparency.

00:43:24.140 Care action has to release its filings, its donor structure, its compliance records, if they exist.

00:43:33.000 Equal enforcement under the law.

00:43:35.500 I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

00:43:37.900 Look, if if a pack is doing the same thing, a pack should be prosecuted exactly the same way.

00:43:43.480 I want it equal.

00:43:44.660 I want constitutional rule.

00:43:47.160 If conservatives, if Catholics, pro Israel, environmental Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does care action.

00:43:58.180 And if care action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists and Catholic and pro Israel and conservative groups.

00:44:06.420 The law cannot be selective.

00:44:08.920 It can't be.

00:44:10.360 I don't know how that's controversial in today's world, but somehow or another, they'll find a way.

00:44:16.640 The feds have to review all this.

00:44:19.040 If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

00:44:28.180 Americans deserve to know what exactly who's influencing our elections, who's shaping our policy, who's raising money in their state, especially if the organization claims political authority that it doesn't legally possess.

00:44:45.060 Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson.

00:44:48.600 When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum, because power abhors a vacuum.

00:45:04.460 Unregulated political power abhors a free people.

00:45:08.860 So, while it's about care, it's not about Muslim Americans. 0.76

00:45:14.900 It's not about religion.

00:45:17.460 As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

00:45:22.960 One standard for everyone or no standard at all.

00:45:27.820 And that, more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

00:45:39.160 Na, na, na, na, na.

00:45:42.120 Ella McKay.

00:45:43.340 Coming to theaters December 12th.

00:45:44.940 Your father's here.

00:45:45.980 Why?

00:45:46.400 A heartwarming new comedy from James L. Brooks.

00:45:48.760 I'm a different person.

00:45:49.940 I have never in my life felt this way about any other woman.

00:45:53.280 Jesus!

00:45:54.000 I wasn't counting your mother! 0.98

00:45:55.600 It's a perfect holiday comedy about an imperfect family.

00:45:58.660 You can use a screen, Ella.

00:46:00.300 Starring Emma Mackey, Jeannie Lee Curtis, Kamil Nanjiani, Iowa Devery, with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson.

00:46:07.160 You should do that every afternoon.

00:46:09.160 Ella McKay.

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