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00:00:14.360 And also, England is I mean, England is getting rid of the jury trial, according to the prime minister.

00:00:21.480 And also they put about 12000 people, you know, in jail for freedom of speech, which is, you know, not a problem unless you're the ones who came up with the Magna Carta.

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00:02:45.040 Let me just start here because there is there is another story that is out in our newsletter today that talks about how people of college age are freaking out after Charlie Kirk's death.

00:03:09.440 They don't want anything controversial on campus.

00:03:12.620 I mean, that's the reason why colleges and universities had protection of free speech in the first place was to be controversial, to be able to say the things that nobody wants you to say.

00:03:25.040 And it's really important.

00:03:26.560 But let me let me first remind people of what the Magna Carta is 1215.

00:03:33.540 The Magna Carta is Latin for the great charter.

00:03:36.560 And this wasn't some magnanimous gift from the king.

00:03:40.560 The king, King John of England, he was he was losing a battle.

00:03:46.300 France was just cleaning England's clock.

00:03:49.400 The barons and all the lords and the ladies and everybody was like, you know, this king sucks a lot.

00:03:54.680 King sucks a lot and we got to stop him because he's destroying everything.

00:04:02.140 And he he had lost most of the land to France.

00:04:06.760 And then he started just imposing huge taxes on everybody.

00:04:11.140 And and because nobody in the lower class had any vote, this all happened with the lords and the ladies.

00:04:17.280 And they were like, enough, enough, enough, enough, enough.

00:04:19.980 You're abusing your royal power.

00:04:21.760 Well, nobody had ever said that before.

00:04:23.440 That wasn't that just didn't happen.

00:04:25.940 What do you mean?

00:04:26.420 He has a divine right.

00:04:27.380 He's the king.

00:04:28.500 But in England, they said, no, you still have to be moral.

00:04:32.280 You have certain laws and you can't just do these things.

00:04:36.260 And so what they did is they got him to agree to the great charter, the Magna Carta.

00:04:42.140 And it placed the king under the law.

00:04:45.320 Before that, the king was the law.

00:04:47.420 So now king is under the law.

00:04:49.500 It created the principle of due process.

00:04:52.480 Never before did we have that.

00:04:54.460 You can't be imprisoned, punishment or stripped of property except by the lawful judgment of your peers or the law of the land.

00:05:03.400 So this creates jury trials, it creates habeas corpus, protection from arbitrary arrest, all of these things.

00:05:11.700 The government now has to justify itself in a court of law.

00:05:16.400 That's revolutionary.

00:05:18.140 Okay.

00:05:18.320 It also limited taxation without consent, which we interpreted later as no taxation without representation, rule of law, jury trials, rights of the accused, limits on government, protection of property, accountability of leaders.

00:05:34.500 All of that comes from the Magna Carta.

00:05:37.100 Okay.

00:05:38.120 That gave birth 500 years later to us and our ideas.

00:05:42.880 Okay.

00:05:44.080 Now, England, the birthplace of the Magna Carta, is now thinking about getting rid of jury trials and arresting more than 12,000 people every year for what they call speech crimes.

00:05:58.800 12,000.

00:06:01.260 Now, I want you to think about that.

00:06:02.640 In Russia, in the same year this stat came out, the latest year that we have, 2023, in 2023, Russia arrested 4,000 people for speech crimes against the Russian military for Ukraine.

00:06:17.940 4,000 in Russia, 12,000 in England.

00:06:22.840 The number I saw, and we don't have all the numbers, but the number I saw that were arrests for speech crimes in China was 120.

00:06:33.140 Okay.

00:06:34.060 Not for violence, not for theft, not for treason.

00:06:37.440 12,000 in England for words.

00:06:41.020 Okay.

00:06:41.180 Now, while that's going on, now the prime minister is floating the idea of eliminating, if not most, many jury trials.

00:06:52.000 It'll only be for murder, manslaughter, oh, and something else like that.

00:06:57.500 Okay.

00:06:58.140 So, in other words, if you're like, I believe you should be able to read the Bible in your own language, in your own home, Tinsdale, you don't get any help.

00:07:08.060 You don't get a jury trial.

00:07:09.220 You get the court.

00:07:10.560 You get the king trying you, not a jury of your peers.

00:07:16.560 This goes against the Magna Carta, the lawful judgment of your peers.

00:07:20.740 Okay.

00:07:21.480 That is the safeguard that stands between you and an out-of-control state.

00:07:27.160 This is the first and ancient firewall against tyranny.

00:07:31.880 It is what makes England, England.

00:07:34.040 And if England of all places tosses that aside, what does the word free mean anymore?

00:07:40.280 Okay.

00:07:40.780 What does it mean?

00:07:42.020 You can't speak and you have no jury trial of your peers?

00:07:45.560 Wait, what?

00:07:46.140 First of all, understand this.

00:07:51.000 A nation that polices speech is not free.

00:07:54.840 A nation that dissolves juries is not just unfree.

00:07:59.260 It's prepping for something worse.

00:08:01.980 Because the entire architecture of the Western world, the liberty that we have, rests on a single radical belief.

00:08:11.620 The truth does not need a king.

00:08:15.480 The truth shall set you free.

00:08:17.520 Who is it?

00:08:18.560 Not what.

00:08:19.260 Who is the truth?

00:08:21.040 Okay.

00:08:21.720 No king but Christ.

00:08:23.660 Because Christ is the truth.

00:08:25.860 That's the Western world.

00:08:28.860 A person's conscience does not need a permit.

00:08:33.600 Speech does not need a bureaucrat's approval before it leaves your lips.

00:08:38.820 That's the West.

00:08:40.820 That's what built the world.

00:08:42.900 What took it from darkness to today.

00:08:46.580 Freedom is not granted by the state.

00:08:49.380 Freedom pre-exists government.

00:08:51.700 Government's only legitimate job is to protect it.

00:08:55.160 Now here's a dark little secret that every single tyrant and every politician knows today.

00:09:02.600 If you control speech, you control thought.

00:09:05.400 If you control thought, you control people.

00:09:08.660 If you control people, you don't ever have to worry about controlling the government because no one will ever challenge you again.

00:09:16.520 This is why it is so essential for any side to go, you can't talk to them, don't talk to them, don't listen to them, don't question, you can't hear that.

00:09:26.320 No, they can say whatever they want, but I have a right to refute it.

00:09:30.500 That's why free speech has to be absolute, not mostly free.

00:09:34.660 Not free unless it makes, you know, Billy over there cry and uncomfortable.

00:09:40.260 No, sorry, Billy, you don't like it.

00:09:42.580 Refute it.

00:09:44.500 Freedom that depends on somebody else's feelings is not freedom.

00:09:50.220 Freedom that requires government approval is not freedom.

00:09:54.260 Freedom that can be revoked because a bureaucrat doesn't like your tone is not freedom.

00:10:01.380 Once speech becomes conditional, everything becomes conditional.

00:10:05.880 Your rights, your property, your conscience, your place in society, because you only live by permission, never by principle.

00:10:14.960 We live by principles, not people.

00:10:21.840 Who is actually free?

00:10:24.900 Who is actually free?

00:10:28.040 The England that once declared the king himself to be subject to law or the England that now arrests a man because he's posted the wrong meme.

00:10:37.500 12,000 people.

00:10:40.900 Can't find one in 2023 that was arrested for that in America.

00:10:45.380 Not one.

00:10:51.180 The England that gave us John Locke?

00:10:55.480 The philosopher of natural rights?

00:10:58.140 Is that person free?

00:10:59.220 Or the England that now warns citizens that context doesn't matter if their words cause someone, anyone, emotional harm?

00:11:10.320 Britain is about loss, but this is not just a British problem.

00:11:14.180 This is the canary in the coal mine for the entire West because these are the people that came up with it. 0.94

00:11:19.180 When the mother country forgets its own legacy, jury trials, and freedom of speech, when the land that once stared down monarchs now cowers before hashtags and activists and speech tribunals, then somewhere deep inside the Western soul, a light is flickering.

00:11:39.720 We must remember here before that same darkness reaches our shores because it's already coming on to our beaches.

00:11:48.200 It's already there.

00:11:49.900 There is no such thing as partial liberty.

00:11:54.500 Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for a reason.

00:12:00.360 It is the guardrail for every other right.

00:12:03.860 If you lose the First Amendment, you've lost freedom.

00:12:08.540 And if you lose the Second Amendment, you've lost the ability to defend that first freedom.

00:12:15.280 It's number one for a reason.

00:12:18.200 You must be allowed to speak, to gather, to have a free press, to question your government.

00:12:26.120 You must have those abilities.

00:12:28.520 You must be able to say, especially about government, the worst things about your government and question them and demand answers to petition them.

00:12:37.100 That's all in the First Amendment.

00:12:38.600 It is the pressure valve that prevents societies from blowing itself up.

00:12:44.000 The more we contain speech, the more we say, don't talk about it, don't talk about it, don't talk about it, can't say that, can't say that, can't say that, the more the pressure builds up, the more likely it is we blow ourselves up.

00:12:54.520 It's the mechanism where the powerless can speak to the powerful.

00:13:00.300 It's the shield that protects dissenters, unpopular thinkers, prophets, reformers, and yes, even the offensive.

00:13:09.220 Look, there are quote-unquote historians now who are giving you all kinds of bullcrap about Hitler and everything else.

00:13:17.200 None of that's true.

00:13:18.500 I don't want to silence them.

00:13:20.300 They have a right to say it.

00:13:21.460 I have a right to say you're wrong and show you the evidence on what makes them wrong.

00:13:26.920 That's the way it works.

00:13:30.340 England is about to forget all of this.

00:13:34.860 They are truly the birthplace of these kinds of ideas, and those ideas led to our idea of real freedom, no king.

00:13:44.300 If they forget this, we cannot, we cannot, because there won't be anywhere else in the world to go.

00:13:54.000 The lesson of history, the lesson that history whispers quietly at first, then louder, and then finally, and we're about at this point with a scream,

00:14:03.160 is that when a state decides which words are allowed, it will eventually decide which thoughts are allowed, which beliefs are allowed, which citizens are allowed.

00:14:18.220 In the end, in the end, the prisons don't need bars.

00:14:23.300 The cell will be in your own mind.

00:14:27.300 Do you understand that, America?

00:14:29.860 Do your kids understand that?

00:14:31.600 We don't even know what it means to be free.

00:14:34.900 I thought this weekend a lot about, and the truth shall set you free.

00:14:41.060 I thought about a lot.

00:14:43.180 In fact, maybe I'll talk to you about it here in a minute or so.

00:14:47.660 Because I don't think people understand what it means to be free.

00:14:53.020 We think everybody in the world is free.

00:14:54.980 They're not.

00:14:56.120 And you're about to really find that out.

00:14:58.460 You want to be free, or do you want to be safe?

00:15:03.200 Because you cannot have both.

00:15:05.420 When safety is defined by those who fear your liberty, it's over.

00:15:11.240 We used to be people who would explore.

00:15:19.120 We were people that crossed the oceans when everyone said we couldn't.

00:15:23.220 We went to space when everyone said it's impossible.

00:15:27.000 We crossed mountains that no one had ever crossed.

00:15:30.060 We forged a nation of really different people and lived side by side for so long.

00:15:42.160 Yes, with bloodshed from time to time, but generally in ways nobody had ever done before.

00:15:47.660 Freedom is grand, but it's really dangerous.

00:15:51.520 It's messy.

00:15:53.200 Freedom offends you a lot.

00:15:56.200 Get over it.

00:15:57.500 But real freedom, real freedom is the only thing that has ever allowed the human spirit

00:16:04.680 to rise above a king, above a tyrant, above the mob, above the bureaucrats.

00:16:10.700 Real freedom that belongs to you, given to you by God.

00:16:16.280 And that's what they're about to lose in England.

00:16:19.040 The Magna Carta.

00:16:20.260 The simple idea.

00:16:21.700 No man, not even a king, no man is above the law.

00:16:25.040 Do we have that here?

00:16:26.000 Do you think no man is above the law?

00:16:28.680 Or do you think there is a class up in the political range somewhere that if you're on

00:16:32.760 the right side, don't worry about jail?

00:16:35.820 That's what the Magna Carta tried to stop. 0.91

00:16:38.660 That's what we've forgotten even.

00:16:40.760 And they're about to get rid of it entirely.

00:16:44.320 The modern West is drifting into far more, far more sinister creed.

00:16:49.480 No man is above offense.

00:16:51.760 And that is how civilizations fall.

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00:18:06.120 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:18:11.580 So I'm reading some really exciting stuff.

00:18:15.600 Three dozen Democrats and Republicans introduced a proposal to end the taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidies,

00:18:23.400 which is really great.

00:18:25.640 And it was spearheaded by Josh Gottenheimer, a Democrat from New Jersey,

00:18:32.340 and Ken Kiggins, a Republican from Virginia.

00:18:36.280 And it's a measure that's going to extend and reduce the tax credits in a two-step process,

00:18:43.880 requiring two separate votes from Congress.

00:18:48.880 Okay.

00:18:49.320 So the first vote would extend the tax credits for a year with some modifications,

00:18:56.540 including the addition of a new income limit.

00:18:59.920 Okay.

00:19:01.120 And then the second vote, which will definitely happen,

00:19:04.840 would implement what the group described as more significant reforms.

00:19:09.880 Okay.

00:19:10.320 Don't worry.

00:19:11.200 I mean, they're just putting it into a two-step process,

00:19:14.300 not because they think the second step will fail,

00:19:16.460 but because they just want to make it simple for people.

00:19:20.280 And it's always easier to take two steps than one.

00:19:23.440 You see what I'm saying?

00:19:26.380 Now, here's a New Jersey congressman and self-declared conservative.

00:19:34.840 Quote,

00:19:35.540 I do not like the Affordable Care Act.

00:19:38.440 I do not like it, Sam.

00:19:39.800 No, I'm sorry.

00:19:41.120 I do not like the Affordable Care Act.

00:19:43.720 It's fraught with all kinds of problems.

00:19:45.700 There's a lot of corruption.

00:19:47.840 But that's not the point today.

00:19:49.760 That's not the discussion today.

00:19:52.300 These subsidies haven't been good.

00:19:54.480 But ladies and gentlemen, we have a responsibility.

00:19:58.580 Right.

00:19:59.280 To stop things that aren't good and are full of corruption.

00:20:02.640 One might say, but he doesn't.

00:20:04.940 So I believe we have two responsibilities.

00:20:07.220 One, to have a bridge for the American people

00:20:09.840 that will allow them to keep their health insurance.

00:20:12.960 The second is a responsibility that we have

00:20:15.880 to do much, much better with health care.

00:20:18.740 Okay.

00:20:19.600 Well, those aren't vague.

00:20:21.180 Stu, I'm standing on,

00:20:25.580 I'm standing, let's say, in front of a body of water.

00:20:28.740 And I'm going to build a bridge.

00:20:33.120 What would I be assuming?

00:20:36.820 I'm standing on a cliff and in front of me is a body of water

00:20:40.920 and I want to build a bridge.

00:20:45.080 What's the question that comes to mind?

00:20:49.520 A bridge to what?

00:20:52.880 A bridge to where?

00:20:56.040 What's on the other side?

00:20:57.920 What are you building the bridge to?

00:21:00.260 If I said, if I'm standing on a cliff

00:21:02.360 and it's the Pacific Ocean and I say,

00:21:05.360 I want to build a bridge here.

00:21:07.240 You would logically say, can't be done.

00:21:10.440 Too far.

00:21:11.640 Where are you going?

00:21:12.680 Hawaii, Australia, China, Russia.

00:21:15.520 Where are you building the bridge?

00:21:17.460 Might not be able to do that.

00:21:20.280 It's quote, a bridge too far.

00:21:23.460 Or you might just say,

00:21:24.880 there's no way you can build a bridge here.

00:21:28.040 What are you going to do?

00:21:29.140 You're building one to Russia?

00:21:30.700 Cause all kinds of new problems.

00:21:33.520 Okay.

00:21:34.260 All right.

00:21:35.520 Nobody's asking that question.

00:21:37.040 What are you building a bridge?

00:21:38.180 You're building a bridge for the American people.

00:21:40.720 What's on the other side of that bridge?

00:21:42.720 What is your plan after they get to the middle of the bridge?

00:21:46.260 Cause assuming they've got,

00:21:47.420 you got them to the middle of the bridge,

00:21:48.560 it's going to be something on the other side.

00:21:49.800 Or is it just,

00:21:50.920 they get to that cliff where the bridge has been built.

00:21:54.240 There's still no land to get onto.

00:21:56.920 What do you say then?

00:21:58.500 We need a bridge to get people from here. 0.92

00:22:02.080 And do we build another bridge to nowhere?

00:22:05.180 We just keep tacking these bridges together until finally we arrive somewhere.

00:22:09.780 These are excellent bridge related questions,

00:22:14.080 Glenn.

00:22:14.860 Can I ask additional bridge related questions?

00:22:18.540 Bridge relay.

00:22:19.180 We're keeping it in the bridge related family.

00:22:21.240 Yes.

00:22:21.480 This is a show.

00:22:22.200 I would say most,

00:22:23.680 mostly known for its architecture talk.

00:22:26.160 So yeah.

00:22:26.480 Our architecture,

00:22:27.320 engineering,

00:22:27.960 engineering.

00:22:28.540 Yep.

00:22:29.160 We're big with engineering.

00:22:30.660 Right.

00:22:31.340 Yeah.

00:22:31.700 Big.

00:22:32.180 Yeah.

00:22:32.300 So when this was created in 2021,

00:22:37.640 these subsidies,

00:22:39.360 yes,

00:22:39.920 they were a bridge to 2022.

00:22:42.640 They were a bridge to 2022.

00:22:45.380 And then what I think was interesting that happened is in 2022,

00:22:49.500 they built yet another bridge to 2025 with the expectation that we should all

00:22:56.380 understand that in 2022,

00:22:58.340 we wouldn't need that bridge anymore.

00:23:00.260 And also in 2025,

00:23:01.800 we wouldn't need that bridge anymore.

00:23:03.780 And now they're saying we desperately need a bridge to 2027 or 2028,

00:23:09.260 depending on who you're listening to.

00:23:10.960 I think it's 2027.

00:23:12.880 Okay.

00:23:13.280 I think it's 2027.

00:23:14.480 2027.

00:23:15.820 But we're not going to need that bridge.

00:23:16.880 We're not going to need another bridge after that.

00:23:19.500 And what's fascinating about building a bridge,

00:23:21.720 Glenn,

00:23:21.980 is the expectation of that bridge is it's going to last a very long time.

00:23:26.920 You don't temporarily build bridges all that often.

00:23:30.820 Maybe the military,

00:23:32.720 they're in the middle of a war,

00:23:34.060 they'll build a temporary bridge over a bottle of water.

00:23:36.220 That's possible.

00:23:37.240 There are some uses for temporary bridges,

00:23:39.380 but most bridges are actually designed to last forever.

00:23:43.820 Or as long as they could possibly exist until a new bridge is built after them.

00:23:50.280 And that seems to be what we're doing here with this,

00:23:53.340 which is just slowly building temporary bridges that we're calling temporary,

00:23:58.640 but actually are permanent and continue to grow.

00:24:02.000 They seem to,

00:24:02.720 we seem to have several bridges across the same river already.

00:24:07.300 And now we want more bridges over the same river.

00:24:09.780 We should have bridges to the other bridges.

00:24:12.560 Oh,

00:24:12.900 that's the way to do it.

00:24:14.680 You know what I mean?

00:24:15.620 Government efficiency in action.

00:24:18.220 If you have bridges to other bridges that aren't finished or going anywhere,

00:24:22.840 then you have Washington in a nutshell.

00:24:25.800 Then you have,

00:24:26.680 then you have something really to brag about.

00:24:28.020 Now he also went on to say that he was upset that the GOP has not been working on this,

00:24:34.860 on this problem for the last 43 days.

00:24:38.040 And I would,

00:24:39.020 I would tend to agree with that,

00:24:40.800 except I would say,

00:24:41.980 I don't know,

00:24:43.120 where have you been since 2009?

00:24:45.980 Where,

00:24:46.740 why haven't you been working on this since 2009?

00:24:51.900 Every time you have an election,

00:24:53.740 you're like,

00:24:54.000 we're going to get rid of Obamacare. 0.85

00:24:55.380 We're going to fix that.

00:24:56.220 We're going to fix.

00:24:56.640 It's really not that complex to fix.

00:24:59.380 You get government out of the way.

00:25:01.700 You take down all of the stupid,

00:25:04.140 stupid rules between the states where you can't let anybody compete from one state to another.

00:25:09.380 Get rid of all those things.

00:25:10.920 Get rid of them.

00:25:11.880 It's not that hard.

00:25:13.500 And I don't need to build a bridge.

00:25:15.380 I just,

00:25:15.820 I can do that right now.

00:25:17.100 I can just do that.

00:25:18.100 What you do is you say bridges out,

00:25:21.260 go this way.

00:25:23.500 And then all of a sudden,

00:25:24.640 the path is right there.

00:25:27.900 You can go there.

00:25:28.720 Cheaper health care,

00:25:29.900 access to your doctors.

00:25:31.240 It's really great.

00:25:32.440 You know,

00:25:33.640 since we're in the holiday mood today,

00:25:35.940 I thought

00:25:37.980 I would write a poem

00:25:40.920 for the GOP.

00:25:43.500 And I mean this

00:25:44.640 deeply and sincerely.

00:25:46.180 It is a salute to the GOP.

00:25:50.840 Money here.

00:25:54.700 T'was the night before Christmas

00:25:56.180 and all through the right.

00:25:58.820 Not a plan could be found

00:26:00.400 that was honest

00:26:01.580 or tight.

00:26:03.320 The base hung their stockings

00:26:05.360 with dwindling care

00:26:06.820 in hopes that a real GOP

00:26:09.040 would soon be there.

00:26:10.840 The voters were nestled

00:26:13.120 with thoughts

00:26:14.020 growing bleak

00:26:15.060 while leadership

00:26:16.460 mumbled

00:26:17.060 the same lines

00:26:18.480 each week.

00:26:19.680 And Mama

00:26:20.520 in her

00:26:21.140 MAGA

00:26:21.800 and I

00:26:22.400 in my cap

00:26:23.260 had just settled

00:26:24.220 our hopes

00:26:24.820 for another year's

00:26:27.020 crap.

00:26:28.300 When out on the

00:26:29.020 House floor

00:26:29.560 there rose

00:26:30.060 such a clatter,

00:26:31.260 I sprang from my desk

00:26:32.360 to see what was the matter.

00:26:33.700 Away to C-SPAN

00:26:35.120 I flew like a flash

00:26:36.480 just in time

00:26:37.380 to see Congress

00:26:38.380 set fire

00:26:39.380 to our cash.

00:26:41.460 When what to my

00:26:42.160 wondering eyes

00:26:43.000 did appear

00:26:43.540 but a miniature bill

00:26:45.140 wrapped in fraudulent cheer.

00:26:48.600 With a leadership driver

00:26:50.260 so slippery and bland

00:26:52.080 I knew in a moment

00:26:53.060 they had no real plan.

00:26:55.300 More rapid than progressives

00:26:56.980 their excuses all came.

00:26:59.100 They whistled

00:26:59.740 and shrugged

00:27:00.620 and they shifted the blame.

00:27:02.880 Now tax cuts

00:27:03.900 now budgets

00:27:04.680 now spending galore

00:27:06.460 on omnibus

00:27:07.920 on bailouts

00:27:08.880 on debt

00:27:09.580 here's some more

00:27:11.040 to the edge

00:27:12.200 of disaster

00:27:12.880 let the treasury fall

00:27:14.240 now charge away

00:27:15.520 charge away

00:27:16.360 charge away

00:27:17.620 all

00:27:18.200 like money

00:27:20.000 that flies

00:27:21.440 into D.C.'s

00:27:22.280 furnace flies

00:27:23.180 they burn

00:27:24.600 through our future

00:27:25.540 with pork

00:27:26.900 stuffed supplies

00:27:28.320 so up

00:27:29.920 to the debt

00:27:30.600 ceiling

00:27:31.100 skyward

00:27:31.920 it flew

00:27:32.500 with a sleigh

00:27:33.700 full of nonsense

00:27:34.820 and excuses

00:27:36.360 too

00:27:36.960 and then

00:27:38.220 in a twinkling

00:27:39.320 I heard

00:27:40.480 on the hill

00:27:41.160 the whispers

00:27:42.360 of justice

00:27:43.300 that gave me

00:27:44.720 a chill

00:27:45.240 indictments

00:27:46.400 investigations

00:27:47.320 I leaned

00:27:48.520 in to browse

00:27:49.480 are they really

00:27:50.840 clean

00:27:51.380 cleaning house

00:27:52.360 no

00:27:53.320 they were spying

00:27:54.720 on you

00:27:55.160 and your spouse

00:27:56.040 the CIA

00:27:57.380 FBI

00:27:58.020 and DOJ

00:27:58.860 too

00:27:59.220 had

00:27:59.980 wrapped

00:28:00.440 secret

00:28:00.960 programs

00:28:01.740 in media

00:28:03.260 view

00:28:04.020 their webs

00:28:05.500 spun like garland

00:28:06.640 through the bureau

00:28:07.520 and press

00:28:08.280 a tinsel of treachery

00:28:10.640 in a deep state

00:28:11.740 Christmas mess

00:28:13.340 but the GOP

00:28:15.160 stood there

00:28:15.840 all timid

00:28:16.500 and meek

00:28:17.020 not drawing

00:28:17.960 a line

00:28:18.580 not even

00:28:19.160 a squeak

00:28:19.820 not at Nazis

00:28:21.160 those socialist

00:28:22.340 vile

00:28:23.060 yes socialist

00:28:23.920 kids

00:28:24.420 read a book

00:28:25.220 once in a while

00:28:26.120 they claim

00:28:27.480 to love markets

00:28:28.340 the founders

00:28:29.140 the laws

00:28:30.060 yet cave

00:28:31.120 every time

00:28:32.020 when confronted

00:28:32.820 with flaws

00:28:33.700 their words

00:28:35.020 are like snowflakes

00:28:36.740 that melt

00:28:37.820 when they land

00:28:38.800 no principle

00:28:40.120 strong

00:28:40.760 no backbone

00:28:41.880 at hand

00:28:42.720 I spoke

00:28:43.860 not a word

00:28:44.640 but went

00:28:45.400 straight to my list

00:28:46.780 a party

00:28:47.860 that means

00:28:48.560 what it says

00:28:49.480 did I miss

00:28:51.100 a repeal

00:28:52.460 of Obamacare

00:28:53.400 that isn't

00:28:54.600 pretend

00:28:55.120 a budget

00:28:56.080 that cuts

00:28:56.760 more than taxes

00:28:57.940 my friends

00:28:58.860 I signed it

00:29:00.040 with hope

00:29:00.580 though the odds

00:29:01.820 seemed quite slim

00:29:03.520 constitutional principles

00:29:05.720 teach them

00:29:07.240 to them

00:29:07.800 and if you've

00:29:09.300 got space

00:29:09.980 in your sleigh

00:29:10.800 for a treat

00:29:11.580 wrap corrupt

00:29:12.980 officials

00:29:13.540 for prison

00:29:14.500 so neat

00:29:15.540 Santa sprang

00:29:17.260 to his sleigh

00:29:18.000 with a cynical

00:29:18.760 grin

00:29:19.240 kid you're

00:29:20.240 asking for

00:29:20.860 miracles

00:29:21.400 no one's

00:29:22.340 voted in

00:29:23.080 but I heard

00:29:24.120 him exclaim

00:29:24.900 as he flew

00:29:25.520 out of sight

00:29:26.120 Merry Christmas

00:29:27.200 to all

00:29:28.080 and to the

00:29:28.980 GOP

00:29:29.620 get it

00:29:30.460 freaking

00:29:30.860 right

00:29:31.640 just maybe

00:29:33.380 once

00:29:33.920 you're

00:29:35.020 streaming

00:29:35.340 the best

00:29:35.940 of the

00:29:36.260 Glenn Beck

00:29:36.620 program

00:29:37.020 and you

00:29:37.460 can find

00:29:37.800 full episodes

00:29:38.580 wherever you

00:29:39.100 download podcasts

00:29:40.080 so

00:29:41.200 how many

00:29:41.900 years ago

00:29:42.420 was it

00:29:42.760 that we

00:29:43.100 we wrote

00:29:43.620 Ramahan

00:29:44.080 and Kwan's

00:29:44.500 oh my

00:29:45.560 gosh

00:29:45.960 a very

00:29:47.280 long time

00:29:47.860 ago

00:29:48.160 very long

00:29:49.400 time

00:29:49.660 yeah

00:29:49.920 I don't

00:29:50.240 know

00:29:50.580 15

00:29:51.520 and it

00:29:51.820 was a

00:29:52.060 huge hit

00:29:52.640 yeah

00:29:53.360 it was

00:29:53.740 huge hit

00:29:54.300 back in

00:29:54.940 the day

00:29:55.260 and

00:29:56.600 and

00:29:57.460 you know

00:29:58.120 if you were

00:29:58.440 listening back

00:29:58.980 then you

00:29:59.340 remember it

00:29:59.960 but that

00:30:01.620 was at the

00:30:02.140 beginning of

00:30:02.740 this political

00:30:03.400 correctness

00:30:04.040 stuff

00:30:04.320 and now

00:30:05.200 that I

00:30:05.520 feel like

00:30:06.000 we're at

00:30:06.400 the end

00:30:07.680 or nearing

00:30:08.520 an end

00:30:08.900 of this

00:30:09.180 political

00:30:09.560 correctness

00:30:10.100 stuff

00:30:10.380 I thought

00:30:11.720 I would

00:30:12.420 offer you

00:30:13.020 the first

00:30:14.120 Christmas song

00:30:14.860 the first

00:30:15.440 offering

00:30:15.900 if you

00:30:16.260 will

00:30:16.540 from

00:30:17.800 Glenn

00:30:18.280 AI

00:30:18.680 here it

00:30:19.740 is

00:30:29.960 well

00:30:33.720 the season's

00:30:34.500 here

00:30:34.940 and the

00:30:35.360 lights

00:30:35.600 are bright

00:30:36.240 but they

00:30:36.740 tell me

00:30:37.120 I can't

00:30:37.780 say

00:30:38.060 Merry

00:30:38.500 Christmas

00:30:39.120 tonight

00:30:39.660 they

00:30:39.900 want

00:30:40.200 right

00:30:40.480 my

00:30:40.640 Hannah

00:30:40.860 Quine's

00:30:41.360 my

00:30:41.600 solid

00:30:41.940 one

00:30:42.540 breath

00:30:43.280 buddy

00:30:45.500 that

00:30:45.780 phrase

00:30:46.160 is gonna

00:30:46.540 bore me

00:30:46.980 to death

00:30:47.580 so grab

00:30:48.340 some

00:30:48.600 cocoa

00:30:48.980 let's

00:30:49.340 reclaim

00:30:49.720 this

00:30:50.060 bliss

00:30:50.760 it's

00:30:51.440 the

00:30:51.600 birthday

00:30:52.000 of

00:30:52.620 the

00:30:52.840 baby

00:30:53.340 yeah

00:30:53.980 remember

00:30:54.660 who

00:30:55.200 that

00:30:55.700 is

00:30:56.840 so I'm

00:30:58.620 putting

00:30:58.920 the

00:30:59.160 cry

00:30:59.560 back

00:31:00.280 in

00:31:00.560 Christmas

00:31:01.020 no

00:31:01.440 micro

00:31:01.800 aggression

00:31:02.380 here

00:31:02.940 my

00:31:03.260 friend

00:31:03.860 if

00:31:04.960 words

00:31:05.260 can

00:31:05.500 break

00:31:05.860 you

00:31:06.040 well

00:31:06.300 bless

00:31:06.620 your

00:31:06.840 heart

00:31:07.260 cause

00:31:07.460 that's

00:31:07.720 a battle

00:31:08.080 we

00:31:08.400 can't

00:31:08.900 defend

00:31:09.300 yeah

00:31:09.740 I'm

00:31:09.920 putting

00:31:10.220 the

00:31:10.460 cries

00:31:10.940 back

00:31:11.560 in

00:31:11.840 Christmas

00:31:12.340 let

00:31:13.320 common

00:31:13.880 sense

00:31:14.320 unfold

00:31:15.020 out

00:31:15.760 with

00:31:15.940 the

00:31:16.140 new

00:31:16.560 in

00:31:17.160 with

00:31:17.340 the

00:31:17.540 old

00:31:18.020 Merry

00:31:19.020 Christmas

00:31:19.520 let

00:31:20.340 the

00:31:20.500 truth

00:31:20.980 be

00:31:21.540 told

00:31:22.260 and

00:31:25.080 hey

00:31:25.380 baby

00:31:25.760 it's

00:31:26.100 cold

00:31:26.400 outside

00:31:27.060 relax

00:31:27.840 it's

00:31:28.240 flirting

00:31:28.560 not a federal

00:31:29.380 crime

00:31:29.840 we used

00:31:30.260 to laugh

00:31:30.720 and dance

00:31:31.300 in snow

00:31:32.000 now they

00:31:33.180 fact check

00:31:33.780 mistletoe

00:31:34.840 they say intent

00:31:36.280 don't matter

00:31:37.020 well sure it does

00:31:38.480 ask Santa

00:31:39.140 he's judging hearts

00:31:40.180 not Twitter buzz

00:31:41.560 so I'm

00:31:42.360 putting the

00:31:42.900 cry

00:31:43.120 back in

00:31:44.280 Christmas

00:31:44.780 you can keep

00:31:46.080 your outrage

00:31:47.120 warm

00:31:47.600 if every jingle

00:31:49.020 is problematic

00:31:50.420 buddy

00:31:51.160 that's the real

00:31:52.340 snowstorm

00:31:53.200 yeah I'm

00:31:53.700 putting the

00:31:54.220 Christ

00:31:54.680 back in

00:31:55.600 Christmas

00:31:56.120 not buying

00:31:57.640 what they

00:31:58.320 sold

00:31:58.900 out with

00:31:59.680 the new

00:32:00.280 in with

00:32:01.080 the old

00:32:01.740 Merry

00:32:02.760 Christmas

00:32:03.280 let the

00:32:04.260 truth

00:32:04.620 be

00:32:05.280 told

00:32:05.860 they say

00:32:06.240 that greeting

00:32:06.700 is oppressive

00:32:07.620 well bless

00:32:08.780 my soul

00:32:09.540 who knew

00:32:10.280 if Merry

00:32:11.980 Christmas

00:32:12.320 makes you

00:32:12.740 tremble

00:32:13.400 the problem

00:32:14.460 ain't the

00:32:14.860 phrase

00:32:15.220 it's you

00:32:16.100 I'll question

00:32:17.440 with boldness

00:32:19.180 I'll reason

00:32:20.280 with grace

00:32:21.920 but don't

00:32:22.980 rewrite my

00:32:23.940 holiday

00:32:24.660 to make

00:32:25.840 it a safe

00:32:26.940 space

00:32:27.980 so here's

00:32:30.000 to the

00:32:30.380 manger

00:32:30.660 the star

00:32:31.420 in the sky

00:32:32.040 the angels

00:32:32.820 who sang

00:32:33.440 up that

00:32:33.840 holy night

00:32:34.780 here's to

00:32:35.820 the story

00:32:36.340 that still

00:32:37.020 brings hope

00:32:37.600 even when

00:32:38.760 cultures

00:32:39.360 lost the

00:32:39.940 remote

00:32:40.440 raise your

00:32:41.520 voice

00:32:41.920 let the

00:32:42.400 bells all

00:32:42.980 ring

00:32:43.320 this season

00:32:44.120 was always

00:32:44.980 about

00:32:45.500 one

00:32:46.240 king

00:32:47.080 yeah I'm

00:32:48.720 putting the

00:32:49.260 Christ

00:32:49.760 back in

00:32:50.660 Christmas

00:32:51.180 let the

00:32:52.040 real good

00:32:52.780 news unfold

00:32:53.780 the world

00:32:55.380 may chase

00:32:56.320 the wrapping

00:32:56.840 paper but

00:32:57.740 the manger

00:32:58.340 holds the

00:32:59.140 gold

00:32:59.520 so I'm

00:33:00.060 putting the

00:33:00.580 Christ

00:33:01.020 back in

00:33:01.980 Christmas

00:33:02.540 from the

00:33:03.460 young to

00:33:04.060 the grey

00:33:04.600 and old

00:33:05.280 out with

00:33:06.040 the new

00:33:06.660 in with

00:33:07.440 the old

00:33:08.100 Merry

00:33:09.120 Christmas

00:33:09.640 let the

00:33:14.140 truth be

00:33:14.780 told

00:33:15.320 from

00:33:19.000 Glenn

00:33:19.480 AI

00:33:19.700 putting

00:33:20.260 the

00:33:20.440 Christ

00:33:20.960 back

00:33:21.640 in

00:33:22.260 Christmas

00:33:22.900 Christmas

00:33:24.520 I'm

00:33:25.020 sorry

00:33:25.220 did I

00:33:25.540 say

00:33:25.720 we're glad

00:33:28.500 you're here

00:33:28.740 thank you so

00:33:29.280 much

00:33:29.600 it is

00:33:30.840 what

00:33:31.280 two weeks

00:33:31.760 away from

00:33:32.160 Christmas

00:33:32.440 how many

00:33:32.760 more

00:33:33.000 shopping

00:33:33.520 days

00:33:33.840 do we

00:33:34.100 have

00:33:34.740 left

00:33:36.880 December

00:33:37.240 8th

00:33:37.620 so we

00:33:37.860 have

00:33:38.000 17

00:33:38.520 days

00:33:38.880 until

00:33:39.080 Christmas

00:33:39.480 probably

00:33:40.660 16

00:33:41.200 shopping

00:33:41.720 days

00:33:42.000 though

00:33:42.220 you

00:33:42.500 probably

00:33:42.740 don't

00:33:42.900 want to

00:33:43.080 get out

00:33:43.300 there

00:33:43.520 during the

00:33:44.920 morning

00:33:45.300 and try

00:33:46.040 to find

00:33:46.360 stuff

00:33:46.580 it's not

00:33:46.820 going to

00:33:46.940 be easy

00:33:47.280 it's probably

00:33:47.800 a little

00:33:48.100 late

00:33:48.420 hey I got

00:33:49.900 you a gas

00:33:50.480 card

00:33:50.840 you know

00:33:54.020 in the very

00:33:54.760 beginning

00:33:55.180 the whole

00:33:56.640 thing

00:33:56.920 Christmas

00:33:57.240 packages

00:33:57.780 they didn't

00:33:58.820 happen

00:33:59.240 I'm not

00:34:00.200 talking about

00:34:00.720 just back

00:34:01.240 in Jesus

00:34:01.600 time

00:34:02.080 it's not

00:34:03.400 like they

00:34:03.700 showed up

00:34:04.040 and went

00:34:04.260 hey we

00:34:05.080 got you

00:34:05.380 this

00:34:05.620 Christmas

00:34:06.120 present

00:34:06.640 it didn't

00:34:08.120 happen that

00:34:08.580 way

00:34:08.720 obviously

00:34:09.260 but in

00:34:10.780 the early

00:34:11.100 days

00:34:11.440 of Christmas

00:34:14.020 we didn't

00:34:15.120 do things

00:34:16.060 like that

00:34:16.940 we didn't

00:34:17.400 give

00:34:17.900 packages

00:34:19.340 or anything

00:34:19.960 else

00:34:20.240 what we

00:34:21.180 would

00:34:21.380 originally

00:34:22.260 would give

00:34:23.000 would be

00:34:23.720 like give

00:34:24.180 bread

00:34:24.680 you know

00:34:25.320 bread for

00:34:25.760 the hungry

00:34:26.280 alms for

00:34:26.860 the poor

00:34:27.340 you know

00:34:28.320 offerings

00:34:28.960 in you

00:34:29.920 know

00:34:30.220 you know

00:34:32.080 in the

00:34:32.300 memory of

00:34:32.800 the magi

00:34:33.460 or whatever

00:34:33.980 that's

00:34:34.660 that's

00:34:34.980 what we

00:34:35.240 would do

00:34:35.520 and gifts

00:34:36.100 were acts

00:34:36.580 of worship

00:34:37.200 not transactions

00:34:38.180 and we

00:34:40.380 were to

00:34:40.760 imitate

00:34:41.220 heaven

00:34:41.860 not to

00:34:42.860 impress

00:34:43.280 you know

00:34:43.720 some

00:34:43.960 neighbor

00:34:44.300 then

00:34:44.720 history

00:34:45.680 as it

00:34:46.680 always

00:34:46.980 does

00:34:47.400 you know

00:34:48.800 kind of

00:34:49.480 takes

00:34:49.740 things

00:34:50.080 and

00:34:50.480 complicates

00:34:52.040 the purity

00:34:52.580 of the

00:34:52.920 thing

00:34:53.160 you know

00:34:53.400 what I'm

00:34:53.540 saying

00:34:53.740 so the

00:34:54.760 middle

00:34:54.940 ages

00:34:55.240 come

00:34:55.520 around

00:34:55.900 and the

00:34:57.120 European

00:34:57.400 communities

00:34:58.140 start to

00:34:59.320 give small

00:34:59.700 tokens

00:35:00.080 they start

00:35:00.480 giving

00:35:00.720 apples

00:35:01.220 and coins

00:35:02.420 and wax

00:35:03.040 candles

00:35:03.500 and especially

00:35:04.400 on St.

00:35:05.580 Nicholas Day

00:35:06.080 and you know

00:35:06.760 I'm sure

00:35:07.160 back then

00:35:07.620 I was like

00:35:08.060 I can't

00:35:08.560 believe

00:35:08.880 you're buying

00:35:09.720 an apple

00:35:10.260 you're

00:35:10.760 commercializing

00:35:11.580 this

00:35:11.960 and what

00:35:13.920 they were

00:35:14.340 trying to

00:35:15.020 do was

00:35:15.540 not to

00:35:16.680 outdo

00:35:17.260 one another

00:35:17.780 he gave

00:35:18.480 do you see

00:35:19.280 that he gave

00:35:19.940 his wife

00:35:20.280 two apples

00:35:20.840 but it was

00:35:21.800 the idea

00:35:22.240 to teach

00:35:22.800 children that

00:35:23.480 generosity

00:35:23.980 was a

00:35:24.440 virtue

00:35:24.720 and the

00:35:25.780 gesture

00:35:26.040 was still

00:35:26.500 really small

00:35:27.320 and the

00:35:28.100 idea was

00:35:28.680 to enlarge

00:35:29.300 the heart

00:35:29.840 and then

00:35:30.320 came the

00:35:30.920 Victorian

00:35:31.440 age

00:35:32.080 kind of

00:35:33.000 the global

00:35:33.480 pivot point

00:35:34.380 you know

00:35:34.940 and everybody

00:35:37.160 because everybody

00:35:38.060 idolized

00:35:38.700 Dickens

00:35:39.220 and Christmas

00:35:40.720 Carol

00:35:41.120 Christmas Carol

00:35:42.640 by Dickens

00:35:43.680 really revived

00:35:45.100 the holiday

00:35:45.640 spirit

00:35:46.140 but it also

00:35:47.780 introduced

00:35:48.360 something new

00:35:49.160 the romance

00:35:50.460 of the Christmas

00:35:52.000 marketplace

00:35:52.660 because we

00:35:54.880 suddenly had

00:35:55.740 industrialization

00:35:56.760 and now we

00:35:57.360 could make

00:35:57.720 toys cheaper

00:35:58.580 and factories

00:35:59.420 made novelty

00:36:00.500 easy

00:36:01.020 and we

00:36:02.000 had a

00:36:02.320 middle class

00:36:03.160 that had

00:36:03.580 some disposable

00:36:04.420 income

00:36:04.920 for the very

00:36:05.460 first time

00:36:06.000 and then

00:36:06.360 suddenly

00:36:06.760 quietly

00:36:07.660 slowly

00:36:08.860 gift giving

00:36:09.680 expanded

00:36:10.380 and the

00:36:11.560 boxes grew

00:36:12.280 larger and

00:36:12.940 larger

00:36:13.320 not the

00:36:14.420 heart

00:36:14.680 but the

00:36:15.020 boxes did

00:36:15.840 and by

00:36:17.320 the late

00:36:18.320 1800s

00:36:19.160 early

00:36:19.480 20th

00:36:20.080 century

00:36:20.480 you know

00:36:21.660 the stores

00:36:23.240 especially

00:36:24.020 the new

00:36:24.680 department

00:36:25.220 store

00:36:25.540 discovered

00:36:25.940 what the

00:36:26.440 church

00:36:26.720 once knew

00:36:27.320 is that

00:36:27.860 Christmas

00:36:28.480 makes people

00:36:29.360 more generous

00:36:30.120 and so

00:36:32.140 you know

00:36:32.800 it also

00:36:33.100 makes more

00:36:33.540 people more

00:36:34.200 vulnerable

00:36:34.660 I guess

00:36:35.420 and so

00:36:35.760 the advertisements

00:36:36.600 wrap

00:36:37.680 themselves

00:36:38.420 in holiness

00:36:40.400 and Santa

00:36:41.360 was drafted

00:36:42.140 into service

00:36:42.820 you know

00:36:43.540 not a lot

00:36:43.880 of people

00:36:44.160 know

00:36:44.340 I have

00:36:44.580 this little

00:36:44.960 teeny

00:36:45.540 statue

00:36:46.960 of Santa

00:36:49.600 that I

00:36:50.060 got when

00:36:50.780 I was

00:36:51.300 in Sweden

00:36:52.920 where was

00:36:53.500 I

00:36:53.720 and at

00:36:55.460 the church

00:36:56.420 of Saint

00:36:57.420 Nicholas

00:36:57.780 and it's

00:36:58.580 this little

00:36:59.140 statue

00:37:00.280 of

00:37:00.920 Santa

00:37:02.220 and he's

00:37:03.440 standing by

00:37:04.020 a pair

00:37:04.360 of boots

00:37:04.840 and he's

00:37:05.340 the size

00:37:05.980 of the

00:37:06.460 boots

00:37:06.820 because

00:37:07.800 originally

00:37:08.280 he wasn't

00:37:09.480 like what

00:37:10.420 we think

00:37:10.780 of now

00:37:11.220 he was

00:37:11.540 like this

00:37:11.900 little elf

00:37:12.420 kind of

00:37:12.880 thing

00:37:13.080 it was

00:37:14.580 Thomas

00:37:15.040 Nast

00:37:15.640 who

00:37:16.580 you know

00:37:18.140 did the

00:37:18.660 whole

00:37:19.040 you know

00:37:19.660 twas the

00:37:20.060 night

00:37:20.180 before

00:37:20.440 Christmas

00:37:20.860 that

00:37:21.840 changed

00:37:22.640 the whole

00:37:23.060 look

00:37:23.480 of Santa

00:37:24.360 and then

00:37:25.120 of course

00:37:26.180 Coca-Cola

00:37:28.060 got involved

00:37:28.800 and once

00:37:29.900 Coca-Cola

00:37:30.460 got involved

00:37:31.060 well then

00:37:31.800 everything

00:37:32.460 you know

00:37:33.000 quickly

00:37:33.420 quickly

00:37:34.460 changed

00:37:35.020 and now

00:37:36.260 three gifts

00:37:36.940 of the

00:37:37.200 Magi

00:37:37.620 has become

00:37:38.260 30

00:37:38.800 yada

00:37:39.220 yada

00:37:39.480 yada

00:37:39.800 and then

00:37:42.200 we started

00:37:43.240 advertising

00:37:43.760 everything

00:37:44.480 and here

00:37:44.820 we are

00:37:45.320 here we

00:37:46.120 are now

00:37:46.660 to

00:37:47.900 Christmas

00:37:48.860 which

00:37:50.020 I don't

00:37:51.680 know

00:37:51.940 this starts

00:37:52.840 I don't

00:37:53.300 even know

00:37:53.700 when did

00:37:54.760 you start

00:37:55.240 to see

00:37:55.580 Christmas

00:37:56.100 stuff

00:37:56.440 I first

00:37:58.000 saw it

00:37:58.360 before

00:37:59.040 October

00:38:00.340 before

00:38:00.980 Halloween

00:38:02.540 was done

00:38:03.040 that's when

00:38:03.780 I first

00:38:04.160 saw Christmas

00:38:04.660 stuff up

00:38:05.140 right before

00:38:05.800 before

00:38:06.640 Halloween

00:38:07.540 and we

00:38:10.440 have turned

00:38:10.880 this thing

00:38:11.380 into

00:38:11.900 I don't

00:38:13.640 know

00:38:13.780 a fiscal

00:38:14.260 quarter

00:38:14.700 that's all

00:38:15.220 it is

00:38:15.500 now

00:38:15.700 it's a

00:38:15.980 fiscal

00:38:16.240 quarter

00:38:16.660 and as

00:38:18.540 we're getting

00:38:18.860 ready for

00:38:19.300 Christmas

00:38:19.620 and we

00:38:20.180 have

00:38:20.460 you know

00:38:20.880 so many

00:38:21.240 shopping

00:38:21.560 days

00:38:21.900 left

00:38:22.300 what the

00:38:24.200 20th century

00:38:25.040 has done

00:38:25.740 to Christmas

00:38:26.300 has left

00:38:28.100 us feeling

00:38:28.780 I don't

00:38:29.140 know

00:38:29.420 emptier

00:38:30.240 lonelier

00:38:30.900 more frantic

00:38:33.300 more frantic

00:38:33.320 I mean

00:38:35.640 we have

00:38:36.240 we have

00:38:38.460 expanded

00:38:39.720 the spectacle

00:38:40.460 but not

00:38:41.600 the soul

00:38:42.640 and

00:38:44.220 and today

00:38:45.740 we live in

00:38:46.360 a world

00:38:46.640 where everything

00:38:47.100 could be

00:38:47.400 shipped to

00:38:47.800 you and

00:38:48.140 your doorstep

00:38:48.700 in 24

00:38:49.200 hours

00:38:49.660 and

00:38:50.060 and we

00:38:52.180 have a

00:38:52.500 chance to

00:38:53.280 reclaim it

00:38:53.800 but it's a

00:38:54.480 short chance

00:38:55.140 to reclaim

00:38:55.640 it I think

00:38:56.260 how do we

00:38:57.320 reclaim what

00:38:57.860 we've nearly

00:38:58.280 lost

00:38:58.900 may I suggest

00:39:05.940 we go back

00:39:06.460 to the

00:39:06.700 beginning

00:39:07.020 back to

00:39:07.480 the stable

00:39:08.020 back to

00:39:09.880 the stunned

00:39:11.020 young mother

00:39:12.380 I'm writing

00:39:13.080 some stuff

00:39:13.640 for Christmas

00:39:14.200 right now

00:39:14.900 and I was

00:39:15.260 thinking about

00:39:15.780 Mary this

00:39:16.300 weekend

00:39:16.640 how stunned

00:39:18.280 you know

00:39:19.100 she had to

00:39:19.740 be I'm

00:39:20.220 trying to

00:39:20.500 look I

00:39:20.780 don't want

00:39:21.120 to make

00:39:21.340 light of

00:39:21.680 it but

00:39:21.940 I mean

00:39:22.300 she had

00:39:22.680 to be

00:39:22.880 like wait

00:39:23.240 a minute

00:39:23.400 wait a

00:39:23.660 minute

00:39:23.760 wait a

00:39:24.060 minute

00:39:24.200 hold it

00:39:25.220 what

00:39:25.620 she had

00:39:26.940 to be

00:39:27.200 that way

00:39:27.740 I mean

00:39:28.380 she was

00:39:28.640 a teenager

00:39:29.260 she had

00:39:30.820 to be

00:39:31.060 just like

00:39:31.480 wait

00:39:31.880 hold it

00:39:32.460 just a

00:39:32.760 second

00:39:32.900 and then

00:39:33.420 what she

00:39:34.640 must have

00:39:35.020 been thinking

00:39:35.380 about how

00:39:35.840 am I going

00:39:36.140 to tell

00:39:36.380 Joseph

00:39:36.720 I mean

00:39:37.180 you're

00:39:37.500 coming back

00:39:37.940 to tell

00:39:38.280 him right

00:39:38.800 because

00:39:39.160 he's not

00:39:39.440 going to

00:39:39.600 believe me

00:39:40.200 you're

00:39:40.500 telling

00:39:40.760 him

00:39:41.080 right

00:39:41.460 and how

00:39:46.160 she must

00:39:46.580 have felt

00:39:46.920 when she

00:39:47.620 gave birth

00:39:49.100 in a

00:39:49.520 stable

00:39:49.920 and the

00:39:54.240 frightened

00:39:54.480 shepherds

00:39:55.080 and later

00:39:56.800 the

00:39:56.980 magi

00:39:57.420 come

00:39:58.060 you know

00:40:03.500 that first

00:40:03.840 Christmas

00:40:04.160 was not

00:40:04.700 was not

00:40:05.480 wrapped

00:40:05.840 it was

00:40:06.880 not advertised

00:40:07.640 it was

00:40:10.000 given to a

00:40:10.540 world that

00:40:10.980 really honestly

00:40:11.920 did absolutely

00:40:12.960 nothing to

00:40:13.840 deserve it

00:40:14.420 and I guess

00:40:19.580 we give our

00:40:20.220 gifts

00:40:20.560 with that

00:40:21.700 we received

00:40:24.780 them

00:40:25.060 I did

00:40:25.760 nothing to

00:40:26.280 really deserve

00:40:26.900 this

00:40:27.380 but maybe

00:40:28.880 this year

00:40:29.320 instead of

00:40:29.740 what should

00:40:30.060 I buy

00:40:30.540 we

00:40:30.900 we begin

00:40:32.540 asking

00:40:33.080 what should

00:40:33.460 I give

00:40:34.000 not the

00:40:37.000 biggest box

00:40:37.780 but the

00:40:38.260 truest

00:40:38.600 offering

00:40:39.140 what should

00:40:39.580 I give

00:40:40.140 a handwritten

00:40:41.500 note of

00:40:42.060 gratitude

00:40:42.480 something that

00:40:44.400 really comes

00:40:45.040 from you

00:40:45.680 an apology

00:40:46.620 long overdue

00:40:47.800 a moment

00:40:50.680 of peace

00:40:51.260 with a

00:40:52.920 family that

00:40:53.400 has been

00:40:53.660 worn thin

00:40:54.340 a meal for

00:40:56.180 somebody who

00:40:56.640 has no

00:40:56.980 table

00:40:57.340 a reminder

00:40:59.740 spoken out

00:41:01.160 loud

00:41:01.500 that hope

00:41:02.760 is still

00:41:03.180 alive

00:41:03.700 because when

00:41:07.860 the gifts

00:41:08.220 when the

00:41:09.960 gifts become

00:41:10.440 reflections of

00:41:11.400 him the

00:41:11.860 one given

00:41:13.180 to us

00:41:13.780 Christmas can

00:41:15.460 stop being a

00:41:16.100 transaction and

00:41:17.000 will become a

00:41:18.020 miracle again

00:41:18.800 and I think

00:41:22.480 that's how we

00:41:22.960 put the

00:41:23.260 Christ back in

00:41:24.000 Christmas

00:41:24.400 not by

00:41:26.160 shouting it

00:41:26.700 not by

00:41:26.960 living it

00:41:27.540 just one

00:41:28.640 gift one

00:41:29.160 act of

00:41:29.920 love

00:41:30.280 one reborn

00:41:32.520 heart

00:41:33.120 at a

00:41:33.960 time

00:41:34.320 I was

00:41:38.340 talking to

00:41:38.720 Tanya about

00:41:39.200 this

00:41:39.500 we've gone

00:41:43.740 from

00:41:44.020 we've gone

00:41:45.980 from having

00:41:46.440 nothing to

00:41:47.140 having more

00:41:48.520 than enough

00:41:49.060 I've gone

00:41:54.380 from a guy

00:41:54.900 who couldn't

00:41:55.380 afford

00:41:55.900 an ornament

00:41:59.060 at CVS

00:42:00.440 that my

00:42:01.840 oldest daughter

00:42:03.180 wanted when

00:42:03.760 she was

00:42:04.100 young

00:42:04.400 to a guy

00:42:07.000 who

00:42:07.340 one Christmas

00:42:08.620 said

00:42:09.080 by everything

00:42:10.540 I can

00:42:10.900 possibly

00:42:11.460 think of

00:42:12.000 for my

00:42:12.360 kids

00:42:12.700 it was the

00:42:14.380 emptiest

00:42:14.840 Christmas

00:42:15.460 we ever

00:42:16.120 had

00:42:16.460 now our

00:42:18.920 kids are

00:42:19.220 all over

00:42:19.540 20

00:42:19.860 and I

00:42:26.000 told Tanya

00:42:26.360 maybe

00:42:26.660 we just

00:42:28.280 we've got

00:42:30.660 to find

00:42:30.960 something of

00:42:31.540 real meaning

00:42:32.520 that comes

00:42:33.260 from us

00:42:33.800 something that

00:42:34.300 we do

00:42:34.780 ourselves

00:42:35.440 something

00:42:36.020 like the

00:42:38.140 letter

00:42:38.400 something that

00:42:39.240 doesn't cost

00:42:39.840 us anything

00:42:40.440 except time

00:42:41.540 and give

00:42:44.600 those to the

00:42:45.200 children

00:42:45.540 exchange that

00:42:47.420 with one

00:42:47.820 another

00:42:48.180 I mean

00:42:52.240 I mean

00:42:52.540 you know

00:42:52.960 not for me

00:42:54.480 I've already

00:42:54.880 sent Christmas

00:42:55.720 my Christmas

00:42:56.300 list to Tanya

00:42:56.980 and those

00:42:57.340 gifts aren't

00:42:57.780 buying themselves

00:42:58.400 so you know

00:42:59.340 for the kids

00:43:00.000 but definitely

00:43:00.880 not you know

00:43:02.160 for me

00:43:02.600 Nananana

00:43:04.400 You

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