The Glenn Beck Program - December 08, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ 12⧸8⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

143.80606

Word Count

6,199

Sentence Count

349

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

On today's show, Glenn explains why the Magna Carta was not a Christmas gift from the King of England, but a gift from God to the people of England. He also explains why people of college age are freaking out after Charlie Kirk's death.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Oh, what a great show today. You don't want to miss any of it, but we're going to give you the highlights of today's full podcast on this best of the history of Christmas gifts, putting Christ back into Christmas, our first offering from Glenn AI.
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.
00:00:30.200 I explain that coming up. And a quick little poem for the GOP was the night before Christmas, the night before the GOP caves on Christmas, as they always do.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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