The Glenn Beck Program - November 13, 2026


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00:00:30 Today's podcast, it's Friday.
00:00:34 We've got more on NVIDIA.
00:00:36 Also, a great story about something that is happening on Monday.
00:00:42 A Vietnam vet and a nurse that saved his leg.
00:00:47 They're meeting for the very first time.
00:00:48 Wait until you hear this story.
00:00:50 And while we're talking about stories, Jimmy Stewart's daughter is on with me today.
00:00:54 There's a new movie called Jimmy that is out this weekend.
00:00:57 You need to see it.
00:00:58 If you like Jimmy Stewart and It's a Wonderful Life, you'll never see It's a Wonderful Life and look at it the same way.
00:01:05 These scenes, when you understand him and where he was at that time in his life, you will not.
00:01:13 It is so much better.
00:01:16 I can't wait to watch It's a Wonderful Life after seeing the movie, Jimmy.
00:01:18 We talked to her about that.
00:01:20 And in Washington, the to-do list from the left.
00:01:24 And how do we fight it?
00:01:25 well we use Saul Alinsky all of that and more on today's podcast
00:01:31 you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program
00:01:44 the car's packed the kids are asleep in the back seat and somewhere down the road
00:01:55 Someone's keeping the porch light on.
00:01:56 Oh, look, it's Christmas again.
00:01:59 Bring the music that makes the drive feel short.
00:02:01 You know, we were just having an interesting conversation off the air.
00:02:03 You're warmer.
00:02:04 In the light of Bethlehem, every shadow fades away.
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00:02:14 Now streaming everywhere.
00:02:16 Okay.
00:02:17 We were having an interesting conversation off the air here a minute ago
00:02:20 um about uh these these these guys who are in these positions there's so many jokes here um 0.98
00:02:29 that are running these giant companies you keep it in your freaking pants we're all paying for it
00:02:38 you know we're all paying for it my 401k has taken a massive hit your 401k has taken a massive hit 0.74
00:02:46 because any if you have any money in in the stock market you most likely are invested in tech
00:02:55 and nvidia is a is a big one and it would have been one of those that everybody's like oh you
00:03:02 gotta get it you gotta have you gotta have nvidia so now you've lost money because this guy couldn't
00:03:08 keep it in his pants. That really pisses me off. You have a responsibility. Does anybody
00:03:16 understand their responsibility in their own life? It's not about you, dude. It's not about
00:03:21 you. Everybody makes mistakes, but this guy apparently is a serial mistake maker. This
00:03:36 guy now the third girl came out you know and if you want to have if you want to have sex with 1.00
00:03:44 somebody go just rent an american hooker will you can you stop with the asians just does anybody 1.00
00:03:52 want to just a red white and blue apple pie hooker because you know what it'd be cheaper 1.00
00:03:57 if we all just pitched in and got white, blonde, blue-eyed hookers 1.00
00:04:04 and put them in a room and said, 1.00
00:04:06 by the way, you're with a tech company.
00:04:07 Just call us.
00:04:08 We'll send one to your house. 1.00
00:04:10 Stop with the Asians. 1.00
00:04:16 Chinese spies. 1.00
00:04:21 I mean, what the hell is wrong with these people? 0.98
00:04:25 you don't realize you don't realize that everybody's after you jason and i were just talking 0.91
00:04:30 that you know for years because my back is so bad i would have massages uh once a week and
00:04:37 they would happen in my office and every time it was creepy but every time i had a security guy
00:04:45 in the office with me he was in the room and they are like does he need to be here yeah he just
00:04:52 needs to be here why i knew these women i knew who was giving massage you never know you never know
00:05:01 if you are under attack or you are in an important position can you just use some common sense 0.98
00:05:09 you know i remember when i would say stupid things on the air and media matters and i would 0.98
00:05:17 just be like that was the dumbest thing why would i say that why did i phrase it that way 0.98
00:05:21 and you know why it bothered me so much because i knew it cost you i knew you would have to go out 0.94
00:05:28 and defend me everybody you know have you watched glenn beck if you listen to glenn beck and then 0.77
00:05:32 i'd say something stupid and your friends would go yeah did you see this what glenn beck said and 0.96
00:05:36 i'd be like damn i just made it harder for you that's what bothered me do these guys even think 1.00
00:05:45 about us and then look at yourself in the mirror i mean at least be honest with yourself man 0.98
00:05:58 be honest with yourself if you had no money and no power no no hot you know chinese spy
00:06:08 is knocking on your door none of them look at her look at you my uncle leo he used to call me 0.58
00:06:16 michelangelo this is tanya's uncle he was talk with his hands italian he came over during world
00:06:23 war uh two the family gathered all their money sent him over because he was born in america on
00:06:30 a vacation uh and so he had american citizenship and so they gathered all their money because they
00:06:35 were afraid that the war would wipe the whole family out so somebody has to survive so uncle
00:06:41 leo is sent to new york he goes to new york lives his whole life great american meets me i'm not 0.73
00:06:48 italian the tanya's family you're not italian that's a problem you're not a catholic that's a
00:06:55 problem um and it's old school when i i mean all of the aunts and the uncles and the grandparents
00:07:02 were all you know look at you and i would i came over and forever he called me michelangelo
00:07:09 and like eight months into it i said you know leo my name's not michelangelo i had no
00:07:15 why do you call me michelangelo all the time this is exactly what he said to me
00:07:21 look at you look at her you're not going to be around long enough for me to know your name
00:07:28 okay that's what i want every tech titan to do look at her look at you what do you think
00:07:37 is happening there genius 0.91
00:07:39 we live in this all these guys are the the ones that will preach collectivism to you
00:07:52 it's the collective we have to take wealth from one person and give it to another
00:07:59 here's the collectivism that i want i want you to at least think of all of the people you're
00:08:06 going to affect with your zipper down i just want you to think about that just for give me a thought
00:08:14 before you do that.
00:08:20 That's where you have a responsibility to others,
00:08:23 let alone your family.
00:08:30 And by the way,
00:08:31 before you do anything like that,
00:08:33 do think of me,
00:08:33 because I'll tell you, 0.97
00:08:35 that'll take all erections and hotness out of your life
00:08:38 for a very long time.
00:08:41 Very long time.
00:08:44 Okay, let me give you a good story.
00:08:48 Can I give you a good story?
00:08:53 1968.
00:08:56 Guy named Michael, 21 years old.
00:08:58 He's drafted.
00:09:00 It's August in Vietnam.
00:09:04 He's fighting.
00:09:06 Gunfire finds his legs.
00:09:10 He's not going to die on the battlefield.
00:09:12 They scoop him up.
00:09:12 They put him in a helicopter and they fly him at an army field hospital.
00:09:18 And he remembers the blood that they put him that they put in him.
00:09:21 He was losing so much blood.
00:09:23 They just grabbed blood out of the refrigerator.
00:09:25 Put it.
00:09:26 It was so cold.
00:09:26 It put him into shock.
00:09:27 You pass out.
00:09:30 Sometimes you wake up.
00:09:31 Sometimes you don't.
00:09:32 Well, he woke up and the nurse standing there trying to make him comfortable said her name
00:09:37 was Linda Picker.
00:09:39 And she said, where are you from?
00:09:41 And he said, Buffalo.
00:09:42 buffalo new york she said i'm from uh tonawanda new york a world away from home half on the other
00:09:49 side of the planet the nurse at his bedside had grown up just down the road from him
00:09:55 well the next few days don't look good and the doctors are planning to amputate his left leg
00:10:01 and nobody told linda picker what to do about that but she came in on her own
00:10:06 on her you know time off she came in and she irrigated all three of his wounds so the swelling
00:10:12 would go down the next day michael was off the amputation list nobody said anything there was
00:10:20 no ceremony no medal no note in the file that anybody would ever read just a leg that was still
00:10:25 there the next morning and then the army did what the army always does it moved him uh vietnam to
00:10:30 japan japan to alaska alaska to valley forge pennsylvania hospital after hospital on a leg
00:10:35 he was never supposed to keep with no chance to go back and thank the woman who saved it and just
00:10:40 did it because that was you know that's what she did but he never forgot her over the years he has
00:10:47 tried to find her he never could he comes back home he builds a business in buffalo he raises
00:10:53 a family the whole time somewhere out there is a woman who had no idea what she started
00:10:58 so michael has just been inducted into the new york state senate veterans hall of fame
00:11:05 and the ceremony was in tonawanda her hometown so he stands up to speak and he tells the story
00:11:15 and her name linda picker a woman heard about it on the news her boyfriend was a genealogist
00:11:23 nobody knew no she wasn't there in the crowd nobody knew who she was so this woman hears about
00:11:30 But she calls her boyfriend and she says, you've got to find this girl for him.
00:11:35 You have to.
00:11:36 The very next day, Michael, the vet, his phone rings.
00:11:41 They'd found her.
00:11:45 This guy had spent a lifetime looking for her.
00:11:50 The genealogy guy found her in a day.
00:11:54 he sent michael a video from last year an honor flight out of austin texas and there
00:12:02 laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier was a former army nurse named
00:12:06 linda nightstep that's her michael said 58 years later he sees this video he's like that's her
00:12:14 a woman who wouldn't let his leg uh die off and be taken
00:12:21 standing at the grave of a man nobody could name.
00:12:26 So Michael writes her a letter.
00:12:29 The Honor Flight folks in Buffalo and Austin make sure it got to her.
00:12:34 She gets a letter. Within the same hour, she calls.
00:12:39 They talked for half an hour. 58 years of silence.
00:12:44 Only that bedside moment as he's coming out of shock.
00:12:48 She couldn't wait an hour to call him.
00:12:51 nobody will ever write down the good thing you do
00:12:57 when nobody asked you to
00:12:59 you think nobody remembers
00:13:03 look at this story
00:13:04 her good deed just goes walking around for the next 50 years
00:13:09 so they talk for half an hour but a phone call isn't enough 1.00
00:13:13 other people started working behind the scenes to get Linda to Buffalo 0.83
00:13:16 she's coming in
00:13:18 to Buffalo on Sunday, Monday morning at the Reichardt house in Amherst.
00:13:29 She and Michael are going to be the guests of honor.
00:13:34 Michael said,
00:13:35 the most important part of this is not the ceremony.
00:13:43 It's the introductions.
00:13:44 he said I just want her to meet my family
00:13:48 because standing in that room will be three generations
00:13:53 came from me
00:13:55 people who as he puts it might not have existed if it wasn't for her
00:14:00 all of them standing in a way
00:14:03 on a leg that a nurse from upstate New York decided
00:14:07 was worth one more try
00:14:09 Michael says
00:14:13 every man ever wounded in combat was cared for by a nurse
00:14:16 and every one of them
00:14:19 will guarantee with his life
00:14:24 he said I would guarantee
00:14:28 every one of them would love the chance to say thank you in person
00:14:31 and most never get it and I get to do that on Monday
00:14:34 imagine the butterflies in both of their stomachs
00:14:38 this weekend
00:14:39 the things that you do
00:14:48 whether good or bad
00:14:51 that you think no one will ever see
00:14:54 are noticed
00:14:57 and they make a difference
00:15:00 good or bad
00:15:02 they make a difference
00:15:05 do the next right thing
00:15:08 back in just a minute
00:15:11 this is the best of the glenbeck program
00:15:17 you know certain headlines kind of remind you of just how bad human beings are at predicting what
00:15:26 they'll need to be prepared for here's one lab worker russia died anti-plague laboratory nearly
00:15:33 200 people have been quarantined. The suspected disease is pneumonic plague, which can spread
00:15:38 from person to person rapidly. The risk to Americans right now, very, very low, but that's
00:15:44 not the point. You don't prepare because you know what the next emergency will be. You prepare
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00:16:09 I'm not telling you plague is coming to your house.
00:16:11 It's not.
00:16:11 Nobody knows that, if or when,
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00:16:22 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:29 The air is starting to cool, and the music's getting warmer.
00:16:34 And I fall asleep, counting my mind.
00:16:40 As the lights go up and the house fills with familiar voices,
00:16:44 turn up the volume.
00:16:46 Leave a little room inside for something still unseen.
00:16:51 Cheyenne Grace, it's Christmas again, now streaming everywhere.
00:16:55 that is uh i can't tell you it's a dad's dream come true you know my daughter and i worked on
00:17:03 that album for probably 18 months we wrote everything together and the lyrics and everything
00:17:09 else and uh then we recorded it together and it's just it's a dad's dream come true and i hope that
00:17:17 you enjoy it as much as we did putting it together we tried to make all of the songs sound like stuff
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00:17:40 okay let me tell you about uh let me tell you what's what's coming well
00:17:46 i'm looking at my clock seeing how much time i have i i need to talk to you again write this
00:17:53 down i have to talk to you today about uh being prepared for um cyber trouble you know outlook
00:18:03 looks like it's back up um but there's rumors going around that other things are coming down
00:18:07 we don't know yet so i'm not even going to share those with you but i'm telling you in hour one
00:18:11 today i gave you a list of things to do please prepare if that if we're not under attack it's
00:18:18 only a matter of time before we are and you will lose get a map make sure your car has a map an
00:18:25 atlas in it now um teach your kids how to read it and follow some of the other things i said in
00:18:32 last hour but please pay attention because we may not be under attack but if these things are true
00:18:38 of the rumors that are circulating now are then we very well maybe right now but it is coming
00:18:44 there's going to be a problem with cyber hacking it's it is coming now let me take you to washington
00:18:50 here for a second week before the 2024 election uh kamala harris stood on the ellipse and told 0.81
00:18:55 america that donald trump was going to walk into the oval office with an enemies list and she would
00:19:00 walk in with a to-do list two years later her party ran on a to-do list affordability groceries
00:19:07 rent, the price of eggs, and they won on that. Not one of them has been sworn in yet. Not one
00:19:12 gavel has changed hands, and the to-do list is already in the trash. So now what's on the table
00:19:19 now is the other list. AOC was asked who the majority goes after first. Who the majority
00:19:26 goes after first? She said there are so many criminals in this administration, it's hard to
00:19:30 figure out the order of operations. I'm quoting many, many, many investigations, many subpoenas
00:19:36 we'll follow the evidence wherever it leads now think about the order of the sentence the verdict
00:19:41 comes first they're criminals criminals with an s plural the whole administration and then
00:19:46 somehow down the road we're going to go find the evidence for for eight years these same people
00:19:52 told us that locker up was the most dangerous chant ever in american politics right i think
00:20:00 we need to re-examine Sololinsky I think it was rule number four rules for radicals hold them to
00:20:07 their own standards it's because I'll explain it later if I have time but we have to get into it
00:20:14 next week write that down next week I've got to get into rules for radicals because now it's time
00:20:19 to turn this around on them hold them to their own words a leader who brands his opponents criminals
00:20:26 before a court has spoken is a strongman.
00:20:29 I didn't learn that from book.
00:20:31 I learned that from them, right?
00:20:33 This is how republics die.
00:20:35 That's their words.
00:20:36 Then they were right.
00:20:38 But they didn't stop the chant, lock her up.
00:20:41 They just changed her to him. 0.90
00:20:43 She's also hinted at impeaching Supreme Court justices. 1.00
00:20:47 Let me remind them of their own standard. 1.00
00:20:49 When the president called for impeaching a federal judge
00:20:52 who ruled against him,
00:20:53 the chief justice put out a rare statement saying impeachment is not how you answer a ruling that
00:20:59 you don't like and democrats all applauded that's the standard they called it a defense of an
00:21:05 independent judiciary against a man who couldn't take no for an answer now they want to do the
00:21:10 same thing to the highest court in the land so what's changed it wasn't the principle it was
00:21:16 the rulings that they dislike. Then there's Indivisible, the organizers of the No Kings
00:21:23 rallies. They're demanding that Democrats make what they call, and I'm quoting,
00:21:29 the crappy little heritage staffers face consequences, end quote. So the next generation, 1.00
00:21:36 and I'm quoting again, understands it cannot be complicit. Do you remember Project 2025? I just
00:21:44 want to use their own words what was their standard we were told project 2025 was a plot
00:21:50 to punish government employees who they served to purge the disloyal to turn every desk in
00:21:58 washington into a loyalty test we were told that it would make good people afraid to serve
00:22:04 that was their standard now the people who marched under signs that said no kings want to go after
00:22:12 26 year olds with student loans who took a job in the administration that they didn't like
00:22:18 not for a crime but for who they worked for and the stated goal in their words is to make sure
00:22:25 no young person ever signs up with the other side again we need to start holding them to their own
00:22:32 words as i don't have to argue what am i arguing i'm just showing you their words then and what
00:22:39 they're saying now this is not accountability this is a loyalty test with a subpoena stapled to it
00:22:45 and punishing the servants for serving the wrong master is exactly what kings do and i was against
00:22:52 it with donald trump if he ever crossed that line i was with the supreme court when the white house
00:22:58 warned congress that investigations built to punish are unconstitutional i agree but the new
00:23:05 York Times rushed to explain that threats to prosecute executive branch staffs aren't really
00:23:10 threats. The real scandal, according to the Times, is the president now objecting. This is the same
00:23:18 paper that spent years telling us a president who threatens to prosecute his opponents is how
00:23:24 democracy ends. It was the end of democracy when he said it. It's oversight when they say it.
00:23:31 the top democrat now on senate finance is investigating whether robert f kennedy jr
00:23:37 lied to congress on his confirmation hearing okay this is easy if he lied find it lying to congress
00:23:44 is a crime but it was also a crime in 2013 when the director of the national intelligence was
00:23:49 asked under oath whether the nsa was collecting data on millions of americans including those
00:23:54 members in congress and he said no then we learned it was collecting that data and he was never
00:24:01 charge. So what has changed? Democrats never opened an investigation. They shrugged. How about
00:24:07 all the Russiagate lies under oath or the lies on covid from Fauci? That man destroyed the world
00:24:16 as we once knew it. He killed millions of people. Our affordability crisis came from him refusing
00:24:24 to abide by the law on gain of function research. And then he lied over and over and over to
00:24:29 congress the american people and the people of the world you never investigated it was crickets 0.81
00:24:34 a standard that only wakes up for the other team is not a standard it's a weapon
00:24:42 you know the spying power this is a story that nobody's covering this june this last june
00:24:52 jim himes he's the top democrat on the house intelligence committee he joined the democrats
00:24:57 who blocked the renewal of Section 702, the government's warrantless surveillance tool,
00:25:04 because he didn't trust Donald Trump and Donald Trump's new spy chief with it.
00:25:09 This week, he's pressing the Senate Republicans to renew it, and quickly.
00:25:15 Why? He wants it done by the Republicans before his party takes the majority.
00:25:21 Same president, same spy chief, same power to read Americans' messages without a warrant.
00:25:27 In June, it was too dangerous.
00:25:30 In November, it's urgent.
00:25:33 What has changed?
00:25:35 The only thing that has changed is whose name will be on the vote.
00:25:39 He wants the tool.
00:25:41 He just wants the Republican fingerprints on it instead of his.
00:25:45 They said Trump would jail his enemies.
00:25:48 They're already arguing about the order of operations.
00:25:52 They said he would attack the courts.
00:25:54 They're talking about impeaching the Supreme Court.
00:25:57 and then packing the Supreme Court.
00:26:00 They said he would punish civil servants.
00:26:03 They're promising consequences for low-level staffers at the Heritage Foundation.
00:26:09 They said he would spy on Americans, but they're asking for the spying tool.
00:26:15 They said he had an enemies list.
00:26:17 They campaigned on a to-do list, and they threw it away in a week
00:26:21 and replaced it with an enemies list.
00:26:24 And all of this is before the keys are even in their hands.
00:26:27 for years every accusation they have made was a confession on layaway
00:26:37 and that payment that final payment comes due in january
00:26:42 so here's what this all tells us about the next two years it was never about norms it was never
00:26:50 about democracy. Those words were the wrapping paper. Inside the box is power and a plan to make
00:26:59 it so expensive to stand on the other side that no one will. Legal bills, subpoenas, arriving at
00:27:07 the kitchen table, parents telling their kids public service isn't worth what it costs. You
00:27:12 don't have to win an argument ever again if nobody is left willing to make the argument on the other
00:27:17 side and the greatest danger honestly isn't what they do in 2027 it's what we will be all tempted
00:27:25 to do in 2029 because if they get full power in 2028 what it happens then and if we do if they
00:27:34 come out with their enemies list and they're persecuting you don't think we're going to try
00:27:39 to do that back because this is the trap the day we do it back everything everything i just told
00:27:44 you stops being hypocrisy and just starts being the rule. And a country where every election ends
00:27:49 in a round of persecutions and prosecutions is not a republic anymore. It's a cycle of revenge with
00:27:55 ballots. Next week, I want to talk to you about this because we cannot answer in kind, and that
00:28:04 is not surrender. When Jesus sent his followers out, he told them, you were sheep among wolves.
00:28:11 was he saying no so you're going to be eaten so just sit there and
00:28:15 and be eaten by the wolves no he said bees was wise as serpents and harmless as doves
00:28:24 that isn't the advice of a pacifist it's a field manual be wise know the law better than they do
00:28:33 when they say no one is above the law agree out loud and then ask why the law only ever seems to
00:28:39 address our side and not their side but use their words keep the receipts i've saved all the receipts
00:28:46 i've saved everything that they have said over the last few years about how this is the end of
00:28:51 democracy and how this is fascism and i intend on holding them to their own standard just like
00:28:58 their wise wise teacher Saul Alinsky taught them because now you're in power and it's our turn
00:29:06 now we can use the same thing Saul Alinsky did all everything except the evil parts
00:29:12 and we'll use those to hold you accountable because Saul's whole point on this was
00:29:19 you don't have to argue you don't lose when you're just using their words because I don't
00:29:26 have to argue anything I just say well but wait a minute you said this now you're doing this
00:29:31 Tell me how that works.
00:29:33 And they'll try to change the subject.
00:29:36 Saul Alinsky had the answer to what they're doing right now.
00:29:42 We have to fund the legal defense of those young staffers
00:29:45 because no 26-year-old should ever face a congressional subpoena alone.
00:29:50 Demand that every hearing be held in public.
00:29:52 Demand warrants for everybody, not just for our guys, for everybody.
00:29:57 And be harmless.
00:29:58 do not put a list together of our own no no wait until we're back in hold them to their own words
00:30:06 and hold ourselves to the very same ones because when they said that's what happens and democracy
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00:32:34 Opening this weekend in movie theaters is a movie I saw.
00:32:38 I saw a screener of it on, I think, Tuesday or Wednesday with my mother-in-law and my wife.
00:32:44 And we absolutely loved it.
00:32:46 And I'm taking my kids to it when we get up to Thanksgiving and they're in town because we watch It's a Wonderful Life all the time.
00:32:52 And you will never watch that movie the same ever again.
00:32:56 I mean, we all know that movie by heart, but this will change the way you watch the movie.
00:33:01 It is called Jimmy.
00:33:03 It is a story of Jimmy Stewart in his war years.
00:33:08 You have never seen Jimmy Stewart like this.
00:33:11 You will this movie will connect with you so deeply, especially if you saw the movie on Amazon.
00:33:18 What was the what was that movie, Jason, with the the air war over Europe?
00:33:24 And it had the guy who played Elvis.
00:33:26 Yeah.
00:33:26 What was it?
00:33:27 Gosh, what was his name?
00:33:28 I can't remember.
00:33:28 Masters of the air or something like that.
00:33:30 Masters of the air.
00:33:31 If you saw that and you realized, oh, my gosh, that's what that was like.
00:33:36 Jimmy Stewart was flying.
00:33:38 He was commanding a squadron of those guys from Masters of the Air, and it changed him deeply.
00:33:48 I am thrilled to say that we have his daughter on with us.
00:33:52 Her name is Kelly Stewart Harcourt.
00:33:55 Kelly, welcome to the program.
00:33:56 How are you?
00:33:58 I'm good.
00:33:59 Thank you.
00:34:00 I'm glad you liked the film.
00:34:02 Oh, loved it.
00:34:03 Loved it.
00:34:04 um you didn't you weren't if i have this right i've read that you and your sister were like
00:34:11 nah i don't know if we want to do this because my dad's kind of boring
00:34:14 well yes yeah i thought it would be hard to make a a typical hollywood biopic of dad
00:34:23 because he was too well-behaved.
00:34:30 But I never thought of the idea of making a film
00:34:38 about his wartime experience,
00:34:41 largely because Dad always wanted to keep his military life
00:34:45 and his Hollywood life separate.
00:34:48 And so what were we doing here?
00:34:51 We were doing exactly what dad didn't want, which is combining the two in the movie.
00:34:58 But then I read the treatment.
00:35:04 And I thought, well, now here's a story that nobody knows,
00:35:13 that we didn't know until my sister found a documentary that my father kept during the war
00:35:20 in a drawer next to his bed and he kept it there and i asked myself why did he keep it there
00:35:28 why was it right by his bed and i think he wanted that story to be told and what he wrote in that
00:35:35 diary is what this film is i have to tell you if masters of war hadn't come out a few years before
00:35:42 nobody knows what that air war was like nobody knows nobody knew until that movie came out
00:35:47 and now that we know how brutal i mean it was horrific now that you're watching you know this
00:35:56 movie jimmy um and you see that he was the guy giving the briefings he was the commander he was
00:36:03 up on uh what it was it 16 or 18 of these flights you know you didn't make it to 15 um and uh and
00:36:13 what he went through you can understand the ptsd that he he had did did you did it ever
00:36:24 manifest did he get that under control did that ever did you ever see that in your life or was
00:36:29 that all from the diary we never saw that because dad never talked about his his experiences during
00:36:37 the war i think he right he just is just something he just kept it yeah um but my mother said that
00:36:47 every so often he would have a nightmare and he would sit up in bed and he would be uh controlling
00:36:54 he would be flying the plane and he would be looking down at you know planes attacking from
00:37:03 the right planes and he would yell like that and that it came out like that
00:37:10 his so you you grew up watching um it's a wonderful life it must have been before um
00:37:20 before ted turner found it and made it into the american uh christmas icon that it that it is now
00:37:28 When it came out, it was not a big hit, and the movie kind of references that.
00:37:33 Yeah, I know.
00:37:34 It was not a big hit, but it really became a Christmas tradition when it came out on TV, and that gave it a whole new life.
00:37:49 Life.
00:37:50 Had you watched it before it became a hit again?
00:37:54 Because this was one of your dad's favorite movies, wasn't it?
00:37:57 if not the favorite movie he made yeah he he did he did finally say yes if you had to
00:38:04 pin him down that was his favorite movie um and we i remember watching it as a kid
00:38:10 on tv and i i thought well this is just kind of a corny film you know i wasn't that
00:38:21 practiced as a kid and then i i went away and graduated from high school and did my stuff and
00:38:27 then i watched it again as an adult and i thought whoa this i mean it's so deep it is so deep it is
00:38:37 so good um and it seems to be who your father really was he was he at least from the outside
00:38:43 he seems like he was george bailey in many ways would you agree with that i know i i agree it's
00:38:50 it's it's the the two of the meat in its wonderful life yeah so the the end of the movie they take
00:39:02 i don't want i'm not going to wreck it for anybody believe me it's so worth watching um because you
00:39:06 will understand these you'll never watch that movie again the same way how much of that is
00:39:11 artistic license what'd you say i totally agree and i i think that um you should watch jimmy first
00:39:20 and then watch it's wonderful absolutely absolutely agree 100 um how much of that
00:39:27 ending is artistic license and how much of that do you think it explains his performance
00:39:35 you mean the uh which which part you mean the ending of meeting mom so when there's
00:39:40 yeah when he's doing the monologues when he's doing those scenes in that that explains i mean
00:39:46 it was brilliant the way they used the sounds and the,
00:39:50 the voices of the past during those monologues where you could,
00:39:55 you could see it. I mean, it was, it was amazing.
00:39:59 How much of that is artistic license?
00:40:05 You know, I think, I think a lot of it was, was pretty true.
00:40:10 That's why I think it's a good film. And I think depth to prove is because it's
00:40:15 true. What was he like as a dad? He was quiet, and he was a great dad. He was very funny.
00:40:30 He'd just come out with these one-liners that were wonderful. He and mom shared a sense of humor,
00:40:35 and he never lectured us. He never said, this is how you should behave. It was more
00:40:43 by example
00:40:45 you know in the movie it shows your mom and dad meeting quickly and then all of a sudden they're
00:40:52 married and i know it didn't happen that way did they meet that way on the beach and
00:40:57 no they didn't they were no i believe were introduced to each other it was a blind date
00:41:04 and i think i think it was um gary cooper introduced them or gary cooper's wife introduced
00:41:10 and so it was it was a blind date but um they fell for each other pretty fast i mean they
00:41:19 they met and they got married i don't know maybe a year and a half later something like that two
00:41:24 years later yeah it's uh it's amazing he is always reminded me i don't know if you remember paul
00:41:30 harvey but paul harvey and his wife just had this epic love affair yeah and they just they were just
00:41:37 such a good team and uh i've always felt i've always hoped that that's the way uh jimmy and
00:41:43 gloria were they were just oh they were just yeah yeah um i played earlier today um and i'm anxious
00:41:51 to see the millennials and or you know the uh gen z-ers or x xers z-ers y and z i can never get
00:42:01 i'm sorry i know i know but i can't wait to hear how they reacted i played uh his uh poem on carson
00:42:09 about his dog beau today which just makes oh i know so great so great yeah i mean everybody cries
00:42:21 i know i know um can you tell me the scene in it's a wonderful life uh with your dad and donna
00:42:29 read um where they're kissing because your dad was nervous about that and the way it plays out
00:42:37 in the movie is just brilliant but can you give us more on that scene and is that you mean the
00:42:43 scene where he's um on the phone on the phone she's on they're listening together and he's like
00:42:50 i don't care about plastics and you know yeah i don't want to be married to anybody i don't want
00:42:54 I'll be in love.
00:42:55 Yeah.
00:42:58 That's one of the great scenes in the film, I think.
00:43:01 Yeah, it is brilliant.
00:43:03 Listening together is just such a moment of a romantic moment.
00:43:14 The story about them kissing, though, with, I mean, he was nervous about it.
00:43:19 Do you know, is that, do I have that right or no?
00:43:21 I haven't heard that story.
00:43:24 Okay. You've heard more stories than I have. I bet you. I can't imagine what it's like to be,
00:43:31 you know, Jimmy Stewart's daughter. Well, thank you so much. I heard last week that there was a
00:43:38 possibility of having you on the show. And I don't think I've been this excited to talk to somebody
00:43:44 for in forever just because your father
00:43:47 it's a it's a it's a real pleasure it's it's thank you for asking me you're welcome your
00:43:58 father was uh an amazing american and a great icon and uh i've loved him forever as long as
00:44:06 i can remember thank you and i'm glad that i'm glad you liked the movie uh it's really good
00:44:13 Um, Kelly, thank you so much.
00:44:15 Appreciate it.
00:44:16 God bless.
00:44:16 Thank you.
00:44:17 Thank you.
00:44:18 You bet.
00:44:18 Um, she's the executive producer of a movie called Jimmy.
00:44:22 Um, I tell you, there are two movies that you should see this holiday.
00:44:26 Um, one of them is Jimmy.
00:44:28 It is.
00:44:29 I just loved it.
00:44:30 It feels like it's a movie out of time.
00:44:32 It is absolutely movie out of time.
00:44:34 Um, could have been made by him.
00:44:36 And the kid that's playing young Jimmy Stewart sounds exactly like him.
00:44:41 um and uh uh you'll just love it you'll just love it and then there's another movie uh called uh
00:44:48 drummer boy and uh i told you about that last week i took my friend i saw it as a screener by myself
00:44:55 and then i uh then i took uh last friday i took about five or six friends uh to the theater and
00:45:01 my daughter and we went we watched that and it's such a good movie and that is about kind of you
00:45:06 know the early americans that came here from great britain and which side are they on uh and
00:45:12 it's just so good and it's a great it's just a great film any time of the year but it's kind of
00:45:17 like it's a wonderful life where it takes place at christmas time um but it's not about christmas
00:45:24 but i think you'll love both of those i would put those both on your list to watch this holiday
00:45:28 season and the earlier you support these things the more chance more people will see them if they
00:45:35 are big in box offices and they're opening
00:45:37 weekends. This is, it's huge
00:45:39 this is the opening weekend for Jimmy
00:45:41 if you can see two
00:45:43 movies this weekend, support both of those movies
00:45:45 but Jimmy available
00:45:47 and you'll be able to see it in
00:45:49 movie theaters everywhere across the nation
00:45:51 today.
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