The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Carol Roth, Andrew Crapuchettes, & Nathan Nipper ｜ 11⧸16⧸21

00:00:00.000 So I know the media is denying it, but the economy is going through some trouble with inflation.

00:00:06.080 It is about to get worse.

00:00:07.220 We go through all of that.

00:00:09.140 Plus, we tell you about all of the new plans that Biden has.

00:00:13.160 I was really excited about the new accessories to cars, Stu.

00:00:17.380 Oh, yeah.

00:00:18.140 Yeah.

00:00:18.400 Makes me want to run out and buy a new car right now.

00:00:20.680 By the way, it's not an accessory.

00:00:23.140 It's not an extra.

00:00:24.100 You will have to have the car give you a breathalyzer in three years on all new cars.

00:00:32.500 Another reason we should shoot for Cuba and just recycle our old cars.

00:00:38.520 Also, we have more on COVID and a couple of examples of people who are standing up and helping you stand up.

00:00:48.580 All on today's podcast.

00:00:54.100 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:04.860 Well, this is great.

00:01:06.720 This is great.

00:01:07.560 Yesterday, I told you about the L.A. ports, that they were going to start assessing fines, which would have cost in the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars within a week.

00:01:20.120 The officials have delayed that until November 22nd.

00:01:25.380 So that's good.

00:01:27.500 That's really good.

00:01:29.480 We got that going for us.

00:01:31.180 California gas prices hit a record for a second consecutive day.

00:01:36.420 They're banning drilling near New Mexico's.

00:01:39.820 What is it?

00:01:40.540 Chaco Canyon.

00:01:42.880 Goya says near is a little bit of a stretch, too.

00:01:46.940 What is it?

00:01:47.340 Ten miles.

00:01:48.020 I mean, I guess that's near if you're driving a car quickly.

00:01:52.440 Yeah.

00:01:52.620 Well, if you're going to the sun, the moon is near, too.

00:01:56.620 The Goya says with inflation, they're going to have to they're going to have to hike their prices.

00:02:05.460 Nestle says they're hiking their prices.

00:02:08.240 Tyson Foods says they're going to hike their prices.

00:02:11.840 Kraft.

00:02:12.320 They're hiking their prices by 20 percent.

00:02:15.880 IBM says inflation fears could trigger some chaos.

00:02:21.800 Huh.

00:02:22.160 Interesting.

00:02:23.720 Interesting choice of words there.

00:02:26.740 General Motors revoking heat seat option due to chip shortage.

00:02:30.580 So even the cars you are going to get are not going to be the car that you necessarily want.

00:02:37.640 But that's all part of the process.

00:02:39.380 We have to expect less.

00:02:42.220 Carol Roth is the author of The War on Small Business.

00:02:45.520 If you want to know what happened in covid and how this is all playing out for the average person.

00:02:52.400 Make sure you read The War on Small Business.

00:02:54.720 She's a former Wall Street investment banker.

00:02:58.100 Turn to Jesus and started going, wait, nobody's really caring about the small business.

00:03:04.900 Carol Roth is with us now.

00:03:06.320 Hi, Carol.

00:03:06.760 How are you?

00:03:07.920 Hey, glad to do.

00:03:09.160 Well, how are you?

00:03:10.260 Very good.

00:03:10.760 So last time you were on, we talked about, you know, preparing and and I, I, I asked you specifically about, you know, gas and oil and natural gas for for heat.

00:03:25.820 And we've had some updates.

00:03:27.340 And I wanted to get your I wanted to get your thoughts on this.

00:03:31.020 Sala Amarova has come out and said that she wants oil, gas and coal companies to go bankrupt for climate change. 0.84

00:03:38.600 And I think that is the plan from the left and this administration.

00:03:43.360 That's not radical to them.

00:03:46.280 Do you believe that?

00:03:48.180 The fact that somebody like Ms. Amarova could be considered to be that near to our money supply and decision making is absolutely indicative of the fact that we should all be very concerned saying things aloud.

00:04:06.280 I mean, this is this used to be the quiet part.

00:04:08.640 Now they're just saying it out loud, saying things like we should bankrupt oil and gas and particularly the small guys, you know, in pursuit of climate change and climate justice, saying things like we should be getting rid of private banks so that they could.

00:04:25.500 So we could all deposit our money with the Federal Reserve.

00:04:28.440 I mean, this is a woman who was trained at the University of Moscow and her thesis that was about Karl Marx and capital.

00:04:38.280 The sole copy has magically disappeared from the Internet.

00:04:41.840 So if that gives you any sense of the kind of thought process that's going on.

00:04:46.160 But, yeah, I mean, it's interesting. 0.99

00:04:48.940 I'm not sure how much of this is sort of an evil plan versus central planning stupidity. 0.98

00:04:55.900 But it really doesn't matter, does it? 0.98

00:04:58.120 Because the outcome is always going to be the same, whether it's intentional or just because they think they know better.

00:05:05.540 We're the ones that pay the economic damage.

00:05:09.320 And it's not only in proactive, you know, additional dollars that need to be spent to convert to things that we may not want or need, but it's lost productivity.

00:05:20.900 And it's the taking away of choice and the impact on our individual lives that happen when a handful of people think they know better than the free market in terms of what we're doing.

00:05:33.800 And certainly we're seeing that in the energy arena from everything from the administration to what they've done more broadly with this, quote, unquote, ESG investing.

00:05:45.340 We have we have we have John Kerry saying every coal plant in America will be closed down by 2030.

00:05:53.820 I think that's an impossible standard to keep and would would end in massive, massive blackouts and brownouts. 0.87

00:06:05.760 Am I right on that or not?

00:06:08.380 Did you look into this?

00:06:09.500 I did look into this.

00:06:11.300 It's interesting.

00:06:12.080 Usually when I go out and talk to experts in areas, you know, that are not, you know, 100 percent core to my expertise and I say, you know, I like to give you credit on air.

00:06:21.140 If I talk about this, usually you get the OK, you know, here's how you credit me.

00:06:25.480 Everyone's like, no, no, I don't I don't want to talk about this.

00:06:27.660 But let me tell you what happened.

00:06:28.960 Just don't use my name.

00:06:30.520 And this is across the country.

00:06:32.820 So this isn't just a California issue, which obviously is leading the nation.

00:06:37.160 But even experts out of Texas, people who are monitoring the electric grid are incredibly concerned about brownouts or blackouts.

00:06:49.800 And wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:06:51.120 In the future or now?

00:06:53.480 Now.

00:06:54.300 Now.

00:06:55.460 Already.

00:06:56.060 So forget about 2030, but now because we're not making the level of investments to keep what we do have up in this in this push for transition, you know, we want to have maintenance of what we already have.

00:07:10.280 And that's becoming more and more difficult.

00:07:13.120 And obviously we're seeing it just, you know, countrywide in terms of our energy dependence.

00:07:17.880 So I have been told reliably, you know, again, even in Texas, that you want to have a backup source of power.

00:07:26.760 And I have been told almost everybody said either a propane, diesel or combo generator is something that you're going to want to have because, you know, in a state, for example, like Texas, the quote was once the state loses power, it will take a minimum of two weeks to restore plants back to operations.

00:07:45.120 And customers able to use grid power again.

00:07:48.480 So this isn't something that, you know, we've got nine years or whatever to be thinking about.

00:07:54.300 We should be planning and preparing now.

00:07:57.340 So you have this.

00:07:58.640 It's worse in California because you can't buy the generators, right?

00:08:03.300 You can't use diesel generators or gas power generators.

00:08:07.260 I think that depending on which city you are located in and, you know, kind of like where you are within the state, I mean, I think you still can get in certain places like a propane based generator.

00:08:24.940 But they are starting, you know, whether it's the limitation of natural gas and new construction, taking gas out of commercial kitchens.

00:08:34.980 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:08:37.260 Taking natural gas out of kitchens?

00:08:40.580 Commercial kitchens.

00:08:41.880 Oakland's already put this in effect.

00:08:43.920 A number of cities are doing this.

00:08:45.580 The California Restaurant Association filed the suit on behalf of restaurants and it was dismissed.

00:08:50.520 So if you want to have, you know, your natural gas cooked, you know, walk food or burgers or whatnot, like you can't do that anymore in certain cities.

00:09:00.680 And so they are completely taking away even just the ability to cook certain types of food because they want to make sure that you only have an electric hookup.

00:09:12.660 And, you know, I'm not I'm not a chef, Glenn.

00:09:14.880 I know this is going to surprise you.

00:09:16.100 I'm not the most domestic gal out there.

00:09:17.940 But even I know that there's certain things that you're not going to be wanting to cook on an electric stove.

00:09:25.700 That's unbelievable.

00:09:26.940 OK, so diesel propane or combo generator as a backup.

00:09:33.280 We should all be looking at that.

00:09:37.160 I mean, the solar is unreasonable, completely unreasonable.

00:09:43.160 I mean, I have solar at my house and I'm completely off the grid and that has cost me a fortune.

00:09:49.840 No average person can can go there.

00:09:54.160 And that's with a diesel backup and a natural gas backup.

00:10:00.300 Yeah.

00:10:00.980 Unfortunately, the technology isn't there for what the proponents of it would like for it to be.

00:10:09.340 Not to say that it might not be in the future, but, you know, we're not there.

00:10:13.620 And that's the problem is that they're trying to push us in a direction, you know, where we're just not prepared for it.

00:10:20.360 And it's going to create issues, you know, on a financial and personal level for people.

00:10:25.780 And who's going to end up suffering the most?

00:10:28.340 Of course, it's going to be the middle class.

00:10:30.700 I'm sure that the folks who are, you know, the most poor will get some sort of benefit from the government.

00:10:36.140 And if you're super wealthy, they'll, you know, figure out some workaround for you.

00:10:40.340 But this is once again something that the middle class is going to end up bearing the cost of.

00:10:46.580 And by the way, the cost that they're estimating are out of this world.

00:10:51.740 And those are just the dollars that we're putting out, not economic damage or personal damage.

00:10:56.640 You know, I've seen anywhere from $5 trillion to $10 trillion on the lowest side, which we know that that's never going to be the case, to north of $90 trillion in some of these estimates.

00:11:07.120 And we know the financial engineering that they always do that, oh, well, we're just going to look at it at a certain period of time.

00:11:13.500 So, you know, if you look at it over a long period of time, it's a ton of money.

00:11:17.300 This is a ton of money towards something that a lot of people don't want.

00:11:22.040 And if they really cared about the environment, we'd be looking at things like carbon recapture technology and nuclear energy and all these things that we know America can lead on instead of forcing an agenda that all of these folks are probably invested in.

00:11:39.320 And that's probably why they're pushing it.

00:11:41.100 Exactly right.

00:11:41.820 For them to be making money at the expense of, by the way, the red states, which are heavily invested in fossil fuels.

00:11:50.560 No coincidence there.

00:11:52.040 Carol, what are we looking at for inflation, do you think?

00:11:56.680 I mean, how long before it is so bad that everyone is screaming in pain?

00:12:03.740 Well, so the challenge and sort of the, I hate to use the smart thing, let's say the evil thing that they've done, is that it's going to affect different people differently.

00:12:15.440 And I think that's part of why they've been trying to sell that it's not happening.

00:12:19.580 You know, we first, we heard it's not going to happen.

00:12:21.780 It's going to run a little bit hot.

00:12:23.320 It's quote unquote transitory, which, you know, anyone who's been listening to me knows I've been saying this whole time.

00:12:28.500 Of course it's not.

00:12:29.460 And now they're trying to sell you that it's a good thing.

00:12:32.480 Oh, you know, you're going to, you're going to, you're going to be able to buy a $4,000 suit.

00:12:36.660 Good for you.

00:12:37.340 And you're going to spend less now because you won't be able to afford things.

00:12:43.740 And so we'll be, we'll, we'll stop being this consumer nation.

00:12:48.180 Yeah.

00:12:48.700 That was insane.

00:12:49.580 We'll live like Europe. 1.00

00:12:49.920 That's just exactly what we all wanted to do.

00:12:52.240 Right.

00:12:52.440 It's unfortunate.

00:12:53.800 So the issue here is that the, because of all of the money printing that's happened and all the stimulus that has increased inflation, it has increased asset value.

00:13:04.860 So if you own a house or a bunch of houses, if you have a huge stock portfolio, if you've had access to capital, to debt capital, to go out and buy these big assets, you know, those assets are going to probably continue to inflate in price because there's all of these dollars out there and they need to go somewhere.

00:13:23.700 But if you are in the middle, middle class again, or if you're poor and you need to go out and buy the things that your family needs to live, you know, the food to put on your table and the gas to get to work, this is, you know, it's already really painful.

00:13:40.700 And unfortunately, the elites in the media who are supposed to be pointing this out and acting as a check and balance are now laughing at the average American saying, oh, why do you need to drink that much milk?

00:13:54.200 Or, you know, maybe you should cut back on your expenditures instead of holding the people who are creating these policies to task.

00:14:00.920 And then, oh, by the way, you know, they just signed a $1.2 trillion bill yesterday and are trying to spend trillions more and then selling us on, oh, that's going to bring down inflation.

00:14:12.440 Like, I don't know, that didn't show up in any of my economics classes.

00:14:17.020 But, you know, it's a really bad situation.

00:14:20.700 And it's kind of like what happened in COVID, right?

00:14:23.020 When they shut down small businesses, but they kept the big businesses open, even though the average people were screaming because those who are connected were benefiting, nothing happened.

00:14:34.120 And I see the same kind of split and great consolidation of power and wealth, as I've been calling it.

00:14:41.520 And, you know, some of this, even if you fix some of the supply chain, things like the wage increases, those aren't going to slow down.

00:14:49.080 You know, you can't pay somebody $20 an hour today to start and then, you know, three months from now think you're going to be paying entry-level people $7.

00:14:57.000 It's just not going to happen.

00:14:58.260 CarolRoth.com.

00:14:59.860 CarolRoth.com.

00:15:01.520 Her latest book is The War on Small Business.

00:15:03.940 CarolRoth.com.

00:15:04.880 Thanks, Carol.

00:15:05.400 Talk to you again.

00:15:09.700 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:15:19.080 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:23.220 Welcome to Tuesday.

00:15:26.060 You know, Stu and I were just talking off air.

00:15:27.800 It is really sad, but also I'm really happy that this is happening.

00:15:34.820 It's sad that it has to be this way.

00:15:36.680 But there is a parallel economy that is being built now.

00:15:40.760 People are realizing what is coming, and they are starting to build banks and insurance companies that will be outside of the system because they're just going to make it impossible for anybody to have any money, any loans, to do anything that they want unless you play along.

00:16:04.600 And we're already seeing this now in our own businesses, and I think there's a great opportunity to get really good employees right now.

00:16:18.740 If you're working in a company where they're telling you you have to get vaccinated, you have to go through that whites are all evil seminar, what if you don't want to? 0.99

00:16:32.720 Where do you go to work?

00:16:36.220 I want to introduce you to a guy who was in this very position, except he was, I mean, he's been in the high tech industry for 20 years.

00:16:46.280 He was in Silicon Valley.

00:16:48.160 Then he became the CEO and founding member of MC, which was a consulting company of three employees, and he turned it into an international economic data firm with over 250 employees nationwide.

00:17:02.720 But he had a problem.

00:17:04.560 He was a Christian CEO, and I guess that wasn't something in the cards for the company anymore.

00:17:12.500 And so he started a new business that I think is fantastic.

00:17:17.320 We talked about it, I think, last week.

00:17:19.020 His name is Andrew Krapuschetz, and he is on with us now.

00:17:25.040 Hello, Andrew.

00:17:25.580 Hey, good morning, Glenn.

00:17:27.920 Thank you very much.

00:17:29.140 And kudos on pronouncing my name.

00:17:31.780 It is a terrifying name.

00:17:33.160 It is.

00:17:33.920 It's on the air.

00:17:34.520 Yeah, when you're on the air and you see this, I had to make sure I looked at it again to make sure I got it right.

00:17:42.760 Krapuschetz.

00:17:44.280 It's true.

00:17:45.000 It's Krapuschetz. 0.69

00:17:45.640 You must have had a horrible childhood with the name Krapuschetz.

00:17:51.540 Yeah, you either have a horrible childhood or you just lean into it and you really enjoy it.

00:17:56.380 Right, okay.

00:17:57.080 And everybody thinks they thought of the best new joke for that name.

00:18:02.340 And I'll tell you right now, I've heard them all.

00:18:04.380 Yeah, I bet you have.

00:18:06.080 And none of those jokes could be said on the air.

00:18:08.700 So let's move on.

00:18:09.680 Is it correct?

00:18:10.200 From your name.

00:18:12.700 Okay, so, Andrew, I saw this story, I think, last week.

00:18:16.980 And we reached out to you right away because I think what you're doing is right on the money.

00:18:24.680 First of all, tell me how it ended with you and the company.

00:18:28.420 Why did you leave?

00:18:30.940 Yeah, so, again, I've been in the tech space for a while.

00:18:35.160 I've also, I've started a bunch of companies because I also believe that as Christians, we serve a creator God.

00:18:44.200 And so we are little creators.

00:18:45.620 And so we should look for ways that we can create things that we can then use to turn around and bless other people.

00:18:51.900 So I started a variety of businesses.

00:18:54.320 And obviously, the most recent, and full disclosure, I'm still an advisor to the board.

00:19:01.780 But for me to be involved in the day-to-day was just not palatable.

00:19:08.360 So we ended, and part of it is, it was clear to me it was time to move on anyway.

00:19:16.720 And there's two reasons for this.

00:19:18.260 As I've been deep in the tech world and have a lot of friends in Seattle and Portland and San Francisco and on that West Coast crazies.

00:19:27.180 Yeah.

00:19:27.740 I saw them using their company's platform to push on a woke worldview.

00:19:35.140 Using their company's platform to, in the last election cycle, say you must vote for Joe Biden.

00:19:40.400 This is the most important election ever.

00:19:42.660 And it's like, I thought you were a software company, not a political advocacy company.

00:19:47.580 Correct.

00:19:48.140 But it became clear that a lot of the people, especially in the tech world, were using their company to do this.

00:19:55.100 And then I saw a lot of my fellow employees who were just, not fellow employees, but fellow colleagues around the country, just keeping their head down.

00:20:04.480 And what's funny is when I started Red Balloon, a lot of people who are executives wrote me and said,

00:20:10.300 you know, I love what you're doing, but I can't like what you're doing.

00:20:13.820 Because, if you know what I mean.

00:20:15.160 Yeah, yeah.

00:20:15.700 Because I can't have anyone know that I'm a conservative.

00:20:20.200 And my word to them is, look, there's a lot of conservatives and Christians out there.

00:20:24.680 And I think it's time to raise the pirate flag or the Christian flag and simply say, this is who I am and be unashamed of that. 0.97

00:20:35.200 And so, if you don't, if you don't, we're, we lose, we lose, we have to stand and stand together.

00:20:44.980 And I don't mind standing with other people that don't share my belief, but they currently mind me.

00:20:51.000 And I'm not going to, why can you say all of this crazy stuff that I disagree with?

00:20:57.980 And I don't have to even, I don't, I don't want to talk about it, honestly.

00:21:02.580 I don't want to talk about it anymore.

00:21:04.580 Can we just do our work?

00:21:06.320 But you can't live in that world now.

00:21:08.880 It's not good enough.

00:21:09.920 You must participate.

00:21:11.420 Yeah, and absolutely.

00:21:14.700 And if you don't, then you get fired.

00:21:17.560 And I had a good friend who lost his job because he didn't use the right pronoun. 0.99

00:21:22.180 So, the vaccine issue is obviously the most recent and pressing for a lot of people because you have to put it in your body.

00:21:30.760 But they have been pushing this for a long time, whether it's CRT, whether it's the right pronouns.

00:21:37.240 And I think it is time for conservatives and Christians to stand up because the reality is that these conservatives, all of you who are listening, are the hardest workers.

00:21:47.780 You're the people who are making the company go.

00:21:51.460 And so, I started Red Balloon partly because of this wokeness in the workplace and partly because I saw this enormous gap in the labor market where we simply don't have enough people to get all the work done.

00:22:03.800 And the administration, the Biden administration, has seen fit to demotivate people to actually participate in the labor market.

00:22:12.720 And now, with a vaccine mandate, to tell them they're not allowed to participate in the labor market.

00:22:18.100 So, we have an unprecedented tight labor market.

00:22:22.060 We have an economy that's trying to get going but simply is not allowed to.

00:22:27.240 And I think you're spot on.

00:22:29.000 We need to start creating these alternative economies because, I'll tell you, it is really fun to be an unapologetic conservative Christian and a public one.

00:22:39.680 And I encourage everyone out there, it's time to raise your hands, raise your head, raise the pirate flag, and come out.

00:22:48.020 I was talking on a different show yesterday and I thought we need to start using the hashtag coming out conservative and just tell people, you know, start proclaiming who you are.

00:22:59.080 And it's okay.

00:22:59.800 And we don't need to turn into all of us be political advocates because I don't think that's necessarily the right thing either.

00:23:07.920 But I do think it's an opportunity to just be unapologetic about who you are and what you believe.

00:23:12.960 Yeah, I don't want to become an activist.

00:23:16.180 I mean, I kind of am now, but I don't want to become an activist.

00:23:19.980 I just like to work in places where, you know, even if you disagree, nobody's going to get fired for it.

00:23:27.200 Nobody's going to get fired for it.

00:23:28.980 Let's just be human beings to each other.

00:23:31.680 So, you started Red Balloon and how is this going?

00:23:35.980 Yeah, no, so RedBalloon.Work has blown me away because I've started a number of businesses before.

00:23:44.780 And I'll tell you, Glenn, I've never been part of a business before where I get unsolicited thank you notes from perfect strangers all over the country literally every day.

00:23:53.440 People just saying thank you for standing up for freedom.

00:23:56.280 And that's my encouragement to all of you listening is stand up for freedom and you'd be surprised.

00:24:00.240 There's a lot of people who want to follow that.

00:24:02.620 So, I started RedBalloon.Work three months ago and we now have had over 400,000 people on the site looking for freedom.

00:24:11.740 We have over 1,200 employers who have signed up and every single day we have tens of thousands of job searches on the site.

00:24:20.580 It's still new and I want to have millions of jobs, but I've been super encouraged by this.

00:24:27.200 And we've also just seen an overwhelming amount of support from people like someone sent me a thank you note and said, hey, would you like a billboard in Times Square?

00:24:37.160 And as a side note, if someone asks you that, the answer is yes.

00:24:41.040 And so, RedBalloon has a billboard in Times Square and will through the end of the year because they said, look, this is an important moment and we need to stand up for freedom.

00:24:49.640 So, there are powerful people out there who maybe aren't ready to raise their pirate flag, but they're definitely behind the cause.

00:24:57.180 I will tell you this, too, that it's really important that business people, if you're looking for a job, I hear from people all the time that are living behind, you know, the iron curtain in the east of our country.

00:25:12.540 And they want out, but they can't move without a job.

00:25:19.800 They have to have a job.

00:25:21.540 And how do you know?

00:25:22.760 And I encourage everyone, every company that is taking a stand to register and become part of this.

00:25:31.680 And when you have a job opening, open it up to RedBalloon.Work and let's get people working together.

00:25:40.880 Absolutely, because what you do as an employer is you're not only getting access to really the best kind of workers, right, the workers who aren't an HR nightmare, who are constantly complaining.

00:25:53.600 You're getting people who just want to focus on work, which is phenomenal.

00:25:57.380 So, the best kind of workers, but you're also giving encouragement to millions of Americans and saying, look, you're not the only one.

00:26:04.560 Because the liberal media today desperately wants us all to believe that we're the only one that believes the way we do and that we're all crazy.

00:26:12.840 And the more people, especially employers, who stand up and say, no, I'm going to put my logo on here.

00:26:18.080 I talked to one CEO who said, look, I have been keeping my head down as a conservative Christian for years, but I feel like if I don't die on this hill, there might not be any left.

00:26:28.720 I agree.

00:26:29.320 And so it's time.

00:26:30.120 I agree.

00:26:30.560 Well, thank you very much, Andrew.

00:26:33.300 I appreciate it.

00:26:34.440 That's Andrew Krapuschetz, the founder and CEO of Red Balloon, redballoon.work, redballoon.work.

00:26:46.020 Let's get the people who want to work and just want to move on with their lives.

00:26:51.780 Let's get them working. 0.94

00:26:53.720 As Andrew just said, it's the best kind of employee, redballoon.work.

00:27:01.040 Thanks, Andrew.

00:27:03.300 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:27:05.360 One of the guys who works with me, he is one of our researchers and writers.

00:27:16.620 He and we've worked together for many years now, and he's a salt of the earth kind of guy knows his history really well.

00:27:26.820 His name is Nat Han Nypierre, I believe.

00:27:33.620 It's close.

00:27:35.860 Or Nathan Nipper.

00:27:37.180 That's what it is.

00:27:37.960 I've heard of him.

00:27:39.060 Nathan Nipper.

00:27:39.800 How are you, Nathan?

00:27:40.860 Good.

00:27:41.740 Great.

00:27:41.940 So Nathan has written a book, and he brought it to me about a year ago, and I didn't know all of the story at the time that you brought it.

00:27:51.820 I didn't know the back story, but you were working here years before I came here?

00:27:57.520 Yeah, before Mercury Studios was even a glint in your eye.

00:28:04.160 This was way back in 2008, 2009.

00:28:06.920 I guess you were doing your Fox show at the time.

00:28:10.520 And yeah, I worked for a separate media company that was housed in the studio building.

00:28:15.040 And so in the aftermath of that 2008 financial crisis, this company I was working for started having some financial problems of their own.

00:28:26.880 They were having trouble making payroll.

00:28:28.380 And sort of longish story shorter, I had done some minor league screenwriting early in my career, and this particular story that is now this book, I wrote as a screenplay.

00:28:44.440 And I really needed a sale at the time because they were having trouble making payroll, right?

00:28:50.360 And came really close.

00:28:52.540 I thought it was going to happen.

00:28:53.440 The agent that I was working with at the time, she was very enthusiastic about it, made it to the final level at this cable network that she'll remain nameless.

00:29:03.980 Not to you, but to the rest of us.

00:29:06.340 It did not happen.

00:29:07.620 I was crushed.

00:29:08.320 And it didn't happen because it references It's a Wonderful Life.

00:29:15.060 Yeah, I mean, that's true.

00:29:17.480 The sort of the reasoning, and you never know these things.

00:29:20.700 The screenwriting business is very horrible.

00:29:23.660 But yeah, that was one of the final, you know, the final decision maker was like, well, you kind of have to know too much about that movie, you know, to understand what's going on.

00:29:33.380 And that was their excuse.

00:29:34.760 And nobody knows who knows anything about It's a Wonderful Life.

00:29:37.660 That's what the agent said at the time.

00:29:39.540 And I was like, I know.

00:29:41.740 Everybody knows this movie.

00:29:42.940 So the book is out today, and you wrote it, and then you put the story away.

00:29:49.620 You came to work for me, right?

00:29:51.740 Yeah.

00:29:52.000 I, it's overwhelming, honestly, the fact that I'm here sitting in this building again talking to you because it's really, this book represents, I mean, this is God's kindness.

00:30:04.660 God's paying attention to the details of our lives, you know, and redeeming things that you think is hopeless, situations that you think are hopeless.

00:30:13.140 Because, yeah, I mean, I actually, because I wasn't getting paid at the time, and I stayed on at that media company in the hopes that it was going to turn around while I'm applying to other jobs, you know, and then I had that rejection of the script sale.

00:30:29.200 And so I stayed late in, actually, it's in the office where Stu's producer works now.

00:30:36.200 I sat up there for a few hours one night, just cranked out the first chapter thinking, could I turn this into a book?

00:30:43.060 And then I was like, no, I don't have time for this.

00:30:46.940 You know, I got a third child was on the way at the time, not getting paid.

00:30:51.940 I mean, it was a desperate situation, you know.

00:30:53.960 And so I did the old proverbial, put it in a drawer.

00:30:57.100 It didn't touch it for years.

00:30:59.200 So, I finally did, six years ago is when I cranked out the first draft with this book, just before I started working with you.

00:31:07.480 And it kind of melts my brain that I'm now back in the studio, that I had sworn off working in media.

00:31:15.460 I seriously, I had walked away from the industry.

00:31:18.680 You know, the book starts kind of like the George Bailey thing, jumping from a bridge.

00:31:24.140 And I think that has nothing to do with It's a Wonderful Life.

00:31:27.020 That's Nathan going, why, why, why did I go back and work for him?

00:31:31.920 I could jump off a bridge.

00:31:33.260 Essentially, yeah.

00:31:33.700 Yeah.

00:31:34.220 Because you had made, some of your scripts had been made into movies before.

00:31:37.880 This is not like, you weren't just like, it was not like a shot in the dark.

00:31:40.400 That's true.

00:31:41.260 And I say minorly, because it was, I guess, basic cable, you know.

00:31:44.960 It's probably double A ball or whatever.

00:31:46.920 Yeah.

00:31:47.840 More than I've done.

00:31:48.700 It wasn't totally random.

00:31:50.740 I had done that before.

00:31:52.440 And so that's why I thought, oh, there's a chance here.

00:31:55.200 You know, maybe this is going to go through.

00:31:56.880 So, Nathan, tell me the story quickly.

00:32:01.460 It's called Life on Christmas Eve, a novel by Nathann Nipper.

00:32:06.600 Right.

00:32:07.600 The French pronunciation.

00:32:09.160 Yes.

00:32:09.980 Life on Christmas Eve.

00:32:11.260 It's available now.

00:32:12.340 And I've read it.

00:32:13.400 It's really, really good.

00:32:14.700 You're going to love it.

00:32:15.440 It is, it's basically about a 31-year-old small-town woman who watches It's a Wonderful Life for the very first time.

00:32:24.320 And shortly after she does, she starts to notice some unusual similarities between things that happened to her and things that happened in the movie.

00:32:33.420 And so, essentially, her quest to figure out why these things might be happening and what it might mean, if anything, leads to this life-changing encounter with a stranger on Christmas Eve.

00:32:44.700 And she starts out, she's not watched the movie.

00:32:48.260 Right, right.

00:32:49.100 She's never seen it.

00:32:50.680 And she's one of those millennials that, you know, turn up their noses at black and white movies. 1.00

00:32:56.580 It is interesting that the reason, initially, the movie wasn't made is because someone might not know enough about It's a Wonderful Life.

00:33:02.880 That's actually the story of the book, too.

00:33:04.620 Right, right.

00:33:05.160 She learns about it all the way through.

00:33:07.660 Remember this scene?

00:33:09.080 No, I never watched it.

00:33:10.260 I mean, it's a pretty, I mean, you disproved your own case for the movie.

00:33:14.280 Yeah, right.

00:33:14.940 Initially.

00:33:15.900 It's, you know, it's one of my all-time favorite movies.

00:33:18.740 It's still a classic.

00:33:19.700 I mean, it's a genuinely great movie.

00:33:21.620 And so, it was fun to sort of work in this homage to use it as kind of a device to tell a different story.

00:33:28.420 I like the juxtaposition of the time back then that the movie took place.

00:33:34.280 And now, because we seem like a much harsher society.

00:33:42.120 Oh, yeah.

00:33:42.760 I mean, you know, if the pandemic showed us anything, it's a pandemic of a lack of grace, I feel like.

00:33:50.300 Yeah.

00:33:50.520 And in our culture, grace is something that we all want for ourselves, but are loathe to give to other people so often.

00:33:59.120 And so, I mean, that's one of the themes of the book is undeserved grace in some of the relationships that the main character has.

00:34:08.280 Yeah.

00:34:08.560 How much does God play a role in all of this?

00:34:17.200 In the book or my overall personal story?

00:34:20.520 Personal story and getting it where it is.

00:34:24.660 Oh, yeah.

00:34:26.500 It's a total God thing.

00:34:27.900 I mean, it really almost makes me emotional to consider when I walked out of this building 12 years ago.

00:34:37.660 It was a hopeless situation, you know.

00:34:40.160 People were hiring.

00:34:41.480 I was looking for a job.

00:34:42.900 I had a baby on the way.

00:34:43.900 For him to redeem my experience here, because, again, I had sworn off media.

00:34:51.380 And then to come back.

00:34:51.980 And you were a teacher as well.

00:34:53.280 Yeah.

00:34:53.380 I completely left, turned my back.

00:34:55.080 I was never going to work in media again because of the bitterness of that experience.

00:34:58.580 And then that he would bring me back to the same building and totally redeem it.

00:35:04.060 I mean, this has been the best working experience of my life.

00:35:06.860 Wow, you've led a sad life. 1.00

00:35:08.480 It is pathetic. 1.00

00:35:12.240 And that he would redeem that is really humbling to me. 0.97

00:35:17.740 Well, I would like you to pick up the brand new book.

00:35:21.380 It's available Amazon.

00:35:22.800 Also, you can go to glennbeck.com.

00:35:25.460 And I have read the first chapter.

00:35:29.340 So if you want to hear the first chapter, we read it and produced it.

00:35:34.260 Don't say I ever gave you anything.

00:35:39.680 I am thrilled.

00:35:41.600 Thrilled.

00:35:42.120 I wish I could have read the whole book for you.

00:35:44.660 But the first chapter is available now at glennbeck.com.

00:35:49.820 And check it out.

00:35:51.120 You can also get it there by just following the links.

00:35:54.520 It's called Life on Christmas Eve.

00:35:57.280 Something that you might want to start next week to put you in the right frame of mind for Christmas.

00:36:04.460 Life on Christmas Eve.

00:36:06.340 A new novel by Nathan Nipper.

00:36:09.060 Nathan, thank you.

00:36:10.500 God bless.

00:36:13.380 How does somebody who is so soft-spoken work for me?

00:36:16.580 How is that possible?

00:36:17.280 Yeah, it is amazing.

00:36:18.380 He's the one that keeps you sane.

00:36:19.720 Like you want to say these crazy things and then he writes actual things that make sense.

00:36:23.400 And then you bridge the gap and you become kind of just sort of insane.

00:36:27.160 What was the weirdest experience here?

00:36:30.220 It's been the more surreal or...

00:36:33.160 How long is your show?

00:36:34.220 Yeah, okay.

00:36:35.080 All right.

00:36:35.620 I got it.

00:36:37.160 You could still withdraw your endorsement of the book.

00:36:39.640 I mean, it's the interview.

00:36:40.660 He didn't even put it on.

00:36:42.200 He didn't even put it on.

00:36:43.880 No, it's not on there.

00:36:44.740 Wow.

00:36:45.180 He doesn't care.

00:36:45.840 No, he doesn't like me.

00:36:47.400 Now, he says that I didn't get it to him in time.

00:36:51.740 What a surprise that would be, Nathan.

00:36:53.280 But I know that's not true because I have writers.

00:36:57.420 If you make Nathan write your review of his book, I'm good.

00:37:00.960 This is what should be on the book.

00:37:03.140 This is actually what I wrote.

00:37:04.640 I love this book.

00:37:05.500 It's funny, fast-paced, and whimsical.

00:37:07.440 A joyful celebration of family and faith that sweeps you along in a surprising finale that will melt your heart.

00:37:14.600 This is ideal Christmastime reading, the kind of moving, life-affirming story the world really needs right now.

00:37:21.480 That is what we need right now, man.

00:37:22.720 After the last couple of years.

00:37:24.100 Oh, my gosh.

00:37:25.540 The stuff that's going on in the world right now, to have something that's actually uplifting, that is definitely needed.

00:37:31.160 You know, I just read, Nathan, because I know you just read something.

00:37:35.060 You know, you just wrote something very uplifting.

00:37:36.940 Let me just see if you fit in the same category that we're in.

00:37:40.780 I just read that in the neighboring galaxy, there is a now newly discovered black hole.

00:37:51.140 And I am rooting for us to be sucked into the black hole.

00:37:57.400 Does that fit anywhere in with the Christmas cheer?

00:38:02.040 Not really.

00:38:03.040 Not really?

00:38:03.260 You know.

00:38:04.500 If it's into oblivion.

00:38:06.500 I will say your review.

00:38:08.800 Spaghettification sounds pretty good right now. 0.98

00:38:10.600 And your reviews did say there was a surprising ending.

00:38:12.780 So could it be that they all just get sucked into a black hole and that's how it ends?

00:38:17.000 Spoiler alert.

00:38:17.860 Come on, Stu.

00:38:18.420 Oh, man, Stu, and you haven't even read it yet.

00:38:21.120 All right.

00:38:21.580 Again, the name of the book is Life on Christmas Eve.

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The Glenn Beck Program - November 16, 2021

Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Carol Roth, Andrew Crapuchettes, & Nathan Nipper ｜ 11⧸16⧸21

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