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On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about the recent shooting at a Target store in Aurora, Colorado, and why we should stop telling ourselves the lies we tell ourselves at Christmas. He also talks about a story about a man who accidentally sliced his own head open with a screwdriver.
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It was just another holiday party until Michelle arrived with a chocolate Basque cheesecake.
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Two rich cocoas, caramelized top, which Michelle claimed to have just whipped together.
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All right, Susan, I bought the PC chocolate Basque cheesecake.
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Try the season's biggest hits from the PC Holiday Insider's Report.
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Have some of the news of the day on the podcast.
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They finally found the guy, and it was tied to both universities.
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Still can't figure out the motive on it, but we talked about that quite a bit.
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Also, what happened at TPUSA, and I'm going to be at TPUSA this weekend.
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I'm going to give my speech on the final day right before Erica Kirk and I think J.D. Vance
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And also, what your family really needs from you this Christmas.
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And there's a couple of things that I really wanted to share as a man and as a father to you.
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Also, you know, the lies that men tell ourselves, you know, at Christmas that we really should remember are lies and and not and not do them anymore.
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Because the main rule on Christmas for dads is don't wreck it.
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All of this and so much more on today's podcast.
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We had just moved from New York and we were putting up these big log, you know, gates.
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And the guy who we had hired to do it, local guy, he's just great.
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And Matt was putting these long, you know, screws through the three posts.
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And we leave and we come back hours later and he's still working on that same post, except now his whole head is bandaged.
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And we stop and we're like, Matt, what happened?
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I'm like, no, what happened to the head, your head?
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Ah, you know, the drill slipped and I lost control and it came back and it, it just sliced my head, you know, straight across in the forehead.
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And he said, uh, I had to get, you know, I don't remember what it was, 25, 35 stitches.
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I said, did the doctor say it was okay for you to come back to work?
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Well, I'm going to go into the house now and try to make sense of my whole life and where I'm at.
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It is, um, the last broadcast before the holiday, the last broadcast of the year.
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Let's start with, let's look into our stockings and see what Santa has put into our stockings
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Democrats, net approval rating of congressional Democrats.
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I want you to keep in mind, they had never rated Democrats negatively until this year.
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We're talking about a net approval rating from Democrats.
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Their approval rating is actually lower, lower than the disapproval rating.
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I think during the shutdown, there was a bit of a boost for Democrats, right?
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There was a rallying around the flag effect going on, but Democrats did not like how that
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They have returned against Democrats in Congress.
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One of the reasons that Dan Goldman is in trouble right now in a potential primary against
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Brad Ladner is because at this point, the Democratic base is so upset with Democrats.
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Uh, did you get, do you see that kids look at your stocking, go in and pull that back
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They've never rated Democrats negatively Democrats on Democrats now negative six points, mighty
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Uh, and that might, that might be something worth, you know, just enjoying over the holiday
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season that maybe, maybe no matter how badly we screw things up, they're doing a worse
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Uh, and so maybe there is hope Virginia, uh, that yes, we might have a good midterm might.
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Do you have any ideas to looking at the polls, how bad the Republicans are doing?
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And if it's, if it's worse than six points, negative six points, just don't tell me.
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I feel like we're, we're, we've been minus 80 on the Republicans forever.
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Uh, but I was like to see the Democrats join our side on not liking, uh, our own politicians.
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I will say that, you know, you look at the, uh, you could find information, I think on both
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sides to say, to see optimism in November and also some real pessimism.
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Of course, you just going in from an uphill starting point.
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I think I was looking at, uh, you know, some of these markets and it's like, I think 75%
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chance for the Democrats to retake the house in, uh, November.
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So, you know, but that's just, turn his mic off.
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It's really not a negative sentiment, you know, for me.
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When you have a Republican president, like typically Democrats take the house in the first
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So I think that's just reflecting generalized history.
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You know, the, the, the, what he just said gives you really no information.
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They were up 22 points and now they're down six.
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He said they were up because there was a rallying around the flag, but they didn't like the way
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So do the people who are now, the Democrats who are now saying they're useless, is it
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because they're not socialist and, you know, Grinchy enough?
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Or are they, are people saying, you know what, they just don't make any sense anymore because
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that's the way I would interpret it, but I'm not a Democrat.
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I think it's them, the Democrats, generally speaking, feeling like they took this big
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To go out there and shut the government down and got nothing out of it.
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And again, when you see a number like that from plus 22 to minus six, it's almost hard
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Like, what do they do in one month that would go from a plus 22 to a minus six?
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No, I mean, minus six might be the more real thing is what I'm saying.
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They had a little bit of a sugar high because they were like, yeah, we're taking Trump on.
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And when they realized when you take a Trump on in these situations, he's going to slap
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If you're a Democrat, here's the good news for you.
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Santa is going to put something in your stocking.
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And the GOP is going to give you everything you wanted in that shutdown.
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But they're just going to do it during Christmas time.
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And so no one will, they think no one will notice, but we will.
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Let me talk to you a little bit about what happened at TPUSA yesterday.
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By the way, we're going to get to the Brown University shooting because that thing is,
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The TPUSA yesterday, they started their biggest event, what is called Freedom Fest, the biggest
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In a steel cage match, face to face, going at it, head to head.
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Tucker, his speech yesterday, pretty much said there's not a, there's not a civil war going on.
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But, and I don't like it, but there is a civil war going on.
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He pointed out that, you know, we have to stand for the truth.
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I'm flying out tomorrow to Arizona to be there.
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I'm going to speak before Erica and J.D. Vance on Sunday.
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I have an opinion on the whole Candace Tucker, Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly thing.
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And I'm going to put it all together and hopefully put it to rest on Sunday.
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I mean, it might not be, might not be good for everybody else, but I'm going to say it.
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I cannot wait until this individual walks on stage with me.
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I defrosted Walt Disney, who surprisingly enough, I didn't know, was laying right next to Ronald
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Now, there was also another Christmas miracle that happened, I thought, and Erica talked
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Here's what Erica Kirk said on what's happened since Charlie's death.
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Off this paper, I'm not going to wing this one because I want all of you guys to absorb
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The number of student requests to get involved since 9-10.
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140,000 plus get involved requests have been submitted since 9-10.
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1 million plus students involved in Turning Point USA.
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Current chapter numbers as of December 18th, 2025.
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And we are starting 50 chapters per day at Turning Point USA.
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And the reason why this is so important is because of 2026 and 2028, which I thought was
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She came out yesterday and she said, we're going to get J.D.
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So I guess Turning Point has just decided, yep, that's who's going to be the president of
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But, you know, I'd like to see the whole process work itself out.
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I know because I talked to J.D. about it and I talked to Marco Rubio and J.D.
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We were standing someplace together and I said, so it's going to be interesting, right?
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And they both were like, yeah, they're just going to let's get through the administration.
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Let's let's concentrate on the job we're doing now.
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That's a long way away, but it's going to be interesting.
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And I think we have lots of good options in front of us.
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Ever take a look at your phone bill and think, wait, wait, wait, wait, why am I paying these
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You're also you're also sponsoring leftist activism.
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And once you figure that out, you're like, wait a minute, hold on.
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It's like we're in ordering a burger and including, you know, you find out that they included a
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mandatory ideological donation with that burger.
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But we do with our phones because they do it because they know people.
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People don't like changing phone companies and they'll never do it.
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There there are they are dismantling our country with some of the things there.
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OK, well, if you do, Verizon's your one because Verizon makes donations to Planned Parenthood with
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As your kids move away and start their own life, you've got tons of time on your hand
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This was important, I thought at the time, and it's meaningless at the time.
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And it's been a really difficult, I don't know, 18 months for me as my kids moved out
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I mean, it's the hardest, emotionally, the hardest time of my life.
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And I thought I had pretty, you know, emotionally difficult periods of my life.
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This has just torn me apart in so many ways, and you have to put it all back together and
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And I think I'm close to doing that, but as you now have holidays where some of the kids
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are not there, because they don't have to be, they have other priorities, whatever, you
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pine for the days when we're all together, and you were thinking when you were in bed,
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you were thinking, oh, don't come in, don't, no one's allowed to come into the room until
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When that little hand is on the eight, and that little hand is on the 12th, then you can
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And nobody goes downstairs until we go downstairs first and plug in the tree.
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You just try to get through those days at times because you're so tired, but you pine for those.
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The most empty, I can't, I don't know if I can tell you the best Christmas.
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Yeah, I think it would happen actually during COVID, but the best Christmas, it's hard because
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The worst Christmas I can tell you right now is, I remember I was broke, dead broke.
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Stu, he was like 18 years old and he's living in an apartment.
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I was like 35 or 40 and I just, it was completely broke.
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And I remember this Christmas so broke and I was with my daughter and we were in a CVS
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and she was there by the cash register and there was this little ornament of, I don't remember
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if it was, you know, Herbie the elf or, or Rudolph, but it was from Rudolph the red-nosed
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reindeer and it was a little teeny tree ornament.
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And I thought, Oh, and I just, she didn't see me, but it just broke my heart.
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Cause all I could think of is I can't even afford that.
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My worst Christmas was the first time I had real success and I decided I'm going to buy
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everything I ever have ever wanted for my kids.
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And literally the boxes were almost up to my waist.
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I mean, I had all the kids and all the presents and everything you could possibly want.
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There's something that happens, especially to men.
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I think that we, we come at this time of year and we feel like a failure if we can't afford
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And most of us as guys, we don't talk about it because we don't want to talk about these
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And I think we should, because I think we all feel the same way at times.
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And when the house is quiet and the lights are all out and you're staring at numbers that
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just don't add up and you're wondering, how am I going to explain
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to my kids why things aren't underneath the tree?
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Because why you want to give that, that's the way you show love perhaps.
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And part of it is because it's the things you didn't have growing up and you knew how
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Not because you don't love them, not because you didn't try, but because you tried, you
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And the world is expensive and pride is heavy and Christmas or birthdays now just has a price
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And, but there are moments that were never meant to be bought ever somewhere along the
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We let that lie creep in and we bought into it.
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The lie that says, what I give is what you're worth.
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That's that lie is absolute poison and it's absolutely not true because if it were true,
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then the men who built this countries and that had to raise their own barns, the one room
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houses, if that's true, then all of those guys were failures and they weren't failures.
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If, if it were true, then dads who come home with empty hands after a lost job, but a full
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heart after a hard day are somehow less than, and they're not, they're better than.
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And so are you, you think that your kids are counting boxes and quite honestly, teenage
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years, they might be, they might be, but they grow out of those.
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Not for the, I grew up in a house that we would consider poor today.
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Your kids are watching you, how, how you carry disappointment, how you carry and handle
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frustration, how you speak when you think it doesn't matter, or you think nobody's listening.
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They're learning from you what a man does when life just doesn't cooperate.
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And they'll never learn it from something that you tell them.
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You know, kids, when life doesn't cooperate, they don't learn it that way.
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I don't think my kids could quote a damn thing I've ever said.
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Because there have been a lot of things that I said.
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Because I remember my dad used to, you know, we can survive anything as a family, but we
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cannot tolerate lies because we'll never survive.
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I am is the most important thing a man can ever say.
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And I said it all the time, but I don't think my kids can quote me.
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Whether you know it or not, is far more valuable than anything that can be wrapped into paper.
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Everything is teaching them now that their value is not measured by what they can buy or show off.
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It's who they are, who they become when things get hard.
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And you're not going to sit down and you're not going to look into the eyes of your child and say, you know, mom, dad couldn't afford Christmas because of X, Y, Z.
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They'll never remember that except that creepy time that dad took me aside and was like explaining adult things to me about, you know, how the economy works.
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Because they're going to be watching you on how you react to everything.
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Some of the strongest, some of the kindest, some of the most resilient people you and I both know did not grow up with abundance.
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They grew up watching their mom and dad hug, say a kind word to each other, apologize to one another.
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They grew up with a father who is dead tired, but showed up anyway.
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I can guarantee you, your kids are not going to remember the things they didn't get.
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They will remember, in the end, the things that made them feel safe.
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They will remember that even when you were worried, you were the one that stood between them and fear.
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You're laying the foundation that cannot be purchased, cannot be stolen, cannot be replaced.
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Long after the toys are gone and the batteries and the trends have changed,
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your children are going to stand on what you built,
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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You know, there is this myth that men don't prepare for Christmas,
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We don't prepare properly, and I think it's like we kind of prepare the way you would prepare
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for a hostage negotiation that you don't remember agreeing to, you know?
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I start vacation right after the show, and I'm very excited for it, very excited for vacation.
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But it also comes with, oh, crap, now the responsibility is there, okay?
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Because, you know, Christmas arrives on December 25th,
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and as a man, you really started thinking about it maybe that evening, you know?
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I mean, that's not fair because it actually starts.
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The first time Christmas really arrives and you're reminded is the first time somebody,
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usually your wife says, so what do you think your mom would want?
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And that's the moment you realize, oh, crap, there's a checklist.
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I'm already behind because she's already on the checklist.
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And so then you just, it's weird because you, at least I do, I prepare in phases, you know?
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These are lies we tell to ourselves so we can remain upright, okay?
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At least that's the way I feel because I have, they're thoughts, but they are lies
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because I know I'm not going to do any of those things, okay?
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I promised myself at the time, this year is going to be different.
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And then you're standing there on Christmas Eve and you're like, I didn't do any of those things.
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Last year, I think it was last year, maybe the year before, I actually looked for presents under the tree that I thought I had purchased.
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And somehow or another were, you know, that wrapped themselves and found their way under the tree.
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I had a thought some point in maybe November thinking I'm way ahead of the game.
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And I might've even gone online, looked at it, and then not completed the purchase because I'm going to get, I'm going to get back to that.
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My wife went, I look at the, I look at the MX every month, honey.
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So the second phase that we have is surveillance because I don't know about you, but I have no idea what to get anyone.
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So you begin to, you begin to listen for clues, kind of like you're decoding enemy transmissions.
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You know, when somebody says, oh, that's pretty goes into the same dumpster in your mind where you were just doing,
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You just told me I'm going to make a mental note of it, but it's not going to survive the drive home.
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And then again, on Christmas Eve, you're like, what was it?
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It could very well be because I'm not good at this.
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The spreadsheet really, it just, it lives only in fear, you know, because you don't write anything down.
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But then I'm, then I'm always thinking, I'll forget it in my pants.
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And by the way, the pants thing is a really good excuse.
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I mean to, but writing down all the stuff you have to do, then it becomes real.
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Because once it's real, once, you know, when it happened, you blow it, blew it again this year.
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This happens somewhere between now and Christmas.
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And it happens at the point when shipping changes from arrives by Christmas to good luck with that.
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Because all week I've been saying, remember, honey, I'm just going to tell you now, you're not getting the pajamas.
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I read the spot every day and said, I'm going to buy her pajamas.
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I didn't buy the pajamas because then I get off the air and I completely forget about it because I didn't write it down.
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So, honey, I know it's not going to be a disappointment.
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And you buy something expensive enough that it looks intentional.
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I spent extra money on it because I didn't want you to think that it was just an emergency.
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So, today I have to put the checklist together.
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So, here's the real checklist that every man should have.
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At one point in the last month, I did think I should get a card.
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And I'm going to get a really good card this year.
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Just rewrap the same box three times because you're never going to get it right.
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And then convince yourself that dad wrapping adds charm.
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Know that it doesn't, but convince yourself of that.
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Then there's the all-important social checklist.
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Remember the names of all the relatives that you've known for decades.
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And you're going to be like, oh my gosh, it's Ant.
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I mean, I remember you, but I don't remember your name.
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Act surprised by gifts you absolutely knew were coming.
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So it sounds sincere and not like the same, oh wow.
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And so that either means that we're just all wildly different.
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And if you're a new father, please understand, you must get these down quickly.
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When a gift is given to your daughter, she's growing up, don't say, wow, that's a little
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I mean, my daughter could come dressed in a full length gown and I'd be like, it's a
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When it's your daughter, you know, there's something that happens with your daughter.
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Burkas don't actually sound bad for your daughter during high school years.
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At dinner, don't say, did we forget the sweet potatoes?
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As a dad, during the holidays, just don't say anything.
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Under any circumstances, don't say things like, next year, I think we should simplify.
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Oh, and cards and writing crap in them is really, really, really important.
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So, we need to know what goes if you can make them to remember.