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On today's episode of the Blend Back Program, we talk about the life and career of the late producer and friend of the show, Mr. Snurdly. We talk about his career, his life, and what it means to work for a legend like Rush Limbaugh.
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we have a great friday podcast for you we have clips from uh mr snurdly
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both snurdly is on uh with us we have actually a friday night exclusive that is available right
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now for blaze subscribers you can watch the whole interview but we have clips in this podcast
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um that whole interview will be um out on youtube on sunday also jim jordan is tomorrow's podcast
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clips on this podcast we talk a little bit about uh about christmas the hallmark channel
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uh and a hallmark movie that is actually premiering tomorrow but we have the people whose
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story that movie is based on and they're nothing alike nothing alike so you know how um hallmark
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movies they all kind of have a surprise ending the only people that are going to be surprised by this
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are the people it actually happened to because it didn't happen like that uh all of this and so
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much more on today's podcast you're listening to the best of the blend back program
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uh bo snurdly uh is going to be the friday exclusive for blaze tv subscribers only today at five what do
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you i don't know i just keep going i i know it's going to be on youtube on sunday yeah on sunday
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it's going to be on youtube but it's available for brit blaze tv subscribers that's awesome you
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should be a blaze tv subscriber yes you could how would you do something like that is there a way to
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do it you're i have the hardest day right now i'm having the hardest day and what are you doing
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you're just i'm just curious as if if is it possible for regular dot com slash glenn use the promo code
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glenn and get some sort of a discount how's that buy some socks so bo snurdly both sorry this is an
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inside joke somebody is overachiever in the sock business and is telling us all the time we got to
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talk about the new blaze tv socks and we're like okay yeah we got it we got a lot of important things
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to talk about got to talk about the socks got to buy the socks you can get them at what's the what is
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it blaze socks blaze socks.com yeah okay good yeah i did it there i did it i did it and the promo code
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is nothing you get no discount but they're great you will pay for one they have joe biden's butt and
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a little poop emoji i don't know if it's joe biden's butt it is a butt yeah it's probably too
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firm to be his butt it does seem to be his would be much more wrinkly yeah that's just i guess that is
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just in salute of his trip to see the pope i don't know i don't make the socks but you can get the
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go brandon socks now okay so bo snurdly you're gonna get two podcasts uh this weekend um because
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bo snurdly is a legendary producer uh with um with rush limbaugh forever i don't know any casual
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listeners of rush limbaugh i don't know if you know that bo bo snurdly is black and that's not his real
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name uh i would have liked to talk to him a little bit about you know the things you know
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he he's been really raked through the coals because you're a solo you work for rush limbaugh
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but he worked for him since the beginning uh you're gonna get that tonight on blaze tv and then
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tomorrow on the podcast and it's already up at blaze tv tomorrow wherever you get your podcast
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you'll be able to see the interview with uh jim jordan but they both say something really
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interesting and i want to spend some time on this uh here first um let's take let's take cut eight
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here from bo snurdly talking about the medal of freedom i was there the night rush got the medal of
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freedom and rush and i didn't know each other we met each other once at a friend's mutual friend's
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um wedding um and i was i'm never one to um i just i'm just not one to you know call people up and go
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hey rush i'm in town i want to um you know especially somebody like like rush um uh but when i when i did
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see him and when i uh saw him that night um i don't know if he knew that was coming did he was
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that a surprise to him i know he had been at the white house and what was that like when he came home
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well we didn't see him when he came home for a few days because this happened the first day he had
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made the announcement that he had advanced lung cancer he immediately left after the show that day
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to go to treatment that night is when all of this happened he was supposed to be going to treatment
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and so following that he had to rush back up to boston where he was being treated
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and um and we and resume and get started with the treatment so we didn't see him until about
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a week later when when he had when he finally came back in and a week later guess what he wasn't
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even interested in discussing it that much we took one call on it toward the end of the show
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he wanted to dive right back into the news of the day do the kind of show that he always did
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i talked to him about the last couple of broadcasts here what here's what bo said
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his last few days you were there with him tell me about that didn't know it was going to be the last
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few days we didn't i mean rush's bucket list was his audience and so every glenn every single
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day that he could be there that he wasn't in treatment that he wasn't suffering from the
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effects of treatment he came to work and when the mic went on i i'm telling you you would not even
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think the man was was fighting any kind of an illness because he had the same upbeat uh the same
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upbeat presentation he was just as witty as ever was prepared as ever it was only afterward glenn when
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when there were days he couldn't he could barely get out of the chair after doing his show um in fact
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one day he had to have someone come in and help him because he couldn't even hold his attache case
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he was so weak and it had taken everything out of him to do those three hours but all of those days
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you would not be able to tell that any anything was wrong with him and we didn't know that his last
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show was his last show it was then he just spiraled down really quickly apparently after that and that
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was and then just didn't come back he worked until the very end and let me just stop for a moment
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and thank not only our audience but it's also your audience glenn it's all of our audience do you
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realize the audience that that that talk radio all of you all of us appeal to gave so many millions
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and millions and millions of dollars to fight things like leukemia those diseases don't have any
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political agenda they strike people from babies to the elderly the money that was raised to help the
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families of fallen first responders the money that's raised every year to help needy children
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and needy families during the holiday season all of these things happen on a regular basis because
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all of you and and rush leading the way cultivated an audience that was among the most generous human
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that the world has ever seen and they don't get thanked for it i agree i agree with that 100 100
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there's no one that can replace and i don't mean the time slot or anything there's just
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no one in that category and i look at you know our graduating class now that's in charge and i think
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none none of us are i mean the next one will come but none of us are in that category
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the next one will come it may not even be on radio but the next one is already here glenn look i've
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look glenn don't discount the impact that you've had um i watched you do something that i've never i
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had never seen anybody do before which was teach civics on television and make it freaking interesting
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okay i mean i was like whoa who is this guy and you did it and and and so we all have our special
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gifts our special skills and so we don't have to have the next one of him yeah we have you we have
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and and the young crew coming up boy these young conservatives that have been inspired
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by this generation of talk radio host lookout world most nerdly you do not want to miss uh this
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friday night um exclusive you can find it right now on blaze tv or at five o'clock tonight on blaze tv
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uh and it'll it'll be there and i think on sunday it goes to youtube but also jim jordan that is that is an
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hour with jim jordan which i think is one of the best hours um of what we have to do to turn all
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of this around we're going to give you some clips of that coming up in just a second but that is
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already out on the blaze for our podcast and it'll be out on the saturday podcast wherever you get your
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podcasts you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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number one new york times best-selling author 43 novels with more than 35 million copies of his
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books in print he is also the author of the international best-selling uh series michael vey
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which he published with uh me and mercury eight of his books have been turned into movies his first
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feature film is releasing in 2022 starring justin hartley of this is us uh and he is also the
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founder and chairman of the christmas box international an organization that helps and
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shelters abuse traffic and neglected children over 125 000 children have been served by the christmas box
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organization and he is married to an amazing woman named carrie who i think is a better person than
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he is but that's just my opinion richard paul evans welcome to the program how are you sir
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that's why carrie loves you so much i know i know uh so uh richard you have a new book out called the
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christmas promise and i just read and if i could i just want to read what's on the you know on the
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on the leaf here on the book on the night of her high school graduation rochelle box father gives her
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and her identical twin sister michelle matching opal necklaces these opals look identical he tells
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them but the fire inside each is completely unique just like the two of you indeed the two sisters
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couldn't be more different than their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood years pass until their
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fathers at their father's behest they both come home for christmas what happens then forever damages
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their relationship and rochelle vows to never see or speak to her sister again in in their father's
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last days he asked rochelle to forgive michelle a deathbed promise which she never fulfills as her
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twin is killed in an accident wow uh that uh it sounds like a great uh opening of a story and a great
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plot for a story you want to go into it anymore without giving it away yeah well it actually is based
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on the story of the prodigal son and so i wanted to tell a story from the older brother's perspective
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hold on just a second hold on just a second you sound you are you still do you still have walking
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pneumonia i do sit down and then elisa's plane pneumonia how are you feeling um not not too great
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oh my gosh honey water we could have rescheduled this interview richard i'm so sorry i would never i would
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never leave you in that oh my gosh i'm i'm sorry all right well you sit down and whatever you can do
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let's do well hopefully i don't sound ridiculous but i i am so excited about this book and it's it's
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it just hit all the nation's bestseller list usa today new york times and publishers weekly and
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um i had a movie producer call me and then tell me that he um has already read it twice and this is his
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number one goal is to get produced but most important i wanted a book that at this time in our country
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that people would have something warm you know the book is about compassion it's about it's about
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not judging each other and it's about loving each other for the fire that's within um do you watch do you
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watch the hallmark channel sometimes yeah so i watch it and i only i've i've actually never been
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a fan because it's so obvious the way all those stories are going to end but i i actually watch it
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with my wife in a fun way but but it is they're always i don't know christmas is supposed to be a
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renewal of hope and as cheesy as some of those movies are there is something special about christmas
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that allows you to start all over again is that why you keep coming back to christmas in a lot of your
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novels it is i mean they say to dance with who brought you to the dance and my first book was the
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christmas box right and i spent years trying to get away from that i didn't want to be typecast as a
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christmas author even though i mean the new york times called me the king of christmas fiction so i was
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kind of stuck and i tried to get away from it that's why christmas is a time of redemption
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it's a time of love it's a time when society comes together and why not why not embrace it
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you are you have a fascinating life i wish i could live your life in so in in many ways you travel all
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over the world um as you're doing research for your books i know michael uh michael vay you traveled
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all over you speak um mandarin don't you yes i got to go back to taiwan and oh my gosh god it was just
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like it was just like i wrote it in the book it's like this is it was like it really existed but the
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only way to really get the fill is to go there um so but glenn you're the life i'd like to have
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no one dreams as big as you yeah um so are are we ever going to talk about my son who read every
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single uh michael vay book we read them together i think if you're looking for a christmas gift uh
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you know for your family to uh to read i mean obviously the christmas promise is his book but
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if you've never read the series uh that richard wrote uh michael vay it is great and we started
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reading him i think rafe was probably seven or eight he just said to me the other day i said i'm
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trying to convince uh richard paul evans to write another uh group of books on michael vay he said
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you're kidding me he's 17 and he stills you're kidding me really when's that going to happen i said
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i don't know i you know i am hoping that he's going to want to do another one go ahead and go
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ahead when um in the midst of this when i came down with pneumonia we i went to a hotel to get away from
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my family and i'm checking in and this the lady at the counter young lady she looked up looked at my
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name she goes are you a writer and i go yes she goes did you write michael vay and i said yes she goes
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i love those books yeah she had the cutest smile on her face yeah they're really they're great that's
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a great series um richard um i want to talk to you about something else that you're uh that you're
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doing but we'll save that for um next year because i something has happened and it just drives me out
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of my mind and and uh i want richard to tell you the story of that but maybe we'll do that uh next year
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i know the uh the the christmas promise um or the christmas box organization uh has
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has been helping and you do so much what are you doing this season is there anything that
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our audience might want to get involved in oh thank you so much yeah we're providing christmas for
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3 000 abused children and i love this organization you know we are hands-on with these kids and we
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struggle with covet um i mean we take the kids 24 7 so if they go to the christmasbox.org
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just the christmasbox.org or look at the christmas box house and um i'm just really proud more than 80
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percent of everything that comes in goes right to the kids and we provide we've provided billions of
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dollars of assistance to these children who have no one else you know they don't have their families
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i love this organization uh check it out you can go to uh the christmas box do you look up the
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christmas box house what what do we or do you have the web address it's in it's in utah so just uh yes
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the web is christmasbox.org christmasbox.org thank you so much have a great holiday and uh get well
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thank you glenn my best to your family god bless you bye-bye the uh the name of the book is the
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christmas promise and he is just he's a fantastic fantastic author if you've never read any of his
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books he's actually i don't know if we've ever talked about this simon and schuster um came to me
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because of the original ending of the christmas sweater is i think and always have felt is a better
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ending i've always wanted to update the christmas sweater and give it the original ending um
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uh but it was director's cut yeah yeah they thought it was depressing and i said no you read a
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depressing book i can't even imagine they said it was depressing because in it mom dies but in it
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you know it goes on for a couple more chapters uh and in it you see real redemption work out and
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they were like you can't have a holiday book where mom dies and i'm like but it's that's the true i mean
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it's better it's and they really didn't understand the idea and the concept of redemption they found
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yeah but he see he learns all the lessons and they're like no no mom can't die i didn't know how
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to write that and so i called richard paul evans i don't even know if we knew each other that well back
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then and i said you know i i know you're the king of christmas i'm stuck i've got this book and i can't
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i can't figure out a way to get this to be anywhere where i want it to be uh and mom lives
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and he said send it to me let me look at it and he called me back in a couple of days and he said
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okay here's what happens eddie has to do this this this this and this and he was the guy who
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really is responsible for the ending of you know two million copies sold of the christmas sweater
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and he's the guy who who wrote it the you know i mean are you trying to convince us he's a better
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author than you because we already believe that clearly yeah yeah yeah you don't need to know no
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work to meet down there this is the best of the glenbeck program
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this is the glenbeck program we're glad you're here i want to uh i want to uh introduce you to
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somebody who i think is here against his will um and the when when the story was first given to me i
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said oh that's a great story uh but it was given to me by our executive producer uh ricky who has
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just married our next guest's son and so that made it a lock for me because i just wanted to say to
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our guest our deepest consult condolences or is it her deepest condolences no it was
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congratulations congratulations that was a con one way or another yeah it was a con started with
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anyway uh eric fellman how are you sir i am fantastic i'm just thrilled that you admitted
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the extreme nepotism that's going on oh my gosh it was hide it right yeah she was like i'll get you
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fired if you don't have him on and i was like wait a minute ricky uh uh but i gotta say i gotta say
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yeah that my son jason totally outkicked his coverage when he got ricky so there's no question
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what a good father-in-law um all right so here's the thing um you have and i don't want to talk about
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the the hallmark movie because i hear it's nothing like the real story but a hallmark movie a god wink
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christmas miracle of love is airing is premiering tomorrow night on hallmark and it is based on
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a story that happened to you correct that's correct loosely loosely based now you're never
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going to guess how this ends will the couple actually get together in the end will a miracle
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happen watch tomorrow night on hallmark um but uh uh tell me the story quickly start you know
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you know you you started dating your your wife in the early 70s and then in 1975 something happens
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tell me tell me so uh we met that previous summer and in and we built a relationship got engaged and
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a few weeks before we were to be married i was working and i was involved in a horrible accident
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and uh and i was traveling i was in the small town of oshkosh wisconsin and uh the doctors didn't
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think i would survive but one of them had gone to a seminar which is where the god wink comes in which
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means a coincidence and they had i had a severe liver injury and okay hang on hang on hang on hang
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on hang on yeah yeah you suck at telling your own story let me let me help you out here just a little
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bit let me be hallmark here just a little bit you were working you were working you were working like
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eight weeks straight so you could pay for the honeymoon when you're getting when you're on vacation
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you're up in where wisconsin and she's in san diego that's correct okay and you your your truck
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won't start that you're you're using for your job and you get underneath it and the car brake goes out
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and actually lurches forward and crushes everything from the belt up right except for your head that is
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very true and it did get part of my head because it it smashed my jaw in three places holy cow and so
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when you're laying there how long were you laying there was anyone around so i was in the parking
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lot of a of a little restaurant and uh i just i knew what had happened you know because and i thought
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well i'm dead i really did and i had one of those moments where you hear from god and he said not yet
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and so i kind of tried to holler and somebody ran up and this woman started screaming and they
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immediately called the emts and got me to the the local hospital oshkosh mercy's medical center so your jaw
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your call both collarbones several ribs broken right arm shattered um they actually went if i'm
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not mistaken they called uh your bride to be and said don't rush he's not going to make it yeah she
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was actually at her bridal shower and my father called her father and he called the church and said
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send joy home right now they got a hold of the hospital and they said exactly what you said he's
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not going to make it don't rush out here um we're so sorry you know uh but she jumped on a plane every
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anyway and obviously i survived and the first thing i saw when i opened my eyes was her lovely face and
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i'm trying to figure out how did she get here because you know i was yeah out of it for for several
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several hours so when you got in to surgery your liver ruptured and that's normally a death sentence
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right correct but the guy who was just happened to be on duty i mean you weren't with a special you
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were just at the hospital the next hospital that could take you right correct yeah and he just happened
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to be on call okay and so he happened to uh be on call and what had he just happened to do
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he had been at a seminar and there was a another session with a billboard out there and it said
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uh new technique for liver trauma and he was going to go home and he said well i might as well go to
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this and it was just the day before so therefore the coincidence that the writer called a god wink and
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he said to his his partner uh one was named graver the other was our partner was isom he said uh let's
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try this this kid's a goner anyway so they used that technique and saved my life that is unbelievable
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really truly unbelievable you've you went on i i just love this because i i love norman vincent peele
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um you uh uh you went to work with norman vincent peele and donald trump as the co-chair of peele's 90th
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birthday right which had to be well that yes that was a an amazing event where uh trump's father
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loved dr peele and so when trump was a teenager there was an assigned seat for him to sit in
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peele's church in in uh you know uh 29th and 5th avenue in manhattan every week and uh later when
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peele came around to this big celebration for his 90th birthday trump and and then former governor
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john y brown of kentucky were the co-chairs but trump was in charge and we met in manhattan and i was
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placed you know as the staff executive responsible to help him with whatever he needed so i mean there
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were 20 people in the room but i got to spend two or three sessions watching him orchestrate a wonderful
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event for dr peele's 90th birthday and you've gone on to also you went to china uh and you were there
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when the churches were open for the first time after 50 years yep and that was an amazing experience
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joy went with me um the chinese government was very anxious to show that they were loosening at that
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time and uh we we went we attended a few church events but also experienced through interview what
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many of the believers had gone through in terms of imprisonment and torture during the
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the 40 years between when the churches were closed and when they were reopened
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you also had three kids one of them is jason and now he's married to ricky which kind of makes it
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it cheapens it a bit doesn't it i mean you've went on to do all these things
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well i you know i can't say that because i never thought i'd ever get to be on glenn beck's radio
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this is another amazing event in my life well i have to tell you um i saw a bit of the clip
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what you just told me and what i knew it doesn't seem like hallmark it doesn't seem like anything
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like what you just told me yeah so the only two things in the hallmark movie are our names
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the fact that graber saved my life and that we and that joy ended up marrying me that's the only
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that's it not even the injury nothing well well there's a oh yeah there's an injury but the the
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facts of the injury are different because instead of meeting at a summer camp and going to work
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they have us meeting on a habitat for humanity project and i actually haven't seen the whole movie
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so i don't know all the details but um are you gonna watch it are you gonna watch it absolutely
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it's already you know we're old now so it starts at 10 o'clock we might not make it
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but it's on record it's on record eric great to talk to you sir thank you so much we'll be
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watching god winks uh the hallmark movie a god wink christmas miracle and it had nothing to do
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with christmas either did it you're no it was in july it was in july okay good a god week christmas
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a miracle of love that is tomorrow night on hallmark thank you so much eric god bless