The Glenn Beck Program - Bombs at Midnight： FBI Foils Terrorist Attack ｜ Guest： Ryan Mauro ｜ 12⧸16⧸25

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00:04:01.800 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Yesterday, a very disturbing story broke,

00:04:12.620 and it is something that a guy I deeply, deeply respect, Ryan Morrow, who was on this program back

00:04:20.400 in April. He warned, and he broke the news and said, look, there's a group out there you need to be aware

00:04:28.100 of. And he has been warning for a while, and nobody was listening. Well, maybe somebody was because we

00:04:36.160 foiled the attack. And it was a serious plan of attack. And we'll get to that here in just a second.

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00:06:12.960 by the Department of Justice, four members of an anti-capitalist, anti-government group that calls

00:06:19.880 for violence against the United States and its officials. The plan allegedly plotting an attack

00:06:28.420 on two U.S. companies with improvised explosive devices this New Year's Eve. We don't know what

00:06:35.440 those companies were, but it was not good. The Turtle Island Liberation Front. Turtle Island

00:06:43.700 Liberation Front. Ever heard of Turtle Island? That's what the indigenous people call America. Turtle

00:06:51.020 Island. That's what they call the North America. This is a far-left, pro-Palestinian, 0.95

00:06:57.500 anti-government, and anti-capitalist group. When I say it was pro-Palestinian, I want you to 0.77

00:07:03.860 understand this. That is not their main thing. They are anti-American and anti-capitalist. This is part

00:07:14.400 of what's called the Red-Green Alliance, and we'll explain that here in just a second. But they were

00:07:19.920 preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year's

00:07:26.280 Eve. They also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles. The four were arrested. They faced federal

00:07:34.600 charges of conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive advice. This was called

00:07:41.500 Operation Midnight Sun, and they were going to plant backpacks and pipe bombs and complex IEDs to

00:07:48.360 detonate simultaneously at multiple locations, targeting U.S. companies on New Year's Eve at midnight.

00:07:54.860 It's considered, obviously, a terrorist attack. Their searches of their homes uncovered Turtle

00:08:03.100 Island Liberation Front posters like Death to America and Death to ICE. You know, one of the funny

00:08:10.380 things that I read was, this is from their Facebook post. Little-known extremist group has paraded

00:08:20.400 around sick slogans like Death to America and insisted that the United States' mere existence

00:08:25.660 is inherently violent. Now, this is what they posted on Facebook. When we say Death to America and call

00:08:32.000 for an end to colonization, it doesn't mean the displacement or harm of non-Indigenous citizens.

00:08:40.380 Wait, you were targeting ICE officials and you were going to blow things up. I do not think it means

00:08:50.720 what you think it means, but maybe that's just me. Sorry, thought of Rob Reiner there for a second.

00:08:59.060 I just, it's sad to lose Rob Reiner with, anyway. Let me go to Ryan Morrow. Ryan is with us now,

00:09:06.800 researcher and joining us at the torch as somebody who's just really going to sharpen us on all of

00:09:15.220 our warnings and all of our research into these radical groups. Welcome. How are you?

00:09:20.920 I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.

00:09:23.560 So, it was in April, I think you were on, and you said, Glenn, you have to pay attention,

00:09:29.860 one of the groups you have to pay attention to is Turtle Island Liberation Front, and here it is,

00:09:34.440 almost exactly what you said would happen is happening now.

00:09:38.740 Right. So, what had happened was, is that with my colleagues at the Capital Research Center,

00:09:42.340 we had mapped out basically the entire anti-Israeli extremist movement, over 150 groups,

00:09:48.180 and that was with limited time, so it's much bigger than that. But one of the things I saw

00:09:53.720 in their ecosystem, and this just shows how we live in completely separate worlds, is that this term

00:09:58.720 Turtle Island was commonplace. So, whether you're a communist or an Islamist or you're an anarchist

00:10:05.500 or whatever, you would refer to the U.S. as the so-called United States or Turtle Island and say

00:10:11.600 it's occupied and it needs to be liberated just like Palestine. And so, they would refuse to say 0.98

00:10:16.400 Israel, they say Palestine. They refuse to say the United States to say Turtle Island. Why?

00:10:20.580 And it's because of this conception out there that I'm not even sure is that accurate,

00:10:24.920 that the Native American tribes referred to the U.S. and Canada and Mexico as Turtle Island

00:10:30.860 because they believed that the continent was created on the back of a turtle. And then until the evil

00:10:38.060 white settler capitalist came in and ruined everything, that's what it inherently was, 1.00

00:10:43.560 and so it's equivalent to Palestine. And so, the conclusion of my study, and I debuted some of the 0.83

00:10:48.880 findings with you, and in fact, I think you were the only media outlet that actually made a point of

00:10:53.440 this and got this, was that there's a certain level of diversity among these pro-terror extremists.

00:10:59.000 So, what's the unifying factor? The theme? It's liberating Turtle Island. It's a way that

00:11:04.660 of calling for violence and the destruction of the U.S., just like they want to destroy Israel,

00:11:09.900 but to do it in a way that goes over the heads of people, but people who understand the language

00:11:13.700 know what it means. And it's frankly smart because of the sympathy and the way American students have

00:11:23.060 been taught about the history of the Native American tribes. So, it taps into something where

00:11:28.260 if you think that there's a lot of sympathy for Palestinians, the people that American youth don't

00:11:34.780 know anything about, now imagine tapping into what they feel about what happened to the Native Americans.

00:11:42.700 I will tell you, the left has been courting the Native Americans for a very long time because the

00:11:49.160 right just hasn't, you know, paid attention to it at all. And so, the left saw an opportunity and they

00:11:56.100 are deeply in, especially in the Navajo, deeply, deeply in with the left or the left is deeply in

00:12:05.300 bed with the Navajo. And there is an opportunity to turn people very, very radical. And that's what 0.96

00:12:11.580 you're talking about here. And, you know, when you say this is an anti-Israel thing or pro-Palestinian,

00:12:19.160 I want to make sure people understand, just as the Marxists were the ones who helped overthrow the

00:12:28.280 Shah of Iran and bring the Ayatollah in, they were partners with the Islamists. The Islamists, 0.99

00:12:36.100 and I think the Marxists too, they're not part of the same end game. They don't have the same end

00:12:45.380 game in mind other than, in that case, the destruction of the Shah of Iran and freeing its 0.93

00:12:52.060 people and having a revolution. When Iran was overthrown in 1979, within two years, 30,000 Marxists

00:13:01.020 were either killed, jailed, or disappeared. And that this is the same kind of thing, this alliance

00:13:08.080 with the indigenous people, with the Islamists, with Marxists, they're all going to sort that out 0.99

00:13:18.620 later. They just want to kill us first. They want to overthrow the government first. Then they'll 0.98

00:13:24.480 start eating each other. Do I have that right or wrong, Ryan? You have that right. They don't even

00:13:31.640 bother talking about that scenario too much because they just kind of feel like when you burn things to

00:13:35.260 the ground, what's natural and good will rise from the ashes. And so the theme of Turtle Island is

00:13:42.140 kind of the, that's why I called it the Turtle Island Intifada. It's kind of like what's bringing

00:13:46.560 together all of these ideologies. But what we also talked about back in April, and actually before that

00:13:52.220 too, was, well, what's the targeting strategy going to be? And what we concluded was that the

00:13:58.200 campaign is going to broaden, because they were openly, I was seeing in their communication, they're

00:14:01.600 saying, look, this Israel issue is going to go away. And they didn't want to say it was partially

00:14:05.700 because Israel was kicking their butts so badly. But they said, this issue is going to not rally 0.97

00:14:11.120 people anymore. What do we do? We need to become an anti-police movement. And to whatever degree we can

00:14:16.340 broaden it out to be an anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist movement. And so you were able to tell,

00:14:21.060 what was the next stage? It was going to be under the banner of Turtle Island.

00:14:25.540 And they were going to target law enforcement, specifically ICE was the one that was most

00:14:30.120 talked about. So that was able to be forecasted as well. But also companies that they can connect,

00:14:36.460 even by some leap, to the Zionist infrastructure, because that way you're hitting all the themes,

00:14:41.960 anti-police, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, Turtle Island and pro-Palestine. And that's exactly 0.89

00:14:49.500 what this plot was doing. It actually gave the fruition in a way that's much more vivid than I

00:14:54.420 anticipated. So although this plot was foiled, make no mistake about it, it is a marker in time

00:15:00.020 for this new era, this new offensive that has begun.

00:15:03.140 How likely is this going to be, how likely is this to become the next BLM movement? This, 0.59

00:15:12.100 you know, Turtle Island liberation, you know, from, you know, from sea to sea, Turtle Island 0.99

00:15:17.640 will be free kind of crap. 0.96

00:15:20.220 I think it's extremely likely. The chances are far better than 50-50. In fact, I think it's inevitable 0.98

00:15:27.400 it's going to get a lot of support just by people talking about saying, well, what is this Turtle

00:15:30.880 Island thing? Oh, the Native Americans? Oh, well, there's this almost biblical narrative

00:15:35.260 that follows this, where it was like the Turtle Island was the Garden of Eden, the capitalist

00:15:41.980 white colonists, white supremacists with their patriarchal came in and infected it like the 0.94

00:15:47.400 snake. And then the Native Americans were, essentially, it's like a Jesus narrative at that 0.98

00:15:52.600 point. Well, they died for our sin. And so now we need to restore the original Garden of

00:15:57.580 the Vietnam. So sometimes they use that language specifically. Most of the time, it's just that

00:16:01.260 type of theme. But that's kind of the emotional pull that comes in by tapping into that narrative.

00:16:06.800 And by the way, one of the accounts that this specific terrorist group followed on social media

00:16:11.120 was the Christian anarchists. Now, I know you've said in the past, you've noted how some of the

00:16:16.700 anarchist language went over even into the white supremacists. And people say, oh, they think of

00:16:22.280 anarchists, they just think of the far left. Like, no, if you watch this, how this goes, like, that is

00:16:27.820 the cycle. Like, there is a, I guess you could say right wing, but it's more like anarcho-capitalist

00:16:33.100 anarchists that sometimes identify as Christian. And so it goes, this propaganda goes from the

00:16:38.480 terrorists overseas governments to Turtle Island folks over to the Christian anarchists, and then it 0.59

00:16:43.820 cycles around. So this is all one seditionist movement.

00:16:46.840 Do you think the Trump administration gets it? I mean, hats off to the FBI and Kash Patel for,

00:16:55.480 you know, thwarting this and stopping this as they were in the desert beginning to assemble these

00:17:01.900 bombs. Do you think the administration gets how deep this goes and is willing to do the things? I mean,

00:17:09.880 Ryan, you and I both know the West is on the verge of being lost forever. If we don't wake up to this

00:17:19.900 and we don't start calling, you know, calling evil by its name, we are, we're going to lose.

00:17:26.840 We're going to lose this. We're close to losing Europe.

00:17:29.580 Well, three business days after you and I released my report that I wrote about the $80 million that

00:17:38.240 went from Soros' network to the pro-terror groups, it was reported that the Trump administration had

00:17:42.720 launched investigations specifically naming the report that we released on the Charlie Kirk show

00:17:48.080 one week after he passed. So do they get it? I don't know if it's possible to fully get it if we

00:17:53.780 don't. Like, are they doing things? Yes. Can we help them do things? Yes. Remember that groups like

00:17:59.960 the FBI and all of them, they can't just collect intelligence on everyone's free speech protected

00:18:04.660 activity, but civilians can. That's where civilian researchers come in. And so that's what happened

00:18:10.760 with the Soros report. We can collect all of that. We can make the case. And so does the FBI know all of

00:18:16.660 it? No, because we and the citizens haven't given them everything that they need. And so I think two

00:18:22.780 things have to happen. First, we need to put together a team to map out the Turtle Island

00:18:27.660 Intifada and map this out so action can be taken. And the second thing is actually what I think you're

00:18:32.720 doing with preserving history is very important here because the counter narrative is going to

00:18:36.920 require us to use historical documents to tell the truth of everything that went on with the Native 0.95

00:18:42.840 American tribes, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that this type of simplistic hijacking of a 0.58

00:18:48.500 biblical narrative for evil ends can't really happen for these anti-American ends. Even if the

00:18:55.140 perpetrators of it don't realize it's a biblical narrative, that's where it's coming from. It's a

00:18:58.580 combination of the Garden of Eden story and the Jesus Christ story put together and framed for

00:19:05.700 evil propaganda that even Satanists sometimes parrot.

00:19:12.340 Ryan, I mean, we're supporting you. We're doing everything we can. I want to make sure that others,

00:19:18.820 because you run a nonprofit, your research center, Capital Research Center, is a nonprofit and you

00:19:24.740 operate on donations. If you are interested in helping, what Ryan is doing, and this is why I'm bringing him on

00:19:33.140 the air a lot beginning next year and working closely with him, because what he is finding,

00:19:40.500 the research that he's doing is unlike anybody else's, and it's critical that it happens. If you

00:19:46.900 happen to want to make a donation to a charity or to a 501c3, please consider Ryan's group. How do they

00:19:57.940 contact you, Ryan? How do they give? Well, I partner with Capital Research Center, who are

00:20:03.700 excellent to donate to, so that's kind of like a research wing, and then also ryanmorrow.com,

00:20:08.500 which is my personal website. That's where my specific intelligence gathering group is also based.

00:20:14.340 So I would say check out those two, because Capital Research Center is broader, but if you want to focus

00:20:19.140 just on the Turtle Island counter-extremism stuff, then ryanmorrow.com is where people can contact me

00:20:25.860 or make a donation so that we can, I mean, your fans can like, they give me great intel,

00:20:31.700 but I don't have the resources to act on all of it, and so I'm trying to rectify that, because you've

00:20:37.700 got an intelligence gathering army behind you, and it's time that we use it. Thank you so much,

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00:22:16.900 So, Cernovich, uh, tweeted yesterday, Jews are going to rise and fall with the whites in the West.

00:22:25.300 That's how the die has been cast. The red-green alliance means we are squeezed on either side by

00:22:31.060 Islamists who hate Jews and neo-Bolsheviks who hate whites. I think Bolsheviks also hate Jews as well, 0.98

00:22:38.900 but, uh, maybe I shouldn't be this candid, but we don't have time to play with. Uh, Tyler Boyer says,

00:22:45.300 uh, radical leftists want Republicans dead. Islam wants all of us dead. This is, 1.00

00:22:50.980 you, you need to understand, and I've been saying to you for the last few weeks,

00:22:56.420 2026 is a pivotal year. By 2027, you may not recognize your country. Um, you need to pay 1.00

00:23:03.700 attention to what's going on. I'm sorry to do this during the holidays, but you really need to pay

00:23:07.700 attention, uh, to what, uh, what is going on. Cause this is not about the Jews. It's not,

00:23:12.500 it's about Western values, Western values and God period. It's not, it's not just,

00:23:20.420 it's not just the Jewish God. It's about God. And if you think the Jews are our biggest problem,

00:23:28.340 you have an awakening to jihad that is right around, uh, the corner. Let me say hi to Stu.

00:23:35.540 Welcome Stu. How are you? Thanks Glenn. I appreciate you bringing me in right after the

00:23:38.660 end of Western civilization. Yes, you're welcome. You're welcome. I thought that would be a,

00:23:43.460 that that would be good. You know, it did. I don't know if you saw the thing, uh, the tweet

00:23:47.620 from the Dallas PD, um, Dallas police department fusion center operates around the clock, works

00:23:54.100 closely with regional national fusion centers and law enforcement partners to share timely

00:23:57.940 and relevant information. At this time with the start of Hanukkah, the department will maintain

00:24:04.500 an established presence and heightened awareness related events and locations across the city.

00:24:08.660 We're proactively assessing and enhancing safety measures and maintaining close communication with

00:24:12.660 our public safety partners. Uh, following the recent attacks in the United States and abroad,

00:24:18.820 the Dallas police department continues to remain vigilant. You know, when you have to say,

00:24:23.060 Hey, there might be a terrorist attack. Oh, and by the way, Hanukkah just started.

00:24:27.940 You might, you might have a clue onto what the real problem is here. Sad.

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00:26:14.980 Maybe it's much too early in the game, but I thought I'd ask you just the same.

00:26:36.900 I came home yesterday. My wife said,

00:26:43.940 I don't know what to do, honey. I said, what do you mean? She said,

00:26:46.980 I got a call from a friend who wants me to come to a school tomorrow because the poverty that is

00:26:59.860 all around us is horrible. And she said, so I'm going to the school where they just handed out

00:27:10.020 Christmas gifts to the kids and the teachers are putting their money up and they're buying

00:27:16.660 little gifts for everybody in the class. And she said, one little boy went to get a gift. Everybody

00:27:24.420 can get one. And a little boy went up and picked up his gift, got his gift, picked it out.

00:27:31.700 And she said, what are you going to do with it? And he said, all right, why'd you pick that or

00:27:39.940 something? He said, because I'm going to give this one to my sister. And she said, well,

00:27:47.060 this is for you. And you know, what are you going to get? And she said, he said, well,

00:27:52.340 we can only have one. And I really want to give this one to my sister because she doesn't have anything

00:27:56.740 coming. And I just thought, I mean, it's heartbreaking and so sweet. She said, I don't know

00:28:03.620 what to do. I mean, how can we help? So pray for my wife because she's on her way to that school

00:28:15.940 right now. And I don't, I mean, she'll hear the voice of the Lord and know what to do, I think,

00:28:22.580 I hope. But in the meantime, I really, real struggle is coming for the first time in most

00:28:37.860 of our lives, real struggle is coming and it's already here for a lot of people. And I talked

00:28:44.260 to Mercury One and asked if, you know, we can stand in the gap for people. There are families

00:28:52.460 already that Mercury One is helping that lost, you know, everything. And they are, Mercury One

00:29:01.420 is going out and delivering groceries and gifts and hope to households facing the unthinkable. And

00:29:09.600 we're using not only the information we have for some of these places where we're rebuilding homes,

00:29:15.200 but also through churches, et cetera, et cetera. And if you would, if you have it in your means at all

00:29:23.700 to give anything, and I, I want to concentrate on the Christmas gifts that we can buy for kids that we

00:29:31.060 know that are in trouble that, you know, that, that somehow or another through the churches or what,

00:29:35.660 whatever the, the system is down on the ground that we know and trust to be able to buy gifts

00:29:42.100 for some of those kids. Um, but also I'm, I'm really concerned about food. Um, and not just this

00:29:50.040 holiday season, but moving forward, the food banks are really under stress. Uh, and if you at all

00:29:59.380 would like to make a donation and you can't afford it, um, Tony and I, we're going to put up the first

00:30:05.760 hundred thousand. And if you would like to join me in a dollar, $20, whatever you can, um, please do

00:30:17.000 just go to Mercury One. It's mercuryone.org, mercuryone.org, and just, um, mark your donation food slash

00:30:26.260 Christmas. Um, and we will do everything we can to make sure that we can cover as many people as we

00:30:34.120 can, but it will all revolve around you. Uh, that's mercuryone.org, mercuryone.org. Um, Stu is already

00:30:43.320 stepped to the plate. He's giving, well, he hasn't given anything yet. Um, wow. I'm going to give the,

00:30:49.700 uh, 14th, 100,000. Um, so you're going to give the 14th. So if 13 other people or 12 other people

00:30:58.180 step up, you're going to do that. Uh, yes, a hundred, well, 114th, 100,000 would be, would be my

00:31:05.180 exact number. Uh, but I want to get people. It's possible. We have an audience that might actually,

00:31:11.840 this audience will have that done in 10 minutes. I know. That's great. That's all. That's a really

00:31:19.060 please. If you can, uh, if you can, please, uh, please give to mercuryone.org, um, right now.

00:31:27.300 Okay. So let's see some of the other things, um, that are going on. Uh, you know, there's more on the,

00:31:36.260 the, the shooting in Australia. Did you see the comment from the mom, the, the hero dis who

00:31:46.040 disarmed? He's a hero. He's getting a lots of accolades. Um, but, uh, here's the family of Ahmed

00:31:55.220 Al Ahmed. No, no, that's the good guy. Hang on just a second. That's the hero. I'm just looking

00:32:03.440 through all of the stories here. It is. Here it is. Mother of the, uh, Bondi beach shooting suspect,

00:32:10.600 the mother of Navid Akram, who along with his father allegedly killed more than a dozen people

00:32:17.780 at a Hanukkah celebration said on Sunday, insisted her son was a good boy. Now, I mean, I can understand,

00:32:25.720 you know, you wanting to believe that cause your son is your son. Um, you know, but I don't think

00:32:33.420 I don't think anybody in, um, Rob Reiner's family is thinking the brother is a good boy

00:32:41.080 right now. They might love him still, but he's not a good boy. They might say if, if indeed,

00:32:47.200 if he did, he did that. Yeah. There, there could be an element of, of thinking, right? Like, you

00:32:51.960 know, he's been overcome by addiction or overcome by a mental illness. And I think he's a good boy

00:32:56.960 underneath that. You can have that opinion about your Islamic extremist terrorist son if you want, 0.96

00:33:02.320 but what you'd have to say, I think accompanying that is he got infected by this extremism and, 0.53

00:33:10.100 you know, by his dad who, you know, led him down a terrible path. Like that's a, her husband,

00:33:15.560 right? That's a plausible thing. If that's what you believe, he can't be a good boy. Uh, if you,

00:33:21.620 if he's murdering people, unless of course, Glenn, you believe that the outcome was positive,

00:33:27.920 was positive. Yes. She said, uh, he doesn't have a firearm. Yeah, he does. Uh, he doesn't even go

00:33:35.440 out. He doesn't mix around with friends. Well, now you're describing a loner. Um, he doesn't drink,

00:33:41.340 smoke, or go to bad places. Anyone would wish to have a son like my son. He's a good boy. No,

00:33:47.020 no, no, no. I, I, I'm, I'm safe to say no, I don't want a son like that. Yeah. I, I, I'm pretty

00:33:54.420 sure like he's, she was about to say, and he stays away from trans fats. That's great. Uh, just doesn't

00:34:00.080 have much to do with this particular incident. Yeah. Yeah. I would, uh, I would say that. Um,

00:34:07.640 also can I, can I follow up while we're in this realm here real quick? Um, we have this audio,

00:34:12.200 uh, this is, you mentioned this briefly, but I, I, you know, let's play a game here. Can you find

00:34:18.560 the logical problem with this particular audio from ABC news? Uh, this is about, uh, the somewhat

00:34:26.480 associated shooting of the pro Palestinian group or the pipe bombing, uh, for the pro Palestinian

00:34:31.720 group you were discussing a little bit earlier this hour. Listen to this. This is a real clip. I'm

00:34:35.260 not, not edited. Listen, it's important to know, Brad, that in this complaint, nowhere did they

00:34:39.320 allege that any of these individuals wanted anybody to be harmed as a result of these pipe

00:34:44.460 bombs? Specifically, it really does appear that their aim was to send a political message.

00:34:49.140 As they said, prosecutors yesterday in this news conference, Carol and page also discussed

00:34:53.820 plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings, which included plans to a target ice agents and

00:35:00.140 vehicles with pipe bombs. Now, can you detect any issue with that? I found two. Okay.

00:35:08.860 I found two. One, we are, we're, they're not targeting anybody with the use of the pipe

00:35:15.460 bombs. Right. Okay. Now maybe, maybe nobody gets hurt like that, but experience and history

00:35:23.400 tells me sometimes when you don't know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people. Right. Yes.

00:35:30.800 And sometimes when you do know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people. That's the, that's problem

00:35:38.820 number one. Problem number two was they stated they were then going to target ice agents as

00:35:47.620 if ice agents aren't people. You know, Glenn, that is exactly what I came up with. And I think

00:35:54.400 I've heard this statement, you mentioned the same sentiment earlier on in the program.

00:35:59.380 A lot of people are saying this because I guess in their conversations that were, you know,

00:36:04.160 picked off as this, where they're going through this investigation, there was some, some similarities

00:36:08.960 to, if you think back to like early environmental terrorist attacks, ALF and ELF, some of those

00:36:14.620 attacks, not all, but some of those attacks were targeted at infrastructure and things around

00:36:20.340 the, you know, the oil industry, but not, you know, intentionally trying not to harm the workers

00:36:27.020 or whatever. And some of their, I guess, conversations back and forth echoed that sentiment. Like, let's

00:36:32.320 put them in a place where people aren't going to be. Okay. Well, I mean, again, I, I don't think that's

00:36:36.620 good. I don't think of these people as heroes, but you know, Hollywood would make movies over

00:36:40.680 people like that and how wonderful and glorious they were. But at the end, they, they just seemed to

00:36:46.520 ignore that they had a tax plan against ICE agents. And the only way that makes logical

00:36:52.960 sense is if you don't think ICE agents are people.

00:36:56.660 Are people. Yep. Yep. Yep. Dehumanize, dehumanize, dehumanize. That's why I've been saying we've

00:37:05.020 got to stop made. We've got to, we have to appreciate life again. We have to stand for life,

00:37:13.120 all life. If we don't, you can just say, well, that's not really a person. You've got to stand

00:37:20.040 for life. One more story in this, just to show you how close we are to losing Europe. The French 1.00

00:37:26.380 who, you know, are, are not used to waving the white flag, you know, they're, they're, they're,

00:37:34.600 they're tough. Um, they have decided on new year's Eve that they are not going to, uh, hold the

00:37:44.360 firework show that they always hold at the arc to triumph. So they always have a new year's Eve

00:37:53.020 concert and firework show, but this year they've decided that they're going to scrap it.

00:38:00.240 Wait until you hear what they were going to replace it with. Um, but they're going to scrap it

00:38:04.920 because, uh, there are security concerns, uh, such as quote, unpredictable crowd movements.

00:38:18.340 Um, you mean like the crowds that are coming over on boats and coming onto your shore? You mean those

00:38:23.280 crowd movements? Cause I, I mean, I think we know what they're saying here. They're saying they're

00:38:28.160 very concerned that there might be trouble. There might be some sort of, you know, shootings or

00:38:35.020 activity or terrorists, but they're not, they're just saying it's unpredictable, uh, crowd movements.

00:38:40.400 And so we're, we're, we're, we're suggesting that we cancel the decades old fireworks celebration

00:38:48.800 on new year's Eve. That's like canceling times square. Okay. We're going to cancel that and instead

00:38:55.500 replace it with, this is a quote with a prerecorded video to be viewed in the safety and comfort

00:39:04.080 of your French living room. Oh, so he watching, we can watch an old celebration. I go, why not?

00:39:15.800 Dick Clark. We got all those tapes of Dick Clark. Let's just cancel new year's day and times square

00:39:21.300 and just play one from like 1977. I mean, who didn't love that? Not only, not only is that

00:39:27.080 completely insane, it's also a great example as to why virtual school didn't work, uh, right? Like

00:39:34.020 it's, you know, that's not the same thing. I, my wife is a big fan of around this time of year,

00:39:40.460 every television has got the Yule log on it. And you know, sure, it does help you. Uh, it's nice,

00:39:48.980 you know, it's a little, it helps you celebrate the season a little bit, but it's not the same

00:39:52.420 as gathering around the fire and feeling the heat. It's not the same, right? There's no,

00:39:57.960 there's no warp. There's no warp, but leave it to the French to surrender. I mean, we have lost 0.73

00:40:02.840 France. We have lost France. If they are not willing to say what's going on, look, there's terrorists

00:40:09.300 here and we're afraid of a large crowd and we're, we're lost because we've let too many people in

00:40:15.840 here. We have no idea who they are and they're dangerous and they want to kill us and kill our 0.99

00:40:20.500 civilization. We're working on that so we can have this next year, this year, we're going to have to

00:40:26.220 cancel it. But they're not saying that they're just saying, yeah, you know what? Watch it from home

00:40:30.260 and it'll be a videotape of an old one. Oh, okay. Let me tell you about the burner launcher. Every

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00:43:54.200 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It's our last broadcast week of the year. So glad that you're

00:44:06.820 listening to us. Thank you so much. Coming up, we have an update on the woman up in Canada,

00:44:12.660 Jolene, who is now in the really capable hands of several doctors here in the United States. They are

00:44:19.200 working with her to really narrow down the diagnosis and figure out the best plan. I'm not involved in

00:44:26.080 it, so I don't know what is happening exactly. But we're going to talk to Jim Norman. He is the guy

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00:48:01.500 Hello, America.

00:48:03.660 Well, we've learned a lot this week, and I want to continue with something new coming your way in 60 seconds.

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00:49:18.580 So I want to tell you a Christmas story that you may or may not have heard, but it is one of the, I think, one of the most historically important moments in war to ever happen.

00:49:33.840 I was lucky enough to be able to add to our collection just a few months ago, this.

00:49:47.340 It is called the Christmas Truce.

00:49:50.000 The Christmas Truce is something that happened in World War I in 1914.

00:49:55.200 And this is a very, very rare letter from one of the people, it's seven or eight pages long, from one of the people that was there.

00:50:06.300 And this is an eyewitness account, not years after.

00:50:09.240 This was written the day after it happened and sent to the guy's mom.

00:50:16.460 And it tells the whole story, kind of, kind of.

00:50:21.580 There's another letter from, I think his name was Otto Hahn, and he's German, and he was actually there as well.

00:50:34.500 Not actually on the field, but he played a different role.

00:50:37.700 I'll tell you about that here in a second.

00:50:39.660 But let me just read this letter.

00:50:43.680 It says,

00:50:45.180 Dear Mother, 0.93

00:50:46.680 It was awfully good of you to send chocolate, which arrived safely and went down very well indeed.

00:50:51.580 I've just come out of the trenches again after spending Christmas Day in them.

00:50:58.620 If you imagine by any chance that we would have had a rotten Christmas, I can assure you, you were very much mistaken.

00:51:05.100 Now remember, the trenches are some of the worst places you can be.

00:51:09.840 They're not, they're just killing people.

00:51:12.000 They're just slaughtering people, and nobody is advancing.

00:51:15.160 And it just goes on and on and on, and they're giant mud holes.

00:51:18.760 He said,

00:51:20.680 On Christmas Eve, it was chilly, and we were shelling the German trenches, but then it stopped.

00:51:26.840 There was a little rifle fire until about 5 p.m. when it became dark.

00:51:32.380 It was Christmas Eve.

00:51:35.160 We started singing carols and songs.

00:51:38.520 We heard the Germans do the same.

00:51:40.680 Then, one of them pushed a Christmas tree on top of their trench.

00:51:49.800 After that, we decided we would light candles and lights and put them on top of the trenches to cheer them up a bit

00:51:57.740 and carry on some sort of, quote, I love this line,

00:52:01.740 matey conversations with the enemy.

00:52:04.000 Merry Christmas, one of us shouted.

00:52:10.460 As things seemed to be going very well, we thought, maybe we can get out of the trench and go up on top.

00:52:19.480 Now imagine the risk of this guy.

00:52:22.080 He said four of us did this.

00:52:23.980 Imagine.

00:52:25.440 You're killing each other.

00:52:27.200 It's a killing field.

00:52:28.500 Dead bodies of your friends are right on top of this trench.

00:52:31.600 And you think, they just pushed up a Christmas tree.

00:52:34.740 We've been singing Christmas carols.

00:52:36.120 They've been singing Christmas carols.

00:52:37.480 We just put candles up.

00:52:39.160 Maybe four of us.

00:52:40.660 And these were Highlanders, so you know that the Highlanders, you know,

00:52:45.440 they have matey conversations all the time.

00:52:48.860 These are Scots that actually were the first to do it.

00:52:52.860 So four of us got on top.

00:52:54.620 And first, we struck matches, which was received well by them on the other side.

00:52:59.920 So then all of us got out, and we decided to hold a concert and dance out in the open.

00:53:09.160 After this, a few men thought it would be swell to shake hands and exchange cigars, cigarettes, and gingerbread with them.

00:53:19.140 We called out to them.

00:53:20.660 I met a few halfway between the trenches, and they were jolly good sports as well.

00:53:28.080 I shook hands with a German officer.

00:53:30.980 We spoke with them and exchanged small gifts.

00:53:35.240 Chocolate, cigars, buttons.

00:53:38.940 We shared stories from home and photographs.

00:53:42.940 It seemed impossible that we were actually really enemies.

00:53:46.840 We also had time, so we took it and buried our dead.

00:53:52.640 We buried them together, with short prayers spoken in both languages.

00:53:58.620 For a time, the war simply was not there.

00:54:03.080 It was strange, very strange.

00:54:05.460 Because tomorrow we will have to shoot at one another again. 0.99

00:54:08.380 It will be hard to shoot them now.

00:54:14.480 That's the letter that we have now at the American Journey Experience Vault that I just acquired,

00:54:23.040 and we'll go into our clay pot project to save our history and to save what our civilization really was like.

00:54:31.900 This is a moment here where Judeo-Christian values come to play a role.

00:54:36.220 It's the healing power of Christmas and the message of Christmas,

00:54:42.420 that in the middle of this war, they stop, and they're able to come out of the trenches.

00:54:47.760 They've just been killing each other.

00:54:49.720 They come out of the trenches.

00:54:51.340 They stop.

00:54:55.920 Here's what one German soldier wrote in another letter.

00:54:58.560 What I still believed to be madness, just several hours ago, I could now see with my own eyes.

00:55:07.820 One Englishman was joined so soon by another, they came towards us until he was more than halfway toward our trenches.

00:55:15.520 He's responding.

00:55:16.880 He's talking about the guy of the letter I just read to you.

00:55:19.440 By at which point, some of our people had already approached them.

00:55:25.580 None of us had our rifles.

00:55:28.360 Between the trenches, the hated and the bitter opponents met around the Christmas tree,

00:55:34.040 and we sang Christmas carols.

00:55:36.220 I will never forget this sight for as long as I live.

00:55:40.500 Listen to this line.

00:55:41.360 One could see that the man, the human being, lives on,

00:55:48.580 even if he knows nothing more in these days than killing.

00:55:53.320 Christmas 1914 will be unforgettable to me.

00:55:59.280 I wanted to share this with you today for a couple of reasons.

00:56:04.700 One, it's one of my favorite stories of Christmas.

00:56:08.140 There have been a couple of movies made about this moment.

00:56:12.600 This is the original letter that told the story that the movie makers used.

00:56:21.920 But I wanted to tell you this story because it feels really dark at times.

00:56:29.380 And it's in that darkness that the light really matters,

00:56:34.800 that that candle really shone.

00:56:40.740 They lit matches.

00:56:42.760 I mean, they're not close to each other.

00:56:44.980 And there's barbed wire and dead bodies in between them.

00:56:47.580 They light matches.

00:56:48.920 And that light signaled something.

00:56:54.020 That is the spark of Christmas.

00:56:56.640 That is the light of Christmas.

00:56:58.580 That is what we built our whole civilization on.

00:57:04.760 And you can say, yeah, but look at what happened in that war of, you know, World War I.

00:57:10.600 It was awful.

00:57:11.480 The Germans gasped, et cetera, et cetera.

00:57:14.380 Well, the guy who wrote the German letter, the most famous German letter,

00:57:18.540 he's actually a guy who was there.

00:57:21.160 And he was on the chemical squad, if you will.

00:57:25.640 He saw it deployed once, and he asked for a transfer.

00:57:28.340 And he wrote to his wife and said, this is an abomination.

00:57:31.000 This has got to stop.

00:57:31.860 He stayed in Germany.

00:57:33.680 He was one of the guys who got the Nobel Prize for splitting the atom, 1937, 38.

00:57:39.820 I don't remember.

00:57:41.420 But he's one of the guys that got the Nobel Prize.

00:57:44.540 And he never joined the ranks of the Nazis and never went to build the atomic bomb.

00:57:51.060 He warned, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this.

00:58:02.960 Is he a good guy or a bad guy?

00:58:05.980 He's really, he's, he's really neither, really.

00:58:12.960 I think he's something rarer.

00:58:14.260 He's a, he's a man that understood too late that knowledge is never neutral.

00:58:19.500 It's what you do with the knowledge.

00:58:24.020 So what are we doing with our knowledge now?

00:58:27.940 And what are we doing in this holiday season?

00:58:30.100 Are we finding those striking matches?

00:58:32.860 Are we looking for the light?

00:58:39.200 We learned a couple of things.

00:58:40.860 A couple of things this week.

00:58:49.360 In my life, tomorrow is the last TV show I'll be doing.

00:58:53.760 The last Wednesday night special on Blaze TV.

00:58:56.660 And I urge you to join me.

00:59:00.120 But it'll be the last and kind of a end of a, I don't know.

00:59:05.580 End of a chapter.

00:59:06.440 And we also announced yesterday that Stu is going to be leaving the show shortly after the new year.

00:59:16.340 I have been begging him, borrowing him, bribing him, threatening his family, doing everything I could to keep him with me for 27 years.

00:59:26.760 And he has finally found something that he really wants to do.

00:59:33.320 And how can I possibly stop him?

00:59:37.100 I want to support him in that.

00:59:39.500 So he'll be leaving.

00:59:40.600 But I want you to know, while there is an ending to some of these things, there is a match strike in January.

00:59:54.500 And I call it the torch.

00:59:56.840 And let me bring it back to the history here.

00:59:59.640 You know, when you read a letter like that, or you hear somebody tell a story like that, you realize something uncomfortable.

01:00:06.960 History is not living in textbooks.

01:00:08.840 And it's not about dates and memorizing the date and the name.

01:00:12.360 It lives in breath.

01:00:14.840 It lives in cold hands.

01:00:16.980 It lives in fear and in longing.

01:00:20.020 And a letter like that is not data that you should remember.

01:00:23.220 1914.

01:00:23.780 1914, that letter is a heartbeat that has long gone, long been silenced.

01:00:31.580 And I have been spending years collecting things like this, letters and artifacts and moments that were never meant to survive.

01:00:40.820 But if you want people to learn history, you can't just tell them what happened.

01:00:47.460 They have to feel it.

01:00:49.120 So let me show you something that we're beginning next year on how you can feel it.

01:00:56.180 I'll do that in 60 seconds.

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01:02:14.640 Ten seconds.

01:02:15.500 And I'm going to share something exciting on the other side.

01:02:17.500 So my team and I have been working for over a year on several different projects.

01:02:36.680 And one of those projects is to bring history to life in as many ways as possible.

01:02:42.040 You're going to be seeing us bring history to life in video, through AI.

01:02:51.120 You're going to actually feel it.

01:02:53.620 We're going to announce something about the museum early next year.

01:02:57.700 And you'll be able to experience it.

01:03:02.680 But one thing I wanted to share with you is we all have different ways of learning history.

01:03:08.680 And so we want to use all five senses because you have to let people feel it.

01:03:15.740 Next year, there will be 12 of these that will be coming out.

01:03:21.220 And this is the first one.

01:03:26.220 I hope you like it.

01:03:28.240 It is our way of teaching history through music.

01:03:31.700 So there will be 12 that will come out.

01:03:34.480 And you'll be able to use this to teach your kids these stories.

01:03:37.100 It will come with all of the documents that back up the story.

01:03:41.220 And you can teach the story.

01:03:42.380 But you can also learn it through song.

01:03:44.240 And I think they're really good songs as well.

01:03:46.880 So here is the first one about the Christmas Truce letter.

01:03:51.500 Somewhere on the Lees River

01:04:16.660 In the frost of 14

01:04:21.620 A weary German officer

01:04:27.140 Writes home of what he's seen

01:04:31.940 Gets from home in midnight

01:04:36.880 Gingerbread and woolen thread

01:04:41.720 But artillery still thundered

01:04:47.240 As he counted up the day

01:04:51.880 And just past Christmas morning

01:04:56.920 Through the smoke and winter gray

01:05:01.880 A Bavarian raised a pine tree

01:05:07.060 Like a lantern of hope in the hay

01:05:11.440 And across the broken silence

01:05:17.260 Came a shout from Scottish men

01:05:21.940 Kilted Highlanders he wrote

01:05:26.660 Wishing us Christmas once again

01:05:31.780 Who knows how peace begins

01:05:37.300 Maybe one brave voice

01:05:40.740 Maybe one small light

01:05:43.020 On Christmas morning

01:05:45.560 Even enemies

01:05:47.200 Can remember they're human for a night

01:05:51.780 Just for a night

01:05:56.760 We remember we're human for a night

01:06:02.280 A lone Bavarian rifleman

01:06:06.780 Crawled out through the wire

01:06:11.380 Met a Scott with cigarettes

01:06:16.620 Where the mud met the fire

01:06:21.600 Soon the trenches empty

01:06:26.240 Men shook hands in no man's land

01:06:31.980 Candles traded for cigar

01:06:36.780 As they helped each other stand

01:06:41.760 And said war was suspended

01:06:46.700 The peace of Christmas had come

01:06:51.640 Even officers exchanging words

01:06:57.920 About daughters' gifts and home

01:07:01.920 And in the ruins of commons

01:07:07.140 A monastery without a roof

01:07:11.820 They sang silent night together

01:07:16.780 A fragile holy proof

01:07:21.840 Who knows how peace begins

01:07:27.220 Maybe one brave voice

01:07:30.740 Maybe one small light

01:07:33.000 On Christmas morning

01:07:35.600 Even enemies

01:07:37.100 Can remember they're human for a night

01:07:41.800 Just for a night

01:07:46.900 We remember we're human for a night

01:07:51.740 But at dawn on the 26th

01:07:57.060 The guns began again

01:08:01.700 Window panes rattled

01:08:05.920 He wrote

01:08:06.500 As command reclaimed the men

01:08:11.680 He confessed to his dear Edith 0.89

01:08:16.980 We'll be hard to shoot them now

01:08:21.840 But orders are orders in wartime 0.98

01:08:27.140 Even when your heart says no

01:08:29.500 Not after this

01:08:33.340 Not after this

01:08:33.360 Not now

01:08:34.180 Who knows how peace begins

01:08:37.180 Maybe one brave voice

01:08:40.740 Maybe one small light

01:08:43.020 A Bavarian with a Christmas tree

01:08:46.100 A Scott stepping out from the fire

01:08:48.460 And history remembers the guns

01:08:50.880 But heaven recalls the sight

01:08:54.040 And soldiers laid their weapons down

01:08:59.040 And were human

01:09:04.720 For a night

01:09:09.180 Just for a night

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01:10:15.060 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:10:30.560 We're glad that you're here.

01:10:33.500 You know, I don't, I don't.

01:10:40.180 I don't want to get into the mix with everybody and personalities.

01:10:44.640 I like my, my goal is to make things about right and wrong and not about personalities.

01:10:51.540 But I do want to spend just a second on President Trump's post yesterday about Rob, Rob Reiner.

01:11:00.080 It made me sad, made me really sad because I like the president and, and he doesn't help

01:11:07.480 himself when he does things like this.

01:11:09.160 And this is, but I think I understand this in a different way.

01:11:12.280 Um, you know, the president has said, you know, all kinds of things about me at times 0.98

01:11:17.980 when I disagree with him, he'll say, yeah, he's just a failing fat, fat blob or whatever. 0.99

01:11:23.520 And that's just him. 1.00

01:11:24.960 That's just the way he does.

01:11:26.320 When he is in a fight, he is a, he's a knife fighter and I get it.

01:11:31.200 Um, I don't like it, but I get it.

01:11:34.960 This was different.

01:11:36.500 This was different.

01:11:38.180 Um, and this was, you know, you can say a lot of stuff politically about Rob Reiner, but

01:11:46.880 politics didn't matter yesterday.

01:11:49.480 We weren't, I mean, that's not, just didn't matter.

01:11:52.400 It didn't matter.

01:11:53.100 But I think to the president, it does.

01:11:56.440 I saw a change in the president.

01:11:58.780 Uh, I've seen two changes in the president.

01:12:00.820 I've seen, um, a change in him when they started going after him and his family, uh, after 2020.

01:12:09.420 And they really started going after his family.

01:12:12.120 And we know this because we showed you the documents, what they, they, they had a plan,

01:12:17.060 take him down, take his family down to stop MAGA at all costs, put them in jail.

01:12:23.880 I mean, those are their words.

01:12:26.340 Um, and it's, it was frightening to read.

01:12:29.900 And I talked to the president, I don't know, maybe six months after, you know, we were in

01:12:35.260 2021, maybe six months, eight months.

01:12:37.940 And I said, how are you holding up?

01:12:40.440 And, uh, he had talked a little bit about, you know, how he felt like he had really let

01:12:47.580 people down because he had things going in the right direction.

01:12:51.860 And now look at it and look how screwed up things are going to hit and, and how the economy

01:12:58.140 is going to be damn near impossible to fix.

01:13:01.300 It'll take us time, but we can fix it, but they've just destroyed it.

01:13:06.040 Um, and I said, how are you personally, how are you holding up?

01:13:08.920 Um, and, um, this is the first change I saw. 1.00

01:13:13.220 He said, his body changed and he said, they're going after my damn children. 0.99

01:13:20.080 And it was this dad, all of a sudden he wasn't the president or former president. 1.00

01:13:24.740 He wasn't Donald Trump.

01:13:26.320 He was a dad.

01:13:27.400 Uh, and he said, you don't go after our children.

01:13:38.500 And I saw him really, truly mad for the very first time.

01:13:43.860 Um, and it was righteous indignation.

01:13:50.360 Then after he was shot, I saw another change.

01:13:52.860 I saw him recognize that God existed.

01:13:58.140 I mean, I, I know he believed that in God, but I don't know if he believed that God was

01:14:02.280 actually part of, you know, the story, the everyday story.

01:14:07.900 You know, I don't know how he views God in that way, but I know that he recognized that

01:14:13.420 God was in his, in the story of America.

01:14:15.960 Now firsthand, he witnessed it.

01:14:20.020 The reason why I say this made me sad yesterday is because.

01:14:27.760 I don't agree with what he said.

01:14:29.340 I, I, I feel it was, it was sad because he is, he has been kicked in the head over and

01:14:42.000 over and over again by some of these people that he.

01:14:45.660 Um, Christmas is about the baby Jesus coming in and what he can do in your life.

01:15:01.140 And the biggest thing that he taught was love your enemies, don't hate them, but that's

01:15:08.100 really, really hard to do.

01:15:10.780 And the president isn't there yet, um, on this.

01:15:15.360 And it, it made me sad.

01:15:19.520 How'd you feel about it, Stu?

01:15:23.480 Um, I didn't like it at all.

01:15:25.920 I think maybe the same as you, I, you know, one of the things that bothered me about it

01:15:29.680 because you, you hit many of the points that I had on it, uh, without the personal insight

01:15:34.160 to Trump.

01:15:34.880 And I think that is illustrative of, of, of what he's going through.

01:15:38.360 I think there is something to understand there.

01:15:40.040 You know, obviously I, you know, one of the things that is difficult about life and your

01:15:46.060 attempt to master it is to try to act the right way, even when you're faced with circumstances

01:15:52.360 like that.

01:15:53.540 And I, you know, I get it.

01:15:55.000 I get why he's angry and doesn't like the guy, but I mean, the man, I mean, you, you used

01:15:59.260 a phrase, I think in there where you said, ah, you know, he, he's a knife fighter.

01:16:03.340 Like this guy was actually just in a legitimate knife fight and was murdered with his wife.

01:16:07.420 Oh yeah.

01:16:07.760 Right.

01:16:08.000 Like it is a, it is a, this actually really happened.

01:16:11.880 Um, and you know, look, my honest opinion is it's indefensible.

01:16:17.260 You know, I, I, you know, I like president Trump.

01:16:19.400 I think, you know, he does a lot of great things for the country.

01:16:21.860 We've defended him on a lot of different things.

01:16:23.820 A lot of times when he's being attacked, I think he deserves a defense.

01:16:27.340 In this case, I, you know, I, it is, it is what it is.

01:16:32.480 I, you know, it is priced in to everyone's understanding of who Donald Trump is and everything

01:16:38.160 I've heard about him in personal situations where he cares about the person and is that

01:16:42.780 he's very generous.

01:16:43.700 He's very likable.

01:16:45.000 He's very, um, uh, he's one of those people that you like being around, you know, that is

01:16:51.480 something that I have heard from tons of people.

01:16:53.840 This part of him is really hard for me to square with what I've heard, uh, from, uh,

01:16:59.440 from other, uh, from everybody that I've talked to who has been on the inside with him.

01:17:04.380 Um, and so I, I, I don't, I don't have a defense for it.

01:17:07.840 I think it's, it's, it's really bad.

01:17:09.720 And I will say one more thing on this real quickly, Glenn, another part of this that I

01:17:13.120 think is difficult in that one of the things that I took from the aftermath of that immediately

01:17:18.960 was, uh, I don't know if pride's the right word, but like, I really liked the way conservatives

01:17:26.880 responded to it.

01:17:28.200 We didn't do what they did after Charlie Kirk.

01:17:31.780 We didn't do what they did after they shot the president, right?

01:17:35.260 Like we, they celebrated it.

01:17:37.680 They, they, they were horrible human beings and I enjoyed the high ground that we had there.

01:17:43.980 And it's difficult to make the argument that we have the high ground when, you know, the

01:17:48.460 president of the Republican party, uh, Republican president of the United States, the most high

01:17:53.640 profile person on quote unquote, our side, whatever that means these days is a guy who,

01:17:59.140 you know, kind of did some of the things that they did.

01:18:02.540 Uh, I, you know, so I don't, I don't like that.

01:18:04.920 I understand it's part of Donald Trump.

01:18:06.520 And I think if we're all adults here, we were able to kind of price that in and judge him on

01:18:11.620 everything that he's doing.

01:18:12.620 And, and when I'm the impressing in it, I think that's a negative part of him, but overall

01:18:17.180 you have to take everything into, into, into context.

01:18:20.720 Right.

01:18:21.140 And if we're all adults here, we, you know, we should be able to say to those that we

01:18:25.880 love and respect, bad move.

01:18:29.180 I didn't like that.

01:18:30.620 Don't, don't, don't do that.

01:18:32.180 And I think, you know, because the left always says, well, you never take on your own.

01:18:39.600 Yes, we do.

01:18:40.100 We take on our own all the time, all the time.

01:18:41.880 And I think it's important that we say, didn't like that.

01:18:45.640 Thought it was a bad move.

01:18:46.740 Thought it didn't look good.

01:18:47.880 Just wasn't right.

01:18:49.380 Um, he's, I wish.

01:18:52.740 And again, though, I, I'm not excusing it, but I am tempering it with, uh, none of us have

01:19:00.880 gone through what he has gone through.

01:19:02.900 With his family, somebody shooting at him, being called fascist Hitler all the time.

01:19:09.020 I mean, that, that wears on you and changes you.

01:19:14.780 Um, and you know, he's having a hard time forgiving that.

01:19:17.880 And I kind of understand that.

01:19:19.600 I wish he would take that on and take on the forgiveness so he could be more a peacemaker

01:19:27.560 in all of those things.

01:19:29.020 But that is his own personal journey.

01:19:32.700 But yeah.

01:19:33.360 And I, you know, I think when we talk about like a terrible crime that's occurred, like,

01:19:37.660 like, I don't know if there was, uh, you can think about some awful situation.

01:19:42.600 And at times you'll see, he'll hear family members say the worst possible thing.

01:19:51.080 You know, uh, if your, your kid is murdered and, and, and by some, you know, someone of

01:19:55.500 a particular area or group or whatever, and they might react with just an awful thing about

01:20:00.440 that group or area.

01:20:01.420 And like, you just, we all have a bit of understanding, right.

01:20:06.560 Of a person going through a massively emotional thing.

01:20:09.520 Um, you know, and, uh, uh, lashing out, you want, you know, the example you bring up all

01:20:18.280 the time, Glenn, of the, maybe the ultimate example of being able to have restraint was

01:20:23.800 that was the Amish situation from years ago where, uh, you know, you were talking about

01:20:28.580 mass murder and they were to the family's house that night.

01:20:33.160 Right.

01:20:33.680 And saying, we, we, not that night that after, I mean, within an hour, within an hour, kids

01:20:39.140 were not even out of the school yet.

01:20:41.320 Their bodies were still laying in the school and the Amish went, oh my gosh, the killer 1.00

01:20:46.340 is dead too.

01:20:47.660 He was a member of our community.

01:20:49.080 His wife lives here.

01:20:50.520 Right.

01:20:50.900 What is she feeling?

01:20:52.140 She's feeling completely alone.

01:20:53.760 My gosh, what an example of, I couldn't do that.

01:20:56.920 Right.

01:20:57.100 Like, I don't even think I come close to that standard in that moment.

01:21:00.680 No, but like, that's the range, right?

01:21:03.720 Like there, some people react really, react really well and some actual people react really

01:21:08.780 poorly.

01:21:09.080 And I think we all understand the emotion and everything that takes over in a situation like

01:21:13.160 that.

01:21:13.500 And that has to be factored in, I think, to, to Trump.

01:21:16.760 Now, of course, you know, Rob Reiner wasn't responsible for the shooting.

01:21:19.740 He's just a liberal who said really bad things about Donald Trump.

01:21:23.500 Horrible.

01:21:23.740 And it's, look, he is a very unique person in a very unique situation that I don't think

01:21:29.400 anyone in the world has ever experienced, you know, what has happened with him over

01:21:33.780 his life.

01:21:35.260 May I just say that you still haven't forgiven RFK Jr. for what he said about me?

01:21:44.940 Okay.

01:21:45.600 As I said, I'm not Amish. 0.83

01:21:47.460 You know, I like technology.

01:21:49.320 I don't have any wagons.

01:21:50.760 I didn't say I'm perfect.

01:21:52.260 No, I mean, I...

01:21:52.940 Right.

01:21:53.200 I have not, I have absolutely forgiven RFK Jr. for what he said.

01:21:59.760 And if you didn't know, he accused Glenn of being a traitor, something that is, and said

01:22:06.320 he should be charged with treason, which the penalty of which is death.

01:22:10.840 So, you know, I don't like that.

01:22:12.740 And RFK Jr., I don't like for a lot of his policies.

01:22:15.540 Some of them, by the way, I do really like.

01:22:17.500 Some of the things he's done, I think, are positive.

01:22:20.080 Some of them, I can give you a list of some of the negative things that he's done.

01:22:23.200 He's done as well.

01:22:24.500 Yes, I can too.

01:22:26.140 But that doesn't mean I do find that to be in appropriate context.

01:22:30.880 When the embrace of RFK Jr. is occurring, I think we need to understand who people are

01:22:35.160 and what they might be doing.

01:22:36.780 But if he's apologetic about that, I, you know, I do forgive him in that sense.

01:22:42.120 Do I want him on the show and promoting all of his books and his candidacy?

01:22:47.000 No, I did not.

01:22:47.940 I did not like that.

01:22:48.820 But, you know, a lot of people do.

01:22:51.120 I will say you're right, though.

01:22:52.900 We all have our hangups.

01:22:54.180 I would not.

01:22:56.140 We all do.

01:22:56.420 I do.

01:22:56.860 I do.

01:22:57.660 I will say this, though.

01:22:59.160 I mean, and, you know, again, all the context here.

01:23:02.120 I know people are really defensive of Donald Trump appropriately because of the fact he

01:23:06.060 is constantly targeted unfairly.

01:23:08.180 I understand why people are very defensive of him.

01:23:11.000 But I can tell you this.

01:23:11.700 I really don't like RFK Jr.

01:23:13.100 He's one of my least favorite people in politics.

01:23:15.260 I'm just not a fan.

01:23:16.480 I could give you other names of people.

01:23:18.620 Most of them revolve around Olivia Nuzzi, who I have no, you know, whatever.

01:23:22.940 I don't really have any feelings about her.

01:23:24.360 But the story was packed with people I don't like.

01:23:26.420 I think the Cuomo family is up there, too.

01:23:27.240 Yeah, Cuomo's for sure.

01:23:29.120 But, like, you know, God forbid one of these people that I really don't like was murdered

01:23:34.060 in his family with their spouse.

01:23:35.840 I can promise you.

01:23:37.080 I will.

01:23:37.540 I can promise you I will not be tweeting anything like what Donald Trump tweeted.

01:23:43.280 Like, that is just a situation where I understand the context around it that we just discussed,

01:23:52.060 but I don't think there's a defense to it.

01:23:54.040 I think it's something I really hope he has an awakening on at some point.

01:23:58.100 I think that that is enough to be said on that.

01:24:01.420 Now maybe we should examine ourselves and say, where do we have that hardness in our heart

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01:31:02.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:09.640 Hello, America.

01:31:10.960 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:12.620 So I think it was about a week ago, maybe a week ago tomorrow, that I started telling you

01:31:16.880 about this case up in Canada about a woman named Jolene.

01:31:20.820 And she was scheduled to die in Canada, I think January 7th.

01:31:26.520 And she had something I'd never heard of, parathyroid condition. 1.00

01:31:32.680 She had two or three surgeries they hadn't worked for.

01:31:35.300 And now she couldn't get any help up in Canada. 0.99

01:31:38.200 And so they said, well, why don't you just die? 0.99

01:31:41.500 That sounds like a joke to me. 1.00

01:31:43.100 Why don't you just die? 0.98

01:31:44.020 That doesn't, I mean, not a funny one, but I mean, you don't say that in real life. 0.97

01:31:48.020 But that's what was happening up in Canada.

01:31:52.320 Her option was live with it or die.

01:31:55.240 And she couldn't live that way anymore.

01:31:57.140 So we started talking about it.

01:31:59.300 And I mean, this audience is absolutely amazing.

01:32:02.040 And who listens in this audience?

01:32:03.920 This audience is made up of just so many rock solid, you know, red-blooded Americans.

01:32:10.060 And then also some red-blooded Americans who are at the highest levels of their craft or their art or whatever you want to call it.

01:32:18.200 And one of those guys is, he's the leading parathyroid specialist.

01:32:24.780 I mean, he developed the techniques that are used now in the most difficult surgeries.

01:32:29.960 And his name is Jim Norman.

01:32:32.500 He is from the Norman Parathyroid Center.

01:32:35.500 He's the founder of it, obviously.

01:32:37.000 And that's at Tampa General in Tampa, Florida.

01:32:40.440 People come from all over the world.

01:32:42.640 And so he was listening.

01:32:44.920 And he calls in.

01:32:46.220 He's like, I can help.

01:32:47.400 I can help.

01:32:47.820 I can help.

01:32:48.500 So they've gotten involved.

01:32:50.460 And I don't know the details.

01:32:52.160 And I'm not going to ask Jim for the details because it's none of my business.

01:32:55.560 This is all doctor-client privilege stuff.

01:32:58.120 I just know that as of last week, the best doctors are on Jolene's case.

01:33:04.420 And they're going to find the solution.

01:33:06.820 They're going to find the answer with her.

01:33:09.900 And then she'll be able to choose what she wants to do.

01:33:12.720 But it's all taken care of.

01:33:14.220 And people are on it.

01:33:15.460 So that's good news.

01:33:17.680 But the other thing I realized is I have no idea what was even wrong with her.

01:33:22.360 And when Jim, when we were talking about it, he said, well, 50% of women have this and they don't know it.

01:33:29.160 And I'm like, wait, what?

01:33:31.440 Because she's in horrible condition.

01:33:34.160 What do you mean?

01:33:34.960 Well, that many women get this? 1.00

01:33:37.040 And what do you mean they don't know it?

01:33:39.540 So we're going to talk to him about that and so much more here in just a second.

01:33:42.620 First, let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

01:33:46.180 Candles were lit on Bondi Beach.

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01:33:51.480 They were just trying to celebrate a festival of life.

01:33:53.860 You know, one that Jesus celebrated.

01:33:55.620 And yet in that moment meant for joy and prayer, darkness showed up.

01:34:00.200 Hatred stood right there with him on the beach.

01:34:02.600 And it is a stunning reminder that even with a ceasefire in Israel, Jewish people are still being targeted.

01:34:08.420 This is not about Israel.

01:34:09.940 It's not really even about the Jews.

01:34:11.520 It's about God.

01:34:12.500 It really is.

01:34:15.880 They need to know that we support.

01:34:18.060 I mean, history has put these kind of moments in our lives over and over and over and over again.

01:34:24.020 And this time has to be different.

01:34:25.720 And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews exists for that.

01:34:28.940 They stand in that gap to make sure when darkness rises, somebody is there with a light, real help, real protection, real solidarity.

01:34:36.160 The Fellowship unites Christians and Jews to lift up those who are suffering in Israel and the former Soviet Union, communities all over.

01:34:43.100 I know for a while, this is years ago, we helped them put bulletproof glass into synagogues and Jewish schools, put up fences and everything else. 0.64

01:34:53.360 I think in France, even.

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01:35:06.060 If I may, Dr. Jim Norman, the Parathyroid Center founder of the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.

01:35:16.040 Is that right?

01:35:16.500 Endocrine surgery, Jim?

01:35:18.420 Endocrine surgery.

01:35:20.840 Endocrine surgery.

01:35:21.620 Endocrine surgery.

01:35:22.140 And an endocrinologist looks at all of your adrenal glands, right?

01:35:27.200 And I mean, it's amazing what adrenal glands, how badly they can mess your life up if they're out of whack.

01:35:34.740 Well, you've got adrenal glands, you've got the thyroid glands, you've got your pituitary glands, and you've got your parathyroid glands.

01:35:41.020 So today we're going to be talking about the parathyroid glands, which has been what's been going on.

01:35:45.940 That's the conversation for the last week or so, Glenn, is the parathyroid glands.

01:35:49.920 And how many women does this affect? 1.00

01:35:54.800 Well, so I did a little research this morning about your audience.

01:36:01.740 So your audience, your demographics, about 120,000 of the people listening to you this week, your weekly listeners, will get a parathyroid tumor in their lifetime.

01:36:15.140 So this is pretty common.

01:36:16.580 It's 2% of women, it's 1% of men in their lifetime. 0.81

01:36:21.560 So 120,000 of your listeners this week will get this disease sometime in their lifetime.

01:36:26.860 We said earlier 50%, 50% that have the disease don't know they have it or they're not getting treated for it.

01:36:36.220 But 2% of women will get it in their lifetime. 1.00

01:36:39.480 Okay, so 50% have it and they don't know.

01:36:42.060 What are the symptoms that they're just living with?

01:36:44.220 Well, so the symptoms of parathyroid, hyperparathyroidism, the symptoms, a little bit nonspecific, but they're, people feel bad, tired, run down, chronic fatigue.

01:36:55.220 But it's all due to the high calcium in the blood, which also causes kidney stones, increased coronary calcium levels.

01:37:05.620 So you end up with stroke, arrhythmias, and all sorts of bad things to happen, osteoporosis.

01:37:10.760 The high blood comes from your bones.

01:37:13.280 So you get osteoporosis.

01:37:16.200 And it's a very deadly disease.

01:37:20.040 It will eventually, people with high blood calcium due to parathyroid disease, they live about five or six degrees, five or six years less than they would otherwise if they didn't have this problem.

01:37:31.440 Does it actually take the calcium out of your bones?

01:37:35.400 I mean, can it eat your bones?

01:37:36.700 So I think, so I think, I think a really good way to get started here, Glenn, is to talk about what the parathyroid glands are.

01:37:42.720 So we all have four parathyroid glands.

01:37:45.040 There's two, two on the top, two in the back, and they're in your neck.

01:37:48.660 They're behind, they're around the parathyroid glands.

01:37:52.340 Para means around.

01:37:53.720 So they're the around the thyroid glands.

01:37:55.840 And they make parathyroid hormone, like all endocrine glands, they make hormone.

01:38:02.180 The job of the parathyroid gland is to control the calcium in your blood.

01:38:06.640 So really, the conversation really has to be about blood calcium because blood calcium runs the electrical system of our nerves.

01:38:14.860 It's blood calcium that makes our nerves work.

01:38:17.600 And so just like, just like the voltage, this is like, I think a good analogy for your listeners, just like your car has a voltage regulator that keeps the voltage of the car around 12 volts.

01:38:27.940 It's not eight.

01:38:28.940 It's not 16.

01:38:30.200 It's around 12 to 12.4.

01:38:32.680 Our body electrical system runs by the calcium levels.

01:38:36.040 And so we have a voltage regulator, the parathyroid glands, which keep the calcium in a very normal range between, well, you know, for in the United States, we measure it, it should be around 10.5, I'm sorry, 9.5 to 10.

01:38:52.240 If your calcium is too high, too much voltage, you don't feel good.

01:38:56.780 If the calcium is too low, too little voltage, you don't feel good.

01:39:00.600 So we have four parathyroid glands.

01:39:02.460 It's the only thing that we have that's quadruple redundant because it's so important.

01:39:07.880 So when do you take them out?

01:39:11.420 How do you get rid of them?

01:39:13.080 I mean, she has had three surgeries or two surgeries.

01:39:15.580 I know you don't want to get into her specifically here, you know, HIPAA stuff, but she's had several surgeries and had some of them or some of it removed.

01:39:24.440 How do you remove all of it and still live?

01:39:27.800 Well, so you can't live without any parathyroid glands. 0.79

01:39:30.820 It's really difficult.

01:39:31.960 Having zero parathyroid glands is a really bad problem.

01:39:34.900 That's hypoparathyroidism.

01:39:36.980 And that is a bad life.

01:39:40.320 Hyperparathyroidism, primary hyperparathyroidism is due to a tumor.

01:39:45.400 So you've got four of these little glands and sometimes one of them or two will grow into a tumor.

01:39:51.480 And when they grow into a tumor, they just become really happy and they start making lots of hormone.

01:39:56.800 That excess hormone goes to your bones, takes the calcium out of your bones and puts it in your blood.

01:40:01.980 So you end up with osteoporosis.

01:40:04.640 The calcium comes out of your bones and you have high blood calcium, which makes you feel bad.

01:40:10.200 And then the high blood calcium goes to the kidneys.

01:40:12.160 You get kidney stones.

01:40:13.680 High blood calcium goes to your heart and you get coronary artery disease.

01:40:16.740 And so the treatment, Glenn, is if you've got high blood calcium and high parathyroid hormone, then you have a parathyroid tumor.

01:40:25.560 You just take it out.

01:40:26.940 So it used to be a four, five, six-hour operation.

01:40:31.700 When I learned to do this back when I rode my dinosaur to my residency program back in the 80s and 90s, it was a four- to six-hour operation.

01:40:42.260 We've now trimmed that down.

01:40:43.620 It's 15, 20, 30 minutes for most of our patients.

01:40:46.780 Oh, my gosh.

01:40:47.400 I have an operation that takes 20 minutes.

01:40:49.460 So all you've got to do, God gave you four parathyroid glands.

01:40:52.340 It's quadruple redundant.

01:40:53.560 If one of them is a tumor, you take it out.

01:40:55.720 Two of them are a tumor, you take it out.

01:40:56.840 But then you have normal glands.

01:40:58.520 And then you're normal.

01:41:00.040 You're cured.

01:41:00.480 So if you have primary hyperparathyroidism due to a tumor, you take it out, you're cured, it goes away, the symptoms go away.

01:41:09.260 And the symptoms, again, are feeling like you're really run down all the time.

01:41:15.160 Yeah, the most common, when we ask all of our patients, you know, we've done over 55,000 of these operations.

01:41:20.860 And so we have a tremendous database.

01:41:22.560 When you look at all the symptoms, the most common symptoms are tired, fatigue, run down, high blood pressure.

01:41:30.600 Four times as many patients of ours have high blood pressure than the standard population.

01:41:36.060 Stroke, arrhythmias, kidney stones.

01:41:38.360 Those are the symptoms of hyperparathyroidism.

01:41:42.860 And so if you've got this disease and you take it, yeah, just less than 1% of men get it.

01:41:50.240 So our average patient is a 60-year-old woman. 0.90

01:41:53.640 That's our most common patient.

01:41:55.480 And our second most common patient is about a 55-year-old gentleman.

01:41:59.140 Kids can get it, extremely rare.

01:42:02.700 20 years old and 30s get it, very, very uncommon.

01:42:07.100 But once you get into 35-40 range, then it starts becoming more common.

01:42:11.180 It's most common the older you get.

01:42:14.680 So as people have been listening to this story of Jolene, I hope they take away a couple of things.

01:42:20.820 First, life is not disposable.

01:42:23.740 All life is worth living and saving.

01:42:25.460 Two, you know, that there is help out there.

01:42:34.220 It sometimes has to come in unconventional ways.

01:42:37.000 And, you know, socialism isn't really all that neat, but that's my opinion.

01:42:41.180 And the third one should be this.

01:42:44.000 Go ahead.

01:42:45.360 I was going to say, I think it's important to note that when we talk about parathyroid disease,

01:42:50.280 and this is one of the things that really became apparent this past week with some of the confusion,

01:42:55.460 and I want to see if I can unconfuse the conversation.

01:43:02.940 When your doctor measures your blood, they can measure your parathyroid hormone level,

01:43:08.400 and they can measure your calcium.

01:43:09.820 So if you want to know if you have a parathyroid problem,

01:43:12.520 you have to look at your parathyroid hormone, your calcium, and your vitamin D

01:43:16.060 because they work together to keep your calcium in the normal range.

01:43:20.380 If you look at just one of these by itself, you're going to fail.

01:43:24.700 So high blood calcium in adults over 40 in the United States, that's above 10.0.

01:43:32.700 Then you've got almost exclusively of a parathyroid problem.

01:43:36.240 One high calcium, not a disease.

01:43:38.700 Persistent high calcium is above 10 in the United States.

01:43:41.600 It's almost always a parathyroid tumor.

01:43:43.640 In Canada, that level, they measure kilometers and we do miles.

01:43:49.560 In Canada, that number is 2.5.

01:43:52.140 So in some cases, people have a high parathyroid hormone level

01:43:56.760 and their calcium is normal or low.

01:43:59.500 Those people are not benefited from surgery.

01:44:02.940 Those people don't need surgery.

01:44:04.120 They need calcium and vitamin D.

01:44:05.620 They don't need an operation.

01:44:07.040 You can give them 10 operations and that's not going to help them

01:44:09.580 because that's not the problem.

01:44:11.140 So you have to be careful that you can't look at the parathyroid hormone level by itself

01:44:15.900 and you have to look at your parathyroid hormone level and your calcium.

01:44:19.680 But any good endocrinologist should be able to figure this out.

01:44:23.260 Last thing is we've got to run.

01:44:25.360 But you gain weight with your thyroid.

01:44:28.740 When it gets out of whack, you gain weight, don't you?

01:44:31.820 So is weight gain a symptom?

01:44:34.380 Yeah, thyroid can, but the parathyroid is usually not.

01:44:38.040 Sometimes you feel tired and fatigued and you're not as active as usual

01:44:42.260 and you gain a little bit of weight, but it's not related to the thyroid.

01:44:46.140 So this is mostly chronic fatigue, kidney stones, feel bad, osteoporosis,

01:44:52.300 those parathyroid problems.

01:44:54.800 Jim, I can't thank you enough.

01:44:56.140 You and your team and Tampa General, you guys are amazing.

01:44:59.080 I mean, you jumped on the phone the minute you heard about this.

01:45:03.560 The compassion that you guys have shown and the willingness to help has just been remarkable.

01:45:07.980 I really appreciate it.

01:45:08.940 I do want to make one important point.

01:45:11.560 We moved out of Tampa General two years ago.

01:45:14.500 So if you look for us at Tampa General, you're not going to find us.

01:45:17.460 I'm pretty sure there's zero parathyroid surgery done at Tampa General.

01:45:22.420 We moved out almost exactly three years ago out of Tampa General

01:45:25.640 into the hospital for endocrine surgery,

01:45:28.020 where we do thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal surgery exclusively.

01:45:31.860 So if you want to...

01:45:34.360 So you're at the hospital for endocrine surgery.

01:45:37.640 You are at which hospital?

01:45:39.900 Hospital for endocrine surgery.

01:45:41.220 It's a brand new hospital right by the Tampa airport.

01:45:44.060 It's a three-year-old hospital.

01:45:46.160 Yep.

01:45:47.080 So if any of your listeners want to learn any more,

01:45:49.960 it's parathyroid.com is an obvious resource for everybody.

01:45:54.440 Thank you, Jim.

01:45:55.140 Appreciate it.

01:45:55.760 God bless you.

01:45:56.420 Have a great Christmas.

01:45:57.360 Thank you.

01:45:58.080 Thank you.

01:45:58.660 Same to you, Con.

01:45:59.400 I'm your listeners.

01:46:00.060 You bet.

01:46:00.460 Bye-bye.

01:46:00.700 All right.

01:46:01.660 Let me talk to you a little bit about Rough Greens.

01:46:03.800 If you've ever looked at your dog and thought,

01:46:05.840 you deserve better than this,

01:46:07.140 I mean, whatever's in that bag,

01:46:08.920 I mean, maybe it's a bunch of parathyroids.

01:46:11.180 I don't know what they're putting in that dog.

01:46:13.280 But it's been heated and processed and stored and chipped

01:46:15.580 until there's very little real nutrition left.

01:46:18.180 And your dog feels that in their energy,

01:46:20.480 in their coat, in the joints, even their mood.

01:46:22.680 Rough Greens is the simple fix.

01:46:24.860 It is not a new brand of kibble.

01:46:26.700 It is a nutritional boost that you add to whatever your dog already eats,

01:46:30.420 a blend of vitamins and minerals and probiotics and antioxidants

01:46:33.680 that puts back what processing takes out.

01:46:37.140 You just sprinkle it on,

01:46:38.080 and over time you start seeing a dog who's more engaged,

01:46:40.460 more active, more themselves.

01:46:42.560 Dogs can't tell, you know,

01:46:44.900 they can't tell you what's missing.

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01:47:15.120 10 seconds, station I.

01:47:15.960 Oh, the weather outside is frightful,

01:47:29.580 but the fire is so delightful.

01:47:33.480 And since we've no place to go,

01:47:35.660 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Programming.

01:47:38.240 I've been so nervous about talking about any of this

01:47:42.380 because I don't, I have said,

01:47:44.300 I don't want to know anything about,

01:47:46.140 and the doctors are like,

01:47:47.400 we can't tell you anything about it.

01:47:48.860 And I'm like, okay,

01:47:49.880 so I don't really know what the hell is going on.

01:47:53.400 And he can't tell us what the hell is going on.

01:47:56.400 So it's just a mess.

01:47:58.460 It's a mess.

01:47:59.060 But know that she is,

01:48:01.100 she's getting the best medical care,

01:48:04.840 I think,

01:48:06.360 at least that we could find,

01:48:07.560 at least that we could find.

01:48:08.820 Yeah, that was one of those things

01:48:09.700 when we started talking about,

01:48:10.600 like, the parathyroid, 0.74

01:48:11.800 you know,

01:48:12.140 she might need a surgery 0.99

01:48:13.060 or some other treatment.

01:48:14.080 We'd love to get something for it.

01:48:15.240 And like,

01:48:15.800 every message we got was,

01:48:17.460 Dr. Norman!

01:48:18.840 And it was like,

01:48:19.920 immediately,

01:48:20.960 this is the guy,

01:48:22.280 if anyone could do anything for her,

01:48:24.020 it is this guy.

01:48:25.040 So he's been incredible,

01:48:26.040 and their team has been incredible.

01:48:27.540 He's,

01:48:28.120 I mean,

01:48:28.660 incredible.

01:48:29.460 And they,

01:48:30.020 I mean,

01:48:31.200 you know,

01:48:32.240 he's a big fan of the show.

01:48:33.540 He listens every day.

01:48:34.380 He was listening,

01:48:35.260 and he was trying to call us.

01:48:36.940 Dr. Oz,

01:48:37.780 remember that day when Dr. Oz called the show?

01:48:40.240 Yeah.

01:48:40.740 And he's like,

01:48:41.200 I'll help.

01:48:42.840 Dr. Oz called,

01:48:43.640 and he said,

01:48:43.940 I know the best guy.

01:48:45.020 I know the guy who invented the surgery.

01:48:46.920 I'll get him on the phone.

01:48:48.120 Well,

01:48:48.500 Oz calls Jim.

01:48:50.580 And Jim's like,

01:48:51.840 hey,

01:48:52.480 Oz,

01:48:52.740 what's up?

01:48:53.060 And he's like,

01:48:53.660 hey,

01:48:53.980 Glenn Beck.

01:48:54.380 And he's like,

01:48:55.080 do you know about this?

01:48:56.640 And Dr. Oz was like,

01:48:57.960 yeah,

01:48:58.720 that's why I'm calling you.

01:48:59.680 And he's like,

01:48:59.980 I've been trying to get a hold of Beck for two days.

01:49:01.800 How do I get a hold of him?

01:49:03.100 I mean,

01:49:03.460 so it was really,

01:49:04.740 it was really cool.

01:49:06.120 It was really cool.

01:49:06.740 Yeah.

01:49:07.180 It's great to see people.

01:49:08.260 Again,

01:49:08.740 this is,

01:49:09.380 it's a woman we don't know from another country under a system. 0.92

01:49:14.840 We can't stand.

01:49:16.000 You know what I mean?

01:49:16.540 And immediately the audience steps up and it's like,

01:49:20.300 we want to help in any way that we can.

01:49:22.300 We don't care about any of that.

01:49:23.380 And I love that.

01:49:24.160 And the nice thing is that this is the best way.

01:49:26.960 This,

01:49:27.420 what I love about this audience is it was all connections.

01:49:29.960 There's nobody,

01:49:30.580 nobody raised any money.

01:49:31.840 It was just,

01:49:32.400 Hey,

01:49:32.480 I know this guy.

01:49:33.240 I know this guy.

01:49:33.920 Hey,

01:49:34.240 what about this person?

01:49:35.120 And everybody stepped up and is doing their thing and they're all

01:49:38.040 volunteering their time.

01:49:39.060 And it's,

01:49:39.620 I mean,

01:49:39.800 it's unbelievable.

01:49:40.860 It's unbelievable.

01:49:41.660 So it is thanks to this audience.

01:49:43.540 And also we should also thank the administration who really did step in

01:49:47.020 immediately as soon as they knew about this issue to try to help.

01:49:49.560 And that's,

01:49:50.640 I know a big part of the still.

01:49:52.060 So that's a really showed something as well.

01:49:56.620 Yes.

01:49:57.300 Now,

01:49:57.760 listen,

01:49:58.200 I wanted to talk to you here a little bit about what Mercury one is doing

01:50:02.760 that maybe you can help out with if you want to give and to give to people

01:50:08.340 that are less fortunate.

01:50:09.440 We've got a long,

01:50:10.700 long list of people who've just had massive tragedy in their life.

01:50:14.080 Some of them,

01:50:15.460 you know,

01:50:15.940 because their house was wiped out,

01:50:17.660 we're still rebuilding houses from the hurricane.

01:50:21.540 And,

01:50:22.120 and these people,

01:50:23.720 I mean,

01:50:23.880 there's one family here.

01:50:25.660 I don't want to give their names,

01:50:27.000 but they have two high school kids that have been sleeping on couches and air

01:50:32.360 mattresses with a family an hour away from their school for the past 15

01:50:36.360 months.

01:50:36.780 They lost everything they own.

01:50:39.260 Mercury one is building them a house again.

01:50:42.220 I mean,

01:50:42.860 it can anybody,

01:50:44.160 does anybody want to give the money to be able to buy some beds and,

01:50:47.700 you know,

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01:50:50.880 You can just give $5 if that's all you have,

01:50:53.740 but do it at mercury one.org mercury one.org.

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01:51:02.260 And we'll make sure that it goes either to this family or these families at

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01:51:11.320 Just go to mercury one.org.

01:51:13.000 We want to do a real quick crush here for the holiday spirit and the holiday

01:51:18.060 season and make sure that these,

01:51:19.700 these people that just have nothing have something at least to eat.

01:51:24.300 Mercury one.org mercury one.org.

01:51:32.260 This is Glenn Beck.

01:51:44.320 This time of year,

01:51:45.300 we always talk about,

01:51:46.120 you know,

01:51:46.360 how hope,

01:51:47.000 um,

01:51:48.580 came into the world through a child in Bethlehem.

01:51:53.320 And I am doing some stuff for next Christmas right now.

01:51:58.040 I'm working on some projects for next Christmas.

01:51:59.680 And I've been thinking a lot about Mary and how freaked out she had to be just

01:52:05.560 freaked out of her mind.

01:52:08.060 Um,

01:52:08.620 and alone.

01:52:10.200 Oh,

01:52:10.920 you bet.

01:52:12.320 I mean,

01:52:13.100 you know,

01:52:13.400 the angel came to her and you know,

01:52:15.020 you are going to visit Joseph,

01:52:16.560 right?

01:52:16.760 You're going to tell Joseph,

01:52:18.000 um,

01:52:18.540 how alone did they feel?

01:52:20.880 That is the way a lot of women feel today without the angels,

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01:52:32.580 It's no big deal.

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01:53:14.860 I'll be home for Christmas.

01:53:35.600 Let me tell you a story that you think you already know.

01:53:54.700 It's about a movie that feels like it has been there our whole lives.

01:54:04.000 It's like a tree in the town square or the hymn.

01:54:06.720 You don't ever remember learning,

01:54:07.980 but somehow you know it by heart.

01:54:11.020 But this particular movie hasn't been around forever.

01:54:16.980 It just seems like it was actually born out of failure.

01:54:20.460 It was born out of exhaustion.

01:54:22.600 And it was born out of people who felt just like its lead character,

01:54:29.780 George Bailey.

01:54:32.400 It's a wonderful life.

01:54:33.880 It has a fascinating story behind it.

01:54:38.480 And it speaks volumes about us,

01:54:41.200 our hopes,

01:54:42.460 our fears,

01:54:43.320 our desires.

01:54:44.100 The movie was made by Frank Capra,

01:54:49.020 and it was right after World War II.

01:54:52.040 Frank Capra had just come back.

01:54:54.480 He didn't come home triumphant.

01:54:57.180 He came home a changed man.

01:54:59.640 He had spent the war making film for the United States government,

01:55:04.220 the war department,

01:55:04.960 about why the West is worth saving.

01:55:08.700 This film series are fantastic.

01:55:10.500 It's called Why We Fight.

01:55:11.600 And when he returned,

01:55:15.640 his old style of doing things,

01:55:19.320 the old machinery just didn't fit Hollywood anymore.

01:55:23.960 So he started his own studio.

01:55:26.080 He bet absolutely everything on it.

01:55:29.080 And It's a Wonderful Life was supposed to be the movie that proved Frank Capra is still Frank Capra.

01:55:39.540 And it nearly ruined him.

01:55:42.140 The movie lost money.

01:55:44.260 Critics really didn't like it.

01:55:46.360 They mocked how schmaltzy it was.

01:55:49.120 Audiences stayed home.

01:55:51.440 Jimmy Stewart,

01:55:52.080 this was his first movie that he made when he came back home from the war.

01:55:56.280 And this was his start.

01:55:58.200 And between Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart,

01:56:00.700 oh my gosh,

01:56:01.260 you've got a massive hit,

01:56:03.200 right?

01:56:03.520 Nobody came.

01:56:06.040 Nobody watched it.

01:56:07.140 Jimmy Stewart,

01:56:07.680 the most beloved man in America,

01:56:09.400 gave a really raw,

01:56:12.980 shaken,

01:56:14.260 almost too real performance for people at the time.

01:56:18.640 He wasn't the cheerful hero that is coming out of war as a victory.

01:56:23.340 This was a man that was cracking under the weight of responsibility.

01:56:27.400 A man who did everything right,

01:56:30.540 but he still felt like he was a failure.

01:56:33.980 Any of this sound familiar?

01:56:35.100 It was a story about what happened during the depression and the crash of

01:56:41.020 29.

01:56:41.860 Well,

01:56:43.200 America had been living that forever.

01:56:46.960 They had been living that since 29.

01:56:49.240 They went through the long depression.

01:56:50.740 Then they went through the war.

01:56:52.000 And the first thing out of war,

01:56:53.700 they don't want to watch a movie about how depressing life can be.

01:56:58.340 Okay.

01:56:59.720 So it was a total failure.

01:57:03.000 Film disappears,

01:57:04.700 goes into a vault.

01:57:07.280 It's a noble misfire.

01:57:10.780 Good idea.

01:57:11.720 Just didn't land.

01:57:12.800 Maybe wrong time.

01:57:14.580 Maybe too schmaltzy.

01:57:18.360 Then something weird happened.

01:57:20.480 Everybody forgot about it.

01:57:22.000 And so the rights lapsed.

01:57:23.480 There was no grand relaunch.

01:57:25.400 There was no marketing genius,

01:57:26.800 just a legal oversight that let the rights lapse.

01:57:30.720 Enter Ted Turner.

01:57:33.500 Ted Turner and Superstation TBS.

01:57:36.420 Do you remember Superstation TBS?

01:57:38.320 When he had bought a bunch of stations across the country and he tied them all

01:57:44.320 together and then cable came in and his Superstation TBS became TBS.

01:57:50.320 TBS Turner.

01:57:52.600 Well,

01:57:53.040 he was looking on Superstation TBS.

01:57:55.220 They needed some holiday programming and they needed it cheap.

01:57:58.480 And I,

01:57:58.700 when I say cheap,

01:57:59.360 what the,

01:58:00.900 what they,

01:58:01.320 what Ted really meant was free.

01:58:02.880 We need a bunch of free programming that we can run all Christmas.

01:58:07.300 Okay.

01:58:08.220 No rights,

01:58:09.080 no royalties.

01:58:10.000 What is out there?

01:58:12.420 The vaults open up and lo and behold,

01:58:15.320 they find it's a wonderful life.

01:58:18.380 Suddenly it appears in our life.

01:58:20.700 And I don't know about you,

01:58:22.460 but I always thought it had been around forever.

01:58:25.040 I mean,

01:58:25.740 it didn't seem like it was a new relaunch.

01:58:27.720 It wasn't like,

01:58:28.320 Hey,

01:58:28.400 have you heard about this new movie?

01:58:29.760 It just was there and on.

01:58:31.340 And we thought everybody knew about it.

01:58:32.780 Nobody knew about it.

01:58:34.100 Our grandparents probably didn't even know about it because it was a massive

01:58:37.100 failure.

01:58:39.280 It's on afternoons,

01:58:40.780 late nights.

01:58:41.600 It's on morning.

01:58:42.660 It's everywhere.

01:58:43.560 It's everywhere.

01:58:44.340 Black and white snow flickering in the living rooms as our kids are playing on

01:58:48.060 the floor.

01:58:48.420 And we as adults are in the kitchen,

01:58:50.440 half listening and half watching and slowly,

01:58:53.140 slowly its message found us.

01:58:57.360 It found us this time because America had changed.

01:59:01.680 We weren't fresh from despair and we weren't fresh from victory anymore.

01:59:08.740 We weren't those people.

01:59:11.100 It wasn't so close to us that we didn't want to look at us.

01:59:16.580 Yes,

01:59:17.080 we were tired.

01:59:17.780 We were busy.

01:59:18.280 We were stretched thin,

01:59:19.360 but we were also a group now that measured our lives in promotions and in

01:59:27.160 square footage and bank balances.

01:59:30.840 We were starting to become a little Mr.

01:59:33.440 Potter like,

01:59:34.780 and we didn't want to be Mr.

01:59:36.340 Potter.

01:59:37.560 And there on the screen is George Bailey standing on a bridge wondering,

01:59:43.500 would the world be better without me?

01:59:47.080 he's not a villain.

01:59:51.100 He's not a loser.

01:59:52.080 He's actually a really good man.

01:59:55.960 He's the best of us.

01:59:57.320 And that's why it still works.

01:59:59.840 Think of all the happy endings that we have and everything else and all the stories that we tell ourselves.

02:00:10.500 This movie doesn't tell you that life is going to turn out the way you planned.

02:00:13.680 And this one tells you something much,

02:00:17.640 much harder that the measure of your life is probably going to be invisible to you while you're living your life.

02:00:26.640 Because Clarence ain't coming down in his,

02:00:29.240 you know,

02:00:29.580 1800s clothing and having a hot toddy with you.

02:00:33.600 So you probably won't know the real measure of your life and the biggest victories in your life.

02:00:39.920 Don't come with applause.

02:00:41.060 And the sacrifice,

02:00:43.240 it usually doesn't feel heroic at the moment. 0.99

02:00:46.280 It just feels like sacrifice and crap. 0.88

02:00:50.320 Why me? 0.97

02:00:51.280 Why me?

02:00:51.920 Why don't I ever get the adventure that I planned my whole life?

02:00:55.180 Remember,

02:00:55.560 George never left Bedford Falls.

02:00:58.280 He never becomes famous.

02:00:59.920 He just stays and he shows up and he keeps his promises and he holds people together.

02:01:14.580 What is the real?

02:01:18.360 What's the real miracle of the film?

02:01:23.600 There's not Clarence.

02:01:25.500 It's not the bells.

02:01:29.920 It's not him getting his life back.

02:01:34.180 The real miracle is the ledger.

02:01:40.160 That's the miracle.

02:01:42.180 The names,

02:01:43.380 the faces,

02:01:44.200 the small kindness,

02:01:45.620 all stacked up one on top of each other until you realize,

02:01:50.260 oh my gosh,

02:01:51.520 all of those little acts,

02:01:53.520 they amount to a life that actually mattered.

02:01:57.300 We're all looking for the big splashy.

02:02:01.420 He didn't get any of those.

02:02:03.840 He didn't get that.

02:02:05.780 And that's why he felt like he was a failure.

02:02:08.520 That's why when the,

02:02:09.480 the town shows up in the end and they're all giving,

02:02:12.300 you know,

02:02:12.700 just a few dollars,

02:02:14.300 it breaks us every single time.

02:02:18.900 Because deep down,

02:02:22.740 we're not watching George Bailey.

02:02:25.060 Deep down,

02:02:25.880 we're checking our own books,

02:02:27.160 our own ledger.

02:02:30.940 Did I,

02:02:32.340 do I matter to anybody?

02:02:37.480 Would I be missed?

02:02:38.700 Do the things I gave up,

02:02:42.520 the things that I really wanted to do in life,

02:02:44.700 but because something else came up or I had to serve,

02:02:47.780 I had to do this for my kids or I had to do this.

02:02:53.400 The things I gave up,

02:02:54.500 does it mean anything?

02:03:00.820 This film answers it with a whisper.

02:03:03.660 It doesn't shout it.

02:03:04.420 It whispers.

02:03:08.700 You'll never fully know the good you've done.

02:03:14.260 I can't give you an answer.

02:03:15.740 You'll never know.

02:03:17.120 You'll never see the ripples while you're standing in the water.

02:03:22.260 But they're there.

02:03:24.400 Believe me,

02:03:25.060 they're there.

02:03:30.380 So this year,

02:03:31.280 when you either just have it running while you're all in the kitchen

02:03:35.140 and you're watching from time to time,

02:03:37.260 oh,

02:03:37.380 I love this part.

02:03:37.900 I love this part.

02:03:38.940 And everybody gets quiet for a minute.

02:03:40.340 Or you just curl up on the couch and watch it again.

02:03:43.140 Remember,

02:03:43.640 you're not watching a Christmas movie.

02:03:47.480 What you're watching is a reminder that life doesn't have to be loud

02:03:51.080 to be important.

02:03:54.080 That staying

02:03:55.200 can be braver

02:03:57.260 than leaving.

02:04:01.020 That loving your family

02:04:02.500 and your neighbors

02:04:03.640 and your town

02:04:04.580 imperfect as it is,

02:04:06.460 that's not settling.

02:04:08.040 It's choosing.

02:04:09.680 It's choosing.

02:04:16.380 And whether Ted Turner knew it or not,

02:04:19.220 I can guarantee you that

02:04:20.620 Jimmy Stewart did

02:04:21.760 and Frank Capra

02:04:22.660 certainly did.

02:04:23.540 that every time you see that,

02:04:27.820 why we,

02:04:28.480 year after year,

02:04:29.240 when the snow starts falling

02:04:30.940 and that old piano theme

02:04:32.240 plays,

02:04:33.500 we come back,

02:04:34.220 not for the nostalgia,

02:04:35.600 but

02:04:35.720 for the reassurance.

02:04:37.820 because

02:04:41.480 every once in a while

02:04:43.640 all of us

02:04:44.900 need somebody

02:04:45.660 just to look us in the eye

02:04:47.080 and say,

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02:06:28.460 This is Glenn Beck.

02:06:30.440 So I just saw something

02:06:55.960 in a Blaze article

02:06:57.080 about craving

02:06:59.500 for a simpler time.

02:07:03.060 I don't remember

02:07:03.820 what show I was watching

02:07:04.820 the other day,

02:07:05.980 but they each had

02:07:09.260 a phone on each side

02:07:11.560 of the bed.

02:07:12.100 Husband and wife,

02:07:12.800 they each had a phone

02:07:13.560 on one side of the bed.

02:07:15.300 And his line

02:07:16.620 and her line. 0.89

02:07:17.420 And I thought,

02:07:17.840 my gosh.

02:07:18.460 I mean,

02:07:18.680 it's no different now.

02:07:19.660 It's just,

02:07:20.140 you know,

02:07:20.460 not hooked to the wall,

02:07:21.940 I guess.

02:07:23.660 And it's not this

02:07:24.560 giant contraption.

02:07:27.660 Most people don't even

02:07:28.620 know how a rotary dial,

02:07:30.300 you talk to anybody

02:07:31.260 under 30,

02:07:31.900 they have no idea

02:07:32.600 how to use a rotary dial.

02:07:34.100 They're making a comeback.

02:07:36.560 This guy started making,

02:07:37.600 an entrepreneur,

02:07:38.720 began to make

02:07:39.600 physical phones.

02:07:41.100 That's the name

02:07:42.540 of the brand,

02:07:43.660 physical phones.

02:07:45.740 And within the first

02:07:47.400 72 hours,

02:07:49.160 he sold a thousand

02:07:50.540 of them.

02:07:52.440 And people,

02:07:53.560 I guess they want it,

02:07:55.300 you know,

02:07:56.140 I don't know.

02:07:57.320 I mean,

02:07:59.460 I'd want it

02:07:59.900 because of the nostalgia.

02:08:01.140 I have an old phone

02:08:01.880 hanging up on my wall

02:08:02.980 in my ranch,

02:08:03.660 but I don't,

02:08:04.220 it's not plugged in anything

02:08:05.260 because, you know,

02:08:05.820 we don't have phone service.

02:08:06.700 But this is actually,

02:08:07.820 this works,

02:08:09.160 operates,

02:08:09.620 I think,

02:08:09.800 on Bluetooth.

02:08:11.460 And so,

02:08:12.280 it's actually running

02:08:13.160 through your,

02:08:13.980 your cell phone,

02:08:15.540 but it works

02:08:16.020 like a physical phone.

02:08:18.320 It can't have the weight

02:08:19.540 of those old phones.

02:08:20.580 Do you think, Stu?

02:08:21.560 Because it doesn't have any,

02:08:22.280 I bet it has like,

02:08:23.260 you know,

02:08:23.940 one little diode inside.

02:08:27.000 You know, 0.99

02:08:27.520 it doesn't have all the crap 0.99

02:08:28.600 that they used to have, 0.99

02:08:29.380 I'm sure.

02:08:29.980 I don't know.

02:08:30.500 I mean,

02:08:30.660 the only thing I,

02:08:31.240 it certainly doesn't have 0.99

02:08:32.100 all the crap 0.98

02:08:32.460 that it used to have in there, 0.99

02:08:33.380 but it seems like

02:08:35.020 it's a aesthetic vibe,

02:08:37.160 right?

02:08:37.460 Like they'd want it to,

02:08:38.660 it looks,

02:08:39.280 first of all,

02:08:39.660 they're not cheap.

02:08:40.180 And secondly,

02:08:42.080 you know,

02:08:42.680 over a hundred dollars

02:08:43.820 for some of the phones.

02:08:45.280 So,

02:08:45.740 and all it is,

02:08:46.660 is reducing,

02:08:47.340 I guess,

02:08:47.560 Bluetooth to your cell phone.

02:08:48.940 So you can actually

02:08:49.620 take your cell phone calls

02:08:50.540 on a physical phone.

02:08:51.600 but it does strike me

02:08:54.800 as they would probably

02:08:55.600 at least try to replicate

02:08:56.780 the weight of it

02:08:57.780 or it would just seem

02:08:59.140 so flimsy

02:08:59.760 for an expensive item.

02:09:01.600 Were you,

02:09:02.360 were you,

02:09:03.900 did you have

02:09:05.000 a phone like this,

02:09:06.880 like a princess phone?

02:09:08.120 I know that's,

02:09:08.580 I'm not saying it.

02:09:10.020 That's a weird question.

02:09:11.100 But that's what they used to,

02:09:12.140 I know,

02:09:12.440 but that's what they used to be called,

02:09:13.460 the princess phone.

02:09:14.060 Uh,

02:09:14.880 and you know,

02:09:15.900 we had a phone on the wall

02:09:17.300 and I think we had

02:09:18.120 a couple of other phones

02:09:18.820 and one of them,

02:09:20.020 the one on the wall

02:09:20.680 had the longest cord ever.

02:09:23.880 And it was all stretched out

02:09:25.780 because it was,

02:09:26.860 it still wasn't long enough.

02:09:28.020 My sisters would take it

02:09:29.280 and they'd go around the corner

02:09:30.660 and then they'd go into a closet

02:09:32.260 and they'd close the closet

02:09:33.340 and they'd sit there

02:09:34.000 on the phone in the closet.

02:09:35.340 Yeah.

02:09:35.760 Did you have the long cords?

02:09:37.240 Yep.

02:09:37.560 Are you old enough for that?

02:09:38.520 I remember that.

02:09:39.020 I remember being able

02:09:39.840 to stretch it around the corner

02:09:41.140 from my kitchen

02:09:42.020 into like our family room

02:09:43.900 where the TV was

02:09:44.680 so I could be on the phone

02:09:45.660 and watching TV

02:09:46.320 at the same time.

02:09:47.680 Um,

02:09:48.280 kids would not understand

02:09:49.300 these things.

02:09:50.960 No.

02:09:51.620 And then you,

02:09:52.140 and,

02:09:52.340 and then we had,

02:09:53.560 if you watch like,

02:09:54.480 uh,

02:09:55.260 Seinfeld,

02:09:56.160 it's crazy

02:09:57.320 when they pick up

02:09:58.380 the cordless phone

02:10:00.220 and it has the giant antenna

02:10:02.600 on it

02:10:03.500 and it's,

02:10:04.220 I mean,

02:10:04.400 it's the size of like

02:10:05.920 a shoe box.

02:10:07.240 Like,

02:10:07.760 how did we ever think

02:10:08.840 that was cool?

02:10:09.700 Cause I remember

02:10:10.120 when that came out,

02:10:10.740 I was like,

02:10:11.160 I gotta get me one of those.

02:10:13.220 That's the coolest thing ever.

02:10:15.140 Doesn't have a cord.

02:10:17.120 No,

02:10:17.440 but it's like putting

02:10:18.260 a satellite next to your hand.

02:10:20.520 It was enormous.

02:10:23.140 All right.

02:10:23.940 We will see you tomorrow.

02:10:25.660 Thank you so much for listening.

02:10:26.700 If you missed any of the show,

02:10:27.600 make sure you grab the podcast

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