The Glenn Beck Program - New Info From Trump’s Tax Returns？｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ 12⧸21⧸22

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00:00:54.380 Well, H&R Block can learn a thing or two or ten

00:00:59.540 from former President Trump.

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00:01:05.400 Stand up!

00:01:16.000 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:17.600 I'm Jeff Katz.

00:01:18.340 Happy to be sitting in for my pal Glenn on a beautiful morning.

00:01:23.020 Now, I am coming across news about the income tax returns.

00:01:28.240 Oh my God, this is horrible, Jeff!

00:01:30.180 Oh, you're going to have to take a look at this.

00:01:31.900 Did you know that Donald Trump made a lot of money?

00:01:35.420 Well, yeah, I did actually.

00:01:37.380 I've heard about it for years.

00:01:39.440 I've actually read his books, right?

00:01:41.740 The Art of the Deal, The Deal of the Art, The Art of the Deal.

00:01:45.040 That's the one.

00:01:46.840 I sat back after reading that and thought,

00:01:48.780 I've got to read that again.

00:01:51.540 There was so much information to be cleaned.

00:01:55.040 I've looked at Donald Trump over the years and thought,

00:01:57.180 man, good for you.

00:01:59.660 You've figured this all out.

00:02:01.100 You've figured it out a lot better than I did, that's for sure.

00:02:03.620 And now I learn that Donald Trump didn't pay a lot in income taxes.

00:02:10.340 You do realize, delusional, desperate Democrats,

00:02:14.640 that what you've done is to now endear former President Trump

00:02:20.540 to even more of America

00:02:22.900 because we already believe we're paying too much in taxes.

00:02:27.460 I'm always puzzled by this.

00:02:29.460 I really, honest to good am.

00:02:31.300 I just, I want to share this.

00:02:33.120 Let's see who is this, Politico.

00:02:34.800 All right, Politico, left to center, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:02:37.720 Former President Donald Trump repeatedly paid little or nothing

00:02:43.240 in federal income taxes between 2015 and 2020

00:02:47.060 despite reporting millions in earnings.

00:02:50.540 You know what I want to do?

00:02:52.620 I want to give President Trump a round of applause.

00:02:54.900 Good for him.

00:02:57.000 Millions in earnings,

00:02:58.600 a minimal amount in income tax.

00:03:01.220 Isn't that what we're all trying to do?

00:03:04.980 No, I'm not telling you, you cheat on your taxes.

00:03:06.820 Nobody wants anybody cheating or lying or concealing or any of that stuff.

00:03:10.500 I get it.

00:03:12.060 But the reason that there are accountants and tax preparers

00:03:17.240 available to you, available to me, available to everybody

00:03:21.400 is because those folks understand

00:03:24.060 what's in the 87 billion pages of tax regulations.

00:03:28.960 I don't understand it.

00:03:32.440 I mean, I do my thing and I go,

00:03:34.860 let me look at my W-2.

00:03:37.380 I made this much.

00:03:38.420 I used to make so much more.

00:03:39.960 But okay, I made this much.

00:03:42.000 How many kids do I have?

00:03:43.800 I got three.

00:03:45.680 One of them, by the way, is at Stanford,

00:03:47.640 even though I'm a proud American.

00:03:48.960 We'll talk about that in a moment.

00:03:51.220 And so I got three kids.

00:03:52.560 Can I take the puppies?

00:03:53.460 No, seriously, Heidi, I love the puppies more than the kids.

00:03:56.520 Don't tell the kids, but I do.

00:03:58.700 No?

00:03:59.440 Are you sure?

00:04:00.260 I mean, they eat every day and they go to the doctor

00:04:02.360 and they whiz and they poop. 0.92

00:04:05.020 They're just like kids, except they're furry

00:04:08.260 and they actually like me and they care what I...

00:04:10.660 No.

00:04:11.200 All right.

00:04:11.580 Can't claim the puppies. 0.89

00:04:13.160 Fine.

00:04:14.720 All right.

00:04:15.180 So we're back to our tax forms.

00:04:16.800 Some of my deductions, of course,

00:04:18.440 written on the back of a napkin,

00:04:19.940 covered up with barbecue sauce.

00:04:21.460 Got to lick the barbecue sauce.

00:04:22.820 Oh, look, I spent $11 in postage.

00:04:24.960 Yeah, that's going to make a difference.

00:04:26.560 I'm going to...

00:04:27.160 Yeah, I'm going to put that right in there.

00:04:28.940 And okay.

00:04:30.300 So I do mine.

00:04:31.780 It's relatively straightforward.

00:04:34.880 Relatively.

00:04:36.280 I have my employment.

00:04:38.220 I have a small business.

00:04:42.680 And it's really small.

00:04:44.920 It's painfully small sometimes, but there it is.

00:04:48.240 And I don't actually do anything now that I think about it.

00:04:51.160 I just put the numbers in and then the magic online program says you can do this and you

00:04:55.620 can do that and you can do this, but don't do this.

00:04:57.820 And no, you can't claim the puppies.

00:05:00.100 Okay.

00:05:00.460 All right.

00:05:00.780 Fine.

00:05:02.080 And I trust the magical computer.

00:05:05.180 It's like an IRS etch-a-sketch or whatever.

00:05:08.460 But I do.

00:05:10.720 And then what happens?

00:05:11.860 I get a minimal amount of money back most years.

00:05:16.760 That's it.

00:05:17.560 I'm done.

00:05:18.840 Now, let's say just, you know, for the sake of argument, we'll spitball here for a second.

00:05:23.020 Let's say I'm making, I don't know, a billion dollars a year, which is about a billion times

00:05:29.780 more than what I make.

00:05:30.640 You think I'm going to use the same computer program?

00:05:35.020 Do you think I'm going to take out my shoe box filled with napkins and barbecue sauce

00:05:40.640 deductions and my half empty book of stamps to say that that was a business expense because

00:05:45.560 I mailed six letters last year?

00:05:47.980 No.

00:05:48.380 I am willing to bet that if I make a million or a hundred million or a half a billion or

00:05:57.420 whatever it is, maybe I'm Homer Simpson.

00:05:59.700 I made one kajillion dollars last year.

00:06:03.240 And you do remember Homer, the great political and family philosopher of our time and expert

00:06:09.420 on economics.

00:06:11.120 Homer Simpson once said, I used to have three monies and no kids.

00:06:17.120 And now I have three kids and no monies.

00:06:22.420 Oh, so very true.

00:06:24.300 So very true, Professor Simpson.

00:06:26.360 So you're making big bucks or what I consider to be big bucks.

00:06:31.340 Do you trust me to do it?

00:06:33.820 Am I, no, you go to somebody who actually understands all of the inane babble that is government

00:06:43.900 regulation and they look for every single solitary thing that they can take off your taxes?

00:06:52.220 Oh, by the way, I'm still not clear.

00:06:54.980 And of course, the the outraged leftists in between screaming and wetting the beds and looking

00:07:01.060 for rose colored glasses and, you know, throwing darts at their Donald Trump dartboard.

00:07:07.260 I can't figure out.

00:07:12.060 Is this Donald Trump's personal income?

00:07:16.180 Is it the business income?

00:07:18.800 And if it is business, which business?

00:07:21.740 As I understand it, former President Trump is involved in countless businesses, each of

00:07:30.560 which I'm going to go out on a limb here is incorporated somewhere and files a separate

00:07:37.240 tax return with separate activities.

00:07:40.080 Now, now Politico wants to hit on this.

00:07:42.580 In 2016, Donald Trump paid seven hundred and fifty dollars.

00:07:45.800 The following year, he again paid seven hundred and fifty dollars.

00:07:48.700 In 2020, he paid nothing.

00:07:50.480 Oh, the horror.

00:07:54.240 Then they go on.

00:07:55.140 Now, listen to this.

00:07:55.900 This is the part that is just, oh, it's so insightful.

00:07:59.340 It's painfully insightful.

00:08:02.240 Though the IRS has a longstanding policy of automatically auditing every president, Democrats say the agency

00:08:11.860 did not begin vetting Trump's filings until they began asking about them in 2019.

00:08:18.740 Are you telling me now?

00:08:23.260 That poking around in somebody's income tax returns can happen because some politician somewhere doesn't like the other person?

00:08:33.480 Boy, that's a little dangerous, don't you think?

00:08:35.780 The revelations which came after House Democrats voted Tuesday to make Trump's returns public.

00:08:44.480 Oh, this is the other thing.

00:08:46.560 Why do I have a right to look at Donald Trump's tax returns?

00:08:50.520 I don't believe I have that right.

00:08:52.560 I don't believe I have that right any more than I have the right to look at your tax returns.

00:08:56.960 If you want to stand and tell me, hey, you know, I didn't make any money last year.

00:09:01.520 I'll take your word on that.

00:09:02.520 If you want to come up to me and say, hey, Jeff, you know how much I made last year?

00:09:05.620 My first response is, eh, don't really care, but okay.

00:09:10.160 Jeff, I made $1.7 million.

00:09:13.200 I would say congratulations.

00:09:15.160 You want to see my tax return?

00:09:16.880 Nope.

00:09:17.900 Are you sure?

00:09:19.000 Yeah, I really am.

00:09:21.280 Jeff, I didn't make any money last year.

00:09:22.720 You want to see my tax return?

00:09:24.240 No.

00:09:24.600 The revelations which came after House Democrats voted Tuesday to make Trump's returns public

00:09:32.560 marks the culmination of the long-running mystery of what's in his filings.

00:09:37.720 I would dare say it's none of our business.

00:09:42.980 It promises to create yet another controversy for the scandal-plagued Trump, one that is sure

00:09:49.480 to shadow his bid to return to the White House and raise uncomfortable questions for his fellow

00:09:56.720 Republicans.

00:09:59.300 Listen, I don't care.

00:10:01.840 Politico also says it's a last-minute victory for Democrats.

00:10:09.440 Wow.

00:10:10.620 Now, all the while they're focusing on this, all the while they are focusing on this, they are ignoring, well, everything else.

00:10:23.760 Our country is headed straight down a mountain, right?

00:10:30.040 President Magoo is driving.

00:10:31.720 He doesn't have his peepers on.

00:10:33.880 Slow Mo Joe is wandering around the Oval Office in his terrycloth bathrobe and his fuzzy bunny

00:10:39.900 slippers looking for ice cream and trying to figure out when the murder she wrote marathon 0.99

00:10:44.980 is going to be on, right?

00:10:46.120 Oh, that's okay.

00:10:47.000 Just ignore that.

00:10:48.220 Move along.

00:10:48.740 Nothing to see there.

00:10:51.880 But you want to focus on how much Donald Trump did or did not pay in taxes.

00:10:56.640 Oh, here's the punchline, right?

00:10:58.700 Far down in the so-called reporting.

00:11:03.760 In 2015, Trump reported making more than $50 million through a combination of capital gains,

00:11:10.000 interest, dividends, and other earnings.

00:11:12.160 Good for him.

00:11:13.100 That was offset, though, by more than $85 million in reported losses.

00:11:19.160 Well, that's the way this works.

00:11:22.480 Maybe you don't like the way it works, which is totally okay with me.

00:11:27.280 If you want to look at it and say, hey, I don't like the way this works.

00:11:29.080 We got to change.

00:11:29.640 Then you do that.

00:11:31.080 But you cannot fault someone for playing by the rules that you wrote.

00:11:37.860 It's craziness, isn't it?

00:11:41.840 Now, you have figured out, gosh, where's Glenn?

00:11:44.840 How come Pat and Stu aren't around?

00:11:46.220 Who's Jeff Katz?

00:11:47.100 All right.

00:11:47.420 Jeff Katz, ordinarily heard on News Radio WRVA in Central Virginia.

00:11:51.060 Absolutely love my home base here in Central Virginia.

00:11:55.240 A couple of things I want to tell you about in terms of contact, at least while I'm sitting

00:11:59.180 in here for Glenn, you can hit me up on Twitter or Facebook.

00:12:02.680 Look for The Jeff Katz Show on either one.

00:12:04.820 And by the way, over on Twitter, now that Elon Musk has taken over, man, I'm back on

00:12:09.760 Twitter.

00:12:10.140 I took a pause because I thought, well, I've lost like 20,000 followers just all overnight.

00:12:15.840 They went, well, we don't care anymore.

00:12:17.880 I thought that's not true.

00:12:19.160 But that's what happened.

00:12:20.220 Now Elon is back, and I'm trying slowly but surely to rebuild that.

00:12:24.260 So if you want to give me a follow over there, Jeff Katz Show on Twitter, I'd appreciate

00:12:27.720 it.

00:12:27.920 And I'll see if they stick around.

00:12:29.500 Because it used to be I'd sit in for Glenn.

00:12:32.140 All of a sudden, 100,000 people would say, yep, we like you.

00:12:35.360 We're going to follow you.

00:12:36.040 And then an hour later, they were all gone.

00:12:38.840 I'm rounding there, rounding up, rounding down.

00:12:41.620 But if you give me a follow on Twitter, I'd appreciate it.

00:12:44.460 Jeff Katz Show.

00:12:45.200 And I'll figure out just how effective Elon's takeover of Twitter has been.

00:12:50.580 If you'd rather send an email, jeff at thejeffkatshow.com.

00:12:53.740 Love to read it.

00:12:54.400 Jeff at thejeffkatshow.com.

00:12:56.000 I will remind you, every single day, you should be checking out multiple times a day theblaze.com

00:13:02.220 as well as glennbeck.com.

00:13:05.040 Some amazing things there, insightful, brilliant.

00:13:08.420 They are must-reads for me each and every day.

00:13:11.180 All right.

00:13:11.580 How can I, as a proud American, have a son at Stanford?

00:13:14.940 We'll explore that in just a moment.

00:13:16.900 It is Jeff Katz in for my friend Glenn.

00:13:19.420 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:13:27.600 Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

00:13:30.000 It is, of course, the Glenn Beck Program.

00:13:32.340 Be sure to check out theblaze.com and glennbeck.com every, I would say, every couple of minutes.

00:13:39.580 I'm telling you, there's more stuff there that you need to see.

00:13:42.340 Stanford University.

00:13:43.260 I am so proud that my oldest boy goes to Stanford.

00:13:47.700 He went there.

00:13:48.640 He was actually the smartest guy in the world.

00:13:51.000 And then he got there, and he was surrounded by all sorts of other people who were also the smartest people in the world,

00:13:57.320 at least in their home high schools.

00:14:00.160 He's been there now.

00:14:02.720 He's a junior.

00:14:04.260 Kind of took that COVID year off, came back.

00:14:08.300 And I remember the phone call to this day.

00:14:10.100 Hey, Dad, looks like they're closing campus down for a week or two.

00:14:15.260 So can you buy me an airplane ticket home?

00:14:19.880 Sure.

00:14:20.700 Sure, I can.

00:14:21.980 You can bring in stuff back.

00:14:23.080 No, it's only going to be two weeks.

00:14:25.440 He was here for the entire COVID experience.

00:14:28.620 COVID hysteria.

00:14:31.260 COVID theater.

00:14:32.240 You remember that, right?

00:14:33.460 They're trying to bring it back now.

00:14:35.700 They are.

00:14:36.460 Take a look around.

00:14:37.760 Oh, the New York Times says, well, everybody should wear masks again.

00:14:40.920 Why?

00:14:41.320 What is it, Halloween?

00:14:42.740 Are we all going to be holding up banks?

00:14:44.240 Why would I wear a mask?

00:14:46.860 I didn't like wearing the mask before.

00:14:48.420 And quite frankly, I looked at people who were wearing masks, and I'm thinking, you do realize that's doing nothing for you, right?

00:14:54.820 It's supposed to cover your nose and your mouth.

00:14:56.720 You've got it under your chin, like you're trying to keep your jaw in place.

00:15:00.760 Or you're wearing it on the top of your hand like it's, I don't know, a kippah that I'm going to wear to services, but I'm worried about the wind. 0.86

00:15:09.020 I mean, it just looks ridiculous.

00:15:10.560 Half the people wearing these bandanas covered with mayonnaise and ketchup, you know exactly what they had for lunch, and they want to bring that back.

00:15:20.220 Anyway, so he comes home.

00:15:22.640 He's going to be here for two weeks, winds up being here for the entire COVID experience.

00:15:27.200 Finally, we get him back on campus.

00:15:29.380 He's back amongst his people.

00:15:31.200 You know, and they are.

00:15:32.280 They're his people.

00:15:34.440 Stanford University, wonderful institution, unbelievably expensive.

00:15:39.580 I would have thought, because I'm wearing a Stanford sweatshirt right now, I would have thought with all we pay, the very least, they would have sent me a free sweatshirt or a baseball cap.

00:15:50.500 Nope, nothing.

00:15:52.160 Stanford says we have to eliminate harmful language.

00:15:56.080 We're going to eliminate it from the school's websites and their computer codes, and they would really prefer that you not use the language either.

00:16:03.820 The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford.

00:16:14.280 And the goal is to eliminate, and I'm quoting here, many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, biased language.

00:16:21.820 Now, the bias covers disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias, and bias one, get one free.

00:16:31.700 There are ten harmful language sections.

00:16:36.240 Ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriate, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violence, and then the all-encompassing additional considerations.

00:16:49.740 Now, among the words that need to be removed, American, don't say American, use the phrase U.S. citizen, because, according to Stanford, American typically refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S. is the most important country in America.

00:17:07.440 Oh, wait a minute, people in the United States only insinuate U.S. is the most important country in the Americas.

00:17:13.120 They point out the Americas actually comprise 42 countries.

00:17:16.560 Well, if I could raise my hand for just a second here, Professor, the United States of America is the most important country in the Americas.

00:17:26.280 Now, I know you like Canada, even though they're getting ready to, you know, eliminate as many people as possible.

00:17:32.980 Oh, we're going to have assisted suicide, Jeff.

00:17:35.180 What does that mean?

00:17:36.120 People are sucking up all the resources.

00:17:38.220 We've got to be done with them.

00:17:39.500 And we like, well, we like everybody in the Americas.

00:17:42.040 They're all good people.

00:17:42.960 And, you know, every country is equal, except they're not.

00:17:47.520 Except the reality is the United States of America is the most important country in the Americas.

00:17:55.520 You may not like it, folks at Stanford, but it's the fact.

00:18:00.640 Other terms that have been deemed harmful include the word abort.

00:18:03.880 Oh, because, you know, that makes you think about infanticide.

00:18:08.640 We don't want to do that.

00:18:09.300 Instead, use the word cancel or end. 0.97

00:18:11.400 Oh, and don't say child prostitute. 0.92

00:18:13.620 Say a child who has been trafficked. 0.98

00:18:15.760 And don't say Karen.

00:18:17.200 Well, that one I agree with.

00:18:19.540 Instead, use the phrase demanding or entitled white woman. 1.00

00:18:23.400 I'm not crazy about that.

00:18:25.360 Under the ableist section, use the word accessible parking instead of handicap parking.

00:18:32.680 Say anonymous review instead of blind review.

00:18:36.360 And don't use the word tone deaf.

00:18:39.300 Listen, gang.

00:18:44.200 I understand.

00:18:45.500 We all want to be nice.

00:18:47.840 We want to be polite.

00:18:50.580 We want to be, well, whatever it is that we want to be.

00:18:55.560 And I'm more than willing to help you out on that.

00:18:58.380 But what I'm not going to do is play games.

00:19:01.540 It's like preferred pronouns.

00:19:03.360 My preferred pronouns, as given to me by a friend, your majesty, your royal highness.

00:19:11.100 Can I get away with those if I am, you know, delusional?

00:19:15.180 We'll talk about it.

00:19:16.300 Jeff, in for Glenn.

00:19:18.180 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:20.080 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:44.740 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:19:48.220 Do you remember when you had your installed, you know, your south of the border?

00:19:57.120 Remember when you had your equipment installed?

00:20:00.300 Well, the reason I bring it up, I'm not trying to be overly intrusive or completely and totally nosy, but I'm looking on Twitter.

00:20:10.460 A woman by the name of Kara Dansky writes on issues related to women.

00:20:15.320 Kara, like, well, just about everybody that I know is concerned about women who are being canceled in this you-can-just-be-whatever-you-say-you-are culture that is now rising up.

00:20:33.640 Kara says, hey, wait a minute now.

00:20:36.780 Women are women. 1.00

00:20:38.420 It goes back to this whole XX doesn't equal XY and XY doesn't equal XX.

00:20:42.320 And it really doesn't matter how you dress or what you say or how you behave.

00:20:48.660 They're just certain things that are what they are.

00:20:53.460 You're a hater.

00:20:54.620 You are transphobic.

00:20:56.720 No, and I'm not a hater.

00:20:58.540 Remember, if you're an adult, fully formed, functioning adult, and you make a decision, you say, you know, I know I've always been a guy, but I'm kind of like Shania Twain.

00:21:18.240 I feel like a woman.

00:21:20.080 Okay.

00:21:20.660 You know what?

00:21:21.420 Live your life.

00:21:22.040 I'm not going to hurt you.

00:21:24.420 I'm not going to yell at you.

00:21:25.480 I'm not going to harass you.

00:21:27.380 And in fact, whether you realize it or not, I will protect you from someone who wants to hurt you.

00:21:36.840 See, a thousand years ago, I was a police officer.

00:21:40.460 I was a cop in Philadelphia way, way, way, way back a long time ago.

00:21:45.360 And I, I still have that, that sheep dog mentality.

00:21:54.500 You ever look at sheep, sheep, just wander around eating grass, doing, you know, sheep things, whatever those might be.

00:22:07.020 And they just keep wandering, and they will wander off.

00:22:14.940 Sheep are a couple of things.

00:22:16.400 Number one, they're tasty.

00:22:17.900 Number two, they're not that smart.

00:22:21.780 And sheep are also, they're the living embodiment of the term prey.

00:22:31.160 And they can't protect themselves.

00:22:34.380 I mean, think about it.

00:22:35.240 A wolf comes into the sheep neighborhood, starts shopping for dinner.

00:22:42.220 What's the sheep going to do?

00:22:43.820 If you'll hang on for a month or two, we'll knit you a beautiful sweater.

00:22:48.600 No, I'm hungry tonight, but thank you.

00:22:51.600 So you need sheep dogs.

00:22:53.500 Sheep dogs protect the sheep from the wolves.

00:22:58.000 Really what they do, the sheep dog protect the sheep from the sheep.

00:23:01.400 So I still have that mentality of being a sheep dog.

00:23:06.200 I will step in between you if you have decided, well, I am really a woman.

00:23:13.200 I'm really a man.

00:23:13.960 Whatever it is.

00:23:15.040 And that subjects you to some sort of abuse.

00:23:18.000 I won't let somebody bully you.

00:23:19.440 I won't let somebody attack you and hurt you.

00:23:21.640 But I'm also not going to be part of whatever game you are playing. 0.79

00:23:26.700 So you know, and I know, genitals are not installed. 1.00

00:23:35.420 And that's where this tweet from Karen Dansky brings us.

00:23:41.180 She sent out a tweet and she says, this guy thinks a, oh, and I do have to caution everybody

00:23:50.220 about language.

00:23:51.380 We're all very protective now.

00:23:53.540 And I'm very protective for fear that I say something that somebody is not going to like

00:24:00.060 inside, you know, the government apparatus.

00:24:02.340 And then I'd have to get a real job and I'm not actually qualified for a real job.

00:24:07.820 So I'll just, I'll couch this.

00:24:09.500 All right.

00:24:10.020 This guy thinks a, can be installed.

00:24:13.860 Women, please use this space to tell your installation stories. 1.00

00:24:20.360 It's a great tweet.

00:24:22.540 But even better.

00:24:24.540 And what is inspirational for Kara is the initial tweet.

00:24:28.400 The nurse practitioner helping me schedule my genital installation called me a trans male.

00:24:42.360 I literally am so blanking done.

00:24:47.100 I have been getting misgendered and ridiculed by health providers for two GD years.

00:24:54.880 The one field that I figured that would have their blank together is the department in charge 0.99

00:25:02.020 of getting my damn installed. 0.99

00:25:06.740 I'm never going to stop getting misgendered. 0.99

00:25:10.020 I am so blanking exhausted.

00:25:14.120 Well, sir, I, I think you've answered all of your own questions with that little tirade.

00:25:19.880 Everything you just said there is, is a piece of information you ought to examine.

00:25:28.620 But if you do remember the genital installation that you had done, by all means, you let me know. 0.98

00:25:38.900 1-888-727-BECK.

00:25:41.160 1-888-727-BECK.

00:25:43.580 You can also hit me up on social media.

00:25:46.320 Jeff Cat Show over on Twitter.

00:25:48.580 Jeff Cat Show over on Twitter.

00:25:50.140 Please feel free to, to shoot a tweet in that direction.

00:25:52.800 Facebook, you're looking for the Jeff Cat Show.

00:25:56.120 Me?

00:25:56.820 I, I, I, I haven't had an installation.

00:25:59.720 I just came with standard equipment.

00:26:02.020 Never upgraded.

00:26:03.360 Never traded it in.

00:26:04.620 Never went looking for the newer models.

00:26:07.320 And that would be an interesting shopping experience, wouldn't it?

00:26:11.120 Hey, what are you going to get for, for Christmas?

00:26:13.900 Are you getting Hanukkah gifts?

00:26:15.220 Oh, yeah.

00:26:15.740 Yeah.

00:26:16.740 What are you going for?

00:26:17.600 Well, you know, they got the, uh, the new 2022 and, and, uh, 2022.

00:26:24.620 Really?

00:26:25.420 Yeah.

00:26:25.980 Are they on the shelves?

00:26:27.520 Yeah.

00:26:28.640 Uh, what kind of mileage you get on those?

00:26:30.960 And, and what's the maintenance and upkeep?

00:26:32.800 Because I think that's where the real expense comes with all of this, isn't it?

00:26:36.300 I mean, it's, it's, it's, they're not, not cheap.

00:26:39.380 Well, yeah, I know.

00:26:40.580 But, you know, it's, it's, it's one of those things that, uh, you want to invest in the best.

00:26:47.800 That's true.

00:26:48.620 That's true.

00:26:49.380 What about used models?

00:26:50.600 Are you ever able to pick up used models?

00:26:52.640 Yeah.

00:26:52.820 Every once in a while, you go to a store and you'll see the used models.

00:26:58.500 Look on Amazon or Craigslist or eBay might even say gently used.

00:27:03.540 Okay.

00:27:04.060 Yeah.

00:27:05.640 Owned by, um, married suburban dad with three kids.

00:27:10.200 Oh yeah.

00:27:10.600 That's, that's going to be like in pristine condition, right?

00:27:13.480 Yeah.

00:27:13.660 Oh yeah.

00:27:13.960 Yeah.

00:27:14.200 No doubt about that.

00:27:15.500 You'll be able to get a deal on that one.

00:27:17.320 This kid goes to Stanford, as I understand it.

00:27:19.580 Oh, that's expensive.

00:27:20.980 What are they doing at Stanford?

00:27:22.400 Eh, telling you can't use language.

00:27:24.840 Great.

00:27:26.740 Great.

00:27:28.060 I'm actually going for the family visitation to Stanford in February.

00:27:33.660 And it's going to be an interesting experience.

00:27:36.560 This year, I was officially declared permanent, permanently, partially disabled.

00:27:48.360 It's just like winning the lottery, except there's, there's no money and there's a lot

00:27:52.160 of pain in their surgery and stuff like that.

00:27:53.860 But otherwise it's exactly the same thing.

00:27:55.460 But what it means is travel has become really difficult, except, and you're going to think

00:28:02.400 this is crazy, except for airplane flights.

00:28:04.980 Why?

00:28:05.680 Because I get on the airplane and I take medication and fundamentally I sleep.

00:28:10.460 So that's the easiest part.

00:28:15.420 February, I'm going to fly from central Virginia out to California and get to go on the Stanford

00:28:24.140 University family tour, which is great.

00:28:27.560 I'm really looking forward to this beautiful campus.

00:28:31.160 I, of course, want to spend time visiting the Hoover Institution, which is where the really,

00:28:39.160 really, really smart people get to hang out.

00:28:42.880 You know, Peter Schweitzer, who's done all that great work exposing the Biden folks, or

00:28:49.540 as I like to call them, La Josa Nostra, because doesn't it seem like it's just a whole family 0.57

00:28:53.620 of grifters, right?

00:28:56.040 They've always been working an angle, a con, a game.

00:28:58.600 But Peter Schweitzer was a media fellow at Hoover for many, many years.

00:29:06.420 And of course, now Peter heads up a bunch of different organizations and does all that

00:29:10.580 great writing.

00:29:11.240 But that's what Hoover Institution is all about at Stanford.

00:29:14.000 So I want to go there.

00:29:16.320 And I'm going to be, I'm going to be like a sponge.

00:29:21.140 I'm going to be like one of those incoming freshmen.

00:29:23.240 I'm going to look around, stare at all the big buildings, and try and take in everything

00:29:30.100 that is Stanford.

00:29:33.020 And maybe I'll figure out why so many really brilliant people just can't deal with honest

00:29:42.480 words.

00:29:43.360 We'll tackle one more ableist.

00:29:47.480 Oh, gosh.

00:29:48.980 This is one of those that just turns my stomach just like you would not believe.

00:29:55.780 Remember, on Twitter, JeffCatShow.

00:29:57.820 If you don't mind giving me a follow over there, I would appreciate it simply because now that

00:30:01.500 Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, he bought it, and now he did the poll, oh, do you want

00:30:07.340 me to remain a CEO?

00:30:09.120 Do you really think a guy that has $44 billion to buy Twitter is trusting me to decide whether

00:30:16.120 he should be the CEO?

00:30:17.440 Somehow, I've got a sense.

00:30:19.340 He's already figured out what he's going to do.

00:30:20.780 But anyway, during the old regime, remember Jack and all the uber leftists that were busy

00:30:26.040 shutting down conversation and speech and dissent and journalism and reporting?

00:30:31.980 You remember that.

00:30:33.040 I lost thousands of people.

00:30:34.980 So I'm trying to rebuild it, and if you'd give me a hand, I'd appreciate it.

00:30:38.640 JeffCatShow on Twitter, TheJeffCatShow over on Facebook.

00:30:41.860 If you'd like to give that a like, I'd appreciate that.

00:30:48.420 Jeff, in for Glenn.

00:30:49.680 This is The Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:54.660 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:04.980 It's The Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:15.360 Jeff Katz happened to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:31:19.040 Over on Twitter, Jack says, Jeff, I never heard of you.

00:31:23.100 I'm listening to you right now, and you're good.

00:31:25.120 Oh, thank you.

00:31:26.040 I will take that.

00:31:27.640 Which is more, by the way.

00:31:29.520 Most of my family.

00:31:30.400 I told you, the oldest boy goes to Stanford.

00:31:32.060 I try to work that into every single solitary comment, every sentence, every, well, I don't

00:31:38.780 know, every six minutes.

00:31:40.100 If I can work into conversation the fact that my oldest son goes to Stanford, then I feel

00:31:46.620 better about myself.

00:31:49.720 I think of just how smart he is.

00:31:52.080 And if you have any questions, you just ask him.

00:31:54.200 I just can't figure out what they're doing on campus, and that's why I really am excited

00:31:59.660 about going out there, seeing what actually happens out there.

00:32:04.100 I don't know if I'm allowed into classes.

00:32:05.680 I don't think I am.

00:32:07.000 I think it's more, hey, look at this beautiful building, and that's a beautiful building,

00:32:11.320 and that's where your kid goes to class, and that beautiful building, but I'll file

00:32:15.360 a full report.

00:32:16.340 Sarah says a great tweet.

00:32:20.220 He says, hey, Jeff, I don't remember my installation, but the upkeep is pretty intense.

00:32:28.280 Hopefully, he gets a service plan.

00:32:31.240 Yeah, I think you can get the extended warranties now.

00:32:34.740 Not entirely sure, and I don't actually know what the deductible is on something like that,

00:32:41.620 but even a solid used is going to set you back, you know, ableist.

00:32:48.420 This is the other term, other bigotry, the other bias, the other, I don't know.

00:32:54.140 Did you ever know you were, quote, ableist?

00:32:56.700 I'm in a unique position in regard to that.

00:32:58.900 I have a daughter, Julia, who is disabled, severely disabled.

00:33:08.180 Julia is 19 years old, chronologically, but developmentally, Julia is about 18 months old,

00:33:15.500 and Julia is always going to be, chronologically, about 18 months old.

00:33:21.300 So, we do a lot of diaper changing, and I'm here to tell you,

00:33:27.040 19-year-old young lady and dad, dad shouldn't be involved,

00:33:33.720 because a typically developing 19-year-old young lady would tell dad in rather colorful language,

00:33:39.460 get out, get away from me, don't talk to me, don't do that, what are you thinking?

00:33:44.020 But again, Julia is, chronologically, she's a baby, she's 18 months old.

00:33:50.820 So, I've seen and done stuff that I'd rather not, but I have.

00:33:58.460 Most dads of a 19-year-old would not be in this situation, and that's fine.

00:34:03.360 Now, I'm not saying you should be, I'm just giving you a little background when I tell you

00:34:07.480 that people, like the folks at Stanford, don't want you to be, quote, ableist.

00:34:13.920 They want you to look at my daughter and say,

00:34:15.800 Oh, you know, Jeff, she's differently abled. 0.66

00:34:20.920 And people are motivated by good intentions.

00:34:25.660 Oh, Jeff, we don't want you to feel bad.

00:34:27.600 And I don't feel bad.

00:34:29.800 I look at Julia every single day, and I think to myself, what a blessing.

00:34:34.280 Because Julia's never said a word to anybody, and yet she has communicated with more people

00:34:39.460 than I know.

00:34:42.660 Julia's been able to touch people in ways that, to me, are just unimaginable.

00:34:46.960 So, please don't feel sorry for me, but also, let's not be silly.

00:34:51.460 Let's not think up new and inventive terms.

00:34:54.600 Oh, she's differently abled, or she's slight. 1.00

00:34:57.600 No, she's disabled. 1.00

00:35:00.200 There's a long list of things she cannot do, and it doesn't define her.

00:35:04.400 It doesn't make her less of a person.

00:35:06.960 It doesn't do anything except accurately, honestly describe her situation, which is,

00:35:14.500 there are many things over here on this side of the ledger that are negatives,

00:35:20.180 and there are plenty of things over here that are positives.

00:35:25.360 We desperately need to be honest.

00:35:27.840 I'll do my part.

00:35:28.720 It's Jeff Katz, in for Glenn.

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00:36:53.560 Oh, and President Trump, too.

00:36:55.300 Details on all of it in 60 seconds.

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00:37:11.820 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn, normally heard on News Radio WRVA, beautiful, beautiful central Virginia.

00:37:19.300 Contact details, well, 1-888-727-BECK.

00:37:22.960 That remains the same.

00:37:23.880 1-888-727-BECK.

00:37:26.280 If you want to shoot me an email, happy to take a look at it.

00:37:28.860 Jeff at thejeffkatshow.com.

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00:37:39.460 So I found out the other day that the January 6th committee, it's not a commission, right?

00:37:47.480 It's a committee comprised of, I don't know, the best and the brightest in Congress.

00:37:53.560 I almost said that out loud in the series.

00:37:55.640 Yeah, the best and the brightest in Congress.

00:37:57.440 Who are we kidding?

00:37:57.960 All right, so a bunch of partisan lunatics on the January 6th committee came to a conclusion we already knew they had, which is, we don't like Donald Trump. 0.86

00:38:07.880 We don't like him. 0.94

00:38:08.960 We don't like him.

00:38:09.800 We don't like him.

00:38:11.120 Okay.

00:38:11.780 Click your heels three times, Ms. Cheney, and leave.

00:38:15.140 And you too, Adam Kinz, all of you, just get out.

00:38:18.720 Just get out.

00:38:19.600 Get your stuff and get out.

00:38:21.240 But they've referred former President Trump to the Department of Justice.

00:38:28.080 I, honest to goodness, don't even know what that means.

00:38:30.500 Do they call up Merrick Garland and go, hey, listen, you know how you hate Trump?

00:38:33.600 Yeah, we hate him too.

00:38:34.340 Can you do something about it?

00:38:35.360 No, not really.

00:38:35.860 Okay, thanks.

00:38:37.940 Is it an email?

00:38:39.060 Is it a certified letter?

00:38:41.260 Ooh, those are scary.

00:38:42.200 You get a certified letter, you got to pay attention to that.

00:38:44.380 What is it?

00:38:45.540 I don't know.

00:38:46.320 And what happens with it, I don't know.

00:38:47.720 Now, fortunately, however, I do know the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:38:54.760 Joe Moreno is, without question, the most brilliant legal mind that I've ever had the pleasure to interact with.

00:39:04.160 He's just the best of the best.

00:39:07.440 Someone with a long, distinguished career, including as a prosecutor, a federal prosecutor.

00:39:13.240 So if anybody's going to know about this, it's going to be Joe.

00:39:16.360 And I'm happy to say Joe is joining us.

00:39:18.320 Joe, welcome.

00:39:20.120 Jeff, good morning.

00:39:21.380 And I hope I can live up to that very, very generous introduction.

00:39:26.100 Good morning, sir.

00:39:27.000 Well, you absolutely can.

00:39:28.560 I know you can, because you really are the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:39:32.440 So explain this to me.

00:39:34.800 The January 6th committee came to a conclusion that they don't like Donald Trump.

00:39:39.020 Now what?

00:39:40.380 Yeah, Jeff, I mean, people may have missed it.

00:39:42.340 But a couple of days ago at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a very slick, very polished television presentation, right, that was given by this committee in Congress.

00:39:52.740 And this sort of big conclusion that, yes, many of us absolutely saw coming was a referral of charges to the Justice Department.

00:40:02.500 Now, what does that mean?

00:40:03.580 It really doesn't mean much at all.

00:40:05.380 It's very symbolic.

00:40:06.840 It basically kind of projects that these people aren't happy with Donald Trump and John Eastman and a couple of other people.

00:40:14.220 But it has absolutely no bearing on the Justice Department.

00:40:18.520 It has no bearing in law.

00:40:20.960 It is simply sort of an expression of their feelings.

00:40:24.720 And probably in the big picture, it almost makes the whole process more difficult rather than less.

00:40:30.320 Huh.

00:40:33.180 Okay.

00:40:34.440 So what – I don't want to ask you to give a prediction because that's not fair.

00:40:38.880 And frankly, if you can do predictions, I need Mega Millions and Powerball because my wife has just gone really, really heavy into easy spirit shoes right about now and we need to diversify.

00:40:49.220 But all right.

00:40:50.340 So what happens next?

00:40:51.900 Well, I mean, keep in mind, there are principles in how our justice system works that you have to think people on both sides of the political spectrum should want to work the same way.

00:41:05.360 And that is that if anybody is to bring charges against anyone, whether it's little old me or whether it's the former president of the United States, it should be done by career nonpartisan prosecutors in secret right now, blab it to the New York Times ahead of time.

00:41:24.260 And it should be an objective look at the facts and the law and then a decision made about whether to move forward with any charges or not.

00:41:35.120 Full stop.

00:41:36.280 So to do this effectively in public by one branch of the government whose job is not to execute the laws, it's to pass laws, right?

00:41:47.080 And so this committee, the entire existence of this committee was a bit of a farce, right?

00:41:52.280 I mean, they're supposed to form committees for the purpose of passing laws. 0.89

00:41:57.140 So ostensibly, their creation was to look at the Electoral Count Act and figure out if we can improve the way we choose our electoral college vote.

00:42:07.740 It was not to investigate and refer charges against somebody.

00:42:11.780 So now the Justice Department, which is doing its thing, you know, on its own, now has this very public statement from Congress.

00:42:20.520 And I don't care what they say.

00:42:21.980 This was a very one-sided committee.

00:42:24.340 Sure, they had two Republicans in name only.

00:42:27.280 But we all know this was a very, very partisan exercise.

00:42:30.540 So now what's the Justice Department going to do?

00:42:33.560 How are they going to, with a straight face, really say that they're going to make a decision when you have all this evidence in public,

00:42:39.360 when you have all these people that are kind of like stirring up the pot saying,

00:42:43.020 we really think Donald Trump should be charged?

00:42:46.260 I think the Justice Department, their job is much more difficult now to make a straight face decision.

00:42:51.960 Oh, interesting.

00:42:55.880 Interesting.

00:42:56.520 So, I mean, the entire prosecutorial setup is so completely and totally different than this circus that we've seen.

00:43:06.280 I mean, my goodness, Joe, these folks might as well have just jumped out of one of those little Shriners cars. 1.00

00:43:10.860 It really was just a circus from beginning to end.

00:43:14.460 And the Department of Justice, which I have to say, I'm not a member of the bar.

00:43:19.120 I go to the bar, but I'm not a member of the bar.

00:43:22.320 I think Merrick Garland is the most politically motivated attorney general we've seen in the United States since Dean.

00:43:32.260 No, no, John Mitchell.

00:43:33.640 John Mitchell.

00:43:34.240 I mean, that's how far I'm going to go back because I just, I think he's all about politics.

00:43:37.460 But now it's left in the hands of career prosecutors.

00:43:41.840 They want to make the attorney general happy, don't they?

00:43:44.380 Well, so, I mean, ostensibly, they've appointed this special counsel, right, Jackson?

00:43:49.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:43:50.660 And, you know, he seems to be a left-leaning guy, although he's been a longtime prosecutor.

00:43:56.740 But, I mean, on paper, the idea is that he would make the decision, he and whoever's working for him at the department.

00:44:04.160 In reality, it's hard to believe that both the attorney general and the White House wouldn't know exactly what's going on and have a say in this.

00:44:12.460 So, it's a bit of a farce, really.

00:44:15.820 And, again, you know, the fact that it's two years after the events happened, the fact that Donald Trump has indicated he's likely going to run for president again,

00:44:26.880 it's going to be very hard for the department to say, you know, cases don't get better with age.

00:44:31.360 They've been looking at this for a long time.

00:44:33.140 And for them now to say, we're going to make an objective determination after Congress has made it very clear what they want us to do, that's really difficult.

00:44:44.200 And, you know, there's three big things that, you know, a committee like we saw the other day that just wrapped up.

00:44:49.160 There's three major differences between that and a real prosecution.

00:44:53.240 One is that all the facts and evidence have to be put on display, not just one side of the facts, right?

00:45:01.940 Second is that you actually have to apply the law.

00:45:04.280 You can't make general sweeping statements.

00:45:06.780 You actually have to prove element by element whatever charges you want to prove.

00:45:11.240 And then third, of course, there's a defense, right?

00:45:14.100 I mean, that was completely one-sided what we saw.

00:45:16.380 And so any prosecutor, you know, knows that you're going to have to go up against a vigorous defense lawyer whose job it is to punch holes in your case.

00:45:25.320 So that's very different in bringing a real prosecution than what we saw on Monday, which was a completely made-for-television, one-sided presentation.

00:45:36.800 Joe Moreno is joining us, and he really is the smartest lawyer on God's green earth, a background that's just amazing.

00:45:43.180 Being an attorney here in the United States, a solicitor in England and Wales, right?

00:45:52.420 Very good. That's right.

00:45:53.460 All right. Nice.

00:45:54.420 Do you have the robes and the wigs, by the way?

00:45:57.260 No, I've never gotten that far, you know, to play the part.

00:46:00.180 Oh, Joe, come on, man.

00:46:02.240 You've got to do that.

00:46:03.980 I know.

00:46:04.740 You've got to do that.

00:46:06.840 Jamie Raskin is part of this committee, part of Congress.

00:46:10.440 He says, listen, we've seen all we need to see, and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump can never be allowed to run for office again.

00:46:21.860 That's the real motive here, right?

00:46:23.920 And is Raskin anywhere close to the truth on that?

00:46:28.200 Raskin had his chance, and it wasn't what happened, what just wrapped up on Monday.

00:46:32.440 It was two years ago when Congress had the opportunity to impeach Donald Trump a second time, and they did, but they rushed it.

00:46:42.600 They didn't take the time to look at the evidence.

00:46:45.800 They didn't take the time to do it right, and they lost in the Senate, right?

00:46:50.720 He was not convicted a second time.

00:46:52.880 That was, if there is any function for Congress to investigate a president, that's the function, and they botched it up.

00:47:01.360 They rushed it.

00:47:02.380 They didn't get the result they wanted, and so what this committee effectively now, two years later, this is the impeachment investigation that Raskin, and he was one of the lead guys back then, didn't get right the first time.

00:47:14.640 So they're trying to take a second bite at the apple, and it's not going to go well.

00:47:19.580 And I will make a prediction, Jeff.

00:47:21.240 I don't see charges coming from the Justice Department.

00:47:24.480 I think the case is too old.

00:47:26.200 I think if there were a case, it would have been brought by now.

00:47:29.160 And even the charges that the committee recommended, if you go through element by element, each one is a real stretch.

00:47:37.700 So they might not like Donald Trump.

00:47:40.000 They might not like how he conducted himself in the days and weeks leading up to January 6th, but that doesn't make it a crime.

00:47:48.540 That's a stretch, and that's where I think you're going to lose a lot of people who kind of scratch their head and say, hey, this isn't Congress's job.

00:47:54.980 This is the Justice Department's job.

00:47:56.920 And if they had a case, they would have brought up by now.

00:48:00.140 Okay.

00:48:00.780 Well, listen, I like that.

00:48:02.820 I like what you're saying, and I think it's going to be a very interesting play as it unfolds.

00:48:09.100 Now, I want to thank you, number one, Joe Moreno, for being here, who really is the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:48:13.720 And with all of your professional and academic accomplishments, the real one that hits me is that you are a loving, devoted husband and father to a beautiful family.

00:48:23.520 How many are we up to in the Moreno gang now?

00:48:27.240 Jeff, we're up to nine.

00:48:28.780 Wow.

00:48:28.980 They are wonderful, but they sure keep us busy.

00:48:33.200 Predictions, number 10.

00:48:34.980 Oh, no, no, don't tell me, but I do want to let you know, because I reviewed all of the paperwork.

00:48:40.600 Jeff is a wonderful name, and Jeff Moreno, Jeff Moreno, Esquire, MD.

00:48:45.940 That's got a ring to it, right?

00:48:47.460 Colonel Jeff Moreno, MD, Esquire.

00:48:51.060 What do you think?

00:48:51.860 I will make sure that's at the top of the list, if we have a potential boy in the future.

00:48:56.400 You're an amazing man.

00:48:57.460 God bless you, Joe, and Merry Christmas to you and the gang, and thank you again for making some time for us.

00:49:02.000 Jeff, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and thanks for having me, as always, my friend.

00:49:05.560 There you go.

00:49:06.140 That is Joe Moreno.

00:49:07.060 He is the smartest lawyer on God's green earth.

00:49:09.340 If you want to read more about Joe, I put a couple of little details up on social media.

00:49:14.720 Give me a follow over on Twitter, JeffCatShow, just trying to rebuild that.

00:49:19.260 I'm doing my own experimentation now that Elon Musk has moved in, and he's hopefully riding the ship that is Twitter, JeffCatShow, over on Twitter.

00:49:28.120 If you're with me on Getter, fantastic.

00:49:30.140 Give a follow over there.

00:49:31.340 Facebook, I'm everywhere.

00:49:32.680 My gosh, it's like pollen in the springtime, but I would appreciate that.

00:49:37.240 Did you know you're poor?

00:49:39.220 We're all poor.

00:49:40.660 We'll complain collectively in just a moment.

00:49:43.820 It is Jeff in for Glenn.

00:49:45.460 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:49:52.800 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:49:55.000 Jeff Katz, NewsRadio WRVA in Central Virginia, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:50:01.240 Everybody checks TheBlaze.com.

00:50:03.260 I know that.

00:50:04.200 TheBlaze.com.

00:50:05.280 Vital information, useful material.

00:50:07.760 Check it 10, 12, 15 times a day.

00:50:09.800 Fantastic.

00:50:10.220 But please don't forget about GlennBeck.com.

00:50:14.180 I happen to be an unapologetic, unabashed fan of Glenn and his work, but I truly admire so many of the personal activities that Glenn's involved in.

00:50:25.660 And you can read about a lot of them, as well as get the prep, if you will, when you sign up for Glenn's emailing from GlennBeck.com.

00:50:35.300 No, it's not over the top.

00:50:36.540 It's not intrusive or anything like that.

00:50:38.100 I had occasion, I guess it's six weeks ago, seven weeks ago, I was in Dallas, Texas.

00:50:45.780 And in addition to my day job, if you will, as a broadcaster, a talk show host, I've been doing this forever in a day.

00:50:53.860 I also am developing, as best I can, speeches.

00:51:01.260 I've given a boatload of speeches through the years.

00:51:04.360 I don't know how many.

00:51:05.560 Most of them tie into political issues or things I've discussed on the radio or yada, yada, yada, yada.

00:51:12.100 But in the last couple of years, I've really felt I have to do more.

00:51:21.800 I'm going to say something now, and I know people, there are some people who will be so offended.

00:51:26.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:51:27.860 But I believe God is putting it on my heart to reach out to other special needs parents and say, hey, here's what we've been through for 19 years.

00:51:39.520 Let me help you navigate this a little bit.

00:51:41.060 Let me give you a little inspiration, a little motivation as you're dealing with a son or a daughter.

00:51:47.980 It could be other family members, but I think focus mainly on kids.

00:51:51.980 So about six or seven weeks ago, I was in Dallas, Texas.

00:51:55.580 I was selected to participate by the Ziegler Organization in their Ziegler Legacy Certification.

00:52:01.380 It's an amazing, amazing group, right?

00:52:05.100 Everybody now going, Ziegler?

00:52:06.200 You mean like Zig Ziegler?

00:52:07.520 Exactly.

00:52:08.000 Now, the Ziegler Organization, it's Zieg's kids.

00:52:16.340 They're adult children, of course.

00:52:18.200 But, you know, and they continue to train people and lift people up and give people like me the tools to go out and help others.

00:52:25.740 So anyway, I'm down there in Dallas, and I thought, if I have flown 2,500 miles from Richmond, Virginia to Dallas, Texas, and I don't drop in to see Glenn, then shame on me, right?

00:52:42.480 So I do exactly that.

00:52:47.940 And I just have to tell you about a little thing that happens there.

00:52:52.220 Yes, I got a chance.

00:52:53.460 We caught up on stuff, and Glenn said nice things about me, which is always nice to hear.

00:52:58.340 I was wearing my Tecovis boots.

00:53:01.540 My wife mocked me. 0.51

00:53:04.040 I've heard Glenn talking about Tecovis for, what, a decade?

00:53:08.220 And I've always wanted a pair.

00:53:09.680 I said, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

00:53:12.120 Finally, for my birthday, I bought myself a pair.

00:53:14.280 I said, that's it.

00:53:14.780 I'm a grown blank man.

00:53:16.860 I mean, I didn't say that out loud where anybody could hear me, but that's what I'm thinking.

00:53:19.660 So I bought myself a pair of the Tecovis boots, and I'm wearing them.

00:53:24.840 By the way, when I got them, my wife said, what's in the box?

00:53:29.000 And it's a big box.

00:53:29.920 It says Tecovis all over.

00:53:31.080 I said, they're boots from Tecovis.

00:53:33.540 You bought the boots?

00:53:35.140 Yeah.

00:53:35.320 Why?

00:53:37.860 I said, I've been hearing Glenn talk about him for a decade.

00:53:40.600 Yeah.

00:53:41.840 She said, you know, Glenn has a ranch.

00:53:44.940 Yeah.

00:53:45.980 You have a yard.

00:53:47.860 You, like, barely get off the deck, for goodness sakes.

00:53:50.780 And you only get off the deck because you're going to get a beverage.

00:53:55.980 Anyway, so I'm down there, and where am I to Tecovis?

00:53:59.640 Chat with Glenn, chat with some of the team.

00:54:01.460 And then I got a chance to go over to the museum.

00:54:05.320 I can't tell you how blown away I was by this museum.

00:54:12.340 This is like the real museum of real American history.

00:54:15.840 A beautiful facility with so many vital documents and interesting artifacts.

00:54:23.520 And I don't know if you've ever had the opportunity to see any of it or hear about it.

00:54:33.780 But man, if there's ever an opportunity to go, you take it.

00:54:38.380 You take it, and you can see up close and personal, firsthand, just how these legacy news media hacks and the uber leftists in America have done horrible, horrible things to rewrite history and trash our history.

00:54:58.980 God bless Glenn and his team for having it.

00:55:02.420 It's Jeff Katz, in for Glenn.

00:55:04.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:06.100 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:55:35.220 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:55:39.300 1-888-727-BECK.

00:55:45.100 You are poorer today than you were last year and the year before that.

00:55:51.120 I mean, we've all figured that out, right?

00:55:53.360 Especially now with Christmas a couple of days away.

00:55:57.540 For some of us, we're right in the middle of Hanukkah.

00:55:59.680 71% of employees are poorer as a result of Bidenflation. 0.56

00:56:07.240 Now, that's not my number because that's calculated and you're going to carry some number.

00:56:12.860 And I don't do math.

00:56:13.920 I'm not a math guy.

00:56:16.420 I don't solve for X.

00:56:21.140 I was a blue book guy.

00:56:24.040 Psychology, human services.

00:56:25.960 I didn't want to solve for X.

00:56:27.280 I couldn't solve for X.

00:56:28.180 I wanted to tell you how you felt about solving for X.

00:56:32.240 That's as close as I come.

00:56:33.080 So there are numbers here.

00:56:33.760 So I didn't do it.

00:56:34.440 You got to take my word on this.

00:56:35.740 It's Bank of America.

00:56:37.380 Bank of America filled with people who do nothing but numbers.

00:56:42.720 71% of employees in the United States of America today are poor as a result of Bidenflation.

00:56:51.760 That's up from 58% just a couple of months ago.

00:56:55.740 So what happened?

00:56:58.060 Well, you and I went looking for things.

00:57:02.280 You can kind of, sort of get away from the oppressive inflation, which, oh, we're supposed to be happy, right?

00:57:12.720 Jeff, it came down.

00:57:14.260 It's only like 7% now.

00:57:16.340 Oh, fantastic.

00:57:17.600 Remember what it was when the orange guy with the mean tweets was in office?

00:57:22.620 It's 1%.

00:57:23.680 You and I went looking for stuff.

00:57:30.820 If you're like most guys, and I mean guys, you know, look, your mileage may vary, I know, but guys, for the most part, guys are not big shoppers and are not big shoppers on a regular basis.

00:57:45.400 We, generally speaking, I know it's a sweeping generalization and somebody will feel, I don't know, triggered or offended or oppressed and I don't care.

00:57:54.720 But for the most part, guys, don't go shopping as an activity.

00:58:00.620 We do it like it's a reconnaissance exercise.

00:58:03.640 I know what I need.

00:58:04.900 I know what aisle it's on.

00:58:06.200 I'm getting in.

00:58:06.780 I'm getting out as quickly as possible.

00:58:08.640 I don't want to take any enemy fire.

00:58:10.320 I don't want to run into anybody.

00:58:11.700 I don't want anybody asking me questions.

00:58:13.960 And if there's not a price on it, forget about it.

00:58:15.900 I'll find one that has a price on it because I am not standing at the checkout line waiting for them to find somebody who knows what the price is.

00:58:23.340 So I go in, I get what I need and I get out.

00:58:30.220 Women, I know it's a sweeping generalization. 1.00

00:58:33.460 Somebody's going to be offended and hurt and triggered.

00:58:35.860 And again, I don't care.

00:58:37.940 Women look at shopping as, generally speaking, a social activity. 0.99

00:58:43.820 Oh, we should go to the mall.

00:58:45.300 Why?

00:58:46.200 That's my answer.

00:58:47.580 Oh, we should go to such and such.

00:58:48.500 Why?

00:58:49.180 What do we need?

00:58:50.300 Well, we don't need anything.

00:58:51.160 Then why are we going?

00:58:51.960 If we don't need anything, it would seem to me the prudent, intelligent choice to make is to sit here on the couch, relatively close to a bathroom, relatively close to the kitchen, which is filled with tasty snacks and enjoyable beverages.

00:59:09.440 And more importantly, I don't really have to move.

00:59:12.540 If I stay here long enough, I might become part of the couch.

00:59:17.460 That's the goal, isn't it?

00:59:19.940 But now we have to get stuff.

00:59:23.600 We may not be going out to as many brick and mortar stores, but guys, we are still looking for gifts.

00:59:30.320 And that's how we have realized, oh my gosh, something's happening.

00:59:36.180 Whether it is Amazon or another online retailer.

00:59:41.800 And the price for everyday things has gone through the roof.

00:59:47.320 We needed deodorant the other day.

00:59:51.160 Not that we were stinky, but antiperspirant.

00:59:53.680 But I looked in the cabinet and, well, we're out.

00:59:57.080 And at the moment, there are five of us in the house.

00:59:59.860 We are all adults.

01:00:01.180 And so, we need this, right?

01:00:04.760 Everybody's got one.

01:00:06.360 Well, mine is running down because I found that it was being used by four other people and nobody bothered to mention it.

01:00:11.740 So, I thought, well, I need it tomorrow and I really don't feel like going out.

01:00:16.460 I don't want to deal with the crowds.

01:00:18.700 I'm dressed for work, which means I'm in comfy sweatpants.

01:00:22.880 I don't want to go.

01:00:24.960 So, I do what any upstanding American would do.

01:00:27.580 I go online.

01:00:28.240 Do you know what they wanted for a Mitchum gel antiperspirant?

01:00:34.920 It was six bucks.

01:00:37.520 Six, $6.47, I think, to be exact.

01:00:41.680 The last time I went to the store, it was $3.

01:00:46.940 So, I realized firsthand, oh my God, stuff has really gone up in price.

01:00:51.000 What else am I looking at?

01:00:52.340 What else are you looking at?

01:00:53.560 You're going to the grocery store and you are finding that the prices have climbed and climbed and climbed.

01:01:00.080 And those things that used to be just like ordinary things.

01:01:04.340 Chicken.

01:01:05.780 Nobody gets excited because they're having chicken.

01:01:08.880 Chicken is what you have because you need protein and you need calories and you have chicken.

01:01:16.040 Ground beef.

01:01:19.880 Again, nobody really gets excited about ground beef.

01:01:23.100 You make hamburgers out of it.

01:01:25.340 You can dress those up.

01:01:26.480 Some cheese, some bacon, another burger, more cheese, more bacon, another burger.

01:01:32.080 Well, you know what I'm saying.

01:01:32.800 So, you can do that.

01:01:35.120 Meatloaf.

01:01:35.780 You can make a meatloaf.

01:01:36.600 I love a nice meatloaf.

01:01:38.360 But nobody gets excited by it.

01:01:42.720 Steak, on the other hand, well, now you're talking.

01:01:47.540 When I was growing up, steak was a treat.

01:01:51.160 Here's what we had in my home as I grew up in Oxford Circle, the Oxford Circle section of Philadelphia.

01:01:56.360 We had chicken, I would say, four times a week, five times a week.

01:02:07.300 We would have spaghetti and meatballs once a week.

01:02:13.640 And then we'd have leftovers, generally speaking.

01:02:15.220 But that was one of my dad's favorites.

01:02:16.720 And then if we were lucky on that other night, week, day of the week, number seven, wherever that happened to be placed, if we could afford it, because we were poor.

01:02:29.540 I don't want to tell you we were lower class, we were this, middle class.

01:02:32.560 We were poor.

01:02:33.260 We were legitimately poor.

01:02:34.280 That's okay.

01:02:34.920 I mean, it is what it is.

01:02:37.080 We would have steak if we could afford it, because that was my dad's favorite.

01:02:42.080 And it wasn't like each of us got a steak.

01:02:44.620 My mom would go to the grocery store, the supermarket, get, as memory serves, probably two steaks. 0.98

01:02:53.240 My dad got one full steak, because, you know, it's the dad.

01:02:59.940 And the rest of us split the other steak.

01:03:03.360 It's just the way it was.

01:03:05.020 Now, I've been blessed.

01:03:07.540 I really have.

01:03:08.500 We have the ability to go into a supermarket, and we can buy fundamentally what we want.

01:03:18.120 I don't have to worry that, oh, it's got to be a special occasion.

01:03:20.820 It's got to be this.

01:03:22.280 I have truly been very, very fortunate, thoroughly blessed.

01:03:25.980 And so, my wife doesn't have to cringe, but, you know, she looks for a bargain. 1.00

01:03:34.720 I go to the grocery store, same thing, I look for a bargain.

01:03:38.740 But those bargains that we all used to look at as staples, the chicken and the ground beef,

01:03:45.260 the cost for those have gone through the roof.

01:03:47.060 And this is how we all know now.

01:03:52.300 We don't have as much buying power.

01:03:54.060 We don't have as much money.

01:03:55.400 And then you factor in gifts.

01:03:58.560 Whether we like it or not, the holidays, be it Christmas or Hanukkah, have become about gifts.

01:04:09.600 We all want to give somebody something.

01:04:11.800 We all want somebody to give us something.

01:04:14.900 I'm not immune to that.

01:04:16.120 So, you go into my house right now, in terms of decorations, it looks like Martha Stewart exploded in there. 0.97

01:04:22.860 My wife has got 10,000 different Christmas things, and I get my little section for Hanukkah.

01:04:27.900 In all fairness, though, Hanukkah, when you stack it up against Christmas on the relative calendar,

01:04:33.460 is not really as important on the Jewish calendar as, say, Christmas is on the Christian calendar.

01:04:39.260 And we don't have a lot of the decorations.

01:04:42.580 So, I've got, I don't know, 18 different menorahs displayed out there.

01:04:49.320 And Hanukkah music, we've got dreidel, dreidel, dreidel.

01:04:55.120 We've got Adam Sandler with the Hanukkah song, and that's kind of about it.

01:05:00.240 Christmas songs, I know, a million of them.

01:05:02.740 They're great tunes, and I love listening to them.

01:05:06.300 And so, we're in that mode, but we're also trying to figure out, what do we do for the kids?

01:05:12.820 What sort of gifts are we going to get?

01:05:14.520 And when you go to buy them, you realize just how little our dollar is buying now.

01:05:23.880 Glenn's talked about it how many times, the Great Reset.

01:05:25.920 That's what we're in the middle of.

01:05:28.480 Your buying power is being decimated.

01:05:31.920 Joe Biden shuffles in front of a television camera, babbles incoherently.

01:05:37.580 Some other member of the White House spin team comes out and says,

01:05:40.460 Hey, you remember when the president said this?

01:05:42.940 That's not what he meant.

01:05:43.860 Here, here's a copy of what he was supposed to say, but he didn't say it.

01:05:48.140 All the while, you're sitting back and saying,

01:05:50.640 I don't have any money.

01:05:53.340 I can't afford this.

01:05:54.740 I can't afford that.

01:05:55.720 I can't buy that.

01:05:57.380 Remember what one of the lessons from Davos is?

01:06:00.240 Oh, you're not going to own anything, and you're going to be happy about it.

01:06:05.120 I don't think so.

01:06:06.860 At least not for me.

01:06:08.140 But that is where we're headed, and this decimation of the American working family is part of this. 0.97

01:06:19.940 Make no mistake, the leftists, the Democrats, the Joe Bidens and his acolytes,

01:06:24.360 they're not looking to help anybody who's a working person.

01:06:27.440 They're looking to take from you massive amounts of your money that you earned

01:06:34.340 and give it to people they like more.

01:06:36.980 And then if you dare to say, wait a minute, I worked for that. 1.00

01:06:42.080 Then somehow you're a hateful, terrible human being. 1.00

01:06:46.600 It is so ugly. 1.00

01:06:48.920 And man, oh man, it is real.

01:06:52.320 Contact information today.

01:06:54.080 Remember, if you want to shoot me an email, jeff at thejeffcatshow.com, jeff at thejeffcatshow.com.

01:07:00.040 In fact, if you just go to that website, thejeffcatshow.com, you can read all about me and take a look at all of our stuff.

01:07:06.540 Jeff at thejeffcatshow.com.

01:07:08.340 Social media, if you're on Facebook, if you're on Twitter, just look for Jeff Cat Show and give me a like, give me a follow.

01:07:15.880 I'd appreciate that.

01:07:16.840 Don't use any of that, by the way, instead of theblaze.com or glennbeck.com.

01:07:23.100 Make it a multifaceted trip, if you will.

01:07:26.700 Jeff Katz from NewsRadio WRVA in Central Virginia in today for Glenn.

01:07:30.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:07:32.900 Glenn Beck.

01:07:34.040 Join the conversation.

01:07:35.360 888-727-BECK.

01:07:46.840 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

01:08:01.780 Jeff Katz happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:08:06.300 I'm taking a look at a tweet.

01:08:08.100 I know I've been talking a lot about Twitter, and it's been so long, frankly, since I've invested so much time chatting about Twitter.

01:08:17.280 Why?

01:08:18.280 Because there's a change.

01:08:20.200 There's a big change that's happened in the last month or so.

01:08:23.860 As Elon Musk bought the company and has been releasing these files, which you only know about because you're listening to Glenn or you're going to theblaze.com.

01:08:35.620 The legacy news media hacks don't cover it.

01:08:38.000 All of those real reporters and serious journalists, the Uber left water carriers who have been deployed to newsrooms around America, they won't cover it.

01:08:51.580 They're outraged.

01:08:52.440 Oh, my God.

01:08:53.280 There's some privacy there.

01:08:54.920 What privacy?

01:08:56.460 We're seeing here how there was cooperation between the government and this private entity.

01:09:05.400 See, everybody who's told us, well, it's not a First Amendment issue.

01:09:08.300 Well, now it's a First Amendment issue.

01:09:10.220 Now it is about free speech, isn't it?

01:09:12.280 Because you have government folks involved in this?

01:09:17.700 Listen, I don't hate the government.

01:09:19.520 I'm not one of those guys.

01:09:21.360 My dad worked for the federal government his entire life.

01:09:24.100 He came out of the Army.

01:09:25.120 He was a military police officer.

01:09:26.640 I wound up working for the federal government for about 40 years.

01:09:31.380 I've got far too many friends who are devoted, hardworking employees who happen to work for the government.

01:09:39.040 I know too many people in the law enforcement components of the federal government who are honest and upright, and they're appalled by what's going on.

01:09:47.720 Make no mistake about that.

01:09:50.240 This is huge.

01:09:51.720 And the reason I'm talking about it is because, well, here's a tweet from Polygirl.

01:09:57.840 She says, Jeff, I discovered I was one of those who had been following you and mysteriously unfollowed you.

01:10:08.780 That's what happened.

01:10:10.880 Now, if they can do it to me, they can do it to you.

01:10:19.220 Why would they do it to me?

01:10:20.780 Goodness gracious, just, you know, some humble little talk show host in central Virginia.

01:10:26.220 Why do I need to be shadow banned?

01:10:28.320 Why do I need to be silenced?

01:10:30.020 I don't know.

01:10:32.300 Talking about the wrong things, telling people the wrong stuff?

01:10:35.000 Maybe.

01:10:36.960 But that's terrifying.

01:10:39.160 Now, you put that together with the fact that Congress has now voted to, number one, refer former President Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal activity.

01:10:48.920 Nonsense, right?

01:10:49.640 Of course, it's nonsense. 0.99

01:10:50.760 And you heard the smartest lawyer on God's green earth, Joe Moreno, a little bit earlier say, please, it's ridiculous. 0.79

01:10:55.860 But on top of that, they also said, hey, we're going to release President Trump's tax returns.

01:11:03.000 I want to know under what authority.

01:11:04.640 Who the heck said to you you can take documents which allegedly are supposed to be private and then just stick them out there for everybody?

01:11:12.640 It makes no sense unless there's just certain people you don't want holding power.

01:11:18.320 Jeff, in for Glenn.

01:11:20.380 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:11:22.440 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:11:47.900 We got to stand together at the chorus of night.

01:12:16.960 Stand up straight and hold the line.

01:12:24.520 It's a new day, I'm trying to rise.

01:12:28.440 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

01:12:35.920 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:12:39.480 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:12:44.720 Jeff Katz happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:12:47.400 Normally heard on NewsRadio WRVA.

01:12:49.920 Beautiful, beautiful Central Virginia.

01:12:52.200 Contact details, well, 1-888-727-BECK.

01:12:55.860 That remains the same.

01:12:57.180 1-888-727-BECK.

01:12:59.140 If you want to shoot me an email, happy to take a look at it.

01:13:01.760 Jeff at thejeffcatshow.com.

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01:13:06.400 And then over on Facebook and Twitter, you're looking for Jeff Katz show.

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01:13:12.380 Cool students who said, dear Jeff, my dad and I listen to your radio program every afternoon

01:13:27.600 on NewsRadio WRVA.

01:13:30.520 We know about your daughter, Julia, and special needs that she has,

01:13:35.760 and you always refer to her as your princess.

01:13:37.640 I want you to know about our princess in the Morrissey household, my sister Emily.

01:13:47.040 And P.J. Morrissey, who was then a high school student who is now getting ready to graduate

01:13:53.480 from college and himself make a big difference in the world, he told me about Emily Morrissey.

01:13:59.780 He told me about Emily's Bracelets and emilysbracelets.com.

01:14:04.560 And to put it mildly, I've become a fan.

01:14:07.640 And it's not that I'm always wearing a bracelet from emilysbracelets.com.

01:14:12.660 It's just that I wear them every day that ends in Y. 0.87

01:14:17.360 If it's a day that ends in Y, then I'm wearing at least one, if not more, bracelets from emilysbracelets.com.

01:14:23.740 But you need to know the story as well.

01:14:26.060 And so I have asked P.J. to join us, and I'm happy to say that he's here.

01:14:30.000 P.J., thank you for being with us.

01:14:32.460 Jeff, thank you for having me.

01:14:33.940 I'm absolutely thrilled to be here.

01:14:35.320 The pleasure is mine, my friend.

01:14:38.340 I just want you to tell the story of Emily and Emily's Bracelets and emilysbracelets.com.

01:14:46.540 Do you mind?

01:14:48.040 Of course not.

01:14:49.560 It's been four years now of Emily's Bracelets, if you can believe it or not, Jeff.

01:14:54.000 Wow.

01:14:54.400 Yeah, I know.

01:14:55.820 It's crazy.

01:14:56.500 And our success is much thanks to you and other people like you.

01:15:00.940 As for Emily, as you mentioned, Emily's my older sister.

01:15:04.860 She's 24 years old and suffers from cerebral palsy and the many challenges that come with it.

01:15:10.740 And T.P. is different for everyone that has it.

01:15:14.000 And for Emily, it manifests into global delays, in particular, gross and fine motor skills, cognitive skills, and her speech.

01:15:23.280 You know, Jeff, despite Emily's deficits and challenges, Emily's more fortunate than all of us because she has a way of looking at things that not everyone else has.

01:15:34.820 She can see the good in people and not judge them before even getting to know them, which is extremely, I would say, rare in today's society and something that's truly amazing.

01:15:47.520 As you can attest, her smile is absolutely infectious, and that's because it's genuine.

01:15:54.020 You know, when she's smiling at you, she's reflecting back at you the good that she instantly sees in you through that smile.

01:16:01.500 Yes.

01:16:01.860 And so, you know, the job force for disabled folks is rather scarce, might I say.

01:16:15.520 80% of adults with disabilities are not active in the workforce.

01:16:19.920 And because of this, you know, my family and I were worried that after high school, Emily wouldn't have anything to do.

01:16:29.480 And she would just end up sitting on the couch watching Peppa Pig all day, which she might not mind.

01:16:35.140 But she had been making bracelets ever since occupational therapy started soon after she was born.

01:16:43.780 And so she's been doing that for 24 years now.

01:16:47.240 And back in 2018, we came up with the idea to start Emily's Bracelets as it harnesses that unique skill level of bringing beads onto an elastic string,

01:17:01.660 which is really amazing if you think about it, considering how much her fine motor skills are affected by her cerebral palsy.

01:17:07.880 Her occupational therapist and physical therapist just did an amazing job.

01:17:13.700 And it's given her a true purpose.

01:17:17.760 And, you know, that's how Emily's Bracelets was born.

01:17:22.080 She used to be painfully shy to the extent that she was diagnosed with selective mutism,

01:17:28.200 which, Jeff, I'm sure that blows your mind because every time you see her, she talks your ear off.

01:17:33.080 But getting her to talk to anyone outside the family was extremely difficult.

01:17:38.280 But shortly after we launched this business, her teachers, her therapists, everyone noticed a much larger sense of confidence in her.

01:17:46.580 And four years later, she's recognized all around town, which really used to confidence.

01:17:51.000 You know, my dad was telling me that they went to Kohl's over the weekend and somebody rolled down the window and said,

01:17:56.360 Hey, Emily, we love your bracelets, which I don't think any of us would have ever expected.

01:18:01.700 So it's been truly a blessing for us.

01:18:03.460 I will jump in and let everybody know that emilysbracelets.com is where you go to get some of these beautiful bracelets.

01:18:12.380 And here's what I can tell you.

01:18:14.800 A couple of details.

01:18:15.760 Four years after starting this, PJ, Emily, Emily just sold, made and sold her 19,000th bracelets, 19,000 bracelets.

01:18:29.420 And I remind everybody that a portion of all of the money, and they're not expensive, but a portion of all the money goes over to Special Olympics because Special Olympics has played such a wonderful part in Emily's life.

01:18:43.500 The idea that Emily was at some point painfully shy, I have to tell everybody, Emily is busy.

01:18:51.260 She's in parades as the Grand Marshal.

01:18:54.040 She's throwing out the first pitch at baseball games in Central Virginia.

01:18:59.140 And one of the things that Emily and everybody there, Kristen and Dan are her parents and PJ, you've taken a special shine to people who serve with special bracelets honoring law enforcement and firefighters and EMS and corrections officers and every branch of the military, right?

01:19:21.400 And, you know, a big part of those 19,000 bracelets were our first responder line as well as our military line, which, you know, we are proud to support both of those groups of people.

01:19:43.060 And as you mentioned, we do donate a portion of every bracelet sold to charity, primarily the Special Olympics.

01:19:52.880 And as of today, we have raised over $10,000 for the Special Olympics, but also for other organizations such as the Friendship Circle and A Better Understanding.

01:20:06.140 So that's really great to see.

01:20:07.680 And as you know, Jeff, Emily's Bracelets was recently voted the best jewelry store in Richmond by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

01:20:18.120 She beat out some long-running winners, which definitely helped her ego. 0.96

01:20:26.160 Well, Emily's Bracelets.com won as the best jewelry store in all of Central Virginia.

01:20:32.720 And they're all, as you said, there are a lot of heavy hitters.

01:20:35.520 And there's not a, I mean, there's not a showroom.

01:20:38.300 Emily is in the living room at the Morrissey home working all day and working her fingers to the bone, right?

01:20:46.600 Making these bracelets.

01:20:47.780 But she beat out everybody, which gives, I hope, folks around America, as they're hearing this story, a little insight into just how much difference Emily and her bracelets have made in our community here.

01:21:01.080 To me, it's just so heartwarming and so inspiring.

01:21:05.860 And I want people to go there.

01:21:07.960 I mean, I want people to go to Emily's Bracelets.com, no doubt about it.

01:21:11.940 And I'm going to tell you something.

01:21:13.420 If you are a mom or dad of a special needs kiddo, you understand exactly what PJ said a moment ago.

01:21:20.640 Employment opportunities for our kids are scarce.

01:21:24.520 That's a kind description.

01:21:26.400 And to think that the Morrissey family set up a business.

01:21:31.080 I mean, Emily starts working with these beads as part of her occupational therapy and finds she has a real talent for it.

01:21:38.740 I mean, you have to see some of the amazing beads.

01:21:42.180 And they start off with the plastic beads, these pony beads, and then we've got wooden beads, and then they've got glass beads now for every occasion.

01:21:52.580 It's getting to be Christmas time.

01:21:54.200 And I don't know what your stock is on Christmas bracelets.

01:21:57.800 Have you got Christmas bracelets that you can get in the mail today, tomorrow, PJ?

01:22:03.680 Well, Jeff, let me tell you, this year we actually doubled the number of bracelets sold for the 22 Christmas line, and it is completely sold out.

01:22:15.480 Every single skew that Emily designed is sold out for the season.

01:22:22.500 That being said, though, I bet you have some that can still go out.

01:22:26.660 That being said, we still do offer a bunch of different designs, like you said, starting with acrylic beads.

01:22:34.960 We then added wooden beads, which have grown in popularity.

01:22:39.720 And most recently released, we have a line of six Czech glass beaded bracelets, and those are absolutely beautiful.

01:22:48.980 One of my favorites, for sure, especially the ruby red one.

01:22:53.360 And then other lines to check out on emilysbracelets.com.

01:22:57.480 We have an awareness line, first responder, military lines, and, of course, the classic line, which are all the bracelets that have been in Emily's collection since the beginning.

01:23:07.840 Wow.

01:23:08.200 You mentioned that you're also donating money, not just to the Special Olympics, but here in Central Virginia, supporting the Metro Richmond Police Emerald Society Line of Duty Death Fund, Friendship Circle.

01:23:22.580 I'm so honored that Julia, my Julia, has a bracelet that is named for her.

01:23:29.900 It's in the Friendship Circle colors of teal and purple, features a little music note.

01:23:34.920 And so, if you are sitting back, as many of us are, guys especially, saying, huh, what's that Christmas's, you said, four days away?

01:23:44.220 Jeez, I probably should have bought something.

01:23:46.100 I'm telling you right now, you can go to emilysbracelets.com.

01:23:49.740 You can find some of these beautiful bracelets.

01:23:51.460 But more importantly, you'll be supporting a young lady who is making a difference.

01:23:56.520 You'll be supporting a family who chose to help their daughter, their sister, make a difference.

01:24:03.780 And I'm hoping that you and I will step up today and make a difference for them and visit emilysbracelets.com.

01:24:11.640 You can read more of the story.

01:24:13.720 You can check out the bracelets.

01:24:15.320 You can get them.

01:24:16.020 You can not get them.

01:24:16.700 Whatever you want to do.

01:24:17.460 But check out that website and just learn more.

01:24:20.480 PJ, it is always a pleasure to chat with you.

01:24:24.140 I am always, to put it mildly, inspired by Emily, but really heartened by you and your mom and your dad when I see the passion and the devotion that you bring to helping Emily and helping emilysbracelets.com and helping disabled folks in our community.

01:24:42.800 You guys are the best of the best, and I appreciate you being here.

01:24:46.960 Thank you, Jeff.

01:24:48.160 And, you know, much of this wouldn't be possible without you.

01:24:50.620 We really do appreciate it.

01:24:51.920 Thank you, my friend.

01:24:53.480 That is PJ Morrissey, and, again, I'll send out the link on social media if you didn't hear it.

01:24:59.680 And, oh, somebody asked me to spell my last name.

01:25:02.200 People are putting in, you know, like, with a C.

01:25:04.460 No, K-A-T-Z. 1.00

01:25:05.960 So, on Twitter, JeffKatzShow, and I'll get that link out there.

01:25:10.400 You can take a look at it.

01:25:11.540 It is JeffKatz in for Glenn.

01:25:13.360 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:25:14.900 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

01:25:22.620 Jeff Katz.

01:25:23.620 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn today.

01:25:25.740 Katz, K-A-T-Z.

01:25:26.920 You know, it's so weird.

01:25:27.840 Depending on who you are, where you are, where you grew up, you hear a name, and you go, oh, of course, I spell it such and such.

01:25:36.380 But a couple of us said, Jeff, I looked for you.

01:25:39.860 It's like the feline, right?

01:25:41.780 No!

01:25:42.360 We're dog people here at the Katz household, which I know is bizarre, but it is K-A-T-Z. 1.00

01:25:48.160 I'm going to get President Trump's tax preparers.

01:25:52.660 Why?

01:25:54.000 Well, because apparently President Trump did exactly what everybody in America wanted to do, what we want to do, what we all want to do moving forward.

01:26:03.000 We all believe that we pay too much in taxes, right?

01:26:06.100 Well, you have to pay your fair share.

01:26:08.080 Okay.

01:26:09.380 I feel that many of us are paying our fair share and then somebody else's fair share as well.

01:26:15.360 But there is a system.

01:26:18.360 There are rules.

01:26:19.820 And you have to follow the rules.

01:26:23.060 I acknowledge that.

01:26:24.300 I accept that.

01:26:25.020 It's what I've done my entire life.

01:26:27.800 And so I sit down when it's time to do the taxes.

01:26:32.200 Sit down with my little computer program.

01:26:36.180 I don't know.

01:26:36.940 Taxes or us or whatever the heck it is.

01:26:40.060 And I don't have a lot to put in.

01:26:42.620 Not just money.

01:26:43.680 Believe me, not a lot of compensation.

01:26:44.760 But I've got compensation, right, for my job.

01:26:49.020 A little business that I put in.

01:26:51.640 And then the tax computer guru, genie, magician, whatever the heck is in that little box.

01:26:58.720 They do all the numbers and they say, okay, here's how much you paid.

01:27:02.840 Here's the minimal amount of money that you will be getting back.

01:27:07.140 And I sit back and I gripe and I moan.

01:27:10.080 I go, okay.

01:27:11.400 And I push submit and I wait for my $27 or whatever it is to be returned.

01:27:22.660 Isn't that what we all do?

01:27:26.420 I mean, seriously, isn't that what we all do?

01:27:29.740 Some variation of that.

01:27:32.500 Let's say you've got a bigger business.

01:27:35.240 And I don't know what sort of a business it would be.

01:27:40.260 I always use two friends of mine who have businesses.

01:27:46.720 I've got dear friends who own and operate an auto repair shop here in Central Virginia.

01:27:53.540 Certified auto repair.

01:27:55.340 And I always refer to Stan, who's the owner.

01:27:58.540 Well, actually, he's not the owner.

01:27:59.860 Now that I think about it, it's his wife who's the owner.

01:28:01.460 I mean, Stan is a grown blank man at all, but he ain't the owner.

01:28:07.040 But I look at them and I think, man, you got a great business.

01:28:10.900 You employ people.

01:28:11.780 You're living your American dream.

01:28:13.180 And by living your American dream, you're helping other people live their American dream.

01:28:19.080 And I've got friends who own a great restaurant right down the road from me.

01:28:24.160 And if you ever do get to Central Virginia, and I'm inviting you, come to Hanover County.

01:28:31.740 Come to Ashland.

01:28:32.980 Little, tiny little bucolic town.

01:28:35.060 It's so different from where I grew up.

01:28:37.580 I grew up in Oxford Circle, Northeast Philadelphia.

01:28:41.100 Grew up in a row home, right? 0.65

01:28:42.940 50 houses on each side of the street.

01:28:45.300 You had windows in the front.

01:28:46.600 You had windows in the back.

01:28:47.580 Unless you were really, really, really, really, really super lucky.

01:28:50.000 And you had a house in the end.

01:28:52.940 Well, then you had windows in three sides.

01:28:55.840 I was about 18 years old before we had a house.

01:29:01.120 My folks had a house that had windows on all four sides.

01:29:06.960 I look back on what my view was as a kid growing up.

01:29:11.360 I looked out that window.

01:29:13.080 I saw an alley with trash cans.

01:29:14.580 So, the fact that I'm up here now, where I am in the country, basically, is amazing.

01:29:24.960 And you should come here.

01:29:26.260 And if you do come here, by the way, you will get to see a sandwich named in my honor.

01:29:32.620 Jake's Place at Ashland, which is pretty cool.

01:29:35.800 But all of that being said, my friends Wendy and John, who own that restaurant, well, they've got a business.

01:29:41.580 And so, they have people do their taxes.

01:29:43.740 And my friend Stan and Megan, well, they've got to have somebody help them out with their taxes.

01:29:46.980 I don't have that.

01:29:48.120 But everybody's in the same situation.

01:29:49.760 That is saying, you know what?

01:29:51.800 We have paid our fair share.

01:29:54.760 We believe in doing what is right.

01:29:57.060 But by gosh, we need to follow those rules.

01:30:01.100 We need to take a look at what is legit and what's not legit.

01:30:06.740 And that's where you get the accountants.

01:30:08.380 That's where you get the tax attorneys.

01:30:10.480 These guys actually read and digest every single part of the tax laws.

01:30:17.400 And they can say to you, yes, you can do this, but you can't do that.

01:30:21.240 You can't do this, but you ought to do this.

01:30:24.740 What do you think President Trump did?

01:30:27.380 Do you think that somebody who has about a billion dollars trusts the online taxes are us?

01:30:33.980 Or does he have the best attorneys and accountants say, hey, guess what, Mr. Trump?

01:30:39.960 We're going to save you money.

01:30:41.540 I'm more impressed, frankly.

01:30:43.340 It is Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

01:30:44.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:46.440 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

01:31:12.920 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:31:18.460 Looking at the information.

01:31:22.640 I can't even call it information.

01:31:24.400 Info...

01:31:24.640 The propaganda?

01:31:27.660 Yeah, I think propaganda is probably the way I'm going to have to go here.

01:31:30.840 It's from Politico.

01:31:31.800 Trump's income taxes were often paltry.

01:31:34.700 Newly released documents show.

01:31:37.280 Is that bad?

01:31:39.960 Honest to goodness, do you know anybody, anywhere, in your circle, I mean, real honest to goodness people,

01:31:45.680 anybody say, I am just not paying enough in taxes.

01:31:51.060 I've never met that person.

01:31:53.920 Maybe there is somebody like that.

01:31:55.420 There could be.

01:31:57.420 We've lived for years in Massachusetts.

01:32:00.000 And there was a second tax rate.

01:32:06.540 It was the regular rate, which, I don't know, say it was 5%.

01:32:10.000 And then there was the super duper, boy, I just have way too much money.

01:32:15.440 I think it was 7%.

01:32:16.540 And all you had to do, if you really believed that your taxes should be higher,

01:32:21.760 all you had to do was click that little box.

01:32:25.320 Check that little thing on your form.

01:32:27.060 And so all of these self-righteous, condescending, smarmy, bottom feeders,

01:32:34.560 like John F. Kerry and the rest of them, you know what they did?

01:32:40.160 Oh, they didn't check the extra tax box.

01:32:43.880 Of course not.

01:32:45.600 They just wanted to take your money. 1.00

01:32:47.780 The phonies and the frauds and the hypocrites. 1.00

01:32:54.860 The Elizabeth Warrens. 1.00

01:32:57.780 Focahontas. 0.98

01:32:59.820 One of the worst of the worst.

01:33:05.000 It's amazing to me to think that there are real people who believe,

01:33:09.960 well, I'm going to vote for them.

01:33:11.000 You know, I've always voted for this party.

01:33:12.880 Well, maybe you should stop.

01:33:15.660 Maybe you should stop.

01:33:17.660 Well, Jeff, but I'm, I mean, that's, that's, it's my team.

01:33:20.420 You know, I got the t-shirt, the cap, the whole thing.

01:33:23.420 I understand.

01:33:25.720 Sometimes you have to change allegiances.

01:33:28.480 Every once in a while, maybe, just maybe.

01:33:33.000 Let's think for ourselves.

01:33:34.620 I grew up in Philadelphia, as I told you.

01:33:38.000 And so everybody was a Democrat, just the way it was.

01:33:41.880 The weird thing was we were all what we would call scoop Jackson Democrats,

01:33:47.600 lunch bucket Democrats.

01:33:49.920 Like our fathers got up and went somewhere to do something.

01:33:54.400 For the most part, people on my street, in my neighborhood, dads went to work,

01:34:04.360 mom stayed at home, the way it was.

01:34:09.020 And dads, in many cases, came home dirty.

01:34:15.080 This whole change in America, when men started showering before they went to work. 0.70

01:34:22.020 This, this is my line of demarcation now.

01:34:27.480 This is when I really do believe that our country changed and changed in a way that I,

01:34:32.760 I don't know that we'll ever get the strengths of this prior time back.

01:34:37.680 I hope we do.

01:34:39.600 There was a time when men left their homes with their lunch bucket, 0.90

01:34:43.600 their lunchbox in hand, and they went and they went to a factory and they made something.

01:34:50.360 Or they went to a job where they were digging, stringing wire, fixing something.

01:35:03.860 Whether they went out in a truck and fixed refrigerators or television sets.

01:35:11.100 And those are businesses that for the most part don't really exist, right?

01:35:14.280 Is anybody going to fix a television set?

01:35:16.120 Check your Walmart flyer.

01:35:19.320 You can probably get like five television sets for $8.

01:35:24.240 And then when they stop working, you throw them away.

01:35:27.000 But it'll cost you what?

01:35:28.040 $25 to take it to some place to quote, recycle it?

01:35:31.280 Cost you more to get rid of it than it does to get it.

01:35:33.940 There was a time though that there were businesses that fixed television sets,

01:35:39.360 giant television sets and radios with these tubes in them.

01:35:42.260 My grandfather was a television repairman.

01:35:45.680 He was initially a radio repairman.

01:35:49.240 And then when television came along, oh, I can fix those too.

01:35:52.200 And he did.

01:35:53.380 It involved tubes and it involved solder and it involved hard work.

01:35:56.860 Because you had to go out and get these giant television sets

01:36:00.180 that weighed 200 pounds and wrestle them into your little truck, 1.00

01:36:05.360 take them back to the shop, disassemble them,

01:36:08.220 go in there with a flashlight, do the tests, figure out which tubes were good,

01:36:13.800 which tubes were bad.

01:36:14.800 You might have to use one of those oscilloscopes, octopus scopes.

01:36:19.000 You know the thing with the squiggly lines.

01:36:20.560 The squiggly line scope.

01:36:22.260 And you'd figure out which one didn't work.

01:36:23.780 And then you would test it by taking it out and putting another one in.

01:36:25.900 Maybe it worked.

01:36:26.460 Maybe it didn't.

01:36:26.980 You went and you repaired cars.

01:36:31.580 You figured out what was wrong with that car.

01:36:34.720 And then you fixed it.

01:36:36.180 And I got news for you.

01:36:37.100 Every single solitary one of these jobs involved men getting dirty.

01:36:42.440 Mike Rowe still talks about dirty jobs, doesn't he?

01:36:45.460 No shame in a dirty job. 0.86

01:36:46.980 There's absolutely positively no shame in being involved in a trade or a craft.

01:36:52.720 For the life of me, I can't figure out how we screwed up so many kids by telling them,

01:36:59.740 oh, you have to go to college.

01:37:02.180 Why?

01:37:04.080 I don't know, but you have to go.

01:37:07.740 Go to trade school.

01:37:09.560 Learn a trade.

01:37:10.320 Learn a skill.

01:37:11.040 Learn a craft.

01:37:12.660 You think all of a sudden cars are now perfect?

01:37:17.600 I told you about my dear friend, my brother from another mother who owns and operates the best independent auto shop in all of central Virginia.

01:37:25.980 That's a fact.

01:37:29.420 People can't afford to go out and buy new cars.

01:37:32.220 And people who can afford to buy new cars are finding, man, there are no new cars to buy.

01:37:37.300 Better fix the old one.

01:37:38.540 You think there's anything wrong with having the talent or the skill to get under the hood or under the car while it's up on the lift and say, man, you see that?

01:37:47.960 That's broken.

01:37:49.120 But I can fix that.

01:37:51.520 I don't want to be a source of pride.

01:37:52.960 And it is.

01:37:55.520 What about when your sink's not working?

01:37:58.440 Or even worse, your toilet's not working.

01:38:00.460 Oh, see, my uncle Paul was a plumber.

01:38:05.240 And as a kid, I used to go with him some weekends and, quote, work.

01:38:13.480 Now, my work was not actually learning how to do any plumbing.

01:38:17.700 I had to carry stuff.

01:38:19.700 I carried toilets up flights of stairs and down flights of stairs and bathtubs.

01:38:25.360 You know, we'd have to do this or that or pipes.

01:38:27.760 And let me tell you, this was long before there were any laws or rules governing anything.

01:38:34.120 Right.

01:38:34.500 My uncle Paul had an old VW bus.

01:38:38.580 The VW vans.

01:38:41.480 And in the back, he had a million different pipes and wrenches and pieces to be welded on and soldered on.

01:38:52.520 And no backseat, by the way.

01:38:55.580 You know what I sat on?

01:38:56.520 I sat on a milk crate in the back of that van holding on to big piles of pipes.

01:39:06.680 And my uncle Paul could fix stuff.

01:39:11.820 Now, if you're in plumbing, of course, you want new construction because everything is nice and clean.

01:39:17.000 But the reality is, if your sink's not working or your bathtub's not working or your shower all of a sudden is spewing out mud or your toilet, forget about it, but it's not working, right?

01:39:28.760 What are you going to do?

01:39:29.540 Well, I'm going to go take another one of those three-credit college courses to figure out what the sociopolitical implications are of the French artistic.

01:39:38.000 No!

01:39:38.460 You're calling the plumber.

01:39:40.640 Got to get it to work.

01:39:41.900 Electricians, I mean, honest to goodness, you just pick a trade, you pick a skill, you pick a craft.

01:39:49.520 We need people like this.

01:39:51.560 But we've told an entire generation, don't work with your hands.

01:39:55.380 We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

01:39:59.560 And this comes back to the business.

01:40:01.860 This comes back to Donald Trump and his tax returns.

01:40:06.300 Donald Trump built things.

01:40:07.940 He built buildings.

01:40:10.960 He employed thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

01:40:15.160 Now, there are plenty of people who say, Jeff, I just don't like him.

01:40:17.760 That's okay.

01:40:18.300 I'm not going to argue with you one way or the other.

01:40:21.060 You're absolutely entitled to say, I don't like him, or his personality rubs me the wrong way.

01:40:25.000 Or, gosh, when he was on Twitter, those mean tweets, boy, they bugged me.

01:40:28.880 Fair enough.

01:40:29.520 But can you really sit back and say, huh, this guy was a, you know, he did what?

01:40:36.600 He built things.

01:40:38.140 And he employed people.

01:40:40.380 And now Democrats in the House of Representatives somehow, someway get his tax returns. 0.98

01:40:45.240 And they are utilizing their useful idiots, their tools in the legacy news media ranks to somehow make Donald Trump into a villain because, frankly, he didn't pay that much in federal income taxes. 0.98

01:41:00.800 I, for one, say, good for you, Mr. President. 0.99

01:41:08.300 That's what all of us want to do.

01:41:10.280 We all want to pay our fair share, and we all want to minimize what we have to pay.

01:41:15.340 And that's why there are thousands of accountants and thousands of tax attorneys, and clearly, some of the best were employed by Donald Trump.

01:41:26.180 I think that this whole thing backfires.

01:41:29.400 If you want to talk pure politics, I think this whole thing backfires.

01:41:37.140 I think as Democrats say, oh, look at this, he didn't pay very much in taxes, there are going to be a couple of million Americans who say, wow, I wonder if any of his accountants are available because I'd like to minimize what we pay.

01:41:51.280 I'd like to find more deductions.

01:41:53.060 I'd like to find more this or that, whatever it is.

01:41:55.500 I mean, I don't even know.

01:41:56.200 Like I said, I go, I got my little computer program, I put it in, it spits it out, I'm done.

01:42:02.700 But wouldn't you like to be in that situation?

01:42:04.480 I think most Americans would, and I, again, think this backfires on leftists, and that makes me happy.

01:42:11.480 It's a little bit like the banning of, what's his name, Keith Olbermann from Twitter.

01:42:16.460 I looked at that, and I thought, well, I want to be sensitive and compassionate, but when your bathtub is filling up with liberal tears, you just get the rubber ducky, and you're sitting there, and you enjoy the whole experience.

01:42:29.760 So, yeah, I'm back on Twitter, and I'm looking for Elon Musk to do great things.

01:42:35.320 If you want to follow me over there, I would appreciate it.

01:42:37.120 I'm just going to, honest to goodness, I am just trying to rebuild the numbers that I used to have before Jack and the rest of those folks said, hmm, conservatives.

01:42:45.980 Nah, they don't need to talk to each other.

01:42:47.840 Jeff Kat Show over on Twitter.

01:42:49.620 Jeff Kat Show over on Twitter.

01:42:51.740 Email?

01:42:52.260 Of course, you can always email me.

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01:43:02.980 Please be sure you are checking out theblaze.com and glennbeck.com while you're online.

01:43:08.700 It is Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

01:43:10.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:43:35.660 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn from News Radio WRVA in Central Virginia.

01:43:41.540 I've done a national show over the years.

01:43:45.240 Now, I've done it one town at a time, I think, but it's still a while.

01:43:48.120 Anyway, Bob is actually listening up in Boston.

01:43:52.040 Sends a note on Facebook.

01:43:53.360 He says, Jeff, you were talking about trades.

01:43:56.040 My son Robbie is an electrician apprentice currently working towards his journeyman license.

01:44:01.520 Good for him.

01:44:03.320 Setting himself up for a six-figure career.

01:44:07.080 Nothing wrong with that.

01:44:08.060 I think back to a friend I had when I was a kid.

01:44:15.700 Lived down the street from us in Oxford Circle in Northeast Philly.

01:44:22.840 And he wasn't the best school student.

01:44:26.500 But, man, he loved tinkering with stuff and taking stuff apart and putting it back together and making it run.

01:44:31.960 And he realized, huh, I'm pretty good at this.

01:44:37.840 So, he went and became just like Bob's son is doing.

01:44:42.960 He became an electrician apprentice and journeyman and what have you.

01:44:46.900 Well, he wound up being one of the largest electrical contractors in all of Philadelphia.

01:44:51.080 And if I understand his Facebook posts properly, he's fundamentally retired, plays hockey, sees his kids, sees his grandkids, has fun, goes scuba diving in the Caribbean.

01:45:04.000 No college degree.

01:45:09.360 And I'm not knocking anybody who has a college degree.

01:45:11.860 There's certain things you have to have a degree for.

01:45:13.840 I understand that.

01:45:14.540 But as we are saluting people who have degrees, can we at least be honest and just stop with this demeaning of people who make things and fix things?

01:45:27.740 Because I got news for you.

01:45:28.960 They're vital.

01:45:30.120 They're vital to what it is that we're trying to do in America.

01:45:35.260 And whether we are able to succeed again, I don't know.

01:45:39.340 I really don't know.

01:45:40.700 I am so concerned these days with the great reset that Glenn has spoken about at length, with the shadowy, secretive, swampy actors who seem to be doing everything possible to dismantle what made this country great and demean the very people who made this country great.

01:46:05.040 I mean, here I am in central Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

01:46:08.260 We've got a mayor who's working overtime, destroying history.

01:46:13.000 It's like watching the Taliban up close and personal.

01:46:17.200 It is sad.

01:46:18.920 It's really, really sad.

01:46:22.160 Now, you are fortunate.

01:46:24.240 You check out TheBlaze.com.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 21, 2022

New Info From Trump’s Tax Returns？｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ 12⧸21⧸22

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 21, 2022

New Info From Trump’s Tax Returns？ ｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ 12⧸21⧸22

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript

New Info From Trump’s Tax Returns？｜ Guest Host： Jeff Katz ｜ 12⧸21⧸22