The Glenn Beck Program - Our Language Is Being Changed Before Our Very Eyes ｜ 12⧸26⧸23

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00:00:54.940 We don't have any oil rigs drilling anymore.

00:00:59.280 Well, I guess we're going nowhere and we're gonna like it.

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00:02:12.760 Hey, you remember when Klaus Schwab said you're not going to own anything

00:02:21.860 and you're going to be really happy about it?

00:02:25.240 And the, well, the current sense is you're not going anywhere

00:02:30.040 and you're just going to be thrilled about it.

00:02:34.380 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:36.040 Jeff Katz happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:02:38.380 And I hate to start the sort of kind of back-to-work week with math.

00:02:44.480 Although, how many of us are just, we're sitting around.

00:02:47.440 We're in our pajamas still.

00:02:48.760 We're in flip-flops or boxer shorts or, well, I don't know,

00:02:53.060 whatever it is that you're wearing because you don't have to go anywhere.

00:02:55.320 But there's math involved in this, and I apologize because I'm not really a math guy.

00:02:58.840 But it's math that is so simple that even I can understand it,

00:03:02.860 which means it's really stinking simple.

00:03:06.060 You know what oil rigs are, right?

00:03:07.960 Drilling rigs, I had to make sure.

00:03:10.600 I thought, okay, it's those things that go up and down.

00:03:12.440 We've seen them in Oklahoma and Texas and one or two other places, I suppose.

00:03:17.860 Used to think we had them in Alaska, but that's gone.

00:03:21.820 So we don't have as many of those anymore.

00:03:25.340 And you're thinking, like I'm thinking, well, it's okay

00:03:27.980 because it's just that they've improved the technology.

00:03:30.340 The technology is better.

00:03:31.380 We don't need as many.

00:03:33.160 The same way we're automating everything and artificial intelligence is replacing

00:03:38.620 those of us who, yeah, it's all the same.

00:03:42.480 But then I dug a little bit further, and that's not true.

00:03:46.360 The technology to get oil out of the ground is fundamentally the same now as it's always been,

00:03:52.600 which means we need as many, if not more, of those oil rigs rigging.

00:03:59.960 We don't have them.

00:04:01.880 We have 620.

00:04:03.640 The fact that we don't even crack 1,000 in a nation as large as ours with as many people

00:04:11.440 as we have, I found terrifying.

00:04:14.240 So what happened to them all?

00:04:16.020 Well, you know, COVID, right?

00:04:19.000 COVID theater.

00:04:19.900 Oh, come on.

00:04:20.760 You remember that.

00:04:21.280 It was all the rage for a while.

00:04:23.200 We were all going to go extinct, and we should wear masks, or we shouldn't wear masks,

00:04:30.240 or we should wear 12 masks, or we should wear eight masks but only stand on one foot

00:04:35.320 and rub our head and our belly and our knees, and you're thinking you don't have three hands.

00:04:39.780 Not yet.

00:04:40.580 I mean, it's all coming, right?

00:04:43.100 So during COVID, we lost a chunk of them.

00:04:47.720 I think here's the number.

00:04:49.520 454.

00:04:50.100 Again, big number.

00:04:51.800 So I'm going to just sort of spitball it here.

00:04:54.880 However, it's about 40% less that we have now than we used to have.

00:05:01.660 Why?

00:05:02.860 It's all COVID.

00:05:03.700 No, it's not all COVID.

00:05:04.840 And that's the problem behind all this.

00:05:07.080 It's not all COVID.

00:05:08.700 COVID was this great cover for so many, for so much, for so long.

00:05:15.260 But it's kind of wearing off, don't you think?

00:05:17.220 I mean, it is for me.

00:05:19.180 I don't want to get sick.

00:05:21.040 Let me be very clear on that.

00:05:22.400 And I was the guy that always had not one but two bottles of Purell on my desk.

00:05:26.840 And if you would have chatted with me before COVID, I would have said,

00:05:29.360 hey, I'm totally okay with everyone wearing hazmat suits all the time.

00:05:32.940 Everyone should look like the Michelin man, as far as I'm concerned,

00:05:35.540 or the Stay Puft guy, right?

00:05:39.260 Wrapped head to toe.

00:05:41.020 I'm good with that.

00:05:41.960 I don't want to touch anybody.

00:05:44.220 And I don't want anybody to touch me.

00:05:45.900 Well, I mean, unless I ask them.

00:05:47.000 And I don't want you sneezing on me or coughing on me or spitting on me,

00:05:49.420 any of those things.

00:05:50.120 And then COVID happens, where I've got that demented little troll,

00:05:55.900 Dr. Fauci, telling me, first, well, those masks don't work.

00:05:59.920 Why don't wear those?

00:06:01.980 And then, as the official party line became just a little clearer,

00:06:07.940 and the real reasoning behind all of it was becoming more evident,

00:06:11.360 then it was, oh, you've got to mask up.

00:06:13.900 And as they were calling for people to wear masks, I thought, well, no,

00:06:17.420 I think I'm done.

00:06:18.720 So now we're kind of past that point, although with the election coming up,

00:06:21.920 God only knows what we could see in the offing.

00:06:25.080 So how does it tie into the oil rigs?

00:06:26.800 It's all about the move to electric vehicles and the fact that you can't go anywhere.

00:06:31.540 Now, I love the technology behind the EV.

00:06:34.840 I really do.

00:06:36.300 I'm a car guy.

00:06:37.400 You don't want me trying to fix your car.

00:06:39.380 Let me be clear on that.

00:06:40.420 I don't know how to turn wrenches.

00:06:42.700 The best I can do is adjust your radio station and say vroom, vroom, vroom.

00:06:47.560 That's about it.

00:06:49.900 But I love the technology.

00:06:51.520 I think it's brilliant.

00:06:53.400 And I love the whole idea of hybrid vehicles.

00:06:56.020 God, was that not the greatest thing in all of motorized history?

00:07:00.300 To take the benefits of the internal combustion engine and put it together with the benefits of this battery system?

00:07:06.640 And together, you could go 60, 70, 80 miles on, quote, a gallon of gas.

00:07:11.580 Well, we don't want that, apparently.

00:07:15.100 Well, you and I want that.

00:07:17.780 But the Klaus Schwab's of the world, the great resetters, don't want that.

00:07:22.360 They want you nowhere.

00:07:25.340 And they want to be able to keep you there.

00:07:29.560 And that's why I looked at the number of these oil rigs and I thought, wow, that's the story.

00:07:34.540 That's a huge story.

00:07:35.940 And I don't hear about it anywhere.

00:07:37.160 I had to find it on a website devoted to oil.

00:07:45.120 And I need to be honest with you, I don't ordinarily look at the website, that website.

00:07:49.860 I will now.

00:07:51.880 But somebody had sent me the note and said, hey, Jeff, you've got to take a look at this.

00:07:57.920 You know, yesterday was Christmas.

00:07:59.840 I don't want to work.

00:08:02.080 I want to be blissfully unaware of everything happening in the world.

00:08:05.040 And I just sit around, eat a lot, get some stuff that I didn't ask for.

00:08:13.460 And I was going to say I didn't really want.

00:08:15.340 But you know what?

00:08:15.840 This year I did okay.

00:08:18.440 Mostly hooded sweatshirts.

00:08:21.220 That's okay.

00:08:21.660 I mean, it's not like I'm doing my whole John Fetterman impression over here.

00:08:25.000 But I like hooded sweatshirts.

00:08:26.120 I like the fact that they have a pocket in the front, like a kangaroo.

00:08:30.040 I love that.

00:08:32.000 See, I got questions.

00:08:33.240 When I finally do get to meet God, and I'm not looking to meet him in the next week, I promise you.

00:08:38.700 But eventually, we're all going to meet him, and we're all going to stand before him.

00:08:42.980 But I've got questions.

00:08:45.620 And a couple of the questions I've got for him.

00:08:47.680 Number one, God.

00:08:49.900 Flies.

00:08:50.540 Why?

00:08:51.340 Flies and mosquitoes.

00:08:52.980 Why?

00:08:53.540 I ask you.

00:08:55.280 And number two is, how come we didn't come with a pouch like that?

00:08:59.480 How come we had to wait until the 21st century for these hooded sweatshirts, these hoodies with the pouch in front to really, really become okay?

00:09:11.160 I think we should have all been born with them.

00:09:13.060 I really do.

00:09:13.480 And I don't know, maybe in a thousand years as we evolve, we'll each have pouches.

00:09:19.320 But I got mostly those.

00:09:20.280 So I thought, okay, that's cool.

00:09:23.200 But this note came from a friend of mine, whose opinion I respect, and said, you really do need to take a look at this.

00:09:31.420 And so I did.

00:09:32.880 And I am just blown away by the numbers.

00:09:36.960 And then I thought, well, there you go.

00:09:41.440 This is about saying to you, hey, you can't really travel more than 100, 200, 300 miles tops from your house without stopping for hours and hours and hours to recharge your electric vehicle.

00:09:57.280 If you're looking at a grocery getter, you're looking at just one of those things to knock around in.

00:10:04.140 You've got to go from your home, say, to a place of employment that's 10, 15 minutes away.

00:10:09.400 And that's your drive.

00:10:11.540 It's fine.

00:10:12.760 In fact, it's great.

00:10:13.660 You're living in some place that is just one giant ball of smog like Los Angeles might not be a bad idea.

00:10:23.800 But if you're even imagining just jumping in your car and going for a ride, going for a drive, you are blank out of luck, man.

00:10:33.320 It ain't going to happen.

00:10:35.000 And that's by design.

00:10:39.080 And just when you thought, well, you know, it's people can buy these cars if they want.

00:10:44.840 You've got this movement around the country where you have governments saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:10:51.540 You know, every vehicle sold here after such and such a date is going to be electric.

00:10:56.800 Yeah, but the market doesn't want that.

00:10:58.180 Well, we don't care.

00:10:59.660 We don't care.

00:11:00.520 We'll tell you what you want.

00:11:01.620 We'll tell you when to get it.

00:11:02.660 We'll tell you how to have it.

00:11:05.140 And if you're like me, you think, whoa, wait a minute.

00:11:07.020 What about that dreaded free market?

00:11:09.200 Where's Adam Smith when you need him going, excuse me, over here with the invisible hand?

00:11:14.040 That's me.

00:11:14.560 I'm just trying to let you.

00:11:15.640 Well, it's being done in front of our very eyes.

00:11:19.460 But we are distracted.

00:11:21.540 We're not necessarily paying attention.

00:11:24.160 And so I'm hoping I'm doing some small part here simply to let you know about the reduction in these these oil drilling rigs.

00:11:33.240 And as I was looking at that, I thought, you know, there are there are a number of things that are just different.

00:11:38.660 Right.

00:11:39.800 I put everything now through the prism of my two sons who are home visiting from college.

00:11:43.860 They really do see things differently.

00:11:45.980 And they really have now come up with this idea of, oh, we'll never be able to afford to buy anything.

00:11:51.040 I guess we just won't.

00:11:52.040 We won't own anything.

00:11:54.480 Really?

00:11:55.340 That quickly this has happened?

00:11:57.040 We, like a million other families, spent time on Christmas Day and the first couple of days leading up to Christmas, and we'll do it for the next day or two, I'm sure, just watching some some old stuff, old movies, old TV shows.

00:12:15.120 I'm going to share some of that with you in just a moment, as I do each and every time.

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00:13:50.620 It is the Glenn Beck program.

00:14:04.100 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:14:06.160 I mentioned to you that watching some stuff last couple of days that, well, man, you just wouldn't find it anymore.

00:14:15.260 If you were like us, you probably watched Charlie Brown Christmas, right?

00:14:23.160 And despite what you think, Charlie Brown Christmas is not just a kid's program.

00:14:27.660 So much of this just gets completely and totally pushed to the side.

00:14:32.120 I don't watch cartoons.

00:14:33.500 What am I, 11 years old?

00:14:35.940 Let me tell you something.

00:14:36.580 The moments I think, wow, I could be 11 again.

00:14:38.840 God, that would be great.

00:14:40.480 Wouldn't it, though?

00:14:41.020 11, toughest thing that you got to do is figure out which letter is silent and some word that you never heard of or whatever.

00:14:52.720 Nobody would look at you askance if you're sitting there watching a cartoon.

00:14:57.500 So, anyway, I'm sitting there watching Charlie Brown Christmas because I love it.

00:15:02.500 I love every part of it.

00:15:03.640 I love every part of the old peanut stuff.

00:15:06.020 But there was something that was, well, it was the keystone of a Charlie Brown Christmas.

00:15:12.240 It was the hallmark.

00:15:13.180 It was the moment when Linus just sort of lays down the truth, right?

00:15:19.960 Take a listen to Linus.

00:15:21.380 You're hopeless, Charlie Brown.

00:15:23.080 Completely hopeless.

00:15:25.360 Rats.

00:15:27.860 You've been dumb before, Charlie Brown, but this time you really did it.

00:15:32.040 I guess you were right, Linus.

00:15:48.180 I shouldn't have picked this little tree.

00:15:50.520 Everything I do turns into a disaster.

00:15:52.780 I guess I really don't know what Christmas is all about.

00:15:55.860 Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?

00:15:59.160 Sure, Charlie Brown.

00:16:01.260 I can tell you what Christmas is all about.

00:16:04.220 Lights, please.

00:16:05.060 And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

00:16:12.740 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them.

00:16:15.920 And the glory of the Lord shone round about them.

00:16:18.640 And they were sore afraid.

00:16:20.120 And the angel said unto them, Fear not.

00:16:23.080 For behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

00:16:27.120 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

00:16:33.980 And this shall be a sign unto you.

00:16:36.360 Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

00:16:40.820 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God,

00:16:46.000 and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

00:16:51.580 Well, that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

00:16:58.440 Wow.

00:17:00.100 Could you imagine, in 2023, anybody in Hollywood saying, Hey, I got an idea for a show.

00:17:09.320 I've got this idea.

00:17:10.860 It's going to be all about Christmas.

00:17:12.480 Well, let's stop it right there now.

00:17:14.840 What do you mean by Christmas?

00:17:16.040 Do you know that?

00:17:16.900 Oh, hang on a second.

00:17:18.400 Hang on a second.

00:17:18.860 Because, no, no, no.

00:17:22.620 Well, I mean, you could have Christmas, but you can't have all that.

00:17:26.680 No, you can't do the religious part of Christmas.

00:17:30.420 Well, the creator of Charlie Brown, Charles Schultz, the sponsor of that program,

00:17:38.460 all said this is the point of the show.

00:17:41.040 And the network went along with it because they, well, they knew the power of Charlie Brown and Peanuts and the rest of it,

00:17:51.660 but they also knew, wow, that's a lot of money that the sponsor's going to spend to sponsor this particular program.

00:17:58.340 Do we want to leave that setting on the table?

00:18:01.120 No.

00:18:01.900 Okay.

00:18:02.220 Well, then I guess we sort of kind of have to go along with this.

00:18:07.420 Okay.

00:18:09.300 That's almost, what, 60 years ago, something like that?

00:18:12.320 It's a long time ago.

00:18:15.520 Could you, for just a second, envision the mainstream Hollywood folks going along with that today?

00:18:25.860 Not a chance.

00:18:27.400 Not a chance.

00:18:29.340 Take a look at a few of the other things that you may or may not have been watching.

00:18:34.400 We get a lot of the traditional stuff, right?

00:18:38.340 Well, you got to watch Christmas Carol.

00:18:40.180 Which version?

00:18:40.920 All of them.

00:18:41.540 Okay.

00:18:42.860 Well, that's pretty clear.

00:18:45.260 What else?

00:18:46.060 Christmas story?

00:18:47.040 Ralphie?

00:18:47.940 Yeah, absolutely.

00:18:49.400 Great stuff.

00:18:50.160 Lots of funny lines there.

00:18:51.400 My boys often say, you know, you're kind of like Ralphie's dad, because you two paint with profanity.

00:19:02.380 It's a thing of just artistic beauty.

00:19:07.140 What other ones?

00:19:09.160 It's a wonderful life?

00:19:10.520 Of course.

00:19:12.140 What's the payoff line from It's a Wonderful Life?

00:19:15.340 Well, when a bell rings, the angel gets his wedding.

00:19:17.100 No.

00:19:17.440 No man is lost.

00:19:20.440 It's a loss.

00:19:21.380 If he has friends.

00:19:21.920 No.

00:19:23.200 The payoff line for every single one of us who is a father is when George Bailey says,

00:19:28.000 why do we have to have all these kids?

00:19:31.480 Seriously.

00:19:32.060 I laugh out loud every time I hear that.

00:19:35.300 And I think to myself, yeah, I've been right there with you, buddy.

00:19:39.060 Now you get over it, obviously.

00:19:40.820 But every father takes a certain degree of delight in that.

00:19:46.440 But could anybody have put any of these things out there today?

00:19:51.560 The closest that I come to it, you might be thinking, well, the Hallmark movies, Jeff.

00:19:57.700 I mean, those are all sort of positive, right?

00:20:00.880 Well, I love the Hallmark movies this time of year.

00:20:03.400 I do.

00:20:03.860 My wife thinks I'm insane, but that's okay.

00:20:06.640 I love them.

00:20:07.360 You know why?

00:20:07.800 Because they're all the same.

00:20:08.580 Because each of them is two hours long.

00:20:11.240 And the story is exactly the same in every single one of them.

00:20:15.540 So as I watch it and I, you know, doze off, I know I can wake up at any point, whether it is in that Hallmark movie or another Hallmark movie.

00:20:26.520 And I will know exactly what's going on.

00:20:29.360 I won't be lost in any way.

00:20:34.120 So I do love the Hallmark movies.

00:20:37.860 But there's another film that I think you ought to check out if you haven't.

00:20:42.720 Family Man?

00:20:44.280 It's Nicolas Cage and Taya Leone.

00:20:46.720 And that's a story that is just, gosh, it's powerful.

00:20:54.220 And I don't know if when it came out, because I didn't see it when it came out.

00:20:58.060 I only discovered it in the last couple of years.

00:21:01.080 But was it meant to be that powerful?

00:21:05.780 It's a good question.

00:21:06.600 I don't know.

00:21:07.040 I'm going to chat a little bit about that.

00:21:10.420 And I'll remind you that there is no Christmas in Bethlehem this year.

00:21:13.420 And, no, it's not because of what you may think.

00:21:17.120 We'll deal with all of that.

00:21:17.980 If you want to jump ahead, remember, follow Jeff Katz Show on X, The Jeff Katz Show, over on Facebook.

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00:21:26.980 It is Jeff Katz.

00:21:28.040 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

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00:23:01.180 It's the Glenn Beck Program.

00:23:02.640 I'm Jeff Katz.

00:23:03.380 Happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:23:06.200 888-727-BANK-888-727-BECK.

00:23:10.820 A couple of great pieces of The Blaze that you need to check out.

00:23:13.720 Dave Rubin and Steve Dace both have some great pieces there.

00:23:16.780 I'm not going to tell you what they're about.

00:23:18.260 I'm just going to tell you, if you haven't checked out TheBlaze.com today, it's time.

00:23:22.540 Go over there and take a look at that.

00:23:24.160 I mentioned a couple of films, and I know, ah, geez, it's Christmas time.

00:23:27.160 Maybe he's talking about, no, but my point here is that there are messages that come

00:23:32.140 out of some of this stuff that resonate with everybody.

00:23:34.480 And if you're, God, I hate these labels, but I guess we have to use them, right?

00:23:40.660 If you're a quote, a conservative, as opposed to quote a leftist, all right, well, we'll use

00:23:46.320 the labels.

00:23:46.740 Because we have to.

00:23:50.940 You can have a sense of humor.

00:23:52.760 This is the thing that I swear to you, the leftists are really, really good at doing.

00:24:02.060 And that's painting us as somehow these out of touch, completely and totally out of touch,

00:24:10.300 and terrible personality people, right?

00:24:14.300 I can't, you know, they don't know anything that's going on.

00:24:17.080 Exactly.

00:24:17.940 Except it's not true.

00:24:18.860 I mean, we know everything that's going on.

00:24:20.200 That's the point.

00:24:21.880 And it's the fact that we're pointing out what's going on that annoys them.

00:24:26.280 And quite frankly, if you do want to chuckle each and every day, just annoy a liberal.

00:24:30.040 You can.

00:24:30.540 No, use logic.

00:24:31.380 It drives them bat crap crazy.

00:24:35.600 And it just puts a little extra pep in your step.

00:24:39.060 But you can have a sense of humor.

00:24:40.540 You have to have a sense of humor.

00:24:41.920 And that's why there are these two films that are so completely and totally opposite in many ways.

00:24:48.340 But the message is the same.

00:24:50.300 It's a wonderful life.

00:24:51.520 Well, it's old.

00:24:52.300 It's black and white.

00:24:53.460 You know, if it's old and black and white, nothing to be gained from that.

00:24:57.180 So somebody at some point went in and did a colorized version.

00:25:00.480 They went in and put all the color in.

00:25:02.480 Heidi and I actually started last night.

00:25:04.140 We weren't really paying attention.

00:25:05.580 We just knew we were going to watch.

00:25:08.460 It's a wonderful life.

00:25:09.620 And it truly has become a tradition.

00:25:13.360 And we'll just sit around and enjoy some food that in theory and probably in practice is really bad for you.

00:25:21.580 And we're coming up on the new year where everybody goes on a diet, right?

00:25:24.740 This is about the time that everybody goes off their old diet.

00:25:27.960 How'd your 2023 diet work for you?

00:25:29.620 Oh, it's working great.

00:25:31.040 Really?

00:25:31.340 Oh, I packed on like 38 pounds.

00:25:34.360 That's the opposite of what the...

00:25:35.540 Oh, I know.

00:25:36.380 I had a couple of...

00:25:37.240 You know, it's like the...

00:25:38.100 It's like Bidenomics.

00:25:39.960 A couple of blips there.

00:25:41.940 But, you know, otherwise it's doing great.

00:25:44.880 Yeah, but you gained almost 40 pounds.

00:25:46.500 Yeah, I know.

00:25:47.020 Pretty good, huh?

00:25:47.760 It just gives me more to lose than 24.

00:25:51.420 We're sitting there and Heidi had the controller.

00:25:56.360 And she put it on, clicked on.

00:25:58.060 It's a wonderful life.

00:25:59.280 And it's the version with all the color.

00:26:02.620 And we had never seen that one.

00:26:04.980 And I said, well, it might be interesting to watch it.

00:26:07.660 And we started watching it.

00:26:09.180 And 10, 15 minutes into we said, no.

00:26:12.940 Can't do it.

00:26:14.000 We don't want to do it.

00:26:16.200 Let's go back and let's find the black and white version, which we did.

00:26:22.160 And there's just something different about it.

00:26:24.420 And we laughed at all of the usual places.

00:26:27.860 Ah, look at that.

00:26:28.580 The taxi driver and the cop.

00:26:29.900 Bert and Ernie.

00:26:31.140 Oh, that's where they got it.

00:26:32.940 That's great.

00:26:34.000 And Clarence is very entertaining as he asked for a flaming rub.

00:26:40.280 All these things that we know, right?

00:26:41.980 At this point, man, we could probably run lines from It's a Wonderful Life.

00:26:47.060 And there's some good messages there.

00:26:50.360 But every one of us who's a parent, at some point, whether you want to admit it publicly or not, and you should admit it publicly because that's what makes you human.

00:26:59.080 At some point, you, just like me, have uttered a phrase similar to George Bailey when you say, why do we have all these children?

00:27:09.400 A happy family.

00:27:10.820 Look at all these kids.

00:27:11.860 They're everywhere.

00:27:13.520 They're sucking every nickel out of my pocket.

00:27:16.780 Living, breathing burkles they are.

00:27:21.240 In grates.

00:27:22.880 And sloppy.

00:27:23.860 And they smell bad.

00:27:26.120 And I love them.

00:27:27.920 That's the real takeaway, right?

00:27:31.220 But if you're going to tell me you have never looked at one of your kids, all of your kids, or some of your kids, and thought, oh, jeez, really?

00:27:39.320 I could have had a Porsche.

00:27:41.340 That Ferrari.

00:27:42.260 And that's Family Man.

00:27:45.840 Family Man with Nicolas Cage and Taya Leone.

00:27:50.120 If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and get it.

00:27:54.520 I forget where we bought it.

00:27:56.200 I don't know if it was.

00:27:56.580 I think it was Prime.

00:27:57.960 I think it was Prime.

00:27:58.800 I'm not entirely sure.

00:28:00.940 It's a couple of bucks.

00:28:02.340 And now we, at least in, well, I was going to say we own it, but you and I both know you don't actually own anything that's digital.

00:28:07.620 Because there will come a point that somebody in the corporate digital headquarters, wherever that might be, it's probably C.

00:28:18.460 Montgomery Burns, who's in charge of it.

00:28:20.000 Excellent.

00:28:20.920 We'll say, ah, we don't want them watching that.

00:28:23.640 And it'll just disappear.

00:28:24.660 Because you don't actually own any of the books on your Kindle or your Nook.

00:28:29.560 You pay for them as if you do, but you're really just renting them.

00:28:33.400 At any time that those digital poobahs say, well, we don't want them to read 1984 or Animal Farm or The Great Reset, they just make them vanish.

00:28:48.860 It's why, as old-fashioned and as stodgy and as crazy as it sounds, I always tell people, get the hard copies.

00:28:58.420 If you like reading on the Kindle or Nook, whatever, that's fine.

00:29:02.600 I don't mind that.

00:29:03.500 Look, you do you.

00:29:05.560 That's great.

00:29:07.360 But if it's a book that's really important, you better have a hard copy of it somewhere.

00:29:14.800 The Bible would be one of those.

00:29:16.560 I would urge you, get yourself a hard copy or two or ten, twelve.

00:29:22.120 I don't care.

00:29:23.940 Position them strategically throughout your home, but you're never more than a step or two away from one.

00:29:29.420 That's a good idea.

00:29:31.220 But there's a story with a family man and three great actors in the lead.

00:29:35.300 Nicolas Cage, Tay Leoni, and Don Cheadle.

00:29:37.280 Excellent.

00:29:38.440 Unbelievable acting.

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00:31:39.060 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:31:44.600 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:31:48.880 Stand up.

00:31:49.940 There was a time that every boy in America wanted to grow up and be an FBI agent.

00:31:58.800 What the heck happened?

00:31:59.640 Is it time to shut the Bureau down?

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00:33:17.420 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:19.080 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:33:21.280 You know, as a kid, many of us grew up playing cops and robbers.

00:33:25.740 And then the really, really, really smart kids grew up playing FBI agent and fugitive.

00:33:33.480 Why?

00:33:34.100 Well, because to be part of the FBI, you had to be really smart.

00:33:37.540 Yeah, most of the FBI agents were either attorneys or accountants.

00:33:42.380 They were the superstars.

00:33:44.380 They were the superstars.

00:33:46.440 Fast forward a few years, and I hate to tell you this.

00:33:49.100 I don't know that we could find a young boy in America today, a young girl in America today, saying,

00:33:55.860 Oh, yeah, that's exactly what I want to do.

00:33:57.660 What the heck happened?

00:33:59.120 There's somebody with a unique perspective on this.

00:34:02.160 He's a dear friend, and he is a man of tremendous accomplishments, not the least of which.

00:34:08.440 He's a graduate of West Point.

00:34:10.700 He is a retired supervisory special agent from the FBI.

00:34:14.640 And, well, he's an Atlanta Falcons fan.

00:34:17.140 But two out of three ain't bad.

00:34:18.680 Jimmy Galliano joining us.

00:34:20.320 Jimmy, thank you for being here.

00:34:23.260 Jeffrey, how about your New England Patriots and beating the Denver Broncos?

00:34:29.660 I actually sat up the other night and I said, My good friend is happy.

00:34:33.960 Now, Eric and I are both Atlanta fans, so we don't understand what you've got going on with the New England Patriots.

00:34:41.080 But, my man, we're both happy for you, brother.

00:34:44.640 Well, thank you.

00:34:46.480 I think the last couple of games will be Bill Belichick looking to Robert Kraft to go,

00:34:51.440 Go ahead, fire me.

00:34:52.340 You know what I can do, but that's okay.

00:34:53.920 I'm going somewhere else.

00:34:55.020 I don't care anymore, you know?

00:34:58.160 He brought you six trophies, my man.

00:35:00.960 I mean, if Bill Belichick had coached in Atlanta, he'd be carved on the face of Stone Mountain, my friend.

00:35:07.740 So, yes, you've got to take with one hand and not with two.

00:35:11.840 I love it.

00:35:12.920 I love it.

00:35:13.700 Jimmy, you know, we know each other.

00:35:16.480 We're friends.

00:35:17.500 We care about each other.

00:35:18.880 We care about our families.

00:35:20.420 And I just have to ask you, I know it's a weird question, but I ask you from the bottom of my heart,

00:35:26.080 what the hell is going on with your beloved FBI?

00:35:29.380 Yeah, Jeff, and you know me, I'm not a deflection guy, right?

00:35:35.700 I'm not a guy that kind of goes, look over there, squirrel.

00:35:38.560 I want to own it because I spent 25 years in the FBI, served under four of the only eight FBI directors

00:35:46.480 that were appointed by Congress and Senate confirmed.

00:35:49.200 I loved the organization, but I also have to be able to criticize it.

00:35:54.700 If I don't do that, then what value is there in my analysis of these things?

00:36:00.380 Jeff, I think it's, and you and I talk about it all the time, I think it's more about society writ large and where we are.

00:36:07.760 So we talked about this recently that, you know, the FBI is, I mean, they're proud of the fact that they are recruiting folks much smarter than me.

00:36:17.400 And in 1988, when I applied to the FBI, I graduated bottom of my FBI class.

00:36:23.340 And when I say bottom of my FBI class, I graduated bottom of my class at West Point.

00:36:28.840 And so for them to take me, they were taking a flyer and they're like, okay, we'll take you on.

00:36:34.100 Now, I wouldn't have a chance of getting into West Point.

00:36:37.840 I probably wouldn't have a chance of becoming an FBI agent.

00:36:40.780 And I get that.

00:36:41.880 We're getting smarter.

00:36:43.560 We're bringing in people that have talents and intellect that folks like me that came in under the diversified program never had.

00:36:52.260 But with that, Jeff, comes the law of unintended consequences.

00:36:56.180 As Chris Swecker, a retired FBI assistant director in charge of the criminal division, said a number of years ago, the FBI is attracting folks that are smarter.

00:37:07.240 They're much more intellectual.

00:37:09.400 But because of that, they're Ivy League graduates.

00:37:12.380 They graduate from Harvard and Penn and Yale.

00:37:16.620 And, yeah, we all want to ascribe to that kind of thing.

00:37:19.840 But the bottom line is many of these people, not all of them, that's not fair, but many of them think they know better than the rest of us.

00:37:27.820 And so in this country, as we strive for diversity, diversity is a good thing.

00:37:34.100 We want diversity across race, creed, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation.

00:37:41.120 But we don't demand it in the ideological realm.

00:37:45.340 And, Jeff, Harvard's last class of freshmen, they just admitted, 63 identified as liberals and Democrats, 8% identified as conservatives or Republicans.

00:37:58.100 And, Jeff, therein lies the problem.

00:38:00.820 You're getting people that are smarter, but they think they know better than the rest of us.

00:38:05.320 And so instead of following the facts bereft of fear or favor, following the evidence, they put their fingers on the scale and say, Trump doesn't deserve to be president.

00:38:16.460 We've got to figure out a way to stop him.

00:38:18.960 Or left-wing violence in the pursuit of social justice is an okay thing, but right-wing violence is not.

00:38:26.860 And, Jeff, therein lies the problem.

00:38:29.280 You know, Jimmy, it's a fascinating thing.

00:38:31.760 You're talking about these folks being so very, very smart and diversity of this and diversity of that, diversity of political opinion.

00:38:39.560 Man, I wouldn't even accept a more unified political opinion, I suppose, if they were still not diverse on the idea of right and wrong.

00:38:50.360 I mean, I thought the entire point of the FBI, frankly, as an ex-cop, I thought the entire point of law enforcement in general was you go after the bad guy.

00:39:00.960 And I heard for years, obviously, I never served in the FBI, I never had that opportunity, but I am blessed with so many friends who did serve, who are serving.

00:39:13.380 And I'm telling you, Jimmy, every single one of them has said to me year after year after year, Jeff, you have to understand, the FBI is politically agnostic.

00:39:22.900 And I believe them, but it's getting tougher and tougher to believe that.

00:39:29.240 Yeah, it's supposed to be, Jeff.

00:39:31.480 It's supposed to be apolitical and nonpartisan.

00:39:34.400 I go back to follow the facts, be reft of fear or favor.

00:39:38.620 The problem, again, is we demand diversity in all things except thought.

00:39:43.600 I want to share this with your audience.

00:39:47.980 You know, President Truman, President Truman desegregated the armed forces, which, you know, was long before society, especially in the Deep South, was desegregated.

00:40:00.240 He did that back at a time in 1948.

00:40:05.100 And we champion that.

00:40:07.060 And we say, wow, the armed forces did that.

00:40:09.060 Think about that.

00:40:09.720 Three years after the end of World War II, we finally integrated the armed forces, long overdue, because African-Americans had served our country going back to the Civil War, going back to the Revolutionary War.

00:40:23.540 However, long before that, in the late 1919-1920 period, the FBI had a special agent who was an African-American by the name of James Wormley Jones.

00:40:39.220 So the FBI, which is looked at as a conservative bastion and a place where, you know, it's the patriarchy, all old white men with, you know, with, you know, you know, wingtip shoes and button-down shirts.

00:40:52.160 But the FBI had an African-American special agent, James Wormley Jones, who actually was a World War I veteran that served in the ranks.

00:41:01.160 The problem is we're changing history now, and we don't take things in context.

00:41:06.160 Jeff, look at the Barbie movie that just came out, right?

00:41:09.420 All my 14-year-old daughter's friends went out to see it.

00:41:13.660 You know, one of the things that she came back after watching it and said, well, you know, here's the thing.

00:41:19.840 Why is the Mattel board made up of all white men?

00:41:23.480 There's only 12 white men on it.

00:41:25.200 And I said, but that's what the movie said.

00:41:27.340 That's not the case right now.

00:41:29.280 The Mattel board is made up of seven men and five women.

00:41:31.720 But in the movie, to make their point, they had to make it so it was 12 old, old, old white men.

00:41:40.760 Well, look, this country, and Jeff, I don't want to quote Vivek Ramaswamy, but he said this, and I appreciate what he says.

00:41:49.460 This country for many, many decades, centuries, has been, has dealt with the tyranny of the majority, right?

00:41:57.460 If you were the majority, you won.

00:42:00.020 Now it's the tyranny of the minority.

00:42:02.260 And it's why down in New York City last night, people were marching pro-Palestinian folks, and not all of them.

00:42:08.920 I know that some of them had the right intentions, but they desecrated nativity scenes.

00:42:14.640 They desecrated Catholic churches.

00:42:16.760 They stopped masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

00:42:20.580 They did the same to synagogues.

00:42:23.040 It's wrong.

00:42:23.780 It's not the tyranny of the majority anymore.

00:42:25.640 Jeff, it's the tyranny of the minority.

00:42:28.680 Jimmy Galeano joining us.

00:42:30.540 He is a retired supervisory special agent from the FBI.

00:42:33.600 So, Jimmy, let me ask you about the NYPD.

00:42:37.580 I saw those videos.

00:42:38.940 I saw videos two weeks ago at Grand Central Station where these guys, I mean, they're all in uniform.

00:42:44.760 I trust that they're members of the New York City Police Department.

00:42:47.580 But did they fight back?

00:42:49.960 Did they attempt to quell the violence that was being perpetrated by these Hamas supporters?

00:42:57.020 Or did they just stand back and say, yeah, you know what?

00:42:59.340 It's just not my job anymore.

00:43:00.920 Jeff, I had to smile when I saw the news coverage this morning from our favorite, you know, liberal outlets, you know, dust up between pro-Palestinian supporters and the NYPD as if the NYPD was equal and a partner in causing this conflict.

00:43:20.180 No, it's because people are spitting in cops' faces, because people are desecrating, you know, religious symbols and religious monuments in New York City, because people are blocking traffic.

00:43:32.140 And you know what?

00:43:32.980 We have a sacred right, right?

00:43:35.340 The First Amendment is a sacred right and privilege.

00:43:39.440 But what people believe is it allows you to do whatever you want.

00:43:43.260 No, it doesn't.

00:43:44.460 There are specific requirements.

00:43:46.880 You have to get a permit to protest.

00:43:48.720 You can't block traffic because you're blocking emergency vehicles.

00:43:53.480 You can't block the Brooklyn Bridge.

00:43:55.940 You can't stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.

00:43:58.480 But because these are, quote, unquote, social justice warriors, they're allowed to get away with it.

00:44:03.600 And yeah, Jeff, I saw the same video you did.

00:44:06.480 NYPD cops, they are hamstrung, and I hate to use this pun, they are handcuffed.

00:44:13.540 And they can't move these people out of the way and do what happened in the 90s when New York City became the safest large city in the world.

00:44:24.060 It isn't anymore, Jeff.

00:44:25.700 And this is the cause of giving in to the anarchists, the criminals, and yes, the terrorists, the people that are intimidating folks, screaming at folks, spray painting things like Nazi symbols on synagogues and spray painting crushes.

00:44:44.200 But, Jeff, it's insane.

00:44:46.220 We're losing our way.

00:44:48.200 We are losing our way.

00:44:49.340 Jimmy, I'm over time, but I have to ask you, if you can give me like a 30-second snippet.

00:44:54.420 Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, you're on the board of directors.

00:44:57.200 And in a day and age when, quite frankly, we don't see as many folks entering law enforcement, we don't see those in the ranks of law enforcement really allowed to do their jobs.

00:45:05.340 They need protection and support more than ever.

00:45:07.800 So, just give us a snapshot of a law enforcement legal defense fund, would you?

00:45:13.060 Thanks, Jeff.

00:45:13.900 Yeah, policedefense.org, policedefense.org.

00:45:17.660 Your listeners and Eric's listeners can go there.

00:45:20.760 You can actually make a donation to a particular law enforcement officer who has been unjustifiably accused of a crime, lost their job, suspended.

00:45:29.860 And we pick and choose those which are the most in the situations that are the most deserving of our support.

00:45:37.560 You can make a donation there.

00:45:39.140 Jeff, you've been a law enforcement supporter for as long as I've known you, which has been a long time.

00:45:44.480 Eric, as well.

00:45:45.220 Appreciate both of you.

00:45:46.520 Tell your folks again.

00:45:47.920 Go to policedefense.org.

00:45:49.840 Check out the website.

00:45:50.940 It explains everything right there.

00:45:52.840 All right.

00:45:53.140 Well, thank you.

00:45:53.760 That is Jimmy Galeano, retired supervisory special agent from the FBI.

00:45:58.840 If you've not had a chance to take a look at that, you should.

00:46:01.440 And I have to tell you, I read today that Taylor Lawrence has skipped Christmas for the fourth year in a row, which begs the question, who the heck is Taylor Lawrence and why do I care?

00:46:11.360 I'll give you the answers in just a moment.

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00:47:41.360 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:47:44.280 Glenn, I had to look up Taylor Lawrence, and I don't know.

00:47:50.020 I'm sure I'm mispronouncing her name, and it is a her, at least so far.

00:47:53.900 It is.

00:47:54.520 It is.

00:47:54.920 It's a woman.

00:47:56.560 I don't remember her.

00:47:58.940 And then, wait a minute.

00:48:00.060 It came to me.

00:48:01.060 Oh, yeah.

00:48:02.500 Like, I was sitting there.

00:48:03.360 I read this thing.

00:48:04.300 It was just a very quick thing.

00:48:05.440 You know how they pop up every once in a while.

00:48:06.940 You'll see something pop up.

00:48:08.020 You've got two or three seconds to decide, do I care about this?

00:48:11.540 Do I not care about this?

00:48:13.040 Taylor Lawrence says, people are murdering disabled people.

00:48:18.680 Well, guess what?

00:48:20.880 My daughter, Julia, is a severely disabled young lady.

00:48:25.640 Oh, I'll bore you with details again, because, you know, she's my daughter.

00:48:28.720 She's my princess.

00:48:29.200 What the heck?

00:48:31.080 Chronologically, 20 years old.

00:48:32.920 Developmentally, 18 months old.

00:48:34.780 So, Julia doesn't do any of her ADLs, activities of daily living, which means, yeah, it can be a mess.

00:48:41.960 It's a challenge.

00:48:42.660 It's difficult.

00:48:43.280 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:45.600 But I'll tell you what.

00:48:46.440 Nobody's going to come in and hurt my daughter.

00:48:48.620 So I thought I should be aware of this.

00:48:51.080 And then I click on something and it kind of expands it a little bit.

00:48:55.500 And it's not really the, quote, murder of disabled people.

00:48:58.460 It's the social murder of disabled people.

00:49:01.640 And then I thought, well, I don't even know what that is.

00:49:04.400 So I just had to dive into this.

00:49:06.580 Taylor Lawrence is a columnist of some sort with the Washington Post, which in and of itself

00:49:14.240 should probably tell you just about everything that you need to know.

00:49:19.620 But I'll tell you a little bit more.

00:49:22.500 She was on a social media platform and someone there was very, very upset, very upset that people were refusing to wear masks for Christmas get togethers,

00:49:37.920 claiming that those of us who are not wearing masks are selfish.

00:49:43.120 And so I had to dive a little bit further.

00:49:46.420 Now, what does Taylor Lawrence say?

00:49:48.120 She says, I'm going to quote her, says, I totally agree with you on the mitigation advice,

00:49:53.620 but I very much judge anyone who participates in the social murder of disabled people just because it's the holidays.

00:50:02.020 Many of us who are high risk are missing our fourth Christmas because other social people can't be bothered to mask and take basic precautions

00:50:12.720 that allow us to safely participate in public life.

00:50:20.320 I don't know Taylor Lawrence, and I don't know what it is that makes her high risk.

00:50:26.760 I do know this, that she's the exception to the rest of us.

00:50:33.160 If she is at high risk of contracting some sort of a communicable disease, it would seem to me that it would be incumbent upon her to take the appropriate precautions when she was in a social event,

00:50:50.620 a social gathering with other people.

00:50:52.720 It's not dependent on everyone else to wear a hazmat suit.

00:50:59.480 It is not right to say to everybody else, listen, you know how you enjoy the holidays?

00:51:05.280 You know how you think there's meaning in family gatherings?

00:51:09.000 Well, the heck with all of that.

00:51:10.980 You can't do any of that because this woman has decided she's at high risk of something.

00:51:16.500 I'm going to use Julia as another example.

00:51:20.520 Now, Julia, thank God, she is so healthy.

00:51:24.920 Jeff, you said she's severely disabled.

00:51:26.520 Yeah, you can be both.

00:51:28.360 She is severely disabled.

00:51:29.840 So we, her parents, have to do things to help her in life.

00:51:34.580 I don't walk around and say, you need to remove those steps.

00:51:37.760 You need to do this.

00:51:38.660 I say, okay, how am I going to help my daughter to make her way in the world?

00:51:43.180 I don't hide her in the house.

00:51:44.760 But that's on me.

00:51:47.460 It's incumbent upon me.

00:51:50.100 And Julia is healthy.

00:51:52.200 Not really sick in any way.

00:51:54.000 Not medically fragile.

00:51:55.560 And there are those who have those issues.

00:51:58.140 But that becomes your obligation.

00:52:02.720 We cannot, we must not be everybody's babysitter.

00:52:08.300 It just doesn't work that way.

00:52:09.880 Not in a culture, not in a society, not in any social grouping.

00:52:15.980 Take care of these others.

00:52:18.520 But don't hide.

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00:54:04.600 Jeff Katz happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

00:54:08.940 We're being lectured again.

00:54:11.000 Lecture two again.

00:54:12.100 I know what will come as a shock.

00:54:13.360 It's okay.

00:54:13.920 You don't even have to go and find your shocked faces.

00:54:17.360 I know.

00:54:17.720 We're all shocked.

00:54:18.780 Our friends on the other side of the aisle, and in this case, our friends on the other side of the pond, are lecturing us on who we should be, how we should be, why we should be.

00:54:29.520 And for those of us who are, you know, just trying to be, you kind of look at this and think, okay, I think I'm good here.

00:54:38.520 I think I can kind of sort of take care of myself.

00:54:42.800 I think I can figure this out.

00:54:44.760 It applies for me anyway in every segment of my life, whether it's family or friends or indeed how I'm going to vote.

00:54:54.580 For me to be lectured by a British person is, I don't know, there's just something about it that rubs me the wrong way.

00:55:05.740 And I keep thinking, are you familiar with Brexit version 1.0?

00:55:10.340 Remember, we kicked you guys out of here.

00:55:12.580 We just weren't interested.

00:55:14.780 And so I don't need the lecturing.

00:55:17.660 But you know what?

00:55:19.360 You're going to hear this little snippet, and it doesn't matter who the person is.

00:55:22.920 My God, they all just sort of blend together after a point.

00:55:25.800 It's like those Sunday morning talking head shows.

00:55:28.500 I can't even make heads or tails out of them.

00:55:31.600 Sometimes I'll pass by them and think, oh, I can't believe I have to subject myself to this as part of what I do for a living.

00:55:41.340 But I think, you know, I'm watching this stuff so that other people don't have to.

00:55:46.500 I watch MSNBC so that you don't have to.

00:55:50.760 It's okay.

00:55:51.640 It's okay.

00:55:52.020 You're welcome.

00:55:52.440 But every once in a while, I'll come across something and think, everybody needs to hear this because it's just so insulting.

00:56:00.580 And that's the case with this.

00:56:02.420 I don't know where you are on Donald Trump.

00:56:04.280 You can like him.

00:56:04.900 You can hate him.

00:56:05.440 I don't really care.

00:56:06.260 I know that at least for me and everybody I know, the United States of America was in a far better place when he was president.

00:56:15.240 But okay, you do you as they say.

00:56:18.260 But I want you to take a listen.

00:56:20.800 The first clip here, this is the editor of some major British publication telling us why we're all wrong.

00:56:29.900 Now, you are also a publication that says that this election coming in the United States is incredibly important.

00:56:35.680 And it's one of the most, if not the most crucial, that our future is on the line.

00:56:39.620 Now, we have heard that over and over again from 2016 to 2012, 2020.

00:56:45.880 So what's different about it this time, you think?

00:56:48.860 Well, a few things.

00:56:49.580 I think last time Donald Trump was president, he tried to do various things.

00:56:54.520 And a lot of the things he tried to do, he was prevented from doing.

00:56:58.020 And this time around, he seems to be planning to ensure that he can make more of the changes.

00:57:05.960 He wants to politicize the sort of executive, the things like the Department of Justice.

00:57:11.840 He wants to chuck out everybody and replace them with his own people who can then prosecute his enemies and that sort of thing.

00:57:18.340 So that's very concerning.

00:57:20.620 And also, he's making noises about how, you know, at the end of the term, if he wins again, he might want to stay on for a bit longer.

00:57:27.120 I think there's a word for that where you get to stay in power for as long as you like.

00:57:31.880 And I seem to remember that you weren't terribly keen on that arrangement in the 18th century.

00:57:36.020 But anyway, so there's that.

00:57:38.080 But I think the other big difference is that the world now is sort of much more aware of the global implications of a second Trump presidency.

00:57:46.820 If Americans want to vote for Donald Trump in America, that's fine.

00:57:49.760 That's, of course, up to them.

00:57:50.660 And it's their democratic choice.

00:57:52.220 But the global implications would potentially be huge.

00:57:55.640 He's talking about pulling out of NATO.

00:57:57.300 Obviously, he wants to pull the plug on support for Ukraine.

00:58:00.200 We don't know what he'd do over Taiwan.

00:58:02.320 Yeah, listen, I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but honest to goodness, could you just shut up?

00:58:11.920 No, really, sit down, shut up, or shut down, sit down, just stop talking.

00:58:16.480 That's all I'm asking you.

00:58:18.500 Do I care what the rest of the world thinks about the president of the United States?

00:58:22.020 Well, I do, but only in this sense.

00:58:24.480 I want the rest of the world to look at the president of the United States and say, wow, that's a leader right there.

00:58:30.720 That's somebody we're not going to mess around with.

00:58:33.640 And you may think Donald Trump was nuts, but everybody around the world realized we shouldn't mess with this guy.

00:58:44.040 Do you remember Vladimir Putin?

00:58:46.020 Right?

00:58:46.560 He's got this whole leader of Russia for as long as he intends to be their gig going on.

00:58:54.460 Did he mess with us while Donald Trump was president?

00:58:57.720 And I would ask you to answer the question honestly, not from a knee-jerk reflex, well, I just hate Trump.

00:59:06.200 Okay, you hate Trump.

00:59:07.520 That's fine.

00:59:10.120 You deal with that issue.

00:59:11.640 But I am asking you, as a fellow American, did Vladimir Putin step to the United States when Donald Trump was president?

00:59:21.180 And if you're having trouble forming the words, not to worry, I'll take care of that for you.

00:59:25.300 The answer is no.

00:59:28.220 Vladimir Putin looked at President Trump, and I don't know exactly what it was that Vladimir Putin thought.

00:59:34.180 Did he think, oh my God, this guy is so tough?

00:59:37.320 Or did he think, oh my God, this guy is so insane?

00:59:40.480 I don't know and I don't care.

00:59:42.080 Here's what I know.

00:59:45.760 Vladimir Putin looked at Donald Trump and said, stand down, boys.

00:59:51.000 We're, we're, no, we can't be doing anything now.

00:59:55.060 Now, Putin has time on his side, right?

00:59:57.660 Every couple of years, he may or may not have some sort of a sham election, but he's not going anywhere until he decides he's going somewhere.

01:00:04.020 Or there's a, there's a revolution that topples him.

01:00:08.740 So he is not subject to the will of the electorate, but he knows that we are.

01:00:14.620 He knows that our leaders are.

01:00:16.360 And so he can sit back and say, well, I'm, I'm just going to ride around topless on a tiger in Moscow in the middle of winter.

01:00:23.660 Because he did, you remember that?

01:00:26.060 The photo of Vladimir Putin without a shirt, snow and ice falling, and he's on the back of a tiger.

01:00:36.540 And you compare it with our president.

01:00:39.360 Here's Joe Biden.

01:00:41.380 Wrapped up, he's wearing his footie pajamas and his white terrycloth bathrobe, and he's got slippers over his footie pajamas.

01:00:48.440 And he's shuffling from room to room, trying to figure out where the pudding is and whether there will be a murder she wrote marathon.

01:00:56.220 Who do you think is tougher?

01:00:57.520 Who do you think is perceived as tougher?

01:01:02.860 So when the British guy then goes on to say, well, you know, Donald Trump is going to do this and this and this.

01:01:08.680 And I'm thinking, no, wait a minute.

01:01:10.740 Donald Trump didn't do any of those things.

01:01:13.400 What you're now listing are all the things that Joe Biden has done.

01:01:17.540 Joe Biden weaponized the Department of Justice.

01:01:21.020 Joe Biden put in place Merrick Garland, who, quite frankly, is the most political attorney general this nation has seen since John Mitchell.

01:01:30.800 It's Joe Biden that is maneuvering for the benefit of his gang of grifters, La Josa Nostra.

01:01:38.740 Donald Trump has made some jokes.

01:01:41.640 Honest to God, he's made some jokes.

01:01:44.440 I don't think he's funny.

01:01:45.860 That's okay.

01:01:48.540 That's why you've got Dave Chappelle and we used to have Gallagher.

01:01:53.180 All right.

01:01:53.520 There's a big, wide spectrum when it comes to comedy.

01:01:59.580 I don't think Donald Trump is funny when he said he was going to be a dictator.

01:02:02.420 I'm going to share the actual little snippet of that in a couple of moments because it's clear that he's joking.

01:02:08.880 It's clear that he's joking to anyone and everyone who, well, listen to him speak.

01:02:16.460 That's number one.

01:02:18.340 And then number two, actually paid attention to what the man said.

01:02:21.080 You can go into anything with an agenda, right?

01:02:25.340 We, and I think most of us do.

01:02:29.040 And not just politically.

01:02:30.220 We go into an agenda with everything we do.

01:02:33.840 I was mentioned a couple of moments ago about the movies, right?

01:02:37.300 It's that time.

01:02:38.520 We've all got our favorite movies.

01:02:40.980 Comparing and contrasting.

01:02:42.120 It's a wonderful life and family man.

01:02:44.440 Now, I love It's a Wonderful Life.

01:02:46.140 And I think Donna Reed is an absolutely beautiful woman.

01:02:51.360 But between you and me, I've had this unrequited crush on Taya Leone as long as I've known who Taya Leone is.

01:03:02.240 So when my lovely bride says, hey, do you want to watch It's a Wonderful Life or Family Man?

01:03:10.260 I always go with Family Man first.

01:03:13.080 And we normally watch it first.

01:03:16.620 And there's an agenda there.

01:03:18.140 Because I just love Taya Leone.

01:03:21.160 Now, the movie itself, believe me, the whole film is great.

01:03:24.220 Don Cheadle's amazing.

01:03:25.420 Nicolas Cage is incredible.

01:03:28.480 But I like Taya Leone.

01:03:31.280 And there's a difference there.

01:03:32.380 And guess what?

01:03:32.760 There's an agenda.

01:03:34.860 But if we're going to deal with any of these political issues, I'm just telling you as sure as I'm sitting here,

01:03:38.660 if we're going to deal with any of these political issues,

01:03:40.620 then we've got to be able to listen to what was actually said without an agenda ear.

01:03:46.140 So I'll let you hear what Donald Trump actually said and this Jack Smith character.

01:03:51.460 Once again, you have to look him up because the names just seem to change.

01:03:54.460 But Jack Smith's the guy that said, well, we're going to get Trump.

01:03:57.020 And now he's claiming, oh, this is not about getting Trump.

01:04:00.620 It's just about, you know, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, getting Trump.

01:04:04.440 Well, which is it?

01:04:05.620 You've had the trial.

01:04:11.680 Oh, we didn't have a trial.

01:04:12.940 Right.

01:04:13.440 Well, we had the indictments and then we had the impeachments.

01:04:17.160 And none of this stuff yielded any fruit whatsoever, except that we now know what we already knew.

01:04:22.520 There are a boatload of people in this country who just hate Donald Trump.

01:04:29.400 And aside from that, I don't think we've learned a thing.

01:04:32.320 Now, I've got all of this for you.

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01:04:38.660 I'd appreciate that.

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01:06:31.840 Again, if you've not been to the Blaze yet today, you've got to head on over there.

01:06:35.320 You should be there multiple times a day, but there are a couple of great pieces Dave Rubin and Steve Dace have over there that I'd love for you to take a look at.

01:06:44.820 I mentioned this Jack Smith character.

01:06:46.800 Jack Smith is the guy in D.C.

01:06:49.360 He's a special prosecutor, and he's been given, apparently, all the rights and privileges and powers of a United States attorney.

01:06:58.380 And there's this whole discussion now in the background saying, well, is this true?

01:07:03.620 Can he really be appointed this way?

01:07:05.440 And there's questions about should he have been appointed?

01:07:08.400 I don't know the answers to that.

01:07:09.640 I just know that he's been appointed.

01:07:10.640 And I know that he's doing everything humanly possible to fulfill his mission, which, in case you didn't realize, it was to get Trump.

01:07:20.320 It's the mission of so many of these folks.

01:07:23.060 It's not about contesting an election.

01:07:25.100 It's not about making America great or mediocre or poor or anything else.

01:07:30.160 It's about getting Trump.

01:07:31.920 And you've just got to wonder.

01:07:35.020 You've got to ask yourself, man, what sort of a life have you got that this is your mission?

01:07:39.840 We're defending democracy, Jeff.

01:07:41.900 How are you doing that?

01:07:42.600 By keeping people from voting.

01:07:44.720 What?

01:07:45.720 I'm sorry.

01:07:47.000 I know that I maybe I'm sure I misheard you.

01:07:53.500 Did you just say that you're protecting democracy, defending democracy by keeping people from voting?

01:07:59.240 That's right.

01:08:00.780 And how are you doing that?

01:08:01.540 Well, we're going to keep Trump off the ballot.

01:08:03.540 Why?

01:08:04.100 Well, because people are going to vote for him.

01:08:05.660 Well, isn't that the essence of what we do when we vote?

01:08:08.740 Yeah, but we don't like him.

01:08:10.540 Well, that's OK.

01:08:11.180 I don't like your guy.

01:08:12.580 You don't?

01:08:14.060 No, I think he's truly one of the the ugliest, dirtiest, least honorable human beings I have ever seen.

01:08:23.020 Oh, well, maybe we should talk to you.

01:08:26.160 You can talk to me all you want.

01:08:27.680 You vote for your candidate or candidates.

01:08:31.480 And I think I've got an idea who it is that I'm going to be voting for.

01:08:34.060 We'll all be happy.

01:08:34.820 Right.

01:08:35.220 Well, no, but your candidate is the wrong guy, Jeff.

01:08:38.360 OK, but he's my guy.

01:08:39.540 Well, yeah, but you shouldn't.

01:08:40.480 You can't vote for him.

01:08:42.820 Can't vote for him or shouldn't vote for him.

01:08:44.860 Well, we're going to make it easy for you.

01:08:46.220 We're going to keep you from having the ability to vote for him.

01:08:48.800 See, that will safeguard democracy by keeping you from voting for the person you want to vote for.

01:08:56.100 Do you not just sit back and ask Glenn where the duct tape is?

01:09:00.340 Because I'm going to need another roll around my head before it absolutely positively explodes.

01:09:08.100 I think we've got just enough time here.

01:09:09.860 Can we sneak in at least a little piece of that MSNBC Jack Smith nonsense on this Christmas Eve?

01:09:16.380 There is no rest for Donald Trump's legal team.

01:09:19.440 Late yesterday, lawyers for the twice impeached, four times indicted on 91 counts former president,

01:09:25.020 filed an appeals brief with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that asked the appeals court

01:09:29.720 to toss special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case,

01:09:34.140 arguing that, quote, Trump has absolute immunity.

01:09:39.000 The filing came a day after the Supreme Court declined special counsel Jack Smith's request

01:09:43.360 for the high court to hear the case before the appeals court did,

01:09:47.420 a decision that could could delay that potential trial,

01:09:51.160 possibly until right before or even after the 2024 election.

01:09:55.420 Joining me now, Dave Ehrenberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida.

01:10:00.360 Dave, welcome to The Sunday Show.

01:10:02.540 This move by Trump's lawyers was expected, but did anything jump out at you in their new filing?

01:10:09.540 Well, good morning and Merry Christmas to you, Jonathan.

01:10:12.720 You know, I think now we know why Donald Trump did not want the Supreme Court to weigh in on this

01:10:18.400 yet, because it's such a ridiculous argument.

01:10:20.760 He knows he's going to lose and this is all about delay.

01:10:23.020 And the courts will throw coal in his stockings after reading these briefs.

01:10:29.040 There's a reason why we left the crown.

01:10:31.220 We didn't want to have a king.

01:10:32.560 And he's essentially saying that once you're acquitted by the Senate,

01:10:35.480 by a bunch of political cronies in the Senate, then you become a king.

01:10:39.900 It's a permit.

01:10:40.640 Oh, my gosh.

01:10:41.320 Listen, all right.

01:10:42.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:10:42.760 That's enough.

01:10:43.360 That's enough.

01:10:43.880 My God.

01:10:44.680 It's exactly the opposite.

01:10:46.680 It's exactly the opposite.

01:10:48.200 Do you ever feel like you're visiting Alice and we're in the looking glass where up is

01:10:55.520 down and down is up?

01:10:56.640 It's like the bizarro world with Superman, is it not?

01:10:59.400 It's absolute insanity.

01:11:01.980 But there it is.

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01:12:19.600 It's just that they have whatever meaning you'd like.

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01:13:35.220 So, I am scrolling through X and I'm taking a look at two accounts that I follow.

01:13:42.600 It's just bizarre because they're both wearing pseudo-Santa hats.

01:13:47.860 It is the Glenn Beck program.

01:13:49.940 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:13:51.920 So, the two folks that I'm looking at, now they're both good, upstanding left-wingers.

01:13:57.960 I just want you to be aware of that.

01:13:59.180 Well, I have a lot of friends who are wrong about a lot of things.

01:14:04.460 But sometimes you find an area of common ground, right?

01:14:08.200 You talk about things that are not related to politics.

01:14:10.320 Everybody's happy.

01:14:11.000 So, I'm looking at the feed and these are both, oh gosh, yeah.

01:14:17.460 They're each about a day old.

01:14:19.360 So, I don't want you to get upset about the timing of it.

01:14:22.180 But I just happen to see them.

01:14:23.180 I'm just sitting here on my phone scrolling things I missed yesterday.

01:14:27.160 And one is from Jim Cornette.

01:14:31.840 You may or may not know Jim Cornette.

01:14:33.740 Jim Cornette was an absolutely amazing, brilliant, talented, funny pro-wrestling manager and creator.

01:14:44.060 I mean, he was an amazing creative mind.

01:14:45.860 Just a brilliant, brilliant guy.

01:14:47.240 And Jim and I could not possibly disagree about politics more than we do.

01:14:53.960 But I'm looking at Jim's photo on X.

01:14:57.740 And it's him.

01:14:58.820 He's wearing a Santa hat.

01:15:00.200 But it has, what is it, leopard?

01:15:02.180 It's like leopard skin fur on it.

01:15:04.940 And he's on a leopard skin rug in front of a fireplace.

01:15:08.180 He's got a little dog with a couple of red ribbons.

01:15:11.060 And he says, Merry Christmas from Castle Cornette to all my friends and fans.

01:15:16.320 And if you don't like me, bah, humbug.

01:15:18.560 Okay.

01:15:19.100 Well, fine.

01:15:20.280 That's Jim Cornette.

01:15:21.920 And I thought, well, cool.

01:15:24.340 Jim is one of those guys.

01:15:25.500 Now, it's interesting to me, though, that Jim has on the fireplace.

01:15:30.200 He's got stockings hung with care.

01:15:34.980 And I don't know what else he's got up there.

01:15:36.860 He's got some sort of, well, I don't know what they are on top of the mantelpiece.

01:15:41.080 But it's pretty clear he's sort of, kind of, in a Christmas spirit.

01:15:48.020 But Jim will tell you he's a stone-cold atheist.

01:15:53.180 So I don't know exactly what it is that he's celebrating.

01:15:56.500 But I guess if you put your leopard skin fur on your Santa hat, it might not be the traditional sort of a holiday.

01:16:05.740 But it's very much in keeping with him.

01:16:07.520 And I thought it was funny.

01:16:08.460 And I gave it a like.

01:16:09.480 And I gave it an LOL and all that good stuff.

01:16:12.520 Now, right after him in my little feed here is Barack Obama.

01:16:16.280 Oh, you remember him.

01:16:18.260 Yes, you do.

01:16:19.760 President of the United States.

01:16:21.040 He's now in his third term as President of the United States.

01:16:23.780 It's really neat.

01:16:24.540 I mean, he's off the stage and everything.

01:16:26.400 But let's not kid ourselves.

01:16:27.840 This is Obama's third term.

01:16:29.280 But Barack Obama also in a Santa hat.

01:16:32.900 But this Santa hat has your traditional white fur.

01:16:37.500 I don't know exactly where they get the pelts.

01:16:40.260 But it's the white fur.

01:16:42.240 Not a leopard skin print.

01:16:44.780 And Barack Obama also in casual attire.

01:16:48.020 A lovely gray sweater.

01:16:49.880 The sleeves rolled halfway up.

01:16:52.040 Okay.

01:16:53.300 So, if you're like me, you think, well, he's the former President of the United States.

01:16:58.520 Oh, I didn't vote for him.

01:16:59.880 I didn't like his time in office.

01:17:01.080 But he's the former President of the United States.

01:17:03.660 I'm curious to know what he's up to, what he's doing, what he's saying.

01:17:07.920 And this is his Christmas message.

01:17:11.740 And they're two separate messages.

01:17:13.380 There's the one that he wrote out or somebody in his office wrote out that says,

01:17:18.040 This year has tested us in many ways.

01:17:20.080 But Christmas is a reminder of the power of community to keep us together, even in difficult times.

01:17:26.440 Wishing you all a peaceful holiday.

01:17:29.260 Well, it's very nice.

01:17:31.260 It's not the actual story of Christmas.

01:17:34.560 It's not what Christmas is really all about.

01:17:37.420 But, I mean, at least it's polite.

01:17:39.820 And then I watched his video.

01:17:43.520 Because, of course, well, of course, there's an Obama video and an Obama X.

01:17:49.860 Can we still call them tweets?

01:17:51.100 I don't know.

01:17:52.120 It says, Hey, everybody, this season is about giving.

01:17:57.640 And then he just goes on and on and on and on.

01:18:01.660 And he says, It's about all of us being able to give back.

01:18:05.940 And I thought, Well, it's a great message.

01:18:10.920 No, it really is.

01:18:11.700 It is a great, great message.

01:18:15.120 But it's not Christmas.

01:18:20.220 You can celebrate any holiday in any way you'd like, right?

01:18:25.000 Well, sure.

01:18:26.200 But the problem with that is you're now going to change whatever the meaning is of the holiday or the event or the word.

01:18:39.320 I've shared with you, I'm not the brightest guy in the room.

01:18:45.640 I'm just not.

01:18:47.300 I'm sitting here in my lovely home studio.

01:18:51.740 And sure, some would call it a shed.

01:18:53.900 But that's such a pejorative negative sort of a term, isn't it?

01:18:58.840 I refer to it as the plaque shack.

01:19:00.820 The walls are indeed festooned with certificates and diplomas and trophies and all this other stuff.

01:19:11.300 And as Heidi has described it on more than one occasion, she says, Yes, those are those are your walls, Jeff, of insecurity and low self-esteem.

01:19:18.940 And she's right.

01:19:20.020 And with me here in the studio is Pixie, right, a 10-pound chihuahua.

01:19:31.380 She only has four teeth.

01:19:33.320 It's just the two of us here.

01:19:34.660 And I'm still not the brightest guy here.

01:19:37.480 But even I can understand that words do have meanings.

01:19:42.840 And there's a reason they have meanings.

01:19:45.540 It's why we have a language.

01:19:48.220 It's why we have languages.

01:19:50.020 Well, actually, God is the reason we have languages, if you go back that whole, you know, that whole babble thing.

01:19:56.480 But when you put together a language, there is some sort of an agreement that is reached.

01:20:02.240 And I don't know exactly who it is.

01:20:04.580 I'm sure there's there's a committee or a board or there was somewhere at some point that said, OK, well, this word means this.

01:20:12.780 And you're looking at something and you go, oh, well, that's that's a piece of fruit.

01:20:16.400 And it's red and has a little stem at the top.

01:20:18.620 And it's got seeds and apple.

01:20:21.160 Everybody good on that?

01:20:22.180 Apple.

01:20:22.680 Yeah.

01:20:23.020 Yeah.

01:20:23.440 Yeah.

01:20:24.220 Potato.

01:20:24.860 No.

01:20:25.160 Well, we've already got the potato.

01:20:26.920 That's the one with the brown skin.

01:20:28.260 Oh, OK.

01:20:28.680 So we're all good.

01:20:29.620 Apple.

01:20:29.900 It is.

01:20:30.720 It's a unanimous vote.

01:20:32.160 We're all going with apple.

01:20:34.640 And we all move forward with that.

01:20:36.860 And then somebody says, hey, wait a minute.

01:20:38.380 Now, you know how that one apple was sort of, well, you know, apple shaped.

01:20:43.240 We got another.

01:20:44.780 We think it's an apple, but it's more round and the skin is a different color.

01:20:48.620 Oh, man.

01:20:50.180 Well, now what are we going to do?

01:20:52.560 Well, it's a variation on an apple.

01:20:55.380 It's sort of kind of and it's like the apple's cousin, but all right, we got to come up with

01:20:59.900 a different name.

01:21:00.940 All right.

01:21:01.400 Well, what color is it?

01:21:02.380 It's it's like yellow.

01:21:04.380 Is it yellow or is it gold?

01:21:08.140 Well, yeah, let's go with gold.

01:21:09.220 OK, so the gold apple.

01:21:10.700 That sounds like a prize.

01:21:12.740 All right.

01:21:13.200 First place is the gold apple.

01:21:15.120 Second.

01:21:15.380 OK, so what are we going to do?

01:21:16.380 Well, how does it taste?

01:21:17.280 Oh, it's delicious.

01:21:19.000 Hey, I got it.

01:21:21.100 How about now?

01:21:22.720 Riddle me this, Batman.

01:21:24.420 How about golden delicious apple?

01:21:29.060 Oh, yeah, I like it.

01:21:32.040 So we take a vote and however many people vote.

01:21:35.180 Oh, yeah, we're going with golden delicious.

01:21:38.300 So words have meanings, right?

01:21:40.060 There are definitions for things.

01:21:41.900 So when Barack Obama says Christmas is all about giving.

01:21:49.840 Is he writes.

01:21:55.220 Well, don't you have to know the story of Christmas?

01:21:57.380 I do, Jeff.

01:21:58.380 Santa, plastic reindeer.

01:22:00.340 I got it.

01:22:01.820 No, not the story at all.

01:22:04.020 Not even close to the story.

01:22:04.980 How about Hanukkah?

01:22:07.660 Do you know the story?

01:22:08.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:22:09.160 Jewish Christmas.

01:22:10.080 Nope.

01:22:10.800 Not that.

01:22:11.680 Not even close to it.

01:22:14.540 Well, so let me share this story with you.

01:22:19.560 And you'll understand where I'm headed with this.

01:22:23.300 Coronado, California.

01:22:24.640 California has a library, probably has a couple of libraries.

01:22:30.420 Parents went there and said, we would like to make sure that there is a story time for our little kids about Christmas.

01:22:41.720 Rachel Racks is the founder of a group that's called Tiny Patriots Storytime.

01:22:52.380 And she was on with the Fox News people and she said, well, we went there.

01:23:00.320 Library patrons told us.

01:23:02.220 They went there and said, when exactly will there be a Christmas storytime?

01:23:07.980 And the library said, well, there is not going to be a Christmas storytime about the birth of the baby Jesus.

01:23:15.440 There will be a Santa storytime.

01:23:20.300 And parents said, yeah, but, you know, Santa is not actually about the birth of the baby Jesus.

01:23:29.560 Any chance you could please add that since there will be a Hanukkah story?

01:23:34.360 And you know what the library said?

01:23:40.040 Coronado, California Public Library, quote, the library as a government agency does not, nor is it allowed to do religious programming.

01:23:48.900 The Hanukkah storytime is not a religious storytime.

01:23:52.640 It is about the culture and traditions of Hanukkah.

01:23:55.520 Just as Santa is a cultural, not religious figure.

01:23:59.360 So let me step up here for just a second and say to the Coronado Public Library system, you people are awful, terrible human beings.

01:24:12.280 And you have not only insulted Christians in your community.

01:24:17.320 I got news for you.

01:24:18.440 You've insulted Jews in your community.

01:24:21.460 And I'm going to explain it all to you, every single last drop of it.

01:24:27.580 The idea that Hanukkah is no more than Santa, unbelievably insulting and wrong.

01:24:35.880 The idea that Christmas is only Santa, incredibly insulting and unbelievably wrong.

01:24:43.100 Yeah, I've got some details for you.

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01:24:54.560 I know, because I'm one of them.

01:24:57.000 But I could use a little bit of help, a little bit of love.

01:24:59.320 Come on, it is the season, right?

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01:26:33.460 Jeff Katz, happy to be sitting in for Glenn.

01:26:35.920 Do you believe that Christmas is simply about Santa?

01:26:40.220 Well, no.

01:26:41.020 We know what the real story is.

01:26:45.080 And when this library says, oh, well, we're doing a Christmas thing.

01:26:48.840 We're including Santa.

01:26:50.780 But they're not having any religious part of it.

01:26:54.840 And then, then, and this is the part that just frosts me.

01:26:58.880 They say, well, what about the Hanukkah story time?

01:27:04.120 Because parents in Coronado, California, apparently pretty smart.

01:27:07.280 And they said, well, we want a Christmas story time that involves, you know, Christ, because he's like the star of Christmas.

01:27:16.740 In case you didn't know, oh, no, no, no, not according to the library.

01:27:19.620 No, no, no.

01:27:20.900 We got Santa.

01:27:21.540 We got it all covered.

01:27:22.220 And they excuse it.

01:27:26.660 They explain it.

01:27:28.120 They qualify it by saying, well, we've got a Hanukkah story time.

01:27:32.860 And the parents say, well, don't you have a Hanukkah story time?

01:27:35.240 Hey, library people, you said you had a Hanukkah story.

01:27:37.100 How can you have a Hanukkah story time and not a, you know, Christmas story time that involves actual Christmas things?

01:27:43.460 And the library says, well, the Hanukkah story time is not a religious story time.

01:27:48.100 It's about the culture and traditions of Hanukkah.

01:27:50.920 Just as Santa is a cultural, not a religious figure.

01:27:56.560 Well, let me tell you something, Coronado, California, library board.

01:28:03.200 Hanukkah is all about religion.

01:28:07.380 And Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas.

01:28:09.840 And it's not actually about giving gifts, as Barack Obama claims Christmas is all about.

01:28:16.800 Hanukkah is about the story of the Jewish people who are fighting back against a despot who wants to eradicate them.

01:28:31.020 Fighting back against terrorists who are doing everything they possibly can to eliminate every Jew from the face of the planet.

01:28:40.260 Does any of this sound familiar, by the way?

01:28:44.440 Ah, Jeff Hanukkah is about, it's a miracle of lights, Jeff.

01:28:47.360 It's all about lights.

01:28:48.880 No, it's not.

01:28:51.160 It's about a battle.

01:28:52.380 It's about a war.

01:28:53.320 It's about Jews not being afraid.

01:28:57.960 It's about Jews being willing to stand up and fight.

01:29:03.380 And it's about those Jews receiving a blessing from God that allows them to be victorious and save the Jewish people.

01:29:13.020 And then there is this lovely part of it, and it is a lovely part, where this one little jar of oil that should only last for one night, in fact, lasts for eight nights.

01:29:25.680 But that's not the entire story, and in fact, I would dare say, it's just like, it's a nice part of it.

01:29:37.600 But the real part of it is about people of faith standing up and fighting back against those who would eliminate them because of their faith.

01:29:49.500 Hanukkah is not the same as Santa, and you can't tell me you're having a cultural discussion.

01:29:55.680 Of Hanukkah without talking about the religious part of Hanukkah.

01:30:00.340 Because if you are, then it's not Hanukkah.

01:30:03.220 Now, it could be something else if you just decide, hey, we love fried potato pancakes.

01:30:09.400 Man, those are good.

01:30:10.800 And the biggest question we got, applesauce or sour cream?

01:30:14.460 The correct answer, by the way, is sour cream, but that's another story for another day.

01:30:20.020 And we just want to have a holiday that's all about eating fried potato pancakes.

01:30:23.640 Oh, and you know what?

01:30:24.460 Those donuts you guys do, the sofconi oat, the jelly donuts, oh, those are good eating.

01:30:29.800 And we want to celebrate that as well.

01:30:31.320 Okay.

01:30:32.500 So you have yourself a merry little cholesterol fest, or I don't know, come up with a name.

01:30:41.080 But that's not Hanukkah.

01:30:42.000 Those may be things we enjoy when we retell the story of Hanukkah, but that's not the story itself.

01:30:53.360 And Santa may be a really good guy, and I am one of those guys who absolutely, positively believes in Santa.

01:31:01.340 But Santa is not the reason for Christmas.

01:31:10.500 And if you're going to have a story time at your library, and you're going to tell the story of Christmas,

01:31:18.400 then I would dare say you have to listen to the parents in that community who are telling you,

01:31:24.340 we want the real, actual story of Christmas.

01:31:30.460 And if you dare to say that you're telling the story of Hanukkah,

01:31:35.220 but there's no religious part to it, then I am here to tell you.

01:31:41.360 You are not really telling the story of Hanukkah.

01:31:45.360 You can have all the events you want.

01:31:49.720 And if Barack Obama stands up and says, this is a really good time to give to others.

01:31:55.380 We should really be looking in on our neighbors.

01:31:57.960 We should be taking care of them.

01:31:59.260 We should be helping them.

01:32:00.380 I think that's great.

01:32:01.280 I'm all on board with that.

01:32:03.500 I love the idea of charity.

01:32:06.440 I love the idea of helping other people in the community.

01:32:10.360 I try my best to surround myself with other people who think that way.

01:32:14.520 But that is not the reason for the holiday.

01:32:19.800 If you want to have a separate celebration, a separate event, a separate get-together, do it.

01:32:26.740 Heck, that might be one of those things I'll come to.

01:32:31.420 But that's not Hanukkah, and that's not Christmas.

01:32:33.860 It just isn't.

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01:34:05.580 When things can mean whatever you'd like them to mean, that's how we get, uh, Admiral Levine.

01:34:32.180 Yeah.

01:34:33.140 Now, listen.

01:34:35.580 I've got a tiny little bit of housekeeping I've got to get to, and, um, uh, Rosanna, kind enough, she says,

01:34:41.260 Jeff, I'm listening to you on, uh, WJNO, wonderful radio station, West Palm Beach.

01:34:45.580 That's, uh, South Florida.

01:34:46.900 It's, uh, it's a land of my people.

01:34:48.880 Uh, Rosanna says, Jeff, I hope you have time today to please mention, uh, Emily's bracelets.

01:34:53.680 It was from you that I learned about her and her bracelets.

01:34:56.680 Merry Christmas.

01:34:57.480 Well, thank you, Rosanna.

01:34:58.340 Yeah, I'll give you the quick update.

01:34:59.960 Uh, my friend, PJ Morrissey, who is my, my web guy, my social media director.

01:35:05.840 He's just a cool dude, and he's, uh, Emily's brother.

01:35:09.060 Uh, he was with us the other day, and he told the story of Emily and how their family, uh,

01:35:15.360 PJ and Kristen and Dan, uh, put together a website, Emily's bracelets.com, and put together

01:35:22.460 this business for Emily, and Emily, with all of her challenges, all of the, the hurdles

01:35:27.680 that she's got, makes these beautiful bracelets, and we were trying the other day to, uh, to

01:35:33.360 sell, what, 25 extra bracelets, but she was trying to get to 25,000, and all I can tell

01:35:39.540 you is that, uh, Dan and Kristen sent me some photos of the orders that wonderful people who

01:35:46.340 were part of the Glenn Beck program placed, and not only did Emily hit her goal of 25,000,

01:35:52.460 25,000, apparently she, they, they just leapfrogged right over it, and now they're up over 26,000

01:35:59.220 bracelets that she's made, and what's so cool about this is that she turns around, and, and

01:36:06.020 she donates the money, Special Olympics, and a variety of other charities, so I don't know,

01:36:12.260 maybe we should try and get her over 27,000, what did I say, Emily's bracelets.com, you can

01:36:17.180 take a look at that, so let me, let me just share this, uh, little thing with you, I,

01:36:22.460 I, I, I said that if we're simply going to make stuff up as we go along, and we're no

01:36:29.360 longer going to deal with, well, definitions, then we get to where we are today.

01:36:36.980 I looked at a, a feed from the current governor of Massachusetts, Heidi and I lived in Massachusetts

01:36:46.960 for a long time, and, and the current governor talks about all the things that she's done,

01:36:51.800 and they're all about these firsts, you know, uh, it's, it's the first this, and it's the

01:36:58.220 first that, you go, okay, well, that's all great, I suppose, how about the best, are you

01:37:02.620 doing anything good for the people in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because I still

01:37:08.060 follow the news, we've got plenty of friends left in Massachusetts, are you doing anything

01:37:14.020 that's good for the people there, because I don't see anything, but I'm not on the ground,

01:37:18.520 maybe, maybe, maybe they are, but it sure doesn't seem like it, and it's the same thing

01:37:23.600 for, for Joe Biden, right, what has the Biden administration been about, this is that time

01:37:31.160 of the year, you and I both know, and everybody looks back, well, here's what happened in 2023,

01:37:35.860 and you think, uh, okay, well, yeah, yeah, you're right, okay, yeah, that happened, and

01:37:41.080 that happened, oh, oh, I forgot that person died, oh, I forgot that person was alive, oh,

01:37:45.360 and they died, oh, man, that's like a double whammy, that hurts, and then you're just thinking,

01:37:50.900 well, wait a minute, I don't even know who that person is, are they alive, or it doesn't

01:37:53.660 matter, I know, I can't clutter up my head with details, I have a limited amount of space

01:37:57.960 up there, and it's, it's a little bit like Homer Simpson, if something new comes in, then

01:38:02.280 something old's got to go out, so I, I just can't clutter it up with a lot of stuff, but

01:38:07.720 here's what happened in 2023, and here's what, okay, so I thought, well, surely the, the

01:38:13.580 White House will have a list of all the great things that happened in 2023, and I, and I

01:38:18.860 was not wrong, but they put together a list, and I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna subject you

01:38:24.680 to it, it's all over the place, if you're on X, they've got it out there, I'm sure it's

01:38:28.780 on a million other social media platforms, and probably the White House website, and all

01:38:32.980 that good stuff, but take a look at it, and honest to goodness, see if you can find anything

01:38:37.700 that is truthful, or factual, or of any consequence in a beneficial way, you know what

01:38:45.860 I saw, I saw the same sort of nonsense that I've seen year after year now, that Joe Biden

01:38:51.480 and his gang of grifters have been in the White House, firsts, we hired the first gay

01:39:01.460 black press secretary, okay, well, I, doesn't really hurt me or help me, right, good for her,

01:39:11.060 I don't think she's doing a very good job, and I don't think she's doing a very good job,

01:39:15.040 because I think she's got a problem with the truth, but then I think maybe she doesn't have

01:39:18.760 a problem with the truth, maybe she just has a problem telling the truth, because the truth

01:39:22.680 just does not look good when you're talking about the Biden team, so, in fact, maybe she's

01:39:27.800 really, really good at her job, but I, I don't know that she has been able to check these

01:39:34.800 boxes, and that's what makes her a great press secretary, I just, I don't think so.

01:39:38.260 The economic stuff, man, oh man, come on, well, we have done this and this, you came

01:39:45.360 out of COVID, you haven't created a single new job that I'm aware of, there are jobs that

01:39:51.340 existed before COVID that once again exist, but that's not because of you, in fact, you

01:39:57.100 and your team have done everything possible to keep America shut down, you've done more

01:40:02.100 damage to the United States of America in three years than I've ever seen in my entire

01:40:07.140 life, you have destroyed this economy, we now have 62% of Americans living paycheck to

01:40:17.860 paycheck, I know how difficult it is to live paycheck to paycheck, I know how dangerous

01:40:26.780 it is to live paycheck to paycheck, 62%, 62%, let me just round up a little bit, that's

01:40:37.300 essentially two-thirds of America now lives paycheck to paycheck, can you imagine that?

01:40:44.720 Of course you can, because every one of us at some point was paycheck to paycheck, and

01:40:48.700 what do we do?

01:40:49.180 We did everything possible to not be paycheck to paycheck, and I guess we're now about one-third

01:40:55.480 of America.

01:40:59.160 What else has the Biden administration done?

01:41:01.420 Well, they've given us a lot of firsts.

01:41:03.680 How about Richard Levine, who now uses the name Rachel Levine, and is, what is he, like

01:41:11.280 the Deputy Undersecretary of Health and Human Services or something?

01:41:17.420 Remember, they claim that he was the first female admiral in the Public Health Service.

01:41:25.040 Okay.

01:41:26.020 And Admiral Levine also was one of USA Today's Women of the Year.

01:41:32.560 And I'll tell you something, I had more women reach out to me and say, hey, there's something

01:41:38.480 wrong with this, shouldn't there be an asterisk there?

01:41:41.840 Couldn't they say he's the first transgender person to ever achieve that rank?

01:41:47.940 Or could we say that these are the ten great transgender people of the year?

01:41:54.440 I mean, it just seems odd, doesn't it?

01:41:56.220 And that's what so many women wrote to me.

01:41:58.800 It wasn't me talking.

01:41:59.860 I mean, I kind of looked at it and went, well, I don't know, I can't quite make heads or tails

01:42:05.320 out of it, but my fundamental belief system is I want everybody to live a long, happy,

01:42:12.660 healthy life.

01:42:13.240 I really do.

01:42:15.500 But I just am a little confused by this.

01:42:19.100 And I imagine you're a little confused by this, but this is the essence of the Biden administration.

01:42:22.840 So we've got a couple of clips here from Admiral Levine.

01:42:25.260 Let's just hear those.

01:42:26.000 Hello, my name is Admiral Rachel Levine, and I have the honor of being the Assistant Secretary

01:42:31.980 for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

01:42:35.760 Happy Pride.

01:42:36.900 Happy Pride Month.

01:42:38.120 And actually, let's declare it a summer of pride.

01:42:41.200 Happy summer of pride.

01:42:44.220 Personally, I have no room in my heart for hatred.

01:42:47.400 And frankly, I have no time for intolerance.

01:42:50.320 We need to all work together against this intolerance until everyone living in America can live their

01:42:55.800 life openly and freely without fear of prejudice, scorn, or attack.

01:43:00.800 I believe that the lessons of recent history indicate that our mission as doctors and other

01:43:07.220 medical nurses and other medical professionals needs to include a proactive rather than merely

01:43:12.840 a passive rejection of this intolerance.

01:43:15.600 You know, we have the ability to share information, to speak with authority that our training and

01:43:19.980 experience have given us, and work together to assert our right to practice medicine as we

01:43:24.800 were taught, and to practice it without discrimination.

01:43:27.880 So I encourage all of you to think of yourselves as ambassadors to your communities.

01:43:34.700 Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for transgender and non-binary

01:43:40.640 youth and adults.

01:43:43.280 Those who attack our LGBTQI plus community are driven by an agenda that has nothing to do

01:43:49.460 with science and medicine.

01:43:52.700 Transgender youth who are supported by their parents, school, and community, and receive

01:43:57.060 evidence-based care actually have excellent mental health outcomes.

01:44:02.120 Studies clearly show that gender-affirming care results in these positive mental health outcomes.

01:44:09.120 Gender-affirming care is medical care.

01:44:12.140 Gender-affirming care is mental health care.

01:44:14.900 And gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention care.

01:44:18.040 This fact is well-established.

01:44:20.380 In a collection of 16 studies highlighted earlier this year by Stanford University School of

01:44:24.640 Medicine, trans youth receiving gender-affirming care reported lower depression, higher mental

01:44:30.400 health quality, and less suicidality than their peers without care.

01:44:35.180 In February 2022, a team of researchers in a paper in JAMA Network Open titled Mental Health

01:44:41.960 Outcomes in Transgender and Non-Binary Youth Receiving Gender-Affirming Care Found that trans and

01:44:47.720 non-binary youth who went on puberty blockers or hormones had 60% lower odds of depression

01:44:53.360 and 73% lower odds of suicidality over a 12-month period compared with those who did not.

01:44:59.560 All right, now, here's the problem with all of this.

01:45:08.360 We've changed the terms.

01:45:10.840 No longer are we speaking of a double mastectomy for a young girl.

01:45:17.100 No longer are we speaking of the removal of testicles for a young boy.

01:45:25.760 So things either mean things or they don't.

01:45:28.120 They have definitions or they don't.

01:45:29.620 Words mean things or they don't.

01:45:31.660 Holidays have roots and causes and reasons or they don't.

01:45:36.720 The only thing I would agree with the good Dr. Levine on is I, too, want everybody to have

01:45:45.500 a long, happy, healthy life.

01:45:48.920 I think that's a good thing.

01:45:50.640 I think it's a really, really good thing.

01:45:53.820 You can follow me over on X, formerly known as Twitter, Jeff Katz Show.

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01:47:33.260 Are you familiar with a group called Doctors Against Genocide?

01:47:37.980 Probably not, because they, well, they just set up shop a few weeks back, but they already

01:47:43.280 had a number of events planned.

01:47:45.000 The biggest one had been scheduled for this Thursday at the United States Holocaust Museum.

01:47:52.000 They had intended to basically storm into the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and demand that Israel

01:48:01.260 stop defending itself against Hamas terrorism.

01:48:05.160 Like me, you're thinking, well, who exactly are the Doctors Against Genocide?

01:48:11.660 Aren't we all against genocide?

01:48:13.120 Oh, it's another one of those words again.

01:48:15.620 It's a word that either has a meaning or it doesn't have a meaning.

01:48:19.360 And apparently, in, well, the last couple of months anyway, the term has taken on meanings

01:48:25.600 that don't actually reflect what it is.

01:48:27.620 According to Stop Anti-Semitism, which is an account over on X, it says, well, who exactly

01:48:35.360 is this group, Doctors Against Genocide?

01:48:37.780 According to Roll Call, one of the founding members of Doctors Against Genocide is Nadal

01:48:42.320 Jabor, a physician from Dearborn, Michigan.

01:48:44.620 And they put a photo of Dr. Jabor next to Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush, two members of the

01:48:51.840 squad who are, to put it mildly, not exactly a friend of the Jewish people.

01:48:58.620 They were formed last month.

01:49:00.060 They focused solely on Israel.

01:49:01.660 According to the website, Doctors Against Genocide is a program of Jetpack, a 501c3 who, quote,

01:49:09.160 seeks to build a strong American Muslim political infrastructure and increase our community's

01:49:13.420 influence.

01:49:14.760 Well, I'm okay with that.

01:49:16.380 I'm totally okay with that.

01:49:18.460 I'm all on board with this group and that group and every other group getting a piece

01:49:24.680 of the pie, being able to say, here's what we believe and here's what our values are,

01:49:28.920 here's what our thoughts are.

01:49:29.680 What I'm not okay with is anyone, anywhere, at any point saying, oh, we're totally okay

01:49:35.560 with slaughtering innocent people.

01:49:37.860 I have a poll number I have to share with you and I, well, it's math, I know, but half, half

01:49:48.520 of young Americans believe that the Holocaust is a myth.

01:49:53.680 Think about that.

01:49:58.900 It's incredible to me.

01:50:01.100 How do we get to this point?

01:50:02.540 How is it possible that so many younger people who are between the ages of, well, 18 and 29

01:50:13.980 in this one demo cell and the other demo cell is 30 to 44, how is it possible for so many

01:50:20.560 of those folks to believe the Holocaust never happened or to say, well, we're not sure if

01:50:25.060 it happened?

01:50:25.540 We're not even a hundred years from that.

01:50:31.940 There's a problem with that.

01:50:33.060 I've got the full story.

01:50:34.180 Please, I want you to take a look at it.

01:50:35.980 I'll, I'll share it on social media.

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01:51:08.400 Take a look at that.

01:51:09.820 Your hair may hurt.

01:51:11.540 You may need extra duct tape, but it is what it is.

01:51:15.240 It's America, right?

01:51:16.540 It is Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

01:51:18.520 This is the Glenn Beck program.

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 26, 2023

Our Language Is Being Changed Before Our Very Eyes ｜ 12⧸26⧸23 ｜ The Glenn Beck Program

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