Raging To Give? | 12⧸10⧸18
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Summary
Glenn Beck talks about the crazy weekend in Europe and how to feel good about the holiday season, and how you can do the same here in America. He also talks about how he paid off all of his wife s layaway and paid it off at Walmart.
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I did something this weekend that was unbelievable.
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It was a weekend of rage spreading throughout Europe.
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It was a concussion wave that just rippled across the continent.
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Tear gas and water cannons fired off in Belgium as angry rioters tore up paving stones, ripped off road signs, and threw fireworks at police.
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Meanwhile, the same exact scene was taking place simultaneously in the Netherlands.
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Many of the rioters donned the famous French yellow vests.
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And I haven't even begun to tell you yet what was happening in France.
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I was inspired by Tyler Perry, who Friday released this video where he went off and he just paid off everybody's layaway at Walmart.
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And so I talked to my wife and I said, let's go.
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We went in and we paid everybody's layaway off in Walmart.
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But anyway, what I what I learned is how close to the edge.
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So while you were probably putting up the Christmas tree or doing something, in Europe, they weren't doing that.
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Europe, they were kind of raging in the streets.
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And it was happening in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, where over 130,000 rioters took over the streets all across France on Sunday.
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Now, this is the fourth straight weekend where the streets of Paris were literally on fire.
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You know, there's nothing that says, hey, you should listen to me politically.
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90,000 police officers and National Guard were called in to try just to maintain order in France.
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The scenes coming out of Europe this weekend look like some third world or war ravaged country.
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It looked more like Egypt than it did the continent that gave birth to the Renaissance.
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So now, tell me, why is everybody so pissed off?
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There is no equivalent being proposed in Belgium.
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There is no equivalent in the Netherlands or in the UK.
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Here's what one 67-year-old protester in the Netherlands said.
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Our children are hardworking people, but they have to pay taxes everywhere.
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The social welfare net we grew up with is gone.
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Now, if you think the 2008 financial crisis ever really ended, you're wrong.
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It was hidden for a while by a wave of printed money and low interest loans.
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But just like with socialism, eventually the money well dries, and there's nothing else to pull up in your bucket.
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Since the 2008 financial crisis, global debt has hit new record levels.
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At over 300% to GDP ratio, the global debt has now reached more than $240 trillion.
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By the way, the whole world, if we took everything that everybody made every year, it's about $50 trillion.
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Eventually, something's going to light the spark.
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People mocked me so hard when I was at Fox, and I said the Arab Spring might be that spark.
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The Arab Spring led to the migrant crisis, which also led to the caliphate.
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The Greek sovereign debt crisis soon followed after.
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The migrant crisis woke Europeans up to the very real fact that their governments couldn't even provide for them,
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much less millions of migrants flooding out of the Middle East and northern Africa.
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The result was a wave of populist movements on both the left and the right to challenge the established government.
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It is exactly the chalkboard I laid out at Fox.
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Macron's gas tax was the latest spark, but this all began 10 years ago, and it's now a monster.
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It's a monster that the original organizers have completely lost control of, and it's spreading.
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What will the final spark be before Americans begin putting on their own yellow vests?
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Because the government has failed to listen to the people here as well.
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Hopefully, we don't don yellow vests and start burning things in the streets.
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I mean, Antifa has already got that market cornered.
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What's so frustrating is, Stu, you remember, by the way, welcome back, Stu.
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You remember the monologue that I did at Fox with the little blue book?
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And remember how people said that had no relevance on anything that was happening?
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This is a this is a rarely read book out of France by just the intellectual and universities.
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And you were you were blamed for drawing attention to it.
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I remember they were like, well, you're going to put ideas in people's heads.
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The book that you didn't write in are criticizing.
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But you're putting the ideas in people's heads.
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So I I remember holding it up on TV and saying, you have to read this because this is what's coming.
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And I went through it on the air and it was truly remarkable that nobody listened to it, because what did it say?
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If you were one of those who watched the show or if you went out and read it, what it said was, we're a bunch of communists.
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But we played along and we played along with the left and all of these socialists, all of these progressives that said they were going to turn us communists.
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And they lied to us and they keep telling us, wait, wait, we need some more voices.
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We have to have the House and we have to have the Senate and we have to have the White House.
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If we could just get all three then and then nothing happens.
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And so they were making the case that it's time to tear the system apart.
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It's time to burn it to the ground because these people are liars.
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And so we'll burn it to the ground and then we'll take it.
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And we're going to be able to find people that will work with us to burn it down to the ground because people are pissed off on all sides.
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That was pretty much the message of the coming insurrection written in France around 2006, 2008.
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When they say they're going to kill somebody, when they say they're going to destroy a government, what do you say we start taking them at their word?
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You'd be surprised at just how many things won't surprise you when you actually start taking people seriously and literally.
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We've changed this half hour here to be able to spend the whole time with you and not really break except for some live commercials.
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But we're going to stay for the whole first half hour of every hour of this broadcast.
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I cannot wait to talk to you a little bit about what I did this weekend.
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I'm fascinated by this Walmart thing that you did.
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How do we, I mean, how do I get you to talk about that?
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Because that Tyler Perry thing is pretty amazing, too.
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And you, I mean, you basically just copied him, right?
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I challenged Stephen Crowder and Ben Shapiro and Bill O'Reilly.
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Now, you don't have to, you know, spend the money that Tyler Perry or I spent.
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You can just go in and just do $100 or $50, $10.
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And you are not going to believe what a difference it makes.
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I like this because we were shopping on Saturday morning for a battered women's shelter.
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And so every year we help put together a kind of like a toy store for a battered women's shelter.
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And so the moms can come in and they can just kind of go shopping for their kids.
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And because you get to go shopping, you're like, okay, we're going to go shop for three five-year-old boys.
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And we just go shopping for, you know, little boys.
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We're going to shop for an eight-year-old girl.
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And so we were at Walmart and I saw the Tyler Perry thing and I thought, hmm, I don't know what that would even cost.
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And so I went to Tanya and the kids because they were all there.
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And I said, I'm going to go up to the manager and just see, would you guys be willing to kind of forego your Christmas, the big Christmas gifts, you know, just kind of just, hey, we're all having, you know, turkey and something small.
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Uh, if, if, if, if we did this and everybody was like, yes.
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We actually had to leave, go do some other things.
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And they were, they took, it took a long time to total everything up.
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Um, and then, cause it's, can you just give the basics here?
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So, so this is what, and the reason why I liked this is because it was something that, um, people were working towards.
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They were, you know, and these are the people who, you know, they would take from, I don't know, $500 to some of them were literally $24 on layaway and you go and you make payments on it.
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And then when you make your last payment, you can take it.
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And so these people are really struggling, really struggling.
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And so I just went in, um, and I want to thank American express.
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Cause I wondered how long it would take because I just kept buying stuff at Walmart over and over and over.
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We were supposed to go to a Christmas party and my wife ended up going, this is your way of getting out of Christmas.
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Um, but, uh, I thought we were just going to go in and pay one big lump sum and they couldn't do that.
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I don't know how Tyler did it, but I, I had to go stand there and keep putting my credit card into it and pay them off one by one.
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Um, and it took, uh, just over two hours to do.
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And they would just, you know, I'd stick the credit card in and, uh, they'd hit approve and then they'd pull up another deal and it would say the price and I'd stick the credit card number in.
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I know relatively close, but I don't know exactly how much it was.
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If I had this information, I could have tweeted to people to go put things on layaway while you were doing this.
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And just, everyone could have just made out like bandits.
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Uh, and, uh, and so I'll, I'll talk about, uh, I'll talk about what I experienced there, but as long as the Lord gives me, uh, strength and the ability to do that, I want to do that every year.
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Um, uh, someplace, something, cause it, I, I, I, I felt so many different things and I remembered so many different things.
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I remembered, uh, I just remembered what it was like on Christmas and not being able to afford.
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And I remember, uh, and I know you're going to get into the emotion of it, um, coming up, but it's interesting thinking about, we talk about these policies every day as if they're these abstract things in Washington.
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I remember Nancy Pelosi saying when people got a, what was it?
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Um, it was just crumbs off the table when it was a tax cut.
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And, you know, they talk about, you know, these, these prices are going up, you know, cars are going up a thousand dollars.
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Ah, you know, people can pay an extra thousand dollars for a car.
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When you're putting $24 on layaway, you're in a position where, you know, you're, you're desperately trying to make your kids Christmas just a little bit better.
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I mean, that is, you know, that is, you know, the fact that you're getting $24 back is a big deal.
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But I think most of us have been in this situation to where you're counting, you know, you're standing at the gas pump and you're counting and you're having to stop it right at a certain amount.
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And it's, you know, like $3 and 27 cents because that's all you have.
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And you're trying to figure out how do I navigate?
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And then Christmas comes and Christmas is Christmas.
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The way we celebrate it now is an absolute lie.
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I mean, I, there's a lot of things I love about Christmas.
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Oh, there's a lot of things, but it's, for instance, have you, have you noticed that it's, um, and there'll be presents on the tree.
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It's presents on the tree, not under the tree, on the tree.
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I think Ingrid Michelson is the one I've been listening to lately.
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It's such a great, uh, do you like Ingrid Michelson?
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She, um, uh, she, she, she wanted to do something traditional and it's really fantastic.
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But anyway, think of presents on the tree, right?
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You're not, you know, you're not getting anything big.
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And that's what Christmas was really all about.
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So, uh, did anybody, anybody decorate the tree yet in their house?
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They signed all the papers and then they just didn't deliver the money.
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Well, it's probably coming today though, right?
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By the end of the business day today, you'll probably have it.
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The, the excuse was one day, the excuse was no, it's George Bush's funeral.
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What is the purpose of signing closing papers and not delivering money?
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And he would call up and he would say, uh, the, um, uh, I'm at the bank right now and they
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And then he would call later and he would say, uh, well, I was on the phone with the bank.
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And we're like, wait a minute, dude, you said you were at the bank.
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Real estate agents were like, well, never seen that one before.
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Anyway, so we've started decorating the house and, uh, and, uh, it was, is anybody else?
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When you decorate the tree, is everybody just allowed to just hang all the ornaments, just
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Is there any kind of thought about how to hang the ornaments?
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They put the ornaments where they put the ornaments.
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And then, of course, there's the giant holes and you fill them up later.
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So I said, I said towards the end, uh, cause I just stopped and I said, I looked around and
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I can't live in a house with a tree that is just, I can't do it.
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You're just too used to somebody else coming in and decorating for you.
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My mother, we have a very, you put the Christmas, you look for the holes and you put the big ones,
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you put them in the back, you put them inside the tree and then you layer it out
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I don't think we did now that I see my kids reactions to this, but, uh.
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So your, your concern is that your children were not appropriately decorating the tree
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No, they weren't necessarily enjoying the learning experience of how to decorate a tree.
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But that's what, but see, that's the way it used to be.
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And then you go to bed and we'll just rearrange them.
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And we had to rearrange them because the, the dog, they were too low for the dog and
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So now that doesn't work because they're 12 and 14.
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So it's time to show them that you just don't hang that there.
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Like, it's just, I'm so, I just, I'm so OCD with this and we sit there and we'll watch
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a movie and I'll notice that halfway through the movie, I haven't even looked at the screen.
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I'm looking at the damn tree going, that ornament has to be moved.
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And then when you go to bed, dad's going to move them all.
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That's weird when your kids get to an age where they understand that, you know, dad's
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Well, isn't that what the holidays are all about?
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The one crazy relative that comes and you're just like, oh, dear God, we have to do this
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Except in your case, that crazy relative that are year round every minute of every day.
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So everybody just stopped then and let you do it.
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They just kind of stopped and it started because I said, wait, wait, wait, you don't put the
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We haven't fluffed the tree because you know how you have if you have a fake tree, it's
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And I'm like, look, see, you can see right out to the patio through the tree is because
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Now, we solved this problem a few years ago when I started advocating for us making it Christmas
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So if you go out to our garage in July, the tree's just up.
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And there's a full wall that slides down the room.
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And in it are all their Christmas decorations all set up.
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And all they do is roll them out and put them where they go.
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So the tree is fully decorated in a closet, essentially.
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Completely decorated, year round, and it's on a rolling thing, and they just bring it
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The house didn't sell, because I want to build a house, and I'm putting that Christmas.
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You see the trees that are all on the set here?
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And somebody said, hey, we got to decorate the studios for Christmas, blah, blah, blah.
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I come in the next day, everything's decorated.
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We just took the plastic off and wheeled the trees out.
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And I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot we did that.
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It's like every Jewish house needs two dishwashers.
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Every Christian house should have a Christmas tree room.
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And it just disappears and you just open it up and pull it out.
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Beyond that, they kind of designed their whole house around their Christmas decorations
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because they also have an elevator that goes up to the second floor.
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On the elevator, they've got the Christmas decorations for the second floor.
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And they take the elevator up to the second floor, roll everything out, and it's all in place.
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You know you have a pretty sweet gig if you're thinking, I'm going to get an elevator for
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But because I don't want to haul the ornaments up.
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Did you start this with a Christmas, like, it's about too much materialism?
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Hey, I got an elevator for my Christmas decorations.
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So, that's the part of the Christmas materialism you're upside down.
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Too many people are putting elevators in their houses for Christmas decorations.
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So, Pat, could we just take a moment, talk about sports just a little bit?
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I want to throw in something that I think is very important to mention.
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They beat the Philadelphia Eagles last night, right?
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You know, I gave up football after we're calling Kaepernick.
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Dude, I have a feeling you and your son were there about 50-yard line last night to see
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I will say, you know, you can't win the Super Bowl every year.
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This is a lesson you might know that the Dallas Cowboys are in the middle of a two and a half
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Last night, I was suddenly a huge Dallas Cowboys fan.
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Well, the Packers are going right to the bowl this year.
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They're going to the same place the Philadelphia Eagles are.
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The NFL draft in a high pick is where they're going.
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There's been some interesting developments on the college side, though, over the past couple
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Over the weekend, Kyler Murray, University of Oklahoma quarterback, won the Heisman Trophy.
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And because he won the Heisman Trophy and got some accolades, people had to search through
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his Twitter feed to find anything that might be anywhere near offensive.
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Well, prison while he awakes from burning at the stake.
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In case you're a normal human being, Quilt Bag is actually the new thing instead of LGBTQQIA2+.
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That's why we added in Electric Boogaloo, because it just feels like it's going to cover whatever
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In fact, some people are calling for him to have the Heisman take it away, because he
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Well, he was like talking to his friends, and one of his tweets was, y'all are queers.
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Kids have to get off social media and stay off it.
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If you have an email account, thank God, my son does not have any of these things.
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They're not on Twitter or Facebook or any of that.
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Yes, you are not at an age to be able to handle that.
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I have to tell you, I had an amazing conversation with my son this weekend about electronics.
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And he was just in his, you know, 14-year-old kind of mood.
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And we had this amazing conversation that I think, I know he's not alone in.
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You know, the fight of, you know, right and wrong.
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Our kids, man, are facing stuff that no other generation has faced.
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You know, on vacation saw the Kevin Hart thing that I know you mentioned earlier on the show.
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And it's like, here's a guy who did some things that he didn't...
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That we look back at 2010, 2011 that were bad, right?
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And now he's saying he's not homophobic, right?
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Like, isn't your argument that you want to convince people that, you know, being homophobic is bad?
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And you want people to change their mind about that and come to a point where they no longer think it's bad, right?
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Like, that's the whole issue that you're supposed to be addressing if you're a gay rights activist.
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So here's a guy who was, you know, said things he didn't like, you know, you don't like back in the day.
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And it's saying he doesn't feel that way anymore.
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Didn't you accomplish what you wanted with him?
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You know, when a friend casually says something and it makes you stop and think or your kids say something and it makes you stop and think, it can give you a really different perspective and you can really learn about them.
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Are you going to tell us about the Walmart story?
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When we come back, when we come back after the top of the hour, I'm going to tell the Walmart story.
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The white Tyler Perry is hosting your radio program.
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I took it as a challenge and I challenged others to do the same that are in a position.
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Like I am, but I'm going to show you how you can actually do this as well.
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But it has happened today, at least at Walmart.
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Everybody has to come pick up their stuff today.
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Layaway ends on December 10th or whatever it is.
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So they probably need the product to go back on the shelves if people are going to pay it off or whatever.
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And I experienced something I've never experienced before.
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And I don't know how many people will ever experience.
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And I want to share it because I want you to experience it too.
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I mean, the people behind the counter said, we should have put cameras up.
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And the people are still, Walmart's still going through it today and yesterday.
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Just the one that I paid off everybody's layaway.
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So, you know, when you give, you're supposed to give silently.
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However, I took what Tyler Perry did as a challenge.
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It said, hey, I just went to this Walmart in Atlanta, and then I went to this other Walmart in Atlanta, and I paid off everybody's layaway.
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And I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, and I never even thought of it.
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And the more I thought about it, the more I liked it, because these were the people who were not asking for handouts.
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These were the people who are really trying to earn the money, to get the money, to be able to get it for Christmas or whatever.
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And so, Walmart has this layaway thing where you can put things on layaway until December 10th.
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And so, you can make payments throughout the years.
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And so, on Saturday morning, we usually do this thing.
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Our church, our local church, has adopted this women's shelter.
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And so, we all get together, and we all go shopping at the Walmart for all these children's toys.
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And so, I was there early in the morning, and I was just thinking of the Tyler Perry thing.
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And I said, honey, have you seen the Tyler Perry?
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And I said, I just want to see if, I mean, I don't even know what it cost.
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And I said, I know, but, you know, if we just scrimp and save, and we don't spend a lot of money on our Christmas,
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and, you know, we'll just, you know, this would be a good thing.
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And so, we went, I went, and I talked to the lady at Walmart.
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Her name was Gabrielle, which I thought was great, the angel Gabriel.
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And I said, could I, could I, is it possible to just pay everybody's stuff off?
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And if she believed me, she probably didn't think I'd ever come back.
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So, then, a couple of hours later, after we did some stuff, we called and said, can you, can you just total all that up?
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A few hours later, she calls with the, with the.
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And number, which was about double of what we had thought it might be.
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And so, I had a family meeting and said, kids, dad doesn't really believe in college anyway.
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And so, we were getting ready to go to a Christmas party.
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And we called and we said, okay, so we want to do this.
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And she said, I've got, you know, I've got everybody assembled and we're ready to go.
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And I thought it was just to, like, you know, you know, put the credit card through and everybody is going to be like, yay, we're helping people out.
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And it was actually an ordeal because I couldn't pay it in a lump sum.
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The first hour I'm doing this, layaway is still open.
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And so, people are coming in to make the final payment on their layaway.
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And so, they said when we first started, she said, this is going to take a while.
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And she said, so that other register over there is also layaway.
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Now, do you want to pay for people who are coming in?
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And I said, yes, but I don't want them to know.
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So, we devised this plan to where people would come over to the register and they'd say, I want to pay off layaway.
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And then the person behind the counter would go, okay, Betsy, so-and-so.
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We'd pay it off if he hadn't already paid it off.
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And so, the first woman who did this, it was one of the greatest things I've ever seen or been involved with.
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This woman comes up and she had to pay off, I think it was like $94.
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And then we paid it real quick without her knowing.
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And then she said, the lady got behind the counter and rang it up.
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And she said, oh, no, there has to be a mistake.
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And she said, no, somebody came in and paid this for you.
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And I'm kind of three-quarter turned away from her.
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And she has to actually stand over the side for a while to collect herself.
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And she said, please, can I get the name of the person who did this?
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And she said, and then all of the Walmart people looked at me like, you know, say something.
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And so I looked over and I said, I'd rather just have a hug than a card.
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And she came over and she said, this has been the worst year of my life.
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She said, I have been paying for these toys over the months.
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She said, now I have the money to buy food so we can have Christmas, a Christmas meal.
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And it was story like that after story like that after story like that is this grandmother.
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She was standing in the back because there was several people that we did this to.
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And I didn't say anything to any of those people, but she was standing in the back.
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And so she was she had time to watch what was happening at our counter, you know, probably because she was probably pissed.
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And so she was watching and when it came to the hundred dollars, she actually came up and she said she pulled out a ten dollar bill and she said, I need to cancel my layaway.
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Because she didn't have the money and it was literally like, I don't even remember.
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And the stuff came out and it was two baby blankets and like this little literally, I don't even know, twenty five dollar Fisher price thing.
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And then she just whipped around and she looked at me and she said, it's you, isn't it?
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And I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
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And she started to cry and she came over and she said, it's my first grandchild's first Christmas.
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And she said, I have been laying awake for the last three days trying to figure out a way.
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To be able to afford just something simple that I wanted to to give him and she didn't have the money to do it.
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My kids were with me and Mary was the one inserting the credit cards.
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And it's the memory of my Christmas with Mary where dad couldn't afford something from CVS to get for her for Christmas.
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There's some interesting things going on with freedom of speech that we should talk about.
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And I'm going to address something at the top of next hour that will further this.
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It came on my radar because it's a speech thing.
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He's going to wind up probably playing baseball and not football, which is pretty amazing.
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And now he's – did they take it away or were they threatening to take it away?
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They want to take it away because when he was 14 years old, he said on a tweet, knock
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And Carl Benjamin, Sargon of Akkad, big YouTube guy, he was de-platformed this weekend.
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I'm going to address some things at the top of next hour, but I want to give you one more piece to this puzzle before I do.
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A leading expert on the ethical, legal, and social implications of bioscience has now revealed her concerns over handing over the control of our minds.
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Nita Farhani has detailed her fears of artificial intelligence in the workplace and has outlined that it could lead to the loss of jobs over employees' thoughts.
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She has now revealed how more and more companies are looking into the idea of making EEG devices a compulsory part of their uniform.
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The wearable headset, which is now used to monitor alertness, productivity, and mental state, is already being used in China.
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Train drivers on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail are required to wear the technology.
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And according to some reports, in government-run factories in China, the employees are also required to wear the EEG sensors to monitor their productivity as well.
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And I've read about this, and I think we addressed it in the book, Addicted to Outrage.
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It is a system now where they put these sensors in a cap, and then you have to wear this cap.
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And it can show when you're distracted, it can show when you're angry, it can show when you're frustrated, it will show when you're experiencing all kinds of different thoughts, when you're tired.
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And now the boss sits in a room and is monitoring everybody's brainwaves.
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And so then they stop the line and go down to that person and say, hey, your EEG looks like it's slipping.
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And you get, you know, one go home, and the next time you get a go home, I don't know what happens to you in China, but I don't think anybody wants to find out.
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She says there's an increasing number of worldwide interest in the technology, which could lead to people being fired just for their thoughts.
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In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a political or creative thought?
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Artificial intelligence worn now in the workplace.
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I worry people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society or that people will lose their job because of waning attention or emotional instability or because they're contemplating collective action against their employers.
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That coming out will no longer be an option because people's brains will long ago have revealed their sexual orientation, their political ideology, their religious preferences well before they were ready or able to consciously share that information with other people.
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I worry about our laws and the ability of our laws to keep up with technological change.
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Take the First Amendment on the U.S. Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.
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But does the First Amendment protect freedom of thought?
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She was inspired to study brain activity after the 2009 presidential election protest in Iran.
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She revealed how when she called her parents during the violent crackdowns, they would be too scared to tell her the truth about what was going on in fear of the government listening in.
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Her fears increased when she contemplated the possibility of officials now being able to read people's thoughts.
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See, there's one thing that no one can take away from you.
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They can violate that one space that has always been private.
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New technology was released last week of a camera sort of device that they're using now on animals.
01:12:54.460
And it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
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It takes a picture of the animal, but then it takes some sort of infrared or I don't I don't even know what this technology is, but it can actually read the thoughts of the animal.
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And what it does is it takes a picture or series of pictures and it shows the animal thinking about moving before it does.
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So the next series of pictures kind of center around the brain of the animal and it shows a distortion of the animal either turning or moving forward or whatever it's going to do.
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It can read the mind of where the animal is going to move.
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They've done this in geese and chickens and dogs.
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They can shoot this thing at people or I mean at animals.
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And for instance, if you're in a if a rat is in a maze, it can predict which way it's going to turn.
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It can now predict if it's going to turn around.
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I've got to turn around and they can predict it now.
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But just think of that on the scope of a rifle.
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I didn't think about it because you were mentioning it with with animals that popped into my head of hunting.
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I mean, eventually technology comes around where hunting is not much of a challenge if you know which way the animal is going to move.
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But of course, as as you typically would took it to a bunch of humans being murdered.
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I mean, the with with AI, because you've talked about artificial intelligence quite a bit.
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And we did a bunch of this stuff on tour and stuff of the abilities of of this when it actually gets to the level it can it can do this on its own.
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OK, so Google announced a that on Thursday night there was an evolutionary leap in AI.
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Within four hours, it figured out what it was, started to play and can beat a grandmaster in four hours from not.
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So I'm not even not being taught anything, not being taught anything.
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It just had to look at the things and say, this is what this is.
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They thought that that machine learning would that evolutionary jump there would be at least 10 years away.
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That's incredible, too, because being on vacation did not hear that story at all.
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No, well, you don't sit across from you every day.
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There was a huge story every week, every day last week on AI.
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What do you think the governments of the world are going to do with technology like this?
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I mean, and if you think that the technologists won't do it, Google's already doing it in China.
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They may not do it with us, but they're going to do it with everybody else.
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What do you think France would do today with that technology?
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If they knew who were going to throw things, they knew what people were going to do.
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Would you ever make it to the scene of the protest?
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If you don't think this is possible, thought crime is already being implemented in England now.
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Thought crime, arresting before you do anything.
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So we're starting to slip past the First Amendment.
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We're starting to slip past, gee, do I have a right to say something?
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We obviously, as a society, are all rejecting that.
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I have a right to speech, and I have a right to my own thoughts.
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Do you hear the story, and I think you remember this, Glenn, a video of an assistant principal
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who went out to a pro-life protest, and he was screaming at the kids doing the pro-life
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At one point, he said, I don't give an F what Jesus tells me about where I should and should
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They went out, and these were teenagers, and was vicious to them, and was just like mocking
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He didn't, I don't think he realized it at the time, was being filmed.
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They suspended him initially, and then finally got rid of him from the job.
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And it's interesting now, he's somewhat contrite at this point, it seems like.
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He's not getting a lot of job offers after this behavior.
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He sent over 200 applications out last summer, had a few interviews.
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One potential employer ended up blocking his phone number, apparently, after seeing the
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But worries, he will never work in education again.
01:21:05.460
And if he is actually contrite, what's again the lesson here?
01:21:09.260
Like, if what he did was wrong, and he's able to, he's actually contrite about it and admits
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what he did was wrong, do we want him out of, you know, employment forever?
01:21:22.000
This is from LifeSite News, who wrote this up, a big-time pro-life organization.
01:21:28.480
Although Ruff's actions were clearly out of line, he is a human being who deserves forgiveness
01:21:33.760
Hopefully, he feels true contrition for his actions and will be able to find a job where
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he can be a positive and supportive role model for others, regardless of their viewpoints
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I think we need to start screaming a little bit more for mercy.
01:21:57.140
I mean, you know, what is it, you know, for patriots, dreams, who, who,
01:22:10.120
I mean, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's really what we were.
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We're supposed to be when we, when we got together here as a country that we, we would
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stand for justice, but we would also stand for mercy.
01:22:48.920
That's why so many Americans can't stand mainstream media.
01:22:52.060
And we have another textbook example of it over the weekend aimed at Heisman trophy winner,
01:22:57.900
In fact, we have a few names to, uh, to add to the de-platformed list today.
01:23:06.480
He plays quarterback for the University of Oklahoma.
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He was awarded the Heisman, uh, as the best college football player in the country.
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Gleason had his crack reporting that he dug deep into Kyler Murray's shady past on Twitter.
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Yes, Gleason uncovered the absolutely shocking, completely unheard of truth that 14-year-old
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Boy, I cannot believe that, uh, that Kyler Murray is still allowed to walk the streets.
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Saturday, he won the Heisman trophy Sunday, uh, USA today reporter.
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He, he went to work and he started going through his Twitter and he discovered that at 14 years
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old, yeah, uh, Kyler Murray used the word, uh, queer.
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I don't know if it was when he was 14, but now queer is in LGBTQ.
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Uh, and I don't care how old you were and I don't care that it was, uh, it was many,
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He had, he issued an apology for something that he had said seven years ago while he
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I wish we had your Twitter feed from when you were 14 or 12 or however old you were when
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You know, if the media wants to continue this witch hunt, it's never going to end because
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I don't know anybody who hasn't said stupid and embarrassing stuff, especially in junior
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There's one thing that matters to me really deeply matters.
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It is the only thing that brought us together and will hold us together.
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And we should be, we should be looking at enforcing and, and empowering people with the bill of
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rights because without the bill of rights, man will shove and beat and shout down and silence
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All in the name of progress, all in the name of safety, all in the name of understanding
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or our children, but they're not standing for the bill of rights.
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And if you're going to truly stand for the bill of rights and not your right, doesn't matter
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what's your right stand for the rights of others when it's the rights of others in a time of
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collective madness, I warn you, you're putting your life and your livelihood in danger, but I
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also promise you nothing you do in your life will be worth more.
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It is my sincerest hope that in the end, my children can say, my dad stood for the rights of others.
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And he stood for mercy when the world lost its mind and lost its sense of decency.
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But I also want to warn you, when you have to stand for other people's rights, it's going
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It's going to put you in uncomfortable situations and you're going to be defending things that
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And then you have to defend someone's right, even if and maybe perhaps even more so or especially
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I was on the phone last night, almost midnight with a friend who called and said, Glenn, I'm
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And you're the only guy I could call because it sounds like something you would do.
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And I said, then why are you wasting your time calling me?
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There's nothing better than doing what you believe in.
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One mistake and your career, and it's not just this career, it's your career, any career,
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Every day, if you're in the media, you wonder, is this the day that the jackals come to devour
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me for some reason or another, for some past transgression or stupid error?
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Or is it maybe perhaps this monologue that will end my career?
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And if it's not something I've done, it doesn't matter.
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I used to be the only guy I knew that needed to have security.
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I have many friends now who have constant threats on their life.
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I want to talk about Gavin McGinnis here in a second.
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But Gavin, CRTV, not the Blaze Media, not Glenn Beck.
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This was an old thing that CRTV had been dealing with.
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And it's certainly not the way I would have handled it.
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And it's something we recorded last week about the dangers of getting fired.
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Now, why, if I had something to do with his termination, would I have him scheduled?
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Because this is something important we should be talking about.
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So after we recorded that last week, I talked to him.
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I said, I'm worried about your family because they've had more than bricks through windows.
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I told him I wanted him to reach out to a few of my friends who could advise him on safety.
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Because whatever you think of people like this Heisman Trophy winner or Gavin McGinnis, I don't know him.
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And notice that I use the word needs him to be.
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Because people who wish to destroy us, they need boogeymen.
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They need those men who have said or done something in the past that you're not going to like.
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Because anyone who is building their life around spreading chaos.
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Is on the opposite side of anyone who preaches forgiveness.
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So the left targets and isolates and polarizes and destroys anyone who will not comply.
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And they can pick voices off one by one because fear is a very powerful gag.
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Now it's easy for anyone to say, well, then don't pick the voices that have done something or said something stupid to be out front.
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Because I think when they were going over the Heisman Trophy winner, I think they probably looked into, is this a decent young man?
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No, apparently he's not, according to USA Today.
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Because their crack reporters have so much, with everything that's happening in the world, they've got a crack reporter who's on the case.
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I found out what this kid was doing in junior high.
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My gosh, he was also kissing girls out back when he told his parents he wasn't.
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That man was commingling with communists, you know.
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He was sleeping with women other than his wife.
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You know, he lived in Hollywood and he was divorced.
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You only know that because he was on the wrong side.
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it doesn't, isn't radical enough or communist enough.
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well, then they'll reveal who that man really was.
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decides she was suddenly for this capitalist Trump.
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The shareholders are going to be screaming bloody murder.
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Meanwhile, I hated sticking up for either side.
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I stood with James Gunn, who personally cost me a great deal.
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Because what he said that started this whole thing,
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he said against a very good friend of mine, Ben Shapiro.
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What he said in a video that was taped, you know, years in the past,
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what he said in jokes and as a comedy writer and provocateur was indefensible to me personally.
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So again, I get kicked in the head from both sides.
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I'm going to continue to do what I believe is right.
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Who gave me the right to judge and condemn and then keep them down,
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Who made any organizations on the left or right God?
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Currently, it's a co-chair position between Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Jack from Twitter.
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We have lost our minds and we're losing our rights.
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But that's what always happens when people lose their God.
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Speech is not free if a minority of very vocal activists can not only shut it down in individuals,
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Honestly, in my younger days, I would have been much worse than...
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I would have done many things that these people are...
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In my 20s and 30s, I would have gone the opposite direction that society told me to go.
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In defiance alone, I would have said everything they told me not to say.
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But we get to do it because we dream and we rebel.
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And everyone who tells us we can't do it, we shouldn't do it, it's crazy.
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Freedom of speech in this country has a very long history.
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I stand with the outcast and the oddballs and the misfits.
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I seek out the newly humbled and those who need forgiveness because in the end, I need forgiveness.
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So, real quick, I live in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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And I was listening to your segment about the Tyler Perry Challenge and your experience this past weekend at Walmart.
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And as I was listening to it, you finished your segment, and I looked up, and there was the Walmart.
01:46:07.660
I had an amount of money that I thought that I could, that I wanted to donate to somebody.
01:46:14.760
So, I found the layaway counter, got in this long line.
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I was thinking, oh, this is going to take a little bit.
01:46:25.080
So, I started talking to him about the Tyler Perry Challenge and if he had heard about it.
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And I said, well, I was just listening to Glenn Beck.
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And I said, yeah, I was listening to Glenn Beck.
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And I said, how much do you owe for your payoff?
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And he told me the amount, and it was within $2 of the amount that I had in my head.
01:46:46.920
So, I reached into my pocket, pulled out the money, and I said, here, I want to pay off your layaway.
01:46:56.320
He just, he was speechless for like 30 seconds and he was like, you're listening to Glenn Beck?
01:47:06.280
He said, I've been, I put this stuff on layaway for my kids and I'm here to pick it up.
01:47:14.720
And the feeling that I felt in my chest was incredible.
01:47:20.220
And that was one of the reasons I pulled over because I had that same feeling listening to you
01:47:25.180
reiterate your experience at Walmart with your kids.
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Today's the last day you could do it, at least at Walmart.
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But you could find another place with layaway, I'm sure.
01:47:41.620
But everybody has to have it paid off by today.
01:47:52.700
So, if you don't know what the Tyler Perry challenge is, he went into two Walmarts on
01:48:10.540
I was going to say that was a really good bargain for $470,000.
01:48:20.080
Uh, and, uh, so, and I had never thought of that.
01:48:26.980
And Tyler Perry is, you know, getting some heat, you know, oh, how come you, you know,
01:48:36.000
And I think, too, he intended on doing it anonymously initially.
01:48:39.240
And I don't know exactly what happened where he was outed in some way.
01:48:43.400
If it's happening like it happened with me, you're there for two hours.
01:48:47.560
Um, and so I decided, I talked to my wife and we decided that we were going to do, um,
01:48:55.820
And so we selected a Walmart and we went in on Saturday night and we paid for everything
01:49:01.640
Well, they started getting, when you do that, it will send, we didn't know this until about,
01:49:09.340
you know, a third of the way in, it starts sending out text messages.
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And so people started calling and they were confused and they were like, what, what is,
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And, uh, they said, oh, we had a good Samaritan.
01:49:28.760
And people were crying and call, I mean, it was, is so great.
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Now I didn't know that you could do it for individuals, but you can, you can go in and
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just for whatever amount you want, you can, you can, you know, you could, uh, try to gather
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as many hundred dollar bills as you can from every friend that, you know, and go in and
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pay a good portion of, of, uh, this down for people.
01:50:08.060
The people that I encountered that I saw because I was there doing the transactions because I
01:50:20.120
And so I saw some of the people and their reactions.
01:50:33.720
And I've decided to get involved in the challenge, um, by putting on layaway, a bunch of big screen
01:50:42.040
Um, my thought is I'm going to get some free stuff out of this and they'll feel better
01:50:47.920
because if they go into a, if they go into a Walmart and they pay off all the layaway
01:50:52.020
and it's like, Oh, Oh, we only had $27 of layaway.
01:50:54.960
They're not going to feel like they did enough.
01:50:57.560
And so you need someone to step in like me to load it up with some 4k so that if they pay
01:51:03.560
these, these TVs off, I'll get them and they'll be like, wow, I did something good.
01:51:08.360
I don't know how you feel about this, but I, I thought about asking, okay, so are there
01:51:16.620
things like, you know, big screen TVs and things like that, that people put on layaway
01:51:24.140
And I decided not to ask cause I didn't want, I didn't want to pick and choose cause you
01:51:31.360
And, uh, I mean, you could have done maybe under a dollar amount, right?
01:51:36.260
Like if someone has a thousand dollar thing, uh, somebody had a very expensive, uh, thing
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I only saw it cause I didn't know what anybody was buying.
01:51:44.660
I just saw the price and it was, it was expensive.
01:51:48.540
Uh, but it turned out to be a box of, they had six children and so it was a box of, of toys
01:52:00.500
So they had put, you know, their six children and it was a single mom.
01:52:04.380
I mean, so you couldn't, I, I just didn't want to know.
01:52:07.240
No, you just, I mean, it's better if you could do it.
01:52:09.520
Obviously look, you've, you've been, uh, blessed with, uh, being able to help people like that,
01:52:14.180
which is have, and there's been years when we needed help and it might change again.
01:52:19.320
So we, it's just, I, I encourage you to do this.
01:52:23.020
You don't, I, I don't even know if you can just call them and do it, but it's a good
01:52:29.680
You can just go in with five bucks or 20 or a hundred or whatever.
01:52:39.280
Um, but what I want you to do is, uh, uh, is, is call Walmart or go buy Walmart or another
01:52:55.780
I prefer to think of you in sort of the caricature of a devil, um, with satanic horns, um, out
01:53:06.940
This does not help my vision and I reject it for that reason.
01:53:21.020
You can, you can hear all this crap and then still hate my guts.
01:53:25.120
I guess I could just give credit to Tanya for the wonderful gesture and then.
01:53:34.660
If he really wanted to do it, he would be quiet about it.
01:53:37.840
I've always, that's such a strange argument to me because I mean, certainly like that's
01:53:44.540
I mean, we certainly can look at the Bible and see examples of, right.
01:53:48.020
Of if you're doing it for self aggrandizement, it's not a good idea.
01:53:52.920
So that's what I, cause I, I wrestled with this because Tyler Perry inspired me.
01:54:04.860
And so he inspired me and I'm like, he didn't say anything.
01:54:10.120
And so I hope the same thing I'm telling you the girls behind the counter, one of the
01:54:15.880
girls, I don't want to say which one she had worked at, she had worked there for a long
01:54:25.280
And, um, uh, one of them, we were just talking about how they were, um, you know, in, in different
01:54:37.540
And one of them had worked at Walmart, I think for like 17 years and, or 20 years.
01:54:43.520
And, um, she started when she was young and she was living in her car and she just needed
01:54:54.020
And, uh, Walmart, you know, paid well and had great benefits and everything else.
01:55:00.520
And now she's a, you know, I don't know if, you know, she's on, you know, first name basis
01:55:07.720
What Mart, but, uh, she's a, you know, she's a big deal there.
01:55:11.620
And, um, and she's still, I mean, she carries it with her and each of the girls that were
01:55:21.200
I had been in that situation and it was so cool that, I mean, they said we should have
01:55:26.420
made this into a TV show because it's just in, it's just infectious.
01:55:47.120
You, you, you will, you'll feast on it for days.
01:55:53.880
You say, I will say that's always a, you know, I, I'm a big believer that everything that
01:56:00.500
Um, uh, this is a nine grand sort of, uh, I just think it's virtue.
01:56:09.120
No, um, I think, because I think that's how we're built.
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When you serve people, you leave there feeling better.
01:56:17.760
I don't know what it is, but I think it's a God thing.
01:56:21.880
We were designed to help each other and we lose our way and we start becoming depressed
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and we start just thinking about us and all of our problems.
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And the best way to cure all that is to serve other people.
01:56:35.580
And it sounds horrible and I never want to do it.
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I'm on my way to, you know, Hey, you know, so-and-so needs help at their house.
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But I own a couple of pawn shops in the central Texas region.
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And if you really, really want to touch people that are, you talk about struggling, trying
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to make it, live it on the edge, that's where those people are.
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So how do you, I've, I've, I've not done any business with a pawn shop before.
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Um, so is it just, they, they sell, they just sell their stuff and they're hoping that
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Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I, I want, you know, everybody to come buy this stuff.
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So, um, so when you go in, you can say, I don't want to buy any of this.
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And then you would call the, the owner of that and say, Hey, come get your stuff.
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I mean, um, uh, cause that's, that is, uh, where people are shopping that really don't
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You know, there was, uh, uh, as I was at this Walmart.
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Uh, that I went to, um, it was the one that, you know, is, you know, relatively close to
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these are struggling and they were like, Oh my gosh, these are struggling people.
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And afterwards I said, we're in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
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She said where, you know, socks are on layaway.
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And the people in these areas, they'll go to these, these places where they're, they can
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get free toys for their kids, but they're all used.
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And she said, I had to do it with my kids once.
02:01:48.540
And she said, they're just, you can't, I mean, you just can't, they're, you can't even use
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We just, we just need to see the need around us and do what we can in the holiday season.
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