The Glenn Beck Program - Trump Rejects Disastrous COVID Bill and Demands More Money for Americans

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00:00:22.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:30.000 It is Festivus time for airing of the grievances.

00:00:36.300 Oh yeah, I am looking at you swamp dwellers.

00:00:39.100 Oh, and how you and I can help Glenn to help small business owners.

00:00:42.500 That's next on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:45.760 It's Jeff Katz in today for my friend Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:00:50.680 Oh my goodness, yes.

00:00:52.760 Festivus, completely and totally made up.

00:00:54.580 I get it.

00:00:55.060 But at the very core, was that not one of the truest, the most real sorts of expressions?

00:01:03.360 I got problems with you people.

00:01:06.160 I got problems with a lot of you people.

00:01:08.800 Yeah, I'm looking at those people in D.C.

00:01:10.900 Look, last night, President Trump did something that nobody expected him to do.

00:01:19.660 Remember yesterday, what we were talking a little bit about?

00:01:21.620 Ah, we're all going to get $600.

00:01:23.280 Isn't that wonderful?

00:01:24.600 Yeah, $600.

00:01:26.360 Nobody's been able to work properly for, what, 10 months?

00:01:29.680 Remember now, we're 10 months into the two-week flattening the curve.

00:01:35.980 How flat does this curve need to get?

00:01:39.320 I don't know.

00:01:40.460 I'm not an expert in curves, and I'm certainly not an expert in flattening them.

00:01:45.400 But 10 months.

00:01:46.940 And for 10 months, what have we heard?

00:01:48.860 You are a bad person.

00:01:50.900 Oh no, it has been directed towards you and me.

00:01:54.620 Fundamentally, anybody who is not an elected leftist or just a pontificating leftist.

00:02:01.840 They're all pontificating, but you get what I'm saying.

00:02:03.800 Unless you're an uber leftist who has gone in on the idea of, yep, we're all going to

00:02:09.940 hide under our beds, and we'll come out when we are told to come out.

00:02:14.200 Look, my parents tried this curfew thing when I was like 16.

00:02:18.040 You got to be home by 10.

00:02:20.040 All right, 10-10.

00:02:21.780 10-15?

00:02:23.040 11-22.

00:02:23.980 That's it, 11-22.

00:02:25.480 And if you're not, it didn't work then.

00:02:27.600 And I'm in a place, I should remind you, here in central Virginia.

00:02:32.440 It's a beautiful area.

00:02:35.740 Marvelous people.

00:02:36.900 But man, have we got a wingnut for a governor.

00:02:40.980 And what's weird about it, I think it's like a lot of other states around the country.

00:02:46.180 We've got this little chunk of Virginia.

00:02:48.960 And it's right outside of Washington, D.C.

00:02:51.940 And you know who lives there?

00:02:53.460 Everybody who works in Washington, D.C.

00:02:56.420 Everybody who is, I swear to you, a major part of what President Trump called the swamp.

00:03:04.240 These are the swamp dwellers.

00:03:06.460 They go to D.C., they spend other people's money, and then they come back to northern Virginia.

00:03:12.500 All right, listen.

00:03:13.100 Listen, I want them to live long, happy, healthy lives.

00:03:16.520 I really do.

00:03:16.900 I wish that for everybody.

00:03:17.940 I'm at a point in my life where it's like, yeah, it takes a lot of effort to hate somebody.

00:03:23.340 Oh, I could dislike you intently.

00:03:24.880 That's easy.

00:03:25.500 Boom.

00:03:26.160 But hate, that's just, I got to work at that.

00:03:30.400 And you got to get up early.

00:03:32.060 You might have to put on the new, clean pair of sweatpants.

00:03:34.720 So I can't be bothered hating people.

00:03:36.860 But I'm telling you, oh, I dislike them.

00:03:39.600 Dislike them a lot.

00:03:40.480 And they're all just situated right there around Washington, D.C.

00:03:44.980 But they make the decisions, right?

00:03:48.020 The rest of us in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we're all sort of spread out.

00:03:51.940 Ah, you got half an acre.

00:03:53.260 You got an acre.

00:03:53.920 You got 10 acres.

00:03:55.400 Somebody else has a farm.

00:03:57.100 And that's kind of where I live in this area, Hanover County, which is beautiful.

00:04:01.620 It's the quintessential America.

00:04:05.580 There are farms here.

00:04:07.120 Now, look, I told you, I'm a city kid.

00:04:08.960 I grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia.

00:04:11.200 I just always believed that meat came in shrink wrap and styrofoam.

00:04:18.880 That was, yeah.

00:04:22.600 So here's the deal.

00:04:25.860 I get out here.

00:04:27.380 And I'm amongst people who, among other things, know how to, they really know how to hunt.

00:04:32.160 They can make their own food.

00:04:33.220 They can take care of themselves.

00:04:34.200 I thought, yeah, I like this.

00:04:36.020 I mean, I don't know how to do any of that stuff, but I like being around people that do.

00:04:39.820 But those people in Northern Virginia keep voting.

00:04:43.240 Well, for people like them.

00:04:44.960 Far left wing people who firmly believe.

00:04:47.940 And I do mean firmly believe that the answer to everything is more government.

00:04:57.320 Remember back when that was a big debate?

00:05:00.240 Well, if you're on the right, you say, I think our fundamental default position is let's try that dreaded private sector.

00:05:09.160 It seems like there are a lot of people who do business, and they kind of figured out how to help people along the way.

00:05:14.980 Okay.

00:05:15.560 And then the left was like, no, no, no.

00:05:17.400 It's got to be more from the government.

00:05:19.120 So that was the fundamental disagreement.

00:05:22.260 But now it's just gone off the rails.

00:05:25.400 So we get $600, we're told.

00:05:28.480 How many people were excited about it?

00:05:29.960 How many people had already spent the $600?

00:05:32.120 I'm going to tell you right now, most people, most people around this country, if you believe the media, if you believe the leftists, I repeat myself there, but if you believe them, yeah, $600 was great.

00:05:50.100 And then President Trump stood up and said, okay, hang on a second here.

00:05:55.300 Now, let me see if I understand this correctly.

00:05:58.880 You are calling this 5,600-page bill the COVID relief bill.

00:06:09.280 Okay.

00:06:10.480 So how come we're sending $85 million to Cambodia?

00:06:17.200 I have nothing against Cambodia, but I don't live there, and I don't know why $85 million is going there.

00:06:24.580 How about $134 million to Burma?

00:06:28.880 Now, quick question for you.

00:06:31.100 Can you find Burma on a map?

00:06:34.600 I've got a general idea.

00:06:36.240 I'm not going to sit here and lecture.

00:06:39.000 I've told you.

00:06:39.800 I'm the only person in the room, and I'm still not the smartest guy in the room.

00:06:44.660 So I looked at a map.

00:06:48.540 Somewhere over here.

00:06:50.480 I'd probably be close, but I don't know that I could pick it out on a map.

00:06:53.900 $1.3 billion for Egypt and the Egyptian military, which we're told, according to President Trump, will probably be used to buy Russian military equipment.

00:07:10.080 Pakistan, don't know what's going on over in Pakistan, but they are getting $25 million for, quote, democracy and gender programs.

00:07:23.180 Can you explain them?

00:07:24.580 Because I can't.

00:07:25.760 How about Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama?

00:07:32.260 That's $505 million going to those countries.

00:07:37.140 And you want to hear one of the kickers?

00:07:39.180 The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

00:07:42.100 Now, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. is, as I understand it, a lovely place.

00:07:47.460 Marvelous shows and presentations.

00:07:49.760 I've never been.

00:07:51.300 I have friends who have gone, and they say, oh, my gosh, Jeff, you've got to go to the Kennedy Center.

00:07:55.760 Gorgeous.

00:07:56.320 Absolutely gorgeous.

00:07:57.320 Okay.

00:07:58.080 They're picking up $40 million.

00:07:59.920 Now, here's the problem with that.

00:08:01.820 They're not even open for business.

00:08:04.900 How about the Smithsonian?

00:08:06.800 I don't think they're open.

00:08:07.880 A billion dollars for them, $154 million for the National Gallery of Art.

00:08:17.280 And, again, these are places that are not open.

00:08:21.780 But you think that that's it?

00:08:24.220 That's it, right, Jeff?

00:08:25.280 Come on.

00:08:25.720 All right.

00:08:26.140 All right.

00:08:26.400 We'll just deal with it because I want my $600.

00:08:29.540 I need it.

00:08:31.120 See, if you want it, that's one thing.

00:08:33.200 I'll tell you right now, I want somebody to give me money.

00:08:36.320 But I don't need it.

00:08:38.040 I'm blessed to say that.

00:08:40.260 Right?

00:08:40.660 I'm still going to be able to pay the bills.

00:08:43.060 We still went out and purchased Hanukkah gifts and Christmas presents.

00:08:50.940 And we paid for them.

00:08:53.040 Paid for them.

00:08:54.980 So I am, again, like I've said in the past, oh, I'm lucky.

00:08:59.780 I'm fortunate.

00:09:00.500 I think, no.

00:09:01.260 Listen, Jeff, please.

00:09:02.700 It's a little too much credit for you, dude.

00:09:04.660 I'm blessed.

00:09:05.480 I know there are other people that are going, no, man, I need that $600.

00:09:11.040 I can't pay my rent because I can't work.

00:09:13.820 All right.

00:09:14.160 Well, you need it.

00:09:15.800 And I want you to have the opportunity to make way more than $600.

00:09:20.720 But let me get back to the president.

00:09:22.220 You ready for this?

00:09:23.000 $7 million for reef fish management.

00:09:26.100 I don't know what a reef fish is.

00:09:28.260 And I don't know why we need managers for them.

00:09:30.980 $25 billion to combat Asian carp and $2.5 million to count, count the number of amberjack fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

00:09:45.140 Now, we've got, what, 19 million Americans who are out of work right now?

00:09:52.760 Don't you think?

00:09:53.860 I mean, if we're going to go and have this project, we've got to count the amberjack fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

00:09:59.280 Why?

00:10:00.380 Well, because we don't know how many there are.

00:10:02.540 Okay, how do we count them?

00:10:04.840 I don't know.

00:10:05.900 Are we going to need people?

00:10:07.360 Probably.

00:10:08.800 Can we hire some of the 19, 20 million unemployed Americans to go and count the amberjack fish in the Gulf of Mexico?

00:10:17.640 I mean, it's just an idea.

00:10:19.380 It's just an idea.

00:10:22.920 President Trump also said the bill also allows stimulus checks for the family members of illegal aliens,

00:10:30.740 allowing them to get up to $1,800 each.

00:10:34.620 And this is far more than the Americans are given.

00:10:37.620 Despite all of this wasteful spending and much more, the $900 billion package provides hardworking taxpayers with only $600 each.

00:10:50.560 Wow.

00:10:51.980 President Trump says, you people go back.

00:10:54.920 You go back to the table.

00:10:57.880 I'm not signing this garbage.

00:10:59.700 And if you do want me to sign it, you've got to go back and give each American $2,000.

00:11:09.040 Well, I suppose it's a start, right?

00:11:12.140 You and I need to analyze that for sure.

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00:11:45.880 It is Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

00:11:48.740 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:11:57.040 Jeff Katz in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:01.120 Yeah, airing of the grievances.

00:12:02.720 Look, it's about what's being done.

00:12:05.660 It's about how it's being done.

00:12:07.640 And it's about what you and I do or do not wind up doing on our end.

00:12:12.040 President Trump has fought for us for four years.

00:12:17.320 And I tell you, just like Glenn, I was late to the party.

00:12:21.480 I really was.

00:12:23.220 I remember when Donald Trump came down that big escalator at Trump Tower

00:12:27.060 and announced that he was running for president.

00:12:29.900 Like a lot of people, I went,

00:12:31.140 Nah.

00:12:32.580 No.

00:12:33.920 How's he going to run for president?

00:12:35.060 He's not a politician.

00:12:36.060 How is he going to run for president?

00:12:38.960 He's not a politician.

00:12:42.000 And it took me quite a while to figure out that's how and why he's running for president.

00:12:48.840 And over the last four years, as I've watched and listened, read,

00:12:54.940 so many folks beating the man up.

00:12:57.420 And I mean beating him viciously.

00:13:00.160 I found myself defending him.

00:13:02.700 And I didn't think I would.

00:13:03.640 Now, was it everything?

00:13:05.040 No, look, I'm a father of three kids.

00:13:08.300 And my two sons, I hope, I pray, I'm raising properly, teaching them to do this and not to do that.

00:13:17.000 And I got to tell you, in all candor, some of the president's tweets, man, just rubbed me the wrong way.

00:13:23.380 Like, I don't want that.

00:13:24.400 But some of the ways he spoke, I wasn't crazy about.

00:13:28.780 Well, then I realized, Jeff, take a look at the mirror.

00:13:32.700 Perfect?

00:13:33.760 No.

00:13:34.560 Close to perfect?

00:13:35.580 Eh, not so much.

00:13:36.640 It's the same thing for the president.

00:13:40.320 And then you watch him.

00:13:42.040 You listen to him.

00:13:44.180 You read his words and you go, oh, I get it.

00:13:48.420 I get it.

00:13:49.500 Not capable of being bought off.

00:13:52.240 Not beholden to those in the swamp.

00:13:55.320 Trump, that's why he can do this stuff.

00:13:59.180 That's why he does what he does.

00:14:01.140 And that is why they hate him.

00:14:05.340 They want him gone.

00:14:07.340 Now, January the 6th seems to be the next opportunity for President Trump to be returned to the Oval Office, to be re-elected.

00:14:19.780 Right?

00:14:19.980 That's the day that all of these electoral ballots from all over the country come into Congress.

00:14:26.040 And you need one member of Congress on the House side and one member of Congress on the Senate side.

00:14:32.280 And all they've got to do is stand up and say, hey, hey, hey, we're objecting to some of this stuff.

00:14:37.260 And it's not for all of the states.

00:14:39.520 It's for those four states.

00:14:41.400 Four states where there's all this talk about fraud and mail-in balloting being abused.

00:14:47.940 Look, I don't have the answers for that.

00:14:50.680 But I want them.

00:14:52.700 And I'm not telling you that the election went this way, that way, the other way.

00:14:57.080 I'm just saying I'm sitting here as an adult, as a grown man.

00:15:01.460 And I grew up in Philadelphia.

00:15:03.260 If you're telling me that everything was above board in Philadelphia in this election,

00:15:09.020 then I am here to tell you that was the first time in 100 years.

00:15:14.540 So why not examine all of this stuff?

00:15:17.320 Why not take a look at it?

00:15:19.700 And at the same time, take a look at what President Trump, at least in theory, in his final 30 days in office is trying to do.

00:15:26.900 And that's going back to these pinheads and saying, all right, you're giving all this money to Burma.

00:15:35.380 You're giving billions of dollars for the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art and the Kennedy Center.

00:15:42.140 They're not even open.

00:15:43.740 How much does it take to go in there once a week, mop the floors?

00:15:48.360 There are no people that are going there.

00:15:50.820 It's all closed.

00:15:52.080 So how or why are you going to spend that kind of money?

00:15:57.000 And the President says, look, if you are going to do that, here's what I want you to do.

00:16:01.060 I want you to be sure that the American people are going to get at least $2,000 per person.

00:16:09.000 Is it enough?

00:16:10.520 Is it the right amount?

00:16:12.340 No.

00:16:13.380 None of this is the right amount.

00:16:14.620 That's the whole point.

00:16:15.420 We've got this beautiful economy that's been shut down.

00:16:20.320 American entrepreneurs thrown under the bus.

00:16:26.320 And then what do we do?

00:16:28.360 Oh, send them some money.

00:16:30.620 They'll shut up.

00:16:31.860 So President Trump says, look, go back there.

00:16:35.020 Fix this.

00:16:36.980 Provide more money for the American people.

00:16:39.740 Maybe I'll sign it.

00:16:41.960 January the 6th, one congressman, one senator, will they stand up?

00:16:47.800 Vice President Mike Pence apparently will decide what is or is not going to happen at that point.

00:16:55.380 Now, Mike Pence is an honorable man.

00:16:57.940 I'm going to just tell you that right now.

00:17:00.100 Mike Pence and I were talk show hosts together a thousand years ago.

00:17:04.000 Little baby talk show hosts.

00:17:05.200 And then we were watered and taken care of.

00:17:08.020 And Mike Pence obviously went on to achieve greater things than I did.

00:17:12.840 But that's not the point.

00:17:14.640 He's a good guy.

00:17:16.540 I know Mike Pence to be an honorable, decent, upstanding man.

00:17:21.800 And I expect nothing from him except the truth and a big dose of honesty come January the 6th.

00:17:30.740 Now, we need to talk about that.

00:17:32.280 And if you have been on glennbeck.com, and I hope you have, you've read about Glenn's efforts to help some of the small business owners in America.

00:17:42.940 We can't help everybody, right?

00:17:44.860 You and I can do it in our local basement.

00:17:48.600 Get out of that basement.

00:17:51.500 Go and visit the businesses if they're open.

00:17:53.480 If you're still stuck in the basement, well, how about a GoFundMe?

00:17:57.260 Pretty doggone easy.

00:17:58.320 So, we're going to be talking about that.

00:18:01.840 And I want to ask you one other thing.

00:18:03.940 If you're talking about small business, and we keep talking about small business, and we use it as a throwaway line,

00:18:09.140 I keep asking people to say, well, why don't we talk about local instead?

00:18:13.760 Because behind every single small business, there are real honest-to-goodness people.

00:18:19.700 And you know New York?

00:18:22.320 New York has now decided we're going to put the Uber and Lyft drivers out of work.

00:18:29.900 Why?

00:18:31.060 Well, we're going to put them out of work to help them by imposing wage standards, even though it'll make them unemployed.

00:18:39.160 Insanity.

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00:18:43.700 Jeff Katz in for Glenn today.

00:18:45.340 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:46.240 Jeff Katz in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:52.620 President Trump says, I'm not signing it.

00:18:54.460 I'm not signing it.

00:18:55.540 No deal.

00:18:56.940 600 bucks per person?

00:18:58.340 Forget about it.

00:18:58.920 You take all the money you're wasting on buildings that are not open.

00:19:01.960 You take that money that you sent into some country nobody has visited, because we can't travel.

00:19:08.240 Because we can't go anywhere.

00:19:09.820 And you give that to the American people.

00:19:11.580 That's it.

00:19:12.820 You want this deal done?

00:19:13.820 And all of you politicos got all excited.

00:19:15.980 Well, we made a deal.

00:19:17.480 Nancy Pelosi jumped right off of Broomstick 1 and said, we got a deal.

00:19:21.260 Now, she was so excited about $600.

00:19:24.340 And at the same moment, she said that.

00:19:26.600 I'm thinking, wait a minute.

00:19:27.780 Didn't you just jump up and down and complain when there was opportunity for people to have $1,000, $1,600 tax benefits?

00:19:39.200 Trump!

00:19:39.520 Oh, okay.

00:19:40.960 Gotcha.

00:19:42.060 Mitch McConnell.

00:19:43.780 Well, Joe Biden's the president.

00:19:45.100 I'm looking forward to having bourbon with him again.

00:19:47.160 When did you stop having bourbon with him?

00:19:48.900 Trump's the old.

00:19:49.780 It's like the odd guy out going, no.

00:19:52.640 Whether I'm here for four years and 30 days or just 30 days, I continue to do what I'm doing on behalf of the American people.

00:20:00.600 New York City decided that drivers for Lyft have to be paid a minimum wage.

00:20:06.500 Now, the problem with this is that those drivers are not employees of Lyft.

00:20:11.020 The drivers are people who say, okay, I got a car.

00:20:14.800 I've got a license.

00:20:16.900 I want to make some money.

00:20:18.920 And Lyft says, you got it.

00:20:20.100 We got a couple of standards.

00:20:21.780 You meet those.

00:20:23.040 You can be part of our platform.

00:20:25.620 So you know what happened?

00:20:26.840 Taxi and Limousine Commission said $17 an hour.

00:20:33.320 Okay.

00:20:34.140 You know what happened to Lyft?

00:20:36.420 We don't need you anymore.

00:20:40.080 Maine imposed an $18 per hour minimum wage.

00:20:42.920 You know what businesses did?

00:20:44.100 Said, thanks, we got to go.

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00:20:49.420 Remember, you've got to read glennbeck.com and theblaze.com.

00:20:53.180 And if you want to send me some email, I'm always happy to take a look at that.

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00:21:05.140 Jerry is in Ohio.

00:21:06.560 Hey, Jerry.

00:21:07.520 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:21:09.720 Thank you, Jeff.

00:21:10.960 I want to compliment you.

00:21:12.500 It's Idaho, not Iowa.

00:21:14.700 I said Idaho.

00:21:16.180 I'm from Philadelphia, Jeff.

00:21:18.160 That's a legend.

00:21:19.140 I, and there you go.

00:21:20.780 I got you.

00:21:21.960 Hey, thank you, man.

00:21:23.100 You're a true hero.

00:21:24.100 I love to listen to the radio.

00:21:26.440 I served during Vietnam and I've been a professor for many years.

00:21:30.800 And I'm ashamed of what has happened in our country.

00:21:34.760 I do have a question for you, but I want to compliment you.

00:21:37.480 The facts you're sharing with everyone, everyone, I just can't imagine people listen to this and say,

00:21:42.880 ah, whatever.

00:21:44.200 You know, I just can't imagine that people can just put this off and not listen to it

00:21:50.120 and not want to do something to help our country.

00:21:52.900 Yep.

00:21:53.040 What we're experiencing right now is godlessness and cowardice.

00:21:56.460 The same kind of cowardice who ran away from the service in Vietnam and then got amnesty.

00:22:01.340 And don't forget those cowards.

00:22:03.000 And a lot of them are still alive and doing their dirty deeds today.

00:22:07.120 But here's my specific question for you.

00:22:09.200 Maybe you can answer it.

00:22:10.480 There are a lot of people in this country who came from other countries.

00:22:13.940 They started businesses.

00:22:15.680 They work by themselves.

00:22:16.680 They don't have employees.

00:22:18.220 And the government offers them during the coronavirus to shut down, to limit their services.

00:22:23.520 And then guess what?

00:22:24.600 They get nothing.

00:22:25.800 All they get offered is a crappy loan.

00:22:28.280 They're already in debt.

00:22:29.920 Yeah.

00:22:31.360 They're already in debt.

00:22:32.480 They get offered zero.

00:22:34.280 Nothing.

00:22:35.320 Except a lousy loan from a bank that's going to screw them.

00:22:39.220 Thanks, Jeff, for your work.

00:22:41.120 Maybe you could answer that for me, and maybe saying it on the radio might inspire the government to help these people.

00:22:47.520 Well, Jerry, I appreciate it.

00:22:48.700 Thank you, my friend.

00:22:49.420 I appreciate the kind words, and thank you for calling the Glenn Beck Program of Answers.

00:22:53.280 You know, this is a problem.

00:22:53.900 I don't have answers.

00:22:55.400 I've got a lot of questions.

00:22:57.060 That's what I do.

00:22:57.720 I ask questions.

00:22:58.320 Well, I ask questions, and then I complain about the questions I asked.

00:23:02.460 Right?

00:23:02.800 That's my job.

00:23:04.120 People far smarter than I am are supposed to come up with the answers.

00:23:06.900 But how do you do that?

00:23:07.580 How do you say to the business, look, we're shutting you down,

00:23:10.280 and, well, that's it.

00:23:13.020 You figure it out from there, because that's what's going on.

00:23:16.500 Michael in Ohio, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:23:21.160 Morning, Jeff.

00:23:21.860 How are we doing?

00:23:22.660 I am fine, thank you, sir.

00:23:26.820 Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment here for all the listeners out there that are paying attention,

00:23:30.620 and why none of the Republicans are backing Mr. Trump, or President Trump, that is,

00:23:36.060 is because when Trump was going for re-election, he decided to mention the word term limits.

00:23:42.420 And according to McConnell, that will destroy their careers if they stand up against him on January 1st.

00:23:50.320 So, let me put that in your thoughts there a little bit, that he wasn't, when he said term limits,

00:23:58.140 he pretty much already guaranteed him not to be re-elected, which he should be.

00:24:02.520 He's a great man.

00:24:04.000 He's serving us the people.

00:24:06.060 Michael, you're exactly right.

00:24:07.920 And you talk about politicians having careers.

00:24:10.700 The careers that these folks are supposed to have are at home, in their hometowns.

00:24:15.640 We were always this citizen legislature, right?

00:24:20.060 Decent people like you said, look, I'm working hard, I'm providing for my family,

00:24:24.700 but I've got to look at the bigger picture.

00:24:26.080 I've got to help my country.

00:24:27.200 So, for two years, if you're in Congress, I'm going to go, I'm going to go back and forth,

00:24:31.960 I'm going to help the people.

00:24:33.580 It wasn't a career.

00:24:34.960 In fact, it was an inconvenience and a pain in the tuchus, as we used to say in my neighborhood.

00:24:39.940 It was a pain, but you did it because you loved this country and you wanted the right thing for it.

00:24:44.100 But now we've got so many of these bottom feeders, they get to Washington, D.C.,

00:24:49.520 they look at these brand-new cufflinks with a special seal,

00:24:53.480 and they know they've got a special subway they can ride on,

00:24:56.580 and there's all sorts of special privileges, and they go, ha-ha-ha, this is it.

00:25:00.860 I don't ever want to leave.

00:25:02.060 And that, Michael, is what the problem is.

00:25:04.060 And I appreciate the call to the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:06.120 Michael is exactly right.

00:25:08.200 You've got people who have made a career out of politics.

00:25:12.240 You notice I didn't say public service because I've got news for you.

00:25:15.140 There are plenty of people in public service in the federal government.

00:25:19.000 I look at my dad.

00:25:19.840 My dad worked for the federal government for 40-plus years.

00:25:24.640 He was a military policeman in the Army, comes out of the Army.

00:25:28.880 He goes to work for my aunt and her husband.

00:25:32.400 They had a toy store.

00:25:33.860 And he goes there, and that was the job that he could get at the time,

00:25:37.220 and so he's working there, and then he applies to work for the federal government.

00:25:44.640 And that's what he does, and that's his career for 40-plus years,

00:25:47.860 and he worked in a variety of different agencies.

00:25:50.160 And I don't honestly know what he did.

00:25:52.740 As a kid, I would tell people, yeah, my dad's a spy.

00:25:56.240 I don't think that was true, but then I'm thinking, well, maybe, but I don't think so.

00:26:01.000 But he worked for the Department of Defense.

00:26:02.880 He worked for the Department of the Army.

00:26:04.200 He was with the Treasury Department.

00:26:06.740 I mean, he was a couple of different places.

00:26:09.100 And you know what?

00:26:10.080 He worked.

00:26:11.260 I mean, he really worked hard.

00:26:13.640 My dad was up at 4 o'clock in the morning, out the door by 5 at the latest,

00:26:19.900 and didn't come home until about 7 o'clock at night.

00:26:22.740 And my dad always left the house with a shirt and a tie,

00:26:30.020 took great pride in his appearance, and he was professional.

00:26:34.560 And he worked for a living.

00:26:36.120 He never took anything.

00:26:37.700 No, that's not true.

00:26:38.500 He used to sometimes come home with pens.

00:26:42.220 Like, you know, you need a pen for school, and,

00:26:44.240 Dad, have you got a pen?

00:26:45.360 Oh, yeah, yeah, here you go.

00:26:46.480 And I'd be looking at it, and he goes,

00:26:47.740 and I would look at it, and I'd go,

00:26:48.340 Oh, property of the U.S. government.

00:26:51.200 But, huh, well, all right, I'm not saying anything.

00:26:53.540 But other than that, he really didn't take anything.

00:26:56.340 And he worked hard.

00:26:57.820 And we understood the importance of hard work.

00:27:00.240 And you know, the thing was,

00:27:02.040 didn't make a lot of money working for the federal government at that time.

00:27:06.860 But there were benefits that were pretty good as far as the free market went.

00:27:15.520 And the most important thing to my dad,

00:27:18.320 when he went to work for the federal government,

00:27:20.260 it was service.

00:27:22.420 It was repaying what this nation had given to our family.

00:27:27.420 Thinking about what this nation has done for your family.

00:27:31.660 And when he went to work for the federal government,

00:27:34.480 there were benefits that would continue for my mom.

00:27:38.560 And that was vitally important for my dad.

00:27:41.480 That he thought, you know what?

00:27:42.960 When I die, I want my wife to be taken care of.

00:27:48.620 And that was a big part of his life.

00:27:52.700 Now, it's funny.

00:27:54.260 I laugh about it.

00:27:55.300 I'm not sure if anybody else will laugh about going to a cemetery.

00:27:57.580 But I've got to tell you this story.

00:27:59.180 So, my dad is buried in the South Florida National Veterans Cemetery.

00:28:05.760 Why?

00:28:07.000 Because he earned it.

00:28:08.180 That's why.

00:28:09.680 And while my dad passed away,

00:28:12.880 my mom had him cremated.

00:28:15.720 And she kept the ashes in the house.

00:28:20.260 And I, God, here I am.

00:28:22.000 I'm an adult man.

00:28:23.260 I'm married with kids.

00:28:24.580 It's like, I don't like that.

00:28:26.080 It was just, I just thought there was something so wrong about that.

00:28:29.140 But that's me.

00:28:30.440 And my mom said, well, what do you want to do?

00:28:32.800 I said, well, you know, he's entitled to be buried at the Veterans Cemetery.

00:28:36.780 So, that's what we did.

00:28:38.560 And so, my dad is buried at South Florida National Veterans Cemetery.

00:28:41.440 And then, about two years ago, my mom passed away.

00:28:45.840 And I know you're thinking, Jeff, seriously.

00:28:47.440 You're like bumming us out behind nobody's business.

00:28:49.860 But listen to me.

00:28:51.040 So, my mom passes away.

00:28:52.720 So, of course, she's going to be buried.

00:28:54.540 Next to him.

00:28:56.460 And I said to my brother, I said, you know,

00:28:59.040 you know who is the most upset about mom passing away?

00:29:02.760 And he says, well, you know, we're pretty upset.

00:29:04.860 I said, no, no, that's not us.

00:29:06.400 Well, your kids?

00:29:07.500 No, no, no.

00:29:08.240 I said, it's dad.

00:29:10.500 He said, why?

00:29:11.740 I said, because mom's going to get there.

00:29:14.380 And my father's going to go, oh, my God.

00:29:17.420 Doris is here.

00:29:18.380 And she's going to start complaining.

00:29:20.740 Oh, the view isn't right.

00:29:22.040 What are we looking at?

00:29:23.040 Who are the neighbors?

00:29:24.540 And he's going to think, my gosh, for 18 years, I had peace and quiet.

00:29:28.040 But, hey, great to have you here, right?

00:29:30.960 What do we do?

00:29:32.600 Do we tell President Trump that we're still behind him?

00:29:35.600 I sure hope so.

00:29:36.320 Because it doesn't seem like the professional politicians are doing anything like that.

00:29:40.940 And how can you and I join with Glenn to support small businesses?

00:29:45.920 I'm going to give you the details in a moment.

00:29:47.400 And if you want to be smarter than the rest of us, go to glennbeck.com.

00:29:51.500 And you can read about it right now.

00:29:53.360 888-727-BECK.

00:29:55.280 888-727-BECK.

00:29:57.160 Jeff Katz in for Glenn today.

00:29:58.680 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:01.640 Jeff Katz in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:05.180 What a thrill it is to sit in for Glenn.

00:30:07.160 And I will tell you from the bottom of my heart, I happen to be an unabashed fan of Glenn.

00:30:14.160 I really do.

00:30:14.800 I admire what he's been able to achieve.

00:30:17.940 I'm impressed all the time with what it is that he's been able to overcome and deal with.

00:30:23.540 And I am humbled when I take a look at how Glenn has helped so many people.

00:30:29.820 Now, and I have to share this with you, if you go to glennbeck.com, which, by the way, ought to be a stop for you every single day, multiple times a day.

00:30:42.240 Glenn has posted there a piece talking about small businesses.

00:30:50.260 You and I know small business owners.

00:30:52.080 I mean, you might very well be a small business owner.

00:30:55.180 As I said, it's become my mission.

00:30:57.300 I don't know how successful it's going to be, but it's become my mission to convince people that when we say small business, we also talk about local business.

00:31:06.580 Because it's the same thing, right?

00:31:09.000 That man or woman who owns the car repair shop or the local restaurant or the dry cleaner, they live in your neighborhood.

00:31:17.560 And when we're allowed to live in the real world again, you'll be standing next to them at a high school football game or attending church with them.

00:31:31.320 Well, Glenn has highlighted three of these amazing people at glennbeck.com.

00:31:37.060 A million small businesses, a million local businesses have closed their doors forever.

00:31:46.980 A million businesses.

00:31:48.300 Now, we start doing math and, man, I went to the Philadelphia Public Schools, so that's a challenge.

00:31:54.960 But a million businesses, that means a million people, right?

00:31:58.280 No, it means more than that.

00:32:00.220 Because that business, it starts with an idea.

00:32:04.400 And sometimes it's one person.

00:32:05.920 Sometimes it's a couple.

00:32:08.300 Sometimes it's a couple of friends.

00:32:09.960 But it grows.

00:32:12.420 And if it's done right, when that business owner, that local business owner, the small business owner, starts to have their American dream realized, they help other people achieve their American dream.

00:32:25.320 And a couple of examples.

00:32:27.020 Catherine Hill, owner of Miss Kitty's Lounge in Clovis, California.

00:32:34.140 2013, she opened up that neighborhood bar.

00:32:36.840 Rent was paid on time every single month until, well, until the pandemic struck.

00:32:41.820 August of 2019, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.

00:32:47.560 Underwent six months of chemotherapy, 15 rounds of radiation, a radical mastectomy.

00:32:54.320 She said her battle with cancer has been a tough journey.

00:32:57.520 But she continues to fight.

00:33:00.840 Continues to fight to manage Miss Kitty's.

00:33:04.820 Her bar was closed down by executive order.

00:33:09.260 She has no income.

00:33:10.060 She's not able to pay the rent.

00:33:12.640 And despite the order to suspend evictions in California, her landlords have taken her to court.

00:33:17.460 She says she only has years left in her battle against cancer.

00:33:20.560 But she's worried about the people who work at Miss Kitty's.

00:33:23.800 Joe Crowley, owner of a place called Breakaway.

00:33:27.780 A little bit north of Boston.

00:33:29.960 I know.

00:33:31.100 I mean, I knew Breakaway.

00:33:32.640 Took this run-down building.

00:33:37.080 Turned it into a real destination place.

00:33:41.680 Live bands.

00:33:43.380 My wife, who was obsessed with music.

00:33:46.660 I mean, to a sick degree.

00:33:48.180 But, yeah, there's good people anyway.

00:33:50.640 She's been to Breakaway.

00:33:53.400 He had a massive heart attack.

00:33:55.000 He's in danger of losing everything.

00:33:57.020 Dave Folds, the owner of Crony's Sports Grill.

00:33:59.460 It's the same sort of situation.

00:34:02.020 It's incredible.

00:34:03.360 Please.

00:34:05.180 As we get closer and closer to Christmas, go to glennbeck.com.

00:34:08.800 Read that story and join that GoFundMe.

00:34:11.820 It's Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

00:34:13.340 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:34:15.840 It's Jeff Katz in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:34:45.500 I mentioned Brian Talley.

00:34:49.700 Now, let me explain.

00:34:52.800 Let me explain who and what Brian Talley has done.

00:34:59.060 Brian Talley is a United States Marine.

00:35:03.160 Now, he's not serving in the Corps at the moment, but you never stop being a Marine.

00:35:08.760 And, as a Marine, Brian's sense of duty follows him, defines him.

00:35:17.800 He is the best of the best.

00:35:20.200 So, how does this guy in California hook up with this guy in Central Virginia?

00:35:24.960 Remember, I'm at News Radio WRVA in Richmond, Virginia.

00:35:28.460 Well, I heard about Brian Talley, a mutual friend of ours.

00:35:34.160 Dave Brad, who had been the congressman representing the 7th District of Virginia for a period of time.

00:35:41.140 And he's a good man.

00:35:42.360 Dave is now the dean of the business school out at Liberty University.

00:35:45.740 Well, he's the one who put the two of us together.

00:35:47.480 And now, all I want to do is welcome Brian to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:53.200 And, Brian, I just want you to tell your story, if you don't mind.

00:35:59.400 Hey, good morning, Jeff.

00:36:00.860 Thanks for having me.

00:36:01.980 It is.

00:36:02.460 It's always good to hear your voice, my friend.

00:36:05.100 And rather than have me try and tell your story, you go ahead and do it, okay?

00:36:10.440 Tell me what happened.

00:36:11.360 Sure.

00:36:13.540 So, back in January of 2016, coming up on our five-year anniversary, I fell victim to some pretty egregious VA medical malpractice at the Loma Linda VA in Southern California that nearly killed me.

00:36:31.460 So, delayed and denied care, months of injections, Dilaudid, methocarbamol, Kenalog, and just bags and bags of pills over a four-month period that put me into a whirlwind of nightmares and pain, physical pain, emotional pain, and mental pain.

00:36:55.060 Finally, after months of neglect and malpractice, a private doctor surgeon opened me up in San Diego, found that I had a bone-eating staph infection that was eating me alive.

00:37:09.420 My spinal bone, my disc, my tissue, my nerves, and some of my internal organs, which has left me with permanent pain, permanent injuries stemming from a four-month-long bone-eating staph infection.

00:37:28.060 Like I said, that aggressively ate me alive for a very long period of time, which put me into financial dismay and just fell in, sunk in deeper into a recliner where I would then spend the next three years of my life just completely shaking my head.

00:37:56.820 You know, like, what in the hell has just happened to me?

00:37:59.540 One day you're living the American dream, and the next you're just trying to pick up the pieces, trying to be strong for your four kids, a wife of over 20 years, and a guy who, you know, once owned a small business, was a successful entrepreneur.

00:38:13.740 And then, you know, the next, I'm just trying to figure out what the hell had hit me.

00:38:22.380 Yeah.

00:38:22.440 Well, one of the things that you did, Brian, and I want people to understand the tally bill.

00:38:29.740 When I say rally around tally, we're going to take that through a couple of stages.

00:38:34.220 But, Brian, I want you to share with everyone, everyone, what the tally bill is and what it's going to mean.

00:38:42.100 Sure.

00:38:44.200 After the negligence and the malpractice took place, I filed a federal tort claim within the VA for damages sustained.

00:38:55.900 And at the six-month mark of me filing the tort claim, the VA, Office of General Counsel, was calling me repeatedly, and they were very apologetic.

00:39:11.500 And they took the blame for what happened, which caused a permanent injury and nearly resulting in the death of me as a 38-year-old man.

00:39:20.780 They stated that the VA failed to meet the standard of care and that they were going to be settling my claim and that we wouldn't end up losing everything I've ever worked so hard for, you know, including my life savings, you know, our family vehicle, my equipment, my business, so on and so forth.

00:39:41.380 But at the one-year mark, I received a letter in the mail from the VA stating that they denied my claim in all culpability due to a law that was written in 1946.

00:39:56.060 What they did is they deflected all liability away from the VA.

00:39:59.980 They penned this on an independent contractor that was working within the halls and the walls of the VA, did an about-face, and left me and my family holding the bag with zero recourse, zero accountability, and zero justice.

00:40:19.220 And to add insult to veritable injury, this letter stated that I needed to sue her in state court.

00:40:27.140 Well, the day that they postmarked that letter, I was three days past my California state statute of limitations, therefore denying me the right to due process to take this case to federal court to tell my story in front of a federal judge on what happened, all to protect their independent contractors and to water down these numbers in the VA of medical malpractice.

00:40:57.820 Wow.

00:40:58.980 Wow.

00:40:59.500 Well, Brian Talley is joining us.

00:41:01.280 Brian is a Marine, and you're hearing part of that story right now.

00:41:08.420 Brian takes all of this and decides, even though it's not going to benefit him, it's not going to benefit you in any way, Brian.

00:41:15.700 You said, okay, we've got to do something to help my brothers and sisters who are going to go to the VA for service.

00:41:24.140 So you start putting together this tally bill.

00:41:28.480 Who helps you with it?

00:41:30.140 Which members of Congress, and how does it go?

00:41:32.940 Well, after what happened, this put me into severe depression, knowing that, oh, my God, I'm going to lose everything.

00:41:44.100 And then you're battling the pain and everything else.

00:41:47.980 And you said something needs to be done.

00:41:50.120 We need to protect veterans.

00:41:52.000 We need to ensure the rights and protections of all veterans.

00:41:54.180 So once they fall victim to VA medical malpractice, they have a clear path of legal recourse.

00:42:00.400 So what I did is I had to become my own congressman, Jeff.

00:42:03.360 I came from the 50th district in California.

00:42:06.660 Duncan Hunter was my congressman.

00:42:08.660 Well, guess what?

00:42:09.220 When all this was going on, he was being relieved of his duties because he screwed up in Congress.

00:42:14.480 He got stripped of his congressional duty.

00:42:16.720 So I had to draft my own online legislative team.

00:42:21.600 I had to draft my own bill to get it to Congress.

00:42:25.680 At that point, we started sending it via email.

00:42:28.720 Nobody would take me serious.

00:42:29.820 So I boarded a plane to D.C. full of pain pills and anxiety meds, and I walked the halls of Congress going door to door, urging lawmakers to change this outdated law that has destroyed the lives of veterans and their families for 74 years, a generational loophole that has denied veterans' compensation and the right-to-do process once they've been injured due to no fault of their own.

00:42:53.360 And I can tell you that right now, that why does it take a guy like me to stand up for the greater good of the country to do the job that Congress has neglected to do, to take care of our nation's veterans, our most vulnerable community?

00:43:10.220 And that right there is the selfless work that I have enjoyed doing over the last three years.

00:43:18.640 It's the hardest job I've ever had in my life, but it's the most rewarding.

00:43:22.220 And right now, you know, I'm very happy to say that the work that we have done, we've had four bills introduced.

00:43:32.460 Mark Meadows has been a great champion.

00:43:34.820 Congressman Mike Levin has been a great champion.

00:43:37.580 I was able to bring the very left of liberals and the very right of conservatives together on a bipartisan measure in this Congress, which is the most divided Congress in the history of the United States.

00:43:50.460 I don't know how I've done it, you know, and I've kind of figured out you don't need to have a high-level, you know, degree to go into Washington, you know, to make things happen.

00:44:02.600 All it takes is a plan and a little bit of passion, and I can tell you, I've got both.

00:44:06.420 Well, I'll tell you what it takes is it takes one Marine with a mission, which is exactly what happened.

00:44:11.540 Now, Brian, I want you to hang on for a second, because in just a moment, we'll chat with Brian about the success.

00:44:19.480 Yeah, I'm going to let you in on the little secret.

00:44:21.980 It's past the House.

00:44:24.340 I think it's past the Senate.

00:44:25.640 I think it's headed now to the president's desk.

00:44:28.320 But I mentioned that there's another part to the phrase rally around tally.

00:44:33.280 For the last three years here in central Virginia, I have asked people to rally around tally.

00:44:40.460 I've talked to Brian, I don't know how many times on my show on News Radio WRBA in central Virginia.

00:44:48.600 And we've had a lot of people, including at one time, as I mentioned to you, Congressman Dave Brett.

00:44:53.300 And I'm hoping, I'm praying that all made a difference.

00:44:57.860 But the success is all Brian's in the legislative realm.

00:45:02.360 But there is another part to the story.

00:45:04.880 There's another part of how you and I are going to rally around tally.

00:45:10.220 We'll talk about that in 60 seconds.

00:45:13.580 It's Jeff Katz filling in today for Glenn.

00:45:15.440 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:23.300 Jeff Katz in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:45:27.920 Now, we're spending a couple of moments and maybe longer than usual talking with Brian Tally.

00:45:34.980 But it's a story, I swear to you, that has to be shared all over the country.

00:45:41.240 I've talked with Brian.

00:45:43.080 I've talked about Brian.

00:45:44.240 I've talked about this for years.

00:45:46.160 And I think we're now at a point where there's a level of success legislatively.

00:45:54.560 Brian's telling us, I mean, here we have, we've got the most divided Congress ever, right?

00:45:58.820 We've got people that each side referred to as bat crap crazy.

00:46:03.280 The left hates the right.

00:46:04.620 The right hates the left.

00:46:05.660 And somehow, someway, one Marine with a mission, that's Brian Tally, walked the halls of Congress, convinced members of Congress to say, oh, my gosh, yeah, we're on your team.

00:46:19.560 So, Brian, has it passed the House now?

00:46:24.320 It has passed the House.

00:46:26.060 It has passed the Senate.

00:46:27.120 And I am proud and very relieved to say that the Tally bill is on its way to the Commander-in-Chief's desk.

00:46:37.440 Wow.

00:46:39.240 President Trump will be signing this into law, hopefully within the next five days.

00:46:45.380 My former attorney, Natalie Quam, has been in constant contact with Mark Meadows, who's the chief of staff of President Trump, who is also one of the members of Congress who introduced two versions of the Tally bill in this 116th Congress.

00:47:05.240 So, you know, we're very excited, very relieved that, you know, I will soon have this mental closure.

00:47:17.760 And, again, I'll be able to, you know, move on with my life and, you know, reinvent myself and, you know, again, you know, turn my pain into purpose, if you will.

00:47:28.220 Brian, it is headed to President Trump's desk.

00:47:31.200 He'll be signing, as you say, in the next five days.

00:47:33.600 Because ordinarily, there's a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.

00:47:38.860 Are you going to be allowed to go to the White House for that, or is it just going to be signed by the president?

00:47:47.040 Again, I have my former attorney right now, who is really advocating hard for me to be there.

00:47:52.920 Yes.

00:47:53.600 To witness this.

00:47:54.920 And, you know, and I would love nothing more than to meet the president and share my story with him.

00:48:03.600 And get a photo.

00:48:06.200 I think I've earned that.

00:48:07.840 Oh, Brian.

00:48:08.800 Yes.

00:48:09.700 I mean, I would love nothing more.

00:48:13.960 Mr. Trump, President Trump, if you're listening to this, I want to meet you.

00:48:17.560 And I want to see the tally bill be signed into law and put an end to this 74-year VA legal loophole and ensure the transparency and the accountability at the highest levels of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

00:48:32.620 And, you know, 20.2 million American veterans are all benefiting from this.

00:48:40.920 So when they do go down, that they will have, you know, a leg to stand on.

00:48:46.780 And they will have a clear path of legal recourse.

00:48:49.460 And they will not be left out, you know, to the wolves, you know, to just be eaten alive by government bureaucrats who are not looking out for them.

00:49:00.100 And, you know, when the deck is stacked against these veterans, you start to talk about veteran suicide and other things like that that just becomes this giant snowball.

00:49:10.000 And we are America.

00:49:11.660 We're better than this, Jeff.

00:49:13.600 We are better than this.

00:49:14.820 Brian, we are so much better than that.

00:49:17.480 And, you know, I have cared about this for a long time.

00:49:25.080 And my pain is not yours.

00:49:26.620 And I'm not trying to say that.

00:49:27.780 But, gosh, I'm so hopeful and prayerful that you get to go to the Oval Office to meet the president, to shake his hand, to get that photo.

00:49:36.180 And I'm going to remind you, you know, I'm right down the road.

00:49:38.160 I'm like 90 minutes from D.C.

00:49:39.740 I can bring lunch or just come in and cheerlead.

00:49:43.620 And if you do get to meet the president, even if you don't, you know, every letter of the name is always signed with a different pen.

00:49:50.880 So I'm putting dibs on one of those pens.

00:49:53.580 There's a whole bunch of letters in there.

00:49:55.020 But I want to do something for you, Brian.

00:49:57.680 And I've mentioned this now that I want people to rally around tally.

00:50:01.380 Now, we've talked in the past.

00:50:02.780 We've talked for years, right, talking about rallying around the tally bill.

00:50:05.980 Well, the tally bill now is coming to fruition.

00:50:07.880 But you've heard Brian's story.

00:50:09.480 And Brian, here's what I hope you don't mind.

00:50:15.080 Your brother set up an amazing GoFundMe page.

00:50:21.080 And your brother and I have exchanged some emails about this.

00:50:26.420 And I know that you would not ask.

00:50:28.460 And that's just not who you are to say, okay, I need help.

00:50:32.620 But here's the reality, Brian.

00:50:34.480 You have earned the help of every American in general, veterans in particular, the families of veterans.

00:50:42.300 So what I want people to do, and again, I certainly hope you don't mind this, but I want people to go to the GoFundMe page, GoFundMe.com.

00:50:51.020 And they need to search for the phrase rally around tally.

00:50:55.880 And we have to help you, Brian.

00:50:58.180 You have helped millions, millions of Americans.

00:51:01.740 You have sacrificed.

00:51:03.160 You've been in pain.

00:51:04.260 You've done this on your own.

00:51:05.440 Now it's our turn to help you.

00:51:09.620 And so on GoFundMe.com, there is now a page entitled Rally Around Tally.

00:51:16.120 And we are urging all people who are hearing this, anybody who's going to read about this, donate and then share it on social media.

00:51:25.200 Brian, we have got your six.

00:51:27.700 We got your back, brother.

00:51:30.580 Thank you so much, Jeff.

00:51:32.060 I pretty much don't even know what to say right now.

00:51:35.260 I'm just overcome with emotion.

00:51:36.920 And, you know, I'm just, I have a lot of gratitude.

00:51:38.920 And I'm just happy to be alive, to be honest with you, Jeff.

00:51:43.420 And, you know, I, these last five years have been the most difficult times of my life.

00:51:49.380 But, you know, I, I did not choose this job.

00:51:53.800 This job, this job chose me.

00:51:57.000 And, you know, I, thank you so much, Jeff.

00:52:02.280 I, I'm, I'm just, I, I'm just very grateful to, to be on the show today.

00:52:08.900 And, and, and, and, and I hope that some folks can find some value and some, you know, you know, to my story and, you know, perhaps pull somebody out that's been having, you know, some bad times.

00:52:20.180 You know, you know, I, I know what it feels like to have your livelihood stripped away from you.

00:52:24.780 And we have a lot of Americans right now that are suffering that same fate, not due to medical malpractice, but to other issues that are going on in life.

00:52:32.300 And to have a story of perseverance and resilience and dedication and determination to, to serve for the greater good, you know, of the country, you know, is, you know, something.

00:52:42.980 Yes.

00:52:43.540 You've got it, man.

00:52:44.840 You've got it.

00:52:46.320 Rally around Tally.

00:52:47.520 Thank you so much.

00:52:48.220 Go fund me.

00:52:49.220 Jeff Katz in for Glenn Beck today.

00:52:51.640 The Glenn Beck program.

00:52:52.720 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:52:54.400 Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

00:53:00.940 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:53:03.400 And I'm not crying.

00:53:04.500 You're crying.

00:53:05.340 Cut it out.

00:53:06.500 Brian Tally just brings tears of joy at this point to my eyes.

00:53:12.960 And I, I'm so hopeful that he does get to go to the Oval Office.

00:53:17.020 How amazing would that be?

00:53:18.660 What an amazing journey filled with pain and challenges.

00:53:23.080 God, I, I love that guy.

00:53:26.180 I really do.

00:53:26.740 I just think the world of Brian.

00:53:28.100 And anyway, I want all of us to rally around Tally.

00:53:31.220 We've got that set up on that go fund me page and you can help them out a little bit.

00:53:34.780 The man's lost everything.

00:53:36.080 All right.

00:53:36.580 He wouldn't tell you that, but I'm telling you that he lost everything over five years fighting for other Americans, fighting for other veterans.

00:53:45.520 And, um, I think we can, can all step up to the plate.

00:53:51.300 Look, in addition to the Christmas season, in addition to all of us thinking, man, this is not like anything we've ever seen, right?

00:54:01.460 Totally different Christmas.

00:54:03.140 No family involved.

00:54:04.540 Really?

00:54:05.420 Oh, you've got your immediate family, I suppose.

00:54:07.420 But that whole idea of through the woods to grandma's house, that's not happening for anybody.

00:54:15.660 Well, that's not true, is it?

00:54:17.280 No, it is happening for some people.

00:54:19.160 Now that I think about it, it's happening for people like the governor of California, the governor of New York, the governor of Rhode Island, the governor of Virginia.

00:54:29.420 Virginia, I mean, but they're very special people.

00:54:31.540 You have to understand that.

00:54:32.080 Number one, they're smarter than the rest of us.

00:54:34.380 Much smarter.

00:54:35.180 That's why they're able to tell us, stay in your homes.

00:54:38.180 That's why they're able to tell us we're shutting down everything.

00:54:41.580 And if you don't like it, well, it doesn't really matter because that's what we're doing.

00:54:47.440 Oh, and here's $600, which should buy your silence.

00:54:51.580 Yes, but there are a lot of us saying, well, I don't think so.

00:54:55.860 Gavin Newsom, by the way, the governor out in California, has now suggested that the California stay-at-home orders are going to be extended.

00:55:07.500 No idea how long they will last.

00:55:10.940 No idea how wide they will be.

00:55:16.440 But doesn't there have to be an endgame?

00:55:21.580 Oh, I'm not telling you that I know how to fight a virus.

00:55:24.720 I'm not telling you anybody else knows how to, quote, fight a virus.

00:55:26.860 But there has to be some game plan that says, look, we've got a million businesses which are now closed forever.

00:55:38.040 We've got 20 million of our friends and neighbors who are unemployed.

00:55:42.620 And Joe Biden, you remember him, right?

00:55:44.880 He's the head of La Josa Nostra.

00:55:46.860 He is, according to some, he's going to be sworn in on January the 20th.

00:55:52.140 Now, we've got a couple of little snippets from Vice President Biden, apparently, and I don't know exactly what the timing is on this, so I can't give you the details.

00:56:03.600 But it was apparently in between Matlock and the Golden Girls Marathon.

00:56:10.320 So he had time to come out of the basement.

00:56:13.340 They, you know, they put the batteries in him or whatever they do to make him look animated and lifelike.

00:56:20.100 He also wanted to tell us that our worst time is ahead.

00:56:23.940 Can we hear that little snippet of Biden talking about our darkest days?

00:56:27.380 Even with the changes in approach I'm going to put in place in late January, people are still going to be getting sick and dying from COVID.

00:56:37.000 One thing I promise you about my leadership during this crisis, I'm going to tell it to you straight.

00:56:43.680 I'm going to tell you the truth.

00:56:45.840 And here's the simple truth.

00:56:48.360 Our darkest days in the battle against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us.

00:56:54.300 So we need to prepare ourselves to steel our spines.

00:56:58.800 As frustrating it is to hear, it's going to take patience, persistence, and determination to beat this virus.

00:57:07.660 There'll be no time to waste in taking the steps we need to turn this crisis around.

00:57:13.600 Oh, you mean like, I don't know, let me give you an example here.

00:57:16.360 I'm just pulling stuff out of my ear.

00:57:18.560 You mean like the president of the United States saying, we need some sort of a plan, some sort of a program that removes ridiculous regulation and government delays from, oh, I don't know.

00:57:35.280 I don't, uh, uh, research, research and development in the pharmaceutical companies.

00:57:39.620 You mean something like that, right?

00:57:41.100 How fast could it be?

00:57:45.280 Fast, super fast, super duper fast, really amazingly super.

00:57:50.480 How about, and I got one for you, Joe.

00:57:53.300 What about if we were able to get the research and development of these pharmaceutical companies to operate at warp speed?

00:58:03.160 Yeah, that's it, warp speed.

00:58:05.740 What do you think about that, Joe?

00:58:07.620 That would work, wouldn't it?

00:58:09.420 Of course it would work.

00:58:10.400 It's already worked, for goodness sakes.

00:58:12.880 President Trump's already done this.

00:58:14.960 President Trump has done all of the heavy lifting on this while you have been hiding in your basement, waiting for Dr. Jill Biden to bring you down, another bowl of oatmeal, change the batteries in the remote.

00:58:29.760 I mean, whatever it is.

00:58:31.760 So, I understand.

00:58:34.000 You're busy.

00:58:35.740 Well, I don't know, but you're busy.

00:58:37.360 I got it.

00:58:37.820 Oh, and what was this other thing?

00:58:38.760 For the first hundred days of his administration, he wants all Americans to wear masks.

00:58:45.520 You know, unlike the masks we've all been wearing for the last ten months, right?

00:58:51.740 And where did he get the hundred days?

00:58:55.660 It's a nice round number.

00:58:57.060 I got it.

00:58:57.700 Was that a scientific thing?

00:59:00.320 Because isn't he the guy that says, we've got to believe the science?

00:59:03.460 All right, so let's believe the science.

00:59:04.920 Was there a scientist who came along and said, yeah, listen, we got a coronavirus thing?

00:59:09.120 Hundred days.

00:59:10.200 Hundred to one.

00:59:10.820 No, not good.

00:59:11.580 No, it's good.

00:59:12.200 You do it for a hundred to one, hundred and two days.

00:59:14.400 Then the virus gets really, you know, P.O.

00:59:17.020 It in some.

00:59:17.680 What about 98?

00:59:18.660 No, not enough.

00:59:19.540 Not enough.

00:59:20.140 Still 100.

00:59:21.360 Yeah.

00:59:21.680 100.

00:59:22.600 12.01 a.m.?

00:59:23.660 Yeah.

00:59:24.260 12.01.

00:59:25.080 Come on.

00:59:26.480 As Joe Biden would say, come on, man.

00:59:30.280 Oh, I got another little snippet here from the head of La Josa Nostra.

00:59:35.180 Oh, and is it too early to start referring to La Josa Nostra?

00:59:40.260 Look, I thought it was brilliant.

00:59:41.680 It's not often that I come up with really good things.

00:59:44.160 Every once in a while.

00:59:45.620 Like Focahontas.

00:59:47.540 Hashtag Focahontas.

00:59:48.820 That was mine.

00:59:50.000 I came up with that years ago.

00:59:52.340 When I was on the air in Boston at Talk 1200, we were Rush Radio at the time.

00:59:58.800 But I came up with that.

01:00:00.080 Hashtag Focahontas.

01:00:01.300 Now it's gone through the roof.

01:00:03.800 So is it too early to do La Josa Nostra?

01:00:08.080 Well, anyway, here's the second little clip of Mr. Biden who inhabits, I'm just reading

01:00:14.560 the title here, the office of the president-elect.

01:00:19.700 Apparently he was asked a question he didn't really like.

01:00:22.720 Mr. President, do you still think that the stories from the fall about your son, Hunter,

01:00:31.720 were running his information as near as him, like you said?

01:00:35.600 Yes, yes, yes.

01:00:37.060 God love you, man.

01:00:38.120 You're a one-horse pony.

01:00:39.960 I tell you.

01:00:41.120 Thank you.

01:00:42.140 Thank you.

01:00:43.420 I promise you my Justice Department will be totally on its own making its judgments about

01:00:48.560 how they should proceed.

01:00:49.640 Thank you.

01:00:50.060 Oh, shoot it!

01:00:52.880 Hey, by the way, the guy who's the one-trick pony, is that the same as being a lying dog-faced

01:01:00.400 pony soldier?

01:01:02.220 I don't know.

01:01:03.420 But his Justice Department, man, it's going to be above board.

01:01:07.000 We are scouring the ranks of people who love me and hate Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, and

01:01:15.840 we're going to investigate if there's any investigation necessary.

01:01:20.040 Call me crazy.

01:01:21.140 Honestly, I find that hard to believe.

01:01:24.020 I just, I really do.

01:01:25.480 I just find it very, very difficult to believe that.

01:01:31.560 And maybe it's me.

01:01:34.240 Oh, should I?

01:01:35.020 I got to mention one other thing, just quickly.

01:01:39.180 The Department of Justice, the National Intelligence folks have all said that all of these questions

01:01:47.300 about Hunter Biden's laptop, not Russian disinformation.

01:01:54.640 I hate to throw the whole fact thing into it, but that's just the way it is.

01:02:01.780 There is a writer who is outraged.

01:02:06.020 Guy wrote a piece for Vice.

01:02:09.220 Now, why is he outraged?

01:02:11.900 He's outraged because when you go online and you're looking for, quote,

01:02:17.300 stock photos, do you ever do that?

01:02:20.120 You're looking for stock photos.

01:02:21.260 He says, well, this is outrageous.

01:02:22.460 Every time I go online to look for stock photos and I put in the word abortion, do you know

01:02:29.400 what pops up?

01:02:31.880 Photographs of babies.

01:02:35.640 And it's just wrong.

01:02:37.600 It's wrong to have, quote, imagery that associates abortions with baby killing.

01:02:48.040 I don't often talk about this.

01:02:53.500 But, you know, before I was married, if you would have asked me about this topic, I probably

01:02:59.420 would have shaken my head.

01:03:00.480 I don't know.

01:03:01.760 Oh, whatever.

01:03:02.940 I'm not sure I was all that concerned.

01:03:04.500 I'm just being honest.

01:03:05.840 I get married.

01:03:09.340 And Heidi's pregnant.

01:03:12.480 And I'm involved.

01:03:14.420 No, no.

01:03:15.200 I mean, yes, I was involved.

01:03:16.500 No, no, I mean involved.

01:03:17.700 I mean, we go to the OBGYN, M-O-U-S-E, whatever it is.

01:03:22.140 And we're looking at all these pictures.

01:03:23.960 And at first, I got to tell you, my oldest son looked like a bean.

01:03:28.200 No, he really did.

01:03:29.000 He looked like a bean.

01:03:30.600 But pretty quickly, that bean became a little people.

01:03:36.340 Truly was a baby.

01:03:37.460 And I knew very early on, that was not going to become a puppy.

01:03:45.220 It wasn't going to become a coffee mug.

01:03:48.360 It wasn't going to become a piece of fruit.

01:03:52.700 It was so clear who that was.

01:03:56.780 Not what that was, but who that was.

01:04:00.080 And so, I understand this poor guy is outraged, offended by the truth.

01:04:07.440 Well, welcome to planet Earth.

01:04:11.660 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

01:04:15.480 You must be reading glennbeck.com and theblaze.com.

01:04:19.200 Amazing information.

01:04:21.020 Great pieces of factual material that you just need to know.

01:04:25.700 I'm telling you, everybody is in a battle in this day and age.

01:04:29.260 You need the truth.

01:04:29.980 And if you want to send me an email, jeff at thejeffkatzshow.com.

01:04:33.840 Jeff at thejeffkatzshow.com.

01:04:36.980 It is Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

01:04:38.820 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:04:41.960 Jeff Katz in for Glenn.

01:04:44.320 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:04:45.640 I got a great email here from Jacob.

01:04:47.260 He says, Jeff, everyone needs to tweet President Trump.

01:04:50.580 Everyone needs to tweet the President and say that Brian Talley deserves a picture with the President.

01:04:58.740 He deserves to go to the White House.

01:05:01.220 He's earned the right to watch President Trump sign that bill.

01:05:04.840 I agree.

01:05:06.840 I agree.

01:05:07.520 I'm going to start tweeting on that.

01:05:09.560 Now, look.

01:05:09.900 People are asking about social media.

01:05:11.560 I'm on Twitter.

01:05:12.600 Jeff Katz Show.

01:05:13.680 I'm on Parler.

01:05:14.520 Jeff Katz Show.

01:05:15.380 MeWe.

01:05:16.120 It's Jeff Katz.

01:05:17.700 Of course, the easiest way is probably just the website, thejeffkatzshow.com.

01:05:24.220 What's next for President Trump is my question.

01:05:26.760 No, really.

01:05:27.240 I have to figure this one out.

01:05:28.540 888-727-BECK.

01:05:30.520 888-727-BECK.

01:05:34.000 If the President is going to stand tall, stand strong when he deals with these nitwits down

01:05:39.960 the street and says, you're giving $600 to Americans while you're sending billions overseas,

01:05:47.440 it doesn't work.

01:05:48.840 Hey, Gretchen is in Texas.

01:05:50.300 Gretchen, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:05:53.740 Hey, Jeff.

01:05:54.680 Gosh, it's been so much fun listening to you the past few days.

01:05:58.240 Thank you so much.

01:05:59.680 Thank you.

01:06:00.020 And I'm praying Brian gets to go to the White House.

01:06:02.900 That would be so fantastic.

01:06:04.660 Oh, my gosh.

01:06:05.600 He deserves it.

01:06:07.020 He does.

01:06:08.620 But anyway, you know, I'm a travel agent.

01:06:13.600 Of course, this year has killed me.

01:06:15.920 But like you were saying yesterday, we are all really connected.

01:06:21.440 It's really six degrees of separation.

01:06:23.780 When I book my clients, part of that destination is the restaurant, the food.

01:06:30.460 Yes, yes.

01:06:32.520 So I feel so horrible for the restaurant, that whole industry.

01:06:37.580 But we're all connected.

01:06:39.420 And nobody is putting that connection.

01:06:42.540 And I wish somebody from the government would help the travel industry in this company.

01:06:47.240 We are really important, especially we small people.

01:06:51.180 I'm by myself.

01:06:52.760 Wow.

01:06:53.260 And, you know, if somebody orders their trip from Amazon or whatever,

01:07:01.820 they don't get the devotion that we give.

01:07:04.520 Right.

01:07:05.120 As a travel advisor.

01:07:06.680 That's right.

01:07:07.180 So, you know, we travel agents really do help the restaurant industry, too.

01:07:14.880 And, of course, much more.

01:07:16.800 So I just wanted to say that.

01:07:19.520 So everybody, please, please use your local travel agent or go online and find a local,

01:07:26.580 I mean, a small one like mine.

01:07:28.780 I love it.

01:07:29.600 Gretchen, thank you so much for calling.

01:07:31.340 What a great, great insight on the Glenn Beck program.

01:07:34.820 We really are, every one of us.

01:07:38.060 Every one of us is somehow connected to that person that has the local business.

01:07:42.880 And we can talk about small business.

01:07:44.540 We can talk about entrepreneurs.

01:07:46.060 We can.

01:07:46.280 But these are friends and neighbors.

01:07:48.380 These, I swear to you, are people you run into in the supermarket.

01:07:52.340 These are people that you go to church with or synagogue with.

01:07:56.160 These are people you sit next to at the school play.

01:08:00.060 And if they go under, and we've already had a million go under.

01:08:07.120 Seriously, go to glennbeck.com and read Glenn's letter about this, his article about this.

01:08:12.560 There's been a million businesses since this started that have now shuttered their doors forever.

01:08:20.640 Are we ever going to recover from this?

01:08:23.800 Oh, good Lord, I pray so.

01:08:25.980 It's Jeff Katz sitting in for Glenn today.

01:08:27.600 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:32.440 Why the British are outraged and up in arms about Flash Gordon.

01:08:38.240 Oh, and why you don't send the Jewish guy to get the Christmas tree.

01:08:41.940 That's next on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:45.000 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:51.720 It's Jeff Katz in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:55.780 I'm thrilled to be here.

01:08:57.680 And the British, the British are annoying, generally speaking, right?

01:09:02.900 No, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

01:09:05.100 Yeah, I actually, I probably do.

01:09:07.420 My bride, my wife every night makes us listen to British radio.

01:09:14.620 And it's bizarre sometimes.

01:09:17.040 I mean, sometimes it's like, yeah, I get that.

01:09:20.220 And other times I just, I just sit back and go, wow, there's this, this bizarre attempt

01:09:27.460 to be polite that I don't quite get.

01:09:30.860 Maybe that's the difference.

01:09:31.720 All right, I'm an American.

01:09:32.400 I'm going to tell you what I think.

01:09:33.360 I'm going to tell you why I think it.

01:09:34.560 And if you like it, that's great.

01:09:35.660 And if you don't, I'm okay with that too.

01:09:37.620 But the British, you know, they, they have that whole prim and proper sort of thing going

01:09:44.060 on.

01:09:44.920 So can I tell you about the latest thing that's got them upset?

01:09:49.340 I heard about this on, on, on one of these British shows the other day, or maybe one of

01:09:54.560 the news programs that my wife watches.

01:09:56.360 Oh no, no, she's not British.

01:09:58.040 People pop it up on Facebook right now.

01:09:59.800 If you're not with me on Facebook, Radio Cats, R-A-D-I-O-K-A-T-Z, Radio Cats on Facebook.

01:10:04.040 People popping up going, well, is your wife British?

01:10:06.940 No, no, no.

01:10:08.260 She just, I don't know.

01:10:10.680 But, but, but anyway, so they're up in arms about Flash Gordon.

01:10:13.900 Anybody remember Flash Gordon, right?

01:10:16.540 It was certainly the 1980 movie version I thought was pretty entertaining.

01:10:22.520 It's not a great film.

01:10:24.100 You know, this, this is not, uh, this is not Citizen Kane.

01:10:30.160 This is, it's, it's Flash Gordon.

01:10:31.860 So, Flash Gordon has, as the big evil character, Ming the Merciless.

01:10:41.140 Oh, that's scary!

01:10:44.480 Well, guess what?

01:10:45.680 The British think it's more than scary.

01:10:48.420 The Brits have determined that Flash Gordon has, as his nemesis, Ming the Merciless, who

01:10:54.920 is not just scary, but is outright offensive.

01:10:58.340 So, there's something called the British Board of Film Classification.

01:11:06.760 They sit around, they watch the movies, and they go,

01:11:09.700 Okay, that's good.

01:11:13.900 Nobody should see that.

01:11:15.160 You know, you know, like we have G and PG and R and X.

01:11:19.020 All right, so they've got this whole other system because, well, they're British.

01:11:23.480 So, they, the British Board of Film Classification has reclassified Flash Gordon with something

01:11:32.720 called a 12A rating.

01:11:37.240 Here's why.

01:11:38.520 Max Van, Max von Sydow.

01:11:40.680 was the actor who played Ming the Merciless in this 1980 film.

01:11:45.720 He did a very good job.

01:11:47.760 And Max von Sydow, as it was, a very, very good actor, very accomplished actor, also happened

01:11:53.880 to be Swedish.

01:11:56.080 So, the British Board of Film Classification has reclassified Flash Gordon because the part

01:12:06.340 of Ming the Merciless is played by a Swedish man, and, quote, Ming the Merciless is coded

01:12:15.520 as an East Asian character, and that is now considered, quote, dubious, if not outright offensive.

01:12:29.760 British folks, he's an actor.

01:12:33.520 However, it's the very essence of acting.

01:12:36.520 The very essence of acting, the definition of acting, is emptying your head of all your

01:12:41.360 own personal thoughts and then filling it with words that other people have written for you.

01:12:46.300 And you pretend to be someone else.

01:12:52.820 That's what acting is.

01:12:55.800 I don't know how we got to this point.

01:12:57.980 I really don't.

01:12:58.480 I'm not quite sure how it was that we have figured out everybody is offended by everything.

01:13:06.660 And if you're offended by something, well, that's it.

01:13:09.600 It's all done.

01:13:10.880 It's insanity.

01:13:11.740 I'm looking again at the pseudo-bill, pseudo-stimulus bill, $600 per person.

01:13:19.120 Somebody did the math on this.

01:13:21.580 I didn't believe me.

01:13:22.820 But somebody did the math.

01:13:24.640 They said, essentially, Congress is taking $2,700 from each American in order to send

01:13:36.020 $600 to every American.

01:13:40.820 And then what do they want?

01:13:42.260 They want us to thank them for it.

01:13:44.260 Oh, thank you very much.

01:13:46.600 Thank you.

01:13:47.540 Thank you.

01:13:48.680 I've said they're taking the money out of your left pocket.

01:13:51.140 They keep a piece for themselves.

01:13:52.540 They put a little bit back in your right pocket.

01:13:56.240 And then they tell you they gave you a gift.

01:13:58.480 You should be thankful for it.

01:14:00.260 It's outrageous.

01:14:01.080 Another group that says we ought to be thankful.

01:14:04.060 It's a group of workers out in Chicago.

01:14:06.140 Cook County municipal employees went on a one-day strike.

01:14:09.020 Why?

01:14:10.000 Because they're working during the pandemic.

01:14:12.520 And they want extra money for working during the pandemic.

01:14:15.340 Well, here's the thing.

01:14:16.400 And I don't know how to explain it to them, but I'm going to try.

01:14:20.020 A million businesses have closed.

01:14:22.440 We've got small business people all over America going, yeah, I don't have any money.

01:14:27.240 Don't have any money.

01:14:29.280 Can't keep the business open.

01:14:30.800 Can't keep people employed.

01:14:32.260 Can't pay this.

01:14:33.060 Can't pay that.

01:14:34.040 But the union workers in Chicago want more money because they haven't lost a nickel while

01:14:39.840 they've been working during the pandemic.

01:14:41.580 It doesn't make any sense to me.

01:14:44.700 Maybe it makes sense to you, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

01:14:47.960 888-727-BECK.

01:14:49.520 888-727-BECK.

01:14:51.260 I remind you about some must-visit websites every single day.

01:14:55.340 Glennbeck.com.

01:14:56.760 Theblaze.com.

01:14:57.820 I would love if you took a couple moments out of your day to visit thejeffcatshow.com.

01:15:04.560 Thejeffcatshow.com is where I put all of my stuff.

01:15:07.740 Today is Festivus.

01:15:10.040 I think we actually have a snippet or two way back when Frank Costanza on Seinfeld announced

01:15:17.700 that.

01:15:18.000 Can we hear that?

01:15:18.840 A new holiday was born.

01:15:21.120 A Festivus for the rest of us.

01:15:24.340 And at the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they

01:15:29.380 have disappointed you over the past year.

01:15:32.740 Well, I got news for you.

01:15:34.280 The airing of grievances, of course, it precedes the feats of strength.

01:15:37.540 But the airing of grievances is something that you and I are entitled to when we take

01:15:42.900 a look at who it is that has our money and then says we'll probably give some of it back

01:15:48.940 to you.

01:15:49.920 Let me go to Melvin, who is in Pennsylvania.

01:15:52.100 Hey, Melvin, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:15:55.080 Hey, thanks for taking my call.

01:15:57.440 It's worth the wait, especially if somebody in government is listening.

01:16:00.960 I think Trump did a great service by declining to sign this bill, but I think he can go one

01:16:06.480 step further by naming the names of the people who authored all these different spending bills

01:16:15.520 that were thrown into the big bill.

01:16:19.720 Not just Democrats, Republicans, and probably especially Republicans, so that we can know

01:16:25.600 to never vote for these clowns again.

01:16:27.980 You know, I think it's a brilliant idea, and I think you're absolutely right.

01:16:32.520 We ought to know who loaded this thing up like it's a Christmas tree, right?

01:16:35.700 We put it up there.

01:16:36.400 We go, okay, or the Festivus Poll, whatever your particular avenue of celebration is, right?

01:16:42.760 So they put it up there and go, okay, so we got to give some money to these dopes who keep

01:16:47.360 voting us in.

01:16:48.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:48.640 We'll wait to the end on that.

01:16:49.960 We got to pay off these foreign governments who are helping us.

01:16:53.500 We got to take care of our friends who are the lobbyists.

01:16:56.200 We've got to take care of this one.

01:16:57.940 My cousin has something that he wants money for.

01:17:01.960 La Josa Nostra says, hey, we got to get some money for this.

01:17:04.920 You remember, you got to kick 10% to the big guy.

01:17:07.820 So at the end, nothing is left for us, Melvin, but you're right.

01:17:11.880 I would love, love, love for somebody to look at this and say, okay, here are the collected

01:17:19.000 profiles in courage who did this to you.

01:17:22.380 Melvin, I appreciate the call to the Glenn Beck program.

01:17:24.740 I really do.

01:17:26.180 Think about that.

01:17:27.400 I don't have any idea who put this stuff in.

01:17:30.440 I just looked at the number when they said it was 5,600 pages long and somebody corrected

01:17:37.760 me.

01:17:38.620 Somebody sent me an email, jeff at thejeffcatshow.com.

01:17:41.720 Jeff, listen, it's not really 5,600 pages.

01:17:46.080 It's a little more than 5,500 pages.

01:17:48.840 All right.

01:17:49.180 Mea culpa.

01:17:52.180 Don is down in Florida.

01:17:53.680 Don, welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:17:57.000 Yeah.

01:17:57.480 Hi, Jeff.

01:17:58.200 So I just want to make a point.

01:17:59.520 I'm 56 years old.

01:18:01.700 Right.

01:18:01.900 My dad was military.

01:18:03.320 I'm a huge supporter of this country.

01:18:05.140 And I can tell you that based on all the evidence we have, all of the affidavits, all of the

01:18:10.880 things that have come out, all of the impropriety that's been basically unveiled, if Biden has

01:18:17.480 sworn in as president, I will never vote again.

01:18:20.240 Let's be honest.

01:18:21.280 This whole crap about taking back the Senate is total garbage because they're going to get

01:18:26.360 away with the same cheating they did to make sure that basically Georgia goes in their direction.

01:18:32.820 Nothing we do will matter anymore.

01:18:34.480 Why would I even want to vote?

01:18:35.980 It won't matter.

01:18:36.920 If Biden has sworn in, nothing will matter ever again.

01:18:40.380 When you've got people like Barr that are rolling over on us.

01:18:43.120 And frankly, I think it's because they're all scared to death because the mob has scared them.

01:18:47.300 I mean, look what they did to the Supreme Court.

01:18:49.440 It's like there's almost no hope anymore.

01:18:51.900 Don, I'm going to be honest with you.

01:18:55.980 I hate to agree with you.

01:18:57.780 And you get that, right?

01:18:58.960 The last thing I want to do is agree with you because I listened to everything you've

01:19:04.000 just said and said, no, no, no, no.

01:19:06.500 But I'm doing the same calculus you are.

01:19:08.340 And I'm coming to the end and saying, okay, if this goes the way that it seems to be going,

01:19:15.320 I hate to say it, but I might be forced to agree with you.

01:19:18.860 I think there are going to be millions of people.

01:19:20.320 Well, look, there's 75, 80 million people who legitimately voted to reelect President Trump.

01:19:25.580 And they have been told your vote didn't count.

01:19:29.720 We don't care what you have to say.

01:19:32.060 You're going to do exactly what we tell you.

01:19:35.460 And folks like Don are going to say, well, that's it.

01:19:38.400 I'm done.

01:19:38.820 Don, I do appreciate that.

01:19:40.340 Now, the question becomes, if Don goes that way, leave 75 million less one.

01:19:48.840 But what do the rest of us do?

01:19:51.320 You look at this and say, okay, I have been told for four years, for four years,

01:19:57.180 Trump wasn't, Trump didn't really win, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,

01:20:00.560 Russia, Russia, Russia, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha, whatever it is.

01:20:06.540 Four years, day in, day out, knee camping this guy.

01:20:10.960 And telling anybody who would argue with them or question them, oh, no, no, no.

01:20:18.660 You're just too stupid to understand this.

01:20:22.240 Am I too stupid to understand it?

01:20:23.980 It's possible.

01:20:25.480 But I'm pretty sure I've been around the block once or twice.

01:20:28.380 And I'm pretty sure I've seen this game played.

01:20:30.960 And the problem is I know how it ends if it goes the way it seems to be going.

01:20:38.560 I actually said the other night, do we have enough sweaters for the dogs?

01:20:47.600 We'll talk about that.

01:20:49.260 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

01:20:52.280 Remember, glennbeck.com, theblaze.com.

01:20:54.620 If you want to shoot me an email, jeff at thejeffcatshow.com.

01:20:58.800 It is Jeff Katz in today for Glenn.

01:21:00.540 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:21:08.560 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.

01:21:19.580 Are we just going to stand down, becomes the question.

01:21:21.800 And I don't know the answer to it.

01:21:23.040 I really don't.

01:21:24.500 There's a part of me that says, brah, you're old.

01:21:27.220 Please, just, just, you know, start smoking.

01:21:30.420 You know, I've considered that.

01:21:31.800 If, in fact, the entire country is scrooged and the rest of the world's going, well, we're

01:21:38.440 not on your side.

01:21:39.300 Oh, so what do you do?

01:21:40.780 Well, I'm thinking I take up smoking, start eating way more fatty foods.

01:21:48.620 Seriously, I don't eat nearly enough fatty foods.

01:21:52.220 Sure.

01:21:52.780 I mean, I went to get blood drawn a couple of weeks ago and it came out and it was melted

01:21:58.220 butter, but I'm telling you, no, I would eat more fatty foods.

01:22:00.880 I would start smoking, drinking.

01:22:03.580 Sure.

01:22:04.020 Sure.

01:22:04.440 Let's work alcohol, whatever, because it's all over and my time has passed and I'm just

01:22:10.580 a terrible person and anything that I think or I feel or I'm worried about matters not.

01:22:17.480 Now, you know what's funny in a really twisted sort of way?

01:22:20.360 If I were single with no responsibilities, maybe I'd do that, but I'm not.

01:22:29.120 Married?

01:22:30.280 I want to get married.

01:22:32.060 I've been married like, I don't know, 80 years, 90 years, 100, whatever.

01:22:36.240 It's a long time is my, and the most important part of being married, by the way, is not knowing

01:22:42.320 how long you've been married.

01:22:43.740 It is knowing the date you got married so you don't mess up the anniversary gifts.

01:22:48.900 And I know it was sometime in the summer, so I'm pretty good, but I've got responsibilities.

01:22:54.960 I've got three kids.

01:22:58.180 Now, I told you about Julia the other day, my dear Julia.

01:23:00.900 She's going to be 18 years old soon.

01:23:02.940 18 years old, but developmentally, she's 18 months old.

01:23:07.540 And she's, that's never going to change.

01:23:10.100 Never going to change.

01:23:11.480 Julia, developmentally, will always be a baby.

01:23:15.740 She doesn't speak.

01:23:16.620 Just learned how to walk in the last couple of years.

01:23:22.200 Can't go to the bathroom by herself.

01:23:25.200 I mean, I'm at a point, I've got to tell you this.

01:23:29.000 You know, I have to deal with Julia's needs.

01:23:34.360 And I don't do the heavy lifting.

01:23:36.000 Heidi does the heavy lifting.

01:23:37.680 But, you know, I'm still changing diapers on a young lady who's almost 18.

01:23:47.100 And that's bad.

01:23:49.360 It's tough.

01:23:51.500 And were Julia a typical 17-year-old young lady, of course, she'd be appalled, as she should be.

01:23:57.920 But she's not.

01:24:00.040 So I've got obligations there.

01:24:02.200 I've got two sons.

01:24:04.900 And pretty much all I'm giving them is my name.

01:24:07.980 Now, I'm trying desperately to squander what savings I have so that I just give them the name.

01:24:14.600 But I am going to give them the name.

01:24:17.160 And hopefully, I turn over to them a country that's in pretty good shape.

01:24:24.180 Can't be perfect.

01:24:25.300 But I would like, if I could, to turn over to my sons a country that I took care of.

01:24:35.200 Because that's the charge.

01:24:36.900 You and I are charged with taking care of America.

01:24:41.780 Not remaking it.

01:24:43.300 Not destroying it.

01:24:44.600 Not rebuilding it.

01:24:45.660 But taking this country, which has survived,

01:24:49.320 and just sort of hammering out the dents every once in a while.

01:24:53.720 Maybe you put a fresh coat of paint on this particular part of it.

01:25:00.060 And that's hopefully what I'm able to do.

01:25:04.020 Lee is in Ohio.

01:25:05.440 Hey, Lee.

01:25:06.000 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:25:08.620 Thanks, Jeff.

01:25:09.900 My heart goes out to you and your wife.

01:25:11.780 We find the measure of ourselves when we're faced with things within our own family that we have to take care of that would pull most people under.

01:25:24.380 And I'm praying for you and your family and wish you a Merry Christmas.

01:25:30.520 The reason I called today was a week ago we had one of our representatives from Washington on.

01:25:38.960 And he said, Merry Christmas and we will survive the Biden-Harris administration.

01:25:46.160 And he hung up and that was the end of his call.

01:25:48.760 And today he was on talking about we need this, we should do this, we need that.

01:25:53.760 And what we really need to do is make sure that in 2022 we take back the House.

01:26:01.100 Yes.

01:26:01.400 And I feel a chill up my back when I hear our politicians because I realize that us voters, we stood up and we voted.

01:26:13.840 And we talked to our friends and relatives.

01:26:16.220 And we went in with our ID and had to tell people what our address was while they held our ID to double check.

01:26:23.020 And they had to check our signature.

01:26:24.400 And we now have five different states.

01:26:27.680 And I'm sure that all the rest of the states that use Dominion have the same issues.

01:26:32.960 But the five that we have, we need to have those machines seized.

01:26:37.980 They need to be forensically examined by IT specialists.

01:26:42.160 We need to insist that those states all have votes that match a valid signature in the voter rolls.

01:26:49.560 And if they do not, those votes should be set aside.

01:26:52.060 We cannot allow ourselves, in my opinion, to allow the politicians to have us cheering again for something out into the future.

01:27:00.260 That's always been the problem.

01:27:02.340 It's always next time.

01:27:03.380 We've got to do better.

01:27:04.460 Next time.

01:27:05.340 You're right.

01:27:05.760 It is.

01:27:06.520 It's always next time.

01:27:08.200 And I'll tell you something, Lee, and I appreciate that call.

01:27:11.560 The person who ought to be calling for this election to be verified as honest and free the loudest should be Joe Biden.

01:27:20.140 It's Jeff Katz, in for Glenn.

01:27:21.900 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:26.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:31.660 Jeff Katz, sitting in today for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:36.340 An absolute honor to be here.

01:27:39.020 Thrilled to be spending some time talking about one or two things that I think probably big picture we ought to be concerned with.

01:27:50.140 I mean, you know, I could be wrong, but I'm just saying there are one or two of these things that, gosh, it's our money.

01:27:58.180 I don't want to keep getting back to just money, but you got to keep getting back to money, right?

01:28:03.180 Oh, by the way, quickly here.

01:28:04.520 Some folks have reached out and said, Jeff, I'm listening to you.

01:28:08.840 I'm trying to figure out what we're going to do for Christmas.

01:28:11.140 We're not allowed to go see family.

01:28:12.640 We got to send them gifts and any suggestions.

01:28:16.220 Yeah.

01:28:17.900 Arguing with Socialists.

01:28:20.460 Glenn's latest book, which you can find at glennbeck.com.

01:28:25.880 Check that out.

01:28:26.560 It's a great book.

01:28:27.360 It's a great read.

01:28:28.020 Bill O'Reilly's Killing Crazy Horse is a great read.

01:28:33.400 A couple of books you may not be aware of.

01:28:35.160 I'm just going to mention them quickly, and then we got to talk about some other stuff.

01:28:37.660 But Bishop Aubrey Shines.

01:28:39.760 Bishop Aubrey Shines is a very fascinating guy.

01:28:43.240 He's down in Florida.

01:28:44.540 He's originally from Chicago.

01:28:45.960 And he kind of started ministering in the prison system, in the jail system in Chicago.

01:28:53.560 And now he's in Florida.

01:28:55.160 But a brilliant, brilliant guy.

01:28:57.340 And he's got a new book out called Eight Questions About Race.

01:29:02.380 A Black Pastor Responds to Black Lives Matter.

01:29:06.560 It's a quick read, but it's a good read.

01:29:09.020 And The Woman Who Stole Vermeer.

01:29:13.760 Now, this is an old buddy of mine.

01:29:15.840 Anthony Amore in Boston, who's brilliant.

01:29:19.500 I never knew how brilliant the guy was or that he was a best-selling author.

01:29:23.700 Seriously.

01:29:24.080 Like, our kids used to go to school together, and we'd see each other at school plays and concerts.

01:29:29.200 I mean, super nice guy.

01:29:31.660 I never realized.

01:29:32.920 Oh, yeah.

01:29:33.420 A New York Times best-selling author.

01:29:34.800 So his latest is called The Woman Who Stole Vermeer.

01:29:38.040 A great, great read.

01:29:40.160 And I know you don't have time.

01:29:41.060 Take a picture of it.

01:29:42.120 Send it to people.

01:29:43.040 Well, Chris is in Tennessee.

01:29:45.980 Chris, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:29:49.380 Hey, Jeff.

01:29:50.000 I just wanted to give you some unique perspective, and perhaps for your listeners as well.

01:29:56.180 I'm a 29-year-old.

01:29:57.540 I'm from New Zealand.

01:29:59.620 I moved to the U.S. about a couple of years ago, and I live in Nashville now.

01:30:03.920 I've worked very, very hard to get to the U.S., and I've come here legally through all the right routes.

01:30:09.080 I believe in the American dream.

01:30:10.480 I think it's a real thing, and I'm actively pursuing it.

01:30:13.160 I just want to say that one thing I've noticed about moving to this country is the unbelievable tsunami of corruption, of bureaucracy, of selfishness of some of these members of Congress who have put this bill up.

01:30:29.480 I think it's an absolute ridiculous disaster that American folks are only being given $600.

01:30:38.020 I think a lot of these people doing this work in Congress actually fundamentally hate America, and I think that's a massive difference between your country and my country, is that even the people on the far left don't hate New Zealand.

01:30:50.380 So I think it's a real shame.

01:30:52.420 I love this country, like I said.

01:30:54.600 I just think it's an absolute travesty that these people are allowed to have some resemblance of control.

01:31:01.200 And Trump really just had both hands behind his back with a blindfold on.

01:31:05.240 He just hasn't had enough time to get rid of them.

01:31:07.500 They all need to go, Jeff.

01:31:08.880 Yeah.

01:31:10.020 I agree with you, Chris, and I appreciate the call.

01:31:12.800 There are people who hate this country.

01:31:15.120 It pains me to say that.

01:31:16.800 I'm telling you, I grew up in Philadelphia, and you knew that people loved America.

01:31:24.820 That was never a question.

01:31:27.860 You disagreed with people, whether it was sports or politics.

01:31:33.280 You practiced different religions, but everybody practiced their religion, and everybody loved this country.

01:31:40.340 That was never, ever a question.

01:31:42.740 And now, you can honestly look at people in elected office and say, they hate America.

01:31:54.200 What the heck is wrong with that?

01:31:56.180 Chris raised some great points.

01:31:58.120 Sean's in Indiana.

01:31:58.920 Hey, Sean.

01:31:59.680 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:32:03.300 Good day.

01:32:03.980 How are you?

01:32:05.360 Fine.

01:32:05.760 Thank you.

01:32:07.060 Good.

01:32:07.700 I got it.

01:32:08.520 I work for a government entity, and we have a certain pay scale.

01:32:15.620 And you were making a comment about why people in the union want more money.

01:32:20.440 Well, we all get a certain pay.

01:32:23.740 All the people that were, during this whole COVID stuff, we were not shut down.

01:32:29.700 We had to work.

01:32:30.320 And all the people that were shut down, went home.

01:32:33.520 They got all this extra money.

01:32:35.560 Well, with all people at home, the supply and demand ratio, you know, supply went down.

01:32:43.320 Demand went up.

01:32:44.780 Prices go up.

01:32:45.920 Well, those of us that worked are making the same amount of money, and now we have to pay higher prices for everything.

01:32:52.740 Well, Sean, let me stop you for a second, because you talked about these people who are not working, who went home, who got, quote, all this extra money.

01:33:03.440 What extra money?

01:33:04.860 Yeah, what extra money?

01:33:05.780 I know several people that got laid off.

01:33:09.380 They were making the extra $600 a week for unemployment.

01:33:14.640 That's more than what we were making.

01:33:17.440 Yeah, I understand that.

01:33:18.460 No, Sean, I understand that part, and I've been talking about that forever and a day.

01:33:22.120 But you sort of said everybody got extra.

01:33:24.960 I didn't get any extra money.

01:33:26.960 Okay, yeah, but you were, okay, I understand that.

01:33:30.520 There's other people out here that were making this extra money that, you know, we weren't.

01:33:34.440 We worked through the coronavirus.

01:33:36.760 We weren't shut down.

01:33:37.880 We stayed working all the time.

01:33:39.760 Yeah.

01:33:41.060 And it was just, it was a little upsetting that, you know, we were working, and here, you know, we're watching the next door neighbor buy a brand new camper and go camping.

01:33:49.840 Yeah.

01:33:50.280 Because they're laid off, shut down, making this extra money.

01:33:53.700 Right.

01:33:54.340 All right, Sean, I got news for you, and I appreciate the call.

01:33:56.920 Yeah, you and I are actually on the same side.

01:33:58.680 I appreciate that, Sean.

01:34:00.080 But what I'm saying, I mean, the Cook County workers in Chicago go, we want more money.

01:34:07.200 Everybody wants more money, right?

01:34:08.720 Isn't that part of living in a society where we are all based around what you have, what you can get?

01:34:15.440 Everybody, on some level, wants more money.

01:34:19.500 But that doesn't make it the right thing to do.

01:34:24.720 And I appreciate the fact that you're working through this.

01:34:26.940 Look, I got friends who have continued to work on the front lines.

01:34:30.520 I used to be a police officer.

01:34:32.180 I see my friends who are still in the job going out there every single day, 10, 12-hour shifts, willing to lay their life down for people they don't know, members of the military continued working, medical professionals, doctors, nurses, EMTs, paramedics.

01:34:49.520 I get it.

01:34:51.320 I totally get that.

01:34:53.800 But you also have 20 million people who are unemployed.

01:34:57.360 You have a million businesses that are shut down forever.

01:35:01.400 Again, if you want a few details, you want some great examples, go to glennbeck.com.

01:35:05.400 See what Glenn wrote.

01:35:08.100 I get that there are people who continued working who want more.

01:35:14.800 But that's not the debate.

01:35:16.820 The discussion point is not, oh, well, we should give them $600 or $700.

01:35:23.540 Or, as that great political mind, Homer Simpson, once said, one kajillion dollars.

01:35:30.800 No.

01:35:32.160 It becomes, how do you get the economy back up and running?

01:35:37.600 Do I want people getting this disease, that disease?

01:35:40.020 Of course not.

01:35:41.600 Nobody should.

01:35:44.180 Everybody ought to be taking precautions.

01:35:46.180 We all ought to be living in the real world.

01:35:50.100 And the real world says, you cannot survive as a nation if you do not have an economic backbone.

01:36:01.520 Well, the government will take care of us.

01:36:03.500 The government doesn't have a job.

01:36:06.320 The government is not a human being you're going to run into late at night at the supermarket stocking shelves.

01:36:13.140 You're not going to see your mayor or governor or senator or congressman at the local convenience store selling you a soda or a pack of smokes.

01:36:30.560 It doesn't work that way.

01:36:32.180 The only way that the, quote, government can pay you is if they take from someone else.

01:36:40.500 Now, the ultimate thing may very well be that we just print trillions of dollars more.

01:36:48.620 Well, we could pay off all our bills, but you and I then get the opportunity.

01:36:52.480 It'll be a great opportunity.

01:36:54.100 We'll have to go to the supermarket with a wheelbarrow full of currency, hoping that there's a loaf of bread.

01:37:01.460 There'll be no more choices.

01:37:03.840 Right?

01:37:04.000 You go to the supermarket now.

01:37:04.800 Wow, they're 82.

01:37:05.540 I don't care.

01:37:06.780 I want Wonder Bread.

01:37:08.140 Oh, that's not good.

01:37:10.100 It's, yeah, but it's nice.

01:37:12.960 I like it.

01:37:14.460 It's comfort.

01:37:15.860 Comfort for me.

01:37:17.660 Speaking of outrageous purchases.

01:37:22.000 Heidi and I were trying to wrap up all of our shopping and gifting and presenting.

01:37:27.440 And I actually said out loud where people could hear me, do the dogs have enough sweaters?

01:37:39.800 Now, you have to understand something.

01:37:40.720 For years, I was that guy.

01:37:44.440 I was that guy.

01:37:45.620 I said, why are you putting a sweater on a dog?

01:37:47.920 Are you crazy?

01:37:48.720 The dog came with a sweater.

01:37:51.240 It's built in.

01:37:52.700 Well, then we got small dogs.

01:37:55.260 So we've only had, it's not even a year yet.

01:37:57.440 And I wasn't sure that we should get him.

01:38:00.240 I mean, I'm kind of with Ron Swanson.

01:38:02.140 If you ever watched, it was Parks and Rec.

01:38:04.280 Remember Ron Swanson once said, any dog that weighs less than 50 pounds is a cat.

01:38:10.740 I kind of agreed with him.

01:38:13.600 But now we've got small dogs.

01:38:15.860 And I am honestly dressing them in sweaters.

01:38:21.040 They have regular sweaters.

01:38:24.840 And they have Christmas sweaters.

01:38:27.580 And soon they'll have Valentine's Day sweaters.

01:38:32.660 Yes, I hang my head in shame.

01:38:36.620 In a moment, I'm going to explain to you why you don't send me, the Jewish guy, to go buy the Christmas tree.

01:38:43.900 It's Jeff Katz, sitting in for Glenn.

01:38:46.080 It is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:48.460 It's Jeff Katz, in for Glenn today.

01:38:51.140 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:38:53.900 We are rapidly approaching Christmas.

01:38:57.320 And I have often discussed the issue of real versus fake Christmas trees.

01:39:02.220 But I have to share with you the reason that I'm not allowed to go and get Christmas trees.

01:39:11.460 Now, you have to understand something.

01:39:12.800 Heidi and I come from different backgrounds.

01:39:15.280 We get together.

01:39:17.000 And she still gets to put up her Christmas village, this Department 56.

01:39:23.680 Man, there's like 10,000 pieces to it.

01:39:27.000 Our house kind of looks like Martha Stewart exploded.

01:39:30.500 It's just tinsel and stuff.

01:39:32.940 And, you know, for Hanukkah, I put up my stuff, which means here's a dreidel, here's a menorah, and that's about it.

01:39:41.780 But when Heidi and I first started dating, it was a thousand years ago, she was alone.

01:39:48.960 She was living in this terrible, cramped apartment in a basement, and she couldn't have a Christmas tree.

01:39:54.560 And I said, okay, I'm going to go surprise her.

01:39:57.880 I'm going to go get a Christmas tree.

01:39:59.220 Now, I had never purchased a Christmas tree.

01:40:02.500 And I didn't know that Christmas tree lots were, in many cases, a little bit like those used car lots that pop up in bad areas.

01:40:10.920 So, I get in my car, which I should point out to you, is a Mazda MX-6, two seats and a moonroof.

01:40:19.240 And I drive around in the snow, going through slush and ice, and I find, in Revere, Massachusetts, I find a Christmas tree stand.

01:40:29.320 And I don't know what it's all about, but I go in there and I tell the guy, I need a Christmas tree.

01:40:35.700 And then he starts asking me questions, and I don't know the answers to those questions.

01:40:39.480 He says, all right, look, just go and pick one out.

01:40:42.140 So, I'm going down the rows, and the rows, of course, for Christmas tree lots have those cutesy names, right?

01:40:49.460 Well, you take Santa Claus Boulevard, you turn right on Rudolph the Reindeer Avenue, and then you make a...

01:40:56.760 All right, so I find a tree.

01:40:58.820 Now, I think it looks great.

01:41:00.280 And the guy says, do you want it flocked?

01:41:06.020 No, I had no idea what the man was talking about.

01:41:09.260 And I...

01:41:10.240 No!

01:41:10.980 No, I don't want it flocked!

01:41:14.540 So, you just want us to net it?

01:41:17.120 Yeah!

01:41:18.260 Should we tie it to your roof?

01:41:20.120 No!

01:41:20.640 I don't want you to scratch the paint.

01:41:22.580 So, we got a bunch of guys, they lifted the tree up, they put it through the moonroof of my little sports car,

01:41:27.560 and I drive home over the icy, slushy streets, and I get back to my house,

01:41:32.780 and I got to drag it up this long, long set of stairs, and I take it inside,

01:41:37.800 and then I think to myself, now what?

01:41:40.900 And one of my friends, the late, great Tony Rumble, is standing there, and he goes,

01:41:44.900 Pfft!

01:41:45.480 Cats, man!

01:41:46.580 You're going to need a tree stand!

01:41:48.720 Well, I don't have a tree stand, because I never bought a tree,

01:41:50.880 so back to the Christmas tree lot I go, and this guy sees me coming.

01:41:55.060 I said, I need a tree stand.

01:41:58.480 What kind do you want?

01:41:59.540 I don't know!

01:42:00.900 So, here I go again.

01:42:02.060 I'm going down Santa Claus Boulevard, I make the right on Rudolph the Reindeer Avenue,

01:42:06.740 I get the Christmas tree stand.

01:42:09.120 Now, you have to understand, each one of the things he sells me is the most expensive item there.

01:42:14.300 I go back to my house with the Christmas tree stand.

01:42:17.280 And my buddy Tony says, you know, Cats, man, you've got to saw the bottom of the tree off.

01:42:24.660 Well, I don't even own a saw.

01:42:26.560 I went through a set of steak knives, sawing and sawing and sawing.

01:42:32.740 Then I put it in that Christmas tree stand, and it looks junky.

01:42:37.200 And then Tony says, Cats, man, you need a Christmas tree skirt.

01:42:44.100 Back I go, and get the skirts.

01:42:46.960 Let me tell you something, at the end of that, my tree made Charlie Brown's tree look like a redwood.

01:42:53.620 Have a very Merry Christmas.

01:42:55.960 It's Jeff Katz, in for Glenn.

01:42:57.360 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:42:59.260 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 23, 2020

Trump Rejects Disastrous COVID Bill and Demands More Money for Americans ｜ 12⧸23⧸20

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