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So we are supposed to be ending 2024 today.

Will it also be the end of Woke?

Maybe, maybe not.

One giant retailer apparently wants to keep it.

Wait till you find out who that is and some incredible stories from universities.

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Happy New Year's Eve.

I am in Arizona.

It was 72 and sunny yesterday.

You should be jealous.

I'm normally on in afternoons on KFYI in Phoenix, KNST and Tucson, and I'll be back to work there Thursday afternoon.

I'll get one whopping day off tomorrow.

But of course, with two kids and a wife, there's never really a day off, never really a day off.

So 2024 is about to come to a close.

Trump wins a big, giant election.

America pretty much gives the middle finger to all the leftist policies, including wokeness.

President Trump has said in the past, it's a great quote, I play it on my show in Arizona all the time, everything woke turns to S.

We believe about the S.

It's one of the best things that President Trump has ever said.

And

it's just utterly brilliant.

And we've seen what's happened, right?

We've seen what's happened.

So that's why

I am kind of amazed at Costco.

You shop at Costco?

I shop at Costco.

We'll see about that from now on.

Costco's board of directors is urging shareholders to vote against a proposal that would eliminate DEI.

So Costco's board wants to keep DEI.

Two words for you, Costco, Bud Light.

Another word, Target.

If I recall, actually, Bud Light in some Costco's around America stopped selling Bud Light because nobody bought it.

Did they not see the billion dollar hit to Anheuser-Busch?

Did they not see Target lose $9 billion in value with their wokeness in sick stuff of selling all kinds of crazy clothes, promoting the sex trans surgery mutilation stuff to kids?

I mean, did you not see that stuff?

Everybody seems to be getting away.

From the woke stuff, and all of a sudden, Costco is like, no, hold our Bud Light.

We're going in.

What are you talking about?

What are you doing?

It's so stupid.

I mean, look, we belong, my family, we belong to Costco

and Sam's Club.

And Sam's Club, of course, owned by Walmart.

And Walmart,

they took the heat

from Robbie Starbuck, who does an excellent job of...

using all of the leverage he has to pressure all kinds of companies, whether it was Nissan, Toyota, Walmart,

Harley-Davidson.

He tells them, listen, this this is what you're doing.

You're promoting all these crazy things.

You're paying money to this.

You're forcing DEI training.

We're going to put it out there.

And now these big giant corporations get the phone call from him.

And before he even says, I'm Robbie's star, they're like, all right, we're done.

We're good.

We're not going to do that anymore.

And look, maybe part of it is some of these big shots at these big corporations don't even know what happens, right?

They hired somebody and then this somebody is a secret nut job and they just want to feel good about themselves and powerful and they're making a difference in corporate America, blah, blah, blah.

At the same time, I really think it's all about cash, right?

I mean,

when America is fat and happy, people tend to feel a bit guilty and then people tend to reach out and then others feel guilty sometimes about

whatever, their success, their wealth, whatever it is.

And

they say, yeah, you know what?

I have it too good.

Stop thinking that way.

You've earned it.

Someone's earned it.

Someone who's earned it has given it to you.

Whatever it is, it's your business enough with this stuff.

Like, it's okay to feel good about yourself.

It's okay to be happy with success.

You work hard for it.

So

you have these companies now.

And Walmart

was one that said, we're going to stop all this crap.

And they did it pretty quickly.

They did it really quick.

And

now Costco,

I always thought Costco was smart.

I mean, they run a hell of a business, but they want to go with this.

The board of directors wrote a message to investors.

It said, our success at Costco wholesale has been built on service to our critical stakeholders, employees, members, and suppliers.

Our efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Follow our code of ethics.

What?

For our employees, they wrote, this is from the board of Costco.

These These efforts are built around inclusion, having all of our employees feel valued and respected.

Wow.

Our efforts of diversity, equity, and inclusion remind and reinforce with everyone at our company the importance of creating opportunities for all.

We believe these efforts enhance our capacity to attract and retain employees who will help our business succeed.

So that was what they wrote to shareholders.

And I guess they're going to have their annual meeting coming up January 23rd.

And they want to keep this.

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

New York Post reports shareholders are going to vote on this on a proposal brought by the National Center for Public Policy Research that challenges the legality of Costco's DEI program.

Supreme Court had ruled

that discriminating on the basis of race in college admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

So I guess

that could work here as well.

And again, you think about this.

I mean, they have a lot of employees.

And in this story, I mean, Costco, they have a chief diversity officer.

So Costco apparently picks people for jobs based on their race, based on their sex.

Not based on merit, but that's what it is.

I think America can send the message to Costco that they either reward this racism and sexism or they don't.

And it's very easy,

very easy to send that message.

It's been sent to, like I said, Anheuser-Busch to Target to so many others.

John Deere, Harley Davidson, you name it.

Like they, this has happened.

This has happened.

And this is at a time

where companies, look, the economy's tough.

Companies are looking to axe some people.

And, you know, companies want to keep revenue generators and they want to get rid of, well, people that just cost you money.

And DEI people, they don't generate revenue.

They just cost you money.

It's like a tax.

So a lot of companies have gotten rid of them,

scaled back.

Matter of fact, New York Post reports,

Alphabet owns Google, right?

They've laid off DEI departments, Meta, Microsoft, Zoom, John Deere.

Wow.

But Costco is keeping it.

They want to keep their racist, sexist, discriminatory hiring practices, I guess, and they're going for it.

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life.

I don't know what they're thinking, but

it's also

in this proposal.

It says here, and this is a big deal, right?

Because the National Center for Public Policy Research, wrote in its shareholder proposal that Costco has 310,000 employees.

At least 200,000 are likely potential victims of illegal discrimination because they're white, Asian, male, or straight.

Even if just a fraction of these employees, of the 200,000 estimated, were to file a lawsuit and only some of those prove successful, Costco could be out tens of billions of dollars.

So why the hell would shareholders say, you know what?

Yeah, let's keep going with this.

That could cost us billions of dollars and make our shares worthless.

So we'll see.

We'll see.

But Costco,

I just, I

beyond stupid, beyond dumb, even universities and colleges are doing everything they can to try to get rid of DEI stuff and gender studies and all this woke crap and woke garbage and all this stuff.

Some are just trying to rename it to trick people.

So we have that.

But this is only part of it.

You know, look at the stock market, right?

What is going on in the stock market?

Stocks are up.

Why?

Government spending, right?

We're just printing money.

They're doing this stuff.

But the NASDAQ, the tech-heavy NASDAQ, apparently they also

have decided to go woke.

Again, we are trying to get rid of this.

It's the last year of 2024.

It should be the end of wokeness.

We elected Trump.

We gave a mandate.

We have the House.

We have the Senate.

What is going on here?

But apparently the NASDAQ, as you're getting ready to maybe do some investing, work with your financial advisor, the NASDAQ has diversity rules.

Charlie Gasparino wrote about this in the New York Post.

Diversity rules from NASDAQ?

They're trying to force every company that lists on the NASDAQ to choose a board of directors that stresses intersectionality, race,

yes, sexual and gender diversity.

Again, there's no such thing as gender, but whatever.

So instead of companies that have boards, right, that say we need to grow, we're going to have the best people with the best ideas, the best thinkers, and we're going to base everything on merit.

Instead of that, what are they doing?

NASDAQ is saying we need to go with

woke stuff, DEI,

diversity.

We need as many people of different colors, different sexes, different this, different that.

Again, instead of actually the smartest.

That's why sports is always great because sports is the ultimate, right?

I mean, look, sports leagues go woke, they go stupid and stuff like that.

I get it.

But when it comes down to it, when you want to put guys on a basketball court, when you want to put guys on a football field, you want to put guys on the ice, you want to put the best team out there.

I mean, coaches get paid to win.

If they don't win, they get fired.

So they're not going to sit back and say, you know, I think I'll be able to keep my job if I have a gay guy, a bi guy, a black guy, a white guy, and a guy that identifies as none of the above.

We'll put those five out there plus a goalie.

We'll be okay.

No, they're putting the best of the best out there because they want to be able to keep their job and make money.

That's how it works.

That's how it works.

And now the NASDAQ is

putting through diversity rules, forcing every company that lists on the NASDAQ to choose board of directors that pushes DEI.

Holy smokes.

This is another stupid move.

But what do you expect, right?

This is,

I mean, they'll face it.

I mean, do they not know what just happened in November?

Do they not know that Americans have had enough of this crap?

Americans have had enough with kids having sex mutilation surgery.

We've had enough of this stuff.

We've had enough of this being forced to be taught to kids in school.

We're done with this.

And yet, what do they do?

They go for it.

They go for it.

Wait till you hear this stuff that they have being taught in college.

H-1B visas, people are up in arms.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and other companies claim we don't have enough engineers, which, by the way, that's crap.

They just hired cheap people from other countries.

That's what happens there.

We don't have enough.

Really?

Do you know what they are teaching

even in Ivy League schools?

Do you know what they are teaching in schools?

Wait till you hear it.

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Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year.

It's all happening.

It was night six for Hanukkah and my household last night.

And my wife got me a great Hanukkah present, a fake news button that she's not letting me bring into work.

So she told me this is a gift for you, but every time you say something I don't like, she's hitting the button where it's Trump's voice.

One of his seven quotes they have in this little machine where he talks about your fake news, you're rude, you're rude, you're just fake news.

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It's it's pretty easy.

You ever try buying things for a woman?

Good luck buying clothes, unless it's those kinds of clothes.

And even then, you get the side eye.

Anyway, let me get to what is being taught at all kinds of different universities.

This is some of my favorite stuff right here, okay?

Boston University.

This is where AOC went.

We're told all these colleges and universities are great.

What a waste.

What a scam.

Campus reform with the story.

Boston University to offer graduate level course.

Wow, graduate level?

Featuring trans saints and gender-fluid angels.

Trans saints, gender-fluid angels.

The broad theme for the course is, you ready for it?

Medieval trans studies.

So now we are apparently to believe

that in the Middle Ages, there were trans people.

Now, I like J.K.

Rowling.

I've never seen Harry Potter, never seen any of that stuff.

I actually enjoy women.

So, and I have Dungeons and Dragons story too.

I've never played that because, once again, I actually enjoy women.

So

we're now apparently led to believe Boston University is trying to tell us that transgender,

this whole

myth, this whole,

is it a psyop?

Is it the Chai Comms that are pushing this on us to mess with our society?

I don't know.

But we're now being told that this goes back to apparently medieval times, the Middle Ages.

What's going on here?

The description on Boston University's webpage for spring 2025 course options.

Medieval trans students.

Students are going to study the deep histories of transgender

embodiment that's found in various texts from the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages.

Now,

I'm pretty sure if there was a dude in the Middle Ages, and I'm not wanting this to happen, but I mean, you can imagine the brutality of the world back then.

If some guy was like, you know what?

I'm actually a woman.

I'm going to wear that woman's dress right there.

I don't think it's going to go over well with the people that had power in the Middle Ages.

Do you think that really happened?

I mean, mentally ill people can be around at any time, I guess.

By the way, medieval trans studies can be counted toward a master's or PhD in English.

I swear, part of this has to be just done done on purpose by libs and companies and corporations that donate to universities to not have a plethora of computer programmers and engineers so they can use H-1B visas to get cheap labor.

It just seems that way to me.

At the same time, again,

I think the H-1B visa program is a giant scam where companies, corporations could just hire people on the cheap.

I can get into this.

There was a story about how, I mean, giant tech companies, Google, Amazon, they have fired tens of thousands of Americans and rehired foreigners for a lot cheaper.

H-1B.

Anyway, back to this, and back to this story.

Students are going to study all kinds of different sexual and gender identities, even though gender is non-real,

from a period of time that has apparently begun in the year 500 AD.

Description says, expect to read about

hermaphrodites, gender fluid angels, uh ethiopian eunuchs i'm not making this up trans saints sex workers and gender queer monks

gender queer monks

excuse wait what

i remember when we were looking for a school a charter school for my two boys and it's great i like i don't want them indoctrinated i want nothing like that happening i want them to be taught science and english and history and it was great right everything was great.

And again, I've talked about this maybe yesterday.

The school, the kids are at desks, they have chalkboards.

It's traditional.

They say the pledge every day.

They do a moment of silence.

I mean, it's Veterans Day program, all this stuff, right?

I remember I looked at the

assistant principal.

I said, everything looks good, sounds good.

I just want to make sure my kids aren't being...

influenced by a teacher making up history and she stopped me said we don't do that here i said i'm good but at Boss University, you go into major debt to learn about Ethiopian eunuchs and genderqueer monks.

Oh, I have more of this.

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Garrett Lewis, in for Glenbeck on the Glen Beck program.

I do afternoons on KFYI and Phoenix and KNST in Tucson.

So glad to spend the last day of 2024 with you.

And as we usher in 2025, we want to usher out insanity, right?

Wars, an open border, inflation, wokeness, DEI,

all of that stuff.

All of that stuff.

We want to get America back to what it was, not this insane place where it seems like people that dye their hair these wacky colors and they think it looks nice.

They rule the roost like we've had with them.

You ever see those people, by the way?

They walk around, they have like this blue hair or purple hair or like green hair.

You can tell it's like a whole, it's, it's, if they paid for it, they are suckers.

It's like a home job.

And you're like, I mean, do you look at that?

You're like, yeah, this is good.

This is, this is really good.

Anyway, we also want to get rid of men in women's sports.

Can we finally be done with that?

And, and I mean, like, every single kind of sport there is.

See, this is a big problem that I have, too.

This is another wacky thing happening on a college campus.

Cornell University.

Allegedly smart people go to Cornell University.

They have a pole dancing club.

Okay.

Now, I firmly believe pole dancing is strictly a women's sport.

I want to keep all men out of pole dancing.

There is no reason for men to be on the pole, none at all.

If I were to go to Cornell, I probably would volunteer for this club to help with

windexing.

I don't know.

But you're at pole dancing club.

But it's Cornell.

Okay.

The Pole Dancing Club is paid for with student fees.

And apparently the people that run the Pole Dancing Club want to ruin pole dancing.

This is what liberals do, right?

They ruin women's sports by putting men in there.

They want to ruin pole dancing by now hosting trainings for trans.

which are men that think they're women.

I mean, pretty sure if they're wearing a short skirt or something and they go upside down on the pole, you clearly tell it's a guy.

They want to hold trainings for trans and plus size students.

Plus size.

I mean, fat students.

I'm going to just guess that pole dancing is a difficult thing to do.

You have to be in pretty good shape.

You know, you walk in at 275, you're not going to be able to get up that pole very much.

So can we please keep pole dancing the way it's supposed to be?

Not a Cornell.

Can we get rid of this as we we get to 2025?

The pole dancing club at Cornell has a social chair.

The group social chair told the Cornell student newspaper, people think whole is for a very narrow group of people.

I agree with that.

A lot of people assume that men can't do poll or it's a woman-only sport.

It's not true.

No, it totally is true.

Isn't this crazy?

The poll.

we do a lot of these different kinds of events in the hope of being able to expand and show people that poll is not just this one thing anyone can do poll and anyone can enjoy poll these are actual quotes

anyone can do poll anyone can enjoy poll

oh boy

which is why the cornell student group called the poll posse hosted workshops for trans, non-binary, and fat dancers.

I could call them fat.

Why call them plus size?

What the hell's the difference?

It is what it is.

So

they want to be diverse.

This is the problem, again, with DEI, all this stuff.

No, no, no, nobody wants this.

Through their

diversity initiatives, they said, we do not tolerate body shaming, ability shaming.

Oh, that's a new ability shaming.

Of course, good luck in life

or gender discrimination.

Shaving is also not required.

Body hair is fine, the group states.

Oh, this is everything about this is wrong.

Everything about it is wrong.

So once again, wacky liberals have ruined the art and sport of pole dancing by bringing in men and people that just shouldn't do it.

It's that simple.

Right?

The basketball team, I mean, if you're like five foot two, you'd have to be really, really, really good.

Like Muggsy Bogue's good, Spud Webb good.

um they're not going to be like you know we need to make sure that when you play basketball it's it's for everybody go ahead try it for the cornell ice hockey team it's for people that can't even skate no it doesn't work that way so i'm hoping that we can usher this garbage out in 2025

i don't know if it's going to happen but uh i mean we could always hope we could always pray that only uh good-looking hot chicks get a chance to do the pole dancing.

And I think we could all agree to that, can't we?

I'm not going to do it.

Not at all.

So, what's going on at colleges and universities?

Are they really getting rid of this stuff?

There was a headline that I saw: University of Iowa to close gender and sexuality studies department.

Eliminate social justice major.

What?

And you're like, okay, this is pretty cool, right?

Like this, we could be doing something good here.

They're getting rid of this.

Fantastic.

But are they?

Now, what's funny is that, again, this is complete liberal stuff.

It doesn't matter if it makes sense.

Well, spend your money.

So they're closing the American Studies and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies Department, eliminating the social justice major combined to have fewer than 60 students.

What kind of a job can you get?

Besides being like somebody that runs an HR department or who knows what?

What can you possibly do?

Are they really getting rid of these though is the question.

And even though it said that,

it really kind of isn't.

University of Iowa, they have a dean named Sarah Sanders.

And

it says here, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Yeah, sure, they'll get rid of this.

It's, you know, oh, we're going to get rid of this whole thing, the DEI, we're getting rid of it, the gender and women's studies, we're getting rid of that stuff.

But they're replacing it, really.

They're replacing it.

During a Board of Regents meeting, they said they're going to get rid of that, but also create something new, because why not, right?

Why not?

Quote, we're excited to reposition these programs for the future.

What?

The creation of a school of social and cultural analysis would allow us to build on our considerable legacy in areas that are essential to our mission while creating more sustainable structures and room for innovative new curricula.

What?

Yeah.

So instead of basically calling it women and gender studies, gender women's study, whatever the hell it is, never a men's studies, by the way.

We're very simple creatures.

That's why.

They're simply renaming it at the University of Iowa.

Don't fall for this stuff.

The School of Social and Cultural Analysis.

Again, how do you get a job with that?

When they met back in February about creating this new school, they said, if created, this school would house various fields like gender, women's, and sexuality studies, Latina,

Latino, and Latinx studies.

So apparently it's not going to be just gone just right then and there.

It's not going to be gone.

So even though we want to get rid of the woke, we want to get rid of this stuff, the liberals always seem to find a way around it.

All right, we're not going to do this.

I guess Iowa has some kind of a law that says you can't have these kinds of

stupid classes or majors anymore.

There was a change to DEI-based education.

There was a law limiting state universities from funding DEI offices.

So they simply changed the damn name.

They changed the name.

This is what we're dealing with.

I mean, speaking of DEI,

there's something else that I thought we would completely get, you know, just get rid of.

But apparently, this isn't going away either.

But this is actually pretty good.

It's actually not bad.

It's actually not.

I think we're all going to be better off because of it.

Listen to Kamala Harris, because speaking of DEI, Kamala Harris

advisor, Simone Sanders.

I don't think the world has seen the last of Vice President Kamala Harris.

I don't know how she will show up again, but she is a young politician who garnered over 75 million votes in this election, and she will be back.

She will be back.

You don't know where you're going to see her again?

Is she going to finally do the McDonald's drive-through?

Is that where we're going to see her?

Is she going to actually get a job at McDonald's this time?

Dude, the fact that Kamala may be the worst candidate ever to run for president in the history of this country, the fact that Democrats are like, no, no, we want Kamala back.

It's going to be fantastic.

This is great.

She has accomplished nothing.

America has realized that.

Let her do it.

You know what?

Go be governor of California.

It's going to work out great there.

It's going to work out great.

You know, there were so many jokes you could say to it.

This if you want more time.

I don't think the world has seen the last of Vice President Kamala Harris.

I don't know how she will show up.

Should we ask Willie Brown?

How will she show up?

Is it going to be something in that effect?

So, okay, we're trying to get rid of woke stuff, DEI stuff.

Some things are going.

Others are not.

Talking about Costco, and apparently at Boston University, they're going to talk about medieval trans studies,

renaming this stuff at universities.

Again, it's going to be a long fight.

We have to get ready for it.

And again, the other part of DEI that we're not going to get rid of is Kamala Harris.

But I think that's going to really bode well for us because the more Camela that is out there, the better it is for us because nobody wants Camela.

Nobody wants Camela.

No flipping way does anybody want Camela.

Oh my gosh.

By the way, it was

more than just the CBS reporter that apparently said the most underreported story of this year, and it really is the past four years, is Joe Biden's declining

mental

ability.

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Another network kind of touched on this, and it's even worse.

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Thank you for hanging out with me on the Glenn Beck program.

Happy New Year's Eve.

It is the last day of 2024, and we want to see some change going into 2025, don't we?

Oh, yes, we do.

So Jan Crawford, CBS,

I played it yesterday.

And if you missed it,

these people are just beyond repulsive.

I mean, they really are.

Apparently, you had five dopey journalists standing around or sitting around a table on CBS News, Face the Nation, trying to figure out what was the most underreported story.

What could we talk about things that we refused to report and called underreported?

And if you missed it,

she actually said this.

That would be, to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognizant decline that became undeniable in the televised president.

There you go.

Of course, he had a basement campaign, if you remember.

I mean,

they barely said words running for president in 2020, and they're acting like this is something new, like this is something new.

So they weren't the only ones, by the way, to say that.

CNN, oh, yes.

CNN.

I don't know who this lady is at CNN, but again, in the real world, if she had a real job where it actually counted for credibility and merit, she would be fired because she is that stupid.

I don't want you to drive off the road if you're driving, if you're shaving, listening to me.

Put down the razor, chew and swallow your breakfast or whatever you're eating right now because this is that crazy on CNN.

It was very disturbing to learn late in the year about just how

bad, how poor his health has become.

His health, like many, I did not realize that it had gotten to that point.

Hang on, hang on right there.

I hadn't realized.

Lady, send me $200 and I'm going to make you the owner of the Brooklyn Bridge.

I'll write it out on a piece of paper.

You own the Brooklyn Bridge.

Signed Garrett.

200 bucks.

You get it.

Not a problem.

I had no idea.

Wow, you are such a journalist.

You're so observant.

You had no idea that going back to the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden wasn't brain dead and everything else, all the falls, all the gaps.

I have, this is my favorite.

We'll get more to her in just a second, but this, this is my, out of all the things that Joe Biden has tried to say,

this might be my favorite.

He was standing on the White House lawn in front of a podium with Kamala to his left and the crazy radical Supreme Court justice that he just nominated, Katanji Brown Jackson to his right.

And Joe Biden Biden said this.

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

I was going to put him

off.

Yeah, that's exactly what I would have described it at as well.

So that's my favorite thing that Joe Biden tried to say.

And there was a lot of that.

There was a lot of that.

But let's go back to this CNN lady who is about to, if you think it couldn't get any worse, oh, it does.

Hang on.

That being said, I think he's still, look, he showed up for the job.

He got the work done.

I think some of the accomplishments also in the Middle East and foreign policy.

I got it.

His accomplishments in the Middle East and foreign policy.

She actually said, normally in the real world, they'd be like, get her off the air.

Like, she's just destroying us.

Nobody could take us seriously.

But it's CNN.

We'll also stand the test of time.

You think the Middle East is in better shape today than Taking Office?

Well, I think he got our hostages home.

I think that's the thing we don't think it's important.

I'm sorry, which hostages?

He's gotten a number of people home.

Yeah, there's still 100 people over there.

Yeah, including Americans.

Including some Americans.

look that's right she actually said that

she actually said that

great great the middle east a lot of accomplishments

got the hostages oh my god these people are nuts cnn go out of business soon will you coming up uh democrat a democrat activist finally admits and he's shocked at how racist he is and the democrats are and why Camela lost and Trump once coming up Garrett Lewis in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program

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People are asking, how the heck did the Democrats lose?

Was it all Biden?

Was it Camela?

Was it the economy?

Was it illegal immigration?

Oh, I think it was all of the above.

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It's coming up in 60 seconds.

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I do the afternoon show in Arizona.

It's on in Phoenix on KFYI and on in Tucson on KNSD.

So glad that you are here with me.

It's been a fun four days.

And I think I may be back at certain points in 2025.

So that's just great.

What's not going to be back in 2025 are these Democrats.

You know, one thing I've learned, and I really focused in as just as a person, but definitely as a talk show, but as a person,

after the China virus happened and seeing our rights going away and the money involved and people cashing in is, you know, maybe I was late at the game.

Maybe you know this, but I mean, politics is such a huge business.

It is like crazy.

The amount of money that is spent, I mean, you saw it, it happens locally too, by the way, wherever you are, locally, statewide, nationally.

You saw how Camela's people blew through a billion dollars and still ended up in debt.

Anyway, you have a lot of people that I'm just sorry, they're just not that smart.

They're just not that smart.

And these strategists,

why do politicians have to pay strategists?

Can you just be you,

consultants, and strategists, and this and that?

Well, listen, I grew up on Long Island and I escaped, but growing up on Long Island, I thought everything was great.

Like if you grew up in New York, you think there's no place better and there's no place that you'd want to be.

And as soon as I hit the age of 21, I'm like, I got to get the hell out of here because it's just too hard to make it on Long Island.

It's too expensive.

It's crazy.

The taxes, this, that.

And I got out.

I got out.

You're in your bubble, right?

And a lot of people are in bubbles wherever they may live.

But this New Yorker, he sounds like a New Yorker to me, a Democratic strategist named Jeffrey Pollack.

He was,

I guess, sitting and talking about what it was like being a Democratic strategist during this election, trying to figure out a strategy for Democrats to get

voters.

And here we go.

This is where these liberals think they're just nice people, and it turns out they're flat out racists.

I mean, that's really what they are.

He's talking about, and I want you to hear this, this is incredible stuff.

And this is why Democrats, I don't think, have a chance unless they just change on a dime.

And I just don't see that happening.

I just don't see them having a chance.

Of course, Republicans have to do their part too.

So here he is talking about what it was like to have focus groups with Hispanic voters in South Texas.

So what Hispanic voters did in many ways across this country is vote with their wallets.

But there's also,

it is also clear when you think about what happened in a place like South Texas on the border,

that sure, that the economy is a part of it, but also their clear hostility about immigration,

which to many of us in blue states and sitting in a place like New York seems like, well, how can that be possible?

Hang on, it's right there.

How can Hispanics

be against illegal immigration?

What a racist statement.

I mean, I think you have brown skin.

People look like you.

Why would you not want more of them here?

Because we don't know who they are.

It doesn't matter what color they're.

I mean, especially now when Biden let people in from like over 180 countries, they're coming from China.

They're coming from Russia.

They're coming from all kinds of places, Middle East.

But apparently, well, if you look like me, okay, I am a white guy.

I'm a white guy.

I'm a white Jewish guy.

If all of a sudden, white Jewish guys come in from whatever country they're coming from, I'm like, nah, I don't know who you are.

You're going to stop.

I don't know anything about you.

I don't give a, you know what about

that you're white, that you're this, you're that.

No, you're not here legally.

But yet, here we go.

And listen, here in Arizona, we had to live through John McCain.

Oh, do you want to talk about an overrated, flipping guy?

Jeez, man.

John McCain tried his very best to convince people in Arizona that the Republicans have to support amnesty if we're going to get Hispanic voters to vote for us in the future.

We'll lose the party.

And I'm like, I've said it for years.

I've been here for a long time.

That John McCain saying that was just a flat out racist, just like liberals that say the same thing, flat-out racist.

John McCain

was absolutely awful, but that's what he said.

And then, of course, that's why I love it.

And the whole McCain clan, the whole McCain family, they're just problems.

The McCainites that are still in Arizona, they're problems.

They act like they care.

All they want is cheap labor.

So let's get back to this guy who go back a little bit where he's like, man,

this is just crazy.

And Hispanics in South Texas want to stop illegals.

And sitting in a place like New York seems like, well, how can that be possible?

But I would sit, and I said this to Basil before, I would sit in focus group with Hispanic voters.

They would talk about immigration, and you would swear to God, you were sitting in a room with a bunch of cranky white guys from Missouri.

With a bunch of cranky white guys from Missouri.

This is a white guy, too, by the way.

So this guy's amazed.

He's like, man, I'm Jeffrey Pollock out of New York, a white guy, and I think the border should be wide open.

And I'm talking to Hispanic guys in South Texas, and they're telling me they should shut the border.

How is this even possible?

And this is how you know Democrats have no clue.

This guy, by the way, just like the people in the last hour I played from CNN and CBS,

reporters, journalists that apparently could not even observe or figure out that Joe Biden is mostly brain dead.

They're like, we had no idea that his mental sharpness was taking a hit.

No idea.

We couldn't ask him any questions of the 2020 campaign.

We're not going to say anything.

We just don't want Trump.

So they are clueless and they should be fired.

If you're a Democrat strategist and you don't realize that people that live on the border,

Hispanics

don't want people crossing over their land.

They don't want to deal with this mess.

They don't feel safe.

You shouldn't be a Democratic strategist.

Like to me, this guy talking is like a blinking red light to others that are running for office of don't hire me.

Whatever I tell you will be wrong.

and what a racist thing to say

so cranky old white guys are against illegals

there are black people in chicago that are against illegals hispanics in south texas against illegals

this is what we have but wait there's more um not hispanic voters when you were talking about immigration um and so the flaw there is that the immigration that the sort of mass increase in immigration which happened um in the first couple of years of the Biden administration, that will have been one of the great

reasons, potentially,

that we lost.

Potentially.

So this democratic strategist, just like the journalists and the left media, they couldn't figure out

that a giant open border that let in 10, 15, 20 million people we don't know, gang members out the wazoo.

You couldn't figure out that Americans of all different ethnicities were against this.

You couldn't figure that one out.

And you're a strategist.

Yeah, I know it's shocking, right?

Oh, how are we supposed to figure that out?

That's crazy.

That's insane.

This is why they have no chance.

As long as we do what we're supposed to do, it should be okay.

It should be great in 2025.

It should be awesome in 2025.

for the country.

We have work to do in Arizona where I am, but it should be awesome.

It should be awesome.

Yeah, Americans are against this.

Story in the New York Post, an exclusive today.

Knife-wielding Trende Aragua gangbangers.

You know the Venezuelan gang?

They're repeatedly attacking border crossings in a desperate move to force their way into America before Trump takes office.

Wait a second.

Hispanics are against this too?

You don't say.

So you have Venezuelan gang guys

having knives in their hand, and they are mobbing border crossings in El Paso, Texas, trying to break into America.

And they've come out and said this violent Venezuelan gang that the media tried to tell us didn't really exist,

they said they're going to attack border guards that try to stop them.

This is all according to a Texas law enforcement memo that was leaked to the New York Post.

Last week, 20 of these Venezuelan gang members,

they were armed with blades, knives, tire irons, broken liquor bottles.

They tried to force their way into America at a border gate.

This is all from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

They're now warning of another attempt

on New Year's Day.

Another attempt on New Year's Day.

And apparently they want to get here before Trump gets in so they have a chance to just disappear into America.

Yep.

Retired agent for Homeland Security Investigations, Victor Avia, said, you're seeing that violence at the border because they know it's going to change in 27 days.

That's somebody said, wow, it's going to be less than that.

It's, I mean, now, what do we, what are we, night, 20 days?

20 days?

Yeah, 20 days.

You're going to wake up in three weeks on a Tuesday, and Trump's going to be president.

Yeah, Texas authorities were told that these Venezuelan gangbangers were going to try to force their way into America by an anonymous enforcement, informant, excuse me.

And they said the violent border break-ins by this gang would continue every night at around 3 in the morning.

And the gang intends to cause harm to the Texas National Guard soldiers who are stationed there, especially when they're left alone with no agents to help them.

Wow.

Texas law enforcement source told the New York Post, gunfire has picked up big time.

along the El Paso border in recent days, adding authorities have had to fire more pepper balls at groups trying to breach the border.

So, this is what's happening, and yet you heard this guy,

Jeffrey Pollock of New York, say, Man, it's just crazy.

These Hispanic guys from South Texas

just sound, I mean, for God's sakes,

they just sound

like cranky old white guys from Missouri.

What a racist and dumb thing to say, isn't it?

Jeez.

So

you have to treat these gangbangers.

And what is Joe Biden doing, by the way?

Nothing.

Nothing.

He's going to let them in.

This retired agent said you have to treat them like terrorists because they're like terrorists.

They'll kill, destroy, take over businesses, take over stores, take over apartment complex, do whatever it takes to destroy our way of life in America.

And at least he had the governor of Texas.

He declared this gang a foreign terrorist organization.

So, this is what we're dealing with.

They're trying to get in at the last possible

second.

And

you want to know a big reason why the Democrats lost, and I consider it a big loss for Joe Biden.

Joe Biden still would have lost, just like Kamala did.

It's because people had enough with this.

They had enough of it.

And there's more, too, by the way.

Politico had a story

about Joe Biden, what he was supposed to do, and he failed to do it.

He was supposed to transform our country into a green country,

climate change jobs, technology jobs, all this stuff.

And they're like, we think this is why Joe Biden also is leaving as a giant failure, right?

Giant failure.

Look at this.

We're saying goodbye to Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden at the same time.

Two worst presidents in the history of the country.

Some of the, and even the Democrats, even Democrats are admitting Joe Biden failed big time, and you have to hear it.

I have it for you coming up.

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So Joe Biden, and this is just awesome.

This is the theme, right?

Democrats are trying to figure out why they lost.

How did they lose?

What is going on?

And it was the open border, even though Democrats still don't get it, right?

They still don't get it.

And of course, we have the great news that Kamala is not going away.

Camela is coming back.

Simone Sanders, if you missed this, Simone Sanders, a top advisor to Kamala, went on MSNBC.

Nobody watched it.

I get it.

And she said this.

I don't think the world has seen the last of Vice President Kamala Harris.

I don't know how she will show up again, but she is a young politician who garnered over 75 million votes in this election, and she will be back.

She's 60.

She's young.

She's young.

Nancy Pelosi's 84.

Joe Biden is mostly dead.

She's young.

Bernie Sanders is, what is Bernie, 85?

80 something?

Right?

Democrats, they are.

A lot of these politicians, they just want to die in office.

I mean, Diane Diane Feinstein, oh my God.

Remember, look, you just had a Republican congresswoman in Texas.

She has been missing for months.

Nobody could find out where she was.

And a local reporter down in the Dallas area did a little searching and found her living.

Kay Granger, I believe her name is.

They found her living

in a nursing home for Alzheimer's patients.

And nobody told any of the constituents that she

is there and she was still a congresswoman.

She's been there for months.

Anyway,

why did,

and we need more Kamala because if the best they have is Camela, we are good.

This is so awesome.

I mean, look, we got rid of the rhinos.

We're trying to get rid of the rhinos.

What do the Democrats do?

They're not getting rid of anybody because they can't.

They are controlled.

So why did Joe Biden lose?

How did he lose?

How did Kamala lose?

How did the Democrats lose?

Border, uh the economy everything that they pretty much did okay

pretty much

everything

and and I I guess the left the media they're finally admitting Joe Biden was a failure now they did you notice Politico had a story about this and Politico they did not politico.com they didn't report that Joe Biden has failed and Kabla has failed with all of their policies and initiatives before the election but now that they're going away

now they're writing they're reporting, man, I guess it just didn't really go as well as we needed.

So the political story says Biden spent the first half of his presidency enacting plans to put at least $1.6 trillion to transform our economy into a clean energy revolution.

All that did, of course, was add to the debt and cause inflation.

Yep.

And there are apparently hundreds of billion dollars, billions of dollars left.

So we should take those and pay off debt and just enough is enough, right?

Give me my money back.

So,

again, this is hilarious that the lefty politico website, now after the election, reports a wide-ranging examination of Biden's spending and tax policies.

It shows signs that his efforts could leave a lasting mark, but his agenda has yet to take hold.

He put money for everything, right?

Batteries, solar cells, computer chips, clean water, supposedly.

And what did he get?

A failure.

Do you remember?

He put Camel in charge, $42 billion to expand broadband internet service, and not one household has ever been connected to it.

$42 billion?

$7.5 billion for those electric car chargers?

Do you know how many he has?

47.

7.5 billion.

It was 47 stations in only 15 states.

But do you know why they didn't build that many electric car charging stations?

Oh,

it is so good.

It is so good.

And I'm going to tell you why.

It's like they're eating their own.

They couldn't do it because

they're lefties.

I have it for you coming up.

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So I was just telling you the failures, right?

Joe Biden, the Democrats, their giant failures.

Why would the media ever, ever, ever report the failures before the election?

Now that the Democrats have lost, now the media is admitting, man, we didn't really ask enough questions about Joe Biden's mental state.

And, oh, oh, some of these giant trillion-plus dollar spending programs to green America, supposedly green America.

I hate that.

I don't even say Greens America.

It's just a scam.

Those haven't worked either.

Oh, again, where was your reporting before the election?

You can't hate the media enough.

You just, you simply can't.

Okay.

It's impossible.

It's impossible.

So remember, $42 billion to expand broadband.

And not one household was ever connected.

Good job, Kamala.

And they're bragging, we're going to bring Camela back.

She's young for us.

She's only 60.

$7.5 billion to get electric vehicle chargers installed.

47 stations have been installed in 15 states.

That's it.

By the way, they break easily.

I know people electric cars and they're awful.

So why is this happening?

Why is this happening?

When it comes to electric vehicle chargers, why are they failing so much?

This is the best right here.

This is the best from the transportation website, from the transportation.gov.

If you want to put put in, like if your company, because they don't just, the government's not going to just put them in, they're going to give companies money to install the electric chargers.

That's what the $7.5 billion is for, right?

So you have to qualify for a grant to get paid by the federal government to then install the electric charger.

And like any other contractor, right?

I mean, you want to make a profit on that.

So to qualify, this is from the transportation.gov website.

In order to qualify for a grant to install the EV chargers,

you have to be full DEI.

Applicants must demonstrate how meaningful public involvement,

inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project's life cycle.

What?

Yeah.

You can't be like, listen, we can install X amount of chargers for this price.

We're good.

That's how it's supposed to work.

But I guess the real reason is not just that electric cars are stupid, in my estimation.

I just, it's just not necessary.

But you do what you do, you do you.

The Biden regime said if you want to qualify for the money to install this, to make money, you have to demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project's life.

What?

What in the Sam?

You know what is

going on?

That's crazy.

Nobody even knows what that means.

What is public involvement?

So they basically want you to put in a disadvantaged community.

So they want you to put in a socioeconomic.

They want you to put in a poor community.

Do a lot of poor communities have extremely expensive cars?

Good luck finding a cheap car to begin with, then a cheap electric vehicle.

And you're going to have to put charging stations there

and you'll install it.

They'll pay for it.

And then you have to make money by people using it.

Nobody's going to use it.

So the Department of Transportation was going full DEI,

which is why they could only install 47 charging stations in 15 states.

I mean, I,

look, I do research on talk shows.

This is what I do.

I'm lucky enough to do it.

And I'm sure a lot of talk show hosts, and you may have heard them, and I'm sure Glenn talked about it too.

We sat back and at the time, I think it was like eight charging stations were installed.

Now it's up to 47.

And we're like, God, the government is just so stupid.

It's not just because the government is just so inept and slow and bureaucratic.

I mean, it is.

It's like times a million now.

How do you answer that?

The Department of Transportation notes it should involve, quote, intentional outreach to underserved communities.

So there you have it.

And now this is why

Joe Biden and the Dems,

this is exactly why

they lost.

Good luck with that.

Again, none of this was ever reported beforehand.

Okay?

None of it was ever reported beforehand but now that they lost now we'll talk about the failures now we'll talk about how inept and stupid and everything all these stupid you know what they called it the inflation reduction act it was the green new deal that's what it was

that's what it was

and they point out how biden has failed

um joe biden was supposed to have a 50 cut in in climate emissions.

Wasn't even close.

They're just literally talking about his failures.

Why wouldn't they talk about the failures of the first four years when he was running?

Wouldn't that be nice?

Bunch of liars.

Again, can't hate the media enough.

You know, something else that happened too, where I am in Arizona,

in Anthem, which is in the West Valley of Phoenix, Northwest Valley of Phoenix, you want to talk about DEI going full crazy, just in case you didn't know.

The chip, you ever heard of the Chips Project?

That's where Joe Biden said, I'm going to to take, what, about $8 billion of your money and give it out to like Intel and others and whatever else to build a giant chips facility to make our own processing chips, right?

Microchips, things like that.

Well, it's taken a very long time to get this going.

And apparently, the reason why it's taken this long as well is, I mean, after, I hope you can guess it after I just told you.

Yeah, it's DEI.

This is what This is the Democrats.

They want to accomplish these things, but they are such losers

and they're all into feelings and emotion and so-called fairness, but they're not fair, that they kill their own ideas.

They can't actually establish goals.

They don't know how business works.

I think Biden gave $8 billion to Intel.

By the way, Intel recently laid off how many Americans?

There's $39 billion

in the CHIPS Act.

It's for grants, right?

We need semiconductors.

We need the factories.

We need to be able to build these.

This is what we need.

This is what needs to happen.

So the reason that it took has taken a long time is because it's loaded with DEI stuff.

This CHIPS Act, and you'll hear some politicians brag about, oh, I want a CHIPS Act.

We're not going to be held hostage anymore.

We saw what happened with the China virus.

We couldn't make anything.

We were short on that.

We'll do it ourselves.

Didn't you know the CHIPS Act itself itself has 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups?

There's one part of this law, the CHIPS Act, that creates a chief diversity officer at the National Science Foundation.

What?

There's a section of the CHIPS Act called the Opportunity and Inclusion, right?

It talks about the Department of Commerce.

It must work with minority-owned businesses and make sure CHIP makers increase the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce.

Yeah, this is why this is not taken off.

We're America.

We need to cut red tape.

We need to cut regulations.

We need to just build.

That's what we need to do, but we need to build.

But here's the problem also.

Not only is it hard for these

businesses, right, these companies are going to build the chips.

It's actually hard for construction companies.

to build the actual factories that are going to build the chips because there's so much DEI in there.

In this CHIPS Act, I don't know if you know this or not, but it requires chip makers to submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color and justice-involved individuals.

Do you know what a justice-involved individual is?

An ex-con.

That's what it is.

An ex-con.

They have to employ all those people, or they're not going to get the grants to actually do the work.

That's what it comes down to.

And there's construction companies that are saying, we can't even do this because we can't find enough people.

We can't find enough people to work at our companies, construction, and even the chip makers themselves.

There's a company called TSMC.

They're Taiwanese.

They couldn't find enough skilled workers to fit every single requirement that the DEI was demanding under Joe Biden.

They had to fly 500 people from Taiwan.

And then the local workers were mad.

You say we're not skilled enough?

And they said, yeah,

you're not.

We need to have all these other people to do it.

And these people that were ex-cons, they don't have the same skills that we need to do this.

So this is why this has never happened.

And it makes sense now, doesn't it?

Hey, yeah, like, here we go.

The chip makers that then take the grant money, they qualify for it, they are required by the Biden regime in this CHIPS Act to hire construction companies that have plenty of female construction workers,

even though less than 10% of American construction workers are women.

They have to have a certain amount of female construction workers or they can't hire them.

Can't get it going.

They have to make sure they have child care for the female construction workers and the engineers that don't even exist yet.

They can't,

they were so delayed, and it's all because of the government.

It's all because of them.

Yeah,

this is

this is why the Dems lost.

Even when they have these ideas and goals, they can't even actually execute them because of their own stupidity.

Oh, it should be talked about everywhere.

I mean, this is

outstanding stuff, isn't it?

It's outstanding stuff.

This is why we don't have electric car charging stations.

This is, and it's, and it's government crap.

Like, who from the government's never had a job, right?

They write this.

You must demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project's life cycle.

So, the electric car charging station, demonstrate how it's going to be meaningful to the public

throughout its life.

Oh, God, incredible.

I absolutely love it.

So much more.

We got to get into, I'll get into this too in the next hour.

Apparently, lefties love, liberals love voting to raise minimum wage, right?

But there's a lefty town that has now said, you know what, this minimum wage that we voted for is so high, we are not going to tip anymore.

Excuse me.

Those kind lefties, those kind ones.

That's coming up at the top of the next hour.

They're trying to scare us here in Arizona.

Talked about the bird flu yesterday.

Well, the biggest county in Arizona is now putting out major warnings about the bird flu.

It is comical.

I have that for you coming up.

Garrett Lewis in for Glen Beck on the Glen Beck program.

This is the Glen Beck program.

Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-liter jug.

When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Oh, come on.

They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip.

Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Whatever.

You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.

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on New Year's Eve, last day of 2024.

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So before I get you about the word the bird flow, I just want to hit you one time because now that you know the reason why the electric car charging stations, $7.5 billion is produced.

Now it's, I think, 47 chargers in 15 states.

You know, it's all DEI-related and craziness about how to apply and get the grant.

Flashback to Pete Buttedge Edge, the outgoing transportation secretary.

He's a young guy that's a Democrat.

They never talk about bringing this guy back, right?

He can't really explain why at this time on Face the Nation, back in May, they only had seven or eight charging stations.

Listen.

The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021.

Why isn't that happening more quickly?

So the President's goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade.

Now, in order to do a charger, it's more than just plunking a small device into the ground.

There's utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment.

But we've been working with each of the 50 states.

Every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work, engaging them in the first handful.

Again, by 2030, 500,000 chargers.

500,000 in five years.

If you do the math, you do the division of that,

it's about 7,000 chargers a month, and they have 47.

So I just hope the money is still there.

Okay.

And it's not like a cylindris scam again where people are just claiming they're going to do it.

They get money.

They never do it.

Nobody ever tracks it down.

But it's money laundering, And Democrats and even some Republicans are big on that.

That's why they end up being millionaires once they leave Congress.

It's that in the insider trading.

But other than that, that's really how it works.

My gosh, just crazy.

So yesterday,

where I am in the Phoenix area,

there was an alert, an alert from the ABC Phoenix station.

Justin, Maricopa County officials say the virus linked with the bird flu has been detected in county wastewater.

County wastewater.

Here we go.

They are looking at people's waste.

And of course, in this story, you got to go down and down and down and down to it.

And they say there have been no detections of the viral strain of dairy cattle in Arizona, and it's only been two people.

And they say, most common way to get it is by basically touching bird crap and dead birds.

So

you're going to be okay.

You're going to be just fine.

But they are trying so hard to scare us.

Get out of here.

They actually brought on a heat czar here in Maricopa County in Arizona.

I made fun of it, and I never heard from the guy again.

I'm hoping it had a big impact.

More coming up.

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Sending off 2024, and I am so thankful that Trump won and we did well,

because it would be just a very tough pill to swallow, a tough show to do, to try to talk about how 2025 is going to be okay with Camela in there.

Very thankful for that.

One thing I want to see also go away in 2025

is this insane act of tipping for everything.

Matter of fact, liberals keep voting for a minimum wage increases, but now liberals realize we can't afford to tip.

I have that for you coming up in 60 seconds.

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So

look, 2025, can we stop tipping everybody and everything?

And I'm a guy.

Look, I grew up in New York.

He is supposed to tip everybody.

Remember the scene from My Blue Heaven with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis?

Steve Martin was the mob guy.

Rick Moranis was giving him a,

he was part of the witness protection program.

Rick Moranis was the FBI agent.

And Steve Martin gave Rick Moranis a tip when he put him in his new house in a new area with a new name.

And Rick Moranis said, you don't tip FBI guys.

And he said, sure, you do.

I feel like that's the way it is right now with everything.

Why should I give you a tip?

You are paid to make me a sandwich.

Like you go to a sandwich place, right?

You get a coffee.

Give me the tip.

Like when I go to pick up my Chinese food,

you are paid for this.

Like I grew up working on Long Island at an Italian restaurant.

When I was 16 years old, I worked at a pizza place slash Italian restaurant.

The front half was a pizza place, back half Italian restaurant.

I was a bus boy.

I also did slices, right?

You go to the front and I got paid four bucks an hour, worked the slices.

Nobody tipped me when I said, what do you need?

They said, give me a slice of cheese, give me a

slice of white, white, white pizza.

All right, put it in there, heat it up, and you go.

Nobody tips my job.

Now, everybody expects a tip because Bidenflation has screwed up everything.

Everybody needs to make more money, and then business owners pass it on to customers.

This is crazy.

And then, and then, I mean, look, you tip, of course, if you get actual service, right?

You're a bartender, you're a server, you get tips.

When I moved to Arizona in 1998,

I got a job after two days walking up and down a street in Mesa at a Red Robin that no longer exists, but I got a job there.

And

I walked to work,

about a mile walk there and back until I could afford to buy a car.

I worked my butt off.

I worked doubles.

I picked up other people's shifts.

I had nothing else to do.

I was saving up to go to college.

And

I got paid $2.13 an hour because you made tips.

It's the ultimate, it's the ultimate in capitalism.

If I give you really good service, you're going to give me a good tip.

I'm going to earn

what you give me.

And of course, there are times where you get dopes that on a $60 bill, they'll leave you a buck.

And that's just a great life's lesson that there are jerks in life.

That's how it is.

I think everybody should work in a restaurant doing something, whether it's a cook, whether it's a, I really like the front of the house stuff, the server, bartender, because you have to deal with people and you get very busy and you have to learn to work while they say, while you're in the weeds, you have to figure this stuff out.

So I made $2.13 an hour while I was a server and a bartender.

And all right, cool, right?

I was in the restaurant business from the mid-90s all the way until about 2002

when I got in a radio and took a major pay cut because that's just how it is.

And I happened to be talking to a guy that owns restaurants in Tucson, a great restaurateur,

owns three great restaurants in Tucson.

And this is going back, I don't know, eight, nine years ago.

And I'm talking to him.

And I had no idea that servers and bartenders got paid a much higher wage now.

They were getting paid.

I think it's right now, I think it's like 11 and change an hour.

And I think the minimum wage in Arizona is something like 15 bucks an hour, whatever it might be.

And he told me, he said, the crazy thing is, he said, is that if I'm not busy,

the restaurant me i have to pay the servers the difference to the minimum wage so if they only get a couple of tables i got to take money out of my pocket and make sure they make at least 15 bucks an hour

i said this is crazy

i said if it's not busy you quit you go get a job at a different restaurant that is busy He's like, it's all different.

I'm like, this is eye-opening to me now.

And then people are convinced.

There's leftists that are out there.

There's an organization called One Fair Wage.

It's led by a Berkeley professor, a hardcore socialist that is out there, and she gets funded by all kinds of people, by the way, lefty groups.

I saw that the Woody Johnson Foundation, which supported Trump, gave money to this organization.

They go to different states.

They've been in Arizona and Michigan, and they try to convince voters.

They try to get it on a ballot.

convince voters to increase the minimum wage for servers.

And they basically want to make it like Europe, where servers will get paid a crazy amount of money, 20 bucks an hour, 25 bucks an hour, whatever it might be.

But if that happens, guess what?

The price of the food has to go up and that gets passed on to the customer.

And guess what's going to happen to that boy?

The customer is not going to tip.

But Democrats, and if you are Republican and voted to increase minimum wage, you are dumb.

Mostly Democrats vote for this stuff.

And it's interesting to see the result.

There was a story at the Daily Mail about this

in Seattle.

Seattle's as far left as you can imagine.

Remember when Seattle was taken over in the summer of 11, 2020?

It was Chaz and then Chad.

They took over like six blocks, these crazy people in Seattle and the mayor, this dopey mayor lady, I forget her name, she was just like, oh, it's just fine.

It's just great.

It's lovely.

Get out of here.

So Seattle, they voted to increase their minimum wage.

It's going to happen January 1st.

It's going to keep going up.

These people keep voting this way from $19.97 an hour to $20.76 an hour.

So now that these people are making almost $21 an hour starting tomorrow, all of a sudden the lefties in Seattle are like,

I'm not going to tip anymore.

Really?

You think?

In the Daily Mail article, they talk about apparently someone who shared a Reddit post on the wage hike, picked up steam in Seattle, and they said, with Seattle's new minimum wage going into effect really soon, most food industry workers are finally reaching a level playing field.

As a result, I'll no longer be tipping more than 5% to 10%.

I'm only doing that if service is exceptional.

It's only fair.

There you go.

Any instance where I'm ordering, busing my own table, getting my own utensils, et cetera, warrants $0.

So I'm not tipping at coffee shops anymore.

Honestly, that's the way it's going to be.

It's reported that Seattle restaurants are going to add on average $45,000 in expenses each month because of the wage increase.

This is craziness right here.

But it's interesting to me how Democrats who always want to talk about fairness and all this other stuff and they vote this way and now they're not going to tip.

Now they're not going to tip.

How about them apples?

They are done with it.

So when I was talking to that restaurant owner in Tucson,

he told me that the servers, the staff, they were all about increasing the wage.

He goes, then I explained to them, do you know how much money you make

right now per hour with tips?

You make about 35 to 50 bucks an hour, depending on how busy we are.

You take this away, you're going to get your 20 bucks an hour, but you know what?

People aren't going to tip which way you're going to make more.

And all of a sudden they say, oh my gosh, you're right.

Once they got the emotion out of it, looked at the facts, all of a sudden, they realized this is bad.

This is really, really, really bad.

And this is where we're going now.

When I

was a server, I was a hustler, man.

So when I first got hired,

what happens, at least in my situation when i worked at this red robin is that there was a lead server and then i right because i'm the new guy we still i had i had a small section we both started at 11 a.m when the doors opened

and if it was slow the lead server can cut anybody he wants you know what you're cutting they want to make money they worked hard they're the lead server so i would be the first one cut then other servers would come on And these other people would be like, I don't want to work anymore.

I'll pick up your shift.

I need to make money.

And I would do it over and over and over and over.

Again, it's why to me, working as a server or a bartender, it is the ultimate in capitalism because it really is as close to you get where the harder you work, the more you're going to make.

The better you work, the better the service, the more,

the more you can upcharge.

You want some onion rings, you want this, you want, the more you can make.

I mean, I remember I would cut the cocktail waitress.

I had a full bar.

I had 12 tables up in the cocktail lounge.

And our server, they were lazy people, man.

There was every three weeks, these old ladies would come in and play canast and in a section.

I would never, I'll never forget this.

And they'd just sit there and they'd drink and order some food.

And the servers would complain.

I don't want to deal with them.

I said, I'll take care of them.

Run down to the bar.

I'd get their drinks.

You name it, blah, blah, blah.

Well, one day,

as they're sitting in a section that had tall windows you could see to the parking lot, I happened to notice there was a very large man about, I don't know, three, four hundred feet away.

I'm like, holy crap.

Kind of looks like Shaq.

But then I'm thinking, why would Shaq be in Mesa, Arizona at this time at a Red Robin?

So I ignored it, went up to the bar, making these ladies drinks.

30 seconds later,

Shaq walks in.

It was Shaq.

He had to duck to get under the door.

The door was huge.

It was seven feet.

Duck underneath it.

Biggest man I've ever seen in my life.

As soon as Shaq walked in,

I wasn't starstruck.

I was just thinking,

this guy's loaded.

He's in the NBA.

He makes a lot of money.

He does

endorsement.

He makes, I hope he sits sits at the bar.

He walked in, I guess, with his wife.

I'm assuming it was a woman and like a 12-year-old kid.

I'm like, what's going on here?

I'm hoping he sits up in the bar area.

Man, that's where he's supposed to sit.

It's the cool area, the bar area.

He sits on the restaurant floor, not on the floor, but where the tables are, right?

Just not in the bar area.

Okay.

And this is before Bidenflation.

Anyway, what he ordered,

he ordered a monster burger, which is like two patties.

I know this.

I'll never forget this.

The server that served him, very nice girl.

Her name was Elaine.

She was very excited.

The whole restaurant was buzzing.

Shaq is here.

Oh, my gosh.

This is like 1999, probably, maybe the year 2000.

Shaq is here.

Oh, my gosh, this is crazy.

So I'll never forget.

And this is before Bidenflation and everything.

You had a 12-year-old kid, a woman, and Shaq eat.

You know what the bill was?

$39.

Good luck trying to get three people to go eat in a restaurant today for $39.

so

39 bucks

we all asked elaine how much tip did he leave how much tip because we're all just wondering right and good on shaq i'll never forget it he left 150 bucks

so she served one table and walked off with 111

that's how it's supposed to work

By the way, it was pretty funny.

I want to get a glimpse of him.

So it was Monday night, Monday night.

Football's going on.

Somebody borrowed a nachos.

Thinking to myself, I'll go get the nachos, bring them back.

I'm going to walk by Shaq's table.

As I walk by, he's just huge.

He has pint glasses.

You fill the soda, the bottomless soda.

And his hand makes the pint glass look like me holding a shot glass.

And he's just

sucks the thing down.

So I'm walking by.

And I'm like, all right, now's my chance to talk to him.

Say, hey, you need a refill?

He looks at me.

Yeah, I'm thirstier than a mother bleeper, bro.

All right, you got it, man.

He was very cool, took pictures with everybody.

I wish I still had that picture.

He was just the largest man, just taught what, just the biggest human being I've ever seen in my life.

But this is how it's supposed to work.

It's supposed to work this way where you earn it.

I can't believe you work in restaurants now and you get 15 or 20 bucks an hour.

This is insane to me.

Insane.

You know, now they even tip the cooks.

Why do you tip cooks?

They get paid.

They get paid.

I was actually in Colorado Springs and there was a, for my son's hockey tournament, there was a fee on the bill, a tax,

that I saw, I go, what is this tax?

What am I paying here?

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Now, just getting back to the story about the tipping, and again, all of a sudden liberals, they want to get people to make more and more money until they can't afford to go do the stuff anymore.

And all of a sudden, they don't want to be the ones that tip.

They don't want to do that at all.

No, no, no.

So, and by the way, there was a story in the Washingtonian a couple of weeks ago about how

servers and bartenders and restaurants were upset that Trump's getting in there and the Trump regime's going to be in there and there's going to be Trump officials, but then they admitted that Republicans are much better tippers than Democrats.

So there you have it right there.

So

I was in Colorado Springs,

which is a lib town, a whole lib state, but I see this.

We go to a restaurant in between my, or after one of my kids' hockey games at a hockey tournament, and I get the check and I noticed there was like some kind of, it was like an ELA tax or something like that.

I'm like, what is this?

Ask the server.

Oh, oh, oh, okay.

She said, that's actually a tax that we pay to try to get our cooks to show up to work at night.

And I said, what?

Yeah, so it's much busier at night for dinner than it is in the day for lunch.

So the cooks really like working at lunch because they don't have to work as hard.

Trying to get them to show up at night is hard.

So there's a tax and it pools together.

And we pay them that extra money to show up to work at night.

And I'm like, where am I?

What is going on?

And that was last year when I was in Colorado Springs.

So I don't understand the whole thing about tipping cooks.

Like you choose to be a cook if you want to get paid more money because generally cooks get paid more per hour.

They're supposed to.

It's why servers get paid less.

Like

this is how it's supposed to work.

It's so frustrating.

It is beyond frustrating that something like this

goes on.

But I mean, that's why I would never want to, and I love love restaurants, man, but I would never want to own a restaurant because of this.

It's just not worth it anymore.

Just not worth it anymore.

I have some other stuff.

So I talked a lot about woke stuff in the first hour, but I didn't get a chance to do all my woke

because we're talking about insane things right now with these crazy rules to the wages and everything.

So there's just some more.

when it comes to woke stuff

and talked about how Costco wants to continue to go woke they want to keep their dei program uh good luck costco we'll see what happens what americans say about that

um now apparently and this is not something that i played because uh i i've said before i i played sports and i like chicks um

dungeons and dragons is now woke

I didn't think Dungeons and Dragons could get more dorky, but now it's gone woke.

And if you play Dungeons and Dragons, that's on you.

That's on you.

Okay.

Apparently, dungeons and dragons they have now issued new rules new rules for dungeons and dragons

you can't make this stuff up i guess there was something called species in the game they've now changed uh that was races it's now species can't be races um some character traits

are now uh no longer have a biological identity

yep

They can't you can't do that.

You can't do that.

And they are now telling the players what they can do to make sure they feel safe when they're playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Are you serious right now?

How to be safe and be in a safe place when you're playing Dungeons and Dragons?

Generally, people play Dungeons and Dragons because they want to be in a safe place instead of a football field or an ice hockey rink.

Wait till you hear this.

This is incredible.

Got to get rid of the wokeness as we head to 2025.

Dungeons and Dragons.

I've bore you coming up.

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with you here.

I can't speak over Glenn's daughter.

New

Year's.

That's a great question.

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What are you going to do for New Year's Eve?

I will not be tipping people that don't deserve it.

I'll tell you.

Oh, what I will be doing.

I will be doing.

I'll be tipping people that do deserve it and not the ones that don't.

And I over-tip like crazy being in the restaurant business.

How about that?

It won't be woke.

Be honest with you.

I will be

uh, on New Year's Eve, I will be dragged around.

It's very exciting when you have a 12-year-old and a seven-year-old because what you do on New Year's Eve is whatever makes them not go crazy.

That's what I'll be doing on New Year's Eve.

I hope you have a great New Year's Eve.

I think it's always amateur hour out there, amateur night.

So, I try to stay away from the crowds and the roads and everything like that, just to be safe.

Um, because I've seen and you've seen what can happen.

So, um,

enjoy New Year's Eve.

I'm hoping 2025 is going to be huge without an age, huge without an age.

Let me get back really quick to Dungeons and Dragons.

Um, I will not be playing Dungeons and Dragons on New Year's Eve.

I've never played Dungeons and Dragons, it's not my thing, but apparently it's gone woke.

Can we get rid of the woke stuff as we get into 2025?

What are they thinking?

Just like Costco, what exactly are you thinking?

Um, Hasbro

is doing this.

There was a report in the New York Times, Wizards of the Coast, the Dungeons and Dragons publisher owned by Hasbro, endorsed a trend throughout role-playing games in which players are empowered to halt the proceedings if they ever feel uncomfortable.

What?

Now, again, I've never played it, but isn't it just a card game?

I mean, I'll just say it.

If you're sitting Indian style for too long,

whoa, whoa, not comfortable.

How is it?

How do you feel uncomfortable playing Dungeons and Dragons?

So Hasbro,

which owns Wizards of the Coast, which publishes Dungeons and Dragons,

can't make this up.

They suggest that extended Dungeons and Dragons campaigns begin with sessions allowing players to lay out their expectations and which topics they wish to avoid,

which could include sexual assault or drug use.

Are people being sexually assaulted playing Dungeons and Dragons?

Like, I would think you are going to be the safest because it's generally people that

I picture like Big Bang Theory,

the characters from that playing Dungeons and Dragons.

What is making you do this?

Yeah.

There's a guy named Ryan Lessard.

According to the New York Times, they call him a Dungeons and Dragons master.

He's a dungeon master.

Parents are so proud.

He's a dungeon master.

He's quoted as saying what they're trying to do here is put up a signal flare to not only current players, but potential future players that this game is a safe, inclusive, thoughtful, and sensitive approach to fantasy storytelling.

What

They don't want to use the word race.

Races of people.

They're now species.

Kidding me.

Elon Musk

weighed in.

He wrote on X,

what the F is Wrong with Hasbro?

May they burn in hell.

That's what he wrote.

I'm not kidding you.

He's very angry.

Very angry.

On top of that,

there was a tweet by an editor of the Babylon Bee.

This is real.

Even though he works like Babylon B, his name's Kyle Mann,

He took a screenshot

of the latest woke rules

because in the latest woke rules,

it says here, the Dungeons of the Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide encourages players to raise their arms in an X if they are triggered by any in-game content.

You get triggered?

Playing Dungeons and Dragons?

I would think the only way a person that plays Dungeons of the Dragons gets triggered is if they see a hot girl.

That would be, whoa!

Like, again, I'm thinking guys that play it.

I'm totally stereotyping right now, and I totally can.

The guys from the movie Can't Buy Me Love with Patrick Dempsey, his buddies.

Yes.

A consultant agency, Sweet Baby Inc., described

where the game industry, the video game industry, and entertainment at large is going.

Do they not know who won the election?

They say it's going to an inclusion-focused narrative and consultation company.

They're working toward diversifying and enriching the video games industry.

Oh my gosh.

So there you go.

Can't they just leave things alone?

They ruin everything.

You know, they're ruining this.

I told you, Cornell dopey students ruining pole dancing by having trans, which is guys, and fat women do the pole dancing.

We don't need this.

Certain things, they need to be left the way they are.

It's totally fine.

Totally fine.

By the way, it was announced this morning that

Joe Biden

will be delivering a eulogy for Jimmy Carter.

Anything Joe Biden does now, I mean, I just can't stand the guy.

He's pure evil.

But just hearing him talk is just excellent.

But just in case you don't believe me, I'm not making this up.

MSNBC here.

Lie in repose here at the Carter Presidential Center for more than two days before traveling to Washington, D.C.

Once in Washington, he will make a stop at the U.S.

Navy Memorial.

That is, of course, a tribute to his service in the U.S.

Navy before continuing on to the U.S.

Capitol, where he will lie in state after a ceremony with members of Congress.

After that, there will be the national funeral service.

That is where we expect that President Biden will eulogize his predecessor, someone he has known for decades.

There you you go.

So

I'm not making that up.

I'm not making that up.

So Joe Biden is going to eulogize

Jimmy Carter.

I mean, they better hit him up with some of Hunter's magic candy to make sure he's going to be awake and alert and things like that because you never know what's going to happen.

But I do have...

I believe a preview of what it's going to sound like when Joe Biden does eulogize Jimmy Carter.

America is a nation that can be defined in a single single word.

I was going to put him in.

There you go.

That's what it's going to be.

We should all tune in.

Now, I mean, part of me is going to, as a talk show host, right, as a talk show host, I'm going to miss Joe Biden's epic disasters.

But even though I'm being greedy and selfish as a talk show host, I know for the greater good of us, the country, what needs to happen is never hear this crap ever again because he has just done his best to utterly destroy our country.

I mean, just looking back and as we usher out 2024 and we only have 20 more days of this nut job Joe Biden, who's already trying to continue to damage us, giving $4 billion over the last week to Ukraine, are you kidding me right now?

People still in North Carolina are living in tents.

This is what it's been like.

And the media is just, remember, they are just realizing that Joe Biden is not all there upstairs.

He is,

we should have asked harder questions.

They couldn't figure it out.

Of course, they could figure it out.

They just ignored it.

Yeah, here you go.

Anyway, I don't want to

make it throw me word.

The best way to get something done,

if it holds near and dear to you, that you'd like to be able to

Putin's kleptocracy

50,000 159,000 billion dollars let

and then my favorite America is a nation that can be defined in a single word

I was gonna put him

there you go

start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth do it Joe and F you if you can't handle the truth can't handle it

This version of Biden,

intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.

Not a close second.

And I've known him for years.

The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years.

If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.

There you go.

Get ready to usher out all this stuff.

All this stuff.

And maybe we'll see some major differences because people are getting their information differently.

And it's not because one thing is old.

Let's just get that out of the way.

It's because things are terrible.

Some things just stink.

They're just not good, which is why they don't watch cable news.

They don't watch MSNBC or CNN.

They don't watch network news.

Talk radio.

Listen, again, this is AM.

A lot of stations that I'm on right now are on AM.

And yet people flock to it by the millions and millions and tens of millions

because it's the content.

They can't get it anywhere else

versus what you just heard from Joe Scarborough.

Incredible stuff.

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Garrett Lewis with you in for Glenn Beck, the final segment of 2024.

And

I am really hoping we can get back to

just fun and normalcy and sanity in the world.

Do you remember before the China virus, do you remember what the big stories were that people were talking about?

Do you remember this stuff?

People were arguing about paper straws and plastic straws.

Do you remember that?

People were literally arguing about paper straws and plastic straws.

Things were so good.

The border was secure.

Gas was cheap.

Inflation was low.

The economy was booming.

The market was great.

Employment was up for everyone that we had nothing else to complain about except paper straws, which are trash.

Which recently, by the way, I saw the best thing.

I recently saw a paper straw and it was in a plastic wrapper to make sure it's sanitary.

I'm like, what are are you doing?

What is that?

What is that?

And I remember one time, by the way, I was at a restaurant in Arizona

where they brought over, the server brought over, and I'm a nice guy, but sometimes I just want to make people think, imagine that with this job, right?

I'm a nice guy.

So the server brings over a drink and it's got a stupid paper straw in this.

I'm like, I'm so sick of these paper straws.

And the server made the fatal mistake of going, well, we're just trying to make sure

that

the plastic doesn't end up in the ocean.

We want to protect everything and the environment.

And I looked at the server and I said, we're in the middle of the desert.

Tell me what trash from the desert, where we are right now, tell me what trash ends up anywhere near the ocean.

And the server just looked at me and the wheel started spinning.

So I think it worked out really, really well that way.

That was the big problem.

That was the big thing.

I hope we can get back to that.

And the other big story that was going on in the world at the time before the China virus scam,

people fighting at Popeye's chicken.

Remember that people were fighting over the spicy chicken sandwiches?

Look, we should never have this for society, but just for an entertainment aspect of things, I enjoyed every second of this stuff because people went, they went nuts.

They went crazy.

And I was loving it.

If that's the biggest problem that we have, we are in a great, great, great place.

We have work to do, but I think we can get there.

I think we can get there.

And I always wanted to know what was in those spicy chicken sandwiches that made people go insane.

Make a movie about that.

One thing that I've also learned is that,

you know, champion the champion politicians.

There aren't that many of them.

If one

is near you that you don't like, don't ever be afraid to tell them exactly what you think.

They will try to BS you and lie to you and tell you you don't understand.

Let me explain how things go.

Whenever they do that, they're lying.

Justin Trudeau, the male feminist, he calls himself a feminist all the time.

Loser, right?

Apparently, Apparently, he was on the

ski trails in British Columbia.

This is how you are supposed to treat a trash politician.

Listen to this.

Mr.

Prime Minister.

Please get the f ⁇ out of PC.

Have a wonderful day, mom.

Yeah, being sock.

That's how it's done.

That's how it's done.

Garrett, are you telling, yeah, to certain politicians?

He is horrible.

He is horrible.

When they are horrible, do you remember what he did?

He actually threatened to confiscate.

He did.

He confiscated the bank accounts of truckers that didn't want to get a COVID shot.

And that's just the start of it with this tyrant.

So yes, it doesn't have to be a Canadian politician.

It could be an American politician.

And just take it from me, especially since the China virus scam.

I know we've just met, but just take it from me.

We've done a lot of good things in the state of Arizona because you call these politicians out that you're just not used to it at all.

Even if it's one that you like, they do something bad.

Call them out.

This is how it works in real life.

You get called out in your job, don't you?

Listen, happy new year.

I hope we have a safe, prosperous MAGA year.

I think we will.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Hanukkah.

Happy New Year.

My name is Garrett Lewis.

I'm in Arizona on KFYI and KNST.

Follow me at Garrett Lewis on all social media.

Thank you to BJ for doing a great job, man.

Thank you for Glenn asking me to fill in.

Have a great 2025.

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