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Gosh, it seems almost like it was just last year when we were saying, wow, we're energy independent for the very first time.

Wow, it's the best economy since the 1960s.

Wow,

it's the lowest unemployment for minorities ever in the history of keeping records.

Do you remember those days?

Seems like yesterday, but I will tell you, we just broke another record today.

Come on, Team Biden.

It is the highest inflation in 39 years.

Yay!

Number one, we're done.

39 years, and we've finally done it.

Thank you so much, Joe Joe Biden.

We're at 6.8 official government estimated inflation.

Oh, that is.

Oh, am I right, Kamala?

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6.8.

You know how hard that is to do?

I mean, it hasn't been done.

Yeah, it hadn't been done in 40 years.

So this guy's got it done.

And his team, and by the way, Janet Yellen came out yesterday, and I think this is beautiful.

She came out yesterday to say, I think we need to start using a different word than transitory because that one doesn't seem to fit.

So.

Yeah.

Wow.

Are we right, Kamala?

Are we right?

No, we're not right.

It's certainly transitory.

That's amazing.

I mean, think of it.

From the minute they started saying transitory, we've been mocking it every day.

And then Janet Yellen comes out and says, oh, yeah, by the way, the transitory thing?

It's with us forever.

Good night, everybody.

Yeah, but they now say that it's going to end next year.

If not next year, the year after.

And if not that, I mean, then the dollar will collapse and we'll be in hyperinflation.

But don't worry about it because they have a build back better plan.

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You just pass it.

To know what's in it, you just got to pass it.

You know what I mean?

You just pass it and trust them.

Because our government on both sides of the aisle has always been so reliable and trustworthy, haven't they?

When they say, I haven't read the bill, but I'm going to vote for it because I'm sure it's good.

All of us, you know, the regular people, we all go, oh, well, I trust you too, seeing we don't even know who wrote the bill, but blanket trust, blanket trust.

I think they've earned that.

I think they've earned a blank check to

expend.

Yeah, did you see that with Mike Lee last night?

The literal blank check.

No.

In the continue, what is it called?

The continuing resolution.

It is actually one page has a dollar sign and a big blank line.

It's literally, they're asking to pass a blank check.

Fill it in after we pass it.

It's a fun time when they actually just admit it, right?

We've known they've had a blank check this entire time.

Now they just have a real blank check.

Finally, they're just saying, yes, this is reality.

Get used to it.

By the way, everything that I'm reading,

please,

I know you don't most likely,

but

you've got to take facts, actual facts, and share them with your friends that can be turned.

Stop reading the local newspapers, most likely.

I mean, I know even the Tribune and the Deseret News, they are just ripping Mike Lee apart as some sort of radical.

He is not a radical.

I mean, if particularly for Utah.

I know.

I know.

They are way out of step, way out of step.

If it's radical to

preach the Constitution and stand up for the Constitution, then yes, I'm a radical.

But we're not the revolutionaries.

We're not the radicals.

I know everybody is trying to make us seem like that.

Oh, they're dangerous.

They're dangerous radicals.

They hate government.

No, we don't.

No, we don't.

No, we hate, we hate the way this government is behaving,

but we love the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

And if we just do those things,

guess what?

Problems solved.

Is that how you pronounce that?

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes.

Let's see.

What else do we have?

Oh, we have the Jussie Smollett

verdict coming back in.

Stunning verdict.

It is stunning.

I really thought that happened.

I really thought in the middle of the night on one of the coldest years in Chicago, Jussie Smollett was going to, I don't know, grab some subway, right?

And then some eggs.

Yeah, grab some eggs and a subway sandwich in the middle of the night, again, on the coldest day and walking right there in a very very dark and dangerous area and two white guys jump out with with MAGA hats

and they say hey black man in black show

we won't have you around here

This is MAGA country now.

There's nothing more MAGA than Chicago.

And

we are in the hood of Chicago in the middle of the night with MAGA hats, and we rule these streets now.

It was very convincing.

Very convincing.

It was just, it rang true from moment one.

It did.

Didn't it?

Well, it did to people like Joe Biden in Kamala.

And Kamala Harris.

But really not anybody who was thinking.

May I just, and I hate to bring this up because Ellen Page, she's no longer with us.

No, we lost her.

We lost her.

She's no longer with us.

But here she was

on Stephen Colbert right after.

And I think this is the way America felt at the time.

Of a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jesse Smollett is a hate crime.

It's absurd.

Okay, can we stop there for a second?

It's absurd.

It is absurd because that's not what the debate was about.

The debate was, did it happen or not?

If someone actually did the things he described,

it would qualify as a hate crime in our legal system.

Yes.

we're trying to be gentle because ellen page no we lost her we lost her no longer no longer with us uh here she is of a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to jesse smollett is a hate crime right it's absurd it's absurd

isn't a debate it's not no it's not audience applause

yo steven agrees yes that's crime

i'm like really fired up tonight

you have to be fired up it feels impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and the vice president mike pence in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jesse.

I don't know him personally.

I saw him.

I sent all of my love.

Oh, yeah.

All of her love.

Connect the dots.

Connect the dots.

This is what happens.

That's right.

If you are in a position of power and you hate people.

Hate people.

And you want to cause suffering to them.

Suffering.

You go through the trouble.

You spend your career trying to cause suffering.

Oh, she's going to cry.

What do you think is going to happen?

Oh, my gosh.

Nothing, I guess, is the answer to that.

Kids are going to be abused.

they're going to be abused they're going to be the kids are going to be abused what does jesse smell with

killing themselves but uh here's the thing here's the thing none of that happened in fact you might even say the opposite happened it's like if if you just wanted to get somebody out of office so badly and you wanted to call your country racist so badly and you didn't have really enough current examples so you start making them up

that's you're dead inside you're dead inside and and that's what what happened.

And that's what happened.

Ellen Page, dead inside.

She was dead inside.

So she turned into Elliot Page.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What?

No, Elliot Page is a completely different person.

I'm sorry.

Elliot Page is a different person.

Do not dead name

Elliot Page.

I feel like this is partially our fault, this whole thing with her and him.

Do you?

Yes, I do.

Because,

you know, first of all, the Elliott Page thing is just as fraudulent as the Jesse Smollett incident.

I should point that out.

It's sad.

Sad.

We lost her.

The issue here is she has spent every moment of her waking life since making juno trying to uh have to serve penance for that because she made a mistakenly pro-life movie that people actually liked and ever since that moment she has got she's become crazier and crazier and she's a tortured soul

and uh we're sorry that we lost her but uh whoever this elliot guy is no relation nothing to do with uh with ellen nothing.

Don't you dare do it.

Don't you dare connect those two.

Don't.

I'm going to connect.

I just read a story the other day, and I think it might have been about the swimmer in, you know, the guy, the woman.

Oh, wait, the what?

Yeah.

The woman.

The woman with a ding-dong downstairs.

I don't know about that part of it.

Anyway, I'm reading it, and I don't know what story it was.

I read it three times, and I couldn't understand the story.

I couldn't understand the story because I'm like, wait a minute, what?

They, who is this?

They use plurals for singular people.

So they and them.

And

I don't know what you're even talking about.

I can't understand it.

I can't.

Seriously, you get to this point, and you see this all the time.

These news stories, you can't understand what's occurring in the world.

I would like to take a news story like that.

and give it to an adult along with a sonnet from Shakespeare and have an adult read both of those and say, which one do you understand more?

Yeah.

It is more confusing than Shakespeare.

And Shakespeare is only because it's like, you know, outdated, flowery language, old-timey stuff that you're like, what the hell does that even mean?

You see the same thing with these gender stories.

Like someone will either say something that's supposedly racist or supposedly gender horrific,

and they can't now say the words in the news stories.

So you're like, they said something something controversial, but you'll read, you can link, click, click, click.

You're clicking through link after link after link, and no one says what the offensive thing is because I guess we're all children and we can't read the words that are offensive.

Okay, so now

I just want to bring you up to date.

Jesse Smollett,

guilty on five of the six counts of lying to the police and reporting false battery and

race hate charges.

I don't know what he's going to get yet.

They're waiting for the sentencing to happen here soon.

But

I hope he gets a bad, heavy sentence.

The max penalty is a couple years, right?

Yeah, and I hope he gets the maximum penalty only because,

well,

no, let me tell you

what the report is today.

By sending him to jail,

these white people

are sending a message that it is okay

to

bash gay and lesbian and black people because now people won't report because they think that that won't be taken seriously.

Now, I don't know the mental gymnastics that you have to do, and I'm guessing there's no gymnastics.

I think that the mental gymnast looks at the kid on the bench and says, just keep sitting there, kid.

You don't have to even think about gymnastics.

Just believe what I'm telling you.

There's no gymnastics that would make this work in your head.

By sensing a guy who lied about it, you're actually restoring some of the credibility of cries of racism and sexism and everything else.

If you can just get away with making it up, which far too many times in our society recently, that's happened.

If you can just make stuff up, by the way,

this is such a source.

I'm on fire right now.

I'm on fire, like Ellen Page was.

I'm on fire with something right now.

And I have to tell you.

Okay.

Because this Jesse Smollett thing has.

Jesse, by the way.

Whatever.

Adult Jesse.

Jesse named Jesse.

Are they the same people?

No, I think so.

So I have to tell you.

Now, this happened about 20 years ago, but it's still going on today.

Elle McPherson.

She I didn't call police.

Yes, she left ropes around my wrists.

She tied me up.

She ravaged me, ravaged me, because she was like,

this is only a place

for

hot people, and you're hot.

And so I'm going to tie you up.

And she covered herself in spaghetti sauce.

And it was really tough.

It was my wife's spaghetti sauce, which is delicious, as you know.

And she was like, come on i'm covered in your favorite food and i'm like no l no

i can't go into any more details but i've

i hope people

understand

that i will be living the rest of my life

with the thought of l mcpherson

ravaging me

relentlessly because I'm so hot.

I don't mean to say that.

Don't let laugh at your

story that is obviously affecting you in such serious and dramatic ways decades later.

And if anybody denies,

if anybody, especially Al McPherson is like, I've never even heard of the guy or that big fat lump, why would I?

I want you to know that that hurts me even more deeply, more deeply.

And that if these models,

because I could go on, if these models could could get away with ravaging me

and there's no consequence and you don't believe me

because I can

act.

I just don't know what's going to become of all of us.

Do you want to be ravaged by a model?

Don't answer that

because we all know the answer is no.

It's powerful.

I'm sorry that happened to you.

Now,

are you okay?

I might be having Elle's baby.

I think that's what's happening to me.

I'm laughing again.

I've been carrying for 18 months.

I've been carrying what looks like giant fatness.

And I believe it's Elding Bears as baby.

And don't laugh because men can have babies too.

Oh, the pain of your life, Glenn.

It's terrible.

Well, if you want to look as hot as Glenn and take, I don't know, 20, 30, 50, 80 years off your life,

and you want to look a lot better for Christmas, for the holidays, and going into the new year, you might not own a time machine, so you could go back to the 90s when Glenn was hot, supposedly hot.

According to

the fact that I said to her, I'm not going to be as hot my whole life.

I'm going to turn into a fat lump.

And she said, oh, I will still want to ravage you then because that'll only be hotter.

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Thank you.

Just going to say that.

Oh, sorry.

I didn't mute.

Sorry, I had to go back into the dark part of your life.

Oh, my gosh.

It was horrible, Stu.

Because I used to admire her.

You know, I'd see her in the magazines and Sports Illustrated, and I'd be like, that is a smart woman.

That is a good woman.

And

I would not look at her sexually at all

and objectify her, but she was doing it to me the whole time.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

And I was, and I didn't even know it.

Wow.

And if we were to say that sounds like a completely made-up story, that would hurt new accusations of sexual harassment, right?

The people who actually were suffering from real claims.

It would hurt everybody else who's been ravaged by a model.

I don't know if there's a huge amount necessarily.

What is enough?

If we can just save one child from being ravaged,

I don't think there's a huge market for child ravaging amongst them.

I just don't know.

Maybe there is.

Really?

None of them talk to me.

So maybe, I don't know.

Maybe there is.

But I want to make sure you know that the audience is behind you and we stand with you and your terrible struggles of 190 McPherson.

I will tell you that Anthony Anderson, a star of Blackish, said, I'm happy that the system worked for Jesse Smollett because the system isn't always fair, especially for people of color.

I'm glad it worked out for him.

Another co-star from Empire said, I'm happy the truth has finally been set free because I knew it all along.

Those were old comments.

And

I'm wondering now if they're going to come out with a comment that, like, wow,

now that I see the case,

and I'm having a hard time saying that it didn't work for a justice, didn't work for black people because the two black people that were involved in this seemed to work for them.

So it did work for black people.

Yes, it did.

Good for them.

You just released a statement that just says, oops.

I mean, that's

what she said.

That's what she said.

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First, I want to talk to Aaron Siri.

Now,

I don't know if there's any relation to the Siri that lives on your phone,

but he is the managing partner of Siri and Glimstad.

He's a civil rights attorney.

He's the guy that has been asking Pfizer to, or Pfizer, to release the COVID-19 vaccine data.

And they said it was going to take him 50 years.

He sued them

for a FOIA release.

And they came back and said, yeah, can't do it.

In fact, we're going to need, what was it, till 2096, I think, 75 years to be able to give the 451,000 pages

to

the public to be able to look through.

They are asking for all of those pages in 108 days.

That's the same amount of time it took the FDA to review and license

Pfizer's vaccine.

So why can't we look at all of that information?

He's on with us now to tell us why this is important.

Hi, Aaron.

How are you, sir?

Good.

Good morning.

How are you?

Very good.

Thank you, A, for fighting this.

Appreciate it.

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

We've paid billions of dollars to FISA, and they won't give us any transparency.

What do you, why, what do you think you're going to find, and why are they working so hard to shut it off for the next century?

Yeah, you know, it's even worse than Pfizer not giving the documents.

It is the FDA,

the taxpayer funded agency that's supposed to be looking out for our interests that is refusing to release the data.

And as you pointed out, Glenn,

the FDA reviews those same documents in a review they said was thorough and complete and robust in just 108 days to license Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine product for use in America.

But yet when it comes to being transparent about those documents it reviewed, the documents it received from Pfizer,

it's saying that it will only produce about 500 pages a month.

So with over 450,000 pages, what that means is the documents won't be fully produced until the year at least 2096.

when most Americans today

probably will have moved on to the next world.

That makes a joke of the FDA and the federal government's promise of transparency.

And I'd like to put this in context.

The FDA has over $6 billion budget.

It has over 16,000 employees.

But the position it's taking is that it wants to allocate one person for only a week and a half each month.

to review those documents.

And why are those documents important?

Just to understand,

this lawsuit is not,

I'm an attorney, I brought the suit on behalf of a client.

That client comprised of over 70 medical professionals and doctors and public health officials from the most prestigious universities in our country, from Yale and so forth.

They're the ones who want this data because they want to conduct an independent review.

And that is so critical right now when the vaccines are failing.

We need booster shots.

Looks like it'll be every six months.

We have variants that are evading vaccine immunity.

The FDA shouldn't be hoarding this data.

It should be sharing it so that all scientists in our country can participate in finding solutions.

Aaron, do you have?

We got through Judicial Watch and a FOIA request: the secret 200-page contract

between Moderna and the

NIH and NI,

what is it?

ND

Fauci's agency.

And do you have that?

Because

that is something that shows that they are in partnership and co-own

any of the vaccines.

And

that just seems wrong here.

Really wrong.

Well,

if I may say something before I directly answer that, I will say this.

In terms of quote-unquote wrong,

stepping even further back, if I may, the federal government has given Pfizer complete immunity from liability for any injuries caused by their products.

If you're an American and you get this product and you're injured, the federal government does not let you sue them or anybody else.

You're basically on your own.

The federal government is also mandating you to take this product.

Correct.

And the federal government has given Pfizer over $17 billion.

But yet the federal government doesn't want to let you see the documents underlying its licensure.

And then to boot, as you just pointed out, on top of it, to put it in that bigger context, when it comes to Moderna's vaccine, what you said is effectively right, which is the Moderna vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine, was co-invented with individuals in NIAD, Fauci's agency within the National Institutes of Health.

A number of those individuals within NIAD, these are public servants, they have patent rights effectively, or they have royalty rights with regards to the Moderna vaccine.

So there is a handful of individuals within NIAD

who stand to earn about 100, up to $150,000 a year, not only in their lifetime, but their heirs' lifetime.

We're talking millions of dollars for Fauci's closest, probably associates within NIAD.

presumably, the ones he's worked with to create this, what he calls the miracle drug, my understanding.

And NIAD itself will also receive money.

Everybody thinks the government is totally impartial when it makes these decisions, at least financially.

And unfortunately, when it comes to the Moderna's vaccine,

that's just not the case.

We did actually a write-up on this

about seven, eight months ago, because this is not, you know, this information is publicly available directly on NIADS, the NIH's website.

They don't actually hide this.

You know, our client, iCandy, and Focus in Action Network, we have a whole write-up on their website detailing the the names of everybody at NIAD who stands to earn this money and providing all of the statutory sections and the proof showing exactly the conflicts there.

So I've never seen anything like this, especially with a vaccine.

I mean, I think Salk refused to patent it.

And, you know, we have a real tradition, especially going all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, of when it is in the public interest.

You know, generally people say, you know, this is going to help too many people.

No patent on it.

I mean, look at Elon Musk.

No patent on the stuff I'm doing.

And the government paying for all of this,

if they really truly believed that people were in peril, it's pretty evil that we would be paying with our dollars and it would go to a private firm.

And then they would block the entire world from looking at it.

I mean, this shouldn't be a privately owned thing.

If we're paying for it, if we are being forced to be able to take it, it certainly shouldn't be all black boxed.

We should be able to see everything.

At a minimum, Americans should be given the dignity.

If they have to take it and they can't sue for harm, at least they should have...

the ability to get what most people get, which is a second opinion, an independent review.

We call it peer review review in science yeah right somebody else looking at the data absolutely it's it's very concerning but i think it's in part the result of what happens when government steps in and acts really like a company um instead of instead of instead of uh working on behalf of the people let me let me put that in context the fda for example has its role is to license products based on whether in its view it's safe and effective.

That's its role.

What has the FDA done vis-a-vis the COVID-19 vaccine?

Before it was even licensed, Janet Woodcock and Peter Marks, the then acting commissioner of the FDA, and

Peter Marks, who's the head of the biologics division of the vaccine division within the FDA, they have been,

for lack of a better term, pom-pom cheerleading this product.

They have been promoting it.

to the American people.

Meaning, they put not only the FDA's reputation, but but their own reputation on the line when they did that.

They don't promote statins, they don't promote all heart medicine, which is why the FDA has no problems telling you, oh, oops, yep, problem with the heart medicine, oops, yep, problem

with this drug or that drug.

But when it comes to certainly the COVID-19 vaccine, when they have now staked their reputation on this,

it means that

any claim, any evidence, any indication that it's problematic, it causes any harm, it might be driving variants, it might be have waning immunity, it might not provide, it doesn't prevent infection transmission,

that not only reflects badly on Pfizer, in fact it hurts the federal government more than Pfizer.

And so what they now have an interest in hiding that information, it's interesting you mentioned Jonas Salk and his vaccine, which was released in 1955.

You might recall that vaccine was then withdrawn from the market after the Qatar incident.

A few years later, it was replaced by the Sabin polio vaccine.

I mean, that was a time and an era in which we could, you know, say science was, you know,

when there was an issue, our federal health authorities weren't conflicted in the incredible manner they are today, where they're receiving money for selling this product, as you pointed out earlier, for the Moderna vaccine, to acting as the promoters of the vaccine, to the enforcers of the vaccine by mandating it, and in fact, even giving any immunity for any liability for the product.

This is why the Great Reset is so dangerous, because it puts the government into public-private partnerships with all kinds of corporations.

Who is seeing this in court?

Do you think we're going to win on this as people?

Well,

I have an opposition brief due on Monday, and then I've got a court hearing on Tuesday in

Fort Worth, Texas before the judge.

And

I guess we'll all hear what the judge has to say.

And, you know, what I've told you here this morning is what I've basically told the judge, which is, look,

you the federal government wants to make it so that you can't sue for any harm.

They are saying you have to get it.

The whole point of the Freedom of Information Act, which is the statute being used to get it, is transparency.

And it provides that the documents requested under FOIA should be provided promptly.

You can't let the FDA get away with produce with over 60,000 employees and a billion or $6 billion of our money, our money

assigned one person for only a week and a half every month.

That is the height of authoritarianism, in my view.

I agree.

Aaron, thank you so much for this fight.

We'll have you on next week

after you've met with the judge and been heard in court.

I'd love to hear your thoughts afterwards.

So this is Aaron Siri.

He is the civil rights attorney that is fighting for COVID-19 vaccine transparency, which everyone on all sides of the aisle should be for this.

I mean, it's what Joe Biden said.

Are you going to take it?

If Donald Trump comes up with the vaccine, are you going to take it?

He said, well, only with real transparency.

Well, this is the transparency he said he wanted.

This is what everyone should want, especially on a product they're trying to jam down your throat, silence any questions, and force you to take.

Back in a minute.

Thanks, Aaron.

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

On my way to Florida today, this afternoon, I have an interview with Donald Trump, a sit-down, our first sit-down.

And it's going to air in January, and I'm going to try to focus,

emphasis on try, try to focus on the future and the things that

he would do to fix.

How do we fix it?

Especially if he has only four years to do it.

How does he get and scoop out that deep state?

That sounds like a smart focus.

It It seems like so much of the stuff around, especially around Trump, is always focused on the past.

Like, what happened on January 6th?

I want to know, honestly, I want to know what he's going to do to make sure that he can, I mean, because he was surrounded by people in the deep state that just destroyed, and he didn't fill the positions fast enough.

And, you know, I've talked to him about it.

He didn't fire people fast enough.

And he should go in and clean house.

I also want to know 6.8%

inflation.

by the time we hit 2024, how hard is it going to be?

What do you have to do to turn this around?

How do you turn this economy?

Yeah, because God only knows what a shape it's going to be by then.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

Do you think this is, I mean, it's pointless to even ask him this because he can't even answer it, but do you think he's running?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

He's running.

We saw a poll yesterday.

The Republican primary field, Donald Trump was in first first place at 67%.

And second place was Mike Pence with 9.

And third was Ron DeSantis with 8.

I think Ron DeSantis being the vice president would be good if

they could work together because then you could have effectively a three-term presidency

because four years is not going to be enough to lock these things in.

Just not.

It's Trump's, though, if he wants it, though, right?

It is.

It is, absolutely.

It is his if he wants it.

And I don't think he's the type of guy that doesn't want it.

He doesn't want it.

I just don't.

I feel like he doesn't.

No, I don't either.

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Hello, America.

Welcome to the program.

Oh, my gosh, is the press freaking out?

The press is absolutely freaking out.

And I just, I saw another sign.

I read just a story just a few minutes ago.

I saw a story about the Jesse Smollett thing from CNN that I think shows they are.

They know they're doomed.

They know they're over.

And I want to talk to you about that just a little bit coming up if we have time this hour because we also have Jim Jordan and we have both Snerdley and

an update on the economy.

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Wow.

So inflation is now officially at 6.8%.

Look that up on Shadow Stats.

Will you look up what that would be in 19 if we if we reviewed it the way we did in the 1990s and then again if we did it in uh the 1980s

we've changed the formula so 6.8 percent probably is about 14 13 percent

maybe

uh the way we did it uh in the past you know that because you're paying for groceries uh and meat i hate i want you to know

The White House director of National Economic Council, Brian Dees, he is finally on the meat thing.

And he came out yesterday with a statement.

And it's fascinating.

I don't think you've heard this anywhere else.

Listen to what he says about why meat prices are so high.

When you look at most of the

increase in food costs, you can isolate a significant portion of that to

meat, beef, pork, and chicken in particular.

Those are very concentrated industries where a small number of meat processors control

the industry.

And so what you've seen is prices for the farmers go up, prices for consumers go up, and

profits for the meat processing

companies in the middle go up.

And that's an issue of concern and one that we have focused on both from an antitrust perspective, but also investing in helping competitors get into that market.

Really?

That's fascinating, Brian, because none of that stuff is happening.

And it's good that you

now

know that

what the problem is

with meat prices.

This is something we talked about last year.

And if you were serious, if you were serious, you would have already been

taking the meat industry to task.

You would have already been taking those four big corporations, but you're not.

And you know why?

Because of global warming and your green agenda.

That's why you are trying to kill the meat market.

We're not going to be eating meat and you're going to thank them for it.

That's what they believe.

So, um, um, um, um, um, um,

don't believe anything that they're said.

What he just said, I told you a year ago.

What he just said, I'm a rancher.

I watch the price of beef and I watch what a price of a, uh, of, of, of a, um,

side of beef goes for.

How much can I take my cow for and sell at auction?

I know who's buying.

It's those four big meat processors.

If they decide they're not going to bid high, they're not going to,

we can't make any money.

It costs us money to grow the beef.

They're trying to put them all out of business.

And the federal government, I believe, is part of it.

That's why you're paying so much for hamburger.

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I take my meat seriously and I take the raising of cattle seriously, and it is driving me out of my mind how this government is sabotaging everything,

absolutely everything that allows us to stand on our own.

They are crippling farmers.

They're crippling the meat industry, not the butchering industry, the meat growing industry.

They're crippling all of our farmers.

They're crippling anybody who has a family business and wants to pass it on.

They're crippling everything, everything.

And it is intentional.

What was I going to talk about here?

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You can't just spring something like that on me.

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I know it's going to be on YouTube on Sunday.

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Yeah, it's probably too firm to be his butt.

It does seem to be.

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So, Bo Snerdley, you're going to get two podcasts this weekend because Bo Snerdley is a legendary producer

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Rush Limbaugh forever.

I don't know any casual listeners of Rush Limbaugh.

I don't know if you know that Bo Snerdley is black, and that's not his real name.

I would have liked to talk to him a little bit about, you know, the things,

you know, he's been really raked through the coals because you're a solo, you work for Rush Limbaugh, but he worked for him since the beginning.

You're going to get that tonight on Blaze TV and then tomorrow on the podcast, and it's already up at Blaze TV, tomorrow, wherever you get your podcast, you'll be able to see the interview with Jim Jordan.

But they both say something really interesting, and I want to spend some time on this here.

First,

let's take cut eight here from Bo Snerdley, talking about the Medal of Freedom.

I was there the night Rush got the Medal of Freedom, and Rush and I didn't know each other.

We met each other once at a friend's, mutual friend's wedding.

And I'm never one to,

I just, I'm just not one to, you know, call people up and go, hey, Rush, I'm in town.

What is,

you know, especially somebody like Rush.

But

when I did see him and when I

saw him that night,

I don't know if he knew that was coming.

Was that a surprise to him?

I know he had been at the White House.

And what was that like when he came home?

Well, we didn't see him when he came home for a few days because this happened the first day he had made the announcement that he had advanced lung cancer.

He immediately left after the show that day to go to treatment.

That night is when all of this happened.

He was supposed to be going to treatment.

And so following that, he had to rush back up to Boston where he was being treated and

resume and get started with the treatment.

So we didn't see him until about a week later

when he finally came back in.

And a week later, guess what?

He wasn't even interested in discussing it that much.

We took one call on it toward the end of the show.

He wanted to dive right back into the news of the day, do the kind of show that he always did.

I talked to him about the last couple of broadcasts.

Here's what Bo said.

His last few days, you were there with him.

Tell me about that.

Didn't know it was going to be the last few days.

We We didn't.

I mean, Rush's bucket list was his audience.

And so

every,

Glenn, every single day that he could be there, that he wasn't in treatment, that he wasn't suffering from the effects of treatment, he came to work.

And when the mic went on,

I'm telling you, you would not even think the man was

fighting any kind of an illness because he had the same upbeat,

the same upbeat presentation.

He was just as witty as ever, was prepared as ever.

It was only afterward,

Glenn, when

there were days

he could barely get out of the chair after doing his show.

In fact, one day he had to have someone come in and help him because he couldn't even hold his attache case.

He was so weak and it had taken everything out of him to do those three hours.

But all of those days, you would not be able to tell that anything was wrong with him.

And we didn't know that his last show was his last show.

It was, then he just spiraled down really quickly, apparently after that and that was, and then just didn't come back.

He worked until the very end.

And let me just stop for a moment and thank not only our audience, but it's also your audience, Glenn.

It's all of our audience.

Do you you realize the audience that

talk radio, all of you, all of us

appeal to,

gave so many millions and millions and millions of dollars to fight things like leukemia.

Those diseases don't have any political agenda.

They strike people from babies to the elderly.

The money that was raised to help the families of fallen first responders, the money that's raised every year to help needy children and needy families during the holiday season.

All of these things happen on a regular basis because all of you and Rush leading the way cultivated an audience that was among the most generous human that the world has ever seen, and they don't get thanked for it.

I agree with that

100%.

There's no one that can replace, and I don't mean the time slaughter anything, there's just no one in that category.

And I look at

our graduating class now that's in charge, and I think

none of us are.

I mean, the next one will come, but none of us are in that category.

The next one will come.

It may not even be on radio, but the next one is already here.

Glenn, look, I've looked, Glenn,

don't discount the impact that you've had.

I watched you.

do something that

I had never seen anybody do before,

which was teach civics on television and make it freaking interesting to watch.

Okay?

I mean, I was like, whoa,

who is this guy?

And you did it.

And so we all have our special gifts, our special skills.

And so we don't have to have the next one of him.

We have you.

We have other.

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Key U.S.

inflation measure hit 39-year high.

I knew we could do it.

Yes.

If we would just get him in, I knew knew we could hit all-time highs.

And thank you, Joe Biden.

By the way, you asked what the inflation rate would be under 1990 levels, according to Shadow Stats.

6.9 now, the way we officially tabulate it under this administration.

Right.

So the 1990 measure would have it at 10%, a little over, 10.3.

The 1980 measure would have it at about 15%, which is about what it was at the peak of

the end of Carter, beginning of Reagan, that time.

all this means is we change we take things out that we look at and say

what are staples what are the things people need to have

and then we put them in a basket and then we do the price well we keep changing that and we take things out of that basket like do we really need meat in that basket i don't think we need meat in that basket

i don't know what we've taken out but we constantly are changing it and it always works in the government's favor but you're looking if we would do it the way we did it under Carter and Reagan, you're looking at the same rate of inflation when it was at its worst.

And we are just beginning.

So we got that going for us.

Oh, and just like Jimmy Carter, when it was cold, Jimmy Carter said, Americans just need to learn to put a sweater on.

Put a sweater on.

That's what you do.

Don't worry about the oil price.

Just put a sweater on.

So I hope you give somebody a sweater.

If you can get it, if the stores have them available, or if your store hasn't been looted, if your store has any employees that have decided to come to work and are not just living off the government dole, just wear a sweater.

That's all you have to do.

And thank your lucky stars for Joe Biden and his team.

Right?

Fancy.

He's done a great job so far.

He has.

Go ahead.

Do you want

this abortion update that just came down from the Supreme Court?

I love abortion updates.

Do we have any abortion updates?

I don't think themes or anything.

There's a musical interlude that ties to the abortion update.

So this is not the Mississippi case that

was decided or was argued recently.

That is the kind of the big challenge to Roe versus Wade.

This was the Texas law.

They have a ruling that just came out.

And this is not the Supreme Court saying whether they think the Texas law is constitutional or anything like that.

They had two things to decide.

Basically, can the people who don't like the Texas law challenge it in court?

And in the meantime, will the law remain in place?

So what happened was, yes, they can challenge it in court.

Yes.

And yes, it will remain in place for the time being.

Yay!

That's good.

That's an important update.

It is probably less kids being aborted for the time being.

I think, let's take them across state lines.

The interesting thing here is that this is really, this is a nice little effort, but the real effort is

happening with the case that was just argued in court.

And that will dramatically change things.

I spoke on Studios America last night.

I spoke to the woman, the woman who wrote the bill.

You know, all the reaction to the Supreme Court oral arguments were like, how can a man have an opinion on abortion and mansplain to these female attorneys what's right about a woman's right to choose?

Well, a female nurse wrote the bill.

So I don't know if you happen to know that, but it's true.

What did she say?

She's really interesting.

She saw with her own eyes.

I mean, she worked in delivery rooms and saw with her own eyes, you know, kids born at 14 weeks struggling to survive.

You know, she went through all of it.

And this is one of the things that motivated her to write the bill.

And she

strongly believes that life begins at conception, but says also, like, okay, this is a, if you, if, I mean, if you want to come up with some sort of a rational line to allow some of this, that's why she pushed it to 15 weeks.

Now, Texas has pushed it to six.

The obvious choice here is zero weeks, which I think is possible if they do overturn Roe versus Wade in some states.

But as you point out, they can cross state lines.

They can get abortion pills through the mail.

We have to just keep working to change people's minds on this because that's where this really ends eventually.

Yeah, you watch the extreme on the left, New York, California, Massachusetts, Illinois.

They are going to kill them after birth if Roe vs.

Wade is overturned.

Mark my words.

This is the Glenback program.

All right.

I want you to take a minute just to consider something.

How many times a day do you get on the internet?

How many times?

All of that time reaching down for your phone.

All that time sitting in front of the computer.

You're on the internet, what, all day long?

Take your phone out of your pocket, checking with Twitter, entertainment online, list goes on and on.

A lot of time spent online, and the reason why I bring this up is because there is somebody on the other end trying to mine the information from you and steal your identity, rob you blind.

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These are guys who are just sitting in some Russian basement someplace

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He looks like an adult.

Jason is our head writer, foreign affairs guy, and chief researcher for the Glenbeck program and is wearing in a tie because I told him, I don't care if you have to go borrow a clip-on tie.

You have to have a tie.

We're going to go speak to the president today.

I looked everywhere for sleeveless suits, and they don't have them.

They don't find them.

No, or instead of a coat, like a biker vest or something like that.

Yeah, they don't find them.

I think that's

a supply chain issue.

That's what it was.

They're all off the coast.

I was doubting my country for a little bit.

Is this the first president you've ever met?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Very first one.

I saw Bush.

I've seen Bush when he came to my college.

Yeah.

But that was, that's it.

First president I ever spoke to, I did an interview with Ronald Reagan.

And I had to be

22 maybe at the time.

Thinking this is going to happen all the time.

There's a nice long gap.

No, I didn't think it would ever happen again.

Oh, I really didn't think it would ever happen.

I knew it was a big deal.

Oh, yeah.

Knew it was a huge deal.

I sat in my desk, at my desk in the production room, because he was calling in the afternoon, and I waited, and I had the producer, check that line, check that line, make sure it can I can I hear you, can you hear me?

Let's get it right because it's the president of the United States.

And I waited a way.

I must have sat in that production room an hour early, just waiting and staring at that line.

And when it went off, pick it up.

Mr.

Beck, yes.

Please hold for the president.

And when you hear that, there's just nothing like that.

It is the coolest thing.

We,

when you were probably 20, we went up and met with George H.W.

Bush.

Yes, at Kennebunkport.

Yeah.

At his place in Kennebunkport to do an interview.

It was at a time when technology was changing and we were going from tape to digital.

And I don't remember where we were, but we were.

Oh, I'm having flashbacks from this.

Oh, my gosh.

We were so freaked out because we had never used any equipment like this before.

Yeah.

When they told us, we were trying to get this interview.

It was something, I think it was about September 11th, maybe it was like one year anniversary.

And we really wanted to get this interview.

And

when they said, okay, you know, you can go up there and get the interview, we had like no window to get from New York to

Maine with the exception of one train.

There was like one train that if we made, there wasn't even a flight that we could do it and get there on time.

So we had to take a train up to, was it Boston or out of it?

Boston and then drive to Benny Buck.

It was the first time, do you remember this?

It was the first time either of us had seen GPS in a car.

That's right.

It had the Hertz Rental car.

You remember those old big, awkward, and if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have made it.

We wouldn't have made it.

We wouldn't have made it.

Because it was in the middle of the night and very foggy, and we were like, we don't have any idea where we are.

So we're like, okay, because we're not doing it at a studio.

We're doing it at the the guy's house.

So they say, okay, we're like, how are we going to record this?

So we have an hour to go to our places, get our stuffed for this trip we didn't know was coming.

And at the same time, our engineer ran all across New York to find something to record this interview with because we didn't have anything ready to go.

They gave us back.

Two different ways to record it where were both digital.

I had never used either one of them.

I had no idea how they worked.

And they were in the boxes, so we didn't even get a chance to test them.

And so we take the train up there.

We go through all all the prep and everything, and get to the hotel at like midnight.

And the interview is in the morning.

And so I have to stay up.

I stayed up all night reading the manuals, trying to figure out how to work this stuff, getting it all pre-set up because, you know, we didn't have enough time to set everything up from scratch.

Everything set up on my bed.

And then like I had to like sleep on the floor for a half an hour afterwards when I was finally done.

And

I will tell you, I've never been more obsessive about anything.

I checked.

All during the interview, I kept looking over the president's shoulder like, you got this, right?

And it's recording, right?

And he would look at me and put his hands up, kind of like, I don't know.

I think I did.

I was terrified.

I tested it a thousand times that night, over and over and over and over again.

And I'm like, okay, I can never be sure, but this is as sure as I could possibly be.

We went there, recorded the entire thing, got home to New York.

I opened it up, played it back.

One of the two things did not work.

We got nothing on it.

Nothing.

Was that the first one we listened to?

Maybe.

And I was like, oh, good God.

Oh, my God.

And then the second one.

The second one was there perfectly.

But the first one, it literally,

it was literally one of the most stressful things that's ever happened to me in my entire life.

I don't think Stu even

processed that he was with the president.

Yeah, I didn't enjoy it.

I don't even know what he said.

He was just like, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I think I, I think he almost went to the hospital after that one.

That was.

It was very, very stressful.

It was the most stressful thing that's ever happened in Kennebunkport.

since then no there's been no stress in kennebunk port then george w bush i went in couldn't have any cameras or record anything or write or even take notes and he yelled for about an hour uh and then uh

i was thinking we're going to mar-lago today the last time i was at mar-lago Trump just called me up and he was like, hey, you're doing one of your tours.

And I said, yeah.

And he's like, you're in my neighborhood.

And I'm like, okay.

And he's like, where are you staying?

I said, I don't know.

And he said, nah, you're staying at Mar-Lago.

And so he put me up with my wife at Mar-Lago for the night.

And it was bizarre.

Mar-Lago is amazingly beautiful, but it's also, it's from an air.

It's an American castle.

Yeah.

And so it's like you've, you know, it's like staying at the Biltmore Estate or something.

It's really, really different.

It's amazing, right?

I mean, oh, it's amazing.

It's amazing.

But it's like not a house.

It's not like, hey, come on over and just hop on a couch.

We'll watch, you know, watch some football.

No, it's not.

It's weird.

You know, when your wife puts those chairs that are too cool or pretty to sit in?

Yeah.

That's the entire place.

I just stood there.

It is like, because my mom used to always say, don't use those towels.

Those are

comes over.

That's the whole place.

It's the whole place.

So what are you going to talk to him about?

How well do you have this thought out?

Oh, really well thought out.

I I mean, I know you've prepped, but you also prep for every speech I've ever seen, and then you usually like go off plan when it comes down to it.

Probably do that as well.

I'm terrified of this plane ride over because everything we've prepped is going out.

He'll probably roll the window down.

Oh, you're going to throw out.

Staff has been doing research and everything else.

And I keep saying they're like, you want to meet on this?

And I'm like, yeah, we'll do it on the plane.

We'll be fine.

And

everybody knows

he's going to throw it all out.

Our EB's face was white.

She was like, uh,

that's that the way this works?

She's not used to that yet.

She's not used to that yet.

So, what are you going to focus on?

The future.

This interview is

for January.

It'll be airing on the blaze in January.

And I want to focus purely on the economy, gas prices, China,

Ukraine,

the

inflation and the printing of money.

Here's a guy who had pretty much all of that under control.

All of that under control.

How much damage is going to be done in the next three years?

What do the Republicans need to do in 2022?

What do they not need to say?

What do they need to do if they win the House and the Senate?

How can they dismantle it?

And what, if he runs for president, which he's going to, if he runs for president,

how do you fix this?

And how long would it take to return to some sort of normalcy in the economy and the jobs and everything else?

I can't wait to see what he says about Ukraine.

I cannot wait.

It's just so current right now.

You know, he's got to be living.

I saw Swalwell tweeting yesterday that he's like, well, what do you expect when for four years our president was playing footsie with Russia?

I'm like, he sanctioned Nord Stream 2.

He sanctified him.

He did them weapons.

He did more more stuff against Russia than Obama did, and certainly more than Joe Biden is doing.

Joe Biden just gave them the candy store.

Yeah, Russia invaded Crimea under Obama.

If Donald Trump would have done what Joe Biden has done in the last, what, nine months, if he would have done it, you wouldn't have been able to convince me that there wasn't Russian collusion.

I would have looked at that and said, come on, he's playing for something.

This guy is is giving them the whole store,

helping them out.

And the only thing I can think of is he's just trying to destroy America.

He's not getting anything out of this.

His son might be getting something out of it for him, but I don't know about that.

But he's just doing it because it's destroying us.

It is going to put us in the worst situation.

At some level, you just have to just dismiss the absurdity, right?

It's like, you're telling me the party of Ronald Reagan is the one who likes Russia?

Like, I don't even understand what, where did this come from?

He wanted to build a hotel there, you know.

Yeah, he wanted to build a hotel everywhere.

Yeah, he'd build a hotel everywhere.

Everywhere.

That's not a surprise, I don't think.

He's an international businessman.

He has some aspirations in all sorts of markets all around the world.

That doesn't mean that's going to guide his policy.

And you look at the difference between just Obama, forget even Biden, who's obviously a complete joke.

But I mean, you know, even with Obama, Obama's policies were much lighter on Russia than Trump's were.

Oh, the The reset button.

Yeah, the reset button.

I mean, Trump at times said things that were not tough talk about Putin, and people would judge him solely on that.

Look at the policies implemented while he was in office.

I think the only president that Vladimir Putin would respect would have been Ronald Reagan

because Putin would have known this guy knows how to communicate to the American people.

He knows how to win the

PR war,

and he's no dummy on this.

He actually believes something.

I think Putin would have had a hard time with Ronald Reagan, and the only other one is Donald Trump, because Donald Trump, he knows the game Putin is playing.

He knows it.

He knows it.

And

he knows that Putin is really a businessman.

He's not running the country.

He's a businessman.

And he's running everything to be able to protect him.

How does a guy go from a KGB colonel to one of the richest men in the world?

Answer,

you're an oligarch.

You're running the country and taking a piece of everybody's profit, and you're selling out.

And

one thing about Donald Trump, he knows how the game is played.

And he's just not willing to play it.

I don't think he's just willing to play it.

It's going to be an interesting interview today.

I'm anxious to see what his mood is as well.

And I'm doing it, I think, in his ballroom.

Yeah.

Every house has to have a ballroom, you know.

It's interesting because, you know, this, you know, I believe he's going to run for president.

You believe it as well.

Jason, are you on that bandwagon as well?

You think he's going to run?

I think he's chomping at the bit.

Yeah.

And that's, I think, what's interesting about this is there's a scenario where, you know, you're coming out of a pandemic.

Things maybe naturally improve.

You know, the treatments get better.

People are back to work.

The economy swings back.

And what world do you live in with the Democrats doing this?

No, I'm just saying that.

That was a possibility of just pure luck from Biden on timing, right?

He gets into the presidency and things are turning around naturally, and it's a difficult road for a challenger.

The exact opposite has happened.

I mean, there could not be a better road for Donald Trump to return to the White House than Joe Biden's first year.

Yes.

And, you know, you have to.

It's only going to get worse.

It is.

It's only going to get worse.

And I'll tell you, I talked to Jim Jordan and I said, you know, if Donald Trump gets in,

is the GOP actually going to do anything?

I said, because everybody always says, oh, we'll get rid of Roe versus Wade, but you got to give us the House, the Senate, and the White House.

And then you do nothing when you have all three.

And it's weird because now you've lost all three.

And this might be the time that that's reversed.

This report is a lagging indicator, apparently.

And I said, you know, the president not not only has his enemies outside, but inside the Republican Party.

Are you guys going to stand enough to be able to go, yeah, everybody at the State Department, you're fired.

Get out.

You're going to be able to handle that?

You're all going to walk in a lockstep?

I'll play Jim Jordan's answer here coming up in just a second.

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Their empire, and it's not just CNN, it's the entire corporate media structure, is burning itself to the ground.

Their latest attack on CNN or from CNN,

and here's their take on how Sean Hannity and right-wing media personalities are using Smollett's verdict to attack the media.

The tactic is dishonest, CNN writes, yet simple.

Take an actual act of deception, in this case, one that was perpetrated by an actor and covered heavily by the press, and then use it to suggest that that anything reported by mainstream sources cannot be trusted.

Everything is a hoax.

First of all, first paragraph, okay?

Take an actual act of deception, this case, one perpetrated by an actor, yes, and one not covered heavily by the press, but one that was said was true by the press, and they became activists about that hoax.

Then

suggest that anything be reported by mainstream sources can't be trusted

did you apologize?

Are you going back to all of the people, i.e., Joe Biden and

Kamala Harris, and ask,

what do you have to say about this?

This was a hoax?

No.

Propagandists know that their power increases.

Now, listen to that.

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dishonest tactic by Sean Hannity and the right media.

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They know their power increases substantially when they can convince their audiences not to trust other sources of information.

So in other words, like what you have done to me and others our entire career.

How you have taken everything that we have done either out of context, called it a hoax, when it hasn't been a hoax.

I am, according to the New York Times, a conspiracy theorist.

No, I'm not.

No, I'm not.

But you're using that tactic to discredit.

They are now trying to turn the tables.

They're exposing their own game by defending themselves.

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You know, the one thing the left has had going for it is it has been good storytellers.

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He's the number one New York Times best-selling author of 43 novels, 35 million copies of his books in print, not just nationally, but worldwide.

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Number one, New York Times best-selling author, 43 novels with more than 35 million copies of his books in print.

He is also the author of the international best-selling series Michael Vay, which he published with me and Mercury.

Eight of his books have been turned into movies.

His first feature film is releasing in 2022, starring Justin Hartley of This Is Us.

And he is also the founder and chairman of the Christmas Box International, an organization that helps and shelters abused, traffic, and neglected children.

Over 125,000 children have been served by the Christmas Bach organization, and he is married to an amazing woman named Carrie, who I think is a better person than he is, but that's just my opinion.

Richard Paul Evans, welcome to the program.

How are you, sir?

That's why Carrie loves you so much.

I know.

I know.

So, Richard, you have a new book out called The Christmas Promise.

And I just read, and if I could, I just want to read what's

on the leaf here on the book.

On the night night of her high school graduation, Rochelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces.

These opals look identical, he tells them, but the fire inside each is completely unique, just like the two of you.

Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood.

Years pass until their fathers, at their father's behest, they both come home for Christmas.

What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Rochelle vows to never see or speak to her sister again.

In their father's last days, he asked Rochelle to forgive Michelle a deathbed promise which she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident.

Wow.

A, it sounds like a great opening of a story and a great plot for a story.

You want to go into it anymore?

Without giving it away?

Yeah, well, it actually is based on the story that Prodigal son.

And so I wanted to tell a story from the older brother's perspective.

Hold on just a second.

Hold on just a second.

Do you still have walking pneumonia?

I do.

Sit down, and then it'll be just plain pneumonia.

How are you feeling?

Not too great.

Oh, my gosh.

We could have rescheduled this interview, Richard.

I'm so sorry.

I would never leave you in that.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm sorry.

All right.

Well, sit sit down and whatever you can do, let's do.

Well, hopefully I don't sound ridiculous, but I am so excited about this book.

And it just hit all the nation's bestseller lists, USA Today, New York Times, and Publishers Weekly.

And

I had a movie producer call me and tell me that he has already read it twice, and this is his number one goal is to get it produced.

But most important, I wanted a book that at this time in our country that people would have something warm.

You know, the book is about compassion.

it's about not judging each other, and it's about loving each other for the fire that's within.

Do you watch the Hallmark channel?

Sometimes.

Yeah.

So I watch it and I only, I've actually never been a fan because it's so obvious the way all those stories are going to end.

But I actually watch it with my wife in a fun way,

but it is, they're always,

I don't know, Christmas is supposed to be a renewal of hope.

And as cheesy cheesy as some of those movies are, there is something special about Christmas that allows you to start all over again.

Is that why you keep coming back to Christmas in a lot of your novels?

It is.

I mean, they say to dance with who brung you to the dance.

And my first book was The Christmas Box.

Right.

And I spent years trying to get away from that.

I didn't want to be typecast as a Christmas author.

Even though, I mean, the New York Times called me the king of Christmas fiction.

So I was kind of stuck.

And I tried to get away from it.

And then I thought, why?

Christmas is a time of redemption.

It's a time of love.

It's a time when society comes together.

And

why not embrace it?

You have a fascinating life.

I wish I could live your life

in many ways.

You travel all over the world as you're doing research for your books.

I know, Michael, Michael Vay,

you traveled all over.

You speak

Mandarin, don't you?

Yes, I got to go back to Taiwan.

And, oh, my gosh, Glenn, it was just like, it was just like I wrote it in the book.

It's like, this is, it was like it really existed.

But the only way to really get the feel is to go there.

So, but, Glenn, you're the life I'd like to have.

No one dreams as big as you.

Yeah.

So

are we ever going to talk about my son, who

read every single Michael Vay book, we read them together.

I think if you're looking for a Christmas gift, you know, for your family to read, I mean, obviously, The Christmas Promise is his book, but if you've never read the series that Richard wrote, Michael Vay, it is great.

And we started reading him, I think Rafe was probably seven or eight.

He just said to me the other day, I said, I'm trying to convince

Richard Paul Evans to write

another.

group of books on Michael Vay.

He said, you're kidding me.

He's 17 and he's still, you're kidding me.

Really?

When's that going to happen?

I said, I don't know.

I, you know, I am hoping that he's going to want to do another one.

Glenn, Glenn, when

in the midst of this, when I came down with pneumonia, I went to a hotel to get away from my family.

And I'm checking in and this, the lady at the counter, young lady.

She looked up, looked at my name.

She goes, are you a writer?

And I go, yes.

She goes, did you write Michael Vay?

And I said, yes.

She goes, I love those books.

She had the cutest smile on her face.

Yeah, they're really, they're great.

That's a great series.

Richard, I want to talk to you about something else

that you're doing, but we'll save that for

next year because something has happened and it just drives me out of my mind.

And I want Richard to tell you the story of that, but maybe we'll do that next year.

I know

the Christmas Promise

or the Christmas Box organization

has been helping, and you do so much.

What are you doing this season?

Is there anything that our audience might want to get involved in?

Oh, thank you so much.

Yeah, we're providing Christmas for 3,000 abused children.

And I love this organization.

You know,

we are hands-on with these kids and we've struggled with COVID.

I mean, we take the kids 24-7.

So if they go to thechristmasbox.org,

just thechristmasbox.org, or they look at the Christmas Box House.

And I'm just really proud.

More than 80% of everything that comes in goes right to the kids.

And

we've provided billions of dollars of assistance to these children who have no one else.

They don't have their families.

I love this organization.

Check it out.

You can go to the Christmas Box.

Do you look up the Christmas Box house?

Or do you have the web address?

It's in Utah.

So just, yes, the web is thechristmasbox.org.

ChristmasBox.org.

Thank you so much.

Have a great holiday and

get well.

Thank you, Glenn.

My best to your family.

God bless.

Thank you, thank you.

Be back.

Bye-bye.

The name of the book is The Christmas Promise, and he is just, he's a fantastic, fantastic author.

If you've never read any of his books, he's actually, I don't know if we've ever talked about this, Simon Schuster

came to me because of the original ending of The Christmas Sweater.

is, I think, and always have felt, is a better ending.

I've always wanted to update The Christmas sweater and and give it the original ending.

But it was.

Director's cut?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They thought it was depressing.

And I said, oh, you read a depressing book?

I can't even imagine.

They said it was depressing because in it, mom dies.

But in it, you know, it goes on for a couple more chapters.

And in it, you see real redemption work out.

And they were like, you can't have a holiday book where mom dies.

And I'm like, but it's, that's the truth.

I mean, it's better.

It's the, and they really didn't understand the idea and the concept of redemption.

They found, yeah, but he see, he learns all the lessons, and they're like, no, no, mom can't die.

I didn't know how to write that.

And so I called Richard Paul Evans.

I don't even know if we knew each other that well back then.

And I said, you know, I know you're the king of Christmas.

I'm stuck.

I've got this book and

I can't figure out a way to get this to be anywhere where I want it to be.

And mom lives.

And he said, send it to me.

Let me look at it.

And he called me back in a couple of days and he said, okay, here's what happens.

Eddie has to do this, this, this, this, and this.

And he was the guy who really is responsible for the ending of, you know, 2 million copies sold of the Christmas sweater.

And he's the guy who wrote it.

Are you trying to convince us he's a better author than you?

Because we've already believed that.

Learly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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As you've gotten older, Stu, is Christmas the same

for you?

You know, I remember in my 20s and 30s, Christmas was really,

I mean, it was just, I was really excited for Christmas every year.

And

I don't know.

The last

two Christmases,

I guess not.

I mean, maybe it's just this Christmas.

I feel kind of out of step with it.

Really?

Yeah.

I do feel a little out of step with the season, but I'm pretty excited about it.

I mean, now I also have young kids, you know, nine and ten, so they're in like peak Christmas years,

which is really fun.

But you've been doing this for a while.

I remember when you...

My whole life.

I remember you had this one Christmas.

I think it was like the first time that there was any success with the show.

And then you bought everyone you knew ridiculous Christmas presents.

Oh my gosh.

And then the next year you're like, I've too much consumerism.

And you bought no one.

Like your kids got swung both ways.

If you will.

Yeah.

I mean,

I will tell you, because it was the first year that ever in my life I had money.

And I was like, I'm going to buy everybody everything I've ever wanted to buy.

And gave, I mean, just gave extravagant gifts to everybody.

It was the most

shallow Christmas I had ever had.

Yeah, you hated it.

I hated it.

It was, and I think the family, I think the family would agree that that was

an empty Christmas.

And I mean, the boxes were stacked around the trees, and we were going to people's houses and giving them stuff.

It was, it was so empty.

It was so empty.

The only things that were good were the things where we were giving them outside of the house, and they were the littler things.

Yeah.

No, I mean, you could definitely overdo it.

I'm going back and forth with my wife right now in this thing where she, you know, she wants to give less stuff to the kids.

You know, like basically, okay, we don't need to get them 9 million things.

They open them up.

They play with them for a day.

They never look at them again.

And of course, all of these points are accurate, right?

Like they do this.

They do open them up.

They do get excited for five minutes.

They do put them down and then never look at them again.

Like that's actually a real thing.

It is.

And she's much more more worried about like, you know, clutter around the house than I am.

I don't care.

I like still what they put stuff in their closet and don't look at it for a while.

And it doesn't bother me, but it bothers her.

So she's like, well, we should buy less stuff.

And then on the other hand, I'm like, well, you know, I don't know.

Like they're in peak Christmas year one time.

And they're going to get incredibly excited over every little thing we give them one or, you know, one little period of what, five years.

And then it's over.

And then like they look at and they go, oh, thanks.

And then they go out with their friends.

Like, I, I don't know.

I feel like I want to embrace every little bit of it, you know.

And if I want to, if I see something, I want to get the kids, I'm going to get it for them if I can afford it.

Yeah, I feel that I kind of feel the same way.

I remember

when we first met,

I was just broke as hell.

I mean, I think you made more money than I did.

Oh, no, I can assure you that has never been the case since we've known each other.

However, I will say.

I took home more money.

Well, you had some external payments I did not have at that time.

Yes, I will say that.

was a little, little remarkable.

But, uh,

and I remember I just couldn't afford anything.

And it was horrible because I felt like a, I felt like a failure as a dad and as a parent.

And I couldn't buy a little thing from CVS even that year

that that Mary really wanted.

And,

oh my gosh, that ate at me and ate at me and ate at me.

And, you know, we're entering a time again where more and more people are feeling this kind of a pinch.

Don't buy into that.

Don't buy into any of that crap.

Yeah.

You know, all your kids really want is time.

That's what they'll remember, right?

They're not going to remember the extra little gift you give them.

Nope.

But they will remember, you know, we try to do, we load up on these like little Christmas traditions.

You know, we go to this place, we go to this place, we go to this festival.

We do like all of it.

And at times, it does get a little overwhelming because you've got four things scheduled in one day and you're running around.

It's like, is this fun?

I don't, I don't know.

But it is, I think, important.

And, you know, you don't have to do every little thing.

You don't have to go to every festival to have memories like that.

But I think those traditions are super important.

You know, I used to put the lights up on our house with my dad every year.

And I hated it.

And it was always cold.

And he would never let me on the ladder.

And I had to hold it.

And if it would have fallen, I mean, it would have crushed me

uh and uh I just always hated it hated it I remember it but I hated it uh and I'm not I'm not now it's just a good memory it's you know we used to do these things and I hated it at the time but I think

You know, I think some of those things that you do, again, it was just because we did it together that I remember it.

You know, like I don't remember, I hated mowing the lawn.

I don't remember thinking now back fondly on my times of mowing the lawn.

You know what I mean?

This was a chore we did every Christmas, but I did it with my dad.

And there's something to that.

You know, we, we get a live Christmas tree and

every year now, because Rafe's old enough and big enough, we go out and we pick it out and he chops it down and, you know, we bring it in.

And I think that's a great memory.

Our best Christmas memory was actually one of our worst Christmases.

We went up to the ranch and everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

We went out to this Christmas tree lot and where you cut it down yourself and

my car,

because this is the time when we were still driving just the armored cars, the armored car, we drove it onto a farm and it sank.

Armored cars aren't really supposed to be at farms.

No, and

so we had to have somebody come tow us out and then we put the Christmas tree, we wrapped it all up.

We were all cold.

Everybody was, you know, not in a good mood.

We get onto this highway and the car breaks down.

Okay,

so somebody comes with a truck and says,

you know, the guy who runs our farm came with his truck and he said, you do this.

You just get the family into the truck

or take the tree and Rafe and the kids in the truck and I'll bring the family home behind you, and somebody will wait for a tow truck.

So we go, and I'm going home, and we're talking about how miserable this is.

We didn't pay attention.

The tree blows out of

the

truck, and then this car starts flashing its lights at us and speeding up and tailgating.

And, you know, we were still from New York at the time, and I'm like, What the hell is this?

Who is, what are they doing?

You know, not used to people just being nice and saying, hey, your tree blew out.

We get almost to the house and I don't want this person to know where we live.

So I just stop and pull over.

And he pulls over and he's like, hey, I've been trying to catch up.

You like 10 miles back, your tree blew out.

And I'm like, oh,

oh, crap.

We now look at that tree cutting day as the best tree cutting day we ever had as a family.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is, that is always how it works out, I feel like.

You have those memories you think are going to be, you know, it's the ones you plan, you know, they never work out.

But the the ones where everything gets screwed up, people do, kids remember that.

It's why we like national lampoons.

Yeah.

Christmas vacation.

That sounds like a sequel to it, what you just described.

It almost was.

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We're glad you're here.

I want to introduce you to somebody who I think is here against his will.

And

when the story was first given to me, I said, oh, that's a great story.

But it was given to me by our executive producer,

Ricky, who has just married our next guest's son.

And so that made it a lock for me because I just wanted to say to our guest our deepest condolences.

Our deepest condolences.

No, it was.

congratulations.

Congratulations.

That was a con, one way or another.

It was a con.

Anyway,

Eric Feldman, how are you, sir?

I am fantastic.

I'm just thrilled that you admitted the extreme nepotism that's going on.

Oh, my gosh, it was.

Yeah, she was like, I'll get you fired if you don't have him on.

And I was like, wait a minute, Ricky.

But she.

I got to say that my son Jason totally out-kicked his coverage when he got Ricky.

So there's no question.

Oh, what a good father-in-law.

All right.

So here's the thing.

You have, and I don't want to talk about the Hallmark movie because I hear it's nothing like the real story.

But a Hallmark movie, a Godwink Christmas, Miracle of Love, is airing, is premiering tomorrow night on Hallmark.

And it is based on...

A story that happened to you, correct?

That's correct.

Loosely based.

Loosely based.

now you're never gonna guess how this ends will the couple actually get together in the end will a miracle happen watch tomorrow night on hallmark um but uh uh tell me the story quickly start you know you you know you you started dating your your wife in the early 70s and then in 1975 something happens tell me tell me

so uh we met that previous summer and in and we built a relationship got engaged.

And a few weeks before we were to be married, I was working and I was involved in a horrible accident.

And

I was traveling.

I was in the small town of Oshikosh, Wisconsin.

And the doctors didn't think I would survive, but one of them had gone to a seminar, which is where the Godwink comes in, which means a coincidence.

And I had a severe liver injury.

Okay, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

Yeah.

You suck at telling your own story.

Let me help you out here just a little bit.

Let me be Hallmark here just a little bit.

You were working like eight weeks straight so you could pay for the honeymoon

when you're on vacation.

You're up in where, Wisconsin, and she's in San Diego?

That's correct.

Okay.

And

your truck won't start that you're using for your job, and you get underneath it, and the car brake goes out and actually lurches forward and crushes everything from the belt up, right?

Except for your head.

That is very true.

And it did get part of my head because it smashed my jaw in three places.

Holy cow.

And so when you're laying there, how long were you laying there?

Was anyone around?

So I was in the parking lot of a little restaurant, and

I just, I knew what had happened, you know, and I thought, well, I'm dead.

I really did.

And I had one of those moments where you hear from God, and he said, not yet.

And so I kind of tried to holler, holler and somebody ran up and this woman started screaming.

And they immediately called the EMTs and got me to the local hospital, Ashkosh Mercy's Medical Center.

So your jaw, your collar, both collarbones, several ribs broken, right arm shattered.

They actually went, if I'm not mistaken, they called

your bride to be

and said,

Don't rush.

He's not going to make it.

Yeah.

She was actually at her bridal shower and my father called her father and he called the church and said send joy home right now they got a hold of the hospital and they said exactly what you said he's not going to make it don't rush out here um we're so sorry you know uh

but she jumped on a plane every anyway and obviously i survived and the first thing i saw when i opened my eyes was her lovely face and I'm trying to figure out how did she get here because you know I was yeah out of it for for several several hours so when you got in to surgery your liver ruptured and that's normally a death sentence right

correct but the guy who was just happened to be on duty i mean you weren't with a special you were just at the hospital the next hospital that could take you right

correct yeah and he just happened to be on call okay and so he happened to uh be on call and

What had he just happened to do?

He had been at a seminar and there was another session with a billboard out there and it said new technique for liver trauma.

And he was going to go home and he said, well, I might as well go to this.

And it was just the day before.

So therefore, the coincidence that the writer called a Godwink.

And he said to his partner,

one was N.

Graver, the other

partner was Isom.

He said, let's try this.

This kid's a goner anyway.

So they used that technique and saved my life.

That is unbelievable.

Really, truly unbelievable.

You went on, I just love this because I love Norman Vincent Peale.

You

went to work with Norman Vincent Peale and Donald Trump as the co-chair of Peale's 90th birthday, right?

Which had to be.

Well, yes, that was an amazing event where Trump's father loved Dr.

Peale.

And so when Trump was a teenager, there was an assigned seat for him to sit in Peel's church in

29th and 5th Avenue in Manhattan every week.

And

later when Peale came around to this big celebration for his 90th birthday, Trump and then former Governor John Y.

Brown of Kentucky were the co-chairs, but Trump was in charge.

And we met in Manhattan, and I was placed, you know, as the staff executive responsible to help him with whatever he needed.

So, I mean, there were 20 people in the room, but I got to spend two or three sessions watching him orchestrate a wonderful event for Dr.

Peale's 90th birthday.

And you've gone on to also, you went to China,

and you were there when the churches were open for the first time after 50 years.

Yep.

And that was an amazing experience.

Joy went with me.

The Chinese government was very anxious to show that they were loosening at that time.

And

we attended a few church events, but also experienced through interview what many of the believers had gone through in terms of imprisonment and torture during the 40 years between when the churches were closed and when they were reopened.

You also had three kids.

One of them is Jason, and now he's married to Ricky, which kind of makes it it cheapens it a bit, doesn't it?

I mean, you went on to do all these things.

Well, I you know, I can't say that because I never thought I'd ever get to be on Glenn Beck's radio show.

This is another amazing event in my life.

Well, I have to tell you,

I saw a bit of the clip.

What you just told me, and what I knew, it doesn't seem like Hallmark.

It doesn't seem like anything like what you just told me.

So, the only true things in the Hallmark movie are names, the fact that Graeber saved my life, and we and that joy ended up marrying me that's the only thing that's it not even the injury nothing

well well there's a no yeah there's an injury but the the facts of the injury are different because instead of meeting at a summer camp and going to work they have us meeting on a habitat for humanity project and i actually haven't seen the whole movie so i don't know all the details but um are you going to watch it are you going to watch it absolutely it's already you know we're old now so it starts at 10 o'clock we might not make it

It's on record.

It's on record.

Eric, great to talk to you, sir.

Thank you so much.

We'll be watching God Winks, the Hallmark movie, a Godwink Christmas, miracle.

And it had nothing to do with Christmas either, did it?

No, it was in July.

It was in July.

Okay, good.

A God Wink Christmas, a Miracle of Love.

That is tomorrow night on Hallmark.

Thank you so much, Eric.

God bless.

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What would you like for Christmas?

What would you like for Christmas?

I mean, I'm talking about you're not going to get it,

but what would you like for Christmas?

If you could pick anything.

A private jet.

Yeah, I think so, too.

I think that's what I would like a private jet.

That would be really cool.

That would be nice.

Now, that would be Santa, it would be difficult for him to deliver it.

Yeah, the problem is Santa doesn't deliver the fuel for it either.

Yeah.

Oh, well, I want him to also deliver it.

Deliver the fuel, reindeer power, magic corn, something like that.

That's fine with me.

That's fine with me.

Just so it flies.

Because that is the ultimate, I think.

I mean, you know, that's the ultimate thing to have, I think.

If you're going to have one.

Sonic Ice Maker.

I just got a Sonic Ice Maker, and

it's one of the things that I had that I was like,

we are rich.

When you say Sonic, you mean

the restaurant Sonic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like that type of ice.

Small pebble ice ice.

Yeah.

The pebble ice.

That's worth foregoing a car.

It really is.

It really is.

That is, that's brought so much joy.

I had some people over, and they said, do you want, do you want some ice in it?

Or you just want the bottle?

And they said, no, I'll take the bottle.

I said, we have sonic ice.

And they were like, are you kidding me?

And I'm like, right?

Right.

This should be in every refrigerator door.

I don't know why it's not, but it should be.

Can you buy?

I think you can,

you may not have a sonic near you.

Many areas don't.

But if you have one near you, can you buy ice from that?

I think you can.

Yeah.

I think you can.

That would be, I should start doing it.

I don't know why I'm not doing that.

You could

buy one.

They're not, I mean, a really good one is really expensive.

But you can buy them pretty, I mean, you know, like it's something.

$800 maybe.

$500.

Why is it better?

I don't know.

But it is.

It is.

And it's great to chew on.

That's a rich man's gift right there.

That's a rich man's gift.

It's great to chew on.

That's a great point.

Why?

I don't know.

And it's completely unnecessary.

Completely unnecessary.

Yes.

Like fine ice everywhere else.

That's why it makes you feel rich.

Because you're just like,

no, I have ice that you can't get at everybody else's house.

Now, normally the rich person ice is like the balls of ice that come like bourbon.

Like you put in a cup of bourbon, like the big cube, one large cube in the middle of your drink.

You can't really

chew on that.

No, you can't chew on that.

No, don't try it.

You get drunk enough, you could try it.

Yeah.

If you drink enough, probably the ice cube.

I probably would have.

Yeah, no, that's interesting.

I think you get to that.

There are those, like one of the luxuries that I have in my life is that

I go and I buy every variety of soda that I could possibly want, and I put it in one fridge, and it's a soda fridge.

And the soda fridge lives in our house and has nothing else in it.

I don't want any of your other drinks.

No milk doesn't get stored there.

Right.

Only my soda flavors.

And then there's every, so I'm Cave, man, Cave.

You get a little fridge.

I got it too.

Don't even think about coming into my refrigerator.

Milk?

Nope.

And I don't want little.

I want a full-size fridge.

Here's what I kept thinking.

Wow.

You know when you go into a like.

We're dreaming.

You go to a gas station.

Yeah.

You go to a convenience store and you walk up and they have all the flavors?

Yes.

That's the best moment.

That's the moment.

You want to recreate what if you can recuperate that all the time?

You want to have a 7-Eleven in your house.

Yes.

I want all the flavors.

So I can choose whatever I want, whenever I want.

And the thing is, it's not, you know, you buy

a slushy machine where I could push for any flavor that I wanted.

See, these are the things that's never going to happen in Joe Biden's America.

No, Joe Biden wouldn't.

But if I tell you, Donald Trump, we'd still

have him under the tree at every poor people would have these things.

You should, when you're interviewing Donald Trump, will you ask him if a slushy machine in every household is part of his part for 2022?

Two slushy machines in every garage.

I don't know if I want a slushy machine in my garage i feel like uh it's a man cave usually is usually a yeah you can have the garage really yeah thank you for that i appreciate that

i i do feel like there is there's that section of because that's what the right gift is you can get someone a gift that is maybe somewhat pricey or something but like it really is it's more about the value versus the amount you're paying.

It is.

It is.

That's what we buy and it's so hard.

You have to think, you know, because it could really be be something that's not expensive at all.

Not expensive at all.

Yeah.

And you're like, whoa,

I love this.

Yeah.

And then you can go to the store and you can see it's not on the shelves anymore.

And if it is, it's up 45% in cost.

And that's your Merry Christmas message for 2021.

It's going to be hard.

I mean, I feel like the absolute worst case scenario maybe hasn't played out where there are things in the stores, but I mean, that could be around the corner.

For Christmas, you can buy stuff, but it's if you want to get something specific, you very well may be completely out of luck.

I mean, you know, the PlayStation 5 came out in 2019, and you still can't really buy it.

How is that possible?

What year is it?

I don't, what's happening?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But I will tell you, the greatest joy so far this Christmas has been going with my kids.

My son and I went shopping for boys that were in need.

And we went shopping, and he convinced me to get the Batman Lego, the Batman Bat Cave with the whole control board stuff on it.

And he was like, Dad, and I'm looking at it.

I'm like, good heavens,

when did Lego become that expensive?

But I will tell you,

you know, he took it out of his pizza hut money.

But

I will tell you that the best joy was going shopping for somebody else.

Even kids we just didn't even know.

It is really good.

Try doing that this weekend.

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