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So I think

the, what is it?

The horrible, terrible,

really very bad day.

Whatever, very bad day.

Yeah, I think that's continued.

Mattis and his letter of resignation.

This is not good.

This is really, really not good.

This is, Mattis, in case you don't know, is our generation's Eisenhower and MacArthur and Patton without the crazy parts.

This is not good.

And I, quite honestly, it's, I mean, we're right up on Christmas.

I don't know if I can handle it.

I don't know if I can handle it.

I don't know if I want to handle it.

Well, we have to talk about it obviously.

We do, but I.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I can handle all of that.

We've, you know, we've

just let me think of Santa just for a little while.

Just think of Santa.

Think happy thoughts.

Happy thoughts.

Of course, Santa's not happy.

Have you seen Santa on his big chair, his throne?

It doesn't look like a very comfortable, comfortable, especially the length of time he's sitting there.

It does not look comfortable.

No, it's not.

It's not.

We have a Santa chair right here.

And Santa was here just recently for a party we had, and he wasn't comfortable.

There was no back support there.

He needed a next chair.

And Santa would like it because he never has to get up either.

I mean, you're that fat.

You don't want to get up.

I know.

I've lived it.

I'm living.

I'm Tim Allen in that Christmas movie.

All of a sudden, I look like, well, if Colonel Sanders was fatter and dressed as Santa, that's me.

That's me.

That's true.

And I think if you ever brought your kid in line to see Santa, you'll notice that, you know, halfway through the line, he has to get up and take a long break.

Yeah.

That's because his chair sucks.

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I just think that,

you know, there are times that I kind of wish, and, you know, Mattis, his resignation, there are times that I think, you know what,

it might have been better if,

you know, I was working and, you know, just, I would have stayed in music radio.

I could have been happier.

But then I realize I wasn't that good.

And so I'd probably be working at that station that every market has.

And I want you to know, DJs,

I know who you are, and I

know what you're going through.

And if you're at one of those stations,

our prayers are with you this holiday season.

Santa 1099FM, you're home for the holidays, playing all of your favorite holiday music, like that one from Brenda Lee.

I I don't know about you, but I just can't hear that one often enough.

Now, here's Mariah Carey on Santa 1099.

The snow's on the bow.

I'm watching it love.

Lots of people around.

Baby, please come home.

The church bells in town.

I'm bringing a song

with happy sound.

Baby, please come home.

Oh, there it is.

Santa 1099 FM, you're home for the holidays.

Hi,

I'm Chris Kringle.

And we've been playing all of your favorite holiday hits since October 28th.

I don't know about you, but two days before, you know, Halloween, I'm still, I'm just ready for the holiday tunes to start jamming on Santa 1099.

But don't forget, after the new year, sometime

around mid-January, we'll be back to playing your favorite work music mix.

Well, we'll play all of your favorites from Barry Manelow.

Barry Manelow and Elton Job and Neil Diamond and who could forget Michael Bolton.

But now it's nothing but Christmas music, wall to wall, like

this one from Kenny G

on Santa 1099.

I think I'm going to kill myself.

Hotline.

Chris.

Okay, man.

I mean,

you don't call me Chris.

You know I'm not Chris.

Your name's Chris.

It is.

Are you on Santa 1099?

It is for this time because you're making all of us take stupid names for Christmas.

Do you want Rudolph Red-Nosed Render?

No.

That's what you'll get.

What, are you going to fire the morning guy?

Isn't that his name?

No, I changed him to Missile Toe.

What do you want?

First of all, your mic was on.

What?

Your mic was on when you said you wanted to kill yourself.

I'm sorry, I'll turn the mic.

I just wanted to tell you after your last break for the Kenny G intro.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't understand.

You're talking about the G-Man, and there's no enthusiasm whatsoever.

For the G-Man?

Yeah, Kenny G.

How could you possibly be enthusiastic about the G-Man?

Kenny G does make me want to kill myself.

Well, I don't know.

And I've had to put up, but I've had to play this since October 28th.

We're playing every cut of Kenny G's album.

That's another thing, by the way.

You said we're going to stop in mid-January.

Yeah.

Didn't you get the memo?

No.

April 15th.

We're playing Christmas music until April 15th?

No tax day.

Why?

Nobody wants to hear it.

I think people actually would want to hear the Michael Books.

Did you know that our ratings go from a 0.3 to a 19.4 for one month?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

What is

it?

I need to get a little more enthusiasm.

Think of a male Delilah.

A male Delilah.

She's enthusiastic?

So think Delino.

A male Delilah, okay.

But then think of Delilah if she had married an Osmond.

So you're really down,

but you're really excited.

All right, my song is about that.

Santa.

Yeah.

1099.

All right.

Santa.

Anything else I'm supposed to talk about?

Yeah, get jolly.

Get jolly.

Yes.

Stop trying to be different.

Remember, different's bad.

All right.

And you're being different now.

They're being good.

You're being bad.

Shut up for a second.

Hang on.

I have to.

Oh, it's great.

It's Santa 1099.

I'm Chris Kringle, and that's Kenny G.

Hey,

you know how you go Christmas shopping at the mall during the holidays and it's crowded and stuff?

Do you know that?

And then it's hard to find a parking space and things.

I hate that.

You probably hate that too, right?

Okay, let's get jolly with Sleigh Ride on Santa 1099.

That was ridiculous.

Yes, it was.

Your delivery was ridiculous.

I know I sent you an email about talking about the parking lot.

That doesn't mean you just walk through the.

Because it's stupid.

Every bad DJ is talking about parking lots.

You need to sell it.

You need to think about what it's like for you to be in a crowding parking lot.

Put yourself there, okay?

You need to relate and be enthusiastic, but calm and soft, but louder, but kind of in the middle

was I jolly enough

hold on a second

our research is showing you're 42% less jolly than you should be what do you research what do you yeah just in a likability focus group on you

and they hate you

well I'm you know not feeling really jolly now I mean

you know I used to be somebody and now I'm working at this crappy station and you call me every break, and you tell me what to do.

That's right, because you can't grasp it for yourself.

I'm the boss, and I know what we need to do to own the angry people in parking lot, at balls, at Christmas, shopping, demographic.

We need to have these people coming back after the holidays.

They're only going to do that if you're both calm and happy.

Okay,

nobody's going to come back after Christmas because we start playing all this crappy music, and nobody cares about the crappy music.

Look, look, look at it this way.

I'm Santa, okay?

You are Santa's little helper.

Get it?

Santa has a lot of kids and stockholders to make happy.

Don't ruin Christmas.

Hold on, hold on just a second.

Things are the things we remember often.

Things are the things we remember of their eyes.

Alright.

There it is on Santa 1099.

Your home for the holidays.

Hi, I'm Chris Kringle.

And don't forget about the rest of the year here on Santa 1099, when we're called Easy Variety 1099.

You're gonna love it.

We play only the best music from

and Murray

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But now, more Christmas favorites with the Beach Boys.

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Only the best music from Men Without Hats and Yanni.

And the Dave Clark 5.

Is there a good song?

And who thinks of the Beach Boys when they're thinking about Christmas music?

It's Christmas music, man.

Nobody's thinking about the Beach Boys.

Do you know anybody who has the Beach Boys Christmas album?

Do you Have you ever walked into somebody's house and they're playing the Beach Boys Christmas album?

People

have said in the past that they like the Beach Boys and they like Christmas.

We've combined the two.

And then we go and then we're to we take them from the Beach Boys and we tell them, hey, make sure you stick around because Ann Murray is going to be happening after the Christmas music.

I mean, nobody listens to that stuff.

That's why we have to talk about it.

Do you realize we are the number one station during the holidays because of this, what is it, Christmas?

Yeah, and

well, you know, the rest of the year we average 14 listeners a day.

14 listeners in an entire day.

I mean, and those are the ones that are stuck in an elevator at work or on drugs in a dentist chair.

No one listens.

All right, so you think maybe there's a possibility that's because we're playing the Dave Clark 5?

No, our research shows that people aren't familiar with our products.

That's because we change slogans every freaking holiday.

We're Santa 1099, Thanksgiving 1099, Easter Bunny 1099.

I mean, who listens to Easter music?

Is there even such a thing as Easter music?

Our research shows that Peter Cottontail tests well with our women's 7 to 12 years old audience.

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How do you explain that?

We're the whitest radio.

Dave Clark 5.

And you put Kwanzaa music on?

Have you ever heard Dave Clark 5's version of Happy Kwanzaa?

No, I haven't.

I haven't.

It's all about diversity, Chris Kringle.

Research shows that diversity is one of the public's favorite words.

Shut up.

Hold on.

The song's over.

Hank, remember, Jolly.

Throw it a ho-ho-ho.

Relate to the parking lot, people.

What?

Make it jolly.

Boom full of jelly.

There it is on Santa 1099, your home for the holidays.

Hi, I'm Chris Kringle.

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Santa 109.

Welcome to the Glenbeck program.

We're glad you're here today.

So James Mattis has resigned yesterday, and this is because he was surprised that we were pulling out of Syria and apparently Afghanistan now, too.

His letter of resignation,

which we will tweet out here, is pretty shocking,

I think.

He says, One core belief I have always held, that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to our strength of unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnership.

While the U.S.

remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies.

I believe we must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours.

It is clear that China and Russia, for example, want to shape the world consistent with their authoritarian model, gaining veto authority over other nations' economic, diplomatic, and security decisions to promote their own interests at the expense of their neighbors.

America and our allies, we must use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense.

My views on treating the Allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues.

We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conductive to our security,

prosperity, and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by solidarity with our alliances.

You have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these subjects.

It is time for me to step down from my position.

We brought Jason Battrill in, who is

our

chief researcher, and especially when it comes to military affairs, he was with military intelligence for a while.

And

Mattis, in case you don't know, is

our our Patton, our

MacArthur,

our Eisenhower.

He is the most respected military commander of our lifetime, is he not?

He is, and not just respected under U.S.

military either.

I've actually sat through briefings where he has briefed

a coalition of nations together, and they look at him in awe.

You know,

it's the Brits, it's the Australians.

Everyone respects Mattis.

There is no other authority beyond him that is just greater respect.

If he says something, and when it's involved with warfighting, you listen and everyone agrees with what he's about to say.

So if you're in the military today and you heard Mattis and you read his resignation,

what are you thinking?

In our military or foreign military?

Our military and our allies.

I'm worried.

I'm worried.

And

I kind of struggled with what I was going to say coming on here right now because

I don't want to say too much, but I am worried.

And I've watched what everyone has been saying about this.

Even people, you know, our network now is a lot larger.

And I've watched what other people on our...

media platform have said.

And I don't agree with what a lot of people are saying, primarily because they keep saying that, you know, we can't be the policeman of the world.

And Trump is trying to make us to where we're not the policeman of the world.

I totally agree.

I totally agree.

But 2,000 troops in this area is not being the policeman of the world.

2,000 troops in this area is the equivalent of what we did pre-World War II, or our strategy of just providing economic aid.

This is the equivalent of economic aid.

to our troops or to this country.

We're providing these troops specifically so that we don't have to deploy a larger force.

That's the point.

We're enabling the Kurds and the SDF to do the brunt of the fighting.

We're there just to ensure that Turkey or Assad or Iran

correct.

It's exactly why we're there.

And that's exactly what is about to happen.

We told these people to trust us.

Again.

Again.

This has happened to them since World War I.

We told them to trust us.

Now they're going to get literally wiped off the face of the planet.

Erdogan has already said he's going to do that.

Jason, thank you so much.

We'll continue this conversation here in just a second.

It is

a really disheartening and disturbing

news that broke yesterday about General Mattis.

More in a second.

We have Bill O'Reilly.

He'll comment on this too at the top of the hour.

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And Jason, you described me as handy, right?

Sure.

Around the house.

Oh, yeah.

Around the house.

Because you've seen me, you know.

We can build a house straight up.

Now you've lost all credibility now.

This is loyalty.

I'm just demonstrating loyalty there.

That's a Marine.

Yes, sir.

So

Jason's lying to you.

I'm not handy at all.

You know, something, you know,

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Welcome to the program.

We're just

having a conversation here at the Glenbeck program about James Mattis

walking away and resigning yesterday because the president just announced, oh, we're going to leave Syria.

And And one of the reasons, supposedly, one of the reasons is because Turkey told the president, we're going to go in and get the Kurds.

And now that would make me say, no, no, you're not.

As the Kurds are always abandoned.

They will be dead.

How many times have we turned our back on the Kurds?

Always.

Would this be

a hundred?

It's a lot.

Every time.

A lot of times.

Every time.

And

it's wrong.

And there will be genocide with the Kurds.

And any Christian that was hoping things were going to get better, forget about that.

We have just handed the region over to Iran, Turkey, and Russia.

Very bad.

Very bad.

Pat said when he came in, I don't really care about the Maddis thing.

I can't find a way to care about this.

Why?

Because

I don't know that anybody

I don't know that Trump listens to anybody anyway.

I don't know if it matters who's in there.

I think he's doing what he wants to do.

And I think this is a really good indication of that.

I don't know.

I think he certainly doesn't want to pull out of Syria.

It's always been said that he respects his generals.

Now,

maybe not anymore with Kelly and Mattis.

They're all gone.

There's no more generals left.

But those two, I really truly believe.

I don't know if they voted for Donald Trump or believed Donald Trump.

They might have.

They might not have.

I think those two served out of duty and responsibility to the Constitution and to the America that they understand and love.

And I could see Mattis looking and saying, look, I don't necessarily agree with this guy on everything, but someone has to be a stable rod,

and I will be that guy.

And he can't do it anymore.

That's not good.

Can't do it.

That's really not good.

But I think that's where...

I think that's where people are with what's going on now.

And when they can't convince him not to pull out of Syria Syria because it's way too soon and there's way too much to be done.

But you can.

Look at what's happening now with the border wall.

All of a sudden,

he's back on the border wall.

He's back on.

Why?

Because

he does listen to the voice of the people and his supporters.

Well, yeah, I think when Fox Summers turns on him and starts saying negative things about him, because they never do, I think that he took notice of that.

I think he took notice.

Because you even had Brian Kilmead criticizing him openly this week, and that kind of doesn't happen.

No, you know, Rush had criticized

Mark Levin was critical of the Syria move.

He got some really harsh.

I mean, his supporters were really, really harsh on him about that.

Well, the wall thing was.

It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

I mean, you can't go back.

Who was it that said, I thought this was a great quote.

Oh, Ben Shapiro.

This is read my lips, no new taxes.

That's what that is.

You cave on that.

But I think this one has

possibly even more significant ramifications.

Going forward, straight up, strategically, this is a nightmare, a straight up nightmare.

If you don't like the United States to be the policeman of the world, then you want these 2,000 U.S.

troops still there.

And that sounds weird, but the moment we pull out of there, you are almost guaranteeing that a much larger U.S.

force will have to go back in the very near future.

You're almost guaranteeing it because you just handed the region over to Iran.

Now, if you don't even think about what happened to the Kurds, if that doesn't bother you at all, that they're all about thousands and thousands of people are just about to die.

A whole race of people, a whole culture is going to be wiped off the map.

And then the Christians are next.

I mean, it's, this is not good.

What is Netanyahu saying today?

I haven't really seen, but they've got to be livid over this.

Got to be like, you would not make this decision.

Not only would you not make this decision without, you know, talking to General Mattis in the Pentagon, which it sounds like he didn't at all, but you also wouldn't make this decision without consulting your other allies.

When Mattis says, you know, our allies are important, he's also talking about them.

He's talking about everyone in the region who is now like, oh my gosh, Iran is now back in play.

Like they were getting beaten back, but they're now back in play.

Look at Saudi Arabia.

I'm convinced the Khashoggi thing

was only really a story, not because he was a member of the press, but because those forces that were for the Iranian deal and are not necessarily on our side, you know, they were for the Arab Spring and they were for, oh, let's go topple Libya and let's go arm what now is ISIS, you know, let's go topple Syria.

Those people are the same people that were all upset about Khashoggi.

Well, what has Khashoggi done?

Khashoggi has seriously damaged Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, also the whole world, obviously, but the Middle East, and

has led to us making sure that we're not helping them in Yemen.

I mean, Saudi Arabia is on the ropes

in the last month because of their mistake with Khashoggi, but the way it was portrayed by the press

on you can now have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.

This is just snowballed for Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia will join with Russia.

If they don't have the United States, they will join with Russia on oil.

They will join with China.

They will join with somebody who will help them because they are about out of money, believe it or not.

And what's Brent crude at right now?

54, 56?

Yes.

Something like, and dropping further?

Right.

I mean, it is, this is really not good.

This is all great news for Iran.

If I were in Iran and I were in the ruling party, I'd be celebrating.

We are about to take the Middle East.

And it's not like Trump has been light on Iran, right?

He canceled the Iran deal.

I mean, he's done a lot of good things, I think, on that front.

It's just Russia.

There's not a consistency here.

I think there's not a ⁇ it doesn't seem like there's an overall picture, right?

Like Trump is a guy who did very much run on we shouldn't be in these wars.

I mean, he is much more the pro in the way you'd think of a Democrat thinking on war, right?

Like, he's always been against the wars.

And, and that's, you know, look, that's, I keep hearing people on the news saying, well, he wants, he's doing what his base wants, pull the troops home.

Like, his base doesn't want to kick ISIS's ass?

Like, when did that start?

Well, they think that, see, this is the problem.

It is, it is,

it has been spun to the American people by everybody that we have kicked ISIS's ass, and we have, but we've pushed them them into the shadows.

They're still there.

They have 20,000 active

ISIS members.

And I'd like to point out that this has happened to ISIS before.

When they were in Iraq during the 2007 surge, we did the exact same thing to them.

We pushed them underground.

They went underground.

They had less fighters than they do now.

So they have 20,000 to 30,000.

They had less than that.

They were like 700 at the time.

It was tiny.

They went underground.

They regrouped.

What happened?

We did the same thing, but it was with Obama.

Obama pulled the troops out early.

That allowed them to rise back up, and then we had ISIS and a caliphate.

See, and I think that I feel differently, and I'd love your opinion on this, Jason, but I feel differently about Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is not going to change.

You're not going to democratize.

They don't want it.

They don't understand it.

And it's not their culture.

So that's fine.

We went in.

We got the bad guys.

Keep them contained with the bad guys and keep your eye on them.

But we can bring the troops home from Afghanistan.

But that's totally different than Syria with Turkey

and Iran and Israel.

Would you agree with that?

Yeah, I would definitely agree.

Afghanistan is very personal for me because I've actually fought there and I've had friends die there.

So it hurts me to give it back to the people that will eventually take it.

the country back over the Taliban.

But just to agree with you is that strategically it's less important.

It's been called the place where empires go to die for a reason.

And yeah, the people

every single time.

Every single time.

Every time.

Soviet Union,

get out of Afghanistan.

I'm totally fine.

And I celebrate him saying, okay, you know what?

In a strategic way, we're going to call an end to Afghanistan.

We're going to bring all our troops home.

But leave the 2,000 in Syria.

Leave them there.

And leave.

They're not there to...

Everyone needs to understand this.

They're not there as a large fighting force.

They're there literally just to make sure that Turkey or Russia or whoever else does not touch them.

That's why I'm not sure.

It's why when you're playing chess, we're not playing those 2,000 guys.

They're not the queen or the king.

They're like the bishop or the rook.

And you leave it there for a reason.

Because if you move it, the other side can all of a sudden move around that board in ways that will kill you quickly.

That's all they are.

They're a rook.

Mark my words.

The Kurds will

have made an alliance with someone that we really don't want or they will be dead.

And within months to maybe this very couple years,

we're going to be having the same conversation about moving an extremely large U.S.

force back in because Iran is now setting up shop on Israel's back door.

It'll happen.

And

Lindsey Graham kind of said the same thing yesterday.

And again, Lindsey Graham's a big Trump ally on, you know, certainly recently.

There is

the reporting, however, is that Trump, and this is Trump, Trump wanted this, right, for a long time.

He wanted to pull the troops out.

And I think this has happened with other issues as well.

Tariffs are another example.

He had advisors around him saying this would not be a good thing for the economy.

I mean, I think they've shown to be right so far.

But they kept saying no, no, no, no, no.

And eventually it got to the point where I said I wanted it.

You're not even trying to do what I'm saying.

Get out.

And that seems what's happened here with Syria potentially.

However, the added part of this is reportedly he was on a a call with Erdogan from Turkey, and Erdogan said, basically,

look, why are you, these guys are terrorists.

The Kurds are terrorists.

You're siding with them over your NATO ally.

Why are you doing that?

These people are terrorists.

They're separatists.

And we should be able to go in there and get them.

And why are you siding with them instead of us?

And he won Trump over, with, of course, the baseline of he wanted to pull those people, the troops out anyway.

And, you know, I don't know.

Erdogan does not seem like a positive actor to me.

And siding with his analysis of that situation seems like a territorial.

They're not separatists.

This is a man-made border that we imposed on the region to keep everybody fighting with each other.

I can't say we did, but the British did, to keep everybody at odds with each other.

It's why strongmen work in the Middle East, because they have to defend their tribe.

This is a tribal thing.

This is not like the West.

This is a tribal thing.

And you're going to wipe out that entire tribe.

It will be genocide.

And then the Christians will be slaughtered yet again.

And I'm telling you, this time they will be on the border of Israel.

And it's, I mean, this is

biblical.

This is damn near biblical.

We are setting up the end of times war.

If we don't, if we don't, if we're not smart, this is Gog and Magog.

This is Russia and Iran working together, trying to get Israel.

This is not going to end well.

And losing somebody like Mattis is very bad.

Very bad.

If you support the president, please, please, Afghanistan, fine, leave.

Not there.

Please, Mr.

President, not Syria.

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It's Kansas City 12 and

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Wow.

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That's a close.

Kansas City desperately needs that game, too.

They do.

And both teams kind of do, but Kansas City really needs it to get home field.

What's the record again?

We're 13-2 right now.

This will make us 14-2 if we're right.

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You can get all the back episodes on the podcast, right?

Yes.

You know what?

It could be a misprint in the Bible.

It's maybe not the meek shall inherit the earth.

It's the morons that will.

There you go.

Very good.

Seems that way.

It seems to be working.

Thanks, Pat.

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his frank and honest assessment of what has happened this week and wow a lot of stuff has happened this week.

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Shepard Smith used to make fun of me about being in a doom room.

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I'm also optimistic that I know the American people, that when they're informed and when they know what's going on and they are empowered to do something about it, they fix anything.

So I'd like to get Bill O'Reilly's POV here on the news just over the last couple of weeks, because it has been a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day or a couple of weeks for Donald Trump.

Yesterday, James Mattis resigned.

I think this is colossal.

Syria, we're pulling troops out.

Afghanistan, the border, he gave up and gave $5 billion to Mexico.

Now he's retracing those steps some.

North Korea has fallen apart.

The Russia letter came out.

The Dow is down 4,000 points.

Bump stocks, the president just said, yeah, let's get rid of that.

And Kavanaugh caved on Planned Parenthood.

This is not a string of good things for the president.

I'd like Bill O'Reilly to prioritize them or give them each a grade on how much he thinks is just being nervous nelly and how many of these things actually matter to the American people.

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The horrible, terrible, no good, very bad couple of weeks for Donald Trump.

Bill O'Reilly.

Hello.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

I am Father Christmas, as you described me a couple of weeks ago.

Right.

Speaking to the nation.

Yeah.

You're like, you know what you are?

You're like...

You're like Bing Crosby, who we later found out beat his children.

Thank you.

Very nice.

Bing, may he rest in peace.

Yes.

Maybe should have been nicknamed Bang.

Bang Crosby.

Bang Crosby.

Anyway,

I would like to speak to start this off with Nervous Nelly.

Is she in the studio?

Yes, she is.

She is.

So let me just go through this list with you one by one.

And they're the things that have happened.

And I would like your perspective and your opinion on what's real, what really matters, what doesn't.

Christmas is standing by.

Okay, hang on just a second.

I want it in two different categories.

I want what's real and matters in geopolitical or

in real terms, and then one politically.

Okay?

So something may not make a difference at all geopolitically, but politically, it makes a lot of difference.

Okay?

All right, I'm ready.

All right.

Let's start with the resignation of James Mattis.

Last night, the president, or yesterday, he said we're pulling out of Syria.

That is basically going to be an extermination order for the Kurds.

And James Mattis was upset that he didn't know about it.

According to his letter, there's some light between the two of them on how we treat our allies.

He's very respected.

Does it matter, Bill O'Reilly?

Yeah, it matters.

Sure.

And by the way, I was in the White House for an extensive period of time on Wednesday.

You saw a picture of that.

I know that, and I had a pretty good inside view of a lot of things.

So Mattis is a very successful Defense Secretary.

I think he had had enough of the chaos.

That's a key word in this discussion today: C-H-A-O-S, chaos.

And there is.

So, Mattis, very disciplined, four-star Marine General.

I think that he differed on policy with President Trump, but I think those differences could have been dealt with.

But I don't think that Mattis wanted to be told

what was going to happen, and that was that.

So I think that's why he left, and he was an excellent Defense Secretary.

Dissembling ISIS, huge victory.

I hope he writes a book about that and explains exactly how that happened.

Very important.

So we'll miss James Mattis.

The country will.

Does it make our allies nervous?

No, because our allies don't really

file into

effective foreign policy for America.

There's really nobody right now

that's helping us

to the point that Tony Blair did with Britain in the Iraq War, that kind of a thing.

Australia very loyal to us, but the Allies are basically looking for their own stuff, and I don't really I'm not really concerned about them.

Okay.

When it comes to, can we get an importance level about Bill, high, medium, or low?

Hi.

Mattis is going to be hard to replace.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's go to Syria, pulling the troops out of Syria.

Here's what Lindsey Graham said.

As a big supporter of Donald Trump.

If Obama had done this, we would be all over him as Republicans.

We made a good record that the decision to withdraw from Iraq was not based on sound military advice in spite of it.

He did it himself, which he has every right to do, but he needs to own it.

And I don't think General Trump is going to be any better than General Obama.

This is the BillO'Reilly.com Man of the Year.

Yep.

Lindsey Graham.

Lindsey Graham.

Absolutely.

Your thoughts on Syria.

Yeah, my view is 2,000 special forces in Syria were effective there in protecting many innocent people from harm.

That's pretty much what their role was.

So the President made it clear he doesn't want U.S.

troops on foreign soil unless

it's a national security situation.

This is not.

I am not that upset or worried about 2,000 troops coming out of Syria.

Is Iran a national security concern?

Yes.

You've just handed the region.

No, no, Beck.

Yes, you need to.

Just relax.

All right.

This is nervous now.

We'll be back in there in 16 hours.

We have bases around the area where

American forces are stationed.

We have air power that can hit that place very hard and very quick.

So if Iran were to do something

that was dangerous, we could

very quickly affect that.

Trump just didn't want these guys sitting there.

They're not.

So he's moving them around.

We're not pulling out of the region.

As somebody who has helped move tens of thousands of Christians to safety, this is the most reckless thing I've ever seen a president do.

Possibly only beaten by Obama.

All right.

We have a little bit of a disagreement there.

I think that if anybody started to slaughter Christians, that we would be right back in there very quickly.

So importance level would be low there, Phil?

Or medium?

Moderate.

Moderate.

Moderate because it's a ripple effect.

It did have something to do with Mattis resigning.

I think the Department of Defense is

not happy with President Trump.

That's not a good thing.

So whereas I don't see it as a strategic move that's going to harm the country directly,

the fact that it was done this way is not good for the USA.

So I'm going to give I'm going to let me give mine as well.

Mattis, I agree with Bill.

High.

Syria, couldn't disagree more with Bill.

Very high.

This should be interesting.

Border and giving $5 billion to Mexico.

He folded and now he listened to

his tribe and he is trying to reverse that.

Tell me your thoughts on the border and the $5 billion to Mexico.

All right.

What's the $5 billion to Mexico?

$5 billion.

What it was is we said we're going to give $10 billion,

no border wall, and we're going to give $10 billion in aid.

Are you talking about giving them economic aid?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

So there's a new president in Mexico, and Trump apparently has a pretty good relationship with him.

And the NAFTA deal helps the United States economically so he wants the guy to do us favors the new president of Mexico wants him to do his favors so he's he's basically backing away from the punitive aspect of

US-Mexico relations unbeknownst to the public Mexico helped with this migrant caravan a lot

A lot

and that has not been out there that has not been put out there so very few few of these caravan people got into the United States.

Very few.

And Mexico's paying for them to sit down there and Tijuana for the rest of their lives, I guess.

So there's a lot of extenuating circumstances.

Now, the bigger question is the PR debacle of the president waffling on the wall.

And, you know, that's a political thing.

I would have said to the American people, I need two months to solidify this wall and get

a marketing campaign so that you understand why this wall is absolutely necessary.

So I'm going to extend this spending until February 8th.

But if February 8th, I don't get my wall, then the government is going to shut down forever because we're not going to do it.

That's how I would have done it.

Me too.

Because of the stock market.

And then so I would have delayed it a little bit instead of just one day saying, ah, all right, all right, I'll accept no money for the wall.

And then the the next day, after Ann Coulter ran around the White House on fire, saying, oh, nope, I'm reversing, because that makes President Trump look weak.

So, importance level, high, moderate, or low?

Very high.

Okay, hang on just a second.

Because of the stock market,

the stock market is the big story.

Okay.

Well,

it's the big, big story.

Let's take a quick break and we'll come back.

I don't want to hear about the stock market.

And I also want to know: is this a big story on the border

because of political or

actual effect to all of our lives

or a combination of both?

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Bill,

we have...

We have the border issue.

Do you say it's very, very high because of politics?

Rate them separately.

Politics and

geopolitical politics.

All right.

So geopolitical is more important than politics.

I'm not a real fan of

doing anything for political reasons.

So you've got a nation, Mexico, which is pretty much out of control.

So cartels run

a lot of what happens in Mexico.

And we know that from the Child of El Achapo going on right now in New York City.

Everybody's bribe down there and tons of narcotics come into the United States every year, tons.

And what is it, 75,000 people dead in 18 from drug overdoses?

And that's probably about half of the deaths because they say they die of congestive heart failure, all of that stuff.

So you've got this narcotics just flooding into the country, changing neighborhoods,

the expenses in the tens of billions of dollars to deal with these people.

Just that alone,

you need a wall.

Why?

Because it makes it a lot harder for cartels to get massive amounts of drugs in here.

They have to funnel then everything into the ports of entry, which you're getting much more sophisticated in finding the drugs hidden in the trucks and all of that.

So just that alone, you say you've got to build this barrier.

And then the people smuggling it makes it much more difficult for the coyotes, which are the nicknames of the people who smuggle the people in, charging the people, the poorest people in the world, about $3,000, $4,000 to do it, makes it much more difficult for them to do that.

So therefore, the wall is a worthy enterprise, should be built.

And anybody who's against the wall, I'm really, I have never heard a rational argument, not once.

Oh, well, it's not a good PR.

It's not good optics.

Oh, you know what I mean?

It's Christmas, so I'm not going to say it.

On a political front, Donald Trump looked weak.

Okay.

Simple as that.

Let's go to the stock market.

Worst December for stocks since 1931.

Right.

If this continues,

Donald Trump is never going to be re-elected.

That's number one headline.

He has to have a robust economy going into the 2020 vote.

And I mean a really good economy.

So the stock market going down, even if people don't have stocks and bonds, ripples out because everybody's afraid.

Everybody is the corporate chieftains.

They're afraid.

And

anything could happen.

A recession could happen.

Their companies could not earn as much money, and therefore they'll be fired.

The chieftains will be fired.

Fear.

is driving that market down.

Now,

can it turn around if Trump makes makes a trade deal with China and the government shutdown thing gets solved somehow?

Yeah,

that could come back up.

I'm not selling.

I don't have a lot of stocks anyway because

in my position in life, I'm more interested in stability than I am in growth.

So

the stock market is the story because every single American is going to be affected if the stock market continues to decline.

So importance is very very high on that one.

Don't get any higher than that.

I agree with him.

That's it.

I agree with him.

That is the key to everything.

If the economy falls apart,

everything else is just a domino.

The Russia letter.

Well, let's get into that in a second.

Let me go to bump stocks.

The president has

just created a new rule out of thin air that bump stocks need to be banned.

And within, I think, 90 days or four months, you're going to be a felon if you own one.

You know, I'm not a gun person.

I don't really understand a lot of the intricacies of that.

My philosophy is that public safety is number one in America.

If

the people think that eliminating bump stocks is going to make it a safer country, okay, I'm for it.

If it has a bunch of bull and it's just an optics thing, then I'm against it.

But I'm not really the kind of guy who can give you an incisive analysis of all that gun stuff.

I do believe in the Second Amendment.

I believe that people have the right to defend themselves.

I don't think they need a bazooka to do it, or a mortar to do it, or live hand grenades in the garage.

All right?

But then you go down the list.

If somebody lives in a rural area and they want to have an AK, I don't have a problem with that.

But I think that everybody should be able to buy the guns in an orderly way, and the authorities

should know who has the AK.

All right.

So that's really my overall view of it.

And that's a totally honest analysis.

I appreciate that.

I'm wondering, Bill, if you have enough thought on how it happened, right?

Like, would we be okay with Obama doing it through essentially a rule changer slash executive order?

There was no law passed.

No, but Obama did that 50,000 times, as everybody knows.

I know, but this is a constitutional piece, and we shouldn't accept that from Obama or Trump or anybody else.

No.

Then somebody should raise the issue in a way that it could be voted upon.

I agree.

I'm for that, by the way.

Low priority, though, on that one, Bill.

Yeah, for me, it is.

Okay.

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If you've missed any of it, you want to go back and listen to the whole show today.

You can get that at Glennbeck.com or wherever you find your podcast.

But the show started with something really, really very funny.

And then we talked about Mattis,

and then we've brought on our weekly

spotlight on the professor, the egghead, Bill O'Reilly, who can set us straight on everything that is happening in our world.

And we've been talking about

all of the things that have happened that have not necessarily gone in favor of President Trump in the last few weeks.

James Mattis resigned last night.

We're pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan, I agree with Syria.

I think it's crazy.

The border debacle.

North Korea, we didn't mention.

That fell apart.

The Dow is down 4,000 points in the last two months.

The president came out with an executive order banning bump stocks.

Let me start here just quickly because I don't think this is worth that much conversation.

Are you concerned on what happened with Kavanaugh in the last couple of weeks where he ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood?

No, it's a technicality, I think.

Kavanaugh trying to signal his judicial independence.

So that didn't concern me that much.

The way the case was presented was not the way it should have been presented, in my opinion.

I mean, the basic Planned Parenthood deal is this organization should not be receiving government funds.

That's what should be ruled upon.

And Texas needs to basically reorganize, refile the litigation, and just put that up front.

So priority low on that one.

That's reassuring.

It's a high priority in the sense that why are you forcing, why is the federal government forcing people who do not believe in abortion to pay for it?

The issue is a big issue, but the Kavanaugh part of it, you think, is lower.

That's been very concerning.

He was very true signaling that I'm an independent guy.

I'm not just going to go along with whatever the conservative movement wants.

Okay.

And

the last one is the Russia

letter that shows that there was a business deal, an agreement to

explore building Trump Tower.

And it was a pretty extensive letter signed by the president, also co-signed by somebody.

He said he couldn't recall the name.

He didn't even know who that person was when he was asked about it by the press.

This is something that he specifically denied several times.

Tell me about your thoughts on that, and it's important to say.

Well, I don't really know what the denial concerned.

As a private citizen, Donald Trump made deals all over the place, and letters of intent

were very, very

common.

And I don't know whether he paid attention to it.

I don't see any deception here.

I just don't see it.

Okay, hold on, hold on.

Before you go too deep, let me give you your words just a few weeks ago when we talked about this.

Go ahead and play this.

So, if there is a letter, and he did sign it, does it matter?

Yeah, that would matter.

Because if there's a letter of intent to build a condominium in Moscow, that's a business dealing.

So, that would matter.

Okay, so even if he because, see, this is interesting because

I buy into the letter, and I don't think that

anybody's

going to kick it

on.

Seen it in several places.

October 28th, 2015 was the date.

It was the date of the third Republican presidential debate.

And I think this is an interesting one, Bill, because it's one of those things everyone can throw out these accusations.

This one should be provable.

But Bill, if they have the letter, they should be able to show it, right?

If they have the letter, it should be in the Mueller Report when it comes out.

It would have been a legal agreement.

It was a long time ago.

If Cohen

had a letter and Cohen would be the guy.

But he was the guy just yesterday.

He just yesterday came out and said, Okay, yes, I did lie about this two.

So here's the thing: I don't want to even, I don't really care.

I get to the point on this when when the facts are out, then you'll be able to comment on it.

I'm not holding the letter out as

because I'm not talking about, I'm only talking about politics here.

Don't use the word lie and fall into the trap of all of the hate Trump media.

Look, listen to Father Christmas.

Okay, stop.

So now that was you a couple of weeks ago.

Okay, and look,

the problem with this stuff is the definition, and now you go back to Bill Clinton.

All right, so a letter of intent to do something is not doing something.

And so Trump is going to hide behind, and I'm not sticking.

This is, just so you know, for

definition's sake, this is an L-O-I, a letter of intent.

And it says that throughout the 16 pages, it's L-O-I.

It never came to fruition.

So when Mueller asked Trump, do you have any business dealings or did you have any business dealings with Russia?

Trump, in his mind, and again, I'm not justifying it, says no, because we never signed a deal.

We never began construction.

We never put money in there.

They never gave us money.

It was was just an exploration, a letter of intent.

Now,

if it were me and somebody asked me, I would have said eight months ago, whenever it came up, yeah, we were looking at trying to do something there as a private citizen, and it didn't come about.

So that's what happened.

That's what Trump should have done.

Why he doesn't do these things, I don't know.

I don't know.

He creates problems for himself.

But is it a felony?

No, no, I don't think there's

no, I don't think there's that.

I just it's it's the continuation of Donald Trump not articulating

in an effective way

against him.

Isn't lie fair here, Bill?

I mean, it is fair.

I don't know.

I'm not going to say it's a lie.

If the guy didn't do it, and I know in his mind he's going, I didn't have a business dealing with him.

In his mind, that's what he's saying.

But the intent here,

while he was on stage saying, I don't know any of these people, I don't have anything going on, he was briefed three times about the progress of

the intent to build.

In fact,

Putin's own office was involved back and forth with his people.

So,

what the spirit was, is, are you an honest broker?

Do you you have anything that we should know about with Russia?

Yes, you should know that I'm trying to build a deal, but that doesn't change anything.

That's it.

This whole, no, I don't have anything.

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

Is just in his mind,

that's the truth.

Is it the real truth for everybody?

Okay, so hang on just a second.

You should have said what you

just said.

Is Bruce Jenner?

before I got into politics?

Is Bruce Jenner a woman?

All I know is that I believe Bruce Jenner was promised a condo in Moscow.

He's colluding.

Okay, so Russia letter.

I mean, because

I think you're where we are on this, and that, like,

I just wish he would make it easier for everybody.

With not just you, but I think the American people would like a president, all right, who is straightforward.

Yeah.

All right.

He didn't rationalize answers.

But who is that person?

I'm a presidential historian.

I mean, I ninety percent of them rationalized everything.

They don't want to put out stuff that makes them look bad.

Trump's memory, I don't even think, is any good.

All right.

I mean, you know, who knows

his capacity for all of this stuff?

I don't.

It's not a big deal to me.

I think the biggest story of the year is the

organized cabal that wants to destroy his presidency.

That's what I think the biggest story of the year is.

And they may well succeed.

Wait, wait, wait.

How do you mean?

You have three powerful entities lined up to drive Donald Trump from office: Mueller,

the establishment media, and the Democratic Party.

That's a lot to fight.

And they all three are working in concert, Beck and Stu,

to drive him out of office or to injure him so badly that he cannot win reelection.

They're acting in concert.

By sleeping clean of Strzok and Page's phones by people in Mueller's office, you know that story,

proves that beyond a reasonable doubt.

Three of them are after him, and I don't think he can stand up to it.

I just don't think he can.

See, I think he could.

That's another reason that the stock market is in decline.

Yeah, I will tell you that I think, Bill,

you are correct based on the last few moves of the president.

If he loses his base,

if he doesn't live up to his promises and he's not rock solid,

coupled with the economy, he's believe it'll be built somehow.

Yeah, Bill,

I think what's interesting.

And I know you're up against the break because you've got to have money to do cross-country thing.

I'll put you on for free.

I know.

I am the most.

Father Christmas is a benevolent force, and that's why I do this free.

But what I'm doing is

giving you the plugin.

I'm playing all that, so it's very nice of you.

But are you coming to my neighborhood in your little truck on your cross-country thing?

Because I want to host you, Beck.

If you come to Long Island.

No.

No.

Why in God's green earth would I select anything near New York?

Many Beck fans are here.

Oh, I know that, and I'm trying to get them to move to Texas.

I'm going to get a little truck across the Washington Bridge and come down to Long Island.

And where are you going?

What's the itinerary?

I don't think that's any of your business.

Oh, I see.

I mean, if you are indeed Father Christmas, you'll know where I am.

That's true.

Up above your head in a sleigh.

Yeah,

my kids are saying, I don't think Bill O'Reilly is real.

And I'm like, we're going to test it.

We're going to see if he finds us this Christmas.

I want you to have a good time.

You too.

I'm sure you'll have an exciting time dunking into the eggnog or whatever you do.

I'll be doing that.

I'll be reading Killing the SS.

You know, Amazon ran out of copies.

So many copies were sold, they ran out.

We had to drive copies over to them.

Wow.

Unbelievable.

But I appreciate you killing the SS.

If anybody is a historian or likes history, great gift.

You still have the signed copies bill?

Beck's books are great gifts.

Do you still have the signed copies bill on the website?

Yes, we have signed copies.

We can't get them to you for Christmas, but if you'd like them.

Oh, you drive them over for Amazon, but you won't drive them over for the listener.

I get it.

I get it.

There's five.

I know if I had a list, I wouldn't eat them.

Anyway, I hope you guys have a really nice kitchen.

It was very nice of you to put me on the air every week.

God bless you all.

I'm doing it free.

I'm giving you the airtime for free.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

That's nice.

And

I hope you're not driving.

I hope you have a life.

I am driving.

Not you.

I am driving.

And I will tell you.

I am behind the wheel.

And my wife thinks it's a horrible idea.

And my kids are freaked out of their mind.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

You know, and every time you gas up and you get out of that truck, people are going to go, Colonel Sanders!

Wow.

Oh, I'm wishing you a very special 2019, Bill.

God bless, Bill.

Thanks a lot.

All right.

Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

I'd like to get him an X chair, but if you watch the Game of Thrones, wasn't there a house that had X,

you know, as their house symbol and they were upside down and tortured on that X?

I think so.

That's the one I'm going to send to Bill O'Reilly.

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That's probably more fault than the X-Chair.

Yeah, I know.

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Donald Trump says shutdown of the government today if they don't vote for border security.

We'll see what happens.

Would you say, you know what?

I'm not signing the criminal justice reform thing either until you get this done.

Yep, get it done.

Yep, you want that.

That's something they really want.

The Democrats really want it.

Now, pass overwhelmingly, probably be overridden the veto, but still.

No, it doesn't matter.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

Go ahead.

Override it.

I'm not going to.

This office, this pin does not work.

My big veto stamp does.

This pin doesn't work until I have border security on my desk.

I know it's a big Jared Kushner priority, so I don't know that he would want to do that with criminal justice.

Keeping the government open, keeping our government safe is more important today

than

criminal justice.

And that will happen anyway.

Can we do a quick lightning round of Bill's ratings and see if you agree with him?

Yes.

He said Mattis was

high importance.

Yes.

Border, high importance.

Yes.

Syria, moderate importance.

The disagree, huge importance.

The Russia letter, he said, low importance.

High importance.

The Dow and the economy

is the biggest.

Kavanaugh, he said low importance.

I like his explanation on that one.

Kavanaugh, don't get worried.

Kavanaugh was ruling on a technicality.

Texas should come back with a stronger case, and he'll hear it.

Not sure if that's wishful thinking, but I'm willing to go into wishful thinking on that one.

Bumpstock ban, he said low priority.

Because he was making about guns.

I say that's not a gun issue.

That is a constitutional issue.

And I think that's a high

priority.

So, you were pretty much high on almost all of these, with the exception of Kavanaugh, which I think there's room, you could go low or moderate, I think, with Kavanaugh, because I think it's true.

It's not completely revealing of which way he's going to go, but I was already nervous about him going in

and it didn't help me at all.

No, I know.

I want to give you another perspective of all of the things that are going on today

and get your opinion on that.

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He forces out a hawkish Secretary of Defense.

He gets very protectionist on trade.

He passes criminal justice reform.

And then he bans bump stocks unilaterally.

Do you think the press

would be reacting the way they are reacting when Donald Trump has just done all of these things?

I contend, not on your life.

In fact, the same people would be calling for him to be the obvious, clear winner of the Nobel Prize.

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Gonna get into the news of the day, and Chad Prayther is with us and get his view on some of the things that are going on.

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Chad Prather, a

comedian,

kind of the Will Rogers of the conservative side, if you will,

who has been doing comedy tours and quite honestly

has pinned and sung one of the greatest songs ever ever made.

I've Got Friends in Safe Spaces.

Just give me the hook of that.

I love that.

I've got friends in safe spaces.

If you don't go with us, you must be racist.

Come on.

Let's see.

Come on in.

Let's get cozy showing off participation trophies.

It's a great thing.

Watching CNN in Safe Spaces.

It's great.

How are you, Chad?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing wonderful.

Yeah, I'm ready for Christmas.

And I thought we were going to take a little break, but no, it's been...

But you know what?

It's been fun.

You guys have had me in, had me on the shows this week, and I've enjoyed coming over.

So appreciate that.

You have, you're a guy.

What were you doing before YouTube?

I was depressed.

I was miserable.

I had gone.

I used to travel all over the world, and I was a motivational speaker, and I was all over the place.

And,

you know, then I went through kind of a breaking point in my life, and I climbed into that proverbial cave for about five years.

And I said, you know, instead of being entrepreneurial and stepping on landmines everywhere I go, I'm just going to go do what everybody else does.

And I'm going to join the corporate world and get a paycheck.

And I was miserable with that.

And so one day I was at the gym.

I was not in the gym.

I was at the gym.

It was a huge difference.

I love you for that.

I love you.

Because I'll go to the gym.

I'll go to the gym.

I'm not going to go in.

Yeah.

And I'm sitting under a shade tree making phone calls.

I called my wife on the phone and I said, I'm quitting my job.

I'm miserable.

And she said, if that'll make you happy, I said, thank you because I've already quit.

And she said, what are you going to do?

And I said, and it sounded so articulate in my head.

I said, I'm going to go make a living just just being myself.

And she said, Chad, what's the street value on your personality?

And me being equally quick, I said, it's about the same as President Obama giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention.

She said, that's hands down and worthless.

So, you know, we had no idea.

I just knew that I had, I felt like one of those things, I felt like years ago, God said to me, one day you'll speak to thousands of people.

I just had no idea.

I'd be sitting alone in my truck when I did it.

You know what I mean?

God has interesting different plans and strategies for our lives.

Because I was.

I was on a bigger and bigger platform back in the day when I was working with ministries and organizations and going around the world.

And I thought, boy, I'm on the road.

I'm headed up on the pedestal.

And you get knocked off.

It is so strange because this is almost the same experience.

When I was eight,

I felt a prompting that

someday what you do will be a turning point.

And I remember it.

And

in some ways, it screwed me up because later as I got further from it, I thought I knew what that was going to be.

And so I became a little more arrogant.

And I know that I'm right.

And it wasn't until I gave up on all of it and just said, well, that was a stupid little thing that I don't even know if that happened.

And what am I doing?

I'm screwing up my whole life.

And I wasn't even me anymore.

And I started to risk.

I mean, Stu knows he was there the day I looked at him on the air and said, I turned off my mic and said, write this down in your calendar.

Do you remember this?

Oh, yeah.

Write this down in your calendar.

This is the day Glenn Beck ended his career because I started being me, really me.

And then the whole world changed.

I mean, it's this weird thing.

We are so concerned that I'm not good enough.

I'm not this.

I'm not that.

If people only knew

who I really was, and that's what they want to know.

Yeah, there's a psychological term, and I can't remember it right now, but most celebrities have that sense of the curtain's going to be pulled back and they're going to expose the wizard and they're going to be seen for the talentless hacks that they all are.

And they all have that fear of that.

You know, Frederick Nietzsche said that you can only wear two faces to the world for so long before you forget which one's the real one.

And that was kind of where I was living.

I didn't know who I was.

And so it's funny.

Me too.

You know, I look at people when I when I just said, I'm going to be me, because I was, you know, the Bible says John the Baptist was a voice crying out in the wilderness.

He wasn't an echo.

He was a true voice.

And I said, I'm going to go find my voice.

And I'm going to be me.

I'm going to be comfortable.

I put on this cowboy hat and that's the world I came out of.

And I said, you know, I'm just going to enjoy being myself.

And so that's the biggest response I get back from YouTube and Facebook videos.

And that is they say, we love the genuineness.

You say the things we want to say and we're afraid to say.

You articulate it in a way that we've never thought about saying it.

And you make us smile when you do it.

So, you know, I'm a little bit tongue-in-cheek with everything I do.

I'm self-deprecating in my humor, and it's okay.

I believe if you can't laugh at yourself, you know, I I mean, my friend Gary Chapman, he said to me years ago, he said, he said, you know, when you hit rock bottom, look around.

You'll see my name carved on the wall in a couple of places, three or four times.

And I said, you know, I think life is really interpreted by the breaking points.

I think when you look back at the journey of your life, how many times were you broken?

How many times did you say, damn, I was on the wrong, I mean, this is, and I had to get broken down to a bare essential of humanity so that you become a dependent human being again on something stronger and more powerful than you.

And it it makes you real.

It hurts.

It hurts.

You know, I can remember going through a real hard time several years ago and I called my mentor on the phone and I said, you know, I don't know how to deal with this situation.

I don't know how to come out of this.

This cave is dark.

And he said, just get back on the cross and finish the job.

He said, you know, just go ahead and get it over with.

Just go ahead and die.

That's back when I realized that there's some things that God doesn't want to take to heaven.

That's in you.

He's going to get some of it out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And here you are now.

You started YouTube, what, 2012?

Yeah, a little bit after that.

You know, I was doing it, I had started doing a television show, which no one was watching on cable.

And it was a travel television show.

It was an equestrian lifestyle humorous show anyway.

It's about a production assistant who said, you know, you're always putting these videos out on social media.

And I say that tongue-in-cheek, but I really was a depressed person.

I was medically depressed.

And for me, it was therapy.

Because my wife used to say all the time, she said, Chad, go talk to somebody.

Go talk to.

I said, I don't want to do that.

And there's there's no shame against it.

I said, I just feel weird being a dude that's going to go sit on a leather couch with a strange dude that every 15 seconds says, how does that make you feel?

It makes me feel creepy.

So I just didn't want to do it.

And I said, I got an idea.

So I started putting little observational humor vignettes on Facebook.

And she said, you know, you can make money off of that.

And I said, I have no idea.

So she kind of told me about.

YouTube and things like that.

And for me, people think that I made all this money off of doing social media videos.

Really, it was the doors that had opened up for me on the backside.

I didn't do it to make money.

For me, it was therapy.

And I had no idea when I put a camera phone on the dashboard of my truck while I was sitting in traffic that millions of people were going to be watching to the tune.

We crossed over a billion and a half views on Facebook alone.

in just two years.

And it's just been outrageous.

So we translated that into speaking tours and comedy tours.

And I still don't see myself necessarily as a comedian, although I don't think many people really know the difference.

You're one of these guys that a lot of people will walk up and they'll see this huge auditorium and the traffic is snarled and they'll say,

who's here?

Who is it?

Michael Jackson back from the dead?

Who's here?

And they'll say, some guy named Chad and they'll both stand around and go, who?

Exactly.

It's weird how huge an audience can be now without

people knowing it unless you're connected to them through YouTube.

Yeah, you know, and a good friend of mine, and I'll tell you what I think that is, Glenn.

Because a lot of people say, well, I don't know who you are.

And then somebody will show, I was sitting on a plane a couple of years ago on my way to Phoenix, and I could hear my voice like three rows behind me.

And someone was watching one of my videos.

And then I've had people who walk up to me at the airport and they're like, oh my God, do you know who this is?

And the person with them says, I don't have a clue.

And then they'll say, it's this guy.

And they show him in the context of me with the hat in the truck.

And they're like, oh, okay, we know who that is.

But what I think is, and I've got a good friend, Rob Long, out in Hollywood.

He's a Yale graduate.

He was the executive producer of Cheers.

And, you know, this guy, he's written so many shows out in Hollywood.

And he's a conservative guy.

He's consistently on conservative talk.

And

he just did a poll study recently that revealed that 65% of the people in America feel like that they're being underserved by the entertainment that's coming out of Hollywood.

We say duh.

We know that.

But Hollywood and that bubble of New York and Hollywood and those places, they don't realize there's the rest of America out here.

And so what I said, and I didn't want to come out as a political flamethrower, although I do delve into politics because I love it.

I love the concept of leadership.

And I think I like to look at politics because I like to make fun of the fact that we're void of so much true leadership in a world today.

But I don't want to be a flamethrower with it.

I want to poke fun at it.

And as long as Washington's writing the jokes for us, I'm going to try to tell them.

And I said, there's this audience out there.

There's 65 million people who voted.

for Donald Trump, and they feel neglected.

They've been called deplorables and all these things.

Let's go out there and entertain them.

And so that's the response that we got.

It's amazing to see the people who turn out.

You can tell our fan base when they show up.

You know, we can recognize them coming.

And those people, they drive for hours.

We've sold out in cities like Seattle.

I was in your birthplace, Everett, Washington.

We sold out in Everett, Washington a lot of people.

No, I was born in Everett.

Everett.

I Google.

I don't know how I ran across that, but I remember seeing that somewhere.

And I was like, yeah, we did a show in Everett a year and a half ago, something like that.

In

Portland, and San Jose and New York.

We sell out.

Yeah.

And I keep telling my agents and these guys who book for me in L.A., I'm like, stop putting me in these big cities because all my guys are having to drive in for two hours.

Yeah.

We've had tourist stops like that too, where you're just like, babe,

no one in this theater has ever been within five miles of this place.

You know what's really weird is when we did San Francisco, we did the Shrine Autorium, Auditorium in San Francisco, big, beautiful 3,000-seat theater.

We thought no one would come.

Packed to the rafters, and everybody in there, I even said it, you could feel it.

Everyone in there all of a sudden kind of felt like, oh, thank God

I'm safe in here.

And I'm not alone in my everyday life.

You're not alone.

It's so bizarre when that happens.

All right.

More in just a second.

I want to talk about some of the

politics of the day with Chad Prayther coming up.

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So we have Chad Prayer, who is taking a break from his comedy tour.

You can go to his website, watchchad.com.

That's watchchad.com, the Chad Prayer show.

You are on, you're on tour like

90 stops a year.

Is that right?

Yeah, we do about 90 tour stops.

And they're all on the weekend.

Yeah, pretty much.

Pretty much.

Every now and then we'll do, you know, we're headed to Biloxi, Mississippi for the new year.

So that's the 30th is a Sunday.

The 31st is a Monday.

Of course, that's a special occasion.

But we'll do, every now and then, like through the summer, if we're trying out new material or whatever, we'll go to comedy clubs.

I don't do many clubs.

I do mostly theaters.

And we've had Cincinnati, back in the summer, we had a comedy club on Sunday night.

We had 500 people that showed up, sold it out on a Sunday night.

I mean, it's a blessing.

It's humbling, is what it is.

You come here and you're selling out, you know.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, like I said, we had 3,000 of our closest friends a couple of weeks ago here in.

here in town.

Yeah.

Okay, so

Chad, let's talk about, first of all,

rate this year as far, because last year I remember saying, oh my God, I'm glad this year is over,

only to enter this year, which is even crazier.

And I find myself now saying, I'm not sure I'm glad this one's over because I'm not looking forward to what might happen next year.

How do you,

do you feel that way at all?

I feel like we're watching a toddler learn to run,

learn to walk and stumbling along and trying to feel their way.

It's upright.

You know, it's moving forward, but it's still trying to find its way.

And there's still a lot of sharp corners.

There's a lot of things.

There's things you want to say, oh, you know, you want to protect the child from bumping into certain things.

And it feels like, especially today, I mean, you look at the last two weeks and it feels like we're bumping into a lot of things.

Yeah.

But I felt like it's almost like, you know, when a child's cruising, just to take that terrible analogy a little further, a child's cruising, you're like, wow, that's exciting.

All this good stuff's happening.

But then there's that one bruise that defines the moment.

And you're like, dang it.

You know, we almost had it.

And I think we're in that, we're taking a little bruise right now.

And,

you know, we had a lot of things that have gone really, really well.

So I don't know that I'm necessarily surprised.

I'm a little disappointed that it's all happening at once.

But if you are a Trump fan, you have to see this as a good thing that it's all happening around Christmas because

nobody's paying attention.

Yeah, well, you know, I think that I think people are starting to perk up, though.

They're seeing it.

There's some disappointing things.

Trump has a base that I think some of them are starting to get a little bit disenchanted, a little bit,

they feel a little disenfranchised.

They feel like maybe they're starting to be forgotten again.

Hang on, just point that out.

It's weird because it's all happened since after the Kavanaugh thing.

Right.

Because Kavanaugh was galvanizing for him for even the people who were feeling like, I'm not so much on the Trump train.

That one, when that was happening, everybody was like, yep, good for him, standing his ground.

So it's been a very short period of time, do you think?

Very short period of time.

I saw a statistic, and I don't know if it's true or not.

I just glanced through the article that said that the employee turnover in the Trump White House right now is exceeding what McDonald's rate is.

So that's telling if that's...

Well, McDonald's has fries, though.

Well, you know, Trump has Nietz Coke and fried chicken.

So who knows?

But it is, you know, was, I was, I don't know.

The first, my first reaction is to see that, you know, James Mattis resigns as Secretary of Defense yesterday and everybody wants to go, oh my God, you know, because everybody loves James Mattis.

But then you look at the, you know, historically, the Secretary of Defense, that position usually lasts 700 days.

And that's about what we're looking at.

Yeah, we're going to go to the next one.

700 days, I think.

Yeah, so that's not unusual for that to happen.

And it's amazing.

You know, I don't know.

There's not a lot of, if people aren't into political punditry and they really don't pay attention to it, you know, just every now and then catch the headline news.

Historically speaking, you can't name all the cabinet members.

You can't name all the chiefs of staff.

You can't name all of

the reporters and all these people who in the, but this presidency, you know everybody.

You know everybody.

I mean, I can't tell you that two years ago I really knew who Jake Tapper was or Don Lemon or even cared.

I knew they were there.

You know, when was Chris Como really relevant?

Now everybody's looking at what

he's still not relevant.

Not in my world, that's for sure.

So I look at these guys and i'm like we have made so many people well known in household names because of this presidency because of the things that have gone on and so what i'm saying is we're looking at it through this scrutinizing microscope that we're analyzing every move every dismissal every firing every leaving every resignation every little flaw Come on, I mean, if they're going to take a Christmas picture and Vogue is going to say they're too smiley, that is crazy.

At what point are you going to say this is too much?

The way they have treated Melania Trump is

shameful.

It is.

Just shameful.

She has done nothing wrong.

She's married to the guy, and she's done nothing wrong.

She's a perfectly normal human being.

She's an immigrant.

She's handling this with class and dignity.

And for the way they shun her and tear her apart at every step of the way, it is absolutely shameful.

Well, it really came to light with me.

So when she did the African tour here recently, and there's the pictures of her coming back, and I mean, she looks like she's walking out of a Ralph Laurentier.

It's incredible.

Incredible.

There's this beautiful, classy lady, intelligent lady, knows however many languages.

She is.

If that were Michelle Obama, we know.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, it would be.

She is more beautiful and stylish and iconic than Jackie Kennedy.

She really is.

She is.

She's not in fair competition.

She's a freaking supermodel.

I know exactly.

Still, the way she carries herself, it's iconic.

And I mean, there's no question about it.

It's like saying that everything at McDonald's sucks, even their fries.

I don't trust you.

I don't trust you.

And that's not even an insult to Jackie Kennedy.

No, no, no.

No, it's not even an insult to Turks.

It's really not.

It's like the guy down the street is a good basketball player.

Yeah, but the other person down the street is LeBron James.

There's not even a fair competition.

So there was an article I read this morning talking about, you know, the NFL players really don't have, you know, Kaepernick doesn't have a reason to kneel anymore.

Because

look at this prison reform thing.

Yeah,

so they took it away.

Amazing.

Chad, thank you so much.

Chad, Praythru, you can find him at watchchad.com.

Watchchad.com.

We'll see you in the new year.

Always a pleasure.

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Thanks.

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We are not going to get, we are just not going to get

to everything we have to do today.

I was going to tell another Christmas story, et cetera, et cetera.

But then Sarah walked in and her husband-to-be, Stephen, is with us now.

And welcome, Sarah.

How are you?

We're good.

We're really good.

We're really excited for the holidays.

Okay, so now, so tell me why you're excited because you and Stephen

are

hooking up officially.

We are.

We're getting married.

We're making it official.

We will no longer be living in sin.

Congratulations.

I didn't need to hear that.

I don't need to hear that.

Yes.

Yeah.

We will be flying out to the Dominican, and we're going to go have a ceremony on the beach to get married.

That's great.

Did you reconsider it when you found out he was an Alabama fan?

Was that one of the first things?

I mean, did you try to make him stop?

What was the...

I did.

I had some second thoughts.

There were some red flags when that happened, but ultimately I decided that that's just something that I would live with.

Probably a mistake, I hope you don't mind me saying.

The whole marriage.

Right.

Because, I mean, as an Alabama fan, you should have just run away.

But okay, you know, that's good.

You can try something new.

Everyone needs a partner, right?

Right.

There you go.

Now, Stephen is the director.

You're the director of these shows, right?

You have a title above that.

Senior director.

You're senior director, yeah.

And so you call all the shots, which you now may understand why Sarah looks great in all the shots and I look kind of dumpy.

Yeah, well, that and fat cells.

Well, yeah.

Of course, that goes without saying.

But

so, how did this

happen?

How did you, at what point did you

go lock on?

Do you want to ask these questions?

Yeah, I do.

Well, we started out as just we were really good friends.

You know, we were best friends.

We talked all the time.

Yeah, no guy, you had intentions, didn't you?

Of course he did.

He did, but

I had to make the first move.

He was too, he was too nervous.

He was too nervous.

Right, but I just don't want, I don't want you to live a lie here that he was trying to be your friend.

That's not what was happening.

That's not what was happening.

Can you qualify that?

Yeah, no, no, I can because we both were coming off of, you know, previous marriages that didn't work.

And, you know, I mean, we both were not in a place to be in a relationship at first.

And we were like that for, you know, a good bit.

And then it sort of.

Well, you've got this down.

It's almost believable.

Yeah.

We fought it for a while until we couldn't fight it anymore.

Oh, my gosh.

And then we don't need to hear anymore.

So

you're going off to the Dominican,

which is smart because I married my first four wives in the Dominican because it doesn't hold up legally and it's brilliant.

You get off the plane and she's like, oh,

hey, honey.

You're like, I don't know you.

We're married.

And not here.

And then you're sending ice in.

That's what happens next.

Ice visits.

Is that what you're doing, Stephen?

Oh, I don't know.

No, I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

And you were just friends, Stephen.

Okay, so.

This seems to be

a risky thing to do as the first thing you do as a potentially married couple here,

as you seem to be having Glenn sign some official document related to.

I'm a reverend.

I'm a minister.

You are a minister?

I am a reverend.

I know you were a doctor.

You're a minister.

Well, I'm signing this Reverend Doctor because that's the way Martin Luther King signed it.

Does that invalidate it?

I am a doctor.

I have my doctorate in humanities, which means I can do anything I want with humans.

Including marry them now.

And I am.

Well, no, that's not my doctor.

I don't have my doctorate in that.

No, what gives me the authority to do that is I am a minister in the Church of Universal Life, Modesto, California.

Is this something that you bought in a mail order?

And

it could be, but with the church that's very near and dear to my heart.

Is it really?

So that works out really well.

Well, it's, you know, Universal Life is, I mean, what else says it more than that?

Universal Life, Modesto, California.

So I can sign her marriage certificate.

This is real, by the way.

You've actually married people before.

I have.

And I think we're going to do that.

I want to do that.

Remember we had Vicki in yesterday, and we said, you know, the bowling alley wedding?

Yes.

I want to marry somebody at the bowling alley.

Maybe we do that on Valentine's Day.

That would be so romantic.

I'm actually a little bit upset that we had all of this planned before you thought of that because I would have liked to have, instead of going to the Dominican.

I could marry you in Shaky's.

We could go to California and marry a Shaky's pizza.

It's never too late to cancel.

And I say that sincerely.

Again, he's an Alabama fan.

There's never too late to cancel.

That's true.

And also, I haven't signed this yet.

So,

you know, you can cancel.

You can also cancel on wanting me to sign this because

somebody's going to have a really good case in divorce court.

That's not even real.

Okay.

Now, I will tell you that I do have to read.

I don't want to ask you these questions now because I know you have a ceremony.

But when you come back, I do, because it will bother me for the rest of my life that I signed this and I didn't ask you.

You know, you take blah, blah, blah.

So

that will happen.

So, yeah, you have to

when you come back, and I'm serious.

We could do it, you know, do it on the news and why it matters.

We would actually, I would actually love that.

I think it would be really special.

You know, we met here, and you know, I feel like it would be very full circle for us.

So, you say that in a giant cat Santa sweater.

So,

that's incredible it is.

I mean, I also have these turn-on-you have light-up earrings and a cat sweater.

So, you were asking me.

Wait, that's a cat.

I should back out.

You may want to actually.

I changed my opinion.

I mean, this is

normal house life, though.

This is how she dresses.

Where is the marriage certificate?

Wow, signed and everything.

Not valid.

Not valid until I ask you this when you come back.

Perfect.

So there you go.

Congratulations on that.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

And the good thing is Glenn has a great record on marriage.

He's one for two, which is.

No, Stephen, you need any advice?

I've been married twice, and so I know twice as much.

That's true.

For us to approach it.

I like to think of the previous one as just it was a practice marriage.

We had our practice.

There you go.

And now we're ready.

Can I tell you something?

In my faith,

outside my ministerial duties at the Church of Universal Life Modesto, California.

Of course.

In my faith, we believe that

you can be married in a very sacred ceremony

for time and all eternity.

And I don't know if you've ever heard the song by Ray Charles,

I love you in a place

where there is no space or time.

Have you ever heard that?

No, I haven't.

Look for it.

Michael Boublay did it too.

It is how I feel about my wife.

And

the line,

the main line in it is, I love you

in a place where there is no space or time.

That's eternity.

That is heaven.

And in my faith, we believe that you can be married civilly,

and that is till death do you part, but you can also be joined together forever through all eternity.

Tanya and I were married civilly first, and then a year later we were married

eternally.

And I will tell you that we took it very seriously when we got married civilly.

But when we got married eternally and took it seriously, really belie we believe we will be together through all time.

And

it changes everything.

It deepens everything.

Just like marriage deepens, when you go the extra step and say, we will never be apart,

and you bind yourselves together with God.

I will tell you that you start having conversations.

It was so strange.

And

it wasn't in a bad way or anything else.

It just happened to both of us.

We got back, and within a a week, we were both saying,

okay, I got to talk to you about something because this kind of drives me nuts.

And it was just because you're starting to think, if I'm going to be with you

for

all time,

I'm going to lose my mind.

And it changes and deepens your relationship so much.

I urge you to consider just at least thinking about your marriage as eternal.

Yeah.

That it doesn't end when you die.

I agree.

Yeah.

Already there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's great.

I don't know if you

know the song Cheap Ass Weave by Cardi B.

But it really delves into some important.

Maybe we'll talk about it off the air.

Yeah, okay.

All right.

It's an important issue before you leave.

Before you leave.

Thank you.

You've cheapened it with that and the cat sweater that lights up.

But other than that, we're good.

Merry Christmas, guys.

Merry Christmas and stuff like that.

Merry Christmas.

Congratulations.

Back next time we see you.

You'll be Mr.

and Mrs.

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Welcome to the Glenbeck program.

Last broadcast for me until the holidays pass.

And it was kind of a cool way to

didn't expect them to come in and do that.

That was very cool.

Seeing Sarah Gonzalez, she's getting married, host of News and Why It Matters.

And I noticed, you know, you always come up with these moments.

Were you going for an on-air conversion to Mormonism there?

Was that you're just going for it?

You just went right on the air, hoping they just.

I mean, I put some Mormon mojo on that thing, and I'm even though I've signed it as a

minister of the Church of

Universal Life Modesto, California.

Right.

So I, yeah.

So

I'm going to get him into the water.

I noticed you went for some spiritual moment and you sort of dismissed mine.

And you do this all the time.

You're talking about the song?

Well, you do this all the time.

I'm sick of kind of being, you know, I'm always the butt of your jokes.

Yeah.

And I'm always the laughing stock.

The laughing stock and the whipping for the victim here.

I'm the victim.

Sure, sure.

And I have a lot to offer spiritually, and I never get to do that.

I mean,

I thought you're...

What was the song that you recommended?

Cheap Ass Weave by Carter.

See, I recommended

a song for you.

I don't know the words of that one.

But, I mean, I think the words are.

Well, I don't know the words of

Cheap Ass Weave either.

Really?

You've never.

And this is a spiritually uplifting.

Oh, I think so.

All right.

I think so.

Okay.

Do you have

the lyrics?

Would you like to hear some?

Sure.

While you're doing that, I'll look up the lyrics.

We could just maybe go back and forth and we can compare.

Okay.

Okay.

Compare and contrast.

Go ahead.

Don't even take nomo selfies.

That weave doesn't even deserve any pictures.

Like, where did you buy that S?

Who really acknowledged it?

What made you feel that you would be lit if you went and copped that

S?

Think about that.

Let it be.

Okay, may I just compare that contrast here?

Mine is, well,

I've been a lot of of places in my life and time.

I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhymes.

I've acted my life out in stages with 10,000 people watching.

But now we're alone and I'm singing my song for you.

I mean, that's not bad.

That's not bad.

What about this, though?

They tell you you look good.

Wasn't you iffy?

Oh, I know.

They tell you you get two bundles for 50.

Girl, you ain't low.

I know how this go.

Cheap shoes is okay.

Cheap dress is okay.

But cheap weave is a no.

And I know your image of me is what I hope to be.

I've treated you unkindly, but darling, can't you see that there is no one more important to me?

So please just see through me.

Cause we're alone now and I'm singing my song for you.

I kind of see what you're seeing in that, but I think

to cut more to the core, I would go with this.

Talk S about me with your dusty ass weave?

Now you out of control.

And they say romance is dead.

Right.

I'm Cardi B.

I come through and I kill everything.

Everything, and that's a fact.

Got me on my hitman S like brap, rap, brap, brap.

Brap, brap, rap, brap.

Brap.

Brap.

Thank God.

And I love you in a place where there is no space or time.

I love you for my life, and you're a friend of mine.

And when my life is over, remember that we were together.

We were alone, and I was singing my song for you.

Brap.

I don't remember.

They say that art is dead.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I think that's beautiful, Stu.

Thank you.

That's Cardi B, huh?

Cardi B.

She's a very, very, I mean, if you don't, if you don't have the entire catalog, it's worth picking up this holiday season.

Really?

Obviously, you get the, you get the kind of the Christmas vibe when you listen to it

when she says things like, I'm fully reloaded, full clip.

I cut to the chase.

Snip, snip.

That we've got to go.

Pink slip.

Looking washed up.

Drip, drip.

Wow.

I mean, if they haven't written their vows yet, I think they may want to consider something like that.

I don't want to get in the way of it.

Wow, it does put to shame, well, you taught me precious secrets of truth, withholding nothing.

You came out in front, but I was hiding.

And now I'm so much better.

And if my words don't come together, then listen to the melody for my loves in their hiding.

You are so right.

The snip, snip, drip, drip thing is a lot better and

much more lasting.

Can I close the year with, I can't believe it.

This is insane.

How can you talk about me when

your weave is inside the grave?

I can't believe it, or is it just me?

But why all these bitches just walk in the streets with some cheap-ass weave?

More words to think about this holiday season.

It really is, and we'll be.

We'll be driving, driving.

I'm getting into the truck now and with the trailer and my teenage kids.

And we're driving across country for the holiday.

And

I'm going to be thinking, brap.

Brap, brap, brap, brap, brap.

Brap, brap, brap.

Brap.

and then

rap.

And that is my message that I think makes this whole year make sense.

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