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some really fun and yet also some really kind of disturbing stories today.

But I think you're going to be left with a good feeling.

Yeah, including your

kind of taking on the Tyler Perry challenge at Walmart.

This is pretty interesting.

I didn't even know this happened.

I was completely oblivious over vacation.

But, you know, Tyler Perry.

So Tyler Perry did something amazing for people, and you kind of jumped on the back of that, and it's good.

Yeah, it's really great.

And I'm encouraging people to do it now as well.

And you'll hear all about it here in just a second.

Also,

we want to talk to you about monitoring brainwaves.

We've got a lot to say about freedom of speech today because a lot of people are under attack for freedom of speech.

And what's coming next?

The monitoring of brainwaves?

The answer?

Yes.

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So while you were probably putting up the Christmas tree or doing something,

in Europe they weren't doing that.

Europe they

were kind of raging in the streets.

And it was happening in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, where over 130,000 rioters took over the streets all across France on Sunday.

More than 1,000 people were arrested.

Now, this is the fourth straight weekend where the streets of Paris were literally on fire.

Rioters burned cars, they smashed windows, they looted stores.

You know, there's nothing that says, hey, you should listen to me politically

more than really just looting of a store.

90,000 police officers and National Guard were called in to try just to maintain order in France.

The scenes coming out of Europe this weekend look like some third world

or war-ravaged country.

It looked more like Egypt than it did the continent that gave birth to the Renaissance.

So now,

tell me,

why is everybody everybody so pissed off?

Macron canceled his fateful gas tax.

There is no equivalent being proposed in Belgium.

There is no equivalent in the Netherlands or in the UK.

Here's what one 67-year-old protester in the Netherlands said: Our children are hard-working people, but they have to pay taxes everywhere.

You can't get housing anymore.

It's not going well in Dutch society.

The social welfare net we grew up with is gone.

Now, if you think the 2008 financial crisis ever really ended, you're wrong.

It was swept under the rug.

That's it.

It was hidden for a while by a wave of printed money and low-interest loans.

But just like with socialism, eventually the money well dries, and there's nothing else to pull up in your bucket.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, global debt has hit new record levels at over 300%

to GDP ratio.

The global debt has now reached more than 240 trillion dollars.

The entire world is sitting on a powder keg.

By the way, the whole world, if we took everything that everybody made every year, it's about 50 trillion.

But that's it.

Eventually something's going to light the spark.

People mocked me so hard when I was at Fox and I said the Arab Spring might be that spark.

The Arab Spring led to the migrant crisis, which also led to the Caliphate.

The Greek sovereign debt crisis soon followed after.

The migrant crisis woke Europeans up to the very real fact that their governments couldn't even provide for them, much less millions of migrants flooding out of the Middle East and northern Africa.

The the result was a wave of populist movements on both the left and the right to challenge the established government.

It is exactly the chalkboard I laid out at Fox.

Exactly.

Macron's gas tax was the latest spark, but this all began ten years ago.

And it's now a monster.

It's a monster that the original organizers have completely lost control of, and it's spreading.

The question is, will it be put out?

Can it be put out before it spreads here?

What will the final spark be before Americans begin putting on their own yellow vests?

Will it be immigration?

Will it be the wall?

Health care?

Taxes?

Spending?

Because the government has failed to listen to the people here as well.

Hopefully we don't don yellow vests and start burning things in the streets.

I mean, Antifa has already got that market cornered.

I don't think we need any competitors.

What's so frustrating is, Stu, you remember, by the way, welcome back, Stu.

Thank you, go on.

You remember the

monologue that I did

at Fox with the little blue book?

Yes, The Coming Insurrection?

Yes, The Coming Insurrection.

And remember how people said that had no relevance on anything that was happening.

This is ridiculous.

This is a

rarely read book out of France by just the intellectual and universities.

And you were blamed for drawing attention to it.

I remember they were like, well, you're going to...

put ideas in people's heads.

Oh, yeah.

You're doing it.

The book that you didn't write and you're criticizing, you're putting the ideas in people's heads.

So

I remember holding it up on TV and saying, you have to read this because this is what's coming.

And I went through it on the air, and it was truly remarkable that nobody listened to it.

Because what did it say?

If you were one of those who watched the show, or if you went out and read it,

what it said was,

we're a bunch of communists.

We've always been communists.

But we played along.

And we played along with the left and all of these socialists, all of these progressives that said they were going to turn us communists.

They were going to give us the state.

We were going to workers of the world unite.

And they lied to us.

And they keep telling us, wait, wait, we need some more voices.

We need to elect some more people.

Just basically the same thing.

We have to have the House.

And we have to have the Senate.

And we have to have the White House.

If we could just get all three, then, and then nothing happens.

And so they were making the case that it's time to tear the system apart.

It's time to burn it to the ground because these people are liars.

And so we'll burn it to the ground and then we'll take it.

And we're going to be able to find people that will work with us to burn it down to the ground

because people are pissed off on all sides.

So let's get them.

That was pretty much the message of the coming insurrection written in France around 2006, 2008.

This is what's happening.

This is exactly what's happening.

And it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

It just takes someone who's not so arrogant.

Oh, well, that's just ridiculous.

Take people at their word.

When they say they're going to kill somebody, when they say they're going to destroy a government, what do you say we start taking them at their word?

I'm going to destroy the border system.

Let's take them at their word.

You'd be surprised at just how many things won't surprise you when you actually start taking people seriously and literally.

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Anyway, so we've started decorating the house and

it was, is anybody else okay?

When you decorate the tree, is everybody just allowed to just hang all the ornaments, just throw them on the tree?

Are we allowed to do that?

Is there any kind of thought about how to hang the ornaments?

I grew up in a room.

No, we have children.

They put the ornaments where they put the ornaments.

And then, of course, there's the giant holes and you fill fill them up later.

Yes.

Yeah.

What do you do?

What do you do?

Was that a tough sentence?

I think it was.

So I said, I said towards the end,

because I just stopped and I looked around and I said,

am I the only one decorating the tree?

And Tanya said, yeah.

And I said,

is it just me?

And she said, oh, no, it's you.

Oh, it's you.

What's you?

I am.

Because were you moving things around?

Yeah, because it wasn't, yeah.

You can't do that.

You can't move things.

I can't.

I can't live in a house with a tree that is just, I can't do it.

You're just too used to somebody else coming in and decorating.

No, no, this is the way I grew up.

My mother, we have a very, you put the Christmas, you look for the holes, and then you put the big ones, you put them in the back, you put them inside the tree, and then you layer it out, and you put it up so you fill it all.

And

And we were fine with it as a kid.

And I remember liking it.

I don't think we did now that I see my kids' reactions to this.

So your concern is that your children were not appropriately decorating the tree in symmetrical fashion.

No, that they weren't necessarily enjoying the learning experience.

of how to decorate a tree.

I bet they weren't.

I bet they weren't.

But your kids are not, you know, judging by height.

No, they're not.

But see, that's the way it used to be.

Used to be when they were four, put them on.

And then you go to bed and we'll just rearrange them.

You know what I mean?

And we had to rearrange them because the dog, they were too low for the dog, and the dog might break them.

Ah, yes.

Okay.

So now that doesn't work because they're 12 and 14.

So it's time to show them that you just don't hang that there because that doesn't work.

Tanya hates me.

Tanya hates me.

And it's so hard because it's sitting there.

It's just, I'm so,

I just, I'm.

You're O C D with this.

I'm so O C D with this.

And we sit there, we'll watch a movie, and I'll notice that halfway through the movie, I haven't even looked at the screen.

I'm looking at the damn tree going, that ornament has to be moved.

That has to be moved.

And I'm doing everything I can not to move it.

It's bad.

Yeah, that's borderline psychosis is what that is.

Can't we all enjoy the Christmas season in a psychotic way.

Here, we kids, you put them all on the tree, and then when you go to bed, dad's going to move them all.

No, that won't even work.

That won't even work.

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i cannot wait uh to uh talk to you a little bit about um

what i did this weekend i'm fascinated by this walmart thing that you did it's it's fantastic how do we i mean how do i get you to talk about that are you going to do it today i am going to do it today

thing is pretty amazing too and you i mean you basically just copied him right i mean you just scammed his idea he came up with a good idea no i took it as a challenge I took it as a challenge.

And I challenged others.

And

I challenged everybody.

I challenged

Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro and

Bill O'Reilly.

Challenge going, just go in and do this.

Today is the last day you can do it.

Now, you don't have to spend the money that Tyler Perry or I spent.

You can just go in and

just do $100 or $50, $10.

And you are not going to believe.

What a difference it makes.

I like this because

we were shopping on Saturday morning for a battered women's shelter.

And so every year

we help put together a kind of like a toy store for a battered women's shelter.

And so the moms can come in and they can just kind of go shopping for their kids.

Oh, that's cool.

And so we were doing that.

And we were at Walmart.

We do it every year and we just love it.

And

because you get to go shopping, you're like, okay, we're going to go shop for three five-year-old boys.

And then it's, oh, he is going and we just go shopping for, you know, little boys.

We're going to shop for an eight-year-old girl.

And

so we were at Walmart and I saw the Tyler Perry thing and I thought, hmm,

I don't know what that would even cost.

I can't even imagine how much that must cost.

It was a lot.

And

so I went to Tanya and the kids because they were all there.

And I said,

I'm going to go up to the manager and and just see,

would you guys be willing to kind of forego your Christmas, the big Christmas gifts, you know, just kind of just, hey, we're all having, you know, turkey and something small

if

we did this?

And everybody was like, yes.

Are you sure you didn't mishear no?

I don't know.

I don't know.

It was really.

What country do you live in?

I know.

It was weird.

And so

it took them all day.

We actually had to leave, go go do some other things and they were they took it took a long time to total everything up

um and then

because it's what can you just give the basics here it was it's layaway right it's layaway so so this is what and the reason why i liked this is because it was something that

um

people were working towards.

They weren't asking for a handout.

They were, you know, and these are the people who, you know, they would take from,

I don't know, $500

to some of them were literally $24 on layaway.

And you go and you make payments on it.

And then when you make your last payment, you can take it.

And the last day to make a payment is today.

And so these people are really struggling, really struggling.

And so I just went in.

And I want to thank American Express, thank you, the American Express, for shutting off my card.

Well, about 40 minutes into it.

And

seriously, I'm glad they did because I wondered how long it would take because I just kept buying stuff at Walmart over and over and over.

So they didn't give you like a giant tab to pay one.

No, you had to.

I thought so.

We were supposed to go to a Christmas party, and my wife ended up going.

This is your way of getting at a Christmas party.

It did work out really well for me.

But I thought we were just going to go in and pay one big lump sum, sum, and they couldn't do that.

And so you had to go in and stand there.

I don't know how Tyler did it, but I had to go stand there and keep putting my credit card into it and pay them off one by one.

And it took just over two hours to do.

And they would just, you know, I'd stick the credit card in and they'd hit approve.

And then they'd pull up another deal and it would say the price and I'd stick the credit card number in.

I still don't know exactly how much it was.

I know, relatively close, but I don't know exactly how much it was.

This is the type of thing.

If I had this information, I could have tweeted to people to go put things on layaway while you were doing this, and just everyone could have just made out like bandits.

That would have been the way to do it.

Thank you.

You should have given me a heads up.

That would have been fun.

So that's why I didn't give you a heads up.

And

so

I'll talk about what I experienced there.

But

as long as the Lord gives me

strength and the ability to do that, I want to do that every year,

someplace, something.

Because

I felt so many different things and I remembered so many different things.

I remembered.

I just remembered what it was like on Christmas and not being able to afford.

I remember, and I know you're going to get into the emotion of it coming up, but it's it's interesting thinking about, we talk about these policies every day as if they're these abstract things in Washington.

Remember Nancy Pelosi saying when people got, what was it, a couple hundred bucks, it was just crumbs off the table when it was a tax cut.

And, you know, they talk about, you know, these, these prices are going up.

You know, cars are going up $1,000.

Ah, you know, people can pay an extra $1,000 for a car.

These are not, these actually affect people.

When you're putting $24 on layaway, you're in a position where, you know, you're desperately trying to make your kids' Christmas just a little bit better.

I mean, that is, you know, that is, you know, the fact that you're getting $24 back is a big deal.

You just,

you, it's easy to forget.

But I think most of us have been in this situation to where you're counting.

You know, you're standing at the gas pump and you're counting and you're having to stop it right at a certain amount.

And it's, you know, like $3.27

because that's all you have.

and you're trying to figure out how do I navigate.

And then Christmas comes.

And Christmas is

Christmas, the way we celebrate it now is an absolute lie.

It's too strong.

I mean, there's a lot of things I love about Christmas.

Oh, there's a lot of things, but it's.

For instance,

have you noticed that it's and there'll be presents on the tree?

That song, I think it's

I'll be home for Christmas.

It's presents on the tree, not under the tree, on the tree.

I don't know that I noticed that.

Is that Kenny Loggins?

No, no, no.

Is that the one that's Kenny Loggins?

My wife always listens to that song.

No, I think Ingrid Michelson is the one I've been listening to lately.

It's such a great.

Do you like Ingrid Michaelson?

I do quite a bit.

Okay, so listen to her new Christmas CD.

It just came out a couple of weeks ago.

It is my favorite.

She

wanted to do something traditional, and it's really fantastic.

But anyway, think of it: presence on the tree, right?

You can't fit.

You're not getting a bike.

You're not getting anything big.

You're getting something small.

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I cannot believe

that

Kyler Murray is still allowed to walk the streets.

Saturday, he won the Heisman Trophy.

Sunday, a USA Today reporter, oh man,

he's working on the big story, Scott Gleason.

He went to work and he started going through his Twitter and he discovered that at 14 years old,

yeah.

Kyler Murray used the word queer.

Wow.

Which is now acceptable, right?

I don't know if it was when he was 14, but now queer is in LGBTQ.

Yeah.

It's one of the Qs.

Whatever, Stu.

Whatever, Stu.

It's an anti-gay slur.

And I don't care how old you were, and I don't care that it was

many, many, many years ago.

He had to apologize.

And he did.

He issued an apology for something that he had said seven years ago while he was in junior high.

Oh, man.

Scott Gleeson.

Scott Gleason, I wish we had your Twitter feed.

I wish we had your Twitter feed from when you were 14 or 12 or however old you were when you were doing stupid stuff.

Because we all did stupid stuff.

You know, if the media wants to continue this witch hunt, it's never going to end.

Because I don't know anybody who hasn't said stupid and embarrassing stuff, especially in junior high.

What are we doing?

There's one thing that matters to me, really deeply matters,

and that is the Bill of Rights.

It is the only thing that brought us together and will hold us together.

And

we should be looking at enforcing and empowering people with the Bill of Rights.

Because without the Bill of Rights, man will shove and beat and shout down and silence and kill whomever the collective wants.

All in the name of progress, all in the name of safety, all in the name of understanding or our children.

But they're not standing for the Bill of Rights.

They're not standing for progress.

They're standing for the dark ages.

And if you're going to truly stand for the Bill of Rights, and not your right, it doesn't matter what's your right, stand for the rights of others.

When it's the rights of others, in a time of collective madness,

I warn you,

you're putting your life and your livelihood in danger.

But I also promise you nothing you do in your life will be worth more.

It is my sincerest hope that in the end,

my children can say,

My dad stood for the rights of others, and he stood for justice, real justice, and he stood for mercy, when the world lost its mind and lost its sense of decency.

But I also want to warn you: when you have to stand for other people's rights, it's going to make you very uncomfortable.

It's going to put you in uncomfortable situations, and you're going to be defending things that you don't want to defend.

It's messy.

You have to decide what's right and wrong, and then you have to defend someone's right, even if,

and maybe perhaps even more so, or especially if you disagree with how they use that right.

We live in dangerous and perilous times.

I was on the phone last night, almost midnight, with a friend who called and said, Glenn, I'm about to do something insane, and you're the only guy I could call because

this sounds like something you would do.

Abort, whatever it was, abort.

I said the exact opposite.

Sounds good to me so far.

I said, do you believe in it?

He said, yes.

And I said, then why are you wasting your time calling me?

There's nothing better than doing what you believe in.

And if it destroys you, so be it.

Something better will come along.

We live in dangerous and perilous times.

One mistake and your career, and it's not just this career, it's your career, any career.

One mistake

and your career could be over.

Every day, if you're in the media, you wonder, is this the day that the jackals come to devour devour me for some reason or another, for some past transgression or stupid error?

Or is it maybe perhaps this monologue that will end my career?

And if it's not something I've done, it doesn't matter.

They'll just twist your words.

They'll creatively edit your words.

They'll smear you.

And if that doesn't work, they'll threaten your life or the lives of the ones that you love.

I have many friends now, many.

I used to be the only guy I knew that needed to have security.

I have many friends now who have constant threats on their life.

And it's from both sides.

You know, it's amazing.

Because I want to talk about Gavin McGinnis here in a second.

But Gavin,

CRTV, not the Blaze media, not Glenn Beck.

I had nothing to do with it.

This was an old thing that CRTV had been dealing with, I think.

I don't know.

It's up to them.

I had nothing to do with it.

And it's certainly not the way I would have handled it.

But he is out.

Now, last week, I just spoke to Gavin.

In fact, Gavin is on my show tonight in something

we recorded last week.

about

the dangers of getting fired,

the dangers of being witch-hunted.

Now, why, if I had something to do with his termination, would I have him scheduled?

And that program is airing today.

That program is airing.

I don't care who it makes uncomfortable.

It's airing.

Because this is something important we should be talking about.

So after we recorded that last week, I talked to him.

I said, I'm worried about your family because they've had more than bricks through windows.

I'm worried about your family.

I told him I wanted him to reach out to a few of my friends who could advise him on safety.

Because whatever you think of people like this Heisman Trophy winner or Gavin McGinnis, I don't know him, but I know a lot of people who do and they all say the same thing.

I may not agree with his approach, but he is not what Antiphon needs him to be.

And notice that I use the word needs

him to be.

Because

people who wish to destroy us they need boogeymen

they need those men who have said or done something in the past

that you're not going to like you're not going to want to defend and so you won't

even if you correct your mistakes Even if you correct it before anyone noticed,

you had a change of heart, you apologized, You asked for forgiveness.

There is no redemption.

There is no redemption in America anymore.

And why?

Because anyone who is building their life around spreading chaos

is on the opposite side of anyone who preaches forgiveness.

And that's a fact.

So the left targets and isolates and polarizes and destroys anyone who will not comply.

And they can pick voices off one by one because fear is a very powerful gag.

Now it's easy for anyone to say, well, then don't pick the voices that have done something or said something stupid to be out front, really?

Really?

Because I think when they were going over the Heisman Trophy winner, I think they probably looked into, is this a decent young man?

No, apparently he's not, according to USA Today.

Because their crack reporters have so much with everything that's happening in the world, they've got a crack reporter who's on the case.

I found out what this kid was doing in junior high.

My gosh, he was also kissing girls out back when he told his parents he wasn't.

Let's burn him.

It's easy to say.

Let's just get the right people.

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Let me go to Elliott, North Carolina.

Hello, Elliot.

Welcome, Elliot.

Are Are you there?

Yes, what I am.

You are good.

Thank you for taking my call.

You bet.

And thanks so much for holding for so long.

Yes, no problem.

It's my pleasure.

So, real quick, I live in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Longtime listener, first-time caller.

And I was listening to your segment about the Tyler Perry Challenge and your experience this past weekend at Walmart.

Yes.

And as I was listening to it, you finished your segment and I looked up and there was the Walmart.

So I pulled into the Walmart.

I had an amount of money that I thought that I could, that I wanted to donate to somebody.

So I found the layaway counter, got in this long line.

I was thinking, oh, this is going to take a little bit.

And this kid came up behind me.

So I started talking to him about the Tyler Perry challenge and if he had heard about it.

And he said, no, he hadn't.

And I said, well, I was just listening to Glenn Beck.

And he goes, Glenn Beck?

And I said, yeah, I was listening to Glenn Beck.

And I said, how much do do you owe for your payoff?

And he told me the amount, and it was within $2 of the amount that I had in my head.

So I reached in my pocket, pulled out the money, and I said, here,

I want to pay off your layaway.

His jaw hit the ground.

He just, he was speechless for like 30 seconds, and he was like, you're listening to Glenn Beck?

And I was like, yeah.

And he said, this is fantastic.

He said, I've been

put, I put this stuff on layaway for my kids, and I'm here to pick it up.

And this is just wonderful.

And the feeling that I felt in my chest was incredible.

And that was one of the reasons I pulled over because I had that same feeling listening to you reiterate your experience at Walmart with your kids.

Yeah.

And I just wanted to share it.

I am so glad, Elliot.

Spread it.

Tell everybody just to do it.

Today's the last day you could do it, at least at at Walmart, but you could find another place with layaway, I'm sure.

But everybody has to have it paid off by today, and

it's just

a great blessing.

Thank you so much, Elliot.

I appreciate it.

God bless you.

Thank you, Glenn.

God bless you.

You bet.

So, if you don't know what the Tyler Perry challenge is, he went into two Walmarts on Friday, and he paid for

everything in layaway.

Cost him

$470,000.

I was going to say that was a really good bargain for $470.

$470,000 for two Walmarts.

I'm not Tyler Perry, at least not this year.

And I had never thought of that.

I had never even thought of that.

It's a really cool idea.

It's a great idea.

And Tyler Perry is getting some heat.

How come you should give in silence?

Tyler Perry,

that was inspirational.

And I think, too, he intended on doing it anonymously initially.

And I don't know exactly what happened.

He was outed in some way.

If it's happening like it happened with me, you're there for two hours.

And so I decided, I talked to my wife, and we decided that we were going to do

a Walmart here in Texas.

And so we selected a Walmart, and we went in on Saturday night, and we paid for everything on layaway.

Well, they started getting, when you do that,

it will send, we didn't know this until about, you know, a third of the way in.

It starts sending out text messages.

Hey,

come get your item.

It's available.

And so people started calling and they were confused.

And they were like, what, what is,

what just happened?

And they said, oh, we had a good Samaritan.

He just

paid that off.

And people were crying and calling.

I mean, it was

so great.

Now, I didn't know that you could do it for individuals, but you can.

You can go in and just, for whatever amount you want, you can, you can,

you know, you could

try to gather as many hundred dollar bills as you can from every friend that you know and go in and pay a good portion of

this down for people.

You could take, you know, $10

and pay it down.

The people that I encountered that I saw because I was there doing the transactions, because I had to pay for them all individually.

I couldn't just pay a lump sum.

So I was there for a couple of hours, and so I saw some of the people and their reactions.

$10 means the world.

$10 means the world.

It's so incredible.

And you can get involved, I mean, because charity goes both ways.

And I've decided to get involved in the challenge

by putting on layaway layaway a bunch of big screen TVs strategically near celebrities' homes.

My thought is

I'm going to get some free stuff out of this, and they'll feel better.

Because

if they go into a Walmart and they pay off all the layaway, and it's like, oh,

we only had $27 of layaway, they're not going to feel like they did enough.

So you need someone to step in like me to load it up with some 4K so that if they pay these TVs off, I'll get them and they'll be like, wow, I did something good for someone.

So

I don't know how you feel about this, but

I thought about asking.

Okay, so

are there things like, you know, big screen TVs and things like that that people put on layaway that, you know, they're not really struggling?

And I decided not to ask because

I didn't want to pick and choose.

Because you don't know.

You know what I mean?

No.

And

you could have done maybe under a dollar amount, right?

Like if someone has a thousand dollar thing,

Somebody had a very expensive thing that I didn't know.

I only saw it.

I didn't know what anybody was buying.

I just saw the price, and it was expensive.

But it turned out to be a box.

They had six children.

And so it was a box of toys and clothing and stuff like that.

So they had put, you know, their six children, and it was a single mom.

I mean, so you couldn't, I just didn't want to know.

No, you just, I mean, it's better.

If you could do it, obviously.

Look, you've been blessed with

being able to help people like that, which is.

And there's been years when we needed help.

Yeah.

And it might change again.

We might need help someday.

So it's just, I encourage you to do this.

You don't, I don't even know if you can just call them and do it, but it's a good Samaritan program that they had.

I didn't even know you had this.

You can just go in with five bucks or 20 or 100 or whatever.

Today is the last day.

Everybody has to pay it off today.

So there are lines there now.

now.

But what I want you to do is

call Walmart or go buy Walmart or another store that has layaway and just help.

If you have it, it's really a cool thing.

It's really,

really a cool thing.

I prefer to think of you in sort of the caricature of a devil with satanic horns

out of the top of your skull.

And this does not help.

This does not help my vision, and I reject it for that reason.

I'm sorry to confuse that.

I really, I'm very, very sorry.

It's much easier.

Yeah, well, to just, just, you know, just really hate you.

So I'm going to go back to that one.

Well, you can.

No, no, no.

You can, you can hear all this crap and then still hate my gods.

That's true.

I guess I could just give credit to Tanya for the wonderful gesture.

He had nothing to do with here's, here's what you say.

Okay.

He's only doing this for publicity.

Yes.

That's what you say.

That's what you say.

If he really wanted to do it, he would be quiet about it.

I've always thought that's such a strange argument to me because, I mean, certainly, like, that's not supposed to be your motivation, right?

I mean, we certainly can look at the Bible and see examples of

if you're doing it for self-aggrandizement, it's not a good idea.

So if it's not a good reason, so that's what I, because I, I wrestled with this, because Tyler Perry

inspired me.

I wouldn't even, I wouldn't have done it, not because my heart was hard.

I just never even thought of it.

And so he inspired me.

And I'm like, if you didn't say anything, you wouldn't have been inspired.

I wouldn't have been inspired.

And so I hope the same thing.

I'm telling you, the girls behind the counter, one of the girls,

I don't want to say which one.

She had worked at, she had worked there for a long time.

They were so great, so great.

And

one of them, we were just talking about how

they were,

you know, in different ways, each of them struggling.

And one of them had worked at Walmart, I think, for like 17 years

or 20 years.

And

she

started when she was young and she was living in her car and she just needed a job to pay for gas and food.

And Walmart, you know, paid well and had great benefits and everything else.

And she worked her way up.

And now she's a, you know,

I don't know if, you know, she's on, you know, first name bases with Mr.

Wall or Mr.

Mart, but

she's a big deal there.

And

she's still, I mean, she carries it with her.

And each of the girls that were helping, they all had been in that situation.

I had been in that situation.

And it was so cool.

I mean, they said we should have made this into a TV show

because

it's just infectious.

It's just,

you crave it more.

It's so cool.

Do yourself a favor.

Give yourself a gift.

Go do this.

Just go do this.

You'll feast on it for days.

So you're doing it selfishly.

It's selfish giving.

I will say that's always a, you know, I'm a big believer that everything that we do in life is selfish in some way.

This is an Ayn Rand sort of.

I just think it's virtue.

I don't know.

I do think it is part of it.

It's not necessarily a a negative.

No.

Because I think that's how we're built.

When you serve people, you leave there feeling better.

It does something to you.

I don't know what it is, but I think it's a God thing.

I think that's the way we were designed.

We were designed to help each other.

And we lose our way and we start becoming depressed and we start just thinking about us and all of our problems.

The best way to cure all that is to serve other people.

And it sounds horrible.

And I never want to do it.

I'm on my way to, you know, hey, you know, so-and-so needs help at their house.

I don't want to do it.

Can I hire somebody to do that?

I don't want to go do that.

But you do it and you're driving back and you're feeling guilty.

You're like, why didn't I want to do that?

That made me feel so good.

You know, it's like exercise.

There's just some.

That's a lie.

The exercise one's a lie.

The charity one's true.

The exercise one, you're just sore and then you get injured.

Those are the two things that happen.

You know what happens?

You die in a treadmill someday.

That's the end of the story.

Okay, I'm willing to go with that one.

Do we agree on the goodness thing?

The goodness thing is great.

Yeah.

The exercise thing is death.

Good.

All right, good.

I'm cool.

Okay, I'm cool.

Let me nail that.

Yep.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas.

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