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As we close in to the end of the year, there's lots of uncertainty in this country, and that's what usually happens when you have a weak president, as we do. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo, latest poll, Monmouth University. A bit sketchy. Mama's history isn't the best, but we'll give you the results. 803 adults, not registered voters. Registered voters, that is the micro detail that is best in politics, but this is 803 adults, Democrat 31, Republican 29, Independent 38, that's fair. First question, do you approve or disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing as president? approved 34% disapproved 61, no opinion 5.

I mean, that's a colossal repudiation of any president. Second question, do you approve or disapprove of how Joe Biden's handling? Inflation. Approved 28, disapproved 68. So this is Bidenomics. Everybody's paying more for the essentials. I mean, it's as simple as that. Third one, immigration, do you approve?

26, even lower than inflation. disapproved 69%. That's a whopping number. Okay, come back to me, please. So when you see numbers like this, the outlook for President Biden is going to stay the same or get worse because you're not going to have a massive drop in prices for essentials. Oil prices go up and down depending on supply and refinery capacity. You'll see them come up for the summer. They always do. do. But what you're paying for food, for travel, for insurance, on and on and on, it's going to be tough to get those prices down, especially in 11 months. So remember, we vote next November. On the border, they'll make some deal in January, and then Biden will say, yeah, we're going

to tighten it up, or whatever. But it's so far gone down there, so many people. people are here already, and he's not going to deport them. That is just a catastrophe, even if he shut everything down tomorrow, be a catastrophe. So he's going to ride into the election President Biden with huge deficits. Now, on the other side, you just don't know, because Donald Trump is unpredictable to say the least, and the legal system is after him. The MAGA people will stay with him, no matter why. 35% of the population maybe falls into the MAGA category now? Not enough to win.

But clearly, Donald Trump is running ahead of Joe Biden. Now, three presidents who had lower approval rating, job approval rating than Biden has now, were Donald Trump. This was January 12th, 29% job approval, 2021. Bush the Elder, August 2nd, 1992, 29% approval. Jimmy Carter, right when he was going into the campaign of 79, 28% approval. I remember Ted Kennedy was hovering around then, but Carter got the nomination, and then he ran against Ronald Reagan, got whacked. Okay. So the polling now, indicates there will be a change.

All right, Biden will not be elected. I don't even think he's going to run, as I've told you many times, but that's speculation on my point. And that's a memo. Kamala Harris back in the news, remember she was assigned to the root causes of migration to the United States, did absolutely zero. Now she's going on the road, the fight for reproductive freedom tour. Yeah, right on.

Okay, so she's going to Wisconsin, January 22nd, then other places to tell people that abortion is a good thing, and all women should have the right to do anything they want with no limits at all ever. Pretty extreme position, if you think about it, and that's what Kamala Harris will do. Okay, let's, I ask for a pollster today, and I wanted somebody different, because, you know, We like to get a wide variety of voices on NOSPN. So we got Sean Bartley. He's coming to us from Ash, Linda, Ohio.

He is a poster for American Pulse Research and Polling. Okay, my numbers from Monmouth. And again, I'm not endorsing the Monmouth poll. It's not been great in the past. But does that coincide with what you're seeing? Yeah, we're seeing these kind of numbers everywhere. Wall Street Journal had, President Biden at his lowest approval rating in the history of their survey with him as president.

Our American polls polling has shown the same thing. Really, Biden's approval rating tracking with approval rating on the economy. And you got right to it. The economic numbers specifically for what people are feeling at the gas pump and at the grocery. store, those aren't changing, and it's what they're going to experience here in the next couple of weeks and through the end of the year. That's what they're going to have when they when they're having people over for Christmas dinner. It's what they're going to have when they're traveling. And it's what they're going to have on the inflation numbers on the

mama poll is what they're going to have when they pay for Christmas either this year or next year. Okay. As I said, I don't expect the spending problem for the American public any better, but you have a situation now where we're stair stepping to the conventions in the summer. So Iowa looks like a lock for President Trump, former President Trump right now. Is that what you guys have? Yeah, that's what we're seeing everywhere. If you go to the Des Moines Register poll, which is considered the gold standard out there. It shows President Trump actually in their December poll at over 50% for the first time.

Okay, so let's assume that Trump wins along the lines of what the Des Moines Register is saying. That means DeSantis has got to go, right? Because DeSantis made his stand in Iowa, and he's not going to get any money to run his campaign if he gets whacked in Iowa, which would it look like he would? Is that what you expect to happen? Yeah, well, I think one of the first of the United,

of the things that you're going to see is all the numbers have shown Nikki, Nikki Haley gaining on that second place that used to be the DeSantis spot in Iowa in particular. And then you go to New Hampshire. She's the clear second place person. You go to South Carolina where she used to be governor. She's in second place again. So. Okay. I don't expect Haley to be in second place in Iowa. I think DeSantis will beat her. But I think that Trump will win so dominant. Now, DeSantis gets out of the race and he's going to have to. Most of those voters are going to go to Trump, I think. Right? So the DeSantis crew goes over to Trump.

Yeah, in our American polling, we asked, who's your second place choice of Republican primary voters? And the second place choice of DeSantis voters was Donald Trump. And Nikki Haley at that time really wasn't registered. So that's what the media is not telling anybody that the dissent this thing in Iowa coming up January 15th, very, very quickly, could very well help Donald Trump. Now, New Hampshire is not a friendly state to Trump. Christy has banked everything there. It's not going to make it. Haley, I think, will do well in New Hampshire.

I think she'll, and then the media will get behind Haley after that. And then they go on, I think it's South Carolina next. Is that what you said? South Carolina. That's correct. Okay. And then South Carolina's Trump territory. But Haley is a favorite daughter there as a governor of the state.

Without the Santhas, the Santos voters go to Trump. Trump should win that pretty handily. So here's a question, Sean. Yes. Is it all over after South Carolina? Is that it? Then Trump was. Well, you know, in our in our, in our, in our, in our, in our

most recent poll of Republican primary voters, 70% say that they think Donald Trump is the nominee. So even people who aren't voting for them. And the bookies in London, Ladbroke, they got Trump, you know, big to the nominee. Final question for you. You know the Democrats. They're pretty sophisticated in the way they run their campaigns. Everybody knows Biden is in severe, severe trouble. Is there any indication of a number two if Biden does submit his resignation for health reasons, which is what he would do?

Is there any indication of who would then move in from your polling? Yeah, so we've asked that of folks, like, who would you want to see? First, you know, really a third of, only a third of voters definitely want Biden to stay at the top of the ticket. And then a third say that they definitely,

want somebody else. And when asked who they want, Gavin Newsom is somebody who jumps up there. But the, you know, it's really shaping up just the way that they've created the primary calendar that we're talking. The only way they're going to be able to change nominees at this point is to do it at convention. And that is the primary. You can't get on the ballot. You can't. I know that. But that's the goal. Again, going to the convention with the delegates don't have Biden there, and they'll elect somebody. Newsom's not very strong. I don't think he will be strong.

He's run California into the ground, but that's just my opinion. Hey, Sean, have Merry Christmas. Thanks for helping us out. Really appreciate it. Merry Christmas. Thanks for having me. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.

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Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's now turn to the Christian view of anti-Semitism. And I'm going to bring in perhaps the most eloquent, high-profile spokesperson for the Catholic faith in America. His name is Bishop Robert Barron.

He's out of the Diocese of Winona, Rochester, Minnesota. He has founded a group called Word on Fire that, Catholics read and pay attention to. All right, Bishop, you just heard Bernie Goldberg. Now, when I was in Catholic school, sometimes in solitary confinement by punishment from the nuns, I was taught that anti-Semitism was a sin against the Catholic Church and Christian religion against Jesus God. I was taught it was a fairly significant sin. Is that a hold?

Yeah, that's true. I mean, prejudice against any group would be a sin, but in a very special way, I'd say, prejudice against Jews. Pius XI.11 said that we Christians are all spiritually Semites, that we're all Jews by our spiritual inheritance. Jesus, we say, is the fulfillment of Israel. Vatican II, in its statement, Nostreitatte, made a very strong statement against any form of anti-Semitism. So I think the nuns that taught you were right on target, and they've been, confirmed by the church's teaching ever since. Now, there has been controversy between Israel and the Catholic Church,

particularly Pope Francis, who doesn't want Israel to wage war against the Palestinians. He just came out yesterday because there were two Catholics who were killed, allegedly by Israeli forces, but it's so foggy in there. It's very hard to tell. And then when Jewish people hear that, the Pope is saying, criticizing the Netanyahu government, some of them believe that Pope's not sympathetic to the Jewish religion at all. Yeah, I don't think that's fair. When he was in Argentina, he was very close to the Jewish community and counts a number of prominent rabbis among his friends.

I mean, I don't think it's true at all of it. He's personally anti-Semitic. I think what he's saying, Bill, is Israel has a right to self-defense. that's part of Catholic social teaching, but also, as you know, in the just war theory, in the waging of war, we have to be both discriminating and proportional. And so I think what he's urging is that those two principles be honored. You know, it's always a prudential judgment to what degree we're legitimately proportional and discriminating.

But as I read him, I think he's just insisting upon that part of the church's social teaching. Yeah, and there is a in a Catholic church a righteous, defense that you're allowed to defend yourself against the evildoers. And I mean, look, there's nobody on earth that knows more about terrorism than I do because I wrote the book Killing the Killers and Hamas, top of the chart. Top of the chart. Yeah. Let's shift into Christmas, as you know, Bishop, and I expect to get to heaven because of this. I saved Christmas in America. I don't know where you were at that point, but it was a huge campaign in the early part of the century for retailers and towns and counties to banish the word Christmas and we went on

Fox News night after night and we just put up that this department store was ordering their employees not to say the word Christmas this town was taking the crash out and all of that stuff and we want because of money because the people listening to me and I got a huge amount of attention all right wouldn't go to the stores that I named that wouldn't say the word Christmas. So we want, and here in the Northeast, Christmas is back. Almost everywhere you go, it's Merry Christmas. They say happy holidays, too, but Christmas dominates.

Is that now over that controversy about not saving Christmas? Is that over? I hope so. I think you're right. It's changed in the course of my lifetime. I think of the last many years. We watched it move from a certain antipathy toward a greater acceptance. And you're quite right. And the way you fought it years ago, that was a fight

worth having because it was a stupid position, say that somehow Christians have to hide their Christianity in the public forum. As you well know, there's nothing in the founding documents or in the ethos of our country that would dictate that we have to hide our religion in the public square, that we don't have an officially recognized religion in our country. Sure, that's one thing. But then say for a second that we have to hide our religion publicly. So that was a good fight to have. I'm glad we had it. And I think one of the most important things today is that religious people can come together in the public square and have a real conversation, a real argument. There's a middle ground between religious violence and a kind of religious indifferenceism. And it's called religious engagement and argument in the public square. That's what I'm for. Okay. The Christian point of view is that we honor Jesus's birthday, and it wasn't on to say. December 25th. You read Killing Jesus, and we did the whole history there. But it's a nice day to

have it. It's dark and cold in many places, particularly where you are in Minnesota. It's a nice day to have in a season. But the worthiness of Christmas was picked up by U.S. grant. The president of the United States said, I'm designating this day as a federal holiday. Out of respect, not pushing religion, but out of respect for a theology that has helped the United States. And if everybody, I say to my non-Catholic friends and even the people who hate Catholics because of the scandals and other things, I say, look, if everybody followed what the Nazarene put forth, wouldn't have any wars, would have any strife, would we? And why shouldn't that be honored?

Why shouldn't that be honored? And that's what we're doing here in America. Well, I think, too, the church fathers summed up Christianity with the phrase, God became man, that man might become God. What they meant was, by this great act of the incarnation, God's inviting deification, that we can become sharers in God's nature. Well, there is a political implication of that, because that's where human dignity is grounded.

yes, in our intelligence and our will and our freedom and so on, but ultimately in our destiny, that we're destined to be citizens in heaven. And from that destiny comes our dignity. And I would say that any healthy democracy has to rest finally upon a keen sense of human dignity, which is why I would link Christmas and the great claim that it makes to the ideals of our democracy. Well, that's what the founding fathers did. there was a brawl between Patrick Henry and his crew that wanted the United States to be designated a Christian country and Ben Franklin and Madison and Jefferson as I write about

in killing the witches. I'm going to send you that book. You need to read that book, Bishop. I haven't read that one yet. Yeah, that's a good one for you because it was a real tug in the beginning of this country about how to handle the religious aspect. And it all stemmed from Salem. It all stemmed from that aura that went on there. So I'm going to get you. give you the last word. Your view, Christmas in America, 2003. Go. Well, I think it's important for us as Americans, as Christians to celebrate Christmas for the reason I just articulated. There's no greater guarantee of our dignity than that God has reached out to us, has become small, that he might raise us up. That basic conviction, I mean, whether you're explicitly Christian or not, that basic

conviction, I think, is essential to our democracy. When we lose a sense of God's embrace of us in pretty short order, you move toward totalitarianism. You move toward an indifference to human life. But I'm with Tom Holland here, the great English historian, that so many of our values, whether we know it or not, are grounded in these Christian claims. And one of them is the incarnation, which leads to deification. That's where our sense of human dignity, I think, ultimately comes from. All right, Bishop, thanks very much for helping us out. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week, I'll sit down for

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Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, now we have to go to the opposite spectrum, Yemen, chaotic country in the Gulf. It's run by Houthi terrorists and the terrorists of shooting its ships, a Norwegian-owned vessel.

All right, the MBS Swan was fired on by missiles by the Houthis. The missiles came from Iran. So far, the United States has really done much. So not in the spirit of Christmas, and I'm sorry to say this, but if I were the president, I'd have a few airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen. I'd take out their command and control, all of their launches. We know where they are. It's a desert.

It's not like they're hiding in the woods. just level of place. And then I'd say to Iran, you continue this, your harbors are going and taking out all your harbors. That's what's going to happen to you. Sorry for the down, but that's what you've got to do if you want to maintain order on this planet. Billionaires Ken Griffin, conservative, David Geffen, very liberal, banned together to give $400 million to fight cancer. So Griffin's worth $36 billion. Geffen, about $10 billion. And they're going to give the money to Memorial Sloan Kittering, the Cancer Center in New York City,

very fine place, $400 million, save a lot of lives, biggest single donation in the history of Kettering. So, Merry Christmas to you guys. Happy Hanukkah, Mr. Geffen. Okay, so as I mentioned, the inquiry vote, 221 to 212 party lines. You would expect that because we're in the middle of a cultural and political civil war in this country. This is the second civil war. It's underway right now. And next November, the presidential vote will tell the tale who's going to win. That's how important next year is.

Okay. So the House, tomorrow, it's Sionara. They're done. And they're back into their districts. and so is the, and they won't be back until January 9th. See, I work harder than they do, a lot harder. And then the Senate leaves tomorrow as well, back January 8th. Nothing's going to get done.

But what about this compromise between the Biden administration and the Republicans over border Ukraine, Israel? Where is that stand? Thank you for asking. this will get done in early January. The Biden administration has to make compromises on the border. It has to do something because Biden's numbers are cratering so low. So they will. Whether they'll enforce or not, nobody knows.

I have no confidence in the Biden administration do anything ever. Okay, that's why I'm going to, and I never tell anybody who I vote for, but I could never possibly pull a lever for Joe Biden under any circumstances. Okay. And then the money will go to Ukraine and Israel so they can defend themselves. That will happen, but it'll happen in January. Supreme Court is going to hear whether Donald Trump, this is very confusing and I don't want to be wrong. But essentially, here's what it is.

And the Supreme Court doesn't come back to January either, but the Trump lawyers have to submit briefs. on the 20th of December. Essentially, Trump is charged with four counts of conspiracy to prevent the election for being carried out. That's four counts of conspiracy. Trump's lawyers say you can't do that because, number one, Trump was president at the time and he was doing what he thought was right.

Okay? So you can't charge him. Because he's president, he's doing what he thought he was right. Trump believes then and now that the election was a fraud. That's what he believes. And he's entitled in the Constitution to believe that. Hasn't proven it. Hasn't come close to proven it.

But that's what he believes. Second is that this has already been adjudicated by impeachment. And he was found not guilty in the Senate. Can't try him twice. Double jeopardy. That's what the Supreme Court is saying, whether opinion can be used to drive a conspiracy criminal charge. You can't.

So what Smith, the special prosecutor, has to do is show the Supreme Court in his briefs that it was more than opinion on Trump's part, that he did certain things to stop, all right, the transfer of power. Now, I'm sure one of the arguments is going to be Mike Pence, the vice president and Trump was telling him don't certify the electoral votes. You guys remember that. But Pence went over and certified the electoral votes. Trump didn't stop them, right? Didn't have the U.S. marshals grab him. He just said, I don't think you should do it. That's an opinion. However, case on television or radio. I'm just giving you both sides of the story. Well, let's go to Boston. So my second home, as many of you know, I attended Boston

University. I attended Harvard. I work for Channel 5 in Boston, Channel 7 in Boston. My mother has a degree from Boston University. We have big Boston ties. I know Boston as well as anybody knows Boston. Boston has a far left mayor, all right? A woman named Michelle Wu. And, you know, Boston's a progressive town, and there's Michelle. So, Michelle sends out Christmas party invitations. However, the Christmas party itself is only for people of color. No white people. Now, Michelle didn't think that we'd get public. I don't know why, but it did. And now everybody's yelling. at Michelle, what is this segregated Christmas party?

White people can't go? And the answer is, no. You weren't invited if you're white. So why is anybody surprised? Ask my question. Why are you surprised? The progressive movement of which Michelle Wu is a big part hates white men,

despises white men. Don't want to be anywhere near a white man and some white women who like the white men i guess i don't know where that line is but i know white men are evil that's the patriarchy okay white men so now michelle wu has to explain herself go i think we've we've had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field. And I look forward to celebrating with everyone at the holiday parties that we will have besides this one as well. Yeah, so now she says, we're having other parties where if you're white, you can go. But that's not

the point, Ms. Mayor. Why are you having a segregated party for anybody? That's not America. that's not e pluribus unum the lat okay out of many one no you're segregating your city now somebody who covered the busing fiasco in the 1970s in Boston when I was very younger before now you're going back to that but it's the other side not good California. Now, this is Gavin Newsom. So two years ago, when Newsom took over, the state of California had a $68 billion, $100 billion surplus. He walks in, and this is Jerry Brown, stacked that money up because they tax people in California to the most extent they could possibly tax you. $100 billion. Two years later, there's $68 billion in the red. Are you kidding me? And the projection is in the next four years, they're going to be $155 billion debt in California. Now, if you were to ask Gavin Newsom about it, he wouldn't answer the question, number one, and he wouldn't

even acknowledge the facts. Wouldn't even acknowledge it. And this comes from the legislative analysis office in Sacramento. Comes from his own government. Wouldn't acknowledge it. Would deflect, but how can he run for president, even if Biden doesn't run? Just that.

He's mismanaging fiscally the state. This is insane. I see these numbers. God. Let's go overseas, Gaza. So the United Nations hates Israel, okay? Always has. You know, the third world countries see Israel as a bully, as a persecutor of the Arabs of the Palestinians, and the UN buys into that. Everybody knows that. But the only stats that we have out of the war between Israel and Hamas come from the U.N. And I'm going to report the stats, but I'm telling you I'm a little skeptical.

Okay. So according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 18,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in Gaza, 18,000. 70% of the 18,000 women and children, dead. Okay? more than 49,000 have been injured. These are Palestinians living in Gaza. You remember on October 7th, 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas. Okay?

100 Israeli soldiers subsequently have been killed in the war. 600 Israeli soldiers have been injured. 85% of the population in Gaza, according to the UN, 85%, almost 2 million people are displaced. They're out of their homes. Homes have been destroyed or they're too dangerous. They're gone. They're wandering around.

Okay? And according to the UN World Food Program, about 90% of the Gaza residents don't have enough food. That's pretty harrowing. Now, again, is it true? I don't know. But I know that the people who are living, who are living, existence in Gaza are suffering. You have to acknowledge that. It's true. But what choice the people in Dresden, Germany, suffer in World War II.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, they all suffered. What's a choice? Hamas is going to try to kill Jews. You've got to root them out. It's not easy rooting them out because the terrorists are shooting at the Israelis. The Israelis are a bomb in the hell out of Gaza. If it were me, I would be going out of my way

not to hurt the civilians, but they're going to get hurt. It's a war in a war zone, very narrow war zone. Okay. Bernie Sanders, he's the head of the progressive movement in America, the senator from Vermont. Here's what he says. Go. Israel is losing the war in terms of how the world is looking at this situation. And I think that it would be irresponsible to the United States to give Netanyahu another $10 billion to continue. to wage this awful war. Now, the reason that Sanders is so irresponsible is that, number one, Israel's not losing the war.

That's ridiculous. But obviously, worldwide, the hatred toward Israel is growing. That's true. Sanders has no clue on how to negate Hamas. None. He'd let Hamas sit there. sit there and do it again and again and again and again. Bernie Sanders has no solution to anything.

So you should know who the head of the progressive movement is and what he thinks. Zelensky, president of Ukraine, is coming to Washington for the third time since February 22 tomorrow to ask for money. Okay. You know, we've discussed and discussed and discussed. You can't let Putin win and Ukraine takes money to fight Putin. Putin thinks that the West is going to fold now. And he's hanging on.

But the Republicans of Congress say, okay, you want the money, $60 million more. You've got to tighten the border and Biden won't compromise at all. I wouldn't vote for giving Ukraine the money until Biden tightens the border. Again, all Biden has to do tonight, tomorrow, sign an executive order. The executive order says the United States is suspending all claims of asylum for one year because we have too many and we can't adjudicate them. One year, no more claims of asylum from anyone. Stopps. Everybody's sent back where they belong.

Not hard? Not hard. Okay, final thought of the day. Merry Christmas to everybody. And I got a gift. So we did a show, live show, Sid Rosenberg and myself at the Paramount Theater, Huntington. We love that place. About a two-hour show, big hit.

Everybody loved it. And we know that because we had people in the lobby afterward asking them. And the show was a New York state of mind, basically how New York was when I was growing up and how it is now. When I was an urchin, we had a game. gang. Not a gang like West Side Story, the sharks and the jets. We don't have switchblades, but we had a guy, you know, hang guys, with a gang, a crew. They didn't call it a crew, they called it a gang. We were harmless, but annoying. Okay. And some of the people in the neighborhood did not like us very much. I told that story, and here it is. Go. So my

gang were wise guys. We weren't destructive. We weren't the charts and the jets, you know, with the switchblades. We didn't do that. But we were annoying, very annoyed. So we played stickball on patience only one time. And again, to the value system there, everybody in the neighborhood respected the right of the children to play in the street. That was part of the culture of New York. You played New Street, right? So we had a couple of Spaldeans. Remember Spaldines, you guys out there? And they went about 35 cents apiece, which was big money back then. So one of the guys, it's this humongous home run, and it goes on a guy's lawn. And a guy's name was Oberwagger. And no one liked him. He runs out, he takes the ball. He takes it. He runs in the house.

with our ball, our spalding. You're going to stay off my lawn. Silence. Okay. Board meeting. Over at Justin McDevitt's house. What are we going to do? I'm a genius at this.

I said, here's what we're going to do. Oberwagger has two little kids. Two and four, something like that. At 9 o'clock tonight, Dave McDevitt, who is maybe 8, is going to climb a tree outside Oberwagger's house. And he's going to tape an alarm clock to the tree. And we're going to set it for 10 o'clock. I had the alarm clock.

It was the loudest alarm clock in the history of alarm. So Dave, who didn't know anything, he's eight. We gave me three musketeers and said, Dave, get up that tree. Take the thing. But she did. So there we are. We're across the street in the bushes. 10 o'clock.

Big, me, me, me, me, make, big. And it doesn't stop. And then the kids start to cry. And then all the lights come on. the lights come on in the house and then he runs out in his shorts and he doesn't know what to do he doesn't know where it is it's in the tree but he doesn't know where it is are we hysterical i was it was so he calls the police we split you know we just So we run.

I literally ran through the backs of all the houses to get to my house and go up the back stairs to bed. Boy, I made it when it was a close call. I wouldn't be here right now if my father, and he got a call. My father got a call because they knew after a while that I was behind it and my gang was behind it. But I'm up, and I hear is walking up the, remember that, walking up the stairs. If you had a bedroom, you were a kid up like this. I got away with it. That was one of the funniest things.

So anyway, I hope you liked this story. It was an age of innocence. That was, I would say, 1964, 63 in there, in that range. Beatles are just coming around. And I had dinner. with some of my crew that I mentioned in that piece about three weeks ago. Everybody still keeps in touch at Levittown. And it was just, it was like when you are thinking about past Christmases,

you know, you conjure up these really good, funny memories. And, you know, this is the first time I ever admitted to doing that. I think the Statue of Limitations has run out on waking up little kids in the middle of the night, but actually happened. So I hope you liked the story. It's my gift to you. And, you know, the whole thing, if you buy the bundle of all 13 killing books, you get the whole show downloaded to you. So I'm not doing this for a promotion. I genuinely thought you would like that story, and that's my Christmas gift to you. But if you want to see the whole thing, you can by getting a bundle. Okay, thank you very much. As usual, this is our last show of the

year and I appreciate, you know, most loyal, smartest audience in the world, that's you guys. We've got millions of people now watching us on YouTube and on Bill O'Reilly.com, on the first, all our partners, our distribution, all over the world. There are some countries that block us, by the way. I'm going to tell you about them in January, but a lot of countries don't. And now we're getting reaction from everywhere. But it's you here in the United States, that's the core crew and makes us the most successful independent news agency in the world. That's who we are named. So thank you very much. I want you have a very Merry Christmas, very happy New Year. See you again tomorrow.