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Some are saying that Joe Biden's legacy, presidential legacy, has been shattered by the Hunter Biden Biden pardon. So my question is, what legacy is that? What are we talking about? So his four years, almost four years now, I've been a complete failure across the board. And I know people don't believe that, some people, but they don't want to believe it. You could present all the evidence, and I have. If you're reconfirming the presidents, I've got Joe Biden's second worst, and I back it up,

and everything that I predicted about Joe Biden has come true. But the one big thing is you open the border, and 14 million foreign nationals come in here, unsupervised and you have not explained why you did that. And for years, you denied that there was even an open border, Mr. President. Come on. So this is a disaster. And the Hunter Biden thing just is basically that little cherry that you put on top. And then it's over. The decorations are over. So we're going to get to President Biden in a moment. But the Hunter Biden is being over hyped. And I knew it would happen. We went through this last night. We pledging my soundbite. And it's not really about that, about Hunter Biden evading punishment. It's not. What it is, is that

the Biden administration, and I'm including the vice president years, were, let's just say, very dubious because he used his power to enrich his family. And there is no question about that. And when you go throughout history, a lot of presidents did a lot of bad things. That's up near the top. But again, we'll get to Mr. Biden in a moment. First, the talking points memo reforming the federal government.

This was a big promise made by Donald Trump on a campaign trail, and he's got to do it, and he knows it. And he is appointing people. he believes can accomplish that. Reforming the federal government, better known as draining the swamp. Okay. The latest is Cash Patel. So we've had Mr. Patel on his program. He's a very intelligent guy. He's got national security experience. There's no reason on earth that he can't run the FBI. I would assume that if he gets confirmed, that he will hire experienced FBI personnel to help him run the day to day. The philosophy is that Cash Patel is going to basically break that entire bureau down and rebuild it, and it needs to be rebuilt.

Okay? So the reason that there's so much objection on the left to Cash Patel isn't because he's a designated hatchet man for Trump, and he might be, but that's not the reason. The left does not want the FBI dismantle because it's a leftist concern. It's run and has been for more than a decade by Ardened Liberals. And they don't want, they want to keep that power. That's what it's about. So I was on News Nation last night, and here's what I said. Cash Patel is a good guy to have running the FBI.

I hope that he picks as assistant. Mr. Patel is a very smart man, people who are within the FBI who have survived this horror and can advise him on how to run it day by day. But if you think that the Federal Bureau of Investigation would totally booted the Hillary Clinton National Security on a personal phone, totally booted Russian collusion, totally ignored influence selling by the Vice President of the United States. If you think that this agency doesn't deserve to be blown sky high, then you're just simply wrong. So I want Patel in there. I want him to dismantle the corruption. And he will. And I think he's going to get confirmed, although there are a couple of wavering Republican senators,

I think you'll get through. Because if most of the Republican senators vote to confirm Cash Patel and a couple don't. Trump is, that's not going to be a good thing for those people. And it's all about self-interest in Washington, as you know. Now, all of this maneuvering into the various agencies is because of Trump's first term. So Donald Trump came in and appointed people. You remember, who was the first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions,

and they just ran him around. I mean, Sessions didn't know what he was doing. He finally got a professional in there, Bill Barr, to be attorney general. to be attorney general. But Barr did not drain the swamp. He didn't do anything to stop the left-wing culture. In fact, I think he liked it, Barr. So Trump got frustrated and angrier and angrier because the people that he appointed to try to reform the government didn't do the job. So now he's going for the bomb throwers. Now, some of those bomb throwers have heard him.

All right, Matt Gates, not qualified, okay? Pete Heggseth, not qualified. And he's not going to get it. All right, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., not qualified. Although I'm very sympathetic to RFK Jr.'s food campaign. I would make him an advisor. But you've got to have some semblance of experience to run these operations and to know who's hurting the country and who isn't. So it's going to be different this time around. Patel, I believe, will be the FBI director. And I'm praying that the most powerful law enforcement agency on earth, the FBI, becomes honest again. Wouldn't that be nice? And that's a memo. Okay, Joe Biden's over in Africa.

He's having celebrations over there doing something. Nobody's quite sure what he's doing, but he's there. This is very excellent as Wayne and Garth. might say. He's lucky he's there because if he's here, it's all about Hunter. Now, President Trump did something very kind today. On November 21st, there were three Palm Beach County deputies killed on a roadside accident. They were investigating, and a Jeep speeding Jeep killed them all, smashed them on a road. So President Trump went to the memorial service today. And that was a very kind thing to do.

Joe Biden wouldn't have done it. Okay, there's no way on earth he would have done it. And I know it's close by. I know all that. But that's what he did. Didn't get any much print at all in the media. All right, let's go out to California. Now, this is a fascinating story.

So Governor Newsom, who believes he's still a viable national political candidate. He's not. He's done. Okay, but he held a special session yesterday in conjunction with the California legislature. I don't really know what that means to oppose Donald Trump. They're setting up resistance in California. Okay, I mean, you know, so what, right? We went over this if Governor Newsom fails to obey federal law, I'd have Cash Patel arrested.

In fact, if I were Cash Patel, I'd go arrest him. them myself, like Jay Edgar Hoover did with, who did, I wrote killing the mob, who did Hoover, Hoover put the cuffs on, was a pretty boy Floyd, one of those gangsters because they were saying bad things about Hoover. But anyway, if I'm cashed for telling me, FBI director and Governor Newsom violates federal law by obstructing investigation, whatever, I go out there, Sacramento, and I put the cuffs on them. Did they tell everybody, hey, with stopping this. Right. Let's bring in our pal, Ruben and Everett, from Carl's Bed, California. He's syndicated column. Yes, you may have read his stuff. Very good, very astute. And not many people

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Bill, so good to be with you again, my friend. I think the place you're making your mistake is I'm often mistaken for a Republican, not just because I appear on Bill O'Reilly show, but because I believe in what Reagan said in the 1980s about taking responsibility for your actions. And I think that American employers, for instance, need to own up to the fact that we become addicted to undocumented immigrant labor going on 30 years now, not just because we think it's cheaper than U.S. labor, but because it's more reliable. These people show up. They don't flunk their drug tests. They actually don't sleep in. They show up on time and they work. And also the drug problem, as the President

Mexico correctly point out, we have an addiction problem. I have three kids who are teenagers, but since they were babies, I've had doctors prescribed pill after pill after pill after pill for them. So many of these, and you've done shows about this, many of these pill mills, many of this addiction that we've bred in this country to take a pill and make it feel better. When I see these stories about people ODing on fentanyl, for instance, Bill, I see stories that read like this. A basketball team was celebrating a big win. They were doing cocaine, and oh my goodness, it was laced with fentanyl. Well, you know, your granddad was a cop.

My dad was a cop. And I was grown up to not use cocaine, not use, you know, weed and drugs and pot. So I'm always mystified by how it is that when people use drugs, they shouldn't be using that ends up being laced with fentanyl. We want to blame Mexico. I'll say this. Just my last point. We don't have, in 35 years of covering this issue, we don't just have an issue with bad laws and bad borders. We have an issue with bad parenting because as parents, we've not stepped up to the plate.

put our kids to do these jobs that our immigrants are doing and also tell them just don't do drugs. Okay. I don't disagree with your points, but I think that they are a little bit naive. So point number one, Congress absolutely has to make a new immigration law. They call it comprehensive. That's a bunch of bull. And the new immigration law has to give out more green cards, more working permits to migrants who want to work legally. That has to happen. Whether Donald Trump gets behind it or not, I don't know. But in conjunction with sealing off the chaos, that has to happen. That's number one. Number two, the United States of America is responsible for people using narcotics. Yet nobody will deal with the problem because, oh, it's a disease,

and you've got to feel sorry for them, all of that kind of stuff. And you're not going to change that Rubin. You're not. If it were me, I would have involuntary. That means you would force the criminal drug addicts. Convicted of a crime, you either go to jail or you go to rehab for a year, a year and a half, like they did in Singapore. And Singapore has no drug problem. And I did my thesis at Harvard on that. I went to Singapore. And I saw with my own eyes that when you isolate the market you take it away there is no market and particularly if you're punishing drug dealers but right now we're an emergency situation you would agree with that right 14 million foreign nationals unattended in this country 275 pounds of narcotics being seized we're in a crisis

situation got to stop the crisis right i agree we got to stop the crisis we also got to think about how we got here so we don't get into another crisis well i don't mind about that that was comla harris who's going to get to the root cause, okay? And she did a bang-up job there. She didn't really that. Very, very brilliant woman. But you've got to stop the bleeding before you can go to the healing. And you've got to stop the bleeding is, hey, look, President Shinebaum, you're going to do what we tell you to do.

Or we're going to punish you. And we're going to punish you hard. Yeah, that's not going to work, Bill. Here's why. No, here's not, here's why that's not going to work. If you quote, break Mexico, if we go down to Mexico and pull it. John Wayne, we're going to push ourselves around down there. The end result is you're going to have, again,

as you said, a Mexican depression. What happens when the Mexican economy goes south? Many more Mexicans come up to the north. They're not going to be able to come up. Because they're going to seal it out. You can seal that border down. No, no. We've had this conversation, my friend, for over 20 years.

There's difference between sealing the border and securing the border. I'm with you that you should secure the border. You're never going to seal a 2,000-mile border. You put the U.S. military on the border. You can, and you will. And Trump will do it. Okay, he'll say national security. He'll put the military right on that border.

You're not to put the military underground, because there are tunnels that go underground. Well, there'll be some that get through. But it'll be, and if you do it in conjunction with the people smugglers, and you wipe out the cartels, as they did with ISIS. If you're re-killing the killers, I methodically went over how Obama and Trump did it, step by step. And you could do the same thing with the car. It's easier to do it with the cartels.

Because everybody knows where they all. are. With ISIS and al-Qaeda, it's hard to find them. It's not hard to find the cartels. They're partying and up in Alcapulco. You can get them. They live in giant, lavish mansions that can be cinder in 15 minutes. So anyway, I am a very, very aggressive person on this issue. I don't believe that Mexico is looking out for America at all, Rubin, at all in any way. They're not looking out for America. And unless they change, we got to punish them. Last word.

I agree with you. They're not looking out for America. I'm looking out for Mexico, just as we look out for America. You're right. They need that $50 billion a year that Mexicans send up to the United States. It's clear they're out for themselves. But ultimately, they do us a lot of good as well by providing intel, a trade that goes back and forth. Over 100,000 people come from San Diego into Mexico every day to go to work and back and forth.

So this is not a divorce. afford to have. We do have a friend and ally down there. And by the way, if you want to know what's like to have a hostile power on your border, talk to Israel or Ukraine about that. We don't need it. All right, Rubin. Always great to debate with you. You have a Merry Christmas. Really appreciate your time today. My friend. Thank you. Okay. Joe Biden coming back from Africa, but before he came back, he said to the Africa, hey, I'm going to give you another billion. I'm going to send you another billion. This is so unbelievable. So just Biden in less than four years has added $8 trillion to the national debt. By far, the biggest spending president of all time,

it's not even close. You know, we're going to give you a billion Africa. Okay. Number one, does anybody in the world think the billion dollars of tax money going from the USA to Africa, 51 countries, 31 countries, is going to get to the people who need the money? Anyone, Bueller? No, it's not. Okay? Number two, well, let me let the president speak for himself. Go. The United States continue to be the world's largest provider of humanitarian aid.

development assistance. That's going to increase. You know, that's the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do. And today, I'm announcing over $1 billion of new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity. Okay, good. But I'm going to have to pay the tip. So are you. But Hunter Biden's not going to have to pay it because the pardon obviated all of his. obligation to pay back taxes and any fine he's off scot-free so he dodged millions of dollars punter biden did in taxes that's why he was charged by the federal government but the part wipes it out there's not on his money going my money and your money and it's not going to get to

the people who have food insecurity it's not even going to get close to those people It's like Haiti. How many billions of dollars have been pumped into that island? Half island. And the people are worse off now they've ever been. Joe Biden, everyone. There he is. What a guy.

He is just the best. All right, so Jill Biden is going to the Notre Dame extravaganza over the weekend. So is Donald Trump. Most powerful man in the world, Mr. Trump, very good move to go there. Cathedral Notre Dame, if you haven't seen it, put it on your list. It's just next to St. Peter's. In Rome, it is the most dramatic. And every time I go there,

and it's always my first stop when I go to Paris. I told the French guy that it was interviewing me. I said, when I go to Paris, Cathedral at Notre Dame, always my first stop. And what happened was that there was a giant fire on April 15, 2019. And it was because the, the room, roof of the cathedral was still wood. And that wood, all right, was in place since the 12th century,

the 1100s. And the wood finally went up in flames, causing the destruction of the cathedral. And it took a billion dollars, one billion dollars. The French government raised a lot of a private money to restore it. It's now restored. And Jill Biden and Donald Trump will be there. Now, it'll be interesting if there's a photo op of those two together. I don't believe there will be, but it would be nice, I think. But it's good that the United States is getting behind this. Okay, so joining us now is a guy who has lived in California probably since the gold rush. His name is Victor Davis Hansen.

He's an esteemed scholar, Hoover Institution at Stanford University. It lives in a valley. Selma. I shouldn't even say that, but he's not a coastal elite. And he had a pretty good view. I think Mr. Hansen is the best columnist, better than me. And I read him every week. He's also the author of book, The End of Everything. All right, so let's talk a little California, and then we'll get into a little Democratic Party. So is California gone forever? Are the people out there just so ardently liberal, they just can't think about the welfare of their entire country, or is it possible they may come back? Well, they have to change. The way we got in this problem is that we lost 10 million of the old

Pete Wilson, George Dismasian, Ronald Reagan voter over the last 30 years who fled to Nevada and Tennessee, Texas, Idaho. And then we had 11 million illegal aliens come in in that same period. So there was a 20 million person demographic shift. But what's happened, Bill, is the interior of the state is where most of the 45% of the Hispanic population, who is the largest minority in the state, live. And they are now becoming middle class, and they can't make it. They can't buy homes. They can't pay for gas. We have the highest gas taxes. We have the highest electricity rates. We're very high with our sales taxes, we have a third of all the welfare recipients, and they are becoming very conservative.

Not all at once, but they've, Donald Trump flipped five counties in California from 2020, from blue to red. Some of them, like Fresno County, are very big. And so there's a movement. I don't think it's the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning. We're just starting to see people cannot afford Gabman Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Jerry Brown. They can't afford it.

But the coastal elites in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, the biggest county in the country, San Francisco, half of San Diego. I was saying San Diego is a battlefield politically. But the coastal elites, the George Clooney's and the movie stars and the tech people, they just are so entrenched into this progressive life. I don't think they're ever going to get out of it. And that's where the big money is. 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.

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Yeah. Right. Yeah. You're right about that. So from San Diego basically to Berkeley, you've got three things working. You've got, that's where our universities are. Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley. They're all there.

And they're big. And there's a lot of them. They're very world ranked some of them. And then you've got $9 trillion of market capitalization in Silicon Valley. And then you've got the big. Bay Area left-wing political establishment. And that trifecta makes it very hard. But you're starting to see, it's not just Elon Musk or Peter Till in Silicon Valley, you're starting to see people like Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, David Sachs. These were left-wing people

and said, these guys are lunatics. We won't be able to function and we're going to lose Silicon Valley to Austin or we're going to lose it to Research Triangle in North Carolina unless we we straighten up and this state is our enemies that's not our friends anymore that's new it's just beginning and we have we we we call the mayor of san francisco and of oakland and the de so it's not it's not something that's going to you know be happy it's not going to happen overnight but it's just the very beginning of something is what i'm trying to say why it doesn't happen overnight when the uh average california is paying more than five dollars for gallon gas It's so far ahead of everybody else.

Here in New York, no conservative bastion. I'm paying three bucks a gallon for gas, okay? I go to L.A., which I am going to do, I have to, in a few weeks. I'm going to pay five, all right? Yeah. Well, I think you'll, with all due respect, I think you'll pay $5.50. All right, whatever. Popular uprising doesn't seem to be happening, and that's what I don't understand.

But let me ask one specific question. So I have said that Kamala Harris is going to run for governor. I think what's his name is up in two years, and he can't run again, Newsom. And I think Kamala Harris is going to run. Do you concur? She might run. I don't think she'll have a chance. She ran for Attorney General the first time, and she almost lost.

It took two weeks to count the votes. And that was in a 70% left-wing state. She's not popular here. The Hispanic community is not fond of her. We have one of the smallest black populations. Only about 4% of the state is black now. And the identity politics doesn't work so well. But the main thing, Bill, is most of her money, that billion dollars and maybe the other

billion in PAC money actually came from California, from Silicon Valley and Hollywood. and they are furious at her because of the Oprah, Cardi B, beyond spending, the private jets, the no account. And they're not going to give her any money. I hear that all the time from these people. But who would challenge her? So it's a big name, everybody knows her. ID is huge, still got the machine behind her.

So who could challenge her for governor? Well, we don't have anybody, yeah, we don't have any, but there's a lot of assemblymen, senators, In the state that Los Angeles city councilmen, they'll find somebody. But I don't think that her name, yeah, I think she's going to have a Mike Dukakis from retirement, just obscurity. I really do. All right, I hope so, because she doesn't really bring anything to the table and never has, in my opinion, my home opinion. So let's go national now.

I don't know of most people in the country, people who watch you and me read our columns and watch the NOSB news and all that, they know. They know what happened four weeks ago. ago, exactly four weeks ago. It was not only that Donald Trump won the election, but the Democratic Party was destroyed on a national basis. There's no leader for the Democratic Party now, none. So my question to you is, how fast can they rebuild for the next election four years away?

Yeah, I think they have to lose the midterms And because they haven't got the message yet, they keep saying it was the messaging that they didn't present their case well enough. It wasn't every one of the issues that Donald Trump ran on, polled even higher than Donald Trump did. The border, the economy, crime, overseas, deterrence, the trans issues, the DEI, woke issues. They were losing across the board, and they haven't given that up. They keep thinking that, well, maybe if we had done just this much, or we had the Joe Rogan, that's not. the problem. And this is despite 95% negative coverage of Donald Trump and the mainstream media, and they outraised him two and a half to one. They had all the advantages. And yet somehow,

as you said, he had this mandate and it was much bigger than actual the electoral college or the popular vote mandate because the issues were all on his side. And they pulled overwhelmingly in his favor. And yet they don't seem to have gotten the message. And they always think they can have a fix bill they always think you know maybe we can drain the strategic petroleum reserve or get Roe versus Wade leak that memo out or maybe we can cancel student loans as they did in the midterms or this time around it maybe we can get a new candidate or maybe we can promise this or that but it's just they don't get it that fundamentally but there's nobody they don't

like them there's nobody in charge there's no power no single power I guess Schumer would be the most powerful guy, and he just wanders around Schumer. I mean, they got Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. They got the guy in Kentucky who's the governor, pretty popular. They got some moderate Democrats that they can parade on out there. But they are not progressives. And the progressives, the Soros money, the Hollywood money, Katzenberg, these people, they still control the party because they have all the money.

No, they do. But you've got to remember who were the people who got rid of Joe Biden. They weren't, as you say, they weren't politicians, basically. They were the Obamas and the donor class. And Nancy Pelosi came in. So they represented, as you said, the Progressive Party who the people don't want anymore. And they have a lot of power because they had Hollywood, the Clooney's and the money, the Sorosos, the Silicon Valley money.

And then they had Pelosi and the Obama's pulling the strings. And the price they paid for that is they haven't developed candidates of the Bill Clinton type that can appeal to people. But it took them from McGovern to Bill Clinton, you know, we're about the same age. That was 20 years. It took them to get from McGovern to Bill Clinton. Right. Well, if Trump is successful, that chews in J.D. Vance. Because that won't even be close.

But you're right. It's a long game. Now, the final subject I want to talk to you about is, I think, and I wrote a column this week, that the American people saved the country. It wasn't Donald Trump, although he absolutely, to me, is an astounding example of somebody who just wouldn't give up and took everything they threw at him. And he has to go down in history, and he will, if I have anything to do with it. as a superb example of courage in the face of all of what he had to think.

But it was really the folks that drove this election, that most Americans said, enough. We don't want this anymore. And I, you know, I wavered in 22, Professor, because the midterms did not go the Republican way. And I predicted there was going to be a red wave in 22. too. Because I saw this progressive destruction very early on, but it didn't happen. But the last two years, there was almost something magical that happened in the country. Can you put your finger on it? Well, I think we'd had two years of disaster, but we hadn't had four years. So in this election, two years after, people thought, well, maybe this is so bad that border will be closed,

or we can't go on with another Afghanistan pullout, so maybe that'll be the end of it. But it wasn't. And the other thing was that Donald Trump wasn't on the ballot, and you're right about him. He's a larger than life figure. Everything they did to destroy him made him stronger. But the main thing about him is he's able to appeal and energize the middle class.

He tells the middle class, don't disconnect, don't drop out, just because you don't want to watch Hollywood movies, or you don't watch the Oscars anymore, and you've given up. Get back in and vote, because we can take the country back. And if you ask for a moment, maybe that iconic moment when he was at the McDonald's window and that Indian-American fellow said, I'm just an ordinary person.

And right off the bat, Trump said, you're not ordinary. You're not ordinary. No one's ordinary. I thought that was a really key moment that kind of exemplified his appeal. Absolutely, for a guy who was raised in wealth, And, you know, I wrote about that in the United States of Trump.

He has got the common touch. Hey, Professor, we always enjoy talking to you. I hope you'll come back. Thank you. And again, Victor Davis Hanson's columns, I get them on real clear politics, which runs them steadily, so that's where you can get them. Very worth reading. And you have a Merry Christmas, Professor. Thanks very much for helping us out.

Mexico. My favorite country, right? Again, maybe picking on them too much. Felice Navidad, to all our viewers in Mexico. So just magically, after Trump said, hey, we're going to put 25% tariff on all your goods because Mexican government doesn't do anything to stop drug smuggling in here or people smuggling.

All right, so we're going to hurt you. Well, two days later, presto big bust. All right? Perhaps the biggest seizure of fentanyl ever in the country of Mexico, 660 pounds in one seizure and 1,750 pounds in another, more than a ton of fentanyl, which could kill what? 100 million people. That's how much fentanyl was in Mexico or is, I'm sure they haven't destroyed the evidence.

You don't think it's out of control? And the president, new president, Claudio Scheinbaum said, oh, it's just a coincidence that we had this big bus two days after Trump threat does, because we've been working on us for a long time. Yeah, I'm sure lady. Sure you have. What you've been working on is you know what they're doing and you're not doing anything about it. And you know who carried out this raid? Wasn't a cops. Wasn't a Mexican police.

Wasn't the army. Why? Because they're all corrupted. It was the Navy. The Mexican Navy had to make the seizure. And I don't even think the fentanyl was in the sea. I think it was on land. But there's so much corruption, they don't have anybody down there who can even go up against the cartels.

Don't go there. That's a sea. All right, let's go to England. So the UK is much more censor-oriented than we are. And that goes way back to the king and all of that stuff. They're much more censorship over there. So they are banned now. TV ads for cereals, muffins, and burgers.

You can't advertise cereals, muffins, or burgers on British television. National Health Service says too many fat kids, all right, and they're, so croissants, pancakes, waffles, granola, ready-to-eat-eas cereals, seaweed snacks, don't even know what I am but that, and chicken nuggets and burgers and energy drinks cannot advertise. Too much sugar. Ban. Tobacco ban, too. Now, we could do that here, because tobacco TV has a ban here. but you can do it in print. You can advertise tobacco in print, but not television.

You could do the same thing here. It's never going to be done because the big, powerful American food companies will block it. And that's our problem. So I thought you'd like to know that. Smart Life Christmas Spending. So I hope you believe after what now,

almost 30 years of doing national commentary that I'm looking out for you. And that's what we set up the bill O'Reilly.com Christmas Hanukkah store because we got great gifts at very moderate prices. Save you some money. Now, thousands of you, tens of thousands, have taken advantage of that. Books, and I'll go through it in a minute, books and not woke gear and everything like that. But if you ignore us and you go to the store, this is what you're looking at, smart life.

average American will spend $1,000 this Christmas time. Canadians spend $1,000 more than Americans, so they spend $2,000 up there. 96% of Americans buy gifts for folks, friends, and families. On average, men spend 10% more than women, and the gift cards are the most popular to receive. And I understand that. It's impersonal the gift card, but I ask people, you know, is there anything you would like for Christmas? I never get an answer. And I like to be personal.

Somebody that I'm going to gift wants something, I'll get it for them. You know, unless it's a, you know, condo or something, but it was reasonable. But they all go, well, so I, you know, the problem with gift cards is that it's the amount of money. So if you're looking at it, you get $35 certificate, you know, that's all I'm worth. It's difficult. But it's easy, and that's why people do it. So be smart, smart life, okay? Write the list.

I told you that already. Go to our store and look at what we have, and then if you don't find something you like there, then you can go out and waste your money at Macy's or wherever. Pope, he's got a new car. Mercedes-Benz gave Pope Francis the keys to the first electric-powered Pope-Mobile. That happened yesterday. There he is. Pope's got a new Pope mobile.

Why does he need a Pope Mobile? Because in 1981, Pope John Polar II was almost assassinated. Remember that? Some Muslim guy, Turkish hitman. So then they had to get a new Pope mobile with bulletproof glass and all that. And Pope Francis, environmental guy. He's got the Mercedes EV. And now he's not plugging it in.

He's got guys, the Swiss guards will end of the Vatican. Plug it in for him, but good health, Pope Francis. You're a good man. I don't agree with some of your political stances, but you are a good man. I met him. He's a good man. Okay, final thought of the day, 23 days before Christmas Eve. You're going to fly by.

There's nothing anybody can do. Even if you went to sleep most of the time, as Holly the Teradog does. It's still going to go, whoosh. So what I did yesterday, I was watching the Jets lose. I got to take the team over. I have to. It's just driving me nuts. But anyway, I'm watching the Jets Lose, and I got a big piece of paper,

and I'm putting down all the names of the people that I want to give gifts to. And then next to them, I'm going to give the gift. I got it all done yesterday, every bit. So there's no uncertainty and no what I'm, no, there's one person that is still on the, I'm going to give a donation in her name, all right, to big brothers, big sisters. They're very worthy. If you're looking to give some charity, big brothers, big sisters in your local area, very worried. You've got to help the kids. They don't have a mom or a dad and very hard.

So anyway, so there's one that I'm still trying to figure out. And when you ask people, well, what would you like for Christmas? Then you never get anything. If you ask me, I gave, somebody said, what would you like for Christmas? I got, I want this sweatshirt. And I just showed them. And it's not a lot, but I need a new sweatshirt.

That's what I want. Anyway, you got to do it either today or tomorrow. You got to get that list. And then you can execute the list. And then you're not going to have stress and all kinds of, you know, you want at least the last week leading up to Christmas, just have fun. See friends, you know.

get a little bake a little baking I can't bake but I know people that bake you know baking is good right so you don't want to be you don't want to be like I'm going after Christmas I'm going to a place and I can't tell you where it is because obvious reasons but it's really on my list that I wanted to go but when I get back I'll tell you it's going to be a lot of fun but I plan everything out I'm a planner. And planning is good, but particularly around Christmas time. Because we want everybody to have, and Hanuk and Christmas on the same day. So we want everybody to have fun.

All right. Thank you very much for watching and listening as always. To the No Spin News. We'll see you again on Monday.