The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Lt. Col. Oliver North | 12/12/18

Episode Date: December 12, 2018

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. Hey, we've got a great show line up for you today. Great podcast you don't want to miss talking a little bit about what happened in France. Oliver North stops in. He was talking about an American hero that you have to, you have to meet. But also, we kind of got into, you know, what's happening in the Trump administration because he went through a time of just nightmare scandal during Reagan.

Five years of hearings he had to deal with? Yeah. And I said, so what are you feeling? What are these people feeling? Really an interesting insight on that. Also, we talk a little bit about Ocasio-Cortez. What's the obsession, Glenn? Why?

You know what? She likes to think it's because she looks different, and then she's female, and that she's a victim. If she were ugly, she would not be up at the front of the TV all the time. It's possible. Yeah. It's possible. That's part of it. But, you know, that happens with every politician, I guess.

But you posited a very interesting theory that we'll get into here in just a little while. Also, an amazing story that happened in Alabama, a nine-year-old girl who has killed herself over race, a story that will haunt you. And every American should know about all on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Blenbeck program. It's Wednesday, December 20. Patriot Mobile is a phone service that will give you all of the great coverage that you want. They're just not going to take the money from you and then invest that in causes that you don't believe in, like Planned Parenthood. Patriot Mobile actually is going to let you invest your money into the causes that you believe in.

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I think this is fantastic. We'll get into that a little bit later. Also, I want to talk to you a little bit of what's happening over in the UK. Now saying, who wasn't it that downgraded Deutsche Bank? Deutsche Bank just came out and said, yeah, we're going to raise raise the odds that the U.K. The government will collapse to 30%. Ow!

But what is the president tweeted today? Also, Christmas should be a time of happiness and celebration the world over, but in Europe, it is now the season of terror. The sounds of Europe's famous Christmas markets of Merry Christmas and laughter are being replaced with the sounds of Allah Akbar and gunfire. and gunfire. Two years ago, ISIS attacked a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, injuring another 48, and tragically the sound of automatic gunfire.

Strange in a continent where you can't buy automatic weapons. The chant of Alaw Akbar was heard at yet another Christmas market in Europe yesterday. This time, it was in France. Two people are dead. 13 are battling for their lives right now in Strasbourg, France. An attacker walked into the city market, the Christmas market, shortly after 8 p.m., and shouted Alu Akbar. And then he just started firing into the crowd.

He then proceeded to battle the police in four separate locations while he fled the scene. At this moment, he still has not been caught. The city of Strasbourg is on full lockdown. France's terror level has been elevated. A man, Middle Eastern descent, has been. identified as the subject. This is not going to be, this is not going to make things better in Europe. This is not going to calm things down in Europe. He was already on a terror watch list and had been deported from Germany recently with 20 criminal convictions. Why was he still in Europe? The politicians

will have no answer. And that is why people are in the streets, one of the reasons. He is also well known in the Islamist circles and has reportedly radicalized after spending time in prison. Apparently, he wasn't too radical for the Germans, but not for France. The Germans said, ah, but France said, oh, we like to welcome everyone, huh? What is it going to take for these governments? Like France, quite honestly, America is on this path as well to wake up to their failed. policies. Nearly 300 people have been killed in terror attacks in France in the last three years alone. 300 people in three years. But despite that, the French government refuses to address any immigration

issues. They continue to open their border policies. They, more importantly, refuse to listen to their people when they try and tell them that they are scared to death over this issue. This is something if you're a long time listener, we talked about for a long time. What's happening in France is not only the coming insurrection, which is something that we talked about 10 years ago, a legitimate plan from Marxist and communists published in a book called The Coming Insurrection, where the communist movement would take over.

But this is something else as well. This is also the Bubba effect, something that we have warned against here in the United States. And the Bubba effect is this. There's a terror attack in the United States. And somebody, nobody's doing anything. And everybody's up in arms about it. And the government hasn't listened.

And the government just hasn't done anything about it. And they keep telling you, shut up. Shut up. You're a bigot. You're a racist. Well, there's going to be a time where a Bubba is working at the convenience store. And a Sikh comes in, not a market. Muslim is Sikh, but he's got a turban.

Bubba doesn't know the difference between the two. Bubba just knows that people are coming into our country and they're killing people. And he thinks, turban, Muslim, Muslim, killer. And he shoots him. And everybody in the town and everybody in the United States knows that Bubba was wrong. And Bubba should pay for his crime of murder. But when the feds arrive, the town gathers around Bubba and says, we're going to take care of Bubba. You got nothing to say around here because it's your incompetence.

It is your arrogance. It is your refusal to listen to people like us, not Baba, like us, that is causing this. Because Bubba's been a good guy the whole time. but we're so frustrated and you keep telling us there's no difference between a Muslim and an Islamist and there is. But Baba doesn't know the difference because you've told us to shut up. So get out. That's when civil war happens. That is what special forces experts told me in 2006 was their greatest concern for the United States and its future.

a government that has not responded and listened to its people. Now, I don't know if they've been preparing for that in France, but that's part of what is happening all over the world. This is one of the real reasons why the yellow vests are tearing the country apart. The government refuses to listen to their fears on terrorism, unchecked immigration, open borders, the failing economy, high taxes, Out of control spending. Wow, do any of these things sound familiar to you?

How many years? How many months are we behind, France? Listen to us. Listen to the people here in America. Outrage has replaced baseball as our national pastime. And do you know why Donald Trump won? Because he's angry as hell, just like the rest of America is,

of not being listened. to or not having common sense listen to. Nobody. Nobody. Well, I can't say this. What? Three percent, maybe, of people who want a border wall are like, because I don't want any of them Mexicans in hair. Maybe, maybe, and I think I'm being generous, maybe three percent. Everybody else who says yes to the wall is saying, look, man, I just, we've got to protect ourselves. Do you see what's happening in Europe? We've got to protect ourselves. We cannot have a rush at the border just like everybody says, oh my gosh, you're not going to let those people into the life rafts? No, because if they do, we all die. And then we're not able to help anybody.

That's what's really going on here. But the more we're told to shut up and sit down, and it's not a problem. The problem is with you. The more disenfranchised we come. We become. I tweeted a political cartoon today that I thought was hysterical. It had this alien coming out of this spaceship. And it said, people of the earth, we have taken all of your politicians. And if you don't do exactly what we say, we will release all of them. That is the way I feel, man. Take them. Take them. People have lost the ability to engage in peaceful protest. Street demonstrations have turned into street brawls over in Europe.

But look at the images from places like Portland. European governments are losing the social contract with their people. Why? Because years of broken promises and outright lies from Washington. hear me if we don't work to reduce the chaos that does not mean don't be angry. There's a lot of things to be angry about. But if we don't work to reduce the chaos, how long before what's happening over in Europe happens here. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

We have this big fight over Kavanaugh. Yeah. Everybody's like, oh, my gosh, he's going to go at night and kill women. There will be no women. If he's on the Supreme Court, he'll kill every woman on earth. He'll just be a guy club. He was in rape gangs. Yes, I know, I know.

It's not that much of a stretch. And so polarized, and what happens? He's become a friend of Planned Parenthood. I know. He's already betrayed us. We should have let him derail his nomination. No, we should have. Because you would have gotten Amy Coney Barrett.

No, we shouldn't. Maybe. We shouldn't have because it was. the wrong thing. You didn't want to set that precedent. I'm not sure. I said this during it. Is this guy worth fighting for this hard? I think as a justice. No. Right. He's not. He's not worth fighting for.

But the principle was. The principle is worth fighting for. Yes. And it's one decision. We shouldn't say, I know. Hopefully this is one thing. It's a bad sign that we were all nervous about. We thought, Amy Coney-Barrant would be so much better. And sure enough, the first chance he gets. He goes to the other side and why is it that you never see it? The reverse.

You never say. Because they actually believe in something. We always try to get those people who are going to, you know, have no record of being anything bad. They won't take a hard test. Well, they have a litmus test. Right. We have, we should have a litmus test. And not on the issues, but on the Constitution. Yeah. I want you to rule on the Constitution as it was written. Sometimes that will work for us. Sometimes that will work against us. I don't care. As written rule on the Constitution.

That's our litmus test. Wouldn't it be nice if just once you could say, wow, can you believe Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited with Clarence Thomas on that Second Amendment thing? Right. No. Whoa. I didn't see Sonia Sotomayor getting together with Samuel Alito on abortion. I wish. It's just never going to happen.

Didn't Trump in the campaign to say that he was actually fine with a litmus? test on some of these He did. He was the only one who said that and of course. And he should be because the Democrats absolutely have a litmus test.

Of course they do. The litmus test is Roe v. Wade is settled law. Period. It's constitutional that you can have abortion on demand. Well, we should get somebody on the other side who says

the opposite. That should be the litmus test. That seems right. And again, we brought this up many times. But Kavanaugh was not on the list that got Donald Trump elected.

Donald Trump came out with a list of 21, of 21 justices. And it was the reason that, you know, dozens and dozens and dozens of people called this program and said, you know what? I have my hesitations on Trump on X, Y, and Z, but that list was really good. And these

are a lot of good justices, and that's a really important issue. And it was a really logical way to cast your vote. And he got elected, and the first one he took right off of that list, Neil Gorsuch, and there's been no problems with him. And then after he got elected, he's been great. After the election,

they added five people. Now, That's the one thing. My only hesitation with Amy Coney Barrett is that she was also added after the election. Why there are still 20 people on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices? Yeah. Why do you, if you have 20 people still on that list? And perfectly. Why are we expanding it?

Why do we expanding it? They're all still there. They're all still available. Go take them off of that list. The one that everyone came together and said, well, you know what? If he sticks to that list, it's worth it no matter what he does. Yeah. I mean, Kavanaugh should have been, you know, after all of the justices had been replaced.

and we still had 11 more justices on that list, and those 11 all dropped dead from a heart attack. That's when Kavanaugh should have been considered. It would really get to zero. It would be very unusual. Yes. And sad. So that's how far, that's, that's how far off the mark he is with Kavanaugh.

It should also be noted. We can't let John Roberts off the hook here. He also voted with the liberal justices. Oh, I don't even count him as a. John Roberts is not, I mean, what a disappointment. He's been. I don't even consider him a... He's almost a David Souterland by now.

He's almost that bad. I mean, he's certainly at least... You know he's at least going to be Kennedy. Oh, yeah. Which means that this whole thing about all these justices is not going to get you anywhere. Right? I mean, it's just going to bring you back to where we were. Yeah, he'll take it up.

And if Kavanaugh is also Kennedy, then you're Orsoff. And it's some sort of legacy thing with him, I think. With Roberts. With Roberts. I used to think maybe they had something on him. No, I think it's just a legacy thing with him. He wants to be remembered fondly by history books. I don't even think it's that.

I think he doesn't want to be remembered as the Supreme Court that changed everything. He just wants, I think he wants a Supreme Court that's just kind of like, well, no, we're not doing anything over here. No, everybody can love us. We're in touch with everybody who loves us. Listen, I have so many Republicans have learned that it is not possible for you for you. If you're a Republican, if you're supposed to be. I mean, just because he was named as a Republican, Republican. By a Republican. He will always be a Republican.

And they're never going to love it. Media's eyes. And they're never going to know. No matter what he does. And they're they never, do they ever give him credit? Did Planned Parenthood send out a thank you to Kavanaugh and Roberts? Nope. No, looks they'll call them, you know, that they hate women and they'll do it forever. Yep. Which means that he's either a much bigger man than I am. And he was like, you know what? I'm going to give a bone to them. I'm going to try to con. And he's a much bigger man. stupid he's more stupid than I am it's also not his job to be a big man his job is to read the constitution yes I know that I know that I know that's the problem I remember when he was going through all this my instinct was I don't care what the Constitution says you come in front of me you're due it's a good instinct yeah it's a good instinct you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program like listening to this podcast if you're not a subscriber become

one now on iTunes. While you're there, do us a favor and rate the show. There are only a couple of organizations that I belong to. I'm not really a joiner, but I joined my church. And I joined the NRA. Those I think are the only two clubs, if you will, are only two things that I have real membership in. And it's because I believe deeply in both of them.

And the president of the NRA, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, joins us now. Hello, Oliver. How are you? I'm glad to be with you, brother. I'm glad you're a member. So I want you to take this month's magazines and tear out that right after my column on page 9, and tear those out and give your best friends on the planet Earth memberships in the NRA for Christmas. Merry Christmas, buddy. I think I could do that. Thank you very much.

Okay, so we have you on because you're starting a new show on NRA TV. Yeah. And the first one is done by a guy who I'm not sure people really know. The average person, they just don't know who this guy is. And he is one of the greatest heroes of our lifetime, I believe. All true. Dave U. Bank is a former U.S. Army Ranger, a special forces officer, a missionary, and the founder of Free Burma Rangers. And I had covered him when I still worked for Fox, made him part of one of our documentaries up in Kurdistan.

And went back out there because this man has such a great story. He is an American hero, thus in the name of the show. And he's one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met. He is out there with his family. In fact, he was in Syria yesterday with a congressional delegation. He lives in Burma. He has a home in Washington State. He has the kind of courage that is so remarkable, it just had to be our first story in this.

in his long series. He really truly believes that he's on a mission from God to help people and that, you know, God will protect him for as long as God needs him to do his thing. And he brings his family with him. And he's been in some of the worst places in the world trying to save people who are being oppressed. Well, we were out there with him in Mosul, and I can tell you that was the worst place in the world. thankfully it's getting better now. But what he does is he takes his family with him, his lovely wife,

his two gorgeous daughters and his son. How old are his children? Oldest of 15, 16. She's the only 16-year-old I know that can drive a Humvee. Thank God she can because she saved a lot of lives by just putting that sucker on the road and going out and picking up casualties and bringing them back to a field hospital that they had set up.

You know, there's a lot, as you and I both know well, there's a lot of groups out there that will provide medicine and food and water and the essential supplies. But there's very few that will deliver them to the front lines of a conflict like this. And that's what makes this guy so remarkable. Dave walked right up to me one day. We're up in the berm right around Mosul, getting ready to go into the city. And a casualty load came in from across the berm, helped by the Kurdish soldiers, the Peshmerga. And every one of these folks was badly wounded. And Dave raced out there in the middle of no man's land to bring him back.

We've got one very remarkable scene in it. In fact, it's part of the tease for the show where he spots a little girl who's the only survivor of one of these massacres by ISIS. And she's wrapped in her mother's clothing. And what Dave does, only Dave could do, because he knew who to call on the telephone. He calls an Iraqi general, and the Iraqi general eventually loans him a tank. and Dave races up behind the tank right up to where the kid is. Can't get out because he has to cross an open space of about 50 yards. And he gets on the phone with a U.S. Army officer and a Marine artilleryman,

and they drop smoke in between Dave and this hospital that ISIS had taken over. And it's an enormous fortress. It's got any aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons, lots and lots of guys with guns. And with just that tank to protect him goes right up to the edge of this battle, races out, grabs the little. girl and brings her back. And the prayer he says just before he goes is as powerful as anything I've ever seen. And he says, you know, afterwards he said, I said, you're a hero. He said, nobody ever wants to be a hero. Nobody tries to be a hero. And what, of course, a hero is is a person who puts themselves

at risk for the benefit of others. That's clearly what Dave does every single day. He does it in Burma. He's done it in South Sudan. He's done it in Iraq. He's done it in Kurdistan. And he's done it in Syria. and without him, scores of people would have died that he saved. So if you are a listener of this program and you are involved with the Nazarene Fund, you know that the Nazarene Fund now is in Burma, and the guy who is working for the Nazarene Fund in Burma

is the guy who had the rifle behind the tank and stepped out in front of the tank and started laying down fire, so he could go run out and get the child. And they're amazing people, and this guy is one of the most amazing heroes around. You can find it now on nraTV.com. That's nratv.com. So, Oliver, can I ask you something?

Because you are such a, you are such a piece of history now. And you have been for a long time. But now that we have distance from things and we see the world, as you see what you see what you went through in the 1980s and how the world worked, how do you view that period of time compared to what we're going through now and what you're seeing happening in our country? Well, frankly, I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed to see that I was blessed to work for a great president.

His goal right from the very beginning of his eight years was to end the evil empire, and he did. and of course that had finished in the administration of the guy we just buried here a couple of days ago, George Herbert Walker Bush. I look at what we went through

back in those days to eliminate one of the greatest threats to mankind that ever was which is the evil empire, the Soviet Union, it's all its satellites. And I look at what's happening today with terrorism. I look what's going on in our border. And I say to myself, the polarization in the city

where I have to go to work, Washington, D.C., the polarization is so great that a president, this president, cannot get the Congress to do what the Congress ought to do to protect our borders. And a nation that has no borders is not a country. I mean, the meeting yesterday with Pelosi and Schumer and the president in the Oval Office is an example of how incredibly left-leaning our Congress is today. That's a shock to me, quite frankly, because I would have thought the American people did not want this kind of thing to be. happening. As I look at what's happening on our border, and I've been, I've been watching it for a while, and I've been, I've been comparing it to what's happening on the borders of Israel. I believe that we are at the beginning of, you know, almost a Palestinian little mini state there on our border,

where we are going to be used, just like the Israelis are used, by the media. They're just, they're going to attack, they'll do things just to continue to bring America down to her knees. I think we're in a really bad place to where you can't even recognize truth. I mean, there are people who are refugees that should be allowed in, but there are also people who wish us ill that should not be let in. Well, and what you just point out, the Israelis did solve that problem. They built a wall. And, all gone it, you can't argue with if.

the effect of it. And it stopped the kind of terrorism that Israel was experiencing almost every day. It just eliminated it. And at some point, they're probably going to have to build a wall around Gaza. Look, the Iranians are stirring up trouble in that part of the world, the likes of which should never have happened, all because the last administration in Washington, D.C., let them get away with it. In fact, helped pay for some of it. Gave money back to them that they use for that very purpose. What's going on, and our southern border is not the direct consequence of that. But you've got to know that they're taking advantage of it. And everybody that knows what's going on on the border. You've been there.

I've been there. Many of our listeners have been. That open border is an abscess in the health of America. And what we saw happening before the tear gas was used with rocks and bottles and feces being thrown at U.S. Border Patrol, it's an outrage. And it should not be happening. My hope is that the president sticks with his guns. Mine too. Um, the, um, the, you know, everybody is talking about, uh, Cohen and Flynn and Flynn and everything else today.

You've been at the eye of a hurricane like that before. What does it, what does it feel like to be in that position and you, it must be very lonely? Well, I was, I was, I was always certain of the outcome. It was just a matter how long it was going to take and how much it was going to cost to get there. I, I never once doubted what my attorney. Brendan Sullivan told me repeatedly, it's going to turn out okay. It's just going to be a long, hard slog to get there. In my case, it took five years.

I was indicted in March of 1988. The trial was over in 1992, went all the way to the Supreme Court, and I was eventually vindicated. The challenge today is they'll never do what they did to me. They'll never put a hearing together like that. They should never have brought back to special prosecutors. I mean, it's the, it's the, it's. entire opposite of justice. In justice, you have a crime committed, you find a person who perpetrated it, and you give them justice. In this case, you find a person, and then you go

trying to look for a crime that they committed. And that's just the opposite of what justice really is. And unfortunately, I said this to the president at the time, don't let this happen. And unfortunately, they allowed the appointment, and you're going to get what you're always going to get with these circumstances is they've got a person, now they're going to have to find a crime for which they're going to convict them. And of course, that's what Flynn's going through right now. Wow, great perspective on that. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, president of the NRA and the host of American Heroes now on NRATV.com. Always good to talk to you, sir. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas. God bless. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck

program. Lots of emails have come in. in regards to the Tyler Perry Walmart idea where he just went in and just paid for people's layaway. Two stores did it in two stores. Kid Rock just did it in Nashville as well. And we've talked about it. And so many people are doing something similar. And I just want to give you some of the emails that have come in. Dear Mr. Beck, my husband and I listen to you every day.

today while you were talking about the Tyler Perry story and challenged your listeners to do the same, my husband called me and said, let's do this. We have been so stressed out and struggling financially, and with the season upon us, we've been worried about how to afford to buy our kids, things that we wanted to buy them for Christmas. After listening to how your deeds affected so many people, we both realized how thankful we are for what we do have, and we don't have to choose whether or not to buy my children toys or food. This comes from a story that I told where a woman's layaway was paid off and she said at the time I have been laying awake. I've been trying to figure out how to pay this. I have three jobs. My husband

left me. I lost my home. I just was evicted. I've got four kids. And through tears, she said, I now, because somebody paid off my layaway, I now have the food I need. I don't have to worry about a Christmas dinner. I have the money to buy food. That's remarkable to me. And we don't sometimes live there. You know, we get so lost in what we want or whatever that we don't really recognize the people who might even be on our own street that are making that kind of choice.

After listening how it affected so many people, we figured that we could cut some spending out of our weekly budget and pay $100 toward a layaway at Walmart. I went to my nine-year-old son and told them what we were doing. He gave me the last $15 he had from his lawn mowing money that he earned this summer. Together, we paid two strangers layaway bills off in full. My son has a beaming smile on his.

face and I am so proud of his generosity. So challenge accepted, Mr. Beck. We have decided to this as a family now every year. Dear Mr. Beck, I don't know how to go about things like this, and I've always had trouble with issues expressing my feelings. But I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because somebody paid off my layaway, and now I have a Christmas for my kids. If it wasn't for a kind soul, my tree would be empty because I couldn't afford to pay away, my layaway.

I recently got married in November and found out that we were expecting our third child. I've been in and out of the hospital missing work and being sick that my paychecks were all we had to use for Christmas. As a parent, being able to see my kids happy with a smile on their face Christmas Day is a great blessing. Thank you. Thank you for giving me that joy and happiness on Christmas Day. You and your listeners are an answer to our prayers. Glenn, this might be the most memorable Christmas I have had in a long, long time. After listening to your segment, I went to Walmart and wound up paying for seven families' gifts on Layaway. One family in line, plus we just finished shopping for two foster kids in the neighborhood.

At the end, the manager shook my hand, thank me, and wish me Merry Christmas. I couldn't even talk. The lump in my throat prevented me from speaking. I just nodded my head in agreement, tried to hold my tears back, and briskly left. Tonight, I hope to make ten stockings out of paper to hang on the mantle. It'll be reminded of what Christmas is really all about. Thank you, Glenn, and thank you Tyler Perry for the great idea. Thank you for everything and standing up. Glenn, as a daily listener, you had the dad tears flowing today, as you shared the Tyler Perry challenge that you experienced. And as you said, it does ground you. This year I am so strapped that I can't even afford layaway as my wife has had double mastectomy this year and nearly a year of chemo and radiation. My precious bride of 21 years, becoming even more of a hero than she was when she gave birth. and bless me with my four beautiful children, all under 16, no doubt. But just hearing about the grandmother, hearing that she didn't have to cancel her Christmas,

and the mother of four after the husband had left and losing the house, you had me in tears, and for the first time in a long time, I was not cursing the traffic on the 405. Instead, I was sharing in a truly human moment with you and with millions. I was touched deeply. Thank you. You stoked the fire of hope within me this morning. I'm glad you took me there. From San Antonio, Glenn,

I paid off three Walmart layaways as a result of your show. One man in line? He didn't know he had to pay the whole thing and didn't have the money. So I tapped him on the shoulder and I told him I came here today to pay off some layaways and I'm happy to pay yours. he was so thrilled that he called his wife and handed me the phone saying he wanted to thank me they were overjoyed i then paid two more while i was there what a great feeling you know we um we forget how easy it is to make an impact in somebody's life

that it doesn't take a tyler perry it doesn't take a huge checking account i learned that Saturday. As we were as we were shopping as a as a church we all went out to the Walmart and we were buying toys for a a shelter for abused women and children and we do this every year we go out and we shop for these kids and then the moms come in to where we have all the toys and then they just go shopping for their kids and it's great we love it. It's just so great. and I heard about the Tyler Perry thing that he did, and I thought, I've never even thought of that. You know, we think about the people in the homeless shelters,

and we think about the people who are going out to get aid, who are in real dire trouble, but we never think about the people who are just on the edge, the people who aren't asking for anything. And I think that's why I liked the layaway thing so much, is because these people were, not that it's any different, but these people were on the edge and they were trying, trying to do their best

to be able to have something under the tree for their kids and nothing for them. And it doesn't take a lot. You don't have to be Tyler Perry. Find a way, I challenge you and your family to put meaning in Christmas this year find a way to serve others find a way to find that person that thinks nobody even notices me even if you don't go to church sometimes churches will know somebody in that you know that area

that church that is really struggling so if you can't find anybody reach out to somebody else and say hey do you know anybody who's just on the edge because i think that's what christmas is really supposed to be about. We're supposed to humble ourselves at Thanksgiving, and we're supposed to be down on our knees and be able to see the child that is laying in the very humble manger in the straw and the family that struggled just to be able to sleep in the manger. Let's celebrate this year by finding those families and helping them. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. We found something on a GoFundMe page that I wanted to bring your attention to because I think for the next few days we should find a GoFundMe page that we could do

and that we could point you to and we could make somebody's dream come true. Okay. So we found one from a family. This family, let me just say this. My father was 19 years old and he's always wanted to go back to D-Day. He landed at Normandy on D-Day, and he has always wanted to go back to France. He was the youngest in his unit. He's now the only survivor of the 453rd Automatic Weapons Battalion out of Fort Knox.

He was a machine gunner on a half-track. My mother never wanted to travel, and he would never leave her side. They were married for 71 years. She just passed away, and my sister and I are trying to make my dad's dream come true and be part of the D-Day ceremony in Normandy for the 75th reunion. I think we can do this. They want to raise $12,000, and I think they are, I think they're almost halfway there now.

So I want you to go to GoFund me and just search for get to Normandy. Get to Normandy. It's a World War II veteran that wants to go to Normandy. It's Lori and Julie are the daughters. They're from Tacoma, Washington, and their dad, Lauren, landed on the beach on June 6, 1944. And it would be so cool to put him back there

for the 75th anniversary. And it'd be great if they could have this all wrapped up and give it to him for Christmas. So go to gofundme.com and search for Get to Get to, Normandy. Now, if you do do any of these things, will you do yourself a favor? Will you put this story underneath your tree? What do you mean? Put it under your tree. If you're helping anybody, if you went to Walmart, put the receipt underneath your tree and open it on Christmas

or put it in a stocking and sit on Christmas morning and talk about the people that you helped impact. Let your children and you, it's the best present you can give to your family and you is to share your blessings, but I don't want you just to do it and then feel great today and then Christmas comes and you're not even thinking about it. Put the receipt to remind you and talk to your family and your children. So if you help him out, go to GoFund Me and search for Get to Normandy. Yeah, we also I just tweeted it out for Matt World so we could do it from Glenn your account as well.

Okay. And help them. But then print it out and make sure you talk about it with your family so you can enjoy the idea that they opened up a present as well. That somebody else that you're not seeing, you sent a present.

And it was a big deal. And it was a great thing that they wouldn't have had for Christmas. But you guys helped pitch in. So again, go to go. GoFundMe.com. Get to Normandy is what you search for.

And let's see what we can do. I mean, we should be able to do this within an hour. They're like $4,000. So they want to get to $12,000? Yeah, $8,000. We should be able to raise this quickly. Go and do this right now. It's a great story.

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