The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Bill O'Reilly & Richard Paul Evans | 11/18/22

Episode Date: November 18, 2022

Marilyn Hueper joins to share the horrifying experience of the FBI raiding her house over Jan. 6 suspicions. Bill O'Reilly joins for his weekly news recap, discussing Arizona's abysmal voting practice...s and President Trump's chances in 2024. Author Richard Paul Evans joins to discuss his newest Christmas book, "A Christmas Memory."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:37 Because I'm a mavrike, which is an actual gender and do not make fun of it, Um, one of my, uh, favorite co mavericks, uh, somebody who is, p. A dangerous, dangerous person lives up in Alaska. And I can call her friend because I'm safe because I know she's in Alaska and I'm in Texas. So I can still be a share the maverick kind of things. Her name is Marilyn, uh, Hupor. Uh, she's been on the.
Starting point is 00:02:13 show a couple of times, but she was on our special this last weekend. Please watch this special. It's really kind of an important thing. Marilyn is on the phone. She was, her home was rated by the FBI over January 6th. They weren't in the Capitol. No. They went to the front of the Capitol. They weren't on the steps. They weren't anywhere. They just looked. They had a plane. They had a catch in 30 minutes. So they listened to the President and then walked over to the Capitol and went, huh, and then turn around, walk out. Didn't even know there was a right. Nothing. And the FBI broke their door down early one morning. You got that right because she's a maverick.
Starting point is 00:02:52 She's learned a lot. She was very non-political. And now I'm not sure. Marilyn, would you consider yourself political or just white awake? Good morning. Well, it's 5.30 in the morning in Alaska. So wide awake might not be quite there yet. But as far as awake to what's happening, I feel like I'm becoming more awake every day.
Starting point is 00:03:23 And I was willing to take the red pill. And some days I wake up, I'm sure as you do, and say, like, can I have a blue pill day, please? I know, I know. I'm actually, I've had this conversation. If I could get a pill where I would erase all the knowledge that I had, which I believe they are developing. I often think to myself, am I glad I know all this stuff? And I am, but it sucks a lot of times.
Starting point is 00:03:49 Marilyn, you and your husband, they came in, broke your door down, they never charged you. It's phenomenal to me that they tagged you because they had a picture of somebody that was in the Capitol and it looked like you. did you ever really think, wait a minute, how did my face appear? How did they identify me out of the tens of thousands of people that were there on the mall?
Starting point is 00:04:21 How did they compare my picture and get my picture and say, oh, there it is. It's a match. I did, and I asked them that question because they were, as we talked about on the special and as I continue to learn, Even though it seems like basics, we keep having to have our mental brain reshaped that we just need to be quiet and not talk. But I did ask, but asking questions is what we should be doing. When they ask a question, we should be asking a question, not answering questions. And Jesus was a genius at us when we read that. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:00 But when they were saying, you know, we have you, you've been positively IDed. Well, in that, in my universe, that sounds like you've been 100% verified. What they mean is some random anonymous tipster have called in or left a tip or an email that a photo they saw online might resemble you. that's a positive idea. Oh, okay. It's not very positive. It's not very certain, even if it's positive. You have become, I mean, you're my favorite American right now.
Starting point is 00:05:41 You have become this diehard civil rights defender, and you have investigated, investigated everything that you should do. So this will never happen to you again. and you are actually passing this on and trying to teach it to people. Tell me the one thing you brought up off air, and I talked about it on air, was this Abraham Lincoln thingy called Rid of habeas corpus, which I don't know. I think Abraham Lincoln had something to do with that. I'm pretty sure.
Starting point is 00:06:16 Anyway, I'm trying to get the Abraham Lincoln link here. It just sounds old timing. But I'll Google that. Yeah, I mean, it just sounds old time. He sounds like something he would say, you know, oh, rid of habeas corpus is what we need for this. And who knows what it means? Maybe more cannons.
Starting point is 00:06:33 I don't know. But you said, and this is the number one question online and in our email, is how do I get me one of those things? I think we should start with what is it? And how do you make one or get one and why? Yeah, so a lot of our most helpful tools are not difficult, but they're not known. And, you know, being now a diehard conspiracy vying between theory and fact. Right, somebody that would deny there's a direct link from COVID to slavery.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I know, I know your type. Go ahead. Or someone who would, you know, say like, wow, we're in all these facts. public schools that are teaching all this necessary information and nothing that we can actually use. Yes. Yes. I know the type. Okay, so what is a writ of habeas corpus? So my understanding is habeas corpus, if I'm if, if, and I, again, I don't use Google. Just want to correct myself there because I want my ESG score to be as low as possible. Right. So I use G-G-G-S-G-S-co or anything else as possible. So I'm trying to learn.
Starting point is 00:07:53 from you and rate my ESG as I go. Yes. But it's like a business letter to the court. If you think of it as a business letter, it has a certain format. In habeas corpus, corpus think of body, the court. In habeas is you have. So you have the body. So this is a writ or a letter requesting the body to be freed from custody.
Starting point is 00:08:19 It's directed to the court. And it's basically ratting out whoever you. your jailers are that won't let you go. Okay, so if they're holding you, you need the court to have your writ of habeas corpus, right? Correct. So, yeah, correct. So it does, there is a little bit of a caveat here because the jailers have you
Starting point is 00:08:42 and you want them to give you this letter, this business letter to the court. So sometimes there's a disconnect there because they're not so amenable to make that delivery for you. Right. which I have experienced firsthand, but they're not super excited about having their name. They love putting your name on a piece of paper, but they're very unexcited about having their name put on a piece of paper. However, they do now, they do consider you a serious threat once you do that, which I love. That's fabulous.
Starting point is 00:09:11 And then you have to figure out how to get it from their hands to boot for it. So how do you make, is there like a, is there like a legal Zoom, a legal, Like, you know, some sort of a rid of habeas corpus.com that you could download one of these things. Where do you, how do you make one? Yeah. So I actually wrote it down. I was just thinking like, okay, if this comes up. So I was reading it again because it is, you know, it takes a while to remember.
Starting point is 00:09:40 If you aren't writing one every day, which thankfully is not, is not necessary at this stage. It's hard. It's easy to forget what the proper elements are. So there's a fellow, an ex-police officer of 30 years, who just got tired of seeing all the shenanigans going on. And he's training the people because if you get an attorney, they can do a writ of habeas corpus for you.
Starting point is 00:10:07 If you get a good attorney, if you get the right attorney. And he was just like, this isn't that difficult. Let's just teach the people how to do it. So his name is Terry Ingram. And he has a YouTube that's how to write your own writ of capiore. Corpus, even from jail. So even from jail, in your own blood. Even from jail.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Okay, so wait, what is his name again? They're supposed to give you Terry, T-E-R-R-R-Y, Ingram, I-N-G-R-A-M. Terry Ingram. Okay, YouTube. How to write your own writ of habeas corpus. And it's still on YouTube right now, which, of course, you know, if you can download, or just make a couple of copies yourself because he knows how long anything. You are such a conspiracy theory.
Starting point is 00:10:55 My gosh, what a danger to society. I love that you call me a maverick. Yeah, right? I want T-shirts. But I wish that... But I wish that weren't true. Like Steve Friends said when he went with our FBI, our new FBI friends, it's wonderful to have new FBI friends. When they don't have guns pointed at you, I like them even better.
Starting point is 00:11:17 Yeah. So, but as he was saying, you know, his thought was... I'm going to make this exit. I'm going to break trail. I'm going to make a path. And then so many are going to rise up with me. And yet he's like, wait, cricket, here's everybody. I know.
Starting point is 00:11:35 I know. I'm sure it feels that way for you as well sometimes. Like, hey, we're heralding the warning. Now that we can see it, let's all, you know, line up. And we can take this. There's so many of us and so few of them, all we have to do is stand up. And I believe that is true. and all we have to do is stand up.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Yeah, that's, it'll be over. You know, you probably weren't paying attention. Your husband probably was when I did the 9-12 project, but you were probably off, I don't know, thinking about salmon or something up in Alaska while I was doing the hard work, quite honestly, Marilyn, as a maverick. But that was the slogan of the 9-12 project. We surround them. It's not the other way around. They're more of us. We just have to stop being sheep and learn our history and learn.
Starting point is 00:12:20 our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I admire you early heralders. Well, the party. Yeah, well, that's... If it wasn't for people that are late to the party, it wouldn't, you know, we wouldn't, I would have had more sleep, but I'm glad you,
Starting point is 00:12:39 I just give you a hard time. I hope you know that, Marilyn. I am so glad. You really, you are really amazing. If somebody wanted to find out information from you, or wanted to, because are you doing actual classes? Well, you know, found some conspiracy, serious friends who were searching out between fact discussions on Sunday afternoons 4 p.m. Alaska time.
Starting point is 00:13:11 And if people want to go to Stop thej.org, there's a phone number, and, you know, for kind of a secure call-in for a conference line, we do Sunday call-in. And we do a little, like, motivational encouragement from like a 15-minute topic. That's really great. And then we just take callers questions of, you know, how have you been recently tyrannized and what might be a strategy? So it's kind of good strategy time and a review time.
Starting point is 00:13:48 And it really popped up after some of the people who were reaching out to me in helping me feel empowered to create my own solutions into this huge system. that we're unfamiliar with when all the mandates started popping up, you know, I was like, can't we help other people this information because they don't know, they don't know they can premise that we're working on that we're all a straight of state that you talk about. That's the administrative state that we're locked in that largely runs on contract and by the power of our consent. When I read, you know, the Declaration of Independence application.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Yep. Yeah, it was. You know, right? They stole the Constitution when they visited us. As a one piece of... Yeah, as an evidence against you, I believe. Right? They listed it on an evidence sheet and had a sign for it.
Starting point is 00:14:51 They took our electronics and the Declaration of... That's great. Marilyn, thank... And they listed it as that. Thank you so much for everything you're doing. Again, that would be, I guess, stop the jab on Sundays 4 o'clock. That's Alaska time, which I think is, means it's 2.30 in the more. morning on a Friday, New York time. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Marilyn, thank you so much. Her website is we the people stand.org. This is the best of the Glenbeck program. Well, Mr. Bill O'Reilly is joining us. Bill, this has been an incredible week. Nancy Pelosi is out. Thank God. The Republicans seem to have the house. We're pretty sure. And the White House has gone insane. That's not actually new. What is the biggest story of the week?
Starting point is 00:15:57 I think it's Arizona. It's just inconceivable that an election could be run this poorly. So two and a half million votes cast in the gubernatorial race, and Lake is down by 18,000. And there's no clamor for a recount or anything like that, even though, I think it's number of 75 machines, voting machines in Maricopa County malfunctioned. So I want to know why federal monitors have not been sent to Arizona. That's number one, what you do when you have an election controversy, and that is, you know, historically when certain counties wouldn't count black votes, or they fixed it.
Starting point is 00:16:46 so that people were denied and turned back for registering. Federal monitors go in. So why aren't their federal monitors in Arizona? This is insane. Well, do you... And I don't blame Lake. I don't blame, but Lake should be very precise in saying, look, we want a recount. Number one, 18,000 votes were behind of a two and a half million cash, and they still haven't counted all of votes, if you can believe it, in Arizona.
Starting point is 00:17:12 I mean, this is really insane. And it erodes Americans' confidence in the elections. I really hope, Kerry Lake plays this very, very cool and doesn't – does everything she can to be very precise. You know, when this happened with President Trump, his attorney, what was her name? Sidney. Sidney Powell. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:17:44 She was just, she was off the chain nuts. Their accusations were not right. I think there is really something very wrong in Arizona, and it's in Maricopa County. And Maricopa County residents, both Republican and Democrat should be just ashamed, ashamed of their state. I don't think Lake is going to win even on a recount because of the Senate vote. You know, it was fairly significant to Kelly, the Democrat. And so I don't think so. But you got to have a accounting of this screw-up.
Starting point is 00:18:22 You can't just let these states, and Nevada is in the same category and also parts of California. You can't just have them saying, well, we're not going to count the boat. We're not going to do it. Okay? I mean, then you have to, the federal government has to go in and say you are going to count the vote under our supervision. So here's the only problem with that. Here's the only problem with that is, I mean, the House Judiciary Committee chairman yesterday said,
Starting point is 00:18:54 when is the FBI going to quit interfering with the elections? This is Jim Jordan. Yeah, there's a whole different thing. I know, I know, but wait a minute. He said Trump's campaign in 2016, they said, spied. 2018, it was the Mueller investigation. 2020, suppressed information about Hunter Biden.
Starting point is 00:19:10 2022, they raided the president's home 91 days before the election. He's saying, FBI needs to stay out. So if you have the DOJ, which we see is in the bag, do you trust them any more than you trust the people at Maricopa County? No, I don't. Okay. But that doesn't mean you don't take steps to try to mitigate a wrong. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:33 I mean, look, the FBI is now at its lowest level ever in, you know, it's an existence. And if you're killing the mob, a lot of that's about FBI abuses and FBI successes as well. I mean, they have done very good things. But right now, I mean, there isn't anybody who's a cop. And you see that guy? What's there? Ray. Did you see that?
Starting point is 00:19:56 Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. It was ridiculous. You know, I mean, I'm sitting there going, you won't answer any questions. questions. You should be fired immediately. Yes. But who's going to fire him? They can't even find Biden.
Starting point is 00:20:09 Is he back from Indonesia? I heard he wandered into the jungle. I don't know where he is. I have no idea. I have no idea. And he didn't go to the dinner, even though it was free. He was in his jammies, I understand, and didn't want to get out of the jammies. But, you know, who's going to do it? Nobody's going to do it. But the Republicans now, you know, it's two short months before they take over. And surely they can put Arizona and Nevada's vote in committee and try to get to the bottom of it. That's what the government's supposed to do.
Starting point is 00:20:44 And it never does it. You know, it's all politicized. It's all, I mean, Mueller 18 years and the other guy, you know, Doroamie, 19 years, we'll all be dead by the time he gets in. I know. You know, because they're all making money. They all get paid lavish salary. in all expenses.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Let me, can I, can I ask you this? Yeah. There's a story out today that shows Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden by two points. And everybody is making this story about Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, saying, well, Ron would lose or would win by four points. That's not the story to me. The story is by only two or only four, what the hell has happened to the American people. They are being squeezed from every corner and they still are loyal to this guy?
Starting point is 00:21:42 Yeah, I can say, hey, Trump so much. Hatred is the most powerful emotion back. Okay, but wait a minute. Ron DeSantis is not Donald Trump. He's only beating him by four. They don't know. It's a sense. So look, let me break this down. And I know you got to take a break. So give me a time. How many? How long do I have to break it down? Four minutes now. Okay. So Trump announces for president. He had to do it because he was losing momentum in the fundraising department. So a lot of big money was shifted over to dissenters who obviously wants to run for president. So Trump had to try to blunt that by saying, I'm back in the arena, and I'm going to do everything. In the first 20 minutes of his speech was good. He said, is what I did when I was in there.
Starting point is 00:22:26 And here's how incompetent Biden is. And then Trump goes into the land of Dion, the one. The Wanderer. Okay, remember that song, I'm back? Yes, I do. Okay, and then for 40 minutes, it says nothing. And I'm going, you had a 20-minute speech that was really good, and now you're meandering around. Why?
Starting point is 00:22:51 And people are collapsing in Maelago. They're trying to break windows to get out. I mean, right? It's just crazy. Well, it was my, that was my only critique. of it. Do it in 20 minutes. You've got to appeal to people who aren't watching you. That's right. And then that gave the cables, the license to get out. But Trump had to do what he did. And now, Trump has an advantage because he's got the whole field for a year. See, DeSantis can't enter the
Starting point is 00:23:22 presidential sweepstakes until this time next year. He's got to govern Florida for a year. He just got reelected. He can raise money. And he can go, you know, you know, to your house, Beck, and chat with you. But he can't really formally announce. So Trump has got all that feel. The problem is that Trump doesn't understand, and I know this, how many people hate him. And it's way beyond any logic.
Starting point is 00:23:50 It's like, I will take Biden with all of the terrible things that are happening because I hate Trump so much. hatred is the most powerful emotion. And you see it everywhere. And that hurt the Republicans in the midterms. There's no doubt about it. It's still there. Is this FTX story going to affect the Democrats at all?
Starting point is 00:24:18 No, nobody knows what in cryptocurrency. I remember about a year ago when this thing first was bubbling around. I told my audience radio and TV, I said, stay far away from this. Okay, this is not going to work out well. Anybody who earns a living and works hard for their money, putting it in the hands of a guy living in the Bahamas with a bad haircut who's 30 years old, I don't think so. I didn't think that was a good idea. You know, it's incredible.
Starting point is 00:24:54 The guy who does the autopsy, you know, the financial autopsy on businesses like this. He's the guy who's done all the big ones. including Enron, and he said, I've never seen anything even close to this. That's because the second most powerful emotion. A lot of people thought, oh, yeah, Tom Brady, he's going to get cryptocurrencies, so I'm going to do it. You know, and I feel terrible, but there's never going to be a recompense. If you invested money in this, you lose your money.
Starting point is 00:25:28 It's like Madoff. I mean, at least Madoff, they got something out of them. They'll never get anything out of this guy. So it's just, you know, when you work so hard for your money, don't be stupid. Well, Corey, I mean, but here's what I really want to know. Corey Booker, it begged the judge to give, what's her name, Elizabeth Holmes, a pass because she had a sincere desire to help. Of course. I mean, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:25:57 And this guy has. Yeah, and the guy, I mean, the hustler in the Bahamas, the crypto, guy. I mean, he obviously was trying to buy influence in the Democratic Party because he understood that the big money that was going to come in, weren't from people from Iowa or conservative states. There are people in the urban centers who lean left. So he was going to become the big financier of the left. That's what he was doing. It was a business decision. But anyway, it's terrible. A lot of people lost a lot of money. Don't do this. Be very, very careful. careful with your money.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Your thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, I know. Ooh. Yeah. And I actually would like to hear what you have to say about the guy rumored to replace her now.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Oh, Hakeem. Yes. Hakeem Jeffries. Know him well. Do you? Oh, I know Hakeem. He's from New York. Oh, yes, he is.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Yes, he lives near me. And I go trick-treating at his house and Hakeem. He gives me vouchers. Anyway, Nancy Pelosi, and I said that this week, I have never seen a politician. I know them all back. More envious of power than just. I loved it.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Oh, my God. The only thing I have ever heard, Lindsay Graham say that I was like, that is absolutely right and cheered for him, was when he said, you people want power so much, power. I hope to God you never get it. He was right on that. Yeah. And Pelosi would like strangle all the Democratic members in the House saying you do it my way. We cut off all the money to you. Right. And McConnell does that too. Yes, he does. And, you know, these people, they're elegant out for the folks. I mean, McConnell, he's terrible. Terrible.
Starting point is 00:28:09 But Pelosi, you know, she's gone now. And that is a big plus for the midterm election. You know, it's not all doom and gloom. She's out of there. Now, Hakeem, who will take over is a shadow of Pelosi. A shadow. He doesn't have her skills. He doesn't have a ruthlessness.
Starting point is 00:28:30 You know, he wanders around looking for shake-shack. I mean, this is not a guy who's going to really have an effect. And that's going to be very tough because there are some renegade Democrats. And Hakeem is not going to scare them, as Pelosi did. So what do you think of Kevin McCarthy? I don't know him really. He's on Fox News too much. That makes me nervous.
Starting point is 00:28:54 You know, every time I turn around, and there he is. He doesn't really ever say anything that I can write in my notepad. But I think the guy, I'm going to give him a chance. he's got to get the committees under control. If you're going to do a committee on Hunter Biden, you've got to really spell out, okay, this is what we're looking for. This is why we're doing it. It's not just vindictive.
Starting point is 00:29:18 This is what we believe happen. We're going to try to find out. And the same thing on the border, which is huge. You know, get a committee on the border. Okay, we're trying to find this. So the American people know up top what the goal is, rather than just we're going to knife every Democrat and Biden every time. time we turn around, that's not going to help in the independent precincts. So I think that McCarthy
Starting point is 00:29:42 has got to be very, very exact and methodical in his explanation of what the House Republicans want to do. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does. You got about 60 seconds. Yeah, it's Thanksgiving week next week, and I don't think I'm going to be talking to you next week. Beck, I think you're going to be Chowen, right? I'm going to be gone, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I want everybody to have a very nice Thanksgiving and don't cut back, even if inflation and all that, no, no. There's some things in life that you really have to do for tradition, and I want everybody to have a good time. And then we're into the Christmas buying season, and I hope every individual, all 330 million Americans, by killing the legends. See, if that happened, then that would be good. You could afford a turkey, maybe the biggest
Starting point is 00:30:30 one in the window. Anyway, it's a great book. You'll enjoy it, killing the legends. On Bill O'Reilly.com, we've got killing the mob, killing the legends, and killing the killers
Starting point is 00:30:38 in a bundle, and we're giving you $35 off. Whoa, Beck, come on. I mean, it's crazy. And look, here he is, Bill O'Reilly on this program, talking about killing.
Starting point is 00:30:49 My gosh, the left is right. Wait a minute. Right. Have a good Thanksgiving. Back. Goodbye. The best of the Glenn Beck program.
Starting point is 00:30:59 Okay, we have, man, it's like old home week here. Line up of friends on the program. Richard Paul Evans is one of, just one of the best guys I know. He started his writing career, I mean, really got noticed with something called the Christmas box. He couldn't get a publisher. He tries to publish this Christmas story. Nobody is interested in it. He just copies it and starts, you know, giving him.
Starting point is 00:31:32 around to people for free. Just, you know, hey, read this and everybody started making copies. Simon and Schuster found out that the most asked about book was the Christmas box, which he hadn't published. Everybody turned down. And they called him because they're like, you're the author of the and we hear it's just a Xerox copy. Could you, do you want to sign a big contract with us? and he has been writing bestsellers ever since. He's the bestselling author of the Michael Vey series, which Mercury is proud to print. He's got a new book, a Christmas memory.
Starting point is 00:32:13 He says it's his favorite book ever. Richard Paul Evans is with us. Hi, Richard. How are you? Good morning, Glenn. Thank you for your friendship. Yeah. It's great to have you on. Tell me about this. book and because what you are inspired in your writing.
Starting point is 00:32:34 I don't know if that is normal for authors that they just are inspired by something and it just kind of downloads. Tell me about this book. Do you remember last year when I was on your radio show and I could barely talk? Yeah. And you're like, Rick, you're sick. I had pneumonia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:53 I was on top of it. I was very, very sick. Yeah. It was on the, you know, we're talking. of the hospital. It's like my friend passed away from the exact same thing a month before. And I thought, I may be done here. And I, of course, didn't let that out.
Starting point is 00:33:07 But it's like, I was very sick. And I'm laying in bed, and this story starts coming to me. And Kerry brought me a notepad, and I wrote this book in bed on my back. And I thought, you know what? I just go through the exercise. A book will probably never be published. And it's probably awful. And two months later, when I started to recover, I read it.
Starting point is 00:33:26 And I thought, this is the most powerful thing I've read. ever written. I was getting out my childhood. It was very vulnerable, it was very raw, and it was about a little boy and a man, an older black man who lived next door, who watched over me at a very difficult time in my family's life when my family was melting down. And you would never let a young boy go to an old man's house today, but he was just a kind man who had lots of chocolates and he did advice. Especially that. Hey, the next, the old next door neighbor has got chocolates for you. kids coming over. I know. It was a different world when we were growing up. Okay. So tell me the story. Tell me a bit of the story.
Starting point is 00:34:12 It was in 1967. It was just when my family went through a really hard thing. My autobiographical is a few things I took out. My brother was killed in Vietnam. My family melted down. We moved to Utah into an abandoned home after my dad lost his job. And that's That's why there's rats in Michael Vey because the home was filled with rats and I was terrified of them. And it was an inner city school. It was a really just tough up our first weekend there, my brothers and mine. And it was just a really hard time. And even the teacher was a bully.
Starting point is 00:34:53 And during the time, hang on just a second, is that because you have Tourette's? Well, it's always teased because I had Tourette's. Okay. I made me an outsider. All right. But this was just a mean play. And the thing is my mom, when my mom lived there, it was her mother's house that had been abandoned. It was like country.
Starting point is 00:35:11 So it was nice back then, but again, it's now inner city. And it was tough. And we were just very poor. My mother locked herself in her bedroom for days. And then she attempted to take her life. I mean, it was a horrible time. And this is about the hope of a little boy who just kept going. And anyway, when I finished the book, I was sobbing.
Starting point is 00:35:32 I gave it to my publisher, Simon Schuster and Gallery, and the head of editorial called me, and she goes, Rick, I just finished your book. I was going to read one chapter. She said, I've been just crying. I'm going crying, and I can't believe the power of this book. No book had never moved me like this. And it's just, I already had a movie offer on it, which I turned down. It's like, no, we're going to wait because I think this book is going to be really big.
Starting point is 00:35:58 And it feels like the Christmas box fell over again. Things are happening. Doors are opening. So, but Christmas box never sold in pre-sales like this one. I mean, this is your biggest selling pre-sale book, isn't it? In my history. Oh, yeah, it's already sold enough books to hit the New York Times best seller list multiple times. I mean, it's pre-orders are off the charts.
Starting point is 00:36:19 Some retailers are already selling out of the book, and it's not even out yet. Wow. There's something magical about this book. And, of course, that could be an air show. So it's just crazy. It's already been on Barnes & Noble bestseller list. It's been on Amazon's bestseller list in the top 100. I'm so happy for you.
Starting point is 00:36:37 Crazy. I'm so happy for you. It's a time of peace and it talks about love and compassion and racism in a way that makes sense. You know, the key of that is love and it's about love. So when you say, you know, I spent all day crying, that's a good kind of crying. that's a good kind of crying, right? Because I read a lot of stuff that makes me cry all day long.
Starting point is 00:37:04 You know, I actually looked at stuff, I thought, why would anyone want to cry? He's actually, there's different kinds of cries. You're kind of crazy. I don't want that kind of. Yeah. But there's things that move us when we see compassion
Starting point is 00:37:17 just for the sake of compassion and to believe that they're still good in people. Yeah. That's my favorite. Yeah. One really said to me, it's great to see a strong male role model. I mean, there's a Mel role model that actually had no motive other than to just being a good man with good morals and good, good thousands. Do you know what happened to him in your real life?
Starting point is 00:37:41 He passed away about 40 years ago. His name was Mr. Foster, and the book is dedicated to him. And did you ever have the chance to say to him, thank you? No. No, he was very old, and I was very young. and then that was, we actually moved out of state, and so the time I came back,
Starting point is 00:38:00 he was gone. But you know, you're a little kid, you never even think of that. It's when you're older, you look back and you see people who made a big difference in your life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Yeah. It's something special that I think all of us have one of those people in our lives, and it makes a huge, huge difference. Also, you've got the Noel Diary, which is Netflix, feature film, right? and it's out next week.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Yes, on Thanksgiving Day is my first feature film. And Gary and I got to do something really fun. We had Red Carpet walk through all the stars. She's Justin Hartley from Vince of Us. And it's director Charles Shire, who is Father of the Bride, who's Academy Award nominee director. And the movie's really good. You and Tanya will like it.
Starting point is 00:38:47 It's really good. We see Carrie Knight said three times now. And just so pleased. And you kept saying, this is better than all your other movies. I tell me some movies, I go, 100, it's a feature film, it's a major budget. And Justin Hartley is just fun to look at. I mean, it's such a good actor. Okay, that sounds a little like the old man next door with a chocolate, but I'm going to leave it alone.
Starting point is 00:39:07 That is, that's premiering as a feature film. It's called the Noel Diary on Netflix, but that is, that is, what did you say? I'm Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, Thanksgiving Day. But the Christmas memory, a Christmas memory is his late. latest really special and extraordinary book. He's one of the best, I think, one of the best storytellers and best imaginations. Some stuff that he has written is so inventive, but it all is rooted in truth and all rooted in something much, much deeper. And Christmas is his specialty,
Starting point is 00:39:49 a Christmas memory available now everywhere, wherever you get your books. Richard Paul Evans, thank you, sir. Thank you. Have a nice Thanksgiving, Glenn. You too. You, be, bye-bye. We'll say, in the phone, all the whole whole, everyone can be a guy of the finance.
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