The Glenn Beck Program - Karl the Elf Hates Children | Guest: Steve Deace | 12/17/21

Episode Date: December 17, 2021

Glenn has a very special guest in the studio for the holidays, Karl the Elf, who has a very dark message to pass along. Pat Gray joins to discuss the rising crime rate as citizens in San Francisco are... leaving cars and trunks open to avoid broken windows. BlazeTV host Steve Deace joins to discuss his newest book, “Do What You Believe: Or You Won’t Be Free to Believe It Much Longer.” The Salvation Army’s red bucket donations aren’t doing great this year; is that due to the organization's statement on racism? Glenn, Pat, and Stu discuss anthems, pop culture, and terms over the course of time. Glenn, Stu, and Pat discuss their favorite Christmas movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:20 but I am thrilled to have... What is your name, sir? Can we even... Carl. Carl, the elf, is with us today. And he's going to... going to give us some of the news from all around. That's coming up in just a second.
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Starting point is 00:04:26 Usually that means we screw off and we don't get anything done. But we are dedicated to you. And so none of that's going to be happening. I wanted to go through some of the news. And as a surprise guest, is. Carl the elf, hi Carl. Hey, Glenn, how are you? I'm pretty good.
Starting point is 00:04:45 I'm pretty good. It's a surprise to have you here in the studio. I didn't know that you would, you know, you'd make it for this. You literally scheduled me to come in here. I thought elves were all about magic and... Yeah, it's not magic. It waking me up early for a very long commute. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Your commute was long? Yeah, then I'm freaking pole. Yeah, but it was. Yes, I haven't. But at least it wasn't congested. Okay, Carl, I just have to do some news with Pat, if you just want to join us for this. Have you heard, Pat, that Joe Biden has warned of a winter of severe illness and death? Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Okay. Well, that's Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas. Are you sure that wasn't you? Is he listening to this show? Is that what's going on? President Biden said yesterday that Americans unvaccinated against the coronavirus. coronavirus are facing a winter of severe illness and death, which is, you know, the kind of
Starting point is 00:05:48 the fun stuff that you like to hear from the president. Yeah, it's good that the Republicans are the fearmongers, right? Right, right. Carl, are you vaccinated? Nah. You're not? Nah, I mean, look, I'm begging for death at this point. You're begging for death, really?
Starting point is 00:06:10 I'm sorry, are you guys slaves? to build toys all year? I am. I know what that life is like. I didn't... It sucks! Yeah, I didn't think you were slaves. I mean, you're up there in the North Pole. You're always seemingly very happy.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Well, I guess you could call it indentured servitude that doesn't end. There's another way of looking at it if you want to make the holidays nice and warm. Okay, all right. Well, thank you for chiming in on that. Here's the next story, and I hate to bring this to you, you know, so close to Christmas, but the FDA is going to permanently allow abortion pills by male. Now, this is coming from the New York Times. They have lifted all the restrictions that would make the abortion medication more accessible.
Starting point is 00:06:59 19 states have already banned telemedicine visit for abortion pills. And so women are going to have to travel to get their mail, I guess, in other states. Wasn't that long ago that you couldn't get? Are you 486 anywhere in the United States of America? You're going to be able to get them in junior high vending machines. Right. Yes. They'll have them.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Good. Good. Excuse me? Well, I mean, look, the mail, whatever. Yeah, the post office might be bringing you some abortion pills. But we've been delivering these things for a long time. Wait a minute. I've been hitting up the ladies with abortion pills off the sleigh.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I kind of got a backroom sort of a dealing operation, if you want to call it. I think this is probably not something Santa would, why are you for abortion? I'm a little, well, first of all, I'm a little pissed off the post office is cutting into my business, but I am for abortion for one simple reason. And I know women's choice is something we can all agree on. It sounds sarcastic, Carl. Look, I don't care about women's choice. What I care about is less toys to build. The more abortion pills I drop off as a jolly old elf means I got to make less etch-a-skechers.
Starting point is 00:08:24 That's what it means to me. Right, right. You know, I, look, you know, this is why I don't get disappointed in your COVID reporting. You know, if Fouchy's right, you know, I've got basically, I'm taking March off. And that's what I'm looking at. Right. March and April, I might be off. for making toys.
Starting point is 00:08:43 So you, there are too many, uh, too many people for you, too many kids. Yeah, I mean, how many do we need?
Starting point is 00:08:50 You know, four, four or five, I think would be, would it be okay. Per family. No, uh,
Starting point is 00:08:55 total. I think, look, how many do we need? Eventually, if you have five, maybe one of them, you know,
Starting point is 00:09:06 something happens at some point. So you got four left and that's enough to propagate the species. At some point, point, I believe, elves should take over the whole situation anyway. You know, why, why, you know, these humans, like, you're doing a good job running things? Have you looked around lately? Well, but you, you don't seem like you're carrying a, well, neither does Joe Biden, but you don't seem to be carrying a happy message, one that we all want to get behind.
Starting point is 00:09:36 What year do you think this is? It's 2021, Beck. Right. It is, we haven't had, it's been nonstop catastrophe for how many years? Well, but, uh, look at what you guys are doing. You, you full-sizers down there are, are, have been screwing up this planet. You've, you've got, uh, disease spreading all over the place. Uh, everybody's aborting each other.
Starting point is 00:10:04 I mean, look, everything you've done has, has screwed up this, this world. And what have we tried to? do, make it a happy place. And our efforts of bringing you, you know, little rocking horses isn't working. Like, you guys suck. So you think the little rocking horses used to work. And that's what. Yeah, at one point, it made it, like, you know, you had a decent place to live.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Things were going relatively well. And we'd bring you, you know, I don't know, some stupid toy to make the kids smile for five minutes. Now, they're basically going to, you know, a. you know, we're teaching them that the color of their skin is the most important thing about it. So, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. So when was it great here? I just, I just want to hear because, you know, you seem to have rose-colored glasses on. When, when was it really, really great where everybody had nice houses and, you know, we're happy?
Starting point is 00:11:03 You're trying to, is this gotcha journalism? Are you trying to, if I say a year, you're going to tell me the worst thing about that year. And then that was the thing I was rooting for. Well, but I mean, when was that? I mean, you know, things have been bad for quite some time. I'll tell you when the good times are in the future when people like you are gone. That's when we'll be celebrating. You seem to be.
Starting point is 00:11:26 We will be dancing and dancing at the North Pole at that point. You seem to be almost somebody who likes eugenics. Eugenics, huh? Yeah. Yeah. That's not my thing. You're the one that's basically in the Nazi party. I'm not talking about eugenics.
Starting point is 00:11:48 I'm just because, I mean, that's... You were talking about giving abortion pills to kids and, I mean, and, you know, and you're remembering things. I remember kids, you know, used to have polio and everything else. Yeah, no, that's true. There was some polio stuff. We used to root for that. We were like pro polio up at the North Pole.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Well, yeah, because... Because, you know, there was a time when it seemed like, you know, we were not going to be able to get abortion pills through the mail. Now it's a lot easier to wipe these kids out. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So you were, were you behind polio? I don't want to say behind it. I mean, I was part of an effort. To what?
Starting point is 00:12:37 To create polio. I didn't know that the elves were part of the creation of folio. When is our vacation? I know your vacation is coming up after this show. Yeah. When is my vacation? My vacation is nowhere because kids keep coming. There's more and more of them.
Starting point is 00:13:00 I want none of them anymore. So if they're all, they're all sticky. Their hands have like, they've been like eating a candy cane and then they get the residue on their. hands and everything's sticky and I just look I want a vacation and this is the way I can get it. So have you thought about maybe asking Santa for a vacation as opposed to killing all the kids? Oh, you mean the guy who's imprisoned me for a thousand years? I don't know. Carl the elf.
Starting point is 00:13:28 Thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate it. Carl the elf. Gosh, it's too bad he can't stay. Every day you're out in the road in your car, carrying yourself and all those that you love back and forth all over the place, hundreds of miles, maybe just to the grocery store and back, and then to the school, and then back. I don't know how our wives or you as a parent do it.
Starting point is 00:13:53 My wife is in the car all the time, all the time, going from here and there and here and there. She's never home. Well, at least it keeps her, you know, out of her, out of her bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, you know, sitting up there watching just general hospital or whatever else. women do these days. Hard to believe she'd want to be gone all the time. It's a surprising development. Anyway, if you have car problems, it is a real problem, especially now. Cars are so expensive, never been like this before. And now if you have a chip go down, you're in real trouble. Because I don't know if you're going to be able to get that chip or when you're going to get it. Can you imagine how much it's going to cost? If your car goes down and you're going to be
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Starting point is 00:15:21 I was surprised by that elf. Seemed a little angry. Yeah. Stu, you just, you just missed him. He just left a hope. That's a short guy that walked out of here. Yeah, boy, he was angry. Jerk.
Starting point is 00:15:33 He stepped on my foot on the way out. Did he really? I think it was intentional. Do you apologize? No. No. No. I acted like he didn't even notice that he did it.
Starting point is 00:15:40 You think Santa knows about him? Maybe we can call Santa a little later. and talk to Santa kids. Well, maybe kids wouldn't. Let's just check with Santa before you tell the kids whether they should listen. Anyway, there are some videos here that I'd like to show you and we'll describe for radio listeners. By the way, you can watch the podcast at blazTV.com and, of course, listen to it live and on demand at blazTV.com. But if you're listening to us now, thank you.
Starting point is 00:16:14 you so much for for listening. San Francisco, they are now, there's a new holiday tradition, leaving your car trunks and your doors open. Incredible. Do we have the video of this? This is absolutely amazing. Do we have it? We see the aftermath of car break-ins all too often, windows smashed, glass shattered, but now some people are getting so fed up. They're leaving their trunks open. Okay, stop for a second. Just pause this for a second.
Starting point is 00:16:46 Look at this. These cars are sitting here with their trunks open and they're just, they're parked on the sides of the street, just in front of the stores. Yeah. And they're hatchbacks. They're like, you could climb right into the front seat of the car from the back. Like, it's not like a trunk where you'd be stuck in the back of it. This is insanity. And cars side by side with their tailgate.
Starting point is 00:17:09 They're open. Yeah, hatchback. So their hatchback open. Like, if you were going to load something in. Because they're saying there's nothing in the car and if you want to steal it, please just don't like break the glass. Right. Please just come in and steal whatever I have.
Starting point is 00:17:22 I just like, this is insane. We are, we are starting to accept things that are nuts. Yeah. This isn't America. Let's open up some more jails. And if you think it's, it's just these blue cities. I mean, it's, it's not. I mean, there was, there was one of these smash and grab things.
Starting point is 00:17:43 things right down the street from where we're sitting just like two or three days ago. Yeah, that's because we're so close to a blue city though. No, but I mean, it was, I don't know about that. Oh, yeah. Dallas? Our, our little space right here is really good. My question was not whether we are close to Dallas. I am familiar with the geography.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Yeah. My point is that this is run by Democrats too. No, but it's, what I'm saying is this, it's not, it's coming to other areas. Like, the more it gets accepted in these blue areas, the more it go home. I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home. I just, can we click our heels?
Starting point is 00:18:19 Is there anybody with me? Can we just go back to sane places? No. I mean, unfortunately, that has been ruled out. That's good. That's good. Leaving your cars and your trunks and your doors open. Listen to the rest of this.
Starting point is 00:18:36 The hefty bill to get it fixed. Call it the price of parking in the Bay Area. racing for a break-in. Everything is broken. People here at least try to be persuasive, writing, please use the door, or just fly out bed. Please don't break the glass, nothing inside. Yet, it still happens.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Sadly, even while you're driving, just waiting for the light to turn green. This smash and grab happened two weeks ago in Japan Town. But now, it's come to this. Trunks left open in broad daylight in Oakland. A witness writing, imagine having to clean out your car and leaving it open, just so people won't break your windows. Wow. No.
Starting point is 00:19:17 No, thank you. No, thank you. That is, I mean, and please, if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and you don't know what caused this, please don't move to our states. Don't come, don't come and move because you're sick of that if you don't know what caused this. And what caused this? You. You and the way you vote, unless you haven't voted for any of this crap.
Starting point is 00:19:41 But if you voted for all of these people that are now doing all of these things, it's your fault. Now, if you can come, I would like to have like a border station where you have to come and, well, I mean, you know, something that's a little more effective than the one that we have on our southern border. I would like one on the other three sides of Texas, where when you come in, we just go, where are you from, California? Uh-huh. How'd you vote? I voted for Gavin Newsom. How do you feel about that? Well, I mean, it just got so crazy there.
Starting point is 00:20:15 Get out. Get out. Yeah. If you voted for defunding the police. If you voted for decriminalizing theft up to $1,000. If you voted for the people who favor those things and implemented those policies. Bye. Bye. And on the other side.
Starting point is 00:20:34 If you are somebody who knows how insane this is, we all have to get together. We all, it's time to move. It really is. It really is. How many more times are you going to be told you're a bastard that wants to kill everybody because you're not wearing a mask? Move. It's time to move because here's what happens. They're doing this in Texas.
Starting point is 00:20:58 They are San Franciscoing Austin. And Austin has always been weird, but it is going to become San Francisco. Houston, the same way. Dallas, the same way. And you know what really really makes me angry is that these guys come in, these progressives, come in and they take all of the beautiful areas, all of the really great little towns. And then they just wreck them. They just wreck them. And they say, well, we're doing it.
Starting point is 00:21:28 You know, progress. We're keeping. Have you been to Jackson Hole lately, Pat? No. Jackson Hole, Wyoming? Yeah. No. I drove through Jackson Hole.
Starting point is 00:21:36 You know, it used to be beautiful, just beautiful. It is like New York City now. I drove through on this. Can I fact check this statement? Yeah. Yeah. Anybody from Jackson Hole. Anybody from Jackson Hole, tell me what your traffic is like.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Oh, okay. It is, I was driving through Jackson Hole, and it was horrible, horrible, awful. They just come and they just wreck all of the cities. Stay where you are, unless you're somebody that understands the red states. can we start coming together? Because we really need to, we need to, if we lose Texas, we lose forever.
Starting point is 00:22:18 What is your opinion on like, let's call it the Dave Rubin standpoint? Dave is, of course, here on Blaze TV. He is leaving California moving to Florida. I think there's two ways to look at that, right? Number one, I know I would do the same thing. I would absolutely leave there. But then there's an argument of do you not stay and fight?
Starting point is 00:22:36 No. You just leave and they get 100% control of all. because they're already starting to just destroy everything and then even some of those guys are moving out. You know, when they really get down to like 25 people that can stand it, and one of them is Gavin Newsom and the other 25 are Nancy Pelosi and all the people that stocker refrigerator with ice cream. When you get there, then we all move to California and we fix it because they'll all be living someplace else and wrecking it. We'll just go take California back. but now get to safety you know Patriot mobile is a sponsor of ours
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Starting point is 00:24:30 Stu Does America Christmas Party Power Hour. Don't miss it. Go to Stu Does Power Hour.com. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Merry Christmas. 17 gun firms are fleeing to friendlier states. Now that's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about.
Starting point is 00:24:54 By the way, Tennessee is getting a name of a place to go and, you know, find shelter in the storm. Except it's the place to go for those progressives that are trying to get out of California. And I don't think have learned their lesson as the place they want to go. I'm not, I wouldn't count on Tennessee. I also wouldn't count on Florida. Florida is Florida only because it has Ronda Santa. Who won the election by 0.4%. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:25 I mean, it's not exactly a lot. And he's only allowed two terms. So in two terms, you could get, you know, Charlie Christ, which, hey, there's protection for you. One thing we can guarantee he will be running again because he runs in every available election. He does. So, you know, I was singing because I talked to Ron on Wednesday. And I said to him, so you only have two, you know, you only have two.
Starting point is 00:25:50 You know, you only have two terms. Yeah. Have you thought about after your second term moving to Texas and running for governor in Texas? And you could just keep doing two terms in all of the states until they're fixed. He said don't count on it, but he would entertain it. So we got that going for us. I wouldn't mind that. I would not mind that.
Starting point is 00:26:14 He's been awesome. So like free agent governors? Yeah. Like in sports? I'd be okay with it. I'm okay with it. Yes. That would be an interesting process.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Sighted with some fat contract and have him do it again here. That'd be great. A four-year $82 million contract to come be governor of Texas. Yes. Texas is drafting Ron DeSantis. That would be fine. Except by then he'll be president of the United States. You think so?
Starting point is 00:26:43 It's possible. I think it's really possible. If Trump doesn't run, I think it's going to be DeSantis. Not a chance. That he doesn't run. doesn't run. Yeah. And you don't have that confirmed, but because you did just meet with the guy.
Starting point is 00:26:54 So are you revealing some news here? Are you breaking his announcement? Well, my producer was there on the side of the interview, Ricky. And she looks at me towards the end and she's like, like, follow up, follow up, follow up, follow up, follow up. And I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Now, is this part of the Hall of Fame induction process when you just miss it? It is.
Starting point is 00:27:18 It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I listened back to it and I don't, I didn't miss it. I don't interpret it the same way. However, you could interpret it as absolutely he's saying he's going to run. Because he says towards the end of the interview, he says clearly, well, we're going to take care of that. I'll just take care of that next time.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Oh, wow. Okay. Plus he said, I think you're going to be happy to people who are fans of his. and who want him to run. And he keeps telling those people who interview him. And I think you're going to be happy about my choice. Well, what does that mean? He's running.
Starting point is 00:27:59 He's running. There's no doubt. And he's not running. This was surprising to me in some regard because I thought, there's no way Donald Trump is going to leave with an L in the column. No way. He's going to come back. Yeah. However, that's not it.
Starting point is 00:28:16 I really was impressed on he loves the people who voted for him. Yeah. And he loves his country. He loves the country. He loves this nation. He really feels he can fix it. And he sees the destruction being done by this administration.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Yeah. So I think that is, I think that's really good. By the way, can I play cut nine? This is from the interview. You can find it on the blaze right now. I think maybe this weekend. Maybe it's going up.
Starting point is 00:28:46 on YouTube. I'm not sure. But here's Ron DeSantis, talking about his Stop Woke Act. Listen to this. Cut nine. Or is this from yesterday? We just did an event today rolling out a new piece of legislation called the Stop Woke Act. And what we're doing is we already had our State Department of Education prohibit critical race theory in our K-12 schools. But I think we've seen that sometimes schools will do what they want. So we're giving parents a private right of action where they could go in and sue if this is happening, get discovery and get attorney's fees. And the parents are really happy about that and really excited that they have a role again in Florida. We have a parents bill of rights. We were one of the first states to pass it to where we say parents have the primary obligation
Starting point is 00:29:33 and responsibility for the health, education, and upbringing of their kids. It's interesting. In that Virginia governor's race, you had the Democrats say parents shouldn't really have a role in what goes on in school. People said that that was a mistake. But I was actually evincing what they actually believe. The left believes that this is the province of unions and bureaucracies and that parents are really a sideshow in all of this. And I think that view has been totally exploded now. And so parents are on the march. And I think that that's something very, very positive. You know, Glenn, people will talk about, hey, win the Congress back, win this. And I think all those are important. But if I can have one thing politically, one political wish granted, I would want
Starting point is 00:30:15 conservative majorities on every school board in the country. That would have a profound positive impact on our education system, our society, and our culture. I really like him because he has the Donald Trump attitude where he'll go in front of Brandon car dealership in Brandon, Florida, and then just give a speech. I, you know, I kind of appreciate that. But he's also very reasoned and very well thought out, very well thought out. but he's not going to run I think he's going to run for governor
Starting point is 00:30:49 Trump is going to run for president and then you'll see him again in 28 it's been kind of interesting there's a little you're thinking VP for Ron don't think he'll take it you don't think he'll take it don't think he'll take it I don't know if it would be offered but I don't think he would want it well you don't we don't think he's going back to Pence right
Starting point is 00:31:08 no so where's he going there done yeah it does seem like they're done and he's did you ask Trump is a little upset with DeSantis because DeSantis hasn't said he won't run yet. And he doesn't want to close that door before he knows what Trump is going to do. I think if Trump doesn't run, he'll run. If Trump does run, I don't think DeSantis will. I agree with that.
Starting point is 00:31:31 There's some reporting that basically all of the major rumored candidates have gone to Donald Trump and said, if you run, I'm not going to run. The reporting was including DeSantis. However, DeSantis was the one guy who was not saying it publicly. Or like, these other candidates are like, look, if Donald Trump runs, then I won't be running. Or at least are insinuating. And Desantis has not yet said that. DeSantis has not said that.
Starting point is 00:31:54 And I think that would be foolish. If Donald Trump is running, Donald Trump will, I mean, he crushes everyone. Yeah. Crushes everyone. And he'll, he not only will win. He'll destroy you so that you're, you're done. We have nothing left. That's not good.
Starting point is 00:32:08 Yeah. That's not good. We need people like DeSantis. Because Trump only has four years. And I talked about this. My interview with Donald Trump is happening when we get back in January. First week of January, you don't want to miss it. But I talked to him about what needs to be done.
Starting point is 00:32:24 And I said, let me just give you a list of the agencies that need to be cleaned out. I mean, fire everybody. And it's almost every agency. And I said, how are you going to do that in four years? He said, oh, we'll get it done. We'll get it done. He says it's just going to take focus and just courage to just keep on going. Big time courage.
Starting point is 00:32:51 Big time courage. Because you're going to get such pushback. From all sides. From everybody. From all sides. And he said that's why 2022 is so important because he needs people who know it's time to abolish. Because I asked him, it's time to abolish the Department of Ed. And I think you'll like his answer.
Starting point is 00:33:11 But it's going to. take, I said, you're going to do this if you have Mitch McConnell. And oh, that was the wrong thing to say, because he went off on Mitch McConnell. He does. I bet he did. He does not like Mitch McConnell. I don't either. I don't either. We never have. I mean, we tried to get him beaten by
Starting point is 00:33:29 Matt Bevin years ago. Yeah. What was that? 2010. Yeah. In Kentucky and couldn't quite get it done, but would have been great. Bevin, of course, went on to be governor of the state and then lost in a very close election. I wonder how Kentucky feels about that since... Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:33:47 I don't think very good. Imagine having Bevin as the governor of how different things would be in Kentucky. Especially through COVID. I mean, you know, to have a Democrat governor through that in that type of state which is clearly a red state. That was rough on those people. Let me quickly get to the podcast that
Starting point is 00:34:04 is being released today for Blaze TV. It came out last night. It's Andrew Yang. Now, I've been trying to have Andrew Yang on for a long time because I think he's a reasonable guy. He believes in things I don't believe in, for instance, UBI. But the discussion is incredibly important because things are changing. And if you know anything about what is coming our way, you know, in the future with tech,
Starting point is 00:34:32 this kind of disruption that we've seen with COVID is only the beginning. And so this is why he's for UBI. we talked about that. Here is, what is it, cut eight? I really disagree with UBI, but I see exactly the same problems on the horizon that you do, and I don't have a better answer. So I want to hear,
Starting point is 00:34:57 I want to be able to talk to you about UBI as somebody who thinks it's a horrible idea, but I also know what's on the other side. Yeah. What else could we do? Can you explain the problem of why we would need a UBI? I have a lot of friends who work in Silicon Valley, tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and 95% of them are convinced that artificial intelligence is going to wipe out millions of jobs
Starting point is 00:35:29 in industries around the country. And an obvious one that most people will understand and have direct experience with, there are two million Americans who work in call centers right now. picking up the phone, customer service, and Google's AI now can do that job better, maybe right now as we're having this conversation. And so if Google's AI ends up sweeping away hundreds of thousands of jobs, what do those families do? The scenario I was warning about on the campaign trail was imagine autonomous cars and trucks where when you call Uber, just an Uber shows up behind a wheelman.
Starting point is 00:36:12 And that is going to happen. That will happen. Yeah, that will happen. To the extent that there are impediments in that direction, a lot of them are regulatory. You know, and one of the things that you're going to see, Glenn, is that certain industries, let's call them doctors, are going to lobby very actively. saying no, no, no. Like, you can't have a whole lot, surgery.
Starting point is 00:36:35 But doctors, doctors were the ones who came out against anesthesia in the 1800s. Because they were not good. You were based, if you did surgery, the best doctors were the fastest doctors. And so when anesthesia came, now you could finesse. Well, those guys who were really fast were not necessarily the best. And they campaigned against anesthesia. That's the problem. is, and that's where government always gets involved and says, well, now, wait a minute,
Starting point is 00:37:06 we'll make the, no, let it change. Let the process work its way through. Stop protecting industries that are dying. I bet you believe by 2030, maybe 2035, people will say, yeah, yeah, doc, but what did the machine say? What did the computer say? What did the AI say? because it will be better at diagnosis than the average really good doctor. Right or wrong?
Starting point is 00:37:39 His answer is fascinating. He's also the only guy that I have heard answer the Section 230 thing, satisfactory. He's the only one that has a real, actual cure to the problem of these big tech companies that doesn't involve breaking them up, doesn't involve section 230. It is, I think, the only right answer I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Andrew Yang, it's the podcast. It's available everywhere. Tomorrow, it is available for blaze scribbers today. All right. Stu. Yes, well, Glenn, final countdown to Christmas. It's only
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Starting point is 00:39:57 Massachusetts voters passed the animal welfare law, which effectively now bans eggs from being sold in the state. they overwhelmingly passed an animal treatment measure that in part makes it illegal to sell eggs born of hens with less than 1.5 square feet of floor space in the enclosure. So it comes into effect 2020, which is, oh, in three weeks. And that's 90% of all eggs. Correct.
Starting point is 00:40:28 So they're now saying that if they don't change this, you're not going to be able to, you're not going to be able to. have eggs in in Boston and in Massachusetts. And I say good. There's nothing like that will change policies more than reaping the results of them. But I look at San Francisco. So what they're basically trying to make this, you have to have like free range eggs, right?
Starting point is 00:40:53 Is that essentially the aim of this policy? Yeah. Yeah. But you can't treat animals better. Right. And that's good. And I'd love for that to happen. But you can't, when you're buying most of your eggs like Massachusetts,
Starting point is 00:41:05 is from Connecticut. They don't have the space for that. You don't have it. You don't have it. They didn't pass the law in Connecticut, so those farms aren't changing. And now they're calling it egg Armageddon. Eggmageddon. Eggmageddon.
Starting point is 00:41:24 They're saying this is an absolute Armageddon for eggs in Massachusetts. That just sounds funny to say. It does. And it happens in a couple of weeks, and I say, good. Good. Thanks, Hillary. Right now, somebody might be out there looking at your house and thinking it looks exactly like something they'd like to have for themselves. The holiday season, people get presents. Maybe your house is one of them. Bad news is, of course, there are ways to make that happen nowadays with cybercrime and someone who's pretty savvy on the internet, which is why you need home title lock. The fraud happens when a criminal forges your signature on documents stating that you sold your home to them. And then you need to take out some loans. against your equity, leave you with the payments. It's a nice gig, I guess, if you can get it. Very, very illegal, but you can make a lot of money in a short period of time.
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Starting point is 00:44:56 Real estate agents, I trust.com. Steve Days. Blaze TV show host, the Steve Day Show, which follows this program every day on the Blaze TV Radio. Television Network. Steve, how are you, sir? Good morning. Good of you guys. Merry Christmas to everybody. Thanks for having me, brother. Are you in the Christmas mood? You probably are. I've been in a Christmas mood since, well, I'm a Christmas flap. And I've been in a Christmas mood since about three seconds after Halloween. That's when Christmas begins for me. I'm usually that way. I'm just, I don't know. We've had so many bad things happen with our family. I'm going on vacation. And I just don't believe it. I won't believe it until I'm back. because I said to everybody, nobody's answering the phones.
Starting point is 00:45:44 No phones. No internet. Everyone, the entire United States could burn to the ground and no one is to recognize it until we are off a vacation. Amen. Sounds like you have teenagers. Yes, I do.
Starting point is 00:46:02 My wife said to me, I had a dream last night. She woke up and she said today, I had this weirdest dream. I dreamt that we had a lion in the house. And I said, we do. It's called our teenager. But anyway, Steve, you have a new book out, do what you believe, or you won't be free to believe it much longer.
Starting point is 00:46:23 Tell me about it. The last year, you know, on our show here on Blaze TV, we kind of have a theme for the show every year. And the theme for our show this year was that the answer is us, that if we want to turn around the direction of this, just sitting around and waiting to vote ourselves out of it isn't going to be sufficient. We're going to have to learn some of the old arts of resistance and non-compliance and civil disobedience that the founding generations of the country perfected in order to found us. And what's transpired as the year has gone on, and it's become more and more clear that the political system, unless you happen to be governed by Ron DeSantis or a handful of other people, is largely ineffective or unwilling
Starting point is 00:47:04 to confront the authoritarianism that is beyond creeping now. it's a shadow that is threatening to overtake us, is we're going to have to do this. And you've seen it recently. I mean, just a few months ago, the airlines, Southwestern American Airlines, were facing unprecedented shutdowns and cancellations because of pilots and employees failing, refusing to go along with their jab mandates. And now those CEOs are now saying, we shouldn't even be wearing masks on plane anymore. It's amazing how the turntables here in a few days, right?
Starting point is 00:47:33 Yeah. You look at the Jesse Smollett, the Kyle Rittenhouse cases. those are cases where in our current political media industrial complex, the truth was unattainable to achieve. Yet, when facts and evidences are presented to regular people that are sober-minded and not filtered through those mechanisms, suddenly we get to a place of truth and justice. And I think that shows that really the answer we're looking for here are people who understand where their rights come from, which is God.
Starting point is 00:48:02 We understand that America, as Chesterton said, is the only country ever founded upon. a creed, and that ultimately stop waiting for some magic savior with an R. Afterer's name to show up and outsource your citizenship to him or her, but to take these matters peaceably but confrontational into our own hands with the mechanisms we have. And that's what our book lays out is a battle plan for doing exactly that. Yeah, some of the chapters, first we have to correct some stink and think. And the Declaration of Independence choose this day, the inconvenient truth about America, which is what? that were far worse off than we think, that what transpired the last year and a half didn't break or wreck anything.
Starting point is 00:48:44 It's a harvest of things that were already broken and wrecked so that the forces that want to really undo them. What we're really talking about here is the unraveling and undoing of Western civilization. You know, I'm really essentially. Go ahead. Don't go. No, I mean, that which has essentially been a, you know, a 500 post-reformational understanding of the world in the Judaism. Christian context of how to conduct human affairs, where rights come from, where good and evil come from, who defines that, what institutions are in charge of such endeavors, the role of
Starting point is 00:49:18 family, et cetera. What we're really up against is a complete and total unraveling of that. That's why a lot of the theories and morals that the opposition articulates that they call progressive, they're not progressive, this is paganism. This is a pre-Judeo-Christian understanding of the world. And they're really regressive. They want to to take us back to the dark ages, all right? So that even things like gender distinctions are all but gone and erased. And that, that, that, that, that, that those are the stakes we're playing for here. And it's not as if we just got up one day and we're like, holy cow, how did we get to this place? We were actually creeping to this place for a long time. We were complacent. We did not confront it.
Starting point is 00:49:56 And now we're in the position now where it's here. It's spectacular. And it has us cornered. That's the inconvenient truth. So, um, uh, you know, I've been worried about this for a while. Um, you know, if you look back at Germany, Germany lost all of its icons, all of the, you know, even the eagle of Germany was lost in the 20s. And it was lost for about 10 to 15 years. Then Hitler came in and he twisted all of those symbols. So the Iron Eagle came back, but it wasn't the same. And I kind of feel like this is happening to us in real time. We are slowly, forgetting everything. We, you know, we're, we're, we're living our life in such a way now, because of COVID in many places, we would have never, we would have never thought we would do this.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Now we're just doing it and we don't even notice it anymore. It's just kind of like, yeah, that's the way life is. That's very dangerous. See, this is why, what you just described, is why we have this phenomenon right now with people like Dave Chappelle, with people like Bill Mar with people like Andrew Sullivan. I mean, Andrew Sullivan's the Bill Buckley of the gay rights movement. It was its first respected celebrity intellectual. He can't get booked on CNN or MSNBC anymore. Why? Because if you go read half of Andrew Sullivan's Twitter feed every day, about half of it is stuff I would tweet. And I'm the guy that puts the fun in fundamentalism, okay? Because what happened is a lot of the old liberals thought that they were
Starting point is 00:51:33 just freeing themselves from our gods. Yes. And what they're learning is that the new leftist actually all along intended to introduce the new gods instead. Okay? So no, you're not going to free your conscience from the mandates, the mandates of the Ten Commandments or what the Bible preaches or traditional Judeo-Christian understanding. We're actually just removing those restraints so we can put the new restraints in instead.
Starting point is 00:51:59 So you really didn't get rid of some form of what you viewed as. Theocratic authoritarianism. You actually just set the stage and helped us bring in real theocratic authoritarianism. It's just all going to be that the power emanates from the state. And this is why we're now finding some strange bedfellows from some of these old liberals who are like, wait a minute, I thought I had a right to my own conscience. And it was really those Christians and those conservative Jews who were stopping me from fully actualizing that. And now what they're learning is, you don't have a right to your own conscience. At least with us, we were willing to argue with you how far your right to conscience could go, but that you at least had one.
Starting point is 00:52:38 With the new left, you don't have those rights anymore. You must comply. There is no individuality. It's why Dave Rubin's not gay anymore. He might as well change his name to Donald Trump. Okay. It's why Jason Whitlock's not black anymore. He might as well change his name to Steve Dacer, Glenn Beck, because it's not about any of those identities we were sold before. It was about a means to an end to use those things in order to deconstruct the old ways so we could introduce to you the new one. So that's why it's so important to me that we're reaching out. I just did an interview with Andrew Yang. There's a lot I disagree with Andrew Yang on. There's a lot I agree with him on. And these intellectuals that have had been part of this movement to the left,
Starting point is 00:53:23 they're now saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, not here. I agree with the Bill of Rights. These are the people now finally coming to the table that we can disagree with and, you know, not have to round one, you know, one side or the other up in the end. And I think it's really important that we welcome this diversity to the right because there, you want to talk about a very small tent. It's the left. I agree, because I also don't think that the traditional political then diagram is applicable at the moment. We aren't having a direction, an argument about the direction of the country. We're having an argument about whether to have a country, okay? What is a border? What is a citizen? What's a boy? What's a girl? What's a team? What's a law? What's anything? We're up against a movement that is that really
Starting point is 00:54:19 transcends politics. It is a rival religion. And it behaves in very cultic ways. That's why there's not a lot of critical thinking, but a lot of group thinking with talking points instead. It's what I've kind of dubbed on my show to use an old stained glass window term. I call it the spirit of the age. And that's why there's so much zealotry, so much fervor. That's why they seet a lot, these people that are caught up in this sadly when they speak to you, that they can't critically think or reason with you. It's because they have given up on reason and have essentially just glommed onto a cultic spirit of the age that they think is ultimate truth is a form of salvation. This is absolutely spiritual.
Starting point is 00:55:02 And that's why we run a great promotion for our colleague, Ali Stucky, on our commercials here on Blaze TV. And she keeps saying this line, I always hear her say, these people, they absolutely think they're the good guys. They do. They think that they're here to deliver us, that we're the ones that are misbegotten, that we are the misgit, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:24 that we are the troglodytes. here unevolved. And so this idea that there could be a national divorce and our states go their way and no, no, no, no, folks, they think that they need to save us from going our own way. And so that's why what we're really talking about now is authoritarianism versus liberty. That's really the paradigm now. And that's why there is ability for us to work with people that we have a whole host of disagreements on. And I don't plan on changing my mind on most of those things anytime soon. But right now, are worth having a fight, Glenn. Am I entitled to have my own mind?
Starting point is 00:55:59 See, that is the thing that, you know, I keep starting in conversations with people that I know I'm going to disagree with, with this. Do you believe in the Bill of Rights as written? You give me nine of those, you know, first 10. Do you agree with the Bill of Rights? If you do, then all we're usually talking about are policies. and that's normal. It goes back to you saying, you know, what is a law, what is a nation, what is a border? If you understand the Bill of Rights, that gave us the playing field, and it gave us, this is all out of bounds.
Starting point is 00:56:38 Well, nothing is out of bounds right now. And I'm, you know, I can argue policies, but we are not talking about those now. It's not really about spending. It's about, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, you are spending. you are spending and building a structure for an entirely different system, and you're not including us in it. That's exactly right. This isn't political.
Starting point is 00:57:01 It's spiritual, and it's not cultural. It's existential. This is a completely new, fundamentally new way of life. Yes, it is. And this is the end of Mel Gibson's Apocalyptic, and neither side can agree on who the savages are. Okay. So one belief system, this is, you know, it's a worldview steel cage match now. Two of them have entered. Only one of them is coming out. And either we are going to be permitted the luxury of going back to those culture war political issues that that we thought at the time were existential and, you know,
Starting point is 00:57:40 so serious. And now we've reached a whole different meta level and realize kind of seems pretty trite compared to what we're talking about now. Either we're going to be afforded the luxury of returning to that political paradigm and then being angry at the Andrew Yangs in the world again, or we're not going to have a country. Those are really the stakes. So, Steve, if you would have talked to me two months ago, I would have been very, very pessimistic. Then Afghanistan happened, and I saw people stand up. Then the school boards started to be flipped.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Now people are starting to say, you know, shut up, Fauci. I'm starting to see that spirit of America come back. Are you optimistic? I'm optimistic. I'm more optimistic. I don't know. I'm a total depravity kind of guy, so I don't know that I'm ever actually optimistic. Okay.
Starting point is 00:58:30 But I am more optimistic than I was a few months ago. Yes. That I do think that there's, here's how I would define it. We don't have as many people as we probably need, but we have more people right. now, but we have more people than the system can tolerate at the same time. And so that's where we can build a ground swell of momentum here. And I think there's a window here that we can use things like mass resistance, noncompliance. New York State right now, I believe, has 40 of 62 counties that are refusing to enforce or implement the new governor's attempt to return to COVID-stands.
Starting point is 00:59:09 It's fantastic. That's fantastic. See, that's what we're talking about is who they can issue all the decrees that they want. board doesn't have a sergeant at arms. OSHA with the jab mandate doesn't have police officers that they can come arrest you if your company won't enforce it. If enough people refuse to comply, these things become unenforceable. They're trying to impose these things through infrastructures that don't have enforcement mechanisms. Yet.
Starting point is 00:59:37 They've just relied on, yet, they've just relied on us to go along with it. And we need to show them that it will be painful for you to try to inflict the things on us that this pain will not be a one-sided transaction any longer. Just like you want to inflict pain on us, we will return the pain on you for trying to inflict it. Steve Dase, Blaze TV host, Steve Day's show follows this program every day. He is the author of the Faucian bargain and the author of Do What You Believe or You won't be free to believe it much longer. This is what he's been talking about, this new book that is out now. Steve Dase, thank you so much. Talk of you again.
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Starting point is 01:02:37 has challenges it needs to overcome, including denial of racism and defensiveness about race. And white Americans have to stop trying to be colorblind. That's the one. That's the, out of all of those sentences, that's the one that bothers me the most. Stop being colorblind? No, I'm sorry. I've spent my whole life being taught to be colorblind. And the guy who was the head of the class was Martin Luther King. And you're not going to convince me at this point that the things that he actually said and actually believed. Now, you want to talk to me about communism and Martin Luther King, okay, you might be able to flip me on that one. Maybe he was a total communist.
Starting point is 01:03:24 But I do believe he believed. Don't judge me on the color of my skin. And I think that is right. And sorry, I'm not going to comply. And if that's what you are, Salvation Army, you're never going to get a, ho, ho, shut up, fat man with a bell. I'm walking into the store and you ain't getting anything either way from me.
Starting point is 01:03:46 I think tons of people feel that way I'm not going to I don't care what you say I'm not going to start making decisions based on skin color no nope no thanks not going to go down that road don't want to do it
Starting point is 01:03:57 I think we all realized it was the wrong thing to do I think we were right when we realized that it is amazing how how easy it is to see if you're on the wrong side of history you know what I mean it's just so easy to see
Starting point is 01:04:11 oh wait a minute I think I'm on the wrong side of history here. And I think more and more Americans are waking up. More in a minute. You know, when you woke up this morning, I'll bet you didn't expect that today was going to be the day that you'd have to drop
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Starting point is 01:06:01 In fact, I think it, I think it warrants the duct tape alert because what you are about to hear will honestly just, it can make your head explode. But you might pray for that. So maybe you don't wrap your head in duct tape. Biden is now warning, and I quote, of a winter of severe illness and death, end quote. Merry Christmas, everybody. I mean, these guys just won't give up on their fear mongering. And I think, like to make a prediction. By the end of the year, and I think it's going to happen sooner rather than later because it already is.
Starting point is 01:06:43 But America is just going to start mocking, I mean, universally, mocking these warnings, mocking these people. And they're just going to be like, yeah, really? Got to wear a mask, huh? Not going to do it. by the end of the year, meaning in like just a couple of weeks? Or you're saying in 2020? Yeah. It's,
Starting point is 01:07:01 Yeah, I think, yeah. It's coming. Here's what I'm already saying to him. A, B, C, D, E, F you. That's what I'm already saying. Really? Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:10 And your mom and your sister and your job. Are you quoting a... Broke ass car. That stuff you call art. What? Are you guys familiar with this song? It was number one in the country last week. Yeah, but I didn't think I would hear it from you.
Starting point is 01:07:26 from you of all people. I never thought I would quote a song like that either, but this is probably the song your kids are listening to and you don't know. Do you have a piece of it edited? Oh, any mom, any sister,
Starting point is 01:07:40 any job, any broke-ass car in that's a car, fuck you any friends that I'll never see again. Everybody, but you thought you're not. Aw. Wow. It's a good song.
Starting point is 01:08:00 It's super catchy. As a, as a programmer, strictly as a guy who used to, a music guy who used to program top 40 stations, I would have this in what was called power rotation out of the box. You'd hand it to me, I put it in, I'd listen, I go, put it on the air right now. Every 90 minutes. It is a, it's a smash hit. It's not only a smash hit, it is an anthem. It's an anthem.
Starting point is 01:08:26 And those happen occasionally, rarely. But it is an anthem that becomes a movement of the age. It's nice. They spare the dog, too. I feel good that they say it. Yeah, she spared the dog. It's just, it's something you can just powerfully relate to, I guess. It is so.
Starting point is 01:09:09 And I wish I couldn't. I wish I couldn't. Yeah. But you can see the appeal. Wait, you know, you're saying. singing it's your like Pat Gray's anthem? I thought you were saying it was good like for. Oh no, it feels good.
Starting point is 01:09:21 That's my, you know? I could I could quickly adopt that as my anthem too. Oh, big time. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. And your kids have got to.
Starting point is 01:09:28 Not that I want them to or they should be. This is what they're listening to. But that's what they're listening to. They're listening to that and you don't know it. And they would never sing it around you, but I guarantee you they know every word. They're singing to all their friends and they're screaming it in the car when they're not with you. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:43 It's weird. We were at a place where like I didn't like the I let me put it this way. I like the Brandon chant. Yeah. Okay. Much better than what that,
Starting point is 01:09:59 what it means. Yes. I as a parent of two small kids going to sporting events and hearing the actual chant associated with Let's Go Brandon over and over again. It was not fun. I did not appreciate that. I like Let's Go Brandon much more.
Starting point is 01:10:12 So I, but I think. think society, I mean, Pat, you remember me in the day. Yeah. Before I sobered up and changed and found the Lord and everything else. I, it was an art form. The F word was an art form. You know, I could say.
Starting point is 01:10:26 Came up a few times in conversation. Yeah. And I could, I could pretty much talk about anything and probably more F words in it than actual other words. And you'd still understand exactly what I was talking about. I feel like I wasted all of those years. Well, maybe I was just a pioneer because everybody is talking like that now. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:50 Doesn't it seem like that? Yeah. Like, you hear that everywhere. Yeah. Everywhere. Seems like we're just getting dumber and dumber as a society. And I think that's, it's like, what was it, the idiocracy, the movie that predicted the future blatantly. But everyone kind of breeds in, gets dumber and dumber over time.
Starting point is 01:11:11 And then that's how they talk all the time. All they're doing is swearing and like and it's just constant insults. But there is nothing better at times, at times than that word. It just word is an effective. It's a very effective word. There are only a couple of words that are more effective that. Yeah. That they don't get into songs all that often.
Starting point is 01:11:29 Yeah. Right. You know, but it's kind of like it's, it's becoming almost like the C word in England. Like in England, it doesn't mean what we think it means. Right. C word. Yeah. We all understand the right C word because I know there's lots of C words we're not supposed to say.
Starting point is 01:11:48 Yeah, C is the one you've got to stay away from the most. It seems like that word. Hang on just a second. I'm getting it from my Scottish friend. Is it only Scotland? So in England does it mean the same thing that it does here? Means the same in England, not in Scotland. And I know this because the guy who is my assistant is Scottish.
Starting point is 01:12:07 and he he was having a conversation with his now wife, but they were dating, and he called her that. And she was like, what? And he was like, what? What's the problem? Didn't go well. Didn't go well. Wait, but he saved it. Does it mean like, you know, a door?
Starting point is 01:12:35 Can he just, let me see him at least. least. I know he doesn't want to be on the microphone, but... Does it mean idiot? Is that an appropriate translation? What does it mean? Open his mic. Go ahead. What's it mean? It's just a friendlier way of saying, yeah, that idiot over there. A friendlier way of saying that idiot. A friendlier way. It doesn't seem friendly, but... Yeah. And it, I mean, it doesn't seem like idiot either. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:58 How we use that. I mean, we use it in all... Oh, I know. I know. I know. I know. And, uh, and you know, and you know, and you know, we use it in all. I'm... I, because, you know, I, you know, I watch the BBC a lot because I think the BBC is, no, it's not necessarily better. Well, yes, it is. But it's just that it doesn't have any American politics in it. It's got loads of British, but I don't care if they burn to the ground. So it's like, yeah, that's funny. Yeah, but it's interesting.
Starting point is 01:13:29 Like over there, they have a word, and they have a word for cigarette as well. That is, that means something else over here. Yes. Yes. That occasionally makes it into those shows. And it's jarring because you just don't hear it in any context. And especially because it's usually preceded want to drag off of a. Yes.
Starting point is 01:13:44 And you're like, no, no, no, I'm good. Thank you for that. I was watching, I've been watching The Wire, the show on HBO that aired in the early 2000s. Yeah. Basically, based off Jason Whitlock's recommendation. Because I've heard, obviously I've heard of the Wire and it's one of the, you know, most renowned shows of all time. And he was saying it's his favorite show of all time. And so he kind of.
Starting point is 01:14:07 talking to me into going through it. And it's very good. But what's interesting about it is there, it's, you know, it's about like drug dealing on the streets of Baltimore in the early 2000s. And they, like, particularly the anti-gays slur is all over the place. Like, like crazy. And like, it's interesting. Just in that time, that has gone from a word that was just continually used in pop culture, not necessarily in a positive way. Like, hey, these guys are good for using this word. I mean, they're bad characters. But like, it was just in there all the time. you go back at, you know, there's episodes of it's always sunny in Philadelphia that just have the N-word in them.
Starting point is 01:14:42 Straight out N-word said full. Like, it's so shocking that, like, that's happened pretty fast. Really fast. Well, but it is, it is, to me, it has always been shocking because, you know, Pat and I came from music radio. That stuff was in rap all the time. All the time. And so it was, to me, it was always shocking to hear it in music.
Starting point is 01:15:05 And it's and then it was just weird that you could hear it in music still can. Here it in music, here it in, you know, with, you know, half of the population, or what is it, 20% of the population being free with it, just throwing it out anywhere and can. And everybody else is like, okay, that's really a bad word. It's just weird. It's developed in a very strange way. There's that controversy that happened around here in Texas with supposed racism in high schools. and it was what was kind of the basis of the recent CRT stuff that happened here. Where the teenage girls were singing the lyrics of a rap song.
Starting point is 01:15:40 Yeah. And that was part of, you know, the criticism of this town and that like the white girls were singing the actual lyrics of the song. No criticism levied at the artist. Not at all. For recording the song this way. Right. No one said, hey, maybe like don't put it in the song that you know is going to attract young people who may not be able to decipher the, in nuances of how this word is supposed to be used.
Starting point is 01:16:07 No criticism to them for making millions of dollars off the word. But let's criticize the high school kids for just singing along to lyrics of a song that Universal or some other big companies making millions of dollars off of. Remember when I stood up for Don Imus against Al Sharpton? Because Al Sharpton, I mean, Don just said some things he shouldn't have said. But it's by far. not worse than what's in rap songs. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:16:36 And I'm talking Al Sharpton and are like, when are you going to talk to the record companies? When are you going to boycott them? And the answer, of course, is never. He actually did. Oh, he did? He did say he would do it. And he did.
Starting point is 01:16:48 He did. I went and marched with him. I said, I'm not going to. I said, you're not going to do it. He said, yes, I will. And I said, you know what? Then I'll show up with my cameras and I'll be there to cover it. I don't agree with it.
Starting point is 01:16:59 But I will, I will cover it and I'll be there. And I walked out. He had a march and I walked around the corner and he was there, you know, with a block full of people. And one of the guards was like, no, no, no, no. And Sharpton said, no, come here. And he looked at me like I was an alien. Like, you're here. And I said, of course, I told you I would be.
Starting point is 01:17:24 I said, I can't believe that you are doing this. And he said, well, I told you I would. And I said, yeah. But there was a time where that was a position. of race activist, right, that we should, everyone should get rid
Starting point is 01:17:37 of the N-word. It should not just be something. You know, I don't know if anybody I don't know. It kind of goes to all men are created equal. I mean, we should all be playing
Starting point is 01:17:43 by the same rules. We should all be playing by the same rules. That's old school. What you're saying is old school. Who is the rap star? Was it Drake that invited the white girl
Starting point is 01:17:53 up on stage to sing one of his songs with him? She sang the word and then he berated her for it. Really? What? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:01 Yeah. Yeah. One of your songs, man. I'm just singing the lyric. What am I? Do you put N-word in there in place of it? Kendrick Lamar, I'm being told. It was a, not Drake.
Starting point is 01:18:14 All right. But still, that's a... That's insane. I hope she went away going, you're a total psycho. I would think so. Well, how about when in the, uh, Jussie Smolett trial,
Starting point is 01:18:25 they were reading the texts and they, and Jussie Smolett said the lawyer, the white lawyer couldn't read Jesse's text because the N-word was used in the text. Jeez. Rec quoting text in a legal trial. Hang on just a second. Let's just all enjoy for a second, the holiday season.
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Starting point is 01:19:39 It's roughgreens.com slash Beck. RUFFFF Greens.com slash Beck or call 833, Glenn 33. I hate Stu. I just want to bring that. I hate. I started with a compliment and you turn it around on me. I just hate you. Now, the compliment was a very thin,
Starting point is 01:20:04 sliver. It was. You know, in a sea of hate. Disavowed. I mean, before you even got to the compliment, you disavowed the compliment. How? You said, well, and it's a very small, small, small compliment. It's a sliver. I'll call it before I tell you what it is. But at least I'm being honest, right? I'm being honest.
Starting point is 01:20:23 But it was a compliment. Yeah. You know, he's going, Stu always goes to like the Super Bowl every year. And he goes to, you know, bowl games and he flies around. And he doesn't do, you know, you do one or two. of these a year. I like to do, I like to go to sporting events and I love that. And you do it, you do it without your wife and kids, right? You just go with friends. Sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. And I know this is not something I do. Not something that Pat does. And I feel,
Starting point is 01:20:49 I feel like you're a hero to me. Well, thank you. A very small. See, this is. Diminished hero. Right. Well, I really non-hero here. Yeah, you're a non-hero hero. Kind of somebody that you tell your kids not to look direct. directly at kind of hero. I don't know. I think you do some fun things, Glenn. I think you've had,
Starting point is 01:21:10 you do some fun things. You have some, you have an interesting life. You have an interesting life. But, but, you know, you know,
Starting point is 01:21:17 I talk to people and I'm like, I don't know what you do to make money. They're all, I have friends who are like, oh, I just got back home. We took the family
Starting point is 01:21:26 to the moon last week. And you're like, how? Really? You know, a friend who's like, yeah, the family went for four weeks.
Starting point is 01:21:34 We went to... Four weeks. Yes. Four weeks. We went to China. Lock the great wall. And I'm like, shut up.
Starting point is 01:21:40 What do you do? You have a job. How are you doing that? Wow. That's incredible. See, but you do at least fun things. I mean, Pat, I will say, Pat makes incredible cookies at Kexe.com.
Starting point is 01:21:52 My wife actually makes the cookies. I don't even do that. No, you don't even do that. But you are running a new, small business. Hard for you maybe to get away. But you won't take it. Yes, very. You won't take all those profits and go someplace, cool, will you?
Starting point is 01:22:08 No. No, you'll probably give all those profits away, won't you? So far, there are no profits. Solves the problem, completely. You don't have to worry. Do I give it to the kids? Do I give it to charity? Do we take a vacation?
Starting point is 01:22:24 Nope. Don't have to worry about it. Good stuff. Good stuff. All right, back with more in a minute. If anybody in my family is listening, they should turn off radio at this point and uh i you'd say why and i'd say because you don't ask questions around christmas time just turn it off right now because i we have we have some talking to do about christmas
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Starting point is 01:23:57 one thing, what would it be Packray? Yeah, good at this. Stu. I love, we have a manger scene that we put out every year. And we take the wise men from the manger scene
Starting point is 01:24:14 and put them around somewhere else in the house. And then they all move. And then the kids moved them every night. Yeah. not doing that now, are you? No, because the kids are a little old for that now. See, it's kind of weird. Why don't your kids kind of grow up?
Starting point is 01:24:26 You're like, eh. Yeah. My kids are still in peak Christmas years. Yeah. Enjoy them. They don't come back. We have done more Christmas stuff this year than. Have you really?
Starting point is 01:24:37 It's physically possible. So great. So does it feel like Christmas to you then? Oh, yeah. I love it. Because to me. I love Christmas too, but it's kind of like, me. I'm all in this year.
Starting point is 01:24:47 Is it because our kids are so old now? I don't know. Maybe. Is that what it is? Maybe and the world is on fire. I could have something to do with it. And also my kids are on fire and the world is on fire. So, you know, I got the great.
Starting point is 01:24:59 I'm going through those beautiful teen years that I remember you having. Oh, my gosh. Fun? Well, you bet. I look at these times and quite often will say, remember Pat and Jackie went through this and those kids are, they're not in jail. No. They're good, solid citizens.
Starting point is 01:25:17 I mean, they turned out. And she's like, yeah, but we're not. and Jackie and I'm like, you're right. It sucks. It's over. Yeah. You know, the latest Christmas, uh, tradition for me is my grandkids absolutely are convinced that I am Santa.
Starting point is 01:25:37 They think you are Santa Claus. Convinced. There is some resemblance, Glenn. Yeah. I, I am aware of the features I've got that needed and required with the exception of, I mean, you have a little bit of a beard, I suppose. Well, it started really with my, my grandson saying,
Starting point is 01:25:56 Grandpa, Santa's fat, your fat. Wow. That was the first thing. That's, well, that's, wow. Awesome. You're a smart kid. He has white hair.
Starting point is 01:26:10 You have white hair. Wow. And I'm like, well, you got the two things required to be Santa down. You know all the beard. You need the beard. And your beard is not. So here's the thing. the Santa Claus, you know, the first one, you know, where, uh, what's his name?
Starting point is 01:26:27 Tim Allen. Tim Allen. He grows the beard and he can't shave it off. So last Christmas. And this is all done by my daughter, Hannah, who I bought a couple of extra years by doing some magical things, you know, with like, I think I've told the story about the Santa's sleigh bell. Yeah, you've told it in some live shows. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:47 And gave her the Santa sleigh bell. It was really, really magical that year. and it bought about another year or two of believing in Santa. What I didn't know is she was very, very pissed once she found out that Santa doesn't come for those kids of that age. You know, it's time for them to grow up. And he's just for the little kids. And thank you for that looks to. And so I'm sitting there and she says to me, I said, do you remember how magical that was?
Starting point is 01:27:17 And she said, I was so angry. I was so angry for a long time. And I was like, what? Really? What? And this is after she started telling the grandkids that I'm Santa. She told the grandkids that you are Santa? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:27:34 Yeah. And we've really piled some logs on it. Last year, last year, I went to bed early on Christmas Eve. And I said, I got to go to bed early. And they're like, Grandpa, it's four o'clock. And I'm like, I know, I got to go to bed early. And so I went to bed. And, you know, I happened to have a real great Santa suit from some show that we did years ago.
Starting point is 01:28:00 And so I got into bed and I put my covers up to my chin. But then I got a really good stage, you know, like one with spirit gum glue that you glue on, you know, all the hairs and stuff. Put a really good beard on that looked absolutely. real and had that on the other side of the covers kind of like Miracle on 34th Street and Hannah comes in and she's like oh my gosh she closes the door and then she runs we have it all videotape they she runs and she gets the kids
Starting point is 01:28:32 you have to see grandpa what you have to see I can't I just look and open up the doors and the kids are like just about freak out my gosh last summer This is unfair. I know. Last summer, I took that suit and I just put it in a box and I said, it says, Grandpa's secret box.
Starting point is 01:28:56 Do not open unless Grandpa dies. Okay. And so I put it way up on top. Shocking even brought death into this story. Put it way up on the shelf. And Hannah goes out and she's up on a ladder with the kids cleaning the garage. And she's like, what's this? She opens it up.
Starting point is 01:29:16 and she's like, oh my gosh, and then puts it away. And of course, the kids are like, what's that, mom? Nothing. Mom, what's in the box? Okay, you can't tell Gaga. And so she opens up the box and it's the Christmas suit with a little instruction. If I die, put on the suit and all will be explained. Okay.
Starting point is 01:29:38 The kids are crazy. She's like, you cannot tell grandpa what we just did. I won't. My grandson. runs directly into the house, directly to me. I knew you were Santa Claus. Oh, it's so great. That's incredible.
Starting point is 01:29:58 Wow, that is, you've really piled it on here. I know, and I keep saying to her, remember how angry you were with a bell? Right. And she was like, yeah, but they'll probably be angry for a while, but they'll get over it. And I'm like, well, yeah, but then I'm on the out. for a couple of years. Right. Just a couple of years of their childhood.
Starting point is 01:30:20 No big deal. Luckily, I keep telling them I am not Santa. And I stick by that. It's a year of the truthful one. You're being truthful. Well, I'm saying those words. And those words are accurate. They are completely accurate.
Starting point is 01:30:39 I won't tell you what I'm doing this year until next year. But this year, oh my God. gosh, you couldn't pile it on bigger than this. You could, you cannot. You couldn't outdo this. You could not outdo this this year. And this is the thing. I think this is like unfair for parents around the country and that like,
Starting point is 01:31:01 Glenn is like, gets super into this stuff and is super creative on this stuff. You've told me some stories about past years that, and you're just like, oh my God, like the effort that goes into it. And like, you're, you're doing this as if you're putting on a stage show. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of planning. There's resources.
Starting point is 01:31:19 Oh, yeah. There's, I mean, you go into it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's unfair. Yeah. A, um, one of the kids was left a, uh, Santa glove. And I mean, it's a real Santa glove.
Starting point is 01:31:34 Red leather and the soft white fur in it. And I don't know how many rabbits died to make this glove. And it took us a long time. But it is Santa's glove. It is Santa's glove. But wait. The kids' heads, I think they will explode. I think there's a chance.
Starting point is 01:31:55 You know those things that they always like pull in England, you know, hey, Merry Christmas and they pull that stupid little paper thing and it, I don't know, pops something out. I think that's going to happen with their heads. That's going to happen with their heads. Stuffing is going to fly out. All right, let me tell you about Goldline. CEO of Goldman Sachs just said publicly that he expects lower return. on stocks for the next few years.
Starting point is 01:32:19 Huh. Why would you say that? Would it be because the Fed has been pumping all fake money into the stock market and now maybe it's going to have a giant bubble and it's going to pop a little bit? I mean, maybe take some of the winnings off of the table and move them into a more conservative, protective asset. The time-tested winner, as always, is precious metals. Gold and silver are where you want to be when the next crash comes.
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Starting point is 01:33:26 Station ID. Okay, favorite Christmas movie. Just going right to the top of the list, here? Yeah, go to the top of the list. We made a list of Christmas movies, but just don't even look at the list. Favorite Christmas movie. One you cannot miss a year of. I feel I have three that I fall into this category.
Starting point is 01:33:58 However, number one I would put elf. I would say elf is my number one. Okay. I love elf too. Yeah, elf is number one for me. My favorite is it's a wonderful life. Hmm. Yeah, that's got to be number one.
Starting point is 01:34:08 I've got that at number six. Number six. Yes. Okay. That's well down the list. You know what it is? You know what it is? I think TBS wrecked that movie because they played it all the time and over and over again.
Starting point is 01:34:20 And so when we were growing up where we were just probably what, either late teens or early 20s when Ted Turner found that movie. And it was like, nobody owns the rights to that. Okay. Yeah. And he ran it 24 hours a day. I don't think that route. I think that makes it more, it associates it more with Christmas.
Starting point is 01:34:39 Like, I know we've had conversations when we disagree on a Christmas story being a great Christmas movie. I love it. But like, I put Christmas story right halfway down my list because it's one of those that I, sometimes I'm absolutely in the mood for and it's great. And other times I'm like, oh, I can't take that movie. I love it. but I think part of the reason I love it is because it's on 24 hours of a Christmas story every Christmas.
Starting point is 01:35:04 And so they just air it over and over and over and over again for 24 hours. And I love that. Like whenever it's on, even when we're doing something in the house on Christmas and we're not, we don't have the TV audio on. I just put it on without the audio. So that's what happens in my house with the Hallmark Channel. Oh,
Starting point is 01:35:19 I love the Hallmark. I love it. It's the same movie over and over and over again. It doesn't matter though. I watch them all. I watch them all. And I love watching them with the family and being just sarcastic. Yes.
Starting point is 01:35:33 Sometimes they're so bad. The story is so dumb and the acting so bad that it's just fun to make fun of. We sit there like my father-in-law, we sat there and watched it. I didn't know if he was being serious or sarcastic the whole time. And I looked at my wife and she's like, no, he's sarcastic. Because I didn't know because he was so deadpan on it. He was like, there's no way these two are going to get together. There's just no way.
Starting point is 01:36:02 They're from different sides of the tracks. They're two different. And one of them lives in New York now and just came back to the small town. There's no way she's going to stay here. Right. She's engaged to be married to another guy. Right. And she loves him.
Starting point is 01:36:15 Yes. It's on the same one. That's the one we were watching with my father-in-law. The same one. All of the movies can be described this way. That is what you. Yes. They always have some business interest back in the big city.
Starting point is 01:36:29 Yeah. By the way, on this note, I should point out, I mentioned Stu Does Power Hour is coming tonight. Yeah. When's Christmas cookie? Well, a Christmas twist is going to air on Stu Does America tonight. So if you happen to be, if you watch the place or you can go to YouTube.com slash Stu Does America wearing the entire movie at the Christmas twist. This is a movie that we all. It's a fun holiday tradition.
Starting point is 01:36:47 It really is funny. It really is funny. And it's a parody of these terrible sort of Hallmark style Christmas movies. and I swear to you, this is true. We made a Christmas twist. What was that? 2014, 2015. It's quite a while ago.
Starting point is 01:37:04 I was earlier than that. Maybe. It was on when I was doing Wonderful World of Stu for this network. And it's a movie that Glenn is in. Pat does an incredible role. Glenn does an incredible role. We have like a bunch of people from the blazer end of it.
Starting point is 01:37:16 It's a lot of fun. And it's a parody of these movies. And the woman has a Christmas cookie store. And it's the same dumb plotline from all these movies. and I swear to you, I swear this is true, they saw this movie and then made a real Hallmark movie out of it. There is one about the... It's almost the exact plot of our fake movie. And it's almost all happens in the same order.
Starting point is 01:37:41 You know what it's called? I got to watch this. But, Stu, I would just... May I just point out that you just told me you're describing every Christmas movie on Hallmark? They're all the same. They are the same, but they have... typical different things like, you know, sometimes the business will be like a lawyer and sometimes, you know, they'll be a business executive.
Starting point is 01:38:05 And then like in the town, sometimes it's, it's, they're making cookies and sometimes they're making, they're making Christmas costumes and sometimes there's always a little like, you know, bumps in different directional. This is like the exact same movie. They made a real movie out of our parody movie. I want to make a Christmas movie next year. Always should. I want.
Starting point is 01:38:24 And I, you know, I said this to, I said this to the guy who runs Mercury and, and I said, and I want to make it for Hallmark. And he said, why? Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. And I'm like, because Hallmark will run it. And we could do it live with no script, just AdLib. And every, we'd have a Hallmark Christmas movie. And you know the thing I really love about the Hallmark Christmas movies?
Starting point is 01:38:52 most of them are filmed in California and you can tell because there's snow on the ground and yet strangely leaves on the trees in the background. Have you ever noticed that? Yes. They don't really do that thing that they do in movies where they make sure the background scenes look right. Right, exactly.
Starting point is 01:39:13 It's as likely. It might be a set that there might be a set like of a town and it just happens to be moving down the sidewalk because they're getting ready to film another movie. Right. And all of a sudden, there's a town behind them. Continuity is not necessarily a strong point. It's like, you know, you're watching a movie from 1845 and a plane flies by.
Starting point is 01:39:32 It's like that type of stuff goes on, the equivalent in Hallmark movies. I love when the blizzard is happening and they walk into an indoor setting and they've got supposedly snow all through their hair. And they could be indoors for 15 minutes. Not a single flake has melted. I wonder if that, wow, that is really. frozen snow that can stand up to 70 degrees inside. Or is it perhaps? Or is it perhaps that they've decided they're not going to use fossil fuels.
Starting point is 01:40:03 Maybe. And so they are green coffee shop. It's just as cold inside as it is outside. Yes. Okay. I mean, maybe. That'd be the responsible thing to do. It would be.
Starting point is 01:40:13 It would be the woke thing to do. So your number one is elf? My number one is, yeah, elf. And then my number two is Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. I have that at four. Okay. So that's pretty pretty. See, again, you're being disagreeable.
Starting point is 01:40:29 I think we're in the same vicinity here. I'm surprised, actually. Then I have Christmas vacation. I have that at number three as well. Oh, my gosh. You know what? I'm telling you. Where do you want to go on vacation?
Starting point is 01:40:38 You two should be married. Where do you want to get? My wife and I, we have, we have the, we don't agree on anything on when it comes to vacations. If it's not a beach, she's really not that interested. And, you know, it's got, and it's got to be a beach vacation. You know, I'm like, hey, maybe we could go, nope.
Starting point is 01:40:59 But maybe we could, nope. And, you know, like, I want to do things like I can't, no, I understand this. It's not a beach. But it's warm. I really want to go to Chernobyl. Oh my gosh. That's totally, it's on my literal bucket list.
Starting point is 01:41:13 It is online too. It is. It is 100% true. 100% like. Red Square, I don't want to see all of Russia. I just want to see the parts where I grew up. It's probably not as for you. I'd like to see some things in China.
Starting point is 01:41:30 Don't want to eat there. Wait, are you saying you grew up in Russia? No, grew up. Oh, crepe. I have blown the cover. Run! They're on to me. No, it's that I grew up with the Cold War, and I always wanted to see Russia.
Starting point is 01:41:47 I always wanted to see that. my wife is like, I'm not going. Any time of the year I'm not going. It's very questionable whether you, Glenn Beck, should go to Russia. I will say you will definitely get murdered. Right. And Ukraine is probably not the best place either. However, it's Chernobyl.
Starting point is 01:42:05 That's worth, you know, that's worth. I mean, I got to go. I want to see the Ferris wheel. Oh, the spookiest places. Yeah. That's what I want to see there. Yeah. And you can do it now.
Starting point is 01:42:15 You can do it. I know you can. You go to the exclusion zone. I know. We should go. We should go. We should go together. I would love this.
Starting point is 01:42:20 You know where I almost went this year? Turkmenistan. That's on my bucket list too. Almost and I was going. Almost went and I was like, I can't go without Stu. If you would be so pissed. If you went to Turkmenistan without me,
Starting point is 01:42:34 I would never talk to you again. Now that might be your goal. Yeah, well, and so I can understand that. It is an asset that I have to put on the table. A Turkmenistan, if you don't know, had a very,
Starting point is 01:42:44 and still does, have a very strange dictator that took power after the fall of communism and littered the... Oh, he's still alive? No, he died. His dentist took over the country. His no, seriously?
Starting point is 01:42:56 Yes. His dentist took over. It's a great... Hermie? That makes it her not even better. I want to be a dentist. Literally, his dentist took over the country. Now,
Starting point is 01:43:06 wait, wait. I think you don't just throw that out, you know? Like the dictator of Turkmenistan is up on the roof. You have to break this to us a little. Yeah, and then he slipped off and his dentist is now in charge. Everyone has a plan for succession. In Turkmenistan, it's the dentist. I've got to go.
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Starting point is 01:45:46 Well, there's a mountain of dead and a criminal threat. It is such a socialist treat. A band of marauders have captured our daughters and amputated my feet. The reindeer have been murdered and the elves have all been beat. It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela. It's a frown. Butter with blood. Pantar claws is not coming to town.
Starting point is 01:46:28 It's beginning to look. look a lot like Rennelsuela our soul but the thing that will make us cry is the painful temperature is higher from all of the fires and rampant is the disease there's some execution and much destitution and I am covered by fleas and have you ever noticed that the water smells like cheese it's beginning to look a lot like Rana's well as well is the worthless It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela from Stu in his orchestra. Yeah, you can listen to it and share it as much as you want. Just go to the podcast page for Stu as America.
Starting point is 01:47:49 Click subscribe and listen as many times as you like. It means a good way to celebrate the oncoming socialism that's coming to this country, this holiday season. You know, I think what says Christmas more than any other Christmas tradition or movie, especially in this time when we need it the most, die hard. you know, I think... Is it a Christmas movie? It's absolutely a Christmas movie. It hasn't been to me in my mind until this year.
Starting point is 01:48:16 I think we're there now. Yeah, we're there now. Die Hard is now a Christmas movie. Yeah, it is a Christmas movie, but it's a late Christmas movie. It's like when you've watched all the other Christmas movies. You know what I mean? Well, it occurs during Christmas. Yeah, but you don't, yeah, you don't necessarily watch that one before Christmas.
Starting point is 01:48:32 Like you've watched, like, you know, next week, we're all, as a family, we're all going on a vacation. So we're all going to, you know, one of the things we're doing, every night we're going to watch another Christmas movie. And so we do that. And, you know, like, by the 27th, you're like, okay. And that's when Die Hard comes in. That's when you're like, that's a Christmas movie. And everybody tends to agree at that point.
Starting point is 01:48:54 Yeah. You know? I can see that. Yeah. I think that's a solid Christmas movie. I think I'm kind of on that front. What do you think about Rocky Four? We just saw Rocky Four, the director's cut.
Starting point is 01:49:05 Where is Christmas in that? The Russian fight happens on December 25th. I am willing to make that a Christmas movie. I'm writing that down. That's a Christmas. That's like maybe the 26th. Die hard to the 27th. I like that.
Starting point is 01:49:20 Yeah. I think that's, if you want to get away with Rocky 4. Rocky 4. Yeah. Now, you might say really only one scene happens on Christmas and it's in Russia where there's no Christmas markings. But if you watch closely, the kids are cheering on their dad with a, he's got a Santa
Starting point is 01:49:36 hat on. Yeah. Oh, well, there you go. Right. There you go. I mean, how much Christmas do you want in your Christmas movie? That's enough. And you're down to like, you know, jingle all the way or the Polar Express at that point.
Starting point is 01:49:47 Oh, I like Polar Express. Oh, my gosh. You don't like Polar Express? I like it. I'm in the middle on that one. Jingle all the way was. That was my lowest one was Jingle all the way. Jingle all the way.
Starting point is 01:49:57 That's, that was no chance. That's not even on my list. You know, that's not that's an option for me. I followed the rules. But if that was an option for me, I would have done that. Well, that's, uh, That's, you know, I color outside the lines. You do know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:50:09 And that's just the way I am. I don't recognize that. It's not that it's not a Christmas movie. It's just not a movie. Okay, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's got Christmas in it, but I wouldn't classify that. The Santa Claus trilogy.
Starting point is 01:50:24 I love them. Really? I do. I like them. I mean, two is kind of stupid with the toy Santa or whatever. I don't like that part of it. But I just speed through the toy Santa parts. That's almost all of it, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:50:35 It's a lot of it. It's a lot of it. It's a lot. Yeah. And I like the one with Martin Short, kind of. Not as good as the first one. Right. But it's better than two, that's for sure.
Starting point is 01:50:44 Yeah. Do you guys watch plane, trains, and automobiles on Thanksgiving? I do not. Or anywhere around that. That is a holiday movie, isn't it? It's a holiday movie. It's all built around Thanksgiving week. Right.
Starting point is 01:50:55 Yeah. And it is hysterical. We watch it every year. We don't watch it for Christmas. We watch it, you know, sometime the week before Thanksgiving or whatever. But we have to watch it. And that's an all-time classic comic. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 01:51:09 That is one of the funniest things ever. You know, it's terrible and always has been, is Home Alone. What a horrible movie that is. I don't know about that. It's just dumb. Really? Have you walked? Your people, your mom didn't realize you were home until she got to Paris?
Starting point is 01:51:25 Okay. It's not, I will say, um, many of these movies involve literal magic. Yes. So I don't know that questioning the plot line of Home Alone is a Christmas movie. Great point. But considering the universe they exist in, that's important to me. Yeah. That's important.
Starting point is 01:51:43 It's important. This one? You've got your, you've got your standards. Yes, I do. And I would not. It's like Star Trek can be realistic because it's within that universe. Right. Home alone?
Starting point is 01:51:54 Not so much. Not so much. I would have to agree with him. It is a complete. Well, I thought it was a little implausible when they then did it again. Yes. Yes. Could I ask you a question?
Starting point is 01:52:05 Whatever. This is a serious question. With CPS, by the way. Right. Where were they? Well, it was in the days before. Yeah, during the Reagan administration when they just didn't give a damn. Tell me this, whatever happened to John Hughes?
Starting point is 01:52:17 Because he made a string. I mean, you think of the 1980s and it's John Hughes. And the reason why I thought of this, I went shopping with my daughter. She was looking for a dress or something. And I went shopping for my teenage daughter. And I'm walking through the stores. And I'm like, this is 1985. Everything in the store right now is 1985.
Starting point is 01:52:37 And I said to her, I'm not buying anything in this store for you because it's all from 1985. And I made the mistake. And there are pictures of me in clothes that would reflect this spirit. And it's not like I can give you some sage advice and say, don't have, you know, you can wear it. Just make sure there's no pictures of you because now everything is on, everything is forever. my pictures of me and Tanya with the big hair and the woof that I mean that those things are kept in an album you only bring those out for friends you take pictures in these I mean it's back meaning like the 80s style is back oh yeah it's like walking into a John Hughes movie really oh my gosh yes it was it is so bizarre by the way I have some bad news he's very sick John Hughes oh no we've lost him wow Thank you for breaking it to me. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:32 In 2009. Yeah. In 2009. Yes. What happened? Because he was like, so young too. He's only 59. Wow.
Starting point is 01:53:40 So he was young. But I suspect murder foul play. Too soon. Is it too soon? I just feel appropriate laughing at that because this guy just. Listen to this string though. National Lampoon's vacation. Right.
Starting point is 01:53:55 National Lampoon's European vacation. Wait, that was John Hughes? Yeah. He wrote it. Huh. John Hughes. for every kind of cheesy kind of funny
Starting point is 01:54:04 comedy especially with John Candy he made all of them he made all of them so National Infoons Christmas vacation Mr. Mom 16 candles I love that movie weird science the breakfast club Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the greatest movies all time obviously
Starting point is 01:54:19 Pretty and Pink some kind of wonderful plane trains and automobiles These are classics she's having a baby Uncle Buck Wow I love to Like every single one of those Every single, I don't think there's one in there that I, well, weird science I don't think I've ever seen. But what, 99% of those movies are classics. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:54:40 And then it just stopped. Yeah, when was his last movie? And then you just like, or did he just start making bombs? Well, he did Home Alone in 1990, then Home Alone 2 in 1992, Home Alone 3 in 1997. Well, you can't. And nothing in between those two? I'm reading sort of the highlights here I guess he did Flubber
Starting point is 01:55:02 You remember Flubber? Robin Williams? Yeah That was not a success That was not That didn't even feel like a John Hughes movie though Yeah I mean his were very formulaic
Starting point is 01:55:13 And really There were full of heart I thought Yeah It sort of ended right around Home Alone too He did Beethoven Remember the big dog movie Curly Sue Wow
Starting point is 01:55:24 Yeah Curly Sue I think he took his own life he couldn't handle the shame he's like curly Sue I can't do it what the hell happened to me I've tried for 17 years to live with that I can't I just can't
Starting point is 01:55:39 yeah died of a heart attack 59 years old in New York wow yeah it's too bad because he was he literally if you and I didn't know it was all those movies but I looked I literally walked in to the store. I don't remember what store it was.
Starting point is 01:55:59 It was all 1980s stuff. And I said, I'm walking into my daughter. I'm walking into a John Hughes movie. And she said, who's that? And I said, planes, trains and automobiles. And she's like, what does that have to do with this? And I said, all of the clothing. It's all coming back.
Starting point is 01:56:15 And run from it, kids. Run. Run from it. Not good fashion sense in the 80s. Is it not weird too as well? You mentioned Home Alone with McCauley Culkin, of course. that now like in one of the biggest shows, one of the biggest stars and one of the biggest shows
Starting point is 01:56:32 is Kieran Culkin, who is in succession. Right. And he's like the best character in that show. He's incredible. He is incredible. And I didn't put that together until recently. Yeah. And you look at him, you're like, I can kind of see
Starting point is 01:56:43 McCauley Culkin there. Yeah. Like an older McCulley Culkin. And Karen Culkin's incredible in that show, which is so weird. I didn't even know he was an actor. I didn't even know he existed. Frank.
Starting point is 01:56:53 You know what? I have respect for you on that. I have a lot of respect for you on that. You know, when people don't know people that you shouldn't know, you're like, God bless you. But you have a life. Thank you for your ignorance. Thank you, Stu.
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Starting point is 01:58:31 Thanks for hanging out today. No, no. Thank you. Should mention that if you're looking for a wonderful holiday gift, I would recommend Kexie Cookies, K-E-K-S-I-com. This is a great recommendation. It's awesome. Smart man.
Starting point is 01:58:42 It is legit, awesome. All guests stay at the... Texie Cookie Hotel. Yes. Made entirely out of cookies. It is. It's good. A lot of people eat their rooms before they leave.
Starting point is 01:58:53 There is a new movie out that I cannot wait to see Colesie County. American underdog. Oh, yeah. This is the Kurt Warner? Kurt Warner. Yeah, yeah. Oh, me too. I didn't grow up with, I mean, I don't follow sports.
Starting point is 01:59:07 So I didn't, you know, I don't care about Kurt Warner. But it looks like one of those great football movies, you know, Invincible. Yeah. It looks like one of those. And I guess you guys would know. His story's incredible. His story is not. Incredible.
Starting point is 01:59:22 Working at a grocery store. Right before he wound up getting a job, got, he was in the arena football. football league for a while. How was this not a movie beforehand? I mean, this is a great story. Isn't it out of the league that long? Yeah, he's fairly young. He's what, late 40s, maybe?
Starting point is 01:59:39 Early 50s? Kurt? No. Yeah. I've never met him. He, I mean, he played into the mid-2010s, didn't he? Yeah. He's in 13, 14, something like that.
Starting point is 01:59:47 I don't know when he actually retired. But he played for a long time. He was in the Hall of Fame. We should get him on. Let's see if we can get him on for the first of the year. He'd be great because that's, I mean, that is truly. don't give up on your dreams. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:59 And by all accounts, he's a really good guy, too. He's like, you know, like he, everybody seems to love him and his story is incredible. And he is a legit Hall of Famer. I mean, he's one of the, you know, I mean, those teams, those greatest show on turf teams were, they were good. The best offenses I think I've ever seen. American underdog is the name of the movie. And I can't wait to see it. I think it's open in select cities now.
Starting point is 02:00:21 Does it, does it open wide on Christmas Day? I think that's when, right? Maybe. Maybe. I'm not sure. But it looks great. Are there any other Christmas movies or any movies opening up? Movies are so weird now.
Starting point is 02:00:32 This used to be a huge time to release movies. And I can't think of anything that is coming out besides this one. And they can't figure out really what to do yet. You know, in this kind of weird place we're in with the pandemic. Should we release a movies in theaters? Should we release them at home? Should they be in both? They're trying to find the right balance there.
Starting point is 02:00:53 And I think they're really struggling with it. California, New York. New Jersey, Massachusetts, grow up. Illinois, grow up, grow up, grow a set, go to the movie theater, stop wearing the mask. What's wrong with you? Okay, that's my holiday advice.
Starting point is 02:01:09 The Spider-Man movie comes out on the 17th, which is today. So Spider-Man is out in wide-release theaters today. Nightmare Alley is another one that is out. I've seen commercials for. Oh, that's with, oh gosh, what's his name? That was with Lady Gaga in Starsborn.
Starting point is 02:01:26 I know who you're talking about. He's great. He's great. Bradley Cooper. Yeah, Bradley Cooper. Thank you. Yep. And then there's Sing 2.
Starting point is 02:01:35 The kids movie is December 22nd. Matrix Resurrections. Oh, wow. Really? That starts today. I think you can watch that one at home. That's the 22nd. The Tender Bar and the Kingsman.
Starting point is 02:01:45 The Kingsman. Oh, this is the precoal to the Kingsman. Yeah, yeah, that looks good. All right. We will see you in the New Year. Stay safe. Thank God. We made it through another.
Starting point is 02:01:56 another year. Literally, thank God.

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