2025: The Year Competence Returned

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thoughts on that coming up. But anyway, eight five five
Stagall is how you reach us. He rolled out yesterday
with Heigs. Everybody is so confident that he is ready
to announce war. You notice that fast, Eddie. It seems
like all of his all the nattering nabobs who are desperate,
desperate to continue beating this theme that Trump is not America. First,
He's going to come out with Pete Heggs an announced war.

(04:50):
I saw that again yesterday A lot, a hopeful lot.
Let's just be honest. They're hopeful. They want a distraction.
They're tired of the winning. For some reason, it's better
for their click bait if their rage being constantly about
Trump not being America first, and so they're hopeful he's
going to come out in the clear war and that
we're deploying troops somewhere. That is what this new contingent
of our supposed right or alt right or whatever you

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want to call them is. They're agitating for Trump to misstep,
is my interpretation of it, so they can do some
shows that get him some clicks. They're getting bored out
there with the winning eddies. Oh it's my calculator. I agree.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
And I didn't even realize this. The people on the left,
they're saying he's rolling out with hag Zeth and bombing
Syria and doing all these things to distract from the
Epstein files. I didn't realize that till yesterday. That's what
a leftist said to me. I'm like, oh, okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
The Epstein files are we still okay? So they're still
on that. They still think there's more to be found
that he's hiding from exactly he did address, by the way,
the Epstein thing. Do we want to talk about this
a little bit? I thought it interesting because this again
shows the guy's heart, and I know people that Hayes
guts don't think he has one. I guess before we
get to why he actually was holding the press conference

(05:58):
with Hegsyth and Rubio, let's talk about this for a minute.
I found this a rather interesting, uh moment when he
was asked about the Epstein files, give me number eighty
two here were used?

Speaker 7 (06:11):
Probably them the number of photos of Bill Clinton in
the Epstein files, and can you commit to their full
release by the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Some of the victims were protesting that too many of
them were retacted.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
I know there are a lot of people that are
angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know,
but I think it's terrible. Look, I don't like the
I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton.
They've been nice to him, he's been nice to me.
We've always gotten a respect him. I hate to see
photos come out of him. But this is what the Democrats,
mostly Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans are asking for.

(06:43):
So they give in their photos of me too. Everybody
was friendly with this guy, either friendly or not friendly.
But then you know, he was around. He was all
over Palm Beach and other places. The head of Harvard
was his best friend, Larry Summers, and Bill Clint was
a friend of his, but everybody was. I actually threw
him out of mar Lago and as a you know,
as a person that was in marri Alago, I threw

(07:04):
them out of mar A Lagos. This is mar Alaga.
It's the hottest place in I think it's the hoddest
place in the world. But it's the hottest place in Florida,
and everybody would come here, he'd come here.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
We actually threw them out.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
But no, I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton
being shown. I don't like the pictures of other people
being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think
Bill Linton's a big boy, he can handle it. But
you probably have pictures being exposed of other people that
innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago, many years ago, and
they're you know, highly respected bankers and lawyers and others,

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and they'll end up because of guys like massw who's
a real low life whose polls are down to about
nine percent. By the way, the great state of Kentucky.
If you look at Kentucky, Kentucky is such a great place.
But I don't know, they've got a couple of people
in there that are very strange in terms of leadership.
With mass he's a loser, yeah, all.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Right, and then he goes on his tire right about Kentucky.
But my point in there was the little nugget of heart,
you know, for everybody that thinks he's just such a heartless, cruel,
calculating monster with no feeling or whatever. Did you notice it?
Did you notice what he said? Do you think sincerely? Now?
Do you think he can stand up there and remind

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everybody that Larry Summers, the head of Harvard, was his
best friend, Epstein's best friend and not Do you think
he's playing a game of chicken ed When he starts
to say, gosh, I hate to see all these photos
of Bill Clinton. If there's stuff about him in these
files and he knows it, do you think he stands
up there so brazenly and says, gosh, it's a real shame.
All these photos of Larry Summers. They were really tight,

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you know, I mean, like I guess what I'm saying is,
if you knew you were in that file and you
were standing up there answering questions about other people's pictures
popping up, would you what would be your position if
you knew there was more coming and you were hip
deep in it too, would you be as cavalier I
guess as might. No, you would.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
You would not be picking fights and get you know,
giving people a reason to say, oh, okay, yeah you
want to go. No, no, you would be you'd have
a measured, I'm sure prepared response.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
He sounds supremely confident that whatever he said. Look, yeah,
I was friends with him, we were all friends with them.
There were pictures of me in there. He acknowledged it.
But again, as we went over this yesterday, not shirtless
in the grotto at Epstein's Island, you're not going to
see it, and he knows you're not going to see it.
But I thought it really telling that he sais And
this is nobody wanted to hear this back when I

(09:38):
brought it up the first time, because everybody has been
sex obsessed because sex sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex,
that's what we talk about, that's what people like to
talk about sex, abuse, sex scandal, sex, children sex, sex, sex,
sex sex. Everyone was so excited to talk about child
sex that they wouldn't just stop for a second and
listen to some reason. And you say there is nothing

(10:02):
to talk about other than getting justice for the victim.
I said, okay, but you gotta like calm down and
consider what we're talking about in the global perspective for
a minute. Not everybody involved with Jeffrey Epstein was having
sex with children, Okay. And I know that everyone assumes
that if you so much have stood in the room
with Jeffrey Epstein, apparently now you're involved in child sex rings.

(10:25):
That's just simply not true. And it's dishonest and it's
emotional idiocy, and it always was. And I went over
this yesterday. I think the Epstein story is largely about
money laundering. I don't think it's about sex at all.
But again, sex is the clickbait. Sex is the rage bait. So, okay,
child sex. Were there victims? Yes, terrible, yes, scumbag, Yes,

(10:45):
all the words that say I feel, I feel it's awful,
all the words that you need me to say. It's
never gonna be enough. People that are obsessed with this subject,
you just cannot self flagellate enough to say, Oh, it's horror,
the horror. So I'm doing my best to convey it's horrible.
But I'm also trying to say, is what Trump's trying
to say, and what was always true is there are
a whole lot of people, powerful and not particularly powerful

(11:08):
public people and not particularly public people who at some
point cross pads with this guy over the last thirty years.
And even Trump seems to be saying he doesn't think
Bill Clinton was down there doing anything illegal. Now, I
don't want to put words in Trump's mouth. Maybe that's
not what Trump was saying. Maybe he didn't go that far,

(11:28):
but he was actually expressing his sympathy. And I don't
want anybody to miss this here. He's married to that
loathsome illegally government email hacking and keeping shrew Hillary Clinton,
that you know, the Russia Gate conspirator, one of the
worst political figures in recent American history. Hillary Clinton is

(11:51):
Bill Clinton's wife. And yet there's Trump and he stood
up there and he said, well, he's a big boy,
but I hate to see this for him. I like
the guy, you know, he's a pretty good guy. I
think that counts for something. And I know nobody wants
to give him any credit. That hates his guts, and
I know even people that are trying to rage bait
and make the story about him, even on supposed right,
don't want to hear it. But I think this is

(12:12):
another moment where Trump shows real character. I think he's
actually saying I don't think Bill Clinton was down there
necessarily doing anything illegal. I think you may not even
believe that, by the way, and that's okay. But my
point is Trump's sympathy for people like him who are
just business people and meet lots of Trump is in

(12:33):
how many photos now he's the most famous man in
the world, and over the years, how many photos has
he shown up next to somebody who said something. He's
had somebody at dinner from mar Lago who said something once.
Trump realizes better than anybody as the most famous person
in the world, there are a lot of people who
are not particularly famous who are in the room with
this guy, who are not involved in anything illegal or untoward,

(12:54):
and he feels for them, and he's actually trying to
protect them as private citizens. Irritated that there are so
many rage baiters that are trying to make political hay
attacking him. He's actually trying to protect people that don't
deserve the scrutiny and the bullets that he takes literally
ornament great to be with your book. From Merry Christmas
to you. I hope you're getting ready for some great

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time away with family and friends. Maybe you're already there.
Thanks for listening. Open Line Tuesday in advance of Christmas.
This will be our final broadcast of twenty twenty five,
at least mine anyway. Bob Friends will be here for
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We will have some new interviews and some new offerings
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a matter of fact, I have a in fact tomorrow
on Christmas Eve. It's maybe it's a little heavier, but
I'm also very mindful that this time of year is

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not necessary The happiest for everybody. It is a struggle
for a lot of people, particularly people who grieve and
who lose people. Maybe even this year or recently, we've
heard it from people in this audience who have just
lost a loved one this year, and so this is
your first Christmas without somebody. There's a woman who's a
friend of mine. She has written a book called Thriving

(14:20):
in the Barren Place, and tomorrow for Christmas Eve, we're
going to that show will be exclusively dedicated to my
friend Paula Romeg who has written that book, and it's
about loss. And I won't give you any more than her.
I'll let her tell her story tomorrow, but I will
just tell you that it's a fascinating one, heartbreaking in

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certain ways. But she is a deeply committed Christian woman
who she and her husband have gone through a really
unique struggle and loss. And it's one that I think
for people who are looking for some perspective and maybe
a bit of a I don't know, a life preserver
or hand in this kind of challenging season, I think

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tomorrow's conversation might be a good one for you. So
that's a brand new conversation nobody's heard yet, and it'll
be part of the podcast we also have I will
tell you some fantastic conversations coming up before our return
on January fifth, with Lucas Miles of Turning Point Faith
as well as Ned Ryan and the CEO of American Majority.

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And Ned's one of the most brilliant guys I know.
It's a real look ahead at kind of the future
of the movement, the political future of the country. Ned,
i will tell you, is very, very bullish about the
future for the Republican Party, for President Trump, for JD. Vans.
He does not think it is a faea complete that
the Republicans are going to get shellacked in the midterms.
And if you were with us yesterday, you know Aaron

(15:47):
maguire said the same thing. Democrats are only leading by
four in the generic ballot right now, which is unheard of.
It's usually at least double, if not double digits, that
the party totally out of power would be leading in
a generic ballot right now. And Democrats aren't. Remember the
Quinnipiac Pole has Congressional Democrats minus fifty five right now.

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They're in a bad way from the post millennial Trump
polling sees rebound with fifty percent approval, the highest point
in three months. President Trump's poll number seem to be
rebounding as they've hit a three month high after there's
been a decline in his numbers over the course of
twenty twenty five. The poll from Insider Advantage reported Trump

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has a fifty percent approval rating. Here's another thing. Yesterday
coming out of the or over the weekend, coming out
of the Turning Point convention, they do a straw pole there,
kind of like SEAPAC does, And I thought this was
pretty intriguing. Seapack's straw pole found that eighty seven percent

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of those in attendance. And how would you deem how'd
you describe most of the attendees at Seapack Turning Point
fast Eddy out in Phoenix. You were there last year,
how would you describe most of them?

Speaker 9 (17:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Definitely young men. I was young men and women.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
But at least when I was traveling out of Philly,
at least three people on my plane all high school
to college aged. We're going to a amfest, So it's young.
It's a younger demo.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
So what might you suspect if you had some sort
of presupposition supposition about these young people, what might you
suspect their politics are? What might be things you think
they'd think in mass right now? Kind of knowing the
news landscape, just guessing what might be something you'd guess
a bunch of young men would be for or against
right now? Uh, I'm sure about Israel?

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, when the subject of Israel comes up, where do
you think most of them would come down?

Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'd say probably fifty to fifty. I don't know that
you have majority on either side.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Would this surprise you to find out that the at
the Turning Point Straphole eighty seven percent view Israel as
an ally and thirty three percent of them viewed them
as a top ally.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
That surprises me?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yes, that's turning points own straw Pole numbers. Ninety percent
want a total pause on immigration, and most notably, eighty
five percent of those at the Turning Point convention in
Phoenix over the weekend want jd vance in twenty twenty eight.
That's a higher percentage than wanted Trump in twenty twenty four.

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Just passing it on all right, back to the Trump
presser yesterday talking about building a new Trump class of warships.
Trump announcing yesterday the construction of a new Trump class
of warships that would anchor what he called the Golden
Fleet for the US Navy, fulfilling a long held goal
to give a personal makeover to a fleet of ships

(18:48):
he described as old, tired, and obsolete. The ships will
augment the navies more than five dozen destroyers nine thousand
ton vessels that are currently a mainstead of the naval fleet,
but Trump says is now failing to compete with the
vessels of foreign fleets. According to a Pentagon official, Navy

(19:10):
officials say that the new vessel, which mister Trump described
as a battleship, would displace more than thirty five thousand
largest surface combatant ships the Navy currently fields, and it
would notionally have the ability to launch hypersonic missiles and
nuclear armed cruise missiles, and carry more munitions overall than

(19:33):
current Navy vessels. Mister Trump said there, and also inspire
fear in America's enemies all over the world. Then he
took some questions, and that's always enjoyable talking about the

(19:57):
President of Columbia, Gustavo Petro was apparently mouthing off down there.
Doesn't like the way Trump is treating his buddy for
fifty sorry eighty one eighty one.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
So, in response to the United States taking sanction oil
from Venezuela, Colombian President Gustavo Petro he criticize the United
States by saying, well, the Southwest has stolen land and
that it should be returned to Latin America.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I just wanted to know what your response to that.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
Well, he has to watch because you know, he's got
drug factors. They make cocaine in Colombia, and he's no
friend of the United States. He's very bad, very bad guy,
and he's got to watch his ass because he makes
cocaine and they send it into the United States of
America from Colombia.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
We love the Colombian people. I love the Colombian people.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
They're great people, energetic, smart, great but their new leader
is a troublemaker and he better watch it. You better
close up those cocaine factors. If at least three major
cocaine factories we know where they are, he better close
them up fast.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
You Yeah, they better close them up here. Watch you
watch your He did a little did a little governmental
pedim you watch your eh. So he's warning the Colombian
president better watch it. I'll come at you if you don't,
if you don't mind your piece and q's. And as
for Maduro, they said, you know, you keep seizing these
oil tankers. What if what if he pops off number

(21:36):
eighty four they just let go in Venezuela to force
Maduro from power.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, I think it probably would. I can't tell that.
That's up to him what he wants to do. I
think it would be smart for him to do that,
but again we're going to find out.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Look, Venezuela did terrible things.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
And then I'd say they sent hundreds of thousands of people,
millions of people into our open border. They sent their criminals,
they sent their prisoners, they sent their drug dealers, they
sent their mentally insane and incompetent people into our country
more than any other country. Others did too, the Congo did,

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Others did too, And we just let him come right
in because we were run by a stupid president. But
you don't have a stupid president anymore.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
And then ultimately in number eighty three, he said this
about Maduro. He gets one, he gets one chance at it,
go for it. He can do whatever he wants.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
I mean, we have a massive or a mada formed
the biggest we've ever had and by far the biggest
we've ever had in South America.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
He could do.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
Whatever he wants. It's alla whatever he wants to do,
if he wants to do something, If he plays tough,
it'll be the last time he's ever able to play tough.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Trump feeling himself at mar Lago. Look, most people like this.
They may not admit it fast Eddie, but most people
like a little bravado. They like a little moxie. They
like the big they like the alpha dog. Okay, well
go ahead, Petro, but you better watch your ass. And
as for you, Maduro, go ahead, do what you want.
See how that works out for you. The last time

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you try to promise you that people like that, they do.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Since Obama, we've been apologizing to the world.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Right, we're done. This isn't we're not playing games.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
We took out solemony like that, like we're not. We're
not screwing around with you. We're gonna keep your oil.
By the way, yes, they love this well, he did
say that. That's another great point.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
He was asked again, what do you do you know
you keep seizing all these oil ships? What a Trump
making no apology on that either. Yeah, we're keeping at
number eighty five. What are we gonna do with the
oil that we have? I'm gonna do with what the
oil that has been seized.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
The United States seize one point nine million barrels of
oil on December tenth.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
We're gonna keep it. We're keeping it. Where's it? Are
we gonna sell it or put in this strategic Maybe
we'll sell it. They we'll keep it.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Maybe we'll use it in the strategic reserves.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
We're keeping it. We're keeping the ship.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
Sell stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
What are we gonna do with it? We're keeping it,
sell it? I don't know. Maybe not. By the way,
he should watch his ass, and by the way he can.
I love it and I get it. Some people have
a distaste for this. They say, oh, we should mind
our peas and cues. You have to show who's running
the hemisphere. That's what this is about, more than anything else.

(24:41):
Trump is reasserting American dominance in this hemisphere and telling everybody, Look,
we don't need anybody any harm. But you're not gonna
mouth off. You're not gonna send your worst up here.
You're not going to be doing business with our enemies
and destabilizing our region. We're still the president of the
Holmes Association in this hemisphere, just so you know. So

(25:02):
make sure you get that yard cleaned up. And I
want those Christmas lights down by the fifteenth of January.
Got it, or I'll seize them DHS. Meanwhile, the Department
of Homeland Security has offered illegal aliens a Christmas season
deportation bargain. Merry Christmas, go home for the holidays and

(25:23):
stay there. And by the way, this is better than
most of us. You'll even get a three thousand dollars
bonus from the government if you do it. That's triple
the regular self deportation bonus the Trump administration has been offering.
And it's in addition to the free flight home the
government has said it will give to those who register
for their self deportation ahead of time. Christy nom said

(25:44):
the holiday stipend is a particularly sweet carrot and a
better offer than the stick deportation. That government has made
clear it's willing to use rank and file illegal immigrants
to do so. Illegal aliens should take advantage of this
and self deport because if they don't, we will find them.
We will arrest them, and they will never return, she said.

(26:05):
Announcing the bonus, the Department called it a limited time
offer and the best gift that an illegal alien can
give themselves and their families this holiday season. The Department
announced the bounty with a slick press release that replicated
a Christmas advertisement. It depicted a decorated Christmas tree in
a cozy home set against a snowy landscape outside. Until

(26:28):
the end of the year, take advantage of a three
thousand dollars bonus and head home for the holidays. They'll
even fly you there three grand and a flight, fast Eddie.
That's better than most of us are going to get
for Christmas this year. And all those people did was
break into the country. Merry Christmas. I'm pretty proud of
myself this year, I must say. I Christmas. I've got

(26:50):
some good surprises for Christmas at the house. It's daily
stick go man. I'm not going to tell them now.
I haven't even told you, fast Eddie, because I don't
want to spoil the surprise. But I've rigged up someprise
this year for people. I can't wait to come back
and tell you what I've done. I'm not always the
best at gift giving. Sometimes I take the easy way
out and just say here's some cash or here's a
gift card. Call it a day. You know, I'm just

(27:11):
because I'm not. I'm not that creative this year. Actually
I did myself. I must confess.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
That's that's good only because I'm an every other year
creative guy.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
This year I was.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
I had an off year, like you know, like I, Oh, well.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
You've been busy. It's been a busy year. Yeah yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
No, but I'm excited to hear how it all pans out.
I think I know some of what you did, but
but honestly, uh, you've been pretty closed, pretty tight lipped
about this year.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
One of them. Yeah, well, I won't say anything more.
I never know who's monitoring, but I will just say
it's it's fun. I hope you're getting ready to celebrate.
I'm excited for you fast Eddi because you've still got
a little one and Santa is coming to visit, and
that's just always so much fun. There's that limited window
of time wherever it was interesting you'd mentioned that the
whole family used to want to come watch your your

(27:57):
little Eddie wake up for Sam. Yes, and because it's
because naturally as adults. That's what we all this time
of year in terms of Christmas Morning, that's what we
all want is that picture of the little kid toddling
down the stairs in just total excitement and enthrallment that
Santa has come and brought him what he wants. So
everyone wants to relive that, even if it's not their

(28:19):
own child.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Oh absolutely. But the good thing is even my parents
this year, so this will be his fifth Christmas. He's
four years old, but it'll be his fifth Christmas. They
even said, you know what, we'll come over just before
dinner and then we'll give him his gifts then. And
it's everyone's kind of backing off just a little bit
because last year was insane. It was just too too much.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
There were too much much attention. Are you of the
belief we were having this discussion post show yesterday. This
is that time? Christmas morning is that time. It's that
precious window of time in the holidays where you're of
two minds. You're either like everybody in the pool together,
or that is reserved for exclusively the people that live

(29:05):
directly under your roof and nobody else. Like some people believe,
that's very cherished kind of pright and by the way,
I think there's real value in that. And there are
some families who I think are well meaning. I don't
mean to disparage it, but there are some families who
just feel like it's got to be everybody all the time,
like clown car, everybody crowd in the house for everything,

(29:26):
all the time, round the clock. I'm of the mind
that that's great most of the time, but there is
a window of time. There's a space where your immediate
nuclear family needs their own private time, and I think
that Christmas morning is one of those, in my opinion,
agree or disease.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
I am coming around to agreeing. I've always because I'm Italian,
I've always been everybody in the pool, everybody all at once. Here,
I'll make breakfast, lunch, dinner, let's do it, let's have drinks.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
After last year.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
I am coming more around to what you said. It's
just like, you know what, kind of like the end
of Christmas Story when they're sitting just sitting there on
the couch, Randy's passed out, they got the wine, you know,
Like I'm coming around to that. Just be like this
is nice.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
I like this. Yeah, By the way, I also somebody
sent me a note yesterday and said, stick, oh you
never showed us your presidential your White House Christmas tree.
I didn't. I really regret that I didn't. So what
I'm gonna do is I will snap a couple of photos,
maybe post a video. If you don't follow on X
and Instagram and Facebook and all that business, I will
post one. Maybe tomorrow I'll do that. Maybe i'll take

(30:31):
it tonight so you can see it tonight. Well, it's
all lit up. It's uh. We've had some people come
over to State Least to go Manor to visit and
they say, people ask, They say, who decorated this? Assuming
it's not me. I did it all myself, including the
Gurly ribbon, even the Gurly ribbon fast Eddie I took.
I went to hobby lobby and I bought a bunch
of ribbon and I did the Gurly decorating of the
White House Christmas tree all myself.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I think it looks pretty good.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
No, I'm excited to see it, but I can't remember.
Did you have a separate tree that just houses the
White House?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh? Wow, okay, so I have a separate tree in
my office that is exclusively for all the White House ornaments.
I even ordered the brand new two hundred and fiftieth
commemorative ornament for twenty twenty six already and just hung
it on my tree this past weekend. So I now
have every ornament the White House Historical Society has made
since they started in eighty one. I think that's some

(31:23):
it's almost fifty ornaments that they have made commemorating Now.
That's not the thing is. Somebody asked me, well, where's
the Trump ornament or where's the Clinton ornament? I said,
They're not stupid at the White House Historical Society. They
realize that most of us need to go die before
they start making those. Right, You don't nobody because it's
it's weird, like nobody has feelings about William McKinley, Eddie,

(31:45):
you know what I mean, Like the family's not going
to have a fight over dinner about taft or.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
So, the White House Historical Society they make these ornaments
for presidents long gone, and maybe some of them not great,
maybe some of them tremendous, whatever, but you know, commemorative
ornaments to talk about their time in the White House
or the way they celebrated Christmas or the thing they
were associated with. It's about Kennedy is where it stops.
And there's a Johnson and Kennedy. I think there's a Nixon,

(32:19):
maybe a Ford. I well, you know what Carter was
in there. I don't even know that Reagan's in there yet.
I have to go back and look. I just bought
them this year, so I don't I'm not intimately familiar
with all fifty of them, but it definitely does not
go beyond Reagan, I'm pretty certain. So like the Bushes, Obama, Clinton, Trump,
I don't think I'm going to see those in my lifetime.

(32:41):
I have a feeling they're too polarizing now. Nobody wants
to hang them on their tree.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
They are, and we could be in a situation someday, Chris,
where we have an insane, really radical leftist president that
will take away the Christmas ornament. So I'm glad that
this is celebrating Christmas. To jd Vance's point, inn amfest
Christian Nations, let's carry on the tradition.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's good. I will go ahead and go to christigull
dot com if you want to follow on social media,
I'll show you that what that looks like on my
social media accounts. All right, Merry Christmas. It's been my
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has two brand new associates, his daughter Alexa and doctor Gettis.

(33:24):
Tell him about him, Bob.

Speaker 10 (33:25):
Yeah, Chris, I can't begin to express how proud I am.
Obviously I've having my daughter there. Also, doctor Gettis is
just a wonderful addition to our practice. He is a
classmate of my daughter Alexa's at Temple Dental School. And
I have known Jared for about seven years now. Getting
to know Jared over the years, it was my wife
Debbie and my daughter Emily. He kept telling me, you

(33:46):
have to hire Jared.

Speaker 9 (33:47):
You have to hire Jared.

Speaker 10 (33:48):
He's going to be a superstar. Jared went off to
usc it a one year residency after his you're at Temple,
and he came back and he worked for about a
year in the practice in New Jersey.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
And after again my wife and daughter beating.

Speaker 10 (34:00):
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(35:12):
be with you, folks, and a merry Christmas to you
wherever you happen to be. I hope it's a good
one and a happy Conic film. We were just talking
about that during the break. You know, whatever it is
you celebrate or don't celebrate, we're glad you're here. I've
never met anybody who opposes being greeted with Merry Christmas,
except some hardcore leftist, probably the same people that demanded

(35:33):
you wear a mask once upon a time. Those are
the people that probably pretend to be offended by it.
I've never met a Jew, or Muslim, or even an
agnostic really generally, who says, don't you dare greet me
with Merry Christmas? Again, similarly as I said, if somebody
said to me happy Hanukah, I don't observe it. But
it's not like I would be offended and lecture somebody
about it. Right, So merry Christmas is my point eight

(35:54):
five five Stigall is how you reach us today. I
hope you're getting ready for a great holiday season, whatever
it may be, whether you're now, is this today? I
think because Donald, if I'm not mistaken, Trump last week
signed an executive order. If I'm not mistaken, declaring Christmas
Eve and the day after Christmas a federal holiday. Does

(36:15):
that kick in immediately? Somebody asked me that yesterday, and
I think I think yes, be an executive order, you'd
have to say that's immediate, right or not? Like financial
institutions are not going to be open on Friday, or
do we know. I can't say that definitively, but it
would stand to reason.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Yeah, I think now it has to be right away.
Why else would he do it, because somebody else could
just take it.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Away as soon as things set out. Yeah, I think
that's right. So that those of you that typically like
to go deposit your check or your cash from Grandma
on Friday, you're not gonna be able to do it.
I think they're closed. I think. Don't quote me on that.
I'm sure I'm gonna get a bunch of emails telling
me I'm wrong, but I think that's right. Speaking of checks,
President Trump's plan to deliver two thousand dollars tariff rebate check.

(37:01):
It depends on Congress. I like the politics of this.
To be honest with you, President Trump needs Congress to
take action to make good on a proposal to send
Americans two thousand dollars tariff rebate checks next year. Director
of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett said that the
United States House and Senate will need to take up
the matter. Quote. I would expect that in the new year,

(37:22):
the President will bring forth a proposal to Congress to
make that happen. Details about Trump's tariff rebate proposal remain sparse.
Trump has said he wants to issue the rebate checks
and use the rest of the tariff revenue to pay
down the nation's thirty eight trillion in debt, even as
the Supreme Court has not yet determined whether he has
the authority to impose those tariffs. You know, I was

(37:44):
listening to a podcast and I typically never do this,
but it had Street Tough Scott Besson as the featured guest,
and I wanted to hear specifically what bet anytime Besson's speaking,
I listened, like, yeh, Hutton, I want to know what
Besson has to say about things. He's actually a guy
I'll to listen to. Besant made the point, and he
and Lutnik, the e Commerce Secretary, are both monitoring the

(38:08):
arguments before the Supreme Court on tariffs pretty closely, obviously,
because all of their financial plan for the future in
this administration hinge on the tariff revenue coming in and
continuing to leverage tariffs with other countries to drive business
home and to get more favorable rates for US internationally
and things like that. And one of the things that
Bessont said in listening to these oral arguments, Gorsich asked

(38:32):
a question of those opposing Trump's tariffs, and it makes
total sense to me. So a president can unilaterally issue
an embargo on whatever he wants, but he can't implement
a tariff of one percent. I think that's a profound
question from Gorsich actually, and Bessant brought up that Gorsich

(38:54):
has asked that very specific question. Remember, before the Supreme
Court is this critical it is this is a lynchpin decision.
President Trump's tariff strategy is a lynchpin in his entire
financial plan for the future of the country and on
shoring business and repatriating dollars and business into the country.

(39:16):
If the Supreme Court for some reason comes back and
says that President Trump cannot do this, it's a well,
I don't want to overstate it, because Besson and Lutnik,
for instance, have already said, well, we've got a contingency plan.
Even if they do, but they're pretty confident. They're out
there saying we don't think that's going to happen. And
they say because guys like Gorsich, Supreme Court Justice Gorsich

(39:40):
are making really cogent arguments. And the embargo argument makes
total sense to me. A president can say we're embargoing oil.
The president can do what he's doing. For instance, in
Venezuela unilatterally nobody argues, well, I guess the Democrats argue,
but there's no constitutional prohibition embargoes on oil and things

(40:01):
like that trading with Iran. Anybody that's selling oil to Iran,
we're not doing business with them. That's it. And a
president can make that decision. And yet, think about this,
there are those that would argue, President Trump cannot say
we are in an economic emergency. Embargoes happen all the
time in war or an emergency, and yet Donald Trump

(40:23):
making a very credible case that we are in an
economic emergency, thirty eight trillion in debt, We're way upside
down and over leveraged. With China, for instance, They've got
us over a barrel COVID. Again, if it taught us
nothing else, it taught us that we are entirely too
reliant on China. And if commerce seizes in the United States,
that's going to mean you and I may not be

(40:45):
able to get critical medicines that our families need. Supply
chain grinds to a halt. We cannot be that vulnerable
as a country that is a critical emergency situation. How
you can't see it that way is it's beyond me,
and it's intellectually dishonest. So here again, if you can,

(41:06):
as a president unilaterally issue embargoes in an emergency or
wartime setting, why then could you not make the case
you can do the very same thing at a president.
In other words, the question was, so a president can
embargo go the full embargo route during an emergency, but
he cannot issue a tariff of one percent on a

(41:26):
product or service that make much sense. That's, of course,
it's just play. So anyway, my point is this tariff
check that everybody's going to be getting. That's another huge
part of this, as he pays down the deficit but
also issues these checks. Obviously, the revenue from the tariff's matters,

(41:48):
and whether the Supreme Court upholds it or not. Is
whether a lot of us are going to get these
two thousand dollars checks or not. And more specifically, Congress
has to sign off on it. Three different scenarios analyzed
by the t X Foundation estimate that costs of distributing
the checks could range from two hundred and seventy nine
billion to six hundred billion. The scenarios varied among income limits,

(42:09):
single and joint filers. Blah blah blah. Even if all
tariff revenues went toward rebates, tax Foundation doesn't particularly like it,
blah blah blah. Committee for Responsible Budget said that the
math doesn't work, blah blah blah. But anyway, the point
is Congress is going to have to debate this, and
I like the politics of it. I like it a
lot because I know what's going to happen. Mike Johnson

(42:29):
and the Republicans are going to come back from Christmas
break and we're going to have a good old fashioned
discussion about whether we should cut two thousand dollars rebate
checks to the American public with tariff revenue. How's that
going to play? If Democrats stand up and say no,
I love it. Dare the Democrats to oppose Trump cutting
two thousand dollars checks to people? Dare them? I absolutely do.

(42:54):
And remember that staff that I shared with you from
the Wall Street Journal yesterday devastating. I actually posted it
on some social media on X I would encourage you
to share that with everyone. We spend as a country
one point four trillion dollars annually on welfare. One point
four trillion dollars broadly the federal government spends on welfare programs.

(43:17):
There are not quite twenty million households that are considered
impoverished by government definition. So once again, not quite twenty
million households in the country considered impoverished. We spend one
point four trillion on welfare, meaning instead of all of

(43:41):
the money laundering and fraud that undoubtedly goes on inside
that one point four trillion dollars. You could I'm going
to bring this up with Steve More a little later.
You could effectively cut every one of the households considered
at or below the poverty line in this country. You
could cut them all seventy thousand dollars annual checks. Sat

(44:06):
another way, if you wanted to be really charitable as
a taxpayer, would you prefer the government continue to broadly
spend one point four trillion dollars on welfare or would
you prefer your tax dollars in the federal government just
cut checks directly to families who fall at or below
the poverty line. If you favored the latter, the outcome

(44:29):
would be each house getting seventy grand, which, of course,
if it were cut and dry that way, do you
think most of the American public would tolerate their tax
dollars going out the door to nineteen point eight million
homes seventy grand home, I mean fasted? If that were
made a public debate, would the American public at large say, yes,
we support seventy thousand dollars being sent to each home

(44:53):
considered at or below poverty. Do you think most Americans
would support that or not? Oh?

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Yeah, they'll take, they'll take.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Do you think so, like most Americans would say, yes,
send each impoverished homes seventy thousand dollars a year versus
spending one point four trillion broadly on welfare programs.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Who's going to come down against that?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yeah, well, I think that's an outstanding amount of money,
is what I think. Seventy thousand dollars. I don't know
what the average Am I right or am I wrong?
When I say the average home doesn't pull in seventy
thousand dollars annually or at least per paycheck like individual
working I don't know what the average take home salary
is in the United States these days. I don't think
it's seventy It feels like that's high. I might be wrong,

(45:38):
but anyway, it's a healthy sum of money. Is the point.
We're spending a tremendous sum of money, and so putting
Democrats in a place where they're arguing over two thousand
dollars tariff checks going out the door to the average taxpayer.
I love it at minus fifty five. Well for the

(46:00):
Democrats in Congress right now, keep it up. Put on
the gas pedal. Merry Christmas, hope you're doing well, those
of you listening on our hundreds of affiliates all over
the country. A little dominic to Donkey or pop up Paulie.
Merry Christmas to you all my pythons out there. I
had never heard we got it. I was looking over

(46:22):
the list of givers. You guys at the angel Tree
campaign this year have been outstanding. You know. We're at
about thirty two hundred kids as of this morning for
our angel Tree campaign. Of course, this is the final
show of twenty twenty five, and again I say thank
you so much. You have been such a blessing to us.
We're not done. This campaign will continue. You've been hearing

(46:45):
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of your generosity and other cut caring friends who have
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You can also text my name Chris to nine four
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(47:26):
could you consider helping us reach even more kids? Easy
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to Christigall dot com. I was going over some of
the names. One of them was a guy with the
last name Siriani in Pennsylvania, and I thought, past Eddy,

(47:46):
that's not is that a common enough name that it
wouldn't be It's not the It wasn't Nick, I'll just
say that. But it was a Siriani in suburban Philadelphia,
and I thought to myself, possible. Could we have Philadelphia
Eagles code family monitoring the show?

Speaker 6 (48:03):
Well, I think it's very possible.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Oh yes, let me read some of these. I don't
maybe this will bore you. I don't mean for it too,
but I'm just so thankful I could spend the whole
show reading. I won't do that to you, but man
from all over the country. Your generosity, it came in.
And I mean we had gifts from everywhere, from five
dollars to thousands of dollars. And it doesn't matter what

(48:28):
you could give or how much you gave. It all
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(49:17):
John Kingsport, Tennessee, Mary Ann Prairieville, Louisiana. Joseph maple Shade,
New Jersey. Anthony, that's just some Like I said, I
could read and read and read. But thank you from
the bottom of my heart all of you who have
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(49:40):
nine four eight seven eight. All right, let's go to
the phone and talk to Dan in Missouri the show
me State. Good morning, Dan, good to have you. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 9 (49:49):
Merry Christmas to you, Chris.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
What's on your land this morning? Also, you bet.

Speaker 9 (49:55):
You if the government will offers seventy thousand dollars, you
know a year, there'll be a lot of people quit
and work and waiting on a check.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a pretty hand. I mean,
think about that, though. We spend at one point for
trillion dollars annually on welfare programs, which the Wall Street
Journal broke down to if you just gave it to
impoverished families ad or below the poverty line, that would
equate to seventy grand household Me. What does that really
tell you, Dan? Really? What does that tell you?

Speaker 9 (50:28):
So there's a lot of abuse fraud in the system.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 9 (50:33):
Well, and so I think it should be a sliding scale. Also,
you know, depending on the need and it's and it's
a hand up, not a handout. So I think there
should be a limit on how long it lasts. You know,
give someone a chance to improve their situation. But man,

(50:54):
just to be a it shouldn't be your goal to
become a person on the government dole.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, glad you listen, Dan, Thank you so much. Stay
in touch at Merry Christmas. You can stay in touch
with me. By the way, the Herump Society I'll continue
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(51:23):
touch on social media christigall dot com. So anymore show
straight ahead tight? Well, this is traditionally for most of
us who have tried to battle our weight over the
years and not been successful with it. Christmas time, the
holiday season, maybe one of the worst times. It's just
impossible everywhere. In fact, just yesterday I was in the

(51:45):
office and I saw somebody brought in a tray of
this and a plate of that, and cookies here and
cake there, and people are delivering trays and vats of
different stuff. It's just everywhere. And once upon a time,
I know exactly the way I would have behaved. I
know exactly the way I would have thought about it. Well,
I've already got a weight problem. I'm just gonna eat

(52:08):
a little more. I'll tackle it in January. And the
thing that you know fast Eddie, the executive producer of
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the inspiration behind the whole program, joins us again this morning.
We like to check in with her from time to
time because she talks about more than just weight loss.
By the way, on our own show, and Merry Christmas
to you, doctor, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Hi Chris, Merry Christmas to you. How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
You know what I'm doing great? I really it's empowering
to say that I've lost weight this year and I
can steer down the barrel of all this incredibly bad
for me food and be okay. You know. And by
the way, even if I do nibble on it a
little bit, I know how to pull it back in.
I don't have to just go nuts and go out

(53:37):
of control and succumb to it. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
That's great, that's the goal.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
You said, there are foods coming in in that so
it sounds like it's intense over there.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
We do nothing small, nothing small, I get, But is
it right? You've heard it over the years. I mean,
this is when people just if they battle weight. I
know this is the case with me. They just say, eh,
I'll see you in the new year. Even try right,
because you feel so overwhelmed by weight at some point
you just feel like giving up.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yeah, that's very true.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
You know, A very busy time for us actually is
right after Christmas. For some reason, people are like, okay,
this counts, that's the new year. But a lot of
people do get started during what I call the feasting season,
which is Thanksgiving, really Halloween through Christmas because they understand
they need to learn the tactics just like you spoke of,

(54:30):
to be able to get through these seasons and to
be able to celebrate and still enjoy. I think two
things are true here. You still can enjoy the holidays
and enjoy the foods that you love and stay healthy.
And so when you can learn these tactics and feel
empowered and feel in control of the food around you

(54:50):
and how you behave around it, it feels so good.
So you definitely can achieve good health outcomes even during
this holiday season.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I got the nicest email from a woman about your counselors,
and she didn't name her specific counselor, nor do I
want to betray any confidences. But this is what people
should know about you know, Eddie and I work with Heather.
You're a great counselor, but you have many of them,
and once a week when you're on the program, you
check in with different counselors. Tracy and Sarasota, Florida, said

(55:21):
that she is a twenty five year healthcare professional and
that she signed up and started this past summer. She's
down twenty five pounds to her goal weight and has
been on maintenance for a few weeks. But she said
nothing is compared to how her mother benefited, and it's
this is not about her mother being on the program,
but the counselor that Tracy was working with started talking
with her about some of the things her mother was

(55:41):
battling from a dietary point of view, and it turned
everything around, and she said her mother is feeling great too.
My whole family, she concluded in this email, Doctor Lucas,
My whole family has benefited from the knowledge that they
teach in terms of eating habits and health habits. I
could not have found them without you, meaning this show,
and you're advertising here, doctor Lucas, So I just I

(56:03):
want to impart that on people that you know when
they work with PhD weight loss, they're working with a
counselor every week who talks you through a lot, not
just what you're eating.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Yeah, we have an amazing team of nutritionists and coaches
and it's a very high touch program because that's what
I believe is required to create such a significant change
in your life. So every week, one on one, you
will have coaching where we talk about nutrition because a
lot of what we've been guided through or educated on

(56:35):
around nutrition is completely wrong. It's backwards, and so we
re educate on what you're doing. I think it's important
that you understand what your metabolism is doing and how
it behaves to different foods and timings and all of
these things, especially because everyone is different.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
We also focus a lot on you.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
It's a very holistic program because I believe eighty percent
of any change comes from the mind. So we've got
to look at the mental, emotional, the habits, be behaviors,
why you eat the way that you do, what's coming up,
what might be those sabotaging thoughts and triggers. And we
do it so that the process is as simple and
as easy as possible. But if you are participating or

(57:12):
have been participating in a program that just looks at
what you're consuming and doesn't look at the mindset and
how we think about things, then the weight is not
going to stay off in a sustainable, long term way.
There's just no way around it.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
You know.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
I look at weight loss as a process of letting go,
letting go of the fat weight that is no longer
serving you, but all of the emotions that are tied
to it as well. And we hear what Tracy just
shared all the time. You know, this impacts your loved ones,
your kids, your grandkids. If you have a spouse or
a partner and they don't participate in the program too,

(57:48):
and they have weight to drop, they will drop it
at least a portion of it just by osmosis, just
by following you. Or if you have a spouse or
partner who does not need to drop weight in your
concern and if you can do this program, you definitely
can and that person close to you, that loved one
will still benefit. They'll reduce inflammation, they will improve their sleep.

(58:10):
You know, I started this program working with athletes. My
PhD is in sports nutrition and chronic disease. And I
was working with all of this, these Olympic level athletes,
and what I found that this program that I've created
had this significant impact on their performance, allowing them to
achieve the body composition they needed to for the sport.

(58:30):
But it had a more profound impact on those of
us struggling with excess weight.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
So it works for athletes, it.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Works for any individual who's looking to improve their overall wellness.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
They'll benefit.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
And everyone should know that if they're listening to us
right now and they're interested, this is the month to call.
And I mean not to discourage people next month, but
you're offering a deal right now in your program that
goes away come January.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Right, Yeah, yes we are.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
We don't often offen for any kind of quote unquote
deal because we are really in steady in what we provide.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
But this month we always want.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
To encourage people to get started because again it's such
a key time of year learning all of these skills
that will set you up for success as you continue on.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Because my ultimate.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Goal for every single person who works with PhD is
to keep the weight off for good. So we want
to make sure that we are setting you up for
success in these difficult seasons as well.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
So if you go to the website my PhD Weight Loss,
the code is two weeks. Two weeks is the code
to get the deal, and that's two free weeks of
the program. You'll waive the consultation fee even cover the
cost of some food. So it's MYPHDE weight loss dot com.
You can also call eight six four six four four
nineteen hundred eight six four six four four nineteen hundred two.

(59:52):
Things I really want to stress too, You don't do
the shop thing right. There's no at least in my interaction,
and I've not had any kind of there's no medication thing.
There's no medicine prescription, there's no shot prescribed. You don't.
You don't go that route.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
We are a full natural approach. We've been doing this
for over a decade. Our clients, most men will drop
about three four sometimes five pounds a week on average,
most of our women to two and a half up
to three pounds per week, which is actually faster than
the medication. By the way that we shift how you
eat and the metabolic reset that that allows you will

(01:00:30):
not have food hunger or food noise. Food chatter, all
of the things they're talking about that the drugs helped
to quiet. It does this naturally. You don't have to
worry about significant muscle loss or the significant complications from
the drugs, or the weight regain after you stop the drugs.
We just have found that PhD works so well there

(01:00:51):
is really no need to insert the medication that has
cost and complications.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And I'll stress that you can do all this from
the I'm port of your own home with about a
minute to go, doctor Lucas. You can do this from home.
This is not people you know, You're not going into
a meeting or weighing in or some public scene. This
is all. You can do this all in the confines
of your own private space.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
That's right, that's what you prefer. We have thousands of clients.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
We've served over eleven six hundred clients, with the majority
of them being nationwide.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
At home. It's very convenient.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
You can do it no matter where you live, when
you're traveling, whatever might be coming up in your life.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
We will support you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
I think that's the most important aspect of creating change
in your life is to have the support and accountability
no matter what you're doing how busy your lifestyle is,
you've got to have that support and that's definitely what
we strive to provide.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Well, this show is already sixty pounds lighter than it
was when we launched in January, thanks to you. I
want you to know. So there's sixty pounds less fat
between Idio and me, and we're going to go for
even more in the new year. I hope people will
join us and take advantage of this. Doctor Lucas, good
to talk to you. I hope you have a very
merry Christmas. Oh and by the way, thank you for
my mug. This is now at my morning drink out

(01:02:07):
of Oh I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Oh yeah, that's great, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
You're welcome, It's nice, wonderful good. It's great to see you,
and we will see you in the new year. Doctor Lucas,
thank you. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
You see you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
And Eddie, she's fantastic. What I love so much about
the sponsors of this show is every one of them,
in some former fashion, is help. It's a help. They're
not just purely selling a product or a service. They're
actually trying to help people. And she has a real
heart for helping people. Every single This is a time
of year where, if you'll indulge me, I just I

(01:02:44):
feel inclined to say thank you to the sponsors who
make the show work. As I have told you before,
it is one thing to do a show and you
really never know who's funding it. There are some shows
out there who are very well funded and you have
no idea who's funding them or who drives them. But
everybody you hear on this show, you know this show

(01:03:04):
only works if the advertisers are here, and it only
works if you support the advertisers. I am proud to
partner with these people that we advertise with, including doctor Lucas,
and what does me so much good is to know
how much they help you and help other people. It's
just been a wonderful partnership and a friendship. Again, our
telephone number is eight five fives to goall if you'd

(01:03:25):
like to get in here on open Line Friday. Speaking
of partnerships that help people, the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews does just that. IFCJ is constantly at work
to remind people that whether it's what we saw on
October seventh or even through a ceasefire, doesn't mean the ugliness. Frankly,
the darkness that's trying to extinguish the light of Christians

(01:03:47):
and Jews all over the world. It still exists. We
saw it just a couple of weeks ago in Australia.
Times like these remind us that even with that cease fire,
people are still being targeted simply because of their faith.
And IFCJ exists to stay and in the gap, providing
safety and security to Christians and Jews all over the country.
They bring together Christians and Jews to be a light

(01:04:08):
to suffering Jews and Christians throughout Europe and now even
in Africa and the tragic stories we're seeing there people
around the world facing these threats. The IFCJ folks are
so grateful to you for being supportive. If you'd like
to learn more URGENTIFCJ dot Org, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Good morning

(01:04:30):
and Merry Christmas. Watching on the Salem News Channel all
the beautiful lights at Hershey Park. Thanks a lot for
listening all across the common of the Pennsylvania and around
the country on great radio stations. We're so thrilled to
have you along. I got a nice note from James
this morning in pleasant Hill Missouri. He said, Good morning
Christ and Merry Christmas. You appear to be in a
good mood this morning, he said, I am, by the way,

(01:04:53):
Thank you, James, he said, just a quick note to
thank you for your outlook on life, politics, and most importantly,
our relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Back
in early April, you took my call and we spoke
about the feared doomed market crash. And I'm happy to
report that throughout, through personal accountability and words of great

(01:05:15):
advice from yourself and others, twenty twenty five will end
as a great and blessed year for my family. I
wish twenty twenty six to be another strong year for
you and yours, keep telling the truth, encouraging patience, and
reminding us of our ultimate goal, salvation through faith in
our Lord and Savior. Wow. Well, James, thank you, Merry Christmas.

(01:05:36):
Of course, that is ultimately, we celebrate the birth of
our Lord and Savior this week, and that is that's
what gives us our hope. You know, a personal challenge
that I've put for myself in twenty twenty six, I
am now. I think I told you that I've been
kind of filling in and co leading somewhat in a
kind of a rotation group a Bible study through Romans,

(01:05:57):
which just wrapped up, and I was asked if I
would go ahead and step forward and now become the
leader of the Bible study going forward. So I sort of,
I guess. I did a soft audition of some Bible
discussion on Sunday's Fast Eddie, and now I've talked my
way into leading it full time starting in the new year.

(01:06:19):
So that's a new assignment for me and a new task,
and I'm I'm up to it and I'm excited about it.
But it's a personal challenge beyond what we do here,
and I want that for everybody to expand and stretch
for Jesus. That's my personal goal and for all of
us as Christians. I hope that's your goal too. That's
where I'd like to spend more of my energy in

(01:06:39):
twenty twenty six. I'm not much for reslolutions, but that's one,
you know, Yeah, So.

Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
I'm proud of you for that, And after you kind
of go through this process, I would like to know,
because I asked this of people all the time, how
does anyone you know what we do the hours we work,
how long it takes to put this content out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
There every single day?

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
How do you find the time? Because I myself am
looking for like even one of our good friends of
the show, guy Shiraki, has tried to get me into this,
like even a digital version like over the screen Bible study,
and I still haven't found the time to do it yet.
So you're gonna have to tell me how it goes
and and what what you did to make time for
that as well as do this every day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Well, you know it's a cliche, but they say you,
and I don't. I don't say this to castigate you.
Don't misunderstand, because it's this is as much for me
as it is you or anybody else. They say you,
you will always make time for the things you prioritize, Okay, right,
and that's it. You'll find the time if you prioritize it,
if that's what's important to you. And I will just say, honestly, personally,

(01:07:42):
for me, this is just this is purely I'm speaking
to myself, not to you. I I still kind of
go through I catch myself often just kind of going
through the probunctory. Well, it's Sunday, I'll go to class,
and I'll go to church, and maybe I'll occasionally go
to a Wednesday. But am I am I making the deliberate,
conscious effort every day to unplug from this the news,

(01:08:04):
social media and whatever and spend it in worship and
reading scripture. And to me, the way I finally decided
I'm going to make myself do that is well, if
I lead others in a discussion every week, I'm bloody
well going to have to do it now. Right, that's
too much choice, That's right. So it's important.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
And you created the times just like, well, I have
to do it now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Yeah, I'm making myself. I'm giving myself that assignment happily
and it's going to And I tell you something, leading
a discussion it challenges you and grows you. You find
at least I have most of the time these lessons.
I won't say most, at least fifty percent of the time.
It's like it's for you. When you're studying and you're
preparing to speak to a group about it, you end

(01:08:48):
up taking away something from the study where you say, oh,
I hear you, I hear you, God, I get it.
I hit you take something away throughout Romans. I will
tell you I specifically benefited from my study of Romans
in a way this year, and I've read through the
book a couple of times. But boy, Romans eleven, if
you want to spend some time Paul talking about Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel.

(01:09:16):
I mean, if you had a nickel for every time
you heard that word mentioned. This year, I was very
conflicted about how I felt about things, and I couldn't
really articulate how I felt about things. And there I
was smack in the middle of a study co leading
on Romans, and I happened to actually be leading class
talking about Romans eleven, and I would just say, if
that is something that you would like to know more about,

(01:09:38):
or think more about, or study in more detail, read
Paul's own writing in Romans eleven about Israel. There's more
than that, of course, but that's a great place to
start in my view. So that's kind of what I
hope to get this year. Rosie O'Donnell, she's very depressed.
Give me number seventy eight here, Paul, she needs the
Lord Heaven. No, she's over in Ireland. Here's some of Rose.

Speaker 11 (01:10:02):
And those with what he calls derangement syndrome are the
ones who think that he's a good man. And it
is not a good man. It's hardly even a human.
Humans are full of compassion and empathy, and he has zero, zero, zero.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
In all sincerity. Whether you're conservative or you're a miserable
leftist like her, that's no way to lead your life.
I sincerely hope that she finds the spirit of Jesus
and the Holy Spirit for her life. That's a miserable
way to live. Don't let yourself become that merry Christmas.
You heard me earlier this year, I hope talking about
our partnership with Prison Fellowship, the non for profit Christian

(01:10:52):
organization that helps kids who have incarcerated parents enjoy a
little fresh air and fun out in the open outdoors
during summer camp. Well, they do great work at Christmas
time too, and we're proud to partner with them again
in what they call their Angel Tree Christmas campaign. You know,
there are thousands of kids all over the country, through

(01:11:15):
no fault of their own, who see one or maybe
even both of their parents incarcerated this time of year,
and what a what a tough thing that is. You know,
a child should be enjoying the Christmas season, and with
something that heavy in their home, it's often difficult to do.
What I love about Prison Fellowship is and what is
so cool about what Angel Tree does. They take a

(01:11:36):
thirty dollars donation that you give and they can turn
that into a gift for a young person who may
be struggling this Christmas. And best of all, it's not
just a gift. It's a handwritten note from their parent
who happens to be incarcerated, and most importantly, the gospel
message they hear the truth of Jesus this time of year.
That's a thirty dollars gift from you to a child

(01:11:57):
who could really use some joy. So I hope you'll
join me. And there are a couple of ways to
do it. If this is something that's important to you
or interesting to you, or you think you know I've
been blessed, I'd like to be a blessing. Thirty bucks
gets it done for one child. One hundred and fifty bucks.
You've impacted five kids and their Christmas with a handwritten
note from their parents as well as the gospel message

(01:12:19):
of Jesus. It's one of the most important things we
do all year as far as I'm concerned here on
the show, and you can get involved by going to
Christigall dot com and click on the banner at the
top of my page christigall dot com. Click on the
banner and give whatever you feel you can, or you
can call to Day at eight eight eight to zero
six twenty seven ninety four. That's eight eight eight two
zero six twenty seven ninety four and give what you

(01:12:42):
can to the Angel Tree Christmas campaign with our friends
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(01:13:47):
good morning and Merry Christmas. We're looking at Key West,
Florida this morning on the Salem News Channel. Thanks for
listening on one O two point five N ninety six
point nine. There in the southernmost part of Florida. Beautiful
looking shot over the water. Guy sitting there in short
pants looking out over the water this morning Bragger fast
Eddy looked out the window, saw snow. It's very nice

(01:14:09):
there in DC as well, so some snowfall in suburban
Philadelphia and in Arlington, where our studios are located. I
thought it was really nice that the guys in the
control room got into the holiday spirit too. While you're
looking at your window and seeing snowfall, fast Eddie, the
guys in the control room they're in the Christmas spirit.
They've simulated the snowfall. It's asbestos, and it's really it's charming.

(01:14:34):
It's just a sweet it's the sweet light fall of right.
Hop up, PAULI g love Bobby. You're all in there.
Are you enjoying the dusting of asbestos? Does it make
you feel like you're in the Christmas kind of like
a snow globe and I'm asbestos globe. I think that's nice.

Speaker 6 (01:14:51):
More fiberglass than asbestos, at least allegedly.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
They're doing massive renovations in our control room and these guys,
God bless, wave to the people, boys, say Mary Christmas
to everybody. Yeah, these guys have been sitting in there,
running the show like champs while they've just been destroying
the entire that room they're in, is it and everywhere
around them on the outside of those four walls, they're
utterly destroying everything fast Eddie.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
I don't know how I et Chris as audio first.
For me, I don't know how you can deal with that.
God Bless you guys, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Woo. That's pop up Pauli the melio there on the
left of your screen. And then there's a g Love
our technical director there in the middle, and Bobby bass
are Audio Cowboy there on the right. And those three
guys are sort of the nerve center, fast Eddie. They
make the whole show hum. So people that watch on
the Salem News Channel who never get to see those guys,
those are the guys that make the show work every day,

(01:15:47):
and we're grateful to them, of course, fast Eddie. It
goes without saying the brains behind the program, the executive
producer six years running. Now, I was just doing the
math on that. Is that right? I just got my
six year certificate or some such thing in there. That's right.
They started gradulating us for six years with the Salem
Media Group.

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
It's pretty intense and a good way. Like it's I
hadn't thought about it. It's like, wow, November, yeah, November fourth, twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Nineteen is when you started and with Salem and wrapping
up in this sixth year, our first year in syndication.
It's been a real treat, it really has. It's been
a lot of fun, Steve Moore, our chief economist, is
on the way, you know. Twenty twenty five. It was
not just our first year in syndication. Professionally, it was
a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun.

(01:16:33):
But it was also a year of competence for the
country because, for the first time in a very long time,
the United States didn't drift. It acted. Authority was exercise.
You saw it again yesterday. Systems were enforced, limits were restored.
The country changed direction, and not just giving platitudes and speeches,

(01:16:53):
actual structural changes. It's like the early months of Franklin
Roosevelt's presidency, though it aimed in the opposite direction. This
Trump term has been defined less by rhetoric than by incentives.
Borders were actually secured, energy was actually unleashed. Bureaucratic excess
was finally forced to retreat. Three specific victories stand out

(01:17:15):
to me not as slogans, but as realities Americans could
feel in their daily lives. Affordability, sovereignty, and accountability. They
marked the opening chapter of restoration and endurance that will
be decided in twenty twenty six. We hope. Let's start
with the economy. The most important economic fact of twenty
twenty five. Isn't simply that inflation fell, It's that inflation cooled,

(01:17:37):
despite everything experts insisted would make it impossible. Tariffs were
supposed to ignite price spirals. Energy deregulation was supposed to
cause chaos, and instead prices stabilized, Credit conditions eased, energy
costs declined. Affordability and the metrics family live by Affordability

(01:17:58):
became closer to a reality. And it wasn't luck. It
was because of policy. Energy was decisive too, and an
economy increasingly driven by AI, advanced manufacturing, medical research, space exploration,
national defense, energy is no longer just another input. It's
the bottleneck. A nation cannot produce abundant, reliable power and

(01:18:19):
not lead the future. You can't lead the future without it.
You have to have it. Trump understood this. Deregulating domestic
energy brings costs down. I just saw gas at two
twenty nine at my pump. Recently, tariffs played to commence
a complimentary role in all of this too, and they
deserve to be understood correctly. Tariff's do. They are not

(01:18:43):
protectionist tantrums or legislative tinkering. They are, in my opinion,
an article to power closely related to the president's authority
over foreign affairs and national security. I talked about that earlier. Historically,
tariff's functioned as the economic equivalent of soft blockades. Naval
blockades restrict ships, and tariffs restrict the flow of strategic

(01:19:03):
goods and dependency without firing a shot. By the way,
and in a world where supply chains have become geopolitical weapons,
tariffs allow the executive to respond quickly to hostile trade practices, espionage,
currency manipulation, and more. And these are threats Congress is
structurally just too slow to counter by themselves. Tariffs were

(01:19:24):
never meant to stop automation. They slowed the outsourcing shock,
buying time for American labor and capital and innovation to adapt.
It's not protectionism, it's economic state craft, its national security.
All the critics promise disaster, but twenty twenty five delivered relief.
And when families can fill their gas tanks and stock

(01:19:46):
their fridges and plan ahead without dread, our country begins
to steady. When families stabilize, so do nations. The second
victory was sovereignty. Sovereignty didn't return through symbolism alone. It
returned through enforcement, and enforcement includes deportation. By the way,
by removing millions of illegal entrants, the government didn't just

(01:20:07):
reassert the law. It corrected a market distortion that had
quietly driven up costs for years. With fewer illegal aliens
competing for housing and wages in public services, supplying demand,
dynamics reassert themselves. Rental markets loosen wage pressure, eases local
resources stretch further. It's not ideology, folks, it's economics. Secure

(01:20:31):
borders restore confidence on multiple levels all at once. Economic
confidence that wages won't be undercut, civic confidence that laws
still matter, cultural confidence that a nation retains the right
to define itself. Sovereignty is not abstract. It's the precondition
for investment, innovation, and social trust. The third and quietest

(01:20:53):
victory was accountability. The most consequential reform of twenty twenty
five did not happen at the gas pumper the border.
It happened inside Washington. DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency,
introduced something that federal bureaucracy has not faced in generations.
Automated accountability, using AI to flag duplication, fraud, and waste

(01:21:16):
before money moved. DOGE disrupted a system built on delay
and opaqueness. Billions in questionable spending were paused, regulations were streamlined,
Transparency replaced inertia. Waste was never accidental, it was structural,
and DOGE attacked the plumbing of it all. Controlling deficits

(01:21:40):
isn't about austerity. It's about avoiding national bankruptcy. So America
can invest where it has to, energy, dominance, defense readiness,
technological leadership, infrastructure, and families. DOGE did not dismantle the
administrative state overnight check teck. Growth actually stopped and some

(01:22:05):
contraction began. That alone makes twenty twenty five. Historic hiring
was exclusively in the private sector, no government job growth. Now.
None of this means the work is finished. Of course,
housing shortages remain, student debt is still sky high, entrepreneurship
wealth building for an entire generation has been delayed. And
these aren't failures of restoration. They are the next problems

(01:22:28):
worth solving. And that's why forward looking, market driven ideas
like if I may my Stagall plan matter. The goal
is not government micromanagement. Its expansion, increasing housing supply, reducing
regulatory choke points, restructuring student debts so it stops crowding
out home ownership allowing Americans to build equity instead of

(01:22:51):
treading water. Solving affordability permanently requires pairing discipline government with
creative private sector solutions, not pretending the problems don't exist.
Restoration creates opportunity. The next phase is, of course, building.
Christmas is about arrival, not completion. Twenty twenty five marked
a return to first principles, limited government, a secure nation

(01:23:16):
and a prosperous people. Whether they endure, well, that's what's
going to be decided in twenty twenty six. Look, the
fact of the matter is restoration is very, very fragile.
It's tenuous. We're on the right track, but it is real,
it is happening, Real results are happening, positive steps are

(01:23:37):
being taken, and for the very very first time in
a very long time, at least since I've been able
to vote, America is actually moving in the right direction.
And we have a president to thank for that who's
continuing to drive that agenda even into this Christmas time.

(01:23:57):
There's no off position on this president's switch. I'm personally
grateful for Donald Trump, and I don't think because we
turn the calendar and head into twe to twenty six,
we should become glum and dour and pessimistic. I think
we continue to demand that restoration. I think there's plenty
more to be done and plenty of time ahead. And
I don't think it's a lock that Democrats are going

(01:24:20):
to win in twenty twenty six. They're historically unpopular. There
is still time if we have the will to stay
engaged and continue to push. So Merry Christmas and happy
New Year, and let's get back at it in twenty
twenty six. You know, I don't really have any opinion

(01:24:40):
of what's going on over at CBS, but I'm having
a lot of fun watching it. Merry Christmas, listening to
Dino Dean Martin, looking at them skating there in Rockefeller
Center this morning on the ice rink. Telephone number eight
five fives to goll if you'd like to get in here.
Hope you're getting ready for a great Christmas with your family.
Don't know if you've been following or paying much attention

(01:25:01):
to her, if you even care. I'm not really sure
I do. But it's fun. It's more that this is
just more fun for me to watch traditional legacy media
fracturing and falling apart and fighting, you know, Barry Weiss,
who is I don't even know how to describe her
ed she's she came up again this weekend at Amfest

(01:25:21):
and she and Megan Kelly are in a slap fight
now or whatever. I don't know. It all bores me
to tears, and I don't really care. But she was
a former liberal and she started doing tremendous work during
the Biden COVID era, controlling media and controlling the Hunter
Biden laptop story. She and Matt Taibe and a couple
of others really took off on substack and became known

(01:25:44):
as actual true liberals in the sense of speaking truth
to power rather than coordinating with government. So she became
sort of a heroine to conservatives and that she actually
decided to challenge authority instead of just parroting the official
line from the Biden White House that clearly was not
in control of anything, the husk and his lying press

(01:26:06):
secretary and all the coordination with social media. Barry Weiss
was actually someone, as a journalist who is concerned about that,
And as we often do, we wrap our loving arms
around any liberal who actually behaves like a normal human being.
From time to time, you know, we do that ed like,
oh yeah, a liberal behaves once and we get excited
and want to bring them into the fold. They're not

(01:26:27):
always necessarily conservatives forever, but we do that a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
No, No, I agree. Ever since you said it for
the first time I remembered it with Kanye, I always.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Read them just like, that's right.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
Let's not get ahead of ourselves again.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
People are useful when they're useful, and we should always
take their help and assert their usefulness when they're useful,
but take them under our wing whole cloth and say, oh, well,
they're tried and true, rock ribbed conservative odds are if
they've not had a full scale conversion, they're going to
disappoint you eventually. It's like Bill Maher, he's great when
he's great, but he's not always great. He's great a

(01:27:02):
lot more than he used to be. So anyway, my
point is, now Barry Weiss runs CBS News. Now, I
don't have any feelings about her. Really. I don't know
what kind of political person she is really, and I
don't know I know that Paramount and CBS they're doing
all kinds of merging and buying, and they're still trying
to buy some other I don't know what they're in

(01:27:24):
the middle of. Everybody's just all media companies are not
trying to consolidate and buy up one another, and so
there's a lot of federal government oversight of that and
all of that stuff. Anyway, CBS News and sixty Minutes specifically,
we're about to run a big expose on President Trump's
decision to partner with El Salvatore on deporting criminal illegal aliens,

(01:27:49):
citing the need for more reporting and better balance. Barry
Weiss stepped in and said, we're not airing this now.
On the left, sixty minutes is church. It is unquestioned,
the haughty Scott, Pelly, Leslie Stall, the whole lot of them.

(01:28:13):
If it comes from sixty minutes, it's the gospel. So
now that Barry Wise is in charge, she's gone in
there and she's kicked down some of these sacred shrines
of journalism and said, no, we're not just going to
air it because it's sixty minutes. I want to see it.
So she saw it, and she said, I've watched sixty
Minutes and CBS News practical application of standards and practices

(01:28:37):
for decades. She issued a statement that said, our story
was screened five times. Miss Weiss said in a statement Sunday,
my job is to make sure that all stories we
publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that
aren't ready for whatever reason, that they lack sufficient contexts say,
or that they are missing critical voices happens every day

(01:28:57):
and every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important
piece when it's ready. Reading this from hot air our
friends there. It turns out Wiss takes the title of
editor in chief seriously. She reviewed the segment earlier in
the week and determined that the reporting was incomplete and
didn't give enough context on the administration's policies and decisions

(01:29:20):
related to this deportation. So apparently the producers didn't make
the changes necessary for Wise to approve it for air.
So when she saw the final segment on Thursday of
last week, she raised numerous concerns to sixty minutes producers
about the segment, and she asked for a significant amount
of new material to be added. One of her suggestions

(01:29:42):
was to include a fresh interview with Stephen Miller. This
piece included no interviews with Trump officials, by the way,
so the woman that put it together at sixty minutes.
Alfonsie is her name, Sharon Alfonsie. She said, this was journalism.
It was perfect, and screw you Berry Wise. Why this
woman still has a job. This Barry Barry wife should
fire this Alfonsi woman's butt, as far as I'm concerned

(01:30:04):
moren a minute. You know that relative that just won't
go home, You know they've been visiting and it's nice,
it's been Christmasmas and now it's time to go. That's
kind of how we're all feeling this morning. Not going
to bother you with it. Telephone number eight five five
stigl if you'd like to get in here. Merry Christmas.
This will be our final broadcast, mercifully. We're taking it

(01:30:25):
out behind the barn and hitting it over the head
with a shovel as soon as we're done with today's show.
And it's sure glad, sure, we're sure glad to have
you to be a part of it. As we wrap up.
I do want to tell you to make sure you
stay close to the podcast. I did get a nice note.
I will say this. I got a very nice note
from George and he said, and I appreciated the note.
He acknowledges the fact that a lot of other shows,

(01:30:47):
they just phone it in and they wouldn't show up
and do work. And to that, I say, they're far
smarter than us. But George said, and I quote Chris,
I work in a car dealership and this week and
next week are gonna be busy and they're gonna be difficult.
And I want to thank you for making things more
normal for me by working more this time of year

(01:31:08):
while others are not. It helps me a lot. That's
George and Levittown fast Eddie. So there you go. We're
working for guys like George while other shows are enjoying
not butting their heads against the wall the way we
are this morning. So you're welcome, George.

Speaker 6 (01:31:26):
Thank you. George.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
That didn't sound very sincere ed. You're gonna sound a
little warmer. Yeah, all right. We're supposed to talk with
Steve more in a bit. Are we're gonna be able
to arrange that? And do we think or ye'ry. We
don't know, so we still don't have them yet. That's okay,
I tell you what. Well, we try to get Steve
Moore squared away. We're having some technical issues. I mean,
it's literally it's been hilarious because it's like this year,

(01:31:54):
everything that is technical, all the equipment has effectively said,
we phone to be in. We're done. Like the equipment
on the show did not get the memo. So while
we all showed up, the equipment did not. Let's go
to what year would be complete without hearing from Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden has surfaced and he's given a new interview

(01:32:16):
and he's talked about everything from immigration to Afghanistan and
his laptop in no particular order. Give me number seventy
two here, Paully.

Speaker 12 (01:32:26):
And he had mistakes, like every other president said some
that I may disagree with, but absolutely one had some
real failures. Also, what do you think some of those
failures were. I think the failure one of the failures
was the way in which they executed the Withtrawal from Afghanistan.
I think it was an obvious failure. I think thirteen

(01:32:47):
Marines are dead. I think that there was a better
way to do it. And I think that and I
can blame it on his generals. I can blame it
on the people the way in which we did it.
But my dad always knew this. Also is that the
buck stops with him. I think that that was a failure.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Well, okay, I guess we agree with Hunter on that.
How about illegal aliens breaking into the country. Here's Hunter
on that issue number seventy three.

Speaker 12 (01:33:17):
But we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally
draining us of resources and also in being prioritized above
people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home,
that are still recovering from twenty twenty years of endless war,

(01:33:39):
or anybody else in our society.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Steve Moore is our chief economist. He joins us from
the committee to in leash prosperity. Steve, O, Merry Christmas.
How about Hunter Biden. I don't know this Christmas. He's
decided to unload on Dad and he said, yeah, we
screwed up our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and we shouldn't have
all these illegal breaking into the country draining our resources.
Good morning, Steve, O.

Speaker 4 (01:34:03):
Hi, Chritits. Well, but merry Christmas, my friend. By you,
you're the hardest working person in Hollywood. So listen. I mean,
I just want to be through with the Bidens, don't you.
I want to be done with the Biden's. I want
to be done with the Clintons. I mean, go away.
You've done enough damage to our country. By the way,
we still have the remnants of Obama with Obama Care,

(01:34:24):
which is blowing up our healthcare system. So I don't
want these people around, not for nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
And this really does anything to do with economics. But
I will ask you this because I made the point earlier.
Donald Trump yesterday was asked about this Epstein stuff again
and specifically that Clinton was showing up in the photos
and stuff, and I said, you know, this shows the
humanity of Trump. He doesn't get credit for it very often,
but he deserves it. The Clinton's no friends of his anymore.
They used to be. Maybe he doesn't feel as badly

(01:34:51):
about Bill as he does Hillary. But nevertheless, he said
of Bill and others, it was very clear what he's
always said about the Epstein. There are a lot of
people caught up in photos with this guy that don't
have anything to do with the sex or anything elicted
or illegal. He was friends with lots of people, including me.
Trump said, I got kicked him out of mar A Lago,

(01:35:12):
and I just don't I don't want for innocent people
who happened to befriend this guy at some point in
history now to be dragged through the mud like me.
It's like Trump's kind of this constant. He absorbs all
the bullets and the slings and arrows, but he genuinely
doesn't want it for everyone else, and he tries to
keep it from people if he can.

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
I think, look, I've gotten to know Trump very well
over the last eight years, and you know, he is
he is a good man. He's you know, and by
the way, he's a flawed man. We're all flawed. He
has just plaus but you know, he is just. In
terms of my own relationship with Trump, even when I
was completely under fire, you know, you may recall what

(01:35:50):
I was dominated to be on the thunder Reserve port.
I mean, the bullets and the arrows were you know,
flung right into my back, and you know, most most
people would have basically just you know, most presidents or
CEOs would have just you know, thrown me under the bus.
And I wouldn't have even blamed him for doing that
because I called him. I said, look, I don't want,
you know, the skeletons in my closet to be, you know,

(01:36:11):
to besmirch you in any way. And he stuck with
me the whole way, and even when I resigned. He said,
you know, he said, you know, Steve, if you enhance
your reputation, I mean, he's a good man. And look,
as I said, I don't always You know this, Chris,
and we've been doing this together for five years. I
don't always agree with everything Trump does, but I always
every time I was with him and he made a

(01:36:32):
decision that I disagreed with, and that was not very often,
I always believe in my heart he was doing it
because he loves his country and he wants to put
America first.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
Yes, yes, and you economists, yeah, he does. And that's
that's that's been his mo the entire time. And that's
why I think, and I know you disagree on this
tariff thing, but I made the case that you know, Gorst,
you asked about embargoing presidents can do that unilatter Leon Howard,
Tariff's much different than in arguing by one percent or
two percent here there, and I thought it was a

(01:37:02):
really interesting argument. Best, by the way, is out there
pretty regularly now giving interviews, he and Lutnik saying what
they hear coming out of the Supreme Court sounds very positive. Now,
I don't know if they're just wearing that publicly because
that's what they hope, or if they genuinely believe the
Supreme Court's about the side with them. On tariffs.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
Well, look, I've said on your show and others, I
think Trump will lose, at least inpowered on some of
these tariffs that he's imposed. That the Supreme Court may
allow some of the terrorists to stay out of some
of the others, to require others to be repealed. It's
going to be a god awful mess when this Supreme
Court decision comes down one way or the other. But

(01:37:42):
I do think Trump will lose on some of it
because I mean, I'm a strict constitutionalist, and the language
of the Constitution is pretty clear. The taxes start in
the House of Representatives. That's Article one, section five of
the Constitution. The issue is whether that Trump can use
now security as a means to impose these terrorists. And

(01:38:05):
we'll see what the you know, I'm not a lawyer.
We'll see what the Supreme Court decides. But one way
or the other, I have to say, as someone who's
not a big fan of terrorist as I've said many
times on your show, some of the trade deals, many
of the trade deals that he's been able to negotiate
have been fantastic. We're talking about well over a trillion
dollars of foreign investment coming into the United States. Now

(01:38:26):
Trump says eight Trillly. I don't know if it's a trillion,
but even if it's only one trilie, I mean, one
trillion is a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
The Wall Street Journal to that point, just this week
wrote an interesting story about the welfare state in the country.
They put total federal welfare spending at one point four
trillion dollars annually, one point four trillion dollars, and they
said that if you this math, it was staggering. There
are nineteen point eight million homes identified as poverty or

(01:39:00):
poverty in this contry. And so you take that one
point for trillion dollars and spread it out over nineteen
point eight million homes. That's seventy grand per home.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
Exactly, Steve. So where does all the money go? I mean?
And yet we still have what thirty million people in poverty.
So whatever we're doing in Washington isn't pulling up people
out of poverty. Is not working. And you look, this
is very simple, folks. I'm just a simple minded. The economists.
The best way to pull poverty people out of poverty,
you know how. The best way to do it get

(01:39:31):
them a job. You want to get out of poverty,
get a job, start working, start rising the economic ladder,
you know. I mean, we've got immigrants who come into
this country and within a couple of weeks they've got
a job and they rise up the economic ladder. The
worst thing you can do is pay people not to work,
and that's what we do in welfare. We pay people
not to work, and guess what, they don't work.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
This NGO stuff, the funneling of money, it feels like
much of Washington is really just a lot of money laundering.
Steve O. That's what I feel like we've discovered this
year with those and other entities. Yes, Marco Rubio and
his findings with NGOs OVERDPA and Lee Zelden, it's a
lot of money laundering posed his government outreach.

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
Yeah, no, it is. And one of the things that
I find so frustrating as someone who's been involved in
this fight of what we do with Obamacare. You know,
I think we should do with Obama terriers, blow the
whole thing up and get rid of it. It's been
a complete disaster. But just two weeks after the government's
own auditors, Chris not the Heritage Foundation, not American the

(01:40:33):
government's own auditors, said almost one hundred billion dollars has
been stolen from these programs through fraud. The Democrats, every
single Democrat, said, stay the course, let's keep just pouring
more money into this leaky bucket. I mean, how stupid
is that? And they act as if this is just
a cost of doing business. The fraud rates of these

(01:40:53):
programs can be ten to fifteen to twenty percent. I
called up some of the banks and some of the
insurance companies, what's your fraud rate? And the private sector
of the fraud rate is about two or three percent.
If they had five percent fraud, they be out of business.
And we have ten and fifteen percent for aud in
the federal agency.

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
Steve Moore is our chief economist. So here we go,
with about a minute left to go, Steve, let me
ask you, this is we close this year up. This
will be our final conversation for twenty twenty five and
head into twenty twenty six. Give me Steve Moore's fiscal predictions.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
I think that we're going to see a booming economy.
I think we're going to see four percent economics both.
I think we're going to see the deficits start to
fall because the best way to reduce the deficits grow
the economy, get people back into work. I think you're
going to see inflation, ready for this, Chris, fall below
the two percent target, and we're going to see oil

(01:41:47):
and gas prices around the country go down to as
low as two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Wow, it's two twenty nine by the way near my house.
I stay, well, yeah, Steve, for you, so, like hey,
very quickly, like ten seconds. Who do you think is
going to be the FED Chair?

Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:07):
I'm going to go with Kevin Hassett, my good friend Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
I like both Kevins.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
They're both fantastic and they are going to make the
dollar great again.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
Kevin Hassett the new FED Chair. You heard the predictions
from Steve Moore, our chief economist, Steve O. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year. Thanks for everything you do for the
show all year long.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Yeah. That's a great country, isn't it it is.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
We're glad for you and grateful for you. Have a
good year. Yeah, a good new year, and we will
see you in the new year in twenty twenty six.
Stevo Merry Christmas, Quick break more. In a moment on
The Stagall Show on election integrity, Harmeat Dylan, the Assistant
Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, will
have her on in twenty twenty six. No doubt, she
says lawsuits are coming. She's bringing them both against both

(01:42:51):
red and blue states over voter list maintenance that she
says will help clean voter rolls for the twenty twenty
six mid terms. With congressional elections coming next year. The
DOJ said they're trying to ensure that only eligible voters
are on state's voter roles, and while some states have
voluntarily complied with DOJ's requests for the voter registration data

(01:43:12):
or are cleaning the voter roles themselves, others are refusing
to hand over the information citing privacy concerns. It's good
har Meet, who was a front runner to run the
Republican Party at one point, is now at DOJ in
the Civil Rights Division, and she's saying, hand it over
or we're going to sue you. We want to make

(01:43:33):
sure only legal people are voting in your state. I
love that. Meanwhile, over at the Federalist Ohio, you people
in Ohio the major win for integrity of Ohio's elections.
Mike DeWine signed legislation that requires all mail in ballots
to be received by election day. It seems ridiculous that

(01:43:53):
we're even having the conversation, but that's something that had
to be signed into law. All mail in ballots to
be counted, be received by election day. That's now law
of the land in Ohio. As for down in Jojia,
this raffinsburger clown. Five years after the twenty twenty election,
challenges in Georgia continued despite multiple audits. The latest question

(01:44:16):
surrounding the December meeting of the Georgia State Election Board,
where we played for you the attorney who admitted we
certified over three hundred thousand ballots that we shouldn't have.
Stunning admission. So three hundred thousand votes were certified that
should not have been in Georgia's twenty twenty election. I
remind you Joe Biden won Georgia in twenty twenty by

(01:44:39):
eleven thousand votes, so in other words, it was stolen.
There's just no question in my mind it was. It
was an unconstitutional breach in places like Pennsylvania. There are
many more instances in twenty twenty of chicanery than just Georgia,
and just this I understand. But Brad Raffinsburger, the Secretary
of State, says Georgia has the most secure elections in

(01:45:00):
the country and all voters were verified with vhoter ID
and lawfully cast their ballots. A clerical error at the
end of the day does not erase valid legal votes.
So that is the Secretary of State and Georgia, Brad
Raffensberger continuing to die on the hill of our elections
are fine, right, all right, folks. That is going to

(01:45:22):
wrap it up for today's show and for us this
year here at the Chris Stigall Show. Of course again
we will have new programming for you, some new interviews
through New Year's Day, so stay close to the podcast
here on the Salem News Channel and the Salem Radio Network.
Bob Friends will be in as well. But I want
to take a moment to say, as we kind of

(01:45:42):
conclude our first full year in syndication, thank you from
the depths of my heart and everyone who works on
the show and our families for your support of our
efforts here. We cannot do this without the support of
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support of this show. Paulie Gee, Bobby Eddie, Kevin, Ryan

(01:46:07):
and Rich all very very special people to me that
make this show work every single day, all year long.
Thank you, Merry Christmas. We'll see in the new year.
So that's a wrap for another Christagall Show podcast. Thanks
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