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Good to be with you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome in.
It is the middle of the week as we edge
ever closer to Christmas, and Merry Christmas to you. I
hope you're in the spirit if, in fact, you celebrate.
Those of you who don't, I just hope you're having
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STI Gaul. Welcome in. Today.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
The news.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is interesting depending on what you're consuming, because if you're
reading something like The New York Times for some reason,
or you're watching CNN or MSNBC. Here's what they've all
decided is the new play. They're ditching the drug boat thing.
I think they've finally seen the polling. It's a sixty
forty issue, so they've moved on to something new. Now.
I will confess that I think, if not handled properly,

(02:56):
President Trump may have played into this a little bit early.
But I think they're going to pull out of it,
and I think they're going to fix it. And you
know that I've been talking about this this week. I
think this affordability mockery. Initially him saying that it's a hoax.
I was curious how that was going to land when
I heard it the first time I heard it, As
you know, if you've been listening to the show, I said, Ah,

(03:17):
I'm a little worried. That sounds like a fat pitch
over the middle that they are going to hit. And
they did, and they're swinging at it now. And it's
interesting because both MSNBC called MS now whatever that's supposed
to mean. Have we figured out, by the way, fast eddye,
what the hell MS now is supposed to mean? What's
the now? What is MS multiple sclerosis now?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Right, no, So I mean they used to be MSNBC, Microsoft,
you know, NBC.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Whatever the s Yeah?

Speaker 7 (03:45):
Yeah, but now no, I don't understand why they changed
the name about because they're still shopping the network, right
is Comcast still try to sell it.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
MS NOW maybe making a digital Maybe it's just like, hey,
it's just look at this great new like cutting edge
channel that we could sell.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, I don't know, but I look up this sport again.
It says Trump mocks affordability at Pennsylvania rally. Trump mocks affordability.
At the New York Times headline, Trump says Americans are
doing great even as views on the economy sour. Well,

(04:22):
the truth of the matter is, if you've seen the polling,
do you know the President Trump's approval ratings are up?
And do you know at this time the same polsters
that are tracking presidential approval at this period in a
second term Obama, Bush and now Trump, do you know
that of the three, Trump is the highest in terms

(04:42):
of approval compared to Bush and Obama at this same
period and their second term passing that along. So they
know this, the power of President Trump from his own
mouth is the biggest best way to promote something they
want promoted. And they've decided to send him back out
and they sent him to Pennsylvania. Yesterday we covered it.

(05:03):
Mount Pocono was the destination, and they sent him out
with street tough Scott Bessant, and they had themselves a
little bit of a party. Now, what I've seen, and
I didn't watch the entire rally, was Trump mocking affordability
on the stump in Pennsylvania, fast Eddie. Was he mocking
affordability whatever that even means?

Speaker 7 (05:21):
No, No, I don't think he was.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
No. No, was he mocking affordability or was he mocking
the idea that Democrats are doing a damn thing about
it and haven't in fact created an affordability problem? Was
that what he was mocking?

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, I wouldn't even say he was mocking anything.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, all right, Well let's go right to it, President Trump,
Mount Pocono with street tough Scott Bessant, number forty six.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
And now, after just ten months in office, I'm please
to report that America.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Is winning again.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
Pennsylvania's prospering again, and I will not wrest until this
Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before. Remember when
Biden got up and called you a state that was
not good. He said, it's great to be back in

(06:12):
the state.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
We're all we were.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
What state is it?

Speaker 8 (06:18):
It's Pennsylvania. Oh oh okay, Now we're respected again. As
a country, we're respected. Since my inauguration, we've created nearly
sixty thousand new Pennsylvania jobs, including four thousand Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs.
That the Democrats gave up on. You're doing better than

(06:41):
you've ever done.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Under our leadership.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
More than forty thousand Pennsylvania's have been lifted off of
foodstams forty.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thousand and working with a great guy.

Speaker 8 (06:53):
Remember David McCormick. He used to go to edwe every
rally I had. He knew what was happening. And he's
here again as usual. I can't get rid of this guy.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Where is he? AND's good to see our friend Dave McCormick,
who will likely be back on the show soon as
the Senate is now discussing the ACA. We might try
to reach out and get him before the year's out.
But anyway, fun to see our buddy Dave McCormick there yesterday.
Have you noticed Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Now that was a
speech for the consumption of the country, but he was

(07:27):
very specifically talking to Pennsylvanians. Again, what's this about, fast EDDI.
This is the second time he's taking a high profile
trip to Pennsylvania. McCormick at his side, talked to Energy
the first time we were there to cover Redd. He's
in Mount Pocono last night talking to Pennsylvanians about all
the Pennsylvania jobs he's creating. There might be, you know,
people all over the country listening right now may be going, well,
what about us? What the hell about Pennsylvania? What about us?

(07:50):
Why Pennsylvania?

Speaker 7 (07:51):
You suppose, Chris, This was a bad election again for
Pennsylvania this year, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
We lost a lot.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
So I think Trump. Everyone knows that without Trump on
the ballot in Pennsylvania, it's darn near impossible to win.
So he's got to be here. He's got to be
talking about jobs because he did do all these things,
the Energy Summit. I look at all the investment that
has come into Pennsylvania since he's been president. He spent
a lot of time.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
There's also and not a small matter, don't forget, well
pun intended, there's a little pocket sized fella on the
sidelines who's coming on. And I maintain and you should
watch closely. People aren't talking about this quite yet, except
we know it well. The tiny, diminutive, pocket sized governor
of Pennsylvania who's been humming Hail to the Chief since

(08:39):
he was in a onesie, Josh Shapiro, thinks he's going
to be the next president of the United States. Don't
forget that, fast Eddy. Oh.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
Yes, Josh Shapiro is capitalizing as he always does. He's
I think he's up to what twelve million dollars on
his digital team now, and I think he's coming out
with it.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
From the that's right from the Washington Times. Governor Shapiro
tries to seize spotlight as Trump visits Pennsylvan. Josh Shapiro
started Tuesday the way he spent much of December, drawing
sharp contrasts with Trump, this time just hours before his visit,
build as a chance to refocus his message on kitchen
table concerns. Trump's stop also has given mister Shapiro a

(09:15):
national stage. The governor, seen as a likely twenty twenty
eight presidential contender, has distinguished himself as one of the
few Democrats who's managed to connect with working class voters,
many of whom left the party for Trump. Yes, but
don't forget he's Jewish, fast, Eddie. He can't get away
from that. He's trying his level best to bury the
Yamaka and pretend he's not. Now, you Jews, you domestic Jews,

(09:41):
You're going to be forgotten as fast as I don't know.
I don't have an analogy. I'm just saying he's leaving
you in the dust, right, and he is trying to
run as fast as he can from this Jewish id
because he knows how they savaged him. When Cackle Bridges
were talking about picking him up as a potential running mate.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
Oh, absolutely, it's something that the Democrat Party is going
to have to do. I don't know that it depends
on the war chest he has and with the money
he's bringing in.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Chris, Really, what do you do with ilhan Omar? By
the way, what do you do with someone like ilhan
Omar as a star of your party and you try
to seize the nomination for your party? Who's gonna win
that paddle? Do you suppose?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
It's kind of like Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis,
when he went into that Somali restaurant last week and
he's eating the food. He's like, oh yeah, good, and
he looks like he's wincing the whole time.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's what it's gonna be like.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
You're gonna have Josh Shapiro standing up there with ilhan
Omar and he's gonna be like, hey, hey, I love
you right.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Mister Yeah. Mister Shapiro has made no secret of his
view that mister Trump's pull with voters who feel abandoned
by Democrats comes from his party's elite image, some of
which he says is warranted, and for mister Trump selling
them bogus promises, Oh what exactly have you sold? Josh? Anyway,
back to the rally, street tough, Scott Besant, is it now?

(10:56):
This is not a guy when we met him early
in the year fast EDDI not a guy you imagine
would be headlining a rally. But as usual, finger on
the pulse. I've been telling you from day one. This
is the star messenger. This is the guy you trot
out there. They're clearly listening. Sit there, take it, don't retaliate.

(11:16):
This is one of the most inspiring nerds ever to
hit public life. People love their Scott Bessant. Listen to this,
they go nuts. Number forty seven. We have our savior
in this room.

Speaker 8 (11:34):
His name is a Secretary of the Treasury. Scott Bessant.
Is because that very handsome man.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That man, by the way.

Speaker 8 (11:50):
If you pick it, the Secretary of the Treasury, is
he like the perfect.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
For a movie. He's made for the move.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
Stand up, Scott, look at him. No, he's central casting.
He's central casting. But you know under that beautiful exterior
is a killer.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
And we know this from all the reporting. Don't screw
with me. I'll slip your throat. Yeah, don't let the
nerdlinger demeanor.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
We know.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
It's why we call him street tough. He'll throw down,
he'll throw hands fast eddy, he doesn't screw around. People
love this guy. I wasn't making it up, you see
hang with I think people thought I was making too
much of this. People are excited about Besson. He talks
like that. He liked Trump manages to talk like them,
even though he is a multi millionaire himself.

Speaker 7 (12:37):
I love everything about it, and I love the street
tough part of it. Chest to chess with Elon making
fun of protesters. But it's threatening to punch people that
you know aren't aren't on message in the White House.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Remember you will, he'll throw down, He's not People see
something in Scott Besson. I do too, And and he
took to the microphone. We'll have that coming up. Trump
says Americans are doing great, says The New York Time. Hey,
he didn't say Americans are doing great. He's saying we're
a hell of a lot better off than we were
even a year ago, with better things to come next year.
Hang on, I don't want to be all happy talk

(13:11):
here because there are a couple of bits of information
and we know why President Trump is back out on
the stump. He is the best messenger for the situation.
People are excited about the problem solving that Trump and
Bessent are offering. In fact, let me give you a
little more. I don't want to move off the good
vibes yet. There are a couple of things that are
red flags today. But let's go to Bessant Street. Tuff

(13:32):
Scott Vessant there on the trail, number forty nine making
his pitch.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Thanks to President Trump's efforts on deregulation, America's businesses are
able to build and innovate it innovate again. Thanks to
his one big, Beautiful bill, Americans are taking home more
of their hard earned income as a result of no
tax and tips, no tax on overtime, no taxes, social

(13:59):
secure and deductibility of auto loans for American made cars,
American made cars. And thanks to his heroic efforts and trade,
trillions of dollars in new investment have flowed into the
United States, and our workers are finally able to compete

(14:21):
on an even playing field. These these policies, in combination,
are driving a boost in production that will lower the
prices of goods for all American in twenty twenty six,
while also creating jobs and increasing incomes. This is the

(14:42):
formula for prosperity, lowering prices, raising incomes, and every component
of the Trump economic agenda is in pursuit of these
twin goals. Under President Trump, scarcity is giving way to prosperity.

(15:06):
The benefits of his agenda are now rippling through the economy,
and those ripples will become waves as his agenda gathers force.
In twenty twenty six, President Trump has put a decisive
end to the three odds. I would add a fourth one,
insanity under Joe Biden.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
Insanity.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Our great president is ushering in a golden age economy
by making America affordable again.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Street tough. Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, one of the
most effective, if not the most effective messenger next to
President Trump. Talking about what there again, I say, this
is a guy that has built a fortune and a
reputation over decades in finance. So he's walking a mighty
long plank if they screw this up and they've got

(16:06):
it wrong, and I don't think they have. And I
think he firmly believes and I do too, and I
think there's evidence that points to next year. Really, these
ripples turning into waves, as he says, again, not going
to happen overnight. A lot of people can't be patient
right now when they're up against it. I get it,
And as such, at this moment, there are elections that
give us pause. Democrats flip the Georgia State House District

(16:29):
one twenty one from red to blue couple hundred votes,
but that happened in a special election yesterday. And then
Miami now a Democrat runs Miami as mayor for the
first time in thirty years as of last night. So
these are certainly red flags. And Trump knows it. That's
why he's out there, said to the phones in St. Paul, Minnesota,

(16:50):
it's Mitchell. Hey, Mitchell, thanks for calling. Good morning, and
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Morning, Appiamica hey, and hiy like. I like the message
on the positive side by Boissant, but on the other side,
you got to see what the dumps are doing, and
they got to tack that too, like versus the war
on the military, by saying our soldiers impugning their integrity,

(17:15):
that's a war on our soldiers. By saying that they
would follow in a legal order in the first place,
I have a son in the military, he's a captain.
There's no way he'd ever follow in a legal order.
So that's number one. Then the other thing is the
Democrats are sabotaging everything that Trump's done. You know that

(17:37):
not a single Democrat voted for for the getting rid
of the tax on Social Security. They didn't vote for
no tax on tips, they didn't vote for no tax
on overtime. Not a single Democrat voted for that. So
that's what they're trying to do, is sabotage the program.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
So you would say, then, as we talked to the
Art Sea Chairman of the day, your point is you've
got to define Democrats as much as you've got to
defend your own record.

Speaker 9 (18:06):
Yeah, you got to say they they're going to take
they're going to raise your taxes by taking away no
tax on tips. They voted against it, every single one
of them.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, So let me ask you this, and I think
I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but let me
ask you, because I hear there are people who will
say yeah. But look at how Democrats have shellacked Republicans
in these other than Tennessee. Uh, Miami just flipped their
mayor after thirty years. Last night special election and Georgia
special election in New York went on New York. That

(18:37):
was the mayoral election. And again it's New York, but
some blue areas New Jersey's gubernatorial race, Virginia Democrats are
picking up steam. How do you answer that major, Well.

Speaker 9 (18:48):
There's an affordability crisis. You know why you're in. Car
insurance goes up because they allow carjackers to steal people's cars.
They don't do anything about that. Grocery prices going up
because they let people walk out of the store with
cartfuls of groceries. Look at everything has to be put
behind cabinets and locked doors. That costs money to protect

(19:15):
the inventory from thieves that they keep letting out of jail.
How about how about your local taxes that keep going up?
In Saint Paul, they said, oh, it's only a penny.
They went from eight percent to nine percent on the
sales tax. Well, you know, one cent is one percent
on a dollar, but one cent on eight cents underlying

(19:37):
your sales tax is a twelve percent increase in taxes.
Nobody says anything about so I would say if I
was Trump, I'd say, quit sabotaging our people by raising
local taxes and letting criminals out of jail. That cause
our insurances, our insurance premiums to go up. Look at
your still and brings into everyone.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I got to run, point taken. No thank you money.
You get out there on the stump best and I
to call you Mitchell wants to stump Mitchell across Minnesota.
I appreciate it, my friend. I just got to run
because I do want to get Speaking of fraud and
theft and Minnesota, a second Democrat run state hit by
accusations of widespread Somali fraud. As Minnesota grapples with one

(20:22):
of the biggest fraud scandals in US history, a whistleblower
in Maine has now stepped forward alleging state taxpayers have
been defrauded out of funds meant for social services. A
guy called Christopher Bernard Bernardini telling News Nation that he
worked with a billing guru for a Portland based company

(20:43):
called Gateway Community Services for seven years, allegedly defrauding Mainz
medicaid program. The company's founder is a Somali American who
ran for president of Jubiland, a state in Somalia, last year.
While juggling his role as executive director. He came under
fire at the time of it reports from the Main

(21:04):
Wire that he had boasted of funding the militia to
help the troops by weapons, bullets and food while he
was in America. So main now being fleeced, likely by
Somali thugs and goons and thieves. And this is a question,
and he makes the point fast, Eddie. I don't have
the answer. Maybe we'll ask Joe Gruders, who's going to
be with us today, he's the RNC chairman. Does that

(21:25):
work It doesn't seem to. I mean, we were literally
uncovering fraud and scurless, scandalous behavior. He's right, he's right
to lay it out. They don't prosecute crimes, They savage
our military, They cozy up with drug runners and illegal aliens.
It's you know, sixty forty eighty twenty issues. Republicans are
on the right side, and yet they're still winning these

(21:46):
special elections because Democrats are highly motivated and Republicans kind
of sleep on them. I mean that's look, that's the reality.
So we can talk about how bad Democrats are all
the time, but in many cases it doesn't seem to
be working at the moment.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
I don't know that there's a correlation for people that vote, Like,
think of the female voter in Manhattan, very affluent, doesn't
connect that all those things that the caller talked about,
as far as locking stuff, locking things behind cabinets, and
letting people out of jail, the widespread for Audum Minnesota,

(22:21):
Like the person doesn't think about that at all. It
doesn't correlate those things to rising costs. So we're the
ones stuck with the rising costs, and the people voting
just don't seem to make the connection.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
So is the Democrat party made up of people on
the government dime or very very wealthy people with really
not a lot of middle class. That's kind of what
I think statistically we've understood so working class people kind
of sit at home because they're working. They're busy poly jobs.
Now I think they're called they're working two three four
jobs because they're getting squeezed. They don't have time to
be activists. Only the broke and the rich in this

(22:58):
country have time to be activist, and they're all Democrats.
That about right, that's it. You put your finger right out. Yes,
that's exactly it. Thank me. Look, if Republicans lose the
House next year, bottom line, Democrats are going to spend
the next two years easy just doing nothing but trying
to impeach this president. And so he is, as of yesterday,

(23:20):
launching the most aggressive midterm campaign of his life. I
would argue he's positioning himself to become the most important
midterm campaigner in modern American history. And the stakes could
not be higher now Historically, as you know, and again
we're going to talk to the R and C chairman
about this, I don't envy his job because historically, the

(23:42):
party that wins the White House loses seats in the midterms. Democrats,
as you remember, imploded back in twenty ten and twenty fourteen,
and Republicans then took a savage beating in twenty eighteen.
The pattern doesn't miss. Now pair that with Trump's moment.

(24:03):
What Scott Bessent was just talking about gas prices are falling.
Inflation is cooling, not fast enough, but it's cooling. The
border is closed instead of allowing millions to pour across it.
Drug boats are turning into little fireworks shows on the
high seas. Tariffs are pulling factories back home before AI

(24:25):
erases a lot of jobs. It's in the process of
it right now. Both are happening simultaneously. One's happening faster
than the other. Unfortunately, twelve billion just delivered to farmers
to kind of bridge the gap. Historic private investment is
pouring into manufacturing in this country, and Supreme Court victories
are reshaping the country too. And on top of all

(24:48):
these results, in my view, President Trump the most entertaining
political communicator alive, and a better communicator than most in politics. Ever,
he can explain supply chains and tells he can do
it in ten seconds with a punchline that sticks. No
consultant can replicate that. Most Republicans can't even explain what

(25:09):
they believe without a laminated card and a high paid consultant.
Trump also knows something about the political class that they
always forget. Trump knows that his voters are not standard
Republican voters. Again, we're talking about working class folks squeezed
in the middle here, independence, working class democrats, the disillusioned,

(25:29):
the cynical, those that feel politically abandoned. They don't show
up automatically. They show up for him. He knows this,
and the Republicans better too. And this time he's not
asking for applause. He's asking for reinforcement. Help me, help you.
I need these guys in Congress, help me help you.

(25:50):
I need this House, I need this Senate. Without them,
the left is going to shut down my presidency. So
if Republicans lose the House in twenty sixocrats aren't interested
in governing or helping you. They'll prosecute. It won't be
about oversight. It's going to be an impeachment factory. They're
not going to pass a single bill that helps you.

(26:10):
They'll just crank out articles of impeachment. Trump doesn't want
to gamble his agenda on tradition or luck. He's taking
the mid term seriously, and he's taking them into his
own hands. Keep a sharp eye on this. He's a
problem solver and a great communicator, and in no particular order.
The War Department has confirmed that eighty seven NARCO terrorists

(26:32):
have been blasted out of the water. That makes me happy.
I don't know about you. War Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.
Who the hell's that? I thought Sean was doing that?
Has that job changed? Kingsley Wilson passed, Do we now?

Speaker 7 (26:47):
I have to call Sean over the holidays? So I
don't know if there's a difference between the Pentagon spokesperson
and the Department of War spokesperson. I thought they were
the same thing. But I haven't seen Sean in a while.
But Kingsley's actually attractive.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Lady. Oh, it's a woman, all right, Kingsley. You know
the War Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson sharply criticizing the
Washington Post, of course, in this back and forth about
and we talked with the Colonel Kurt Schlickter about the
double tap. She says, it's incredibly frustrating. But you know,
I think that people who work in a Trump administration

(27:20):
are unfortunately very used to it. We've seen the mainstream
media lie time and again about the President's accomplishments in
this administration is no different. We will continue to battle
the fake news and push back eighty seven Narco terrorists
killed again. It's a sixty to forty issue at a minimum.
The BBC has now admitted again to falsely claiming Donald

(27:42):
Trump wanted to shoot a critic amid legal threats. An
internal memo examining the allegations of bias stated BBC News
has accepted the Liz Cheney story was not covered accurately
by the BBC, and the erroneous reports aired across multiple
BBC programs in the days preceding November twenty fourth, twenty

(28:03):
twenty fourth presidential election. During the broadcast on BBC World
News America, one presenter claimed mister Trump appeared to suggest
Liz Cheney should face a firing squad for her stance
on foreign policy. A separate presenter on the BBC posed
the question to a guest, he is out there on
the campaign trail saying he wants people to shoot Liz Cheney.

(28:26):
Is that the sort of thing women react well to?
That same evening, another North American editor at the BBC
saying that Trump is ratcheting up violent rhetoric. Anyway, Trump
threatened to sue the BBC, and they've now for a
second time said sorry, just like they doctored the January sixth,
twenty twenty one event. They doctored that. Now they've lied

(28:49):
about this, the BBC is on notice and apologizing. University
of Colorado is now on the hook to pay out
two point three million dollars in a settlement over discriminating
against faith based students and staff during the COVID era.
The December payout agreement between the university and eighteen unnamed

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plaintiffs comes more than a year after a federal appeals
court ruled the school did in fact discriminate against certain
religious beliefs by requiring individuals to be part of a
formal religion that believes immunizations are forbidden under all circumstances.
The religious exemptions applied only to Christian scientists and Jehovah's witnesses,
did not include Catholics, Orthodox Evangelical Christians, non Denominational Protestants, Buddhists,

(29:34):
or anyone else not affiliated with those particular religious organizations,
and the plaintiffs who are current and former students were
awarded the money for damages, tuition, and attorney's fees. That's fantastic.
I love hearing any bully in the COVID era is
being forced to fork over lots of money. I hope
it breaks them. I want everyone who broke the human

(29:57):
spirit and crushed businesses and families during COVID. I know
ultimately the justice they'll face, But boy, in the short term,
the secular in me, the secular guy in me, just
loves seeing that they've got to pay millions of dollars
in restitution for breaking people's lives and wills and homes

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and spirits and businesses. It's well, this one's funny. Ready
for this at the New York Times. All you soccer people,
I'm not one of them, but people are huge into soccer. Eddie,
are you one of these soccer people? World Cup? You
into this? The World Cup? I do like to watch
the World Cup. Yes, okay, I'm not neither here nor there,

(30:39):
not an editorial comment on soccer, but I will tell
you that the World Cup is just that. That means
people from all over the world, teams from all over
the world come here and compete. It's a big deal
to get the World Cup. I'm sten running all over
the globe. Cities want this event. Would it surprise you
to learn that Iran and Egypt and their soccer teams
aren't terribly happy about going to Seattle where they would
potentially play their matches because of all the gay pride

(31:01):
LGBTQ stuff. I can't wait to watch that all those
good Islamist country showing up to play football. It's been
my pleasure and honor to talk about Bob Spinato at
Williamsburg Dentel in Brumaal, just off the blue root as
my dentist and friend of over twelve years. But now

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he has two brand new associates, his daughter Alexa and
doctor Gettis. Tell him about him, Bob.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Yeah, Chris, I can't begin to express how proud I am,
obviously of having my daughter there. Also, doctor Gettis is
just a wonderful addition to our practice. He is a
classmate of my daughter Alexa 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

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have to hire Jared, you have to hire Jared. He's
going to be a superstar. Jared went off to USC
a one year residency after his You're at Temple, and
he came back and he worked for about a year
practice in New Jersey, and after.

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I just cannot say thank you enough to you. So
far are we are on our way. We're getting now
to that halfway point, and I'm so happy about it. Hey,
good morning to you. I'm merry Christmas as you're listening
on great radio stations like the Answer Am five seventy
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that have been pouring in to the Angel Tree campaign
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guys went nuts, doubled the giving, and you know what,
thirty dollars a child, that's what we're looking at, trying

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to help twenty six hundred kids before Christmas. And I'm
really I'm giving myself the deadline. We technically have more
than this, but I'm giving myself the deadline of next
Friday to try to help twenty six hundred kids whose
parents are incarcerated have a Christmas. And I've been praying
a lot about this because i know, given the economy,

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I know, given many things, people feel squeezed and up
against it. I know everybody's thinking about Christmas expenses and
the like. So an ask of any kind is always
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But the Prison Fellowship Ministry does something so special because
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But the Prison Fellowship folks do something really special with
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I just can't think of anything more important to try
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to prison and is punished for something that they've done,
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children and want desperately a second chance. This is a
way to give them that and at least, if nothing else,
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We bring in the chair and always glad that he
can make time for us. He's the brand new chair
of the RNC, and we're glad that he could make
time because I will tell you in this day and age,
mister gruders and a good morning to you, will welcome

(37:16):
you back. I understand what you're up against. This is, Joe.
This is one of the most challenging environments we find
ourselves in. President Trump recognizes that, which is why he
was out on the stump in Pennsylvania. There are two
news channels today pummeling it see it, and it was
at NBC on affordability. Trump's calling it a hoax and

(37:37):
mocking it. None of that's true. I do think the
economy is going to turn around, but it takes a minute, Joe.
So I welcome you to the show, and I would
just ask you, how do you, as the RNC chair
and the party talk about this going into twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Good morning morning, Chris, and first off, thanks for what
you're doing with for those children with the parents that
are incarcerated. I think it's a wonderful gesture. Then you
do is it will go a long way in the
lives of all those people that are impacted. But listen,
you'd hit the nail on the head. This is a
absolute disaster. You know, no matter what parties in power,

(38:11):
they normally get crushed in the midterms. And so what
do we have to do? Well, the President started last night.
The President's going to barmstorm the country. It's about a communication.
You know, you can't reverse the effects of the destruction
that the Biden team did over the four years that
he had. What this president has done in the first
ten months has been unbelievable. You know, with the big

(38:33):
beautiful bill, the focus on trying to bring affordability to
down or make it more affordable for people, getting inflation down.
What you've seen is gas prices down two dollars, mortgage
rates down, price of eggs down sixty percent, no tax
on tips, overtime social Security, on and on and on.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
But it's not enough.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
What we have to do is we have to communicate
it and listen, the challenge of I have one mission,
and the President called me, he said, we have to
win the midterms, because we know what's going to happen
if we lose the midterms. We've already seen it during
the shutdown forty three days, the Democrats held the government hostage,
and they're going to obstruct, they're going to investigate, they're
going to impeach, and in his presidency essentially is going

(39:16):
to be over. We can't let that happen. We have
to give them a full four years. And I could
talk a lot about how we're going to do that,
but my mission is clear. Win the midterms, give the
president of full four years.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
RNC chaired Joe Gruders. I've had people ask me turn out. Look,
we understand. It's just it's historically true, particularly for Republicans.
We're working class folks. We're busy with families and lives.
Politics isn't in our DNA and our blood. We don't
wake up every day thinking about politics. Once our folks
are in charge, I think we feel like we can
kind of rest on our laurels a little bit, quite frankly,

(39:48):
and go back about our lives. Democrats never think that way,
of course, So we've seen in all these special elections
save Tennessee, including last night, Democrats are flipping seats. Are
you alarmed? Miami? The special election Georgia, Virginia, New York,
save Tennessee a little tighter than we'd like it. What
do you say about it?

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, Chris, special elections are special. What you're seeing is
you're seeing a lot of anger built up and their
voters are motivated. Yes, our voters get a little they're happy,
and so they're not as motivated to turn out. And yes,
I'm concerned about any loss that we have Tennessee. I
was excited to get a win there. You know that
district was actually our plus ten we want it. It's

(40:27):
a by nine points. We got involved at the end.
But like I go back to the fact that you
know what we have.

Speaker 6 (40:33):
We have.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
The President said we have to win the mid terms.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
This is how we do it.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
What you're seeing across the country, you're seeing redistricting play out.
I think that will pick us up a net positive
number of seats. The number of competitive seats will go
down as a result of redistricting. We're recruiting superior candidates
and we have superior firepower. The Republican National Committee right
now is more money than the DNC and all the
Democrat federal committees combined. We are doing everything we can

(41:02):
right now to set the stage. And what you saw
last night from the President is in going to Pennsylvania
communicating directly with the American people. We're going to have
a midterm convention. We're going to have the President on
the road all the time. He is committed to barnstorming
the country. We are going to do everything humanly possible
to make sure that we're successful in these seats. It's
not going to be easy, but we have to have

(41:23):
everybody working together. We have to ring the bell and
we have to convince these people that have voted for
the president three times now to come out and vote
for these down ballot candidates. And the reason why is
because otherwise the presidency for the Donald Trump is over.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
We gotta win the midterms.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
That's our only goal.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
I got a couple of questions from folks asking me
about turnout. I mean, we know, you know, I covered
the specific Pennsylvania twenty twenty four election, and the way
it was done in Pennsylvania was remarkable. People like Presler
and Turning Point, and of course the RNC and the
Trump organization all working hand in glove. I'd never seen
such harmony between so many different organizations to get voters

(42:02):
turned out. Joe, do you have that same apparatus? Can
you guys turn it out like Chairman Wantley before you
and Laura Trump the co chair.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Yes, they did a phenomenal job. But yes, I'll so
just give you my background. I've spent twenty two years
as a chairman. I started as a grassroots walker volunteer walker,
became my walking coordinator, then became a local club chairman,
and my party state, my county chairman, then the state chairman,
now the national chairman. I did that by focusing on
the fundamentals, and that's getting out the vote, protecting the vote,

(42:34):
and red string voters. We're going to continue to do
that here. But yes, what you have right now within
the Republican Party is you have an organization that we
talked to the White House every single day. We work
at the White House every day. We work with our
sister committees every day, and all these other groups out
there like Turning Point and Presler and the America First.

(42:57):
We work across the spectrum. Group we embrace. We want
them out there working hard with us because all of
our partners working together, I always say whatever team could
unite their coalitions more will be successful, and we'll continue
to do that here. It's a priority of mine to
make sure that we're working together, we have open communication,

(43:17):
and that we have all boots on the ground, all
working together and listen. It's not easy, but I think
that with this president. What I tell everybody is everything
revolves around the present. If people campaign with the president,
if they focus on the president's policies, we're going to
be successful.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Joe, ten seconds. What's one thing Congress could do the
Republicans to control it to help you or work and
turn out voters next fall for Republicans. What's one thing
Congress could do? If you could wave a magic wand.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Get rid of the philibuster, follow the president, pass all
these things, create universal voter id, make sure we're doing
everything right and listen to the president and will be successful.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Get rid of the philibuster. Okay, The chair of the
the RNC is Joe Gruder is grateful for your time, sir,
Merry Christmas, come back and see us.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Morning minute, got a very nice email from Gene. I
think it is Jean said, good morning, Chris. I just
had to respond to your admonition off the top of
the week of Margaret Brennan at Face the Nation. It
was priceless. I want to watch it on a loop.
I gotta go back. I've gotten more notes about that rant.
I apparently went off on Margaret Brennan this week fanst Eddie.

(44:27):
I've forgotten even what I said, but I've had a
couple of people say that they thought it funny that
I referenced Hobby Lobby. I don't even remember the reference.
But she said, I'm a transplant from Hugh Hewitt's morning show.
And as another one of your callers said, you're growing
on me like a fungus. Apparently, I'll take it. That's
a compliment. I guess we could. You know you're growing

(44:48):
on me is a is a nice thing. I'm an
old dittohead, she said. And Bobby, as people are taking requests,
I guess for Christmas bump music, now, a little Mannheim
steamroller in the Christmas bumper rotation would be wonderful. And
memory of Rush, she said, you got it. I bet
we can do that. Roger Dat all right, thank you.
Bob's are DJ our Christmas DJ. A lot of nice

(45:09):
emails and I appreciate it. You can send me a
note at Chrisstiggall dot com if you'd like. My email
address is right there. I got a note yesterday from
Ronald who said, Chris, my name is Ronald. I listened
to your show daily, and I just want to say
how much I appreciate what you're doing. I've always gravitated
to talk shows in which the host gives a balanced
view of each topic.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
You do that.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
I enjoy it. I also enjoy the masterful job you
do in sharing the gospel message through your show, especially
during one of the darkest times in our recent history,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk. You once said that you're
not a pastor or a theologian. Well, I happen to
be both, and I couldn't have done a better job
communicating the truth of God's Word and the mission of
Christ as you did that week. I wanted to encourage you,

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both as a broadcaster and brother in Christ, keep doing
the wonderful job you're doing. Merry Christmas, Ronald. You know
I don't read that to be self aggrandizing. I read
it one because it was incredibly kind, but too it
is so important, It is so important this year, maybe
more than ever, to remember the love of Jesus and
the whole reason for the season this I am probably

(46:18):
more challenged this year personally than I have ever been
if i'm If I'm going to be wholly honest with you,
there are so many blessings that I personally have that
my family has. I know so many people who are
struggling so mightily this year with various things, deaths of children,
severe illnesses that then they're not sure they're going to

(46:39):
come through, spousal deaths, severe injury, and sometimes just in
the day to day busyness of my life, I forget that.
And one of the reasons that I told my church
that I wanted to lead a Sunday school group starting

(47:02):
in the new year is because I want to continue
to stay focused on His word and the truth of Jesus,
because it's getting rocky out there. It always is rocky.
We're not promised much, but we are promised eternity with Him.
That's what this whole season's about. Robert. I appreciate the reminder, Ronald,
excuse me, thank you, and Mary Christmas, Hey there, Merry Christmas,
and welcome back. It is always a pleasure when we

(47:24):
can spend some time with the great doctor Ben Carson.
He used to be a cabinet secretary in Trump's first administration.
He's still doing some more work in the current Trump administration.
And he's also at the American Cornerstone Institute now and
an organization that you ought to follow if you don't
on x Americancornerstone dot org the website as well, and
doctor Carson, Merry Christmas to you.

Speaker 11 (47:45):
Welcome, well, thank you, Mery Christmas. Glad to be with
you again.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
We bumped into missus Carson on Capitol Hill last week.
I understand she is leading some of the congressional I
didn't know this even existed, but she was explaining to
me that she leads some of the congressional spouses in
caroling or Christmas music on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 11 (48:06):
She loves caroling, so she's get all people involved here
at Ala Sorda, all over the place.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
She's such a trip. I love you, know you and
I visited earlier in the years. She's a riot and
we have so much fun when we get to visit
with her. I know you guys now that you're kind
of back in DC quite a bit when we talked
last in the summertime. I know you enjoy traveling around
a lot. When you're back in Washington, do you do
you miss it or can you get out of that
town fast enough?

Speaker 11 (48:35):
Well? I enjoy what we do, and you know, trying
to help people to recognize that we the American people,
are not enemies. Working on the MAHA program, you know,
the Religious Liberty Commission, all these things is so important
to our country for future.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
One of the things that you and I discussed in
a conversation earlier this year. I asked you about the
MAHA movement and you said, look, I'm thrilled. I mean,
if RFK Junior is the guy to bring it to
everybody's attention, great, But I think in many ways, you
as a medical practitioner, you think, boy, this is a
long time in coming. It's a shame that we haven't
been maybe preaching these things earlier, looking at what we're
putting in our food.

Speaker 11 (49:20):
And the like, and our lifestyle in general. You know,
our life expectancy was continuing to go up until about
three or four years ago, and since that time it
has not been going up, and in fact has been
going in the other directions and I think that's enough
to really wake us up. I'm finding that this is

(49:41):
an issue that is very important across political spectrums. Everybody
wants to be healthy, to lead a normal life expectancy,
So not finding a horrible lot of resistance. But do
remember when people do things that don't make sense frequently,

(50:02):
it's because they're making money. And that's what we have
to understand. That's where to get the food producers to understand.
Right now, we take food from the farm, and we
do so many things to it that by the time
it gets to your mouth, it's a completely different thing.
And we've leached out all the nutrients. And I think

(50:27):
that has a lot to do with some of the
things that are going on in our society, all the
chronic illnesses, what we're seeing in our children, some of
the mental things that are going on, even Alzheimer's. I
think all of it has to do with the kind
of nutrition that we put into our bodies.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
You also have a very distinguished career in studying things
like poverty, homelessness, people that need help with food benefits,
snap benefits, housing and urban development, people that you maybe
can't afford to rent. We have this discussion today afford
this kind of broad word affordability. You also studied it

(51:06):
through government agency. And I guess what should average Americans
who are fortunate enough to have a home and fortunate
enough to have food at Christmas time? What should we understand?
Because I think there is a there's this fine line
between there israel need and then there are people that
are gaining the system. And we're exposing all this fraud
and it's very frustrating for the American taxpayers. So right,

(51:28):
it's being both compassionate but also steely eyed about the fraud.

Speaker 11 (51:32):
Yeah, well there's no simple solutions. But you know, recognize
that nearly one hundred and eighty six thousand dead people
received food stamps or snap enom last year. That's ridiculous.
And three hundred and fifty five thousand people were enrolled

(51:57):
in multiple states getting benefit from different places. There's one
person I saw was in seven different states getting benefits.
And there's really not much consequences when people do things
like that, that's the unfortunate thing. So what's to discourage them?
And you know, I remember as a kid growing up,

(52:20):
you know, we grew up in poverty, but I used
to hear a lot of the adults talking about how
they could get over on the program and how easy
it was to get extra benefits, and then there were
people like my mother who would say, don't listen to
that stuff. There are wonderful opportunities. If you take advantage

(52:41):
of them and educate yourself, you won't need to be
trying to get over on the programs. We need to
hear more messages like that, and then, you know, we
also have to recognize the times that we're in. I
bought my first house when I was thirty three years old,
and it costs one hundred and twenty six one thousand dollars.

(53:02):
That very same house today is six hundred and six
thousand dollars, and salaries have not kept up with that
kind of escalation and price. So I think that's one
of the reasons that so many of our young people
are discouraged and are looking for some other system. And

(53:23):
that's why people like man Donnie can be successful even
though they never produce what they say they're going to produce.
It sounds good when you're in a situation where you
don't see a lot of hope for your own future.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
I saw a story that rent is starting to fall
pretty aggressively, and many believe. I know jd Vance has said,
and other members of President Trump's cabinet have said, illegal
immigration by the tens of millions, people who are in
the country illegally are largely tied, not exclusively, but actually

(54:00):
tied to the inflation of costs for both rent and homes.
You agree with that, And by the way, as President
Trump has deported more and more, is there a correspondence
there with rents dropping.

Speaker 11 (54:12):
Yeah, it's a simple case of supply and demand, and
you bring millions and millions of people from the outside
who are competing for the very same housing as our population.
Obviously it's going to cause a major spike and prisis.

(54:32):
But as you get rid of those people and move
them back to where they came from, obviously that's going
to have a military impact on the crisis. So it's multifactorial.
There are a lot of things that are involved in Unfortunately,
the current administration is tackling it from several different angles,

(54:55):
and it's starting to show up in the pricing. Also,
it's interesting that there's a lot of technology that is
going into house building. I was in Chicago last week
and I went to a factory a company called light
Speed where they're integrating AI into robotics and watching these

(55:20):
things put together a house, it's pretty amazing. It picks
up the two by fours, the four by four, the
two by six's handles, it no people in the way,
and very quickly assembles a wall of a house in
a matter of minutes. Can put up an entire house
in a week. And think about that, the labor costs

(55:45):
diminished significantly, probably thirty percent of the cost. And if
we do that, and we also get rid of all
the regulations, take the low hanging first, the duplicate, regular regulations,
some different agencies. These are all things that add costs.

(56:06):
And we are going to be looking at an administration
that's attacking all of those things. And I think probably
within the next six months you're going to see some
pretty dramatic changes and afford the.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Doctor, doctor Ben Carson is with us, and just a
couple of minutes left. May I ask on AI because
I think this is interesting and you're a deeply thoughtful guy,
you're a man of faith. You come from medicine. AI
is making amazing advances in medicine as well. Are you
bullish generally speaking given what you just said, because there
are a lot of people that are terrified of it.
They think it evil, They think at replacing human beings,

(56:43):
they and jobs, and that we're basically going to be
our overlords. How does doctor Ben Carson see AI?

Speaker 11 (56:51):
Well, I heard a lot of the same arguments with
the Internet when it came along. I mean, we're always
afraid of new things when they come along, and people
will always find ways to abuse them. So there's no
question about that part of human nature. But you know,
doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to advance, and we

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will have to regulate it, you know. I think about
how it's going to be used in education, virtual reality
mixed with AI. Can you imagine teaching children about history
when they can be right there. That's going to be
pretty exciting. But of course, if you don't control it,

(57:32):
they will disappear into their own little world. It's hard
enough to get them off the xbox, so.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Or fill their heads full of things that are completely untrue.

Speaker 6 (57:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Whoever programs the things can have a lot to do
with the outcome of people's learning.

Speaker 11 (57:48):
Seeing it's going to have to be very, very vigilant
to keep that from having a delitarious effect in our children.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Doctor Ben Carson is at the American Cornerstone Institute, former
HUD secretary under President Trump's first administration, continuing to work
on a number of very important issues with this Trump administration.
And Doctor Carson, we are thrilled to have you this morning.
We really always appreciate your wisdom, and I hope you
and your family have a great Christmas.

Speaker 11 (58:14):
Sir, thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
You know who we have coming up shortly. I'm so
excited about this. I just as a kid, I remember
growing up in my grandparents on the weekends, Friday night
was Heehaw night fast Eddie and on he Haw you know,
all the country music greats would show up and play.
Ricky Skaggs for people that are vintage country fans. That

(58:39):
guy is still doing it. He's still out touring and
he's going to stop by the show coming up in
about an hour. That is so much fun. A couple
of days ago, I had a story here from the
Post Millennial and you probably heard about it by now,
and I just didn't have a chance to get to it.
Not a surprise, and Julie and I talked about this.
Julie Kelly when talking about the J six pipe bomber.
This Brian Cole character of Woodbridge, Virginia, aged thirty. They

(59:00):
arrested him, as you know, but the Biden FBI knew
his identity since twenty twenty one. Folks, beg your pardon.
We're just going to let that slide. January twenty twenty fifth,
twenty twenty five report from the J six Select Subcommittee

(59:20):
on this J six event. As the FBI continued analyzing
large data sets from the carriers, that is, cell phone carriers,
certain devices exhibited behavior consistent with this suspect Brian Cole.
For example, in April of twenty twenty one, the case
team identified a user who was in the area of
the DNC at the time. The same guy, Brian Cole,

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could be seen on video footage using his phone. The
FBI requested and received historical sell to how sorry sell
tower data for the user, and as of April twenty
twenty one, the case team was attempting to further analyze
the user's move. It's ultimately unclear what happened. They dropped it,

(01:00:04):
they stopped. They were too busy running around arresting grandmothers
who just showed up to listen to Trump speak, So
the Biden White House and the Biden DOJ and Merrick
Garland Knew Joy read of all people over there at
the Breakfast Club, the headquarters for Black America, number thirty nine,
if you please.

Speaker 12 (01:00:21):
Paul, I don't know why a Marigarland escapes the smoke.
I don't understand why he escapes the smoke. Even the
Epstein files thing. I'm like, wait a minute, you tell me.
Nine months into this administration, the podcast guys are claiming
they caught the mind.

Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:00:39):
I don't know if this young man is the person
that put the pipe bombs in these I don't know,
but I know they said we saw the case in
nine months. Mary Garland was there for four years? What
were you doing the Epstein files?

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Merrick?

Speaker 12 (01:00:52):
What were you doing for four years? You had the
same evidence, the same files. Why did you release them?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Folks? That's Joy read one of the most lunatic Trump
derangement syndrome people in history on with Charlemagne thha God.
Now again, this show purports to speak for all of
Black America, and they're now wondering what was Merrick Garland
and the Joe Biden doj doing. I'll tell you what

(01:01:22):
they were doing. Joy. Targeting Christians, targeting pro life families,
targeting parents at school board meetings. That's what they were doing. Joy.
If you're truly interested in the answer, I know you're not.
I just want to pause for a moment and say
thank you again to everyone who has joined this angel
Tree Christmas campaign. This has been so wonderful to see

(01:01:44):
the growth in this thing, and with a week and
a half to go, I won't lie to you. I
need a favor. I'm up against it a bit because
I sort of stuck my deck out and told the
Prison Fellowship people I think we can help twenty six
hundred kids this year, and I do. I still believe
that's true. I'm praying that's true. I believe this audience
is going to help us get there. Thirty dollars is

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what it takes from you, and you know as well
as I do. You can't buy a couple of pizzas
for thirty dollars anymore. Sadly, this angel Tree campaign for
thirty dollars gets a toy, a present in the hands
of a child who has a parent, again through no
fault of their own, a parent in prisoned, incarcerated for
whatever reason, not the kid's fault. No child should go

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without a present. No child should feel unloved or not
thought about it. Christmas Prison Fellowship Ministry makes sure that
a note, a handwritten note from the parent is included
with this gift and a Bible. All of that is
distributed to a child the instant you give that thirty
dollars gift. If you can do that, just thirty bucks
is going to go a long way. If you can

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do more, I appreciate it. I'm trying to get to
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I am thrilled to have you on board today. Looking
live at Las Vegas, Nevada on the Salem News Channel.
One of the uh maybe one of the casinos, probably
all decked out for the holidays. Eight five five. Stigall
is how you reach us today. You can catch everything
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you been active over there, particularly on Facebook. Always great
to have you on board wherever you get there. If
you follow along on X We're busy over there at
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do even from time to time. My monkey around on TikTok.
Not exactly my favorite platform, but I try as well
as the three times a week newsletter. You know, I

(01:04:52):
am cranking out the Harump Society every other day basically
of the week Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it's Choco Block. I've
got a new one coming out today. And for those
of you who have been unbelievably generous in our Prison
Fellowship campaign, any donation is generous, some of you just

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go over the top and I can't believe it, And
so we tried to come up with a little something
as a thank you, and so anyone who's willing to
help juice this thing a little bit, because we're again
we're trying to get to twenty six hundred kids, folks.
It was an ambitious goal that I set, and I
need your help getting there. I'm not going to lie
to you, and I don't mean to be obnoxious about this.

(01:05:34):
I never mean to browbeat people about anything. This is
just an important, wonderful charitable organization. The Prison Fellowship people.
They exist to do nothing but expose children to the
love of Jesus. That's what they do, and they do
it for some of the most troubled kids in the
country and families because they have incarcerated parents. And again

(01:05:57):
I realize some people say, well, well, the parents screwed
up there in jail, that's on them. I understand that
they're not asking for you to take sympathy on the parent.
What they're trying to do is give these kids a
little hope and a little joy at Christmas time with
a note from their parent that says, I haven't forgotten you.
And as you know, if you have anybody in your life,

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or if you have friends in your life who have
screwed up and had to pay the price for that,
they're not all irredeemable. Many of them have families and
they'd like to get back to those families. But in
the meantime, those kids feel lost without their parent. So
Prison Fellowship gives that toy, and gives that handwritten note,

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and most importantly gives them a Bible at Christmas. Thirty
dollars gets it done. Thirty dollars And I don't know
if you have the ability to do it, but boy,
just as a personal favor from me to you, I'm
asking this Christmas, can you help. We're trying to get
to twenty six hundred kids. I'm kind of doing the
rough back of the envelope math. I need about one

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hundred and fifty people in this audience for the next
days that we're here until Christmas to step up and
give at least thirty dollars. Some of you have been
so incredibly kind to do more than that, and I'm
thankful to everyone who gives anything, and for some of
you that have stepped up and given a thousand dollars
or more, just a small token of my thanks, I'm
going to give you a lifetime subscription to the Herum

(01:07:24):
Society for Life. That's a membership for good. So if
that's of interest to you, if that's a little incentive
and a little help to encourage you, if you have
the means and you've been blessed, please be a blessing
to many other kids. By the way, the math on
this thing, I was just looking at it. Here's how
it breaks down. One hundred and fifty dollars and that

(01:07:45):
helps five kids experience a Christmas that they may otherwise
not get. Three hundred dollars helps ten kids, six hundred
dollars helps twenty, twelve hundred helps forty kids. So if
you can be a blessing in any way, whatever, even
if it's five bucks, I don't care. A couple of

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ways to do it christigall dot com and there is
a banner right at the top of the page. I
hope you'll do this. I hope you'll help. I'm confident
this audience is going to step up in a big
way because I know you. I know your heart. You've
been kind all year long, and as this new show
gets underway in this first year, you're kind of You've

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bought in early. As this show continues to grow, You're
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number one and helped people who genuinely need it. And
I as a new show getting to know so many
in this audience for the first time, I get it.
You're trying to figure out whether you'd want to ride
with this show or not. But it's not about the

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show today. It's about helping these kids, and I hope
you'll help me help the prison Fellowship folks do the
work that they do. Eight eight eight two zero six
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(01:09:07):
helps one child. Can you do it today? Or Christigall
dot Common Click on that banner there at the top
of the page. I appreciate you out on the campaign
trail talking affordability. This is obviously the White House's goal.
President Trump, I love this analogy again. He is the
explainer in chief, he's the communicator in chief, he's the

(01:09:28):
joke teller in chief. This is the number forty eight
last night Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, and we're bringing back cold.

Speaker 8 (01:09:37):
But my administration cannot talk about anything else except when
they say the word call. They have to precede the
word by two words clean, beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
So we only call called clean beautiful call?

Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
Is that right, fellas? Because Cole needs a little public
relations help. It's a very powerful. It's a very powerful fuel.
It's used by China. You know, China makes all our windmills,
but they don't have any wind farms. It's a little interesting,
isn't it. Wind is the worst. It's a big it's
a big. That's a scam. They ruin your valleys, they've

(01:10:15):
ruined your peaks. They and the most expensive energy. The
only ones that get rich are the developers who make
a fortune. You have to change your windmills, and most
of them are made in China. But China has very.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Few wind farms.

Speaker 8 (01:10:30):
You know why, because they're smart.

Speaker 11 (01:10:31):
You know what.

Speaker 8 (01:10:32):
They do have a lot of call. They love call,
so that's okay. But we have clean, beautiful call, and
we brought it back into vogue. We have nuclear, we
have oil and gas. We have sort of everything. We
don't want. We don't approve windmills. We don't approve it.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (01:10:50):
We don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Things that kill all our birds.

Speaker 8 (01:10:54):
And then every time you put one up, only the
guy that owns it makes a lot of money.

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
Those guys a lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Joke and they are ugly.

Speaker 8 (01:11:01):
You're right, sir, But democrats talking about affordability is like
body in flide preaching about public safety, and they are
really the truly the enemy of the working class when
they do it. Because we want to have we got
to have a great energy policy. You know, our oil
prices are coming down, very substantial energy prices, and honestly,

(01:11:23):
with that, everything comes down because there's nothing nearly in
the category of oil.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
You wouldn't even know.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
What second is.

Speaker 8 (01:11:31):
There are seconds and thirds, but it's so far down
the list we don't even talk about them. You get
energy prices down, which we're doing with and again, the
greatest amount of drilling, the greatest amount of fuel being
produced right now in our country than ever before. By far,
it's not even a contest. And when that happens, those
prices come down. That's why you're seeing oil per barrel

(01:11:54):
coming down nicely, very nicely.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
The explainer and cheap. No, that was not me. I
was not at Mount Pocono last night when he started
talking about windmills. They're i'mly, I don't know who that
guy was, but that's probably what I would have shouted
had I been there. So there's President Trump. I loved
that line. Democrats talking about affordability as Lake Bonnie and
Clyde talking about public safety. It's pretty good. Kevin Hassett.

(01:12:21):
Many people believe Hassett is going to be the guy
Trump replaces too late Jerome Powell with not everybody's nuts
about that. Mind, you've heard the criticisms and the financial
sector about Kevin Hassett. I personally liked the guy. I
don't have any objections. He went out there talking about
the move to lower cost. It's all hands on deck
now to push back on this affordability thing and number

(01:12:43):
forty listen.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
Right, lower energy, lower regulation. You saw, like we just
had an event with the President where we're talking about
cafe standards. You know, the Biden administration was saying that
cars had to have fifty one miles per gallon, which
meant they're going to be really.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Expensive electric things.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
And President Trump waive that, and that's going to reduce
the price of cars by we estimate between one and
two thousand dollars for the typical car. So that's the
kind of thing that lowers prices and makes lives better,
but at supply side.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Meanwhile, simultaneously, Stephen Miller is back out there and he
is blasting away on the policy issues related to immigration,
and I still think that that is a huge issue
for the American public. I think the drug boat thing
is still a huge issue. I think these Somali thieves

(01:13:34):
stealing taxpayer dollars is going to be a huge issue.
So prosecuting Democrats, reminding people who Democrats are. At the
same time you're talking about things we're actively doing to
better the economy that's important. It look, it's going to
be tough sledding. I'm not trying to be Pollyanna about this.
This is going to be a tough slog When they

(01:13:55):
turn the corner they're supposed to be voting, they say
this week, the Senate has some kind of version of
Obamacare that they don't expect to get sixty votes to
make it to a final vote. But the Senate has
some kind of version for Obamacare subsidies to be phased out.
Apparently the House does too, and they're going to offer
up some kind of replacement for Obamacare and subsidies next week,

(01:14:18):
which could likely get voted on and be sent over
to the Senate and get stuck. So what's likely going
to happen is we're going to go into Christmas. Congress
is going to adjourn and go home, and there won't
be any solution on the Obamacare subsidies. That is not
going to help with messaging at all. As people are
freaked out about the hike in health insurance costs, I

(01:14:39):
understand that, but keep the faith. I think there is
there are plans at work, and again in Trump, I
trust that is my position until it's proven wrong, and
thus far, with guys like best at and his side,
I'm confident better days are ahead in twenty twenty six.

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More minute. I'm really excited about this interview coming up.
He's on a Christmas tour right now. Merry Christmas, Ricky Skaggs.
It just takes me to a happy place. Country Music
Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs is on tour. He's hopping
around to various city. He's gonna be with us shortly.
I don't know where he is. He's out on the
road somewhere, but he'll be checking in with us, I

(01:15:23):
think from a hotel room. But my memory of guys
like Ricky Skaggs has grown up with my grandparents watching
he Haw if you ever watched it. I took a
tour of the Grand Old Opry last year and it
was the first time I'd ever seen it. I loved it.
And that's actually where he Haw was shot, which I
didn't know. And Ricky Skaggs, you know, was on that

(01:15:44):
show and just synonymous with my childhood. Actually I remember
growing up listening to that was you know, country music
in its classic sense before it became whatever it is now,
which you know, I'm not one of these, you know,
front porch fist shakers about modern country music. But it's
amazing how it's you know, the Ricky Skaggs era, the
George Jones era, and then it's gotten into I don't

(01:16:07):
even know what you call it, but more eclectic. I'll
leave it at that. Once upon a time they called
it young country, fast Eddie. It was redeveloped to be
called young country. That was a whole positioning statement that
the country station I worked on first out of college,
they repackaged themselves and called it young country. That was
the advent of Shania Twain and all that stuff. If

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you were too young for My mom knows that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
It's funny my mom came into country music at that time.
That was her wheelhouse because I got in her car
she was driving.

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Me to a dance.

Speaker 7 (01:16:39):
Once I'm like, you're listening the country, so I know
exactly where that place and time, because that's also how
she discovered George Street, who.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
I like a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
Yeah, Now that's classic country. Just honored at the Kennedy
Center Honors, by the way, So that's that's your traditional country.
But it's you know, the Florida Georgia line stuff, and
like it gets a little rappy and a little poppy
a little, but then it goes back to the roots.
You know, you're Stapleton types. So it's but anyway, Ricky
Skaggs is one of the ogs and he's coming up

(01:17:10):
in just a little bit. I do want to mention
that next week, and I'm probably just going to open
it up so everybody can read it. It's been on
my mind. At the Harrump Society, I am going to
tell three Christmas stories that I don't think have ever
been connected before. I haven't researched it, but in my

(01:17:30):
mind I kind of connected them. And it's three moments
when prayer comforted America and changed the course of history.
I thought it an appropriate theme for the Christmas season
as we head toward it. So that's next week at
the Horump Society. I've got a new edition coming out today,
but next week is sort of a three part theme

(01:17:52):
week on prayer, and this is the fastest growing newsletter
on substack. I hope you can join us over there.
Really looking forward to next week. Will our net Jason
Bateman and Conan O'Brien. I don't have time to get
into this at this very moment, but I'm going to
play for you. Coming up one of the most incredible
exchanges between three friends dealing with grief. Now, I don't

(01:18:17):
know how you deal with grief. I don't know if
that's an uncomfortable subject for you. But guys who are
funny again, setting aside their politics, I think they are
pretty funny guys and their friends. There's nothing more difficult
than when a beloved friend, particularly for men, is going
through a tough time. You know what I'm saying, Ed,
You're not the most I mean, like, I love you.

(01:18:38):
But the one thing you don't like is when things
get emotional.

Speaker 7 (01:18:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not good. I'm always emotional.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Men don't do it well. You know, when a guy's grief. Men,
I'm not picking on you. It's such a tough thing
for men to do. Absolutely. I think Conan O'Brien and
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman have figured out how to
do it. I admire it that's coming up. This is
a thrill, you know. In my radio career now twenty
five years running, I've done a lot of different things

(01:19:10):
talk radio for the bulk of it now. But my
very very first job, and you may not know this,
but the very first job I had out of college
was on a country music station. I did overnights for
I don't know, over a year on a country music station.
I interned on a country music station before that, so

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and I grew up around country music. I remember my
parents and grandparents listening to it. So it was such
a thrill when I found out we were going to
be able to talk to a Hall of famer in
the country music world, a fifteen time Grammy winner. And
now he's out on tour as we speak tonight. He's
going to be in Nashville, Indiana for at the Brown

(01:19:53):
Country Music Center. Who am I talking about? Ricky Skaggs,
the one and Only and his Kentucky thunder Christmas tour.
Mister Skaggs went and honor good morning, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 13 (01:20:02):
Oh thank you, Chris, Merry Christmas to you sounds lucky
you had a good foundational background to get started in life.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I did, you know, before I even knew what I
was listening to. I was sort of steep steeped in
it before I even knew what I was really enjoying.
It's interesting too, because I grew up, you know, as
a kid in the right there in the wheelhouse where
you were cranking out hits, and at the time, I
don't think I really kind of knew, kind of formatically

(01:20:34):
what it meant to people. I've interestingly watched it. I
know you have how country music has evolved and shifted
from when you started and to today and the different
but you've never wavered. That's what's interesting about you. Once
you hit a zone, you've stayed there. Yes, yeah, that's
all I know how to do.

Speaker 13 (01:20:50):
I can't really I can't sing rap, so I can
tell a story or two, but no, it definitely has
changed a whole lot, Chris, as you will put it.
But you know, they're finding their way in blending country
with lots of different kinds of sounds. And I just

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love staying with what brought me to the party, you know,
and I'm thankful, at seventy one years old that people
swilling to lay down, you know, fifty seventy five dollars
whatever it cost to get in, you know, to buy
a ticket, to still come and see us play, and
saying so I'm grateful.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
How often do you tour these days?

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Quite a bent.

Speaker 13 (01:21:36):
We had a really good summer, and like you said,
we're on this Christmas tour to kind of finish up
the year, and we'll start again the first weekend in
January up in Manassa, or not Manassa's Virginia, but up
in northern Virginia in the DC area a little place
called the Birchmere that we play every year. That's usually

(01:21:58):
our place we try out new material and see if
they're going to walk out or if they're going to stay.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
So that's really interesting, Ricky. I would not have thought,
I know, the Birchmere, and I would not have folt
frankly that Virginia, uh and the suburbs of d C
would be where Ricky Skaggs has beloved. But obviously you
do very well. And that's what's so funny about country
music is I think people assume, well, unless he's in Alabama,
he's probably not going to set a show. But I

(01:22:26):
know that's not true. You found it to be true
wherever you go anywhere in the country.

Speaker 13 (01:22:29):
I would imagine, Well, we've got a lot of fans,
like you know, many of many of them are you know,
old people and their parents, you know, but that's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:22:42):
We love them.

Speaker 13 (01:22:43):
And but you know, one of the things that I
see with a whole lot of the younger country artists
is that they know my history, they know the music
that I've done, and they love the bluegrass blend with
the country music that we do. So it's great, you know,
I'm thankful. You know, the Grand Old Opery just celebrated

(01:23:05):
one hundred years of starting in nineteen twenty five and
twenty twenty five now, and we just celebrated one hundred
years of that show that has touched not just America,
but has touched the world.

Speaker 6 (01:23:22):
It's amazing that it's gone through all, you know, world
wars and all.

Speaker 13 (01:23:29):
Kinds of things, and just to see that it's still standing,
it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Ricky. That's as I understand it, and I didn't know
about it. I have to confess, I'm sorry. I hadn't
known about this until now, although I'd heard it, I'd
listened to it, like I said, growing up, But that
grandled Opry show, that radio show is the longest continuously
running radio show without interruption for like one hundred years. True,
it is, it truly is.

Speaker 13 (01:23:54):
You know, even when COVID came and we couldn't have
people in the building, me and Marty Stewart and Vince
gill h went and and you know, did Saturday Night show,
you know, just for people streaming and and uh and radio.
You know, we were not going to let some you know,
plandemic mess us up. We were gonna We're going to

(01:24:17):
keep playing, keep going.

Speaker 6 (01:24:19):
So uh, you know it's withstood that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Can I tell you something, I not not to do
a commercial. By the way, Ricky Skaggs Show. If you
want to go tonight and you happen to be in
or around Nashville, Indiana, are there still some tickets available?
I want to mention that on the eleventh, still some
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Skaggs dot com slash Tour Cincinnati to come and Bristol
after that. If you're looking for some Christmas music, but

(01:24:45):
on on the Grand Old Opry front. My wife and
I just this year took that tour formally. I'd never
done that before, and I have to tell you, and
I'm not kidding, if you have any kind of entertainment
history appreciation music, the way they do that tour, they

(01:25:06):
bring you out on the stage and let you stand
there in that circle. I defy anybody to not feel
really special and feel the electricity in that place. The
way that's done and presented, it really makes you feel
you can appreciate how someone from humble beginnings becomes star
in that center stage and what it means to you
guys in country music, well, it really does.

Speaker 13 (01:25:30):
I mean it's we call the Old Raman Auditorium, which
was built in the eighteen hundreds.

Speaker 6 (01:25:38):
It was Union Gospel Tabernacle. It was a church.

Speaker 13 (01:25:42):
Nowadays they call it the Mother Church of country music.
And then we got the Big House, you know, the
Opera House now out on off Browley Parkway run on
the river there, Cumberland. But you know when we moved
out there in nineteen I guess seventy five, they cut
a big circle of a piece of the stage from

(01:26:05):
the Ramen and brought it with them and set it
out there.

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
So a lot of these young artists that.

Speaker 13 (01:26:12):
Come, they they literally bowed down and put their hands
in touch that, you know, that that circle especially, you know,
just something that gives them some connection to the past.

Speaker 6 (01:26:29):
And because I grew.

Speaker 13 (01:26:31):
Up at a time that Roy Acuff was still alive,
Minnie Pearl was still alive, and Grandpa Jones and Ernest
Tubb actually inducted me into the Grand Ole Opry in
nineteen eighty one, so that was you know, I had
great connections with those people and admired them so much,

(01:26:51):
you know. And I had listened to that radio show
since I was a kid, listening with my grandfather in
his forward pickup truck out by the barn where there
was no electric line so that we could get you know,
not have any kind of disturbance, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:27:08):
So that was really really great.

Speaker 13 (01:27:10):
And I'm just so thankful to be to be a
member of the Opry.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
And one rookie I didn't know, go ahead, go ahead,
please go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:27:20):
Well, one of the coolest things that I ever got
to do.

Speaker 6 (01:27:24):
There was an old man named Uncle Jimmy.

Speaker 13 (01:27:26):
Thompson, and he was the first musician that actually played
on the Grand Ole Opry when Judge George D.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Hay, the Solemn Old Judge they call him, uh, came
on the air.

Speaker 13 (01:27:41):
They'd come from you know, the radio show was you know,
it was NBC back then, and uh so they cut,
you know to Nashville, and uh, Judge Hay was sitting
there and saying, well, you've been listening to Grand Opera
from New York, but now you're going to be listening

(01:28:04):
to the Grand Old Opry. And Uncle Jimmy Thompson, this
old fiddler that fought in the Civil War.

Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
Man, I'm telling you, I mean he was old.

Speaker 13 (01:28:16):
He sits there and plays this fiddle, you know, and
uh it was the first song ever ever played on
the Grand Ole Opry.

Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
It is called Tennessee Wagner.

Speaker 13 (01:28:25):
I got to play his fiddle on the one hundredth anniversary,
sitting in that circle and getting getting to play that
old tune and all these Opry members behind me back there,
and it was it was otherworldly, It truly was.

Speaker 8 (01:28:43):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
It was like it going to be almost like your church.

Speaker 13 (01:28:47):
Oh yeah, I mean it in many ways, you know
it is you know, we we love we love the
Opry and and uh but It really felt in my
heart that we were closing a chapter from one hundred
years and opening up a new chapter, you know, for
the for the next hundred years.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
I told you earlier in the show Colin O'Brien, and
I don't know how long ago this happened. Lost both
of his parents tragically. Want His father died of old age,
but his mother died two days later. His friends Will
Arnette and Jason Bateman, the actors, joined him on his
podcast and talked about how they helped him with this
grief of losing two parents so quickly. I just loved

(01:29:29):
the story. Listen, bring up a touch of actual. This
is real personal subject for you.

Speaker 14 (01:29:34):
Okay, I know what it is in the family, yep,
my parents. So well, First, let me just say the
timelinecause I have it here. I wrote it down last
year because the timeline was so good.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:29:44):
And so I hear that that your your dad passes away,
and I text you that day or the next day
and I said, hey, listen, I'm sorry to hear about
your dad's passing, sending love from our family to years
and you wrote thank you. Will to be honest, blame Bateman.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
For the death of my for the death of my father.

Speaker 14 (01:30:04):
The day after his father dies. Yeah, right, so I wrote,
it's not a terrible theory, and Conon texted me back,
he killed my dad.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
God, my dad.

Speaker 15 (01:30:17):
Can I say, in fairness my dad would have loved
this so so.

Speaker 14 (01:30:24):
So uh so then Baban, Babean. I tell Babman this,
we're dying. We're doing a thing that day, so he
the next day, Bateman texts you and he says, Arnette
tells me you're on to me. Yes, and ConA text Baban.
He says, Baban, do yourself a favor, favor, turn yourself in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:30:50):
Two days after your dad passes. Of course your mom
passed away, Yeah, which we didn't. I did not see coming.
Which did not see coming. So I text you two
days after I knew your boss. I said, Bagman is
asking for your sister a street address.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Yeah, okay to give.

Speaker 14 (01:31:12):
Yeah, And you were busy that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Like a day and a half later.

Speaker 14 (01:31:17):
Your texted back, just seeing this now, fantastic six twenty
five Boilston Street, Department Twelve's you tell Babman to make
it look like a robbery.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
You know it's weird.

Speaker 15 (01:31:30):
I swear to God, this is how I grieve. I
know everyone has their way.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
I just love that. I admire good friendships, gallows, humor,
or whatever you want to call that. I just thought
that remarkable. I mean, what a remarkable thing to have happened,
lose your parents two days from one another, but to
have that kind of good cheer and share it with friends.
It's it's really something I thought that was cool. Made
me smile yesterday. So that's a wrap for another Christa
Gall Show podcast. Thanks for committing to it listening to

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it all the way through. I like that about you.
Hope you'll leave it a five star review and a
written review. Apple Podcasts, Spotify. We'll see you next time
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