Christmas Wishes

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[00:00:59] It is a special day.

[00:01:00] It's a special day for all those children that are all excited out there because it's Christmas Eve.

[00:01:05] And so I found a special prayer.

[00:01:07] I got this from Christianity.com.

[00:01:09] I made a few changes on it or additions to it, but it's a Christmas Eve prayer.

[00:01:15] Dear Heavenly Father, as the dawn of Christmas Eve breaks, we come before you with hearts full of gratitude and anticipation.

[00:01:24] We thank you for the precious gift of your Son, Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate.

[00:01:31] On this special morning, we ask for your presence to be with us throughout the day.

[00:01:36] Help us to keep our hearts open to your love and our minds centered on the true meaning of Christmas.

[00:01:43] Let the joy of hope of this season fill our souls as we prepare to commemorate the birth of our Savior.

[00:01:52] Lord, bless our families and loved ones with your peace and unity.

[00:02:00] May our gatherings be filled with laughter, warmth, and the sharing of your love.

[00:02:05] Guide us in our interactions with others today that we may be instruments of your grace and kindness in the lives of those we meet, showing kindness and love.

[00:02:19] Protect our nation, our leaders.

[00:02:44] May our hearts be a manger where your love is born anew.

[00:02:51] For such a time as this.

[00:02:54] In Jesus' name we pray.

[00:02:56] Amen.

[00:02:58] So I've titled today's show Christmas Wishes, and I actually have Christmas Wishes that I got.

[00:03:06] Daniel should be joining us in the second segment.

[00:03:10] And so I thought, well, we'll just go with that.

[00:03:14] Christmas Wishes.

[00:03:16] And so I was writing, and this is what fell out.

[00:03:19] Sometimes it just happens.

[00:03:21] It's rough.

[00:03:22] Of Christmas wishes there are always plenty.

[00:03:25] The children and adults have many.

[00:03:28] In America we anxiously await the old gentleman we call Saint Nick.

[00:03:33] The young and the old, we all make those wishes.

[00:03:37] Some wishes are shiny, simmering sparkles, and some wishes are productive and more commonsensical.

[00:03:44] Others are simply just to enjoy a game, a puzzle, or a toy.

[00:03:50] So many wishes we all do employ.

[00:03:55] As you and I know, that greatest gift has already been given.

[00:04:00] All you must do is receive and keep giving.

[00:04:04] Christmas is not about the wishes, although we have many.

[00:04:07] It's not about the baby in a manger, for that is only the beginning.

[00:04:12] The gift for which we celebrate is wrapped in love.

[00:04:16] Make no mistake.

[00:04:18] For God, he did send his son to die on a cross as a sacrifice for the sins we have made during our lives.

[00:04:27] But the love did not end there.

[00:04:29] No, it's gone on.

[00:04:31] For the son on the cross, yes, he lives on.

[00:04:36] Eternal life is the gift of salvation.

[00:04:39] We celebrate one day as a body of believers, but it is a gift that is every day.

[00:04:45] We are the receivers.

[00:04:48] From the cradle to the cross.

[00:04:50] From the cross on to heaven.

[00:04:53] Eternal salvation.

[00:04:55] The gift has been given.

[00:04:58] What Christmas wishes do you have?

[00:05:01] What Christmas traditions do you practice?

[00:05:06] Maybe some don't practice a whole lot, but I think you just end up with those throughout the years, whether you want them or not.

[00:05:15] I have my second son on my mind.

[00:05:18] He's a tall, strong, handsome guy.

[00:05:23] Of course, I think they all are.

[00:05:25] He's not the tallest.

[00:05:26] The youngest is the tallest.

[00:05:28] But he wanted to be a cowboy when he was a little boy.

[00:05:34] And we still lived on the farm back then.

[00:05:39] And he would get into his daddy's boots and clunk around in them.

[00:05:47] It was really funny to see because the boots came up to his crotch because he was still a wee one at that time.

[00:05:55] But he told me one day, he said, Mom, I want to be a cowboy when I grow up and move out west.

[00:06:03] And then he looked at me.

[00:06:05] Where's out west?

[00:06:08] The innocence of a child.

[00:06:11] And, of course, my mother used to tell us we had to clean our rooms and clean the house and everything before Christmas

[00:06:18] because I guess Santa wasn't going to come if the house hadn't been vacuumed and cleaned.

[00:06:23] And I was trying to encourage my young'uns to clean their rooms and pick up their toys.

[00:06:31] They were really small, really small.

[00:06:33] And I was working in the kitchen as I usually am.

[00:06:37] Now, I don't know how many of you remember this, but there is a little clip, a little top, a little plastic top.

[00:06:44] When you opened a new bottle of, like, cooking oil and when you popped it open, it's plastic, but it had a little point on it.

[00:06:51] And a little ring like it could be around.

[00:06:54] I told my second son that the elves were watching him.

[00:07:00] And I said, Look, he lost his hat.

[00:07:01] I had it thrown on the floor.

[00:07:03] He lost his hat.

[00:07:04] And that little one got busy picking up his toys right away.

[00:07:10] Well, it's not a tradition to throw an oil top on the floor, but maybe that was mean.

[00:07:18] I don't know.

[00:07:19] But he picked up his toys.

[00:07:20] And I think he kind of remembers that.

[00:07:23] He's only about three years old or so.

[00:07:26] But the children have the excitement on Christmas Eve is just out the sky.

[00:07:34] I mean, it is just they are so excited waiting for St. Nicholas to come, waiting for Santa Claus.

[00:07:41] And my children were no different.

[00:07:45] And I thought about the phrase in Twas the Night Before Christmas where they were all snug in their beds.

[00:07:52] You know how hard it was to get them snug in their beds on Christmas Eve?

[00:07:55] They just didn't want to go.

[00:07:57] And really, especially when they were all little and home and I was still home, not working outside the home just yet,

[00:08:07] you know, wrapping their gifts and hiding them was something that was hard to do.

[00:08:15] So we would be up as soon as we got them to bed and knew they were going to stay there.

[00:08:20] We would be up till wee hours of the morning wrapping presents.

[00:08:24] We had, you know, five children.

[00:08:26] So it took a lot of wrapping.

[00:08:28] And I was telling Rudy, one year we got kind of ingenious because, you know, the children will get up really early in the morning.

[00:08:36] And they will get into the packages.

[00:08:40] They're not supposed to open them until mom and dad get up.

[00:08:43] And they're not supposed to go into the Christmas room.

[00:08:46] We're going to call it that.

[00:08:47] It's a living room until mom got up or dad and turned on the Christmas tree lights.

[00:08:53] But they would sneak.

[00:08:54] You probably did that when you were a kid, too.

[00:08:57] Didn't you?

[00:08:57] Sneak down the stairs or down the hallway.

[00:09:01] And they would peek.

[00:09:03] So one year we wrapped each one.

[00:09:05] We had five different wrapping papers.

[00:09:07] And we wrapped each one in a different wrapping paper.

[00:09:10] And we did not put their names on them.

[00:09:12] So they had no clue whose gift was whose.

[00:09:17] And, but then whatever gift was in their stocking and whatever tag was that wrapping paper,

[00:09:24] that was their clue as to which presents belonged to them.

[00:09:29] But you know, it's not about the gifts under the tree.

[00:09:33] And we know that that's not even necessarily the date that our Lord was born.

[00:09:38] But it's about understanding.

[00:09:42] And isn't it wonderful that as a world we celebrate one day of our Savior concentrated.

[00:09:51] But it should be something every day.

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[00:13:07] This is Beth Ann.

[00:13:07] Well, it is Christmas Eve, and we did know that Daniel was going to be boarding a plane at some time this morning,

[00:13:16] but he thought he would be able to join us in the second segment.

[00:13:19] That has not happened yet as far as the phones go.

[00:13:22] So I am at least going to carry on for him.

[00:13:26] And if you go to their website, and this is what sparked my title of today's show,

[00:13:34] they have six Christmas wishes.

[00:13:38] And they explain each one of them, which I wasn't going to do because I thought that he was going to be here with us.

[00:13:44] But I think you can understand.

[00:13:46] There are six of them.

[00:13:48] Christmas wish number one is roll back the EPA's new natural gas tax.

[00:13:54] And he went on to explain.

[00:13:56] You can find these on their website.

[00:13:58] It's PowerTheFuture.com, PowerTheFuture.com.

[00:14:01] And so these are things, and most of these are things he thinks that Trump should do on day one.

[00:14:10] Christmas wish number two, lift the LNG export ban to restore American energy dominance.

[00:14:19] I didn't realize they'd close the export, but I guess because we weren't producing much of it.

[00:14:26] Christmas wish number three is cut the IRA's wasteful spending.

[00:14:34] Christmas wish number four, bring back our gas stoves and restore consumer choice.

[00:14:41] Remember that when they decided nobody by a certain year, they didn't want anybody to have gas stoves,

[00:14:46] and they said that's not what we say, and we read it to them, and it is what they said.

[00:14:50] And then we see Kamala Harris cooking in her kitchen on Christmas, and it was a gas stove.

[00:14:58] Well, Christmas wish number five, open up more federal leasing to unleash America's energy potential.

[00:15:13] And Christmas wish number six, replenish the strategic petroleum reserve.

[00:15:20] Our reserve is dangerously low, dangerously low.

[00:15:26] It's only there for emergencies.

[00:15:28] Biden has used it for political purposes.

[00:15:31] Let some of it go so that the price of gas would go down, you know, before certain elections.

[00:15:38] But recently, Daniel was on Fox, and he was on Cavuto, I believe it was Cavuto where he was.

[00:15:50] Three ways Trump can give a jolt to energy sector and empower Americans.

[00:15:56] Energy sector needs a jump start, so Trump should eliminate tax on natural gas, which was one of his wishes right over here.

[00:16:04] He says they snuck in at $891 billion and improperly named it the Inflation Reduction Act.

[00:16:15] And we know all about that.

[00:16:17] And we know what they have done, and they continue to do, because that's part of their CR.

[00:16:22] Yes, it is.

[00:16:24] It's part of that continuous resolution.

[00:16:26] And number two, he says, reopen our electricity production plants.

[00:16:32] He said Biden made green jobs promise in Massachusetts.

[00:16:38] On this site, he stood and said they'll manufacture 248 miles of high-tech heavy-duty cables,

[00:16:48] ostensibly to connect offshore wind farms to the onshore electrical grid.

[00:16:54] That was the purpose.

[00:16:56] Two years later, this was in 22, two years later, reality has set in.

[00:17:04] Construction of the onshore plants is in limbo due to opposition from local groups.

[00:17:10] And the offshore wind farm?

[00:17:13] Well, this summer, 2024, a 300-foot blade broke and fell into the sea, closing the beaches in Nantucket.

[00:17:26] And the wind farm was shut down.

[00:17:29] And it has still not reopened.

[00:17:33] This is the green agenda in a nutshell.

[00:17:45] Have you heard anything about this?

[00:17:48] We wouldn't know it if it wasn't for Daniel.

[00:17:50] Meanwhile, he says, the people of Massachusetts have some of the highest electricity rates in the country,

[00:17:59] on top of the lost jobs, tax revenue from the coal plant.

[00:18:05] And he calls it a standard green failure.

[00:18:09] And number three, expand oil production.

[00:18:15] He goes on and he says,

[00:18:18] because most of Biden's punitive energy actions were so unpopular,

[00:18:25] they couldn't pass Congress and were implemented via executive orders,

[00:18:32] announcing dates for regulation land leases,

[00:18:36] reversing bans on offshore and federal land production,

[00:18:42] reopening Alaska.

[00:18:43] These all send a market signal,

[00:18:46] which will have an immediate impact on oil prices.

[00:18:50] That's what he wants Trump to do on day one.

[00:18:55] Expand the oil production.

[00:18:57] Open up Alaska.

[00:18:58] Get these things going.

[00:18:59] He says, sending a signal to the American oil and gas exploration and production is back.

[00:19:05] What Trump calls drill baby drill

[00:19:08] is the greatest hedge against foreign cartels like OPEC.

[00:19:13] And the greatest signal to lower costs for consumers.

[00:19:18] According to Daniel, and we've heard him say it over and over again,

[00:19:23] when we start becoming productive,

[00:19:31] energy not just sufficient but dominant,

[00:19:35] then we will see things in America open up.

[00:19:38] We will see prices going down.

[00:19:42] The energy to take care of your home, whether it's winter or summer,

[00:19:47] will be cheaper, more economical.

[00:19:52] You can go to grandma's house more often.

[00:19:56] I hope my South Carolina people are listening.

[00:19:59] I do miss my children.

[00:20:02] It's Christmas Eve.

[00:20:04] What are your wishes?

[00:20:07] We sit in anticipation here in America.

[00:20:09] Everybody's looking,

[00:20:11] not to tomorrow so much as we are,

[00:20:14] but we're looking to January 20th.

[00:20:17] And what changes are going to be made in this country

[00:20:21] to get us back to that commonsensical thing

[00:20:25] of America first.

[00:20:28] That doesn't mean isolationism.

[00:20:31] That doesn't mean selfishness.

[00:20:33] When America is first and America is productive

[00:20:36] and America is strong,

[00:20:38] the world is stronger.

[00:20:39] The world is happier.

[00:20:44] We have been put in such danger

[00:20:47] because of the open borders.

[00:20:50] We have been seeing women murdered and raped.

[00:20:56] Children have disappeared.

[00:20:59] Illegal alien children, they've disappeared.

[00:21:05] You don't lose hundreds of thousands of children by accident,

[00:21:11] my friends.

[00:21:13] The regime that's been running this country is evil.

[00:21:17] And I'm not just talking about Joe.

[00:21:22] They're evil.

[00:21:24] We have been finding out more and more

[00:21:26] that Joe, they're admitting,

[00:21:28] had dementia when he was vice president.

[00:21:31] So this regime, this deep state,

[00:21:34] whatever you want to call them,

[00:21:37] knowingly, knowingly elected a man for president.

[00:21:40] They hit him in the basement.

[00:21:41] They didn't let you know the truth of what was going on.

[00:21:47] And he's not been the one running this country.

[00:21:53] There's nothing more of an insurrection than that.

[00:22:00] And recently, they're giving him credit.

[00:22:02] He's not the one doing this.

[00:22:03] He may be the one signing the papers,

[00:22:06] if he can still sign his name.

[00:22:10] I don't say that in just.

[00:22:11] My mother had dementia.

[00:22:13] My mother had Alzheimer's.

[00:22:14] It's a horrible, horrible disease.

[00:22:18] Your loved one is still with you physically, but they're gone.

[00:22:22] It's painful.

[00:22:23] But under Joe Biden's regime,

[00:22:28] they have commuted 37 of the 40 inmates that are on death row.

[00:22:36] Vicious, horrendous murderers.

[00:22:40] Do you think these 37 murderers will appreciate the Christmas gift

[00:22:46] that has been given to them, a gift of life,

[00:22:48] even though they have to remain in prison?

[00:22:52] Unless they've been saved, I seriously doubt it.

[00:22:57] Now, there are those who don't believe in the death penalty

[00:23:00] because they don't trust the state.

[00:23:03] I kind of get that.

[00:23:05] But at the same time, that's not scriptural.

[00:23:10] That's you trying to make a human decision and saying,

[00:23:13] Oh, I can't be God.

[00:23:14] I can't take that life.

[00:23:15] But God said that life must be taken.

[00:23:21] That is between him and God.

[00:23:24] You must obey God.

[00:23:26] And that's a sad thing to say on Christmas Eve.

[00:23:31] I have something very happy to tell you when we come back.

[00:23:34] You're listening to CSE Talk Radio.

[00:23:37] This is Beth Ann.

[00:23:39] It's Christmas Eve, and we have lots to be thankful for.

[00:23:42] We'll be right back.

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[00:28:07] This is Beth Ann.

[00:28:09] You know that we have a devotion every morning

[00:28:11] here in the office.

[00:28:12] And don't think we are saints.

[00:28:16] We just need it really bad.

[00:28:18] But this was on December 6th.

[00:28:21] And it's out of John.

[00:28:23] And I'm not going to read the whole devotion to you.

[00:28:25] It says,

[00:28:26] The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

[00:28:30] And after the devotion,

[00:28:33] they have a little poem

[00:28:35] or a quote from someone.

[00:28:38] This is from Oswald Chambers.

[00:28:41] He is God incarnate.

[00:28:44] Not man becoming God.

[00:28:47] But God coming into human flesh.

[00:28:50] Coming into it from the outside.

[00:28:53] His life is the highest and the holiest

[00:28:56] entering in at the lowest.

[00:28:58] The lowliest door.

[00:29:01] Think about that.

[00:29:03] You know, my daddy used to say,

[00:29:05] Don't leave that baby in the manger.

[00:29:07] He's not in the manger.

[00:29:11] And I have done many cantatas.

[00:29:15] I have sung in them.

[00:29:17] And I have directed them.

[00:29:19] And I directed a cantata one time

[00:29:21] called From the Cradle to the Cross.

[00:29:26] And in the nativity scene that we had set up,

[00:29:32] someone had,

[00:29:33] in fact, they passed away.

[00:29:35] They were killed in a horrible,

[00:29:36] he was killed in a horrible motorcycle wreck.

[00:29:40] But it was,

[00:29:42] they created a star.

[00:29:43] And I can't think of what,

[00:29:45] it's kind of an origami type thing.

[00:29:47] And it lit up over the manger.

[00:29:49] But then they had a shadow

[00:29:52] of a cross

[00:29:53] on that manger.

[00:29:55] Because that's the purpose

[00:29:57] of the birth.

[00:30:00] Now, the good news

[00:30:01] that I want to share with you.

[00:30:03] You don't hear much good news

[00:30:05] out of Hollywood.

[00:30:08] Denzel Washington

[00:30:10] was baptized

[00:30:12] and receives

[00:30:13] a minister's license.

[00:30:16] Denzel Washington

[00:30:17] was baptized

[00:30:18] over the weekend.

[00:30:21] The two-time Academy Award-winning actor

[00:30:23] received a certificate of baptism

[00:30:25] and a minister's license,

[00:30:26] which allows him to pursue ordination

[00:30:29] if he chooses

[00:30:31] after the baptism,

[00:30:33] which took place

[00:30:35] at the Kelly Temple Church of God

[00:30:36] in Christ in Harlem,

[00:30:39] according to the deadline.

[00:30:41] But I guess that's a news service.

[00:30:45] The First Jurisdiction Church

[00:30:47] of God in Christ

[00:30:49] Eastern New York

[00:30:50] streamed the service

[00:30:52] on Facebook.

[00:30:56] In one week,

[00:30:57] he said,

[00:30:58] I turned 70.

[00:30:59] It took a while,

[00:31:01] but I'm here.

[00:31:05] And he gave thanks

[00:31:06] to his wife,

[00:31:07] Paulette Washington.

[00:31:08] And she stood up,

[00:31:09] I watched this this morning,

[00:31:11] and gave a testimony.

[00:31:12] And it was the cutest thing

[00:31:14] of how they met.

[00:31:15] And she said at first,

[00:31:17] it didn't mean anything to me.

[00:31:18] And he's standing behind her

[00:31:19] going,

[00:31:20] Oh no!

[00:31:20] And he's like,

[00:31:20] he hit his heart.

[00:31:21] You know,

[00:31:24] I'm pretty sure

[00:31:24] he's heard it before.

[00:31:26] Washington spoke

[00:31:28] about his faith

[00:31:29] in an essay

[00:31:30] for Esquire

[00:31:31] last month,

[00:31:32] saying,

[00:31:34] he was determined

[00:31:34] to share his beliefs

[00:31:36] and experience

[00:31:37] in an industry

[00:31:38] where talk of religion

[00:31:39] is rare.

[00:31:41] I'm unafraid.

[00:31:43] I don't care

[00:31:44] what anyone thinks.

[00:31:46] See,

[00:31:47] talking about the fear

[00:31:48] part of it,

[00:31:49] you can't talk like that

[00:31:51] and win Oscars.

[00:31:52] You can't talk like that

[00:31:55] at a party.

[00:31:56] You can't say that

[00:31:58] in this town,

[00:31:59] he wrote in the essay.

[00:32:01] It's not fashionable.

[00:32:03] It's not sexy.

[00:32:05] But that doesn't mean

[00:32:06] people in Hollywood

[00:32:07] don't believe.

[00:32:10] There's no such thing

[00:32:12] called Hollywood

[00:32:13] anyway.

[00:32:14] What does that even mean?

[00:32:17] That, to me,

[00:32:17] means a street

[00:32:18] called Hollywood Boulevard.

[00:32:22] It's not like

[00:32:23] we will meet somewhere

[00:32:24] and discuss

[00:32:25] what we believe.

[00:32:26] So I don't know

[00:32:27] how many other actors

[00:32:28] have faith.

[00:32:30] I don't do a poll.

[00:32:32] How would I find that out?

[00:32:34] I mean,

[00:32:35] there's no such,

[00:32:36] there's no church

[00:32:36] actor meetings

[00:32:37] I've been told

[00:32:39] I've been to.

[00:32:41] Washington also

[00:32:43] revealed

[00:32:44] revealed

[00:32:44] that he was

[00:32:46] 10 years sober

[00:32:49] after drinking

[00:32:50] two bottles of wine

[00:32:51] a day

[00:32:51] for over a decade

[00:32:53] and doing a lot

[00:32:54] of damage

[00:32:55] to his body.

[00:32:57] He said

[00:32:58] he was 60

[00:32:59] when he stopped drinking

[00:33:00] and he had developed

[00:33:02] a drinking pattern

[00:33:03] in the late 1990s

[00:33:04] that would span

[00:33:05] 15 years.

[00:33:07] And while he never

[00:33:08] got strung out,

[00:33:09] he said,

[00:33:10] on alcohol,

[00:33:11] he was drinking

[00:33:12] far more

[00:33:13] than the recommended

[00:33:14] amount.

[00:33:15] I've done a lot

[00:33:16] of damage

[00:33:17] to my body.

[00:33:18] We'll see.

[00:33:19] I've been clean.

[00:33:21] Be 10 years

[00:33:23] this December.

[00:33:25] I stopped

[00:33:26] at age 60

[00:33:26] and I haven't

[00:33:28] had a thimble's

[00:33:29] worth since.

[00:33:31] Things are opening

[00:33:32] up for me now

[00:33:33] like being 70.

[00:33:35] It's real

[00:33:36] and it's okay.

[00:33:38] This is the last chapter.

[00:33:40] If I get another

[00:33:41] 30,

[00:33:42] what do I want

[00:33:43] to do?

[00:33:44] My mother made

[00:33:45] it to 97.

[00:33:48] He said in his

[00:33:50] little testimony

[00:33:50] as I watched it

[00:33:52] when he'd complain

[00:33:53] about not getting

[00:33:54] an Oscar,

[00:33:56] his mother would say,

[00:33:57] man gives awards,

[00:33:59] God gives rewards.

[00:34:03] He came from

[00:34:04] a Christian background.

[00:34:07] What's the saying?

[00:34:08] Raise up a child

[00:34:09] in the way

[00:34:10] you should go

[00:34:10] and he will not

[00:34:11] depart from it.

[00:34:13] Sometimes we take

[00:34:14] little journeys

[00:34:15] hither and yonder.

[00:34:19] But I want to share

[00:34:21] a couple of things

[00:34:21] with you today.

[00:34:23] Now I think I have

[00:34:24] shared this.

[00:34:26] Wait a minute.

[00:34:27] We're going to do

[00:34:27] one more little

[00:34:29] tidbit of news.

[00:34:31] This came off

[00:34:32] just as I was

[00:34:32] coming into the

[00:34:33] office,

[00:34:34] into the studio,

[00:34:35] excuse me.

[00:34:36] Rand Paul,

[00:34:36] he is on a tear

[00:34:37] here lately.

[00:34:38] At least I feel

[00:34:39] like he is.

[00:34:40] I see his notes

[00:34:41] on Substack

[00:34:42] popping up

[00:34:43] all the time.

[00:34:44] But he releases

[00:34:46] a report

[00:34:47] detailing,

[00:34:48] I think he likes

[00:34:50] the doge,

[00:34:52] one trillion

[00:34:53] dollars of

[00:34:54] government waste.

[00:34:56] And here are

[00:34:58] the worst offenders

[00:34:59] and it's in this

[00:35:00] article.

[00:35:31] article.

[00:35:32] I can't even

[00:35:33] count that much.

[00:35:34] But that's over

[00:35:37] a trillion dollars

[00:35:38] in government waste,

[00:35:39] including things

[00:35:40] like ice skating

[00:35:41] drag queens,

[00:35:43] $12 million

[00:35:44] Las Vegas

[00:35:46] pickleball complex,

[00:35:47] 4,840,000

[00:35:53] Ukrainian influencers

[00:35:54] and more.

[00:35:56] No matter how

[00:35:57] much money

[00:35:58] the government

[00:35:58] has wasted,

[00:35:59] politicians

[00:36:00] keep demanding

[00:36:01] even more.

[00:36:02] Now he was upset

[00:36:02] about the CR bill.

[00:36:03] I know that.

[00:36:04] The Department

[00:36:05] of the Interior

[00:36:06] spent $12 million

[00:36:08] on Las Vegas

[00:36:09] pickleball complex.

[00:36:10] I think he's

[00:36:11] mentioned that

[00:36:11] several times.

[00:36:12] He must have

[00:36:12] really been upset

[00:36:13] about the pickleball.

[00:36:15] And the Department

[00:36:16] of Interior

[00:36:17] also spent

[00:36:18] $720,000

[00:36:19] on wetland

[00:36:21] conservation

[00:36:21] projects

[00:36:22] for ducks

[00:36:24] in Mexico.

[00:36:27] He says,

[00:36:28] I have a lot

[00:36:29] of problems

[00:36:30] with federal

[00:36:30] spending and now

[00:36:31] it's time

[00:36:32] to hear all

[00:36:33] of them.

[00:36:33] The National

[00:36:34] Endowment

[00:36:35] for the Arts.

[00:36:36] Oh yeah,

[00:36:37] remember when

[00:36:37] they were giving

[00:36:38] the money to the

[00:36:38] arts during

[00:36:39] the COVID?

[00:36:40] $10,000 grant

[00:36:42] to support

[00:36:43] a cabaret show

[00:36:44] on the ice skates

[00:36:46] focused on

[00:36:47] climate change.

[00:36:49] Wait a minute.

[00:36:50] Ice and

[00:36:51] climate?

[00:36:51] Okay.

[00:36:53] The NEA

[00:36:54] also spent

[00:36:55] $365,000

[00:36:56] to promote

[00:36:57] circuses

[00:36:59] in city parks.

[00:37:02] $500,000

[00:37:03] from the State

[00:37:04] Department

[00:37:04] to expand

[00:37:05] U.S.

[00:37:05] Embassy

[00:37:05] in Ethiopia.

[00:37:07] He goes on

[00:37:08] and on

[00:37:09] in this.

[00:37:10] And I think

[00:37:11] we all know

[00:37:13] they don't care

[00:37:14] about how hard

[00:37:16] you have to work.

[00:37:17] They're going to

[00:37:18] spend that money

[00:37:19] and run you

[00:37:20] into debt.

[00:37:21] I encourage you

[00:37:22] to read my

[00:37:22] Substack from

[00:37:23] yesterday.

[00:37:24] I talked about

[00:37:25] that very thing

[00:37:26] and I was

[00:37:27] pretty pleased

[00:37:28] with what I

[00:37:29] wrote.

[00:37:30] You just go to

[00:37:31] Substack.com

[00:37:32] Substack.com

[00:37:34] You can download

[00:37:34] it on your

[00:37:37] phone and it'll

[00:37:38] just pop up.

[00:37:38] Every time I put

[00:37:39] one up there

[00:37:40] it'll pop up

[00:37:40] and you can

[00:37:41] read it.

[00:37:41] And you can

[00:37:42] meet other

[00:37:42] people there

[00:37:43] like Rand Paul.

[00:37:44] If you're

[00:37:44] listening to

[00:37:45] CSC Talk Radio

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[00:37:47] Eve and we're

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[00:42:07] This is Bethann.

[00:42:08] I have two poems

[00:42:09] that I want to share

[00:42:10] with you and I'm not

[00:42:11] going to read them

[00:42:11] in their entirety.

[00:42:13] I'm not going to

[00:42:13] read this one anyway

[00:42:14] in the entirety.

[00:42:15] And maybe it's

[00:42:16] the one I should.

[00:42:16] I don't know.

[00:42:17] I've read it before.

[00:42:18] It's the soldier's

[00:42:19] night before Christmas.

[00:42:21] It starts out

[00:42:22] towards the night

[00:42:23] before Christmas.

[00:42:24] He lived all alone

[00:42:26] in a one-bedroom house

[00:42:28] made of plaster and stone.

[00:42:30] I had come down

[00:42:31] the chimney

[00:42:32] with presents to give

[00:42:33] and to see just who

[00:42:35] in this home did live.

[00:42:36] I've changed my mind.

[00:42:38] I'm going to read

[00:42:38] the whole thing.

[00:42:40] As I looked all around

[00:42:41] about,

[00:42:42] a strange sight

[00:42:43] I did see.

[00:42:44] No tinsel,

[00:42:45] no presents,

[00:42:47] not even a tree.

[00:42:49] No stocking

[00:42:51] by the fire,

[00:42:53] just boots

[00:42:54] filled with sand.

[00:42:55] On the wall

[00:42:56] hung pictures

[00:42:57] of a far distant land.

[00:43:00] With medals

[00:43:01] and badges

[00:43:02] and awards

[00:43:02] of all kind,

[00:43:03] a sobering thought

[00:43:05] soon came

[00:43:06] to my mind.

[00:43:07] For this

[00:43:08] house was different,

[00:43:10] unlike any

[00:43:11] I'd seen.

[00:43:13] This house,

[00:43:14] this was the home

[00:43:16] of a U.S. Marine.

[00:43:19] I heard stories

[00:43:21] about them.

[00:43:22] I had to see more,

[00:43:23] so I walked down

[00:43:25] the hall

[00:43:25] and pushed open

[00:43:26] the door,

[00:43:27] and there he lay

[00:43:28] sleeping,

[00:43:29] silent,

[00:43:30] alone,

[00:43:31] curled up on the floor

[00:43:32] in his

[00:43:33] one-bedroom home.

[00:43:36] He seemed

[00:43:37] so gentle,

[00:43:38] his face

[00:43:39] so serene.

[00:43:41] Not how I pictured

[00:43:42] a U.S. Marine.

[00:43:46] Was this the hero

[00:43:47] of whom I just read?

[00:43:49] Curled up

[00:43:50] in a poncho,

[00:43:52] a floor

[00:43:52] on his bed.

[00:43:55] His head

[00:43:56] was clean-shaven,

[00:44:00] his weathered

[00:44:00] face tan.

[00:44:02] I soon understood

[00:44:04] this was more

[00:44:05] than a man,

[00:44:06] for I realized

[00:44:07] the families

[00:44:08] that I saw

[00:44:08] that night

[00:44:09] owed their lives

[00:44:11] to these men

[00:44:11] who were willing

[00:44:13] to fight.

[00:44:15] Soon around

[00:44:16] the nation

[00:44:16] the children

[00:44:17] would play,

[00:44:18] and grown-ups

[00:44:19] would celebrate

[00:44:20] on a bright

[00:44:21] Christmas day.

[00:44:22] They all

[00:44:23] enjoyed freedom

[00:44:24] each month

[00:44:25] and all year

[00:44:26] because of Marines

[00:44:28] like this one

[00:44:29] lying here.

[00:44:32] I couldn't help

[00:44:33] wonder how many

[00:44:34] lay alone

[00:44:34] on a Christmas

[00:44:36] cold eve,

[00:44:37] on a cold

[00:44:38] Christmas eve

[00:44:39] in a land

[00:44:40] far from home.

[00:44:42] Just the very

[00:44:43] thought

[00:44:43] brought a tear

[00:44:45] to my eye,

[00:44:46] I dropped

[00:44:47] to my knees

[00:44:48] and I started

[00:44:48] to cry.

[00:44:50] He must have

[00:44:52] awoken

[00:44:52] for I heard

[00:44:53] a rough voice.

[00:44:55] Sad adult cry,

[00:44:56] this life

[00:44:57] is my choice.

[00:44:58] I fight

[00:44:59] for freedom,

[00:45:00] I don't ask

[00:45:01] for more.

[00:45:03] My life

[00:45:03] is my God

[00:45:04] and my country

[00:45:05] my core.

[00:45:09] With that

[00:45:10] he rolled over,

[00:45:11] drifted off

[00:45:11] into sleep.

[00:45:13] I couldn't

[00:45:14] control it.

[00:45:14] I couldn't.

[00:45:16] I continued

[00:45:17] to weep.

[00:45:18] I watched

[00:45:20] him for hours

[00:45:20] so silent

[00:45:21] and still

[00:45:22] I noticed

[00:45:23] he shivered

[00:45:24] from the cold

[00:45:24] night's chill.

[00:45:26] So I took

[00:45:27] off my jacket,

[00:45:28] the one

[00:45:29] made of red

[00:45:30] and covered

[00:45:31] the smerene

[00:45:32] from his toes

[00:45:33] to his head.

[00:45:34] Then I put

[00:45:35] on his t-shirt

[00:45:36] of scarlet

[00:45:38] and gold

[00:45:38] with an eagle

[00:45:40] globe

[00:45:40] and anchor

[00:45:41] emblazoned

[00:45:42] so bold.

[00:45:43] And although

[00:45:44] it barely fit me,

[00:45:45] I began

[00:45:46] to swell

[00:45:47] with pride

[00:45:48] and for one

[00:45:49] shining moment

[00:45:51] I was

[00:45:52] Marine Corps

[00:45:53] deep inside.

[00:45:55] I didn't

[00:45:56] want to leave

[00:45:56] him so quiet

[00:45:57] in the night,

[00:45:58] this guardian

[00:45:59] of honor

[00:46:00] so willing

[00:46:01] to fight.

[00:46:02] But half

[00:46:03] asleep

[00:46:03] he rolled

[00:46:04] over

[00:46:05] and in a voice

[00:46:06] clean and pure

[00:46:07] said,

[00:46:09] Carry on,

[00:46:09] Santa.

[00:46:10] It's Christmas

[00:46:11] Day.

[00:46:12] All

[00:46:13] secure.

[00:46:15] One look

[00:46:16] at my watch

[00:46:17] and I knew

[00:46:17] he was right.

[00:46:18] Merry Christmas,

[00:46:20] my friend.

[00:46:21] Semper Fi

[00:46:22] and good night.

[00:46:24] As you all

[00:46:25] know,

[00:46:26] I have a brother,

[00:46:27] a Marine,

[00:46:29] who suffers

[00:46:30] from his service.

[00:46:35] He is a hero.

[00:46:37] Henri,

[00:46:38] sometimes I get

[00:46:39] pretty upset

[00:46:40] with him,

[00:46:41] but he is my

[00:46:42] hero.

[00:46:44] The other one

[00:46:46] I wanted to share

[00:46:46] with you

[00:46:47] is a prayer

[00:46:47] of Valley Forge.

[00:46:49] So this Marine

[00:46:50] fights for freedom

[00:46:52] keeps us secure.

[00:46:55] But it started

[00:46:56] back here.

[00:46:58] Young Isaac Potts

[00:46:59] rode down

[00:47:00] one summer day

[00:47:01] with Reverend

[00:47:02] Snowden

[00:47:03] on his

[00:47:03] dapple gray.

[00:47:04] Near where

[00:47:05] the Revolution

[00:47:06] Army lay,

[00:47:07] the dreary

[00:47:08] winter of that

[00:47:09] dreadful war.

[00:47:10] And he said

[00:47:11] to him,

[00:47:12] Now,

[00:47:13] let me,

[00:47:14] I implore.

[00:47:15] Now,

[00:47:16] let me,

[00:47:17] I implore.

[00:47:18] Explain to you

[00:47:19] with simple

[00:47:20] southern lore

[00:47:21] how I came

[00:47:22] to understand

[00:47:23] at Valley Forge

[00:47:24] the nation

[00:47:25] of our fine

[00:47:26] commander

[00:47:27] George Washington.

[00:47:28] I,

[00:47:28] a Quaker

[00:47:29] and a Tory,

[00:47:30] felt that war

[00:47:31] against Great Britain's

[00:47:32] glory,

[00:47:33] whose fleet

[00:47:34] and armies

[00:47:34] covered land

[00:47:35] and sea,

[00:47:36] could only end

[00:47:37] in abject misery.

[00:47:39] I supervised

[00:47:42] the grinding

[00:47:43] of the grain

[00:47:43] at this most

[00:47:44] stressful time

[00:47:45] of the campaign.

[00:47:46] The soldiers,

[00:47:48] cold and hungry,

[00:47:49] ill-equipped,

[00:47:50] were all but ready

[00:47:51] to give up the ship.

[00:47:53] Yet,

[00:47:55] and yet this one

[00:47:56] good man,

[00:47:58] who at the helm

[00:47:59] knew freedom

[00:48:00] from the king's

[00:48:01] oppressive realm,

[00:48:02] was the one

[00:48:03] and only way

[00:48:05] to guarantee

[00:48:05] the rights

[00:48:07] of man,

[00:48:08] the cause

[00:48:09] of liberty.

[00:48:11] There,

[00:48:12] in those woods,

[00:48:13] I heard a plaintive

[00:48:14] sound,

[00:48:14] as a man in prayer

[00:48:16] t'was quite profound.

[00:48:18] So to a sapling

[00:48:20] here I tied

[00:48:21] my horse

[00:48:22] and went to

[00:48:23] in quietude

[00:48:24] to find the source.

[00:48:26] I made my way

[00:48:28] between the leafless

[00:48:29] trees

[00:48:29] and found

[00:48:31] the great commander

[00:48:32] on his knees.

[00:48:36] his fine cocked hat

[00:48:38] and sword

[00:48:39] were laid aside

[00:48:40] as in the god above

[00:48:42] did he confide.

[00:48:45] Surrounded here

[00:48:46] with woods

[00:48:46] of oak and beach,

[00:48:48] with piety

[00:48:48] the general

[00:48:49] did beseech.

[00:48:50] The god of all

[00:48:51] herein

[00:48:52] to interpose

[00:48:53] for cause of country

[00:48:55] against the stronger foes.

[00:48:57] He pled the cause

[00:48:58] of all humanity,

[00:48:59] the cause of freedom

[00:49:01] only god could see.

[00:49:03] He laid

[00:49:04] ye crisis

[00:49:05] firmly at his feet

[00:49:06] and vowed

[00:49:08] to fight on

[00:49:08] never to retreat.

[00:49:11] Now such a prayer

[00:49:12] I'd never heard before.

[00:49:15] Such hope,

[00:49:16] such faith

[00:49:16] did from him

[00:49:17] freely pour.

[00:49:18] I left him

[00:49:19] as I found him

[00:49:20] knelt in prayer

[00:49:21] and knew

[00:49:23] I'd witnessed

[00:49:23] something

[00:49:24] truly rare

[00:49:25] for it always

[00:49:26] seemed impossible

[00:49:27] to me

[00:49:28] that a soldier

[00:49:29] and a Christian

[00:49:30] one could be.

[00:49:32] But here

[00:49:33] beneath those

[00:49:34] dismal winter skies

[00:49:35] I saw it

[00:49:37] with my own

[00:49:38] two youthful eyes.

[00:49:40] I rode on home

[00:49:42] along

[00:49:42] that well-worn trail

[00:49:44] a convert

[00:49:46] to a fledgling cause

[00:49:48] so frail.

[00:49:49] Yea,

[00:49:51] this I knew

[00:49:52] America

[00:49:53] would prevail.

[00:49:56] Like I've always said

[00:49:57] it's not just about America

[00:49:59] it's about each American

[00:50:02] and

[00:50:03] for this Christmas Eve

[00:50:05] let's all come together

[00:50:07] to see that newborn king

[00:50:09] and bring

[00:50:11] America home.

[00:50:12] Merry Christmas.

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[00:51:42] Do we lack enthusiasm

[00:51:48] and understanding

[00:51:49] of the word liberty?

[00:51:50] Do we weep for liberty

[00:51:52] which we have lost?

[00:51:53] Or do we simply

[00:51:53] not understand

[00:51:54] the substance

[00:51:55] and sacrifice

[00:51:56] for which we were

[00:51:57] once privileged?

[00:51:58] Liberty.

[00:51:59] Webster defines liberty

[00:52:00] as the state

[00:52:01] of being free

[00:52:02] within society

[00:52:03] from oppressive restrictions

[00:52:04] imposed by authority

[00:52:05] on one's life

[00:52:06] behavior

[00:52:07] or political views.

[00:52:09] Today we seem

[00:52:10] to want restrictions.

[00:52:12] Government micromanaging

[00:52:13] our lives

[00:52:14] but do we realize

[00:52:15] the cost?

[00:52:17] Alexander Hamilton

[00:52:18] once stated

[00:52:19] there is a certain

[00:52:20] enthusiasm in liberty

[00:52:21] that makes human nature

[00:52:23] rise above itself

[00:52:24] in acts of bravery

[00:52:25] and heroism.

[00:52:27] As a republic

[00:52:28] we the people

[00:52:29] must guard

[00:52:29] the liberty of others.

[00:52:30] We must continue

[00:52:31] the enthusiasm

[00:52:32] that will make men free.

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