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Okay, it might be that I'm a boomer. I mean, I'm the last year of the boomer. And I don't usually identify with boomers. But I gotta say what is absolutely crazy is the way people have been reacting to Lindsey Graham. And there's a couple of things we should learn from that. And one of those is what you say when you think nobody is listening. Also, child brides. It's happening now. You know why it's getting worse. Mm. Say it with me. 1, 2, 3. Climate change. Oh, you had a different answer. Yeah. Well, that's the media for you. Also, we're going to talk about what's happening in New York with Vicki Bellendino. She is a really outspoken, typical New Yorker city councilwoman. Has a lot to say about the socialist Islamist Mamdani. All that coming up. Today's podcast. Well, America is not done one way or another. We still have a country for now. Thank God for that. And now it's up to you and me to keep proving that it's time to keep pushing back against the leftist ideology and get it back into the pit whence it came. And it's time for you and me to put our money on, you know, in solid American businesses with solid American values. Believe me, they're out there. One of the many reasons I'm proud to partner with Patriot Mobile. They are a group that provides reliable wireless service on all three major networks. So you're not sacrificing coverage. You can keep your phone, you can keep your number. And their US based team makes switching surprisingly easy. But here's the difference. Patriot Mobile is America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. They've donated millions of dollars to organizations that defend faith and family and freedom. So instead of wondering what your monthly bill is, you know, paying for supporting, you'll actually know. Patriot mobile.com Beck call 972-patriot use the promo code Beck get a free month of service. Right now, it's patriot mobile.com Beck 972 patriot promo code Bec make the switch today. Patriotmobile.com Beck hello America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through big tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. Be careful on how you respond to people's death, because someday you'll die. Someday the President's gonna die. You know, imagine how bad that's gonna be when President Trump passes away. Can you imagine what's gonna be said online? It's gonna be horrible. It's gonna be absolutely horrible. Horrible. Um, and, you know, if this a boomer thing, then I'm glad I'm a boomer. And then, you know what? Everybody else should join the boomers on this. We don't celebrate somebody else's death, no matter how much you didn't like them in politics. For the love of Pete, it's politics. You know, there's a lot of mistakes that we can make in life. And none of those mistakes, most of those things are never going to.
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They're never.
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They're not. They're not what we're going to be worried about when we die. They're not. Saw a video the other day of a undertaker guy who spends his life in the business of other people's endings. And in this video, he said he had tracked now for over, like, 30, 40 years what everybody said, when he thought. When they thought no one was listening because he's standing in the room and he's kind of invisible and he's hearing people. And he said what people say, what they whisper when they think the room is empty, when they lean down close to somebody who is dead, somebody who can't answer them anymore. What they say, he said, is almost always the last. The same five sentences. The last thing they say to somebody is the same 5 second of sentences. Different faces, different decades. He said, it has never changed. Same five things. One of them is, I thought we'd have more time. Now, imagine yourself seeing somebody in the coffin and you're leaning over. What do you say? I thought we would have more time. Next one is I hope you knew. Fill in the blank. I don't know who I am without you. Please, please don't leave me. And the last one. I'm so sorry. I should have called more. Now the easy Lesson here is, don't have any regrets. Say it now, call now, don't wait. And that's true. But I think these five sentences are more profound, far more profound, than just a warning about regret. They're a blueprint, because look closely at what each of them are saying. Okay? It's love that went unspoken. It's presence that was postponed. It's gratitude saved for a day that just didn't come. I read those and I thought, what would life be like if we all just live those five things right now? Not as we get close to death or somebody else is sick, but right now, if we live those five things on an ordinary Tuesday, what else in our life would quietly fix itself? I thought we'd have more time if you actually lived like the time was right now. I was talking to a friend of mine last night I just adore. He said, you know, my son has a trait of mine, and I'm so glad he picked this up for me. He is able to live in the moment. And I said, what do you mean? He said, we were having lunch the other day, and it's a grown man. And he said, I'm sitting there with my son who's in college, and he's like, dad, bit into the sandwich. Dad, this is the best chicken sandwich I have ever had. And he said, I've learned just to go, that's great. Not like, can I try that? Because he's like, it's not necessarily the best chicken sandwich he's ever had. He's had thousands of chicken sandwiches. How is he ranking them? He's like, he's just able to live in the moment. Just able to just live in that moment. And when he bites into whatever it is he's biting in, it is the best he's ever had. Imagine if you could actually live, like, if you were just living in the moment, how much of our anxiety would just go away? It could be just me, but I'll bet you half of my worry is fear that I am wasting something that I can't get back, that I've missed something that I can't get back, that I'm in the wrong place. Live in the present, and that fear has nothing to feed on, but it's so hard. The other one is, I hope you knew, if you told the people around you today, today out loud on purpose, how many cold marriages might warm back up. How many kids grow up? Not sure. But how many if you started living like, I'm just going to tell them right now, how many of them would say to you, are you dying? If you start living this way, are people around you going to say, are you okay? Are you dying? No, I'm just living the way I think I should live every day. So much of the brokenness in our own families isn't from cruelty. It's from the things that were felt but never said. I don't know who I am without you. When's the last time you let the people know that you love? How much they hold you up? How many of them are quietly drowning right now, convinced they don't matter to anyone, but they mattered so deeply to you? It might be the one sentence that keeps other people around you longer. I don't know who I am without you. I don't know how I do it without you. Please don't leave me. If you stop letting things go unsaid and unresolved, how many estrangements never would happen? How many feuds? How many years of silence between people who actually love each other? That started as one small thing that nobody had the courage to fix while it was still small, and now it's massive, which kind of leads to, I should have called more. This is the easiest one. And yet it is the hardest one. It's a phone. You have it in your pocket the whole time. If you actually made the calls. The relationship you think is broken may not be broken at all. It just might be neglected. And there's a huge difference. And we confuse the two all the time. See what's happening here? These aren't five regrets that we should dodge. They're five practices. And the strangest, craziest thing is what they do to everything around them. Because we treat our problems like they're separate. The stress and the distance and the wound and the thing that's been eating at us for years. We think each one needs its own solution. But so many of them are not separate at all. They're all just downstream from probably those five things. They're the symptoms of love that never got said, time that never got spent. If you. If you. If stop talking about you, if I would just live these five things, I'm going to be amazed at how much of my life will right itself. Problems that we were bracing to fight would just dissolve because the thing feeding them is gone. Wounds close, that you've given up on people come back, you'll be lighter, you'll probably sleep better, you're happier. And not because we solved the big problems, but because most of our big problems turned out to be the small things that were left unsaid for far too long. And that, I think, is the secret that that undertaker stumbled on. Those five whispers, they're not the sound of death. Their instructions for life just delivered tragically one day too late. One day, all of us are going to be in that quiet room. Hopefully we're not the one in the box, but we're the one leaning down to whisper to somebody. What's going to come out of your mouth when you think no one is listening? Let it be the one thing that is worth saying. Thank you. Thank you for all the laughs. Thank you for all of the love. Thank you for all of the time. Live today like there's nothing left to confess because you've said it all, all out loud while it counted. We keep looking for answers, and I don't think they're that hard. I really don't. We just keep saving them for a day that just doesn't come. So you want something personal to take out of the Lindsey Graham death? Do that. Don't save these things. Say these things. Make the call. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Wow. Runa was 15 when she married a man she had never, ever met. Cyclone Ramal ripped through her camp in the Bangladesh, you know, Cox Bazaar region, killing her family and her family's chickens and ducks, which were the source of both the food and the income. Runa's Mary mother, who had become the sole income earner after her husband died a year earlier, need a way to support Runa. So she had no choice but to arrange a marriage. Okay, all right, okay. That's a little different because first of all, Runa was 17. But they say now child marriage is a global problem across cultures and religions. Is it? Is it? It's often inherently linked to gender inequality, poverty, food insecurity, and social norms and practices, including family honor. Okay, there's one religion that kind of sticks out here, but don't worry about that. No, no, no, no. Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to the most frequent, the more frequent and younger nuptials. So when you're 12, it's probably because of climate change. Now, there is another source that keeps coming to mind. I can't remember what it is, but it's right on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of what it is. Now, let me give you another story. Almost half of Muslim Americans support the terror group Hamas. Gosh, it makes me think of that other story, and I. Ah. What is the other one that is so embracing of child marriage. I can't put my finger. Anyway, half of Muslim Americans now support Hamas. That is great, right? 44% of Muslim American respondents express a favorable opinion of the terror group Hamas compared to the 17% of black Protestants and 4% of white evangelical Protestants, 8% of Catholics. Meanwhile, only 26% of Muslim Americans had a favorable view of the Israeli people, compared to 74% of white evangelical Protestants, 51% of Catholics, and 55% of black Protestants. Survey was met with disgust by many prominent Muslims online. Of course. Of course. My gosh. These people that want to say that they support. You know why they're supporting Hamas? Climate change. Right. I'm sure that's climate change. By the way. You know, this is just going viral again. It came out in 2025, August of 2025, at the. She was speaking in Detroit, but it's going. Going viral again. Here is Rashida Tlaib at the People's Conference for Palestine. Listen to this.
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Look at this room. We ain't going anywhere.
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Political structures that I have to work in that we are surrounded by was built on slavery and genocide and rape and oppression. Real change doesn't come from the cowards and warmongers in Congress. It comes from the streets. It comes from all of us mobilizing and seizing the power to resist and fight back. That is the compass in this country.
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Yeah. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Hang on just a second. I gotta understand this. Wait a minute. So the system was built on slavery and genocide and oppression, but they're now in Congress, and the power doesn't come from the system. It comes from the people. Wow. That's.
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It's weird. It's weird that the same system that comes from the people is somehow or another the system of oppression. Huh? Okay. All right, well, whatever, Whatever, whatever. So we. We've got the Islamic, you know, Detroit Conference for Palestine. I'm sure there's no supporters there for child marriage. I'm sure there's nothing there going on at all. By the way, the Minnesota Board of Pardons. Minnesota Board of Pardons has pardoned a child sex offender. Mint. Minnesota. Minnesota. Minnesota. What else is going on in Minnesota? I can't think of it. Anyway, sexual conduct in the first degree for abuse of a female minor. Uh, and. And he's. She was 10. She was 10, but no big deal. No big deal. I mean, let's get him out of prison right away. You know what I mean? Let's. We can't have. We can't have those kind of people in prison. What are you doing? Have you, have you considered climate change? Here's Marco Rubio on Michigan shielding child sex abusers from deportation. Listen to Rubio cut five.
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Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota. Laotian national Tu Le Wang was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10 year old girl in the state of Minnesota. He even tried to pay his victim for her silence. And he called his heinous crimes a minor thing. Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Waltz, the governor issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America. Well, this week I revoked his legal status in the United States and as a result, federal agents took him into custody. And as of today, he has been removed from the United States. Because of our action, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again. Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country. This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals.
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Violent criminals who are only violent towards 10 year olds because of climate change. I want to just point that out. Why doesn't everybody see that? It's climate change, man. How can you possibly miss that? How can you possibly miss that? There's nothing to see here. There is absolutely nothing going on.
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Mm. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. We have Vicki Paladino coming on with us a minute. She's a New York City councilwoman. I just absolutely love her. But let me pick it up from Friday, you know, Friday, I told you that Mamdani last week had on the calendars. It was all, it's, there's no question this was happening. His international commissioner was supposed to meet with Iran's ambassador because they were, you know, they have things that they have to talk about. What do you have to talk about? You know, as the mayor of New York, what does your, your city commissioner under you have to talk about with the Iranian ambassador? First of all, it can't be anything about, hey, we would like to improve relations with Iran and, you know, make sure that we're, you know, maybe we're going to be sister cities with Iran. No, no, that's illegal. You're not supposed to be doing business with them. So what was the city meeting with? I mean, I, I can come up with all kinds of nefarious answers, but maybe our next guest will have some thoughts on this. But here's what he said on Friday. This is Mamdani on Friday, what he said about that meeting. Listen to this.
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Recent reporting showed that the International Affairs Commissioner, Ana Maria Archila, was trying to meet with Iran's ambassador. Thoughts on her coordinating that meeting without your awareness? Also, what do you see Archilla's role as the Commissioner of International Affairs.
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That meeting did not take place. It will not take place. And I did not know about it until there was a press inquiry regarding it. And when it comes to the work of our commissioner and our International affairs office, it's to ensure that as we are a city of the world, that we are also there to meet with leaders from across the world. The focus is always on our city and our relationship. The commissioner recognizes that this was made an error and we're working on a new process in terms of new meeting requests. Again, this was a request that came into the office, not one that originated from the office.
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Vicki Paladino is with us. She's New York City Councilwoman. Vicki, what do you make of that answer?
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Total bs. Hi, Glenn. How are you? How are you?
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Hi, Grace. I love having you on.
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This is, you know, the young man wants to take over the world. And to your point, in your introduction when you was first speaking about this, this is all about how he's not allowed to do business like this. So the. The idea that he's thinking New York City is a country inside itself, you know, like we're separate from the United States of America. He's going to operate as he sees fit. As far as this commissioner goes, of course he knows exactly what's going on. There's no question in my mind. There' backdoor deal going on. Look at his ties, Glenn. You know, this is going on now. He's only mayor of this city seven months. This just what, July 1st, seven months.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So it's absolutely. This is. It's serious stuff. This is even taken for granted.
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Even if he didn't know, let's just say, let's take him at his word, he didn't know then. You have created an atmosphere where somebody who's working for you thinks that it's reasonable to meet with the ambassador of Iran, which you would have no business meeting with them. And. And then he doesn't fire her for that. Absolutely. I mean, it makes no sense. No sense.
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It makes no sense whatsoever. And you're 100% right. The Commission. This is how this whole operation is working here now in New York City. We have got this whole group of People that surround him, that we know that there's terrorist ties, that we know that their allegiance is not to the United States of America, it's to Iran, it's to Palestine, it's to everything but us. And he actually, I'm telling you, he really, truly believes that he's going to operate New York, not as a municipality, but. And I really hope Trump steps in here because what he did could be in violation of the Logan act and a couple of other things. We need the federal government. Nick Shirley's finding all kinds of fraud, which we knew he was gonna find. He needs to come in here now and really put his foot down. I hope Trump stops calling him. Well, you know, he's a nice guy. I don't think he's not. No, he's not.
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What do you mean? What do you mean, no, he's not.
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He's not a nice guy. When Trump refers to. When Trump refers to Mandani, you know, he's a nice guy. He's learning. When he first did the. When Zoe first went down to Washington and Trump treated him exactly as I thought he would, came out all smiles. He's playing three dimensional tennis, which is great, but for people like myself and others who are fighting this guy tooth and nail every chance we get, I don't like to hear the President say he's a nice guy. No, he's not. He's a bad guy.
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So tell me, tell me about this. You know, he had the New York City immigrant enclaves map that came out for the World Cup. Little Yemen, little Palestine, little Pakistan, but no Little Italy. No Irish or Jewish areas are marked at all. What, what, what do you make of that?
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Well, that went absolutely viral. He poked a bear. And we are the immigrants here. Our great grandparents who came to this country, we built this country. Whereas the new immigrants that are coming here, this city. Let me stick with the city. These new immigrants that are coming here, he wants to keep us separated and divide us. And that's what he's doing by creating little Yemen, little Pakistan. Give me a break. And you omit the Italians, you omit the Irish, you omit the Germans, you omit the Greeks, you omit the Germans. Jews. No, sorry, Zoran. Once again, you're sticking your foot in and doing it totally wrong. But this is his vision, and this vision cannot again be underestimated. What he wants to do is you come here, hate America, keep your little country in your own cells, you know, your little enclaves, and live off the fat of the land, because we're paying and paying and paying. The Italians never came here looking for a handout. The Irish came here looking for a handout. We built this city. We weren't looking for different newspapers in 20 different languages. It was an embarrassment if you didn't learn how to speak English and assimilate. Key word. Key word. Assimilate. And become part of New York culture and, of course, the culture of the United States of America. And this is what we're seeing happening throughout the country. We cannot take this lightly.
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There's a difference between the immigrants. My wife, Italian, second generation now, her grandfather, the first ones born in America. One of the brothers was named America, and the other one was Christopher Columbus. I mean, they tried to become. They wanted to become Americans. And, yes, they lived in their own area because that. That's just the way it happened. They lived in their own area, but they were trying to become Americans. We're no longer. We have these people now who are no longer trying to become American. I mean, I love your comment that you're renaming your district Little America.
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Oh, you saw that?
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Oh, yeah, of course I did.
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Yes, yes, yes. You know, let me tell you, that caught on like wildfire. That tweet was just so light and airy, and it was serious, though. And my. My district, of course, is made up of so many different nationalities, but the bottom line is here that we unite, we come together. And I have to tell you, somebody actually did an AI song, put some information into AI and they came up with a great song. This is really taking off because I am taking in refugees of people who want to come and believe in coming together, united under one umbrella, and that together, we make a great, great family. That's what we're all about, that America is all about.
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It's sad that that. That would become viral because it is a feeling that there are those a lot of people. I mean, this progressive thing, you know, it's. It's. He has been described as conducting a soft secession from the United States, where, yeah, it's its own city, state, foreign policy, immigration policy, you know, economic. And it's at war with everything that we've been and everything that we believe in. Tell me what this looks like, you know, with the dsa, you know, executing an insurgency inside some of our cities.
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Well, the DSA has got a very, very pointed agenda, and he's following it through to the letter. There's no question about it. You're absolutely right about him trying to take over this city and separate him from the country, making this city as you know, which is a municipality. He's breaking laws, and he does want. This is exactly what his plan is. But this is the DSA's plan throughout the country. It's not just in New York. New York is as big a foothold as you could get. But now this is spreading out. You know, we look at Minnesota, we look at these other places, Boston, but nothing is quite as great as New York City. I mean, this is what he's doing. And it's something that we really need to think about as something that we really need to act upon. That's why when that tweet went out and I said, little America, because we still do exist. Zoran. Okay. And guess what? I will be your worst nightmare going forward, along with several other people that are not afraid of repercussions. What are you afraid of if you don't stand up now and fight and stand up for what you believe in? What we believe in as Americans and as New Yorkers. We're a strong group here. We're made up of so many different cultures that have always come together. And you want to try to put a. No, not going to work. Not.
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Is he more. Is, you know, the, the. The Green Red Alliance. Is he more socialist or more Islamist in his true belief of what he's fighting for?
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Well, I have to say, may get me in trouble, but I would have to say he's more Islamist, he's more Islamist.
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Why do you say that?
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Well, because. Because of how he is with the Jews, his open outwardness and his pro Palestinian take on so many things. We've watched him unfold this. This agenda, but he's also right out of the book of Karl Marx. You know, it's when you see the, the influx that's coming into this city of Middle Eastern people, and they're marching in our streets, they're doing things that you normally need a permit for. And it's, It's. It's thousands, tens of thousands. The call to prayer in the middle of Astoria. Astoria was a stronghold for Italians and for Greeks. And now call for prayer is loud as can be echoing through the streets of Astoria. That's not what you do. You know, you go to your mosque, you pray, you know, you want to. You play the music in your house. We don't do that. He's putting his foot down here. He's putting a stake in the ground. And, you know, I have somebody who just reached out to me, a widower, a widow of nine, 11, and she's asking me for my help because she does not want Zoran. And they have a whole group of people that are put together. They do not want zoran at the 25th anniversary, which is going to be here before you know it. They don't want. They don't want him there. And he misrepresents everything. He is a Trojan horse. But again, that's reiterating what we've been saying now since he took office. We have now become a separate entity as of January 20, when he took his hand. Took. He took the oath on the. On the. On the Quran, too. You know, he did not take it on the Bible. He took it on the Quran. And it's all about separation of church and state. Are you aware of what he did during Ramadan in City hall, where he laid out the mats and he had this whole ceremony on the last day of Ramadan?
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Yeah.
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Imagine if that was a Catholic priest.
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No, it wouldn't have happened. But I will tell you this. The situation with the Islamists, you know, you can take your oath of office on a Koran, that's one thing, but an Islamist is a government system, and that's where government, a church and state, that's state versus state. Vicki, thank you so much. You know, I forgot about our 25th anniversary. It is coming up. I'd love to talk to you about. I. I was there for the first. And the. The first anniversary of it. It was quite a. Quite a different thing. I'd love to come up and be there.
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Oh, that would be great. You know, for us, too. I was there. I watched. Right where I'm sitting is a TV behind the screen here, and I was on the phone with my girlfriend. And we see the buildings.
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Wow.
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We just could not believe it. And from her attic window, she could watch the plane hit the building. So it's a. It's a. It's a nightmare.
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Yeah. Vicki, we'll talk again. Thank you so much for.
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Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate it. And I love your background. Lucille Ball, my lady.
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Yeah, I know. She's the best. Thank you.
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And Jimmy Stewart. Take care.
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Yeah. God bless.
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Thank you.
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Vicky Palantino. It's hard to believe that it was 25. You know, I think this, again goes to divine Providence. Here we are on our 250th anniversary. Our first foreign war was with Islamists, and it was. It was happening with Jefferson, and he said, if we're not careful, if we don't pay attention, it will be our last foreign war as well. And here we are on the 25th anniversary this year.