Friday, December 17, 2010 Miracle in Wilmington: Turning Hopelessness into Hope

Friday, December 17, 2010 Miracle in Wilmington: Turning Hopelessness into Hope | Glenn Beck With: Glenn Beck This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," December 17, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GLENN BECK, HOST: Hello, America. Earlier in the week, we celebrated America's First Christmas in Wilmington, Ohio. We celebrated a town coming together to celebrate their unbreakable spirit. It was two Christmases ago that Wilmington was hit by a self-described economic tsunami. DHL Shipping closed its factory doors. Seventy-five hundred people out of a town of 12,000 found themselves suddenly unemployed just in time for Christmas. The town faced a choice. In that moment, Wilmington, Ohio, was to become either Pottersville or Bedford Falls. Wilmington, Ohio, chose the latter. People banded together, having rotating dinners at each other's homes. No one was going to let their neighbor go hungry. They supported each other. They still do. They became self-reliant. This is a town that turned hopelessness into hope. They took homeless into their homes. They redefined worthless and made it into worthy. We showed you earlier this week what was just the beginning of what we had planned in Wilmington. I want to show you now more. Take a look at the stage show we put on for the town. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) (APPLAUSE) BECK: Merry Christmas! Ho, ho, ho, ho! Oh. I had the pancakes at the hotel. Oh. Loosen up. Ahhh. Ahhh! I have some presents. (INAUDIBLE) Mr. Al Gore. It's coal. (LAUGHTER) BECK: This is for Barack Obama. It's a mop. It's a socialist mop. (LAUGHTER) BECK: This is for Congress. Tickets to hell. (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: This one is for John Boehner. Kleenex. (LAUGHTER) BECK: What a damn crybaby that guy is, huh? Never trust a girly man that cries like that. What a kick he is. This one is for George Soros. It's a t-shirt that says, "I collapsed four economies and all I got with this damn t-shirt." (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: This one is for Michelle Obama -- 500 pounds of sausage. Well, it was. I ate most of it on the way over. God bless, Michelle Obama. It's been a tough year for Santa. I have the elves organizing with SEIU. Can you imagine -- I have to take this damn thing off. (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: Thank you. Thank you! (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: This is what Santa will look like soon. Why are you touching Santa Claus? Don't touch Santa Claus. Don't touch Santa Claus. (LAUGHTER) BECK: If you're going to touch Santa Claus, don't touch him there. Getting ready? Put the eyebrows on. They're nice, aren't they? It's like Andy Rooney. Have you ever wondered why Santa has creepy eyebrows? And this mustache -- oh, this like, oh, yes, I am Santa Claus, especially with the boots. Yes, we're going to find who has been naughty and who has been nice, yes? (LAUGHTER) BECK: I love the fact that these came with this. I don't know if these were sideburns, what these were, we didn't know. We were just like, I'll glue them to my forehead, I don't know. They don't match. These are like -- this is like yellowish, if you notice that. It's like Santa is a heavy smoker all of a sudden. (LAUGHTER) BECK: Come on up, kids. Got a little emphysema. Ow. Congratulations. (LAUGHTER) BECK: Everyone goes home (INAUDIBLE). (APPLAUSE) (LAUGHTER) BECK: I cannot see. I cannot feel my face. I'm going to do the rest of the show like this. (LAUGHTER) BECK: What? We're going to talk a little politics now. That's all we're going to do. This one has a little bit of my DNA. Yes. You may clone me now. You know -- ow! The amazing thing about Santa Claus. I mean it would be great to be Santa Claus, wouldn't it? I mean, you could be around the kids and have all the fun and then leave. (LAUGHTER) BECK: And you're like, yes, I left you some noisy toys. Sucks to be you! (LAUGHTER) BECK: I never understood that, with people give noisy toys to kids. We have Christmas at my house because we're going on vacation in a couple of days. And darn not going to be able to be with the in-laws. Oh! They were sitting at my house the other day and my father-in-law was, like, so, you're not going to be around for Christmas? No. It's going really suck. And he said, "I know it will. Raphie, grandpa got you a toy." It was one of the damn pianos that just never shut up. (LAUGHTER) BECK: You know? It was like, look, Raphie, it's a drum machine, too. And he just looks at me like, oh, you're going away, are you? (LAUGHTER) BECK: It would be great to be Santa, because you could have the flying reindeer. You know, you could -- I mean it is magic. That is the thing about Christmas -- is you are on one end of the spectrum or another. And when you get trapped in the middle, when you allow yourself to be in the middle, neither Santa or a kid, everything is gone, and that's what we're doing now. We're paying attention to the toys. We're paying not to the magic. I said to my wife the other day, I said -- I really have lost most of my eyebrow here. Does it look wonderful? I said to my wife the other day, because we get in to this place where we all have to do so much. We have to -- she said to me, "We're not going to be able to send out Christmas cards. We've got to send out Christmas cards. We've got to get the family all dressed exactly alike and take a picture some place we never are. Pretend we're all happy together. We're never having an argument. Stand over there! Stand there and you will smile!" You know? That's the way those Christmas cards are made. Their made with the kids and kids are like -- "You will smile now!" (LAUGHTER) BECK: And then everybody gets the cards and they're like, "Oh, they're so cute." Yes, they are. It took me 45 minutes to get that shot. She said to me, we're not going to be able to do Christmas cards. I'm like, who's going to like -- is somebody really going to go and say, what the hell happened to the Beck family? (LAUGHTER) BECK: We didn't get a card from them. Do they not like us anymore? Are they dead? Have they slipped in a worm hole? I don't think anybody is going to care. Everybody who knows us and likes us, they don't need a Christmas card. We see them all the time. They're our in-laws. (LAUGHTER) BECK: How is Santa this fat and wear this outfit all the time. He's got to be a billion degrees all the time. It's so hot. If you really look at -- no pockets. (LAUGHTER) BECK: I suddenly don't know what to do with my hands. (LAUGHTER) BECK: Let me tell you -- if you were from Texas. (INAUDIBLE) Let me tell you something else. I've been thinking. Do we have a chalkboard? (LAUGHTER) BECK: Can we bring the chalkboard up? (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: Let us just look at the little Santa Claus for a moment, shall we? Do we have it or did you load it on a bus already? Look, the town is moving suddenly. Let's just connect the dots here. Santa Claus, quote, "The happiest man on the planet," enslaves a whole race of people. We now call them elves and we look at them and say, oh, they're so happy. Oh, they're so happy. Look at the cute little elf. Look at the cute little elves. (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECKK: Thank you. Chuck. And, look, it is green and red. It's magic. Slaves. (LAUGHTER) BECK: Let's break this down just a little bit here. Slaves are a group of people. They work 365 days a year. The boss only works one day. He may be Enron. He may be Halliburton. But let's dig a little deeper, shall we? (LAUGHTER) BECK: Now, we will tie Santa together. You want to rearrange the letters? Can anybody do it? (INAUDIBLE) (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) BECK: I remember getting pajamas -- we didn't get the footie pajamas because we never bought pajamas. Grandma always made these pajamas for us. I mean, this is for rich kids, you know? Wow, we went over to their house and they had feet in their pajamas. Grandma was like you don't get feet. Wear your socks. (LAUGHTER) BECK: For a while you're like, I don't get feet? Grandma is going to take my feet away. But she used to be excited about stuff. Every year, we would get pajamas for Christmas. And we would -- grandma would make them out of -- whatever my pajamas looked like, grandpa always had a new shirt just like it, you know? And we weren't old enough to realize, I'm just getting grandpa's scrap material as pajamas. Grandpa would be dressed in a flannel shirt, during the day, and you'd be wearing it to bed. My sisters would get pajamas and we would be excited about the pajamas and cookies that would come from grandma every year. That was the thing that you look for. We didn't -- I remember getting the Sears catalog. Remember getting the Sears catalog as a kid? And you would look through the catalog. It would come and you would be -- I mean, I'd spend a month just looking through the catalog, knowing I wasn't going to get any of that a crap. But you could dream. I remember thinking, you know, like, you'd see like the big cars that you would even pedal. Not the remote control cars, just the pedal cars and you'd be like, wow! Must be cool. I hope I get a spoon. (LAUGHTER) BECK: And now I don't -- now because I'm torn, I'm in -- I'm in between places. I don't know. I -- is anybody else like this where you -- where you don't know where the line is sometimes? You know what I mean? I remember the year that I was really, really -- I was at the bottom. And I couldn't afford anything. And all my kids wanted, my daughter, all she wanted was -- remember these little figurines. This was just about 10 or 15 years ago, these little figurines, these little plastic things. You can get them at CVS, and they were the Charlie in the Box, Santa and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, it was all the little figures. And I remember standing in CVS -- without being able to afford them and thinking, what kind of lousy dad are you? Christmas shopping at the CVS. And you can't afford the set. Has anybody else felt like this? You either feel like you haven't done enough? Or you've done too much. I can never -- oh, it has pockets! (LAUGHTER) BECK: I am suddenly at home. You can never find the sweet spot. At least I can't. Am I alone in that? Does anybody else feel that way? You can't ever find the sweet spot. Every Christmas, Tanya asks me. What is wrong? I'll either say, oh, we got too much. Or I shouldn't have held back on X, Y or Z. And my kids are fine. I'm screwed up somehow or another. Keep that to yourself. 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