♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ pete: will, you're my hi january translator, does that mean merry christmas? will: it's weird. it actually means happy easter. rachel: no, it doesn't -- [laughter] is that your favorite christmas? because i actually really like it. will wisconsin it's just funny, in the car ride in to the show this morning, i was -- my driver had on, like, a channel. it sounds so bougie is, my driver -- [laughter] he, on the channel radio, they play christmas music -- pete: yes. it's called sirius, and m. will: maybe. and i was just thinking i'm old because i kind of like them all. to your point, is this my

favorite? not. i don't know my favorite. a new one comes on, and i like it too. pete: now he's going to rank them for us. will: i can't, and it bothers me. will: what is your faith version of this song? if. will: i honestly don't know, but i think the right answer is don ho. doesn't that sound like -- ray chris isaac does it -- will: do you know brother is? pete: the one from national lampoon is a great version. that was bing crosby. rachel: wasn't that fun yesterday e when we did holiday road? will: yeah. i've been singing it since -- rachel: i know. it's in my head too. pete: we're glad you're here. it is december 17th, year of our lord, 20 if. -- 2013. pete: today is the last show we're doing before christmas. did y'all do presents in please say the answer is no. rachel: producers, bring it out.

just kidding. [laughter] will: there was no conversation. if you did presents, i'm going to be very upset. [laughter] pete: maybe. will: i did nothing. i've got another show. i'm here next weekend. earp, we'll be here -- earp, we'll be here -- pete: anytime we can watch will panic -- will: it just occurred to me -- rachel: no stress here. we know not to get you anything, so you don't have to be stressed out. this is the true friendship. [laughter] will: what? rachel: we just don't get anything -- pete: we had our own holiday party yesterday. will: all right. pete: it was diverse. will: what does that mean? rachel: listen, when we get together, there's no small talk. it's big talk. [laughter] will: yeah, that's true. you told the us about you tried to convert us to catholicism again. rachel: that's so not true. will: all during beers and football. rachel: they started attacking catholicism, i had to defend it. pete: i'm a baptist --

will: after three beers and the vikings' loss, you're opus dei. [laughter] rachel: that does give you a little insight. will: while there is legitimate tension over whether or not there's going to be christmas gifts, their -- there is tension in the biden administration because according to "the wall street journal," barack obama thinks that this is not looking good for his old running mate. quote, obama knows this is going to be a close race, the source said, and feels that democrats very well could lose the 2024 election. obama worries that the alternative is pretty dangerous for democracy, the person said. rachel: so i think it's -- this statement is very interesting to me because first we had axleodd, do you remember, a couple weeks ago saying -- axelrod, saying he's not going to win, and joe biden's not taking the hint. it doesn't appear he's going to step down on his own accord. i believe, and so does my

husband, that he kind of can't because his way of protecting hunter and then himself is by using the power of the government and the doj and fbi. he loses that, he can't, he has to continue and hope he wins and fights this off. that's my theory on it. the fact that obama is back on now himself, not through surrogates, saying this means he's, like, hey, joe, i mean business. this is serious. pete: it would have to be. i mean, these are leaks through people familiar with barack obama. if he were to go -- no, that's true, but you wonder what a conversation face to face with joe would look like if obama really is delivering the news, like, it's time to go, from my view. rachel: do you believe that's what this is? pete: it could be. it could be. i mean, i think this is all insider talk. we don't know, but it would have to be a conversation with that guy on the screen right now with the other guy on the screen and sort of a come to jesus moment of this is just not going to happen, and we'll see if the polls continue to trend in that

direction. you know what joe has though, he's got a great insurance policy, and that is his vice president. [laughter] kamala harris, who everyone says if you get rid of joe, hen you get kamala. kamala harris has a new communications, campaign communications director, his name is brian fallon, who has a history of not loving joe all that much. and here's some tweets from a few years ago of kamala harris' new campaign communications director. he said this, tweeted, in september of 2019 a lot of people seem to be giving biden a pass for that answer on slavery. another tweet in 20 the 119, biden trying to complete an answer is a tender moment. and in 2021, that's not that far off, he's test driving ford f-a 150, he's not going to selma to talk about voting rights. that needs to happy. -- to happen. there are plenty of people that see the obvious, that joe's not that great a candidate, he's got some vulnerabilities, and now they're working for kamala.

rachel: will, do you think that was a move on her part to send a message? will: i think we're starting to see the beginning of the end. and i think we've talked about it, and it's going to come as no surprise. but once inside the beehive, the bees start attacking one another, you're beginning to see the queen bee go down. and the queen bee is joe biden and whether it's barack obama or kamala harris, gavin newsom, i think with david axlerod acknowledging reality with the polls and james carville has as a well, the polls are indicating and now the future of the hive and now the bees are turning on the queen. rachel: yeah. well, the real queen bee is jill biden who los being first lady -- loves being first lady. pete: we shall see. let's turn now to the war in israel. prime minister benjamin if netanyahu says israel is as committed as ever to the war. rachel: meanwhile, with negotiations expected to resume at some point today, the families of hostages still being held in gaza or are calling on

the israeli government and benjamin netanyahu to make a deal as soon as possible. will: trey yingst is live at hostage square in tel aviv right now with the latest. trey. >> reporter: yeah, hey, guys, good morning. a tragedy on friday morning has galvanized the cup of israel once g the country of israel once again of just 48 hours ago, 3 hostages were killed inside gaza after mistakenly being identified as hamas fighters. we are learning more about what took place. the israel his say some of the hostages were shirtless, they walked towards the soldiers with at least one of them holding a makeshift white flag. soldiers opened fire killing two of them, wounding one. families gathered overnight in tel aviv to call for their release. pressure is mounting on the israeli government to find solutions to free them as leadership has hinted at renewed

negotiations with hamas through qatari negotiators. israeli prime minister benjamin if netanyahu, the defense minister and war cabinet member benny ganz held a press conference last night with netanyahu saying this: -- [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: we are in a war for our existence in which we must continue until victory. despite the international pressure and despite the unbearable cost, the war is exacting from us in our fallen sons ask and daughters. >> reporter: the war with hamas is expected to last for several more months and with international pressure increasing on israel, there's an understanding that with the new year could come a new face of this conflict. guys, back to you. will thank you, trey. rachel: thank you, trey. will: other the last couple of weeks now we told you about the attack on our first amendment and the level of anti-semitism that's become apparent at a american colleges at large but particularly, acutely in the ivy

league. and it's had an effect, i would say, i think many of us would say, thankfully. hopefully. it's had an effect as it's been exposed to the american public. harvard applications, early admission applications this year, down 17%. now, if that's a number that holds up over time, what you are getting is a them from the american people, i don't care to send my kids to your previously prestigious institution. i'm a little bit cynical about whether or not that will hold. these are reputations that have been built for, honestly, a century or more. rachel: yeah. will: but it is a reputation that should no longer hold, and at least for now, it looks like it's taking a hit. rachel: the other thing is job faris. there's a lot of companies that come in and do job fariss at these universities -- fairs trying to hire these graduates as soon as possible they graduate, and some of them are saying, sorry. pete: i think that's where a real impact would have to be had, because right now when you come out of an ivy league

school, it almost guarantees they're going to hand you some sort of a wealthy -- a track to a wealthy outcome. i mean, that's what families are paying for, is a gateway into the elite class. and if you can still get that even if you're getting indoctrination, there's plenty of people across the country that'd a happily say you to -- pay you to go there, have that stamp, and you can open any door you want in the future, and and your life's going to be just fine. and until employers are rejecting students because they say, hey, we don't want what you're infected with, i don't think anything's going to change. this is a good indicator. the university's not going to change. the life blood of harvard is not going to change and become some free-thinking institution, so it'd have to be big chains -- companies saying we don't want the announce. rachel: it's what some of these graduates are doing when they leave. we talked about yesterday e the boston mayor having her racist christmas party where she disinvited white elected members from the boston, you know,

political community from her christmas party. but then you have a real expensive, you know, that's government. that's nothing. but look at the bud light harvard grad who destroyed bud light, you know, with her idea that i know it's a great idea to do trans. billions of dollars were lost, and real working people lost jobs because, you know, some of the plants shut down because so many people stopped buying bud light. so i think it's going to take more time, to your question, because i don't think it's really about what we're seeing here, but more like what are the real life financial outcomes -- pete: good point. dei has to die. will: i was just sitting here thinking while you guys were talking, i did not grow up with a great amount of admiration for the ivy league. and i was just trying to think why that is. i didn't ever aspire to princeton or harvard. it didn't come with this baked-in sense of, wow, when i heard something about harvard.

and i was trying to sit here thinking about if that's something unique to the culture of where i'm from, because, you know, texas sometimes doesn't -- it's not that it doesn't buy in, it's somewhat ignorant of that's coast, elite mentality. if i'm at a holiday party and two guys walk in and one was an electrical contractor, self-made millionaire, and the other was a clerk for a supreme court judge and went to harvard, i can promise you which one i find more interesting and which one really honestly carries more prestige in that environment. now, it's not always the case in texas, i'm not putting texas on some type of entrepreneuring, wildcatting pedestal, but there is a mindset that i think is uniquely american that should honor the contractor, the self-made success contractor, over the guy that went and got this degree. and now that to you see the degree actually has all these detriments that go along with it, i just hope america can end up looking at that path. maybe you went to texas tech and go, yeah, that's cooler, than going to harvard and getting

some white shoe law firm job. pete: i think that's a fair point. i didn't really know anything about the ivy league. to mentioner it ended up being about the type of d i schools i could get into and pay basketball. i think the east coast sort of elite world, that's where this is really a hyperdrive. it's the feedback loop of, okay, my kids get in, then the success continues. then their kids get in and -- will: it's an east coast thing that i think a lot of the country's bought into, it doesn't need to continue. pete: your berkeleys and stanfords on the west coast, same thing, but the more we can bring those brands down -- will: rachel: it's a great point, because i didn't want pilot as much until i moved -- feel it as much until i moved to this part of the country and i started to see that pipeline that goes in there and the kinds of cache that really parents have with that. even more so than the kids. pete: rachel, you're going to like this next one. will: you're fired up about this.

rachel: this is very interesting. we'll see how it shake out, but in california there's a mount shasta, believe, a ski resort, and the people who own this resort had planned, you know, for a long time when we have the money and the ability to do this, we want to put a big i think 20-foot statue of the virgin mary up on the top of this mount. and now there are, you know, some atheists who think this is a bad idea and say that it's -- i'll tell you what they said. this is from a facebook, well, this is what the ski resort says. they say the installation of the statue is very important to our owner as this was a shared goal her late husband and business partner. the statue is a promise fulfilled and a true representation of the dedication to family that we all value so much here at the ski park. the goal is not to focus on any one religion, but to acknowledge and honor the beauty and spiritual power of the mountain that we all love so much. but there was a petition that

came out. it appears that thousands of people have signed it saying they don't want it, and they put this petition online. the petition says stop the construction of a religious statue at our local ski park. the religious icon currently under construction threatens to alienate members of our diverse community who do not share the same religious beliefs. pete: wait, so this is a private ski resort where the owner would like to put up a 20-foot statue of the virgin mary, and that's a problem? if on what grounds -- will: alienation. pete: is that what -- will: that is the argument they're making. rachel: they're saying it's not inclusive, it'll offend me that i might see the virgin mary. pete: it's a private ski resort that's putting up a statue, what am i missing here? rachel: trolling christians is the -- will: the argument, and i think it's an insincere argument, is that by endorsing one particular

rebigs, you have alienated people who have a belief in another religion, and they don't feel welcome at your ski resort. here's why it's insincere, i doubt very much if it were a giant statue of wide that -- buddha, there would be a similar petition to stop it. again, it's part of this majority-minority thing. to oppress e sor-oppressed idea because christianingty is the majority religion in america, then you will make any other religion unwelcome -- pete: i get it. can't you just go to a different ski hill? will: or just ski past the vir egypt mary. [laughter] pete: exactly. i just don't understand the grounds for this. i know it's intimidation. they do this with everything. rachel: they want to sayering. pete: go somewhere if else if you deponent like it. will: look down and point your skis downhill. rachel: but also they're trying to cause financial pain to a family that's just trying to do something -- pete: and i hope christians and

catholics across the country flock to mount shasta -- rachel: i hope they do too. pete: and they'll benefit. rachel: i retweeted the story and said, build it. don't be intimidated -- will: i saw you retweet that yesterday after two cuba libres. i was a little taken aback that you were fired up by mount shasta. [laughter] then i thought, why are you surprised, will many. [laughter] rachel: cuba libre means free cuba. this is a free expression of this family's religion, and it's a private property -- will: you also didn't finish your second. pete: the name of a drink -- will: waisted it. [laughter] -- wasted it. pete: will and i didn't waste a drop. rachel: they don't waste anything when it comes to drinking. pete: turning to a few additional headlines. a u.s. air base in iraq facing multiple drone attacks earlier this week. according to u.s. defense officials, there were not any casualties or damage to

infrastructure at the base. u.s. forces in iraq and syria have been attacked by iranian proxy forces at least 99 # 8 times now -- 98 times now since october 17th. 46 of those targeting u.s. forces in iraq while americans in syria were attacked 52 times. and a top official meeting joe biden's electric vehicle push is unexpectedly stepping down, that's according to -- maybe it's because of our off the wall yesterday, will. according to an internal them memo. ann carlson, the acting administrator of the national highway traffic safety administration -- that's e a heck of a title -- will leave her position on december 26th. carlson failed to get confirmed by the senate as gop if lawmakers expressed concerns over her radical climate agenda. and christmas came early for one kindergartner in new jersey. private second class delaware beyond ray simmons surprised his little brother while at school on friday.

simmons was finishing up his training for army, and the school arranged the special homecoming on the same day as deondre's birthday. and inny, a woman jumps into the -- in nebraska, a woman jumps into the arms of her soldier. the army national guard soldier was returning from a 10-month-long overseas deployment and wasn't going to wait another second. rachel: i love that. pete: stayed upright. he back pedaled -- rachel: yeah, he's a strong guy. pete: look at that. [laughter] nicely done. rachel: i love that. that's a beautiful moment. captured forever. still ahead, a divisive display at the white house, harry and meghan's child-free christmas card and moving abroad. is that the new american dream? tomi lahren joins me for this week 's pop culture round-up. will: biden slammed on social

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pete: confidence in the u.s. economy plunging among small business owners. but joe biden, he does not see it that way. biden posting in part, quote, i don't look at the economy through the eyes of wall street or park avenue, i look at it through the eyes of the people i grew up with in scranton, pennsylvania, and clay month, delaware. we've been lowering costs so hard working americans can get the breathing room they deserve. so what do small business owners think about that? joining us now, pennsylvania business owner rick mcquaid along with alabama's 1918 catering co-owner, jason brown, and owner of bison coffeehouse in portland, oregon, loretta guzman. thank you all for being here this morning. great to get feedback from the very people that joe says he's helping. jason, let me start with you. as a small business opener, what's your -- owner, what's a your sense of, when the president makes a statement like that, is he speaking for you? >> no, he's not speaking for me.

i think that finish. [inaudible] when it comes to him tweeting and put out messages. right now -- politically incorrect. he doesn't speak for the small business openers here in birmingham, alabama, particularly for me my group. pete: same question to you, rick. when you hear a statement like that, and you're, i believe, in the restaurant industry, is that what you're seeing for the people you employ and the customers you see? >> absolutely. you know, the biden policies have not helped us at all. we're seeing rising food costs continue, we have rising utility costs. the -- it's been very difficult to maintain profitability under these current policies with all the rising, increasing costs. pete: i'm guessing you've had

to, more or less, pass them on to the customers. >> well, we tried to do that as much as we could, you know? you can only raise prices so much. whenever you raise prices, people don't come out as much. i mean, our business volume is down for 2023 significantly in a few spots, and, you know, it's been a very difficult challenge keeping these businesses afloat under the current policies. the cost of borrowing money has increased, you know, it's just everything has been hitting from labor to food costs. everything we buy, utilities, you name it, it's up. and, you know, you have a small margin to begin with to make restaurants profitable, and if it's been a very difficult time. pete: yeah. loretta, what i hear from rick multiple times is everything. feel like everything is up. what's your experience? >> everything is up, just like

he said. everything is up. like, 150, 200, 300%, everything is up. so, i mean, it's a lie if he -- joe biden says that our costs are down. they are up. they're up to, like, 300, 400%. pete: well, and you're having to face rising crime too. i believe your coffee house was vandalized last year. is that true? >> it is. it is. it was vandalized. i'm dealing with drug addicts outside of my business. we deal with everything, you know? it's like we are the ones to try to keep all the crime down and and deal with everything ourselves. our ppd, our portland police, they're dealing with a lot. hair hands are restricted, so it's left up to us, you know? pete: yeah. well, it shouldn't be left town a coffee shop owner to maintain the san de.

that's what authority -- sanity. that's what authorities are there for. jason, real quick, you have a food truck, a brick and mortar store, you're a food service company. i saw you kind of nodding your head when rick was talking, jason, that those costs, you can't pass everything on to the customers, so so how do you manage? >> no, you can't. no, you can't. ruing fuel costs -- rising fuel costs, rising food costing even the rising labor costs. a lot of things you can't just pass on to the client. so that's one of the things tha- [inaudible] a huge detriment to us with the current flakes that's been passed on. and basically coming out of this past administration just trying to correct some of the things that have been going on. but for many, many -- [inaudible] throughout america. pete: well, it's important to get the real per spect e of business owners who are on the ground. and either you're making less money by not passing along the costs and that hurts you and your business and your ability

to hire, or you do pass it along, and people are paying more which is where you get into this vicious cycle, and it feels like everything -- as i've heard from all of you. we've got to leave it there, but, rick, jason and hover it tasker thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. pete: appreciate it. still ahead, it is day 5 of our 1 days of giving, and we're getting some help from a four-legged friend. our next guest trains service dogs to help vets and children with special needs put hair best foot forward. -- their best foot forward. that is next. ♪ ♪ -- can up some presents for my baby and me ♪ iness? some companies today bring politics into the boardroom, then into our living rooms. that's why i use spotlight reports from 1792 exchange. here, i can search more than 2,000 companies, to see if they care more about divisive social issues than about running a sound business. isn't it time we got back to the business of business?

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jeremy has trained service dogs to assist america's wounded veterans as well as children with disabilities including detecting seizures in the early stages. jeremy joins us now with his german shepard bode. good morning. >> good morning, will. will: tell me about your program. you're training service dogs for a whole variety the of i ways. >> yeah, absolutely. so what we do is we raise, train and place service dogs with clients with disabilities but mainly focusing on children and veterans. just some statistics, you know, 1 in 36 children are diagnosed with autism. 11 in 26 people -- 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime and, tragedy, 22 veterans commit suicide, you know, every single day. so a lot of people think, you know, what's a dog going to do. you know, number one, you know, it goes back many, many years. dogs is absolutely man's best friend. so we train dogs to do amazing things, but the companionship

that they provide every day is absolutely unbeatable. will: you know, i feel like we have done stories and because of that we and the audience probably have some idea of the benefit for a dog to a veteran who has ptsd. i hasn't hard about the effect a dog has on a child with autism. what have you seen in those kind of scenarios? what will a dog, who is a service dog trained, be able to do or open up or bring out of a child with awe atism? >> yeah. really, a lot of families will make the comment the dog gives the family their life back because before the dog, a lot of the families live in a world of isolation. they're afraid to go out because a lot of their children will lope from home, so one critical, life-saving task we train the dogs in is tracking. much like a search and rescue dog, but the parents have their own search and rescue dog at all

times. so if the child would i lope from a mall, they can start tracking in minutes. will: and how does a dog track the early stages of a seizure? >> we've been doing it ever since 2007. it was a lot of trial and error, but i did a lot of police work with narcotics detection and explosives detection, and i thought, you know, if we could teach a dog to smell over a dozen types of explosives, there's no reason why we can't train a dog to smell seizures. so what we have done is we've taught the dog to memorize a seizure smell and to alert to it. and right now -- and we've placed over 15000 dogs, so this isn't like, you know, one dog doing this. a lot of our dogs will alert- 6-8 hours ahead of time. a few dogs 24 hours ahead of time and 2 dogs that are alerting 36 hours ahead of time. will: that is incredible. >> absolutely. will: incredible x. you work primarily with german shepards.

>> german shepards for our veterans' program. we do a lot of labrador retiers, goldening retiers for our young kids. the shepard a lot for first responders and veterans because it's what they request and what they're very, very familiar with. will: smart dogs. bodie's incredible, by the way. looked at him. he's somewhat interested in tommy lair and a few of the people behind the camera, not so interesting what's happening on camera. but if you're interested, and i think that you should be, to learn more about jeremy's mission, if you want to help out, go to dulebohn, it's on your screen, service dogs.org. jeremy, i love it, it's incredible. thank you so much for sharing this story. >> thanks for helping us, will. will: help people give back to help you guys give back to veterans and children in need. coming up, a divisive christmas display at the white house. harry and meg happen's child-free holiday card and moving abroad is the new american dream? it's time for rachel's pop

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i've heard florida, right? west virginia. who else? where? detroit. we've got michigan in the house. you think you can help me do the weather? what's your name? >> yes. den. adam: here's all i need you to do. this is the clicker, this is how we go through the graphics. when i ask you too, hit that button. i'll tell you when, okay? let's pull up the graphics and do this forecast together,'den. this is the map of the big weather system moving up the country. hit the button for me. this is a major rape wherein maker -- rainmaker, yeah, hit the button again. we're going to be doing that a lot. working it way on up the coast. as it does so, hit that button for me, we're going to be tracking 11-2 inches of rain, wind 40-50 miles an hour. are you planning a big day in new york city? >> yes, sir. adam: well, enjoy this morning.. i'm glad you made it out here because, ultimately, big storms are on the way. travel safely over the next

couple of days. of rachel, we're going to toss it back in to you, but wave to rachel. we're throe thing it back to heo her. rachel: i love this internship program you're doing out there. [laughter] time for another pop culture round-up, and we have tomi lahren, she's back to touch on the latest, the greatest drama from this week's news cycle. we're going to start off with the white house or is it the fright house? jill biden's decorating taste drawing criticism. it looks like the hunger games, didn't doesn't it? >> bizarre is a very nice way to put it. i can't imagine the production cost of this. i mean, yesterday we were talking about this on "the big weekend show," and our camera folks were saying, hey, listen, they've got steady cams in there, a lot of equipment. so i want to know who pays for it. if you look at some of the things they stand for, defunding the police, abolishing prisons, so it's nice to see the biden

family's staying right on theme -- rachel: yeah, they're on brand with their an around a keys dancers. it's crazy. meanwhile, they made fun of melania who was so elegant in her decorations. i hope we have some clips of that. look at this. she was amazing. let's show some of the decorations -- >> she had the red christmas display which they said looked demonic and, meanwhile, we've got actual people putting up satanic displace and is that's okay. but melania, she could do nothing right. rachel: that's another reason why we should bring that team back. meghan and harry, they're sharing their digital what they call holiday card. but it's interesting, the holiday card has no kids on it. they have two kids, but they're hiding them? what's up with that? if. >> i think they want it to be all about them -- rachel: that's on brand. [laughter] >> when it serves them, they like to talk about the children a lot to get a headline, a

little recognition, but it's really all about the two of them and really it seems to be all about meghan. i'm surprised she's not on a solo card by he's because i think that's more her style. i wish going into the new year we could talk about them less because maybe then they would go away. that's a strategy i'd like to practice. rachel: it would be hard, but they're so fun to make money of -- fun of. listen to this, their foundation dropped from # 11 million to, like, 2 million in donation, so the card also has a link to the foundation. they're not getting enough donations, so they're making overtures, hey, we want to reconcile with the king. how much of that wants to do with the foundation? >> i also wouldn't trust them. they need more content. they need to hate the royal family, they have to cozy back up so they can have more cash tk and write another book and do two episodes for spotify. they need something. we talk about them less, they will slowly go away. rachel: they are lazy celebrities, i will grant you that. let's move to this, because

tiktok has this new trend with people saying, listen, i'm living my american dream outside of america. they're going abroad, and they're posting how great their lives are. is this, like, biden said he was going to build back better, but people are leaving. >> you know, if the tiktokers leave, that might actually be the first example of build back better actually working. [laughter] but if you watch these individuals and you hear it with the sound, they're saying they're living their best life in bali, they're eating by the pool all day. i'm wondering who's paying for it. each though these country are cheaper, they're not free. so i would venture to guess maybe daddy or mommy's credit card is paying for their lifestyle the. i don't know if they're aware of this, we've got tens of thousands of people a week coming into this country, and they would maybe like the space. so if these spoiled americans hate america, then i say do us a favor and head on out. rachel: yeah. well, it's an interesting trend. here's another trick doc trend, because -- tiktok trend. young kids, i'm talking, like,

8, 9, 10 is, 12, 14, they're not asking santa for toys, they're asking santa for really expensive stuff like designer bags, makeup, deseason signer shoes. what is up with this trend? what happened to toys? >> well, i think you also have that social media culture where people think that a luxury is attainable for everyone, but thanks to bidenomics, it's really not. will told us just a little bit ago when he was a child, he got fruit in his stocks, and because of bidenomics, average people are maybe going to go back to the orange in the stocking, and their that'll actually -- maybe that'll actually be appreciated. a carton of eggs, some milk, that might go a long way because real people are really struggling thanks to bidenomics. rachel: yeah. thanks to build back better. will, it's so pioneer days, it's so laura ingalls. will: i didn't know that. i got an orange and apple every year. i didn't know i was a pioneer. rachel: you're little house on the prairie.

will: i'm a pioneer. pete: you always wanted to be one. >> oranges for everyone this year. i think that would bring us back to reality. rachel: absolutely. toys, not designer bags for christmas. all right, that's it. tomi lahren, you're the best. thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much is. rachel: coming up, america's favorite -- and i mean favorite, i love this family -- the duck hunting family plans new christmas traditions, it's their latest fox nation special. jase and missy robertson are here to tell us all about it. but first, the mclemore ifs, another great family, are smoking up a christmas feast live on fox square. that's next. ♪ christmas carols by candlelight ♪

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you have made an impact. so have you. for you guys to be out here doing something like this, it restores a lot of faith in humanity. rachel: christmas is right around the corner. will: what better way to celebrate than with a holiday feast? >> that's right. pete: the mcif he mothers are here to show us some of their favorite christmas recipes. >> y'all excited for christmas coming up? pete: ready to go. rachel: it's a week away. >> it's a wonderful time, isn't it? one of the most viewed videos for the holiday season is how to spatchcock a turkey or chicken and how to prop e or orally

slice a turkey or chicken for the holiday season. spatchcock is basically detaching the backbone out of a turkey. you filet it out. y'all been to the chiropractor, right? if. [laughter] my buddy's a -- rachel: why would you want to do this? >> it actually speeds up the cooking process. instead of smoking a cookie -- turkey for 6-8 hours, you filet it out, that allows you to smoke it for 2-32-- 2.5 hours, and you're done. i actually love, dry brine spg which is salt, pepper, garlic, you actually season it and then put it in your refrigerate or overnight. and then you're going to go to the grill. pete, open that up and check this out. directly on the grill. that is spatchcock grilled for two, two and a half hours. pete: get in there. >> we actually have a cookbook coming out next may that is called gather and grill, and this recipe is actually in

this -- adam: i'm making a mess. >> after you're done, we cut it just for, you know with, purpose of tv. but to debreast, the proper way is to rip that leg off. you know when it's done when that the leg pops out. that's your thigh and your leg, you've got your breast here. and then you don't want to vice the traditional -- slice, the traditional a method, where you get all that skin. you actually want to debreast just like that and cut your piece up so everybody gets a slice of turkey, right? if so now -- pete: i gotta get it. i gotta have one. >> so master built supplies us with the grill. that is the gravity fed car choal grill and smoker, and bond wonder bread actually gave us -- how many loaves of bread did it take, don't answer this if you already know, i think i might have told you earlier -- how many loaves of bread do you think it took? will: that's three loaves of

bread. will: no way. adam: a dozenful. pete: way more. will: all these people are yelling at me. adam: what are they saying, 5? pete: way more. will: i say 25 loaves of bread. pete: you'd be surprised. >> guys, we're going to finish it off with a dr. pepper glazed ham. this is smoked 4-5 hours -- will: dr. pepper glaze? >> so it's dr. pepper, honey, a little bit of mustard, brown sugar and maining syrup. you put that together, renner it down, pour it over. smoke it 4-5 hours, take it off, cut it up. will: we've got 20 seconds to put some in all of our mouths. [laughter] >> masterbuilt, wonder bread. unfortunately, my mom and dad couldn't be here, but they're here with us in spirit. rachel: we love you guys. all right. john mclemore ii. will: more "fox & friends" -- ♪ if

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