Brian Kilmeade describes the lives of two American legends; how Jeff Kemp and the Fatherhood CoMission equip fathers; comedian Bob Zany's zingers; Alicia Witt's mac and cheese for the new year; and classic R&B group The Spinners perform.
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Huckabee | Huckabee - January 1, 2022 | January 2, 2022
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- Tonight on "Huckabee," show host and author Brian Kilmeade,
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- sarcastic standup with comedian Bob Zany,
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- actress Alicia Witt's mac and cheese for the Year,
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- legendary R&B group The Spinners.
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- ♪♪♪
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- That's Tre' Corley and the Music City Connection.
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- And I'm your announcer, Keith Bilbrey.
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- And now here's Mike Huckabee!
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- ♪♪♪
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- Happy New Year, everyone!
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- Hey, we're in a brand-new year, yeah.
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- Do you remember a year ago?
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- We were so glad to be getting out of the 2020 COVID year of
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- lockdowns, social distancing, and washing
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- our hands until they bled.
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- The vaccines had been created in record time due to Operation
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- Warp Speed that President Trump launched,
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- and there seemed to be some real optimism that 2021 was going to
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- be a year that we turned the corner.
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- Well, we did turn the corner, but we kept turning each corner,
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- and we ended up on the same path as 2020 but even worse.
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- Joe Biden was sworn in as President,
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- and he promised he would unite the country.
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- And on his first day in office, he united the country all right
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- but not in a good way, but against his incredible changes.
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- Folks, he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on day one,
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- putting tens of thousands of people out of work.
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- He rescinded the highly successful border polices and
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- became President Minnie Pearl, hollering, "Y'all Come!"
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- to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who flooded
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- the border, overran the Border Patrol capacity,
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- and then he promptly renewed the US participation in the Paris
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- Climate Accords, which almost instantly spiked the cost of
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- energy in everything from production of raw materials to
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- fueling your cars and trucks.
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- His calls for historic levels of government spending sent the
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- economy into the highest rates of inflation in 39 years,
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- and his calls for mandatory vaccinations and mask-wearing
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- had the country split along political lines instead of
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- public health concerns.
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- This Christmas, we've had a lot of your grandkids' presents
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- sitting on a ship out in the Pacific Ocean,
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- unable to bring the cargo in due to a supply chain disaster
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- caused by the same America-last policies Joe Biden seemed to
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- want to put permanently in place.
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- So, maybe in 2022 we really can turn the corner and this time
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- make a right turn, both ideologically and politically.
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- I'd like that.
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- One thing that happened was that parents across the country got
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- so fed up with forced teaching of how bad America is and that
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- we're just some evil racist country, that parents started
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- showing up to school board meetings and town councils
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- and saying, "We're not going to take it anymore," and we saw it
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- play out in elections in places like Virginia and New Jersey.
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- In Virginia, a political novice defeated the Democrat former
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- governor, and in New Jersey, a truck driver spent less than
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- $200 in a primary to oust the longest serving member of the
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- New Jersey State Senate, who was also,
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- by the way, the Senate President.
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- And the Democrats have responded to hostility against big
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- government spending programs and control
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- by offering, what else?
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- Even bigger big government spending programs.
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- Oh well, maybe 2022 will be the year that Americans will decide
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- that our country is a great country, and it's worth loving.
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- And hopefully, we will brutally reject the politics and policies
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- of those who say that America is evil and systemically racist.
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- 'Cause if that were true, you know, we wouldn't have
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- such a long line of people trying to break into the
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- country, and we would have no line of people trying to break
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- out, which we don't have a line of anyone trying to get out.
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- But I think we should form a line for those who hate America.
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- And here's the deal.
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- Let's offer them a one-way ticket to the country of their
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- choice, wherever they want to go.
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- And in the meantime, we've got a chance to defeat those
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- politicians at the local, state, and national level who prefer
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- socialism over our economic system.
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- Yep, we've got an opportunity to slow and maybe even stop the
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- long slide toward failure.
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- And folks, if we do that, it really will be a happy new year!
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- ♪♪♪
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- My first guest tonight hosts some pretty popular shows.
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- You can catch him on "FOX & Friends" every morning,
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- as well as on the "Brian Kilmeade" radio show.
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- I think he's one of the hardest-working people
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- in the entire business.
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- He truly is.
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- He's also a repeat bestselling author,
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- and he's here with us tonight to tell us the story of two truly
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- great Americans and to give us a little history lesson that all
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- Americans ought to appreciate.
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- Please welcome one of my favorite people--and you'll see
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- why--Brian Kilmeade.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Well, you've got fans in Nashville, Brian.
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- They love you here.
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- Wow, I cannot get over this studio.
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- I say it to you every time, but I just love this place.
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- I would live here.
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- You should--I'd actually rent this place when
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- you, like, dim the lights.
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- I think what we should do is we need to get you in the TBN
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- family and just bring you here permanently.
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- I think so.
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- Yeah, they would love it.
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- If I could have this audience.
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- You know, I'm so delighted to have you back,
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- and I'm very sincere when I tell you--and I told the audience--I
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- don't know how you do it.
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- Three hours a day, five days a week on television with "FOX &
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- Friends," then another three hours a day on radio.
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- Everybody knows that for every hour you're on the air,
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- you're prepping three hours, and you still find time for a
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- personal life, writing some best seller,
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- killer books about history.
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- Obviously, that's all important to you,
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- but these books have been just blockbuster.
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- Yeah, thank you.
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- And I also know it's because I'm able to be
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- on Fox to get the word out.
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- You could write the best book ever.
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- It's so hard to get the word out on the book and then be able to
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- come here to Nashville.
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- By the way, if you want to get crowds on Fox,
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- you have to leave New York, and I can't wait to do it.
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- And they would like that.
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- And this is where the passion is,
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- and this is what fuels our audience.
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- I think one of the things about Fox--and you're--been part
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- of the family almost from day one.
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- You were governor. That was a full-time job.
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- But the thing about Fox is they ignore the Midwest,
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- they ignored the South.
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- It was all about Washington, Los Angeles, and New York.
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- And when I began to travel with these books,
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- I used to come back and say, "Guys,
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- you don't understand how we're appreciated
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- once we left the major cities.
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- But this is the backbone of the country.
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- This is what fuels, these are the people, they go to work
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- every day, they don't look for fame and acclaim,
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- but they deserve it.
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- But I had been studying George Washington's Secret Six,
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- the spy ring, for really 20 years.
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- And then when Bill O'Reilly came up to me
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- and said--I saw Bill about it.
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- He goes, "Well, I knew nothing about this.
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- You should do this book, and I'll help you."
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- And he would sit there with my yellow pads and cross stuff out,
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- and I put it out, and it did well.
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- And then, all of a sudden this war on history happened,
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- and all of a sudden our history, we're getting attacked from the
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- inside about our past and our foundation.
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- So, I said, okay, instead of asking people who are passionate
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- about the news and passionate about Fox to read this story,
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- I said, okay, you've gotta get on the team
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- because I'm not whitewashing history.
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- There's nothing good about Frederick Douglass's
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- life as a slave.
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- Nobody says he didn't know his parents,
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- he didn't have a pair of pants, never knew his birthday until
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- he was seven, eight years old.
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- He escapes to freedom.
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- Five years, seven years later, he becomes a best-selling
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- author, writes his biography.
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- This is the story of America giving the land of opportunity,
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- even back then, to two people that, in any other place,
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- they would've lived and died in the horrible
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- circumstances which they're born in.
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- I mean, Abraham Lincoln, too.
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- So, now I feel as though, well, the 1619 project comes out and
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- CRT becomes now the curriculum.
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- There's gotta be a pushback.
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- And if I could do anything, like you do with your children's
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- books, if I could do anything to push the American story
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- forward--not propaganda, these are the facts.
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- We know we're not perfect, but the thing that makes us great is
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- that we try to be.
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- What I love about--and the book is called,
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- "The President and the Freedom Fighter," about Abraham Lincoln
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- and Frederick Douglass.
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- And you show that both of these guys come
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- from very humble beginnings.
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- I mean, obviously, Frederick Douglass, a slave, but Abraham
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- Lincoln didn't have a life of luxury growing up either.
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- Abject poverty, no question, two illiterate parents.
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- Mom dies at nine years old, forced to move when the land
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- stopped giving him food.
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- So, he and his dad and his sister, and they move,
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- and they go, and they relocate, and then he goes and leaves
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- them, and gets another wife, and comes back, and she
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- ends up being a big proponent of Abe and saw his potential.
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- But he would have one year of formal schooling.
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- And I just look at American history.
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- The one consistency--you know, I was here when "Andrew Jackson"
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- came out, "And the Miracle of New Orleans."
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- This guy's an orphan, had his whole family
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- wiped out by the British.
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- His dad died before he was born, and he said his town,
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- his county, his country raised him,
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- and he was determined to pay it back,
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- and he would, and he paid back the British at the same time
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- with the Battle of New Orleans.
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- So, where else, what other place?
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- An orphan becoming two-term President
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- and called the Jacksonian era.
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- He'd have more influence after.
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- What other place could take a guy from the Midwest in Abraham
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- Lincoln and allow him to emerge at exactly the right time to
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- help our country that was teetering on the edge?
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- And Frederick Douglass, my goodness.
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- They didn't want to--you were put in jail if you taught a
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- slave to read and write.
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- He found a way.
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- He said that these white kids, that he grew up,
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- that didn't see color, which is another important aspect.
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- One thing about Frederick Douglass is
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- he wrote everything down.
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- He wrote his speeches down.
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- He wrote his biography, and he kept updating his biography.
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- He said something.
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- While CRT is raging and we're watching what's happening in
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- Virginia, he says--he looks back at his life and he said,
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- "I was friends with all these kids,
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- and I couldn't understand with color of the skin.
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- What does color of the skin have to do with anything?"
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- He says, "I'm convinced kids don't see color."
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- And I go, "Oh, my goodness," I'm watching these Virginia board of
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- school, and I'm seeing that these parents are upset that
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- their first and second graders are learning about the color of
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- someone's skin, and you're an oppressor,
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- or you're a victim, and I'm saying,
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- "That's the last thing Frederick Douglass needed as a kid,
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- and he was thankful because of it,
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- and he also said back then, sadly,
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- "We just need one more generation for us to realize
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- there is no difference between black and white."
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- That was 1840.
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- Unfortunately, we needed a few more generations,
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- but I think Americans--and there are some racists.
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- I get it. I think we get it now.
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- What you point out with both Abraham Lincoln,
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- but I think even more so with Frederick Douglass, is that this
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- country still does and always has provided opportunity for
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- people who are willing to see that opportunity.
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- And we've gotten better, not worse at it,
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- since the time of Frederick Douglass.
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- It's hard to appreciate something you already have,
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- and that's why first-generation immigrants are so appreciative
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- of this country, see their T's and their I's with Enes Kanter.
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- He knows what it's like in Turkey,
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- and he traveled the world, and he wants to be here,
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- and he becomes an American citizen.
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- I'm talking about the backup center on the Celtics became a
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- citizen and announced it on our show.
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- And then when you come here from--and I just did a feature
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- on Ellis Island for Fox Nation's "What Made America Great,"
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- and you see the emotion.
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- These people just want the opportunity.
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- We don't want the game rigged. We just want to compete.
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- And I say to this, if you're a third or fourth generation
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- immigrant, and you look around, and you go,
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- "I'm a little upset with this country,
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- we're not this, we're not that," I'd say this.
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- Travel, go compare it to another country.
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- And if you see something as good or better,
- 00:12:51.694 --> 00:12:53.729
- stay, but you won't.
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- Absolutely.
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- I couldn't agree more.
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- This is the book, and I hope that you will get it.
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- It's still time to get it for Christmas.
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- Give it to yourself or give it to somebody that needs to
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- understand the good things of American history.
- 00:13:08.010 --> 00:13:10.679
- And, of course, you can watch Brian Kilmeade on his show on
- 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.649
- Fox, "FOX & Friends."
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- And the book, "The President and the Freedom Fighter,"
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- you can get that right now.
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- All you have to do is go to HUCKABEE.TV.
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- We have a direct link to his book and to knowing how to get
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- in touch with him and follow him on social
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- media, which you want to do.
- 00:13:27.396 --> 00:13:28.731
- I think he's one of the sharpest,
- 00:13:28.731 --> 00:13:30.065
- most quick-witted guys on any television channel anywhere.
- 00:13:30.065 --> 00:13:35.371
- I love this guy, and tonight you see why.
- 00:13:35.371 --> 00:13:39.174
- Right now, Keith Bilbrey is going to make
- 00:13:39.174 --> 00:13:41.277
- his own kind of history.
- 00:13:41.277 --> 00:13:42.611
- He's gonna tell us what we have coming up on the show.
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- Coming up, Huck's Hero Jeff Kemp and later legendary R&B hit
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- makers, The Spinners are on Huckabee.
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- Well, it's almost taboo to point out that the primary
- 00:14:18.148 --> 00:14:21.418
- factor in who will become a felon,
- 00:14:21.418 --> 00:14:23.286
- a drug user, or otherwise a societal delinquent is actually
- 00:14:23.286 --> 00:14:27.924
- the absence of a father in the home.
- 00:14:27.924 --> 00:14:31.294
- To save our country, there's perhaps no work that is more
- 00:14:31.294 --> 00:14:34.364
- important today than simply encouraging and equipping men to
- 00:14:34.364 --> 00:14:38.034
- be present for their kids and to invest in them,
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- which is exactly what this week's Huck's Hero is doing.
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- ♪♪♪
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- One of the most emotional and impactful things in the life of
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- a child is their relationship or lack of relationship
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- with their father.
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- It shapes the course of their life in all aspects.
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- And you know what, we have a huge deficit of fatherhood
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- in our nation today.
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- We need to get ahead of this problem,
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- and the key is to connect fathers to their children.
- 00:15:17.874 --> 00:15:21.511
- So many dads today, they're getting the message that they're
- 00:15:21.511 --> 00:15:23.880
- not needed, that they're just a buffoon,
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- that they're unnecessary, and that is absolutely not true.
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- So, the solution is to reconnect human beings to their heavenly
- 00:15:30.854 --> 00:15:34.958
- Father, and usually they're more open to reconnecting at the
- 00:15:34.958 --> 00:15:39.896
- horizontal level with their children.
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- Our mission is pretty simple: we serve, we inspire,
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- and we network the leaders of the movement
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- to strengthen fatherhood.
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- The collaboration looks like this.
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- An annual summit, some equipping seminars there and all during
- 00:15:53.209 --> 00:15:57.013
- the year, and a strategy that has rallied around the
- 00:15:57.013 --> 00:16:00.316
- documentary film, "Show Me the Father."
- 00:16:00.316 --> 00:16:04.120
- And it points a picture of how we need to repair this pandemic
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- of disconnection between fathers and their kids horizontally.
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- [audience applauding]
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- Jeff Kemp is the Ambassador for Fatherhood CoMission.
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- He's a former NFL quarterback and son of another famous NFL
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- quarterback by the name of Jack Kemp,
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- who you might know.
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- Would you join me with a very nice welcome for tonight's
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- Huck's Hero, Jeff Kemp.
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- Thank you, Jeff.
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- Hi, guys.
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- You know, on a personal level,
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- I'm deeply grateful to you.
- 00:16:38.088 --> 00:16:39.989
- You were and have been a mentor to my son and daughter-in-law in
- 00:16:39.989 --> 00:16:45.562
- a spiritual group that has been so helpful to them.
- 00:16:45.562 --> 00:16:49.699
- But you've done this for thousands of people and couples
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- across the country, to disciple.
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- I don't know if it's thousands.
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- My wife gets a lot of the credit.
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- We've not had thousands go through our home,
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- but we've enjoyed mentoring young couples for many,
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- many years, and we support other
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- groups and ministries that do the same.
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- Any of us can do that.
- 00:17:06.282 --> 00:17:07.617
- You can bring a young couple into your home and help them get
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- started 'cause marriage needs teamwork.
- 00:17:10.053 --> 00:17:11.654
- Fathers are almost non-existent in terms of
- 00:17:11.654 --> 00:17:15.125
- importance of the culture.
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- You don't see fathers lifted up on television sitcoms.
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- They're usually the bumbling idiot.
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- They're not "Father Knows Best."
- 00:17:21.197 --> 00:17:22.532
- They're father knows nothing.
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- And it's a different kind of expression.
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- What would be the one great piece of advice you would give
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- to a dad that would help him be a better father
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- in this coming year.
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- I would tell every single dad,
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- whether they are present in the home or feel disconnected
- 00:17:39.349 --> 00:17:43.119
- outside of the home, you are needed,
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- and you matter, and it's not too late.
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- And if you will seek the love and acceptance of your heavenly
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- Father, who is perfect, unlike earthly dads who let us down
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- many times, you can heal a lot of the wounds in the past with
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- your children, and you can become filled with God's love
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- and his wisdom and his guidance to go and apologize for the
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- years you've missed, the mistakes you've made,
- 00:18:12.549 --> 00:18:15.051
- the pride you had, the disengagement and workaholism or
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- whatever it was, and you can start afresh today.
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- So, I would tell a dad, seek the love of your vertical heavenly
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- Father, and then get engaged again with your kids,
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- starting with an apology and a willingness to go forward from
- 00:18:29.265 --> 00:18:32.902
- this day forward by talking to them,
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- spending time with them, telling them your story,
- 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.341
- asking about what their interested in.
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- And once you find out what they're interested in,
- 00:18:40.410 --> 00:18:42.212
- you could build a new relationship based on that.
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- It's a wonderful message of hope that you have just given,
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- that fathers shouldn't just say, "It's too late,
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- there's nothing I can do."
- 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.154
- And I hope people will get in touch with you through the
- 00:18:51.154 --> 00:18:55.625
- Fatherhood CoMission, and we're going to tell
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- them how to do that.
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- And I can't think of a better way for dads to start the new
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- year than connecting with you and the Father CoMission to find
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- out how to be better dads, how to do the job.
- 00:19:06.002 --> 00:19:08.338
- Mike, the Father CoMission has probably 150 or 200 groups,
- 00:19:08.338 --> 00:19:12.108
- from little mom and pop groups to Marvin Charles' wonderful
- 00:19:12.108 --> 00:19:15.545
- Seattle program that connects dads that are
- 00:19:15.545 --> 00:19:17.614
- disconnected from their dads.
- 00:19:17.614 --> 00:19:19.015
- They've mentored 4.000 guys out of prison, drug addiction,
- 00:19:19.015 --> 00:19:22.719
- and out-of-wedlock child situations, into fathering.
- 00:19:22.719 --> 00:19:28.124
- And then there's All-Pro Dad with Tony Dungy and Manhood
- 00:19:28.124 --> 00:19:31.761
- Journey with Kent Evans and other ones.
- 00:19:31.761 --> 00:19:33.963
- But those groups can help you based on your need,
- 00:19:33.963 --> 00:19:37.433
- but all of us, every single one of us in the audience,
- 00:19:37.433 --> 00:19:40.036
- yourself, myself, divorced dads, we all need to champion
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- fatherhood because kids need love to find their identity,
- 00:19:44.907 --> 00:19:50.280
- their purpose, and their potential in life.
- 00:19:50.280 --> 00:19:53.716
- What a powerful and important message.
- 00:19:53.716 --> 00:19:56.085
- You can get involved in helping Jeff Kemp with the Fatherhood
- 00:19:56.085 --> 00:19:58.254
- CoMission pour into men all over the country.
- 00:19:58.254 --> 00:20:01.024
- Learn more at HUCKABEE.TV where there is a direct connection to
- 00:20:01.024 --> 00:20:05.228
- the Fatherhood CoMission.
- 00:20:05.228 --> 00:20:06.929
- Keith Bilbrey is gonna tell us what else is
- 00:20:06.929 --> 00:20:08.898
- coming up on the show tonight.
- 00:20:08.898 --> 00:20:10.233
- You're gonna want to stay here for it 'cause it's phenomenal.
- 00:20:10.233 --> 00:20:14.203
- Next, The Spinners sing their number one hit,
- 00:20:14.203 --> 00:20:17.140
- "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love?"
- 00:20:17.140 --> 00:20:19.842
- Later, actress and cookbook author Alicia Witt.
- 00:20:19.842 --> 00:20:23.479
- Stay with Huckabee.
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- ♪♪♪
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- In 1955, our next guests formed the most popular African
- 00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:34.758
- American vocal group in our lifetime.
- 00:20:34.758 --> 00:20:37.695
- The Spinners began singing on the streets of Detroit and went
- 00:20:37.695 --> 00:20:40.664
- on to international fame with hits like "It's a Shame," "I'll
- 00:20:40.664 --> 00:20:44.368
- Be Around" and the song they're going to perform now,
- 00:20:44.368 --> 00:20:48.005
- "Could It Be I am Falling in Love?"
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- Put your hands together for The Spinners.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:20:54.078 --> 00:21:08.459
- How's everybody feeling out there?
- 00:21:04.088 --> 00:21:11.261
- Oh, everybody looking so good.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:21:13.163 --> 00:21:16.066
- ♪ Since I met you, I've begun to feel so strange ♪
- 00:21:16.066 --> 00:21:21.705
- ♪ every time I speak your name. ♪
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- ♪ That's funny. ♪
- 00:21:24.742 --> 00:21:26.076
- ♪ You say that you are so helpless too ♪
- 00:21:26.076 --> 00:21:29.580
- ♪ that you don't know what to do, oooh. ♪
- 00:21:29.580 --> 00:21:34.651
- ♪ Each night I pray there will never come a day ♪
- 00:21:34.651 --> 00:21:39.757
- ♪ when you up and take my love away. ♪
- 00:21:39.757 --> 00:21:44.194
- ♪ Say you feel the same way too. ♪
- 00:21:44.194 --> 00:21:46.430
- ♪ And I wonder what it is I feel for you, oooh. ♪
- 00:21:46.430 --> 00:21:53.170
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, baby? ♪
- 00:21:53.170 --> 00:21:57.007
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you? ♪
- 00:21:57.007 --> 00:22:01.011
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, ♪
- 00:22:01.011 --> 00:22:06.950
- ♪ with you, with you, with you. ♪
- 00:22:06.950 --> 00:22:13.991
- ♪ I don't need all those things ♪
- 00:22:13.991 --> 00:22:15.459
- ♪ that used to bring me joy. ♪
- 00:22:15.459 --> 00:22:19.029
- ♪ Girl, you've made me such a happy boy. ♪
- 00:22:19.029 --> 00:22:23.300
- ♪ And darling, you'll always be the only one for me. ♪
- 00:22:23.300 --> 00:22:27.838
- ♪ Meeting you was my destiny. ♪
- 00:22:27.838 --> 00:22:32.176
- ♪ You can be sure I will never let you down. ♪
- 00:22:32.176 --> 00:22:37.748
- ♪ When you need me, I'll be around. ♪
- 00:22:37.748 --> 00:22:41.885
- ♪ And darling you'll always be ♪
- 00:22:41.885 --> 00:22:44.021
- ♪ the only one for me. ♪
- 00:22:44.021 --> 00:22:46.390
- ♪ Heaven made you specially. ♪
- 00:22:46.390 --> 00:22:50.427
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, baby? ♪
- 00:22:50.427 --> 00:22:54.731
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you? ♪
- 00:22:54.731 --> 00:22:58.902
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, yeah. ♪
- 00:22:58.902 --> 00:23:03.173
- ♪ With you, with you, with you. ♪
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- Come on, everybody put your hands right here.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- You're gonna have a beautiful holiday.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:23:17.955 --> 00:23:39.877
- ♪ And darling you'll always be ♪
- 00:23:27.965 --> 00:23:42.045
- ♪ the only one for me. ♪
- 00:23:42.045 --> 00:23:44.381
- ♪ Heaven made you specially. ♪
- 00:23:44.381 --> 00:23:48.785
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, baby? ♪
- 00:23:48.785 --> 00:23:52.689
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love? ♪
- 00:23:52.689 --> 00:23:55.025
- ♪ I want to know now, baby. ♪
- 00:23:55.025 --> 00:23:57.261
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love with you, ♪
- 00:23:57.261 --> 00:24:02.432
- ♪ with you, with you? ♪
- 00:24:02.432 --> 00:24:08.572
- ♪ I walk around with my heart in my hands, hey. ♪
- 00:24:08.572 --> 00:24:13.410
- ♪ Hold this feeling long as I can now, now, baby. ♪
- 00:24:13.410 --> 00:24:18.081
- ♪ I used to sing fa fa fa fa. ♪
- 00:24:18.081 --> 00:24:20.751
- ♪ But you make me feel so good, ♪
- 00:24:20.751 --> 00:24:23.420
- ♪ I sing la la la la, hey. ♪
- 00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:26.189
- ♪ Could it be I'm falling in love? ♪
- 00:24:26.189 --> 00:24:31.795
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh. ♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:24:37.968 --> 00:24:40.070
- The Spinners will return to sing another hit song,
- 00:24:40.070 --> 00:24:42.673
- but first, Comedian Bob Zany is on Huckabee.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Welcome back on this new year's day.
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- Now, I've made a new year's resolution.
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- It's not to shave my beard, or grow out my hair,
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- which I wish I could, or even to eat more bacon,
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- though I'll probably do that anyway.
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- No, it's to get some Grade A, 100% American Made
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- Yeah, and if you want to join me in that resolution,
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- None of us get any of it.
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- And they're really unhappy about that, but I think it's okay.
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- I'm fine with it. We'll just keep programming.
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- But go to HUCKABEE.TV, click the "Shop" button at the top of
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- That's important.
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- Now, you know tonight's comic from more than a thousand TV
- 00:26:09.661 --> 00:26:12.730
- appearances, including co-hosting the Jerry Lewis MDA
- 00:26:12.730 --> 00:26:15.533
- Telethon, the hit streaming series "Casino Boss," and his
- 00:26:15.533 --> 00:26:19.370
- DryBar Comedy special, "I Think I Handled That Well," as well as
- 00:26:19.370 --> 00:26:23.975
- his hilarious topical comedy series, "The Zany Report."
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- We loved having him here with us before and are so glad to
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- welcome back Bob Zany.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Yeah!
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- Thank you. That was so unexpected.
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- Thank you for having me back.
- 00:26:51.169 --> 00:26:52.937
- You know, I started out in this business.
- 00:26:52.937 --> 00:26:54.372
- A lot of people said, "Bob, you'll never perform down the
- 00:26:54.372 --> 00:26:56.340
- street from Dollar General in a Shell
- 00:26:56.340 --> 00:26:58.109
- Station with the Governor."
- 00:26:58.109 --> 00:27:02.413
- I've arrived, baby!
- 00:27:02.413 --> 00:27:08.920
- I've gotta get this out of the way.
- 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.288
- I know you're looking at me, and I look like an insurance
- 00:27:10.288 --> 00:27:12.657
- salesman who hasn't sold a policy in about five years,
- 00:27:12.657 --> 00:27:16.728
- and they're just keeping me around for the white guy quota.
- 00:27:16.728 --> 00:27:23.134
- I did go shopping today at Forever 51.
- 00:27:23.134 --> 00:27:28.039
- I was gonna go to Banana Republic,
- 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:29.674
- but I'm afraid we live in one.
- 00:27:29.674 --> 00:27:34.112
- This is a great crowd, I was wondering if I can
- 00:27:34.112 --> 00:27:36.347
- get you to go, "Ooooh."
- 00:27:36.347 --> 00:27:39.784
- Thank you. Now this is interesting.
- 00:27:39.784 --> 00:27:41.352
- I walk--you like walking, don't you, Governor?
- 00:27:41.352 --> 00:27:43.688
- I see things on these walks.
- 00:27:43.688 --> 00:27:45.189
- I saw a license plate, personalized license--
- 00:27:45.189 --> 00:27:47.358
- Cory, good to see you.
- 00:27:47.358 --> 00:27:48.693
- You look great with that hat. Did you pay it off, yet?
- 00:27:48.693 --> 00:27:51.195
- No.
- 00:27:51.195 --> 00:27:53.698
- I saw a license plate. It said, "Rich Girl."
- 00:27:53.698 --> 00:27:56.701
- Now, I know people with money, they don't advertise it.
- 00:27:56.701 --> 00:27:58.970
- Rich? It was a Ford Fiesta.
- 00:27:58.970 --> 00:28:03.941
- Then, I mean, I live in Nevada,
- 00:28:03.941 --> 00:28:05.576
- and there's a water conservation van,
- 00:28:05.576 --> 00:28:08.246
- it was on the side of the road overheating.
- 00:28:08.246 --> 00:28:13.951
- Should I slow these down?
- 00:28:13.951 --> 00:28:17.088
- Do you know the last time I was here,
- 00:28:17.088 --> 00:28:19.123
- there was only like 35 scattered people.
- 00:28:19.123 --> 00:28:21.492
- And let me tell you, you putting fliers on windshields in the
- 00:28:21.492 --> 00:28:23.961
- parking lot is really paying off.
- 00:28:23.961 --> 00:28:27.331
- This man goes the extra mile for his program.
- 00:28:27.331 --> 00:28:32.236
- And give it up for Keith over there in the announcing.
- 00:28:32.236 --> 00:28:33.905
- Keith, you're doing a great job over there.
- 00:28:33.905 --> 00:28:35.640
- I saw you in the green room, and I saw this thing back--I
- 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:38.042
- thought you were Secret Service.
- 00:28:38.042 --> 00:28:41.612
- I do a little thing on the radio called "The Zany Report."
- 00:28:41.612 --> 00:28:43.347
- It's my take on the news.
- 00:28:43.347 --> 00:28:44.682
- You want to hear "The Zany Report?"
- 00:28:44.682 --> 00:28:48.953
- A lot going on in the news.
- 00:28:48.953 --> 00:28:50.288
- Let me get right--by the way, I apologize.
- 00:28:50.288 --> 00:28:52.089
- I'm really hyped up on Relief Factor and Balance of Nature.
- 00:28:52.089 --> 00:28:55.893
- [audience laughing]
- 00:28:55.893 --> 00:29:03.801
- A new study has found--the band's gonna love this one--a
- 00:29:03.801 --> 00:29:06.370
- new study has found one out of five Americans drink too much,
- 00:29:06.370 --> 00:29:09.040
- the other four are doing their best to catch up.
- 00:29:09.040 --> 00:29:15.012
- There's a high suicide rate among dentists.
- 00:29:15.012 --> 00:29:17.081
- How many dentists are here?
- 00:29:17.081 --> 00:29:18.549
- See?
- 00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:22.653
- Let me know when I cross a line.
- 00:29:22.653 --> 00:29:25.790
- Fun fact you should know, Keith, 20% of Americans are dyslexic.
- 00:29:25.790 --> 00:29:30.061
- Or is that 80%?
- 00:29:30.061 --> 00:29:35.132
- I'm so proud of you, that was a math joke,
- 00:29:35.132 --> 00:29:36.801
- and you did it in your head.
- 00:29:36.801 --> 00:29:39.904
- Dateline Woodland Hills, California,
- 00:29:39.904 --> 00:29:42.206
- six cars collide into a spilled load of avocados.
- 00:29:42.206 --> 00:29:44.909
- Luckily, CHiPs are on the scene in minutes.
- 00:29:44.909 --> 00:29:48.913
- Guacamole.
- 00:29:48.913 --> 00:29:53.484
- It's official, Brian Williams has left NBC News, yeah.
- 00:29:53.484 --> 00:29:59.090
- He said he wants to spend more time with
- 00:29:59.090 --> 00:30:00.491
- his family and Chris Cuomo.
- 00:30:00.491 --> 00:30:08.566
- Am I still here?
- 00:30:08.566 --> 00:30:11.435
- Good judgment crowd here.
- 00:30:11.435 --> 00:30:13.938
- You should see the one I'm not gonna do.
- 00:30:13.938 --> 00:30:16.407
- This is interesting.
- 00:30:16.407 --> 00:30:18.009
- One of the most popular TV shows in Iraq--if we have any service
- 00:30:18.009 --> 00:30:21.045
- people who went there--you know what the most popular
- 00:30:21.045 --> 00:30:23.347
- show in Iraq is, Governor?
- 00:30:23.347 --> 00:30:24.782
- It's entitled, "Why Are You Afraid, Lady?"
- 00:30:24.782 --> 00:30:28.653
- Yeah, we have a version of that here.
- 00:30:28.653 --> 00:30:30.521
- It's called, "The View."
- 00:30:30.521 --> 00:30:35.993
- Oh, oh.
- 00:30:35.993 --> 00:30:40.831
- This is exciting.
- 00:30:40.831 --> 00:30:42.166
- Martha Stewart's opening up a restaurant in Las Vegas.
- 00:30:42.166 --> 00:30:44.869
- And since it's Vegas, it's gonna be a themed restaurant.
- 00:30:44.869 --> 00:30:47.838
- It's gonna be entitled, "Insider Trader Vic's."
- 00:30:47.838 --> 00:30:55.413
- Big Martha Stewart fans here or something?
- 00:30:55.413 --> 00:30:58.349
- She served her time, didn't she?
- 00:30:58.349 --> 00:30:59.850
- Yeah.
- 00:30:59.850 --> 00:31:02.320
- Good news/bad news.
- 00:31:02.320 --> 00:31:03.654
- Here's the bad news--good new, actually.
- 00:31:03.654 --> 00:31:05.856
- A Nebraska woman gave birth to a baby girl
- 00:31:05.856 --> 00:31:07.591
- at the Dixon County Fair.
- 00:31:07.591 --> 00:31:09.527
- The bad news, she got a fourth-place ribbon
- 00:31:09.527 --> 00:31:11.395
- behind two pigs and a goat.
- 00:31:11.395 --> 00:31:15.299
- I've--you've played those fairs, right Keith?
- 00:31:15.299 --> 00:31:17.134
- They're top judgers.
- 00:31:17.134 --> 00:31:21.072
- In dog news, a dog can make 100 facial expressions,
- 00:31:21.072 --> 00:31:26.277
- beating out actor Micky Rourke by 99.
- 00:31:26.277 --> 00:31:31.916
- Had some work done.
- 00:31:31.916 --> 00:31:34.318
- You guys look like you're all getting along finally.
- 00:31:34.318 --> 00:31:40.992
- And remember that movie, "129 Hours?"
- 00:31:40.992 --> 00:31:42.526
- Did you see that?
- 00:31:42.526 --> 00:31:43.861
- It's about the climber trapped in the middle of nowhere,
- 00:31:43.861 --> 00:31:45.896
- got his arm trapped in-between a boulder,
- 00:31:45.896 --> 00:31:47.665
- cut off his own arm to escape.
- 00:31:47.665 --> 00:31:49.600
- Now, they asked the real-life guy if he'd do it again.
- 00:31:49.600 --> 00:31:52.169
- He said, yeah, but only one more time.
- 00:31:52.169 --> 00:31:54.205
- [audience laughing]
- 00:31:54.205 --> 00:32:02.713
- Look, if you don't laugh, you're just gonna cry.
- 00:32:02.713 --> 00:32:04.515
- Okay, people?
- 00:32:04.515 --> 00:32:06.050
- I don't need any of this. I went to high school.
- 00:32:06.050 --> 00:32:09.653
- And Keith, I'll play that card, if I have to.
- 00:32:09.653 --> 00:32:11.722
- I would, yeah.
- 00:32:11.722 --> 00:32:13.591
- Yeah, Jeff Kemp on here, football player.
- 00:32:13.591 --> 00:32:15.259
- I was in high school football, yeah, the team,
- 00:32:15.259 --> 00:32:17.228
- I played left out.
- 00:32:17.228 --> 00:32:23.768
- McKees Rock, PA, a two-year-old got trapped in a toy crane
- 00:32:23.768 --> 00:32:27.071
- vending machine at the mall.
- 00:32:27.071 --> 00:32:28.773
- Police said it took over 50 quarters to get her out.
- 00:32:28.773 --> 00:32:33.244
- You can laugh. She's fine, she was fine.
- 00:32:33.244 --> 00:32:36.480
- There's procedures.
- 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.182
- I like this guy right here, you don't even know
- 00:32:38.182 --> 00:32:39.650
- you're here, do you, sir?
- 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:42.920
- You think you're at The Grand Ole Opry, don't you?
- 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.823
- And I'm Dolly Parton, right?
- 00:32:45.823 --> 00:32:52.530
- And finally, in Philadelphia, a man is suing a major fast-food
- 00:32:52.530 --> 00:32:55.900
- restaurant for serving him a chicken sandwich
- 00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:58.636
- with a rat baked in the bun.
- 00:32:58.636 --> 00:33:01.572
- Yeah, the 300-pound-plus man said,
- 00:33:01.572 --> 00:33:03.140
- "I was so disgusted, I almost didn't finish it."
- 00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:07.044
- There you go, baby!
- 00:33:07.044 --> 00:33:08.646
- "The Zany Report."
- 00:33:08.646 --> 00:33:09.980
- [audience cheering]
- 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:15.019
- That was great, Bob.
- 00:33:15.019 --> 00:33:16.954
- We love having you here.
- 00:33:16.954 --> 00:33:18.789
- I appreciate it, you know? It's a new year.
- 00:33:18.789 --> 00:33:20.891
- It is, we're saying goodbye to 2021, and we get
- 00:33:20.891 --> 00:33:23.594
- to officially say hello to 1984.
- 00:33:23.594 --> 00:33:27.264
- Very much so.
- 00:33:27.264 --> 00:33:28.732
- Hey, go see Bob Zany's DryBar comedy series called "The Zany
- 00:33:28.732 --> 00:33:32.036
- Report," just the great comedy you've seen here tonight.
- 00:33:32.036 --> 00:33:35.039
- Bob's streaming show called, "Casino Boss," and much more.
- 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.309
- You can go to HUCKABEE.TV and find a direct link to all the
- 00:33:38.309 --> 00:33:42.346
- things that Bob is doing.
- 00:33:42.346 --> 00:33:44.248
- Thank you, the time you just saved me, thank you.
- 00:33:44.248 --> 00:33:47.384
- There you go, makes it easy.
- 00:33:47.384 --> 00:33:49.320
- Now, Keith's comedic delivery, it may be lacking a little bit,
- 00:33:49.320 --> 00:33:53.090
- but he sure does know how to deliver on telling us
- 00:33:53.090 --> 00:33:55.693
- about our next guest.
- 00:33:55.693 --> 00:33:57.328
- Keith, take it away.
- 00:33:57.328 --> 00:33:58.662
- Look out, next, television star and cooking author Alicia Witt.
- 00:33:58.662 --> 00:34:03.100
- Then, the Spinners return to sing.
- 00:34:03.100 --> 00:34:05.836
- Stay with Huckabee.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:34:18.984 --> 00:34:29.394
- Welcome back.
- 00:34:30.395 --> 00:34:31.730
- Hey, I just don't know anybody that has more fun with a
- 00:34:31.730 --> 00:34:35.467
- fantastic band like Tre' Corley and the Music City Connection.
- 00:34:35.467 --> 00:34:39.905
- Would you join me in giving them a big round
- 00:34:39.905 --> 00:34:42.607
- of applause and appreciation?
- 00:34:42.607 --> 00:34:44.976
- So glad to have them part of this show.
- 00:34:44.976 --> 00:34:50.682
- Well, my next guest is a talented
- 00:34:50.682 --> 00:34:52.484
- actress, singer, songwriter.
- 00:34:52.484 --> 00:34:55.053
- We've watched her since her debut in "Dune" when she was
- 00:34:55.053 --> 00:34:58.290
- all of seven years old.
- 00:34:58.290 --> 00:35:00.158
- She's been in "Cybill," the TV show "Nashville," "Mr.
- 00:35:00.158 --> 00:35:03.261
- Holland's Opus," which is one of my very favorite movies of all
- 00:35:03.261 --> 00:35:06.531
- time, and she's been in so many more,
- 00:35:06.531 --> 00:35:08.867
- including eight Hallmark Channel Christmas movies,
- 00:35:08.867 --> 00:35:11.803
- which means my wife has seen her movies at least 187 times
- 00:35:11.803 --> 00:35:18.143
- just this year because she watches them through February.
- 00:35:18.143 --> 00:35:22.847
- Anyway, she's got a brand-new book.
- 00:35:22.847 --> 00:35:24.316
- It's called "Small Changes;" it's about tiny changes that can
- 00:35:24.316 --> 00:35:27.552
- make us a lot happier and healthier.
- 00:35:27.552 --> 00:35:29.354
- Would you welcome, please, Alicia Witt?
- 00:35:29.354 --> 00:35:31.723
- Alicia, good to have you here.
- 00:35:31.723 --> 00:35:33.058
- Thank you.
- 00:35:33.058 --> 00:35:34.960
- You are such a talented person.
- 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.695
- I know you're watching the band, and we've already said we want
- 00:35:36.695 --> 00:35:39.598
- to have you back 'cause you are a master musician,
- 00:35:39.598 --> 00:35:42.934
- took four piano lessons a week when you were seven years old,
- 00:35:42.934 --> 00:35:46.705
- mastered the instrument.
- 00:35:46.705 --> 00:35:48.840
- As I said before, you disgust me.
- 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:50.609
- You're just too talented.
- 00:35:50.609 --> 00:35:52.577
- And now you cook and you write books about small
- 00:35:52.577 --> 00:35:54.980
- changes we can make.
- 00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:56.548
- So, you try to help people, say, don't do something
- 00:35:56.548 --> 00:35:59.951
- that you can't reach and do.
- 00:35:59.951 --> 00:36:02.053
- Yeah, I feel like so often with changes,
- 00:36:02.053 --> 00:36:05.790
- there's a tendency to put down all these rules or just say,
- 00:36:05.790 --> 00:36:11.096
- "It's my way or the highway.
- 00:36:11.096 --> 00:36:12.764
- You have to do X, Y, and Z every day for the rest of your life
- 00:36:12.764 --> 00:36:15.834
- or you're messing up."
- 00:36:15.834 --> 00:36:17.435
- And I just have experienced in my own life that those sort of
- 00:36:17.435 --> 00:36:22.607
- rigid boundaries we put up for ourselves don't work,
- 00:36:22.607 --> 00:36:28.046
- and they actually backfire; and since I started making these
- 00:36:28.046 --> 00:36:33.051
- small changes, I feel so much more balanced and peaceful,
- 00:36:33.051 --> 00:36:37.856
- and I love food so much, and I--
- 00:36:37.856 --> 00:36:42.761
- I don't, you can tell with me svelte figure that I barely eat
- 00:36:42.761 --> 00:36:46.598
- enough to stay alive.
- 00:36:46.598 --> 00:36:49.167
- But you know what I find interesting?
- 00:36:49.167 --> 00:36:50.735
- You really are encouraging people to use a lot of
- 00:36:50.735 --> 00:36:53.371
- plant-based foods and things that are natural
- 00:36:53.371 --> 00:36:56.608
- and organic, which is terrific.
- 00:36:56.608 --> 00:36:59.577
- But you recognize that it's not easy to make
- 00:36:59.577 --> 00:37:03.581
- massive changes overnight.
- 00:37:03.581 --> 00:37:05.116
- So, what have you prepared that is so tasty?
- 00:37:05.116 --> 00:37:08.119
- That even Keith would like it.
- 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:09.487
- That's what we want to know.
- 00:37:09.487 --> 00:37:11.389
- This is a plant-based mac and cheese,
- 00:37:11.389 --> 00:37:13.958
- and you can make this one on the stovetop,
- 00:37:13.958 --> 00:37:16.928
- which makes it really fast.
- 00:37:16.928 --> 00:37:18.763
- You don't even have to put it in the oven.
- 00:37:18.763 --> 00:37:20.832
- So, these cashews have been soaking for 24 hours.
- 00:37:20.832 --> 00:37:25.337
- And if somebody has an allergy to cashews,
- 00:37:25.337 --> 00:37:27.939
- you can also substitute macadamia nuts
- 00:37:27.939 --> 00:37:30.642
- or sunflower seeds and--
- 00:37:30.642 --> 00:37:33.611
- I am not allergic to cashews. We're fine.
- 00:37:33.611 --> 00:37:35.947
- Okay, perfect.
- 00:37:35.947 --> 00:37:37.749
- They're nice and creamy.
- 00:37:37.749 --> 00:37:39.417
- So, pop them into your food processor.
- 00:37:39.417 --> 00:37:43.621
- And now we've got some nutritional yeast,
- 00:37:43.621 --> 00:37:46.725
- which is high in B vitamins
- 00:37:46.725 --> 00:37:49.127
- and kind of adds that parmesany flavor.
- 00:37:49.127 --> 00:37:54.666
- We have garlic powder.
- 00:37:54.666 --> 00:37:57.769
- That's always good.
- 00:37:57.769 --> 00:37:59.104
- Onion powder.
- 00:37:59.104 --> 00:38:01.039
- All for that.
- 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:02.374
- Yep. Salt and pepper.
- 00:38:02.374 --> 00:38:05.176
- And--
- 00:38:05.176 --> 00:38:06.544
- So far, so good.
- 00:38:06.544 --> 00:38:07.879
- A little apple cider vinegar, which brings in the tartness.
- 00:38:07.879 --> 00:38:11.850
- Tartness.
- 00:38:11.850 --> 00:38:13.618
- And then some almond milk. You can use whatever sort of--
- 00:38:13.618 --> 00:38:18.456
- Almond milk--
- 00:38:18.456 --> 00:38:20.225
- You've gotta go milk those almonds, huh?
- 00:38:20.225 --> 00:38:22.093
- I just don't know how you do that.
- 00:38:22.093 --> 00:38:24.963
- See, I was thinking, well, you busted it.
- 00:38:24.963 --> 00:38:26.531
- There's dairy in that, but it's almond milk, okay.
- 00:38:26.531 --> 00:38:28.733
- Yes, and of course, you can use whatever sort of plant-based
- 00:38:28.733 --> 00:38:32.570
- milk you like: oat milk, rice milk, doesn't really matter.
- 00:38:32.570 --> 00:38:37.275
- Which one of us is gonna do the honors here?
- 00:38:37.275 --> 00:38:39.010
- You are, because if it flies all over the room,
- 00:38:39.010 --> 00:38:40.812
- I'm not gonna be standing right by it.
- 00:38:40.812 --> 00:38:43.248
- Let's see. Oh, there it goes.
- 00:38:43.248 --> 00:38:45.450
- Woo!
- 00:38:45.450 --> 00:38:46.985
- Aha, it's working.
- 00:38:46.985 --> 00:38:49.954
- There we go.
- 00:38:49.954 --> 00:38:52.223
- See, it gets all--there we go.
- 00:38:52.223 --> 00:38:56.161
- Perfect, so, we have this, some--
- 00:38:56.161 --> 00:38:58.797
- So, you've sautéed some broccoli and mushroom?
- 00:38:58.797 --> 00:39:01.533
- Yes and some onions to start with as well.
- 00:39:01.533 --> 00:39:05.036
- What'd you use, a little olive oil or something?
- 00:39:05.036 --> 00:39:07.338
- No butter, olive oil, okay, which I like olive oil.
- 00:39:07.338 --> 00:39:10.375
- I'm all for that.
- 00:39:10.375 --> 00:39:12.010
- And then you add your pasta.
- 00:39:12.010 --> 00:39:14.479
- This has been cooked, obviously.
- 00:39:14.479 --> 00:39:16.815
- I hope so.
- 00:39:16.815 --> 00:39:18.450
- Yeah, uncooked pasta is not real good.
- 00:39:18.450 --> 00:39:20.218
- I don't care what your dietary plan is,
- 00:39:20.218 --> 00:39:22.353
- that just leaves a little to the imagination.
- 00:39:22.353 --> 00:39:25.390
- But I like to cook it a few minutes less
- 00:39:25.390 --> 00:39:28.226
- than the package instructions
- 00:39:28.226 --> 00:39:30.195
- because you want it to stay al dente.
- 00:39:30.195 --> 00:39:33.765
- I knew that boy, Al Dente.
- 00:39:33.765 --> 00:39:35.533
- I went to school with him in high school.
- 00:39:35.533 --> 00:39:37.969
- Al Dente, great kid.
- 00:39:37.969 --> 00:39:40.305
- Would you like to do these?
- 00:39:40.305 --> 00:39:41.639
- Sure. I just pour it in there, huh?
- 00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:43.241
- Just pour it on in.
- 00:39:43.241 --> 00:39:44.576
- Okay.
- 00:39:44.576 --> 00:39:46.144
- Yeah.
- 00:39:46.144 --> 00:39:47.479
- Is that skillful or what?
- 00:39:47.479 --> 00:39:49.514
- Oh! Yeah.
- 00:39:49.514 --> 00:39:50.949
- Oh, see, I didn't--
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- For my next trick--oh well.
- 00:39:52.484 --> 00:39:56.921
- I was doing so well, Alicia.
- 00:39:56.921 --> 00:39:58.957
- You did it, you did it.
- 00:39:58.957 --> 00:40:01.259
- And if I blended it for the full amount of time in my book,
- 00:40:01.259 --> 00:40:04.662
- which is 45 seconds.
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- That's it, 25 seconds?
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- Forty-five.
- 00:40:07.332 --> 00:40:08.666
- Forty-five seconds. Still pretty quick.
- 00:40:08.666 --> 00:40:10.034
- It would've been silky smooth,
- 00:40:10.034 --> 00:40:11.503
- but I didn't want to count 45 seconds of--
- 00:40:11.503 --> 00:40:14.639
- But you have prepared the full deal here, right?
- 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.909
- There it is.
- 00:40:17.909 --> 00:40:19.244
- So, this is the finished product, what it looks like.
- 00:40:19.244 --> 00:40:21.880
- - We get to try it? - Yes, we do.
- 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:23.715
- - May I serve you? - Yes, please.
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- - Okay. - Thank you, sir.
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- I will use this spoon.
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- And I will try some myself, of course.
- 00:40:29.554 --> 00:40:32.056
- There you go.
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- You could put a little parsley and--
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- Oh, I'm so sorry, there's not a plate for Tre' or Keith.
- 00:40:34.926 --> 00:40:38.630
- That's too bad.
- 00:40:38.630 --> 00:40:40.632
- I hate that when this happens, can't stand it.
- 00:40:40.632 --> 00:40:44.302
- Let's give it a try.
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- Okay.
- 00:40:45.637 --> 00:40:48.806
- Mm, that's really good.
- 00:40:48.806 --> 00:40:51.676
- I would actually eat that.
- 00:40:51.676 --> 00:40:54.846
- That makes me so happy.
- 00:40:54.846 --> 00:40:56.180
- I would come to your house for a dinner
- 00:40:56.180 --> 00:40:57.515
- party if you're having this, I really would.
- 00:40:57.515 --> 00:40:59.350
- This is good.
- 00:40:59.350 --> 00:41:00.852
- And I'm not, you know, necessarily, as you can tell,
- 00:41:00.852 --> 00:41:03.655
- I'm probably more beef and bacon than I am tofu.
- 00:41:03.655 --> 00:41:08.426
- That's an understatement, but, you know, if it can be good
- 00:41:08.426 --> 00:41:11.462
- and tasty, you don't mind it.
- 00:41:11.462 --> 00:41:13.798
- That's what has to happen.
- 00:41:13.798 --> 00:41:15.400
- Mm, mm.
- 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:16.901
- I'm so glad.
- 00:41:16.901 --> 00:41:18.303
- I'll eat the rest of it during the break.
- 00:41:18.303 --> 00:41:20.238
- Okay.
- 00:41:20.238 --> 00:41:21.673
- Well, Alicia Witt's book, it's called "Small Changes."
- 00:41:21.673 --> 00:41:26.110
- It's available right now.
- 00:41:26.110 --> 00:41:28.179
- Find Alicia on social media, even as I'm speaking with a
- 00:41:28.179 --> 00:41:31.015
- mouthful of pasta.
- 00:41:31.015 --> 00:41:32.717
- Find it on social media.
- 00:41:32.717 --> 00:41:34.052
- If you go to HUCKABEE.TV, it'll take you directly to Alicia's
- 00:41:34.052 --> 00:41:37.355
- website, information about her book,
- 00:41:37.355 --> 00:41:40.792
- and I might even let Keith come up here and try some of this.
- 00:41:40.792 --> 00:41:45.630
- But in the meantime, he's got to earn it,
- 00:41:45.630 --> 00:41:48.466
- and he does that by telling us what we have coming up next.
- 00:41:48.466 --> 00:41:51.636
- Don't get my hopes up.
- 00:41:51.636 --> 00:41:52.971
- Coming up, Mike talks with The Spinners.
- 00:41:52.971 --> 00:41:55.773
- Then they perform their number one hit,
- 00:41:55.773 --> 00:41:58.009
- "I'll Be Around" on Huckabee.
- 00:41:58.009 --> 00:42:01.045
- ♪♪♪
- 00:42:01.045 --> 00:42:13.002
- ♪♪♪
- 00:42:13.225 --> 00:42:26.972
- And welcome back.
- 00:42:28.273 --> 00:42:29.608
- Now, you heard the Spinners perform earlier in the show,
- 00:42:29.608 --> 00:42:32.544
- and they are back to talk about their genre-defining music and
- 00:42:32.544 --> 00:42:36.081
- to treat you to another of their hit songs.
- 00:42:36.081 --> 00:42:39.151
- Would you please welcome C.J. Jefferson,
- 00:42:39.151 --> 00:42:41.620
- Marvin Taylor, Jessie Robert Peck,
- 00:42:41.620 --> 00:42:43.756
- and Ronnie Moss of The Spinners?
- 00:42:43.756 --> 00:42:46.625
- [audience cheering]
- 00:42:46.625 --> 00:42:51.330
- Thank you, thank you.
- 00:42:51.330 --> 00:42:52.665
- We love having you guys here. This is a big thrill.
- 00:42:52.665 --> 00:42:55.434
- I mean, The Spinners have been around for a long time.
- 00:42:55.434 --> 00:42:57.603
- Obviously, there is health issues and changes in the band,
- 00:42:57.603 --> 00:43:01.373
- but you guys have kept true to the musical content that The
- 00:43:01.373 --> 00:43:07.312
- Spinners brought to this country and keep it alive.
- 00:43:07.312 --> 00:43:10.883
- Jesse, what was the motivation for you wanting to be in The
- 00:43:10.883 --> 00:43:13.552
- Spinners and making their music
- 00:43:13.552 --> 00:43:16.922
- ongoing and making it your music?
- 00:43:16.922 --> 00:43:18.691
- Are you kidding me, Governor?
- 00:43:18.691 --> 00:43:20.025
- Well, besides growing up on the music,
- 00:43:20.025 --> 00:43:21.827
- like everyone else, you know, my parents took us to State Fair,
- 00:43:21.827 --> 00:43:26.665
- my brother and sister and I, and later on we saw a concert.
- 00:43:26.665 --> 00:43:29.635
- The first concert that I ever attended,
- 00:43:29.635 --> 00:43:31.203
- and it turned out to be a Spinners concert.
- 00:43:31.203 --> 00:43:33.405
- I couldn't believe it.
- 00:43:33.405 --> 00:43:34.740
- We're watching the show, recognize the music,
- 00:43:34.740 --> 00:43:36.608
- you know, from the radio, and
- 00:43:36.608 --> 00:43:38.043
- we're really having a great time.
- 00:43:38.043 --> 00:43:39.378
- It was--by the time Pervis said, "12:45,"
- 00:43:39.378 --> 00:43:42.648
- and the crowd's going nuts.
- 00:43:42.648 --> 00:43:44.116
- I said, "You know, Mom and Dad, I'd like to do that one
- 00:43:44.116 --> 00:43:46.518
- day when I grow up, that's what I want to do."
- 00:43:46.518 --> 00:43:48.787
- I had no idea, out of the mouth of babes,
- 00:43:48.787 --> 00:43:50.289
- that I'd end up in that iconic group.
- 00:43:50.289 --> 00:43:52.558
- You are living your dream.
- 00:43:52.558 --> 00:43:54.793
- I'm living my dream, I really am.
- 00:43:54.793 --> 00:43:56.328
- Isn't that a great thing to be able to do?
- 00:43:56.328 --> 00:43:58.430
- Yes.
- 00:43:58.430 --> 00:44:00.432
- You guys came out with a brand-new album in August of
- 00:44:00.432 --> 00:44:03.102
- this year called "The Spinners: Round the Block and Back Again."
- 00:44:03.102 --> 00:44:06.205
- That's right.
- 00:44:06.205 --> 00:44:07.539
- What is one of the things that you wanted to accomplish
- 00:44:07.539 --> 00:44:09.775
- with this latest album that just came out a few months ago?
- 00:44:09.775 --> 00:44:13.345
- Well, first of all, to be able to record,
- 00:44:13.345 --> 00:44:16.115
- to be on a Spinner album--doing the concert's one thing.
- 00:44:16.115 --> 00:44:19.418
- But for the guys and I to actually be on a Spinner album
- 00:44:19.418 --> 00:44:23.388
- with original Spinner, so Henry Fambrough,
- 00:44:23.388 --> 00:44:26.625
- it's just phenomenal, it really is.
- 00:44:26.625 --> 00:44:28.927
- It's like, okay, I can die now, you know.
- 00:44:28.927 --> 00:44:31.830
- Oh, no, no, you're not going 'cause you've gotta
- 00:44:31.830 --> 00:44:33.565
- perform again here tonight.
- 00:44:33.565 --> 00:44:34.900
- No, no, no, now we want to enjoy and reap the benefits.
- 00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:36.802
- I'm just kidding God, I don't want to die, the death part,
- 00:44:36.802 --> 00:44:38.971
- but it's really wonderful.
- 00:44:38.971 --> 00:44:40.672
- We really appreciate Henry Fambrough,
- 00:44:40.672 --> 00:44:42.474
- and we're sorry he couldn't be here today.
- 00:44:42.474 --> 00:44:43.809
- He's not feeling too hot, but we're really thankful.
- 00:44:43.809 --> 00:44:46.311
- It's really a blessing that he gave us this opportunity,
- 00:44:46.311 --> 00:44:48.914
- after all these years, to actually be on a Spinner album
- 00:44:48.914 --> 00:44:52.785
- and share that experience with him.
- 00:44:52.785 --> 00:44:54.286
- It's been a wonderful ride for all of us,
- 00:44:54.286 --> 00:44:57.256
- and we're just looking forward to the things ahead.
- 00:44:57.256 --> 00:44:59.525
- We're thankful for all the fans that have been supporting us.
- 00:44:59.525 --> 00:45:02.427
- You've got a bunch of them all across the country.
- 00:45:02.427 --> 00:45:04.863
- You know, I think that the music of The Spinners is timeless.
- 00:45:04.863 --> 00:45:08.500
- You know, the music that came out, whether it's in the '60s
- 00:45:08.500 --> 00:45:10.502
- or the '70s, the '80s, it doesn't matter.
- 00:45:10.502 --> 00:45:12.771
- The music that we listen to from The Spinners,
- 00:45:12.771 --> 00:45:15.941
- it's like fresh.
- 00:45:15.941 --> 00:45:17.576
- It doesn't get old.
- 00:45:17.576 --> 00:45:19.444
- A young person can hear it and say, "I relate to that."
- 00:45:19.444 --> 00:45:22.815
- And then old geezers like me, we hear it, and we say,
- 00:45:22.815 --> 00:45:26.084
- "Oh, my gosh, that brings back some great memories," yeah.
- 00:45:26.084 --> 00:45:29.888
- So, what is it about the music that you
- 00:45:29.888 --> 00:45:32.424
- think connects to just people?
- 00:45:32.424 --> 00:45:36.261
- Oh, gee, you know, our music is,
- 00:45:36.261 --> 00:45:38.730
- The Spinners music is about love.
- 00:45:38.730 --> 00:45:40.432
- It's about good times.
- 00:45:40.432 --> 00:45:42.234
- It's about a better life. Right, Marvin?
- 00:45:42.234 --> 00:45:45.070
- It's about those love songs for me.
- 00:45:45.070 --> 00:45:48.941
- It's for Marvin the love songs.
- 00:45:48.941 --> 00:45:50.375
- The love songs.
- 00:45:50.375 --> 00:45:51.777
- Well, immortal band, immortal music,
- 00:45:51.777 --> 00:45:54.112
- and we're just so thrilled to have you here.
- 00:45:54.112 --> 00:45:55.814
- I want to mention something that'll make our audience happy
- 00:45:55.814 --> 00:45:58.684
- and also will cause people to say,
- 00:45:58.684 --> 00:46:00.819
- "I think I need to go in person to the Huckabee Show and get
- 00:46:00.819 --> 00:46:03.622
- tickets, because everyone who's here tonight is going to get a
- 00:46:03.622 --> 00:46:06.825
- copy of The Spinners new album.
- 00:46:06.825 --> 00:46:09.828
- They're going home with something special,
- 00:46:09.828 --> 00:46:13.365
- which I think is really pretty cool.
- 00:46:13.365 --> 00:46:15.801
- So, it is an honor for me to have The Spinners on our show.
- 00:46:15.801 --> 00:46:19.071
- I want all of you at home to get more of their music.
- 00:46:19.071 --> 00:46:22.107
- You can get--you'll have to pay for yours.
- 00:46:22.107 --> 00:46:24.576
- The audience will get theirs for free.
- 00:46:24.576 --> 00:46:26.345
- But it'll be worth every dime that you spend to get it
- 00:46:26.345 --> 00:46:29.715
- because I'm telling you, they're just as good,
- 00:46:29.715 --> 00:46:32.584
- and you'll say these guys, they just have captured it.
- 00:46:32.584 --> 00:46:37.022
- They totally have made the music and kept the legacy going.
- 00:46:37.022 --> 00:46:41.159
- Keith Bilbrey will tell you exactly how to get your own copy
- 00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:44.830
- of this great album.
- 00:46:44.830 --> 00:46:47.065
- Get your copy of The Spinners
- 00:46:47.065 --> 00:46:48.400
- "Round The Block and Back Again."
- 00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:50.502
- Go to HUCKABEE.TV to learn more.
- 00:46:50.502 --> 00:46:52.971
- While you're there, watch The Spinners digital exclusive
- 00:46:52.971 --> 00:46:55.807
- performance of their hit "Rubberband Man."
- 00:46:55.807 --> 00:46:58.710
- Now, performing their 1972 hit, "I'll Be Around," with Tre'
- 00:46:58.710 --> 00:47:03.215
- Corley and the Music City Connection,
- 00:47:03.215 --> 00:47:05.017
- and Mike on bass, here are The Spinners!
- 00:47:05.017 --> 00:47:11.156
- ♪♪♪
- 00:47:11.156 --> 00:47:19.131
- Hello, everybody.
- 00:47:19.131 --> 00:47:20.465
- ♪ Oh, yeah, oh yeah, mm. ♪
- 00:47:20.465 --> 00:47:26.939
- ♪ Come on. ♪
- 00:47:26.939 --> 00:47:29.074
- ♪ This is our fork in the road, ♪
- 00:47:29.074 --> 00:47:35.013
- ♪ love's last episode. ♪
- 00:47:35.013 --> 00:47:39.318
- ♪ And there's nowhere to go, oh no. ♪
- 00:47:39.318 --> 00:47:44.556
- ♪ He made a choice, ♪
- 00:47:44.556 --> 00:47:47.793
- ♪ and now it's up to me ♪
- 00:47:47.793 --> 00:47:51.797
- ♪ to bow out gracefully. ♪
- 00:47:51.797 --> 00:47:56.268
- ♪ I know you hold the key, but baby ♪
- 00:47:56.268 --> 00:48:00.839
- ♪ whenever you call me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:48:00.839 --> 00:48:05.410
- ♪ Whenever you want me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:48:05.410 --> 00:48:09.614
- ♪ Whenever you need me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:48:09.614 --> 00:48:14.052
- ♪ I'll be around. ♪
- 00:48:14.052 --> 00:48:19.491
- ♪ I knew just what to say. ♪
- 00:48:19.491 --> 00:48:25.364
- ♪ And now I found out today ♪
- 00:48:25.364 --> 00:48:28.800
- ♪ that all the words had slipped away. ♪
- 00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:33.405
- ♪ And I know there's always one chance ♪
- 00:48:33.405 --> 00:48:38.443
- ♪ a tiny spark will remain, ♪
- 00:48:38.443 --> 00:48:42.547
- ♪ and sparks turn into a flame, ♪
- 00:48:42.547 --> 00:48:46.485
- ♪ and love will burn once again. ♪
- 00:48:46.485 --> 00:48:49.955
- ♪ But I know you know whenever you call me, ♪
- 00:48:49.955 --> 00:48:53.859
- ♪ I'll be there. ♪
- 00:48:53.859 --> 00:48:55.761
- ♪ Whenever you want me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:48:55.761 --> 00:49:00.165
- ♪ Whenever you need me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:00.165 --> 00:49:04.436
- ♪ I'll be around. ♪
- 00:49:04.436 --> 00:49:10.609
- Come on, TBN, put your hands right here.
- 00:49:10.609 --> 00:49:13.078
- ♪ Ah, yeah. ♪
- 00:49:13.078 --> 00:49:15.647
- ♪ Whoa, yeah. ♪
- 00:49:15.647 --> 00:49:19.184
- TBN, do you know this song?
- 00:49:19.184 --> 00:49:22.354
- 'Cause if you know this song, come on, sing it with me.
- 00:49:22.354 --> 00:49:25.490
- ♪ Whenever you call me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:25.490 --> 00:49:29.461
- ♪ Whenever you want me, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:29.461 --> 00:49:33.331
- ♪ Even if I have to crawl, I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:33.331 --> 00:49:38.103
- ♪ I'll be around. ♪
- 00:49:38.103 --> 00:49:42.307
- ♪ Just call me on the phone. ♪
- 00:49:42.307 --> 00:49:44.576
- ♪ I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:44.576 --> 00:49:46.278
- ♪ I'll never leave you alone. ♪
- 00:49:46.278 --> 00:49:48.647
- ♪ I'll be there. ♪
- 00:49:48.647 --> 00:49:50.348
- ♪ Just call out my name. ♪
- 00:49:50.348 --> 00:49:52.517
- ♪ I know, I know you know I'll be around. ♪
- 00:49:52.517 --> 00:49:58.824
- ♪ I'll keep skipping and jumping. ♪
- 00:49:58.824 --> 00:50:01.393
- ♪ I'll be there. ♪
- 00:50:01.393 --> 00:50:03.028
- ♪ I'll be a-rippin' and runnin'. ♪
- 00:50:03.028 --> 00:50:05.397
- ♪ I'll be there. ♪
- 00:50:05.397 --> 00:50:07.165
- ♪ I'll be calling out your name ♪
- 00:50:07.165 --> 00:50:09.568
- ♪ to let you know I'll be around. ♪
- 00:50:09.568 --> 00:50:15.307
- ♪♪♪
- 00:50:15.307 --> 00:50:19.978
- ♪ I'll be around. ♪♪
- 00:50:19.978 --> 00:50:24.449
- [audience cheering]
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