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Yesterday, a very disturbing story broke, and it is something that

a guy I deeply, deeply respect, Ryan Morrow, who was on this program back in April,

he warned and he broke the news and said, look, there's a group out there you need to be aware of.

And he has been warning for a while, and nobody was listening. Well, maybe somebody was, because we foiled the attack.

And it was a serious plan of attack, and we'll get to that here in just a second. Ryan is going to be joining us in 60 seconds.
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So announced in Los Angeles by the Department of Justice, four members of an anti-capitalist, anti-government group that calls for violence against the United States and its officials.

The plan allegedly plotting an attack on two U.S. companies with improvised explosive devices this New Year's Eve.
We don't know what those

companies were, but it was

not good. The Turtle Island Liberation Front, Turtle Island Liberation Front.
Ever heard of Turtle Island? That's what the indigenous people call America. Turtle Island.

That's what they call the North America.

This is a far-left, pro-Palestinian, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group. When I say it was pro-Palestinian, I want you to understand this.

That is not their main thing. They are anti-American and anti-capitalist.
This is part of what's called the Red-Green Alliance, and we'll explain that here in just a second.

But they were preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year's Eve. They also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles.

The four were arrested. They face federal charges of conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive advice.

This was called Operation Midnight Sun, and they were going to plant backpacks and pipe bombs and complex IEDs to detonate simultaneously at multiple locations. targeting U.S.

companies on New Year's Eve at midnight.

It's considered, obviously, a terrorist attack. Their searches of their homes uncovered Turtle Island Liberation Front posters like Death to America and Death to ICE.

You know, one of the funny things that I read was

this is from

their Facebook post. Little-known extremist group has paraded around slick sick slogans like Death to America and insisted that the United States' mere existence is inherently violent.

Now, this is what they posted on Facebook. When we say death to America and call for an end to colonization, it doesn't mean the displacement or harm of non-indigenous citizens.

Wait, you were targeting ICE officials and you were going to blow things up.

I do not think it means what you think it means, but maybe that's just me.

Sorry, thought of Rob Reiner there for a second. I just, it's sad to lose Rob Reiner with, anyway, let me go to Ryan Morrow.
Ryan is with us now, a researcher and

joining us at the torch as somebody who's just really going to sharpen us on all of our warnings and all of our research into these radical groups. Welcome.
How are you?

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.

So it was... In April, I think you were on, and you said, Glenn, you have to pay attention.
One of the groups you have to pay attention to is Turtle Island Liberation Front.

And here it is, almost exactly what you said would happen is happening now.

Right.

So what had happened was, is that with my colleagues at the Capital Research Center, we had mapped out basically the entire anti-Israeli extremist movement, over 150 groups, and that was with limited time.

So it's much bigger than that.

But one of the things I saw in their ecosystem, and this just shows how we live in completely separate worlds, is that this term Turtle Island was commonplace.

So, whether you're a communist or an Islamist or you're an anarchist or whatever, you would refer to the U.S.

as the so-called United States or Turtle Island and say it's occupied and needs to be liberated, just like Palestine. And so, they would refuse to say Israel, they say Palestine.

They refuse to say the United States, they say, Turtle Island. Why?

And it's because of this conception out there that I'm not even sure is that accurate, that the Native American tribes referred to the U.S.

and Canada and Mexico as Turtle Island because they believed that the continent was created on the back of a turtle.

And then until the evil white settler capitalists came in and ruined everything.

That's what it inherently was. And so it's equivalent to Palestine.

And so the conclusion of my study, and I debuted some of the findings with you, and in fact, I think you were the only media outlet that actually made a point of this and got this,

was that there's a certain level of diversity among these pro-terror extremists. So what's the unifying factor, the theme? It's liberating Turtle Island.
It's a way

of calling for violence and the destruction of the U.S., just like they want to destroy Israel, but to do it in a way that goes over the heads of people, but people who understand the language know what it means.

And it's frankly smart because of all the

sympathy and the way...

American students have been taught about the history of the Native American tribes.

So it taps into something where if you think that there's a lot of sympathy for Palestinians, the people that American, the youth, don't know anything about, now imagine tapping into what they feel about what happened to the Native Americans.

I will tell you, the left has been courting the Native Americans for a very long time because the right just hasn't

paid attention to it at all.

And so the left saw an opportunity, and

they are deeply in, especially the Navajo, deeply, deeply, deeply in with the left, or the left is deeply in bed with the Navajo.

And there is an opportunity to turn people very, very radical, and that's what you're talking about here. And

you know, when you say this is an anti-Israel thing or pro-Palestinian, I want to make sure people understand,

just as the Marxists were the ones who helped overthrow the Shah of Iran and bring the Ayatollah in. They were partners with the Islamists.
The Islamists,

and I think the Marxists too,

they're not part of the same end game. They don't have the same end game in mind, other than, in that case, the destruction of the Shah of Iran and freeing its people and having a revolution.

When Iran was overthrown in 1979, within two years, 30,000 Marxists were either killed, jailed, or disappeared.

And this is the same kind of thing, this alliance with the indigenous people, with

the Islamists, with Marxists, they're all going to sort that out later. They just want to kill us first.
They want to overthrow the government first. Then they'll start eating each other.

Do I have that right or wrong, Ryan?

You have that right.

They don't even bother talking about that scenario too much because they just kind of feel like when you burn things to the ground, what's natural and good will rise from the ashes.

And so the theme of Turtle Island is kind of the you that's why I called it the Turtle Island Intifada is kind of like what's bringing together all of these ideologies.

But what we also talked about back in April and actually before that too, was well, what's the targeting strategy going to be?

And what we concluded was that the campaign is going to broaden because they were openly, I was seeing in their communication, they were saying, look, this Israel issue is going to go away.

And they didn't want to say it was partially because Israel was kicking their butts so badly.

But they said, this issue is going to not rally people anymore. What do we do?

We need to become an anti-police movement and to whatever degree we can broaden it out to be an anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist movement. And so you were able to tell what was the next stage.

It was going to be under the banner of Turtle Island. And they were going to target law enforcement, specifically ICE was the one that was most talked about.
So that was able to be forecasted as well.

But also companies that they can connect, even by some leap, to the Zionist infrastructure, because that way you're hitting all the themes: anti-police, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, Turtle Island, and pro-Palestine.

And that's exactly what this plot was doing.

It actually came to fruition in a way that's much more vivid than I anticipated. So although this plot was foiled, make no mistake about it, it is a marker in time

for this new era, this new offensive that has begun.

How likely is this to become the next BLM movement, this

Turtle Island liberation, you know, from,

you know, from sea to sea, Turtle Island will be free kind of crap?

I think it's extremely likely. The chances are far better than 50-50.

In fact, I think it's inevitable it's going to get a lot of support just by people talking about saying, well, what what is this Turtle Island thing? Oh, the Native Americans.

Oh, well, there's this almost biblical narrative that follows this where it was like

the Turtle Island was the Garden of Eden, the capitalist white colonists, white supremacists with their patriarchy, came in and infected it like the snake.

And then the Native Americans were essentially it's like the Jesus narrative at that point. Well, they died for our sin.
And so now we need to restore the original Garden of Eden.

So sometimes they use that language specifically. Most of the time, it's just that type of theme.
But that's kind of the emotional pull that comes in by tapping in for that narrative.

And by the way, one of the accounts that this specific terrorist group followed on social media was the Christian anarchists.

Now, I know you've said in the past, you've noted how some of the anarchist language went over even into the white supremacists.

And people say, oh, if they think of anarchists, they just think of the far left. No, if you watch this, how this goes, like that is the cycle.

There is a, I guess you could say right-wing, but it's more like anarcho-capitalist anarchists that sometimes identify as Christian.

And so it goes, this propaganda goes from the terrorists, overseas governments to Turtle Island folks over to the Christian anarchists, and then it cycles around.

So this is all one seditionist movement.

Do you think the Trump administration gets it? I mean, hats off to the FBI and Cash Patel for, you know, thwarting this and stopping this as they were in the desert beginning to assemble these bombs.

Do you think the administration gets how deep this goes and is willing to do the things? I mean,

Brian, you and I both know the West is on the verge of being lost forever. If we don't wake up to this and we don't start calling, you know, calling evil by its name,

we are we're going to lose. We're going to lose this.
We're close to losing Europe.

Well, three business days after you and I released my report that I wrote about the $80 million that went from Soros' network to the pro-terror groups, it was reported that the Trump administration had launched an investigation specifically naming the report that we released on the Charlie Kirk show one week after he passed.

So do they get it? I don't know if it's possible to fully get it if we don't.

Are they doing things? Yes. Can we help them do things? Yes.

Remember that groups like the FBI and all of them, they can't just collect intelligence on everyone's free speech protected activity, but civilians can. That's where civilian researchers come in.

And so that's what happened with the source report. We can collect all of that.
We can make the case.

And so does the FBI know all of it?

No, because we and the citizens haven't given them everything that they need. And so I think two things have to happen.
First,

we need to put together a team to map out the Turtle Island into FADA and map this out so action can be taken.

And the second thing is actually what I think you're doing with preserving history is very important here because the counter narrative is going to require us to use historical documents to tell the truth of everything that went on with the Native American tribes, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that this type of simplistic hijacking of a biblical narrative for evil ends

can't really happen for these anti-American ends. Even if the perpetrators of it don't realize it's a biblical narrative, that's where it's coming from.
It's a combination of the Garden of

Eden story and the Jesus Christ story put together and framed for evil propaganda that even Satanists sometimes parrot.

Ryan, I mean, we're supporting you. We're doing everything we can.

I want to make sure that others, because you run a nonprofit,

your research center, Capital Research Center, is a non-profit and you operate on donations.

If you are interested in helping, what what Ryan is doing, and this is why I'm bringing him on the air a lot beginning next year and working closely with him

because what he is finding, the research that he's doing is unlike anybody else's. And it's critical that it happens.
If you happen to want to make a donation to a charity or to a

501c3,

please

consider Ryan's group. How do they contact you, Ryan? How do they give?

Well, I partner with Capital Research Center, who are excellent to donate to. So that's kind of like a research wing.

And then also RyanMorrow.com, which is my personal website, that's where my specific intelligence gathering group is also based.

So I would say check out those two because Capital Research Center is broader.

But if you want to focus just on the Turtle Island counter extremism stuff, then RyanMorrow.com is where people can contact me or make a donation so that we can, I mean, I mean, your fans can like, they give me great intel, but I don't have the resources to act on all of it.

And so I'm trying to rectify that because

you've got an intelligence gathering army behind you, and it's time that we use it.

Thank you so much, Ryan. I appreciate it.
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The red-green alliance means we are squeezed on either side by Islamists who hate Jews and neo-Bolsheviks who hate whites. I think the Bolsheviks also hate Jews as well.
But

maybe I shouldn't be this candid, but we don't have time to play with. Tyler Boyer says, radical leftists want Republicans dead.
Islam wants all of us dead. This is...

You need to understand, and I've been saying to you for the last few weeks, 2026 is a pivotal year. By 2027, you may not recognize your country.

You need to pay attention to what's going on. I'm sorry to do this during the holidays, but you really need to pay attention to what is going on because this is not about the Jews.
It's not.

It's about Western values. Western values and God, period.

It's not just the Jewish God. It's about God.

And if you think the Jews are our biggest problem, you have an awakening to jihad that is right around the corner. Let me say hi to Stu.
Welcome, Stu. How are you? Thanks, Glenn.

I appreciate you bringing me in right after the end of Western Civilization. Yes, you're welcome.
You're welcome. I

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I mean,

how can

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So pray for my wife because she's on her way to that school right now. And I don't,

I mean, she'll hear the voice of the Lord and know what to do, I think. I hope.

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well, he hasn't given anything yet.

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So you're going to give the 14th?

So if 13 other people, or 12 other people step up,

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it's possible we this audience that might actually

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right now okay so let's see some of the other things um that are going on.

You know, there's more on the

shooting in Australia. Did you see the comment from the mom?

The hero who disarmed, he's a hero. He's getting all lots of accolades.

But

here's the family of Ahmed Al-Ahmed. No, no, that's the good guy.
Hang on just a second.

That's the hero. I'm just looking through all of the stories.
Here it is. Here it is.

Mother of the Bondi Beach shooting suspect.

The mother of Navid Akram, who along with his father, allegedly killed more than a dozen people at a Hanukkah celebration, said on Sunday, insisted her son was a good boy.

Now, I mean, I can understand, you know, you wanting to believe that because your son is your son.

You know, but

I don't think anybody in

Rob Reiner's family is thinking the brother is a good boy right now. They might love him still, but he's not a good boy.
They might think

if indeed, if indeed he did that.

Yeah, there could be an element of thinking, right, like, you know, he's been overcome by addiction or overcome by a mental illness, and I think he's a good boy underneath that.

You can have that opinion about your Islamic extremist terrorist son if you want, but what you'd have to say, I think accompanying that is he got infected by this extremism and, you know, by his dad, who, you know, led him down a terrible path.

Like, that's a

right. That's a plausible thing if that's what you believe.
He can't be a good boy if he's murdering people, unless, of course, Glenn, you believe that the outcome was positive. Was positive.
Yes.

She said he doesn't have a firearm. Yeah, he does.
He doesn't even go out. He doesn't mix around with friends.
Well, now you're describing a loner.

He doesn't drink, smoke, or go to bad places. Anyone would wish to have a son like my son.
He's a good boy.

No. No.
No.

I'm safe to say, no, I don't want a son like that. Yeah,

I'm pretty sure she was about to say, and he stays away from trans fats. That's great.

Just doesn't have much to do with this particular incident. Yeah.
Yeah,

I would say that.

Can I follow up while we're in this realm here, real quick?

We have this audio.

This is, you mentioned this briefly, but

let's play a game here. Can you find the logical problem with this particular audio from ABC News?

This is about the somewhat associated shooting of a pro-Palestinian group or the pipe bombing for the pro-Palestinian group you were discussing a little bit earlier this hour. Listen to this.

This is a real clip, not edited.

Listen, it's important to note, Brad, that in this complaint, nowhere did they allege that any of these individuals wanted anybody to be harmed as a result of these pipe bombs.

Specifically, it really does appear that their aim was to send a political message, as they said prosecutors yesterday in this news conference.

Carol and Paige also discussed plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings, which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles vehicles with pipe bombs. Now, can you detect any issue

with that? I found two. Okay.
I found two. One,

they're not targeting anybody with the use of the pipe bombs. Right.
Okay. Now, maybe, maybe nobody gets hurt like that, but

experience and history tells me Sometimes when you don't know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people. Right.
Yes.

And sometimes when you do know what you're doing, pipe bombs hurt people.

That's problem number one. Problem number two was

they

stated they were then going to target ICE agents

as if ICE agents aren't people.

You know, Glenn, that is exactly what I came up with. And I think I've heard this statement.
You mentioned the same sentiment earlier on in the program.

A lot of people are are saying this because I guess in their conversations that were picked off as this were going through this investigation, there was some

similarities to, if you think back to like early environmental terrorist attacks, ALF and ELF, some of those attacks, not all, but some of those attacks were targeted at infrastructure and things around

the, you know, the oil industry, but not, you know, intentionally trying not to

harm the workers or whatever. And some of their, I guess, conversations back and forth echoed that sentiment.
Like, let's put them in a place where people aren't going to be.

Okay, well, I mean, again, I don't think that's good. I don't think of these people as heroes.

But, you know, Hollywood would make movies over people like that and how wonderful and glorious they were.

But at the end,

they just seem to ignore that they had attacks planned against ICE agents. And the only way that makes logical sense is if you don't think ICE agents are people.
Are people. Yep.

Yep.

Yep. Dehumanize, dehumanize, dehumanize.
That's why I've been saying we've got to stop made. We've got to, we have to

appreciate life again. We have to stand for life.
All

life.

If we don't, you can just say, well, that's not really a person. You've got to stand for life.
One more story in this, just to show you how close we are to losing Europe. The French,

who, you know, aren't

are not used to waving the white flag, you know,

they're tough.

They have decided on New Year's Eve that they are not going to

hold the firework show that they always hold at the Arc de Triumph.

So they always have a New Year's Eve concert and firework show. But this year, they've decided that they're going to scrap it.

Wait until you hear what they were going to replace it with. But they're going to scrap it because

there are security concerns

such as, quote, unpredictable crowd movements.

You mean like the crowds that are coming over on boats and coming onto your shore? You mean those crowd movements? Because I... I mean, I think we know what they're saying here.

They're saying they're very concerned that there might be trouble.

There might be some sort of, you know, shootings or activity or terrorists, but they're just saying it's unpredictable crowd movements.

And so we're, we're, we're, we're suggesting that we cancel the decades-old fireworks celebration on New Year's Eve. That's like canceling Times Square.
Okay.

We're going to cancel that. and instead replace it with,

this is a quote, with a pre-recorded video to be viewed in the safety and comfort of your French living room

oh oh

so we watching we watching old celebration I go why not dick clark we got all those tapes of Dick Clark let's just cancel New Year's Day and and Times Square and just play one from like 1977 I mean, who doesn't love that?

Not only is that completely insane, it's also a great example as to why virtual school didn't work.

You know, that's not the same thing.

My wife is a big fan of around this time of year, every

television has got the Yule log on it. And, you know, sure, it does help you.

It's nice. You know, it helps you celebrate the season a little bit, but it's not the same as gathering around the fire and feeling the heat.
It's not the same. Right.
There's no, there's no warmth.

There's no warmth. But leave it to the French to surrender.
I mean, we have lost France. We have lost France.

If they are not willing to say what's going on, look, there's terrorists here, and we're afraid of a large crowd, and

we're lost because we've let too many people in here. We have no idea who they are, and they're dangerous, and they want to kill us and kill our civilization.

We're working on that so we can have this next year. This year, we're going to have to cancel it.
But they're not saying that. They're just saying, yeah, you know what?

Watch it from home and it'll be a videotape of an old one. Oh, okay.
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So

I want to tell you a Christmas story that

you may or may not have heard, but it is one of the,

I think, one of the most historically important moments

in

war to ever happen.

I was lucky enough to be able to add to our collection just a few months ago this. It is called the Christmas Truce.

The Christmas Truce is something that happened in World War I in 1914.

And this is a very, very rare letter

from one of the people. It's seven or eight pages long from one of the people that was there.
And this is an eyewitness account, not years after.

This was written the day after it happened and sent to the guy's mom.

And

it tells the whole story, kind of, kind of.

There's another letter from,

I think his name was

Otto Hahn.

And he's German, and he was actually there as well.

Not actually on the field, but he played a different role. I'll tell you about that here in a second.
But let me just read this

letter.

It says, Dear mother,

it was awfully good of you to send chocolate, which arrived safely and went down very well indeed.

I've just come out of the trenches again after spending Christmas Day in them.

If you imagined by any chance that we would have had a rotten Christmas, I can assure you, you were very much mistaken. Now remember, the trenches are some of the worst places you can be.

They're not, they're just killing people. They're just slaughtering people, and nobody is advancing.
And it just goes on and on and on, and they're giant mud holes.

He said, on Christmas Eve, it was chilly, and we were shelling the German trenches, but then it stopped. There was a little rifle fire until about 5 p.m.
when it became dark.

It was Christmas Eve.

We started singing carols and songs. We heard the Germans do the same.

Then, one of them pushed a Christmas tree on top of their trench.

After that, we decided we would light candles and lights and put them on top of the trenches to cheer them up a bit and carry on some sort of, quote, I love this line matey conversations with the enemy

Merry Christmas one of us shouted

as Things seemed to be going very well we thought

maybe we can get out of the trench and go up on top

now imagine the risk of this guy okay he said four of us did this imagine

You're you're you're killing each other. It's a killing field dead bodies of your friends are right on top of this trench.
And you think, they just pushed up a Christmas tree.

We've been singing Christmas carols. They've been singing Christmas carols.
We just put candles up. Maybe four of us, and these were Highlanders, so you know that the Highlanders, you know,

they have meaty conversations all the time. These are Scots that actually were the first to do it.

So four of us got on top. And first we struck matches, which was received well by them on the other side.
So then all of us got out, and we decided to hold a concert and dance out in the open.

After this, a few men thought it would be swell to shake hands and exchange cigars, cigarettes, and gingerbread with them. We called out to them.

I met a few halfway between the trenches, and they were jolly good sports as well.

I shook hands with a German officer. We spoke with them and exchanged small gifts, chocolate, cigars, buttons.

We shared stories from home and photographs. It seemed impossible that we were actually really enemies.

We also had time, so we took it and buried our dead. We buried them together.
with short prayers spoken in both languages. For a time, the war simply was not there.

It was strange, very strange, because tomorrow we will have to shoot at one another again.

It will be hard to shoot them now.

That's the letter that we have at the now at the American Journey Experience Vault

that I just acquired and will go into our Clay Pot project to save

our history and to save what our civilization really was was like. This is a moment here where Judeo-Christian values come to play a role.
It's the healing power of

Christmas and the message of Christmas that in the middle of this war, they stop and they're able to come out of the trenches. They've just been killing each other.
They come out of the trenches.

They stop.

Here's what one German soldier wrote in another letter.

What I still believed to be madness just several hours ago, I could now see with my own eyes.

One Englishman was joined so soon by another, they came towards us until he was more than halfway toward our trenches. He's responding, he's talking about the guy of the letter I just read to you.

By which point some of our people had already approached them.

None of us had our rifles.

Between the trenches, the hated and the bitter opponents met around the Christmas tree and we sang Christmas carols. I will never forget this sight for as long as I live.
Listen to this line.

One could see that the man, the human being, lives on, even if he knows nothing more in these days than killing.

Christmas 1914 will be unforgettable to me.

I wanted to share this this with you today

for a couple of reasons. One, it's one of my favorite stories of Christmas.

There have been a couple of movies made about this moment. This is the original letter that told the story that the movie makers used.

But I wanted to tell you this story because

It feels really dark at times.

And

it's in that darkness that the light really matters, that that candle really shone.

They lit matches. I mean, they're not close to each other.
And there's barbed wire and dead bodies in between them. They light matches.
And that light signaled something.

That is... the spark of Christmas.
That is the light of Christmas. That is what we built our whole civilization on.

And you can say, yeah, but look at what happened in that war of, you know, World War I. It was awful.
The Germans gassed, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, the guy who wrote the German letter, the most famous German letter, he's actually a guy who was there, and he was on the chemical squad, if you will.

He saw it deployed once, and he asked for a transfer, and he wrote to his wife and said, this is an abomination. This has got to stop.
He stayed in Germany.

He was one of the guys who got the Nobel Prize for splitting the atom, 1937, 38, I don't remember.

But he's one of the guys that got the Nobel Prize. And he never joined the ranks of the Nazis and never went to build the atomic bomb.
He warned,

you can't do this, you can't do this, can't do this.

Is he a good guy or a bad guy?

He's really, he's

he's really neither, really.

I think he's something rarer. He's a man that understood too late that knowledge is never neutral.
It's what you do with the knowledge.

So, what are we doing with our knowledge now?

And what are we doing in this holiday season? Are we finding those striking matches? Are we looking for the light?

We learned a couple of things,

a couple of things

this week.

In my life, tomorrow is the last TV show I'll be doing. It'll be the last Wednesday night special on Blaze TV.

And I urge you to join me. But it'll be the last and kind of end of, I don't know,

end of a chapter.

And we also announced yesterday

that Stu is going to be leaving the show shortly after the new year. I have been begging him, borrowing him, bribing him,

threatening his family, doing everything I could to keep him with me for 27 years.

And

he has finally found something that he really wants to do and

how can I possibly stop him I want to support him in that so he'll be leaving

but I want you to know while there is an ending to some of these things

there is

a match strike in January And I call it the torch.

And let me bring it back to the history here. You know, when you read a letter like that or you hear somebody tell a story like that, you realize something uncomfortable.

History is not living in textbooks and it's not about dates and memorizing the date and the name.

It lives in breath. It lives in cold hands.
It lives in fear and in longing. And a letter like that is not data that you should remember.
1914.

That letter is a heartbeat that is long gone, long been silenced. And I have been spending years collecting things like this, letters and artifacts, and moments that were never meant to survive.

But if you want people to learn history, you can't just tell them what happened.

They have to feel it.

So let me show you something that we're beginning next year. on how you can feel it.
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10 seconds, and I'm going to share something exciting on the other side.

Here we are

as an olden day. So, my team and I have been working

for over a year on several different projects and one of those projects is to bring history to life in as many ways as possible. You're going to be seeing us bring history to life in video,

through AI.

You're going to actually feel it. We're going to announce something about the museum early next year.

And you'll be able to experience it.

But one thing I wanted to share with you is we all have different ways of learning history and so we want to use all five senses because you have to let people feel it.

Next year there will be 12 of these that will be coming out

and this is the first one.

I hope you like it.

It is our way of teaching history through music.

So there will be 12 that will come out, and you'll be able to use this to teach your kids these stories. It will come with all of the documents that

back up the story, and you can teach the story, but you can also learn it through song. And I think they're really good songs as well.
So here is the first one about the Christmas Truce Letter.

Somewhere on the Lees River

in the frost of 14

A weary German officer

rides home of what he's seen

Gets from home at midnight

Gingerbread and woolen thread

But artillery still thundered

As he counted up the dead

And just past Christmas morning

Through the smoke and winter grave,

a Bavarian raised a pine tree

like a lantern of hope in the haze,

and across the broken silence

came a shout from Scottish men,

killed at Highlanders hero,

wishing us Christmas once again

Who knows how peace begins

Maybe one brave voice,

maybe one small light

on Christmas morning even enemies

Can remember they're human for a night

Just for a night

We remember we're human for a night

The Lone Bavarian rifleman

Crawled out through the wire

Met a scar with cigarettes

Where the mud met the fire

Soon the trenches empty

Men shook hands in no man's man's land

Candles traded for cigars

As they helped each other stand

Hands said war was suspended

The peace of Christmas had come

Even officers exchanging words

about daughters gifts and home

And in the ruins of commons

A monastery without a roof

They sang silent night together

A fragile holy crew

Who knows how peace begins

Maybe one brave voice

maybe one small light

on Christmas morning even enemies

can remember they're human for a night

Just for a night

We remember we're human for a night

But at dawn on the 26th

The guns began again.

Window panes rattled, he wrote.

As command reclaimed the men,

he confessed to his dear Edith.

Will be hard to shoot them now.

But orders are orders in wartime, even when your heart says no.

not after this, not now.

Who knows how peace begins?

Maybe one brave voice,

maybe one small light.

But the very end with a Christmas tree, a scot stepping out from the fight. And history remembers the guns, but heaven recalls the sight

when soldiers laid their weapons down

And we're human

for a life

Just for a life

If you missed the video because you're not a member of the Blaze, you got to see it. You can find it at youtube.com slash Glenn Beck.

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Welcome to the Glendeck program.

We're glad that that you're here.

You know, I don't, I don't.

I don't want to get into the mix with everybody and personalities. I like...

My goal is to make things about right and wrong and not about personalities.

But I do want to spend just a second on President Trump's post yesterday about Rob Reiner. It made me sad.
made me really sad, because I like the president

and

he doesn't help himself when he does things like this.

But I think I understand this in a different way.

You know, the president has said, you know, all kinds of things about me at times. When I disagree with him, he'll go, yeah, he's just a failing

fat blob or whatever. And that's just him.
That's just the way he does. When he is in a fight,

he's a knife fighter. And I get it.
it.

I don't like it, but I get it. This was different.
This was different.

And

this was, you know,

you can say a lot of stuff politically about Rob Reiner, but politics didn't matter yesterday. We weren't, I mean, that's not, it just didn't matter.
It didn't matter.

But I think to the president, It does. I saw a change in the president.

I've seen two changes in the president. I've seen

a change in him when they started going after him and his family

after 2020. And they really started going after his family.
And we know this because we showed you the documents.

They had a plan, take him down, take his family down, to stop MAGA at all costs, put them in jail. I mean, those are their words.

And

it was frightening to read. And I talked to the president, I don't know, maybe six months after, you know, we were in 2021, maybe six months, eight months.
And I said, how are you holding up? And

he had talked a little bit about, you know, how he felt like he had really let people down because he had things going in the right direction.

And now look at it and look how screwed up things are going to be and how the economy is going to be damn near impossible to fix. It'll take us time, but we can fix it, but they've just destroyed it.

And I said, how are you personally? How are you holding up? And

this is the first change I saw.

His body changed. And he said, they're going after my damn children.

And it was this dad. All of a sudden, he wasn't the president or former president.
He wasn't Donald Trump. He was a dad.
And it was like, it was every dad response in him.

And he said, you don't go after our children.

And I saw him really, truly mad for the very first time.

And it was righteous indignation.

Then after he was shot, I saw another change. I saw him

recognize that God existed. I mean, I know he believed in God, but I don't know if he believed that God was actually part of,

you know,

the story, the everyday story. You know, I don't know how he views God in that way, but I know that he recognized that God was

in the story of America now.

Firsthand, he witnessed it.

The reason why I say this made me sad yesterday is because

I don't agree with what he said.

I feel

it was sad

because he is

he has been kicked in the head over and over and over again by some of these people that he

Christmas is about

the baby

Jesus coming in and what he can do in your life.

And the biggest thing that he taught was

love your enemies, don't hate them. But that's really,

really hard to do. And the president isn't there yet

on this. And it made me sad.

How'd you feel about it, Sue?

I didn't like it at all. I think maybe the same as you.

You know, one of the things that bothered me about it, because you hit many of the points that I had on it, without the personal insight to Trump, and I think that is illustrative of

what he's going through. I think there is something to understand there.

Obviously,

one of the things that is difficult about life and your attempt to master it is to try to act the right way even when you're faced with circumstances like that. And I get it.

I get why he's angry and doesn't like the guy. But I mean, the man, I mean, you used a phrase, I think, in there where you said, ah, you know, he's a knife fighter.

Like, this guy was actually just in a legitimate knife fight and was murdered with his wife. Right? Like, it is a, it is a, this actually really happened.

And, you know,

look, my honest opinion is it's indefensible. You know,

I like President Trump. I think, you know, he does a lot of great things for the country.
We've defended him on a lot of different things.

A lot of times when he's being attacked, I think he deserves defense. In this case,

it is what it is.

It is priced in to everyone's understanding of who Donald Trump is.

And everything I've heard about him in personal situations where he cares about the person is that he's very generous, he's very likable, he's very

he's one of those people that you like being around. You know, that is something that I have heard from tons of people.
This part of him is really hard for me to square with what I've heard from

other,

from everybody that I've talked to who has been on the inside with him.

And so

I don't have a defense for it. I think

it's really bad. And I will say one more thing on this real quickly, Glenn.
Another part of this that I think is difficult in that

one of the things that I took from the aftermath of that immediately was,

I don't know if pride's the right word, but like I really liked the way conservatives responded to it. We didn't do what they did after Charlie Kirk.

We didn't do what they did after they shot the president, right? Like we, they celebrated it. They, they, they were horrible human beings.
And I enjoyed the high ground that we had there.

Yeah, I did too. And it's difficult to make the argument that we have high ground when, you know, the president of the Republican Party,

the Republican president of the United States, the most high-profile person on quote-unquote our side, whatever that means these days, is a guy who, you know, kind of did some of the things that they did.

I, you know, so I don't, I don't like that. I understand it's part of Donald Trump.

And I think if we're all adults here, we're able to kind of price that in and judge him on everything that he's doing. And when I mean pricing in it, I think that's a negative part of him.

But overall, you have to take everything into

context.

Right. And if we're all adults here,

we should be able to say to those that we love and respect,

bad move. I didn't like that.

Don't do that. And I think, you know,

because

the left always says, well, you never take on your own. Yes, we do.
We take on our own all the time. All the time.

And I think it's important that we say, didn't like that, thought it was a bad move, thought it didn't look good, just wasn't right.

He's,

I wish, and

again, though, I...

I'm not excusing it, but I am tempering it with

none of us have gone through what he has gone through. With his family, somebody shooting at him, being called fascist Hitler all the time.
I mean, that

wears on you and changes you.

And, you know, he's having a hard time forgiving that. And I kind of understand that.

I wish he would take that on and take on the forgiveness so he could be more

a peacemaker in all of those things. But that is his own personal journey.

Yeah, and I think when we talk about like a terrible crime that's occurred, like

I don't know, if there was,

you think about some awful situation, and at times you'll see, he'll hear family members

say

the worst possible thing. You know, if your kid is murdered

by some, you know, someone of a particular area or group or whatever, and they might react with just an awful thing about that group or area. And like, you just,

we all have a bit of understanding, right, of a person going through a massively emotional thing,

you know, and

lashing out.

You want, you know, the example you bring up all the time, Glenn, of the maybe the ultimate example of being able to have restraint was that, was the Amish situation from years ago where, you know, you were talking about mass murder and they were to the family's house that night, right?

And saying,

On that night, that afternoon, I mean, within an hour,

the kids were not even out of the school yet. Their bodies were still laying in the school, and the Amish went, oh my gosh, the killer is dead, too.
He was a member of our community.

His wife lives here.

What is she feeling? She's feeling completely alone. My gosh, what an example of that.
I couldn't do that. Right.
And, like, I don't even think I come close to that standard in that moment. No.
But

that's the range, right? Like,

some people

react really well, and some people react really poorly. And I think we all understand the emotion and everything that takes over in a situation like that.

And that has to be factored in, I think, to Trump. Now, of course, you know, Rob Reiner wasn't responsible for the shooting.
He's just a liberal who said really bad things about Donald Trump.

And it's, look, he is a very unique person in a very unique situation that I don't think anyone in the world has ever experienced you know what has happened with him over his life

may i just say that you still haven't forgiven rfk jr

for what he said about me

okay

as i said i'm not amish you know i like technology i don't have any wagons i didn't say i'm perfect no i mean i right i you know i do i have i have not

I have absolutely forgiven RFK Jr. for what he said.
And if you didn't know, he accused Glenn of being a traitor,

something that is,

and said he should be charged with treason, which the penalty of which is death. So, you know, I don't like that.
And RFK Jr., I don't like for a lot of his policies.

Some of them, by the way, I do really like. Some of the things he's done, I think, are positive.

Some of them, I can give you a list of some of the negative things that he's done as well.

Yes, I can too. But that doesn't mean

I do find that to be an appropriate context when the embrace of RFK Jr. is occurring.
I think we need to understand who people are and what they might be doing. But if he's apologetic about that,

I do forgive him in that sense. Do I want him on the show and promoting all of his books and his candidacy?

No,

I did not like that. But

a lot of people do. I will say, you're right, though.
We all have our hang-ups.

I would not.

I do. I do.

I will say this, though. And, you know, again, all the context here, I know people are really defensive of Donald Trump appropriately because of the fact he is constantly targeted unfairly.

I understand why people are very defensive of him, but I can tell you this: I really don't like RFK Jr. He's one of my least favorite people in politics.
I'm just not a fan.

I could give you other names of people.

Most of them revolve around Olivia Newtsie, who I have no, you know, whatever. I don't really have any feelings about her, but the story was packed with people like him.

Yeah, Cuomos for sure. But, like, you know, God forbid one of of these people that I really don't like was murdered in his family with their spouse.

I can promise you, I will, I can promise you I will not be tweeting anything like what Donald Trump tweeted. Like, that is just a is

a

situation where

I understand the context around it that we just discussed, but I don't think there's a defense to it. I think it's something I really hope he has an awakening on at some point.

I think that that is enough to be said on that. Now, maybe we should examine ourselves and say, where do we have that hardness in our heart that we should learn from and remove this holiday season?

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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
So I think it was about a week ago, maybe a week ago tomorrow, that I started telling you about this case up in Canada about a woman named Jolene.

And she was scheduled to die in Canada, I think January 7th. And she had something I'd never heard of, parathyroid, a parathyroid condition.
She had two or three surgeries.

They hadn't worked for her and now she couldn't get any help up in Canada. And so they said, well, why don't you just die? That sounds like a joke to me.
Why don't you just die?

That doesn't, I mean, not a funny one, but I mean, you don't say that in real life.

But that's what was happening up in Canada. Her option was live with it or die.
And she couldn't live that way anymore. So we started talking about it.

And I mean, this audience is absolutely amazing and who listens in this audience?

This audience is made up of just so many rock solid, you know, red-blooded Americans and then also some red-blooded Americans who are at the highest levels of their craft or their art or whatever you want to call it.

And one of those guys

is, he's the leading parathyroid specialist. I mean, he developed the techniques that are used now in the most difficult

surgeries. And his name is Jim Norman.

He is from the Norman Parathyroid Center. He's the founder of it, obviously.
And that's at Tampa General in Tampa, Florida. People come from all over the world.

And so he was listening and he calls in. He's like, I get help.
I get help. I get help.
So they've gotten involved. And I don't know the details.

And I'm not going to ask Jim for the details because it's none of my business. This is all doctor client privilege stuff.
I just know that as of last week, the best doctors are on Jolene's case.

And they're going to find the solution. They're going to find the answer with her.
And then she'll be able to choose what she wants to do. But it's all taken care of and people are on it.
So

that's good news. But the other thing I realized is I have no idea what was even wrong with her.
And when

Jim, when we were talking about it, he said, yeah, 50% of women have this and they don't know it. And I'm like,

wait, what? Because she's in horrible condition. What do you mean? That many women get this? And what do you mean they don't know? They don't know it.

So we're going to talk to him about that and so much more here in just a second. First, let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Candles were lit on Bondi Beach.

Simple, beautiful, act of faith, families, children. They were just trying to celebrate a festival of life.
you know, one that Jesus celebrated.

And yet in that moment, meant for joy and prayer, darkness showed up. Hatred stood right right there with them on the beach.

And it is a stunning reminder that even with a ceasefire in Israel, Jewish people are still being targeted. This is not about Israel.
It's not really even about the Jews. It's about God.
It really is.

They need to know that we support. I mean, history has put these kind of moments in our lives over and over and over and over again.
And this time it has to be different.

And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews exists for that.

They stand in that gap to make sure when darkness rises, somebody is there with a light, real help, real protection, real solidarity.

The fellowship unites Christians and Jews to lift up those who are suffering in Israel and the former Soviet Union, communities all over.

I know for a while, this is years ago, we helped them put bulletproof glass into synagogues and

Jewish schools, put up fences and everything else, I think in France even.

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That's glennforthefellowship.org. If I may,

Dr. Jim Norman,

the parathyroid center founder of the hospital for endocrinine surgery. Is that right? Endocrinine surgery, Jim? Endocrine surgery.
Endocrine surgery. Endocrine surgery.
Endocrine surgery.

And an endocrinologist looks at all of your adrenal glands, right? And I mean, it's amazing what adrenal glands,

how badly they can mess your life up if they're out of whack.

Well, you've got adrenal glands, you've got the thyroid glands, you've got your pituitary glands, and you've got your parathyroid glands.

So today we're going to be talking about the parathyroid glands, which has been, what's been going on. That's the conversation for the last week or so, Glenn, is the parathyroid glands.

And how many women does this affect?

Well,

so I did a little research this morning

about your audience. So your audience, your demographics,

about 120,000

of the people listening to you this week, your weekly listeners, will get a parathyroid tumor in their lifetime. So this is pretty common.
It's 2% of women. It's 1% of men in their lifetime.

So 120,000 of your listeners this week will get this disease sometime. in their lifetime.
We said earlier, 50%,

50% that have the disease don't know they have it or they're not getting,

they're not getting treated for it. But 2% of women will get it in their lifetime.
Okay, so 50% have it and they don't know. What are the symptoms that they're just living with?

Well, so the symptoms of

hyper-parathyroidism, the symptoms, a little bit nonspecific, but

people feel bad, tired, run down, chronic fatigue. but it's all due to the high calcium in the blood, which also causes kidney stones, increased

coronary calcium levels. So you end up with stroke, arrhythmias, and all sorts of bad things that happen.
Osteoporosis, the high blood comes from your bones. So you get osteoporosis.

And

it's a very deadly disease.

Eventually. People with high blood calcium due to parathyro disease, they live about five or six degrees, five or six years less than they would otherwise if they didn't have this problem.

Does it actually take the calcium out of your bones? I mean, can it eat your bones?

So I think a really good way to get started here, Glenn, is to talk about what the parathyroid glands are. So we all have four parathyroid glands.

There's two in the top, two in the back, and they're in your neck. They're behind.
They're around the parathyroid glands. Para means around, so they're the around the thyroid glands.

And they make parathyroid hormone. Like all endocrine glands, they make hormone.
The job of the parathyroid gland is to control the calcium in your blood.

So really the conversation really has to be about blood calcium because blood calcium runs the electrical system of our nerves. It's blood calcium that makes our nerves work.

And so just like just like the voltage, this is a good analogy for your listeners. Just like your car has a voltage regulator that keeps the voltage of the car around 12 volts.

It's not 8, it's not 16. It's around 12 to 12.4.
Our body electrical system runs by the calcium levels.

And so we have a voltage regulator, the parathyroid glands, which keep the calcium in a very normal range between about, you know, for in the United States, we measure it, and it should be around 10.5, I'm sorry, 9.5 to 10.

If your calcium is too high, too much voltage, you don't feel good. If the calcium is too low, too little voltage, you don't feel good.
So we have four parathy glands.

It's the only thing that we have that's quadruple redundant because it's so important.

So

when do you take them out? How do you get rid of them? I mean, she has had three surgeries or two surgeries.

I know you don't want to get into her specifically here, you know, HIPAA stuff, but she's had several surgeries and had some of them or some of it removed.

How do you remove all of it and still live?

Well, so you can't live without any parathy glands. It's really difficult.
Having zero parathy glands is a really bad problem. That's hypoparathyism.
And that is a bad life. Hyperparathyism,

primary hyperparathyism, is due to a tumor. So you've got four of these little glands and sometimes one of them or two will grow into a tumor.

And when they grow into a tumor, they just become really happy and they start making lots of hormone.

That excess hormone goes to your bones, takes the calcium out of your bones and puts it in your blood.

So you end up with osteoporosis, the calcium coming out of your bones, and you have high blood calcium, which makes you feel bad.

And then the high blood calcium goes to the kidneys, you get kidney stones, high blood calcium goes to your heart, and you get coronary artery disease. And so

the treatment, Glenn, is if you've got high blood calcium and high parathyroid hormone, then you have a parathyroid tumor. You just take it out.

So this, it used to be, you know, a four, five, six hour operation. When I learned to do this back in the, you know, back when I rode my dinosaur to my residency program back in the 80s and 90s,

it was a four to six hour operation. We've now trimmed that down.
It's 15 to 15, 20, 30 minutes for most

of

an operation that takes 20 minutes. So all you got to do, God gave you four parathyroid glands.
It's quadruple redundant. If one of them is a tumor, you take it out.

Two of them are tumor, you take it out, but then you have normal glands. And that's, and then you, then you're normal, you're cured.

So if you have primary hyperparathyarasm due to a tumor you take it out you're cured it goes away the symptoms go away

now the and the symptoms again are feeling like you're really run down all the time

yeah the most common when we when we ask all of our patients you know we've done over 55 000 of these operations and so we have a tremendous database when you look at all the symptoms the most common symptoms are tired, fatigue, run down,

high blood pressure.

Four times as many patients of ours have high blood pressure than the standard population. Stroke, arrhythmias, kidney stones,

those are the symptoms of hyperparathartism. And so if you've got this disease and you take it,

yeah, about just less than 1% of men get it. So our average patient is a 60-year-old woman.
That's our most common patient. And our second most common patient is about a 55-year-old gentleman.

Kids can get it, extremely rare.

20 years olds and 30s get it, very, very, very uncommon. But once you get in the 35-40 range, they start becoming more common.
It's most common the older you get.

So, as people have been listening to this, this story of Jolene, I hope they take away a couple of things. First, life is not disposable.
All life is worth living and saving.

Two,

you know, that

there is help

out there. It sometimes has to come in unconventional ways, and you know, socialism isn't really all that neat, but that's my opinion.
And the third thing should be this.

Go ahead.

I was going to say, I think it's important to note that when we talk about parathyroid disease, and this is one of the things that really became apparent this past week with some of the confusion, and I want to see if I can

unconfuse

the conversation

When your doctor measures your blood, they can measure your parathyroid hormone level and they can measure your calcium.

So if you want to know if you have a parathyroid problem, you have to look at your parathyroid hormone, your calcium, and your vitamin D because they work together to keep your calcium in the normal range.

If you look at just one of these by itself, you're going to fail. So high blood calcium in adults over 40 in the United States, that's above 10.0,

then you've got almost exclusively of a parathyroid problem. One high calcium, not a disease.
Persistent high calcium is above 10 in the United States is almost always a parathyroid tumor.

In Canada, that level, you know, they measure kilometers and we do miles. In Canada, it's number 2.5.

So

in some cases, people have a high parathyroid hormone level and their calcium is normal or low. Those people are not benefited from surgery.
Those people don't need surgery.

They need calcium and vitamin D. They don't need an operation.
You can give them 10 operations, and that's not going to help them because that's not the problem.

So you have to be careful that you can't look at the parathyroid hormone level by itself,

and you have to look at your parathyroid hormone level and your calcium. But any good endocrinologist should be able to figure this out.

Last thing is we got to run, but

you gain weight with your thyroid. When it gets out of whack, you gain weight, don't you? so is weight gain

yeah thyroid thyroid can but but um the parathyroid is usually not if sometimes you feel tired and fatigued and you're you don't you're not as active as usual and you gain a little bit of weight but it's it's not related to the thyroid so this is mostly chronic fatigue kidney stones feel bad osteoporosis that's those parathyroid problems

Jim, I can't thank you enough. You and your team and Tampa General, you guys are amazing.
I mean, you jumped on the phone the minute you heard about this.

The compassion that you guys have shown and the willingness to help has just been remarkable. I do want to

make

one important point. We moved out of Tampa General two years ago.
So if you look for us at Tampa General, you're not going to find us.

I'm pretty sure there's zero parathyroid surgery done at Tampa General.

We moved out almost exactly three years ago out of Tampa General into the hospital for endocrine surgery, where we do thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal surgery exclusively so if you want to if you're feeling

hospital for

which hospital

hospital for endocrine surgery it's a brand new hospital okay by the tampa airport where it's a three-year-old hospital yep so and if you if any if any of your listeners want to learn any more it's you know parathyroid.com is obvious a resource for everybody

Thank you, Jim. Appreciate it.
God bless you. Have a great Christmas.
Thank you. Thank you.
Same to everybody.

You bet. Bye-bye.
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I've been so nervous about talking about any of this because I don't, I have said, I don't want to know anything about it. And the doctors are like, we can't tell you anything about it.

And I'm like, okay, so I don't really know what the hell is going on.

And he can't tell us what the hell is going on. So it's just a mess.
It's a mess. But know that

she's getting the best

medical care, I think,

least that we could find. At least that we could find.

Yeah, that was one of those things when we started talking about like, oh, the parathyroid, you know, she might need a surgery or some other treatment. We'd love to get something for her.

And like every message we got was Dr. Norman.

It was like immediately, this is the guy. If anyone can do anything for her, it is this guy.
So he's been incredible and their team has been incredible. He's, I mean, incredible.
And they, I mean,

you know, he's a big fan of the show. He listens every day.
He was listening and he was trying to call us.

Dr. Oz, remember that day when Dr.
Oz called the show? Yeah. And he's like, I'll help.

Dr. Oz called and he said, I know the best guy.
I know the guy who invented the surgery. I'll get him on the phone.
Well, Oz calls Jim and Jim's like, hey, Oz, what's up?

And he's like, hey, Glenn Beck. And he's like, Do you know about this? And Dr.
Oz was like, yeah, that's why I'm calling you. And he's like, I've been trying to get a hold of Beck for two days.

How do I get a hold of him? I mean, so

it was really cool. It was really cool.
Yeah, it's great to see people.

Again, this is, it's a woman we don't know from another country under a system we can't stand. You know what I mean?

And immediately the audience steps up and is like, we want to help in any way that we can. We don't care about any of that.
And I love that. And the nice thing is that this is the best way.

This is what I love about this audience is it was all connections. There's nobody, nobody raised any money.
It was just, hey, I know this guy, I know this guy. Hey, what about this person?

And everybody stepped up and is doing their thing, and they're all volunteering their time. And it's, I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable. So it is.
Thanks to this audience.

And also, we should also thank the administration who really did step in immediately as soon as they knew about this issue to try to help. And that's, I know, a big part of this still.
So that

really showed something as well.

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This is Glenn Beck.

This time of year, we always talk about how hope

came into the world through a child in Bethlehem.

And I am doing some stuff for next Christmas. Right now, I'm working on some projects for next Christmas.
And I've been thinking thinking a lot about Mary and how freaked out she had to be.

Just freaked out out of her mind.

And alone.

Oh,

you bet. I mean, you know, the angel came to her and, you know, you are going to visit Joseph Wright.
You're going to tell Joseph.

How alone did they feel?

That is the way a lot of women feel today without the angels.

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I'll be home

for Christmas.

You

can count

on me.

Please

have snow.

Let me tell you a story

that you think you already know.

It's about a movie that

feels like like it has been there our whole lives.

It's like a tree in the town square or the hymn. You don't ever remember learning, but somehow you know it by heart.

But this particular movie

hasn't been around forever. It just seems like it.
It was actually born out of failure. It was born out of exhaustion.

And it was born out of people who felt just like its lead character, George Bailey.

It's a Wonderful Life

has a fascinating story behind it. And it speaks volumes about us, our hopes, our fears, our desires.

The movie was made by Frank Capra, and it was right after World War II. Frank Capra had just come back.

He didn't come home triumphant. He came home a changed man.
He had spent the war making film for the United States government and the War Department about why the West is worth saving.

This film series are fantastic. It's called Why We Fight.

And when he returned,

his old style of doing things, the old machinery just didn't fit Hollywood anymore.

So he started his own studio. He bet absolutely everything on it.
And

It's a Wonderful Life was supposed to be the movie that proved Frank Capra is still Frank Capra.

And it nearly ruined him.

The movie lost money. Critics really didn't like it.
They mocked how schmaltzy it was. Audiences stayed home.
Jimmy Stewart, this was his first movie that he made when he came back home from the war.

And this was his start. And between Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, oh my gosh, you've got a massive hit, right?

Nobody came. Nobody watched it.
Jimmy Stewart, the most beloved man in America, gave a really raw, shaken, almost too real performance for people at the time.

He wasn't the cheerful hero that is coming out of war as a victory. This was a man that was cracking under the weight of responsibility, a man who did everything right, but he

still felt like he was a failure.

Any of this sound familiar?

It was a story about what happened during the Depression and the crash of 29. Well,

America had been living that forever.

They had been living that since 29. They went through the long depression, then they went through the war.

And the first thing out of war, they don't want to watch a movie about how depressing life can be.

Okay?

So it was a total failure.

Film disappears. Goes into a vault.

It's a noble misfire.

Good idea. It just didn't land.
Maybe wrong time. Nah, maybe too schmaltzy.

Then something weird happened. Everybody forgot about it.
And so the rights lapsed. There was no grand relaunch.
There was no marketing genius, just a legal oversight that let the rights lapse.

Enter Ted Turner.

Ted Turner and SuperStation TBS. Do you remember SuperStation TBS when he had

bought a bunch of stations across the country and he tied them all together and then cable came in and SuperStation TBS became TBS, Turner.

Well, he was looking on SuperStation TBS. They needed some holiday programming and they needed it cheap.
And when I say cheap,

what Ted really meant was free we need a bunch of free programming that we can run all Christmas okay no rights no royalties what is out there

the vaults open up and lo and behold they find it's a wonderful life

suddenly it appears in our life and I don't know about you but I always thought it had been around forever I mean, it didn't seem like it was a new relaunch.

It wasn't like, hey, have you heard about this new movie? It just was there and on, and we thought everybody knew about it. Nobody knew about it.

Our grandparents probably didn't even know about it because it was a massive failure.

It's on afternoons, late nights, it's on morning, it's everywhere. It's everywhere.

Black and white snow flickering in the living rooms as our kids are playing on the floor, and we, as adults, are in the kitchen, half listening and half watching. And slowly, slowly,

its message found us.

It found us this time because America had changed.

We weren't fresh from despair,

and we weren't fresh from victory anymore. We weren't those people.
It wasn't so close to us that we didn't want to look at us.

Yes, we were tired. We were busy.
We were stretched thin.

But we were also a group now that measured our lives in promotions. and in square footage and bank balances.

We We were starting to become a little Mr. Potter-like,

and we didn't want to be Mr. Potter.

And there on the screen is George Bailey, standing on a bridge, wondering,

would the world be better without me?

He's not a villain. He's not a loser.
He's actually a really good man.

He's the best of us, and that's why it still works.

Think of all the happy endings that we have and everything else and all the stories that we tell ourselves. This movie doesn't tell you that life is going to turn out the way you planned.

This one tells you something much, much harder.

That the measure of your life

is probably going to be invisible to you. while you're living your life.
Because Clarence ain't coming down in his, you know, 1800s clothing and having a hot toddy with you.

So you probably won't know the real measure of your life. And the biggest victories in your life don't come with applause.

And the sacrifice, it usually doesn't feel heroic at the moment. It just feels like sacrifice and crap.
Why me? Why me? Why don't I ever get the adventure that I planned my whole life?

Remember, George never left Bedford Falls. He never becomes famous.
He just stays.

And he shows up.

And he keeps his promises.

And he holds people together.

What is the real

what's the real miracle

of the film? It's not Clarence. It's not the Bells.

It's not him

getting his life back the real miracle is the ledger

that's the miracle the names the faces the small kindness all stacked up one on top of each other until you realize oh my gosh all of those little acts

They amount to a life that actually mattered.

We're all looking for the big splashy.

He didn't get any of those.

He didn't get that.

And that's why he felt like he was a failure. That's why, when the town shows up in the end and they're all giving, you know, just a few dollars,

it breaks us every single time.

Because deep down, we're not watching George Bailey. Deep down, we're checking our own books, our own ledger.

Did I,

do I, matter to anybody?

Would I be missed?

Did the things I gave up, the things that I really wanted to do in life, but because something else came up, or I had to serve, I had to do this for my kids, or I had to do this,

the things I gave up, doesn't mean anything?

This film answers it with a whisper. It doesn't shout it, it whispers.

You'll never fully know the good you've done.

I can't give you an answer. You'll never know it.
You'll never see the ripples while you're standing in the water.

But they're there.

Believe me, they're there.

So, this year, when you

either just have it running while you're all in the kitchen

and you're watching from time to time, oh, I love this part, I love this part, and everybody gets quiet for a minute, or you just curl up on the couch and watch it again, remember you're not watching a Christmas movie.

What you're watching is a reminder that life doesn't have to be loud to be important,

that staying

can be braver than leaving,

that loving your family and your neighbors and your town imperfect as it is that's not settling

it's choosing

and whether ted turner knew it or or not i can guarantee you that jimmy stewart did and frank capra certainly did

that every time you see that why we year after year when the snow starts falling and that old piano theme plays, we come back not for the nostalgia, but for the reassurance.

Because

every once in a while, all of us need somebody just to look us in the eye and say,

You're here,

you mattered,

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Teach your kids right.

Shoot. You know, schools won't do it for you.

This is Glenn Beck.

So I just saw something in a Blaze article

about craving for a simpler time.

I don't remember what show I was watching the other day, but

they each had a phone on each side of the bed. Husband and wife, they each had a phone on one side of the bed.
And his line or her line. And I thought, my gosh.
I mean, it's no different now.

It's just, you know, not hooked to the wall, I guess.

And it's not this giant contraption.

Most people don't even know how a rotary dial, you talk to anybody under 30, they have no idea how to use a rotary dial. They're making a comeback.

This guy started making, an entrepreneur began to make physical phones. That's the name of the brand, physical phones.

And within the first 72 hours, he sold a thousand of them.

And people, I guess, they want it, you know.

I don't know.

I mean, I'd want it because of the nostalgia. I have an old phone hanging up on my wall in my ranch, but it's not plugged into anything because, you know, we don't have phone service.

But this is actually, this works, operates, I think, on Bluetooth. And so it's actually running through

your cell phone, but it works like a physical phone.

It can't have the weight of those old phones. Do you think, Stu? Because it doesn't have any...
I bet it has like, you know.

One little diode inside. You know, it doesn't have all the crap that they used to have, I'm sure.
I don't know.

I mean, the only thing I, it certainly doesn't have all the crap that it used to have in there, but it seems like it's a aesthetic vibe, right?

Like, they'd want it to look, it looks, first of all, they're not cheap. And secondly, you know, they're over $100 for some of the phones.

So I, and all it is is using, I guess, Bluetooth to your cell phone. So you can actually take your cell phone calls on a physical phone.

But it does strike me as they would probably at least try to replicate the weight of it, or it would just seem so flimsy for an expensive item. Were you, were you,

did you have a phone like this, like a princess phone? I know that's,

I'm not saying that's a weird question. I'm a weird comment, but that's what they used to be, I know, but that's what they used to be called, the princess phone.

And, you know, we had a phone on the wall, and I think we had a couple of other phones, and one of them, the one on the wall, had the longest cord ever.

And it was all stretched out because it wasn't, it still wasn't long enough.

And my sisters would take it, and they'd go around the corner, and then they'd go into a closet and they'd close the closet and they'd sit there on the phone in the closet. Yeah.

Did you have the long cords? Yep. Are you old enough for that? I remember that.

I remember being able to stretch it around the corner from my kitchen into like our family room where the TV was so I could be on the phone and watching TV at the same time.

Kids would not understand these things.

Oh, yeah.

And then we had, if you watch like

Seinfeld, it's crazy when they pick up the cordless phone and it has the giant antenna on it. And it's, I mean, it's the size of like a shoebox.
You're like, how did we ever think that was cool?

Because I remember when that came out, everybody's, I got it, get me one of those. That's the coolest thing ever.
Doesn't have a cord.

No, but it's like putting a satellite next to your antenna because ignorance.

All right. We will see you tomorrow.
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