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A lot of really good stuff we covered today. We start with the United Health CEO that was gunned down in New York yesterday. And the difference between actual justice from the Declaration of Independence and Marxist vigilante justice. And the horrible tweets that came out yesterday. Also the trilogy of holidays. Why this time is so important for each of us. And we talk about Norway, what is happening in Norway. It's about to be lost forever. All this and more on today's Best of podcast. Let me tell you about good ranchers. Just because everything else you know, you get this Christmas is made in China doesn't mean that the meat that you put on your family's plate has to be from China. Believe it or not, Brazil, China, that's where we get a lot of our meat. You know that little flag on the meat and the doesn't mean anything. Doesn't it means it was cut or wrapped here. It's not American meat. We need to support our farmers and our ranchers and you can do that with good ranchers. 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He didn't have any security. I am telling you right now, I said in 2010 maybe, Stu, when I was on Fox, I remember it clear as a day. You people that are supporting the left, you think you're fine, but when this really comes to a head, they are going to drag you out into the middle of the streets and beat you to death on live television and they won't care. Hopefully that's not going to happen because we had a revolution. And make no mistake, I Spend the hour with me here because I have a couple of takes that I think are so important that nobody's talking about. So let me start with the good news. What is the purpose of government? What is the purpose of government, specifically American government? Everywhere else. It's to, you know, enforce the law and keep the peace and everything. And that's true. However, in our mission statement, which is the Declaration of Independence, governments are instituted among men, meaning you create the government and they're instituted among men to protect our rights. The rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. The ones not just written down in the Bill of Rights, but all the other rights that are ungiven, that are talked about in the 9th and 10th amendment, okay? So there's all these rights. And when governments become hostile to those rights, when they start oppressing people and taking those rights away, it is the right and the duty to overthrow that government and replace it with a government more likely to protect those rights. Now, I have talked about this a lot, and every time in the last few years that I have said this, I've always had to have the caveat, that doesn't mean a revolution with guns. That means go to the ballot box. But later on, just a couple sentence later, it talks in the Declaration of Independence. And I'm badly paraphrasing here, but people are more apt to live with the pain that they know, okay? Until that pain becomes so horrible that they have to change and the reason why. And honestly, I can relate to this as an alcoholic. When I was. When I was drinking, I was more. In some ways more comfortable with the pain of. You're such a loser. You're an alcoholic. You're a loser. What are you doing? You're a wino, dude. I was more comfortable with that up to a point than I was of. Yeah, but I don't think there's anything inside of me. I don't. I think I am a loser. I don't what happens if I sober up and. And there's nothing good inside and this is as good as it gets? Now, I know that sounds crazy, but that's what the Declaration of Independence is talking about. You're more apt to live in pain until that pain becomes so bad that it's better for you or easier for you to go into the unknown. And that's when people change. When they're broken so bad and in so much pain that they're like, I'll try anything, okay? That's what we did. That's what people. People crossed lines. RFK. Do you know that would have never happened 10 years ago. Never. We wouldn't have accepted it. The people voting for Donald Trump, we wouldn't have accepted it. But we were in such bad pain after Covid that we were like, you know what? Somebody's got to do something because there's something really wrong. So we went into the unknown. How many times are you saying to yourself right now, I don't know, But I trust Donald Trump. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that's walking into the unknown because of our pain. So congratulations to the founders and congratulations to you, the American people. This is a grand and noble idea that has inspired generations of people all around the world to stand against tyranny, to demand justice, and to strive for equality. Okay, so now let me bring this to the other side of the Declaration of Independence and what you're fighting against, that second paragraph that describes everything that I just said in the Declaration of Independence, then clearly is also a warning that you do not take justice into your own hands. This is not mob justice. This is not a call for violence. It's not a license to spill blood on the streets or take justice into your own hands. Because that's what the Declaration of Independence, that paragraph where it says, it's the right and the duty. The reason why that's so dangerous is because uninformed people, people who are stupid or people who are desperate, read that as we got to get our guns. No, no. You stand together because you realize you have the power now. That's the American idea. Everywhere else in the world, it is. Go get your guns. Because everybody else's manifestos, if you will, starts with the grievances. It starts with, you did this. You did this. You're doing this to these people, and we hate you because of this. Ours starts with, here's what we're going to build. It starts with a grand idea, and then it says, we have to do this now and we have to overthrow you, because here's all the things you did to stop us from doing these grand things. So you have to proceed with prudence, reason, and care. And when revolution becomes necessary, it has to be lawful and peaceful and anchored in the systems and the principles that protect justice, not destroy justice. Now, here's the pattern that is going to unfold here soon. And there's a couple of things, and I want to get into more of them, you know, here in a few minutes, but I just want to stay focused on this one shooting of this healthcare official. People who are disillusioned by the failures of the institutions. People who are true Marxist revolutionaries, people who are anarchist and as I will talk about later, perhaps coming, those who are making themselves look like revolutionaries to protect themselves because radical transparency is coming. They are going to cause chaos and they will, they will use violence as their answer. However, as they target, like they did yesterday with the CEO, they'll target people. Pharmaceutical companies, you better have security. And not because of regular Americans, but because of Marxists, because of revolutionaries, pharmaceutical executives, healthcare leaders, et cetera, et cetera. These people will come out and act as judge, jury and executioner. All in the so called name of justice. But let me ask you, what is justice? What is it is shooting someone in the street even if they're guilty or not? Let's just say this guy is just guilty. He's been experimenting on babies and none of us knew. Shooting him in the streets, is that justice? Yesterday when this happened, Taylor Lorenz came out and made one of the just grotesque statements I've ever seen. You know, they wonder why people wonder why these executives are dead. Because she, she started to justify the gunning down of this executive. Because you know, they, they, they just don't, they don't cover people, they just let people die. They, they hassle people and you know, there is no justification. And as I'm reading I'm thinking to myself, she's horrible. And then I read the comments after and other people on the left, this is who the left is, the left, they are despicable. They justify everything involving death. Is this justice? No. No matter what the guy did, it's not justice. It is vengeance. And because of people like Taylor Loren it is, or Lorenz it is vengeance masquerading as righteousness. And that is very dangerous chaos wearing the mask of morality. And it's not only incorrect, but it is profoundly dangerous and deeply immoral. In my book Propaganda Wars, I talk about if somebody has betrayed you and your, and your, your values and principles and they have lied to you, never, never trust them on anything again. This is a great example. I haven't trusted her. I haven't read anything from her in a long time. But she is showing you not only is she out of step with the truth, she is a danger. She is reading her is putting poison into your soul. And be careful, be careful of these people. Street justice ignores the principles that underpin our society. Justice, true justice requires what? Due process? It's why I have a problem with all the smears. That's why people have a problem with everybody saying Russia, Russia, Russia, what, what, what, what, What? What's the evidence? Or Donald Trump, he. He acted to overthrow the government. He's a. He's a revolutionary. That overthrow. And he was part of. You never charged him with anything. Charge him, charge him. Due process. You don't just smear people. It requires evidence, it requires deliberation, it requires fairness. And when we abandon, we replace the rule of law with the rule of rage. And that's what we just overthrew. And if Donald Trump, and he's not, I've talked to him a million times, he is not engaging in rule of rage and revenge. That's wrong. He is going to the rule of law. We. And when we descend into a world where might makes right, where emotion supplants reason, where the powerful prey on the weak, what happens? I mean, think about it. Who decides who's guilty? In a world of street justice, who decides what a fair punishment is? That guy who wore a mask. We don't even know who he is. In the absence of law, it's not virtuous. It's not the virtuous who even prevail. It's the violent and the bullies that prevail. The loudest voices drowned out the reasonable ones. We've just lived through this. But this is what I said. This is a dangerous period. Now I've said I really kind of want to take this holiday to just kind of refresh and not bog you down with a lot of stuff and a lot of worry because we're going to need our strength when we come back. January 20th. They're not done. They are not done. They're not just going away. They are anarchists. This is anarchy, plain and simple. Anarchy. There is no foundation in anarchy for liberty. None. And when it's condoned like it was yesterday, it spreads like a wildfire. The act of vengeance inspires another act of vengeance. Especially if people up at the top start to say, oh, that's good, you know what? Maybe they deserved it. Then the streets run red with the blood of our neighbors. Today it's a corporate executive, tomorrow it's a politician. The next day it might just be somebody who disagrees with the mob. We've seen this. It's why we just voted. Return the law to justice. Blind justice. Because history has already shown us where this goes. This, where this kind of stuff goes is to the French Revolution, which began with noble ideas, I guess. Liberty, equality, fraternity. The people who were being screwed by the people at the top. They wanted a better, fairer society. But then justice gave way to vengeance. The revolution just devoured itself. They ate. The guillotine was rolled out. That was the arbiter of morality. All of a sudden reign of terror. Everybody who led anything, it was neighbor against neighbor. Everybody was just being killed. That's the legacy of street justice. The thought that we can indulge violence without consequence, that we can achieve justice by abandoning its principles. It's a lie. Violence begets violence. Hatred breeds hatred. And when we take justice into our own hands, we do not create a better world. We create a broken one. A society without law can never be free. Let me tell you about Jace Medical. 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It was around Christmas time. That was absolutely at my worst. I was. I was about. I mean, I had a choice. I'm either going to live or die. I'm going to repeat the suicide of my mother, or I'm going to stand up and stop feeling sorry for myself. And I was feeling really sorry for myself. And I had a lot of reasons to feel sorry for myself. I mean, I had wrecked my whole life. And I wish I could say that I made the decision on this green shag carpeted floor of this horrible apartment building that was really made just for a divorced man. We just, you know, all of us would pass each other in the hallway, hey, dude, your life still suck? Yeah, good to see you. See you tomorrow. And I decided to get up. And I wish I could tell you that the next day it was brighter, but it wasn't. But over time, once I made the decision, my life changed. And I can't believe the miracles that I've seen in my life. And it's not the fame or the fortune or anything else. It's not. It's my friends, it's my family. It's. Honestly, it's my integrity, which I value more than anything else that I have. When the road ahead seems shrouded in darkness, we all wonder. I don't think I have the strength to do this. I don't even know if I have the will to take another step. I don't know if I can get up tomorrow morning and do this all over again. Everything is against me. I mean, you know, just the idea, just of debt. My gosh, debt bothers me so much. I don't like owing people money. I don't like owing people the bank or anything else. It drives me out of my mind. I can't sleep at night. I hate it so much. And whatever it is with you, if you're hearing me right now and you feel any of that ache, that loneliness, that despair, that angst, let me just tell you right now, you're not alone. I'm feeling it. I think everybody's feeling it one way or another. But most important, it's not that you're just not alone. You're not without hope. It might feel like it. You might feel like. Glenn, you have no idea what I'm dealing with. I don't, but you have no idea what I was dealing with. And I thought it was the end for me several times. I mean, geez, Stu, do you remember? I built up. I went from zero, nothing, having nothing. You had a better apartment when you were 18 than I did when I was 30 because I was so broke. Remember that? And then we built. I built a fortune. And we. And we started the blaze. And then I went broke again. Or I was this close to going broke. And it's just a horrible feeling. Just a horrible feeling. And it just goes in cycles. And you have to see that. But you'll see that once you conquer some of the things that you have to deal with. Life is like a video game. You juice. You cannot go to the next level until you've completed the first level. And then you get to the next level and you're like, oh, this is going to be great. And then the next level is harder and you keep being set back, and you can't go the third level until you convince. Until you get past the second level. That's what life is really like. And if you look at it more of a challenge, you can handle it a little better. But I want you to look around this season, because this is. First of all, we have a lot to be thankful for. But this is every year, no matter what, every year. This is a strange and wondrous time of year, and I think in some ways, we're losing that. Christmas felt different when I was a kid. It's becoming more commercial and less about people, more about, ooh, look how they have their tree lit up in their yard. There is something about the. Well, I don't think it's a coincidence, but the coincidence of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's all in such close succession. It's. It's. It's as if it's the rhythm of the universe or perhaps something divine that's whispering a message of hope and redemption and showing us what we have to do. All you have to do is recognize it. That's really the secret of life. Get past what you're. Get past yourself. Get past. And I don't mean that like get over yourself. I mean, get past the things you've been telling yourself that are lies. They don't seem like lies right now. I know that I used to tell myself I'm worthless. I have. I have no talent. I'll never make it. I used to tell myself all those lies, and they were true at the time until I decided, I don't like that. I don't like that life that that's giving me. Start with Thanksgiving. This is how I think we should look at the holidays at first Glance, it seems, you know, it's a day for gratitude. But how many of us even really, truly took the time at Thanksgiving around our table and said, my gosh, look at the miracle that we just saw. We saw a founder style miracle happen again in America. God has not given up on us. He's given us the opportunity to now do our job. He's not going to keep doing it. He did what we couldn't do, and now it's up to us. And that's the way it always works with God. You know, it's more than just giving thanks for the easy blessings, the warm home, the family that's around, the food, the food on the table. Thanksgiving begins when we learn to be grateful for the things that have broken us, the family members that are not around the table. Whether it's from death or from political arguments, the things that broke us, when we can be grateful for those things, for the struggles that knocked us down, for the moments of pain, of failure, of loss, we will understand if we don't yet, we will understand that those are all crucibles that forge who we are. Those are the things. That's the refiner's fire. Gold is not pure until it goes through a fire. And the struggle, it's so bad sometimes. I know. Please. If you're struggling now, know that I have been where you are. And I know this sounds maybe a little like gobbledygook, but it's not. I am telling you this because I was where you are perhaps right now in many different ways. Struggle goes unnoticed. You just, you just see it as, I can't get past this. A heartbreak that taught you to love deeper, that's only understood long after that heartbreak. When that heartbreak is happening, it's heartbreak. And you're like, I can't go on. But that heartbreak now that you're going through will teach you to love deeper. The loss that teaches you resilience, the failure that redirects your path to something much better that you can't even see or understand right now. I'm so glad there are so many unanswered prayers in my life, because if I would have gotten, I'd be married to Farrah Fawcett right now. Okay. And, you know, I don't think that would have probably been a good relationship. But when life brings us to our knees, that is not a sign of defeat. It's an invitation. When Donald Trump was shot and he's laying down on the ground, he had a choice. Do I do what most people will do? What My instincts tell me to do, and that is get out of danger. Or do I stand up? Do I take this as God's invitation to stand up and say, you're not stopping me? That's a remarkable person. I don't know if I would be that person, but he is so. Things that knock us down. It's not defeat. It's an invitation to be a better person, to step up higher because you can. An invitation to be low enough to see life for what it truly is. I think that moment is what changed Donald Trump and gave us the man he is today, not the man he was in 2020. He saw. This is a chance for me. What is truly important? What am I really doing here on life? Why am I here? Why am I in this position that changed him? And that is. That takes humility. Something that you don't think of when you think of Donald Trump. You don't think of humility. But that was a humbling moment. And it's that gratitude, the raw, unvarnished, and born of humility, that has the power to heal everything. Gratitude, being thankful. We just had that with Thanksgiving. Have you truly done that yet? If you haven't, do it today. Start by writing three things. I just. I wrote. I'm starting to write them down every day. Three things you're grateful for. I wrote air travel. I'm really grateful for air travel. The way I can be in one place and the next. The miracle of a second chance. And it's never too late to understand. Family is the only thing that matters. Those are the three things I wrote down today. Be grateful for things. Okay, Now Christmas. Once you're grateful. This is a story not just of a child's birth, but as a gift that's so profound it reshaped the entire world. It gave us the Western world and all of the best things about it. Now think about this. Here comes the Christ child. He's not born in a palace. There's no fanfare. He's in the humblest of settings. He's in a stable that smelled. Cows were. Have you ever been in a stable? That's not really great. Imagine giving birth in a stable now for decades, I believe, because he had to be fully human and also fully God, he had to be human. I'm not sure he understood the enormity of his purpose from the beginning. You know, I think for the. You know, for maybe at least the first 20 years of his life, he was not. He wasn't sure of what was coming. And that's a mirror of our life. How often do we walk through the seasons of our life in confusion, like, I have no idea, wondering if what we're doing has any meaning or significance at all. I don't know. There's so many things I do that I'm like, is this really even going to make a difference? Is that. I mean, why am I doing that? But just as his birth wasn't understand understood until much, much later, our struggles, the ones you face right now, the ones that you seem, that you think are pointless, unbearable. That's just part of the story that hasn't been finished yet. That's just the tough part of the story. You haven't gotten to the part where you're like, oh my gosh, what a miracle that was. And his life was the promise of forgiveness. A second chance in a broken world, a clean slate. God himself would enter into the mess of humanity to give us, you personally, a second chance. Forgiving others is easy. Forgiving yourself is damn near impossible. And if you don't, if you're not humble enough and grateful for even the worst things in your life, you're not down on your knees to recognize that there is a second chance. And it was given by the man that we celebrate his birth at Christmas time. The knowledge that no matter how far you've fallen, no matter what you've done, you can start all over again. And then, as if the universe or God doesn't want you to miss the message, he's kind of like, okay, dummies, listen up. Just a few days after Christmas, we stand at the threshold of a brand new year old. Father time and the young baby. It's a whole new life. It's a whole new year. The world hands us a calendar full of blank pages where you don't have to write the same stuff in that you wrote last year. It can be completely different. It's a fresh start. You can completely embrace a different you. And it's not, lose weight, make more money, work harder. Those are good things. They are. They're good things. But a real New Year's resolution has to be deeply true. Instead of striving to fix what you think is wrong with you, why not this? Your? Embrace what is already right. What about embracing and forgiving yourself for your own failures? The bitterness that you've been holding on to, that argument that you had with a very good friend about politics, that's meaningless. It's hard to forgive others, harder to forgive yourself. Take responsibility for the things that you did because God's already done it. Who Are you to say I'm unforgivable or they're unforgivable when God has already forgiven? Weight loss is fine. Earning is, you know, fine. But that doesn't mend a broken spirit. Money and fame are poison. Forgiveness, self compassion is the cure. That's the miracle in the days ahead. I've always thought this collection of holidays is not just time off. It's a journey. You start with gratitude, not just for what's easy to celebrate, but for the struggles that shaped you. You look to Christmas as a reminder that your mistakes, your sorrows, your regrets don't define you. They're gone as soon as you let go of them. And then you get a whole new life, a whole new calendar with blank pages. What are you going to do with them next year? If you feel broken right now, broken things can still shine. It's through those cracks that the light gets in. You are not alone. You're not beyond redemption. You are not without hope. Just be ready, get ready. Take a deep breath. Look at your hands, your heart, your life, and start all over again. This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program. I want to introduce you to a journalist from Norway. Her name is Rebecca Mr. Agin. I like to call her Mr. Reagan because it's just cooler, you know, for us Americans. Rebecca, how are you?