For years, I ve heard the same story from listeners: they know they need help with their hearing. They're intimidated by the process of getting the help they need, the tiny gadgets, the apps that you have to fight with all the time, too much. It's expensive. So why don't we just make this simple? Why don t we have the first over-the-counter hearing aid with a touch screen built right into the case? You don t need a prescription. You just tap the screen and you re hearing clearly.
00:11:07.320Everybody's doing it because they want to, it might cost them personally some money, but they've all volunteered and go, I'll take care of that.
00:11:20.340I don't think this is going to be like a, you know, a, uh, you know, a cop show where, you know, it, you, you have the crime, the police figured out, they arrest, then they go to trial and then you show them in prison at the end.
00:11:33.360I think this is a longer, a longer story, um, that we're going to be following for a while, but, um, thank you God.
00:11:50.640I mean, I think we were talking a little bit about this before and you mentioned something, um, that I thought is true and seemingly unfortunate from our perspective and I'm sure from hers too, but like, this isn't necessarily this, like neatly, uh, wrapped up in a bow television episode that, you know, last 30 minutes and it's over.
00:12:11.860And we all got the nice resolution at the end.
00:12:13.460Like she's got a long road ahead of her, no matter what happens here.
00:12:27.360I, you know, and she deserves, of course, the medical privacy that we all deserve, right?
00:12:31.520Like when we're going through these things, she's going to have, you know, we're not going to get like, it's not going to be like, Hey, we've got 12 new things to tweet to you every day.
00:12:38.220It's going to be something that's going to be, uh, you know, you know, different than that.
00:12:43.120But also there's a chance here now, right?
00:12:53.080And because of this audience, the administration, Dr. Norman and many others working behind the scenes, like it changed that entire narrative.
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00:40:43.720I have to tell you, I am so excited for January 5th and all of the changes that are coming in my life personally and in the show and the approach that we're taking.
00:40:59.280I hope you join us right in early January and experience the torch.
00:41:07.460In fact, we might be releasing parts of it, you know, uh, the website, it's all a brand new website and everything might be releasing parts of it here, uh, in the next few days.
00:41:17.580Um, just to make sure that, you know, it all works doing some beta testing now on a lot of stuff, but we're so excited, so excited, uh, for you to see all of the new material.
00:41:29.360I can't remember what we're launching with, it is more material now that we're launching with than I have at the blaze and glenbeck.com now combined all of that.
00:41:43.540I mean, it's just so much stuff, uh, and it's only going to get better and better and really hopefully empower your family.
00:41:50.940Uh, let me go to Brian, uh, quickly in New York.
00:41:54.600Hey guys, I hope you're all doing well.
00:41:58.000Hey, um, just one thing that I wanted to, I just wanted to bring up from a strategy standpoint that, that I don't feel is ever really brought up has to do with just having kids.
00:42:07.620And I guess I just wanted to get your thoughts on that.
00:42:09.640I mean, to me, it seems like a strategy for success.
00:42:12.700Uh, we know it's being done within the Muslim world, obviously.
00:42:15.700Um, why is that not spoken about more?
00:42:18.260And again, I just think it seems like a missed opportunity.
00:42:21.880Well, I think you're, you're exactly right.
00:42:23.780And I think if we don't have kids, we are just going to disappear off the face of the earth.
00:42:28.160Um, the numbers by 2050, make it inevitable that we're an Islamic world.
00:42:32.700Um, and I don't think that's a, I don't think that's a good, a good thing.
00:42:36.280Uh, quite honestly, I think, uh, Christianity is very, very important.
00:42:39.600I think the Western civilization is very important, but we're not having kids and it has been a very long, I mean, it's very Malthusian.
00:42:46.560I've been studying this maybe next year I'll do something on it, but it, this has been going on for, you know, centuries of trying to just liquidate people and keep the numbers small.
00:42:56.940And, you know, we've seen it, uh, you know, going from eugenics into global cooling, global warming.
00:54:36.280Because Mike's always hard to get a hold of at this time because he's like, I'm working on Senate stuff, Glenn.
00:54:41.100Who do we have that's a constitutional scholar that we could call real quick and see if we can get an answer on that before the end of the show?
00:54:46.980So I'd like to at least put a call out to Mike Lee, will you?
00:54:50.200But I'd like to know that because the president has and Stu and I have been talking about this for a while.
00:55:11.720These things where, you know, wait, I can't investigate this.
00:55:16.280That what that does is if you are as a president doing something that you shouldn't be doing, all you have to do then is say, I pardon everyone in my administration for anything that they might have done wrong.
00:55:32.400Yeah, I mean, and you have the the immunity deal, which, again, I think it's I don't see if the I don't see how a pre pardon is even possibly covered.
00:55:44.040Like, it's just such an insane concept.
00:55:46.720I mean, the way that Biden he's right, that Hunter Biden actually committed a crime and pardoning him from that is in theory, obviously, outside of the family interest was the way that that was supposed to work.
00:55:56.160But they also pardoned him for multiple years of question marks, whether he committed crimes or not.
00:56:10.620Personally, I get that there's reason the founders were very, very smart, but the founders are smart enough to also have a process for constitutional amendments.
00:56:17.100And I would support one getting rid of the pardon power completely.
00:56:50.100But the other part I would say that I think is even worse and is never discussed are these types of pardons where they say, you know, all marijuana crimes.
00:57:00.400Everyone who had one of those are pardoned.
00:57:06.460If I wanted to come in and say, hey, I think marijuana should be legal, I could theoretically become president and just say everyone ever committed, everyone convicted of a marijuana-related crime is now pardoned.
00:57:18.560And, like, that's just you making laws.
00:57:21.260It's you going completely around Congress and the entire process we have there.
00:57:24.880Like, at the very least, it should be massively restricted from the way that it's being utilized by not only, you know, several presidents in a row, I would argue.
00:57:35.540But it should just, you know, I think it should just go away completely.
00:57:39.540It's the most king-like power that the president has, and it doesn't make any sense to me.
00:57:52.520He gave clemency for anybody who was convicted of a nonviolent federal drug crime with no significant criminal history while serving extraordinarily long sentences.
00:58:03.700And anybody who was a violent offender was not eligible.
00:58:09.380And it was – it wasn't a true mass pardon, but it was pretty close to it, you know.
00:58:17.200It was mass and scale, but not blanketed.
00:59:11.360This has been going on for a long time.
00:59:13.400Barack Obama, I think, got really, really bad.
00:59:17.140But this was going on before him, obviously.
00:59:20.240But Barack Obama kind of set something off.
00:59:23.100And then because we couldn't get any legislation passed, we had Donald Trump try to do executive orders to combat Barack Obama's executive orders.
00:59:33.760Now Trump has – it's got to stop because here's the problem.
00:59:36.840One of the things I said in our special on Wednesday, which was biggest stories of the year and predictions for next year, I said you're going to start to see rolling brownouts in places like Texas in 2026.
01:09:45.960I don't want to say the name or anything like that.
01:09:48.780You know, you could break away, embolism, whatever.
01:09:51.080There's all kind of dangers, and this guy's waiting, and, I mean, I'm kind of benefiting from it because I still want to go month to month because I haven't bought anything yet.
01:10:06.380The parathyroid thing, I mean, that system up there is just a total mess.
01:10:13.060Before you comment, if there's time before I get off the call, before I get kicked off the call, I may, because of my experiences as a shuttle driver, have a ray of hope for you on the power situation in Texas, but I won't get into that right now.
01:10:28.320All right, so let me comment on that, Tom, and I'm going to put you on hold, and you can pass that information to my producer.
01:10:33.980But let me comment on the health care thing.
01:10:37.780You're absolutely right, and I want to make sure that, because up in Canada, they're trying to make this like I'm, you know, against Canadian health care.
01:10:52.600You have a right to make that decision if that's what you want to do.
01:10:55.260I don't want it in my state, and I think it's a mistake.
01:10:57.440But you're Canadian, you can do whatever you want, and I know Canadians, I mean, you know, my brother Robert, his wife is Canadian, and she has defended the Canadian health care system my whole life.
01:11:11.800I've known her since we were teenagers, and she has defended this her whole life, and her family lives up in Canada.
01:11:18.860That is starting to change as people they know and people in the family are not able to get basic things done anymore.
01:11:27.920It's because the system is being overwhelmed.
01:11:32.100Sometimes this socialized thing will work for a little while, but then as things change and numbers begin to change, you get overwhelmed, and then you have to start rationing.
01:11:43.100And that's what's happening, and it is extraordinarily dangerous.
01:11:45.820And, you know, I don't know what's happening with Jolene.
01:11:49.140I just know that the doctors down here, the hospital, everybody is on board.
01:11:55.500They're going to do a thorough review of her case.
01:12:46.760That's why you need to be able to have a doctor who's looking at you, listening to you, thinking out of the box.
01:12:53.420I mean, I've been so fortunate myself, but I'm, you know, and I'm not your average person, and it kills me that people don't have this ability.
01:13:06.000But we have to find a way to fix it so everyone can have this ability to be able to see doctors here in the United States, and socialized medicine is not it.
01:13:16.180But I've seen three doctors, I think, from my back, and all three of them have had different opinions.
01:13:20.580They all say pretty much the same thing, but the treatments are completely different, completely different.
01:13:27.000And one will say, I think there's something here that the other didn't see.
01:13:32.660If you only have one doctor, and you're in socialized medicine, what that doctor says, there you go.
01:18:10.020And being aware of all of this, it is why we had a discussion because people said, Glenn, you don't want to call it George AI because AI is going to be, everything's going to be AI eventually.
01:18:21.460And I, my, my view was, uh, George AI, we're not to that point yet where everybody understands AI.
01:18:28.460And I want it always to be, you know, when we, when we get into the video releasing of this next year, and this is not something that you'll even be able to recognize, but everything we create beginning next year, everything is watermarked.
01:18:42.680So I'm going to know what's live and what is, uh, AI, you can't take any of my videos and manipulate me because there will be an invisible watermark that we know about.
01:18:54.800And we'll be able to go not Glenn, that's AI.
01:18:58.420Um, and the same thing with everything that we produce that is AI, it will be watermarked, uh, and an invisible watermark that we'll be able to say, no, that's not truth.
01:19:29.300The, the features aren't exactly right, but it's amazing.
01:19:33.280Um, but in a year from now, it's going to be remarkable.
01:19:39.980And that's when it is really important that people understand.
01:19:45.300And I, I was talking to somebody who just, uh, gave a talk at the white house yesterday.
01:19:50.560She called me for some, uh, you know, some AI, um, talking, you know, some, some thoughts on this.
01:19:56.800Cause she represents, um, uh, families and moms.
01:20:00.820And she was asked by the president to speak to all of these producers of AI.
01:20:05.540And she said, Glenn, what do I need to know?
01:20:07.660And I said, you need to know that anything anthropomorphic must be marked and parents must know and have a choice.
01:20:17.600So, you know, any of these plush toys that have AI capabilities, I think they should be banned.
01:20:25.220Um, I don't think anybody should be able to make any kind of AI doll plush, anything that represents like a talking animal or anything else, because the AI is going to get so good.
01:20:38.340And it is going to be gathering stuff from your children.
01:20:41.500And unless you have control of that, um, you know, on our AI, when we actually release the full version of it, you will have an opt out.
01:20:53.420Do you want it to, um, be able to, uh, discuss things with your children and learn from your children on their educational stuff?
01:21:03.340Not any personal stuff, just educationally.
01:21:05.840Do you want it to evaluate educationally or not and learn from that so it can help your children learn better or not?
01:21:14.240And then all of that information goes into a vault that you would control.
01:21:18.300You could say purge it and we would never use it for anything else.
01:21:21.360But that, that requires a great deal of trust.
01:21:24.060I don't know how many people would sign up for that, but that would give us an ability to help your child learn a little bit better.
01:21:30.760But it also requires us to learn or the system to learn about your child.
01:21:36.620When you are dealing with corporations that you don't know, you don't trust, that information is going to go everywhere.
01:21:44.100And that's the kind of information that is going to go into these plush toys.
01:21:47.600And they're going to learn everything about your kid and they're going to map everything about your kid.
01:22:53.380Your identity isn't just a collection of numbers.
01:22:55.380It is the story of your life, where you work, what you built, the credit you've earned, the future that you're trying to provide for your family.
01:23:01.900And the craziest part of the digital age is how quickly somebody that you've never met can slip in into that story and start rewriting it without you even knowing.
01:23:10.640That's why living without some sort of protection is not worth the risk.
01:24:43.460I was just reading about the Washington Post.
01:24:46.560They're trying to do similar things with AI, and they're having massive problems, it sounds like.
01:24:53.460Just reading this one post on it about how their new AI personalization pods, which is like a podcast thing where you can pick your own podcast, host, all this stuff, and have them generate the content.
01:25:04.380Their standard editor just called their mistakes with it frustrating.
01:25:08.340And that if they were serious about it, they were going to pull it immediately.
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01:28:34.960Former award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, New York Times bestselling author, sold millions of copies, journalism degree at the University of Missouri, awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study at Yale Law School, has his Master's of Studies in Law degree.
01:28:53.340Journalist for 14 years at the Chicago Tribune, he's won Illinois' top honors for investigative reporting, public service journalism award for the United Press International.
01:29:05.300He taught First Amendment law at Roosevelt University.
01:29:09.300He was an atheist, has now served as a teaching pastor at three of America's largest churches.
01:29:55.940A house can be your largest investment, your family's foundation, the key to the next chapter in your life.
01:30:02.320And yet, you still lean on somebody who, you know, isn't prepared, not engaged, they're not great at their job, but you don't know because you don't really know how to interview real estate agents.
01:30:12.600I started working with the 500 best real estate agents, according to the Wall Street Journal, because I was very frustrated.
01:30:18.940And my brother and I started a company called realestateagentsitrust.com.
01:30:24.140After a few years of working with these people and trying to figure out what is the key, what makes you one of the best real estate agents in the world.
01:30:32.020And we figured that key out and we put a staff together, an amazing staff.
01:30:36.480All they do is just vet are these real estate agents.
01:31:39.800Being an atheist, my wife became a Christian.
01:31:41.720So I decided to try to rescue her from this cult that she's gotten involved in.
01:31:45.680So that launched me on an investigation into the historical reliability of Christianity.
01:31:50.860I did that for two years until I became convinced that in light of the evidence, it would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian.
01:32:00.620So I became a Christian and ended up leaving journalism and so forth and written many books about it.
01:32:06.020But I wanted to do a book on Christmas because in the Christmas season, there seems to be a more spiritual openness than any other time of the year.
01:32:15.040Even when I was an atheist, I felt more spiritually sensitive during the time of Christmas.
01:36:10.640Should we be concerned that only two of the four Gospels talk about the birth?
01:36:14.140No, I don't think so, because, first of all, those are two solid sources, historically and very early.
01:36:21.900Mark gives us a reference to the fact that Joseph was not the biological father.
01:36:27.720And he also portrays Jesus as being the unique Son of God.
01:36:31.480And John, of course, was a theological take on the Incarnation, is basically saying the same thing.
01:36:37.460So, no, I don't think that's a problem.
01:36:39.460And the differences in the Gospels, I don't think are a problem either.
01:36:43.540Because, you know, as someone trained in law, if you're in a trial and the witnesses get up and they all say the exact same thing, you object and say, your honor, collusion.
01:36:55.000They got together, they worked out the story, and you can't trust it.
01:36:59.100But when you have different perspectives, people emphasize different things.
01:37:02.860There's, for instance, a technique that was used in ancient literature that's used today called literary spotlighting.
01:37:10.140And what that means is somebody will focus on what one person is saying or doing, and other people will focus on other people who are involved in the same scene.
01:37:31.900I was going to say, when you look at the literary techniques that were used in the first century by other ancient writers like Plutarch and so forth, these historians,
01:37:42.360and you use those same literary techniques in writing the New Testament, these discrepancies between the Gospels virtually disappear.
01:40:42.380Let me, I'm going to take a one-minute break, and then I want to ask you about the one word, one Greek word, that shed new light on the traditional Christmas story.
01:40:52.540More with Lee Strobel here in just a second.
01:40:54.900The name of the book, and it makes a great Christmas gift, and then you should buy it now and read it yourself as well.
01:41:01.580The Case for Christmas, The Case for Christmas by Lee Strobel.
01:42:37.500So tell me about the one Greek word that opens things up.
01:42:51.740It really does change everything about the common perception of Christmas.
01:42:55.160The common idea of Christmas that people have is that Mary and Joseph, because of a census, had to go to Bethlehem to register.
01:43:02.240And they get there, and she's about to give birth.
01:43:05.920And so you go to a lodge or an inn, and the mean old innkeeper says, sorry, no room here, and close the door in their face.
01:43:13.120And so they go off to a stable, and she gives birth among the animals and puts the baby in a manger.
01:43:18.540Well, what that comes from is just a sentence in the Gospel of Luke, where he says the baby was placed in a manger because there was no room for Mary and Joseph in the katalima.
01:44:18.180And so there was a manger also in the living area.
01:44:21.080While some of the more wealthy people had a katalima, a guest room.
01:44:26.020It had a separate entrance, and it made their house bigger.
01:44:28.920But what apparently happened is that Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem, and they went to the home of a relative and knocked on the door and said, hey, we're here for the census.
01:46:00.160And the other thing is in first-century Jewish culture, the value of hospitality was so high that it would have been impossible for an innkeeper to turn away a pregnant Jewish woman.
01:46:12.620I mean, he would have been ostracized from the church.
01:46:14.700He would have run out of town on a rail.
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