The Christmas Spirit | 12⧸24⧸20
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 45 minutes
Summary
In this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by WOOD Radio in Grand Rapids, Michigan's own Justin Breckenridge, who fills in for Beck today. They discuss the latest in the election hacking scandal, the Democratic National Convention, and much, much more!
Transcript
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What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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Hey, it is Justin Barclay from Wood Radio, W-O-O-D in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
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It was 50 here yesterday, last night, now walking the dog,
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but we'll try to bring you a little bit of Christmas cheer this morning.
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We'll get to it all coming up right after this on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Justin Barclay filling in for Glenn today and a very Merry Christmas to you.
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Lots going on, too, and coming up, actually, in the program.
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We're going to talk with folks all over the country.
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I want to talk to you, but I'm also going to reach out and talk to some people that you may not have heard of
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You're going to hear some news that you may not hear,
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especially if you're watching the traditional sources, the networks, the usual suspects.
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One of the most troubling things for me during this entire last year, the election process,
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but also the pandemic, and we've seen this kind of creeping in for the last several years,
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has really been this idea that who can you trust anymore?
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Where do you go for, like, real credible information?
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And especially in a time when you really need it, now more than ever.
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I think we have been at war for quite some time.
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Whether or not we recognize it, whether or not it's clearly stated,
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It's sort of this new generation, this next, you know, maybe this is World War III
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But World War III might be with strokes on keyboards.
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We've seen these hacking issues that have plagued the government very recently here.
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We've heard issues with the election, and in fact, coming up,
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we'll talk with an attorney who says he has the goods.
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You may have heard of this little tiny county in Michigan where I'm from.
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Traditionally, it's a, well, it's a mostly Republican county.
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Results came back, and it had swung big time for Joe Biden.
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But a Michigan attorney investigating because of a lawsuit file
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that had nothing to do really with the presidential race.
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He'll get into that and talk about why, but also what they found.
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I mean, the real nitty-gritty, the data from those Dominion voting machines
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that he thinks is a reason to question not just Little Antrim County here in Michigan,
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but many other counties here in the state that use the same software,
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and not just Michigan, in fact, but states throughout the entire country.
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We've heard these names, but we haven't heard the rest of the story.
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Coming up in the next hour, we'll talk with Michigan attorney Matt DiPerno.
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I'm also going to get into some of these other stories that you'll hear.
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You'll hear stories, but you won't hear maybe the full reasons.
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And the real, I don't know, the real story of what's happening.
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So what was in, speaking of which, that gigantic pork-filled burrito.
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I like, I think that sounds, it sounds delicious.
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The pork-filled burrito that Congress passed the other day.
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And that's what most news organizations are focusing on.
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She might even get a vote done in the House on $2,000.
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You can do that on the program today at any time.
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you know, these issues that we're talking about,
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There's so much more raw than just those labels
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that sense you can have a little bit of a sense
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happens has a purpose and it's part of a larger
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rough and unbeautiful if you will and it doesn't
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of it is something beautiful that we just can't
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moment of chaos or every chapter of chaos always
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birth something beautiful in fact you could say that
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our calling or our destiny is always birthed out of
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chaos look at the origins of America I mean it was
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birthed in in revolts and right you know it's just
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beautiful came out of that and and we became a you
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know a beacon of light a shining light a city on a
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there's just some beautiful things but they come out
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of chaos and so I'm really trying to partner with
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God and find out where he's bringing light into dark
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places and and hold that that thing loosely in my hand
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and not try to clench that but keep the palms open and
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realize that God can use very bad things to accomplish very
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good things in fact I would say it this way that sometimes
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the only way to create a greater good is through a lesser
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evil and that's a mystery and I'm okay with that younger in
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my life I felt like I would need to control outcomes the older I get the
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more I realized that life is a great mystery and there's a certain amount of
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tension you've got to hold on to things loosely don't over anticipate just live
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in the moment athletic trainers will talk about living in the zone or playing
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in the zone don't over anticipate the next move don't regret the past move
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just live right now because that's all we have and I think a lot of our
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stress that we have over the holidays is we're fearing the future what's
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going to happen so we get all worked up about that or we're punishing our past
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because the things that we regret or people have done or we've done to
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ourselves but we're never now and if anything I think the holidays
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especially Christmas which is about Christ is living in the now it's just
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letting Christ be incarnated in you it's Christ coming into you into your life
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as your Lord and as your Savior and then there's an incredible sense of calm
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that comes with that that keeps you in the center Christ is always the center
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he's the calm in the middle of the storm and without him I just think that it's
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all chaos but with him there's that center there's that calmness even though the
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chaos is all surrounding if you're with him and he's with you there's a
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tremendous amount of calm and reassurance that comes with that
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relationship with Christ especially through the chaos of this last year
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maybe some words that'll that'll bring you some hope and a little comfort maybe
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some peace for the season Kevin DeVries my good friend grace explorations.com
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thank you so much for being here with us and sharing a little bit of your story
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with the rest of you Justin thank you Merry Christmas Merry Christmas brother
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we'll take a break and we'll put a bow on this thing Justin Barkley in for Glenn
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and welcome back Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program and a
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Merry Christmas to you I want to say that because
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from the bottom of my heart as a new father not only does
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the meaning of Christmas said a little differently with me this year but
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everything we face and have faced over the last year or so takes completely new
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the perspective that I've gained in the last year
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I can only hope that I've been able to share maybe just a little bit with you and
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some of the stories from others the miracles that have happened even in some of the darkest
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moments of this last year have been incredible on one hand we are sitting in the midst of it
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now with a child that's in the NICU and how tough that is because it's not easy going back
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and forth and just not being able to bring your child home
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something that I think a lot of us maybe take for granted
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that's what I choose to focus on this Christmas