The events of the 2024 election have given Glenn a new outlook on Thanksgiving this year. For years, he has been begging freedom-loving Americans to stand up for what’s right and return to God. And this year, you did! You gave Donald Trump a strong mandate to gut the Deep State and fix our broken nation. And then, there were the “miracles” of Trump surviving multiple assassination attempts and an endless bombardment from the media and our justice system. This Thanksgiving, there’s a lot for us to be thankful for!
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GLENN: So, Stu, how old were you in 1985.
STU: I was nine.
GLENN: You were nine. So you were probably just -- you remember Reagan, clearly.
STU: Yeah. I mean, back to the future, one of my all-time favorite movies.
1955.
'85. That was the year it took place. I remember that distinctly.
GLENN: And you have real memories of the Cold War.
STU: Yeah. For sure.
Of course, Rocky IV, the movie that ended the Cold War. You can accept the time line in your life.
GLENN: Right. So there was a guy that I don't know if you would have remembered.
He was a comedian and he came from around the Iron Curtain, and he and his family got out of the former Soviet Union.
He became a huge hit at the time, because we really didn't see former Soviet citizens.
And especially ones that could tell jokes. And his name was Yakov Smirnoff. Do you remember him?
STU: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
GLENN: Do you remember him? I just saw something from him, the other day, about Thanksgiving. And I haven't seen this. I don't know if I even say it in 1985, but it's worth listening to.
Here he is. Yakov Smirnoff, just fresh from the Soviet Union, talking about Thanksgiving. Listen to this.
VOICE: It's Thanksgiving. And I will tell you, it's my favorite holiday. I like parades without missiles.
When I first was explained about Thanksgiving in America. I said, wait a minute. It doesn't make sense.
I mean, for every freedom. And all the opportunities you've got here. The only thing you have to say is thanks?
It just didn't seem like it was enough.
My parents and I had our first Thanksgiving dinner. In the little apartment in New York.
And we joined hands. And my father said a prayer to good food and our health.
And then something happened.
Instead of releasing our hands. We couldn't let go.
We kept holding on to each other, tighter and tighter. As we realized, we were together. And we were free.
Really free.
And here we were, three who don't even people, looking for a way, we could possibly show our appreciation.
And we couldn't.
Now, I know what it is.
It's thanks.
Good night.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: If you're watching it, you can see that he tears up at the end. There's no words to express thanks. And we have lost -- we have lost that.
The deep, deep gratitude for our lives. I have felt it overt last year. Unlike I've ever felt gratitude for my freedom. My safety. My family's safety.
Being born here. And now, especially after the election, you know, God -- miracles can happen in your life all the time. Just quote, chance encounters. Is it a chance encounter?
Or is that an answer to a prayer? Is that Divine Providence?
Miracles come, when there's really no other explanation. When something that just, you all have agreed that just can't happen. Happens.
Donald Trump, getting shot at. So close, that the camera picks the bullet up.
Speeding toward his head. And just before it goes into his head. He moves his head, in a way he never is it before.
And it clips his ear. Instead of going right into the temple.
That doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. To have a politician, or a guy, who is constantly beat on. Constantly smeared.
Had more investigations done on him, than I -- and I believe this to be true. I would love to see an actual study on this.
Somebody who had more investigations, more spies on him.
More -- you know, going through the trash and everything else.
More than anyone else in human history, by far! Because every spy agency, in the world, did that!
And then they went back and said, there's got to be something else!
For him to just continue to stand, and then when somebody tries to kill him, his first response is, stand up!
And then, for him not to be angry, but instead, to be humbled.
What are the odds there? For him to continue to go on, and, in fact, continue to stand.
Do you know -- his plane was targeted.
His plane was targeted.
We know that there are surface to air missiles. We know that he was going to be targeted by foreign entities, that are here.
For him to just get on his plane every time, the man knew he was risking his life.
For him to run the campaign, that he ran, in the last he eight months. You remember what it was like?
It was all, you know, they're after me.
And all of this stuff. Because they were after him. But did you notice, after the assassination attempt, when he could have said, instead, he had a much more uniting message.
And a happier message.
And a positive message.
And then for all of these people to building out of the woodwork. And start to say. You know what, this is evil.
I heard more talk from people who are not Christians!
More talk from people going, there is something seriously wrong.
And I think it's evil, what's going on.
America woke up. I've been doing this for 50 years. On the radio. Almost 50 years.
I've been -- I've been doing this, warning people for 24 years.
I didn't think you would wake up. Stu brought it up, you know, our theme is, you know, stand up.
We wrote that theme four years ago, because if you don't stand up, we're done.
And we put that on, and I tried to make that an encouraging thing to convince people, you've got to stand up right now. We're going to lose everything.
It's okay to stand up.
It's the only way. You stood up!
After 24 years of the same message, coming from me, in different ways! Where I had lost hope.
I mean, I said to you, all last year, we've got to find God!
We've got to -- we've got to be people, where God thinks, you know what, they're worth saving.
I said to you over and over again. I can come up with a million ways, this is going to go wrong. But there's on me one path for it to succeed.
And that is God.
And he showed up!
He showed up! He's not done with us.
He should be. Honestly, he should be. With everything that we do, for as -- for as big of a miracle as that is. I think a lot of people.
I mean, I heard it right after the election. Wow!
That was a miracle. And people meant it as a literal miracle.
That was a miracle. Yeah! It was.
Next week, will we even remember it, by next Thursday?
Or will we make the holiday that was built to humble ourselves and to thank God for our blessings.
Will we even remember the massive miracle?
Stu, would you agree, one of the miracles you've seen in your life for America.
I mean, that was a miracle. That that happened.
In the way that it did. All of a sudden, the messaging was right. All of the right things fell into place.
You know, for the first time ever, the G.O.P. was serious on their ground game.
I mean, all of these things that happened.
STU: I thought you were just referring to him turning his head.
GLENN: Yeah. And that. All of that.
From that moment on, all of that was a miracle.
Let's not forget that next week. He's not -- he's not done with us.
You know, I heard somebody say to me, on Election Day, I feel really good. I feel really good.
I'm cautious, but I feel really good. And here's why: Why would he recognizing the miracle of the assassination attempt. Why would he save Donald Trump, only to not save it now?
I couldn't think of a reason.
Other than, I don't understand the mind of God.
Think of this miracle.
If Donald Trump would have won in 2020. It would have been more of the first term.
We wouldn't get what we're about to get now.
We wouldn't get the reduction of the government. We wouldn't get possibly the closing down of some agencies, of cutting these agencies in half. We wouldn't have gotten those things.
We wouldn't have Elon Musk. We wouldn't have Vivek Ramaswamy.
We wouldn't have known. Remember, they didn't start cutting our children, until the Biden administration.
None of us had any idea about all this transgender stuff, because that and DEI, if you brought it up, it wasn't being done at least as openly.
But it was all set to go.
It wasn't being done, until Biden got in.
And then when we said, what the hell is all this?
They said, it was a conspiracy theory. And it took us three years, to go, no, it's not.
It's not a conspiracy theory, and it's deadly. It took us three years, before the doctors even started to turn.
It took COVID to wake people up. There is no bad!
There really -- my father used to say this to me. Glenn, there is no bad.
It's what do you do with the bad things that happen to you.
You can either wallow in. And say, oh, that was bad.
Or you can recognize, that sucked!
But what did I learn from it? What did I take?
How can I take that and turn that into a blessing?
COVID was a blessing in the end. Because it woke people up!
Tomorrow, I have some surgery, then I go on vacation.
It's not a big surgery. It's just, I have facial surgery, again.
Because I guess I'm out of room on my face, for more cancer. So they have to take some cancer off my face. So I can grow new cancer.
I don't know what -- this never ends.
But this is my last chance to talk to you before Thanksgiving.
And this is my last chance before Thanksgiving to sincerely thank the Lord for showing up, for sincerely blessing our country.
For showing me a miracle. Two. One that I saw in North Carolina where people were standing because God told them, come from across the country.
I know you don't know anybody.
I know you don't think you're going to be able to make a difference.
But just go.
And they got in their cars. And they drove across the country. And those people were put to work in ways, that I couldn't have served!
Maybe you couldn't have served. But they actually did it! And God worked a miracle. And then he worked this.
Please, even if it is just holding the hands around the table. Just for an extra minute, there is nothing that we can say to him.
More meaningful than just thank you.
Thank you, Lord, for an incredible experience.
Thank you for letting us live at this time, to be in your service. Thank you for waking us up.
Thank you for giving us the reason to stand. Happy Thanksgiving.