RADIOApril 25, 2022

The end of CNN+ makes Glenn VERY happy. Here's why.

Glenn says not even a house built with ice cream would be as enjoyable as watching the absolute FAILURE of CNN+ — a project that lasted only 32 days despite 300 MILLION DOLLARS backing it (with more pledged money to come). So, to celebrate, Glenn and the guys take a look back at how one CNN anchor ridiculed Glenn’s own streaming service (which currently is breaking records)…plus, hear the hilarious way Glenn ROASTED Brian Stelter when the news broke.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program. We're so glad that you joined us. Sorry, I apologize for my voice. But it's the allergy season here. And it is worse than I've ever seen, in my life. But, you know, don't worry about it.

Hey. I have a gallon of milk in my refrigerator that's lasted longer than CNN+. It was -- it was canceled. And we found out about it, yesterday.

And then my wife came in, last night. And said, hey. You know the CNN+ has been canceled. And there was just a little joy that I expressed, a little bit of that. A little bit of it, on Twitter last night.

STU: I did notice this. And reading your tweets. They seemed to be specifically targeted to one CNN employee, in particular. For some reason. You say, hey, Brian Stelter, perhaps you can join me on my successful global media streaming service to discuss your company's 300 million-dollar failure.
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Oh, man. That's the start.

GLENN: Awesome. That's great.

STU: PS, I won't ambush you. And my statements will be based in fact. So sad for you.

GLENN: Yeah. Well, this comes from the interview that I did. And it's a very popular clip on YouTube, of me walking off of the set for Brian. Because he -- he said, as usual, he really wanted to understand the right. And he really wanted to understand why people were, you know, backing Donald Trump. And, you know, just dismissing the media. That's very dangerous.

STU: It was very important to him. He brought you on. And then, of course, changed the topic of the interview, halfway through.

GLENN: All right. Can we play it?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: One is arguing justice. One is arguing mercy. Or they say they are. But they're not. All they're doing is playing politics. And the American people are tired of it. Who is talking about an actual solution on this? Who has actually done something? Who has actually been consistent and cared when it was a Democrat in office. And cared when it was a Republican in office.

You know, those people exist around the country. And they're watching you two. The media and Donald Trump playing this little game back and forth. And they're sick of it. They don't want to hear about it, from either side.

BRIAN: I want the critique because I invited you on. I'm self-aware to know that we can talk about this, because I know it's a problem. The mainstream media is having a very hard time. The mainstream media is having a very hard time, reaching Trump's base. That's a fact. We see it in all the polls.

GLENN: Well, then here's the deal, Brian. You all have my phone number. I've reached out to all of you in the past, and said, let's have a conversation, not on the air. You really want to understand? You want to hear the other side?

BRIAN: Why can't our viewers --

GLENN: Because it's all about ratings. Because this is all about ratings. This isn't about ratings. This is about saving our country. Bringing us together. Stop dividing us. I mean, you -- I can't --

BRIAN: So to be clear, you think I'm dividing the country. You think I'm dividing the country for ratings?

GLENN: Stop for a second. Brian, stop driving. Look at -- look at what you're doing. When did this become about you? This is about the media and the administration, that's what you guys want to make it into.

BRIAN: If it was about me, I would do like a 10-minute chalk board the way you just do.

STU: Oh. If it was about me, I would get on a blackboard the way you just do. Look at that. That's a good line.

GLENN: Well, then maybe you should.

BRIAN: I mean, the point is, I'm not making it about me. I don't see how I made it about me.

GLENN: You just said -- never mind.

Look, Brian, if you want to have a conversation, the media really wants to know, great. We can have that conversation. But every time someone -- every time I've approached, everybody always says, yes. But as soon as it gets tough or uncomfortable, nobody is interested. Nobody is interested in looking at themselves. And saying, what did I do?

I know what I've done. I know what I've done. I've tried to make amends. And I've tried --

VOICE: Yes. And we talked about it before. I completely agree with you. And we all do need to be more self-reflective.

I do have to ask you, there's this new headline on the Daily Beast saying, your company is in trouble. They were trying to find the buyer. Is this related to the point about being not talking to each other? That if you want to create that media company, there's not interest? What's going on with that?
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GLENN: Wow.

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: Brian, thanks a lot. I think that's the most ridiculous question I've ever heard. I'm sitting here ready to talk to you about the detaining of children and parents and trying to break -- break families apart. Something that has been happening with Janet Reno. That's why it went to the Supreme Court in the first place. With Janet Reno. It's been happening. We want to stop it. And you want to play those games?

Have a nice day.

VOICE: What game did I just play?

STU: That's interesting. Because now, the topic of that interview. And obviously the only reason he had you on. Obviously, you could see the entire time, all he wanted to do, was get to this gotcha question, about your media company failing. It was interesting to me, that he was very concerned about your media company.

Which at the end of the day, my understanding is, it's still on the air. I feel like I do a show for it, every day.

Yeah. And then --

GLENN: TheBlaze is just the largest right of center streaming service. In the world.

STU: Okay. Okay. That's one way. That's one thing. One way to look at it. So that one is still around. And CNN+ lasted not even one month.

GLENN: No, $300 million flushed down the toilet.

STU: $300 million. That's incredible.

PAT: Remember when you invested 300 million into TheBlaze, though? You remember that?

STU: Yeah. You flushed that down the toilet.

GLENN: No. Didn't do that. Didn't do that. That's why there might have been a little glee in my tweets.

STU: I sensed a little glee. Did I mention my streaming service had 300,000 subs, when streaming services didn't yet exist? It was only the Major League Baseball of TheBlaze. That's right.

That was the first couple. That was over ten years ago. I could say that your pompous ass didn't make -- didn't make ten weeks. Didn't bring me joy. But I will leave the lies to you, and CNN. And then you really got -- see, you like the self-reflective nature, that you had in that interview.

You brought back again. And you said, I am sorry, Brian Stelter, for that last tweet. I just lashed out after hearing the news about the biggest media failure of all time. Without thinking about how worried you must be, about your upcoming unemployment situation. Please know, you're in my thoughts.
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GLENN: I wanted to say my thoughts and prayers. But I know he dismisses the prayers.

STU: Right. There you go. Okay. Now, this is you again. After rereading the tweets, I see how childish they appear. But after being subjected to your constant lies and the transparent hatchet job you call a career, the epic fail of CNN, makes -- makes -- makes us believe in the old saying, that evil loses in the end.

And believe me, Brian Stelter, this is the end. I mean, the breathtaking speed at which CNN+ crashed was a spectacular, almost Ziegfeld Follies' end?

GLENN: Yes. Yes. Follow me on this one.

STU: Okay. That would be assuming that Ziegfeld had ever spent $300 million on his show, to only have it close in eight weeks.

But, of course, he didn't. Crap, Brian Stelter, I apologize. I used a hypothetical Ziegfeld Follies' comparison in my last tweet.

I made the point, that the failure of CNN+ was so epic, that it was akin to Ziegfeld having a $300 million production close in eight weeks. Sorry. I meant four weeks.
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One more thing, Brian Stelter. On CNN+'s epic $300,000,000 4-week flameout.

The Hindenburg of media failures.

Please note, I only use Ziegfeld Follies because I thought it would be relatable to you and your elitist, out of touch, New York City, upper west side, snotty coworkers.

Brian Stelter, when you're part of the cry of the business version of the Titanic and bodies are still in the freezing water, crew members begin to question themselves and become introspective. What did you do wrong? May I suggest a few things that I'm sure you may be thinking. And then you go into -- you launch into a plethora of things that they have done wrong. Of course, this is available on Twitter.

GLENN: Of course, it starts with Donald Trump. That's the reason why they failed. You know they're blaming it on somebody. But not themselves. They will learn nothing from this.

STU: At no point, did anyone rationally believe this would work. Why -- a network that no one watches when it's free on your cable system. Why would people spend money, to go out there, and justify -- and we keep saying $300 million. The plan was $1 billion over four years, on the streaming network.

Who could possibly believe that would work?

I mean, it's the -- it was dead before it began. Discovery because of the merger work, could not say that to CNN.

They could not say, the second we're taking over, we're shutting this thing down. They couldn't say it legally. So they did everything they could. And outwardly said, you know, this doesn't seem like a great idea. But they couldn't specifically tell them to change the plans. So they didn't. To make sure they protected the merger. The second they get in there. Well, obviously, this isn't going to work. The people at CNN rushed it through to start it, before the merger went through fully. So they could get it on the air. And made such a big deal about it, trying to lock discovery into keeping it going.

You know, they said stuff like, this is the most important moment in CNN's history. It's going to be the change the face of the news media.

Hoping that discovery would come in and say, how will we get out of this?

GLENN: It sounds a little like the Democratic plan in Washington, doesn't it? We'll just start all these things. And then hope the Republicans won't take them out.

STU: Take them down.

GLENN: And, you know what, if the Republicans do what they usually do, they won't take it down.

STU: Discovery didn't act like the Republicans. They acted like a company that wants to make money.

GLENN: Yeah. That wants to survive, you know what I mean?

STU: I mean, how hard did you laugh, when you heard this yesterday, Pat?

PAT: Oh. I loved it. I laughed until I wept. I was weeping for joy.

GLENN: You know what, can I tell you something? We honestly, with a very few elections on election take. We don't gloat. I don't enjoying people's failures.

PAT: It's impossible not to enjoy --

GLENN: I enjoyed this so much. I enjoyed this more than if they would have said, Glenn, not only would you get Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. You're going to be living in a house built with ice cream, okay?

You couldn't have made me happier. Than this failure.

PAT: Uh-huh. We were thinking of the biggest business failures of all time. And it's kind of on par with pets.com. Remember the spectacular --

GLENN: On par. No.

PAT: But it's way beyond that.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: Pets.com lasted 262 days.

STU: Wow. That's pretty good.

PAT: This lasted 30 days. Thirty-one.

GLENN: This really is the -- more akin to the Titanic. That ship lasted one voyage.

PAT: Hmm.

GLENN: It was unsinkable. It lasted one voyage, and rested at the bottom of the sea.

STU: At least it made it halfway across. You can't argue that with CNN+.

PAT: You cannot.

GLENN: This would be like the Titanic sinking in the dry dock. That's how bad this is.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.