RADIOFebruary 03, 2024

Is ‘Cabrini’ the BEST Christian film since ‘The Passion of the Christ?’

From the director of “Sound of Freedom” comes a new film that Glenn believes may be the best Christian movie since “The Passion of the Christ.” When Glenn first saw Angel Studios’ newest film, “Cabrini,” he was floored. “I feel like how those sitting in the room with Francis Ford Coppola must have felt like on the first screening of ‘The Godfather.’” Now, Angel Studios co-founder and president Jordan Harmon joins Glenn for the premiere of the latest trailer for “Cabrini.” Harmon dives into the backstory behind the film and what makes Angel Studios theatrical releases so unique.

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GLENN: I want to tell you a story, a few months ago. I was here in Georgia. And I had the opportunity to see a rough cut film. I don't know if it had been locked yet.

But a film that had been made, called Cabrini.

And, well, I decided to go. And I'm sitting next to the studio head.

As we're all watching this movie.

There's about 20 of us. And about halfway through. I lean over.

And I said, I feel like those sitting in the room with Francis Ford Coppola, must have felt on the first screening of the Godfather. This film, Cabrini is a tremendous film. It is a great story. It's well-acted. John Lithgow is in it.

It is -- it is -- it's a miracle of a film. It -- I compare it to the quality of the Godfather.

It's an epic tale. And it is beautiful.

It is the highest of the art form. If it wasn't, you know, being released, I think by Angel studios, it would win best picture, when it comes out.

It is remarkable, and now the reason why I -- I want you to really listen to this is, do you remember what Christian films were just a few years ago?

Remember how bad they were?

Remember how preachy they were?

Oh, my God. Can we just make a good movie?

We are making good movies now. And this is an exceptional movie. It is Cabrini.

And it is a story about Mother Cabrini. If you don't know who she was. She was an Italian immigrant. She comes to New York City in the 1800s. And she just wants to help the immigrant children because there's no -- I mean, the way, you think immigrants have it bad now. Oh. You should see the way it was.

She decides, that she will clean things up. She will help feed people. She will teach them, et cetera, et cetera.

And she ends up building an empire of hospitals, in just a few short years. She built 67 hospitals, orphanages and schools. And she's just this little woman, that was sickly. And deathly afraid of water.

And yet, I don't know how many trips she went back and forth, from Europe to America.

And changed everything.

She became an American citizen, in 1909.

And that is the story of the movie Cabrini that is coming out in a few weeks.

It's actually March 8th.

There's a reason I'm telling you this, in advance. And to explain that, is one of the cofounders and the current president of Angel Studios. Jordan Harmon.

Hi, Jordan, how are you?

JORDAN: Glenn, it's so good to hear from you.

GLENN: I tell you, and you know I mean this. I've been raving about this movie to everybody I know. I can't wait to see how it does when it comes out. This is from the same director that did Sound of Freedom. He is a really big deal in South America. Everybody knows his name in South America. And he has come and put this together.

And why did he pick this particular story?

JORDAN: Oh, man. That's a great question. I remember when I first talked to him about it. He said, Jordan, there's film that you want to do. And then there's film that you're called to do. And he said, this was a film that I felt called to do. Because it tells the story of a real woman who showed her power and her God innate power, to change the world in such a miraculous way. And when I heard that, it just hit me so deeply.

And I had a similar feeling to you, where I remember watching Cabrini for the first time and texting Jeff and Nil (phonetic), my brothers. They're the cofounders, and saying, guys, I think we found the next Frank Capra.

Alejandro Monteverde is so good. For those who don't know who Frank Capra is, he's the guy who did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He did It's a Wonderful Life. Some of the greatest and most iconic movies of that generation.

GLENN: I think you're --

JORDAN: Alejandro is an artist.

GLENN: I -- you are exactly right. I hadn't thought of it that way. I think he was the next Frank Capra.

I was a big fan of his, when I first saw, what was it? Little Boy. You remember that film?

JORDAN: Oh, man. It was so good. So good.

GLENN: Oh, it just captured America.

It was just -- he is really good. Really good.

So he's the same director that did Sound of Freedom, which ended up being the 16th highest grossing independent film of all time. Made over $240 million. It's never been done really before.

I mean, it was crazy.

But you guys at Angel have -- have short-circuited the -- the movies.

I mean, you -- distribution.

Walt Disney tried to do this.

And had to create his own distribution company. Which is almost impossible to do.

But you've short-circuited, because you go directly to the people.

Explain a little bit about the -- the system you've done, where people select what you make, and then how you get the theaters to accept the movies.

JORDAN: Yeah. So we've created what is called the angel guild. And the angel guild is this group of 200,000 people. And growing very rapidly, who basically get to be the gatekeepers to all Angel content. So unlike Hollywood, where you have five or six executives in a room, who are making the decisions for what is seen and what is driving the culture of our children and our grandchildren, you as individuals, get to come in, and decide.

So the Angel Guild, for example, you have a thousand-plus people, who randomly are sampled. They saw Sound of Freedom. They love this.

They got it out to the world, and it's now been seen by well over 16 million people on our best estimates, between theaters and Amazon. And trending on Amazon. Ask then Cabrini. People saw an early screening of that. And said, this is absolutely incredible.

I remember my wife watching it, and she said, this film is by far, the best film I've ever seen us put out.

Us being Angel. And that's saying something, when you look at dry bar comedy. And the Chosen, and the Sound of Freedom.

And there's all these different projects. And this film stands in a league of its own. And the reason it's critical that we're talking about this today, versus on March 8th, is that part of our model is helping the theaters, give us more screens, by having a direct relationship with them as well. So we basically already put tickets on sale. You can go to angel.com/Beck. And you can actually go get your ticket today, and that signals to the theaters, we want more content like this.

This is the content that's going to change the culture and is going to change the world, to where it looks the way we believe it should for our children and our grandchildren. And the theaters are on our side. The theaters love what we're doing. It was fun. We did a business conference called Cinematog (phonetic), and my brother was there. And he was wearing an Angel shirt. And people would walk up to him left and right. And they would pull out a cross. Or pull out a little scripture verse, like we're on your side.

GLENN: Yeah. And, you know what --

JORDAN: They're middle America.

GLENN: Right!

And they're in Middle America, and they also want to make money.

And what Hollywood is pumping out, nobody is going to see anymore. It's so separate from the Middle of America.

This is a great way. And I'm telling you, the problem with making films, is you can't get them into the theaters. Because you need the big Hollywood studios to distribute it.

Well, Angel Studios has broken that.

But to be able to have this scene, nationwide, the people that are like you, and me, that want to go see great movies.

We have to buy the tickets in advance.

Because once a few of those theaters sell out, then the theater chains all see that, and go, oh, wow. I better get on board.

And they start opening it up to their theaters, and it just spreads. That way, it has a massive opening. That's never been able to be done before.

GLENN: And the response for Cabrini has been incredible.

When you look at a big theoretical release in the US, it's usually between 2,000 and 3,000 locations. That's a really, really wide release.

And anything above 3,000, just massive. We are already over 2,000 locations all over the nation.

And people are pouring in to buy tickets, because they're realizing, this is a film. This is a cinematic masterpiece.

GLENN: It really is.

JORDAN: This is not a motion picture. This is a motion painting. Every seen, every frame.

GLENN: It is.

JORDAN: Is absolutely gorgeous. And it has to be experienced in theaters.

And so, like I said, go to Amazon.com/Beck. Make sure you get your tickets now, because again, it, again, it signals to the theaters, give us more locations. Give us bigger auditoriums.

This is the type of content that will change culture.

GLENN: This is, I would say, the only Christian film made in my lifetime, that is this good. Is probably Passion of the Christ. Where that was just a mainstream, unbelievable film. Now, that was in Arabic, so I hate to say it was mainstream. But it was a great film.

This is the same thing.

It's the best thing.

And this is the kind of quality you're getting, because Angel has found a way to go directly to you, and bypass everything.

So if you believe in changing the culture.

If you believe that we deserve better than just one choice of Hollywood, then this is the kind of thing that you need to get involved with. And you can go to angel.com/Beck. Angel.com/Beck.

Is that right?

JORDAN: That's exactly right.

GLENN: Yeah. And you buy your tickets.

How do you join the Angel Guild?

JORDAN: Yeah, you can actually go to Angel.com/Beck as well.

You'll see on the left-hand side, people in the chat bar, that are joining the Angel Guild. They will be able to join the Guild, and that will allow you to actually be a part of not only getting two free tickets every Angel theatrical release, getting early access to our content.

But more importantly, your voice gets to be a part of of deciding what the next Angel project is. What the next Angel original is. You get to be the alternative to the Hollywood the gatekeepers. And that membership, that membership could be one of the most powerful thing that individuals can do today, to influence the culture for their children and their grandchildren.

GLENN: Yeah. Jordan -- what you and your brothers have put together, is absolutely amazing.

As you know, I'm a big fan. And a friend of -- of your whole family.

And I mean that of the Angel studio. But I'm going to -- they'll just release a trailer. We have to play it first. We will play the trailer of Cabrini.

I just want you to know, they have picked Shania Twain, to back this up.

Which is so weird, juxtaposed to how this film looks.

But it is again, brilliant strategy.

For those who went to see what a strong woman is like, and they watched Barbie. Give this a shot.

VOICE: If we are to build an empire of hope, let's go, girls.

VOICE: It seems we must first conquer New York.
(music)
Do people know rats have it better than the children here?
(music)
We have to show America, we are all people of dignity.

VOICE: Be careful, mother. For this place will eat you alive.
(music)

VOICE: You have slaughtered the hornet's nest.

VOICE: We have hope, or we die.

VOICE: It's not for you.
(music)

VOICE: I will speak to the mayor.

VOICE: Who the hell do you think you are?
(music)

VOICE: You think you're going to march in here and tell me --

VOICE: I want the best hospital for your people, and for mine. Begin the mission. And the means will come.

VOICE: What kind of New York we want.
(laughter)

VOICE: We have to fight. We all do.
(music)
(inaudible)

GLENN: It opens up March 8th. It is Cabrini. Get your tickets now. Angel.com/Glenn.

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.