RADIOFebruary 08, 2024

Gina Carano reveals why she’s SUING Disney with Elon Musk

Former ‘Star Wars’ actress Gina Carano is teaming up with Elon Musk and X to sue Disney and Lucasfilm after they trashed her name and fired her from ‘The Mandalorian.’ Gina joins Glenn to reveal how she got in contact with Musk and what her life was like after she lost her role as Cara Dune. She tells Glenn that Disney didn’t even have the courtesy to notify her first, but instead allowed mobs to go after her over false claims of ‘hate speech’: “[Disney] definitely put my life in danger.” Plus, she tells Glenn why she decided to take on Disney: “So many people have come before me and fought this battle and nobody was paying attention…it breaks my heart that they didn’t get justice.”

Transcript

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GLENN: I don't think I need to really do a long introduction. So I'm not going to. Actress, former MMA fighter, Gina Carano. How are you?

GINA: I'm good. Thank you so much for having me.

GLENN: You bet. I've got to tell you, I am so glad to see that you are standing up and fighting back against Disney and Lucasfilm for what happened to you. Can you just describe, quickly, that whole scene?

GINA: Well, quickly.

GLENN: I know. Sorry.

GINA: No. It's okay. I actually -- it was really interesting. For the longest time, for the last couple of years, I just -- you know, just distraught. Trying to rebuild my life. Running into all sorts of problems, and trying to, you know, re-create my career. And finally, you know, I was like, I had to just give it to God and say, all right. You know, you've got me in life. I'm going to keep going. And I have to let this go, and give it to you. And, you know, whatever justice I get, you know, I know you're working behind the scenes for me.

And then, it's almost as soon as I did that, I got an email from a lawyer, that was hired by Elon Musk and X to inquire about my case. And then I was just so excited, and I emailed him back, like immediately.

And, you know, we started going through all of the -- you know, I just educated them. And I sent them everything I have to date. And I have a lot more to send them. And they are wonderful. And they are just excited. And they couldn't believe -- they were kind of like dumbfounded about how this happened.

So that's the quick version.

GLENN: So you -- I mean, you've worked with everybody. Michael Douglas. Fassbender. Channing Tatum. Bill Paxton. Antonio Banderas. Robert De Niro. Ryan Reynolds.

Have you had any support from these people, or are they afraid to come out? How would you describe what you've -- your friend circle.

GINA: Well, yeah. I mean, well, that's not my friends. They're not my friends.

GLENN: Your coworkers.

GINA: They're incredible people that I've worked with.

You know, I've never had an issue with anybody. With anyone, whatsoever. You know, as far as actors go or a crew goes. Or for that matter, I did not have an issue on set, ever.

I get along with everybody. But, yes. To answer your question, there has been many people who I have worked with. And who I haven't worked with, that I have run into.

Not only just very well-known actors. But also very well-known producers. And actually people who are still working in Disney and Lucasfilm, actively, you know, have -- you know, they all have shown so much support. Everything that I've seen. Any of them.

And to be very honest, I've not had one person from this industry come up to me and say, you know, I deserved that. They're all saying the complete opposite.

So it's just been kind of mind bending that -- that Lucasfilm couldn't see that as well.

GLENN: When -- when they contacted you, I assume they contacted you with this. Or maybe they just said, oh, it's over for other reasons.

But when you found out that you were being cut out of everything. And your career was over, because of a tweet.

That was exactly the same, that your costar tweeted, except, toward the other side.

Did you point that -- I mean, you had to have gone, guys. Wait a minute. Hold it.

I mean --

GINA: Well, they didn't contact me. This is very interesting.

I think it just shows what the company was at the time, a couple years ago. They didn't even contact me to let me know they were letting me go. They didn't contact me to let me know that there was about to be paparazzi stalkers. And people waiting outside my house.

I found out all that just like everyone else did, over the internet.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

GINA: And it did. It was awful. You know, I've been trying to put on a very brave face for the last couple of years.

GLENN: It's hard.

GINA: I cannot begin to even describe. I couldn't leave my house for seven days. I was being talked. I was being harassed. They were coming up to my -- I had to keep all my blinds closed. And I had actually lost all hearing. I don't know -- it's a very interesting random thing. I lost all of the hearing. As soon as I was cancelled, my hearing got clogged. And I could only hear 5 percent.

GLENN: Was that kind of like -- this is a horrible name for it, but hysterical blindness, where you are in so much trauma, that --

GINA: It really felt like -- it really -- yeah, it really felt like that.

It felt like that, or either that, or just God put earmuffs on me.

So I really had to sit there in my head. And I really had to sit there in my head, and just go over things.

And it was quite. It was torturous, until I was finally just like, okay.

I just gave it to God. And I just, it's just -- it was just such an intense time.

And, you know, for them not to even warn me.

You know, I didn't live in a gated community. So I was out there.

And that wasn't -- you would think that somebody would have just call me and tell me, hey. Thank you for all your work and everything. And we're just no longer going to work with you.

And then they put out the statement about denigrating people off of their religious and cultural beliefs.

And I was like, this is -- I just -- it was just, at the worst time possible, they really kind of, you know -- they definitely put my life in danger, at that moment.

GLENN: So what do you hope happens with this lawsuit? I mean, I would love to see the discovery on all of the emails going back and forth, that will be nice.

GINA: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I hope that -- I hope that this makes a change. I hope that it's -- it makes a change. In this industry.

And it makes the change in people's hearts.

The post I got fired for originally. Or what they said I got fired for.

Was never supposed to be what they -- what the media and all the media twisted into.

It was supposed to be, you know, do not demonize your neighbor. You know, we need to look at each other as human beings. Because the internet is one thing. But when you get outside, and you get around people, there's so much love and there's so much, you know -- it's not the internet. The internet is false. It's a lot of people nephew hiding behind brave ideas and false accounts. And when you get to be around people, there is -- you know, we all -- you know, all read. We are all on this earth together. And so I hope that this the outcome of this case is just to make, you know, everybody kind of be -- truly, truly inclusive industry in Hollywood. And make it that much difficult to do what was happening to me, to happen to the next person.

GLENN: Yeah. You know, it's -- I don't think people understand that, you know, it's happening to people like you. And, you know, people all over in the country, who are in visible places.

And I don't think people are really understanding.

If they do it to people like you, why would they hesitate to do it to a nobody.

And that's -- that's the scariest thing.

Is they're not coming after the nobodies. Alone.

They're coming after names like Elon Musk. Who I think they're trying to do the same thing to.

GINA: Oh, yeah. Yeah. When they try to smear him as anti-Semitic. I was like, that's exactly what they did to me. They try to smear you as all these key words. Racist, anti-Semitic, transphobe.

And, you know, it's just -- it's really, they're just trying to squash anybody who has the ability to reach people, to --

GLENN: To communicate.

GINA: Yeah. To tell them -- let's communicate. Let's think critically. Let's not just listen to what the news is telling us. And let's -- let's communicate with each other. Because we have to.

Because everything is owned now by people who want to grab more control.

GLENN: It's really crazy. I've never seen, especially with Disney.

I've never seen such a wrecking ball taken to their, you know, own corporation.

Like Disney has taken a wrecking ball to everything they own and everything that they touch. This is just horrible.

GINA: It's truly a shame, because we just grew up with Disney. And it doesn't seem like it would be that hard of a fix.

You know, it doesn't seem like, hey. You know what, my stuff here.

They're so good at telling everybody how to apologize and get on their knees and say sorry. It's like, you know, lead by example in this case. It wouldn't be hard to be like, to look at my case and be like, hey. You know what, we belong there.

Let's make it right. And, you know -- and then let's start reaching out to -- you know, really includes this -- like all -- all people. It doesn't mean that they have to follow any kind of political, you know, life. They could just really include and appreciate the fan base that they had, that has just been completely betrayed by them. So I don't understand in those meetings, how it's just not like, you know what, we did wrong. Let's face up to it.

Let's do something right here. And let's get our -- like our conservative viewers back.

It's just a no-brainer.

GLENN: Right. I don't know if they could, at this point.

Once you violated my family. I mean, beyond what they did to you. They -- you know, they're trying to teach my children principles, that I don't agree with at all.

And they lost that trust. That parents have. Oh, it's Disney. It's safe.

It's not safe. And that's going to take them a long time to recover that. And a good step forward, would be to -- to -- to correct this, with you and others that they have wronged.

So, you know, when this happened to you --

GINA: But nothing is impossible, you know.

GLENN: I know.

GINA: If they keep going down this route, they will just be considered evil. You know, I have a massive fall to, you know, rock, to push back a mountain. To get back a career. But I'm not looking at that, saying, okay. I'm at the bottom again, I'm not going to do it.

You know, we have to constantly rebuild ourselves, and so do companies.

So if they started now, they could start pushing that rock back up, instead of just tumbling -- it's just tumbling down the hill.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

Well, you are going to be -- you're going to be fine, in the end.

Especially since -- you know, when this happened, we weren't really ready as conservatives. And I don't want a bunch of conservative films. Or, you know, films about -- I just want good films. You know what I mean?

GINA: Yeah.

GLENN: And can we have them say decent things about society. And try to help us be better people.

GINA: Exactly.

GLENN: But if you look at the films now, Angel is really I think leading the way on this.

If you see some of the stuff that's coming. And I think we're right on the cusp. I started TheBlaze, you know, before -- before Amazon ask HBO were online.

We were doing digital streaming at TheBlaze. And it was a nightmare. Now, 12 years later, things are happening, to where, there is a community.

You give it another five years, and we're not going to have worry about Hollywood.

GINA: You know, and it really just breaks your heart. You know, I feel like so many people have come before me, and fought this battle. And nobody was paying attention. So I really am honored to be in a position where people are paying attention right now.

And to give respect to those people that came before me.

Those actors. And everyone trying to break down the barriers for so long.

You know, it breaks my heart, that they didn't get I couldn't wait.

And so, you know, yeah. I'm -- I feel pretty fortunate, you know, to be in the situation, to help with that.

Because, yes. In five years, it's going to be even better. And I'm excited to have just been at the beginning of this.

Just how I was at the beginning of women's mixed martial arts.

You know, part of breaking ground here. And so I really hope this case is -- I hope, I hope people pay attention to it. And blow it out of the water.

And just make sure, that we will make it easier for the next generation, and the people -- the younger people behind me.

GLENN: I have such great respect for you. Thank you so much for coming on. You're welcome here, any time. Best of luck to you.

You bet. You bet.

GINA: Thank you so much, Glenn.

The UNREPORTED reason why Trump is targeting Venezuela

A few weeks ago, President Trump moved a battle group to Latin America. Now, with the bombing of a Venezuelan cartel drug smuggling boat, we’ve seen what part of its mission may be. But Glenn Beck lays out an unreported second reason that Trump is drawing these battle lines: Venezuela has become a literal “beachhead” for enemies of America, like China, Hezbollah, and Iran.

Transcript

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GLENN: I want to talk to you about something that is right on our door step, that I don't think a lot of people are watching. I think it was Sunday. Saturday or Sunday. I read an article. And I just kind of skimmed it quickly.

And I filed it away.

And it was the United States is moving like a battle group, to Latin America. And I'm like, what? We're moving a battle group? What are we -- what -- we're losing.

We're moving cruise missiles, ships, like 4,000 Marines. I mean, this is what you have, when you have an invading force. You know, when you're worried about something, you want to keep calm in some area. You know, we sent them over, off the coast of Africa. Because there's somebody doing something.

And we sent this group over.

Like, hey. Knock it off. What are we doing?

Okay. Well, it's not just to Latin America. It's some place very specific: Venezuela.

What's happening now is not some distant strong man. This is -- battle lines are being drawn right now, between freedom and chaos. Okay?

This week, Nicholas Maduro, who was indicted by the Trump administration. I think in 2020. And then Biden didn't do anything about it. He was indicted by our own justice department for narco terrorism.

He just responded to us. And mobilized four and a half million civilian militiamen. So he's now just kind of drafting 4 million men, and said, you're -- you're a citizen, but you're also a soldier right now.

And he says, it's to defend sovereignty against America.

Here's what it is: He's trying to protect himself.

He's a dictator. And he's conscripting an entire had a nation. Because he knows, the United States is after him. Why?

Why?

Well, we have warships, three ageist destroyers, and they're anchored right off his coast. And we just doubled the on bounty on his head, from $25 million to $50 million.

And, you know, you -- at first blush, you're like, can we?

What are we doing? What? What's happening?

We've lived in a time, my whole life, where we're like, you know, the government can do two things at one place.

It should be able to walk and chew gum. Well, we're not just walking and chewing gum. We're walking, chewing gum, putting out the fire of a burning house. Juggling flaming bowling pins. Stopping a nuclear war.

Dancing the Macarena, because everybody in Washington, DC, is like 8,000 years old. We're building a death bot army at the same time, fighting people that want to behead us. Oh, and the Islamists, and redistricting Texas. And we're doing it all at the same time.

Why? I mean, we're living Mission Impossible, except our Tom Cruise is 78 years old. Which, I want you to think about this.

I think Donald Trump is exactly who Tom Cruise will be when he's 78. Just not -- he's still running that weird run that he's doing. Anyway, so Donald Trump is going after Venezuela for two reasons. One, drums. Fentanyl and cocaine, much of it laced, much of it deadly. And it is -- it is being trafficked here in the United States, by people who are directly tied to Maduro's government.

And it's the so-called cartel of the suns. MS-13 gang members. All of this stuff is coming from Venezuela.

And they are poisoning Americans. And this is not just a foreign, you know -- you know, a foreign security thing. Or a foreign policy issue.

This is -- this is Homeland Security. This is actually affecting us.

The second one, and I think this is the bigger reason of the two. I mean, they're probably tied. But this is a big one that most Americans don't know. Venezuela is not some backwater place. It's full of oil.

And it is a staging ground now for Russia, China, and Iran.

Hezbollah, it has some of the worst people. It's a beachhead, for those people who want to see the United States taken down.

JASON: Oh, Glenn. Literally, a beachhead. This is insane because I didn't even know a lot of this. We mentioned this maybe a couple of months ago.

GLENN: Yeah, we did -- we did -- it was part of another story.

JASON: The Tren de Aragua stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Wait a minute. What is Hezbollah doing in Venezuela?

JASON: Oh, my gosh. So I actually did you go through congressional testimony, to get some of this information now. Now, this is information that the American public doesn't really know, but the government knows.

So check this out. This is from congressional testimony. In 2011, they tested -- Congress testified what Hugo Chavez was doing.

Listen to this. Just the year before, 2010, Hugo Chavez hosted something called the Secret Summit. Like literally, it was called the Secret Summit.

GLENN: Okay.

JASON: Guess who showed up to the Secret Summit. The supreme leader of Hamas. The Chief of Operations for Hezbollah, and the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic jihad.

GLENN: Oh, I thought you were going to say Satan.

JASON: I might as well have. I mean, this is absolutely nuts.

GLENN: Nobody was talking about that. How can that happen right off our shore? Nobody is talking about it.

JASON: Glenn, it gets so much worse than that, if it can.

So Iranians right now, with connections to Hezbollah, are on an island off the coast of Venezuela. It's called Margarita Island. Everybody should Google us right now, and check it out.

GLENN: Is Jimmy Buffett involved?

JASON: He's -- Jimmy Buffett would be nowhere near this.

GLENN: All right. The whole world is about to crash.

JASON: Yeah, it's not 5 o'clock anywhere on this Margarita Island.

These are some of the things they're doing here, okay?

Again, with the involvement of the -- of the Venezuelan government. They are, quote, running money laundering operations, establishing -- excuse me. Paramilitary training centers.

They are recruiting Venezuelan gangs. And listen to this: Sending those people -- this is like Tren de Aragua. Sending them to Iran for follow-on training.

GLENN: Jeez.

JASON: This is happening right now. Our government knows about this. This is the only time I've actually seen them do anything concrete to combat it.

GLENN: They've known about it since 2010. Known about it since 2010.

You didn't know that. Nobody is saying that. When -- you know, we've -- we've argued that Venezuela and communism. And, you know, they were eating the zoo animals.

That's what happens, gang.

When you go communist. And full-on democracy. They wanted full-on democracy. And that's what you get. You know, hello, Maduro.

So when Maduro took over, he was kind of the Mamdani, if you will of -- of Venezuela. He's just a simple bus driver. Uh-huh.

And look what -- look what he's done.

That's the part we've heard about.

Then when the border crisis happened. We started hearing about, oh, well, they're sending gangs in. And they're sending -- they're sending fentanyl and everything else in.

We still are not talking about their connections to Iran and Hezbollah. And how they have been training people. And sending them here!

This is really not good.

So Donald Trump clearly knows all of this stuff.

And that's why he's offered $50 million. For anybody that will turn him in.

Or can tip us off to lead to the capture.

And now, the reason we're doing that. You've got to remember. We've done this before.

Noriega. Was a guy who was a drug lord.

And he was running a country. And so we've got to get him. And we finally did get Noriega. And he went to prison for what he did.

But the other times we've done that, Saddam Hussein, and even worse Muammar Gaddafi, that was a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama nightmare.

And they drug his body through the streets.
Because we assisted the collapse. And it became a vacuum!

And now, Libya is just a nightmare.

Just a nightmare.

So was Iraq. We can't let that happen to Venezuela.

So we have to be very careful. You can't just say, go get them. We have to be very careful.

Unless the people themselves rise up against Maduro. Unless the people themselves do it, this is going to be -- this is going to be a tough one.

But we have to stop pretending, that this is somebody else's problem.

Because it is our problem. It really is our problem. Those people are already here. And we are also -- you know, this is one of the reasons insular like it, when people blame their problems on others.

I'm an alcoholic.

Now, everybody says, well, that -- that's a familial thing. That runs in your genes. I don't know. I don't think they've ever found that. There's no evidence of that. But you make a good case. I mean, we're riddled with alcoholism in my family. So, yeah. Maybe! Maybe! But I'm the one who makes the choice. Okay?

Yeah. Maybe I have that extra gene that's working against me. Maybe! But I went in to the bar. I went in to the store and bought the booze.

So we -- we have to start taking responsibility for some of our problems. It's easy to say, Venezuela is shipping all this fentanyl into the United States.

We have to recognize that Americans are buying it. Now, there's one thing to say about addiction. Once you start buying it, then you're addicted to it. And it is a nightmare.

I mean, the first time I had fentanyl, I -- I wake up. I've woken up on the operating table, two times.

They cannot keep me down. My body just processes stuff like, so fast. It's a fast, high-functioning liver.

And I was in pain. You might remember this, if you've listened to me, for a long time.

I was in New York. And they put me under. And then they -- I got out. And they were giving me morphine. I think Percocet.

And fentanyl patches. And my doctor after said, why would you let somebody do this to you?

And I was like, well, I was a little high.

And my wife didn't know.

We listened to the doctor. That's when we really learned: Don't listen to the doctor. Yeah, they don't always know.

But they had good intent. They were just trying to keep me out of pain.

But the box. Fentanyl.

I don't know if it still does.

If you get a box of fentanyl from the drugstore.

It says, black box, warning for end of life use only. Why?

Because it is so incredibly addicting.
You take it for a day or two, and you're done. You're addicted to it.

So addiction is one thing that we have to deal with.

But we also have to say, Americans are buying this stuff!

We have to change our culture, and start prosecuting people who are buying this stuff.

And treating those who are addicted to it, and understanding with compassion. Yada, yada, yada.

But we have to also -- if you're selling drugs, you're involved in selling drugs, you should have a very, very long sentence. Very long sentence.

You know, don't tell Donald Trump this. But, you know, China does not have a drug problem.

Because if you sell drugs, you're executed. I don't even think you get a trial. They just kill you.

Let's not tell Donald Trump that, because he might like that idea.

But fix it quickly.

Fix it quickly.

But we -- we have to take responsibility ourself. We have to be resilient as people. In our communities.

We have to have strong families.

We have to have citizenry, that knows the difference between liberty and tyranny. We have to understand that freedom does not come when you're on drugs.

It doesn't. That is the worst tyranny. You're a pharmaceutical tyranny.

You are -- air slave to whatever it is, that you're putting into your body. That's the real battle.

But there is another one off our shore. That could -- what do you think is going to happen, Jason?

Because this is a significant battle group, isn't it?

JASON: It's significant. I mean, including 4,000 Marines. I was on a battle group like that, where this is the same kind. Where we would go and sit off the coast of a Middle Eastern country.

GLENN: Yeah. Weren't you off the coast of Australia? You were one of the first in after 911.

JASON: Yeah. Yeah. In one of these battle groups, doing exercises in Australia. We got the call and went straight to Afghanistan right after that.

So this is like the firepower that could do that. So it's very intimidating. I would assume that is the reason for this. I don't think they will be doing actual -- you know, conflict-type kinetic stuff.

But I bet that it's just supposed to mean -- it's supposed to be intimidating. I'm curious if it's supposed to lend some support to maybe some of the, you know, ground people in Venezuela.

To finally tell them, look, we've got your back. If you want to, you know, do something about this, and finally take your country back. Now would be the time.

GLENN: Yeah, maybe we would be a peacekeeper. You know, maybe we would be a peace-keeping force.

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Watch This FULL Episode of 'Glenn TV' HERE

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Max Lucado: Are We Living in the End Times?

Glenn Beck sits down with pastor and author Max Lucado to break down the shocking signs of prophecy that seem to be unfolding right before our eyes. From global deception, political turmoil, and persecution of Christians to the rise of immorality and cultural chaos, the warnings Jesus gave in the Olivet Discourse sound eerily similar to today’s headlines. Max Lucado explains the “super sign” that marks the beginning of the end, why the darkness seems to be growing stronger, and how believers should respond with faith and hope rather than fear. This is a sobering yet encouraging reminder to stay awake, stay faithful, and recognize the times in which we live.

Watch Glenn Beck's FULL Interview with Max Lucado HERE