RADIOOctober 27, 2025

Why Glenn is OBSESSED with the NBA gambling scandal

The FBI has torn into a gambling scandal that links NBA players, the Mafia, and poker… and Glenn couldn’t be happier?! Glenn and Stu explain this scandal and why it reminds them of the good ol’ days “when crime made sense” and pizza tasted incredible…

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GLENN: You know, can I talk to you a little bit about the basketball gambling scandal?

STU: I'm sorry.

GLENN: I know. I know.

STU: Wait. What? You know about the basketball gambling scandal?

GLENN: I do. I do. I know a little about it. Don't know the names of the people involved.

STU: Hall of Famer, no big deal.

GLENN: Yeah. So, but I have listened to this story. Ask one of the things that caught my attention was how sophisticated it was. You know, x-ray tables that could read the cards from underneath.

STU: Yeah. This is the illegal poker game of this scenario.

GLENN: And the contacts where they could read the back of the cards. All of these different things. I thought, that was kind of cool. Kind of James Bondy. Kind of interested in that. Then it got to the point where it was four on out of the five crime families. And the newscast I heard was it was the Italian Mafia.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And, you know, Genevieve's crime family, blah, blah, blah. And I actually got to the end of that story and I'm like, oh. Do you remember when we just had the five crime families? They were killing each other in New York?

Oh, it's like my childhood coming back. Oh, I understand this news!

STU: Yeah. Warm and fuzzy memories of the mob. Right!

GLENN: What? Yeah.

It was like when crime made sense.
(laughter)

STU: I like that take. That makes me feel a lot better about it.

GLENN: That's what I'm here for today.

STU: It feels antiquated. Quaint.

GLENN: It's old-fashioned. Somebody came in and robbed all the sarsaparilla from the mountain.
(laughter)

STU: I like that.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: That's the way to go with this, I think.

GLENN: It really is. It really is.

STU: It does feel. You know, you think about these players. Some of them have made hundreds of millions of dollars at their careers.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: And they're worried about illegal poker games and, you know, a couple of hundred thousand dollars betting on the under, Ontario Rozier assists or something.

GLENN: That part. Did you ever see any of those games?

Because the way I heard it. This is the way I interpreted it.

STU: Sure.

GLENN: That they got hurt, and then they had to leave early, or whatever.

STU: There was -- yeah. The main one they highlighted was a guy who basically told people in advance, he was going to leave the game early.

So everybody -- at the under. They scored less -- fewer points, and then he left after nine minutes of the game. So he didn't hit any of those.

GLENN: Right. So did he get hurt?

Did he like, ow, ow. Ow.

Was it obvious?

STU: I think it was a faked injury. Yeah.

GLENN: Was it obvious?

STU: I don't remember watching that game. There have been highlights released on him.

Just to give you a background quickly on this player. Very good player for many years. And over the last two years, his entire player has mysteriously fallen apart. It was like outside of the gambling, like what happened to this guy? Terry Rozier was, like, a good player for a long time. Twenty points a game type of guy, and then couldn't even get on the court.

Was traded for a number one pick, and then all of a sudden, just fell apart. And some of the highlights of games of his are so bad. Like, there are plays that I would see when I was coaching my 7-year-old's basketball games.

Like, they are horrible. Like, you would never see an NBA player make. And the insinuation now is, it had to be something related to the game. Though, in the indictment, I don't think it was charged like that particular game he had done anything with.

But he looked so bad, that either something was really going on with him physically. Or he -- you know, allegedly was gambling.

GLENN: And what was the NBA's tie to the card table?

STU: So the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billups.

GLENN: Portland. I was happy with the Italian Mafia.

STU: Hall of Fame player. Right.

GLENN: And now you have to remind me, Portland.

STU: Right. So he was playing. Fascinating part of this, he was playing. They had set up these illegal poker games. And, like, a lot of people are like, I can't believe now that they made gambling legal, all these scandals are happening. Let me just remind you of the word "illegal" in illegal poker games.

Part of this was done on legal betting surfaces on the sport stuff, but the poker is illegal.

This all still happened. Okay?

So you're not allowed. What's funny is, they're not really getting in trouble for having illegal poker games. They're having trouble for cheating at illegal poker games.

Which is the technology you were mentioning. What they did was say, hey. We're going to have these underground poker games. Some of them underground in Vegas.

By the way, you can play legal poker games in Vegas.

Don't go to illegal poker games, when you're getting this type of pitch, which was, hey. Come. You'll sit next to Hall of Fame players. Former players. They're all big money. And they're not even top-notch players. Who knows? They might lose.

GLENN: And everyone was in it, at the table, except the fish.

STU: Right. A couple of fish that would come in. You did read this indictment, and you're using poker terminology. It's impressive.

But like, so these guys would come in. Some of them were professional poker players. And, of course, their motivation for being there, we should note was to take advantage of the stupid players that would do dumb things during these games, in a legal way.

GLENN: Was this -- were these the NBA players that were kind of muscled into it because of their poker debts?

STU: I think there are some stories about that, in the -- in the indictment, where they -- the players had debts, so they had to come and participate in the illegal games to essentially pay off their Mafia gambling debts that were unrelated.

STU: Now, of course, the stuff has happened forever. The fascinating part of this --

GLENN: No, the mob does not exist.

STU: The mob does not -- if the mob does exist, I want them to know, I love them. I'm a huge fan of the Mafia.

STU: You're a huge fan, if they existed. But they don't.

GLENN: But they don't exist, so let's not even talk about them.

STU: One fascinating part about this.
GLENN: You can tell we've lived in Connecticut for a while.
STU: The pizza is delicious.

GLENN: It's really good. It's really good.

STU: It's really good. So the -- there are now clips being unearthed. I saw one yesterday of a 2023 clip of a professional poker player saying all of this was going on.

This is now two years ago.

Saying, he knew people who would go to these games. And they would play against Chauncey Phillips. It was a guy you mentioned. And obviously, you were cheating.

Because they would go all in on combinations of cards that you would never go all in on. And they would just win every time.

And so it was really obvious to the professionals who were going there, saying, oh, I see what's happening here.

And they would stop going.

This is like a known thing.

Now, it's a comical situation, when it comes to the poker stuff.

Because, you know, again, you're talking. Chauncey Phillips made nine figures in his career. He's not a guy who certainly is short on money. Some people --

GLENN: Well, apparently he was. If he had gambling debts to the mob.

STU: Well, I don't think he was the guy in that particular. I could be wrong on that.

There's a lot -- multiple people involved in this. I may have missed up the details. Some people can gamble $100 million, it's certainly possible.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: If you're an addict, right? It doesn't matter. You talk about alcoholism. Right? If you're a big alcoholic, people would say, wait. You've got all this to live for. Why would you ruin this with alcoholic?

You're addicted. You're having a real problem. They would call it a disease. It's a serious issue. It's not easy to drop off.

GLENN: What you know makes me stop drinking? Mob threats. That's when I'm like, I think I have a problem.

STU: If they existed.

GLENN: If they existed. And they wouldn't threat -- we know -- for anyone in this fictional Costa Nostra thing, we know you wouldn't threaten anyone. The pizza is great.

STU: It is fantastic. The best sauce you'll ever have. You'll ever have.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: So it's a pretty amazing story.

And, you know, it is not as bad I think as previous gambling stories, where referees were actually fixing games. Like, that is a much, much worse statement than what we've seen so far on this. But it's a pretty big story. I'm impressed, Glenn.

You're aware of it. You seem to have actual information about it. What's going on with you?

We used to have conversations about sports, that would just be non-stop comedy, because you were so embarrassing about your knowledge.

GLENN: Well, this wasn't really -- this is a mob story. This is a mob story. I have zero interest in the NBA. Zero.

STU: Okay. So this is basically your version of a mob movie?

GLENN: Uh-huh. That's as close as I can get to a mob movie today, and I love mob movies.

Anyway, mainly I like watching mob movies. Well, I mean, I like the characters in them, but I really like the food. You know what I mean?

You know, you get to eat like that. I don't know. Is it worth it? Is that blood or tomato sauce? I don't know.

STU: As someone who grew up near New Haven, Connecticut, and you worked at New Haven, Connecticut for years.

Like, there's a calculation made by the community, that they're kind of fine with the mob, if we can have the pizza. We're actually, the pizza is so good. You guys can commit a certain number of crimes.

GLENN: Can I tell you something? That's the only part of New Haven though, that makes any sense.

STU: Yeah. That's pretty much true.

GLENN: New Haven is just a crap hole. It is. Come on. It is. Not the surrounding areas.

New Haven itself, crap hole.

STU: It has some bad situations around. Yes.

GLENN: It starts at Yale. And then goes downhill. Okay? Except Wooster Street. This whole area, completely, not run by the mob.

And it is the safest place you could -- you could -- you could take a woman and have her take all of her clothes off. And take 100-dollar bills to her. And say, walk down this street at 11 o'clock at night. And she's totally safe! Totally safe.

This is like one of the mob bosses are like, you know what, I think maybe we've got to bring it -- you know.

Otherwise, there's no crime happening there.

STU: And we should -- all of this outside of the pizza quality is a legend. And we don't have any --

GLENN: I'm a fiction writer. I'm a fiction writer.

STU: Not the pizza. The pizza is that good. Anyone who knows pizza. You'll hear a lot of people who say, New York pizza. Oh, New York style pizza. That doesn't mean you know anything about pizza. If they say New Haven pizza style --

GLENN: It's truly the best pizza out there. But I tell you, on that particular street, do not ask anything about the pizza.

And if it -- because it's brick oven. And so, you know, it will come a little burned. That's the way it comes.

STU: Supposed to come.

GLENN: Do not say anything about it.

STU: Can I have white crust?

Don't do that.

GLENN: They'll just take it away from you. They look at you. Then they look at the picture of Frank Sinatra on the wall. And they look at you, and you're dead. Just leave!

STU: It's like a suit Nazi situation a little bit. It can be.

GLENN: It really is.

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.