RADIOApril 24, 2023

BREAKING: Could losing Tucker Carlson DESTROY Fox News?

In this clip, Glenn announces breaking news that may be the biggest story for media this year: Tucker Carlson is OUT at Fox News. Glenn and Stu speculate why the number one host may be leaving, where Tucker will go next, and the DISASTROUS consequences this could have for the cable channel. Could this DESTROY Fox News and be the end of the network...?

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: All right. I have to give you some breaking news.

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.

Wow!

STU: Wow. Holy crap. Just broke.

And the way it's phrased is, his last program was Friday, April 21st. So no goodbye show. No, hey, this is why this is happening. Just, buh-bye. Holy crap.

GLENN: Why do you suppose that is?

STU: I mean, the thing that jumps to my mind is, $798 million or whatever it was, on this situation with --

GLENN: He was the best of them.

STU: He called out Sidney Powell, famously, and said, you've brought me no evidence. We keep asking you for evidence, and you will not bring it.

GLENN: I'm telling you, the left has their fangs in Fox News.

They are just going to lead bleed it dry.

STU: The speculation was that this penalty would -- we talked about it -- we talked about Jim Geraghty's column the other day. Where he said, one of the risk factors. What did we learn from this?

And one of the things, he said, he thought major news companies would learn. Was, don't put hosts on the air, that you think might be risky. Quote, unquote.

And if he wasn't right. He's proven right just a few days later, with that one. Because if this -- if this is what it looks like, it certainly seems like, they are just trying to get rid of anyone who might say anything they don't like.

And now, that's -- that's --

GLENN: Tucker Carlson and I, have become friends.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And hopefully, I'll be able to talk to him today.

I don't know what the situation is. Bit, Tucker, come to Jamaica.
(laughter)
We would love to have you here. You won't miss a beat. And together, two of us will tear it up. Just tear it up.

STU: That would be fascinating.

GLENN: It would be.

STU: I'm sure there will be quite a large contingency of people trying to get that.

GLENN: I think that will kill Fox. I really do. I know so many people, that, you know, still kind of like Fox. And they watch the other shows. But they're like, Tucker, Tucker is the only one that I really trust.

You lose Tucker Carlson. I think that really kills them. Hey, have I reminded you to join the Blaze?

STU: Glenn, I'll just get my news from Fox. They're on my cable news now.

They never will go away. They won't fold. No, no, no.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

You are going to -- it's amazing.

STU: It's astonishing.

This is the second number one host, and, I mean, second at 8 o'clock. That they've tossed out the door. Fascinating.

We should talk to Bill too.

I would love to hear what Bill has to say about this. Jeez.

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Tell our producers, dial him up real quick.

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(OUT AT 10:46 AM)

GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program.

The big story of the day, one of the biggest I think in -- in news for a long time.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Tucker Carlson is out at Fox news.

Now, I don't know what that means. You know, we're in wild speculation territory. You know, it could be that he was fired.

Because of, you know, they just paid out. Almost a billion dollars.

And they don't want any chance of anything. But that's suicidal. To me, this is a suicidal move for Fox.

STU: If it's their move, right? We don't know. It could be that Tucker decided he wanted to leave. It could be that Tucker, they asked Tucker to do something he wasn't comfortable doing.

GLENN: That could be.

STU: Let me read the statement to you. Tell me. This is the way it's framed. This is from Fox News. They say Fox News media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

GLENN: That's exactly what they said I think when I left.

STU: Right.

And that's always been framed as you got fired. Which I know for a fact, was not true, considering I saw your offer for your extension. So it was a weird framing from the media.

GLENN: Yeah. So we parted ways.

So that bodes well, that Tucker may have been asked, hey. You have to stop with X, Y, or Z.

No.

STU: See you. Right?

It could be that.

GLENN: Yeah. I don't know what his contract was.

And, you know, it probably was. It very well could be, that they couldn't fire him, because they didn't have cause.

And so they wanted to change maybe the format of the show. Wanted him to do things differently, et cetera, et cetera.

And make it unworkable for him.

So that way he would say, I'm not doing that.

And they would say, well, the only other thing is that you leave. Well, I have a contract.

Fine, we'll pay it out. Because if they fired him, he had to pay it out anyway.

STU: We thank him for his service to the network, as a host. And prior to that, as a contributor.

Mr. Carlson -- this is, I mean, amazing. Mr. Carlson's last program was February, April 21st. The fact that you had the number one host, in all of cable news. And he doesn't even come back on to say, hey, this is what's going on.

No goodbye show.

None of that. Just, he's done.

Fox News Tonight will air at 8:00 p.m. Eastern this evening as an interim host, by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named.

GLENN: Would you sign up for TheBlaze right now so we just have a bucket full of money, we could throw his way?
(laughter)

STU: Where would they go for that?

GLENN: You would go to BlazeTV.com. BlazeTV.com/Glenn.

You'll save $20, if you use the promo code question everything.

Become a subscriber. I'll tell you, now more than ever. Where are you going to get the truth?

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Tucker was the only guy out there, that I felt was in the mainstream media, that was telling America the truth.

Who is doing that?

There's nobody in the mainstream media. Nobody!

And I now include Fox.

You're getting rid of Tucker Carlson? Wow. Letting him walk out the door even, wow. The guy is at the top of -- he had, what? Three days with Elon Musk last week. He get to sit down with Elon Musk, at this time, with everything that's going on between the Star Ship and Twitter?

And you're gone the next week? Never seen anything like it. Never seen anything like it.

STU: Really is a remarkable. It's not the way I thought this day was going. That's for sure.

GLENN: Yeah. Every day, I think, well, it will be interesting to see how that works out.

STU: It's amazing too, as I'm watching Succession. And they're in the final season.

You wonder how much of this stuff is real, behind the scenes.

GLENN: I think a lot of it is real.

STU: Certainly, based on stuff.

Again, it's a negative take on basically the Fox News Channel.

Fascinating to watch this. Really, have we ever seen a situation like this?

They got rid of Bill O'Reilly. Very near his peak. Or close to his peak.

GLENN: Closest thing you could come up to is, oh, shoot. I just forgot his name. He was at NBC. Did the morning show.

STU: Matt Lauer. Again, that was totally different.

GLENN: Matt Lauer. I know. Totally different scenario.

But he was still the big name.

But he wasn't even at his peak.

STU: This was really Tucker Carlson world.

GLENN: Is this peak.

Do you know the damage this does to the right?

If -- if the left and Soros money, which I guarantee you, was involved.

If that -- if they can learn that they can do this, we're done.

By the way, have you seen that the automakers are dropping all AM radio.

STU: Crucial.

GLENN: In fact, let me give you something. This is from the National Association of Broadcasters. Text AM to 52886 and tell Congress, we need AM radios in cars. There's a lot of reasons. But is this just another way to silence us on AM radio.

Please, they're going to drive us out of everything.

They can get away with this. Oh, they are so emboldened.

Text AM to 528886. Tell Congress we need AM radio in cars. Please, do that.

We need a strong showing in Congress. Text AM to 52886.

Congress, we need AM radio in cars. Do not let them drop that.

This message kind of from the National Association of Broadcasters. And me.

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Transcript

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!