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Today is a wild podcast terrifying warning as to what AI is capable of in the next one to five years. From an insider. Something is happening in el Paso. The FAA closed down for 10 days. At 4 o' clock this morning, the El Paso airspace. By 9:30 they had opened it up and said they took care of it. Took care of what exactly? We also have Jack Vasobic on from TP usa. That's an amazing. And the crown prince of Iran on with us. Which may be the reason why Torch was under a DDoS attack during the show today. It looks like it was a foreign power that was attacking us. Was it, Was it Iraq or Iran? I don't know. But we must be doing something right. Find out what we're doing with today's podcast. I've been consistent over the years on some really important topics because they're important to maintain our freedoms. One is preparedness and another is self education. Not too hard. Prepare and do your own homework. But right now there's a lot of information going around about Ivermectin. The good people at Jace Medical have educated me so I can save you some research time. Here are a few straight facts. Ivermectin is not experimental. It's not new, it's not fringe. It has been prescribed globally for decades for parasitic infections. It also has ongoing research studies for further applications that are showing some great promise. Another fact, you can get it in multiple different forms from Jace Medical. It can be topical, compounded by itself as an add on to other Jace products and more. It's also simple to get prescribed ships fast ready in your home before you need it. Trust the facts. Trust the doctors at Jace Medical who believe in your medical freedom. Enter the promo code BECK at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code beckase.com. hello America. You know we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up. Help us push this podcast to the top rate review, share together we'll make a difference and thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work.
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You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Let me tell you where we started. There's a reason why this show is different than other podcasts. Because other podcasts are usually not done live at the same time. Every day we begin recording this podcast and doing it live on radio at 9:00am Eastern Time, 6:00am Pacific Time. And when you're doing something live, it things change during the show. And I got in this morning and there are like several things that have changed overnight. The biggest thing that has changed overnight I think is the information coming out of the government for El Paso federal government drew a 10 mile circle over a major American border city and said nothing flies below 18,000ft. So your private jets, your bigger jets, everything like that are going to fly above 18,000ft, but nothing is going to land. Okay, so you have any idea? Temporary flight restrictions happen all the time. The President travels. They shut down the airspace. Okay. There is a wildfire. They shut down the airspace. There is a hurricane. They shut down the airspace. But that usually happens for a very limited period of time. I mean we're talking hours, maybe in a natural disaster, a day or so. Okay, but 10 days. 10 days. So you have any idea? We look back in history and the only time we can see this happen was when it was happening nationwide and it was 9, 11. There is no other time in American history where a since World War II, that's as far as we went. Since World War II, there has not been a single city shutdown of an airport for security reasons for 10 days. Never happened. Okay. That's all the government said this morning. Special security reasons. That's it. Okay, that's a little disturbing. What does that mean? Now an hour ago the government came out and said, Ricky, what did they say? Can you give me the exact verbiage?
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I will try to read this as quickly as I can. They lifted it within the last hour saying that everything was kosher. That is not a direct quote. I can give you a new direct quote. Feel like it's happened in the last 18 minutes.
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Okay.
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TRUMP official told Fox News that the lockdown came in response to Mexican cartel drones that breached USS US Airspace. And here's a direct quote. Mexican cartel drones breached it. The Department of War took action to disable the drones. The FAA and Dow have determined there is no threat to commercial travel. Now, so what is took action to Disable drones, mean we took them out.
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And this was my guess is, I mean, let me bring Jason in, because, Jason, you're a military guy. You, you focus on military intelligence. And so I don't, I don't want to go too far out on a limb, but, but when I heard this, the, the thing that is important here is that El Paso is not just any city in Texas or America. It is sitting right at the most significant border crossing in the hemisphere. Okay. It is also near Fort Bliss. Fort Bliss is a million acres for the Army. And it. What's really important about Fort Bliss is it is the rapid deployment for joint mobilization force. So when you're moving tanks or anything for the army, you have to move a lot of stuff. It's all happening with Fort Bliss. Okay. It also facilitates all joint tasks. There's one other thing about this area. We have talked about this for years. The irgc, the Iraqi Republican Guard, the terrorist organization, they have been in Venezuela and in Mexico working with drug cartels, mainly with their proxy Hezbollah. We have the Crown Prince of Iran on here in about an hour and 15 minutes. And you will hear from the crown prince what he is expecting to happen in the negotiations. And I will tell you my opinion as well on what I think is going to happen on the negotiations. This is, this is President Trump just making sure that the world knows we tried everything we could to deal with them. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. My first thought was, is this, the drug cartels along with any kind of help or, you know, anything from Hezbollah or Iran doing a counter on us. Don't know. Could have just been a mistake. But I'm glad the Trump administration is all over this today. Watch. Watch what happens in El Paso in the next couple of days. Let's see if there's more news. Jason, comments on this.
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Yeah, I think it's all up.
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Just.
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All we're really left to do here is speculate because we were giving no information whatsoever. So there's speculation on that. The reason why that angle rings a little true to me is because Mexican cartels are not gonna disrupt business in a way of provoking a US Military response on the largest, most pivotal corridor for them. It's not good business. It makes no sense at all. So to me, and I'll give you another counter to this, but to me, it makes more sense if you put a 10 day restriction on a timeline that there's a very specific threat that they were, they got, you know, forward knowledge of and they were trying to get Ready for it and get out in front of it. Now, all of that, the counter argument, all of that blows up when you consider the moron card. There is always a moron card. And someone could have just. Instead of saying we're responding to something, you know, in the immediate. You know, in the immediate, but instead of saying that they threw on the 10 day restriction for some random moronic reason. So it's all possible someone's just an idiot.
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I mean, how does that possibly happen, Jason? I mean, you don't close that. I mean, that hasn't ever happened. Except for 9, 11. That has never happened. So who would have the authority on their own just to go, I got closed airspace for 10 days. I mean, I mean, wait, where's Tim Walls? Where? I. Who, who would do. Who would have the authority to do that?
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Yes, I would, I would say probably somebody in the FBI or doj, something like that. That would translate that to the faa. Or there could have been the moron card somewhere within the FAA that just clicked the wrong button. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. We're trying to make sense of it, but to me it's a very specific threat. Whether that's asymmetrical warfare they're getting ahead of before regarding Iran or whatever, or to me they're just random cartel drones. Make zero sense. Because why provoke and screw up your business over a commercial drone to scout a route? It makes no sense whatsoever. So I don't think the full story has been told and I don't know if we will get the full story.
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But we'll definitely have to start getting full. We have to get full stories. We have to. We cannot operate in this secrecy anymore. I want it secret for national defense, whatever. But at some point we have to know what's going on in our country, because we just do. You can't. You just. There's not enough trust in the country to just operate like this. And luckily, I think on the side of conservatives, we still do. We gained our trust back for the military. Hegseth has come in and set the military back on track. And so we, we've regained our trust to some degree with the military. But it's not blind trust. The good news is there's no National Guard being deployed. There's no evacuation, there's no sirens. There's nothing. It happened at 4 o' clock in the morning. Don't know why. Could be an idiot card that somebody pulled the trigger too soon or too hard and, you know, closed it down for 10 days. But this one is puzzling to say the least. Jason, do you think. Can I go down a conspiracy road with you?
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It's my best road we go down.
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I know we have been trying to get the crown prince. Ricky, I'd like you to try chime in on this, too. We've been trying to get the crown prince for weeks. Weeks. Today is the day that everybody's meeting and Benjamin Netanyahu comes to the White House tomorrow, and we're. We're going to be finding out if we could do a deal or not. I personally don't think we're doing a deal. I mean, I can't imagine the deal that we could get that the president would go, okay, that was worth them slaughtering 37,000 people and us just going, okay. I can't imagine that. I think this is just to tell the whole world, we've done everything we could. We tried. We exhausted every avenue because we also cannot be responsible for the downfall of Iran. That has to be with the people. But we can support them and show them that, you know, we have an armada off the shore. Is it a coincidence all these things are happening and then we get the crown prince of Iran this week?
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Do you want me to put my Stu hat on or. Ricky, Conspiracy theorist.
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So. So Stu. I know what Stu would say. Get over it. Of course not. Okay. And he might be right. And he might be right.
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I think it's interesting that one of the highest profile Iranian dissidents and critics of the current regime, who is. Whose family is targeted for death, I'm sure by the regime, tells you at the end of the interview, which is coming up soon. We taped this yesterday. You'll hear it shortly, that he was grateful to you for changing all of your social media avatars to the original Iranian flag that existed before the regime came in. He is the second Iranian dissident that you've had on this program that called that out and said that people on the ground in Iran have noticed that you did that and they appreciate your show of support. What I didn't appreciate about that is that he basically just told the regime, you're standing with the Iranian people and he just put a big target on your back.
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Let him. Let him. You know, Right is right. It was a little shocking. It was a little shocking that the way he handled me. It was like, oh, my gosh. How do you. Is. You remember. You remember when we were getting people out of Afghanistan and I think I've told this on here. I hope I have. But we The State Department was putting up all these roadblocks, so we had to get people out through Pakistan. No other country would let us go through. Well, the prime minister of Pakistan at the time was about to be overthrown, and he wanted friends in Washington. And so our group contacted him and said, hey, can you help us get these people out? Can you get these American people out? And he said, I get a call like an hour later, Glenn. He said he would do it, but only if he could talk to you. And I'm like, how does he even know who I am? What? So we talked to him, and he just wanted assurance that I would remind people in Washington that he. He was. You know, he had helped us on some things because he knew his time was limited. It's weird how. I mean, I just. I just showed you. Last week, our. Our insiders for torch, we had 36 nations, people in 36 nations that were listening to us around the world today. I just counted. The United nations has 193 nations in the United nations right now. As of week number two with the torch, we have people in 142 nations listening to this show right now. That's nuts.
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I love it. And it makes me very nervous because I looked at some of those nations, and they are, you know, sometimes designated as not being allies of the US.
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What a nice way of saying that. Yeah. Okay. Crown Prince is going to be with us. You're going to hear this interview coming up in just over an hour from now. This is one you don't want to miss because I. I'm a fan, but I'm. But I'm also. I also had to tell him, you know, are you the guy? Because there's a lot of people on the ground that say you're not the guy. And we talk about everything. You don't want to miss that. And the whole interview can be heard@glenn beck.com if you're a Torch insider, you can join us there@glenn beck.com torch. Sign up now. If you ever notice how hard it is to find something you can trust. Not a trend, not a logo, not a story, just something made. Well, something made to last. Made by people who actually care whether it holds up a year from now. They're not just trying to sell you something, but they care. And they have the same values. Most clothes, they're not designed to be like they were. You know, maybe they're designed to be good for a few washes, and then they quietly fall apart. That's why I have a lot of Respect for American giant. They built their entire company around the idea that clothing should be tough and comfortable last and made here in the United States. And they have spent a fortune bringing machines and manufacturing back to the United States. They work with all American cotton, American factories, American skilled workers who know what they're doing. So buy American today@american-giant.com Glenn that's American Giant.com Glenn Save 20% when you use my name for your first purchase. That's American-Giant.com Glenn now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Let me start with some major AI news. Couple of things. The two co founders of Elon Musk's X AI have resigned. They have not said why they're leaving, but they are the latest leaving from Xai. That leaves the firm with half of its 12 co founders. Financial Times have reported that this was following some tensions that have been happening with the tech team over demands to improve its AI model performance. Musk is pushing and pushing and pushing. What would you expect Elon Musk to do? That's. That's who he is. So two people have now resigned an extra to and we'll follow that. That is something to watch, not something to be concerned about. This one is Mirnak Sharma. This guy is. He led the research team for Google Claude's chat box. Okay. And he leads the safeguards research team. So this is the guy who is saying, we gotta be careful. We gotta be careful. We gotta be careful. He's been at the company since 2003. He said he has explored things like AI assisted bioterrorism. He wrote one of the first AI safety cases. But yesterday he posted that. Yesterday would be his last day at the company. It's painfully devoid of any kind of specifics here, but he hints at some internal tensions that I think are very, very important. The tensions are over the tech safety. Okay, first let me tell you who this guy is. AI founder, six years in the trenches, investor, builder. One of the people inside of the machine room. Okay? He says we are standing at February 20th or, sorry, February 2020. Again, what was happening in February 2020? Do you remember? There was a virus over there. A lot of people were not paying attention to it. Most weren't. Even though we were paying attention to it, we were saying. I was saying, well, that's really bad and you got to shut down the airspace and I'm not sure you can contain it, but if it comes over here, we won't act the way China is acting. Okay, Toilet paper, hoarders looked insane at the time. Three weeks later, the entire world was different. He says we're in that same phase right now, except this time it's artificial intelligence and no one is paying attention. He's like, we are weeks or months away from the entire world changing. Here's the part that shook him. It's already happened to him, okay? He watched AI from the inside go from a helpful tool to an assistant to a coworker. To quote, I describe the outcome in plain English and it builds the finished product while I go get coffee. No drafts, not suggestions. Finished work better than he and his team are able to do. He said. On February 5, new AI models were released. That changed everything. He said the new AI models are not incremental, they're not impressive for a robot. They're something entirely different. He said something that felt like judgment and taste and decision making. In his letter, he describes telling AI to build an app and it wrote tens of thousands of lines of code. It tested itself, fixed its own mistakes, and then only returned to him when it decided, okay, it's ready. No back and forth, no babysitting, nothing. Now listen to this. The AI helped build itself. OpenAI has openly admitted the latest system was used to debug, test and improve its own successor. That's not a theory. That's not something that someday we'll have. That's right now. And he said progress here is compounding like crazy. Listen to this, listen to this. Curve 2022, it couldn't multiply correctly, couldn't do basic math problems in 2022. A year later, it passed the bar exam. In 2024, it's writing its own software. By 2025, top engineers were handing it most of their workload. He said now it executes multi hour expert level tasks independently of any human. And he said the curve is doubling every few months. What will it be able to do five months from now? I will tell you in my own work with AI and in my own exploration of AI, I've been on the AI thing since probably 20, I'm sorry, 1980, at least since the 90s, been warning of it, been fascinated by it and warning and told everybody, it's coming faster than you think. I mean the experts, I had the ex, the high, the leading experts on with me from Google and, and Singularity University. It's coming faster than you think. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. We're not even sure it'll even get there. I'm telling you, it's coming faster. I mean, sometimes experts cannot see the world because they're so deep into all of the layers. But if you can stand back and look at the big picture, sometimes, sometimes it becomes very clear, and this is very, very clear. Coding, he said in his resignation, was the first domino because AI needed to write code to improve itself. That was strategic. But now it's moving into law. Just think of law. You no longer need the people doing all of the research for law, okay? So the lawyers that we have right now, you're not going to have any up and coming lawyers because you don't need those people. You don't need them to do all of the footwork. You don't need them to go and find all the case law and everything else. AI will do that, but humans will go in and argue, but who are you going to replace the lawyers we have today? How are you going to get the knowledge? How are you going to get the experience to be able to replace the experienced lawyers? The answer is, you're not going to need to. Now, we all have a problem with judges, right? Judges. Can you just execute what the law says? Do you know that 10 years ago they were doing a research study, I think it was in Israel, and tried a AI judge. That was 10 years ago. So now it's into law, finance, medicine, writing, analysis, consulting, customer service. Anything done on a screen. He's quoting now, industry leaders predicting 50% of entry level white collar jobs will disappear within 12 months to five years. Let me give you that number once again. Within 12 months, 50% of entry level white collar jobs could disappear between one to five years from now, 50%. What do you think is going to happen to the economy if that happens? What do you think is going to happen to the streets if that happens? What do you think happens to all of the people who are now paying $100,000 to go to college and they're never going to be able to get a job? What do you think is going to happen? Here's what he said. If your job is reading, writing, analyzing or deciding on a computer, you're in the blast radius of the first year. He said people inside the industry are not predicting this now. We're describing, I'm quoting, we're describing what already happened to us. This warning that came out yesterday. He said most people are judging AI based on outdated versions. You're judging it on the free tier tool that are long gone from now. He said the gap between public perception and reality is now dangerous. And then he pivots first, the guy from Anthropic, he's leaving because he's warning and he's saying, look, this, what's happening is coming really fast. It's a nuclear blast radius for jobs, okay? And he's like, we're seeing it already. But you're not. You have to pay attention to what is now happening at the companies because you are behind. You're only seeing the free tier stuff, okay? And believe me, you know chatgpt Xai So you know all of that crunching of data, it takes enormous data centers to be able to. You ask it a question and it unders. It understands your question and can give you the right answer. You don't have to ever think, am I asking this the right way? Just the technology to give you the right answer that understands what you're looking for is enormous computing power. Okay? Think of everybody over the world, all over the world using this. Do you know how much compute power is being released to the public all over the world? It's less than 5%. That means 90% is being held by the company to make new products, new advances on AI. So imagine, imagine just the compute power of everybody asking it stupid things and how much that takes. That's 5% of what is being used. The rest of it is to improve itself. Okay? So it's going to happen fast. Now, he also says, warning, warning, warning. He also says, this is the greatest empowerment tool ever created. This is my problem. Okay? Because is the Internet bad? No, but it's. It's bringing porn into our kids. It's doing all kinds of things to our families. Yeah, that's because that's the way humans are using it. The Internet is not bad. The Internet gave you access to the world's library in your pocket. It's good if you choose to use it correctly. So he's saying you can build things now you couldn't build before. You could write a book, launch apps. You can learn anything. The best tutor on earth is now $20 a month. But only, he says, only if you engage. This is so important. I want to explain this a little later. His advice is really simple. Use it daily, use it. Push it into your real work experiment. Get financially resilient, teach your kids to adapt instead of going to college and saying that career is set for you because this is not a fad. He says the richest institutions on Earth are pouring trillions of dollars into it and the trajectory is almost straight. Line up. It's not flattening. So he ends where he begins. This is not an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is here. It just hasn't knocked on your door yet. But it is coming. And he says, I'm just telling the people I love before the knock arrives at their door, this is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Let me go to Jack Fosobe, who is Turning Point usa, a contributor host of Human Events Daily, I think. And Jack, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm sure you're not going to take all the credit, but I would say that you were the guy who said we should do a halftime show, we should do it ourselves. I'm sure there were other people involved in that, but good job, Jack. Good job.
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Well, Glenn, thank you so much for that and all of your praise, you know, in the past couple of days and your support for it going into it. Look, I may have been the guy who said we should go ahead and do this and, you know, kind of got the ball rolling. But. But ultimately, I would say the inspiration for the super bowl halftime show was Charlie himself, because Charlie was always, for years, even back before Turning Point, really got off the ground. And we were pulling up old tweets and just remembering old conversations that we had had where he was constantly going on. He said this. The way they were doing the halftime show, you know, at the super bowl is becoming so just a scene of debauchery. He said, it's not family friendly. And then more and more, increasingly, it was not putting America at the center. Our virtues and our values at the center. And we found a clip, actually, because we would talk about this off air all the time. And we found a clip. And I'm sure there's more. But the one that we found was from a couple years back where he was saying the. The halftime show should be the virtues that you want to extol throughout the nation, because this is the pinnacle of. Of a cultural event that, you know, is going to have the most eyeballs year on year. And they know that we know that.
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Yep. And it's not just America. I mean, this is the biggest calling card every year in the world. People watch it all over the world. And I gotta believe if I was an enemy of the United States and I watched that, I thought, these people are about to implode. When you don't have a word of English spoken during the halftime of super bowl, that tells you something. And it seemed to me almost to be like a hostile takeover.
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Well, and you look at it, too. It's. It's the division. It's. It's Globalism is what it is. Globalism is just the obvious word for it. And you know, going back to a word that we used before where, where they want to go global because this is what the NFL wants. The NFL wants to compete with the World Cup. They want to compete on the global stage. Everyone knows the World cup, that's the big one. And, and predominantly when you're talking about a Hispanic audience, Spanish speaking audience, they don't watch American football as much. They watch the World cup, they watch soccer, because that's their culture, by the way. And, and what they're trying to do from a monetary perspective, from a fiscal perspective, which, by the way, from, you know, from a pure capitalist perspective, I don't have a problem with trying to expand your aud. Don't do so by denying, dividing and canceling the core of what you. Yes, we were built on in the first place. NFL is middle America. This is Hank Williams Jr. Remember, he got canceled and Hank Williams Jr. Used to be the opening song, the iconic song are you ready for some football? On Monday night. That was what built the NFL. And we saw NASCAR do this when they went. Woke up to try. In search of a broader audience. We're now starting to see the NFL and not starting to see. We've seen the NFL do this for years. And that's just. All of this is what drove me to say, we have to do it. This is the time I have to tell you.
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Hank found out. Just side note, Hank found out about him being canceled on Monday Night Football, listening to this program. And he told me about a year later, and he picked up the NFL guitar, you know, the one that he had, and he just smashed it to death. And he. I think he had like five or ten of them. And he smashed all of them in this rage while he was listening. He picked up the last one and he was about to smash. And he went, now this one goes to Glenn Beck. About a year later, he gave me the only Monday Night Football guitar that's. That's left. He saved for me. It's crazy. Anyway, he didn't.
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He didn't tell me. He said, cut it all off.
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No, he. All of it. All of it. He didn't. He was so angry. So I don't know if you saw my monologue yesterday. I talked about how this was a brilliant.
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We all saw that.
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Okay, good. We were all carrying that around because people are. People were saying, that's a stupid move. Blah, blah, blah. Didn't do anything. Oh, it will. I mean, you know, when you have 30 million people online within 24 hours watching it. You've made a real impact. And look out. I have heard and I don't know if it's true. I've heard the NFL tried to get you guys not to do it. Is that true?
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So here's what I can say. We say, I knew that this would be in. Kid Rock himself came up. Bob came out and said, it's David and Goliath. This is what he was referring to. Because I knew that by picking a fight with the biggest cabal in America, bigger than the Democrats. Right. We're talking Hollywood, we're talking corporate America, the biggest sports event in the country. The most money that goes into this thing because it has the most cultural power that we were going to, that we were going up against the. We were going up against Goliath. We were just literally going up against Goliath. I had no idea what would happen. I don't think we realized the ways that they can get you, the ways that they can gatekeep you and block you. Now, look, I'm not going to sit here and say that I, that, you know, I have an email from Roger Goodell that says, you shall not do this. Great. Because they're, you know, they're clean. They're 100. They're going to, they're going to do it clean. But everybody knows. And this is the way that these elite events work is that it's a trickle down system. But they're all connected through the sponsorships, the advertisers, the venues, the musicians, the music. Right. The labels. Because we had. Glenn, we had times where artists would tell us love to do it. Can't wait. Because when you start one of these things, of course you cast a wide net. You say, okay, who's available? You look into who's on tour, who's around. We only had three months to be able to even do this, so. And then it comes to venues. Oh, we'd love to do it. We have availability. But then something would always happen. Glenn, somewhere along the line in that conversation with, I want to say, a very large percentage of people we talk to, suddenly it was, oh, you know, something came up and we just can't do it, or, oh, we just can't have it. And then they play games with the rights to the songs as well. Where the artists.
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Because.
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Because the publishers and the licensers have the song. This is, of course, people know publicly this is what happened with X and I could talk about that too, is they would say, you know, you can have that artist, but you can't. They can't play this song, this song, this song and this song. Or if you play it, you can't broadcast it on X. Like all of these things. Or there were even. I'll just say there were stuff that we wanted to do and that we had artists who wanted to do that. We were told at the last minute that you are not permitted to do that. And this is something where we would have gotten. And they would have sued us tens of millions in liabilities where we had had permission from so many people that were close to it. But somewhere back in the office, someone says, no. Turning Point usa with, with Posobic and Colvette and Charlie Kirk's family. No, no. And there were. I'll even tell you, there were some emails that we got that were actually not, not so pleasant too, about, you know, hey, we, you know, real sorry about what happened to Charlie, but we don't want to do business with you. The end. We've got all of that. And, and so can I say it was the NFL definitively, of course. Right. You know, of course we can't say that definitively, but we know what's going on here.
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So it's amazing. If you hadn't. If I hadn't have lived through this, I would maybe have a hard time going. Well, you don't really know now. Trust me, what he's saying is absolutely right. I mean, you know, I had to deal with, I think it was either Warner Brothers or Paramount. A movie deal for the Christmas sweater. Two million books easy. Done. They were all over me. I think we had two, two companies bidding against, against each other for the rights to it. The minute the, the White House got involved, it was actually Van Jones got involved. And all of a sudden it was like, yeah, we own the rights, but we're not going to do anything with it. You're like, what do you mean you're not going to do anything with it? And this happens all the time in our world. But it only happens, Jack, when you're making a difference. That shows how terrified they were of this. And I'm telling you, next year, make it bigger, make it better, because you will slowly bleed that audience. You're not going to hurt the, the football part of the super bowl because that's unique to the NFL and nobody can replace that. But if you hurt them, pregame, halftime, post game, they can't charge all that money. I mean, it, it will really hurt the NFL. Really hurt. And they're going to say no, it doesn't affect us at all. Believe me. Five years from now that they're freaking out now, five years from now they'll be freaking out publicly.
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B
Well, I can tell you, by the way, that I did have a source that through one of the NFL, just sort of a, you know, marketing department, kind of a firm that they use, who was telling us they, they're even that night that they were furious, absolutely furious when they saw the numbers that we did. And then it becomes the number one. Actually, the X, you know, not being able to stream on X actually helped us with YouTube because it drove all those people to the YouTube audience, to that stream. So it becomes the number one number one US stream in American history. Number two, YouTube livestream worldwide, ever, ever. More than the World cup, more than, than any other sporting event, entertainment event, you name it. The only thing I actually looked this up, the only, only live stream that was, that was more. Was when India landed their lunar probe, you know, a couple of years ago. Going up against, you're going up against 1.8 billion people, I said. But then, of course, I said, well, guys, next year, obviously, you know what this means. We just have to go big. We're doing it on the moon. What do you say, right?
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A
With. With maybe the Prime Minister of India, right? People are, people are saying that you guys paid for that. This was all, this was all hype. These weren't real people. You paid for all that.
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B
Well, you know, if people think that was true, which number one, I don't even know how to do, but if that were true, then, then please go ahead and do your own and show us how it's paid for. Just go ahead and beat us. Go beat us tomorrow, right? Just go out and pay for the, you know, and that's, that's what. Silly. If this were able to be done, which, by the way, Glenn, we were talking to YouTube the entire night. They were telling us they were checking in. They can see this on the back end. They can see the heat, ma, about where the, you know, the audience is coming from. It's, it's just, you know, they would know what, what traffic. Because YouTube, of course, has, has, you know, because they have advertisers, so they can't, you know, if they're selling fake traffic to their advertisers, then they're committing fraud. YouTube's not going to allow that. And they never once reported a single issue like that to us.
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A
Jack Posobic from TP usa, it's always good to talk to you. Say hello to your wife. You married. I will say hello to your.
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B
I will. And likewise. By the way, Glenn, I don't know if you remember, but quick story on Christmas Sweater 2006. I think I remember correctly. When you brought the Christmas sweater to the Kimmel Center. You and I were backstage there together before you went up on the. To do the show, and it was phenomenal. Phenomenal.
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A
Kidding me. Thank you.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Gosh, what a great memory.
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B
What a great memory, Jack.
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A
Thank you so much.
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B
Before you moved to New York.
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A
Yeah, it was. It was. I was. No, Christmas sweater was the year before I went to fox, so I was living in Connecticut. I had just left Philadelphia.
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B
Oh, you just moved.
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A
Yeah, just moved. Yeah. But anyway, Jack, thanks so much. God bless you, man. Appreciate it. And congratulations to everyone at TP usa. High praise. High praise. Keep it up.
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B
Well, hey, Glenn, you. You showed us how to do it, man. You showed us.
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A
Thanks. Thanks.