RADIOMarch 06, 2024

Will the Texas Panhandle Wildfires Affect YOUR Beef Prices?

Wildfires in Texas have destroyed hundreds of homes, over a million acres of land, and thousands of cattle. Will this affect your beef prices? And if so, how long will it take for the effects to be felt? Glenn speaks with general manager Joe Leathers of the Four Sixes Ranch, which was affected by the fire, about what you should expect. Joe also explains how the ranching community is helping those who have been immediately affected, including ranchers, cowboys, and families, and lays out how you can help as well: “Disaster memories are short,” he tells Glenn. “And when it rains, you’ll get a little green on the ground and people will forget. It’s gonna take YEARS to recover from this."

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GLENN: I want to tell you a story of traumatic loss.

Tell you a story of courage, of togetherness, and the spirit of man.

At least two deaths have been confirmed in the Texas panhandle fires now. It's the largest wildfire in state history, with over a million acres burned.

Hundreds have lost their homes. And because rural Texans are twice as likely to forfeit homeowners insurance. The road ahead seems unfathomably difficult.

I want to play a voice of a 3-year-old, Addison. Addison realized, the only home she's ever known is now gone forever.

VOICE: You want your house? We'll get another house, okay.

GLENN: Her dad is Tyler McCain. He was working hard to become the first person in his family to ever pay off his house.

He was close. If you're watching Blaze TV, you can see the picture of what their home looks like right now. The only thing standing in the backyard is the metal swing set.

The catastrophic depths of this particular wildfire go one step further, and it will affect you. Texas leads America, by far, with the most cattle. And according to the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, 85 percent of the state's cattle population, resides in the panhandle, where this fire happened.

He predicted during an interview with CBS News, that 10,000 cattle, will have died, or will have to be euthanized.

This is too horrific, to even think about. A lot of these cattle are still alive. But hooves have been burned off.

Their tattoos have been burned off. Their udders are burned off, and they have to be put down.

Oh, so while the death toll of human lives lost to these fires is low.

The loss of livelihood, is nothing like we've ever seen before.

Now, Dixon Creek, it's a division of the 6666 Ranch.

It was seen in the hit TV show, Yellowstone. That is just one of the ranches affected.

When the wildfire came near, general manager Joe Leathers said, the cowboys from other divisions, joined forces, with other ranchers.

Firefighters. Volunteers. They all fought the flames, and saved lives.

You probably have never met a real cowboy, but they are amazing people.

They are some of America's toughest. But can these ranchers and the cattle industry, actually, recover from this. Joe Leathers joins me now.

Joe, welcome.

JOE: Yeah. Good morning. How are you?

GLENN: I'm good. Better than you are.

This is just tragic, and I don't think people understand how bad this is, and how much it will affect them.

JOE: Well, Glenn, before we even start this -- this conversation. I want everybody to understand, you know, we're -- we've been business for over 150 years. And we've got three ranches.

We lost 27,000. Or 23,000 acres. In this particular fire.

But with that being said, that's -- we've been extremely blessed.

We've got options. And we didn't completely burn out, fence to fence.

We didn't lose massive amounts of cattle.

And we got a lot that are in far worse shape than us.

You know, I was at Dickson creek yesterday.

And we were moving cattle out of the burned area.

And, you know, as cows, and baby calves. It's calving season.

And that kids can't travel very far.

And a lot of them couldn't outrun the fire. And, you know, we were moving those cattle out to a country that had not burned, and we were able to adjust and send cattle to the feed lot. But long story short, when I went there, I went to the feed lot. Looked at some cattle we had sent up there.

And on my way back, I went through some of the burned area. And I didn't measure it. But for 30 to 40 miles, just through one particular area, it was black as far as I could see. Not a blade of grass.

Any funnies that had wood posts were burned up. And on the ground. Fire had burned up to the edge of homes. And, you know what, we've been through fires before. And I just -- I was telling my wife this morning, that, you know, when you're sitting there, looking at that burned up country. And you lost unaccounted for amount of cattle. And don't know what your future holds, it's a pretty devastating feeling. A long time to recover.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I got a call from my ranch manager yesterday. And he said, because we've had three sets of twins. And when that happens, the mamas can't feed both.

So they're usually -- we lost a calf yesterday. One calf.

I cannot imagine what it feels like to lose the cattle and to see them suffering on the ground -- I mean, this is just a horrific, horrific story.

JOE: It is. And that's not just the first time we've had a fire. This is obviously the largest. When it's over a million acres. And covers 2,000 square miles.

You're talking huge.

The Texas panhandle has had fires in the past. I've been through many of them. Several of them, in 25 years, at the ranch.

But it takes a toll on you. And the recovery.

And to watch -- to find kids or cows that are burned. And some of them have died. Well, it's -- it is heartbreaking. And then, you know, you find some that burn. And then you have to make the determination. Are they going to recover? Or are you going to have to put them down?

So that adds a whole 'nother emotional level to it.

GLENN: Yeah. Somebody had told me, they had seen a video, where someone was driving 60 miles an hour, and they could not outrun the fire at some point. Is that true?

JOE: Well, I don't know whether that story is true. But I can tell you this, I know from experience.

It can cover, with 60 miles an hour gusts. Anything gusting over 40 miles an hour. That -- it can -- it can cover 20,000 acres. Burn over 20,000 acres, in 30 minutes or less.

GLENN: Wow.

JOE: You know, unless you have some obstacle to slow it down. You know, a four-lane highway won't slow it down. It will jump the highways. And you can't -- firefighters can't fight something that's moving that fast.

You have to -- you've got to work from the sides. And you have to wait until the wetlands. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

GLENN: So you have -- the big impact of this fire is, you don't have -- you don't have any grass to feed your animals.

How can people -- I think there's like a hay hotline. This happens from time to time, where people who are growing hay and alfalfa, they ship it down to you. Is there anything organized on that yet?

JOE: Absolutely. Go to Texas Southwest Cattle Ranchers. TSCRA.org.

And they will -- on that website, there are places that you can spend hay, and drop hay.

And that way, the ranchers, in need, they will make sure it gets to the ones that need it.

And I'm going to tell you, they need hay. There are folks out there, that lost their homes.

They need home supplies. Fencing material. With 2,000 square miles, that's burned up. I don't know how many -- how many hundreds or thousands of miles there is of fence that has burned up, that's on the ground.

So those types of things, those are good things to take material to. Donations to.

Star fund. The state of Texas has a star fund. That's been set up. You can give financially.

And I have to share it with you, Glenn. I don't know how much time we have. But in 2010, we drafted out in Texas. You probably remember it.

STU: Yeah. I do.

GLENN: And we moved a lot of cattle.

The ranch moved a lot of cattle up north. What we discovered, the ranching community. You know, we talk about our neighbors across the fence.

But the ranching communities is the neighborhood from the Gulf Coast all the way to the Canadian border.

And I've had people that I've run cattle up north. Some of those states call me and say, we've got hay. Where does it need to go?

So we've been getting hay from Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Not to the ranch, but to these locations.

And, you know, a big deal now is -- you can get people to donate to hay, but they don't have any way to get it to Texas. And sometimes you don't have a way to get it from the centers where you bring the hay to. To get it distributed to the people in need.

So there's an opportunity there for truckers.

GLENN: Well, there's a lot in common with truckers and cowboys.

JOE: There is. But then the truckers have to pay bills too. They're willing to donate their time and their rigs, but it costs money.

So that's another way too, to give. And, I mean -- people's memories are sort.

Disaster memories are short.

And when it rains, you will get a little green on the ground. And people will forget.

It will take years for people to recover from this.

GLENN: So we will not see a price increase. I hate to bring it to this. We won't see a price increase, or we shouldn't.

Until next year, when everything is sold at auction. All these babies that are born right now. Are sold at auction.

What's the impact on the ability to buy meat in America.

JOE: None. You're not going to see any -- any immediate change, in -- in prices at the grocery store. You're not going to see a shortage of beef.

Here's the reality. Here's the reality.

The beef industry is -- is huge. It's a national industry.

And the -- the amount of cattle, even though it's very devastating to the individuals who lost the ranches. Who lost their homes. Who lost their livelihoods, who lost all this cattle.

That number that we have lost is a minute amount when you look at the overall numbers of cattle in the United States.

And I don't -- I don't foresee seeing a major increase in prices at the grocery store.

GLENN: Good.

Well, I -- I can't thank you enough for taking your time to share the story with us, Joe.

If you don't mind, I would like someone from my charitable arm, Mercury One, to reach out to see if we can help, for some of the cost for the hay or the truckers, or even help people rebuild their lives.

So if you don't mind, someone from Mercury One will be reaching out to you today.

JOE: Sure. They can reach out to me, but they can also go to the Star Fund, Texas Department of Agriculture website.

And that is a good, legitimate place to give.

And they will get it out to -- it's not the -- it's not statement.

It's individual money like the folks you're talking about.

GLENN: Okay.

JOE: And they will get it to the people that need it. As bad as they say it, there are crooks out there, that try to set up places. Where they can receive funds.

GLENN: Sure.

JOE: But just make sure you send it to a legitimate --

GLENN: Well, if you say the Texas agriculture dot.gov is good, I just don't want 30 cents or 40 cents of my dollar going to the state, and only 60 cents going back to you guys. But if you say that's good, that's good.

JOE: The star fund is a legitimate spot to give it. And it's not going to end up in some other state coffers. It will end up in the producer's hands, if needed.

GLENN: Okay. Thank you so much, Joe. God bless.

JOE: Yeah. Thank you all. Keep praying.

GLENN: You bet. The Star Fund. Also, you can go to Texas and Southwestern Cattle Ranchers Association. That's TSCRA.org.

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.