The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Jack Posobiec | 2/11/26

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

The latest advances in AI models have been far more impressive than originally predicted. Glenn lays out how OpenAI’s latest system uses its own software to build on and improve its successor, with ...the improvements compounding. Glenn discusses the oddity of the flight restrictions in El Paso and why they were suddenly lifted. Turning Point USA contributor Jack Posobiec joins to discuss the success of TPUSA’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show, despite the NFL's allegedly attempt to sabotage it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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 Busobic on from TPUSA. that's an amazing thing. 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 Iraq or Iran?
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Starting point is 00:02:37 Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. 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 a.m. Eastern time, 6 a.m., Pacific time. And when you're doing something live, things change during the show.
Starting point is 00:03:24 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 18,000 feet. So your private jets, your bigger jets, everything like that are going to fly above 18,000 feet. 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. there is a wildfire, they shut down the airspace. There is a hurricane.
Starting point is 00:04:14 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
Starting point is 00:04:53 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?
Starting point is 00:05:11 Now, an hour ago, the government came out and said, Ricky, what did they say? Can you give me the exact verbiage? I will try to read this as quickly as I can. They lifted it within the last hour saying that everything was koshered. That is not a direct quote. I can give you a new direct quote, if you like that just happened in the last 18 minutes. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Trump official told Fox News that the law. lockdown came in response to Mexican cartel drones that breached U.S. 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 does took action to disable drones mean? We took them out. And this was, my guess is, I mean, let me bring Jason. in because Jason, you're a military guy. You focus on military intelligence. And so I don't want to go too far out on a limb.
Starting point is 00:06:18 But when I heard this, 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. It is also near Fort Bliss. Fort Bliss is a million acres for the armed. Army. And it, what's really important about Fort Bliss is it is the rapid deployment, uh, 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.
Starting point is 00:07:03 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 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?
Starting point is 00:08:21 Don't know. Could have just been a mistake. But I'm glad the Trump administration is all over this today. Watch what happens in El Paso in the next country. couple of days. Let's see if there's more news. Jason, comments on this? Yeah, I think it's all up, just all we 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 brings a little true to me is because Mexican cartels are not going to disrupt business in a way
Starting point is 00:08:55 of, you know, provoking a U.S. 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 forward knowledge of, and they were trying to get ready for it and get out in front of it.
Starting point is 00:09:23 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. I can't. I mean, how does that possibly happen, Jason? I mean, you don't close that. I mean,
Starting point is 00:09:54 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 cloud to airspace for 10 days. I mean, I mean, wait, where's Tim Wals? Where is he? Who would do that? Who would have the authority to do that? Yes, I would say probably somebody in the FBI or DOJ, something like that that would transmit that to the FAA or there could have been the moron card somewhere within the FAA that
Starting point is 00:10:29 just clicked the wrong button. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. 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. 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, but we'll definitely be watching it. We have to start getting full.
Starting point is 00:11:01 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. 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 gain.
Starting point is 00:11:31 our trust back for the military. Hegseth has come in and set the military back on track. And so 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.
Starting point is 00:11:50 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? That's my best road to go down. I know.
Starting point is 00:12:17 We have been trying to get the crown prints. Ricky, I'd like you to 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 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.
Starting point is 00:12:52 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? Do you want me to put my Stu hat on or Ricky conspiracy theorists? So Stu, I know what Stu would say.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Get over it. Of course not. Okay. And he might be right. And he might be right. 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.
Starting point is 00:13:57 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 I didn't appreciate about that. He basically just told the regime, you're standing with the Iranian people, and he just put a big target on your back.
Starting point is 00:14:28 Let them. Let them. 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? You remember when we were getting people out of Afghanistan? And I think I've told this on here.
Starting point is 00:14:46 I hope I have. But we, the story. 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? What?
Starting point is 00:15:24 So we talked to him and he just wanted assurance that I would remind people in Washington that 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 the show right now. That's nuts.
Starting point is 00:16:16 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 U.S. 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.
Starting point is 00:16:37 This is one you don't want to miss. Because I'm a fan, 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 at glenbeck.com if you're a Torch insider. You can join us there at glenbeck.com slash torch. Sign up now.
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Starting point is 00:18:16 news. A couple of things. The two co-founders of Elon Musk's X-A-I have resigned. They have not said why they're leaving, but they are the latest leaving from X-AI 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 who he is.
Starting point is 00:18:55 So two people have now resigned an extra two. And we'll follow that. That is something to watch, not something to be concerned about. This one is. Mirnank 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 got to be careful, we got to be careful, we got to be careful. He's been at the company since 2003.
Starting point is 00:19:30 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. 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.
Starting point is 00:20:20 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
Starting point is 00:20:48 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
Starting point is 00:21:34 get coffee. No drafts, not suggestions, finished work better than he and his team are able to do. He said on February 5th, 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. 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.
Starting point is 00:22:29 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 curve. 2022, it couldn't multiply correctly.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Couldn't do basic math problems in 2022. A year later, it's 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?
Starting point is 00:23:31 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 or 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 leading experts on with me from Google 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,
Starting point is 00:24:39 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. 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.
Starting point is 00:25:06 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.
Starting point is 00:25:31 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 10%. one to five years from now, 50%. What do you think is going to happen to the economy if that happens?
Starting point is 00:26:41 What do you think it's 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's 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.
Starting point is 00:27:21 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
Starting point is 00:28:06 is now happening at the companies because you're behind you're only seeing the free tier stuff okay and believe me you know um chat GPT xAI so you know all of that crunching of data it takes enormous data centers to be able to you ask it a question you ask it a question and 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 all over the world using this.
Starting point is 00:28:52 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 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.
Starting point is 00:29:34 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 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.
Starting point is 00:29:58 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.
Starting point is 00:30:21 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. Push it into your real work. Experiment. Get financially resilient.
Starting point is 00:30:39 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. It's not an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is here.
Starting point is 00:31:03 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 Maso. He is a Turning Point USA 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,
Starting point is 00:31:40 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. 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.
Starting point is 00:31:57 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, the way they were doing the halftime show 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
Starting point is 00:32:41 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 halftime show should be the virtues that you want to extol throughout the nation, because this is the pinnacle of a cultural event that. you know is going to have the most eyeballs year on year. And they know that. It's, we know that. 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 got to believe, if I was an enemy of the United States and I watched that, I thought these people are about
Starting point is 00:33:22 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. Well, and you look at it too. It's the division. It's globalism is what it is. Globalism is just the obvious word for it. And going back to a word that we used before,
Starting point is 00:33:45 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 predominantly, when you're talking about a Hispanic audience, Spanish-speaking audience,
Starting point is 00:34:01 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 what they're trying to do from a monetary perspective, from a fiscal perspective, which, by the way, from a pure capitalist perspective, I don't have a problem with trying to expand your audience, but don't do so by denying, dividing, and canceling the core of what we were built on in the first place. NFL is middle America.
Starting point is 00:34:31 this is Hank 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.
Starting point is 00:34:44 And we saw NASCAR do this when they went woke in search of a broader audience. We're now starting to see the NFL. I'm 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.
Starting point is 00:35:03 I have to tell you, 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.
Starting point is 00:35:28 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 left. He saved for me. It's crazy. Anyway, he didn't. He said cut it all off.
Starting point is 00:35:45 No, he, all of it. All of it. He was so angry. So I don't know if you saw my monologue yesterday. I talked about how this was a brilliant, We all saw that. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:36:00 We were all sharing that around. Because people are, people were saying that's a stupid move, blah, blah, blah, it 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?
Starting point is 00:36:25 So here's what I can say. I knew that this would be, and 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. of this thing because it has the most cultural power that we were going to that we were going up
Starting point is 00:37:04 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 gate keep 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 Gidell that says you shall not do this right because they're you know They're clean. 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,
Starting point is 00:37:36 but they're all connected through the sponsorships, the advertisers, the venues, the musicians, the music, right, the labels. Because we at times where artists would tell us love to do it, can we? 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. It's around. We only had three months to be able to do.
Starting point is 00:37:57 to even do this. So, and then that 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 artist, 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 they can't play this song, this song, this song, and this
Starting point is 00:38:38 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 And this is something where we would have got, 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 Pesobic 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 so pleasant, too, about, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:27 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 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. So it's amazing.
Starting point is 00:39:45 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 a deal with, I think it was either Warner Brothers or Paramount, a movie deal for the Christmas sweater.
Starting point is 00:40:02 Two million books. Easy, done. They were all over me. I think we had two companies bidding against, against each other for the rights to it. The minute, the White House got involved, it was actually Van Jones got involved. And all of a sudden it was like,
Starting point is 00:40:20 yeah, we own the wrong. 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 football part of the Super Bowl, because that's unique to the NFL and no Nobody can replace that.
Starting point is 00:40:53 But if you hurt them pregame, half time, post game, they can't charge all that money. I mean, 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, they're freaking out now. Five years from now, they'll be freaking out publicly. Well, I can tell you, by the way, that I did have a source that through one of the NFL, just sort of a marketing department, kind of a firm that they use who was telling us, even that night that they were furious, absolutely furious when they saw the numbers that we did,
Starting point is 00:41:36 and then it becomes the number one. Actually, the X, 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 U.S. stream in American history. number two YouTube live stream worldwide, ever, ever, more than the World Cup, more than any other sporting event, entertainment event, you name it. The only thing, I actually looked this up, the only live stream that was more was when India landed their lunar probe, you know, a couple of years ago. And it's India.
Starting point is 00:42:12 You're going up against 1.8 billion people. I said, 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? With maybe the Prime Minister of India. Yeah, we'll get moody, right. People are saying that you guys paid for that. This was all, this was all hype.
Starting point is 00:42:37 These weren't real people. You paid for all that. 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 please go ahead and do your own, show us how it's paid for, or just go ahead and beat us tomorrow, right? just go out and pay for the, you know, and that's what's silly. If this were able to be done, which, by the way, Glenn, we were talking to YouTube the entire night.
Starting point is 00:42:58 They were telling us. They were checking it. They can see this on the back end. They can see the heat maps about where the, you know, the audience is coming from. It's just, you know, they would know 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, and they're committing fraud.
Starting point is 00:43:21 YouTube's not going to allow that. And they never once reported a single issue like that to us. Jack Posobic from TPSA, it's always good to talk to you. Say hello to your wife. You married. I will. Say hello to your wife. I will.
Starting point is 00:43:36 And likewise. By the way, Glenn, I don't know if you remember, but quick story on the Christmas sweater, 2006, I think, 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. show and it was phenomenal. You're kidding me. Thank you. Yeah. Gosh, what a great memory. What a great memory.
Starting point is 00:43:57 Jack, thank you so much. It was before you moved to New York. 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. Oh, you just moved. Yeah, just moved. Yeah. But anyway, Jack, thanks so much. God bless you, man. I appreciate it. And congratulations to everyone at TPSA. High praise.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Keep it up. Well, hey, Glenn, you showed us how to do it, man. You showed us. Thanks. Thanks, man.

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