Is YouTube throttling Glenn's channel ahead of the 2024 election? Glenn and his team have reason to believe so. Glenn reviews the latest data, which reveals a disturbing trend that, if it continues, would all but destroy Glenn's channel by the election. "We are being silenced," Glenn says, "and it's not just us. It is EVERYBODY who has a different opinion from this administration." But Glenn also reveals what you can do to push back.
TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Hello, America. I want to talk to you a little bit about the coming election, and the kind of information you're going to be able to access. Things are changing. And they're changing rapidly. And you will never notice it, because that's the way things are done now.
But there is a massive campaign on, that I believe our government is absolutely involved in.
But not only the government, social media.
My social media page, just on YouTube. I don't know. 1.62000000 people, I don't remember what it is.
Followers. And to show you what's going on. Just, I think three months ago, I got 95 million impressions every month. 65 million views.
Something like that. That was three months ago. Now we have about 60 million impressions and 12 million views.
This month, we are trending to be half of that again. There is nothing that we've done differently. Now, unless America is just bored to snot with me. Which I completely accept.
That is a real possibility.
We are being silenced. And it's not just us.
It is everybody who has a different opinion from this administration.
And we are being silenced and squelched. By the time we get to the end of the summer. Which is where the campaigns are going to be heating up.
You're not. If you were a subscriber of mine on YouTube.
You're never going to see me. You will have to search me out, to find any of my clips.
This is, again, electioneering.
This is nothing more than part of a -- what I believe to be an effort, to steal an election.
And it is gravely disturbing.
This is the time I built TheBlaze for. Back in 2010.
I was sitting in the office. And I remember talking to Stu and Pat and saying, we have to get out of here. This place will burn itself to the ground.
And we all knew that. We all knew the media would burn itself to the ground.
Wouldn't you agree? We all looked at it, at the time.
But when I said, we have to go online.
That was stupid. That was stupid. Nobody was doing it, at the time. I mean, there were people, Adam Curry was doing things.
But there was nobody that was really a success at it, at that point.
And nobody was doing a live network. It was only Major League Baseball.
And I took all of the -- you know, I took all of my children's college funds. And everything else that I had made. And I dumped it into TheBlaze.
And I nearly lost it all. Because we were way, way ahead.
But luckily, we had some very dedicated people.
I meet them all the time.
I've been a member since the very first day of TheBlaze. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. We have grown a great deal.
But we don't have the social media pushout.
They are they're doing this to TheBlaze. They're doing this to The Daily Wire.
They're doing this to everybody. So you will see less and less from us, and our opinions.
And it's really a very dangerous thing. Because we are now entering a very dangerous time.
I'm going to be real honest we, too.
I see a time, that I'm not going to be able to talk to you about what's really going on.
If you don't know by then, I probably won't know.
But we're going to have to stay in contact, some way or another. So I have been working on several programs, that we are going to try. And tonight, is -- is a program, based on history.
It's a pilot. And I want you to watch it. And see if it is something, that you would -- you would watch. Again, it's a pilot. It will change a bit.
This one is tonight. All on history.
And we have this amazing. We probably have -- gosh, I don't even know. Eighty. 90 million dollars' worth of documents. And everything else. In a vault.
And we will start telling those stories, if this is something that you would like. And this is kind of a backup show. So we can stay in touch. And I'm not talking politics. I'm just telling you the truth of history.
And tonight is -- is the first one, it's based around one of the most stressful auctions of my life. There was one artifact, and there was just one. And it was so important. It changed the world.
And I talked to my wife about it. And she said, are you out of your mind?
And I said, well, but there's only one. And look how important it is. Change the world, et cetera.
So she gave me a budget. And she was like, there's no way I will win this thing.
It was a test model version. They made four. Sputniks. The last one they made, burned up in space.
But this was the Sputnik, we believe this was the one that was testing the tones, that went out.
It now hangs from the roof, a copy of it, hangs from the roof of my office. The other one is in the vault.
But I couldn't believe that we won. And I was on cloud nine, knowing that our museum now had something that nobody else had, except the air and space museum in Moscow, and the air and space museum in Washington, DC.
And it is what caused the space race, it was the first satellite. It was the first thing that went up. All of our telecommunications now come from that.
Then, in fact, let me play this a little bit of a clip of tonight's show. Do you have that clip, where --
I collected so many artifacts over the years that we're now able to open an entire museum. So when I heard that that was coming up for sale. One of the Soviet Union Sputnik satellites that is responsible for everything in space, it was coming to auction.
I had to win it.
VOICE: 40,000. Forty. 150. 160,000. Three. We'll go a little higher. Can you get into three? 300 now. 320? Thee hundred 20 thousands? Anybody else beyond that? 300,000.
You are -- my friends. $300,000.
(applauding)
GLENN: I won, Sputnik was ours.
But then I got a call into a meeting with historians at our museum. They didn't want to tell me any specifics about the meeting beforehand, which is never a good sign.
This thing is such an amazing -- what was -- what was Epstein's assistant's name?
STU: Ghislaine Maxwell?
GLENN: Okay. Do you remember the movie Tetris?
STU: Yes.
GLENN: The big guy from England in that is Maxwell. Okay. Her dad. But her brother is also in that movie, and he was the -- you know, the loser that was trying to go, you know, get Tetris for his father.
Well, he's actually involved in this story. And I don't know if this made the final cut. He plays a very small role. But he was involved. We weren't sure if this was even real.
And we couldn't -- we couldn't tell. We had a tip-off. Because we looked at the other Sputniks. And they were slightly different.
And the difference was -- was something that you would never. If you're going to fake one. You would never fake it like that.
Because it became obvious.
But there were some things that just kept falling apart, on us.
Did I buy a fake Sputnik?
Tonight, you'll find out, is it a fake Sputnik, or not?
And you'll learn all about Sputnik and the space race, we take you back to what this really meant.
It's great for the whole family.
It happens tonight.
This is a -- this is a -- just a pilot that we did.
I don't even know. About a year or so ago. And we've been holding it. We want to take you through the entire museum.
And teach you history, through the objects in the museum.
So watch it tonight with your family. Let us know what you think. And you can watch my special tonight on BlazeTV.com. It's 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
If you haven't subscribed yet to TheBlaze TV, and you try to watch my show on YouTube, we've noticed -- we don't know if it's the algorithm or what. But nobody is now watching at 9:30. So we're testing something else.
We will post it there tomorrow, at an earlier time, 6:00 p.m. Eastern. To see if it's being silenced. Or you're just not watching anymore. We don't know what's going on with our YouTube channel.
We suspect. But we don't know.
So tomorrow, at 6:00 p.m. on YouTube. But tonight, the premiere on Blaze TV.com.
STU: Now, for from a work flow perspective, was there any consideration given to the idea of maybe meeting with the historians before you spend $300,000 on the item?
GLENN: We did.
STU: Okay.
GLENN: And we do that.
We check everything out.
But there was one thing that we just -- we must notice.
And it was -- I mean, this journey is crazy. We -- we have the -- one of the head guys of NASA. We have probably the biggest space artifact guy. I think we flew him in from California or Washington.
He came in. They disagreed at first. I mean, wait until you see the ending.
I mean, it's -- it's an amazing ride.
PAT: Did you save your receipts? That's what I wanted -- I mean, did you take it back up to the counter, and say, yeah. This Sputnik, it didn't work out for me. You want to have your receipt in hand. So I hope you did.
STU: Or at least the credit card I bought it on.
GLENN: Hey, Amex, somebody put a Sputnik on my card.
PAT: It wasn't me. Why would I buy a Sputnik. It doesn't even fly anymore.
STU: So is this something that you're thinking about long-term, doing more of these types of things. Because we have so much great stuff over at the museum. At least, my understanding is we know all the rest of the stuff is real. But, I mean, it seems like you do a lot of this stuff.
GLENN: Yeah. We actually. We're going through. Because of Sputnik, we're going through absolutely everything. And we found a couple of things that were questionable. We haven't found any fakes. We found some things that the story is not quite right on.
We've got three people, that's all they do. And they're going through the entire museum.
And the documentation now on all of our artifacts is amazing.
And we're learning so many -- just incredible stories. That include people that you would just never think. You know, I've said this before. I honestly don't think we would have won World War II, if it wasn't for Ian Fleming, the guy who wrote James Bond. We have three specific artifacts from him. That tell a story, that is -- that nobody knows.
And he's -- it's just incredible. Some people might know Operation Mincemeat. But they don't know how he affected the war all the way along. He played a quiet role, and nobody knew it, at the time. But we have a lot of stuff that we're excited to show you. So this is a show that we will -- we will take you through all of the -- I mean, if you watch it and you like it. We'll take it through all the museum. And teach history through the artifacts, that -- that are or are not real