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Is Microsoft’s Worldwide Outage Just the Beginning? | Guests: Katie Hopkins & Kelly Stewart Harcourt | 11/13/26 artwork

Is Microsoft’s Worldwide Outage Just the Beginning? | Guests: Katie Hopkins & Kelly Stewart Harcourt | 11/13/26

The Glenn Beck Program

November 13, 2026

Did Americans survive the day after tomorrow? Microsoft experienced a global outage of multiple services yesterday, including Outlook and Teams, and it's still affecting some users. Glenn explains why he believes these widespread outages are about to become much more common.

Speakers Glenn Beck, Blake Harris, Joe Lonsdale, Katie Hopkins, Kelly Stewart Harcourt

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Glenn Beck (1:56)

Like I always say, na-na-na, na. Glenn Beck is on. Hello and welcome. It's Friday.

How are you doing without email?

Blake Harris (2:09)

Are you doing good?

Glenn Beck (2:10)

I mean, you know the one person, I love this, the one person who has the last laugh on this is Mark Levin. Everybody was making fun of him. You still have AOL. Why do you have AOL? He just tweeted last night. Hey, how's that outlook working for you? Anyway, there's a few things that we need to talk about and Nvidia is still a problem. Nvidia, I don't know if there's something wrong with this story. I don't know what it is, but there's something wrong with this story. We're going to get to that here in just a second. We have a long list of people that are going to be on the show today. I have Jimmy Stewart's daughter. There's a new movie called Jimmy that is out.

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Okay. So I came in this morning and the first thing Ricky said to me was, did we just, what was it? The apocalypse?

SPEAKER_4 (5:06)

Yeah, I said, did we just survive the day after tomorrow?

Glenn Beck (5:08)

Yeah, the day after.

I'm happy to say, I just looked at my email last night, you know, like six o'clock, and I'm like, hmm, nobody's written me today. Oh, well, it didn't bother me at all. In fact, I kind of enjoyed it. I kind of enjoyed it until I actually had to do work. And then I didn't enjoy it. I started writing last night and I'm like, what, what, what, what? And you realize everything is connected, everything. And that's kind of the story here that we should be learning from Microsoft. They're underlying server infrastructure. It's all interconnected. And the problem is restoring the service is kind of complex. I think they're finding out now. Now they're saying that this wasn't a hack. I don't know how they know it wasn't definitely not a hack. Well, how do you know it definitely wasn't a hack? Until you know what it was. They don't know what it was yet, but they are fixing it. My email just came back, but then it went out again.

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