WEBVTT - Behind The Daily Wire, Part 2 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.800 Al Zone Mediah. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.480 I started the episode Garrison. 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:17.079 Really really what an energetic entry into I'm tired, Tell 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.120 me things that make me sad. Oh, I don't worry, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.720 I will like that is my favorite thing to do. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.640 Let's let's yeah, let's talk about things that are actually 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.080 sad for the first first half of this episode. You know, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.920 the past few years, it's kind of been increasingly profitable 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.920 to be friendly to the gaze, which is kind of 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.559 a new trend. You know, if if you look at 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.560 the past twenty years or so, it's becoming more more profitable, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.920 which we if you're if you're like a queer accelerationist anarchist, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.880 maybe maybe that's a bad thing, right, But if you're 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.080 just trying to like not get killed in the interim 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.680 as the climate collapses, it's you know, maybe maybe a 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:04.360 good thing that that generally queer acceptance has been improving. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.960 But as it's been improven, there's also been a pretty 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.400 sizable backlash from some members of the Christian right who 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.800 don't really like this or are trying to use this 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.320 backlash as a way to promote their own economic interests. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.160 And I don't think this needs to be an either 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.440 or I think this can definitely be a both scenario. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:34.119 Speaking of Matthew Walsh, the Catholic, self described fascist, this 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.840 is going to be kind of the topic of the 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.640 first half of this because he has been able to 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.920 the work he's done, has been able to really propel 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.760 the Daily Wire as an actual political entity in a 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:51.040 way that Shapiro just never really has. Shapiro was really 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.240 good at creating eye catching YouTube videos, clickbait and stuff, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.760 but we never really saw him campaigning hard for any 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.200 political cause. He was never really doing that type of stuff. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.600 They come at a different eras in different communities. For 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:12.120 one thing, Ben Shapiro is Jewish and came of age 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.359 and came into prominence in the early two thousands when 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:21.440 conservatives had political power but basically zero like social power 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.640 as they saw it, right, and so he was always 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.240 positioned as like I am sort of the I'm the 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.679 insurgent conservative, like I'm Rush Limbaugh. You know, I'm going 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.840 to provide a safe place for you, even though you 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.360 control the government to a large extent, where I can 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.800 yell at and make fun of the people that you 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.120 think are bad, right, And that's that's the only thing 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.800 he ever really sought to do is like lol, liberals dumb. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.960 Walsh comes out of the Christian kind of dominionist adjacent 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.720 movement at the very least, and their goal has always 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.799 been capture the seven pillars of culture, right, and so 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.880 he from the beginning has thought of this more as 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:05.280 I am waging a Christian war against secular society and 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.799 doing so like kind of methodically. So they just kind 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.720 of have approached what they're doing fundamentally from a different 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.360 way and came into it at different times. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:20.200 Walsh's definitely the most evangelical Catholic I've ever seen, and 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.120 which is weird because like back when he was a 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.240 popular Christian blogger, his stuff was very popular in evangelical circles, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.640 even though evangelicals generally are not very friendly to Catholics, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:35.360 but his stuff was widely shared because he was quite provocative. Now, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.640 he spent a few years just kind of laying low 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.440 running a podcast at The Daily Wire, and then What 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.080 Is a Woman really really propelled him into the spotlight 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.160 and he got a glimpse of fame and popularity that 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.200 he's been endlessly trying to replicate. And because this fame 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.640 was based around hating trans people, that is what he's 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.440 decided to pivot his whole career year to doing that 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.280 is now his entire focus in life is about how 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.400 he doesn't like trans people because it was very profitable 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.560 for him. In twenty twenty two, so as a part 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.760 of an ongoing right wing harassment campaign against TikTok influencer 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.680 and chronic theater kid Dylan mulvaney, Matt Walsh started a 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.440 viral boycott campaign against bud Light for having a brand 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.720 partnership with a trans person. Now, I'm not going to 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.400 spend too much time here talking about right wing boycotts. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.359 I'm sure we've all watched, you know, like Nike shoe 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.200 burnings and Gillette razors being flushed down the toilet and 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:40.560 people dropping their Cure eggs off rooftops. Generally, boycotts don't 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.239 tend to work, but this bud Light thing did show 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.840 some success. And success in this instance specifically refers to 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.440 Walsh and the Daily Wire cronies receiving a lot of 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:57.080 attention and free publicity, so they sought to replicate this 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:02.800 strategy while publicly telegraphing their harassm methodology. Here's two tweets 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.599 from Matt Walsh quote here's what we should do. Pick 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.400 a victim, gang up on it, and make an example 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.440 of it. We can't boycott every woke company, or even 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.960 most of them, but we can pick one it hardly 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.279 matters which and target it with a ruthless boycott campaign. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.720 Claim one scalp, then move on to the next. Our 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.280 goal is to make Pride toxic for brands. If they 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.640 decide to shove this garbage in our face, they should 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.400 know that they'll pay a price. It won't be worth 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.480 whatever they think they'll gain. First bud Light and now Target. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.839 Our campaign is making progress. Let's keep it going so 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.839 as Walsh said there, Walsh's next target was target the 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.719 Department Store due to the store's history of prominent Pride 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.800 displays in the lead up to Pride Month during twenty 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.000 twenty three, Target was met with online and in person harassment, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.080 with a wave of emails and calls to individual stores 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.880 accusing them of grooming and indoctrinating kids with the presence 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:05.080 of Pride themed apparel. People started ransacking stores, destroying Pride displays, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.960 threatening violence against employees in person, as well as calling 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.480 in multiple bomb threats into many many different stores, mirroring 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.240 the harassment campaign against trans clinics and hospitals the year prior, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.680 which was also spearheaded by Matt Walsh. We've seen this 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.599 tactic game prominence. This bomb threat tactic is now quite 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.520 common among the right. We saw it be called into 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.039 There was a lot of bomb threats called into like 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.880 four hundred synagogues this past winter that was you know, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.880 most likely done by some form of neo Nazi. But 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.159 we've just seen this, this specific bomb threat tactic pick 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.560 up a lot because it provides a pretty sizable minor 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:53.240 or short term disruption to regular, regular services. Now, in 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.080 response to this wave of harassment, Target Corporate mandated that 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.120 many stores remove their front of store pride displays in 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.000 late May, all across the country, but especially in the South. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.320 Target released a statement saying they were quote making adjustments 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.560 to our plans given these volatile circumstances unquote, and these 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:15.040 adjustments included relocating or removing pride displays due to quote 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.200 threats impacting our team members a sense of safety and 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.160 well being at work. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:19.720 Quote. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.920 Employees were also instructed to specifically remove items quote at 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.360 the center of the most significant confrontational behavior unquote, like 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:33.200 shapewear binders and tuck friendly swimwear and to quote replace 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.360 them with swimwear to better meet our sales goalsuote. Now, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.880 Walsh claimed that the tuck friendly swimwear was being marketed 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.440 to kids, but it only came in adult sizes. A 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.960 lot of this sort of harassment campaign isn't really based 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.640 on anything truthful, but that doesn't really matter. Here's a 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.880 quote from Walsh again, quote, I think this Target boycott 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.120 has real staying power. Target has now branded itself as 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.560 a far left organization to the point where it's embarrassing 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.960 to shop there. This is the branding that makes the 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.560 boycott stick. It happened about Light, I think it's happening 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.480 to Target. This is what conservatives have missed in the 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.520 past with failed boycott attempts. It's not enough to simply 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.160 tell people not to shop somewhere or buy something. You 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.760 have to make it so that they don't want to. So. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.840 After a around five percent sales drop in the second quarter, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.960 and again it's hard to actually figure out what that 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.400 can be attributed. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.000 To, beer sales also hit like their lowest level in 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.280 recent history. Yes, you're just kind of. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.480 Again, it's hard to see if these things are actually working, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.600 but that doesn't matter because the right can claim them 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:45.199 as a success. Yeah yeah, and Target released an update saying, quote, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.120 the reaction is a signal for us to pause, adapt 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.720 and learn so that our future approach to these moments 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:56.320 balances celebration, inclusivity, and broad based appeal unquote. And Walsh 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:01.680 claimed this announcement as a quote qu massive victory. Now, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.240 I hope, you know, I hope many of us aren't, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.160 you know, shopping for Pride products at a store like Target. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.520 But for a lot of kids and even adults in 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.680 more conservative areas of the country, Target was really the 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.880 only place to get gender firming clothing like binders and 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.839 trans friendly swimsuits in person. These things can be tricky 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.360 to buy online. Sometimes you don't want to package showing 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.240 up to your door if you can't be the one 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.120 to like open it. So Target really was the only 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.559 place for a lot of people to have access to 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.360 this kind of stuff. Now, last year, Michael Knowles tried 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.440 to kind of replicate the Matt Walsh strategy because it 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.760 proved to be very, very successful, So they had Walls 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.120 going out on doing very similar kind of anti trans speeches. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.760 He spoke at a lot of the big conservative conferences 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.199 talking about how we need to eliminate transgenderism. He jumped 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.679 on this, this boycott stuff and addressed his viewers saying, quote, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.280 we need to make the Pride symbol toxic for brands. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.960 We need to make companies think twice as we're making 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 these symbols culturally toxic. We've got to come in with 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.320 more political force to ban this stuff. Don't back down. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.280 The progress conservatives have made on this just between twenty 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.760 twenty one and twenty twenty three. The fact that companies 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.560 are trying to back off shows that we are winning. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:21.280 Keep pushing much much harder. Unquote, and at the very least, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.280 local governments were responding to this sort of thing. In 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.959 another instance of the government being in cahoots with the 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.000 Daily Wire, on July fifth, twenty twenty three, the Attorney's 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.760 General of Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and South 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.600 Carolina sent a joint letter adjusted to Target's CEO, ostensibly 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:47.439 threatening legal action against Target for carrying LGBTQ merchandise. I'm 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.800 going to read some quotes from this letter because it's 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.160 a really interesting thing that I've never really seen done 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.440 before in terms of like five or six of these states, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:02.240 all all coming together to act, actually affect the market quote. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.920 Target's pride campaign not only raises concerns under our states 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.200 child protection and parental rights laws, but also against our 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.800 states economic interests. As Target shareholders, Target's management has a 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.720 finicciary duty to our States as shareholders in the company. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.840 The evidence suggests that Target's directors and officers may be 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.800 negligent in undertaking the pride campaign, which negatively affected Target's 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.319 stock price. Moreover, it may have improperly directed company resources 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.360 for collateral, political, or social goals unrelated to the companies 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.840 and its shareholders best's interests. It is likely more profitable 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.520 to sell the type of pride that enshrines the love 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.559 of the United States. Target's pride campaign alienates, whereas pride 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.720 in our country unites. Target's management has no duty to 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.839 fulfill stores with objectionable goods, let alone endorse or feature 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.880 them in attention grabbing displays at the behest of radical activists. However, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.080 Target's management does have a fiduciary duty to its shareholders 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.640 to act in the company's best interests. Targets board and 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.280 management may not lawfully dilute their fiduciary duties to satisfy 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.560 the boards or the left wing activists desire to foist 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.440 contentious political or social agendas upon families and children at 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.960 the expense of the company's hard won goodwill and against 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:26.360 its best interests unquote. And it's just generally not a 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.679 great sign when the government is trying to convince a 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.920 business that it's in their legal and financial interests to 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.360 throw the gaze to the wolves. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.079 Now, it's also, yeah, that's not how fiduciary duty works. Like, no, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.599 it's not a legal principle. It's more of a philosophical 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.240 principle among capitalists that is dominant. But like, you actually 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.760 are not breaking the law by doing something that's not 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.920 in fiduciary interest of your shareholders. That's, among other things, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.160 basically impossible to pre anyway. Whatever. This is all like it, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.439 but it's a question of like what you can get 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.839 away with, right. This is what fascists always do. And 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.520 it's from a strategic standpoint. If you're looking at the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.600 culture war as a kind of mutual insurgency, it's a 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.079 strategy of denying terrain to the enemy, in this case, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.560 access to a place that is available in basically every 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:21.000 state where trans people can purchase stuff like binders and 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.120 get to try them all Like it's making life. It's 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.800 reducing maneuvering space for the enemy, as they see it. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.600 Yeah, and this campaign worked specifically because of the Christian 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.480 rights willingness to use physical violence, property destruction, and threats 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.120 against workers to achieve their goals. That is why Target 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.600 caved because enough of their employees were feeling threatened, enough 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.480 of their displays were being destroyed and ransacked. No one 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.600 was held accountable because they're not going to arrest these 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.600 people for the stuff. And that's what causes to really 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.400 have any level of success. Now, during Pride Month back 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.760 in twenty twenty three, Starbucks union members began coming forward 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.559 saying that Starbucks and store managers weren't letting employees put 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.880 up their usual Pride decorations, telling workers that it was 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.840 a safety concern, citing recent incidents at Target and the 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.880 Manufactured Above Light controversy. Now, Starbucks Corporate claimed that they 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.880 made no policy changes regarding Pride decorations, but that quote 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.840 retail leaders continued to work with store teams to find 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.800 ways to celebrate their communities, keeping in mind our safety 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.720 standards unquote, So I think this was more up to 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.360 kind of like local ownership and local management. The union 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.120 publicized confirm instances of managers not letting workers wear pride 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.320 pins or put up flags, and then in early June, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.960 a regional director ordered a collection of one hundred stores 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.160 across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri to throw out pride decorations 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.840 from previous years and were barred from putting up any 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.160 Pride related decor inside stores. The Union claims that there 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.440 was workers in a total of twenty one states that 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.120 were not allowed to put up pride decorations. And I 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:01.720 think for the Daily Wire hosts that are pushing this 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.320 sort of stuff, and especially Michael Knowles, especially Matt Walsh, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.200 their motive is deeply theological for this, But for the 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.800 Daily Wire this is deeply economical because all of this 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.400 also serves as free advertising for the Daily Wire, and 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.200 it builds the personal brand of their hosts, which is 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.440 the very thing that Jeremy Boring was trying to get 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.560 started with Ben Shapiro back during Truth Revolt. This was 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.480 his whole idea was building up the personal brand of 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.680 these of these of these right wing media figures, and 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.120 all of this anti queer stuff provides really really great 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:42.840 marketing to propel these one time very niche figures into 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.600 actual like national spotlight. Do you know what else deserves 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.360 to be put into the spotlight, Robert. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.280 Now, that's a crime. All of my ideas are to 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:53.880 suggest crimes. So let's just move on. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.960 Let's just let's you know, I think ads what deserves Huh. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.400 There we go the spotlight. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:14.880 Great, all right, we are back. It's once again time 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:20.000 to talk about the Daily Wire Plus and their hit 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:25.400 new streaming service. So when Jeremy Boring announced the Daily 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:30.080 Wire Plus back in twenty twenty two, the early marketing 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.000 was made in response to the Disney Company having very 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:40.200 very very very slight pushback on Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill. Now, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.280 a big part of the Daily Wire Plus announcement was 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.560 about how Disney has been woke afying children's TV shows, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.640 and so the Daily Wire decided to position itself as 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.560 a safe alternative media hub for conservative families. I'm going 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.000 to play a short clip from the announcement. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.960 There is unbelievable kids content in the mark. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.080 The beauty of kids content is that unlike adult content 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.080 there's always new kids and they go back and watch it. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.240 So there's an unbelievable library of content. Most of it's 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.639 at Disney, let's be honest. But it's not that the 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.920 content isn't great, it's that you can't trust the platform. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.880 You can't put your kids in front of a classic 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.000 piece of Disney content because you don't know that the 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.359 very next thing that plays won't be that not so 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.960 secret gay agenda that teaches your daughter that she's a boy. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.000 That's why we have to have Daily wire Plus. So 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.800 that is that is what they're framing the Daily wire Plus. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:41.480 Ass That's that's why the Daily wire Plus is important. Also, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.800 I love how he said that kid's content is so 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.880 profitable because there keeps being kids, unlike adult content, which 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.200 doesn't make any sense because kids. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.399 We stopped aging. But like a plague hit, it doesn't 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:00.000 make any sense at all. Yeah, that's like a reverse 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.919 Children of Men sort of feel. Anyway, God, what a 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.840 mess that would be. Man, that's not a bad idea 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.679 for a movie. Just people keep making more babies but 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.480 they never grow up. So just like a dwindling number 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.480 of adults and infinite babies. That's not bad, not a 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.240 bad idea. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.560 This is why I like watching Jeremy Boring because there's 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:27.280 so many moments like this, because he's so not charismatic, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:33.200 but his complete void just makes I just can't stop 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:34.240 staring into the void. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.800 Yeah, I already just listening to thirty seconds of him. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.320 I've had an idea for a multimillion dollar adaptation, gritty 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.119 adaptation of the Rugrats. I think we could, really, we 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:45.320 can make a lot of money with this. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.840 So a press release put out by The Daily Wire 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.760 itself went into more detail about the company's child content initiative. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.080 Now I'm gonna read this, this is a direct quote. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:00.720 Quote. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.399 On Wednesday evening, the Daily Wires co CEO and god 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:09.680 King Jeremy Boring, announced that the Daily Wire Company town 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.400 hall that the company will invest a minimum of one 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.159 hundred million dollars over the next three years into a 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.760 line of live action and animated children's entertainment on its 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.159 streaming platform unquote, and that that term god King is 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.119 constantly how Jeremy refers to himself, which I guess is 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.399 supposed to be a joke, but the fact that he 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.920 does it at all is is is the actual joke. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.960 That the fact that he just calls himself the God King. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.119 Is what a what a perfect look into the soul 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:46.879 of just a completely dead man. Yeah, he the God 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.800 King of the Daily Wire. That's that's been like rewritten 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:56.320 in like deadline variety, like actual publications have been forced 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:01.520 to write the God King. Jeremy boring anyway. So to 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.200 start this child content initiative, Jeremy brought some writers from 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.240 Netflix's Veggietails and The Babylon Bee to head up their 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.320 kid's content. I have a picture in my script here 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.080 that Robert can see of Eric Brand's gum, which is 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:17.120 a great name. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:18.760 Yeah, that is an amazing name. 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.320 Who is the co creator of the first Daily Wire 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.000 kids show, Chipchilla and Robert, do you want to describe 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.160 what's in this picture of Eric? 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.919 Yeah, well, there is a heavy set man wearing a 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.760 T shirt that is to be frank a little tighter 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.080 than is comfortable. He's got a red beard, he has 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.200 sunglasses on. It looks like right up above his hairline. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.040 A massive Confederate flag lines the wall behind him, and 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.840 he appears to be casually pointing a handgun at his penis, 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.600 at his dick. Yes, yes, can't tell if his fingers 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:55.159 through the trigger guard. But I hope so. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.200 Yeah, So that is the co creator of Chipchilla, which 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.960 we will we won't get to in a sec Now, 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:04.159 I don't know this. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.720 Also, there are four to six moist spots on his 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:13.040 shirt and it does not it doesn't. It's not a 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.760 flattering look. I'm not body shaming the man. I'm just 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.800 saying there are four to six moist spots on his 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.920 shirt and I wouldn't want to be filmed with that 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.280 many moist spots on my shirt while pointing a gun 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.119 at my dick in front of a Confederate flag. 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:31.159 Now, I don't know if this is either despite or 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.919 because of The Daily Wire's constant attacks on how Disney 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.159 has a gay agenda. But The Daily Wire did manage 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.320 to acquire some talent from Disney. In August of twenty 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.359 twenty two, they recruited the showrunner of the Emmy winning 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:49.240 animated series Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Chris Sonnenberg, to be the 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.760 Senior VP of Animation Development and Production at The Daily Wire. Now, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.399 they most likely got this guy vi Jeremy Boring's and 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.840 Sonenberg's mutual friend, Zachary Levi, who again was in was 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.119 in Boring's first movie, and zachar Levit also starred as 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.760 Flynn Ryder Entangled and This and This Tangled animated series 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.320 for the Disney Channel. So I'm guessing this is how 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.440 this connection was made. But yeah, so this this guy 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.760 who was actually like a very successful, like mainstream showrunner 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:24.560 for animated animated shows, some somehow decided to agree to 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.960 get hired by The Daily Wire and this is this 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:32.040 is now his jobs overseeing the animated production for chip Chilla. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.360 Yeah, which is the Bluey knock off. I mean, yes, 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:36.480 I get it, among other things. There's been a lot 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.639 of layoffs and animation. I have no doubt that a 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:43.840 number of people who don't align ideologically but are desperate 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.880 for a job and just more morally flexible than others 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.160 are going to wind up working for this project. 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:57.040 Yeah. Yeah, So this past October, the Daily Wires multi 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.040 year initiative to create a slate of children's programing finally 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:05.359 had something to show. In another livestream announcement, Jeremy Boring 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.600 ranted about how Disney is using their parent trusted brand 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:16.399 to quote indoctrinate children into the LGBTQIA cult unquote Now. 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:20.399 While he praised Walt Disney as an American entrepreneur, Jerry 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:24.160 Boring derided the current state of the Disney Company as 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:28.080 quote pushing all of the worst excesses of the woke left, 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:33.600 including paying for employees abortions, promoting anti racism training end quote, 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.399 going to war on behalf of the left wing social 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:42.520 policy in Florida unquote. Boring framed Disney's quite tame political 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:47.520 stances as a huge cultural loss for conservatives. And here's 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:48.720 a part of that announcement. 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.840 It would be impossible to overstate just how big a 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.440 loss this is for Americans who believe in basic reality. 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:59.480 Disney controls the greatest content library ever created. Their cultural reach, 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:03.560 particular with children, is beyond anything that's ever existed. Recognizing 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:05.680 the scope of this loss, the Daily Wire announced that 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:08.480 we would spend one hundred million dollars over three years 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.919 to begin our own kids entertainment company. And today, on 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.439 the one hundredth anniversary of the day Walt Disney founded 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:17.400 his company, I'm proud to announce the launch of ours, 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:21.880 introducing bent Key, an entirely new company for The Daily Wire, 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.200