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Learn English with Dennis Prager, founder of the conservative media giant Daily Wire Plus, in this episode of Town Hall Live from the company's annual fall town hall-style gathering in Washington, D.C., hosted by the CEO and Founder, Jack Dorsey.
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when everyone in the audience is paid by you the enthusiasm is really thanks everybody for being
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here we haven't done one of these in a little bit in fact it's been four months since the last time
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that we were together and a lot has changed in that period of time not just in the company but
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in the country too so it's good that we get together the purpose of our town halls as you
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know is both to celebrate and inform the company's gotten so big one of the kind of unfortunate
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consequences of that growth is that people who are working really hard in one part of the company
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don't know what people who are working really hard in another part of the company are actually doing
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and so it's good that every now and then we get together so we can sync up so that we can reorient
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ourselves so we can all be pointed at the same north star and that north star is working toward
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a future for conservatives and a future for our conservative for our country also since we started
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doing these events back in the beginning of the year we've made it a practice to always invite in
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the audience to live stream them the reason is because well as much as we're working hard every
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day to create that future for conservatives as much as we're working hard every day our audience
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is also a part of this journey and in particular our daily wire plus members they're working alongside
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us every day and they deserve some transparency so they can see what we're doing so they can keep
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track so they can make sure that we're still aligned with them so the last time we were together
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it was at the Ryman auditorium and we were fresh on the heels of the most successful launch in the
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history of the company matt walsh's masterpiece documentary what is a woman
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that night we launched daily wire plus we announced that we were expanding our partnership
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with prager u and we kicked off our collaboration with the premier public intellectual of our time
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dr jordan b peterson it was a huge night we set incredibly ambitious goals and we made a lot of
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promises to the audience regarding new premium content and so the first question that we have
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to ask today is have we made good on that promise how have we fared i think people are going to be
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pleased that expanded partnership with prager u that we announced in june is only two weeks away
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from launching beginning in december we'll be premiering the first of three episodes of the
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prager u masters program with dennis prager and it is exceptional the core idea that animates prager u is
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this give us five minutes we'll give you a semester today with 500 five-minute videos and more than 1.4
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billion views just this year you can only conclude that prager u has made good on that mission
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with the prager u masters program we're offering daily wire plus members the exclusive opportunity
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to dive even deeper dennis prager will guide us through extended explorations of some of the most
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important topics in the world many people in this room have been involved in the effort others of us
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haven't even had the chance to see any part of this powerful new work happily today it's my honor to
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present for the first time the first glimpse of the first episode of the prager u masters program
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you can learn wisdom i'll give you i'll give you so just a few examples of stuff that i learned
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when i was about eight years old so here's an example there's a very famous aphorism in hebrew
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and it is from the talmud the second holiest work in judaism after the bible
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who is the strong man the man who conquers his own urge i learned that at eight that the the strongest
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i could be is to conquer my own appetites and urges and instincts so i learned a very big deal
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that kids in religious schools learn and kids in secular schools virtually never learn and here
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it goes i learned that the biggest problem in dennis prager's life is dennis prager
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the prager u masters program with dennis prager it's going to bring
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it's going to bring dennis's unique and important wisdom to millions of people i couldn't be more
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proud about it then we made an announcement about jordan b peterson we promised that not
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only would jordan be joining daily wire plus not only would we be helping him to grow the quality of
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his already excellent podcast but we would be creating premium content that no one had ever seen
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before exclusively for daily wire plus members and that's exactly what we've done on launch we
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premiered dragons monsters and men dr peterson's essential advice for young men trying to navigate
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the treacherous waters of well becoming men since then many in this room have been hard at work
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building the foundation of what is going to become the greatest collection of original content
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jordan peterson has ever produced last week we launched on marriage a three-part explanation
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of the foundation exploration of the foundational unit of government in the world the union between
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husbands and wives it's the the relationship that undergirds all of society next week we're going
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to launch not just one but two essential new specials from dr peterson the first one is called logos
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and literacy it's a documentary exploring the crucial work of the museum of the bible in washington dc
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now if you're anything like me you probably thought that the museum of the bible was just a roadshow
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attraction meant to extract cash from american evangelicals but you would be wrong dr peterson's
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deep dive into this incredible institution reveals so much about the important work that they do and
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about the vital role that the bible has played not just for christians not just for jews not just in
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the history of western civilization but in the history of human civilization you might ask why i would
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be concerned with bringing the history of the bible to a more popular audience we inevitably and must see
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the world through the lens of a story a story is a description of the implicit structure through which we view
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the world and prioritize our perceptions and determine how to act now because you can act in a
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very large variety of ways that plethora of possibility has to be limited and focused it has to come to a
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point it has to have a destination it has to have a moral it has to have an ethic and what a story is is a
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a description of an ethic of potential and action prioritization peace is dependent upon us being
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brought together under the rubric of a single centralizing narrative much of which is reflected
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in the meta-narrative that the biblical library constitutes so i hope you enjoy this tour through
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the history of the world's most significant book
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the second premium series coming from dr peterson just next week well it's so unbelievable i actually don't even
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know how to tell you about it so instead i'm just going to offer you the world premiere of the trailer
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for exodus in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth
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turns out that a book is more durable than than stone it's more durable than a castle it's more durable
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than an empire you don't get away with anything and so you might think you can bend the fabric of
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reality and that you can treat people instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your
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conscience without cost you will pay the piper it's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom
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god is ethic centered not ethnic centered well do you want the pharaoh on your side or do you want
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there's a profound sense here that what is going on with the israelites is the contrast to pharaoh
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right like when there are no terms where you go and the israelis have to say we will go under any
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terms and we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and deeper
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than what you can imagine the highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented
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precisely as that spirit that allies itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny yes exactly i want
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villains to get punished but do you want the villains to learn before they have to pay the
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ultimate price that's such a christian question
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a 16 part series it's the deepest richest special dr peterson has ever created and i'm not exaggerating
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when i say this thing is going to change lives i'm so proud that we're able to offer this content at
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daily wire plus and i'm so proud of everyone in this room who is a part of creating not just this
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content but this opportunity for us to continue to do good both for our business and for the world
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that's really part of what makes daily wire plus unique in the conservative media landscape we're
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convinced that our corporate mission and our ideological mission aren't in any way at odds we're not
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only convinced that we can do well financially while doing good for the world but that we must
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do well financially in order to do good for the world that it's only by unlocking the nearly
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unlimited potential the unlimited power of market incentives that we can actually change the world
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and create the change in our world that we want to see beyond these specials this team has also
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released unbelievable new content from the core daily wire plus hosts the greatest lie ever sold george
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floyd and the rise of blm from candace owens is already the second most successful launch in the
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speaking of candace fresh upon her return from maternity leave you helped launch candace's new
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daily podcast candace owens which is already burning up the charts and helping to challenge
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you launched afternoon update a daily addendum to the hugely popular morning wire which last week
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hit the unbelievable milestone of 500 000 downloads per day
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then there's our consumer goods business in march this team announced to the world
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stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you and we committed to creating
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alternatives so that people could do just that we launched jeremy's razors with a hilarious video
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with a dashing young actor today i'm proud to announce that our efforts have succeeded beyond
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our wildest expectations as of this week jeremy's razors has sold over 100 000 razor kits and subscriptions
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that's 100 000 men who are no longer giving their money to companies that actually abhor their values
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we're building alternatives and the alternatives are working and we're just getting started this week
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our commerce team is launching a brand new jeremy's razor store and we're also launching a brand new line of men's
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grooming products including beard care for matt walsh shampoo and conditioner for matt walsh
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body wash and soap also for matt walsh jeremy's razors may have started as the best joke we ever told and it
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certainly is that but it's become a real company with an excellent team and an enormous future
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and for the conservative ladies out there tune into the next town hall as to our core business all of
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this excellent new content that you're producing is realizing and bearing fruit all the time as of
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today daily wire plus generates over 80 million podcast downloads every single month that makes us
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the number five podcast publisher in the world according to pod track
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our premier host ben shapiro has had his content played over 2.3 billion times
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there are 8 billion people on the planet one day we will have to give an account to god for all of
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the productivity that we have sapped out of and this month for the first time ever daily wire plus
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can announce that we have 1 million active subscribers
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of course you might look at all of this all of this success all of this content and say
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yeah buddy but we're still losing the country and that's true last week's midterm election was a
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devastating moment for many of the people in this room and for the values that drive the mission of
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our company but as andrew breitbart famously observed politics is downstream of culture we are not a
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political organization we are a cultural organization that means that the work you're doing every single
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day can't be measured in a single election cycle even though of course election cycles mean an awful lot
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but this team is fighting a generational battle for the soul of our country and the work you're doing
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is making an impact in that fight every single day if you're concerned that that impact isn't yet
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enough yeah i agree it isn't enough we have to continue to do more we have to continue to do
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better we are and we will 1 million active subscribers makes us one of the most successful
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conservative media companies of all time that's the good news you want the bad news it's not even
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a drop in the bucket compared to the media companies controlled by the left in that world 10 million
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subscribers is the bare minimum just to play the game that's 10 times our current level and that's
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just to get your foot in the door disney and netflix have 200 million subscribers each to succeed in our
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effort to create a true news and entertainment alternative for the millions of americans who are tired of the
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hegemony of the woke giants that want to preach radical race and gender theory to our kids that
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leverage their economic might that leverage their economic sway to change public policy away from the
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values that built our country and that take for granted that we'll keep giving them all of our money
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anyway because what else are we going to do to compete with them we have to grow 10 times and then we have
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to grow 10 times again it's an almost impossible feat but here's the thing caleb and ben jeremy we are
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betting everything that you are up to the task we're betting the entire company that the people in this
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room can change the world we're betting that you can continue to push yourselves that you can continue
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to grow that you can continue to make more and more and better and better content continued to draw new
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talent to draw new audience continue to beat the odds just like you have every single day since the day
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we started the company it took us five years to get our first 100 000 subscribers and what did we do
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we doubled down we reached higher we pushed harder and just two and a half years later we 10x'd that
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number 10x in two and a half years this team right here no one thought you could do it you did it
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and you're going to have to do it again and you will in 2023 we're going to make our first major step
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to meet our impossibly ambitious goal 10 million active subscribers starting with the launch of dw kids
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our first three kid shows are green lit and in production as we speak the first one you all know
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about chip chilla chip chilla is a hugely entertaining show about a family of homeschooling chinchillas
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you've seen some of the early concept art at our last town hall but many of you in this room haven't
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yet seen the finalized characters and sets and i'm here to show them to you today the first 12 episodes
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have already been written the first four have already been voiced they're in animation as we speak
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the work being done on this show by the people in this room is on a level beyond anything we have
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ever brought to bear on any project in the history of the company we couldn't be more proud of the team
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and we couldn't be more proud of the art that you're creating but what virtually no one in this
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room knows is that we booked our entire cast as well including our good friend the incredibly talented
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and hilarious rob schneider rob is a legend and he is voicing chum chum chilla the patriarch of the
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chilla family i want to be clear this is not edutainment we're not here to teach the kids and the guys of
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entertainment this is entertainment with a capital e rob schneider is a true entertainer the writers
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and producers of this show are top hollywood talent your kids are going to love it you're going to love
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it it's going to change everything our second show you've also heard a little bit about before but i
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want to show you some of the first sketches and concept art zoodles is a fun loving puppet monster
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and he doesn't take direction particularly well in the zoodle show our old pal zoodles will take art
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lessons alongside real kids but zoodles probably won't get it quite right the show is outrageously
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funny and it's going to premiere right alongside chip chilla and it's going to premiere in 2023
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and the third show from dw kids i don't think many people in the room have heard about at all but
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you're going to be blown away i'm proud to introduce a wonderful day with mabel mcclay
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mabel is going to take kids through her incredible world where no cell phones or electronics are allowed
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but joy and wonder rule the day whether trusty dog jasper by her side mabel will share laughs and love
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and introduce children to the beauty and meaning of a life of imagination this is the kind of content that
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we got to grow up with that almost no kids today have gotten to have in addition to the amazing
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funny heartfelt stories that each one of these three shows will create they're also going to create
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enormous opportunities for our commerce team to make new products from plush toys to children's books
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to video games we're creating an entire world where kids can live learn and play without anyone trying
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to rob them of the values that their parents have spent so much time trying to instill in them
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and this is just the beginning for dw kids you know that we've brought in enormous talent
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talent who cut their teeth at places like disney and dreamworks to be a part of this
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more talent is being recruited as we speak more shows are in development as we speak and we are
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on track to meet our goal of 100 million dollars of initial investment into kids content and what we
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believe will be a 100 year enterprise to create content that kids love and parents can actually trust
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alongside our kids entertainment program our general entertainment project is rapidly expanding as well
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we've been sourcing and developing scripts all year long and the results are mind-blowing in june of 2020 at
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the height of the covid 19 pandemic during all the worst days of the shutdown i called ben and caleb to
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share with them my belief that the time for us to get into entertainment was right now the opportunity
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was before us it was ours to seize and we had to change the direction of our company i told them we
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should make movies but what we should really do is find a way to make scripted series that's what
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streaming platforms really thrive on i told them that an example my my sort of wildest ambition for the
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company would be if we could bring ayn rand's seminal work on the creative power of economic freedom
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and the terrible consequences of its loss to the screen as a premium series they said that's great
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but we'll of course never be able to get the rights to a story so culturally ubiquitous and we were wrong
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today i'm thrilled to announce that daily wire plus has optioned the exclusive rights to one of the most
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influential books of the 20th century atlas shrugged
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there's never been a definitive series adaptation of atlas there will be now and it will be on daily
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wire plus and while atlas has shaped the worldview of millions of people around the globe there's a
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series of books that i read as a teenager that more than any other helped shape my worldview it's
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based on perhaps the most impactful myth in the western tradition the legend of king arthur and it's
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called the pin dragon cycle by stephen r lawhead and today i'm beyond thrilled to announce that the
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daily wire plus has secured the rights to this unbelievable work
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this is an incredible story about the fall of the roman occupation in great britain and the rise of
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christianity in the blood-soaked pagan islands british isles it's the most ambitious thing we've ever
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set about to do and it's going to be incredible and it's going to premiere on daily wire plus
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every person in this room has been a part of the work that has made us what we are today
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and today i'm asking each one of you to redouble your efforts to help us become what we have to be
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tomorrow the stakes are so incredibly high we have an opportunity to do something that no company has
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done in any of our lifetimes to create that culture for conservatives and to help build a better
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future for our country a future informed by the mistakes of the past a future rooted in the best ideas
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of the past but a future that is optimistic that our best days are not behind us they're yet ahead and you
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are going to do it this team this audience this one million active subscribers and the nine million
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more who are going to follow them and the nine million more who are going to follow them too this company
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all of you and all of the companies that will inspire through our single-minded determination
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through our relentless effort and through our success i can't say that no one has ever been
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inspired by a loser but we all know it's the winners that lead so we have to keep on winning we have to win
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today and win tomorrow and keep right on winning for as long as the opportunity is in front of us to
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continue to do good and i know that you're going to do just that i don't think any company on earth
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asks more of its people than we do daily wire is a hard place to work we know it you work long hours
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you withstand enormous pressure and you do all of this you give it your all every day because you believe
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like i do that the enormous success and opportunity we've been given comes with an enormous
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responsibility as well a responsibility to press on until the end we demand your absolute best because
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how could we do otherwise and you give us your best you give it every single day day after day
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and i guarantee you that if you keep giving your best if you keep striving and hoping and growing
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if you keep your eyes on the target if you stay optimistic you're going to change the world thank you
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now it wouldn't be a proper town hall if we didn't give you the opportunity to complain about the
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snacks in the break room or whatever so we're going to take a handful of questions and we're also going
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to take questions from some of our online audience and in particular some of those daily wire plus
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members who make all of this possible as well brett all right so do we have any questions from the
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audience here am i passing the mic to anybody or should i just jump onto the ipad i'm not sure who
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has the answer to that i'll go ahead and just start here all right jeremy first of all this is the
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most important question are you team beard or no beard for ben shapiro oh beard i don't have to kiss
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the guy i thought it was i was against the beard when they first told me we're going to update ben's
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look and make him cool i thought yeah i tried that once you know i gotta say i thought the beard looked
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good amazing okay will there be a sequel to what is a woman dot dot dot it's exciting all right so
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you have obviously said that the daily wire is not a good place uh for people looking for a work-life
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balance while we are trying to reach orbit how much longer do you think it will take and will it
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really change it's a fair question how long will it take until this becomes a little bit easier place
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to work and the answer is i don't know how fast can we get there you know we're trying to do something
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that no one has ever done before and as i said a few moments ago i take that responsibility
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everywhere i go right i don't sleep at night i feel it so intensely because if we succeed
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we truly will have changed things i mean i've said before i think that the biggest problem
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in the country is that the institutions who are risk averse particularly the corporate institutions
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bifurcated the entire culture by siding with an incredibly small percentage of the population this
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this incredibly radical left-wing political movement they did it because they just assumed that
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if they offended that group of people there might be economic consequences but if they offended the 50
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approximately of the country who thinks the way we think that they would pay no economic
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consequences because after all what are we going to do about it we have no alternatives um i want to
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prove them wrong i want to bifurcate the economy i want to make it worse not better in the country
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because i believe that only by doing that can you ultimately make it better in the country i don't
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think you make it better in the country by pretending there isn't a problem i think you make it better
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in the country by making by applying economic incentive to these sort of institutions that
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live between us in the government and make them come back and compete for our business uh
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it's going to take time i think it's going to take probably more time than we might wish
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and less time than we might expect i've been saying all year that i thought we had 36 listen i know
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you can't work like this forever i can't work like this forever caleb can't work like this
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forever um i've been saying i thought it would take 36 more months before we were able to
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at least get breakaway velocity will it get easier after that in some ways in some ways it may get
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harder after that there'll be new responsibilities new pressures scaling a business is one of the
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hardest things that you can possibly do in the world scaling a business almost entirely for the last
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seven and a half years out of cash flow even harder scaling a business with our ideological mission
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harder still scaling a business with active and organized and funded opposition when the new york
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times and and writers at the new york times and the washington post and cnn and abc when they can
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actively try to get your advertisers not to advertise with you actively try to get social media giants to
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de-platform you actively try to get the government itself to censor you almost impossible so
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it's hard it's going to stay hard for the foreseeable future i do think that 24 months from now
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we'll break through and the challenges will be different i think we'll have a little bit more
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work-life balance we'll have a little bit bigger of a team but i don't want to give you false hope that
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this will ever be easy we were not born in easy times and we were not called to an easy purpose
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i'm energized by that not that it isn't challenging not that it isn't i know hard on you not that it
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isn't sometimes hard on my family and sometimes hard on your family but because as i've said before
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the classical definition of happiness is that you might have the opportunity to pour out your best
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efforts in service of a cause in which you truly believe what else are we going to spend our life
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on if not just that so it's hard it's going to stay hard it won't stay this hard it'll become a whole
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new different kind of hard and i do think that for all of you who listen it's not for everybody i know
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i know incredibly talented people come to work here and they wash out they don't wash out because
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of a lack of skill they don't wash out because of a lack of ambition they wash out because they are
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they are not prepared for this role at this time in this battle i don't think less of them for that
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i know that every one of us may each of you may only be here for a season that's okay i promise that if
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you if you work hard here even for a season you will have contributed to something so incredibly
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good and you will be your best self when you leave you will have so many new skills so much
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more resiliency you'll be so much better prepared for whatever you're called to next so in my in my view
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of it in some ways it's a feature not a bug that we get to pour ourselves out like this and that each
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of us can be improved by the experience and i know that some of us will take it all the way
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so basically employees we have to buckle up um anyway we're going to move on to some member
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questions now um first of all are there any new projects for michael knowles i hope not
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i've been trying to get rid of that guy for the last five years um i am not prepared to announce to
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the world uh the specifics but michael and our own jonathan hay have been hard at work
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at something brand new and it will be in keeping with our pivot toward truly outstanding premium
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exclusive content and i think not only is it going to make an enormous impact uh in the culture but
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people are going to be wildly entertained by it as well and so i'll only say that for now and you
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know check back in at the next town hall amazing all right will the daily wire license content from
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other places to meet demand yes uh we've already made a few acquisitions and licensing deals along
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the way and what it really comes down to is some content is being made out there that does not have
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a home in fact i'm not going to announce the particulars today but this week we acquired a new
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feature film which we'll be bringing to daily wire plus audiences in the very near future we didn't
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make it uh you could say well then how does it if your argument is that this content doesn't exist
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if daily wire doesn't make it this content doesn't exist if daily wire plus members uh don't find
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value in it and trade their value subscription dollars for the value of the content if that
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isn't true then what's the point of all of this the answer is nuanced here's a film that got made
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very talented people wrote an incredibly good script they shot truly one of the most beautifully shot
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films that i've seen in several years they took it to market and the market said absolutely not the
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values of this movie will not play on our platforms and so that's a great opportunity for us to get
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involved in content and we can't make everything right we're we have limited uh resources limited
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talent we're growing but we're small it's a great opportunity for us to to grab hold of some
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beautiful uh content that i know our audience is going to love and that'll make a difference
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in the culture wars um and it's a great opportunity for them to find a home for this movie that no one
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else was going to be willing to buy and it's a great opportunity i think to change the incentives
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again in the marketplace so that more people will make those kinds of films knowing that there is going
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to be a home for that kind of work over at daily wire similarly with kids content listen the truth is
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there is a million hours of excellent kids content that's been made over the last 40 years that parents
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would be thrilled to have their kids watch many of us in this room grew up with a lot of this content
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that's not the question the question is where are you supposed to watch it because if you go to any of
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the legacy platforms many of which actually made the content when they were run by different people
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and run by a different uh ideology and run in a different moment they made great content for kids
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they understood the sacred responsibility of helping be a part of forming the ideas and behaviors of kids
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only recently did they change their mind the problem for a parent is when you put your kid in front of
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one of those excellent pieces of content on one of those legacy platforms and you leave the room
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you don't know what's going to play next you put them down in front of some you put them down in front
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of i don't know winnie the pooh and you walk back in and they're being told that boys aren't boys
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and girls aren't girls and that uh you know capitalism is bad you name it that that more
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more than content platforms are the thing that we're really trying to challenge and so if those
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platforms become foolish enough to part with any of that excellent content we'll be right there to
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scoop some of it up and put it on our platform which as i've said before kids will love and parents
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can trust so absolutely licensing content is a big part of what we're trying to do exciting all right
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you touched on this a little bit with jobs for other creatives but do you need any more artists
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and illustrators we need more everything if you're an incredibly talented incredibly uh incredibly
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ambitious uh person out there and you want to bring your skills to the most important fight
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happening in the culture hit that careers page over at dailywireplus.com amazing all right uh this
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person says i'm excited about the content for kids how about content for teens yeah um we are
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developing some shows that are definitely in that you know teen young adult uh range as far as audience
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appeal one of the challenges we have of course is you can only do so much at a time right as i said
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a minute ago we're a small company as much as we've grown by the way there are 250 employees in this
00:35:54.540
company right now there were 120 one year ago today we've doubled the size of our team in the
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last 12 months 250 is huge you know like i say i don't sleep at night trying to figure out how are
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we going to keep everybody fed and keep everybody uh 250 is nothing though right i mean facebook laid
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off 11 000 people two weeks ago uh so i would say that in its ultimate expression dailywire is going to
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make content for everyone and we're just having to chew the bites that we've taken before we can
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take the next big ones but yes obviously young adults and teenagers an incredibly important audience
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and we will be bringing content to them in the very near future great all right last question for you
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jeremy will the dailywire studios open up for tours this member would love to visit at some point
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well of course when we had candace's old show candace we had a live audience once a week and
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since she's gone to a daily show that's not no longer practical right you have to have a lot of
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security uh you have to have a lot of logistics we don't let people park up here who don't work here
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so you had to have shuttles and all this kind of kind of stuff in order to have people on the on the hill
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um i loved it i thought it was a great energy every week you'd have 60 people you know 60 fans 60
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people cheering 60 people sharing their ideas 60 people engaging i really miss it since it's been gone
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um but like i said the logistics of it are pretty challenging my hope is that a time comes in the
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not too distant future when perhaps we've expanded our studios when perhaps we're better suited to
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have daily live audiences and that at that time maybe a lot of our shows can happen in front of
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audiences and i think that that you know live audience production is probably our answer
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to studio to the question of studio tours in the near future well great that is the last one thank
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you so much jeremy thank you brett brett cooper one million subscribers on youtube since our last
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i just want to say again thank you for all the hard work that you're putting in thank you for
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all the time and all the talent that you bring to bear i hope you know i hope your takeaway from
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every day but in particular your takeaway from today is that we see it we value it it is impactful it is
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meaningful thank you to the daily wire audience who's watching thank you to that one million uh active
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subscriber community who empower us to do the things that we do thank you to our advertisers
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be of good cheer i know that it feels bleak but we are fighting hard and we are winning let's keep