The Matt Walsh Show - Jeremy Boreing Hosts a Special Daily Wire Townhall

00:00:00.180 It's 2025. The Daily Wire is about to turn 10 years old.

00:00:04.800 And yesterday, the President of the United States signed an executive order titled

00:00:07.980 Protecting Our Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,

00:00:11.300 which prohibits surgical and chemical mutilation of our children.

00:00:15.400 It is a great day for The Daily Wire.

00:00:17.560 Thank you.

00:00:47.560 For me personally, though, this is also an exciting moment to reflect on what we've accomplished

00:00:59.660 as a company. There are a lot of people in the conservative movement who deserve a lot of credit

00:01:04.060 for this victory, but a lot of the people who deserve the most credit are sitting right here

00:01:08.860 in this room today. We don't often get to tout all of our own accomplishments, modesty being a virtue.

00:01:14.580 But false modesty is a sin. And to put it bluntly, The Daily Wire has been leading on this issue

00:01:20.840 from the very day that we were founded. I couldn't be more proud of all of our enormous contributions

00:01:26.580 to this issue. We've made enormous contributions to a range of issues, and I'm often proud of the team,

00:01:32.560 but never more so than today. It is rare in life. I've been in this business for a minute.

00:01:39.840 I've seen a lot of things. It is rare in this life that you get to be a part of a moment like this.

00:01:45.400 And it would be inappropriate for us not to take a moment to reflect on it together as a team and to

00:01:51.220 reflect on it with our audience, with the people who have supported us, with the people who've

00:01:54.700 empowered us by listening to our shows, by sharing our content, by engaging with our advertisers,

00:02:01.000 our advertisers who actually did the advertising, our subscribers who made it possible for us to take

00:02:06.160 some of the stands that we've taken against incredible odds. I don't think people,

00:02:11.820 sometimes even inside the company and certainly outside, actually realize just how difficult it

00:02:19.300 has been to wage this particular fight and what it means that we've been able to participate in

00:02:24.240 this victory. It's a very special thing. We should hold on to it. Like with all of your successes in

00:02:30.320 life, you should hang on to it loosely, but you should hang on to it nonetheless. Nobody has fought

00:02:36.020 harder than we have on this issue. And for that reason, I've never been more proud.

00:02:41.820 And I want to tell you a little bit just in reflection on how we came to be in this moment.

00:02:47.940 Two weeks after the founding of the company, Ben Shapiro went on CNN and did a show with Dr. Drew

00:02:56.720 and Zoe Tur. If those of you don't remember, Zoe Tur is a biological man who, it's hard to remember him

00:03:03.200 because he's basically disappeared from public life. But he's a biological man who at that time was

00:03:08.280 defending so-called trans rights, which were fairly novel at the time. Most of us had not really

00:03:12.720 engaged with this issue in a major way. And yet there was Ben, 2015, I can't stress enough, two

00:03:19.200 weeks after we started the Daily Wire. And he was debating these issues and he referred to

00:03:24.980 Tur as Sir, which in retrospect was perhaps a little bit more polite than Ben should have been.

00:03:31.360 Tur, though, responded to this by grabbing Ben by the neck and saying,

00:03:35.980 if you say that again, you're going home in an ambulance.

00:03:41.060 It was an amazing moment of television. I mean, here you had a rather large biological man in a

00:03:47.700 dress threatening physical violence if Ben didn't bend the knee to this obvious delusion.

00:03:53.580 And what was the reaction from CNN? Nothing. What was the reaction from Dr. Drew while one of his

00:03:59.980 guests was being threatened on national television for saying a political opinion? Nothing. And that

00:04:07.220 was the first clue that we had as a company as to what this fight was going to be like. It was going

00:04:11.920 to be threats, threats of physical violence, threats of economic hardship, threats of demonetization,

00:04:20.140 of blocking, of harassment, of threats against essentially the livelihood of everyone who worked for this

00:04:26.820 company and our opportunities at success at every turn if we did not accept this obvious lie.

00:04:34.020 So from day one, it was the Daily Wire's policy not to give into this. From day one, it was our policy

00:04:39.100 not to use the ridiculous novel concept of preferred pronouns in any of our reporting. And we decided

00:04:45.920 instead we would just use pronouns in our reporting like reporters had been doing since the dawn of time.

00:04:50.600 But at the time, well, in retrospect, like, well, that's not a very big deal, except that at the time,

00:04:55.580 everybody was moving as quickly as they could to rewrite the rules of language to accommodate for this

00:05:02.320 gender madness. Back then in 2015, we only had two hosts, Ben and Drew. At that time, I'm not even sure that 1.00

00:05:10.640 we had hired Michael Knowles to be our social media manager, which was the worst decision we ever made in the

00:05:15.960 history of the company. We eventually had to give him a show just because he was so bad at his job.

00:05:21.180 But even with only two hosts, this issue was never far away from our coverage. I remember Ben talking

00:05:28.040 about it on his 20th episode. I remember Drew talking about it in the first month of the company

00:05:32.140 and giving one of his first comedic monologues about men going into women's restrooms. And you

00:05:38.760 should go back and watch it. It's absolutely vintage, classic Andrew Klavan. And again, at the time,

00:05:45.960 no one was having these conversations. No one was engaging in this fight. Now, of course, it's

00:05:51.300 universal. And in retrospect, it feels like these were just very small moves that were happening,

00:05:56.540 but they were pronounced moves at the time. In fact, many right of center commentators and journalists

00:06:03.180 at that time, even many who now are on the correct side of the issue, who now have done heroic work since

00:06:08.940 having the scales lifted from their eyes. Nevertheless, in those days, they were not on our side.

00:06:14.400 They were supportive of, again, I call them so-called trans rights, because I'm not sure

00:06:19.920 that there is a right to mutilate your body in service of a delusion. And there's certainly not

00:06:25.660 a right to mutilate children in service of a delusion. We weren't the only people in the fight,

00:06:31.740 and I don't mean to imply that we were, but it was lonely. There were not many, and we were leading.

00:06:37.500 And our outspokenness on the issue came with a very real price. The truth is, we couldn't have

00:06:44.500 imagined how great a price it would ultimately be. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about that

00:06:47.940 as we go through today. But we were warned. In 2019, as the company was really starting to get

00:06:54.020 its sea legs, we were really starting to break through. We were really starting to have success.

00:06:58.960 We were being courted by one of the big three Hollywood talent agencies. And an agent at one

00:07:07.700 of these, a top agent at one of these top agencies with whom I've cultivated a friendship. I think he's

00:07:12.660 a good guy. I'm not going to say his name because I don't want him to take a lot of flack for this.

00:07:16.000 Nevertheless, he called me and he said, listen, we love you guys. We think that there's huge

00:07:20.780 opportunity. There are a lot of great deals to be done. But, you know, you're conservatives,

00:07:28.140 and we're, as an organization, pretty well populated by left-leaning Hollywood folk. I said,

00:07:35.860 yeah, but you knew that when you were taking the meetings with us. Are we going to be able to do

00:07:38.560 deals or not? And he said, you are 100% going to be able to do deals. We're going to do huge deals.

00:07:42.720 We're going to make a lot of money together. We're going to help you guys increase your reach,

00:07:45.960 increase your effectiveness. And the truth is, we don't really care what you guys talk about. You want

00:07:50.820 to talk about abortion, that's fine. You want to talk about small government, that's fine.

00:07:54.400 fine. Robust foreign policy, that's fine. We understand. But there is one thing. You have

00:08:00.660 got to stop talking about this trans issue. You have to understand, he told me, a lot of the people

00:08:05.820 you'll be working with at the agency, I mean, this is LA, this is New York. A lot of the people you're

00:08:09.900 working with at the agency have transgendered children. It's personal to them. You have to let

00:08:15.940 it go. The or else was kind of implied. He didn't actually say it. And again, the guy who said this,

00:08:24.080 a good guy, he wasn't actually trying to threaten me. He was trying to tell me the actual reality of

00:08:28.960 the situation. But it really was a devil at the crossroads moment for Ben and I. I mean,

00:08:33.980 essentially, we were being told, you can have the world and it will only cost you your soul.

00:08:39.240 And we wanted the world. You know, if you work here, you know, if you've been following the

00:08:45.220 company, if you're a supporter of the company, we are remarkably ambitious. We're the most ambitious

00:08:49.740 people in conservative media. We don't just want to be the preeminent conservative media company.

00:08:55.240 We want to be the preeminent digital media company in the world. That's what we have our sights on,

00:08:59.740 the most influence, the largest and most engaged audience, the most opportunity to make a difference,

00:09:05.100 the most opportunity to do well and to do good. And here we were being told, well, the cost of that

00:09:10.480 is you cannot talk about this issue. And we chose our souls. Again, you look back and you say the

00:09:17.720 Daily Wire did over $200 million of revenue last year. We have millions of people in our audience.

00:09:23.080 We have enormous reach. We have successful hosts and successful shows and successful movies,

00:09:27.820 successful documentaries. And it seems like that was an easy decision to make. It was not an easy

00:09:33.540 decision to make. In fact, if we had known just how hard it's going to be, I don't know if we could

00:09:39.980 have had the fortitude to have stood by the decision. Fortunately, God has special providence

00:09:45.180 for fools and we were very naive. So in the years that followed, we doubled down and we tripled down 0.98

00:09:51.360 on this particular fight. We led on this particular fight and we scored real victories, both political

00:09:58.060 and cultural. In 2021, our own Luke Rosiak blew open one of the most consequential news stories

00:10:03.520 of the decade. And I say consequential because it literally elected a governor in the state of

00:10:07.860 Virginia. In Loudoun County, Virginia, a school board had covered up a sexual assault in order

00:10:12.880 to protect the insane bathroom policy that they had put in place, which had allowed a teenage boy 0.96

00:10:18.120 to go into the restroom with teenage girls. After the story blew up, Matt Walsh rented a room in

00:10:25.040 Loudoun County in order to qualify as a citizen for a citizens-only school board meeting and helped

00:10:29.540 bring the issue to national attention. It went viral and led in significant part to the election

00:10:35.040 of Governor Youngkin in Virginia, which is a huge turning point for the state of Virginia

00:10:39.940 and the beginning of what became a cascading turning point around this issue and around our

00:10:45.360 politics nationwide. And of course, the school officials responsible for the travesty were later

00:10:50.680 indicted for their roles in the cover-up. That is because of the work of Luke Rosiak, is because of the

00:10:55.860 work of Matt Walsh. It is because of the work of The Daily Wire from our journalists all the way

00:11:00.200 through our social media team for making that happen. And in many ways, it was the springboard

00:11:04.560 for Matt's journey becoming himself a leader on this issue, the leading voice at the leading

00:11:09.580 publication on the defining social issue of the last decade. Again, a thing for which we should be

00:11:16.260 enormously proud and thankful to have been a part of. After that, Matt released his children's book,

00:11:21.320 Johnny the Walrus, and cleverly became the number one author in the LGBT category on Amazon.

00:11:27.380 It was a hilarious stunt, and the book was very, very funny and very good. I'll brag a little bit

00:11:33.260 that my niece illustrated the book. So I have, obviously, this was a great moment for me in the

00:11:37.180 history of the company. But it was also effective because it changed policy at Amazon. Outraged

00:11:43.580 Amazon employees staged a die-in. They were so scandalized by the fact that we were able to sell

00:11:50.480 some books about ideas with which they disagreed that they pretended to be dead at the doorway of

00:11:55.280 Amazon to imply that reading our words in a children's book was the threat of actual violence.

00:12:02.180 It threatened their actual lives. And Amazon, one of the largest and most valuable companies in the

00:12:07.120 world, had to make a choice. Would they stand with their employees? And probably, if we're being honest,

00:12:12.680 based on the geography of where they were founded, probably their own sort of political beliefs,

00:12:16.980 whether they deeply held a belief in transgenderism at the top of the company or not, who knows?

00:12:22.040 But certainly, they were friendly to the idea of progressive values. And yet, because the Daily

00:12:28.460 Wire was gaining traction, because we were starting to have purchase with the audience, they chose

00:12:34.560 sanity, which was surprising to all of us. They left the book up in their store, and today,

00:12:41.120 it sold over 150,000 copies on Amazon. And that wouldn't be the last time we took a top tech

00:12:47.720 company to task over the issue of transgenderism. Then, of course, in March of 2021, Harry's Razors 0.86

00:12:55.280 canceled a big advertising campaign with the Daily Wire because Michael Knowles and Candace Owens had

00:13:00.080 discussed the reality of biological sex on a show that, at the time, wasn't even on the Daily Wire.

00:13:06.260 And once again, we decided to fight rather than simply let the left have the ability to dictate

00:13:12.020 this dilution onto the rest of us by fiat. We launched Jeremy's Razors. And just so you understand,

00:13:19.460 today, Jeremy's Razors is a growing and thriving business. It did something like $20 million of

00:13:26.580 revenue last year, which is a pretty funny end of the joke, if you think about it. But it wasn't obvious

00:13:32.540 that that was going to redound to our benefit. We were essentially saying to all of our advertisers

00:13:37.440 on whom we are dependent, and at that time, we're dependent for almost all of our revenue.

00:13:42.260 This was before the real ascendancy of our subscription program. And we were telling them,

00:13:46.120 we will not bend the knee to these sorts of threats. We will not bend the knee. We could have

00:13:51.920 lost an overwhelming number of our advertisers, and we could have lost the entire company.

00:13:57.280 We didn't, thank God. But that doesn't mean that we weren't taking that risk. We did take the risk.

00:14:03.600 And we won. A year later, we launched another market opportunity with Jeremy's Chocolate.

00:14:11.080 Hershey's Chocolate thought it would be funny to cater to all this nonsense with a Hershey bar.

00:14:15.700 And we said, no, you can't. We're not going to give in to this sort of diversity cult that you're

00:14:20.120 a part of. We launched our own chocolate. And today, we've sold over a million bars of our

00:14:24.400 she, her, and he, him chocolate. As I like to say, one of them has nuts. I'll leave it to you

00:14:29.240 to decide which is which. And again, we were telling the marketplace of our advertisers

00:14:34.600 that we weren't going to put up with this. There was enormous risk. Just because the moves worked

00:14:41.800 does not mean there wasn't enormous risk. Success always seems inevitable in retrospect. But success

00:14:47.840 is never guaranteed. Each one of these moves required of us huge risk, both of capital and of

00:14:55.660 toil and of reputation. And every single time, we felt like we were putting the entire company at risk

00:15:02.500 to stand for these particular values. And we felt that way because we were. And the consequences that

00:15:10.300 we had been warned about were very nearly upon us. And of course, the most important and most public

00:15:16.300 move we made came in the form of a question. In 2022, Daily Wire released Matt Walsh's culture

00:15:21.520 shaping documentary, What is a Woman? The left, it turns out, did not know the answer. And they were

00:15:26.600 pissed. Matt's film became a national sensation with tens of millions of viewers. By the time the

00:15:33.340 dust had settled, we, working together with Matt, had exposed the sinister motives behind body-destroying

00:15:39.140 medical procedures at Vanderbilt Hospital and beyond, hosted a giant rally outside of the Tennessee

00:15:44.320 state house demanding action to protect children. And it started a movement that inspired over 36

00:15:49.280 states nationwide to change their laws to ban the barbaric practice of mutilating children in the

00:15:54.920 name of radical political theory. Those actions, more than anything else, led to the case that's

00:16:00.880 currently before the Supreme Court to determine whether or not states have an inherent right to

00:16:04.660 protect children from having their bodies sacrificed on the altar of this fashionable social contagion,

00:16:10.200 or whether our government is just a pagan death cult. We will know that this year, 0.70

00:16:14.080 and we will know it because of What is a Woman? And What is a Woman wasn't our only film dealing with

00:16:22.380 these issues. In 2023, we put out Lady Ballers starring virtually all of us and tackling the issue

00:16:29.740 of men dominating women's sports. The day after we released the trailer, Facebook permanently collapsed

00:16:37.380 our traffic on the platform. You have to understand that there was a time when the Daily Wire was the

00:16:44.480 number one publisher in the world on Facebook, which was the number one publisher in the world.

00:16:52.340 The day after we released the Lady Ballers trailer, they crushed us.

00:16:58.900 Mark Zuckerberg has publicly acknowledged now that they were taking actions to suppress effective

00:17:04.620 political and social content. And we were the most engaged provider of that kind of content in the

00:17:09.620 world at the time. We saw an 80% reduction in our traffic and revenue on the platform. There was a

00:17:16.100 time when it was the number one source of our revenue and the number one source of our traffic,

00:17:21.780 and it was cut by over 80% as a result of the actions that we've taken around this issue. The single

00:17:29.040 set of changes from this single company has cost the Daily Wire tens. And I'm not exaggerating when I

00:17:34.560 say very probably hundreds of millions of dollars. And it wasn't the only loss because of the trans 1.00

00:17:41.480 issue. After Michael Knowles told the crowd at CPAC that transgenderism must be eradicated from public

00:17:46.180 life entirely, no less an adversary than the Biden White House itself came out to announce him.

00:17:53.600 YouTube demonetized Matt Walsh's entire channel for discussing the biological sex of Dylan Mulvaney.

00:17:58.840 He's a dude, by the way. In sum, YouTube has demonetized 2,000 videos from Daily Wire since

00:18:08.280 2020 and declared 194 videos hateful and derogatory just since 2022. The total cost of these enforcements

00:18:16.560 just from YouTube against the Daily Wire are likely between 10 and 20 million dollars. The total cost of

00:18:23.360 the additional shadow banning and removing from recommendation engines and inability to retarget the

00:18:28.200 audiences that we weren't able to engage with in the first place. And all the other consequences of

00:18:32.240 our stand on the trans issue are well in excess of 100 million dollars. Just so you know, because big 0.95

00:18:38.740 numbers start to sound small when we use them all the time. When you're talking about 100 or 200 million

00:18:44.160 dollars in just four years for a company that only did 200 million dollars of revenue this year and the

00:18:50.700 year before, you are talking about the difference between abject success and close the doors and sell off

00:18:57.860 the printer failure. That we have been able to persevere and survive and even thrive against

00:19:04.000 these kinds of attacks, almost all of which were directly because of the trans issue, is nothing

00:19:11.200 short of miraculous. God himself has, for some reason that is beyond my understanding, chosen to allow us to

00:19:20.220 continue to survive when by all right we should not have been able to because of the attacks we have

00:19:27.340 taken, because of the stand that we've made on the issue of transgenderism. As I said, if that agent back 0.95

00:19:34.260 in 2019 had told me what the price was actually going to be, I don't know what I would have said. I probably

00:19:40.260 would have said the same thing because I'm an ornery cuss, and also because I had a lot less to lose back

00:19:44.640 then, which, you know, if he comes along and says the same thing to me now, as I like to say, I'm not

00:19:49.900 very good, but I'm real expensive, you know. It's not that I'm not for sale, it's that no one ever makes

00:19:53.760 an offer. But damn, we had our teeth kicked in over this issue again and again and again and again. 0.96

00:20:03.120 I couldn't begin to outline all of the consequences, but here are a few. 206 enforcements from TikTok, 0.96

00:20:09.980 who has actually shut down our channels on numerous occasions. We've been dropped by back-end service

00:20:16.240 providers from JW Player to HubSpot to OpenWeb to Aspire. We lost a multi-million dollar a year

00:20:21.860 email business for almost two years because of these and other cancellations. We were blocked by Eventbrite

00:20:27.260 for events related to What is a Woman, by Target for sales of Johnny the Walrus, by Bing who canceled

00:20:32.960 our ability to even give them our money. They wouldn't let us spend advertising dollars with them

00:20:37.640 because of the trans issue. We were restricted and banned by Twitter, including their blocking

00:20:41.940 of Dr. Jordan Peterson before he ever even joined the Daily Wire. And I think it's worth noting that

00:20:46.960 Dr. Peterson's rise to international prominence largely began with a refusal to buckle on the issue

00:20:51.940 of preferred pronouns. One might say that while the Daily Wire has been a leader on this issue, we have

00:20:57.640 also attracted other people who are willing to fight the fight on this issue to join us. And Dr.

00:21:02.980 Peterson is an obvious example, another leader on the issue who chose to join the Daily Wire.

00:21:07.640 Even conservative media organizations refused to have our talent on their shows at various times

00:21:13.860 because of our rigidity on this issue. Everyone wanted us to just get over it.

00:21:21.440 But we kept fighting. We launched our children's streamer, BentKey, specifically because of Disney's

00:21:26.760 quote, not-so-secret gay agenda of adding queerness into content for little kids. We fought against 0.86

00:21:33.040 GARM for trying to enforce their ideology on us at the cost of our ad revenue. And Ben was called to

00:21:37.620 testify on Capitol Hill. We even dropped our HR, they call it HRM, like our HR back-end provider,

00:21:45.540 where you used to all log in and see why your paycheck bounced. One time, one time. But we dropped

00:21:54.880 that entire service because they were requiring us to put pronouns in everyone's profiles. At every

00:22:02.260 single turn, we dropped law firms who required us to identify our pronouns. Every single turn,

00:22:08.600 we made the decision that was worse for business because it was right for our mission. Because

00:22:14.620 this company exists for two reasons. A business reason, yes, and a missional reason also. And there's

00:22:21.200 tension between those two missions. And when in doubt, we choose our values.

00:22:26.420 The fundamental thing that we will be accused of by people who watch this video is, sure,

00:22:35.680 you did all of that. But you did it to make money. You did it to sell books. You did it to sell tickets

00:22:42.920 to your movies. You did it to get traffic on the platforms. What I'm telling you, first of all,

00:22:48.260 is that it's not by accident that The Daily Wire has aligned the profit motive with our missional

00:22:53.960 interests. We did that deliberately because we know how human incentives work. We know that we

00:22:58.560 will be more likely to accomplish our values-based mission if we are also accomplishing a business

00:23:06.380 mission. But I assure you that at every single point at which we made one of these decisions,

00:23:14.800 we thought that it wasn't going to be financially successful. We thought there was a chance. We were

00:23:21.800 taking a bet on the audience. We were putting our faith in the audience. We were assuming that if

00:23:26.360 we felt the way that we felt, surely somebody else felt the way that we felt also. And that maybe if we

00:23:31.820 had the courage of our convictions to stand up when others were not standing up, that maybe that

00:23:36.700 audience would have our back. And yes, that did redound to our benefit, not to the price of the

00:23:43.300 hundreds of millions of dollars, that we've been denied by company after company, by tech giant

00:23:49.780 after tech giant. And again, sometimes even by other people in the conservative movement.

00:23:55.740 Now, that is, as I've said all along, that is not to say that we were alone in this fight. There

00:24:01.620 were a lot of important voices in the fight. Abigail Schreier and Riley Gaines and Seth Dillon and

00:24:06.380 Haya Rychik and Megyn Kelly. Elon Musk spent $44 billion to restore, in part, to restore the Babylon

00:24:12.780 Bee after they made a very brave stand and refused to take down a post about a man dressed as a woman

00:24:17.340 in the federal government. And of course, there are many, many, many more. But they weren't all there

00:24:25.080 from the beginning. Many of the people who did some of the best work on this topic, in part, felt the

00:24:32.020 freedom to do so because we had taken big risks ahead of them. Still others of them only even agreed

00:24:40.020 with the concept of doing it. Because they read a book by Abigail Schreier, because they watched a movie

00:24:45.720 by Matt Walsh, because they read an article by Luke Rosiak, because they saw a video of Ben Shapiro asking a

00:24:51.980 college student why she wasn't 60, which is one of the biggest viral moments in the history of the company

00:24:58.060 from the very earliest days of the Daily Wire. And the presence of those other great warriors in the

00:25:05.080 fight doesn't change the fact that for a decade now, the Daily Wire has been leading on this issue

00:25:09.720 more and more and more effectively than any other organization in American public life. And for that

00:25:15.780 reason, every single one of you, and everyone who has ever worked here in the past, and every subscriber,

00:25:22.560 and every former subscriber who subscribed to the Daily Wire sometime in the past,

00:25:26.460 and everyone who listens and shares, and everyone who engages with our advertisers,

00:25:30.460 and every advertiser who's ever advertised on our shows and stood beside us should feel some pride of

00:25:36.500 ownership in this remarkable moment. We all deserve to recognize the role that we've played

00:25:41.960 and to savor this enormous victory. It's easy to say of conservatives that for all our talk,

00:26:00.240 we don't actually conserve anything. It's easy to say, but it's a lie. Our work matters. Our dedication to

00:26:09.900 our principles matters. These battles aren't short, and victory is never guaranteed. But when we take

00:26:15.660 great risks on behalf of what's right, sometimes God allows us to participate in some small way

00:26:21.760 in world-changing events. The Daily Wire fights. This team fights. Our audience fights. And sometimes

00:26:30.920 we win. There are a lot of people who don't like the Daily Wire. That comes with the territory. And

00:26:38.100 it's fine. But we take great risks, and we have been a part of great victories. If you're employed in

00:26:44.140 this country today and you're unvaccinated, you should know that the Daily Wire, alongside a small 1.00

00:26:49.740 handful of other companies, made that possible by daring to take on the federal government.

00:26:54.620 If you think, sure, that's just what you do for a living, I would encourage you to pick a fight with

00:27:01.220 people who can audit you and regulate you, and who can and do regulate and threaten the people on

00:27:07.660 whose platforms we conduct almost 100% of our business. And if your child or grandchild should

00:27:14.840 struggle, as millions of children do, with questions about their identity and how to feel comfortable in

00:27:20.020 their own skin, you should know that the Daily Wire, along with a handful of other allies, played a

00:27:25.340 pivotal role in helping to make sure that your government can't prey on them in their weakest

00:27:29.760 moments and then castrate them while they're still too young to drive. This year marks the 10-year

00:27:36.540 anniversary of the Daily Wire, as I said. And that means 10 years of fighting this particular fight.

00:27:42.560 Through every one of those battles, God has blessed us. Even with all the risks and all of the

00:27:47.840 challenges, and even after all of the defeats, we've managed to grow in size. We've managed to

00:27:52.640 grow in strength. We've managed to grow in revenue and in reach. We're bigger today than we've ever

00:27:57.860 been, and we're fighting harder for our values than we have ever fought. Over the coming months,

00:28:04.060 we'll do a lot to mark this enormous milestone, 10 years of the Daily Wire. And I look forward to

00:28:10.720 getting back together and raising a glass to that unbelievable moment and sharing also with you in the

00:28:16.540 audience some of the fun ways that we're going to celebrate between now and September 21st, which,

00:28:21.300 according to some arguments, is actually the first day because it's the first day of the Ben Shapiro

00:28:25.480 show. There's an argument for July, which is the first day we started paying Ben Shapiro.

00:28:31.480 And there's an argument for October, which is when we launched the website. But I think September 21st

00:28:35.740 is the appropriate day because it's the first day that we appeared on the public scene.

00:28:40.080 But reading the news yesterday couldn't help but think that today and this enormous victory

00:28:48.180 is just an excellent way to kick off the festivities. So to everyone in this room and to those who've

00:28:53.640 been with us on this journey through this last decade fighting these battles and other battles

00:28:57.800 that are yet to be won, you have my deepest thanks. We did it together. Savor it. Thank God for it.

00:29:05.720 Thank one another for it. Thank all the warriors who've taken the field to defend our children.

00:29:12.160 Thank Donald Trump for winning his re-election, which is the number one job of a politician is to

00:29:17.880 win and for having the courage in his victory to do things that other Republican presidents have lacked

00:29:23.360 the courage of their convictions to actually take on. And then let it go. Because the only way to

00:29:31.280 thrive in this world is to hold lightly to those victories and to move on to the next challenge

00:29:36.400 and win yet again. Thank you.

00:29:43.400 Thank you.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 30, 2025

Jeremy Boreing Hosts a Special Daily Wire Townhall

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