＂Fox Is the Most Likely Buyer＂ – Daily Wire CEO on a Conservative Media SUPER Company
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Ben Shapiro and Alex Blumberg discuss the potential for Fox News to buy The Daily Wire, The Blaze, and other conservative media outlets. They also discuss what it would look like if the Murdochs were to buy a media company and why they should do it.
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Is it worth I buy Daily Wire, Blaze, five of them and bring it all together?
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Certainly, I think that there's an opportunity for someone to roll up some of the online right
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and create a sort of digital super company on the right.
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You know, the most likely entity to do it is Fox.
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They just signed 10 guys that they did, but yeah.
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If they bought the Daily Wire, they'd know a lot more what to do.
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If they bought the Blaze, they'd know it because we're digital-first companies.
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But I still say Fox is the most likely to do it because they've got billions of dollars.
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But the competition often comes from the little guy.
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what i'm saying to you is it's you know if a market like i remember we were having a conversation
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you know a few years ago hey what if we started a media company i'm talking to a bunch of these
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guys we're having meeting after meeting after meeting every other week at my house vivek's
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there are a couple other people are big names these are very big things that we're having a
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conversation with and this is pre the israel you know it's kind of israel october 7th happened but
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it's not yet like at this level where everybody's openly there's massive division republican that
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hasn't happened yet so we're in this meeting and a guy comes up to us and they say hey we're 22
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billion dollar fund big company and we want to know if you're interested in being a ceo
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if we were to go do a roll-up and we buy boom boom boom boom boom would you have any interest
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interesting what would it look like well it would look like this this this
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that's a sitter i'm like okay so why would ben continue why would this person continue why would
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that person continue you know what would be there so then would we do a 50 50 and put the back end
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equity on it so we're all flying to go build a 400 billion auto company so the real exit's going
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to be hey guys we freaking 50x and collectively let's go even though we disagree let's show the
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world that conservatives can unite and let's go give a message i flirted with the idea of what
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that would look like because you know it was it was interesting but uh but i think the opposite
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can go knock on anyone's drone, buy up anybody.
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Fox has done this with Wall Street Journal, with New York
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Post, with God knows how many of them. There's so many companies
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because it's not public. They own a lot of, News Corp
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one crazy thing? Please. I've never gotten to tell this story
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early not too early it was probably 2019 or 2020 even so we were the daily wire was a thing
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must have been pre-covid time becomes a little flat to me but i'm almost certain we still lived
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in la which would mean pre-covid um and and we were in lachlan's office having a a great
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conversation with him he has a large office and so we were sitting on this sofa and then there's a
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kind of an unusually large space and then a desk and he's at he's at the desk and there's a door
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that's sort of in the center of the room and we're talking we're in having a really nice
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conversation wasn't about acquisitions wasn't about anything like that it was more like a
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meet and greet talent kind of meeting right and this little old man comes in that door
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in the middle of the room to see Lachlan and because of the way the room's oriented he doesn't
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even see us. He kind of comes in at this angle to us. And he says, when are we going to have lunch?
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What are you thinking about lunch? And Lachlan says, Dad, I want you to meet Ben Shapiro and
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Jeremy Boring. And this little old man who's wearing little old man jeans and little old man
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white tennis shoes and literally shuffling, kind of moving around like this, turns, sees us, realizes
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he's not alone and it was exactly like the moment in richard donner's superman 1978 when clark decides
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he's going to tell lois who he is and she turns around to go find her her purse or something and
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he takes off the clark kent glasses and his shoulders come back and he becomes three inches
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taller and he is superman lock uh rupert murdoch turns around realizes he isn't alone sees us his
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shoulders come back he gets at least three inches taller his eyes harden he reaches out and gives
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you the most masculine handshake you've ever had in your life and and he was superman again he was
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the guy who's made almost a hundred billion dollars in his life by basically force of his
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own tenacity and his own will and it was such an amazing thing to see it happen in real life like
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he is old and he is he is uh diminished but you know what's still in there the freaking guy who
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could do all of that is a pretty did you watch his documentary pretty amazing i haven't gotten
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to watch it no so you got to watch it because uh it so the documentary this is you're gonna flip
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out you'll watch it you'll enjoy it i will it's based on the show's succession so the family
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watches the family watches the show's successions like guys i think this is about us we got to get
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our shit together and then the documentary is based on them reacting to the show it's it's my
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it's on this is it the dynasty the murdochs it's truly worth watching because all the family all
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the kids everybody's involved and the history of it you know it's it's a it's a great uh so again
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you watch rupert in his 30s and his 40s and his 50s it's a very a guy like you won't be able to
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stop watching the whole thing it's fascinating but what a great story of having that so was that
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when you guys were almost at second base that no no that wasn't the case we weren't even at first
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