Valuetainment - ＂Fox Is the Most Likely Buyer＂ – Daily Wire CEO on a Conservative Media SUPER Company

00:00:00.000 Say I go raise a few billion honors, okay?

00:00:02.700 Is it worth I buy Daily Wire, Blaze, five of them and bring it all together?

00:00:08.400 Is that worth it?

00:00:10.540 Certainly, I think that there's an opportunity for someone to roll up some of the online right

00:00:15.780 and create a sort of digital super company on the right.

00:00:20.280 You know, the most likely entity to do it is Fox.

00:00:24.560 Right.

00:00:25.080 Right.

00:00:26.020 Why do I say they're the most likely?

00:00:27.400 In some ways, they're the least likely.

00:00:28.600 They don't understand the online space yet.

00:00:30.400 Sure.

00:00:30.960 You see them make moves in it.

00:00:32.160 They don't make them very well.

00:00:32.940 They just signed 10 guys that they did, but yeah.

00:00:35.400 But they don't really know what to do yet.

00:00:36.720 Sure.

00:00:37.400 If they bought the Daily Wire, they'd know a lot more what to do.

00:00:39.820 If they bought the Blaze, they'd know it because we're digital-first companies.

00:00:42.780 We've existed in this space.

00:00:44.800 But I still say Fox is the most likely to do it because they've got billions of dollars.

00:00:48.720 The market needs competition, though.

00:00:50.920 To me, it's...

00:00:53.880 But the competition often comes from the little guy.

00:00:56.400 No, but that's what I'm saying.

00:00:57.480 what i'm saying to you is it's you know if a market like i remember we were having a conversation

00:01:02.180 you know a few years ago hey what if we started a media company i'm talking to a bunch of these

00:01:06.740 guys we're having meeting after meeting after meeting every other week at my house vivek's

00:01:10.080 there are a couple other people are big names these are very big things that we're having a

00:01:12.740 conversation with and this is pre the israel you know it's kind of israel october 7th happened but

00:01:21.840 it's not yet like at this level where everybody's openly there's massive division republican that

00:01:26.960 hasn't happened yet so we're in this meeting and a guy comes up to us and they say hey we're 22

00:01:32.980 billion dollar fund big company and we want to know if you're interested in being a ceo

00:01:38.720 if we were to go do a roll-up and we buy boom boom boom boom boom would you have any interest

00:01:43.980 interesting what would it look like well it would look like this this this

00:01:48.520 that's a sitter i'm like okay so why would ben continue why would this person continue why would

00:01:55.840 that person continue you know what would be there so then would we do a 50 50 and put the back end

00:02:02.860 equity on it so we're all flying to go build a 400 billion auto company so the real exit's going

00:02:08.040 to be hey guys we freaking 50x and collectively let's go even though we disagree let's show the

00:02:13.520 world that conservatives can unite and let's go give a message i flirted with the idea of what

00:02:18.140 that would look like because you know it was it was interesting but uh but i think the opposite

00:02:24.780 side may also happen. Fox at any point

00:02:26.880 can go knock on anyone's drone, buy up anybody.

00:02:28.940 Fox has done this with Wall Street Journal, with New York

00:02:30.760 Post, with God knows how many of them. There's so many companies

00:02:32.960 that people don't even know Fox owns

00:02:34.540 that the only reason you don't know is

00:02:36.800 because it's not public. They own a lot of, News Corp

00:02:38.980 is like, it's

00:02:40.900 a massive company out there. Okay, so let's

00:02:42.840 go to the conservative side. So on the

00:02:44.880 conservative Republican side. Can I say

00:02:46.880 one crazy thing? Please. I've never gotten to tell this story

00:02:48.860 and I love it so much. Go for it. Ben and I

00:02:50.920 had a meeting with Lachlan Murdoch

00:02:52.440 early not too early it was probably 2019 or 2020 even so we were the daily wire was a thing

00:03:01.000 must have been pre-covid time becomes a little flat to me but i'm almost certain we still lived

00:03:07.220 in la which would mean pre-covid um and and we were in lachlan's office having a a great

00:03:16.600 conversation with him he has a large office and so we were sitting on this sofa and then there's a

00:03:20.940 kind of an unusually large space and then a desk and he's at he's at the desk and there's a door

00:03:25.380 that's sort of in the center of the room and we're talking we're in having a really nice

00:03:30.120 conversation wasn't about acquisitions wasn't about anything like that it was more like a

00:03:33.560 meet and greet talent kind of meeting right and this little old man comes in that door

00:03:42.440 in the middle of the room to see Lachlan and because of the way the room's oriented he doesn't

00:03:48.320 even see us. He kind of comes in at this angle to us. And he says, when are we going to have lunch?

00:03:54.620 What are you thinking about lunch? And Lachlan says, Dad, I want you to meet Ben Shapiro and

00:04:02.720 Jeremy Boring. And this little old man who's wearing little old man jeans and little old man

00:04:08.220 white tennis shoes and literally shuffling, kind of moving around like this, turns, sees us, realizes

00:04:13.920 he's not alone and it was exactly like the moment in richard donner's superman 1978 when clark decides

00:04:21.600 he's going to tell lois who he is and she turns around to go find her her purse or something and

00:04:26.320 he takes off the clark kent glasses and his shoulders come back and he becomes three inches

00:04:30.860 taller and he is superman lock uh rupert murdoch turns around realizes he isn't alone sees us his

00:04:37.940 shoulders come back he gets at least three inches taller his eyes harden he reaches out and gives

00:04:43.880 you the most masculine handshake you've ever had in your life and and he was superman again he was

00:04:49.120 the guy who's made almost a hundred billion dollars in his life by basically force of his

00:04:54.840 own tenacity and his own will and it was such an amazing thing to see it happen in real life like 0.78

00:04:59.000 he is old and he is he is uh diminished but you know what's still in there the freaking guy who

00:05:06.280 could do all of that is a pretty did you watch his documentary pretty amazing i haven't gotten

00:05:10.280 to watch it no so you got to watch it because uh it so the documentary this is you're gonna flip

00:05:16.060 out you'll watch it you'll enjoy it i will it's based on the show's succession so the family

00:05:21.120 watches the family watches the show's successions like guys i think this is about us we got to get

00:05:27.220 our shit together and then the documentary is based on them reacting to the show it's it's my

00:05:32.880 it's on this is it the dynasty the murdochs it's truly worth watching because all the family all 0.99

00:05:39.500 the kids everybody's involved and the history of it you know it's it's a it's a great uh so again

00:05:44.720 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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Valuetainment - June 19, 2026

＂Fox Is the Most Likely Buyer＂ – Daily Wire CEO on a Conservative Media SUPER Company

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