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2025 the daily wire is about to [00:22:17] turn 10 years old and yesterday the [00:22:19] president of the United States signed an [00:22:21] executive order titled protecting our [00:22:23] children from chemical and surgical [00:22:25] mutilation which prohibits Surgical and [00:22:27] chemical mutilation [00:22:29] of our children it is a great day for [00:22:31] the daily [00:22:40] wire this order comes on the heels of [00:22:42] other critical actions taken by [00:22:44] President Trump in just his first week [00:22:46] in office which affirmed that the [00:22:47] federal government will reform its [00:22:49] practices to recognize the scientific [00:22:50] and moral reality that there are only [00:22:53] two genders male and female these [00:22:55] actions should bring an immediate and [00:22:56] dramatic end to what's been a true [00:22:58] period of National Disgrace which I [00:23:00] think will be remembered as no less evil [00:23:02] than slavery or abortion and Donald [00:23:04] Trump deserves enormous credit for [00:23:05] writing this terrible National [00:23:08] wrong for me personally though this is [00:23:11] also an exciting moment to reflect on [00:23:13] what we've accomplished as a company [00:23:15] there are a lot of people in the [00:23:16] conservative movement who deserve a lot [00:23:18] of credit for this Victory but a lot of [00:23:20] the people who deserve the most credit [00:23:22] are sitting right here in this room [00:23:24] today we don't often get to tout all of [00:23:26] our own accomplishments modesty being a [00:23:28] virtue but false modesty is a sin and to [00:23:32] put it bluntly the daily wire has been [00:23:34] leading on this issue from the very day [00:23:36] that we were founded I couldn't be more [00:23:38] proud of all of our enormous [00:23:40] contributions to this issue we've made [00:23:43] enormous contributions to a range of [00:23:44] issues and I'm often proud of the team [00:23:47] but never more so than today it is rare [00:23:51] in life I've been in this business for a [00:23:53] minute I've seen a lot of things it is [00:23:56] rare in this life that you get to be a [00:23:58] part of a moment like this and it would [00:24:00] be inappropriate for us not to take a [00:24:02] moment to reflect on it together as a [00:24:05] team and to reflect on it with our [00:24:07] audience with the people who have [00:24:08] supported us with the people who've [00:24:09] empowered Us by listening to our shows [00:24:12] by sharing our content by engaging with [00:24:14] our advertisers our advertisers who [00:24:16] actually did the advertising our [00:24:18] subscribers who made it possible for us [00:24:20] to take some of the stands that we've [00:24:22] taken against incredible odds I don't [00:24:25] think people sometimes even inside the [00:24:28] company [00:24:28] and certainly outside actually realize [00:24:32] just how difficult it has been to wage [00:24:35] this particular fight and what it means [00:24:37] that we've been able to participate in [00:24:38] this Victory it's a very special thing [00:24:41] we should hold on to it like with all of [00:24:44] your successes in life you should hang [00:24:45] on to it Loosely but you should hang on [00:24:47] to it nonetheless nobody has fought [00:24:50] harder than we have on this issue and [00:24:53] for that reason I've never been more [00:24:55] proud and I want to tell you a little [00:24:58] bit just in reflection on how it came to [00:25:00] be in this moment two weeks after the [00:25:04] founding of the company Ben Shapiro went [00:25:07] on CNN and did a show with Dr Drew and [00:25:11] Zoe tur if those of you who don't [00:25:13] remember Zoe tur is a biological man who [00:25:16] it's hard to remember him because he's [00:25:18] basically disappeared from public life [00:25:20] but he's a biological man who at that [00:25:22] time was defending so-called trans [00:25:24] rights which were fairly novel at the [00:25:25] time most of us had not really engaged [00:25:27] with this issue in a major way and yet [00:25:30] there was been [00:25:31] 2015 I can't stress enough two weeks [00:25:34] after we started the daily wire and he [00:25:37] was debating these issues and he [00:25:38] referred to tur as Sir which in [00:25:41] retrospect was perhaps a little bit more [00:25:43] polite than Ben should have been um tur [00:25:46] though responded to this by grabbing Ben [00:25:48] by the neck and saying if you say that [00:25:51] again you're going home in an [00:25:54] ambulance it was an amazing moment of [00:25:57] television I mean here you had a rather [00:26:00] large biological man in a dress [00:26:03] threatening physical violence if Ben [00:26:05] didn't bend the knee to this obvious [00:26:07] delusion and what was the reaction from [00:26:10] CNN nothing what was the reaction from [00:26:13] Dr Drew on one of his guests was being [00:26:15] threatened on National Television for [00:26:18] saying a political opinion nothing and [00:26:21] that was the first clue that we had as a [00:26:23] company as to what this fight was going [00:26:25] to be like it was going to be threats [00:26:28] threat of physical violence threats of [00:26:31] economic hardship threats of [00:26:33] demonetization of blocking of harassment [00:26:36] of threats against essentially the [00:26:39] livelihood of everyone who worked for [00:26:41] this company and our opportunities at [00:26:42] success at every turn if we did not [00:26:45] accept this obvious lie so from day one [00:26:50] it was the daily wire's policy not to [00:26:51] give into this from day one it was our [00:26:53] policy not to use the ridiculous novel [00:26:55] concept of preferred pronouns and any of [00:26:57] our report reporting and we decided [00:27:00] instead we would just use pronouns in [00:27:02] our reporting like reporters had been [00:27:03] doing since the dawn of time but at the [00:27:06] time well in retrospect like well that's [00:27:07] not a very big deal except that at the [00:27:09] time everybody was moving as quickly as [00:27:12] they could to rewrite the rules of [00:27:14] language to accommodate for this gender [00:27:17] Madness uh back then in 2015 we only had [00:27:21] two hosts Ben and Drew um at that time [00:27:24] I'm not even sure that we had hired [00:27:25] Michael NES to be our social media [00:27:27] manager which was the worst decision we [00:27:29] ever made in the history of the company [00:27:31] we eventually had to give him a show [00:27:32] just because he was so bad at his job uh [00:27:35] but even with only two hosts this issue [00:27:37] was never far away from our coverage I [00:27:41] remember Ben talking about it on his [00:27:43] 20th episode I remember Drew talking [00:27:45] about it in the first month of the [00:27:46] company and giving one of his first uh [00:27:49] comedic monologues about men going into [00:27:51] women's restrooms and you should go back [00:27:53] and watch it it's absolutely vintage [00:27:56] classic Andrew claven and again at the [00:28:00] time no one was having these [00:28:02] conversations no one was engaging in [00:28:04] this fight now of course it's Universal [00:28:06] and in retrospect it feels like these [00:28:08] were just very small moves that were [00:28:10] happening but they were pronounced moves [00:28:12] at the time in fact many right of Center [00:28:16] commentators and journalists at that [00:28:18] time even many who now are on the [00:28:20] correct side of the issue who now have [00:28:22] done heroic work since having the scales [00:28:24] lifted from their eyes nevertheless in [00:28:26] those days they were not on on our side [00:28:29] uh they [00:28:30] were supportive of again I call them [00:28:32] so-called trans rights because I'm not [00:28:34] sure that there is a right to mutilate [00:28:37] your body in service of a delusion and [00:28:39] there's certainly not a right to [00:28:40] mutilate children in service of a [00:28:43] delusion we weren't the only people in [00:28:45] the fight and I don't mean to imply that [00:28:47] we were but it was lonely there were not [00:28:50] many and we were [00:28:52] leading and our outspokenness on the [00:28:55] issue came with a a very real price the [00:28:58] truth is we couldn't have imagined how [00:28:59] great a price it would ultimately be and [00:29:01] I'm going to tell you a little bit about [00:29:02] that as we go through today but we were [00:29:04] warned in 2019 as the company was really [00:29:07] starting to get its sea livs we were [00:29:09] really starting to break through we were [00:29:10] really starting uh to have [00:29:14] success we were being courted by one of [00:29:16] the big three Hollywood talent agencies [00:29:20] and an agent that one of these a top [00:29:22] agent at one of these top agencies with [00:29:24] whom I've cultivated a friendship I [00:29:26] think he's a good guy I'm not going to [00:29:28] say his name because I don't want him to [00:29:29] take a lot of flack for this [00:29:30] nevertheless he called me and he said [00:29:32] listen we love you guys we think that [00:29:34] there's huge opportunity there are a lot [00:29:36] of great deals to be done [00:29:40] but you know you're conservatives and [00:29:43] we're as a organization pretty well [00:29:46] populated by left-leaning Hollywood folk [00:29:49] uh I said yeah but you knew that when [00:29:51] you were taking the meetings with us are [00:29:52] we going to be able to do deals or not [00:29:53] he said you 100% going to be able to do [00:29:55] deals we're going to do huge deals we're [00:29:57] going to make a lot of money together [00:29:58] we're going to help you guys increase [00:29:59] your reach increase your Effectiveness [00:30:02] and and the truth is we don't really [00:30:03] care what you guys talk about you want [00:30:05] to talk about abortion that's fine you [00:30:07] want to talk about small government [00:30:08] that's fine robust foreign policy that's [00:30:10] fine we understand but there is one [00:30:13] thing you have got to stop talking about [00:30:16] this trans issue you have to understand [00:30:18] he told me a lot of the people you'll be [00:30:20] working with at the agency I mean this [00:30:22] is La this is New York a lot of the [00:30:24] people you're working with at the agency [00:30:25] have transgendered children it's [00:30:28] personal to them you have to let it [00:30:31] go the or else was kind of implied he [00:30:34] didn't actually say it um and again the [00:30:37] guy who said this a good guy he wasn't [00:30:39] actually trying to threaten me he was [00:30:41] trying to tell me the actual reality of [00:30:43] the situation but it really was a devil [00:30:45] at the crossroads moment for Ben and I I [00:30:48] mean essentially we were being told you [00:30:50] can have the world and it will only cost [00:30:53] you your soul and we wanted the world [00:30:56] you know if you work here you know if [00:30:58] you've been following the company if [00:31:00] you're a supporter of the company we are [00:31:02] remarkably ambitious we're the most [00:31:03] ambitious people in conservative media [00:31:06] we don't just want to be the preeminent [00:31:08] conservative Media company we want to be [00:31:10] the preminent digital media company in [00:31:12] the world that's what we have our sites [00:31:13] on the most influenced the largest and [00:31:16] most engaged audience the most [00:31:18] opportunity to make a difference the [00:31:19] most opportunity to do well and to do [00:31:21] good and here we were being told well [00:31:24] the cost of that is you cannot talk [00:31:26] about this issue [00:31:28] and we chose our [00:31:29] souls again you look back and you say [00:31:32] the daily wire did over $200 million of [00:31:34] Revenue last year we have millions of uh [00:31:36] people in our audience we have enormous [00:31:38] reach we have successful hosts and [00:31:40] successful shows and successful movies [00:31:42] successful documentaries and it seems [00:31:43] like that was an easy decision to make [00:31:46] it was not an easy decision to make in [00:31:50] fact if we had known just how hard it's [00:31:52] going to be I don't know if we could [00:31:54] have had the fortitude to have stood by [00:31:56] the decision fortunately [00:31:58] God has special Providence For Fools and [00:32:01] we were very [00:32:02] naive so in the years that followed we [00:32:04] doubled down and we tripled down on this [00:32:06] particular fight we LED on this [00:32:09] particular fight and we scored real [00:32:11] victories both political and cultural in [00:32:14] 2021 our own Luke rosc blew open one of [00:32:16] the most consequential news stories of [00:32:18] the decade and I say consequential [00:32:20] because it literally elected a governor [00:32:21] in the state of Virginia in lden county [00:32:24] of Virginia a school board had covered [00:32:25] up a sexual assault in order to protect [00:32:28] the insane bathroom policy that they had [00:32:29] put in place which had allowed a teenage [00:32:32] boy to go into the restroom with teenage [00:32:36] girls uh after the story blew up Matt [00:32:38] Walsh rented a room in Lowden County in [00:32:40] order to qualify as a citizen for a [00:32:42] Citizens only school board meeting and [00:32:43] helped bring the issue to national [00:32:45] attention it went viral and led in [00:32:48] significant part to the election uh of [00:32:50] governor jungan in Virginia which is a [00:32:52] huge turning point for the state of [00:32:54] Virginia and the beginning of what [00:32:56] became a cascading Turning Point around [00:32:58] this issue and around our politics [00:33:01] Nationwide and of course the school [00:33:02] officials responsible for the travesty [00:33:04] were later indicted for their roles in [00:33:06] the coverup that is because of the work [00:33:08] of Luke rosak is because of the work of [00:33:10] Matt Walsh it is because of the work of [00:33:12] the daily wire from our journalists all [00:33:14] the way through our social media team [00:33:15] for making that happen and in many ways [00:33:18] it was the springboard for Matt's [00:33:19] Journey becoming himself a leader on [00:33:22] this issue the leading voice at the [00:33:23] leading publication on the defining [00:33:26] social issue of the last decade again a [00:33:29] thing for which we should be enormously [00:33:31] proud and thankful to have been a part [00:33:33] of after that Matt released his [00:33:35] children's book Johnny the walrus and [00:33:37] cleverly became the number one author in [00:33:39] the LGBT category on Amazon it was a [00:33:42] hilarious stunt uh and the book was very [00:33:45] very funny and very good uh I'll brag a [00:33:47] little bit that my niece Illustrated the [00:33:49] book so I have obviously this was a [00:33:50] great moment for me in the history of [00:33:52] the company but it was also effective [00:33:55] because it changed policy at at Amazon [00:33:57] outraged Amazon employees staged a die [00:33:59] in they were so uh they were so uh [00:34:02] scandalized by the fact that we were [00:34:04] able to sell some books about ideas with [00:34:06] which they disagreed that they pretended [00:34:08] to be dead at the doorway of Amazon to [00:34:11] imply that reading our words in a [00:34:13] children's book was the threat of actual [00:34:16] violence it threatened their actual [00:34:17] lives and Amazon one of the largest and [00:34:20] most valuable companies in the world had [00:34:22] to make a choice would they stand with [00:34:24] their employees and probably if we're [00:34:26] being honest based on the geography of [00:34:28] where they were founded probably their [00:34:30] own sort of political beliefs whether [00:34:31] they deeply held a belief in [00:34:33] transgenderism at the top of the company [00:34:35] or not who knows but certainly they were [00:34:38] friendly to the idea of progressive [00:34:40] values and yet because the daily wire [00:34:43] was gaining traction because we were [00:34:44] starting to have purchase uh with the [00:34:47] audience they chose [00:34:50] sanity which was surprising to all of us [00:34:53] they left the book up in their store and [00:34:55] today it sold over 150,000 copies on [00:34:58] Amazon and that wouldn't be the last [00:35:00] time we took a top tech company to task [00:35:03] over the issue of [00:35:05] transgenderism then of course in March [00:35:08] of 2021 Harry's Razors canell a big [00:35:10] advertising campaign with the daily wire [00:35:12] because Michael nolles and Candace Owens [00:35:14] had discussed the reality of biological [00:35:16] sex on a show that at the time wasn't [00:35:19] even on the daily wire and once again we [00:35:22] decided to fight rather than simply let [00:35:24] the left have the ability to dictate [00:35:26] this delution onto the rest of us by [00:35:29] Fiat we launched Jeremy's razors and [00:35:32] just so you understand today Jeremy's [00:35:34] razors is a is a growing and thriving [00:35:37] business it will do something like it [00:35:39] did something like $20 million of [00:35:41] Revenue last year which is a pretty [00:35:42] funny end of the joke if you think about [00:35:44] it but it wasn't obvious that that was [00:35:47] going to redown to our benefit we were [00:35:49] essentially saying to all of our [00:35:51] advertisers on whom we are dependent and [00:35:53] and at that time we're dependent for [00:35:55] almost all of our Revenue this was [00:35:57] before the real ascendency of our [00:35:58] subscription program and we were telling [00:36:00] them we will not bend the knee to these [00:36:03] sorts of threats we will not bend the [00:36:05] knee we could have lost an overwhelming [00:36:08] number of our advertisers and we could [00:36:10] have lost the entire company we didn't [00:36:13] thank God that that doesn't mean that we [00:36:15] weren't taking that risk we did take the [00:36:17] risk and and we won a year later we [00:36:22] launched another Market opportunity with [00:36:24] Jeremy's chocolate Hershey's chocolate [00:36:26] thought it would be funny to to all this [00:36:28] nonsense with a her she bar and we said [00:36:31] no you can't we're not going to give in [00:36:32] to this sort of diversity cult that [00:36:34] you're a part of we launched our own [00:36:35] chocolate and today we've sold over a [00:36:37] million bars of our she her and he him [00:36:39] chocolate as I like to say one of them [00:36:41] has nuts I'll leave it to you to decide [00:36:44] which is which and again we were telling [00:36:47] the marketplace of our advertisers that [00:36:49] we weren't going to put up with [00:36:52] this there was enormous risk just [00:36:55] because the moves worked does not mean [00:36:57] there wasn't enormous risk success [00:36:58] always seems inevitable in retrospect [00:37:01] but success is never guaranteed each one [00:37:04] of these moves in required of us huge [00:37:08] risk both of capital and of toil and of [00:37:11] reputation and every single time we felt [00:37:14] like we were putting the entire company [00:37:16] at risk to stand for these particular [00:37:19] values and we felt that way because we [00:37:22] were and the consequences that we had [00:37:25] been warned about were very nearly a on [00:37:28] us and of course the most important and [00:37:30] most public move we made came in the [00:37:31] form of a question in 2022 daily wire [00:37:34] released Matt Walsh's culture shaping [00:37:36] documentary what is a woman the left it [00:37:39] turns out did not know the answer and [00:37:40] they were [00:37:41] pissed Matt film became a national [00:37:44] sensation with tens of millions of [00:37:46] viewers by the time the dust had settled [00:37:48] we working together with Matt had [00:37:50] exposed the Sinister motives behind body [00:37:53] destroying medical procedures at [00:37:54] Vanderbilt Hospital and Beyond posted a [00:37:56] giant outside of the Tennessee State [00:37:59] House demanding action to protect [00:38:01] children and it started a movement that [00:38:02] inspired over 36 States Nationwide to [00:38:05] change their laws to ban the barbaric [00:38:07] practice of mutilating children in the [00:38:09] name of radical political Theory those [00:38:12] actions more than anything else led to [00:38:14] the case that's currently before The [00:38:16] Supreme Court to determine whether or [00:38:17] not states have an inherent right to [00:38:19] protect children from having their [00:38:20] bodies sacrificed on the altar of this [00:38:22] sociable fashionable social contagion or [00:38:25] whether our government is just a pagan [00:38:26] death cult we will know that this year [00:38:28] and we will know it because of what is a [00:38:32] woman and what is a woman wasn't our [00:38:34] only F uh wasn't our only film dealing [00:38:36] with these issues in 2023 we put out [00:38:39] lady Ballers starring virtually all of [00:38:42] us and tackling the issue of men [00:38:44] dominating women's sports the day after [00:38:47] we released the trailer Facebook [00:38:50] permanently collapsed our traffic on the [00:38:53] platform you have to understand that [00:38:56] there was a time when the daily wire was [00:38:58] the number one publisher in the world on [00:39:02] Facebook which was the number one [00:39:04] publisher in the [00:39:06] world the day after we released the lady [00:39:08] Ballers trailer they crushed [00:39:12] us Mark Zuckerberg has publicly [00:39:15] acknowledged now that they were taking [00:39:17] actions to suppress effective political [00:39:19] and social content and we were the most [00:39:22] engaged provider of that kind of content [00:39:23] in the world at the time we saw an 80% [00:39:27] reduction in our traffic and revenue on [00:39:29] the platform there was a time when it [00:39:31] was the number one source of our revenue [00:39:34] and the number one source of our traffic [00:39:36] and it was cut by over 80% as a result [00:39:40] of the actions that we've taken around [00:39:42] this issue the single set of changes [00:39:44] from this single company has cost the [00:39:46] daily wire tens and I'm not exaggerating [00:39:48] when I say very probably hundreds of [00:39:51] millions of [00:39:53] dollars and it wasn't the only loss [00:39:55] because of the trans issue after Michael [00:39:57] N told the crowd at CPAC that [00:39:58] transgenderism must be eradicated from [00:40:00] public life [00:40:02] entirely no less an adversary than the [00:40:04] Biden White House itself came out to [00:40:06] announce him YouTube demonetized Matt [00:40:09] Walsh's entire channel for discussing [00:40:11] the biological sex of Dylan Mulaney he's [00:40:14] a dude by the [00:40:15] way in some YouTube has demonetized [00:40:20] 2,000 videos from daily wire since 2020 [00:40:23] and declared 194 videos hateful and [00:40:26] derogatory just since 2022 the total [00:40:29] costs of these enforcements just from [00:40:31] YouTube Against The Daily wire are [00:40:33] likely between 10 and 20 [00:40:36] million the total cost of the additional [00:40:38] Shadow Banning and removing from [00:40:39] recommendation engines and inability to [00:40:42] retarget the audiences that we weren't [00:40:43] able to engage with in the first place [00:40:45] and all the other consequences of our [00:40:46] stand on the trans issue are well in [00:40:49] excess of 100 million just so you know [00:40:52] because big numbers start to sound small [00:40:54] when we use them all the time when [00:40:56] you're talking about 100 or $200 million [00:40:59] in just four years for a company that [00:41:01] only did $200 million of Revenue uh this [00:41:04] year and the year before you were [00:41:06] talking about the difference between [00:41:08] abject success and close the doors and [00:41:11] sell off the printer failure that we [00:41:14] have been able to persevere and survive [00:41:16] and even Thrive against these kinds of [00:41:19] attacks almost all of which were [00:41:21] directly because of the trans issue is [00:41:25] nothing short of miraculous God himself [00:41:28] has for some for some reason that is [00:41:31] beyond my understanding chosen to allow [00:41:34] us to continue to survive when by [00:41:37] all right we should not have been able [00:41:40] to because of the attacks we have taken [00:41:42] because of the stand that we've made on [00:41:44] the issue [00:41:46] transgenderism as I said if that agent [00:41:48] back in 2019 had told me what the price [00:41:50] was actually going to be I don't know [00:41:52] what I would have said I probably would [00:41:54] have said the same thing because I'm an [00:41:56] ordinary cuss and also because I had a [00:41:58] lot less to lose back then which you [00:42:00] know if he comes along and says the same [00:42:01] thing to me now as I like to say I'm not [00:42:04] very good but I'm real expensive you [00:42:05] know I it's not that I'm not for sale [00:42:07] it's that no one ever makes an [00:42:10] offer but damn we had our teeth kicked [00:42:12] in over this issue again and again and [00:42:15] again and again I couldn't begin to [00:42:18] outline all of the [00:42:20] consequences but here are a few 206 [00:42:23] enforcements from Tik Tok who has [00:42:25] actually shut down our Channel on [00:42:27] numerous occasions we've been dropped by [00:42:30] backend service providers from JW player [00:42:32] to HubSpot to open web to Aspire we lost [00:42:34] a multi-million dollar a year email [00:42:36] business for almost two years because of [00:42:38] these and other cancellations we were [00:42:40] blocked by Eventbrite for events related [00:42:43] to what is a Woman by Target for sales [00:42:45] of Johnny The Walrus by being who [00:42:47] canceled our ability to even give them [00:42:49] our money they wouldn't let us spend [00:42:50] advertising dollars with them because of [00:42:52] the trans issue we were restricted and [00:42:54] banned by Twitter including their [00:42:56] blocking of Dr Peterson before he ever [00:42:58] even joined the daily wire and I think [00:43:00] it's worth noting that Dr Peterson's [00:43:02] rise to International prominence largely [00:43:04] began with a refusal to buckle on the [00:43:06] issue of preferred pronouns one might [00:43:09] say that while the daily wire has been a [00:43:11] leader on this issue we have also [00:43:12] attracted other people who were willing [00:43:14] to fight the fight on this issue to join [00:43:16] us and Dr Peterson is an obvious example [00:43:18] another leader on the issue who chose to [00:43:20] join the daily wire even conservative [00:43:23] media organizations refuse to have our [00:43:26] talent on their shows at various times [00:43:28] because of our rigidity on this issue [00:43:31] everyone wanted us to just get over [00:43:35] it but we kept fighting we launched our [00:43:38] children's streamer bentkey specifically [00:43:40] because of Disney's quote not so secret [00:43:42] gay agenda of adding queerness into [00:43:44] content for little kids we fought [00:43:47] against garm for trying to enforce their [00:43:48] ideology on us at the cost of our ad [00:43:51] revenue and Ben was called to testify on [00:43:53] Capitol Hill we even dropped our HR uh [00:43:57] they call it HR am like our HR backend [00:43:59] provider where you used to all log in [00:44:01] and see why your paycheck [00:44:04] bounced one time one time but we we [00:44:09] dropped that entire service because they [00:44:11] were requiring us to put pronouns in [00:44:13] everyone's [00:44:15] profiles at every single turn we dropped [00:44:18] law firms who required us to identify [00:44:21] our pronouns every single turn we made [00:44:23] the decision that was worse for business [00:44:27] because it was right for our mission [00:44:29] because this company exists for two [00:44:30] reasons a business reason yes and a [00:44:33] missional reason also and there's [00:44:35] tension between those two missions and [00:44:38] when in doubt we choose our [00:44:42] values the fundamental thing that we [00:44:44] will be accused of by people who watch [00:44:47] this video is sure you did all of that [00:44:51] but you did it to make money you did it [00:44:54] to sell books you did it to sell sell [00:44:57] tickets to your movies you did it to get [00:45:00] traffic on the platforms what I'm [00:45:01] telling you first of all is that it's [00:45:03] not by accident that the daily wire has [00:45:05] aligned the profit motive with our [00:45:08] missional interests we did that [00:45:09] deliberately because we know how human [00:45:11] incentives work we know that we will be [00:45:13] more likely to accomplish our missional [00:45:16] our values-based mission if we are also [00:45:19] accomplishing a business [00:45:22] Mission but I assure you that at every [00:45:25] single point at which we made one of [00:45:28] these [00:45:29] decisions we thought that it wasn't [00:45:31] going to be financially [00:45:33] successful we thought there was a chance [00:45:36] we were taking a bet on the audience we [00:45:38] were putting our faith in the audience [00:45:39] we were assuming that if we felt the way [00:45:41] that we felt surely somebody else felt [00:45:43] the way that we felt also and that maybe [00:45:46] if we had the courage of our convictions [00:45:48] to stand to stand up when others were [00:45:49] not standing up that maybe that audience [00:45:51] would have our back and yes that did [00:45:53] redown to our [00:45:55] benefit not to the price of the hundreds [00:45:58] of millions of dollars that we've been [00:46:00] denied by company after Company by Tech [00:46:04] Giant after Tech Giant and again [00:46:06] sometimes even by other people in the [00:46:08] conservative movement now that is as [00:46:12] I've said all along that is not to say [00:46:13] that we were alone in this fight there [00:46:16] were a lot of important voices in the [00:46:17] fight Abigail shrier and Riley Gaines [00:46:19] and Seth Dylan and H richichi and Meg [00:46:22] Kelly Elon must spent $44 billion uh to [00:46:25] restore in part to restore toward the [00:46:27] Babylon B after they made a very brave [00:46:29] stand and refused to take down a post [00:46:30] about a man dressed as a woman in the [00:46:32] federal government and of course there [00:46:34] are many many many [00:46:37] more but they weren't all there from the [00:46:40] beginning many of the people who did [00:46:42] some of the best work on this [00:46:44] topic in part felt the freedom to do so [00:46:48] because we had taken big risks ahead of [00:46:50] them still others of them only even [00:46:54] agreed with the concept of doing it [00:46:57] because they read a book by Abigail [00:46:58] shrier because they watched a movie by [00:47:00] Matt Walsh because they read an article [00:47:02] by Luke rosak because they saw a video [00:47:04] of Ben Shapiro asking a college student [00:47:07] why she wasn't [00:47:08] 60 which is one of the biggest viral [00:47:11] moments in the history of the company [00:47:12] from the very earliest days of the daily [00:47:16] wire and the presence of those other [00:47:18] great warriors in the fight doesn't [00:47:20] change the fact that for a decade now [00:47:22] the daily wire has been leading on this [00:47:24] issue more and more and more effectively [00:47:26] than any other organization in American [00:47:28] public life and for that reason every [00:47:31] single one of you and everyone who has [00:47:33] ever worked here in the past and every [00:47:36] subscriber and every former subscriber [00:47:38] who subscribed to the Daily wire [00:47:40] sometime in the past and everyone who [00:47:41] listens and shares and everyone who [00:47:43] engages with our advertisers and every [00:47:45] Advertiser who's ever advertised on our [00:47:47] shows and Stood Beside us should feel [00:47:50] some pride of ownership in this [00:47:52] remarkable moment we all deserve to [00:47:55] recognize the role that we've played and [00:47:57] to savor this enormous [00:47:59] Victory [00:48:01] [Applause] [00:48:10] it's it's easy to say of conservatives [00:48:13] that for all our talk we don't actually [00:48:15] conserve anything it's easy to say but [00:48:19] it's a [00:48:20] lie our work matters our dedication to [00:48:24] our principles matters these battles [00:48:27] aren't short and victory is never [00:48:29] guaranteed but when we take great risks [00:48:31] on behalf of what's right sometimes God [00:48:34] allows us to participate in some small [00:48:36] way in world changing events the daily [00:48:39] wire fights this team fights our [00:48:42] audience fights and sometimes we [00:48:47] win there are a lot of people who don't [00:48:49] like the daily wire that comes with the [00:48:51] territory and it's fine but we take [00:48:54] great risks and we have been a part of [00:48:56] great victories if you're employed in [00:48:58] this country today and you're [00:49:00] unvaccinated you should know that the [00:49:02] daily wire alongside a small handful of [00:49:04] other companies made that possible by [00:49:07] daring to take on the federal government [00:49:10] if you think sure that's just what you [00:49:12] do for a living I would encourage you to [00:49:15] pick a fight with people who can audit [00:49:17] you and regulate you and who can and do [00:49:20] regulate and threaten the people on [00:49:22] Whose platforms we conduct Almost 100% [00:49:25] of our business [00:49:27] and if your child or grandchild should [00:49:29] struggle as millions of children do with [00:49:32] questions about their identity and how [00:49:33] to feel comfortable in their own skin [00:49:35] you should know that the daily wire [00:49:37] along with a handful of other allies [00:49:39] played a pivotal role in helping to make [00:49:41] sure that your government can't pre on [00:49:43] them in their weakest moments and then [00:49:45] castrate them while they're still too [00:49:47] young to [00:49:49] drive this year marks the 10y year [00:49:51] anniversary of the daily wire as I said [00:49:53] and that means 10 years of fighting this [00:49:55] particular fight [00:49:57] through every one of those battles God [00:49:58] has blessed us even with all the risks [00:50:01] and all of the challenges and even after [00:50:03] all of the defeats we've managed to grow [00:50:05] in size we've managed to grow in [00:50:08] strength we've managed to grow in [00:50:09] revenue and in reach we're bigger today [00:50:11] than we've ever been and we're fighting [00:50:13] harder for our values than we have ever [00:50:16] fought over the coming months we'll do a [00:50:19] lot to mark this enormous Milestone 10 [00:50:22] years of the daily wire and I look [00:50:24] forward to getting back together and ing [00:50:26] a glass to that unbelievable moment and [00:50:29] sharing also with you and the audience [00:50:31] some of the fun ways that we're going to [00:50:32] celebrate between now and September 21st [00:50:35] which According to some arguments is [00:50:37] actually the first day because it's the [00:50:38] first day of the Ben of the Ben of hero [00:50:40] show there's an argument for July which [00:50:42] is the first day we started paying Ben [00:50:45] Shapiro and there's an argument for [00:50:47] October which is when we launch the [00:50:48] website but I think September 21st is [00:50:50] the appropriate day because it's the [00:50:52] first day that we appeared on the public [00:50:54] scene [00:50:58] but reading the news yesterday couldn't [00:51:00] help but think that today in this [00:51:01] enormous Victory is just an excellent [00:51:04] way to kick off festivities so to [00:51:06] everyone in this room and to those [00:51:08] who've been with us on this journey [00:51:09] through this last decade fighting these [00:51:11] battles and other battles that are yet [00:51:12] to be one you have my deepest thanks we [00:51:16] did it together savor it thank God for [00:51:20] it thank one another for it thank all [00:51:23] the Warriors who've taken the field to [00:51:25] defend our children thank Donald Trump [00:51:28] for winning his reelection which is the [00:51:29] number one job of a politician is to win [00:51:33] and for having the courage in his [00:51:34] victory to do things that other [00:51:35] Republican presidents have lacked the [00:51:38] courage of their convictions to actually [00:51:40] take [00:51:41] on and then let it [00:51:43] go because the only way to thrive in [00:51:46] this world is to hold lightly to those [00:51:48] victories and to move on to the next [00:51:50] challenge and win yet again thank you [00:51:58] [Music] [00:52:03] president Trump issued a historic [00:52:04] executive order protecting children from [00:52:06] chemical and surgical mutilation this is [00:52:08] a giant victory for the right and a [00:52:09] complete reversal of the trend of social [00:52:11] leftism from where it was even 5 years [00:52:14] ago what is a woman what is a woman what [00:52:18] is a woman what is a woman what is a [00:52:20] woman did you tell me that controversy [00:52:22] continues to spread why aren you [00:52:24] 60 you can't magically change your [00:52:27] gender you can't magically change your [00:52:29] sex you can't magically change your age [00:52:31] you don't know what you're talking about [00:52:32] you're not educated on genetics to [00:52:34] discuss the genetics or what your [00:52:36] genetics I Zoe I'd stay away from the [00:52:38] genetics and back to the brain scans you [00:52:40] cut that out now or you'll go home and [00:52:42] an ambulance that seems mildly [00:52:45] inappropriate for a political discussion [00:52:46] there's never been anything funnier or [00:52:48] more mockable in the mainstream part of [00:52:50] our culture than letting grown ass dudes [00:52:52] beat up women I penned an irritated [00:52:55] tweet I've essentially be ban from [00:52:56] Twitter we really proud to be teaming [00:52:59] with Charlie and turning point on a new [00:53:01] documentary it's called identity crisis [00:53:04] Johnny the wal is the number one best [00:53:06] seller on Amazon's lgbtq plus book list [00:53:09] when Hershey's celebrated women with a [00:53:11] man Jeremy launch Jeremy's truck he's a [00:53:13] biological man appropriating Womanhood [00:53:16] you are all child abusers we helped [00:53:17] elect a governor in Virginia after Luke [00:53:19] Ros act's remarkable reporting from [00:53:21] Lowden County Harry's razor seems to [00:53:23] have a big issue they dropped their ads [00:53:25] from our Network because of what they [00:53:26] called values misalignment conservative [00:53:28] media has never been more important than [00:53:31] it's been over the past several years [00:53:33] the winds are coming in so fast that [00:53:35] it's happening largely thanks to our [00:53:37] daily wire Plus members without them [00:53:39] none of this is possible