Drew Harwell
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That were like feature film length, you know, documentary satires.
Oh yeah, so this is my favorite of their ventures because it was so, it was insane even to the people inside the company.
It was a fantasy series, seven episode series, kind of loosely based off of Game of Thrones.
It was called The Pendragon Cycle, Rise of the Merlin.
They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.
and they flew out all of these actors.
Some of them were conservative bloggers at Daily Wire.
They flew them out to places like Italy and Hungary.
They filmed on location for this knockoff fantasy in the time of Merlin and swords and...
um ladies and furs and they spent you know roughly three million dollars an episode to make this show they had they had huge special effects budgets they had swords clanging and they had production Diaries all of this stuff that you would never imagine from like a blog that was making fun of you know Nancy Pelosi and blue hair liberals and all this stuff but they just felt like
Let's build something where we can actually make even more money on the other side of it.
But this show was completely a failure on basically every metric.
You had to subscribe to the Daily Wire Plus.
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