Jeremy Boreing

And I think the audience...

appreciated that.

I think they could detect that that was our—even if they couldn't have articulated it, I think they could detect that that was our position.

If you make for the audience, you may get a few hits, but you won't have a long-lasting career.

If you take for granted the audience, then you become an elitist, and who do you actually serve?

Whose interests do you serve at that point other than your own?

A true artist—

which is what we were ultimately trying.

We were a bunch of Hollywood guys trying to make it in this world, right?

We just took that kind of approach, which is to say, well, we're going to make the things that we think need to be made, and we're going to hope that there's an audience who also thinks that those things need to be made, and we're going to be true to that.

And I think it was a good strategy.

I think it carried us a long way.

Well, we made a $100 million commitment where Ben Key was concerned.

We didn't spend $100 million.

Net is a tricky thing to determine because of some of the structures of the company.

And you probably get into territory here that is confidential proprietary information for The Daily Wire that I shouldn't elaborate on too much.

But to the extent that the profit of a company is the value that can be distributed to its owners at the end of the year—

The owners made money every single year that the Daily Wire existed.

To the extent that profit is defined as a very particular bookkeeping concept, we were still profitable in every year.

But, you know, the amount of profit in any given year would go up or down.