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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
All right, you guys. Happy Monday. Happy Monday indeed. I do not know how we didn't guess it. We should have guessed it. The attacks against me last week. Personal attacks on my family.
Chapter 2: What personal attacks did Candace Owens face recently?
People were doxing our home address. Thank you, those of you who reached out to us and allowed us to respond to that all across social media. Okay. Accusing me of hiding money from the McCrones, accusing me of fleeing the country, accusing my husband of hiding a hit and run, having hit a man named Tracy Robinson. We all thought, what the heck is going on? Literally, what is going on?
The president posts a photo of me sick. I wasn't even speaking about him. I was over in Italy. All of this meant to humiliate me. And then a lawsuit arrives from Brian Harpole. But then we learn it's been sent from the same lawyer who had already been suing me nonstop in arbitration on Ben Shapiro's behalf for two years. or every minor infraction? And what do you know?
Thank you, internet, for putting this piece together. Because I always thought there was something wrong with this lawyer. He seemed too emotionally invested. Usually lawyers are just kind of like, eh, it's our job, and they're friendly to one another. That guy Matt Sarleson was something else.
And thank you to the internet, like I said, for noting at the bottom of that lawsuit from Brian Harpole, it lists a Jacob William Roth, a partner of the firm, who also happens to be Ben Shapiro's brother-in-law. Ah, it's all starting to make sense.
We should have known, ladies and gentlemen, that the Daily Wire was on the brink of collapse and that Benny boy wants an all-out assault on my life over it because he blames me. Welcome back to Candace. It was oddly demonic, unlike anything we've ever seen. The president of the United States posting photos of my ugly mug. Why? Why? I think I look kind of cute. actually, in that photo.
Thank you very much, Mr. President. I would have smiled, ladies and gentlemen, if I had known that one day the Prezi was going to post it. I would have smiled a little bit, maybe smirked in the photo like this under that bandana. Publicly, everyone knows that also Laura Loomer has been stalking me, but I've been telling you guys that My real stalker in life is Ben Shapiro, okay?
Since the day that I was fired from The Daily Wire, he has not stopped trying to bankrupt my family.
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Chapter 3: What lawsuit is Candace Owens currently dealing with?
It is almost comical at this point. We've learned to just laugh at it. It never goes away. We were laughing at the fact that he's just kind of allowed to pretend to be this normal public figure, but he's low-key a deranged stalker. Like, he just sort of hides behind it, tries to dignify the stalking through legal filings. It's like, oh, no, it's fine that we sent an intern to follow her.
at her event after we fired her. That was our right. It's fine if we keep just using legal abuse as a strategy. And I mean, for every little infraction, like they were monitoring my likes. Back when you could see likes on X, I was facing serious lawsuits over, you liked this tweet and it was a bit disparaging to us. Stalker, just full-blown stalker vibes. It all made sense, though.
It all made sense when phone calls started coming in, email started coming in regarding the Daily Wire layoffs, which began, I am told, on Thursday, actually, continued through Friday. There's some indication they may actually be continuing through today. And it was an absolute bloodbath. Do not allow them to spin it.
Okay, I'm talking entire departments, big people at the firm, lawyers at the firm, the chief operating officer, the executive vice president, virtually the entire marketing department, the production team has now been reduced to a mere skeleton crew. No one was safe. Not even Ben's team was safe, marked safe from it. Even a director on his team was fired. It was brutal.
I have counted approximately 54 people who lost their jobs from top to bottom. And that's just in this wave because this has been going on, as we all know, for a while. The writing has been on the wall for a while. It has been very strange. The worst kept secret in media as they keep writing, having people publish these articles that justify reality.
We were having private conversations like how long can they keep up this charade and keep pretending that this is not happening when everyone can see the numbers, we can see how the public is responding. It's very strange to just sort of live in a delusion. We knew that they had brought in private equity sometime ago in the last two years.
I used to work in private equity in these particular types of situations. So I knew what the implications were of bringing in private equity, especially if it's a distressed debt situation. The usual term, as it was at the company that I worked at many moons ago, is two years. They'll inject cash into your company. They'll float you for about two years. as you attempt to turn things around.
You fire some people, you restructure a little bit, but you're kind of walking the plank, right? Maybe you fix it, but if you don't, they're gonna sell that company, and they're gonna own a huge chunk of that company that they sell. Now, I can't assert that that is definitively what the deal terms were for The Daily Wire, but I can say that we're just about now, over two years,
just over two years removed from my firing, and The Daily Wire has obviously not turned the company around. In fact, I would say they've just kind of cranked up the crazy, almost like they were trying to catalyze their own demise.
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Chapter 4: How is Ben Shapiro implicated in the Daily Wire issues?
And so, yes, it was announced on Friday that the mass layoffs took place, for which they offered this excuse to Barrack Media. I think Barrack Media was among the first to report the story. It reads, quote, today, the Daily Wire made a difficult decision to restructure the organization, which included layoffs to a number of teams. We are deeply grateful to those impacted.
Their contributions were instrumental in building the Daily Wire into what it is today. The cuts were largely concentrated at our Nashville production office. As the company has invested in new formats, locations, and production models, our footprint there has evolved. Over the last year, we have added production staff in D.C., the Northeast, and Florida.
This step allows us to focus our resources on an ambitious slate of new entertainment projects that are set to release this year. Additionally, we will continue to invest our editorial team in investigative journalism, where we have already added numerous new reporters across the country and established a D.C. bureau with a seat in the White House briefing room.
That's a lot of words to really say nothing, okay? It's not good. It's happening there. Everyone feels it. People that are left certainly feel it, okay. First, they shuttered Benkei Kids, which was obviously massive layoffs that were done. Then they quietly got rid of their sports department. That was the Crane & Company show that they were running. Now they're firing over 50...
people in a span of 24 hours, and they're claiming it's just restructuring. People in D.C. also got fired. So it's not because they're suddenly pivoting and building in D.C. So as they attempt to spin this into something else, the broader question is what actually happened to the company? How could it happen so quickly, more importantly?
Because make no mistake, this is like the equivalent of Enron, right? Right. It's a virtual overnight collapse. In 2023, they were arguably one of the most promising companies, conservative media companies, certainly in the game. They were at the top of the top of their game. Everyone was clamoring to work with them, to do projects with them. And now we fast forward to 2026.
And generally speaking, again, I'm speaking generally, everyone hates the Daily Wire. Right. We just hate the Daily Wire. How is that possible? Well, there are multiple assessments that are floating around right now.
Of course, many people directly associated their demise with the never ceasing war against me, which began with my unnecessarily glorious public firing, supplemented by a staggering claim that Christ is king is anti-Semitic. People were going, hey, that's me. God will not be mocked. It's a strong start to say crisis king is problematic and we've got the money to make that fetch, Gretchen.
So yeah, that's the chatter. Did it have to do with me? Take a listen.
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Chapter 5: What recent layoffs occurred at the Daily Wire?
Tucker Carlson did not then face two years of arbitration and fights and gag orders with Fox News being chased for every penny. They didn't try to stop his next move. They weren't navigating and having hit pieces written about them. They truly wanted to just turn the page, meaning they're a real business. They are a real business. They want to keep it corporate. Goodbye. Okay?
Public didn't like how they dealt with it. I didn't like how they dealt with it. But actually, in retrospect, it was clean, right? Now, compare that to The Daily Wire. Think about the positively erratic and, dare I say, deranged decisions that the company made just over the last few months, last six months, right? They brought back my social channels to mock me, okay? This is unbelievable.
It's beyond psychopathic to do something like this. Two years after you fire someone, they also attempted, in case you forgot, they attempted to create an entire show dedicated to making fun of this show. Remember? In the no-no? In the no-no?
Where you had that spastic girl that was, like, standing on the couch like a Nickelodeon girl, like, making fun of me, and it was weird, and it was cringe, and also... beyond the realm of being stalked by a former employer. Strange, you don't keep someone's socials and go, ha ha, I own your name and likeness and I can do this. You have to pause and really consider how unusual that was.
Now, that was a mere months removed from the end of their last legal action against me too. So there's never been a stop in my life of the Daily Wire chasing me. If this was an ex-boyfriend, everyone would say that I was in need of a restraining order. Like I said, they wear the mask of this is all court. We just really want to go after her because of that like. She liked that.
It was disparaging. So you cannot discount the fact that Ben Shapiro, who is considered, and this is sad for the other people on the platform, he is considered the face of the company. And he developed tunnel vision. He bet the company on destroying me.
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Chapter 6: What does the Daily Wire's restructuring reveal about its future?
I didn't want to fight with him. I wanted to peace out. I wish Andrew Klavan never made the Crisis King video. You'd have never heard from me. We can never speak about each other ever again. But they were plotting. They wanted to be destructive. I mean, just take a listen to him and the many battles that he is fighting. Nobody knows why.
The people that he should be uniting with and being friends with that he's taking stabs at. Take a listen to him over just these last few months.
So here's the thing. Theo Vaughn is a low IQ conspiracist. He has himself routinely propped up Candace Owens. He has lent credence to her insanity. Theo Vaughn is basically just a Bernie Sanders leftist who does not like the censorious impulses of the left and engages in all the same conspiracy theories and, of course, is good friends with Candace Owens and all the rest of it.
And yes, Erica Kirk absolutely should sue the living hell out of Candace Owens for this sort of stuff. Well, Michael, I'll just ask you straight up. Is Candace Owens doing something evil by attacking Erica Kerr? I think that it's wrong to attack Erica Kerr. Well, no, say the sentence with her name in it. No, I'm not going to dance like a puppet for the podcast for us.
I think that what Candace Owens is doing right now is evil. It is evil what she is doing right now. Okay, and I say that again. But what... I don't know, Pine, on whether it's evil or not, but my position is it's really none of my business. I have a question. Why is it none of your business? I mean, you comment on these things for a living.
I'm not mother of the Internet.
No, but if this were on the left and somebody were accusing Charlie Kirk of his wife having murdered him, I assume that you would be talking about it.
Is that what Candace is accusing Erica of?
Yes. Of course, the issue here is not just that Megyn Kelly has some questionable principles and has been programming directly into the Groyper right. It is that she remains a coward. Remember, this is still the woman who says she is friends with Candace Owens.
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Chapter 7: How did private equity influence the Daily Wire's decline?
Nobody minded when Trump would attack Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis. I've had personal and legal spats with people like Kim Klesik as just one example. People do expect figureheads to clash. What they don't expect and what people have proven that they have no appetite for is perfidy, right? Treachery, deceit, betrayal against your own. Ben trying to destroy me? Trying to destroy Megyn Kelly?
That means trying to destroy a former colleague and someone like Megyn Kelly who he said was his friend. That is perfidious. There's no other way to say that. Ben seeking to publicly humiliate Michael Knowles. Say her name. There is something about that that makes the public naturally recoil, right? Because it demonstrates that you have no honor, you have no dignity, you have no loyalty.
They can forgive you demanding the COVID shots, right? Get the vaccine dopes. They can forgive you once leading the Never Trump movement, but they cannot forgive you treating people that are supposed to be close to you in that manner, right? To use a biblical analogy, Peter thrice denied Jesus. But Peter was not Judas. We are naturally as human beings averse to the spirit of Judas.
And that is what Ben Shapiro demonstrates, right? That he will break bread with people as he plots against them. That is a moral offense to which we cannot rally behind. People do not like his nature.
You can spend years trying to destroy someone behind the scenes, like Ben did to Charlie Kirk, and then, boop, just flip on the dime as soon as he dies, slither into his studio and throw a million dollars trying to purchase his legacy. It is spiritually repulsive. That is what the public cannot bear about The Daily Wire.
You would think, by the way, that Ben's attacks against me would now be all done.
But on his Friday show, when most were expecting him to deliver maybe an impassioned message, one laced with humility regarding the layoffs, perhaps thanking the many people who moved their entire families to Nashville to support his company and now find themselves without a job, you'd think like, oh, hey, I wanted you guys to know this personally from me. Like, this is what's going on.
We thank people so much. No, of course, he does not have the courage to do that, right? Calls Megyn Kelly a coward. But what did Megyn, what did Ben do instead of addressing his employees? Instead, he made his show about me, signaling that he wants his tribe to now begin targeting my money, of course.
And he wants the public to know that they shouldn't listen to my show because when they listen to my show, they make money. Take a listen.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Daily Wire's collapse for conservative media?
And you wonder how you... I was actually asking the question to my husband, like, how is that... Is that not like an advertising Ponzi scheme of sorts? Like, how do you... Buy views and then sell to advertisers on the basis of your views. And my husband said, well, maybe they could potentially be putting something in the contract that allows them to sort of get around that tricky clause.
Like, oh, we may sometimes advertise or whatever. But this was just watching. They were just on the plank for a very long time, sort of walking the plank. Anyway, I... did find something was brewing last week. We could all feel it, like I said.
And Baron Coleman received a very interesting comment on his show, because we're going to talk a little bit more about this lawyer, Matt Sarleson, who tweeted out this lawsuit with Brian Harpole. We're very familiar, like I told you, with Matt Sarleson, just objectively a lawyer that takes things like was making this so personal and we couldn't figure out why it was so personal.
And now I think we do have an understanding, but take a listen to Baron Coleman, read this comment on his show.
I'm from CLT, a friend of my husband got a call from Larry L trying to pay him to go to CLT airport to take pictures of Candace in the airport. At the same time, the news of the lawsuit dropped. Really? Why is she in the Charlotte airport tonight?
So I think Barron didn't understand what that commenter was saying. So what the commenter was saying is of remarkable interest. What they're saying is that they knew someone who Larry Loomer was trying to send to the Charlotte airport when I received news of a lawsuit.
The reason why Barron is confused is because I didn't publicize that I had received an email from Matt Sarleson while I was in the Charlotte airport. That's a very precise thing.
It signals that Laura Loomer knew before we had announced to public more than a week, because they had first sent this like, I don't know, demand thing at first and said, we are following this lawsuit in four days, but I was standing in a Charlotte airport. When I received that email. So how is it possible?
And again, I'll say allegedly, how is it possible that Laura Loomer was trying to get somebody go take photos of me reading that email that I received that nobody could have known I was going to receive outside of Matt Sarleson's firm? That signals that there's some coordination between Matt Sarleson, Ben Shapiro's lawyer, and Laura Loomer.
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