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"170M Down To 22M” - Daily Wire Layoffs REVEALS Billion Dollar Miscalculation

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David and the panel break down Daily Wire’s brutal layoffs, Ben Shapiro’s collapse from 170M to 22M views, the failed “conservative Disney” bet, Jeremy Boreing’s exit, and why building a billion‑dollar media machine on fragile personalities was a massive miscalculation.

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0:00.0

From Working Title, producers of Bridget Jones and Love Actually.

0:03.5

I'm looking for this girl called Emily.

0:05.3

I'll help you find her.

0:06.5

Comes the truly feel-good British rom-com that's being called a five-star instant classic.

0:12.7

Tell me, you didn't hack the school email.

0:14.6

What message every Emily?

0:16.3

Hailed as hilarious and original.

0:18.8

Hey, Emily's.

0:20.4

It's Notting Hill for a new generation. I don't think I was wrong number. You just didn't write number you, did she? Finding Emily, only in Cinema's May 22nd. Book tickets now. So, story comes out, and you know everybody is in the market. The moment something bad happens, they're losing, they're doing this, they're doing that. Oh, we're killing it. Let me tell you how many subscribers. We're doing so well. So, you know, when you're doing great, you brag, but when you have a setback, the market's going to criticize you as well, and that's part of capitalism and how it works, and you have to kind of take it. So, Rob, what numbers do we have? Which one is this? So Daily Wires hits with layoffs across a number of teams largely from their Nashville

0:57.2

headquarters.

0:58.7

This is what page? Page 31, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.

1:03.6

Page 33. Let me go to it and read some of the numbers to you.

1:08.1

And Vinny, I'm going to come to you on this one here first. So DailyWR has been hit with another round of layoffs.

1:15.1

There's a couple stats.

1:16.5

This article I can redrop.

1:17.7

I'm more interested in reading the stats because the stats I'm reading about is 50%, 60%,

1:21.6

85%.

1:22.5

They went from 200 employees to losing 100 employees in you know, in the Nashville office.

1:28.3

And so today the Daily Wire made a difficult decision to restructure the organization,

1:31.5

which include a layoffs of a number of teams.

1:33.2

Spokesperson said we are deeply grateful to those impacted their contributions.

1:37.4

We're instrumental in the building of Daily Wire into what it is today.

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