Brett Cooper Breaks Silence on Leaving the Daily Wire, Starting Over, and Controversy

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 178 minutes

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0:29.8	People see one thing and then there's another thing that happens, you know, off screen and offline.
0:35.2	Well, it looks like the rumors were true.
0:37.7	Brett Cooper's departure has caused quite a stir.
0:41.2	I wrote every single episode of the show that I did, and I put the stories together.
0:44.8	I drove the creation of it.
0:47.0	I knew that my situation was not normal, so I was always kind of thinking about breaking a cycle.
0:52.3	Would you say right now going on,25, the most divided we've been?
0:56.3	This divide between men and women goes so deep right now between happiness and finances and
1:02.6	educational levels to ideology.
1:04.7	I think people kind of brush it aside and make fun of it and we laugh about it and we say,
1:08.9	oh, these liberal ones, whatever, it's so important.
1:11.0	Brett Cooper announces she is leaving the daily wire.
1:13.6	Brett Cooper is officially leaving the daily wires.
1:16.4	What was the most difficult part of branching out on your own?
1:19.2	Not knowing what I didn't know.
1:21.8	Was there anything that they could have done to have kept you?
1:32.3	Yeah. to have kept you. Brett, thank you so much for coming on the Ice Coffee Hour.
1:35.0	Happy to be here.
1:35.9	So our first episode was one of our most viewed episodes ever.
1:39.1	It did like over 100 million views across all platforms.
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