Joe Untamed | Guest Host Tommy Carrigan and Siraj Hashmi on Media, Fatherhood| Charlie Kirk Memorial | 9.22.2025

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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In this episode of Joe Untamed, Tommy Carrigan sits down with Siraj Hashmi, a dynamic media professional, entrepreneur, and cultural commentator. Currently serving as Head of Creator Partnerships at Rumble, Siraj brings years of experience in digital media, content strategy, and storytelling. From his early days as a video editor and writer at The Washington Examiner to co-founding platforms like Habibi Bros, he offers unique insights into the creator economy and the rapidly evolving media landscape.

Tommy and Siraj also explore a personal side of his life, discussing his transition from a career-driven lifestyle to embracing fatherhood and family life. Siraj shares how raising a child has reshaped his perspective on success, priorities, and balancing ambition with the responsibilities and joys of family. His candid reflections provide listeners with a glimpse into the challenges and rewards of navigating life beyond work.

Additionally, we cover the Charlie Kirk memorial, giving listeners a firsthand look at the event and its significance. We reflect on Kirk’s legacy, the atmosphere of the memorial, and the broader cultural and political implications. This episode combines personal insight, professional expertise, and timely commentary on a major event in the media and political world.

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0:00.0	Well, here we are with my buddy, Mr. Saraj Hashmi, who I know through Rumble.
0:05.7	And, you know, he moves on from Rumble to bigger and better things and broke my heart.
0:13.0	But, yes, Saraj was kind of my guru and that he helped me get my show further off the ground.
0:18.4	Primarily, how to make thumbnails.
0:20.3	That was those two things. Like, make thumbnails and go live. And it may sound simple, but those actually made about a 300% growth in my show. So, you know, most people will be like, that's not a guru. That's just like basic, I don't know, social media etiquette. But, yeah, I mean, I don't think you do it anymore, Habibis Bros.
0:39.0	But that's on that your, that was your Rumble channel there as well.
0:43.5	But more importantly, what I kind of want to ask you about was, and I guess to a degree
0:48.1	it is loosely related to all things, Charlie Kirk is, I was going to ask you about
0:53.9	and kind of more sincerely, and I know this show is normally about like current events, but I'm also, you know, arrogant and don't take any notes and just, I'm just going to do what I do normally. I was just going to ask because in like the time I've known, you've, like, winter, January, 2023 through now, you know, both of us were doing shows,
1:15.7	both of us were focused on growing shows.
1:18.1	And I've kind of seen you go forward to, you know, obviously you're married, but having a child
1:24.3	and then just kind of seeing you personally, even, you know, despite all like the memes we'd send each other just kind of seeing you personally even you know despite all like
1:27.7	the memes we'd send each other kind of seeing how like fulfilled for lack of like a cheesier
1:35.0	hallmark word and then you know i'm still beating my head against the wall trying to grow a podcast
1:39.6	to please people i'll never see and just get numbers on a screen that mean nothing to me.
1:47.3	But that's what I kind of want to pick your brain about.
1:51.3	And then I realized you probably could tie that into, you know, Charlie Kirk and, you know, a shattered family.
1:52.5	But I kind of want to ask you about that.
1:54.1	And for anyone that doesn't know, Straj and I usually have nothing close to remotely
1:57.8	serious conversations.
1:59.2	But it is something I kind of want to pick your brain about.
2:02.6	In terms of, like, where you've gone and, you know,
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