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preview of our back and forth. Saugher, let's start with the newsiest thing.

Stakes are pretty low but this is the newsy thing that happened the morning we started recording this.

Candice Owens is on the market.

She's left the Daily Wire.

I could anticipate that you're going to obviously hire her to start a breaking point show.

I confirm or deny that guess on my part.

See, I would never have the hubris try and hire somebody like Candace because Candace is too big of a star.

Already, Marshall, as you and I are already recording, she already

has her own locals page, she's got a subscription coming, she says big things are happening.

I wouldn't be surprised if she hooks up with Tucker Carlson in some way and is in some way attached to TCT. It would make sense. They have a lot of the same ideological positioning. But yeah, it's interesting. It's funny to me that this is what broke it over with Ben Shapiro and

Yeah, I think I guess there's a lot to say about it.

We can talk about it whichever way you want.

Yeah, I mean, my top line, I think,

is I'm really fascinated by the media business dynamic

is that this is actually a huge problem for the rights efforts to build media companies.

Because this is just analysis, this isn't like an ideological point.

It's just true that at the end of the day if you are at the New York Times or you're at the Atlantic,

there's this broader institutional brand that has a lot of value to people.

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