Hello, Miriam. Where's my money? You know Barry Weiss, whose company is, you know, sold now, is going to sell to CBS for $3 trillion or something. Larry Ellison's son's buying the free press. You know, the very, the very, important Free Press blog, you know, the [00:00:17] one that gets like 7500 views on YouTube. That powerhouse conglomerate media company is worth $250 million. They don't like me anymore. Which is fine, because again, you're on the team or you're not on the team. You criticize one thing. I mean, you're off the team. [00:00:34] Well, comedian Tim Dillon went scorched earth on Barry Weiss and the possibility that CBS might buy her glorified blog, as he puts it, for $250 million. A story that we covered on this show last week, on Wednesday. [00:00:52] Now, here's more of what Dillon had to say. That was the time that the Free Press was a revolutionary concept when, like, there'd be a burrito truck in Portland where some white bitch was making a taco. And there was an article about how it was cultural appropriation or, you know, how it was like, you know, [00:01:11] mansplaining to tell a woman or whatever. That was when the Free Press got big. It was when it was just like this era in our country where we were the most ridiculous, you know, like what a pumpkin say about the history of slavery. Like all of those. Ridiculous. [00:01:27] The Free Press came in to counter that narrative. And again, it's no shade to Barry $250 million. Is it worth that? I mean, it's a blog. I mean, it's a full blog. It's a blog. I mean, and it's a small YouTube channel, whatever. [00:01:44] I mean, God bless. But apparently the brand equity and by brand equity means I'm willing to argue for shooting Palestinian toddlers in the face brand in a in a. - That's the brand equity of 250 sticks. - Man, [00:02:02] I stand Dylan so much for his commentary about what's happening in Gaza and for being willing to call out the free press for not really being all about the free press when it comes to reporting on the reality of Israel and Palestine. [00:02:18] Now, before we get to some more details about this, I think impending deal between the Free Press and CBS, I do want to just give you a little more from Dylan in regard to his mocking of how the Free Press covers the ongoing genocide in Gaza. [00:02:35] Take a look. Give me 400 sticks. Ready? Here I go. The thing about the war and the thing that people are struggling to understand about Hamas, Hamas, terrorists, terrorists, Hamas terrorists, terrorists, Hamas is terrorism. [00:02:51] Hamas, New York City blow up trade center, World Trade Center, flesh face, blood face, child death, your child killing, suburbs killing, death, killing, terrorism, terrorism, death. Terrorism. Iran. Iran. Death, terrorism, your children, family terrorism, [00:03:07] theme parks, boom boom, bridge bad. And what we have to do is shoot toddler in his face. Thank you. 303 thank you very much. That was very good. And. 300 million for you. Anything else you'd like? [00:03:22] That's good. Thank you so much. You know the arguments they make at the Free Press? It doesn't even. They don't even pretend, by the way. And God bless them. But they don't even pretend like there is no intellectual heft to any of the arguments. They're like, If Iran's not bomb, they're going to rape your mother. Now you might think, oh, well, why would [00:03:41] CBS want to buy a media entity that's so biased in one direction, especially when it comes to an ongoing genocide? No, they're not looking to buy the free press despite that biased coverage of Gaza. [00:03:57] Apparently they like that biased coverage of Gaza. According to the Financial Times, people familiar with the relationship said that Weiss's strong pro-Israel stance is one of the factors that is said to have appealed to Ellison. [00:04:12] Okay, so that's the incoming CBS CEO David Ellison. Okay, guys, I'm in the digital media business so I know what things are worth and not worth. Okay, $250 million for that. [00:04:28] Okay. I'm thrilled with that. That means that Young Turks is worth around $1 billion. - Well, we're critical of Israel, so. - Maybe not going to get $1 billion. Is that what happened? No. Oh, I see, that's only for those metrics. [00:04:43] - Only apply for pro-Israel blogs. 100%. - Yeah. Come on, guys. Look, they have 155,000 paying subscribers on Substack. That's amazing. That's a great number, right? And but I know the revenue associated with that. It doesn't get you anywhere near a $250 billion valuation. [00:05:00] And they have almost no video. They have no nothing anywhere else. Right. To Tim Dylan's point, like the only thing they have is Substack. Everything else is abject failure. But that's worth $250 million. Isn't that amazing that pro-Israel gets some sort of incredible multiplier. [00:05:20] And if you're fair and honest about Israel, that gets you. What does that subtract money from you? It could literally destroy your career, as many critics of Israel have learned working in the media. And hey, listen. Okay. I got to say it. I'm sorry. [00:05:36] Like, first of all, if you really think that they're worth that based on the actual numbers, call me, because. Have I got a deal for you? Okay. But if you know that you're just giving them money to be pro-Israel, I got bad news for you. Barry Weiss would have been pro-Israel. Either way, you're paying for nothing. [00:05:55] Okay. But also, like you got to pay Barry Weiss to be pro-Israel. I mean, come on, that's not that bright. Let's be honest. Like, is there an issue here with, like, the absence of pro-Israel media in America? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, finally, someone who could stand up for Israel [00:06:11] and American media must be a first. That's what you got to finance. What do you look at the mainstream media? Do you think Israel doesn't have a voice in America? But they probably do. They they're so maniacal that they're like, no. I heard 1 or 2 people criticizing Israel online. [00:06:29] Oh, I know what we'll do. We'll counter by getting this huge blog that's pro-Israel. So and then we'll counter them. Okay. Good luck. Good luck. See how that turns out? So according to the New York Post, Barry Weiss, who, of course, launched the Free Press, and who quit the New York Times opinion page over its woke policies [00:06:47] and launched the outlet in 2022, had reportedly met with Skydance Media CEO David Ellison at the high powered Allen and Co summer camp for billionaires in Sun Valley, Idaho, back in July. - Must be fun. - Yeah. So I'm sure a lot of anti-Israel people invited to that, though. [00:07:05] Forget anti-Israel. Nobody's anti-Israel. Like, hey, I'm anti-Israel. Okay, well, that's. 100% anti-Israel at this point. They're committing genocide. I hate the fact that we fund them. I don't see them as an ally. Right. Continue. Current Israeli government. Okay. But, like just anti-genocide. Oh, I don't know if you can get invited to the fancy places. [00:07:23] You're you're anti-genocide. Right? Oh. You're so. Come on in. Come on in, everybody. Oh, but don't say anything. No no no no. That's discriminatory. Look, guys, I don't look, I, I think it's pretty well known at this point that I'll go and talk to people and work with people, etc., as long as [00:07:40] we're having a fair conversation, right? So, like, do I hate Barry Weiss? Not at all. Okay, so did like I did a debate with Ann Colter on immigration and Barry Weiss Free Press put that together. So what? Okay. And I took a picture with everybody afterwards, [00:07:56] and they're like, oh, you took a picture. Ann Colter thinks her favorite book is camp of the Saints, where the hero murders all the immigrants like me. Right? Yeah. And I took a picture with her. Why? Because we were debating her. Right. So my point is, this isn't personal. Like, okay, so Barry Weiss loves Israel and thinks that genocide is no big deal [00:08:14] as long as it happens to Palestinians. I think that's a despicable, point of view. But unfortunately, tons of people in this country have that point of view. I can't I'm not interested in canceling all of them. They could have that point of view. Okay. And apparently they can get paid $250 million for it. But I could also have my point of view, which they say no, [00:08:32] which is hilarious, right? Miss cancel culture, Barry Weiss says, but if you criticize Israel and Sam Cassell, then fire him. You know, Barry Weiss was the person who started organizing to get professors fired on college campus. If they actually reported the reality, the actual history [00:08:49] of what happened in Israel. No, you have to say that the Palestinians went out for a picnic and decided not to come back. No, no, no, no, we didn't kill them and drag them through the streets so that everybody could see them. No, no, no. Israel. Israel. You have to pro Israeli propaganda. Okay, okay. [00:09:04] You're allowed to have that opinion in America and I'll even debate you, etc.. And I got no problems. But don't tell me you're going to cancel me. Don't tell me that I'm not allowed to say things against Israel. We're all going to say it. We don't care if we get paid or don't get paid. We don't care if you're going to make 10,000 times more money [00:09:20] because you're pro-Israel. We don't care. We're going to say it and say it and say it because there were decent moral people who care about all human beings and not just the beloved Israelis. If speaking the truth about what's happening in Gaza [00:09:35] ensures that at some point, my career will be destroyed and I'm going to have to scrub toilets for a living. I will happily get on my hands and knees and scrub toilets for a living. Yeah, I'm not going to silence me. Yeah, our conscience does not have a price. Our morality does not have a price. And in the middle of the Holocaust, if pro-German blogs [00:09:54] were getting more money, I would hope that people would not have gone well. Okay, then I'm pro Germany. Okay. As long as I'm going to get paid more. Okay. Oh, are you offended at the analogy? Did you just want to do a clean genocide and not have anybody complain about it? Because when the Germans starve the Jews, that was horrific. [00:10:11] And I hope to God everybody agrees with that. Right. But when Israel starves the Palestinians, they're subhuman. It's okay. We're the ubermensch. Right, Barry? You're the ubermensch. So you could do whatever you want to the Palestinians. You're above us. All right. And it turns out you are. So you're going to get paid to be pro genocide. [00:10:29] Enjoy the money. Enjoy the blood money. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.