Speaker 1: All right, listen. I'm going to do
this because so many of you wrote to me over the weekend, I'm going to come clean and give you
the full story of my involvement with the Russian influencer money scandal, which I hope will put to
bed. Any concerns that we are wrapped up in this thing? A bunch of articles like this one were
published over the last few days. Unsealed FBI document exposes the terrifying depth of Russian
disinformation scheme. This is an article from The New Republic, and it correctly points out that
it's not just Tim Poole, Dave Rubin, Lauren Chen, Lauren Southern, Benny Johnson, whoever else
was named in this Russian influencer cash scandal that there is a very, very long list of
influencers. And it goes well beyond just the ones that made headlines last week. So naturally, I
received, I don't know, but naturally, naturally, because the world is so crazy. I received a ton of
emails over the weekend pointing to this article and others like it, saying, David, are you on this
list? A lot of these people, don't necessarily know that the company they work for is actually
funded by Russia. If we believe what Tim Poole and Dave Rubin say, they had no idea that they were
getting Russian money and all of this different stuff. So I want to be super crystal clear here on
a number of things. Primary question am I one of these influencers in some indirect way? The answer
is no. Now how do I know that? Well, it's because I know every one of our revenue sources. There is
no weird company, with people attached to it whose names we don't know, that could be connected to
this thing. You know, we talk about we get money from being part of YouTube's partner program.
Now, could there be an advertiser on YouTube that is somehow funded by Russia? This, that and they
maybe an ad appears on our channel. Who the hell knows? But then that means every single everybody
could be on that list. And of course we have no contact with any YouTube advertisers or anything
like it. Similarly, we are part of revenue programs on TikTok. Snapchat, Facebook, we're part
of the Amazon affiliate program. If you, buy the books I recommend on my website, we may get $0.50.
Or if you buy one of my children's books like this one that I'm holding up on Amazon, Amazon,
Prince, it they get some money, we get some money. And then this is why I always say, you know,
when I say, one of the great things about having our biggest revenue source be the membership
program is there's no one there who can say, David, you've got to say this, or you'd better say
that, or we will pull funding when we distribute our support across our viewers and listeners.
And everybody's giving two, three, four, seven, 20, 30 bucks a month. There's no one person,
even though they try. I get emails like this all the time. There's no one person who's going to
shift the positions of the show by writing in and saying, David, I don't like what you said about
X. I'm going to cancel my seven bucks a month. If you say it again, we just ignore those messages.
We are not controlled in that way. I decide and I talk about whatever I want and I'm completely
transparent in the revenue sources. So I am not one of these influencers in any way. Now, there's
one other thing I want to say, because this has come up a lot. Tim Poole and others have said when
we were offered what is reportedly $100,000 a week to do some videos for a YouTube channel that gets
no views, right? I mean, this this Tenet Media YouTube channel was getting statistically close to
zero views. We got 110 million views in the last month. Okay. The Tenant Media YouTube channel
was there in the thousands, tens of thousands, maybe a few hundred thousand. Tim Pool and others
have used the term market value. They've said when we were offered 100 grand a week, there was no
red flag because it was market value. People don't know how much money you can make doing stuff
like this. It is not market value. And I'm going to offer to you how to figure it out for yourself.
It is open source. How many views Dave Rubin's channel gets? Tim Pool's channel gets. And all of
these channels. You go on a website called Social Blade. Okay. The David Pakman Show YouTube channel
currently gets more views than Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But forget about subscribers
because what matters is views. We right now get more daily views than Ben Shapiro. He's doing like
2.6 million. We're doing like 3.4 million. Okay, go look at Dave Rubin's channel's daily views. Go
look at Tim Poole's channels. Even if you look at his multiple channels combined daily views,
they are a fraction of what we are doing. I've been in many negotiations with these
different. Let's license some content from you, partners. $100,000 a week for channels
of my size is not market value. There is no way in hell that it is an amount.
That totally normal amount. Of course, that's what they'd be willing to pay. I don't
believe that part of it. And you won't believe it when you see that Rubin and Benny Johnson
and Tim Pool, they all have dramatically lower views than my YouTube channel. So fact check
that yourself. Last thing I'll say. I am so grateful that we don't need to even think about
getting involved in any of that stuff, because we are supported directly by our audience. So if you
value that independence, I would again, just say consider getting a membership at Join packman.com.
You'll know where the money's coming from because it'll be coming from you. Period. And really
appreciate all of our new and existing members.