Steven Blake Crowder is a dual American-Canadian conservative political commentator, comedian, and media host best known for 'Louder with Crowder' - a daily podcast and YouTube show with nearly 6 million subscribers. The architect of the viral 'Change My Mind' debate format, Crowder built an independent media empire through his Mug Club subscription service on Rumble, surpassing $7.5 million in subscriptions within five months of launch after breaking with TheBlaze in 2022.
Bari Weiss is the founder of The Free Press and, since October 2025, editor-in-chief of CBS News following Paramount's $150 million acquisition of her media company. A former Wall Street Journal and New York Times editor whose viral 2020 resignation letter made her a symbol of anti-groupthink journalism, Weiss built one of the fastest-growing independent news outlets in America - reaching 1.5 million subscribers in under five years - before landing the biggest job in legacy broadcast news.