Timcast IRL | Candace Owens Off Air, Warns France Trying To KILL HER, Says Feds CONFIRM RECEIPT w/ Hotep Jesus (Nov 26, 2025)

Overview

This episode of Timcast IRL tackles the swirling controversy around Candace Owens’ most recent public statements—specifically her claim that the French government is trying to assassinate her, and that US federal authorities as well as the White House have “confirmed receipt” of her report. Tim Pool and his co-hosts, joined by guest Hotep Jesus, break down the implications, describe the wider reaction in conservative circles, highlight manipulation tactics, and discuss what these dynamics mean for the right-wing media ecosystem. Other topics sprinkled throughout included influencer grifting and the shift in conservative media spaces.

Main Themes

• Candace Owens' public claim of an assassination plot involving Emmanuel Macron, the French Foreign Legion, and Israel
• The manipulation and social engineering techniques behind how such claims are broadcasted
• The lack of direct, public pushback from prominent conservative personalities
• The fracture and infighting within the contemporary conservative and independent media spheres
• Discussion of influencer marketing “grift” scandals on the right
• The bigger media environment: shifting Overton windows, centrist pushes, and establishment efforts to “return to Bush conservatism”
• The importance of emotional resonance and cultural outreach in political messaging

Segment Breakdown & Analysis

Candace Owens’ Assassination Claim & Media Frenzy

[06:57—16:40]

• Tim Pool lays out Candace Owens’ post, which garnered 6.5M views—a statement blending news of her show’s weeklong absence with a bombshell about a White House-confirmed assassination plot involving Macron and Israeli agents.

  "Starting the post off with ‘our show will be off the air this week,’ followed up by ‘the White House has confirmed receipt of what I reported the assassination attempt.’ This is... social engineering, manipulation 101."
  — Tim Pool [07:57]

• Tim details social engineering tactics, explaining how Owens’ phrasing combines unrelated facts (the show break + assassination plot) to create an assumption while granting plausible deniability.

• Candace’s wording (“confirmed receipt” by the White House) is reframed as essentially meaning someone "read her text" or acknowledged her message—misleading but legally defensible.

  "For many people who don’t understand, it sounds like the White House is confirming in some capacity that what she’s saying is true. What she's actually saying is that she got a read on a text message."
  — Tim Pool [08:45]

• Hotep Jesus and the crew agree: Owens is using language to offload the need for personal proof, implying that others (the White House, intelligence agencies) must prove or dispute her claims.

  "She passes it off on somebody else. If the White House doesn’t confirm it, then they must be getting $7,000 from Israel."
  — Hotep Jesus [12:40]

• Tim criticizes conservative media personalities for not calling out such obvious manipulations, saying they're either scared of her audience or of fracturing the movement further.

  "Sitting back and letting her do two months of shows where she’s now insinuating they're trying to assassinate her and the French killed Charlie and just saying these things... Is this really where the right wants to go?"
  — Tim Pool [14:13]

Social Engineering, Conspiracy Claims, and Conservative Cowardice

[16:40—22:54]

• The conversation pivots to comparing Candace Owens’ tactics to Alex Jones – but notes that, unlike Jones, Candace crafts her stories with built-in deniability and less actual research.

  "Alex Jones is an honest guy... He’s a fun crazy. He’s not a crazy, crazy."
  — Phil Labonte [23:39]

• Tim and the panel discuss plausible deniability in media manipulation, drawing parallels to mainstream media's own tactics of misleading by technically true statements, fake fact checks, and decontextualized quotes.

  "This is a social engineering trick… arrange [quotes] in a way where your assumption... makes it your fault, not theirs."
  — Tim Pool [23:12]

Paranoia and Hypocrisy: Big Conservative Personalities & Allegiances

[25:13—31:59]

• Tim questions why Owens isn’t censored by YouTube or Spotify despite her controversial (often critical-of-Israel) statements, especially in comparison to figures like Nick Fuentes.

• Hotep Jesus and Tim suggest this outsized platform might be because her drama, and her audiences’ drama, actually benefit the system by distracting and dividing.

  "Isn’t it strange that she’s not being censored... and that her own lawyers work out of the same building as the feds?"
  — Tim Pool [25:41]

• Hotep speculates Owens is primarily using Charlie Kirk’s assassination for self-promotion — monetizing the tragedy without the normal respect, forgoing demonetization or charity.

  "If you were really friends and you’re using his assassination for your own benefit and monetizing it… out of respect. She's not doing this."
  — Hotep Jesus [28:26]

Audience Manipulation, Grift Culture, and the Collapse of Political Movements

[31:59—37:34]

• Hotep Jesus offers a ‘theory’ that Candace may escalate to creating increasingly sensational stories—a grift escalation to keep her audience and status.

• Tim confirms, based on insider chatter, that Candace’s wild drama is popular because audiences are hooked on more and more intense, emotional content, especially as average political views and revenues drop in off-election years.

  "People always need the next level. It starts with saying 'Trump is bad,' then 'racist,' then 'worse than Hitler.' Because if they write the same article, nobody clicks."
  — Tim Pool [35:34]

• Hotep jokes about “riding the Candace Owens wave,” mining her drama for his own audience to “get that grift back,” poking fun at the cycle of content grifting.

The Establishment Strikes Back: Barry Weiss, the “40 Yards” of Debate, and Mainstreaming Moderation

[38:36—48:33]

• Tim features a segment about Barry Weiss’ new role at CBS, where she proclaims her goal to “redraw the lines of what falls into the 40 yards of acceptable debate”—seen as an effort by establishment forces to return discourse to centrist, “Bush Republican” territory and exclude populists and anti-interventionists.

  "What happens to Tucker, Hasan Piker, Fuentes, and Candace Owens? The only way you do this is by banning people… working with big tech companies to reduce their footprint."
  — Tim Pool [41:12]

• Hotep and Phil riff on how most Americans have very low reading comprehension and crave simple, sensational content—explaining the mass appeal of both Owens’ style and the wider tabloidization of political content.

  "Only 14% of Americans have a reading comprehension level ninth grade and above."
  — Phil Labonte [43:16]

• Tim jokes mainstream political debate should just be “political fight club.”

Conservative Movement Disarray, Grifting, and Cultural Outreach

[48:33—77:09]

• Tim and Hotep note being excluded from Turning Point’s events—using this to highlight elitism and fracture within conservative orgs, and how establishment pressure is pushing out populists.

• The conversation critiques the right for failing to build cultural bridges—in music, games, or sports—and for attacking anyone who tries (“that’s demonic,” Hotep jokes, quoting a priest who says discouraging cultural evangelism is “demonic influence”).

• Hotep describes how he had to learn to relate to average people through culture (music, food, sports) before ever reaching them politically:

  "If you want to be a great copywriter, read the National Enquirer, read the tabloids, because you have to meet people where they are."
  — Hotep Jesus [74:40]

Influencer Marketing “Grift” & Unethical Endorsements

[78:21—97:19]

• The panel discusses the undignified “grift” culture among some right-wing influencers: shilling gambling sites (often not even available in the US), running undisclosed paid posts, or even producing content on behalf of foreign interests (e.g., Indian policy).

• Discussion on the “Influenceable” platform—used for paid promotion of movies, soda, or even foreign government talking points, sometimes failing to disclose sponsored content.

  "We got these people and they’re, like, Tim, don’t burn bridges… Don't criticize people on the right… I'm like, listen, look where we are, okay? You got people on the right now just shilling gambling websites in China or wherever..."
  — Tim Pool [89:07]

• Tim is especially critical that some promoted “Sound of Freedom” for money, whereas he and others did it because they genuinely believed in it—again, highlighting a major ethical schism.

Food, Health, and Masculinity as Culture War Fronts

[102:11—105:42]

• Brief, lively exchange about soda, nutrition, and health—using this as a metaphor for how influencer grift (e.g., promoting soda to poor people) is both unethical and self-defeating.
• Hotep distinguishes between athletic and sedentary consumption of sugar—turning the conversation into a commentary on marketing, personal responsibility, and public health.

Notable Quotes

• "I'm not here to try and trick you into believing something. I am going to say it as is. And if people don't want to hear that, that's just too bad."
  — Tim Pool [08:03]

• "She is the Oprah for malls... My term for middle aged white women who are just now getting red-pilled."
  — Hotep Jesus [19:12]

• "If you want to be a great copywriter, read the National Enquirer... You have to connect with people at the heart level first."
  — Hotep Jesus [74:40]

• "If nobody speaks out and calls it out now, the whole thing breaks apart. If no one has the strength to be like, guys, Candace is ripping everything apart for views... This is why the right loses all the time."
  — Tim Pool [31:21]

• "Candace Owens is the new tinfoil person because she's more palatable. She's a mother, she speaks so well... So she's the new Oprah that these women go to for drama."
  — Hotep Jesus [19:12]

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Candace Owens’ statement dissected: [06:57–13:12]
• Tim on social engineering & media narrative tricks: [08:03–10:55]
• Panel: Conservative silence about Owens’ spiral and why: [12:40–16:40]
• Comparisons to Alex Jones & manipulation styles: [23:34–25:12]
• Discussion of Candace's ongoing platform vs. censored voices: [25:41–31:59]
• Insider perspective on Turning Point and movement collapse: [31:59–35:02]
• Barry Weiss, CBS, and the establishment “acceptable 40 yards”: [38:36–41:14]
• Influencer grift and unethical endorsements (gambling, India, soda): [78:21–95:14]
• Tim: “We need cultural outreach, not just policy debate”: [72:29–77:48]

Memorable/Laugh-Out-Loud Moments

• "I could say it like that. Or I can open my show and say, ‘Friends, I am here to tell you that we will be off the air this week. There is something serious going on… But trust me, we'll figure this out and Godspeed.’ You can do that. The government is involved—but it sounds like I'm saying they're trying to kill me."
  — Tim Pool satirizing manipulation [17:16]

• "Candace Owens is... Oprah for malls... She's the new tinfoil person because she's more palatable. She's a mother, she speaks so well—and she was well connected to this whole conspiracy..."
  — Hotep Jesus [19:12]

• "If you only ever invest in being in spaces where people are already conservative, you're not convincing any new people to pay attention."
  — Tim Pool [74:40]

Panelists’ Final Thoughts

• Candace Owens is knowingly using manipulative language to blend plausible deniability, drama, and self-promotion; few on the right are pushing back for fear of her audience.
• Conservative media is fragmenting under grift culture, attention economies, and a lack of cultural outreach.
• There’s a broader push, via establishment figures like Weiss, to redraw debate boundaries and suppress populist/anti-interventionist voices.
• Influencer grift and undisclosed marketing threatens the credibility of alternative media—even as mainstream media’s credibility sinks.
• Cultural outreach and emotional resonance—not just policy or anger—are needed if the right hopes to reach and persuade “normies.”

For a full, unfiltered discussion (including spicy asides on nutrition, influencer culture, and more), check out the full episode or the aftershow Q&A on Rumble.