Conservative political commentator Tim Pool has announced that he is restructuring his podcast and suggested that he will be taking a step back from the show.
The 38-year-old’s Timcast IRL has over two million subscribers and more than a billion video clicks, but he told listeners that sustained vitriol and threats aimed at him had taken its toll.
Pool said he will be making reductions to the show’s schedule so that he can get married to long-term partner Alison Neubauer, with whom he is having a child, and prioritize family.
Newsweek has reached out to representatives for Pool for comment.
What Has Tim Pool Said?
On Wednesday, referring to him and Neubauer—who also works on the podcast—Pool told his Timcast IRL listeners: “When all the stress has come to a head, we finally make the decision: maybe we should just take care of ourselves and stop pushing as hard as we can to the point where our heads are going to explode and our eyes pop out of our heads.
“We’re at a point where I don’t want to put my family at risk, and there’s limited things I’m willing to say because of the psychopaths who threaten us every single day, and the very serious threats that we do receive almost every single day. But…we’ve talked about it, we worked through it as much as we can and I think, largely due to the response from our loyal fans, members, viewers and some friends and family, we will make it work to the best of our abilities.
“So, with that being said, it’s kind of the weirdest way to announce that I’m pursuing my family life to the best of my abilities,” said Pool, who filed a lawsuit against presidential candidate Kamala Harris last month for allegedly suggesting he was in favor of a Donald Trump dictatorship.
The podcaster reiterated that due to his loyal following’s ongoing support, he is not just going to “shut it down, disappear and then go and live my own life.”
“We will do what we can to make this show continue and functioning and working. It may mean that we won’t have guests on Friday, but Friday will be crew shows where members will join the show as our guests, maybe some people will join as guests who live near as locals, but there will be some reduction,” Pool said.
“I think there’s a way we can try and make it work,” he added, despite alluding to a certain “laziness” within his staffing ranks that makes him feel like “Sisyphus pushing the rock up” the mountain in a separate episode.
Tim Pool’s Relationship With Alison Neubauer
In Wednesday’s podcast, Pool spoke of frustrating comments targeting his personal life.
“I know that half of [the comments] are just stupid and half of them are great, but it really does sting when for the past several years there are people saying, ‘Ha ha Tim, you don’t have any children, why aren’t you married?’ and the reality is because I’m sacrificing to try and make this work and to produce something I think is valuable to people,” he said.
“It comes to a point where I said, ‘Why should I [make the sacrifice], when I should just do what any good man would do and have my family?'”
He later teased “this might be the end” of his full-time podcasting days, as the structure has become “impossible to manage” and he and Neubauer are finally ready to settle down.
“We’re getting married and having a child,” he said.
Pool previously expressed a need to have youngsters around to look after him in his old age, which was condemned on The Young Turks and by his estranged father Mike, who cited Pool’s hypocrisy.
“He said some pretty big words about family,” commented his dad. “Now, if what he said was true then I did a good job in raising him, but I haven’t been seeing that. I haven’t been seeing any family connections with Tim or his brother. If Timmy sees this and he really feels about family the way he spoke, then he knows my phone number.”
Pool’s Alleged Ties to Russia Explained
Meanwhile, Chicago-born Pool, alongside his contemporaries Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson, was recently caught up in a Russian disinformation campaign after the Biden administration accused Moscow of attempting to influence next month’s election.
An unnamed content creation firm—with a description said to match Tenet Media—that the trio are associated with was said to have been provided with close to $10 million to publish Moscow-favoring material.
Addressing the controversy, Pool said in a statement: “Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims. Never at any point did anyone other than I have full editorial control of the show and the contents of the show are often apolitical.”