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Crowder's not Canadian he's from Detroit. Inconsequential. Rogan deal is $200M and you should know that bc you appear to have watched the same Timcast I did. Pretty major considering your main point is Rogan > Crowder. And your description of the "teller" sounds exactly like a 52-min video I recently watched of Jeremy Boreing

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Fair points all around. You're not wrong. On paper though, Rogan was 100M and Crowder's introductory offer (which would've gone higher) was $50M. My point is I don't think Crowder is 1/8 the talent of Rogan, and I think his audience seems big but is much more tentative and non-committal.

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Rogan is a coward who removed his own content from Spotify so there's that.

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1. DW sends their initial - negotiable -offer, 50mil in October.

2. Crowder says no, asks 120mil.

3. DW says no.

4. Crowder stages a phony call to Jeremy in January and tapes him.

5. Crowder unleashes the ''Big Con'' video, supposedly shocked by:

a) The fact that company that picks up new followers and, therefore, subscribers for their private site, primarily on YT- just like himself- is obeying the rules of that platform;

b) Requires someone who they are paying to produce an X amount of episodes to actually produce that number of episodes,

c) Requires that this person shares losses provoked by their inability to stay profitable and,

d) Keeps rights to the episodes produced for that company under that contract.

So, you can be a Canadian socialist who never ran a business of his own (but somehow knows his model will work- on that note, check the drop in subscribers and video views for Crowder's channel in the past 30 days on social blade: 66,7% and 33,6% respectively) and who thinks that companies need to throw exuberant amounts of money on their employees while expecting zero accountability. Alternatively, you can be- as Crowder supporters love to allege- a capitalist and learn about a mysterious phenomenons such as free market, business, law etc. Crowder has ventured into pathetic exaggeration one time to many and - at this point -only his teenage audience cannot see through this.

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I really don't see why Crowder would have to be Rogan... They are completely different avenues of approach to podcasts. Rogan is the best for long form diverse conversations. Crowder is current events, comedy, and talking politics...

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