Phil (17:02)
Like this, okay, Brett Cooper. There's a rumor going around, and they're like, oh, man, everyone's fighting. And I'm like, contract renegotiations happened. They are amicably splitting, I think, with. Let me tell you guys a secret. Let me tell you guys a secret. Do you know contracts don't mean. Contracts mean. Let me tell you a secret. Back in the day, if you got signed to a talent agency and you had an agent represented, you would sell you out. So I had. I had a guy approach me. He actually repped Geraldo. And this is 10. 10. This is 12 years ago. And he was like, I'm gonna represent you. And it was from one of the big agencies was Paradigm. And I said, sure. And he gave me this massive contract to throw in the garbage. I think, have a nice day. Didn't want to do it. The issue with contracts in the, you know, 20 years ago was that if I. If I was a talent on, say, abc, and they said, tim, we want you to say, you love the President. Come on, this is important. This is for America. And I said, I'm not going to say it. And then you're off the air and you're done, and I say, fuck you. Fine. I quit. No one will ever hire you. You go to NBC, they're going to say, no, no, no, no. You're under contract, abc. We hire you, we get sued. You know why contracts mean bullshit, right? Now, if you take any contract with any company, I mean, look at what happened with Stephen Crowd on the Daily Wire. What do contracts matter? If. If Phil. If he had a contract with a. And they were fighting over terms, and it was really bad for Phil, Phil could go on Twitter and say, fuck yourself. And they could say, I'll sue you. And then Phil could laugh and say, have fun. Back in the day, you didn't have a medium for communicating to the public and causing PR issues. So if you got into an issue with a contract you were under for a talent agency or TV network, you were fucked. Sit down, shut up. Work it out. The lawyers deal with it, and try and see if your career can survive. Now, like I was under contract did Fusion, and I'm like, bro, they don't want to go to war with someone with this many followers. So I. That's why I don't believe the. If Brett Cooper was having a really bad time, she'd literally be like, let me tell you how the contract negotiation is going to go because let me tell you about a contract negotiation I had, and I'll keep it vague to respect all parties involved, eyes on the phone with, with, with a client. And I said, guys, we negotiated terms on this deal at this rate for this amount of time. And when, when you sent in your invoice, I'm noticing the rate is a little bit higher. And they said, well, I mean, you got to understand. No, no, no, no, no. You've got to understand this is not what we agreed on. And if you want to play contractual language bullshit with me, I'm going to hang up the phone and you will regret it. No, no, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Dude. If someone, if a powerful, influential person in media had a problem, they'd pull a Steven Crowder, not saying it disrespectfully of Crowder. If Brett Cooper, if it was really this acrimonious, nightmarish thing, she would pull a Candace Owens. Candace Owens publicly criticized them and she called for, she wanted to debate Ben and very critical. The fact that she and Jeremy are like, it's all good. You know, the contract, these things don't happen. Says to me what likely happened is her contract was, was, was coming for renegotiation. She probably said, I want to get paid a lot more money. The show's massive. And they said, we're not going to pay you that much money. She probably said, I want to spend time with my family. I want to focus less on the show. And they said, we want a show that is run that h. Like here, here's the big deal. I can't speak to any internal stuff because I don't know what the. They got going on over there when you, if, if, if I sold an ad package. So we recently had an ad package that was three months long. What happens then? If in the middle of contract negotiations, you've already sold the ad package and the host says, I don't want to do that many shows, you go, well, we already sold it. I've already told the advertiser they're going to get 12 reads over the next three months. And you're talking about demanding more money after the ads already sold and we don't have it. And you're saying if you don't, you're going to leave or you want to work less. And they say, well, I'm just not interested in doing it. All that happens. Okay, so let's, let's, let's try this three month deal. Contract negotiations are halfway through. 12 AD reads are guaranteed at $100,000. The talent then says my contract is up. I know it's. It's an. It's unfortunate, the timing of this, because I know we sold ads already, but I'm not willing to work five days a week. I want to do four, and I want twice the rate. I. As the. As the. As the business owner then say, okay, well, we don't make that much money. We're only making $100,000 with these 12 ads. So if we pay you what you're asking, we just are giving you our money. We're losing money. The show's not making money. And if you don't work those days, we can't. No one's gonna have those ad reads. We need a host who's gonna be here for the allotted time to read those ads. Okay, well, I don't want it. I told you my terms. I have a family. I am spending. I'm gonna spend time with my family, and I'd rather not do this if it means I can't spend time with them or get paid more. Well, I guess we're at an impasse. Thank you so much for everything you've done. Handshake. Let me know what we can do to support you in your. In your future endeavors. And maybe, you know, you launch a new channel. We'll see. We can do. To help you out because we want you to succeed. And then we're going to find someone else who knows the show can come in to fill these ad slots and do this in a way that makes money for everybody. And I'm sorry it didn't work out. I'd be willing to bet a lot of money. Again, I have no insider. I don't. I don't know, but I would. I would put $1,000 down. That's what happened.
