That’s why you negotiate. They wanted a piece of whatever they did outside the pod, similar to how they were getting a piece of the live gate for their shows. They can’t get anything from SOTC anyway because that’s owned by Revolt. Even IF they wanted more, what are any of them really doing outside the podcast that’s worth that much anyway?
Joe didn’t even make a counter offer, just told them SMD and burned the entire bridge down. They could be getting guaranteed millions in a pandemic for talking sh*t twice a week. Turning that down is just stupid. Even stupider now seeing that he has Covid which could kill their numbers for the next few weeks.