I guess nobody here cares about the Crowder contract drama Nick is going over, and I haven't seen the Crowder/DW back-and-forth for myself, but it appears to me at a glance of tonight's stream that Nick is impulsively playing defense force for Crowder throwing a public bitch fit over basic contract negotiations. Sounds more like clueless bias rather than expertise.
I will say right off the bat that while I like Crowder's takes and research on a lot of political topics, he is very far up his own ass and definitely not as hilarious as he thinks he is... And his skits are capital-C
cringe. Anyway, I listened to Crowder's initial response about the contract, followed by Nick's coverage of Jeremy Boreing's response, and I'm siding with Nick on this, for the most part, regarding his take to Boreing's response.
Boreing kept on saying he is friends with Crowder, but then sends an offer sheet that he would send to a relative nobody like Shapiro's Zoomer lookalike -- that would be insulting right off the bat from such a longtime "friend". And if you know he's going to have a huge problem with the penalties regarding demonetization, which you say you'd negotiate out immediately, then why put it in there in the first place, other than to hope he doesn't notice so that you can screw him with those? Crowder is arguably bigger than anyone at the Daily Wire, and has a loyal audience, which would most likely give a decent initial return on investment. You're going to own everything he does while working for you, but you want him to bear the production costs and a healthy amount of the risk, while hoping to penalize him for things you know will come to fruition to mitigate the risk you're purchasing? I would tell them to start over, as well. Boreing also kept on going back to the investment they would have to make to support Crowder, but a lot of what he was pointing to (infrastructure, marketing staff, social media management) already exists at the company, or most of the heavy lifting is done by other services (YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, etc, etc.). Why harp on it like you have to hire a thousand more employees just to handle Crowder's addition to your lineup? He started to sound like a communist by the 100th time he harped on having to share the pain if he Crowder fails. No, Jeremy, you buy the risk with the hope of great profit from a very desirable pickup. Crowder's there to deliver his audience, and it's not his risk once you purchase the show.
As for going all dramatic, acting like he's the last bastion of true conservatism, and dramatically calling The Daily Wire crew big tech enforcers? Calm down there, Stevie boy. The Daily Wire are definitely elitist institutionalists looking to make a buck off the regular folk they look down upon, but they're not
that sinister. With that said, the language Boreing was using about being allies and fighting for "the cause" -- that sounded cultlike and creepy. Would I air this laundry publicly like Crowder did? While he didn't say who the offer sheet was from (The Daily Wire outed themselves), it does come off as a bit attention-whorey, but that's on-brand for him.
Bringing this back to Nick, I did find it funny when he tried to compare it to his Rumble and Locals contracts, but it's the only frame of reference he has about this sort of thing. Obviously, the money Crowder and The Daily Wire are playing with is nowhere near what Nick was negotiating for, so the expectations are going quite different as it pertains to freedoms and whatnot. To be fair to Nick, he did acknowledge that they're not on the same playing field, but then he kept on saying how his contract had pretty much no expectations or ownership, as long as he delivers a certain amount of shows, which is super awesome. Ya don't say! As was already mentioned, the amount Crowder could lose from being penalized is probably more than what Nick's whole contract is worth, so they're not even on the same planet with this stuff.
