Was listening to adam and even he doubted the amount of hours tim claims to work. And he was there when he was putting out more content than he is now.
Couldn't quit twitter and couldn't follow through with quitting IRL.
Tim debunked the “16 hours workday” himself. He said it’s more like 12 hours if you take out eating lunch and dinner and exercise, which “some people don’t consider work.”
I am scheduled for 12 hour work days. Some days, I do work a full 12 hours. Many, it’s more like 9-11 hours with 30 minutes of down time here and there.
Either Tim is including shooting the shit with staff and hanging out watching movies as “work” or else he is ridiculously inefficient. Especially if Alison is also “working 16 hours a day” handling business and making calls.
He often doesn’t read the articles before his morning segments, so pre-show prep is basically looking for trending topics on Twitter and then doing live reactions to news articles. His prep for IRL can’t be much, either, because it’s usually him rehashing stories and repeating, verbatim, his talking points from the morning segments. He has mentioned editing before and said that he hits record, talks for 30 to 15 minutes and then uploads it, so there’s little to no time editing. And if he does need editing, why doesn’t he have a full time editor in house to manage all of the shows?
Tim is clearly blowing smoke on some, if not all, of his claims. It seems like the problem is that he hires people and tells them to “make cool stuff” instead of giving them clearly defined rolls. He has producers, so why are they not regularly inspecting, maintaining and repairing equipment? Why does he have a full time music producer on staff when he only needs a music producer for sporadic projects?
Tim can deflect about his staff being lazy and not living up to his expectations to take the reins and “just make cool stuff,” but can they even do that if they wanted to? Do the producers have a budget to buy new equipment as needed or do they have to go through Tim and/or Alison first? I could imagine someone coming to him and saying the GPU is fried and Tim waving them off with “just fix it, I dunno.” Then the employee sitting there thinking, “how am I going to fix this expensive GPU unless he gives me the money to buy it?” Getting frustrated and then just not caring.
All of this is just him venting that people haven’t taken his cool toys and captured lightning, like he has. But it simply doesn’t work that way. And all of his issues are compounded by his inability to properly and effectively run a business, provide clear roles for employees and unwillingness to relinquish control because that would be admitting he isn’t the smartest and most capable person around.
I might be misremembering, as it has been a while ago, but my recollection is that The Daily Wire offered him controlling shares of his company and they would handle the behind-the-scenes business, plus provide a generous cash infusion. Maybe that would have been a disaster, maybe not. Maybe he could have shopped around and gotten a competing bid from The Blaze that would have been better for his vision. But that would clearly have been helpful as that is now what Tim is saying he wants/needs for IRL to stay afloat. But Tim’s ego and controlling nature would not allow him to do what was best for him, his businesses and his employees.
-Edit: Since Tim is half slope and half white trash, let’s do some math even a drunken Pollack like Rekieta could understand.
There are 24 hours in a day. Tim says he works 16 hour days, 12 hours once you remove exercise and eating.
He records 2 hours of content for the mornings. Let’s give 1 hour of prep and 1 hour of post. That’s 4 hours total, giving us 8 hours left over.
TimcastIRL is 2 hours, plus 1 hour of members-only. Let’s give 1 hour of prep and 1 hour of hanging out afterwards. That’s 5 hours total, giving us 3 hours left over.
We can push the margins on post and prep to give 5-3 hours of downtime. It’s not a lot and I’m sure there are days where he spends 2-3 hours making calls and trying to manage shit, but doing that every day while you have your GF as COO also working “16 hours” and a booking agent to manage guests, that seems odd.
) and how many times do we need to hear the story of his success? Well worn ground to be honest. All in all not a good look but I do wonder... Is he having or trying to have a kid? He's mentioned it before but he also noted he would never tell the internet. Or maybe it's his girlfriend trying to assert more authority over Tim's time. Honestly either option seems kinda likely to me. Having kids, especially for the first time does tend to make people freak nor would a woman's meddling be a first. I just hope outbursts like this don't become a regular occurrence, that would be the path to true lolcowdom.
