Forgot he didn’t quit like a year ago tho.
He gets a much bigger check though.
Does he, though? Bad Faith gets 30k/mo from Patreon with two leads, Chapo gets 168k/mo with four (now three). I wouldn’t knock the guy for perusing his own creative path, and I’m pretty sure he took a pay cut to do it.
And they used to also share their money with Cumtown
Well, there’s your problem.
Has Virgil considered doing ads for Ridgewallet?
Saying “creative differences” is so many words is just boilerplate PR talk for they didn’t get along.
Virgil seemed pretty burnt out after the Sanders Campaign fell apart. Was this a “don’t get along” thing, as in Virgil and Felix started throwing punches? Or simply “I want to do a different kind of content”?
Ok well doesn’t sound like you listen to them. Clearly the difference was Matt’s disengagement from spectacle of politics vs. Virgil’s love of wonkery/elections/etc. That’s why chapo is still more just shooting the shit and bad faith has very standard political podcast formula but from the left.
Hopefully he’ll come back as guest for beltway garage for midterms or something.
I don’t think it’s directly about the money. It’s more that Virgil sees himself as “too serious” for Chapo. He’s been doing a pivot from comedy to Serious Politics for a while. My hunch is that he expected a Bernie-admin press position, got too high on his own supply and had a mental breakdown when that all fell apart.
He gets a much bigger check though.
Motherfucker. Can’t believe someone would make a podcast in order to generate income.
This betrays everything that Leftist Podcasting was supposed to represent.
