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This...and I dont know about the being removed from Nerdist site stuff, but I do know he hasnt had anything to do with Nerdist for months, long before this came out

Well, he sold the company years ago to Legendary but "ran" it essentially. But for a few years he started pulling away from the day to day stuff as the company began to branch out and do other things.

Nerdist has now scrubbed their website of all mentions of him having founded the place, which is asinine. It's 1984 level bullshite. Even if the guy turns out to be an actual monster, he will STILL have created their company. Pretending he did not serves no one.

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He sold it all and removed himself from it to do other things, he even renamed his Nerdist podcast to ID10T

Right. Had a whole podcast explaining it, in which both Matt and Jonah laughed at him for feeling the need to explain it at all.

But essentially, as he explained it, Nerdist was doing its own thing by that point and he wanted to move off and do other things and since he wasn't really heading Nerdist anymore he did not renew his contract with the parent company and renamed the podcast Id10t. He kept all rights to all the old podcasts though and was just moving on. There were even a few other podcasts that left when he did...notable Chewin' It with two of the guys from Broken Lizard because they had only been there because it was his company and once he left they felt no obligation to stay.

As for him being annoying, yeah...I don't disagree. I'm not a big fan of his stand up material and didn't really enjoy Talking Dead when I used to still watch that. I also did not really like After Midnight, though that was mostly a format deal. But I've always liked the podcast and have always thought he did a great job at interviewing people in long form conversations...though honestly my favorite parts have always been Matt Mira.

But liking or disliking him ought have no bearing on whether or not he be lynched in social media before there are any facts on the ground.

This post was edited on 6/16/18 at 11:23 am