50K a year for less than 10 hours of work a week isn't bad...
Joe was the draw of the podcast due to his rap career and reality TV career as well as his hosting on Complex and being a social media nikka early on Twitter and U-Stream over 10 years ago. He was a successful underground rapper and industry socialite in the NYC club scene. The nikka is crazy as fukk and is a good orator. Dude got a Quiet Storm vocal tone.
For Mal and Rory this is just a side gig they had other shyt lined up in the industry...
Joe could have picked two other random nikkas and over time the podcast would still pop
Joe just can't talk shyt about being for creatives or the big bad industry because he basically telling Rory and Mal what the majors told him you're disposable.
Nikkas complain when they workers but the tune change up when they become bosses