After hearing both sides, I think they are both telling the truth. It's pretty easy to see what happened:
- Joe started the Pod thinking he could leverage it to something else in the media
- Rory and Mal joined up thinking if it becomes something cool, if not they are just chillin anyway
- The Pod becomes something. They all want to do this "friends not business partners" shyt that never works.
- Joe sees himself as the boss from Day 1. Agrees to a % with the other 2, figures he will pay them and they will be good with it since they "friends"
- Mal/Rory think Joe is their "friend" and will pay them fairly by the %
- Money/moves seem to be off, Rory/Mal ask questions
- Joe gets mad, thinks his "friends" asking questions means they think he's cheating them. He stops trusting them
- Joe overreacting to their simple questions makes Rory/Mal think Joe's cheating them, they stop trusting him
- Over time shyt just keeps getting worse
- Joe overreacted, being the Diva/Narcissist that he's always been (most artists are), and now the differences are irreconcilable
Similar to if a girl accuses her boyfriend of cheating on her when he ain't, so he says fukk it and then cheats on her out of spite for being accused. At the end of the day, the only people who actually got screwed is us (the fans), because we lost a dope Podcast because these clowns couldn't communicate