It all goes back to business, regardless of how lazy Mal or Rory might have been with the podcast, it didn't really blow until it was the 3 of them.
Just like everyday struggle blew with all, joe and nes. Regardless of who did the heavy lifting the show was a hit because of the chemistry.
If Joe felt like he was doing them a solid by paying them at all cool.
But you can't own something have, a deal and contracts and then expect your employees to come in every day see things grow and not want either more money or a piece of the business especially when they are integral to that growth.
That's nuts,
The problem is Joe at the end of the day.
He hooked them up, as friends (so he claims) the show popped during that run, the friends wanted more and Joe was like nah y'all don't even do nothing.
So instead of breaking off his homies more while increasing responsibility via contracts, growing the pod more, and smoothing things over.
He shuts it all down to yet again move on to something different.
The only thing is now it's a pattern that the world can see and I don't know if the people follow him again.
He'd do well to start rapping again