Okay.
Let's talk about something I've been getting a lot of questions about over the last couple
of weeks and the gist of the questions has been, Hey David, why are you listed on Jordan
Peterson's new website?
Think spot.
Why are you involved with Jordan Peterson?
Are you part of it?
Are you not part of it?
I've not heard you mention it, but they list you.
So let's talk about it.
I haven't been saying anything publicly because there's been a lot going on behind the scenes,
but I am ready to talk to you today about it and I can report to you that I am no longer
in any way part of Jordan Peterson's website think spot.
But I do believe I owe you a full explanation about everything that's gone down.
And I'll tell you about it today.
So months and months ago, in fact, it was on July 2nd Jordan Peterson emailed me and
said, Hey David, I'm starting this thing.
Think spot with some other people.
Uh, we're bringing in a bunch of high profile contributors.
I thought of you, here's an introduction to the people running it, talk to them.
And I had no further contact with Jordan Peterson.
I was put in touch with the folks at think spot, all nice people.
The idea was, Hey, we're bringing in a bunch of big name contributors to our website.
Thanks spot.
We want you to be on there.
You can do whatever you want.
Of course, whatever content you already do or want to start doing or whatever you can
do.
So I of course have done a ton of criticisms and take downs of Jordan Peterson and so when
I was approached I thought either a he and they have no idea about that when they invited
me or they have an idea and they don't care either way, it's not my problem.
So I thought, what is my philosophy on the show about appearing on different platforms?
My philosophy on this show has been when I am invited to a new platform, if it's not
a lot more work for our team because we are stretched pretty thin, I do it and we've launched
on a ton of different platforms over the last few years.
We launched on a platform called Steemit.
We launched our podcast on Pandora and Spotify and radio.com we started put, putting our
clips on D tube and another one called library LBR Y and three speak, and for lots of these
things there are people involved or founders or corporations whose politics are not in
line with mine, but my view is my content in more places without requiring a lot more
work for our team is good.
I can increase my reach, I can get my content in front of people.
That's a good thing.
That was my thought with the thing spot partnership.
Now the launch of things spot got delayed multiple times.
I think at first it was going to be early August, then late August, then I don't even
know when it launched.
I think it was maybe in October, but eventually it launched and when things bought launched,
it launched with really no other contributors that I think were well aligned with the David
Pakman show.
Engagement was very low and I'll be honest, my ability to engage with the platform is
also low because we're very busy at the end of the day and then I saw this may actually
be an acutely bad platform for us to be on.
It's not like some of these others, uh, some of these other platforms where there are tons
of contributors and I'm there putting up my stuff.
It was like eight contributors that were being promoted.
One of those contributors is Jordan Peterson's daughter whose content was being sold for
even more than mine when I, which I found sort of jarring and in Congress I think our
content is mostly around eating like a meat only diet or something like that.
So long story short, I respectfully told them, I don't think this is the right platform for
me.
The way it's shaken out, there's no real cadre of other contributors that are kind of doing
what we're doing at the level we're doing it in our space.
I don't think it's helping me.
They also said we're going to be transitioning from a subscription model to more of a micro
payments model.
That makes it even less suited for us because we're already on a bunch of those and I don't
want to spread our micropayment platforms too thin.
So as far as I've been told you can no longer subscribe to me on things spot.
They are in the process of removing my content altogether and this is sort of more in line
with what's going to be our 2020 strategy, which is now I think we are at a point where
I'm not looking to get on more and more and more platforms and spread ourselves really
thin.
I'm reeling in the platforms that we're on.
We're going to focus on a few platforms that are working well for us, so we're going to
try to grow YouTube.
We're going to try to grow Facebook and Instagram video.
We're going to grow the podcast.
That will be the focus.
Now I've got a couple of questions on Twitter saying, David, are you going to return the
money?
The first answer is we never got any money.
I mean we didn't get any money for signing up and we were getting a cut of subscriptions
for people signed up.
I never got any money.
I don't know what the payment schedule is supposed to be.
There was no money to return.
But beyond that, I don't know why I would return money.
Like if people don't like this platform, me keeping money gives them less money.
You think you would want me to do that?
But in any case, there is no money for people got paid subscriptions and none of the money
ever came to me.
Uh, and I don't predict that it ever will.
So that's that.
And no, I also am not joining Dave Rubin's new platform either.
I don't know much about that one, but I can assure you I am not involved.
And that is the Thor
is the story with think spot.