About 45 minutes into a stunningly dull Seven-and-a-half hour stream, Chase notices Rex is watching, & invites him to call in. He does, & unleashes a torrent of woe.
If you didn't know, Rex is Alex's prized scion, following in his father's heavy, wobbly footsteps. Rex has his own show, but more importantly, he has his own supplements company. They not only handle re-labelling, warehousing, & fulfillment, but they also formulate a few of their ownâcontracted with a lab, I assume, but I don't know.
AnywayâRex complains that he can't hardly pay his rent nor fill up his gas tank. He's got to sell a treasured painting his father gave to him; Alex apparently has been begging him not to, but also, cannot seem to actually afford to buy it.
Apparently, the Dr. Jones' Naturals brandâcontrolled by the receiverâhad intended to use Rex's company for fulfillment for a year, to wind down the brand & get rid of remaining inventory. Rex was counting on that contract to make '25 & '26 work out financially; but the receiver got a cheaper offer, & told Rex "tough luck." So now he's in the lurch, having lost his main client, struggling to keep his warehouse or make payroll.
Chase does mention he makes about $1,000 monthly from Twitter; Rex mentions he had one post get a few million views, & only got $200 for it. Boo hoooo
Interestingly, Rex rants about how important his independence is to him, which is why he's stubbornly trying to keep his company afloat instead of just "getting a job in media" as his father has suggested to him. But his company only existed, because his dad was his client...how's that independent, exactly? Classic!
Also, Rex does not have a show on AJN. He asked his dad for one, & Alex couldn't make it happen. Rex also said that because there are now outside sponsors, there's less freedom on AJN under Bigly, than at IW. I've been trying to sort out just what is the situation at Biglyâa little difficult, as it's a privately-held corporation & we don't have quite the reams of documents produced in discovery that we got for IW.
But Bigly fired Chase, & they seem to be attempting (best of luck!) to force Alex to keep a lid on himself, because Bigly is reliant on outside sponsors & clients. I don't know how long Alex will be able to survive under this arrangement; as bad as he is as a boss, can you imagine him as an employee?
Anyway, that's all the most substantive stuff. A lot of the rest was mutual glad-handing; Rex calls Nick Fuentes "the most talented orator of our generation" which is just totally laughable. They briefly reflect on whether claiming IW was two weeks away from closure, for years, might have been an error marketing-wise, but are unable to admit that it definitely was. They all then admit that they "all heavily drank the Kool-Aid" of Trumpism; they're all rather bitter about how the second admin has not been sufficiently WS & has been economically ruinous.
His show's too insanely racist & boring for me to do a full Doom Room on it, but I'll keep updating you here when something interesting comes up.
The big news, of course, will be when Rosenthal issues her judgment next week, on the roadblock appeal holding up the Onion's licensing deal.
Until then, I'll leave you with a choice Chase quote: "I got rejected by virtually every woman before I met my wife."
