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SIO365: I Finally Get To Defend Myself. A Little.

Serious Inquiries Only

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How I Paid Lindsay to Be a Semi Regular on SIO

O'Brien: I invited Lindsay to be a semi regular on SIO sometime in late 2020. At this time, Lindsay was completely unconcerned about money for being on the show. She was a full time college professor and the amount of money I could even pay from SIO was negligible compared to her actual career. So I insisted on paying her $100 an episode. That means I cut her in on 25% of SIO profit per episode just purely from my decision with no ask from her. Do that seem fair? It feels at the very least pretty fair. If she did three hours of work per episode, which seems pretty reasonable, that's 33 an hour. Maybe she does

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