Former regular watcher starting during COVID and falling off the last few years due to the length of the show and the tired format.

There's really not much info provided in either party's statement.

• Matt said he's going live at 9 pm EST tomorrow to tell his side without Blonde
• he wanted them to do a final show together to explain to their audience, but she declined
• speculation in the X threads that Blonde wants to push the JQ & Matt is uncomfortable
• unsourced claims that Matt's wife is Jewish
• speculation that Matt is a worse position financially given the collapse of Tenet, a SAHM, two young kids and a relatively bigger mortgage
• speculation that Matt is more beholden to YT's ToS because he needs the money more than her
• Blonde is married to an older retired vet who seems wealthy, she was continuing to do the show out of tradition
• a surprising amount of the X commenters and supposed viewers uncomfortable with her white nationalism politics considering she's been like this for years. I guess many fans side with Matt's boring, milquetoast, toeing the line takes.

Blonde already had one foot out the door a year ago when pregnant with her 2nd child and Matt announced his deal with Tenet. They canceled their Wednesday call-in show they'd done for years to be replaced by Matt's solo "Matt Christiansen Hour" for Tenet with his grating Aussie producer Tim. The show did not perform well. Blonde & Matt continued to do their usual Sunday news show.

When Tenet collapsed, Blonde returned and they went back to twice weekly shows (I haven't watched any since Tenet's demise).

Matt has always been the straight man, doing all the show prep, dealing with sponsors, booking guests, hosting the show on his channel, doing the IT stuff, etc. Blonde is the firebrand, based, politicaly incorrect co-host with the pretty face that simply shows up.

Another problem is that their life situations have changed since the start of the show. Blonde lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Matt lives in Bozeman, Montana.

They've only met in person on a handful of occasions IRL. The show started around the time of Trump’s initial run in 2016. At the time, Rebecca was a single, recovering alcoholic, Lauren Southern-style shock jock right-leaning twenty something babe living in Seattle, originally from St. Louis, MO with an Economics degree and working a finance job she hated.

Matt was a recovering leftist working in ?Portland, OR for some leftist org, making CoD videos as skagg_3.

Matt was single. Rebecca helped him vet dating profiles, eventually meeting his current wife Ping2 and mother to his ?two children (there was also a miscarriage at some point).

Matt's brother ?Wade was a vet who committed suicide with a firearm in the Main St of his town. Matt lived in his dead brother's house and streamed out of it for years until his family got too big and recently sold it.

Blonde is a practising Catholic (tho her hubby might not be). Matt is an agnostic who recently took an interest in Christianity through weekly online Bible study sessions.

Blonde has got married and had two children since starting the show. She quit her finance job long ago and is a SAHM. She's well into her 30s, is sober and is well past her conservathot days.

Blonde does do sporadic hour long interviews with people she finds interesting on her own channel that somehow isn't banned (Owen Benjamin, Gavin McInnes, Radfem Hitler, Ramzpaul, etc). She seems to be able to pull guests based on her looks. The knock has always been that she's lazy and inconsistent as a creator on her own, particularly as a mom now.

Matt is consistent like a Swiss watch. He does two live shows and two videos a week. He's well researched, trustworthy and boring. He hasn't really changed the style of his content much over the last 8 years. His videos are well produced but get fairly low views. His entire income comes from his YT content.

I don't know how well Matt will do on his own. He's hardworking, but a slave to routine and pretty dry on his own. His livestream audience didn't seem to follow him to Tenet. Part of this was because subscribing to his shows there required being bombarded with the rest of the mishmash of slop from the other 5 creators.

Some of it was that his Aussie producer Tim was nice but awful to listen to and didn't add much to the product. Matt, while philosophical, fair and well read, simply isn't willing to be as edgy and avant-garde as Blonde. Which means a lot of his content isn't that different from the rest of Con Inc.