Garrett has responded. Speaks for itself and no surprises there. I do believe his absence is voluntary. However, when Feldman announced this million dollar buy-in game Garrett certainly sent out a feeler tweet that he would take a seat if one was available. So that is somewhat contradictory to this response. Really does come down to the $135 K. So many things come down to money when you boil them down.
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We’ll see what Vertucci comes with here soon I’m sure. Guy is a total trainwreck on Twitter. No impulse control. I would imagine HCL could counter this with having Robbi on the show again. That would certainly stick it to Garrett.
If you block out everything else and just think of the 135K. There would be such an outcry for Robbi to be made whole if Garrett showed up on any stream, not just HCL. Nick & Ryan certainly don’t want to pay it. I don’t think a gofundme would do it. Without paying that money back it just really makes this very hard to move forward. It makes any kind of apology feel hollow. It just needs to be done imo to reach a resolution.
I will say the way Nick has his guests bring up these topics is kind of lame. To bury Berkey he has Mikki do it, here he has Ben bring up Garrett and of course Veronica has brought up issues. These podcasts are all edited and I’m sure he has edited plenty out he didn’t want to share.