Richard Cooper

How you doing, Sean?

I'm good.

I want to start off with the Manosphere documentary.

It came out last week.

It's been pretty viral.

How did you feel after watching that?

I mean, it's what I expected.

It was going to be a hit piece from the get-go when you saw the sizzle reel, like the trailer for it.

The Manosphere has a really bad PR reputation.

They don't have anybody capable of fixing it.

And they really just wanted to make guys look bad.

I think there's some good information that comes from creators in the space.

I was heavily involved in it years ago.

But I moved away just because the PR issue.

And it just didn't have anybody capable of fixing it, nor anybody seemed really wanting to fix it.

And I think that it needs...

serious reinvention if I'm being honest because anytime anybody covers it it's always from the angle of look at these toxic guys they all have the world upside down and there's there's genuinely some good ideas and some good strategies that you can take from it but I think a lot of the creators that that sell it or purport to sell it or have something around the economics of building you know content for guys really screwed up pretty badly I mean you saw that with a what was the name HS ticky-tocky

I'd never heard of that guy before I had watched the documentary.

But yeah, he was an interesting character.

I knew three of the four guys.