I bet Chris talked with Carroll well before the show, Chris is a smart guy, I wouldn't even speculate if he is in trouble with his boss. A couple of times at the end I thought Marc was going to cry even start balling, his voiced choked up at least once. I agree how he left after 15 years was insanely shitty and it's terrible the way the relationships are, maybe things are better, who knows.
So on to his side of the story.....Marc said Lakai breached his contract with the short pays because parts of his contract were non-negotiable? Then he gets a Fall pay cut so maybe that part of the contract, was negotiable? Then he gets a Spring pay cut shortly after and was given the ok to look for another shoe sponsor. He gets sponsored by Adidas but can't go skate because he is essentially skating for both brands and not sure what shoes to wear? But getting paid by neither at that point? Some of this is so unclear. This is where Marc's story gets confusing, why not 100% quit Lakai then? Maybe he thought Lakai was going to rebound? But in the meanwhile he will get the ball rolling with Adidas on the side? I don't know...I'm confused by the business side of Marc's explanation, but his reasoning to do what he did makes perfect sense, which is get a new shoe sponsor to support his life and son. How he went about it seemed to be in a disgruntled retaliation type towards Lakai, which after 15 years might have been a bad decision. Carroll called him a pathological liar multiple times in the Jenkem interview, still seems unclear. Marc said a few times he is often wrong about things.
Then right before the Away Days premier he films a couple of tricks for the video and according to Carroll in the Jenkem interview, Mike was reaching out to him and getting no answer right before the premier, and the night before Mike point blank texted Marc, will you be in the video and Marc said no. The only thing I can get out of this is these two guys must have been beefing hard from that past Fall to Spring and we don't know the whole story.
Anyways, Marc's early years and living with those dude stealing furniture from hotels was amazing, great story telling. Marc's in depth conversation about the state of video parts and online content was really in depth and well articulated. No one has talked about the issue in that much detail like Marc did in this episode. I think about it all the time too and I have concerns over friends putting out so much content on the daily that gives back no appreciative value in return like it's supposed to. I truly care about that and what it will do to their emotions down the road when all that hard work, mentally and physically goes to nothing, and to top it off they won't be able to find their videos unless they saved in on a hard drive.
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