Klemmer Breaks Down Why He Passed On Nadu's $2,000-An-Hour Podcast

Then the interview rewinds all the way to childhood, and it's not a small flex. Klemmer explains he was reading so well at 5 years old that teachers wanted to skip him straight from kindergarten to third grade — the kind of anecdote that sounds made up until someone tells it with a straight face on mic.

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Imagine being so good at reading that you were asked to skip Kindergarten and head straight to the third grade. That's how good @ChrisKlemmer was at 5 years old

The part of the episode that's actually generating buzz, though, is Klemmer doing math on air about the Nadu podcast situation. His breakdown: if the deal was $60,000 for one podcast a week across roughly 32 episodes, that shakes out to something like $2,000 an hour of actual work. Klemmer's reaction was blunt — he flat out said he didn't understand why anyone would walk away from that. It tracks with the broader story that's been circulating about Jeff Nadu reportedly negotiating himself out of what's been described as one of the easiest paydays in recent Barstool memory, and Klemmer laying out the hourly rate in real time is what turned a passing reference into an actual conversation piece.

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“If you do the math, they were saying it was $60,000 for one podcast a week and they were gonna do like 32 episodes. Thats $2,000 an hour. I don’t understand why he would do that” -Klemmer talking about Nadu

None of this required a press release or a formal statement — it's just two guys with easels and a mic letting the numbers speak for themselves. That's the appeal of Drawn Together as a format: it's low stakes enough that people say things plainly instead of in Barstool-speak, and Klemmer clearly wasn't holding back on either his own backstory or his read on how Nadu's situation played out. Whether or not the Nadu math becomes its own follow-up story, it's already done its job of getting people talking about a deal that, on paper, looked impossible to turn down.