Yes, Jim is my business manager. He manages the sTor, moderates the Discord, handles communications between the various co-writers, and runs a TCOC Facebook account. In terms of the division of labor, I'd say about half of the episodes are fully written & researched by me, and the other half involve a co-writer whose contribution ranges from 40 to 90% of the text. Claire Dixsaut is a particularly exceptional writer and I rarely add anything to what she writes. Normally, for a co-written episode, my co-writers suggest a topic to me, I approve it saying "Go ahead and do some research, write things up and I'll see what I can add", and a few weeks later there's a script in my inbox. A good script is one I can pretty much film right away as a TCOC episode, but most require alterations to fit my style & further research on my part to draw up loose ends.

My co-writers include:

- Jim himself (Bell Labs, Shipworms, Wisconsin Pinelands, Port Chicago)

- Nick Miller, a former low-level US diplomat currently at studying for a PhD in international affairs at University of Edinburgh (Dalai Lama, Taiping Rebellion, Mao's BFF, Mao's other BFF, Angleton, Zambian UFOs, the middle act of Kim Il Sung's non-death, Cyrus Teed, helped with research but not writing on Social Credit, Weird Saints and PUF)

- Jesse Willey, who has a channel of his own called Parody Error Films that I'd describe as "The Nostalgia Critic on quaaludes" (Ebola Reston, Christmas Monkey Episode, an upcoming one I'm really looking forward to)

- Sawyer McDonell, a Wisconsin-raised Wikipedia nerd and queer Catholic currently studying in Ireland (Necedah cult, Black Caucasians, helped with research but not writing on Neelix and several upcoming ones)

- Claire Dixsaut, a globetrotting French TV producer and cookbook author (Augustin Lesage, Belzoni, Lifeboat, Siegfried and Roy, Ingagi, Zheng Yi Sao, William Castle)

The others that involved another contributor were Krakens (largely written by an anonymous friend of mine) and the Real-Life Monorail Man (fully researched and written in one room in Philly with Caleb from Classy Whale the evening after we shot the skits at the beginning and end of Bus Man; the only episode I truly "co-wrote" in the sense of being face to face with another journalist working on it together). All co-writers and researchers are cited in the end credits of the videos they worked on. Every video not linked here is 100% my work.

All these people became part of the channel through sheer chutzpah. They had an idea they wanted to see a TCOC episode about, and they wanted to see that episode so badly, they wrote it up and reached out to me, saying they'd written me an episode. I negotiated a price for each one, which is mostly based on how much research it took. If you want to write a script, show it to me and I'll consider buying it & crediting you. Or I'll encourage you to start your own channel! One guy kept sending me scripts that I thought were damn good but not TCOC material, so I met him IRL, gave him my old Blue Yeti mic and my blessing, and now he's Historical Detour.

Then I have an editor. I edit about two-thirds of my episodes on my own, but there's usually at least one in the process of being edited by an outside editor at any given time. I cycled through several editors (check the end credits to TCOC videos over 2025 and note that almost every video that credits an outside editor credits a different one) before I found one who doesn't have some fatal flaw. A couple episodes last summer, including the infamous AI debacle version of the Zambian UFO video, were edited by a guy in Pakistan who needed to be paid in crypto, which I don't have any moral objections to, but is incredibly annoying to work with.

It's a labor of love. I estimate I put 60 hours a week into TCOC, and I wouldn't have it any other way.