Thompson claimed that 1 of the phrases of his settlement with the station was that the station would pay him $5,000 every single time his name was pointed out, totaling $200 million in the fit. Not in the way a petulant Gen-Xer needed it to be though, because just one had to appear lame to be helpful. For the following eight months, Thompson recorded all of Rogers' broadcasts and documented 40,000 mentionings of his title.