Especially because so many literally just moved halfway across country to keep their jobs. All I know is they need to protect Barstool Kate at all costs, that woman is the realest, funniest follow on my social media and it isn’t even close. I will root for her no matter where she’s working.
I think you could make a pretty strong argument that if you slashed the company down to Pardon My Take and whatever production crew was involved with them, they would be very profitable pretty quickly. A few of the other podcasts seem to do fine. Maybe keep them as well.
Which makes you wonder at this point why PMT would stay at Barstool if they're the only attraction. They could just set up a Substack and then not have to share anything with the rest of the company (or they might be able to get a pretty sweet deal from Spotify/The Ringer). If they ever had shares in the company, they likely got paid out when Portnoy got paid out.
They aren’t the only attraction, the core 3 like working for / with Dave, they’re under contract (or at least PFT), they get benefit from the Barstool infrastructure / world and running your own podcast profitably is probably a giant pain. Big Cat basically built Barstool with Dave to what it is today so I can’t see him leaving given the creative freedom he gets.
Big Cat is effectively #3 at BS behind Portnoy and Erica. Despite his "just a regular joe" schtick he's involved in the company's direction at the highest level and very well compensated for it.
The majority of the content creators at Barstool create blogs. They are generating clicks.
Got it - didn't realize he was so involved on the business side. I was curious if at what point the Barstool brand hurts what they do more than helps it, but seems like they're pretty invested in the direction of the company (probably moreso now w/o Penn).
I would hope so but I’m not sure, I mean what do podcasters do just start a new podcast? I’d follow her anywhere for sure, she’s just really hilarious and endearing.
Blogs can’t be generating that much revenue because Portnoy himself said they’re losing their shirt. That’s my point.
To your point, it is the podcasts and videos that they earn revenue from sponsors such as Chevy, High Noon and Paramount. They also use social media to push the crap out of their merch.
Well the two aren’t mutually exclusive. He objectively made a bunch of money selling Barstool and then getting it back for basically free.
Yeah, that owner knew who he was dealing with and made the worst decision possible for his business. He just couldn't resist the urge to "take a stand"!!
"No one man should have all that power" is basically what he's railing against, I don't know the best way to get it across but that was not it. Portnoy has the Covid fundraiser he can point to for eternity to claim 'No I am one of the better guys when it comes to supporting family restaurants.'
Portnoy used his celebrity to shit all over a small pizza business. Then he got bent out of shape when the owner told him he didn't appreciate one-bite reviews.
And did it on Tucker Carlson, no less. I'm sure he is fine, but that reeks of desperation and that he knows who his audience is.
I'm pretty anti Dave Portnoy overall, so don't mistake this for being an apologist, but that's not really what happened. He gave it a pretty mediocre review (and has acknowledged he doesn't like to go super harsh as he knows it can fuck with peoples' businesses), and the Dragon guy stormed outside without even knowing that and started an argument with him on camera. Portnoy's a piece of shit, and he loses any high ground he has in this argument when he starts yelling about the guy being fat and how rich he is, but he didn't start it and I think just about anyone with a food review video platform is posting a video where the place they're reviewing starts shit on camera mid review.
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Yes.. he does remind people a lot of the one good thing the Barstool PR team put together. Usually they spend their time defending Portnoy from sexual misconduct allegations.
To be fair, Dragon Pizza had said something negative about him before he showed up and he knew it. Then he started his review like any other and pretended to be objective. He was not being objective before the confrontation and he was looking for a confrontation. Afterwards he posted on X, “I’ve been waiting to go after the Dragon Pizza in Somerville guy for weeks”.
I mean, sure it was low hanging fruit, but my stance about Portnoy is the same: he's an immense piece of shit and saying "oh he helped small businesses a few times" doesn't paper that over.
I'm pretty sure the waiting for weeks comment is in reference to the amount of time he has been sitting on the review video.
Right, but if we were to play out your weird-ass analogy, if I got a chance to mock Hitler while he was filming a video, I wouldn't yell "you're mean to dogs!" but rather one of the many more valid and serious criticisms.
Apologies, looking this up I’m wrong. I saw well before the review that people couldn’t wait for him to review Dragon Pizza so I thought there was a history. It must have just been buzz about the altercation.
The owner started posting about it a week and a half ago.
Methinks Mr. Portnoy is about to learn an unpleasant lesson about copyright infringement (though those shirts won't sell enough to really be worth fighting about).
