Haven’t listened yet but on Reddit people were discussing this and it sounded like they got an offer much larger somewhere (like 40%?) and they haven’t announced where because they’re technically with barstool through superbowl.
Yeah sounds like money right away. The one thing about Penn no longer owning Barstool, they won't have the pockets to compete with the top tier platforms. So top money will always win.
Dave on his own can’t compete financially with the gambling companies or the VC backed companies in the money isn’t real stage that Barstool was a few years ago.
I beat you to it! But that is literally what it is. In my industry, these VC backed firms are just bulldozing everyone. I hate it.
Dave gets a lot of shit but he's a smart business guy with this. As much as he wants to pay them, he knows he'll never be able to keep up with the VC. Smart not to pay them if he wasn't even within 50% of their offer. Barstool, as crazy as it sounds, is that entry level job out of college now.
I listened this morning. The offer they took was a single sponsor who is paying them 40% more than barstool could while letting them control the entire thing 100% and with no restrictions on where they appear/do content (including BSS) as long as it doesn’t involve competitive companies. I only see quick clips of Compton and Lewan and they strike me as doofuses but based on what they described, they managed their business very well to get to this point, and have figured out a way to get a huge pay day off that set up while retaining 100% creative freedom and control. It probably helped they had NFL money to live on for a couple of years from the outset. Barstools pitch is that we can turn you into Bussin, into CHD, Chiclets, and on. Dave absolutely can turn a profit and recruit a ton of talent off that strategy. He just can’t retain them any more. I do wonder if he has any economics in these ventures. It would seem silly for him not to get a 10-20% stake in exchange for getting them off the ground.
Every one of these I have seen is hilarious and Feitelberg is legitimately a star, sounds like been he's crushing standup now
I didn’t really like gruden before the joined barstool like he just seemed too intense about everything and sort of cringe could not have been more wrong he’s fucking awesome.
I was watching this with my AirPods on and laughing while my wife watched some real housewives recap show. She asks 3 times what I’m watching and I finally turn my iPad and start explaining it and “oh I saw that earlier… by the way it says stop eating Mac n cheese.” I got roasted by my wife thanks to Gruden and I’m reeling over here. The counting crows line killed me.
I have a craving for gumbo because of his tweets. It's become a fyre fest situation for me as I'm out of the country all month with no chance of finding gumbo
I have sort of an idea of how to buy these coins. But I have no clue how to actually turn it into real money.
Guy is lost in the sauce. I think he just hangs out by himself in his giant houses. Not sure he has any actual friends anymore.
It really is. He's losing it, and I mean overall. The ZB diss track and "advising" chickenshit to turn down the money was so bad.
I can't figure out where they even found him...from what I can see he doesn't even seem to have a social media presence. He's unbelievable.
Was watching the baldstool trip to Istanbul and really enjoyed Eddie mispronouncing Hagia Sophia with his Chicago accent. He also fell victim to a scammer that told him he had a shop. It was a pretty funny visual seeing him rejoin the group with a scammer in tow.
From what I gathered, he grew up and is best friends with a gold medal winning Canadian hockey player who put him in touch with Big Cat. I'm generally not a fan of the whole whack pack hiring mentality that Barstool has done over the years, but Oldie seems like a true gem.
Yeah, I figured he was some kind of known Canadian hockey nutso. But, it appears he's a former garbage man turned snow plow driver that works a 7-330 shift. Even if they can just get him to show up quarterly for some shit, it would be great content.
How old is this Canadian dude? I could see anywhere from late 20s to mid 40s and not be that surprised.
Believe he made a comment about being in his 40s during pmt. Think it was in regards to not pissing himself