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Dave Portnoy Had to Layoff 100 Barstool Sports Employees

Barstool Radio

Barstool Sports

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.36.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Barstool Radio is back and hosted by Kevin "KFC Barstool" Clancy, John Feitelberg, Pat McAuliffe, and Tom Scibelli. Get inside and stir up the Barstool drama every day. 0:00 Barstool's layoffs 11:15 Dave comes in to talk layoffs 27:30 Dave considered leaving barstool 31:50 Calls 33:50 Kevin and John might have not had their contracts renewed 38:15 Warehouse firing call 43:20 What’s happening to the sports book call 45:25 Business Insider's influence call 47:44 fantasy tips call 48:45 Dave got fired from his sales job 57:00 purple starfish origin call One Bite Pizza Festival tickets available here: https://onebitepizzafest.com/ Check out Barstool Sports for more: http://www.barstoolsports.com Follow Barstool Sports here: Facebook: https://facebook.com/barstoolsports Twitter: https://twitter.com/barstoolsports Instagram: http://instagram.com/barstoolsports TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@barstoolsports

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify

0:04.3

or YouTube.

0:05.3

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:08.3

I've, uh, Thursday, August 31st here at barstool New York, barstool HQ, tough day for the

0:14.8

company, uh, last night, uh, the news broke, uh, on the post and a couple other outlets

0:20.8

wrote about it.

0:21.8

And today is the day.

0:22.8

Uh, we've been talking about it for a couple of weeks now, um, it shouldn't really come

0:27.7

as a surprise to people, but it still is a tough day, uh, when, when, when you put it into

0:32.8

motion.

0:33.8

So, uh, layoffs were, lay, the layoffs occurred today, um, and if you were paying attention

0:42.5

and listening, you know, Dave was very upfront.

0:45.6

We were losing millions of dollars a year, million dollars a month.

0:50.1

And, uh, that is not easy to make up.

0:53.6

So if you're going to try to continue to run this company and, and make it, uh, break

0:58.4

even and keep the other jobs, you got to make a lot of moves.

1:04.4

Um, I, I feel like some people, we, we kind of talked about it at UNI Pat that like, some

1:09.9

people were like cheering when Dave got the company back.

1:12.5

And if you were on the chopping block, um, sure, you're like, what the fuck?

1:16.3

I thought this was a good thing.

1:18.6

But I don't think people are realizing though, is that if it didn't go down this way,

1:24.0

about a year from now, it would have been probably another hundred and a year after

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