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🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Introducing the Dave Portnoy Show. This show will focus on the inner workings of Barstool Sports. We'll talk about all the controversies, decisions and stories from the past that helped mold who we are today as well as questions that will define the future. Basically an in depth look behind the curtain of one of the most controversial blogs on the planet and the guys who make it tick.

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0:08.5	Yeah, and a lot of people actually have asked me this because the majority control, which churned into
0:13.8	go over a lot of people are stunned. I did that and they're like, how hard to do fight for them.
0:17.4	Like I actually didn't fight all that hard and don't get me wrong.
0:21.2	The equities are a huge part of that I still have a huge stakes.
0:26.0	So I'm trying to get Uber Rich compared to what we have before.
0:29.4	But my biggest in this is not everyone's agreed with this, but my biggest takeaway and I've said it all the time was I was
0:36.9	100% convinced, still 100% convinced that the content wouldn't change.
0:41.3	So once I was not worried about you and I or churn in myself ever being like, well, we have a content, a content conflict here.
0:49.5	I wanted you guys to run the business side and whether I had 40% or 30% or 45%
0:56.4	it matters, but for where we're trying to go, it wasn't a huge deal as long as I thought we were on the same point content wise.
1:04.8	Everyone still says it's great. We're in the honeymoon stage.
1:08.2	It's what has this been month or two that we've done it that down the road.
1:13.0	The content will become an issue. We're going to have differing views and that's when the rubber will meet the road.
1:19.5	So for the people, I guess out there who listen, like I'm telling you, you guys are going to change.
1:24.7	I guess give them a little perspective on your content on your view of what we do.
1:28.7	First of all, like in our first dinner and I even knowing how, I mean, obviously I would assume that would be important to you and not knowing how important ultimately became.
1:36.0	I remember saying at that dinner, like if we disliked you, we'll never ask to change the content.
1:41.4	One, obviously because of Peter's background and newscorp, he's worked with so many people and entertainment and created movies and created TV shows and
1:50.0	the last thing you want is kind of a business editorial conflict.
1:53.2	It certainly happens, I'm sure, at big companies.
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