October 23rd, 2017 at 4:05 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:11 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^
Really.
Are you related to these guys?
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
Sounds like you'll have an opportunity to read/pod/whatever their wacky, madcap humor (like calling someone's toddler "ugly") somewhere. Just not on ESPN. Life goes on.
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:09 PM ^
It's funny how often you hear places that are sort of toxic environments claim "it's all an act". Lots of places are funny without being offensive; PMT is legitimately fun and doesn't veer nearly as havily into the worst parts of the rest of Barstool. So if it's really an act and not, you know, people being themselves, then it's a shitty act and people are allowed to not want to be engaged with them.
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^
His entertainment is more important than an other person's humanity
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:46 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:50 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:56 PM ^
A+ Copypasta, C+ Execution
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:23 PM ^
October 24th, 2017 at 8:26 AM ^
Rick and Morty is fantastic, let's not pretend they don't have awful fans as well.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
for the last 10 to 15 years, that's just sort of the way things are now.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 6:07 PM ^
It's sad I can't be an asshole in public without being called out for it?
Like... is your need for validation so high that you need other people to approve of your beliefs?
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:34 PM ^
I started reading barstool back in 2008, it is totally different from back then.Hipster.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:40 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
Portnoy isn't very difficult to get, he's not funny either. There's no levels he's operating on. He's just a halfwit rich boy who thinks being cruel and mean spirited is funny, because every friend he's ever had in his life he paid for.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:56 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
Unfortunate, I like Barstool. Certainly more entertaining than ESPN these days.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
Odd choice. That show was the only reason to watch ESPN outside of live sports.
Amazing to me that the host of one of their flagship shows can call half their viewership white supremacists and receive no punishment, but these guys get cancelled because their boss, not them, said Sam Ponder's job is to look slutty (it is).
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:42 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
Did something just happen this week that led them to distance themselves from Barstool?
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
I'm guessing it was just pressure from the higher-ups at Disney to cut ties after the Sam Ponder Tweets last week. Barstool (The brand as a whole / Dave Portnoy in particular) has quite the history of being -- well -- not too family friendly / politically correct.
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^
I just did some googling and found that 'slut' audio. Now I don't understand why ESPN didn't know this in the first place, still partnered with Barstool, and then immediately cancelled. Seems like that should've been a due dilligence thing on their part
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:13 PM ^
I would argue that Barstool sailed past "politically incorrect" some time ago. I am surprised ESPN even got involved with them; it's not like their history is unknown.
October 23rd, 2017 at 9:10 PM ^
I think it got greenlit because the PMT guys have a lot of ESPNers in their corner that were willing to vouch for then, while the critical voices didn't come in until later.
I agree that the PMT guys would be better off splitting off from Barstool (as others have said in the thread). PFT has been successful at ridding Big Cat of the worst indulgences of the Barstool brand. But unfortunately Big Cat seems to have a level of loyalty to Barstool that will do him more harm than good at this point in his career.
Going to be interesting to watch it all develop, to say the least.
October 23rd, 2017 at 11:03 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
I have to assume that at some point these Pardon My Take guys are going to look at whatever stock/interest they have in Barstool and realize it isn't worth missing out on these opportunities in the greater media market and bolt. Barstool is garbage, and it's going to keep being garbage until the end of time, so no reason to go down with it.
October 23rd, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^
I had no idea what this was about so I googled it. Then I watched some. Then I tried to forget that I tried to watch it. Why would anyone watch that?
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:33 PM ^
Calling women 'sluts' and kids 'retarded' and 'ugly' is funny!!! Why R U so easily offended?!
October 23rd, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
I didn't get that far into it. Thought it was annoying and not funny. Had never heard of it until today.
October 24th, 2017 at 10:26 AM ^
So you did not enjoy the 'stool sample?
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:15 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 6:27 PM ^
But I don't know how much that's saying. The ratings don't lie I guess but I just always feel like PFT is being held back and his Twitter character (which is hilarious) doesn't come through as well as it could.
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
I refuse to watch ESPN outside of the sports anyways so I wasn't ever going to watch the show but I don't understand what happened here. I thought it was brilliant but confusing that ESPN of all places was going to take on BVT.
The whole Sam Ponder twitter thing was ridiculous at best. She was trying to blame Big Cat for something Portnoy said... I mean I get that she was offended and why but she's a moron for insisting that it was Big Cats fault.
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:27 PM ^
glad I missed it...
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:32 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
Found the snowflake
October 24th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
It sounds like you are the snowflake here. You got offended by what I said and felt the need to respond.
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:47 PM ^
October 23rd, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^
Same. I listen to Rusillo every day. The segment last week (thur or fri?) was awkward. It doesn't seem like his thing. But when he survived the purge and his own gaff, I'm not sure he any juice to object.
October 23rd, 2017 at 8:40 PM ^
It was rough sledding during the Thursday segment. Russillo gets the joke, so he makes a solid foil, but Adnan seemed so wrong to be the fourth part of that. Will Cain would have been much more able to help that segment along (even though I enjoy the Adnan/Russillo dynamic much more than the Russillo/Cain dynamic.)
That said, they were joking about "We did one, now we have to do another one..." and now, well, they don't.
October 23rd, 2017 at 6:08 PM ^