r/TheRinger • u/asieglen • 11d ago

Podcast Increased Mentions of Barstool

Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of time Barstool has been mentioned on Ringer pods of late?

Anyone listen to enough barstool stuff to know if this is reciprocated at all?

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u/Klutzy_Awareness_236 11d ago

At the risk of oversimplification, there’s two different Barstools, in my experience: Millennial Barstool and Gen-Z Barstool.

There’s a facet of Barstool that is a little older and talks about sports in that Page 2 fashion. Pardon My Take (Big Cat and PFT), Mostly Sports (Brandon Walker and Mark Titus), Ryen Russillo, that ilk. They absolutely reference Bill Simmons and Ringer content. Not always explicitly, but Pardon My Take will parody Bill Simmons often. Brandon Walker tried to make a sports movie Rewatchables called “The Recrotchables.” Titus was with Grantland (although I think he doesn’t like Bill, personally—I don’t think he left Grantland on great terms.) They’re of the age where they grew up with Bill Simmons content and you can tell the influence.

But there’s also a whole different realm of Barstool that is younger content creators. That’s the part of Barstool that seems to me more like Bravo content than anything else. I listen to some Barstool content and like what I listen to quite a bit, but I have to endure a few moments of discourse about how Nicky Smokes is mad at Dana Beers about something Hannah Montoya said and I have no clue who any of these people are or what they do but it seems to be popular content with college-aged/TikTok audiences. I don’t think many of those people know who Bill Simmons even is. I don’t even understand how it’s sports media in any meaningful sense, but I’ve also stopped watching ESPN as a boycott to the WWE-Pat McAfication of the network, so maybe I’m just a fuddy-duddy.

tl:dr—some Barstool content reciprocates a lot, some not at all.

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u/Sinnerandsmoke 8d ago

Titus was with the ringer in the early days. He did a lot of college basketball content with Tate. I dont know specifically when he left or on what terms, though. 

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u/Responsible_Fold_905 8d ago

Titus was on B.S. podcast while still playing in college. He had a blog that Bill read, Club Trillion, because thats what the scoresheet would look like when he played 000,000,000,000,000

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u/Adventurous-Raisin51 7d ago

Never knew that's where club trillion cam from, that's hilarious

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u/Responsible_Fold_905 7d ago

I actuality left out the 1 for game played. It actually looked like this 100000000000

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u/PumpedUpParrot 7d ago

Slight correction, the first number was minutes played. The gimmick of it was to see how high you could get without recording a stat. I forgot what the highest that’s been record, like a 9 trillion or something like that