Call Her Daddy vs. Dave Portnoy
David Chicago
The ultra popular Barstool podcast, Call Her Daddy, is at war with Dave Portnoy.
Who is Dave Portnoy? He is the Founder and President of Barstool Sports, but most importantly he turned Alex and Sofia into stars.
Call Her Daddy had not uploaded to their feed in over a month until the episode, Daddy Speaks, that dropped on Sunday night. All of #DaddyGang stopped what they were doing and eagerly awaited an update from Alex and Sofia. Except they didn’t get Alex and Sofia graphically explaining the best way to pleasure a man, they got El Pres himself, Dave Portnoy.
The episode was a beautiful half hour of Dave telling the truth and exploiting the greed, stupidity, and disloyalty from the Daddy Girls.
some perspective:
-Alex & Sofia’s Initial Contract: $70k / year over 3 years with bonus incentives
-Alex and Sofia’s Earnings After Year 1: Alex, $506k. Sofia, $461k.
I don’t know about you, but I would be pretty content with half a million dollars a year to spend 1 hour a week talking about giving head and getting tongue punched in the fart box.
Alex and Sofia wanted to renegotiate after year 1, and rightfully so. Dave even says Barstool is more than happy to pay any employee more money if they deserve it. The problem is the Daddy Girls made ridiculous demands, they leaked that they were grossly underpaid, and they were actively shopping Call Her Daddy behind Dave’s back.
Dave’s Counter Offer
-The intellectual property of Call Her Daddy, which includes the merchandise, the podcast, EVERYTHING
-New Contracts
-Barstool retains the rights to alcohol
That counter from Dave is at the least a million dollar a year offer to Alex and Sofia. All they would have to do is continue to talk about being degraded in the bedroom for an hour a week.
The Daddy Girls TURNED IT DOWN. It makes me start to think they got their negotiation tactics and self awareness from the Michael Scott School of Business.
Dave’s Second Offer
-$500k / year guaranteed
-An increased percentage of merchandise sales
-Download bonuses
-Reduce their current contract from 18 months to 12 months
-The intellectual property of Call Her Daddy
This is an offer you cannot refuse! As Dave put it,
“We were getting fucked in the ass.”
Dave wanted this for the revenue stream and for the headache of dealing with them to be over.
Nobody gets an offer like this, not even the biggest podcast at Barstool, Pardon My Take. Why wouldn’t they sign the deal? There has to be more to this story, right?
Peter Nelson, “The Fucking Suit man”
Alex told Dave a deal will never get done. Alex understood the deal was a no brainer and wanted to take it, the issue was Sofia and her dipshit boyfriend and HBO Executive Peter Nelson, aka Lord Farquaad, aka “The Fucking Suit Man.” He stuck his neck out and got them a deal with Wondery, so if they went back to Barstool Peter Nelson would look like more of an asshole that he already does.
Alex was in for a 50/50 split with Sofia despite doing most of the work. Sofia was moving towards a deal with the Wondery podcast network, and when that fell through she wanted to the 50/50 deal, but it was too late. Even then, Dave made another offer to Sofia.
The Sofia Offer
-$500k / year
-Her own podcast on the Barstool network
-When she leaves she can keep 100% of the IP
They got nothing back from Sofia...crickets.
The worst part about all of this isn’t the greed, or stupidity, or even the fact that Alex and Sofia were trying to fuck over Dave. This is what boils my blood the most. The podcast does $100k / episode in advertising. They haven’t uploaded a regular show since April 8, and they wanted to be paid like they were still uploading. How does that make any sense? Barstool lost $300-$400k in advertising and they have their hands out wanting to be paid. In a time where millions of people all over the world would kill to be working for much less, and to demand money for not doing any work is next level selfish. It disgusts me and to make it even worse here’s another picture of the fucking suit dummy, Peter Nelson.
In conclusion, here’s why Portnoy still wins. He still has the IP, he’s worth $100 million, and he has a Master’s degree in trolling from the Donald Trump School of Twitter. Check this shit out.