Name: Dave Portnoy Always Went With His Gut
Uploaded: 2023-08-16T20:27:39.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Portnoy Always Went With His Gut' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Portnoy Always Went With His Gut' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-08-16. Transcript available.

have you always been a good decision maker do you have like a process when it
comes to that
because you probably have to make decisions pretty quick yeah no i just go with
my gut like uh
i always view it late sort of family feud style like you know if you watch the
family feud you
got the head guy at the table right oh yeah and then everyone shouts the
answers at them
if you hear a good answer you're like all right i'll go with that guy but even
if they have the
right answer but in my gut i'm like no i got the right answer i'll go with mine
i may get the x
but it that's kind of how it is it's all gut based yeah yeah there's no it it i
look at this
i follow my gut since i started we've been wildly successful a lot of a lot of
breaks that i could
never dreamed of and i didn't start parcel really to like be here i just didn't
want to hate my job
waking up in the morning but uh why would i stop following my gut it's got us
this far so dude you've
done a really good job of like hiring like really neat talent like guys like caleb
uh
big cat who's your you know i don't know if you hired him or he was a partner
no no we hired him
okay yep um you know glennie balls um wow was there caleb big cat and glennie
balls and putting
in getting put in that category is pretty fucking high level for there may be
some better guys i don't
know and big freddy or whatever who's the guy that's frank the tank yeah that
guy huh yeah yeah
wait listen we've hired uh i bet the under on him huh he's a big dude he'll
surprise you though that's
like you don't think he'll fit in an airplane seat and he can't so he'll he'll
shock you uh we have
jenna marbles do you know her yeah yeah she came from us really yeah hired her
up dude i was in love
with her dude yeah hired her out of a tanning salon oh i could see that mcafee
pat mcafee was us
really yeah we've had we have a pretty good like roster how do you pick talent
like do you like
now obviously people end up usually speaking mostly of people's successes right
do you feel like you've
had a good eye for it or do you feel like you've had just as many hits and
misses what do you think
no we definitely have a good eye for it we have misses for sure i think though
the biggest
thing we have an eye for it and we don't control people at all so you know we
hire somebody and
there's like you do you and and hopefully they find the way like caleb use an
example like we saw him
uh he was running up and down the sidelines of north carolina he was like
because they wouldn't
because he never started yeah and he wasn't even uniform his his title was like
i think the professor
of morale or director of morale so he had his blonde hair he'd wear like a uh
ex north carolina
professional football player who's now in the league their number we saw him on
tv like who the fuck is
this kid we had him on one of our shows like oh he's got a weird brain that's
what we say like we
look for weird brains yeah guys and we hired him and it's like yeah do whatever
you want and you know
he kind of he was always talented and funny bounced around kind of trying to
find his niche and
then he the sunday conversation which is now his kind of trademark thing and is
great that took a
couple years for him to like fit that exact perfect role and we just let people
sort of do that so i
think it's the combo we have a good eye for talent but more so we we are so
free in in letting and i
don't know if that's just we're lazy or whatever but we never tell people right
what to do it's like
you're hired we'll give you the resources do whatever you want and we've had a
lot of hits
because of it like pmt which is oh yeah dude like that was all his idea i mean
totally like i thought
podcasts when when i first heard about podcasts a guy kevin clancy who's been
with us forever oh
yeah yeah like that's a stupid idea podcast you'll never make money doing that
but they fucking did
it obviously they were smarter than me call her daddy that came from us yeah
yeah alice cooper so
yeah we've had a lot of uh a lot a lot of big big successful people that really
were i mean mcafee
played in the nfl but no one knew him on the media side a lot of big people
that million dollars worth
of game is a huge like urban podcast with us right now um so yeah we've had a
lot of big successes
caleb whenever i got to know caleb one thing he raves about is that he loves
working for you
yeah he he's he's been great i think i mean he genuinely like you know what i'm
saying like some
people say my job but he has i mean he absolutely loves it i think it's two
things for him that
probably he likes working for us me is the freedom which i just said and i
always do what i say so
i have the back of the talent as much as i can always but like if i say
something it's his bond i
actually think in his contract he has something like when pen bought us he's
like if there's a
disagreement between pen and me or something like dave gets to make the final
decision he just he just
trusts that he is good to work for somebody where you you know you can trust
like they have your best
interest and i do and some people may not like what i say or do but i'm pretty
straightforward and the
track reg is like there like 20 years i've been pretty consistently
straightforward honest truthful
yeah is there a hire or a departure that you regret or that you like somebody
that you let go or
anything or did you have any no i mean we we we hired mike rapaport this is a
big fucking i don't
like that guy right now uh he doesn't like me he doesn't like me that that was
a debacle i
i i literally if i throw a punch i've never been to fight my life never thrown
a punch in anger if i
threw a punch right now with my left arm it would dislocate that's how fucked
up my shoulders are
he got me so mad i sent him a contract to fight him like that's how fucking
that ended terribly uh
the mcafee thing with us didn't end great but like i don't really have regrets
he was always going
to be like a huge star on his own he's so good at so many things so no not not
too much yeah i mean
we're we've become to a degree and i always said a saturday night live model
like we bring unknown
talent and try to make them stars and we'll keep them as long as we can keep
them but really you know
if we can't hopefully they go become big somewhere else and it adds more
credibility for us right because
then people like oh this is a place where i can get a start and build my name
and either stay with
barcel or not we've been pretty good at that hope you enjoyed that video and
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