Name: How Barstool Sports Almost Went Out of Business
Uploaded: 2023-02-07T17:16:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Barstool Sports Almost Went Out of Business' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Barstool Sports Almost Went Out of Business' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-07. Transcript available.

you love sports now it seems to be like something you really love do you really
really love it do
you love just the gambling do you love sports yeah so i always love sports i
love gambling
right obviously it's what we do now so that worked out like before i started
barstool i was trying i
want to get into that industry right yeah i flew out to vegas tried to do all
the stuff so it's
worked out perfectly for me i'm probably like one of the few guys who's made
money through gambling
most people get wiped out um so yeah no i'm a big sports fan and obviously it's
been a core part of
what we do so it makes me like i'm not i maybe i'm not getting arrested and
going to jail if we're
not doing barstool i'm not like that crazy if i was just sitting around as a
normal fan okay um but i
love sports yeah boston sports guy through and through do you think that they
should have legal
gambling like everywhere because i know you guys work with your gambling site
is barstool sports so
it's barstool sportsbook okay barstool sportsbook yeah and they even have bars
like i was in baton
ruse and they have like a barstool sportsbook bar in the casino yeah yeah
because so we were bought by
a company called penn and they have uh la berge we also have like standalone so
we're actually getting
one here in nashville like where oh yeah where there'll be a barstool sports
bar it's where like
the old uh joe's crab shack used to be so it's a good spot um so i think it
will eventually go
most states but it it so gambling became legal to bet on sports outside of vegas
maybe two years ago
two and a half something like that they repealed some federal law and now it's
up to the states so
they just decide state by state so i think we're live in like maybe 11 or 12
states and do you lobby
for that somehow or you just that's just let the world do that our parent
company lobbies for it and
all the different companies that are involved in it lobby for it and there's
people lobby against it so
i have nothing to do with it but yeah there's a lot of politicking going around
with that
do you get more joy out of making like a big wager on one thing or hitting like
a crazy parlay you
know i don't do as much as parlay so like betting on one thing winning it i
mean i i've bet my whole
life so it's just but yeah no it's i love it i love gambling yeah you like to
gamble like do you feel
like that that's just like a thing you like to do just with sports or even like
kind of with everything
like you kind of like to go kind of like the alternate route a little bit yeah
it's i
definitely even barstool like i think being an entrepreneur kind of is like
gambling different
different respect but i saw a barstool with nothing really and everything we
made we put back
into it for the most part work but you know we did concert i thought we're
going out of business at
one point because i put all our money into like a concert tour and it kind of
who was it like third
eye blind or something no believe it or not so we did this thing it we had
never left downtown boston
ever and and i was like all right we gotta see if we're big outside of boston
and we had liquor
sponsors at the time and they were like well you know we can't sponsor you if
you're going to colleges
and we're like well what if we make it a music tour could you they said yeah so
we had this kid sam
adams um it kind of blew up and he's got some big songs we did it we did six
six stops and it went
really well um bigger than we ever thought and i i looked at it so we
originally thought we're going
like frats and you we go to umass and the the actual school calls like hey we're
getting all
these requests for tickets what is this so we went from the frat to the actual
like mullen center which
is the gymnasium sold out in a second my brains go on the business side it's
like hey if i can recreate
this with like big talent i may be on to something so we had a music tour it
was headlined uh by mike
posner do you remember like cooler than me at the time i saw mike two weeks ago
yeah so that song just
came out he was the headliner it was uh him wale i had mac miller for 1500
bucks that's how much we
were paying him to play so he was the third guy coming up on it uh and nobody
fucking but well
people bought tickets same amount as the first time we went around it turned
out our crowd they
weren't coming necessarily for who we're booking they're coming because barstool
was on it oh wow we
got fucking wiped out i actually hated posner he didn't promote the shit he
didn't promote at all
not his fault his agent's fault um so that was a disaster and then we moved
from that because it was
kind of like all right if people are coming for barstool not the talent doesn't
really matter and we went
into edm so you lost you lost your butt on that smoked because you had to pay
the act so much pay
the accident i rented the buildings so we were going i was paying like yeah the
big on that building
like 100 grand or something a night and we weren't doing it i thought i was
gonna have to pay the full
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