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KFC: Barstool New York Office Will Evolve Into Comedy Production Powerhouse

“Now we’re in a place that we’ve figured out the game and we know how to do it. So let’s go do it with the funniest people on planet earth.”

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Kevin “KFC” Clancy has a vision for the future of the Barstool Sports office in New York City.

With Penn Entertainment recently completing its acquisition of remaining ownership stake in the digital media giant, Clancy pondered the future on KFC Radio on Tuesday. He said Barstool’s presence in the comedy scene is growing, and he’s ready to take things to the next level.

“If Barstool is serious about it and we go about it the right way, I do not see how Barstool fails in the world of comedy,” Clancy said. “We have made so many inroads at KFC Radio in the comedy world that almost every comic respects us and likes us and wants to work with us. And now if we formalize that and Barstool New York becomes hopefully a hub for stand-up comics and TikTok stars and scriptwriters and internet video creators and whatever genre of entertainment you’re in, it’s like we were able to do that the first go-round.”

Clancy added that if Barstool puts all the knowledge they have about networking and connecting with the best of internet comedy then they’ll do well. He said with the Penn backing and the already established resources and connections, combined with strong social media platforms, there’s no reason they can’t successfully seek out talent to work with.

“I can go to every up-and-coming comic or up-and-coming personality and be like, you want to get involved with us? Here is what you get immediately,” he said. “You get exposure like this, you get distribution like this. We can help you with production, we can help you with creativity. We give you the production space. The literal and figurative support that you need.”

“Now we’re in a place that we’ve figured out the game and we know how to do it,” KFC added. “So let’s go do it with the funniest people on planet earth.”

But Clancy did say the road was paved with plenty of breaks and good fortunes along the way, so he’s trying not to get too far ahead of himself at this point.

“We would still need a lot of that shit to fall in to place to ever really replicate that success again,” he said. “But we’ve positioned ourselves so well to go do that I don’t see how it doesn’t work out.”

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Dan Le Batard: ‘Does Sports Media Care if Interviews Are Done Well?’

“An exclusive interview with Ja Morant, who hasn’t talked to anybody after his controversy, is going to get eyeballs, so it doesn’t matter how good it actually is.”

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Mike Greenberg had praise for Jalen Rose this week. He said that no one but his ESPN colleague could have handled the interview with Ja Morant that has been airing on the network. Dan Le Batard has the exact opposite opinion of what he saw.

“What I saw was soft and didn’t seem to serve anybody except ESPN,” Le Batard said on his Thursday show. “This seems to be a lot of people around the economy of basketball and Ja Morant orchestrating an interview so Ja Morant can move onto the next stage of his branding.”

Whereas Greenberg thought the shared experience of an NBA career made Rose more likely to get answers from Morant, Le Batard said it created a problem. He accused Rose of letting Morant get away with using “talking points” in lieu of answering any actual questions about the string of erratic behavior and disturbing incidents the Memphis Grizzlies star has been involved with.

It wasn’t the only interview that Dan Le Batard pointed to. He noted that Pat McAfee’s interview with Aaron Rodgers may have drawn an audience of nearly half a million, but very little substance was offered.

“Does anybody in the audience, in sports fandom, or even, at this point, in sports media companies, care in a real and legitimate way whether the interview is done well or not?”

He added that the standard has changed for these interviews because the goal has changed. They are no longer about journalism as much as they are about branding, particularly in the case of ESPN’s exclusive interview with Ja Morant.

“An exclusive interview with Ja Morant, who hasn’t talked to anybody after his controversy, is going to get eyeballs, so it doesn’t matter how good it actually is,” Le Batard concluded. “All you need, if you’re the media partner, is please get me the famous guy to sit down.”

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Jomboy, Aaron Boone Partner For Weekly Podcast Appearance

“I thought it was a really interesting opportunity, and a cool idea. These guys have been innovators in this business and they’ve built a massive, young following.”

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It isn’t unusual for a professional sports team to partner with a local radio station for weekly interviews with team personnel. Even though Jomboy Media is a digital outlet, it didn’t stop the company from inking a deal to have Yankees manager Aaron Boone on one of its signature podcasts.

In a move announced Thursday, Jomboy Media has signed a deal for Boone to appear on its popular Talkin’ Yanks podcast — hosted by founder Jimmy O’Brien and Jake Storiale — once a week throughout the baseball season.

“I thought it was a really interesting opportunity, and a cool idea. These guys have been innovators in this business and they’ve built a massive, young following,” Boone told The New York Post. “I think Jimmy and Jake are both really good guys. And they’re passionate about what they do, and they love the Yankees. And, sometimes they’re a little misguided and it’s my chance to set the record straight every now and then.”

Previously, Boone had a weekly spot on 98.7 ESPN New York’s The Michael Kay Show, which reportedly paid him six figures.

“It’s going to be really fun and it kind of goes with the changing landscape of media,” O’Brien said. “The fact that two fans can create a show and in five years get to the point where they get to ask questions to the manager of the Yankees and bring whatever insight we can get out of that to our audience — it is pretty wild, a little surreal.”

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Sports Media Reacts to Aaron Rodgers Telling Adam Schefter ‘Lose My Number’

“Here are some of the best responses from Schefter’s sports media colleagues to the tweet.”

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Quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday and revealed that if he gets his way, his time with the Green Bay Packers is done. He intends to play for the New York Jets in 2023.

Rodgers told McAfee that the hang-up lies with Green Bay, which is trying to determine the appropriate compensation for trading for a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

Rodgers also revealed that he had an interaction with ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter. Schefter, who was obviously digging as much as he could to get the scoop on what was going on with Rodgers’ future, texted Rodgers trying to confirm the information he had.

“I didn’t respond to Dianna Russini I think her name is,” Rodgers said. “But I would say the same thing that I told Schefty. Lose my number. Nice try.”

Upon hearing Rodgers’ account, Schefter followed up with a screenshot of Rodgers responding exactly how he said, and that sent social media into a whirlwind.

Here are some of the best responses from Schefter’s sports media colleagues to the tweet:

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