r/PardonMyTake

Billy has stayed off line and out of the public eye the last few years and I didn’t get the vibe that he parted ways with PMT/Barstool on the best term so I’m surprised to see him not only write a chapter in the book but go on Jake’s podcast and tweeting encouraging people to buy the book. I wonder if he has some sort of cut of the profits of the book or if he’s just doing this out of the kindness of his heart. He seems like he doing well adjusting to a more traditional lifestyle

Had it arrive today and had the day off so powered through. Only took like four or five hours. Very easy read, as to be expected. Writing was engaging enough that I didn’t skim or get distracted but it wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be. The stuff written by PFT (which there doesn’t seem to be a lot of) was definitely the funniest and most engaging. Been listening for four years or so, and I feel like most of the early stories I’ve heard before. Most interesting inside-baseball stuff was probably PFT’s contract negotiations while the penn deal was going down in 2019. Format was a little odd, with all the guest excerpts, but I guess wtf else would you fill a book about a podcast with. Definitely paints Big Cat in a great light— clearly busted his ass to get to where he is and almost every guest gushes about him. Tim Woods, unsurprisingly, had the best written part of the book.

Overall 7/10 entertaining enough, worth the money, nothing special.

I wasn’t overly interested in a lot of the talked about stuff in the book like the guest chapters and the niche chapters about podcasting (the memes chapter was 10/10 tho). But I thought the chapters where PFT and Dan talked about the business side like the PEN deal, their contracts, espn and Dave stuff was really interesting and well done. Also dans chapter about fatherhood was awesome . You don’t usually hear them talk about that stuff and how honest they were was really cool. Even more so given Dave gave his side in his own book like a month ago

You would think for the size of the pod the sales team would’ve played them against each other better than that.

Anyone have a lip reading on what mintzy texted pft?

Just listened to Jake’s pod with Billy today and I am happy to inform everyone Billy has not changed one bit 😂