![]() On a recent afternoon, the “Pardon My Take” crew was gathered in the studio, located on the third floor of the Barstool offices on the southern edge of Midtown, to plot its next episode. (At his request, the Post agreed not to reveal his name and many biographical details in reporting this story.)Īs his profile has risen, PFT finds himself in character for a bigger chunk of the day, at the same time seeing his real-life personality - easygoing and educated, nuanced and self-deprecating - bleed into the character during podcasts and videos. Already, he has been quietly outed on a handful of internet forums. The 33-year old man behind the character is fully aware that the more exposure PFT gets, the more his true identity is at risk of being exposed. With his misspelled missives and preposterously hot takes, PFT has somehow transcended internet fame while maintaining his anonymity he actually takes off his sunglasses in public when he doesn’t want to be recognized. He records online videos, cohosts “Pardon My Take” and will be the executive producer of a pair of other podcasts, all while finding new outlets for his online persona - including a parody rock band and spoofs of Alex Jones, the conservative conspiracy theorist. PFT writes columns for Barstool, the controversial and thriving sports media company that many deride as misogynistic. ![]() ![]() He’s so much bigger than a Twitter account now. That has made PFT a cornerstone of the burgeoning Barstool Sports empire, a striking perch for someone who not long ago was stuck in an office job, amusing himself by assuming the identity on social media of half-literate, know-it-all internet commenters like the ones he encountered on the NFL news site Pro Football Talk. The podcast produces three episodes a week each could be generating $50,000 in advertising revenue, according to a recent estimate in Sports Business Journal. He plays that character both on Twitter, where he has more than 500,000 followers, and on “Pardon My Take,” which registers upward of 1 million listeners per episode. His entire persona is satire, aimed at poking fun at traditional sports media, players and coaches who traffic in cliches and loudmouth fans raised in a smoldering universe of hot takes. It’s kind of refreshing, I think, for people to see what these clowns are doing. “Sports journalism has become self-important in the last five to 10 years. “There’s a space for what we offer,” PFT said of his popular show, “Pardon My Take,” the only sports program to crack the most recent top-20 list from Podtrac, the leading podcast measurement company. What started as a parody Twitter account ballooned into something no one could have predicted: one-half of the most popular sports podcast in the country, with a loyal following of fans who are desperate to laugh in a sports world that seems to grow ever more serious. (“Like a short Kid Rock,” he jokes.) But as often as this same sidewalk scene unfolds, the context remains bizarre. With hair that hangs past his shoulders and ever-present dark sunglasses, he’s hardly inconspicuous. “Can I get your picture really quick, man? I’m your biggest fan,” said a passerby, pulling out his ear buds. We love to see women in the industry sticking up for one another.NEW YORK - Wearing dark sunglasses with an acoustic guitar slung over his shoulder, the most unlikely sports media personality on the planet stepped through the glass doors and onto 27th Street to wait for his Uber. Rachel further pleaded with people to “leave taylor swift alone!,” and shared that she is “sick and tired” of women being the butt of the joke. Seeing a lot of “it’s a joke” but you’ve got to understand that since the beginning of time “you can’t take a joke” has been synonymous with “let me say a horrible thing about women without suffering the consequences” - we’re sick and tired! it’s never been funny! get a life! and it’s not always just men who speak this way about us. She went on to point out that you would “never see people speaking this way about a man,” adding that “we do not pick apart men’s attitudes and relationships the way we do women’s. ![]() rachel zegler (she/her/hers) October 3, 2023 It’s not news that the media is particularly (and unwarrantedly) cruel to taylor swift but the way men feel entitled to speak about women, their bodies, and their sex lives needs to be seriously evaluated ![]() A post shared by rachel zegler a quote tweet, Rachel wrote, “it’s not news that the media is particularly (and unwarrantedly) cruel to taylor swift but the way men feel entitled to speak about women, their bodies, and their sex lives needs to be seriously evaluated”. ![]()
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