Pardon My Take is a comedic sports podcast created by the blog Barstool Sports. Since its founding in February 2016, the podcast has grown a massive fan base and is regularly among the top charting podcasts in the Sports category on iTunes and other podcast platforms. Though the show features a number of guests, the primary show members consist of co-hosts Dan "Big Cat" Katz and PFT Commenter, along with producer Henry "Handsome Hank" Lockwood. The show is notable for its satirical nature, its unconventional style of sports coverage and the chemistry between the two co-hosts.
In its relatively short existence, Pardon My Take has received widespread success and acclaim. The podcast is estimated to obtain between 750,000 and 1.5 million listeners per episode. Apple named the show one of the twelve best podcasts of 2016, and The Big Lead ranked Big Cat and PFT Commenter as the number one sports media talents under 40 years of age in 2017. Pardon My Take has an average iTunes rating of five stars from over 10,000 ratings.
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History
Pardon My Take was first launched in February 2016 when PFT Commenter left the sports website SB Nation to join Barstool Sports. Longtime Barstool contributor Big Cat had been regularly communicating with PFT through Twitter prior to this hiring and the two teamed up to create Pardon My Take soon after PFT's arrival.
From its inception, Pardon My Take has portrayed a somewhat mocking attitude towards traditional sports media, particularly the network ESPN and several of its notable personalities. The show's name is a play on the titles of ESPN television shows Pardon the Interruption and First Take; this led ESPN to send a cease-and-desist letter to Barstool Sports soon after the launching of the podcast. Pardon My Take regularly spoofs the tendency of sports personalities, such as Stephen A. Smith, to over-utilize the hot take during their shows. The success of the podcast led to a spin-off TV show called Barstool Van Talk that had a brief one-week run. Creative differences between ESPN , Sam Ponder, and Barstool founder Dave Portnoy led to a cancellation of the show.
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Format
The typical Pardon My Take episode consists of three parts. The members open up the show with a comedic recap of current sports news and a few segments. They then proceed to an interview with a sports personality, journalist or athlete. They close out the show with a collection of recurring original segments that vary from episode to episode.
Occasionally, Pardon My Take will alter this format for special episodes. These include their yearly recap shows and their annual award show, the "Takies." The hosts have also held "Exit Interviews" with their guests in past episodes, but these have been temporarily discontinued.
Segments
- Hot Seat, Cool Throne
- Jimbos
- Football Guy of the Week
- Fastest Two Minutes in Sports
- Mount Rushmore
- Higher learning/education with Billy Football
- Guys on Chicks
- Boobs, Beer, Football
- Locker Room Talk
- Bad Visual
- Tiger Woods Memorial Who's Back of the Week
- Drunk Ideas
- That's Enough Internet for Today
- Talking Soccer
- Talking Tennis
- Peter King Ate the Trash Again
- Hurt or Injured
- Hot in the Streets with Hank
- People Forget That
- Humans vs. the Sun
- Jacksonville Jaguars Stat of the Day
- Explain it to Hank
- Thoughts and Prayers
- PR 101
- As a White Guy
- Spinzone
- Sabermetrics
- Respect the Biz
- Fantasy F**kbois
- Protect the Shield
- Stay Woke
- Put One in his Ear Hole
- Bachelor Update for (and from) Guys that Don't Watch the Bachelor
- Mike and Mike Fair Play (RIP)
- Trouble in Paradise
- Seeing Red
- Adam Sandler Movie Ideas
- Roasts
- Blake Bortles' Wikipedia Club
Most of the guest interviews throughout 2016 were concluded by Big Cat asking three questions: if the guest washed their apples, who the most famous person in the guest's cell phone was, and a third question tailored to each guest, entitled, "a question I'm gonna ask, that you don't have to answer, but I'm gonna ask anyway." This third question was often the most provocative or ridiculing one of the interview.
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