Barstool Host Claims He ‘Owns’ Dave Portnoy Following Fiery Clash on Podcast: ‘Played Him Like a F*cking Fiddle’

Barstool Sports podcast host Kirk Minihane took a victory lap Thursday following his explosive on-air clash with company founder Dave Portnoy.

The shouting match occurred during Wednesday’s episode of The Unnamed Show. When Portnoy claimed that jokes about Jewish people lead to real-world harm — citing recent anti-Semitic attacks — Minihan argued that Portnoy was hypocritical. Specifically, Minihane referenced a previous joke Portnoy made and stated that joke wasn’t the reason that sexual assaults happen.

It’s important to note that Minihane wasn’t referencing a different rape joke Portnoy made in 2012.

Portnoy took exception to the rebuttal and their already-heated exchange devolved into a full-blown shouting match. Portnoy repeatedly insulted Minihane and even dared him to quit.

The next day, Minihane reflected on the viral moment and explained why he believed he got the better of his boss.

“Yesterday morning running, I thought of the skinny jeans thing,” Minihane said of the Portnoy joke he referenced. “And I knew once I dropped it on him in the argument, which was, ‘Hey, look, I don’t know, you made a dumb skinny jeans joke. I didn’t really care; but two days later when somebody got raped in Indiana, I don’t think it was because you told that joke.’ I knew he was gonna be upset that I brought it up, and he was a different person. He got off kilter.”

“I played him like a fucking fiddle — bottom line. I own him now… We broke him. And now he’s scrambling,” continued Minihane. “He’s one of these guys. He’s one of these, you know, celebrities who are defined by this. He’s Howard Stern!”

Watch above via The Unnamed Show