The latest episode of Out and About was billed as a deep dive into the business side of Barstool, and Austin Jenkins did not hold back. Between talking career trajectory and office politics, he dropped the kind of behind-the-scenes nugget that gets the Discord lighting up instantly: apparently Jerry, Sas and Mook all wanted to give the Bush Discord mod an actual full-time job.
Austin explains why he shot down the idea of hiring the Bush Discord mod full-time.
Austin's reasoning wasn't about the mod lacking talent. It was the opposite problem. He said the guy is a freak and worried that getting fully absorbed into the Barstool machine, with Jerry, Sas and Mook all hyping him up, would only make him more comfortable than he should be. It's a very Barstool executive move: identify the guy who's clearly good at the bit, then talk yourself out of formalizing it so the magic doesn't die in a job description.
That led straight into a back-and-forth about who's actually been driving the push to get this mod more involved on camera and with budget responsibilities. Austin pointed the finger at Mook as the one leading the charge, which set up one of the funnier exchanges of the episode.
Keegs and Austin go back and forth on whether Mook is actually a go-getter behind the scenes.
Keegs called Austin out for the contradiction, noting he'd been trashing Mook as lazy in the DMs while now crediting him for spearheading the Discord mod campaign. Austin didn't budge, doubling down that Mook is, in fact, lazy, regardless of this one initiative. It's the kind of pettiness that makes these episodes worth clicking on in the first place.
Elsewhere in the episode, Austin's willingness to just say the quiet part out loud extended past the Discord mod story. When Pat pushed back on the idea of building a reputation as a dickhead around the office, Austin's response was blunt: he doesn't care.
Pat warns Austin about his office reputation, and Austin shrugs it off entirely.
Pat later doubled down on X, comparing Austin's attitude directly to Kmarko's, framing it as a young-employee mentality that thinks being difficult is an asset rather than a liability. Whether or not that lands, the through-line of the episode is clear: Barstool's business side runs on exactly this kind of internal chess, where full-time job offers get debated in real time, loyalties get tested on air, and nobody, including the guy getting the job pitch, ends up totally sure where they stand.