Brandon Walker's hiring saga at Barstool is already one of the most retold origin stories in the company's catalog — the kind of bit that gets dragged back out every few months because it somehow keeps getting better. Friday's Mostly Sports added another layer to the lore, and it involves, of all things, magicians.
BFW, in a He-Man button-up, casually drops the magician production company line on the Mostly Sports set.
The delivery is pure BFW — half confession, half punchline, dropped like it's the most normal sentence in the world. He's not literally announcing he was about to leave to do card tricks for a living. It's the kind of detail that only makes the whole "how did this guy end up at Barstool" arc funnier the more times you hear it.
A fan account piles on, calling the broader hiring story one of the all-time great Barstool yarns now that the magician detail is canon.
And the timing is perfect, because the same episode had Walker swinging at a disputed puck call he says will get debated for years — so the magician quote is sandwiched between actual sports takes and a man predicting eternal NHL controversy. That's basically the Mostly Sports formula in a nutshell.
BFW and Robbie Fox dig into the disputed puck call in the same episode.
By the time the live promo went up Friday afternoon, the magicians line was already the takeaway. Walker's been at this long enough that the bar for "new detail in the hiring story" is genuinely high, and somehow he keeps clearing it. A production company full of magicians might be the most BFW sentence ever uttered on that show.