Chef Donny's farm show is somehow Barstool's best new content

Chef Donny built his Barstool career on stunts and survival-mode cooking segments, but his newest show has him somewhere he's never been before: knee-deep in cow manure on a working cattle farm. Making The Cut premiered this week and it's already delivering exactly the kind of unscripted chaos that makes Barstool content hit.

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Making The Cut returns tonight!! @KaticMichael and I spent 2 days on NFL Hall of Famer Joe Thomas’s Wagyu Cattle Farm. Tune in to see if we made the cut! (Link below)

The location is no accident. Joe Thomas, the former Cleveland Browns left tackle and first-ballot Hall of Famer, has spent his post-football life building Six Springs Farm in southwest Wisconsin into a legitimate Wagyu operation under the Hall of Fame Beef brand, selling premium beef through restaurants and grocers around the country. It's a real business, not a celebrity vanity project, which is exactly what made it fair game for Donny and co-host Katic Michael to show up and see if they actually had what it takes to work a farm.

Before the show even dropped, Donny was making the media rounds to hype it, including a stop on Barstool's Yak podcast where he told hosts he'd personally asked to come on and talk about the premiere.

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“This time I’ve asked to come on myself” -Chef Donny

Not everyone let him have his moment uncontested. The Yak crew clipped a suspicious cut in his own promo trailer and razzed him for it live on air, which is basically the Barstool version of a warm welcome. Premiere night itself delivered on the farm footage: cattle chutes, red tractors, and Thomas himself walking Donny and Katic through the operation that's turned a Hall of Fame career into a legitimate beef business.

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People forget how awesome Joe Thomas was/is

Since the premiere, Donny hasn't slowed down. He's dropped a new episode almost daily, including one following a cattle farmer and, most recently, a segment where the actual farm work turned into an honest-to-God chase scene.

Chef Donny

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Chasing down lost cattle at the farm felt like an episode of Cops Full episode linked below

That segment is the one fans latched onto as the show's best moment yet, with the reaction on Barstool's own channels framing the cattle-wrangling chaos as an outright win for a show that's only a handful of episodes old. For a guy whose whole brand is throwing himself into situations he has no business being in, chasing runaway cows around a Wisconsin farm might be the most on-brand pivot of his career. If the early returns are any indication, Making The Cut isn't just a one-off farm visit — it's shaping up to be a real series, and Donny's leaning all the way in.