Barstool's Drawn Together series has built its whole identity on getting talent to sit still, sketch, and actually talk, and the newest episode with Chris Klemmer delivered on both fronts. Between doodles, Klemmer dropped the kind of childhood flex that sounds made up until you remember Barstool people tend to have oddly specific origin stories: he was reading so well at 5 years old that his school wanted to bump him straight from Kindergarten to third grade.
Klemmer recounting the kindergarten-to-third-grade jump on the podcast mic.
That kind of story is exactly why Drawn Together works as a format. It's low-stakes on the surface, two people with easels and markers, but it turns into real conversation because nobody's performing for a highlight reel. The episode also included a wholesome aside about Mike Portnoy, the Dream Theater drummer, apparently being an early fan of Klemmer's work, the kind of detail that only surfaces when a guest is relaxed enough to free-associate.
A quieter moment from the sit-down, drawing across the table while Klemmer name-checks his Portnoy co-sign.
Then the conversation swung somewhere a lot spicier: Jeff Nadu's podcast money. Nadu, back in the Barstool fold after his own saga, reportedly had a verbal agreement worth roughly $60,000 for a weekly show running through football season, something around 32 episodes. Klemmer did the arithmetic live and couldn't make it make sense.
Klemmer breaking down the Nadu podcast payday, episode by episode, on Drawn Together.
Run the numbers the way Klemmer did and you land around $2,000 an hour for a weekly podcast, an absurd rate by any content-creation standard, and Klemmer said as much on air, openly stumped about why anyone would walk away from that. It tracks with what's been reported elsewhere about Nadu's Men of Honor arrangement with Rico Bosco: a verbal deal in that $60,000 range for a weekly show during football season that Nadu reportedly balked at, wanting more money instead of taking the guaranteed bag.
It's a small moment in a low-key episode, but it says something about where Barstool internal drama lives these days: not in cryptic tweets, but in guests casually fact-checking each other's contracts on camera. Klemmer didn't need a hot take to make the Nadu numbers interesting, he just needed a calculator and an easel.