Dave Portnoy rips Bosco Industries on Pick Em Week 11

Week 11 of Pick Em came out this week, and Bosco Industries took a shot almost as soon as it started.

"I didn't even know that show was still going" is a classic Portnoy line. It's built to hurt, and the target is supposed to laugh it off on camera. Bosco Industries is one of Bosco's side projects at Barstool, along with Pick Em, House Call and Healthy Debate. It also sells its own merch. So when the boss says he forgot it existed, he's not just teasing. He's giving a review of how the thing is doing.

Then the segment turned. After roasting the show, Prez read through the numbers, and they weren't terrible. The transcript's view counts are rough, so don't treat them as exact. Either way, he ended on 2 words that Bosco's fans took as a full endorsement.

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Prez gave Bosco a “Good job” This is why we RYDE!!!

That's the deal with Portnoy. Praise from him is rare, so a reluctant "good job" after a few minutes of getting buried counts as a win. Bosco treated it that way and posted the clip himself with the caption "Live for the good jobs." The fans on his side went even bigger. To them, this was a guy who survived Barstool announcing his exit back in 2022, and now he was getting a pat on the head from El Presidente on the flagship gambling show.

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“I didn’t even know that show was still going” - @stoolpresidente regarding Bosco Industries

Bosco had a second front going this week too. Ryen Russillo moved his podcast to Barstool in November 2025, which put him on the same company roster Bosco loves to needle. Bosco had apparently taken a shot at Russillo's ball knowledge. Russillo's answer on his own show was about as dry as it gets.

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Ryen responding to Bosco: “I don’t know enough for him to text me, and if that also prevents him from texting me during games then that’s a win”

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Bosco comes into the studio with a merch idea for the boys and questions Russillo’s ball knowledge t.co/sER4IKQVSm

It's a smart way to handle Bosco. Russillo doesn't argue the basketball. He turns the insult into a perk: if he doesn't know enough to be worth texting, then he gets his Sundays back. That's a little sharper than Portnoy forgetting a show exists, and it carries the same message. The guys around Bosco handle him by acting like he's barely there.

That's also why it works for Bosco. Getting roasted by the boss and brushed off by Russillo in the same week keeps him in the middle of the Barstool conversation, and that conversation is what keeps a show like Bosco Industries going. Pick Em rolls on to Week 12, and Bosco will be on the call. Whether he gets another "good job" depends on next week's view counts.