Dan “Big Cat” Katz has been one of the central voices of Barstool Sports for more than a decade, but even he admits the breakneck pace won’t last forever. During an appearance on the Green Light with Chris Long podcast, the Pardon My Take co-host acknowledged that he expects to scale back the amount of content he produces within the next several years.
“If I had to be fully transparent. I think there will be a time in the next, I will say, let’s call it two to four years that I will start to wind down a little bit,” Katz said. “Right now, I don’t have free time. I just don’t. The amount of stuff that I have to do, all the shows I have to do. It’s kind of ridiculous because I’m pulled in a million different directions.”
Katz added that part of the decision comes from what he sees as overexposure.
“I don’t think anyone wants to listen to me this much,” he said. “Last Friday between live shows and shows that were released, there was 10 hours of me doing stuff. That’s too much s**t. No one wants to hear me talk for 10 hours.”
For Katz, however, “winding down” does not mean walking away from Barstool or even his most prominent role. Instead, it means focusing almost exclusively on Pardon My Take. The podcast he co-hosts with Eric “PFT Commenter” Sollenberger and longtime producer Henry Lockwood.
“The winding down will be to just do Pardon My Take,” Katz explained. “I think that will give me the juice to keep it going for longer. It sounds ridiculous, but I’ll do this show for as long as PFT and Hank want to do this show because the alternative is inviting PFT over to my house on Sundays and watching games with him. We’d be doing the podcast anyway, just without microphones.”
Katz also addressed what the future might look like if he and his co-hosts continue the show years down the road, even as they age. He said he no longer worries about being seen as “washed up” in the sports media landscape.
“If we’re doing this in five or ten years, there’ll probably be some people that will make fun of us and be like, ‘These guys are old and out of touch,’” Katz said. “But if we still have a core audience, what the f**k do I care?”
His comments underscore the balance many sports media personalities face between maintaining relevance and sustaining longevity. For Katz, the solution appears clear: pare down the side projects, stick with the flagship, and keep the chemistry with his co-hosts intact.
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