Former Barstool Employee Hints She ‘Did’ Choose Sides in Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn’s Feud

Schnitt, who now hosts her own “Late Night Drive” podcast, was hired to work at Barstool Sports, the media company founded by Dave Portnoy, shortly after she graduated from college.

“I’d never been a person who thought very much about my career,” Schnitt said on Friday. “I never did [have a life plan]. Part of it, of course, was knowing that at some point I was going to have to take six months off because I [would need] a kidney transplant.”

She added, “I took it, and then [there] was a moment where I was like, ‘OK, I could do this. I’m good at this.’ I didn’t really stop to consider, and, of course, you don’t when you’re 22, [whether] I like this. Is this what will longterm make me happy or is this just what I’m doing at 22? In that moment, you’re, like, ‘Of course this is going to make me happy forever,’ but then you learn a lot of valuable skills, and I learned a lot about the industry and I learned about myself.”

According to Schnitt, working at Barstool was, generally, a “good first job to have.”

“It’s, like, you’re thrown into a fire and you have to figure stuff out,” she said.

Schnitt ultimately left the media company in September 2020.

“I am proud of the work I did and grateful to the coworkers who helped me grow over the last two years, but now I’m really for a new challenge,” she wrote in a social media statement. “Thank you so much to everyone who listened to ‘Schnitt Talk’ and specifically thank you to Alanna for all the work you did to make the show a fun success.”