- [Emily] This is Emily.
- Hey, Emily. This is Dave Portnoy calling.
I'm recording you right now,
but I've noticed a bunch of people,
it seems like you're sending,
we have this Pizza Fest happening on Saturday,
and you're reaching out to our advertisers
and you're basically sending an email
that says to the effect,
"Dave's a misogynistic racist.
Do you wanna defend yourselves advertising
at this event," right?
- [Emily] I'm sorry, what's your name? Dave?
I'm sorry, who are you?
- I'm the guy you're writing
the article about, Dave Portnoy.
- [Emily] Oh, you're Dave Portnoy. Oh, hey, how are you?
- Good.
- [Emily] Good. No, I'm not.
I haven't said anything like that.
I'm-
- Well, I can read, if you want.
If you want, I can read what you actually sent. I have it.
- [Emily] Yeah, yeah, read it,
'cause I sent a bunch of notes,
so I wanna make sure I know which one-
- Okay.
"We are planning to write about the festival
and how some of the sponsors and participants
have drawn criticism by seemingly
to associate themselves with Dave Portnoy,
who has a history of misogynistic comments
and other problematic behavior.
I wanna make sure that blank had a chance to respond
to this since the company is the most prominent
in the partners of his festival."
- [Emily] Oh, that's the one I sent to (censored),
which was definitely the most pointed of them
because I really did want them to respond
and I was hoping to get something from them.
- Do you think that's fair?
Like, I totally disagree with
the assertions of what you said,
that misogynistic and all that stuff, so, like,
it kind of backs people into a corner,
so I'm happy to go over anything, I mean, you have.
That is pretty pointed.
You said you didn't do it,
then I have the exact evidence of you doing it, so-
- [Emily] No, I didn't say I didn't do that. I said I did.
That was the one that was the most pointed-
- Well, no, before I provided proof,
you said you didn't really remember doing that
and then I read it to you and you're like,
"Oh, yeah, I did it that one time,"
so you did do it.
I'm happy to talk about the comments because to me,
it's kinda like torturous interference, like,
we're doing an event, everyone's happy about the event,
you know, I've raised 50,000,000 for small business,
I've helped pizzas,
none of that, it's Dave's misogynistic and problematic,
and I'm happy to talk about it because to me,
nobody would like if someone's going around sending
that email to their sponsors, and again,
you're not, like, questioning it.
You're, it's almost like a statement of fact,
this is what I am.