Luke Kerr-Dineen

USA TODAY Sports

ESPN announced earlier this month that it was forming a partnership with Barstool Sports to host a late-night talk show - "Barstool Van Talk" - that will air on Tuesday night. It was a controversial move in the eyes of many fans given the website's past, and fellow ESPN host Sam Ponder was among those loudest to speak out on Twitter:

In a subsequent exchange Ponder also referenced a 2014 show in which Ponder claimed members of Barstool called her a "slut."

The clip quickly began recirculating on social media. Our friends over at The Big Lead have the audio; you can also listen to a portion of the audio below.

Warning: The clip contains NSFW language.

Sam's husband, Christian, also re-tweeted the audio:

A portion of the transcript, spoken by Barstool President Dave Portnoy:

"I know for a fact that every day at ESPN, all the suits and all the lawyers, they have their annual - not annual, daily - their daily 9:15 coffee meeting on how can we fire Sam Ponder without being sued for like discrimination. Because she is the worst. No person watching GameDay wants to see a picture of her and her ugly kid. Nobody cares Sam Ponder. We want to see you sex it up and be slutty and not see some prude [expletive] jerk who everybody hates and who's married to the worst quarterback who wears the ring and "God first" and this and that. Shut up. That's not what you're there for. And ESPN just can't find out how to fire you. Because they hate you. Because everyone who watches you hates you. Because all you do is talk about your little rat kid that nobody wants to hear about."