BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards, and Brianna Chickenfry - IS MATT RIFE REPLACING JOSH RICHARDS? — BFFs EP. 153

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

We start headlines without Josh after he fell ill right before we had to film and get into Keith Lee shaking up the Atlanta restaurant scene, Josh’s sister Olivia going at Avani Gregg with Anthony Richards, the Taylor Swift girl squad, Mr. Beast not apologizing for his latest video, the viral plane lady saying she saw nothing, Tana Mongeau getting rejected from a hotel for using a fake name, and N3on getting cheated on by his celibate girlfriend. We finish with BFFs Corner where people are coming at the BFFs for being “out of touch”, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan talking Dave, Dave’s appearance on the Adam Friedland Show, Josh on Selling Sunset, and the BFFs taking over the Miami Raising Canes Drive Thru next week. We then are joined by comedian Matt Rife where we talk everything from his rise to fame, his viral crowd work, his latest tour, his beef with BFFs, whether he actually views himself as very attractive, his upcoming special, hosting the AVN Awards, being an Ohio State fan, his most overrated comedian, and ending with a twist on our typical FMK game. Support Our Sponsor! Raising Canes: Come for the chicken fingers and stay for sauce! Order online at https://RaisingCanes.com Subscribe to the podcast now: https://barstool.link/3m4Q0Fq Check out the BFFs Social Media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bffspod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFFsPod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bffspodYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/bffspod

Hey, PFF listeners, you can find us every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. All right, Raising Cane's, we have it here in the office. I'm in Chicago, chowing down on it, the best. This was actually here for half an hour, and it still is awesome. Thanksgiving's right around the corner, and I already know what I'm bringing to the Friendsgiving feast this year. Raising Cane's, delicious, tailgates full of hot chicken fingers, cane sauce, Texas coast, jugs of sweet tea, always a hit with my friends.

Cane's has covered for all the fixings. My parents are actually coming to Miami for Thanksgiving, so we may just do this for our real Thanksgiving. Their mobile app makes ordering for a crowd quick, convenient, so I'm not wasting any time this holiday season waiting in line. Thankful for a lot of things this year, but Raising Cane are top of my list satisfy your canes fix today there's no other option come for the chicken fingers stay for the sauce order online at raising canes.com bffs we have matt rife coming on special guest later in the show um we have no josh i guess he

he's a little sick passed out was spinning aka was hungover so the dude missed the show because hungover um better for the dog i'll give him better for the dog too but if it was a hangover man well you guys said he went out the hangover you said he went out hard last night right well he had the um the cfda's i don't think i'm saying that right but he had a show last night yeah right so he i would definitely say hungover um let's get into the headlines keith lee shakes up atlanta restaurant scene i was reading this when you guys sat down i don't get it keith lee is a food review with almost 15 million followers on tiktok who gives honest reviews and restaurants food customer service he's mindful of his influence even when giving a negative view is very positive.

Okay. Well, Keith Lee had some great experience in Atlanta, like helping a woman who took over her late father's restaurant, giving a tip matching the owner's sales for the day. Those experiences were overshadowed on the internet by Keith Lee's family being turned down or told they have over an hour wait by multiple restaurants, only to tell Keith Lee he could eat immediately. Oh. So he was mad that like they were just giving him like special treatment? Is that what I'm getting from it? So he sends his family in to go get the stuff because he doesn't want to be influenced by the fact that it's him getting it.

Yeah, they want it. And then he'd come in and be like, well, now I want to give you service. And he'd refuse the service being like, if you weren't going to give it to a regular person it's him getting it yeah they want and then he'd come in and be like well now i want to give you service and he'd refuse the service being like if you weren't going to give it to a regular person don't give it to me like kind of like if you did a pizza review and like they change the whole thing and make sure the pizza is extra good for you well no that that doesn't it sounds like he's just got to skip the line it has nothing to do with the food right yeah they're like we don't have to we can't do it we can't we can't accommodate him and they see it's him and they're like actually yeah we can't no shit of course if i walk into a pizza place and there's a two-hour wait and i show up i would expect the pizza place no offense though

everyone else to accommodate me since i'm there to do a pizza thing like i wanted what am i missing there's an hour late there's an hour wait for anybody who shows up. This has nothing to do with skin color, race, nothing. It's just, you go to a restaurant, there's an hour wait.

This influencer, Keith Lee, who's famous shows up in the restaurant, makes accommodations. No different than let's say, you know, Tom Brady showed up at a restaurant. You're not like,

Hey Tom, you got to wait two hours. Oh, my God, it's Tom Brady. He's cutting the line. Is that what we're talking about? Yeah. Yeah. He refused it.

Fuck this guy. So Keith refused it, though. Yes. Yes. Happened multiple times. But he's like, yeah, I won't. He's like, I won't take preference. So why is this the number one story on BFFs right now?

It's a massive story because now the place, one of the places they did that made a video being like, we don't know who Keith Lee is. We don't care. And now no one goes there. It's like the place is empty. Oh, wow. Yeah. Don't want to ruin a business.

Well, they had to know who Keith Lee was. Why were they letting Keith Lee skip the line? Yeah. Yeah. Is there stuff I should know about this first of all i i think keith keith lee is a little presumptuous to be like i'm i refuse service because you are going to accommodate me of course they are your food reviewer yeah but i think you want he sends his family in so that it's like an honest review and they're not making his food extra special so

that he gives a better review it's like like an undercover customer. So why doesn't his family just wait in line an hour? Yeah, I think that's what he's saying. He wants them to. He doesn't like that they put him on a pedestal. Yeah, but why are you showing up? Don't show up. Don't show up early.

That one was, I think they were like, we don't have time, so we went somewhere else. Then they found out it was him that was waiting. well no now we can let you in no shit yeah what am i missing here i'm your understanding he just refuses he refuses and people are like go go yeah is there video like this is stupid to me yeah i can't believe this is the biggest honestly have we hired that girl yet have you never heard him before no i know i know who he is i've definitely seen his videos i like him a lot i just i don't understand what the big deal is why is he so upset that he gets to cut the line

currently we are at the real milk and honey i got it let's try it and rate it one through ten as you can see i don't have any bag in my hands my family went in and they told them they were closed early for deep cleaning yet the door is wide open and it's people still going in and grabbing orders. Also, the people who relayed this message, my family said were really nice. It's just the rules. Don't call this restaurant trying to get nobody fired. Ain't nobody do nothing. This is the rules they had. For the record, afterwards, I did walk in and they did recognize me and they attended the services, but I respectfully declined. I'm a normal person. I pay for my food like everybody else. Respectfully, if you're not going to do it

then, don't do it now. God bless you. you yeah we're just trying to get some food but i am gonna make this very clear i do not support could don't or agree tearing down these businesses while we personally may not have the best customer service experience that does not mean you will have the same experience all right so he's pissed that his family was turned away and then he walks in and he gets it it's just a family thing right but again he did say a little bit other people were getting it i i can give a little more context if you want so he also includes the customer service experience that his family typically goes through like oh these people were super nice and the food's nice so even if he doesn't always like

the food he might say the restaurant was really great like the people there were awesome people are now mad because that like back to back his atlanta reviews were fairly negative and he has so much influence that all these negative places all the places that he reviewed negatively are now getting shit on receiving death threats whatever it may be and his whole point is like well i'm gonna review it honestly for the experience that we had you can't ask me to review your your restaurant and then get mad because you don't like the review and then on top of that cardi b kind of added like basically the atlanta restaurant scene it's like you can't get food unless you're famous cardi b went on on live and was like i've had similar experience like i've tried to get food somewhere and no place

will serve me until i say it's cardi b so everyone's like why is it so hard to get food in atlanta kind of feed atlanta who cares honestly this story is fucking stupid thank you devin austin come on seems like they need more restaurants yeah yeah this i guess it's a big story but i think that's it yeah i don't know and i i guess i'm in the food review business yeah but this does nothing like i what what he made is fine the only thing i again i take the food your food reviewer if you're reviewing the food you want to let people know if it's good eat the food whatever that that story doesn't match for me avani greg claps back at olivia richards josh gabby duda rupert anthony reeves josh sister olivia dressed up as mystery incorporated from scooby-doo halloween olivia posted a video of her and anthony as shaggy and velma with the

caption scrawny white boy referring to avani greg calling anthony a scrawny white boy and maddie moreau's youtube video fans are quick to point out that Evonnie Anthony once dressed as Shaggy and Velma for Halloween 2. Olivia's TikTok. Do we have the side by side one? Yeah, Paul Pears. And then this is the original. That was Josh's sister? Yes. Yeah, and then this was the original that was josh's sister yes yeah and then this was the original one from last year avani clap back at pope by posting text i was a suggestive audio like a video with song lyrics

if you wondered if i hate you fuck you from sys's song and an audio that says jealous you don't even exist to me olivia went on live olivia is josh's sister and said she doesn't want to be avani it was a group costume and she took the opportunity with the costumes that they had to make a video well well i was confused so i i asked josh i was like are they together like are your sister and anthony a thing and he was like no absolutely not so i was like why did she make the video i guess it was just like a little fuck you yeah listen we're team richards here olivia says she doesn't want to be evania's group costume she took the opportunity with the costumes that they had to

make a video is it a josh's sister like a person yes she lives she breathes yeah she oh she's in all she makes a bunch of content too so i think she like josh is so team anthony and olivia's a ride or die for her brother and anthony and after avani made that video saying fuck you scrawny white boy she was like i'm gonna make this because fuck you gotcha that's the way i see it she's got her brother's back yeah and anthony's so i don't think she wants to be avani everyone was like you're jealous of avani you want to be her and i think she was just like standing up for anthony yeah interesting i mean you obviously bring yourself into the mix because i kind of have the same vibes you did brie like are they

together or yeah she olivia would seemingly yeah friends of uh with with josh and um reeves Friends with Josh and Reeves, Anthony Reeves. Yeah. She's picking a fight, though, with Avani. Yeah. Very clearly. Taylor Swift's girl squad is back, remnants of her original 1989 era Taylor Swift squad with New Girl Squad.

She went to dinner with Selena, Brittany Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Sophie Turner. Yeah, I saw this. This is like the rat pack for women. She's hand in hand with Brittany Mahomes. And it's locked fingers. It's different. They're really close.

There's a chance I'd pass out if I just happened to be walking in the street. Just be like. Imagine I would be so intimidated. That crowd coming towards you. I would just crawl and fall over. I'd be right there with them all. I'd be standing there. I'm like, what do you mean Taylor Swift's coming out?

With all of them? It's crazy. crazy yeah that's a crazy power squad and then it's just like gg hadid is just in the back just like casually it's insane that's uh argentina fans have been camping out since june for taylor swift not surprising um what it's november yeah well she's the queen uh travis kelsey was asked if he's in love with Taylor Swift I was actually driving and I went through a tunnel and then it got right to here's what Travis Kelsey said and then I went through a tunnel so I didn't hear what he said it was crazy it was like it was in town for seven seconds missed the whole thing so I haven't heard action yeah this will be a live react I heard them talk about after and i know he said he wasn't loved but he said it in a way they're like it's a

good answer anyways let's hear it wondering how many people would ask about sarah spencer the latest status is i got to see her last week that's the latest status right there um i'm gonna keep my personal relationship personal you know what i think when i mention or you expecting Taylor to be at the game? You know what? I think when I mention or everybody knows that she's at the game, the Vegas, the over-under on my catches kind of goes up and down. So, you know, I don't want to mess with any of that stuff,

so I'm just going to keep it to myself. Oh, I didn't hear that. That was whatever. That was blah. Mr. Beast preemptively says he's not apologizing for a new video. Prior to Mr. Beast publishing one of his new videos of him building 100 wells in Africa, Mr. Beast preemptively tweeted they knew it was going to get canceled and wanted to be 100% clear he doesn't care. Naturally, Mr. Beast did attract both praise and criticism for uploading the video. This is because what?

When he does something positive, people say he's just doing it for views? Yeah. Yeah. I agree with Mr. Beast. Yeah, who cares? doing it for views. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with Mr. Beast. Yeah, who cares? He still helped people. Yeah. Similar to Matt Reif, fans are upset after a clip from Andrew Schultz's podcast has resurfaced of Mr. Beast revealing he has to put women through the test to find out whether they're compatible or not.

Mr. Beast said although he was immediately attracted to his now girlfriend, Thea Boyson, if she didn't check his boxes pertaining to what she's interested in, if she likes learning, he wouldn't be able to be with her. If she likes learning, he wouldn't be able to be with her? Yeah, he likes women who like to learn. That's better than saying features about a woman, I'd suppose. Oh, but the way I read it, if she likes learning,

he wouldn't be with her no no he wants her to be he wants her to learn yeah i don't know this is again maybe you can figure out organically i don't know the need to like have a test that's i think the point to like getting to know somebody but overall if you're just trying to find out if you're compatible i don't have like a giant problem with it. Yeah. It's kind of your thing. I don't know. This crazy viral plane lady. She's hanging out with all Barstool people.

I gotta be honest. Everywhere I look, she's there. Are her and Hank smashing? Let me tell you, ladies, something. The first thing I did, I'm in Chicago. I saw Hank walk by the office. I just did this. I go, come here.

I go, why are you being such a pervert? Like, what the fuck? Wait, am I missing something? He's being a pervert? He said any chance he gets, he's trying to hit on her. And literally, I can't log on to Barstool without seeing the plane girl. And it's like, this is from six months ago. They're sitting on a couch. I can't tell. PFT is hitting on her. It's like this is from six months ago like is i they're sitting on a couch i can't tell pft is hitting on her it's like isn't he married hank is at football games he posts in pictures like where did this woman come from that i can't log on to barstool she runs like the

chicago office like what is going on i thought we hired her i've seen her me too grace i'm like why is she suddenly she's on stream she's shooting baskets she's at football games she's taking pictures and it's like where what happened why is what is she why is she back how did yeah how did she just resurface and come back our world it's like she's suddenly the center of the barcelona lives yeah i have no idea we had a girl at our live show talk about her um we have uh most embarrassing stories that our fans will like tell on stage yeah and this girl's most embarrassing story was that she was dating this guy for like three years in the whole same time that they were dating he was also dating plain lady wow yeah she's she's everywhere yeah i think she's a holographic figure and there's a bunch of her yeah she says she never

saw anything on the plane it's the pmt was like when she came back like she disappeared then came back pft kept like hitting on her on twitter being like, hey, come on, guys, be cool, just as a joke. And then it kept going, going, going. And then I guess they got in contact. Hank may be dating her. Yes. I think. It's looking so.

I think maybe it got a little hairy with PFT continually hitting on her. And then so they shifted it to Hank. Got it. I think. Yeah. She's pretty hot. Yeah. I agree. She looks think. Yeah. She's pretty hot. Yeah. I agree.

She looks great. Yeah. Looks a lot better than her plane video. She really threw it together. Yeah, because that's a different person. Yeah. That's what I think. That's what a lot of people think.

So she just said she didn't see anything. Yeah. Yeah, she just said she had a moment of weakness. Okay. Yeah. And now she's dating Hank. The fact we're talking about it is crazy. All right.

Hotel won't let Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield check in? Well, trying to check into the hotel in San Diego, Tana Mongeau, Brooke Schofield were met with some trouble, and the hotel won't let them check in because they gave their fake name, August River, to keep a nominee and avoid stalkers. The hotel said they couldn't check in because their credit card registration was linked to August River, although it isn't a real person. Okay. Who cares? I've always wondered how that works, though, for celebrities and they use a fake name.

Zach does the fake name thing, but they always let him in. I think Zach's level of fame is quite a bit different than Tana and Brooke. Me and Grace go on tour. We use fully. I give them my social. Yeah, I never use a fake name. I'm pretty easy to find. Streamer, Neon, Ne3on, girlfriend, cheetah, and I'm all celibate.

Oh, wow. That sucks. She was celibate? A tip of 40 there. That's tough. Damn. How do you pronounce this guy's name? 19. it's just neon neon neon is a massive stream you know if there's irl streams which are similar jack doherty's stream with karina comp where you stream real life moments if you

walk around and getting into chaotic situations neon is dating only fans creator and jack doherty is only fans agent sam, who has recently been accused of cheating. That's not cheating. Wait, what's not cheating? The whole situation. Sam Flew a man out to meet her and says they only slept in the same bed together but didn't do anything more.

I just feel like if you are a streamer in the Jack Daugherty world of chaos situations, you're dating an OnlyFans girl in Jack Daugherty's agency. Anything goes. This is probably a work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't care about any of this. I guess she was on Glennie's OnlyFans. OnlyStans, yeah.

What are we going to land on? Done. on bff corner what are the bff are the bffs out of touch the bff tick talk comments have been flooded with people saying they're out of touch after the bff has taken into mellows dressing as walmart employees and woman upset about her 9-to-5 job. Brielle, the woman who posted the video, upset about her 9-to-5, said the BFFs don't know the struggle most people are facing in life. She was specifically upset with Brie, saying she could go create a better job for herself. Yeah, this is all my fault, apparently. All we said was just don't complain.

Dude, I don't know. I still don't think it was that crazy. No, fuck everybody who's complaining complaining you're fucking morons we said that if you're upset about that they're doing a promo get a fucking life like i don't know my fucking parents work doubles and never complained today in their life brielle's response this is that's the nine to five girl all right let's see let's see brielle's nine to five girl i'm not out of touch and we didn't even shit on her no we didn't at all like we're the ones that said oh this is annoying i just got sent the bfs podcast about me about brianna chicken fry like reacting to my nine to five video why is it basically she

just said suck it up that's life it's disappointing but it's completely not surprising to sit there and say that's life when nobody can afford doctor's appointments people literally work from the moment the sun rises till the minute the sun sets. It's pitch black every single day. You have no idea the struggle that most people in America face. So even Trisha Paytas sat there and said, this should not be to sit in your little influencer tower and be able to experience more in a year paid for than the average american working will in their entire lives to just sit there and laugh and be like ha ha go create a better job for yourself she said do you know

how much it costs to start a business no also with how easy you're making it sound wouldn't everyone be self-employed and there would be nobody homeless in the world if it was that fucking this girl this girl's fucking crazy sorry real you crazy she's crazy fucking insane that she sat there. Everyone in that comment section, too, is sitting there like, we sat there and made fun of working people, made fun of people with nine to five jobs. All we said is it's crazy to get on fucking social media and shit on us for it. It's not our fault that this is our fucking job.

Somebody show Homegirl, the Barstool documentary. Fucking girl sleeping. fault that this is our fucking job somebody show homegirl the barstool documentary fucking girl sleeping i'm driving the fucking astro van around 48 hour papers cleaning shit out of racks there was a lot of dave stands in the comments going after these people being like you don't know what grinding is yeah you don't fucking know shit homegirl that girl's crazy don't let that girl get to you that girl's do you know how much it costs to start a business what are you talking about i never said start a fucking business we're just saying to get mad at charlie lucky i said yeah she was more mad about the nine to five thing than the charlie thing those are like two but those two got lifted together

working sucks nine to five fucking yeah sucks no one was on not on her side with that we were saying yeah that unfortunately is just fucking life we're not the president she has no idea the days we spent flipping patties dude and everyone's like have you ever had a job i'm like i've had so many fucking jobs dude it's about a grind crazy elon musk and joe rogan i saw this was cool was cool to see. Elon has no clue who I am, but they were – so Elon was on the Rogan podcast, and they're just eating pizza, talking Portnoy. Kind of got my ego going. It's kind of awesome. This looks awesome.

That's legit. I mean, I'm no Dave Post. I know people were saying it was like – A pizza analyst. I'm not going to rate it. It's excellent. Is Portnoy really gets into pizza? Oh, man.

That's the point. You get the point. I was sent to me. They are eating, but yeah. Listen, I'm not above having my ego stroked. I like that. No, that's sick. Yeah.

Yeah. Is this? I was on the Adam Friedland show. I don't feel like that's a big crossover. I saw a clip of this. It was hilarious. What the fuck? I haven't seen it.

I haven't watched it yet. So it's an interesting. Heavily edited. I think we filmed for two and a half hours. It came out being 25 minutes. It's an interesting dynamic because he's playing a role character. And I'm brick by brick, not shtick by shtick. So I was just me.

I haven't seen the clip. So I guess we can watch it. I thought you got set up. The way the clips go. I could see it coming across that way. You know, I'm from Boston. I didn't know that. Where?

Southie. Seemed like a Southie guy. That wasn't that funny of a joke that you had all your people laugh at. Can I tell you about my upbringing? Sure. No one wanted me. I was a fucking orphan. Everyone said I was shit. I had shit for brains. Retarded. My friends were me. I was a fucking orphan. Everyone said I was shit.

I had shit for brains. Retarded. My friends were all common street toughs. And they were in a gang, actually. The Boondock Saints. Like the movie, yeah. Not like the movie. I wanted to make an honest living, so I got a job as a janitor.

So we're going to do a movie. We're going to go down different Boston, like, movies. What movies are you talking about? What's next? And then I went home, and i smoked weed with my teddy bear and ted did that go well i like no you had that fucking look on your face if this was in my office i've been like enough this i get the shtick yeah it was shtick the whole time i by the way 10.0 on the fit people were saying your aesthetic was very much the set like you just you vibed with the set perfect yeah no, no, I look like a million dollars.

See? You're a stylist. No, but that's what I'm talking about. You don't need one. What's the guy? Matt Rife. Matt Rife. I can sit there and be like, I look fucking awesome there.

There's nothing wrong with set. I can be like, I look like trash. That's as good as I can look in those moments. Some people got into demons. Yeah, but I just could not look at Matt Reif and rate him. Yeah, Dave, that was fucked. Now that he's gone, can you rate him? I'm not going to rate him. That's crazy.

He's hot, yes. I swear I just don't do that. I would never want someone to do that to me. Ever. The whole this guy's made like, he's made it about his looks to a degree. You're allowed to rate. On a scale of hot to not, he's made it about his looks to a degree. You're allowed to rate. On a scale of hot to not, he's

hot. That's good. He's definitely the best looking comedian I've ever seen. Who would be number two? Exactly. I don't know. Who were you going to say? I was going to say something. Who were you going to say? Nothing. Okay.

Josh on Selling Sunset. gonna say i was gonna say something who are you gonna say nothing okay josh i'm selling sunset josh featuring the newest season of so i don't even know how josh has time for us he's on everything i know my sister texted me this morning um how the fuck is josh on my favorite show i was like what show she's like selling sunset he's gonna have so many new fans wait did he film this a while ago yes because i remember him talking about it he looks so baby in it too what is he doing is he buying a house or something i don't know i didn't watch it can we oh can we watch the clip sure yeah i do social media and then i also have a production company and a venture fund now and i own multiple companies and invest everything so yeah, this generation is just different. Oh wow Okay, this is soundproofing you

Look at find out ah Did you say it's soundproof? Oh, yes. Hello. What was that? I don't know she had me screaming down there though. Hey, what are you guys doing? Chris sitting the house you said I needed a husband. I was making sure I secured the husband, okay? That was not very long. I'm not very impressed. She's selling something else. Maybe not Sunset.

Yeah, they're acting like he's going to buy the house. He's looking at the houses. Yeah. Finally, BFF's taking Raising Cane's Miami. I'm eating it all during the show. I apologize. Next week, we'll be at the Raising Cane's drive-thru in Miami on Washington Ave at 5 p.m.

Me, Bree, Josh, we'll see you there. Hell yeah. See you in Miami. I'll show you my new house. Oh, yeah. The big, huge mansion with the toilets that don't fit your genitals. We're getting along with it. We're fixing it up.

Matt Reif coming up next. All right. BFF episode. Special guest Matt Reif. Welcome to the show. Before we get into it, Josh is not here. O'Malley's in. I guess he like, I don't know what happened.

He was coming here and he like got lightheaded and he woke up on the floor or something. Is that what happened? Yeah, that's an accurate depiction. That's basically what he said. So we think he was hungover. I think he might be. He had a night last night he's like 21 drink a powerade and get over here dude yeah it is kind of nuts i mean it's 12 12 o'clock so whatever we'll go into it um welcome to the show matt what are you in town for uh just press for uh for my upcoming special on Netflix for November 15th. Oh, so that thing's coming out today.

Today's the what? Coming out next week. A week from today. Just popping into a bunch of fun places. Thanks for having me in. Where are you coming from? You said you're exhausted. So are you going out or are you just running around? No, just non-stop sleep.

I have 10 shows a week, 2 shows, 5 nights a week. I was coming from Omaha, Nebraska, which is exhausting even driving through. So just long weeks, man. And even my days off, I'm like flying to do stuff like this, like to do promo and take meetings and stuff like that. So it's just a blessing in disguise, dude. How big is like how big the venues you play in nowadays? dude how big is like how big the venue is you playing nowadays uh average i'd say like 3 000 but we do anywhere from like 1800 to 7 000 it kind of varies in that range yeah i mean we it's so funny like my agents and everything wanted me to do like these like arenas when this tour went

on sale because they figured it was going to sell way more than i did but i'm used to selling no tickets at all so i was like, let's just do theaters first. And now we're doing so many theaters. It would have made sense to do arenas, but it's a completely different type of show. Like I had only performed at a handful of theaters ever in my life when this came about. So I was like, can I just enjoy learning and enjoying playing a theater first? So I didn't want to like jump right into it. It would have been so much.

Got it. It's a different show. I'm going to start. So I was saying we have a new office into it. It would have been so much. Got it. It's a different show. I'm going to start. So I was saying we have a new office in Chicago. It's a little fucked up. So you guys are like far away for me to see. So I can't, you guys like is looking far away. So I got to ask Grace and Brie, like how good looking is he in person?

Hilarious. Like zero through 10. Go ahead. Hurt my face. That's crazy. I'm not going to rate him. I would never do that to someone his whole thing is about how good looking he is i would have given him a real rating that's that's our yeah but you can't you're a guy that's i don't know what do you mean i can't

i i'll rate guys all day long i don't care he's handsome dave why thank you really handsome dave thank you not handsome enough to mention it on uh men Health Magazine, but handsome enough, I suppose. We'll get into that. It's in our play sheet, but I figured right off the top. I don't know. Suddenly, we're the too shy to rate people right to their face. Dude, we ever rated people to their face before. We haven't had a comedian who had a thing about being good looking and whether it was

hard to be a good looking comedian. Comedians are usually ugly. He's a good looking comedian. You're very sweet. You want to rate, Dave? You want to rate? Go for it, dog. That's my point, Grace.

It's too far away. Grade me on a blur. Are you going to rate him? He's not a 10. He's a 9.9, Dave. I don't know. He's 6.5, 7. He's an average.

There's nothing I can see. You guys all look like the same. I can't tell anything. If I and a half, seven. He's an average. There's nothing I can see. I can't. You guys all look like the same. I can't tell anything. If I look like them, I'm winning, dude. I'm doing great. Stop it, Matt. Stop it.

Is that flirting? Stop it. Okay. So I'll go through the play sheet. I want to know that right off the bat. I know. So let's play the first viral TikTok, which I haven't watched yet. This is how you went viral, which I guess is like you talk to people in the first viral tiktok which i haven't watched yet um this is how you went

viral which i guess you're is like you talk to people in the crowd right uh i do from time to time yeah that's not a thing i no it is i mean i would i would just say it more properly than that yeah i do i do i do crowd work that happens to go viral quite often yeah but i do way more than that go viral quite often yeah but i do way more than that crowd crowd work is the proper way to describe it yeah there you go okay crowd work i said talk to people in the crowd i think and that sounds like i'm interviewing them all right let's see it did you not have a job the entire time oh god he worked in the er also are you working with a hero so how did he not do anything if he worked in the ER? Aside from work, he didn't do anything? He was saving lives! What did you do?

You worked for American Airlines? Oh, fuck you! Where are my bags? What have you been doing saving lives all day? Yeah, what have you been doing? Peanuts. Peanuts. Can you put your seatbelt up? This much. So that's more.

No, that is more interesting. Like that's not planned, right? So that's all stuff that's kind of top of your head being quick on your feet type stuff. Yeah, it's fun, man. It's just something I've only been doing it for like probably like three years i never really did crowd work or anything and then it was just something i had fun doing because like as a comic you obviously build your set for like a year two sometimes three years to like work towards a special but in doing that like you are working on building your material but every comic would

tell you they get bored of their own material if you're especially as many shows as i'm doing, it does feel a little bit robotic sometimes. And I hate feeling that way. I hate feeling like I have to perform rather than I get to perform. So crowd work is like a very unique experience that happens at that individual show. It's not really to be duplicated. So I also have no idea what's going to happen. Sometimes, dude, don't get me wrong. Sometimes shows, I'll do some crowd work, you get nothing out of it. And you're like, all right, fuck it, back into some jokes I go. But it's just something like spontaneous. That's fun for me to do. And that way I don't burn all through my material posting online. A lot of comics do post their material online, but then you pay for a

ticket to go see them and you see the exact same jokes they just told you for free on the internet. So that's why, that's why I started doing crowd work because I was working towards filming specials and I always wanted to do that. But I was like, work, because I was working towards filming specials, and I always wanted to do that. But I was like, well, if I give away this material, people are already going to know the jokes when they come see me live. So that was just something I started to do for fun. Yeah, you know, it's interesting, because my favorite comedian of all time is Chris Rock, like my absolute favorite.

Oh, Tambourine was amazing. And so I watched him, like his HBO, all the specials, and then I went and saw him live, and I guess I was an idiot. It was verbatim like the exact same show, which kind of, I don't know what I was expecting, but it speaks to what I guess you were just talking about. Yeah, thank you. Would I have gone to the show if I just knew I was going to see,

I mean, everything, the way he delivered it, it was literally the same exact word for word, timing for timing show. All right. I'm glad you have that experience and you have that perspective on it because so many people have no idea that's how it works. I had no idea going into it. They'll think I only do crowd work,

and they'll think that's why I'm posting it because that's all I have. But I'm really trying to be considerate. It makes sense to me. So we went back and forth. You went viral in a video with the Men's Health, which you mentioned talking about the fitness journey where you said people don't want to laugh at attractive people and you don't want people staring at your arms.

I actually think I agreed with you during this. I think I was the main one. Who agreed or didn't? No, you said kind of. Some off comments, I suppose. That's fine. We hadn't met. It's okay.

I look at people all the time and don't like them just by how they look. I get it. I'm not mad whatsoever. You don't think that was a crazy clip? It is crazy, but he's right. It's harder to laugh at somebody who's physically like, and I'm not saying he is because I think that's crazy that he thinks he's that good looking. That guy's like, I don't know, he's average.

Seeing it firsthand. Some of the girls you could tell clearly were there because of just his looks and not as comedy. He's not even that good looking. He's definitely good looking, though. We're not saying he's ugly. That's just a crazy thing to say. No, I don't think he's ugly, but I would never be like, oh, shit. This guy's like Henrik Lundqvist out here.

You're just a wild person to talk about how hot you are. It was more brave than you. You're forgiven, Dave. You called him ugly. I didn't. No, I didn't say he was ugly. It actually evens out. It evened out a little bit.

I didn't say ugly. I said he's not Henrik Lundqvist. That's a crazy person. Who is that reference? King Henrik. He was the goalie for the Rangers. Did you see the picture of him? He's a beautiful man.

What a reference. Crazy. What year was he the goalie for the rangers you did you see the picture of him he's a beautiful man what a reference he's like a very famous hockey player and he's also famously attractive or i don't know brad pitt and again i can't see him here but when yeah i didn't get the oh my god like uh george clooney i see it's like holy shit he's a classically beautiful man of course of course but i do i agree with your point that people it's easier to laugh at somebody who is not good looking maybe a little fat it's like you sympathize it's always when somebody is is really good looking really successful i feel like it's harder to laugh at that so i agreed with what you were saying as the only thing i disagreed i don't know how good looking he is but you guys never gonna know that's also the thing about eyeballs right is it's it's subjective like some people find me

fucking hideous and some people think i'm good looking i guess but if anybody cared to ask i don't think i'm good looking at all i look at people like uh like an austin butler jason alorti a brad pitt like these are traditionally attractive harry styles beautiful men i would never in a million fucking years think i could even stand next to those people i'm wildly insecure about my looks and i think it's a very important emphasis to realize there's a huge difference as to how you see yourself versus how other people see you and if that's all i ever fucking hear is shit about my looks i go okay well clearly other people think this you have if that's all I ever fucking hear is shit about my looks, I go, okay, well, clearly other people think this. You have to acknowledge it.

Otherwise people would be like, oh, you're pretending to be this humble thing. You know you're hot. It's like, fine, if you think this, I'll make fun of that. Sure. That's fair. But if everyone's saying you're hot, women, and I was looking through all this, you have a beautiful girlfriend. You know you're not. So I'm calling bullshit because if you're going to these shows and you're hearing women be like, oh, he's so attractive, he's so attractive.

A beautiful girl, you've had a girlfriend. You know you're attractive. I'm not saying you have to be like these guys, but you have to have confidence. Because your girlfriend would date you if you weren't confident. That's actually a perfect setup. Okay, so then what do I do then? Say everybody thinks I'm attractive. Let's throw that out there as totally hypothetical.

Obviously not true, but as a hypothetical. Say everybody thinks I'm attractive, right? Then I reference it, and I'm the asshole. It's like, which one is it? It's like, which one is it? It's like, am I not attractive or do I only have a career because of my looks? Which one is it? Well, I think it can be both.

You can own it and still have a career. I mean, let me put it this way. Not all attractive. I'm sure there's plenty of attractive comedians who are not successful. Potentially. So I guess that can't be it entirely, right? But it's like, well, I'm not allowed to acknowledge what everybody else thinks.

That'd be crazy. No, of course you're allowed to acknowledge it. I don't. I love. Listen, that's a beautiful problem to have. I'd wish I was walking down the street. Everyone's like, look at fucking Dave. He's fucking hot as shit.

I would own that. That's all I'm thinking you yeah you can be funny and attractive i mean look at me funny attractive there you go bang i know you just fucking own both of it yeah i suppose i mean i suppose you can but i mean people are still going to say whatever they want to say about it i i personally that's the only thing that upset me about it was that you that brie assumed i was talking about myself in that fashion it was like i'm just speaking from other people's point of view if you say i'm attractive cool i'll think of myself that way but i'm wildly insecure with my looks i would never in a million fucking years like legitimately be like oh i'm good looking

that's fucking insane i have a joke about it in my first special and that i have like 12 minutes in my first special only fans about how ridiculous it is that people think i'm good looking when my entire life i wasn't it therefore i don't see myself that way like i had i had to be funny dude i was ugly as fuck like 22 years dude till i got my teeth done oh my god nobody would even look at me you had your teeth done oh yeah man if you ever seen my first season of wild now which hopefully nobody did uh yeah dude i had ohio teeth it was bad man it was so bad i will i'm looking at so the crowd where i have blown up on social media matt devel predominantly female fan base was eager to hear matt talk back to them so you do this and then i i saw you say a lot of times the guys the girls come with their boyfriends boyfriends end up being fans as well um so is that like a thing of yours you have do you not like the the the thought and i'm guessing

by what you're saying that you have like a female base you want to be equal or like i'd love for it i'd love for it to be equal yeah i mean look i'm incredibly grateful for women without women i never would have like gained the momentum i did on social media i'm so grateful for that but in doing that a lot of dudes didn't like that i suppose so it put off a lot of guys without them ever even taking a chance to watch my comedy which is what i'm so excited about with this special upcoming is like i finally get to do an hour on a verified platform that people respect and can be like okay let's give them a chance even if we hate them because certain people like them let's give them a chance. Even if we hate him because certain people like him, let's give him a chance,

hopefully. I watched it. Did you watch it? I was pleasantly surprised because I fell victim to the, you only do crowd work shit because I just listened

to the internet and then I watched it and I was like, oh, wow, no crowd work. It was really good. It was really funny.

Thank you. Very sweet. Thank you. It was good. Yeah, it's interesting. It's because my comedy, you could feel free to disagree,

but I feel like my comedy is more for guys than it is women. Yeah, I watched it with my boyfriend and he was like a lot of the cum shit. He was dying at it. I'm like, I don't really get it. That should have been the name of the special, Matt Rife cum shit. That would have been fantastic. You needed me to like joshify you. Oh, that would have been great.

Yeah, like Josh has that obviously because he's very attractive kid dude passed out can't handle his alcohol whatever um but that's why we teamed up he had an audience i didn't have i have a predominantly male audience or yeah still so that that's essentially what you're saying once you do get in that i'll so I agree with everything you're saying. Once people think something's on looks, it's harder to get taken seriously regardless of the talent maybe behind it. I just don't agree with you that you're insecure about your looks at this point because I just think at some level, if you hear it enough from enough women or whatever that you're good looking, it starts to set in, hey, I'm good looking. Yeah, but then somebody says he's not even that good looking and all those compliments go, never mind. Well, I said you're not Henrik Lundqvist even.

That's, I mean, God isn't Henrik Lundqvist. It takes one person. You know when you're performing on stage in front of, let's say 1,000 people are in the audience. 998 people can be laughing their ass off. And if you see the two people not laughing, you'll think you're tanking. Like people's individual opinions have such an effect on you. Are you just that, like to me, a comedian can't be that insecure.

Well, no, you have to have an air of confidence to control an audience and like to put on a show for sure. But yeah, everybody wants to please everybody. It's an impossible task and you can't aim for that. But of course you want to please everybody. You want everybody to think the best of you. So you have to try to the best of your ability, but yeah, do people's individual opinions definitely hurt. It's just up to you how much you're going to allow them to hurt you.

So like, do you read all the comments and stuff? Because you replied to our shit and I know that's not the first time we've gone in. So how aware, like, how did you come about of what we even said, for example? People were tagging me in it, obviously.

And I was like, I thought it was kind of rude, not really a fair chance to like get to know you guys. Like I'm a fan of the podcast and what you've built here at Barstool and Josh is obviously a homie. So I was just like, ah, I appreciate that he stuck up for me and felt relatable, which was flattering

that he considers me as good looking as him, thank God so i mean people were just tagging me in it and i um i i have such i have such a bad problem not responding back to people me too because i'm because i'm an in-person confrontational person so i when people like talk shit on the internet not considering what you guys doing talking shit but people who talk shit on the internet it drives me insane that they think there's no consequences to that so whether arguing with somebody on the internet actually does anything i'm just i'm a very confrontational person it's very immature of me to think that's going to get any point across whatsoever but sometimes you just have to vent you know i'm a human being and sometimes i want to say how i actually feel i have a question

all along these lines i'm looking at the sheet, the tour dates and how the tickets were just flying. Congratulations. That's amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Now, I'm looking at what appears to be a tour graphic calendar sold out. And you just have a fuck boy picture on there. Yeah.

So, I mean, if we're going for i don't want the looks thing and then you got like a boy band picture basically what was the thought on that because when this tour happened the beginning of this year from when things started like august of last year through i'd say probably probably april of this year the majority of people were coming to my shows were women. Guys just weren't going to come out. So I was like, okay, if we're about to start on this massive tour and try to sell more tickets than I ever could have imagined in a lifetime, in a one-year span, I was like, I got to sell tickets, dude. Listen, if you can reel them in with a shirtless picture, cool.

They'll come for that reason, and hopefully they'll stay for the humor. That's what I was hoping for. I didn't know tickets were going to sell the way they were. I didn't know tickets were going to sell the way they were i didn't know tickets were going to sell the way that they did otherwise i would have won a cardigan and you just hate atlanta yeah not a fan of atlanta it's all right even though i just bought my mom a house like an house like an hour outside of there why what is there a reason i just i grew up there um the summer between my my junior and senior year of school, my first manager owned a comedy club down there. And so I lived down there for like four months straight,

and I was working my ass off down there. It's hot. The bugs are massive. I'm a big nature guy, and there's just Stone Mountain's a beautiful part. There are beautiful parts of Georgia that have a lot of nature and stuff like that. Atlanta just never had anything like hobby-wise that really interests me. interest me so i mean i think it's okay to not like certain cities more than others some people freak the fuck out when i said i didn't like it i've just never really enjoyed um i just never really enjoyed my my trips there i mean there's nothing

wrong with there's a lot of cities i don't like the cities i love that people might hate a lot of people feel about ohio oh dude ohio is the fucking worst are you kidding me i went to school there and everyone hates Ohio so much. Where'd you go to school? Baldwin-Wallace. What is that? Yeah, no one knows what it is. It's a small, tiny school.

Do you know, like, geographically where it is? It's next to Cleveland. Oh, shit, I'm going to Cleveland this weekend. Wait, where did you grow up in Ohio? Like an hour west of Columbus, middle of nowhere. Oh, nowhere. My population is like 1,100 people, I think. Yeah, that's tiny.

Very, very tiny. Yeah, Ohio's tiny. Very, very tiny. Yeah, Ohio's trash. Yeah, Ohio's messy. When people get so defensive about their hometown, I'm like, have you been anywhere else? I know, you don't have to rep it so hard. They rep it so hard. I know.

DC is my favorite city, which blows so many people's minds because they're like, how could you? It's the most political city in the country. I'm so far removed from politics. I'm able to see all the other fun stuff about it, the parks, the memorials, the history, the museums, all that kind of fun stuff.

So yeah, it's just not one of my favorites. That's all. I love Savannah. Savannah's only a couple hours outside of it. I love Savannah. That's like the home of ghosts, right? Oh, dude, so much fun. So much haunted stuff there.

I'm obsessed with it. I'm such a nerd over it. Some of these things may be a little bit in the past because we just when we make the whole sheet we go through basically as much stuff as we can find uh the ideal celebrity boxing match you said uh you'd love to box harry styles i think that was probably a joke you'd probably kill him because he doesn't seem like much of a fighter to me but you had an issue with the pauls you hate the Pauls you still hate Logan and Jake no actually not I had I had an epiphany of a moment a couple of years ago where I was looking I was kind of looking at what they had built right and I found myself this has been the best thing for me personally with with the success I've had

in this past year it has changed my maturity maturity and my respect levels for other people entirely. I used to be such a jealous, bitter person because nothing would happen for me. And you eventually start to doubt yourself. Like, am I delusional? Maybe I suck. How are these people getting the things that I feel like I'm maybe good enough to be in the same positions? And then one day it just occurred to me that I go, these dudes are doing everything right. They are phenomenal businessmen. And I think regardless of how, how much you respect what they're doing in boxing sports or whatever it may be, who cares? Like I have no right to hate on what they're doing after what they've built. You know what I mean? If, if anything, if there's any person for me to get

upset about, it would be like the general public of the world. If, if I was going to be upset about be upset about something i'd be like really this is what people like rather than what this dude creates he's not he's not responsible for like my perception of him or anybody's perception of him like both of them are just building what they want to do having fun doing what they're doing and they're they're doing a great job i think they're doing a fantastic job yeah i'd agree i think when when you if you look back on like this, those two are two of the most successful, widely impressive on the business side. Yeah, I don't think it matters if you're a fan of what they're doing. You can't disrespect what they've built. I didn't realize this. How old are you? 28.

And you dated Kate Beckinsale? Ah, hilarious. Yeah, when I was younger. How young? Out of respect for my girlfriend now i'm not gonna talk about exes good play yeah i know i know sorry to shut that one down i'm sorry that's okay i i that that's wild to me she's like a all-timer for me but um out of respect to the ex we won't talk about it oh thank you thank you. Thank you. But she's very sweet, and she's hilarious. That counts as talking. Damn it.

Sorry, babe. You hosted the AVNs. Oh, dude. Yeah, that was insane. Dream come true. That was a dream come true. You're a big porn guy. Who isn't, dude?

You have an iPhone? I have an iPhone. What are you playing, playing candy crush like a virgin dude of course i'm watching porn man you ever get to pass page like 93 on point people queefing into harmonicas and shit dude it's wild i love how you're like nope can't can't talk about uh kate beckinsale giant porn guy though there's no emotions in porn no one's jerking off with love in their heart you know what i mean don't say that at the avns like that was that was one thing that was very interesting because it's it's obviously easy to go into hosting like an avn job and like make fun of what they do

because it is hilarious but like that night is like so genuinely important to them like that is legitimately the oscars to them and they are very proud of what they've done how did you get to host it? Why you? I think it was because it was around the time that TikTok really started to catch on and I was starting to become a known performer, I suppose. And they always have, they have a history of standup comedians hosting it. And it's usually like old creepy comics who have been doing it like 40 years who really are just like gawking at these women versus i think i think they just wanted to go and try to bring in like a younger demographic and it was fun i mean everybody i met was like genuinely so sweet like nobody was arrogant about being like the hottest person there

which is incredible to me because like these are women that guys literally put on a pedestal like they're like the sexiest possible thing they can imagine and none of them act like it like they were all they're all very sweet i tried to not shake as many hands as possible a lot of fist bumps but pure old yeah yeah but they were all very sweet it was fun dude it was a massive theater in vegas we did a resorts world which was like 4500 do you think there's like a giant orgy after if there is i wasn't invited oh that sucks it was it was. Everybody was so nice, and it was not what people thought. Every single one of my friends who knew I was hosting this thing was like, oh, you're going to sleep with everybody.

I didn't sleep with anybody. I went and had a couple drinks. I went and passed out. 12-year-old's dream. I know. I know. A 12-year-old me was kicking me in the shins like, oh, fuck somebody. Even if it's one of the dudes, just somebody.

Be a part of it. I don't want to play it because it i uh i don't want to play it because so awkward but i want to play it oh was is already smiling so i i don't know do you do you know this grace and brie that i did a like a i think it was a three or four part four part four part documentary on the avians yeah a big fan over here. It's quite awkward. It's hilarious. People love it. Old school Barstool people. Oh, I got to see this.

You guys got some sharp looking dildos. What were you doing before dildos? I know it wasn't dildos. I was a money manager. I can tell. I can fucking tell. You get the two green lights, you match Marcus London's speed and force. Oh, my God.

Just like that, dude. Okay, you're good. The finger king. Just like that. Fucking arm that. That was a world record by the way is your hand okay holy shit that was like that was actually a technical that was a girl that they had programmed and like the way you did it set something off where obviously she came and they had the timer and i set the world record just oh big dude let's move along yeah but it cost you carpal tunnel dog holy no i know you can't do it it's like that was like an athletic event like i wasn't doing it was like i was stepping in like all right that's the record let's see if i can fucking beat it. But yeah, it was. Was that the only sensor on the device or like would you have gotten extra points if you like kissed its neck and shit like that? I think you would have romanticized it.

The guy who made the doll was he's probably still talking about me. There's probably like this is I don't know when I did that. That had to be 10 years ago. That was a long ass time to be the guy to make the doll is so funny. I know I want to hang out with that guy. I don't think you do. You're going to get a whole mold if you made. Jesus.

Dave, for a guy who hates bits, that's quite the bit. Well, I used to do that all the time, O'Malley. I know. Bring it back. We used to. Every couple weeks, I travel or make videos at these weird events. So I throw on the tux and do it. I went to the gerbil

convention like similar to football yeah whatever whatever was i thought could be interesting content we go and i just ran out of time as we got bigger but what's the most what's the last one you remember doing they were all like the same time. The gerbil convention was great. I remember that. We probably did like 10 of them all in a year. And then it just got. And I go with Dan and like Kevin. We go to other things. World tobogganing championships in like Maine.

A whole bunch of stuff. That's so cool. King Richard's Fair. All these different things. Anyways. Matt on airport and flight so i'm probably gonna eat this up because i always get dave hates he's like he has all the rules for flying oh it's the worst and they're inconsistent dude i've missed bag checks by one minute and people be like sorry you gotta take a different flight now and then i've had people be like oh not a problem at all i'll walk you through security so it's all personal preference yeah and they'll act like it's

all like up to code and it's like no no it's not you're just you're just being a bitch right now and they're also outdated like there is no reason why like your seat back up down when you're laying like what's that do i i've heard it's an insurance thing because if you this is a conspiracy ever i have no idea if there's any truth to this whatsoever but it makes sense to me the reason they teach you to like put your head down in a crash and stuff like that is to make because if you crash headfirst in an airplane not only are you for sure gonna die but just to make sure like if you're in that position your spine would shoot through your fucking head like you would it would it would kill you instantly right so the theory is that they have you get in that position to make sure

you die because the lawsuit if you survive a commercial plane crash is like ridiculous that's a wild it makes sense to me i get everything's run by money dude the whole the whole operation is all just money so speaking of that would you ever start flying private or are you a commercial guy still? Like you must fly private with all these shows all over the place. No, we've got a tour bus. I've flown private and it is incredible. It's a game changer for sure. I'm terrified to have my own private jet because I'm a huge Lynyrd Skynyrd fan.

And, you know, I don't want to foreshadow anything. Yeah, no, that's a trend. I mean, it changes everything. That's the only thing I've said since Barstool's made money. If it all went away, that's the only thing I'd miss. You still have the jet? No, I don't, but I will fly private all the time. It's not my own. We used to.

Oh, man, so cool. The company that owned us prior had it, but avoiding security, that's the only thing. Oh, that's the worst part of it yeah dude i'm so sick of going through airports that's why we got the bus dude it's changing everything and now i get to be like with my best friends for like this entire tour tour bus is kind of why how big is it so much life uh it's not bad at all it's just me uh my tour manager and who's been my best friend and my roommate for the past nine years uh my videographer and then two of my openers so just the five of us this next line uh you've already said ohio is trash you you are an ohio state fan you're from columbus that is the one

thing i will rep every day yeah big ohio state fan so big time i'm a michigan grad shut this makes so much sense you should have opened with that yeah so what are your thoughts on all this uh this crying Ryan Day and this whole trying to bring down Michigan because you can't beat us thing? I said do what you got to do. You know what I mean? You guys are an actual competitor for the first time in two decades. So we've got to take every advantage we can get, man.

I'm hoping – I'm still hoping that something happens with the playoffs where, A, we fight you guys for our rivalry, and I would love to see you guys in the championship. Just a rematch of that, I think. That's what I'm praying for right now. Almost had it last year. We both lost. Yeah, until we had the worst kick in college football history, dude.

The worst kick. It wasn't even that far. It happened 35 seconds before I was about to go on stage for my New Year's Eve show. So are you like a huge fan? Oh, yeah. Listen, I can't rep, like, you know, I can't Year's Eve show. So are you like a huge fan? Oh, yeah. Listen, I can't rep, like, you know, I can't name players for the past decade, you know what I mean? But like, I'm not listening to stats,

but yeah, it's the one sports team I do like actively watch. If Marvin Harrison Jr. doesn't win a Heisman in his college career, I'm gonna be devastated. You were named... I understand. This is the rivalry. I get it. Talk your shit. No, there's nothing to talk. We beat the fuck out of you guys every year. You were named. I understand. This is the rivalry. I get it.

Talk your shit. No, there's nothing to talk. We beat the fuck out of you guys every year. You haven't beat us since the day. Every year? Like twice in the past 10 years. You guys haven't beaten us since the days of COVID. Oh, my God.

Pre-COVID. COVID don't count. That's bubble football. No, pre-COVID. You haven't won that long. So you needed a large portion of the world to die for you guys to have a good football team? When I went to Michigan, we had won 10 years in a row. It's been like black and white TV the last time you guys beat us.

Well, yeah, dude. The 70s were different. Oof. Forbes. So you came in number nine on Forbes Top 50 Creators. That's pretty impressive. What is this list? Other notable lists.

Mr. Beast, one. Jake Paul, three. Charlie DiMeo, five. Alex Cooper, 12. AddisonRay23, JoshRichards25, AlexEarl42. You beat the J-Man. Yeah, you beat the J. That's crazy. Is this thing accurate? You made $25 million last year?

This is accurate, right? It's not entirely accurate, no. They round up for what they project your year overall is going to be. And I'm doing okay. I'm doing better than I was a year ago, for sure. So what were you a year ago? How new is this? A year ago, I'd say before last year when everything started,

I was on average probably making between $40,000 and $60,000 a year. Oh, wow. If that. That's crazy yeah um it was like i can't tell you how many times it got month to month i'd be on like my last month's worth of rent before i was like okay i have to apply for a regular job and something would happen i'd book i'd book a small tv thing or somebody would be gracious enough to let me like go on the road with them for a month or something like that where i could build up a couple months worth of rent ahead of me but yeah it changed a lot for sure. That's crazy. So fast. It's changed everything. I'm so

grateful. I was July of last year. If you ask anybody that knows me, I was highly considering just giving up on everything. Like I was looking at moving to a different state, taking up just like a regular job, something with more stability, more security, I suppose. I mean, I wasn't going to be happy, but I wasn't happy being rejected for 11 years in a row. Eventually you start to go, maybe I'm delusional. Maybe I'm not funny. You're lucky enough to find a platform where people actually have access to you, and lucky enough, some people seem to enjoy it.

Yeah, it's a good story, though, sticking with it for 11 years on the opposite side of things. Oh, thank you. Well, you have to put in your time. My friend has a great quote all the time. He says, people don't fail, they quit quit and i think that's true in a lot of cases do you ever think like i with barcelona is the only thing i've done but so 11 years struggling you're thinking of quitting i always think of that like there could be versions of you

out there 11 years same shit maybe as talented they just don't that one thing like your your thing broke on tiktok right originally yeah like you ever wonder that like alex earl take her for you out there 11 years same shit maybe as talented they just don't that one thing like your your thing broke on tiktok right originally yeah like you ever wonder that like alex earl take her for example what i don't even know what clicked for her first but she does like the the glam posts and stuff but yeah there's a lot of girls doing it and then it's like something happens and it's like whatever you get thrown into the tech and your whole life changes overnight. It could just as easily probably not. It's wild when you look at it.

Oh, it's luck of the draw, dude. It's luck of the algorithm, man. I've been asked that a million times. And I've helped comic friends of mine who call me are like, what did you do? What advice can you give them? I'm like, dude, I didn't do anything different. I used regular hashtags and I just – I wasn't even posting consistently. I had no game plan or anything. I just told my friends I was a consistency for sure was key.

Try to shoot it at the best quality you possibly can. If you can afford a camera, like when I started doing TikTok stuff, I had to borrow money from a friend to buy a camera to take on the road. I was literally like, they would call my name to go on stage and I'd have to like press record in the back of the room and hurry up and run around stage and go on stage out of breath. So, I mean, I didn't do anything like that specific to launch me into what happened. And there's so many comedians who are way funnier than I am and have been doing it longer than I have that, I mean, they're long overdue for their flowers. And unfortunately, maybe a digital

generation just doesn't have a place for them, which is so sad. So, I mean, I don't know why it ended up being me. I'm just, I'm incredibly sad. So I don't know why it ended up being me. I'm incredibly grateful, and I hope to just keep pleasing the people who do follow me and got me this far. This next, and we're wrapping up here, let you get out of here. We have a game after. But your most overrated comedian, Jerry Seinfeld? What the fuck? You're showing your age, Dave.

Am I agey? Listen, Jerry Seinfeld is a genius joke writer, right? There's no denying that whatsoever. He has one of the most successful TV shows of all time. There is no discredit whatsoever. But if I'm talking about comedians that I like to watch, that's just not one of them. I don't like joke stand-up where it's like premise set up punchline, premise set up punchline, a joke about a thing, a joke about a thing.

I like people who talk about stuff. Like Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais are my two favorite comedians of all time. People who can articulate their certain perspective on maybe a more risque topic that people aren't as comfortable talking about. So I love Ricky Gervais. We agree there. So are you a Larry David guy? I'm not incredibly familiar with his work. But what I have seen with Caribbean Enthusiasm and everything, I mean, he's a genius of course i just yeah with jerry i mean i respect jerry i just like i don't

i don't want to go to a show yeah that's all fair impersonation what's the deal with tiktok all i do is talk to the ground something i might not even be able to do that's not bad uh we got a game. I'll kill myself. Why would you? That wasn't that bad. So bad. It was good, though. God damn it.

So canceled. Yeah, we do. We have a fuck, marry, kill, but I don't know. They're not a ton of people, people, so I don't think it'll be an issue. Okay. It's not like, okay, cool. Let's play it. Like, there's not.

It's not. All right. Oh, God. Okay. Yeah. Oh, damn. cool let's play it like there's not it's all right oh god okay oh damn damn oh man oh this is not gonna be fun is where all right i'm gonna marry ricky gervais he's just he seems gentler i think and he's very i feel like he's very communicative he's very intelligent he's very he's very well spoken i feel like i could i could handle that long term now my fucking are killing god damn it my instinct says to fuck Dane because I feel like he has a lot of energy like he's very known for being a very active performer so I feel like the sex could be good but also something about Dave he can just romanticize you with his words. He has a real way of storytelling.

Ah, God damn it. Dane, I'm so sorry. I've got to kill Dane. I've got to fuck Chappelle. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, Dane. I love you. I'll fuck you on the side, I promise.

Oh, that's a tough one. Chappelle, you get a cigarette after sex? Yeah! He's so ready to go. You know what I mean? He's got those new arms now. He worked out. He's sleeveless.

There's something about it. Oh, okay. All right. This is interesting. Oh, interesting you guys chose Red Flags over Matthew Stephen Reif. I'll kill Red Flags because it's just crowd work and it was Miami and it was a nightmare. And I did that special specifically to appease the people who were coming to shows and just yelling out Red Flag. Do Red Flags all the time.

So I'm going to kill that one. It's just crowd work, which people think I already only do anyways. I'm going to marry OnlyFans because it was loyal to me. I built it with just my best friends, and that was the first step I took into creating my own things. I was just just soaking on a friend's couch about how nobody wanted to work with me nobody wanted to give me a special or a half hour or 15 minutes or anything and it was the first step in being like you know what fuck it I'll take matters into my own hands and I'll at least I'll at least film this for the people who already like me and are already fans of me like let me at least feed them that's why we named it

OnlyFans actually not just so that when people googled Matt Rife OnlyFans this was the first thing to come up but I was like this is for the people who are already fans of me and I wanted to thank them and grant them some kind of thing some new thing to be a fan of and we also crowdfunded that like we raised like over 25 grand for that

special like it was made for them by them and the publicity didn't hurt with that one as well and I'm gonna fuck Natural Selection. It's just so much fun. I'm so happy to get to take this to a more verified platform because YouTube is fantastic for being accessible and everything, but people don't take you serious.

The amount of comments on both those other specials that'll be like, this is exactly where it should be, you know what I mean? He's not a Netflix comic. This is the first one of people. I think people who even don't like me without knowing me have to at least tune in to be like, all right, let's see if he's not a Netflix comic it's like this is the first one of people I think people who even don't like me without knowing me have to at least tune in to be like alright let's see if he's trash or not even if they think that still got the view

it's interesting you say that because didn't like Andrew Schultz reverse like he went didn't he go his most recent wasn't it paid on he did his own platform I thought it was YouTube like he didn't do Netflix because he thought if I'm recalling this he thought netflix tried to kind of edit it and he didn't want them to have any control and he went reverse edit yeah yeah that happens all the time there's been

multiple situations where i've had uh creative things with with netflix or or um or other studios and stuff where creatively i'm like listen i'm not i'm just not willing to bend on certain creative suggestions because it's it changes the product for me. But luckily, Netflix had no problems with any joke. There was only one joke we took out of this special, and it was my decision to do it. I'll probably release it on a Patreon or something like that just as a bonus footage. But they've been nothing but fantastic. Schultz is actually the one who got me, who inspired me to start posting clips and stuff. Cause he did in 20, might've been

2019. I think it was where he did a thing on, at least it was on Twitter. He was, I've never been big on YouTube ever. I never watched YouTube ever, but I believe it was on Twitter where he was doing a thing where every week he would release a new clip of just like a minute long joke which is a formula somebody told me a long time ago um who was it was uh don dc curry who's like uh he's an old school black comic and um he told me he's like you should write one new minute a week which sounds so easy right imagine you write write five minutes of stuff a day if one minute of good material comes out of that you have 52 minutes at the end of your year you have a new hour for your year and schultz was the first person to do that and a lot of it was crowd work which he's obviously i mean a god at um he's fantastic so i mean he has paved the way

for a lot of us to take matters into our own hands and he's done it brilliantly so it made a lot of sense for him to stick to his guns and stick to what got him here so i i only took this opportunity because we still it was a very tight decision on whether we were going to go with a platform for this or self-release because now i have such a prominent fan base that is luckily so supportive i know they would have watched it if i put it on youtube for free probably even if i charged for it on a platform a lot of them would have supported that but i was like let's just let's let's collaborate on this and see what comes out of working with netflix got it kind of sick to see you have a Netflix special too. Exactly.

It's a prideful thing. There is a piece of you that goes, can I get verified by somebody for once? And like you said, it'll be there. So people will be like, I'll give it a whirl. Yeah, exactly. Whether they like it or not. Exactly, exactly. Oh, come on, guys.

I don't get this. What have you done on those other two? Do you know the other podcast? I know. Are you familiar? Of course I know Tana. She's a clown. I don't know what Two What have you done on those? Do you know the other podcasts? Are you familiar? Of course I know Tana. She's a clown. I don't know what Two Bears, One Cave is.

That's Bert Kreischer. Oh, well, he's going to pick them. Those are like, those are, he's going to marry Bert. Yeah, I'm going to marry Two Bears for sure. I got to. Bert and Tom have been nothing short of great friends and very supportive with what I've been having going on. So I'm going to marry the two bears for sure.

Those are good guys to have. They're both very funny. What am I missing on did he just do cancelled? He went on cancelled. Got it, got it. They were so much fun too. Fuck.

I mean, you obviously would like to kill us if you're hesitating and you're on with We're so much fun, too. Fuck. I mean, you obviously would like to kill us if you're hesitating, and you're on with us. Yeah, but I've had such a good time with you guys. This has genuinely been fun for me. So it's changed. Before I came in here, maybe would have killed you guys, maybe. But now, fuck. I still got to kill y'all. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry. They just canceled, never gave me shit about my looks ever. So just buy a hair. They went on that one. I'm sorry. I've been doing Barstool for two decades, 20 years. This is the most insulting thing that's ever been said about me. Welcome to the success, dog.

That someone picked Tana Mongeau. We just got killed, yeah. No, no, no. I promise. no i promise if you guys get revived i'll fuck everybody here i promise i promise oh maybe if josh was here if josh was here i would have fucked y'all 100 i have to like go i know i don't need it anywhere else oh that's funny well i gotta fuck p obviously. We know what's going on there. I'm gonna marry Ellen. I feel like two lesbians living together is probably pretty easy.

Nice. And, Jerry, I gotta kill ya. Ooh. Ooh, okay, okay. This is a tough one. I'm gonna fuck Chris Rock's Selective Outrage, because it was a very important special, and it, it tackled a very prominent issue in the stand-up comedy community, and he talked his shit, he stood up for himself, he fired the appropriate shots, and I've got a lot of respect for that, like, he didn't hold back on that,

and I respect it, there's, There's some feistiness in that. I love that. So I'm gonna fuck Chris Rock. I'm gonna marry Schultz Infamous. I love the special. The guy's a genius and he's given me a lot of support and I've modeled so much of what I've been building over these past couple of years off of what he's done.

So nothing but respect there. And Bo Burnham is a fucking genius. Fun fact about him and I don't know if it's changed since then but I'm a huge horror fan and the original house from the original Nightmare on Elm Street is like five blocks from the Laugh Factory and I've just as a tourist have walking by there walking by that I've walked by there so many times back to my apartment after shows and stopped by just to admire the house. And then I found out his girlfriend or fiance or wife, I don't know what the relationship is now. She owns that house. Really?

This is what I was told. He filmed that special in the guest house of that house. Oh, shit. That's what I heard. I could be wrong. I hope I'm not wrong. It's an amazing story. I just, I love Bo bo i think he's a

genius creatively and he's so funny i just don't oh i don't always go for what's the most artsy thing and it was an artsy masterpiece it's just not the other two just have me on the floor and that's all that's it all fuck how many are there dude every time i get through one i'm like what's that we did it okay one more after this oh man well i did fuck whitney and that's why she's pregnant um so i'm gonna fuck whitney i'm gonna go oh god damn it actually no i can't no okay i retract i retract not fucking whitney again sarah has always been so hot to me like even if you see footage from like the 90s i heard like the improv like the old footage she has always been stunning and i've i've met her just to clarify what you it's just

you can be as graphic as you like as long as they weren't i bet i bet i could if i didn't have and if i didn't have a girlfriend, maybe I'd be more descriptive. But in the meantime, she's gorgeous. She's so funny. And she's always been very nice to me. Now, I probably fuck Sarah Silverman. I'm marrying Nikki Glaser just because Whitney has a baby now. And I don't want to be married to somebody with somebody else's kid right now.

You know what I mean? Let me build to be a stepdad. And Nikki's also so sexual that I feel like she would be fun to be around. She cracks me the fuck up. I've been lucky enough to do a bunch of shows with her. And she's just a good time to be around like her she cracks me the fuck up i've been lucky enough to do a bunch of shows with her and she's just a good time to hang around she's very down to earth i guess would be the best word to use it so i mean she's just easy to be around so sorry whitney decline decline and fucking marry jessica lord

nice try that was easy. All right. There it is. Thank you for coming on. Reminder, the special is coming out November 15th, Netflix, Natural Selection.

Appreciate you coming on. Sorry, Josh couldn't be here. It's okay. I'll text you. I'll probably FaceTime and make sure he's okay. I can't thank you enough for having me in, man.

Like I said, I've been a fan of what you guys have been building here, so thank you for letting me be a part of that thank you appreciate it of course man i'll see you in person sometime okay talk to you later later brother