Fore Play - We Demand Your Resignation

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

We’re back from break with much to discuss. Trent vacationed alone in Hawaii. Riggs demanded the resignation of the Southwest Airlines CEO. Frankie introduced himself to pickle ball and to record players. Dan had a tough realization. Barstool pulled off its first ever college football bowl game with the Arizona Bowl. We breakdown our year, what’s to come, and debate whether a hole-in-one bet at this week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions is a terrible bet or not. Happy New Year.You 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/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Oh, Rick! What's up, my brother? I've got a buddy who struggles with that shot. A lot. His name's Frankie Burrilli. So the guys actually gave him a nickname of Butterknives because he always knives to cross the green.

Rock 100. Now you've got to break 90s. We appreciate what you guys do for golf. It's been really cool. Thank you. You're making it cool. We appreciate it. I was like, hey, Phil, you only fucking $29.99.

And he grabs 100. He's like, yeah, I won $90,000 a piece yesterday. He goes, take 100 and go fuck yourself. What? What are you guys different? It's a hobby. Foreplay, presented by Barstool Sports, brought to you by a very good friends at Chevrolet.

It's 2023. 2023. I got to say, and I wrote that date down, I think we're entering the years that I just wasn't never prepared for. or never thought would actually enter a real calendar that I'm part of. What was the year in I-Robot? What year does I-Robot take place?

The Will Smith movie. Because I remember hearing that when I was a kid or whenever that came out and being like, boy, that feels like a fake year. And I bet we're in that area. 2035. Okay. 2035. So yeah, I mean, we're kind of getting into that realm.

I feel like I was thinking about the year 2019, which we've spoken about a lot. year. Tiger Woods wins the Masters. St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup. Great year. That was four years ago now. That's not. I mean, I feel like we're kind of just still in 2019. President's Cup, that whole deal. Maybe if it was a year ago, you could get over that, whatever. Four years ago was 2019. What? Yeah, that makes no sense. What? Yeah. It's unfortunate. I do think, I've mentioned it before, but I do think that 2020 with everything that happened screwed up time for me and particular. And I think a lot of people where, right, that doesn't seem like three years ago. That seems like eight months ago. And I don't know how to justify it in my brain. I don't know what to tell myself. But yeah, the fact that Tiger won the masters four years ago, that was when

Game of Thrones finished up. That was four years ago. Like those things don't feel like they're that far ago, but they are. It's very odd. So if you entered college in the fall of 2019, would you be graduating this spring. Is that right? Oh. 19 to 20, 20, 21, 21 to 22. Yeah.

Yeah, you'd be graduating in May or think about that. That's like since, since the President's Cup experience that we had, someone has almost gone through an entire college experience. The 2019 President's Cup just looms large in this group.

Constantly. Well, it was a big moment. Also, I was thinking I was randomly, I was randomly thinking about this. I was, 16 years old 17 years ago. Yeah.

My dad did this like basically someone turned 30 and he's like, I'm double, I'm 100% more than your age right now. But then when you're 60 and I'm like 90, we're going to be closer in percentage. Right.

Like I'm catching up to you. And that really fucked me up mentally. You know what I mean? Yeah. It was really good. math on his part of being like, I'm, I'm just kind of like slowly getting older. You're rapidly getting older. Because in my head, and I'm guessing in your head, too, it should stay the same. Right. Right. Yeah. At what age do you like level off? Is it like from like late 60s, early 70s?

Like I get that you like anything could happen at that point. You're just really old. But I feel like you're sort of what you got at like 70. you catch something horrible illness passed away. Like if someone's 70 or 90, you could kind of do like, I don't know. I just feel like you sort of level off and you're just old for a while unless you die. I think it's like 75.

There are some 70 year olds these days that are pretty spry and like pretty, they move pretty well. You know what I mean? I think 70s at this age that we're starting to get to, I feel like with like me and Trent, like every year is pretty drastically different. Dude.

I can't. He's wide and quick. All of a sudden. It used to be for 20 plus years, I was fine. And then it's like every year is your Adam Sandler in, uh, uh, big daddy where he's like, I have a fucking thing click. Well, I have a milk shake and my ass shakes for like a week, you know? And it's like it's, I feel like we're at that.

I'm, I'm chronically ill. I am, I have not been not sick or something wrong with me for three and a half years. Like when I was in my 20s, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm chronically ill. I just, I guess I imagined that everything, every part of my life was going to be like that where I was invincible. I could just do anything I wanted. I could drink whatever I wanted. I could eat whatever I wanted. And I'd wake up the next day, like at worst, I'd feel 2% worse.

And now if I do anything out of the ordinary, I'm in real trouble. I'm down 70%. A good amount of driving talk on this show, Trent driving around an island, Trent driving around, uh, Long Island. I know people that had to drive from St. Louis to Phoenix. to Southwest Airlines and that whole debacle, which we get into. If you're driving or in the future now, it's 2023. We spoke about that as well.

You got to have EVs and you got to get an EV from Chevy. Yeah, EVs are the way of the future. You watch a lot of documentaries. You see, do a lot of Googling. You realize that these fossil fuels, all this stuff, you know, at some point it's going to run out. And we need to be there now. We have to be in the future now. It's 2023.

It is the future. Right. Again, we do talk about that on the show. We're here. 2023. Imagine like I was born in 1989. 2023 is the future. It's a future.

And you need to have an EV and you got to look at these infotainment systems. I spent the whole week kind of sitting on my couch. We were off. It was Christmas time. You're getting gifts. And then you're thinking like, oh, you know,

my lease is up in a couple months. Like let me start really starting to see the trims and the colors and the infotematement systems. You know who else drives a Chevy? And it always goes viral. Fucking Scotty Schephler. He does a suburban. And he's driving that thing. And it's still, it's still kicking.

It's like a fucking rock. 175,000 miles driving his Chevrolet vehicle. And the guy is one of the best golfers on the planet, literally, literally one of the best golfers on the planet. And he drives a Chevy still to this day. He could buy any car in the world. But he loves that Chevy. That's his, that's his rock. Dude, I'm looking at this, I'm looking at this Blazer EV on the line right now.

I think, because I'm like you, Frankie. my lease that I had from three years ago ends this year. The Chevy Blazer EV, that's what I'm looking at, man. You can, so you can build those out and start to reserve those now on Chevrolet's website. They got the bolt, which you can go right on right now and get. They got the Silveradoes coming out so you can, again, go on their website, build that puppy out, reserve it so you're ready to go. The EVs from Chevrolet are affordable. You don't have to be rich to have an EV. And Chevrolet supports us. They support the classic. podcast, our videos.

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We really did nothing for the last like three weeks. Trent, you went to fucking Hawaii. I did. I went to Hawaii. How'd that go? I do want to hear. It was great.

I was, I was on Maui. It was beautiful. It was wonderful. Um, I did a lot of what I do here. which is nothing, but I did it on a beach, which is amazing. So you feel better about,

you feel better about doing nothing in Hawaii than you do. You do. You really do because you're like, oh, I'm on vacation. You know, everyone here is on vacation. Everyone here is doing nothing. If I had to do it over again and I was talking to my mom on the phone yesterday about

this, I wouldn't do it over Christmas. That would be the thing that I would change. Too many kids, right? No, just that. The reason I did it over Christmas this time was, because I didn't think my parents were going to be in Cedar Rap.

My dad was getting his knee replaced and he was going to do the rehab in Arizona, blah, blah, blah, the dates got switched around. So they ended up being in Cedar Rapids for Christmas. And I felt the pangs of like, oh, I wish I was with my family because I knew that they were getting together because I planned the trip under the impression that they weren't going to be together. So on Christmas Day, I was just kind of like, oh, I mean, it's great to be on Maui and I'm on a beach and it's beautiful and I'm frolicking in the Pacific Ocean. but I knew that my folks and my siblings were together. So the only thing I would change is I would move it by like three days. Everything else was perfect. It's the most perfect place on the planet.

What did you do each day? Like what did you do? What was like a day for Trent in Hawaii? I would get up. What was like your third day? It's a good start. Yeah, I would definitely wake up. Well, the thing too, and I know that Dan Rad is experiencing this right now.

He's, he is there right now. And it's a five hour difference. So it is drastic. Like, I would say, it's a little fun when you wake up because it's a little fun when you wake up because things have happened already during the day. Oh,

you know what I mean? Oh, people don't know. They can't. They can't. Are we done? Are we back? Oh, true.

We can't, though. It kind of kills a conversation. We lost it, Danny. Am I back now? Yeah. I'm saying it's great. It's a fun wake up experience because things have happened.

Because when you wake up, when you wake up, it's already 1130 on the East Coast. And you got emails, you got text messages. Things have already gone viral. It's more of an electrifying wake-up experience than, you know, rolling out about an 8.30 in New York. Fun is not the word I would use.

It's anxiety for me. Oh, it's pure anxiety because you're right. I would go to bed at, it's funny because it's a five-hour difference from the East Coast. And by 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock in Maui, no one that I am in contact with is doing anything. And I know Riggs, you experience out a little bit living in Arizona, where once it time hits, when it's regular. bedtime for the people on the East Coast, it's silence, which honestly, for me, was kind of nice. It was a little five-hour gap where I could just sit and not have to worry about my phone,

not have to worry about, you know, something crazy happening that I have to react to on social media. But then you get the flip side of that in the morning because you do, you wake up at seven and it's noon on the East Coast. And things are very much happening. Every morning I woke up with 15 text messages at least. And that I got to just rifle through them like, please don't be. I'm fired.

Please don't be somebody that is like, what the fuck? Why aren't you responding to this? Luckily, it was never that. But I didn't like the morning being noon on the East Coast. That gave me too much anxiety. So you waked up and you woke up and then what happened? Then where would you do? There was this great coffee place across the street from where I stayed called Java Jazz.

Jazz Java. And they had great breakfast. They had great coffee. I'd get a nice coffee from there. It's not like the way you're picturing for a Hawaii spot. It's not outdoors on the ocean. It was this cool, indoor, like crazy decor on the inside. I don't even know how to explain it.

You'll have to Google it. But I would get a coffee and, you know, I'd get pancakes or whatever from there. And then the rest of the day, I were about an hour into the day. We got like, I would say 16 more to go maybe before you guys. So you come out of that coffee shop, you got pancakes in your belly. You got coffee in your hand. And you just kind of like, do you make a left? You usually go to the beach after that.

I usually go right to the beach. I'd get, you know, I'd get my flip-flops on and I, I took a picture, a very touristy picture that I didn't end up putting up, but I sent to a lot of people where I just look like a tourist. And I would get my flip-flops and my towel and my book and I would walk down to the beach or did you have somebody take a shot of you? No, I was like a, it was a mirror. It was a selfie in the, in the hotel mirror. Okay. And then I would go to the beach for a few hours, just hang out there, let the waves hit my feet a little bit. Perfect weather.

Dude, 77 every single day. sunny every single day. There were, I mean, it was vacation for a lot of people, but there weren't like, it wasn't an overcrowded crazy beach. I think the place that I stayed, you only had access to that beach if you were staying there. So there were like, you know, there were a few people there, but it wasn't crazy. And then lunch was my, probably my favorite part of every day.

I remember when I originally went to Hawaii with my pals, we went to Oahu in 2011. We would go to this place called L&L Hawaiian Barbecue for lunch. We'd go every single day. And I went there again, every single day for lunch. And I got chicken katsu, rice, and macaroni salad. Best macaroni salad on the planet, L&L barbecue, for sure. There were times throughout the trip where I would just wander over there and get a side of macaroni salad and just walk around. Just a perfect amount of mayo in there.

Dude. Oh, my God. It's unlike any other max salad that I've had. And unfortunately, you have to fly a long way to get it. But it is worth it once you get there. So I do that every day for lunch. familiar with the with the staff at these establishments that you frequent it every day yeah yeah yeah they i mean they knew it they're like oh here comes that here comes that fat white guy

they're like chicken katsu did you do anything i guess what did you get do anything out of the trend ordinary would you say like that would shock us on the show where you went like did you go ziplining or something no it's like holy fuck no and that that's a good way to phrase that question and the answer is no and the only thing that i did that not even would surprise you but i drove around a lot of the island and I would go to different beaches and like just check it out like I love seeing the different types of scenery I love doing that on long island like I'll just drive around and I'll find different places that are cool looking but no I didn't go snorkeling I didn't go I didn't go I didn't go I didn't go I didn't go I didn't go zip lining your skin and the reason is your skin

touch the ocean. Yes oh yeah I was in the ocean when I would go to the beach I'd frolic and I'd I'd go shoulders deep yeah oh yeah how wow so but the reason and and it's It's a good question from you, but my answer is I didn't. I guess part of the reason I go on a trip like that by myself is because I don't want people to be like, let's go zip lining or snorkeling. Would I have fun at those things? Probably. But I, on my trip to Maui, I wanted to just sit and read a book and frolic in the ocean

and do a lot of nothing except eat and relax. Sounds fantastic. It does sound nice. That sounds really nice. The only thing that, another thing that was weird about it would be dinner. I would, I would have loved to have had one person to go to dinner with, but then never see them again throughout the trip. I need someone exactly like me to go on a trip like that where once six o'clock hits, we text each other and we say, hey, let's go to dinner. And then we go to dinner for two, three hours.

And then we, and then we bounce. If only, if only there was someone else, you know, in your little bit who was how hard. How hard was it? How hard was it if you know, boy, Dan Rappaport on the island? Island. Was it like a conscious effort? It's a pretty big island. We're on the same island? You're on the same island?

We're on the same island. Yeah. Yeah. I think we overlap by like 36 hours, though. Oh, yeah, I was really short. Yeah, we didn't have time to hang out anyway. I do think that. But maybe I'm wrong.

I think you're right. I've had a nice break. I've had a really tough realization that's going to lead to some really tough emails that I didn't want to send. And that realization is I'm just not a size 32 waste anymore. that's that's just a thing of the past um yeah yeah they i was i was always like a eat whatever you want kind of guy and never had an issue i was a 30 i think in high school and then i moved to 32 in college so it was like oh i'm bigger now college guy my body's developing and i've been a 32 ever since

you know six years since college it's it's just not happening anymore um i played golf i played golf the day before yesterday for 18 holes with my buttoned or my shorts unbuttoned the entire time. Yeah. So I'm going to have to email some of our friends and say, hey, I know that, you know, 32 is what we talked about, but 32's not happening anymore. So I'm in 34 life. It's nice because I've been trying to, I've been trying to squeeze into the 32s for a little

while now, trying to lie to myself. And I feel like I'm finally coming home. It's like a bolding guy who decides to shave his head finally in the end. It's like, all right. Just accept what's happening. That's right. There's no need to stop denying it. Stop denying it.

And just get those 34s. Yeah, we're a 34 guy now. I spent a lot of the break demanding the resignation of the Southwest Airlines CEO. Oh, yeah. You tweeted out or maybe Instagram started you said, I think Southwest has fallen. And that one made me laugh for a long time because like that wording is so perfect. Can you walk us through the whole, the whole thing? Because I want to say as no free ads, but as a Delta guy, I flew about as far as you can go throughout

this trip and I didn't have any single problem. I was I was in an airport. I was out of an airport at the right times and I there was just went off without a hitch. So I got to tell me what happened with your southwest debacle. It's a great week to be any other airline other than Southwest because they looked like just a trillion dollars. I actually overall got pretty lucky because I didn't miss anything. But I showed up to the airport at one p.m. on Christmas day. And the reason I did that is all our family does pretty much everything, Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. And then I always find myself on Christmas at like 11 when my brother has to go to his two other stops with his family. I got nothing to do the rest of the day.

And I'm kind of around. Everybody's kind of like lazy. You still got a whole other week of vacation and nothing really goes on. So I was like, I'm just going to fly out that afternoon. I've flown on Christmas before because college hockey, you pretty much always do a Christmas tournament. So a lot of times, like, I spent Christmas flying in the morning or whatever back. So I was like, airports are usually empty on Christmas day. Everybody flies the 23rd, 22nd, and then people fly 26, 27, 28.

I show up, get through security, no problem. There's really not that many people there. Get there about 115 flights at 3 o'clock. I left the airport at 1.30 in the morning. And Southwest was just doing the whole thing where every 15 to 30 minutes, they would just say it's delayed another 30 minutes. start to realize that the plane that we need to go from St. Louis back to Phoenix has not left Miami. So at any update that they give us, we're at least four hours away from leaving at any moment.

And they just keep delaying it 30 minutes. Like I said, I was lucky because my Christmas was done. On 23rd, hung out with a bunch of my buddies. You watch the blues game. Christmas Eve with my giant family, Christmas morning with my direct family. I'm pretty much done. I'm on vacation, not a big deal. deal. So I just went to the bar. There's football on all day. It wasn't bad. I spent from,

I had three meals at the bar at the airport hotel at the airport bar from like 145 until nine o'clock. And then at nine o'clock, well, I started tweeting about it at like six or seven. I started to get pretty rattled tweet about it. This guy hits me up that's on the Miami flight. And he's like, dude, we haven't left yet. We've been here for like eight hours straight. They're telling us we just don't have a flight attendant. So everyone's ready. The plane's ready. The fucking pilots are ready. They don't have flight attendants so they can't leave. So clearly something's fucking going on.

I start looking on Twitter and it's chaos across the country. Every mention of like Southwest is just a fucking nightmare. And then I find myself at 9 o'clock, they tell us all of a sudden the departure time is 950, which means there must be a new plane. Change the gate. We all go over there. People had gone home. They come running back through the gate, try to get there.

Again, they don't have a fucking flight attendant or full. flight crew. So now at like 9.35, they're trying to find employees. The pilot comes out. He's giving out chocolate. It's like all the employees are doing the best that they possibly can, trying to help everybody out. Now we go from 930-ish. We all got there and they tell us we're going to take off till 1230 at night. They finally say flight is canceled. And they did the whole thing where they found a pilot. Pilot timed out 10 minutes before we were supposed to leave. They finally find two or three flight attendants. they time out so they can't fly can i can i ask a question at this point how strict is the attendance of particular pilots and in particular flight attendants to a flight actually taking

off because i would venture to guess a lot of people 100% of people on that flight would be like let's just go with a pilot i don't need my lukewarm diet coke on my way to phoenix should have heard people volunteer and to be flight attendants on the flight every person on the flight. And the, so I guess the number that was being thrown around. And you know, you become, it's almost like the, the show lost. It's like you become best friends, all these people over the fucking 10 hours, 12 hours here there. So the theory that was going around was you need one flight attendant per 50 people on a flight. That's like FAA regulations. Okay. And so if you don't have it, you like literally can't fucking fly, whatever starts to get to the point like 10.30 at night now. There's a few people at the gate that start to get rattled. And I have at this point, I've had like 10 beers. I'm kind of chill. I don't really have anywhere to be.

So it's not like, it sucks when you have to somewhere to be. Family, you miss Christmas. There was a whole crew of 15 people that were all family and friends that all had the same Christmas sweater on. They were so excited to do like Sunday evening in Arizona for Christmas. And they're just all sweating and like kids are crying.

And they've been there for fucking 12 hours. So those people got fucked. One of the flight attendants was literally bawling her eyes out once they told her she couldn't she had timed out because she knew that everyone was going to be fucked. So it was chaos. there were two people at like 10.30 or whatever at night that started to get rattled. And one guy actually said he goes up to the gate attendant or whatever. And he goes, this is inhumane.

I'm going to call the news. Just a vague threat to call the local news. You know the guy Ed Bassmaster, he's a comedian on Instagram and he does all those. Would you look at this? He does a thing where he just, he'll like, he'll film someone walking down the street with a couple dogs and he'll be like I'm putting you on the news and the guy will be like, what? I'm putting you on the fucking news and he literally

he's become famous for this. It's the best. He gets the most ridiculous reactions of all time. Now you guys realize the power of the pen, the power these journalists have, man, local news. You don't want to get blown up. And then this gate attendant, I got to get this gate attendant. He just looked at the guy and goes, all right.

He just just put it in there last. It is funny. You say it gets to be like lost. You do realize that a show like that while, you know, it's a bit science fiction. But at a certain point, and at this, in this scenario, eight, 10 hours into it, people will start to lose their minds and they'll start to like make their own clans and like,

we're about, we're about to lose our minds out here. Dude, this one dude, and I felt, I felt bad for it. It was him, his wife. And they're like three year old girl who was screaming crying in his hands. And this guy, he, he just looked so miserable. He was a Jewish guy. Had his Yamika on. he had a mask on and then he was an overweight guy so he's like he just was sweating and uncomfortable

and eventually goes up to the gated tenant and he's not even holding his child in like a respectable manner at this point the child is like in one arm he's like flailing the thing around screaming and he's up there and you can't the gate of tenant can't even understand him because he's got this thick mask on and he's screaming he's like this is i can't believe you guys are going to leave us here what the blah and the gate attendant it's like i can't understand you sir i'm sorry and it was just fucking chaos. But to the last point, it got like, and everyone's going to be like, why didn't people just leave or change?

There's no other options. The only option, if you left, if your flights canceled, you leave, there's a flight. This is Sunday on Christmas Day. The next flight out was Thursday, that American, that, oh, Southwest had. So, like, everyone's like, we have to get on this plane. If we don't, we don't really have a choice because after that, if you called the Southwest hotline or customer service, it went straight to. a busy signal. So all day, there's nowhere to help. The only thing you could do is go to one of the

desks at the airport. The desks were five plus hour lines, every one of them. I'm talking hundreds of people in these lines that wrapped around like a snake around the entire airport. So you had, if you missed your flight or your flight got canceled, you were just like subject to waiting there, hoping it took off. And if it didn't, you then had to enter this line. So luckily, because I didn't have anything, I just was able to at like 1 a.m. when they canceled our flight, I both. booked a United flight at 7 a.m. to Denver. I just bypassed Arizona, 7 a.m. United to Denver. And I just went home. And when I left, I gave like hugs to two or three different people that you've become like lost friends with. And then they went and entered a five to 10 hour line at one of the

morning to try to figure out how they're going to rebook or what they're going to do. And then after that, they went and stood in a three, four, five hour line in baggage claim to try to get their bags back. And I was just like, it's a shit show. No. So what was the problem? So I, like I said, went, I booked a hotel, slept for two hours, got on a plane, flew to my parents' place in Boulder, which where they've kind of retired to now. And I just slept all day until they made it there later that night.

And then I was waking up. I was looking at all the Southwest stuff. Turns out, I think what the issue is Southwest has a massively antiquated back end system for scheduling all of their flight attendants and their pilots. And that wouldn't be a huge issue for most airlines because every other major airline does a hub system, which is pretty simple. Like if you fly from Denver. You know the details on this. I'm impressed.

You got the down low. Hub system. If you fly from Denver to like Phoenix, that plane goes back from Phoenix to Denver or even if it goes up to Seattle, it eventually like returns. So your crew pretty much stays in a simple small orbit where they could be easily tracked, accessed and utilized when they need. to me. Southwest, because they offer all these different direct flights, which is the reason I had to take them, they don't have a hub system and they don't fly the same routes every day. Someone might go from Phoenix to St. Louis to Buffalo, to Miami, and then across to Seattle the next day, whatever. And so what happens is when their system breaks down, which it did, they don't know where the fuck

anybody is. They don't know where any other flight attendants are. They don't know where any of their pilots are. And the only way they could figure out where they are is those people had to call and report where they were. and that was taking up all of the customer service, all of the manpower that Southwest had. And in order for them to finally be able to put together a schedule to get people around the country per FAA regulations, they had to first get their shit together and realize where everybody is so that they could then come up with the schedule.

Henceforth, for several days in row, they canceled like 70% of their flights around the country. They just canceled them. And then the whole trickle down effect was like, they didn't have anybody to help you. They didn't have anybody to get your bags. They didn't have anybody to fly the planes or to work the crew. So it just was a trickle down.

And I happened to be at the very beginning of that. So it was a fucking disaster. There was one day where Southwest canceled like 2,600 flights I saw by like 8 a. m. And the next most was like 22 cancellations by the next. Yes. So I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw you were calling for the for the head of the Southwest CEO. You know, you wanted, you wanted, you wanted him to have to explain.

to his family. He doesn't get fired between Christmas and New Year's. And I saw your reasoning was basically you're the head of a company and your company fails and you've got to go. So even if I want to, you just get your position, even if it was 100% not his fault and this system is not something that he can change overnight,

the hub system, you know, now we know the intricacies of the hub system, them not being on it, probably hurt their case. You're saying it doesn't matter. If you were the leader of an organization and your organization has that big of a fuck up, then you have to go no matter what.

Well, Dan, you don't realize that this has happened before recently where their system basically failed. So you're saying they should have overhauled the system in between the two. What I'm saying is, yes, they known for years, and this has been reported for years, and they've had massive meltdowns within the last year, almost identical to this situation. And so what infuriates me is if that guy had run a perfect company, but he had a dumb tweet 10 years ago, people would demand his resignation. But if he can't actually do the job, which his job is to run an effective company,

and he ruins thousands of people's Christmases and New Year's. Luckily, I was able to be saved. Then you should, then you can't do the job. And he, I looked at up, he makes like at least three and a half, four plus million dollars a year, which I have no problem with executives making a ton of money, especially like people's shit on Roger Goodell all the time, makes $40, $50 million a year. Look how successfully the NFL has been under Roger Good. hell. He deserves that money. Pay him the fucking money. That's great. He's made everybody billions of dollars. It's great for him. If you're not doing the job and your company is failing and you're failing

all of your flight attendants, all of your flight attendants, all of your customer service people, all the pilots, all the people that paid for flights that are now fucked, you're out, in my opinion. And people are like, oh, what do you expect him to say? That was a good statement. He's not a spokesperson. He's the CEO. The CEO can put out a good spokesperson CEO or message. spokesperson could do that. The CEO's job is to operate the company. He's the chief executive officer. He is supposed to be the officer of running the company and he failed. The airlines can do whatever they want. There's no like real regulations with these people and then they just get bailed out by the government whenever they do fail and they just continue on the charade. We just spend all of our tax dollars.

And the only new airline in the last 20 years is fucking spirit airlines, which is like a spit in the face to every consumer. There's been no. there's been no like great airline to hop on the scene. And then you've got these, just these innocent Southwest frontline workers who are getting yelled at by these people who want to get back for Christmas and New Year's, which I understand. Like it's, you got the two sides,

the Southwest workers and the people want to get back. They're both have, they're well intentioned to people and they're just ripping each other's throats out. And there's that CEO making four million bucks where he's just like, yeah, I'm going to put out this statement and that's going to be it. We're going to be good.

And it came out like Tuesday morning or something. something and I'm like he clearly was just sitting by the fire with his family over the weekend having a nice Christmas and he's like I'm going to get back to the I'm going to get back to the office Monday or Tuesday and we'll kind of we'll kind of get this ship going in the right direction. You're like dude. Wow. It was and it like it sucked seeing the other people whose family who's like Christmases were fucking ruined.

Like there were people everywhere that were just devastated. I was like man that is a problem. And to answer your question, Dan, that man is. is the head of all of that. They're going to get someone in there that can just make sure that can't happen again or if it does communicate or be prepared for it or whatever because like they just, yeah, when I tweeted like,

just how fast airlines has fallen. That's like, that's what happens. Exactly. True. It just fell apart. It's like it just wasn't working. I,

um, I, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, Frankie, but I'll, to just end this airplane talk is the last thing I have on airplanes. Have you guys ever flown into the Salt Lake City airport?

It's breathtaking. It was one of the highlights of my trip, honestly. I flew from JFK to Salt Lake City, then Salt Lake City to Maui. I flew into Salt Lake City, you know, during the day. It is gorgeous. It's beautiful. You look out the window, see a bunch of people soaking. No, you see, you see mountains and you see snow and you see it's, it's gorgeous.

It's unlike any airport I've ever flown into. Is it in the middle of the mountains? I think I've seen a picture of it. Yeah, it is pretty crazy. Dude, I couldn't believe it. I was stunned. I realized once I moved out here, a lot of people vacation in Utah. Utah gets a little bit of a weird rep for some of the religious shit that goes on there, obviously.

But Utah is a stunning place. Like Salt Lake City is absolutely gorgeous with the mountains all around the lake. So, yeah, it is probably the coolest place to fly into. I think like Monterey is up there too, that little airport in Monterey. Fly into that. But yeah, Salt Lake City. It was a good call. It was so unexpected.

That's what it was. Like I flew into Maui. I flew to Maui at night. But I had flown into Oahu all those years ago during the day. And it's beautiful. And I was expecting it to be beautiful. Salt Lake City. I was like, oh, I'm just going to fly in and fly out.

And we were, we were starting to get ready to land. And I was like, what is this? This is a beautiful place we've ever seen. We flew into Monterey when David Ortiz got shot. And we didn't have any Wi-Fi. Oh, wow. We didn't have any. We landed.

We landed. The blues had won. and they advanced to the Stanley Cup finals and then David Ortiz got shot 2019 and we were just that was a really really surreal walk off the plane because you get off the plane and you walk on the tarmac

there and the fucking sunset was coming down and you're looking around there was like palm trees and you're like where the hell did we just land? Wait David Ortiz his shot is he dead? It was nuts I didn't know if he was live. My vacation was I just stayed home and did a lot of Long Island

stuff so a lot of family. I hosted a lot in my first year in the house. That was a lot of fun. We hosted a lot of people. It's nice. It was a lot of fun. Did a lot of just things that I love to do, sit on the couch, watch TV, play a lot of video games, played a lot of PG-Tor Tukui 23. I got into pickleball. I played my first pickleball match over the break. I loved it. It's got me hookline sinker. It's a fucking fantastic sport. It is an amazing, amazing activity to play. I will say that we're talking about getting older. I couldn't even sit on the toilet the next day after playing my first pickleball match. I don't know what happened to my ass cheeks. Something about like the stance because you're always so low.

It's the constant crouching and the constant like turning. You're doing so, you're doing like two hours worth of squats and you're like running around. It's insane how much of a good workout is. But then you look to your right in like old Susie Lou like 85 years old is like playing a doubles max. That's like her husband. Have you ever, if you ever go to a yoga class, it's the same thing.

thing you go to a yoga class for the first time you're like all right i'm going to get limber and you can't do any of the poses and there's 95 year old women who are standing on their heads for three hours i love everything about pickleball yoga yeah yoga's a nightmare i love everything about hard yoga sorry frank no it's okay i mean yeah yoga sucks anything like that sucks anyone that does yoga sucks i mean it's impossible you like i'd rather just lift the weights you think it's a stretch right they talk about like you're just stretching it's like they con you into people and they conn you into it's like it's namaste. It's going to be relaxing and peaceful and you're going to feel parts of your body you never felt before. That last part is the only part that's true because you are so sore the next day that you

are feeling like Frankie. You can't take a shit. I could not sit down. I was I was in so much pain that I was laughing all day. Like I was walking around like a 90 year old man. So I'm actually playing again today. Hopefully like the more I go, I'm just going to build up a little bit more muscle in the spots that I literally have never used before, I guess. So I did that. That was a lot of fun. I love the idea of like it's all a touch game that's the thing i really enjoyed about it there's no like slamming really the dinking and the dunking and the kitchen line and like there's a lot of there was you know all the i learned all the new words and all the lingo i felt really cool dog walking you big rob's a fucking problem out there big rob is a problem on the fucking courts dude he has so

much like he's six foot five so and he's crazy athletic with his hands he's got amazing hand eye coordination so like you hit it anywhere above his hip it's coming right back at you. I mean, I would, I would assume Lurch is very similar in that aspect where, like, he's just right there by the net. So, like, if you're trying to dink it, like, he can, like, he can reach over basically and slam dunk it in your face. It's insane. He has crazy length. And he definitely isn't as mobile. So doubles is his game. Like, singles, I think he could get probably torn apart. But, um, yeah, a lot of fun. I'm, like, definitely going to get, like, a paddle and, like, start playing a ton of paddle. Dude, there's a place here called, um, called Pickleball Plus

in like West Hemsett's right by UBS Arena and they have 15 courts and the place is so like updated and new that when you're in the entrance they have all these TVs and you can watch people's matches on all the courts like you're watching fucking professional sports and you're watching like these old women play in a fucking intense match and they're going crazy and screaming and then you go out there

and you feel like you're under the lights because you know there's a camera on your game it's so much fun it's the coolest place ever I'll be there every day I put some pickleball as well my my, uh, Emma's uncle is a really good pickleball player. And it was a little, a little annoying, a really good pickleball player is a little bit annoying to play against way more so than a good golfer because the way they play impacts you, right?

If you're playing with a good golfer, it's just like, oh, like, this is fun to watch. When you're playing with a good pickleball player, you're like, well, this guy's, this guy's ruining, ruining my time. Yeah. So I felt like a, I felt like a shitty golfer and I did not like that feeling of like, I, this guy's way fucking better than me. And not only is he better than me, but him being way better than me directly. negatively impacts my enjoyment of the experience.

And I just wanted to kill that guy. Yeah, you look pretty frustrated when you smoked that one in the net on that clip that I saw there. That was a tough clip. That was a tough clip. That was a tough clip. So soaking wet. So sweating. Florida is humid.

I need to lose like, I need to lose like 12 pounds. I'm not, listen, I'm up to, I'm pushing 34. I got to lose like 10 to 12 pounds. It's all about Tony.

You're just a sweaty guy. No, you're just a sweaty guy. Like, you don't need to lose anyway. Dude, I look at you and I'm like, fuck, you're, you're in good shape. But you, you're just a sweaty. We got an overactive sweatlands. Got the little condol. My hands, as you guys know, are incredibly sweaty.

And I got this treatment to try and fix them. And it made everything a lot worse. So I don't think the sweat's ever going to stop. Bro, you just got a. You mean a treatment. Yeah, you can get like shot. Spong. First of all, there's topical cream that you can get.

And I would just get so nervous. Oh, you got. I would get so nervous. when I was putting it on because my dad would be like, I got you this cream. It's going to fix your problems. So, Daddy got you cream.

I got you cream. I know, it gets so nervous that my hands would be sweatier than before. There's a Botox treatment, but then you can lose feeling in your hands. You don't want to do that. Well, real quick, Big Rob did this thing and Pickable players will know it, I guess. I guess tennis players will know it too,

but he did it around the post shot. And I didn't know. I felt like I was Jackie Moon and why am I not thinking of the semi pro where they do the alley-oop and they're just like foul. Like they didn't know. No, two fouls. Two fouls because he just basically went to this ball that was out of play like around the net and just smoked one low on the other side.

And we all just looked at him. We're like, that's illegal. Like that's the most illegal thing ever. And he's like, no, if this happened in a professional game, the crowd order went fucking nuts. Like that's the most athletic cool thing you can do in pickleball is like you do an ATP and the place loses their fucking mind. So that was a cool thing to see. Frankie, I got something to put. put on your radar here.

A couple months ago, I started following the dink pickleball, which is one of these like viral pickleball accounts on Instagram. I'll do that right now. They're big four play fans. And they reached out and said, time versus some four play times pickleball content. How do we make it happen? Tell us where to fly.

We'll bring the pros. So we'll go play a pickleball plus and we'll just make this happen. This is insane. So we have to, Lurch has got to be involved because he is the best. He's got to, we got to have it. I've never even.

I don't even know how to... I haven't either. It's so much fun, guys. There's a pickleball bar in Southie in Boston that my buddy was playing in like the championship I went to. What a culture that whole thing is. But the dink pickleball followed. All right.

We're in. Great shit on there. Dude, the thing that I love about is that it's a, it's with a wiffle ball. And like, you can really crank it. And it doesn't go that far. So it's like, that's the best part and the worst part because the worst part is when you're at the net and someone kind of slams on it at you, you think that all you need to do is just like raise the paddle and it'll bounce off it and go the other way. But it's kind of dead feeling.

So like it's all about your own fucking you losing points for yourself. You know what I mean? There's so many unforced errors of you being like mentally, I'm just going to dink this thing back because all I need to do is just like have it hit my paddle and it just goes straight into the net. You have to give it a little bit of a flick. And that I cannot understand you. I played five games and I like kept consciously trying to hit this thing like soft and it would just be too soft. so mad being like, why do I keep doing that? Why do I keep thinking it's a tennis racket where it's going to pop? It's just not. It's a rock hard paddle. I've never quite seen anything take over the culture like pickleball. Like it's, not only are there, not only are there are there

courts popping up everywhere. I know that Kevin Durant, like he bought into a professional pickleball. Yeah. Like it's also really taking over the world. It's also very controversial because a lot of tennis facilities are converting themselves to pickleball because, listen, you know, 85 year old Susie's probably not playing tennis quite as well she's playing no brain she can fly around the pickleball court but she tennis is hard on the body if any of you have played tennis before

in the last three years tennis is insanely hard on the body so people so people who are tennis hardos like my sister they hate pickleball because it's taking all their court space so the pickle ball hardos have like have this little community where they're like fuck the tennis hardos because this is capitalism our sport

our sport is more fun our sport is more fun and so we're going to take your land and turn it into our land. It'd be like it's something came up. If Frankie Borelli can play pickleball, no offense, because I'm in the same boat. If Frankie Borelli can play pickleball, have fun, sure, you can't shit the next day, but he's going to continue playing. That's going to win out because it's more, it's more accessible to the, it's a better product. It's a better product.

And it's probably killing, scratching their eyes out listening, but it's better. And it's more beneficial for the facility. They get to do double the amount of courts. They charge $80 every two hours. They turn that thing over from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Are you kidding me? They have like 20 courts in this place as opposed to five courts if you had tennis. I mean, it was incredible. That math didn't check out, but it's an incredible place. I can't wait to keep going back. So I did that. And then I want

to say the last thing that I did over the break was I watched the avatar movie in IMAX 3D. I know I get very dramatic and I like to exaggerate things. And my life is one big fucking drama filled movie with ups and downs. And I talk about how everything's the best in the world. and if you say everything's the best in the world, nothing can be the best in the world. When I tell you, I'm telling you seriously, man to man, when I tell you that,

and I liked Avatar one, I thought it was cool. I don't watch Avatar for the storyline. Like, what's really going to blow my dick away? The guy's going to save the family from the first, the sky people.

It's very simplistic. It's so simplistic. I watch it for like a movie experience. I thought that when Avatar 1 came out. I'm like, this is really fucking cool. You're thinking the whole time. None of this is real.

It's all CGI. It's insane that they did this. When I saw Avatar, the Way of the Water, Avatar 2, IMAX 3D. I'm like, I went by myself. It was like a 1 p.m. movie. I got there at like 10 o'clock. It was like an outdoor mall type place here in Deer Park. I went shopping before.

I went into Spencer's and I grabbed all the little boobies, you know, like the little fucking the squeezy boobies and Spencer. So I'm like looking at all the pictures. They had hilarious ornaments in there. Show me your ho face. It was fucking Santa. Railing out of Mrs. Claus. It was insane.

I'm not allowed to buy it, though, because we can't turn our tree into a nightmare, apparently. But I got some, Frankie, I got some cool Christmas, I got some cool Christmas village things, but they're stuck in my bag with Southwest. Oh, man, dude, the village, I, oh, by the way, every, when you get a Harry Potter skating rink, I got an outdoor skating rink. This is what I'm talking about. And now you start building. Once I got my Harry Potter village, people started buying that for Christmas for me. I got like serious snake. I got, I got, I got, I got, Severus Snape.

I got his, like, home that I, I guess is in the books. And like, it's not even in the movie. Like they, it's like the crooked, the crooked, I don't even know what the fuck the house is, but it's so cool. So I get there. I'm jacked up. I'm ready to watch a movie experience. Now, James Cameron, I kind of didn't like the hype he was getting.

I wanted to not like this movie because of what he was saying. He's like, it's going to change the movie experience forever. For us to make a profit, we have to be the number one selling movie of all time. Like he's just a fucking dick. He always, every time he's got something. He's hitters only though. He's incredibly arrogant. Yeah.

I mean, he's, yeah. Bro, I got to say, without giving, like, I'm telling you, I don't usually like 3D. I get motion sickness. When you go to like a move, when you go to like universal and you have to do one of those 3D things, like we did fucking 3D in Star Wars at Disney. And it was like too much to handle. You're like, your eyes are going to bulge out of your head. The previews before Avatar made me kind of nauseous because it's like standard 3D.

You're like, how my God, am I really going to sit here for three and a half hours is how long Avatar 2 is? Am I really going to sit here for this long? and watch this. My eyes were bulging out of my head. I couldn't focus on the fucking, on the previews. All of a sudden, it goes to black. The movie's about to start. And something happens where it just gets smooth. And the 3D and Avatar is so much different than the previews that just had gone in front of your eyes. 10 times as much as the previews. Bro, when I tell you that I've never seen a movie like this, he, I don't know if I can ever see another movie that isn't exactly

the way that he made it. You know what I mean? Like, it changed watching movies for me. It, I don't even know how to explain it. Like, the most I could say to you guys is like the 3D was insane, but you actually have to see it to believe it. That's how insane. That's how different it is, is that you have to see it to believe it. And I know he doesn't need like the publicity to fuck me. I'm go see it. This is a good sell. You can't watch this on your TV in your living room. It's just a boring movie of like guys coming down. I don't know how fucking Dan fell asleep during this thing. Like, I wanted it to be 10 hours. I wanted it to be 11 hours of like,

when am I ever going to see this type of shit happening right in front of my eyes? I, it was fucking wild. It should not be shown in non-Imax 3D. It should only be shown in IMAX 3D. Bro, it was mind. I was like saying, whoa, like out loud to myself. Like, you just can't believe he's recreated. things like there's like scenes with like these these animals that look like whales these these huge type whale

things and just the way it looks with the 3d i looked up i guess in some of the 3d scenes he like up the frame rate to make it even more smooth which has never been done like it's multiple frame rates within the same movie so like he wanted it to be one your eyes are mellow is the way i can describe it nothing my eyes kind of went into like one mode and they never stopped it was just a good way of putting it's a good way of putting it a lot of times with three you feel like you're trying to find the object sticking out. Yeah, and you're kind of like,

where am I supposed to be looking? This just felt like you were, felt like you would put on glasses into a new world. It was the most realistic. And the sound, the sound of the water, it was, yeah,

that's enough pub for fucking Avatar, but I think you all should go see it. Might put it over the edge now. I think it's a really cool experience. I think you're going to be like, in the year 2023, I saw Avatar. That was,

that was fucking awesome. You know what I mean? I'm going to go see it. It's on my list. You should. It's on my list. I went to the Barstool Arizona Bowl. Oh, yeah.

It was awesome. It was awesome. There's a lot of nerves going in. You could sense, you know, just because it's a pretty big thing that Barstool hasn't really done before, putting on a bowl game. There's a lot of pressure.

There's a lot of people rooting for. Lime of that least I must have been running all over the place. A lot of people rooting for it to fail or for things to go wrong or whatever. and it was phenomenal. The whole tailgate I got there, like 10.30 in the morning game started at like 2.30. Tailgate was amazing. Wyoming shows up.

There are people all over the place having a great time. Weather was good in Tucson and being her team, they built out kind of the whole tailgate experience. You could kick like a field goal. They're obviously doing the, you know, throw the footballs inside the hole. They're doing the whole deal. Tailgate was fantastic. And then once the game kicked off, they had the Air Force guys,

shooting in. You had big cat doing the national anthem with the flyover, which was like maybe two seconds off, which is pretty damn good. It was like right when he said he was finishing free, the plane started to fly over. And you could actually as like in real, when you're at the stadium, you could be like, oh, and then he kind of rushed in the home of the brave to try to catch up, which was great. But overall, that was pretty fucking well done. And I watched the whole first half, almost through the third quarter actually.

which is cool. The teams were into it. It was just very legitimate. It was real. Yet there was some humor in it in like the actual experience on the field. And then I drove the hour of 45 minutes back and I listened to it the whole way home. And I thought the broadcast, which actually very eye-opening and like kind of a, I don't know, it's like a barometer for a lot of us. If we ever wanted to try to call golf or claim that we could do like a Manningcast version of golf or if part of my take wanted to do football or whatever, that's like a cool barometer to see.

I thought it was amazing. thought Dan and Dave up there, like Jake Marsh is phenomenal at that. That's what he actually wants to do is, you know, live play call. And I think he'll be damn good at it. He had been studying apparently like 20 hours a day and told me forever. I thought Dan and Dave's dichotomy up there and them not being able to say which side they had potentially bet on and then like trying to sewer the other guy and trying to jinx the kickers while also call on the game and reacting. I thought it was actually really good, really consumable. I thought it was funny. different.

Uh, so pretty fucking surreal that our company put on an actual legitimate college football ball game. It was very cool. And the game was great. Yeah. Awesome game. You never know what you're going to get. And the game ended up going to OT had a walk off touchdown.

Amazing. I, I had similar takeaways from you rigs in terms of the broadcast. Jake Marsh in particular like that, it's so impressive to me to do that. You, like you're saying, if we'd ever want to do something like that someday or if, you know, any alternative media wants to do. something similar to that at some point. You still do need a traditional play-by-play guy to keep it rolling. Like, he's just always there, always providing information, always telling you what's going on.

Dan and Dave are obviously very funny and they're very observational and you need that as well. But just like even the final call from Jake Marsh was great. And you just need that to make it feel. And it is a real bowl game. That's my, that's another takeaway that I always think about. And I was thinking about it when we had the college basketball tournament. And then when we had the ball game, like we're a barstool. and it's very funny and it's oh my god i can't believe we're doing this it's kind of crazy and you got to remember

that the team's involved in it this is their bowl game this is very special to them like they want to win they flew everybody's flown out all these players at some of these guys last game like it's important to them so you know it's it's not a joke but it is like barstool is a comedy company so we're going to do you know frank tank is going to do the coin toss big cat's going to do the national anthem but then when the game starts these guys in the game want to win and it's very important to them so that that that's sort of contrast to me is also very interesting, but I just, my, one of my main takeaways was Jake Marsh is a fucking pro. He's, he's, he's really carrying the load for the journalist. But, yeah, I mean, the thing that's funny for me as an outsider is seeing all of you guys who have been

at Barstool for so long, constantly being like, this is the craziest thing of all time. This is the craziest thing of all time. This is the craziest thing of all time. And it was the same for the basketball tournament. For my perspective, and other people who, like, haven't been there since the beginning, it's like, yeah, this is like a natural progression. It's just, it's funny. kind of like heartwarming to see everyone who's been there since the beginning, just be constantly astounded and looking around and being like, I can't believe this is actually happening right now where the rest of the world is like, yeah,

Barstall's sports is fucking mass. Well, yeah, like, that is interesting because I never view it that way, obviously, because I remember the days when, like Dave was sending me paychecks.

Like, I remember when it was all just put together by, by Scotch tape and we were just praying that everyone still got paid at the end of the two weeks. So it, like, part of the appeal where people who have been fans of Barstool for so long, they get the payoff as well. Like they are like, oh, I remember following this website when it was four guys,

when it was Dave, you know, Dan, Kevin, Keith, when they were just blogging and they were kind of this upstart media brand that wasn't a media brand at that point. It was just a blog. And those people who followed then are now still, you know, 20 years later, they probably got kids, they got a wife, they got a house, but they're still following this website. but that website that they saw begin is now hosting its own college football bowl. It's cool to as an employee. 100%.

And it's cool as an employee who's been here a long time to see it pay off. But I bet it's very similar for the fans who've been following Barstool for so long to see it pay off and be like, oh, there's this bowl that's going on that they're watching with their family. And their family's like, oh, the Barstool, Arizona Bowl. What is that? And this guy who's sitting in the corner being like, I've been following this website for 20 years and now they have their own bowl game. Dude, and it's cool to see the people that are actually doing it.

Like all business Pete was literally like trying to get a fucking green screen up so we could do highlights without rights for like years. And now he's the main producer of a fucking broadcast for a bowl game. Jake Marsh is calling Frankie Borrelli's ping pong matches for the last several years in, you know, in the barstow office. Now he's literally running play by play for a bowl game. So seeing that it's pretty much the same people. It's not like we brought in Jim Nance to do.

It's like just our people are just instead of, you know, filming a video of us doing fucking Blizzard golf at 3 a.m. It's like, and getting that video out, it's like, no, now that that company and the same people are just putting on a broadcast for a college bowl game that, like you said, means so much that all the Wyoming people drove 12, 13, 14 hours down, bus loads of them, thousands of fans, these kids, it's like their highlight of their entire like sport.

and football career is being played out with real raps on a real broadcast, but it's like us doing it. That's fucking nuts. That's not. It is. It's crazy. And it's, it went really well. And like we said, we got a great game, which is a big part of it. That's, that was awesome.

Yeah. That was really, really cool. So, uh, so that was a cool experience. Congrats to Alex Bush, his fucking alumni, Ohio. He's an alumnus. Can I tell you? So Riggs sent a picture into the group chat. Um, he was at the game, obviously.

and he sent a picture being like, oh, I took a picture with the water, the water boy from Ohio. And it did not click in my brain for hours that Alex Bush went to Ohio and was at the game. I looked at that text. I got it. I looked at it. I was like, oh, that guy looks just like Alex Bush. That's crazy. Like, that's why I rig sent that picture in.

And like five hours later, I went back and looked at it. And I was like, that is Alex Bush. That's fucking him. I didn't know he went to Ohio. Also, I come on a tunnel. It's crazy. Well, I come out of the tunnel and like, I'm seeing the stadium for the first time. And right on the sideline during warmups, there's a crew of Ohio people decked out with like credentials on.

And fucking one of them turns around and looks just like Alex Bush. And it's like, Riggs, what's up? Welcome to the game. I'm like, Spider-Man Giff. I'm like, uh, what, what? And he's just fucking looked like he was on the team. Like he was part of the fucking staff on the team full. and he was like, I went to Ohio and I'm like, I knew that, but like, you're just here right now and you're on the sideline.

And he was with other Ohio people wearing Ohio's shit. It was great. It was fucking great to see. I was pretty sure in my head that he went to Miami of Ohio. And then I had no. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry, is that disrespectful? Yeah, very, very disrespectful.

Wow. And then you were right in the corner for the game winning the walkoff TD Bush? Yeah, my dad's actually on the board for Ohio because he went there for the athletics. So they brought us down. And we sat, yeah, it was pretty sick. We sat in like the box during the game and then kind of went down to the sidelines. And we're right in the corner of the end zone where they threw the touchdown. How excited were you when Ohio got named to the Barstall Arizona Bowl?

I mean, it's just, it was unreal. It's like the first Arizona Bowl, I guess, technically. You know, my school goes in. It was pretty cool. So kind of had to go. Yeah. That was definitely surreal, man.

I never seen you with their hair looking so nice. Yeah, you know what? I cut my hair and I didn't wear a hat. It was unreal. I also say, as I'm used to seeing you in the office with about six ins in your mouth,

just fucking cranking with the headphones on, like looking like you haven't slept in three days. When I see this guy smiling with his hair down, I'm like, who the hell is this guy? Well, here's the truth. Now that we're getting to it. Normally you look like a piece of shit. Yeah,

normally look horrible. A hundred percent. Exactly what dance at you. I go to the office. You're wearing a, you're wearing a backwards hat, and you're in a hoodie. We've overworked you.

You've been working for 48 hours straight. We won't give you a lunch break. We won't let you sleep. We won't let you do anything. So I see him, I'm like, yeah, that's Alex, but there's that pile of garbage. And then I get this picture,

gets sent to me. And I go, that's a pretty good looking, attractive young man, who also has Alex Bush features. And come to find out when you get a good night sleep and some nutrients in your body,

you actually can pull yourself together and look like a presentable human being. Yeah. And that's at the tail end of them putting out just the most outrageous amount of videos of all time. I mean, when I saw him there, I'm like, I was even alive. When you think about the things that these guys put out, I know that there's, I talked about this a couple months ago where I was like, I don't think any other brand is putting out as many crazy videos as we are because like, whatever, I think we're putting out like two a week

and they're huge, like these videos are so long. When you look at like the average time on these videos that these guys have to edit, I mean, they're 50 to an hour and a half long and they're putting out two a week now in December. That takes so much time to edit. We're talking one and a half to two weeks each video to edit. So you got three or four guys cranking out all these at the same time. We needed to get them out before December 31st and they did it. Like they fucking did it.

They got out the first step was in a big cedar. We needed to like get out there in 2022 and they somehow fucking get it. And the video was phenomenal. I have the next one coming up. They hired someone else. They brought someone else to help them. And the guy was like, this is fucking crazy.

I can't do this. Yeah, he just left. Well, think about, think about, all right, so breaking 90 is probably our most stripped down video series. In terms of what goes into it.

It's got no graphics. No graphics, really. It's me and Frankie. We don't wear mics. We got two cameras. It used to be one camera. And like,

it's as stripped down as it can be. That thing takes, you know, I'm probably going to get it wrong. Anybody can interject if you know the real answer. It takes like four days to edit that thing, which, which is, you know, there's nothing really to it. It's like I said. And then you've got these travel series where drones, Mike tracks, four golfers, four golfers, all these cameras.

So then you think like, how long is that going to take? Probably like, like, Frankie said, like a week and a half. So these guys, you know, we shit on them and, you know, whatever. But they did an insane amount of work to just a bit to get those videos out to do it. And then we're just, we're not going to stop. It's just going to go. Yeah, I mean, our schedule and it will definitely be better. I know we got a lot of feedback.

back like things have to come out quicker i think that this year we just had so much travel we went to fucking scotland in the midst of having a bunch of travel series already filmed so like a little peek behind the curtain that kind of set us back we had travel series all ready to go and then all of a sudden we and then we had breaking 90s all ready to go and then all of a sudden ready to go meaning like we filmed them but they're sitting on hard drives and these guys would have to sit home and they'd have to edit each video for a week and sit there and get it out and do all the thumbnails all that shit And then all of a sudden we go to Scotland right in the midst of all of this. And we come back.

And then like I am sending people for like fixing Frankie. We're going all that. So we just had a bunch of things. Then we did a bunch out of nowhere. We did the two scrambles in the midst of them editing all of them. So those were huge videos to edit. So we just got backtrack. We had a lot of things on hard drives.

These guys cranked it out during the winter. Incredible. I cannot thank them enough. That's an amazing job by our editing team to be able to get it out. A big, just like a little shout out to two to. are fans because it's no, you know, it's no secret that we're in a recession. It's no secret that people are spending less money on merchandise, on vacations, on everything. Advertisers, first thing to really, a company cuts in a recession, advertising for play. We have certain goals

that we're supposed to hit each year that we would like to hit targets, whatever, and those are obviously based on growth. We're trying to grow year over year. We hit all of our goals. We hit all of our merchandise goals. That wasn't true all across the board all across Barcelona. It's hard to get people to buy stuff right now. We hit our advertising goals. We hit our views goals. We hit our barstow classic goals. We nailed everything. And so for us to have that big of a year in 2022, when people are hurting, when companies are hurting, when it's just not fucking easy to make it and get everything done is really just a massive shout out to our fans, our listeners, our followers, our viewers, people to buy merchandise. It's pretty surreal.

We come here and we do the show. We try to make our videos. We got Alex Bush and Brendan Jones and Kyle and Jake Bass are grinding day after day. We got our social guys. We got us trying to run all around the country. We got the classic team all over the place that work really hard. And then for all to come together and us to have yet another really successful year in 2022. It's very motivating, I would say, it feel like this obligation to be like, we got to keep

it fucking going. We got to try to continue to deliver good stuff. If people are going to listen and buy the merch, we need to make it to wear when they walk around wearing Barcelona golf and foreplay stuff that they're proud of it because we do good shit. So, uh, so it's very kind of, I would say aspirational to be like, holy fuck, people supported us throughout this whole year when that's not easy. We got to keep going. We got to keep going. We got to keep going. Um, so yeah, just a big thanks to everybody listens because we had a good year again. And that's not easy to do. So no. It's stressful going through

the year because you're like, I feel like we're doing so many things. We have so many pieces of merchandise out there. Isn't there a finite amount of people that will consume our stuff or purchase our stuff or still be a fan? Then it keeps growing. It's fucking. It's fucking. insane. It's a testament to Barstle of staying cool, quote, unquote, for however long this podcast has gone on and then forever long, Barstle has been going on for 20 years now. It's nuts that people still keep coming back. When you think about your favorite show, your favorite TV show, what's the average, like, lifespan of a fucking ridiculously hall of fame worthy TV show? Five seasons, maybe, four seasons. I mean, five is like the sweet spot. Game of Thrones was what? Six seasons,

five seasons? Five, I think. I mean, no, no, no. I think the last one was six, right? Now, that's obviously a really bad example because there's all these budgets and all the stuff. And like there's just, I don't know. I think the editing is probably similar. Well, no, but I'm just saying like they've figured out that like that's people's attention spans with characters. That's like how long that you can fall in love with something without getting bored of it or you know what I mean? Like, or you find something new to like latch on to when you have your, your free time and you're listening to a podcast on your way to work or whatever.

It's amazing that we just, at Barstle, you just keep. going. It's just, it's kind of like ruining that idea of the traditional five year, six year window where it's like you have to make it now or else you're not going to make it. Barcel kind of just says like, oh, if we have a down year, we're just going to be back next year. It's just like it's its own thing. It's almost like Tiger where he writes its own history books. There's no, you can't say this happened 20 years ago, so this is going to happen to you. Barcel does its own thing. It is interesting that the, what seems to be the through line is with all of this is you get people, who weren't like professionally trained to do it in a weird way.

Yeah. Like you just throw people at something. Like like Dave didn't know that he was going to build this media empire. And you know, all business Pete didn't know that he was eventually going to be running, you know, a college football bowl broadcast. Like we didn't know that we were going to be doing a podcast, running a tournament selling merch,

doing YouTube series. Like you almost get people who are stunned that they're there. And they are so excited to be there. And they're so excited that people are, you know, attaching themselves to it, that it keeps you motivated. I don't know if that makes sense, but it feels like that's the through. Yeah, because it's like we talked about all business, Pete, like, it's a test of the

Dave that he just allows people. I mean, he gave me a camera. I lied. I lied in my interview with him. I'm like, yeah, I know how to film. And then like the next day, I'm like learning with guys, like how to literally hit the record button. And then I'm sitting with Millmore, like literally learning how to edit for the week.

And then we have a radio show. I'll always remember this. Dave just goes, yeah, we have a serious XM radio channel. It was on Rush 93, the combat. sports channel. This was our first trial. It was like the 12 o'clock to two o'clock show. We're on some fucking MMA channel on serious XM. And the first day, me and all business Pete sat there. We had all this new equipment in. And he looked at me and goes, are you ready to produce a serious XM radio show right now? And I was like, bro, I don't know. I was looking on Google like, how to go to commercials.

Like we had no idea. He's like, I think we like hit this button. And then like it just, I literally think we're off the air for. two minutes and then we have to look at this clock and then I think we come back. I remember that first hit where we hit the button and then we all looked around. We're like, are we in commercial right now? Like that is the most unprofessional fucking radio show of all time. And it worked. It really does go back to Dave's willingness to just let people do what they can and let it see like see where it goes. Like when I was 24 when I applied to Barsol. If I had applied to ESPN when I I was 24. I had not graduated from college. I had no experience in media. I had no experience

in doing anything of that sort, except that I had started a blog and I sent it to Dave. And my interview process was, what's your name? Where are you from? All right, we'll build your website. We'll get you starting blogging. If I had done that ESPN, they'd have fucking been like, get out, like, get out of here. You're not, you don't have anything that shows what we think is going to end up being a successful media person. And with Dave, I was just like, these are my blogs. And he was like, I think they're funny. He's like, we'll let you build. the website or we'll build you the website and we'll go from there. That is the difference.

And for whatever reason, that ends up being super successful in every single situation like Frankie's saying with him in the radio show. He's done, Dave has done that with everybody. You're in the door. Now you do what you can. We'll do what you can. We'll see what happens. I'm, dude, I still remember as a reader when it was announced, we're launching

today Barstool, Iowa. And I remember just being like, Iowa. He's like, why are we doing that? Why the fuck are they launching Barstool, Iowa? dude and god what was that like 2012 or 13 Trent 20 it was the end of 2013 so like he's yeah raised it's insane dude that was back when he would do he would do the press conferences from milton and he would have the water thing flipped upside down and he'd come out he'd play the music and like this is again and and dan made a great point earlier as he's a bit of an outsider because

he's new but like that's why we get so fucking excited about uh barcel arizona bowl because I, we've just, and all of us to varying its degrees of how long we've been here, we just, we see it and we know what it is. And we know that if enough people get exposed to it, the, the fan base will grow. And because it's so, because I was a fan, Riggs was a fan, Frank was a fan, Dan, I know you were a fan. Like, I was just a fan of this shit. I read Dave every day.

I read KFC every day. I read Big Cat every day. Like, it's weird to talk about that stuff now because we're so in it and we've been here for so long. But we are proof that if you just expose enough. people to it. I was just a dude in Sierra Rapids, Iowa who just liked that these guys were funny on the internet. Exposed people to that and they will join. Right. Yeah. It's stunning. It really is. And that's just the proof in the pudding right there. That's why it works. It's been the same recipe

since 2002 whenever Dave fucking launched this thing. So it's an amazing, amazing place to work. And I think 2023 is going to be huge. I mean, we have huge plans again for four play. We got big plans. We go into each year, with like kind of like these aspirations. And then at the end of the year, we kind of hit them and like we do the next thing the next year. This year, I mean, we have new series coming out. We've got a better schedule coming out. We have more travel series coming out. It's going to be a lot of fun and huge, huge collaborations.

And it's just, it's going to be fucking an amazing, amazing year. Frankie, I don't think we've, we've been able to discuss fixing Frankie yet. But what a, what a phenomenal, phenomenal premiere. I don't know that I've ever seen that unanimously positive feedback from anything we've ever done in our history. Yeah, it was pretty overwhelming feedback. I mean, you know, the premiere didn't go as well as I would have liked for it to go. I think we released it at a weird time. It was like the day before Christmas Eve, like at 7 o'clock at night, a lot of travel, Southwest was falling.

And it was just a strange, like Thursday night football was on. And it was just a strange thing. But the more I like, you know, now that we've like, gotten to 100,000 views, I'm like, whatever. As long as we get to that number, I'm fine. At the end of the day, I realize that video is not made for the streamlined YouTube group. Like, it's not, YouTube has now gotten to this place where you make content to try and get clicks and you don't like make content that, like, you actually want to enjoy. If you look at all these other brands, it's just like, how many beers can we drink while

we play eight, nine holes? And then like there's all these vibrant colors. And it's like all this crazy stuff. And that works. That's a business model. That's like, that's getting clicks. That's doing your job. That's getting advertising. But there's a difference sometimes between making like legit content and like videos. And that's what like fixing Frankie to me was something that I think if you're like a legitimate golfer, you're going to sit there and you're going to watch it and you might enjoy it. And I think a lot of people did enjoy it. It's not something that's going to hit that streamline.

Nine year old kid's going to click on it because he thinks it's cool and it's like fun YouTube shit. And YouTube's going to push it out to everyone. It's a very niche video if you think about it. But I think niche is good because I think not every view is, is the same, right? Like, not, there are empty views. Yes. Where it's like some people, you know, you make a video and it might have five million views,

but if they watch it for 10 seconds and then it's like it counts a view, but they don't have any sort of personal attachment to the brand or to the characters in it. Like you had 100,000 people who were watching you, and they're watching it for you and your mental process. And that's what, that was something that I had to get used to at my old job was like, you'd write these great articles and then you'd look at the top 10 articles of the week. And they're like, oh, Paulina, Gretzky, you know, skirt, like whatever, it's the, the stuff that that reaches the most

amount of people doesn't necessarily make the most impact. Nothing wrong with those around, by the way, nothing wrong with them. No, nothing wrong with those. No, but that's a great example. And you want to sell, you want to sell things to people or you want to build an event or build a community. those empty views don't meet, don't hit the same. Yeah, we see it all the time when like hubs will send out the, like, blogger numbers at

the end of the week. Like, there's people that, that just completely just go 100 miles an hour on the biggest viral things and they just get a thousand blogs up and their numbers are huge. Tits and ass are undefeated. Tits and ass are undefeated. But then you have some of these guys like or like a Jerry Thornton that'll like write a whole thing on the Patriots. And it's very niche. But like those views and those numbers mean a little bit more than like just saying look at this girl that walked out of this club wearing basically nothing. You know what I mean? Like there's a different there's a different meaning to it. So I'm very happy with the response. I mean, Dr. Brett McCabe was like he's sending us

messages being like, because I mean, he's been doing this this whole life. The guy's very successful. He's fucking John Rom's guy. He's Billy Horshull's guy. He's going to Maui. He messaged. He's here. He was like, hey, he's right.

He was like, you want to meet up? I was like, I'm going to be gone. He's an extremely successful guy, but all of a sudden he's seeing these numbers. He's like, bro, 100,000 people watched us do this fucking there. Are you kidding me? He's like we can change the world. He thinks we can change the world. Like one mental process at a time.

He is also just the best. That guy is a 10 out of 10. He's amazing. And he, you know, and, you know, And, you know, next episode should send shockwaves through people's brains with this guy, Scott Fawcett. He's already texting me asking when it's coming out so that he can, I like didn't get back to him. He texted me on like Christmas. Like when is this thing coming out so I can like upload my system.

I think I haven't blocked. Yeah, it's just, but you know, and I'm not talking shit about it. Scott Fawcett is a lunatic on Twitter. And I say this to his face. I'm like, you know, you're definitely different in person than you are on social media. He is. He's definitely different. The guy likes to stir it up.

He likes to create chaos. But what people also have to realize is under all of that, you've got countless PJ Tour pros using his system, regardless of how he acts on Twitter and how he does it. Like, you will talk. We'll just be like offhandedly talking to a PJ Tour Pro on the range. And they'll be like, oh, yeah, I have people send me his data all the time because I want to use it. Like he is a brash and bombastic personality on Twitter. But what he's preaching is legitimate.

And I have given him credit the whole year. If you watched our videos, I definitely have gotten significantly better this summer. I just slowed things down. I had a better process. Dr. Brett McCabe, the whole thing. I learned how to chip. But there's something, and he's not a technical coach. He's actually not even allowed to be a technical coach because he still plays in, like, tournaments.

There's, like, something that he's, like, not even allowed to, like, really instruct, right? There's, like, weird rules where, like, you can't be an instructor if you're still, like, playing. I could see him being banned from some stuff. Right. He's like, whatever. But there was a time where he helped me with my alignment, which is what he does. Like it's all about aligning where your shots should go as opposed to where it's all targets.

And there was one thing at the range at Colonial that he just, something just clicked. And ever since then, everything's just been smoother. Everything's been better. And I paired that with Dr. Brett McCabe. And it worked.

So if you haven't checked it out yet, episode one's out there. Breaking 90 came out. That was incredible. Trent made a birdie. The birdie heard around the world. You know, it was a tough,

I mean, what would you say? Trent, you know, you got that huge, huge hype video to start your day. And then you went out and made an eight ridiculous pin placement, obviously, just a fuck green. I, um, fuck green. But what, what do you think? People were mad at the golf course. People were mad at the golf.

Yeah, that, I did get that response a lot, which, you know, they should probably be, they should be mad at me. They get mad at a lot of things. They get mad at the golf. Yeah. Everyone, it was, get people getting mad at me for shooting, bringing him to a golf course. First of all, we played from the Reds. I mean, we played like 4,900 yards.

And then, you know, all right. Well, now we're going through. too far the other way. Okay. I'm just saying that we definitely did. And everyone's getting angry at us saying it's an impossible golf course. Like it's we just, some of the greens were fucking insane.

That's all. The greens were hard. The greens were really, really hard. Yeah, it is interesting. Like people get mad at the golf course. They get mad at Frankie when I'm the guy out there shooting like,

you know, a hundred. So just everybody just chill out a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. The high video was great. I just wish I had played better. The birdie was you can't really,

script a moment like that. It truly was, I was lined up for a birdie put and JT just pulled up because he was, he was doing a lesson earlier in the day. And he's like, I'll meet you out there at some point. And the first time he met up with us was when I had the birdie putt drilled that. Great celebration. Frankie's shoe came off. Yeah, I wish I played better. Clearly, I did not break 90, so there was going to be more episodes. But yeah, I appreciate everybody who watched. There's still people who watch and they still get super mad. But, you know, I got a lot of hate. for like hyping it up and like they're like why would you even show us that hype video from like john like just uh justin thomas and calomorikawa like why did you even put that in there you got us all so excited like

these people were like i changed my plans this was like like how could how the fuck is this not the episode and i literally i responded to some people and dms being like we just showed you exactly the way it happened in real time i got the video showed it to trend then we attempted to break 90 so that all is portrayed in a video. I'm sorry that you didn't end up doing it, but that is the way it happened. That's the way breaking 90 works. It's just the day that we filmed.

We just put out exactly what happened that day. Just because of the result ended up not the way we want that. I wasn't going to curate like, oh, this is a sad boy episode today, Trent shot 100. No, like through the first nine holes, we thought he was going to do it. Like, that's just how it happened. So we got excited.

Imagine the response if we shelved it and we said, we saved that hype video for when I actually did it. people would be like, well, that's disingenuous. We just do the stuff that we do and then we film it and we put it out. Like, that's just the way that day worked. I don't understand what that meant. Like, those complaints were insane. Also, people get worked up.

People get real worked up. More worked up than I thought they ever would about something like this. And it's a weird, it's a weird situation for me because I love that people are super into it. That's like what you do it for. You do it because you want people to watch your videos. You want people to be invested. You want them to be on the ride with you during this journey to,

for whatever you're doing. In my case, it's trying to break 90. I have that side of me. And then there's another side of me where it's like, it's an entertainment product. Like, Frankie's hyping me up. We're like, that's actually how we are. But like, we're also like, we're out there trying to do this thing because we know it's going to be a video. And we want people to like it and be invested in it. And like, it's all real. And it, but it is also an entertainment product. Like it's a hard, it's actually been a hard thing for me to juggle where like, I know I definitely want to break 90. I want that to happen.

I want people to watch it and enjoy it. But sometimes people get so fucking mad at me or at Frankie that sometimes I want to shake him and be like, I appreciate you wanting me to do this. But I also want you to just enjoy the video. And like once it's over, just then go back to your. It's left the entertainment. It's left the entertainment system. It's like, it's more of like an accomplishment video now.

Now they're only watching it to see the accomplishment now. I think we've like jumped. So for some for better or worse, That's just what it is now. You know what I mean? Like when I get like, I mean is that you really want to do it. That's like,

of what's entertaining. It's not that you're just out there fucking around drinking beers like some of the other views that we talked about, which is great on its own. This is like you genuinely really, really want to do the thing you're trying to do. True. It's not,

it's not exactly the way that I'm saying it, I suppose. It's, it has gotten to a point where it's an accomplishment video. It's, although I really wanted to, like, I'll get responses.

Like I tweeted a little bit about, oh, somebody said, get Frankie out and put somebody else in there, which is insane. And I quote tweeted it essentially saying like, it's going to be me and him until I do it, which is also essentially saying that I didn't do it in that video. And I had like two people respond being like, oh, I guess I won't watch it now because you didn't do it. When I, I want people to like, people who watch their TV shows, I get that this is an accomplishment based video series.

But like if I like a TV show, I just watch it, regardless of necessarily the accomplishments that happen in that TV show. It's like the Love Island episodes that don't include a recoupling. I mean, it's not going to be anything groundbreaking. I'm still going to watch the fuck out of it. Yeah, that's where I get a little bit confused on it, but those people are just watching it for the accomplishment,

which is fine. Everyone's getting mad. So a couple of tweets being like, yeah, like Frankie's making it harder on him. He's like, he's so neurotic and crazy. It's like, well, like that's just the way this whole series has been.

And also, if we don't do it, we're just going to do it the next time. That's just how the series goes. Like, to break 90. Every single time that we put out that video, if he does break 90, the series is over. So I don't understand why people get so shocked when he doesn't do it. Like it's an, it would be a once in a lifetime accomplishment to accomplish this. We've already tried 12 times. Like also what,

why are you so surprised? I don't understand. I mean, that video's got 270,000 views already in like five days. I don't think 270,000 people are mad about anything. I know. I get a few people and I think it's fine. I just got to breathe. I think that Trent's getting lost in the sauce because Trent is now not trying to break it for himself. He's trying to just like like level the waters of the people that are getting angry online. He's just like, like, I feel like you genuinely just want to be like, fuck you, I did it. As opposed to like, I'm now a better golfer and I broke 90. Like we need to just completely change.

We got to go Brett McCabe on it and change like what our expectations are. It shouldn't be trying to like your expectations for this year should not be to shut the people up. It should just be to be better. I call it. Frank, it's a huge difference. Trent, you're, your Tiger 2010 when he said to Hank Haney, I'm not playing golf anymore for the fans. I'm not playing for my mom. I'm not playing for my sponsors. I'm playing for myself.

That needs to be Trent Ryan, 2003. All right. That's what it's going to be. Yep. I agree. That's going to be my 20, 23 resolution to play golf for myself and for nobody else. Like when you're out there practicing and you're like, you're going to play nine holes and you're going to see if you can get better that day. It should just be like, how do I get better today?

Not like, oh, we have to film this. And then I'm going to try and shoot an 89 just so that the thumbnail can have us celebrating. Like I feel like we're we've lost like what it actually is. You know what I mean? We're turning into like, how do we make this into a video that people will stop fucking tweeting at us about breaking 90? Instead, we have to make it a video where it's like, how do we break 90? You know what I mean? It's a complete difference.

And I'd say the last two or three episodes we got away from it. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe it's your fault. Maybe it's both of our falls. So we're just like, we're getting caught in this wave. And, um, yeah. No, I think we're going to be fun. I think I need to, I think I need to like, because the weather here is getting cold. Like, I think I need to move somewhere for like a month and just not about it.

You need to practice. Practice. Like, you need to practice, dude. It's going to be so hard. No. Hitting balls indoors. Hitting balls indoors is nights, but it's, it's just not the same as playing. Like you need to be, you need to be playing and practicing and then going on the

course and testing those feels out. I think I need to move some. To Tillery's point, he says, like, I can't just fix this guy in one day every six months. So maybe you do go down there. I mean, you'll get significantly better if you spent the week with John Tillery. You just

will. By that fifth day, you'll be shooting in 86. Right. We've been texting. Spend a month playing golf like every day. Spend a month where you actually play you like hit balls in the morning. It's our job. We don't really have like an excuse. You hit balls in the morning and then you play nine holes in the afternoon.

You do that like three or four times a week. You'll get better a lot quicker. No, Hillary wants me to come down there. I think I might with this month or next month, go down there for a week and not, not take a camera crew. I'll have my phone and we'll document it that way,

like on social, but maybe not do a full on video because he wants to like get into the, the nitty gritty of it as opposed to just like, let's do it for two days and then you go out and play these tough greens. Right. And it's like if he wants to like do some swing change or it's not going to be like visually like fun to watch.

But like you just need. need to get your fucking right arm down and you need to do a million drills like you need to do that where you're not feeling pressure because i'm only down here for a day and i need to make this video compelling the whole series is turned into like a race against a clock where it's like can we fucking break 90 today while we're filming this and can trent get better today with john tilleri just because we have the film crew down here for one day like that's not going to get better and you are getting better you shot a hundred and way back and breaking 100 what is that like 24 episodes ago so i mean yeah we play a lot of golf you have a ton of fucking

access to all this shit. I got a lot of tweets where I wrote like in fixing Frankie and one of the things that I talked about was like it's embarrassing to be a 10 handicap with all this access. And everyone's like, well, like like you have a series where Trent's trying to break 90 every single time. We just can't do it. But I think the difference there is I said that the only reason I was a 10 handicap is because of one thing in my brain. That's where it was like insane that I couldn't ever come over just the chipping yet for four or five years. So and the only thing thing that really helped me was I actually attacked it. So that's what you have to do. You have to go attack it with John Tiller. You have to sit there and you have to fucking let him do his job. He can't do his job one day.

Big time cheap shot at me in the trailer for fixing Frankie. That's why I was starting to joke. I was laughing. I'm going to let that one go a little bit. That's fine. Yeah, it's a comedy brand and we were, I asked, Brendan, I said, do you have any shots for me for these words? Like I was saying words and I needed visuals. And then I mean, you know, to my card, I was like, well, why don't we put a video of Briggs this swing from the other day? T-shot very, very vividly. I got two choices. I had two options. You literally impacted back into the same. I was like, let's take the second one. The second one was more mad.

So go check that out on YouTube. And then we got more stuff coming out this week. We've got a round of golf with Calum Taron and Sam Ryder. And Brock Nelson. And Brock Nelson. Well, we just talked about how hard it is to get all these videos out. And one of the things, one of the videos, and we'll just say it, one of the videos on our hard drive was just us at the 3M. We went to 3M.

We got great content there. We did a bunch of social stuff. This was in July. We did a bunch of social stuff. Is that before we went to Scotland? Might have been right after. Was it before? I can't remember.

Well, whatever. Scotland was right around the 3M. So whether it was before or after, our guys came back and they had to hit the ground running. And this video that we did 3M kind of just sat on a hard drive with all of the other work they had to do. and now that they're all done, they're like, why don't we just put that video out? Why sit on it and why just eat it? Like, I know people are getting mad. Like, wow, the 3M was nine months ago.

It's like, well, no, just watch it. Just watch the video. It's the same thing as if we put it on July. All everyone, we're going to get tweets. We're going to get fucking comments about like that were slow editors. No, it's a great video. It's a fucking fantastic video. There was one camera there.

It's old school bar stool of us just playing with pros. We're not supposed to be there. And we actually almost won the thing. We almost won the 3M. Do you ever remember that? Yeah, I do. Yeah. It's a great.

It's going to be a great video. There's a great charge at the end. So go check that out. It's coming out. And then we got Big Cedar Lodge is rolling along. If you did realize, yeah, we wanted to get some videos out before the end of the year because of those numbers I talked about earlier. We're a business. We're trying to get our numbers hit before the end of the year like everybody else that's in sales or finance or whatever.

So now the Big Cedar Lodge things rolling on. So anyways, go to our YouTube page. Watch our video. Right. Yeah. Yep. He makes his return in the Big Cedar video. and Big Cedars awesome.

We talked about that a lot, so make sure you check all that out. I tried to get him on the podcast. He's a doctor. I'm like, what are you? He's like, I'm at the doctor.

I'm like, what are you talking about? Come on and talk paddle sports with me. That's what I wanted to talk fucking pickle ball. He's like as I would. And then of course, in classic lurch, he like the way he texts back is like as I would love to do that.

Unfortunately, I'm at the doctor. And then he did like a bunch of spaces. He's just real great game. Love that. He is really a one of a kind of talking. One of the worst. I would love to.

via text that I've ever seen in my history. He is. He's really something. He, him like Lurch trying to become a professional pickleball player is a series that I would watch. He he he fucking loves pickleball. He's so good at it too, I'm sure. Because if I see. It's the perfect sport for guys with great handi who are a little over wing because you don't really have to. He's huge. He's got crazy wingspan. Wingspan. Wind span. All right. We are about 90 minutes in. Let's talk a little golf. We got the century. Before we get to that real quick, before we get to that real quick, can we just talk about record?

Can we just talk about record players for a second? I put this on my Instagram story. We saw that. I got a ton of traction. There's a lot of things that blow my mind. The fact that we're on this fucking Zoom right now just talking and we're all in different rooms, different parts of the country. I mean, Dan's in Hawaii.

You're in Arizona. I don't understand how this works, but I can kind of understand it. It's digital. I think I've lived in that world enough to kind of understand it. maybe when I got this record player for Christmas. You don't understand shit about. What are you talking about? We like,

here, let me tell you why you understand. Because I know where you're going with a record player thing because I saw your post. You think you understand digital because you don't see it. You don't know what it is. It's like numbers and coding and like it's all of that stuff. I understand I can understand a little bit of what digital. Ones and zeros. It is.

It is ones and zeros. I mean, that is what it is. We're laughing, but that's what it is. And there's systems that like have built all these numbers to be able to put out pixels and all these visuals that we're seeing right i get that i understand maybe a little bit when i saw this record player and i really looked at it it's a fucking needle on a disc and then it just

goes around in a circle and then voices come out of it now i don't care what explanation you have for me i don't care if you say oh when they're fucking laying the record the ridges go in they build all these ridges so it's vibrations and ridges. What does that even mean? Look at a record, dude. stare at it and be like, how could they figure out the difference between John Lennon's voice and Paul McCartney's voice when they're singing at the same time in harmony? And then like the drums are in the background. What do you mean the vibrations? I'm actually with you on this one. I know I was making fun of you, but I have a record player. I bowing because I thought it was a cool thing to have and I bought a bunch of records. And I don't understand how it works. I really don't. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I wrote like disc needle John Lennon. What do you? What do you mean? It seems like it's it's the thing that would come after the things we have now. I was going to say it feels like it was created way to like way to. It's a physical form of music. It's a physical form of playing noise. Physical. It's like it's like screeching your nails on a chalkboard that noise. But then like they figured out how to have. John Lennon's voice come out of it. And there are people who play... There's record hardos who say that it sounds better than the digital. But like, how did they figure out that it all... So it got saved into the ridges. The music got saved into the ridges on his disc. That's what you're telling me.

The difference between like the drums hitting... And then how does it all... How is it all in the same ridge, right? Like, how is the same vibration ridge a drumbeat, John Lennon's voice, Paul McCartney's voice, and the baseline and all that. How is that all in the same little ridge on, you know what I'm saying? How is that all in the same little dimple? How doesn't it make you think that our understanding of communications with alien intelligence is just never going to happen?

Because think, like, they're like, yeah, if you put this record on this thing with a needle and it plays the ridge, it's going to play the music. and then their communication style, you know, a billion light years away is like, no, if you heat this rock to 350, then the voices are going to come out. Like it, it just makes it seem like communication is going to be impossible because who would think that if you, if we were aliens and we went to a different planet and they were like, why don't you put this black disc on this needle and voices are going to come out? It's like, what are you talking about? None of it makes any sense. I actually watched the movie Arrival. Have you ever seen the movie Arrival? I watched that.

I went, Danny Rap, recommended it to me that. I watched a couple months ago. It's very similar. Yeah. I thought shitty ending, but I thought the whole rest of the movie

was fantastic. And it talks exactly about what you talk about where they get into the nitty gritty on, on language and tons. It's incredible. Yeah. Yeah, man.

It's, I sat like cross-legged looking at this thing. I felt like I was on like peyote or something like that. And I just, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And Alex Bush just, just sent like the most non-answer of all answers. That's a Jake Bass move.

A stylist touches the top of the record and rides around the disc. It picks up vibrations that are sent to a cartridge, and then that converts them into electrical signals. These signals are amplified, which makes the music. I mean, where it touches, see, like, I understand, when I said I understand how music is played digitally, it's all saved into different tracks, right? So the bass is saved into one,

and then the guitar is saved into another. the music saved to another, then they kind of piece them all together. When I saw the disc and it's all, it all goes around one ridge, I couldn't understand how the vibrations are separated. I couldn't get it. This is going to sound stupid, but the technical definition almost doesn't do it. Right. Like you're like the technical definition that Alex Bush just sent us like the needle hits the, hits the record and the electrons get sent to this and that. Like, but, but how? How did they figure this out in what? Like the 1800s? Like when, was when we're records started?

Like, 1900s? Like in the, probably in the... Definitely around in like the 20s, 30s. Yeah. Because I'm picturing like the big one. Like, you know, it almost looks like a tuba.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, I'm with you. And it's, it's, you're not going to get an answer because the, like I'm saying,

the answer that we just read off is not necessarily the answer that I'm looking for. No, I was like, how? screaming and in agonizing pain looking at it. And all this stuff always fucks me up. But yeah, we can get-

I love having record player. It's nice, man. It's a great fucking thing. When I saw Frankie's, I think I'm going to get one. I think I'm going to get one. It's a good idea. It's a good little-

It's like, they've got all of your favorite. They've got all your favorite albums that you've ever loved, like new ones on record. Like, I've got Beatles and I've got Jimmy Hendricks, but I've also got, you know, new rap albums that they put out.

I enjoy the artwork inside the records also. Like, you open these things up. And I got the Foo Fires one. I had a huge picture. of Taylor Hawkins, rest in peace, and like Dave Grohl Young fucking rocking out to all my life. Like it was really cool artwork inside. Yeah, look at that.

What are you going to open up? Which one's that? I love Sturgle Simpson and he's, he's got a Sailor's Guide to Earth. Like this is the front. This is what you would see if you bought the album or if you bought it digitally. Let me open this thing up. My Beatles one came with a T-shirt.

Whoa. Whoa. Wow. Wow. That's fucking really. Wow. Map on the inside of America. yeah wow like that frankie's right it's it's a it's like a piece of art it's not oh i bought this on

iTunes and now i get to listen to this album it's you buy the album you play it and then you look at the artwork on the inside it's fucking beautiful it's an experience for sure the whole thing you're physically putting it on there you're putting the needle down you hear that like that start and it's fucking you go and you just and you realize like where the song start the more you do it it's very very very cool um and then the last thing i'm going to say before getting to the Gulf. I watched this movie called the Banshees of Innes Sharon. I still can't say it. It's a fucking island. Oh, it's on HBO. It's a great director.

HBO Max. It's a must watch. It's the same guy who directed Colin Farrell and the dude that. Which is an awesome movie. It's a Colin Farrell and the guy that played Mad Moody from Harry Potter. And he

is an amazing actor in this movie. It's just two guys on an island off of Ireland and there's really no reason that this movie had to be made. It's just the most boring concept of all time and a fantastic watch. It is a fantastic watch. Have you seen in Bruges? No.

So in Bruges, the same two actors, the same director, it's this guy Martin McDonough is kind of this sicko, I think, because the movies that he's made are all kind of, you guys, three billboards outside adding Missouri was the other one. That's a great movie. I've heard yeah, because I saw Fidelberg

tweeted that this is the best movie the year. I think it's on HBO, so I'm definitely going to fire it up. Because this guy with those two actors is, in Bruges is another movie where it's like, what's going on, why did they feel like they needed to make this movie? And it's a hitter as well. So this guy sounds like he's... It really hits you in the fields, these types of movies.

It just hits you in the fields. All right. Hawaii, Tournament of Champions. This is kind of a whale watching, you know, type weekend. makes people up in the northeast and in the north in Minnesota where it's cold, around a lot of the country where it's cold.

I feel like for the first time, you know, in a while, starts to be like, all right, I can start imagining a world in a couple months here where there's some golf. Obviously, golf's back on TV. It's the tournament champion,

so it's not a full field. It's beautiful. It's Hawaii. It doesn't look real. Capulua. The giant elevation changes, the last couple holes that are just stunning. The whole deal.

I looked on the Barcelona sports book app. John Rom's the favorite. He's plus 700. I saw a couple good prop bets on there that I might jump on. A hole in one for the whole week is plus 450, which is always kind of a fun one to get on. I saw the winner's performance on the 72nd hole. A birdie was plus 150.

Obviously, we know this hole, the big dog leg or swooper left where they hit it way down the hill. How many times they play that hole? that one year. Oh, God. They played it five times. Was it Justin Thomas? Yeah, JT and Reed were like they were hitting it all over. And Xander.

Zander was there too. Yeah. Was he in that one too? Yeah. But anyways, I saw birdie's plus 150. So this is just the winner, just the winner's performance on just the 70 second hole. That's it is Bertie plus 150, par plus 150, Eagle plus 1,600.

So I was kind of thinking about like jumping on. one of those might be fun. I might do it just a par thinking like they're going to come in. They're not going to play it too crazy aggressive, maybe have a couple stroke lead, and you get it at plus 150. And then another one that I saw on there that was really, really interesting to me was, it's almost like a horse race. You could pick Tony Feetow to finish first and John Rom to finish second is plus

$8,000. God, the chances of that happening, I mean, the odds are what they are. But like, boy, I like the hole in one a lot. That one I've got my eye on, I think, because that's just fun because, you know, but there's not to live in the limited fields.

The limited field is a big one there because even the shitty golfers can get a hole in one. You know what I'm saying? You don't have to be playing well at a hole in one. It's not a pro. So the fact that there's only 39, that's a big difference. You just played this golf course, right?

What's the whole one potential? No, we didn't end up playing it because it was across the, It was across the island. And once you backed out, then my dad was like, I don't know, my ankles, my ankle's pretty sore. It was carts on paths. My dad doesn't walk very well.

So he thought that being a carts on path on that golf course, which is like the biggest golf course in the world, he thought it would be worse than walking. He didn't think that he could like walk all the way back. So he didn't go. But the part, the part threes are hard. I think there's only four,

three of them. In fact, wait, I'm pretty sure there's only three of them. And that might be why. That might be very, very germane to the bet because usually there's four on every golf course I think there's only three at the plantation course so let me do a little let me do a little recon for you guys that would be that would be good

information to know but I still think I'm gonna be good yeah same you know you throw a lot of facts at me I just try to have a fun bet here with the hole in one plus four there could be one there could almost be none and I would still probably do it's it's it's only par fours and par five there's only three there's only three part three after a hole 11, you got no part 3s for the rest of the round. I'm doing it. Perfect. Better.

A couple short part 4s, right? All I'm picturing, because it probably won't happen on TV. Like, I'm just picturing it popping up on Twitter like, oh, my gosh, John Rom made a hole in one on it. It's like, oh, then I won. I won a bunch of money. Dan making all the reasons like why you shouldn't take this bet is making me really, really want to take it badly.

100%. Badly. Go for us. Are you going to do the ROM fee now? that's interesting to me. I'm going to do the ROM Fianau or Fianau ROM. You can look, there's a bunch of different options. It's like forecast is what it was called on here.

There's a bunch of different options of you trying to get it right first and second place. And I think it said T2 as well. So I think ROM could even tie for like, you know, tie for second and it would still cash. There's only 468 chances for a whole and one in this whole tournament. You're making it really obvious. 30 39 players times three part three times four rounds. I want you to know, Dan, that this is now turned into a spite bet. That I now want it to happen.

And I'm sure you've, you know, in your in your, in your, in your computer you've got them. Like when was last time one happened to the tournament of the champions? Probably it was like 2004. I don't care. A whole and one is happening at the tournament of champions. No one. The first part three of the first fucking day on Thursday. The first part three is about 220.

I mean, you guys are dead, I think. This is a terrible bad. Drano, Drano, baby. Hole in one. I'm putting it right now. Oh, yeah. This is the fuck day in Rappapaport bet.

Dude, just start, just rig, start spending that money because it's already in your account. Done. Plus 450, whole and one. Tournament of champions, PGA,

Tor, Let's go. Let's a great bet. So, yeah, it'll be fun week. It's, it's, for it, it's prime time golf. We get this at the beginning of the year on the East Coast prime time, not as prime time out here, but still a little bit, which is fantastic. You get to kind of lazily watch Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night, throw something on. Boom, you get a little bit of golf.

You get a lot of the best players because those are the people who won and the ones that are eligible to play. So, yeah, fun week, tournament champions. And then the other big golf thing was the Scott Stallings, Masters invite. tweet that went viral today. Fantastic. The obvious take from everyone is that if you're the fake Scott Stallings, you just have to fucking take the invite and show up. I saw everybody tweeting that.

Everybody posts that on Instagram. It's kind of stunning that Augusta could make this kind of a mix-up. But also, I started really thinking about the logistics of it. It's great. And I almost like that this mix-up can happen. because Augusta clearly doesn't go through kind of lame. Well, they don't go through lame routes or mediums to get the accurate information. They clearly are almost like, it's almost like Harry Potter.

It's almost like Hogwarts where they legitimately are like, no, no, no, we're going to rely on our system. We're going to figure it out ourselves. We're not going to notify anyone. We don't want it to get through the PGA tour spokesperson or through their family member that we're poking around looking for the right address, we're just going to send this carrier pigeon to the address that we know is the right one. And occasionally if it's wrong, that's way more worth it than them just reaching out to people and trying to get the right address.

Who were we talking to that they were like, there's no way they're going to know where I am. Was it saw hit? Or he's like, I think it might have been. He's like, I don't even know my address. Like, there's no chance they're going to find me. I agree. They have like an old world style of inviting people.

I think it's a good move by this guy to definitely obviously let Scott Stalling know that I have your invite. But it's almost like when you catch a home run from like the A. Aaron Judge Ball and you give it back to him. You have to expect something in return. So I saw a lot of people saying that Stallings has to bring him out. At least you have to get him tickets to the event or you have to let him like caddy for you in the Wednesday, part three, something like that. Like you have to bring this guy. But had that fallen into the wrong hands, the wrong Scott Stolling's hands, like even like a third one,

where the guy wasn't as nice. I guess I would have had a real problem on their hands. I'd go a real problem. That guy would have imagined him showing up with like lawyers being like, I'm playing. You know what I mean? Like lawyers saying, I'm playing.

It's invite only and he has an invite. I'm playing. You invited me. You invited my wife. It's like, I'm fucking coming to this thing and I am, I'm teeing off at 11 o'clock on fucking Thursday. Hey guys,

I unwrapped the chocolate bar that had the golden ticket in it. So now I'm coming to Willie Wonka's factory. What are they going to do? Masters, it's not, right, it's not a PJ4 event. There's no rule that says you have to be a PJ tour member. Remember, they've sent special exemption and special invites to like, they said it's to that Indian guy, Scha, Schumacher Sharma, because they wanted to grow golf in India.

They don't have to give a reason. The guy got an invite to an invite-only golf tournament. My question is, I think it's a bummer that we missed the-stallings. Do you think that this guy knew, he's got to know of the other Scott Stalling, and he's got, his wife has the same last name, but he goes, I play. I play golf too, but wow, nowhere near your level, which made it sound like he had just discovered that there's another professional golfer named Scott Stallings,

who has those same name as his wife, whose wife is the same name as his wife also. Imagine that first day, he, like, for a second, he's like, I just got invited to the master. You know what I mean? Like, this guy plays with his buddies and probably won a couple matches, like, to end his year,

and he's, like, improved his game. He, like, goes to the range. And then, like, someone's like, you should join a tournament one day like a 50 and old tournament he's like you know maybe i will next year like i'm moving arizona the whole thing and then he opens up the mail one day and he gets an invite him and his wife get an invite to play in the masses she's like i fucking did it man right he's like they must have heard about those matches and yeah you wouldn't jim you wouldn't fucking believe what I just got

I'm going to the Masters, dude. You know how I told you I think I figured out golf? I got it to the Masters. It's like when you've got a funny friend in there and they say you should do stand-up comedy. And then you get an invitation from the Wilbur is like, will you come perform and do this? He's like, I got, I won, I made

a birdie on that 17th hole and Augusta heard about it. And now I'm, I get to play in the Masters. He just knocks on the front door. I'm here. I'm here. I played you invited me I'm playing nowhere near your level I uh I love this guy I love this guy I hope he ends up there but yeah incredible story

and and I couldn't be more with Augusta I like that they do it old school when you do it that way you're gonna mix it up occasionally I hope they continue to do it that way forever and they don't check they don't cross reference they don't reach out to people they just trust their own system send it and if you get a fucking Scott Stallings

who's basically the same fucking person in Bizarro world who's got the same wife and the same name and everything that's tough break you just got it you just kind of have to live it also goes it's a really nice package everything included that you need to play there's definitely a moment where he said like wow like I got the pass I got the gate pass where we're doing it I'm fucking playing that's got stallings needs to show up and if if if Augusta has any sort of morals or principles they will let this man play yeah um all right other than that I think that's all I have for our first show of

2003 boys and girls. Kind of a long one. A lot to catch up on. Obviously, keep everyone monitored on the Southwest Airlines CEO situation. And my thoughts,

you know, on what should occur there going forward. But yeah, anybody got anything else? Trying to think anything else. I don't think so. It's so much proscied.

I couldn't get my watch off. Just a big, big year ahead. Things are some cool shit is going to start happening in the next couple weeks. I'm excited. Frankie,

are you going to this is real. Are you going to die from with this prosciutto bit? Well, the thing that that sucks is I've really turned it into like an islander's thing. And, you know, it gets a lot of traction now where everyone's like cut the pursuit, cut the pursuit. And it's like they win a game and I'm eating prosuit. And then I go to the games and they have prosuit at the games now. Like, you know, we walked in the other day into the spotlight and they like, the guy there like handed me prosciut. And he's like, uh, Frank, he's here and the place went crazy. It's just like now like I'm getting kind of paired with

this salty meat that I do love. I love cured meats. My dad bought me 15 pounds a leg. He bought me a leg. And this thing's been a burden on us. We bring it to every party. Bro, we had, we had New Year's Eve at Borrellys and I brought the leg of fucking ham with me. And we walked in and everyone's cheering. We've cut in it. Dude, it's a drug. That fucking proceed is a drug. I watch people take a little sliver of it. And then I watch them the rest of the night kind of like meander over to it and look around and cut another piece. Once you get it in your mouth, you can't believe you're eating it. Well, one, one, first of all, you're a diabolical genius because everyone has been telling you that you have to stop eating prosciut. And you would then, what you did is you tied it

to the islanders and their success. And you're like, well, I have to eat prosciute because they're my favorite hockey team and they're winning and we're going to playoffs and blah, blah, blah. And two, I really, I'm picturing you carrying that 15 pound leg into UBS holding it over your head like Simba and you're just walking out. people are like, Frankie, smack it, smack in the meat. No, you've really, you've really figured out how to make presuit an everyday part of your life. Yesterday, I didn't have any pursuit in the islanders lost. Yesterday, the Seattle, the city of Seattle, fucked me in the ass.

Like, just absolutely ramshacked me. The Seahawks beat the Jets, eliminated them from playoff contention. And the Jets didn't even score a touchdown. It was one of the worst games I've ever seen in my entire life. I mean, they just couldn't get anything going. And then that game ended and went right into an ESPN primetime Islanders at Seattle Cracken, both in Seattle. And the Cracken just dominated. Dude, I watch that game because Riggs had me on the edge of my seat with his slip from the Barstville Sportsbook.

I know, man. No. Dude, Frankie, look at this. I mean, I don't want to be that guy that complains about. I had a four team parlay. So it's like that's probably not going to hit. But first three legs hit of it. I had San Jose Sharks at Chicago Black Hawk.

over six and a half. This game, by the way, I do you hear these numbers. This game was one nothing halfway through the second period and ended up three, two, with the end of the second period, and then ended up a pretty late goal

ended up hitting the over. Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators, I had under six and a half. I think the final score was like two to one. New York Rangers at Florida Panthers. I took the Rangers to win. They won. So now all I needed was the New York Islanders

at the Seattle Cracken, I took Islander's money line. This was plus 1751, so I had 250 to win like almost five grand. The part that sucked about it was the timing just didn't add up for me to be able to cash out because it was one, one early in the second period in the Islanders Cracking game. And the other two bets were still going on, but they were most likely going to hit. And if those two things were just synced up at hour differently, I would have had an amazing cash out option probably. Like a $2,500.

Yeah. And instead, by the time the other two ended up and they counted those as wins, the islanders were down three to one. So the cash out option was like $400 on a $250 bet. Or if they come back and win the game, I win like $5 grand. Oh. I know. I know.

I was watching the whole fucking game. It wasn't exciting. It really never felt like they were going to win, unfortunately. No. They just never had it. Seattle must have just had a good break. Like Seattle was coming off like a. losing seven out of their last eight after starting the season like 14 and 1.

So it felt like a trap game where it's like you're there. You think the island's going to be hot because they won three in a row. Fuck, man. And I didn't put any of that research in. When they started talking about that during the second period, I was like, fuck, I wish I would have known that. I was just going all feel, just going through the board being like, I'm going to feel this one out. And then once they said that, they're like, oh, the Cracken have lost three in a row and the islanders have won three in a row. And I was like, well, fuck, I would have never made that.

No, never. I can't hear the word Seattle the same anymore after there was this video where they asked British fans at the World Cup to do impressions of American fans. And this guy goes, here we go Seattle. And after that, I just can't get Seattle anymore. Seattle's an interesting story. I like Seattle. It's a very American word, Seattle. It's beautiful.

It's beautiful. I like Seattle. I'm going to go for a pickleball. I hope my ass cheeks hold up. I really do. I hope they do too. All right, well, per usual, we'll be back Thursday. We're into a brand new year.

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