KFC Radio - Julian Edelman, Gabriel Iglesias, and Pick Your Villain

Episode Date: June 27, 2019

Julian Edelman comes through to talk about Feits best/KFC's worst Edelman moments, his glow up, Gronk's "retirement" and will Tom Brady outlast him. Gabriel Igelsias chats about comedy before social media, and how hard it is to do a set when people want stop laughing at your hilarious jokes. THE OFFICE: could you survive an attack, sex with a relative, shower depression. The Dunkin Awards. The HBO feature on Barstool. Voicemails include: mad on the 4th of July, partner with a villain, snacking on JesusYou 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/kfcr

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It's just not very active stuff it's a lot like you know uh i i do the internet and i do like tweets and i watch netflix those are all the things that i do you know i don't think there's anything wrong with that yeah i mean that's they're doing doing it it's not It's not like your typical outdoor activity. So I can drink Mountain Dew too. Fuck all you guys. I'm going to drink my Mountain Dew while I watch Netflix tonight. But for everybody out there who's doing it, you're doing it big, get yourself. I'm going to go skateboarding.

Are you? Yeah. I'm hopping my boosted board. I got a boosted board. I'm going to cruise around town on that drinking an ice cold Mountain Dew, baby. Here's to Mountain Dew. Do the Dew. Today on the show, we have Julian Edelman.

Heard of him? He's an asshole. He's too good looking, too successful, too humble. He's an asshole he's too good looking too successful too humble he's an asshole yeah you like him he's a dickhead nah you like him and we also have gabriel iglesias si si senor hey papi gabriel iglesias i didn't know he started calling himself fluffy i think i saw you referring to him that oh yeah times and then like that's like his hat and stuff like that he's fluffy he's i think his first special was i'm not flat i'm i'm not fat i'm fluffy i like that rebranding so yeah he's one of the the most successful comedians of all time and i'm not even joking he's been selling out arenas for like a decade straight he's on that dane cook shit but he ain't going away like dane cook like

he he had like that lightning in a bottle Iglesias just sells out arenas, like, everywhere he goes for, like, 15 years now, and he's got a new show, and that's what he's got to sell. He's rich.

He's rich. Who do you think's richer? Edelman or Iglesias? Off the bat, I would say Iglesias. See, I think Edelman. I mean,

Edelman. Well, I don't know his, yeah, what was his, I think he just signed a new deal, like, for,

like, 30, 50 million, and so like for like 30 50 million nine per and like yeah he's been doing this for a decade he's been in the when we were talking to element and when when he told me he was on that 2011 team that the jets beat i was floored i would not have guessed that i would have for sure thought that was like the west welker days the i mean it was like just not him uh no that was around the time when I think, I forget. I think Welker had just started, like, he got hurt. You know, he kind of started breaking down a little bit.

And he was probably the original, like, the Patriots just put an undersized white receiver in the slot, and it works. Like, he was probably one of the guys who were just, like, kept, who realized they were just going to plug and play the whole time. It was one of the highlights. We discussed some of my favorite, quote--unquote highlights of Edelman, which is none of them were really football-esque.

It was more just like stories and things he said on the field mic'd up. But one that we didn't get to is when Welker was injured. I think one of the first games Welker was injured, and Edelman kind of got plugged in for him, and Edelman ran back a punt, welker just went up to to welker um belichick just went up to welker and said you ever heard of wally pip oh shit which is like well it was like on the sidelines and his civvies it was like you're the boy pip and and welker hadn't so welker was like no no who's that well let me tell you son uh a funny moment on this in this interview when he was talking about how uh brady didn't give him targets for the first like

few years yeah it's like shit couldn't get any targets out there i think it was because he was too ugly he started to have his glow up and tom was like all right you're pretty enough for me to throw a football to you yeah i'll be the first prerequisite you gotta be good looking motherfucker so uh two heavy hitter interviews for you. We'll also get into the office. We'll do some voicemails. We just wrapped up with an interview, though, that'll air next week with Abella Danger. Have you heard of her?

I think I accidentally just drank her water because we're still in the studio. You lucky. Yeah. You lucky, though. I was like, oh, it was Abella's. Yes. That's like you know that's like the classic internet trope like i drink her bath water i'll drink any of your water

girl yeah now uh we're gonna i mean i'll be fighting over her i think uh i think some people i don't know like what her level of famous because in the office before she came in i was like abella cadena's coming in tomorrow because i'm'm an Abela Danger fan. Yeah, yeah. I know, I know Bella. And people were like, who is that? People were kind of confused. Some people were like, I don't really know. Now she's coming, everyone's like, huge fan. Huge fan. Huge fan.

That's also like, you could tell the real ones, you know, the ones who were like, oh, shit, Abela's coming, versus like the who, what the huh, I'm not sure. Like Caleb was just like who was she is she a porn star get lost bro yeah yeah she's a porn star she's an award-winning one she is every definition of porn star star a kanye west has made t-shirts about her sexual exploits porn star she did ati she actually did ati very well i thought she had very interesting answers

very funny answers and as we were walking out of the ati studio we had filmed a couple promo clips and she was like uh yeah send me those videos just just text them to me i was like i don't have your number i need your number so she starts rattling it off and like as she's giving me the number she was kind of walking like we were walking to the other studio so she's in front of me and i couldn't hear like the last like four digits and i was like what was it one one zero what one zero okay okay three oh okay yeah yeah i went through all those digits like two or three times send her the video and then she goes like yeah make sure you send that video before i leave and i was like did it not go through and it just do you want to give

me the number again i don't know i don't know and it popped through was like, okay, all right, yeah, you got that video, yeah. Hey, boo, text me later. Text me later, bae. Now, I have a question for you because you are a texter. Like, would you, like, would you just, would you ever text her? No. Right, that's what I mean. Like, I'll get her, I would get a number and be like.

That's just like I have a Bella Dangerous number. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She texts me, I'll respond. But she's a young porn star. That's got to draw a line somewhere. You know what? But that's what it was. Okay.

Let's say it wasn't a Bella. Let's say it was like, let's say, uh, Gabriel, Iglesias gave you, yeah. Like,

like Brian Callen. I texted him. Like, usually like, wait, what's up, man? Uh,

usually it's like, thanks for coming in. That was funny. Like, and I usually tell them like, so when your ATI drops, we're going to send you some promo clips like i keep it like business but then i'll also you know that's what i fuck with them a little bit you know what i mean like a joke with them a little bit and hopefully start like a rapport so what you're talking about is

just basic networking that i can't grasp correct yes very basic ideas like i want brian callan to come back so i'm gonna try to like thank him and shit like that. But it gets a little dicey if it is a chick or a porn star or something. It's like, how is this going to be perceived? And that's definitely one of those, well, does the world know what I'm doing or not? I'll fucking text a bell of danger right now. But if there was any chance that people know that I'm texting a bell of danger, then I look like a fucking scumbag. I feel weird even doing that. I i i heard the phone thing i had the same reaction as you like phone number and i and i was i was i don't know if i was next to her or i

was in front of her or she's in the middle of us because you yeah but like i was like she's gonna see me take my phone out so like i feel weird yeah yeah unless you're telling us her phone number it would have been normal to take your phone out right yeah we're overthinking this yeah yeah but like i would do that with anybody if it was brian if it was anyone i would be like Unless you were telling us her phone number. It would have been normal to take your phone out. We're overthinking this. I would do that with anybody. If it was Brian, if it was anyone, I would be like, well, they're not. They're just saying their number to be polite. They don't want me to have it. I'm dead serious.

That's how I think. You're sick, man. I know. You gotta realize, we never think about the quote-unquote status that we have. There are probably plenty of people who would want to be able to like get in contact with us. Like, yeah, like give me your number.

Cause like you guys host the show and you work at Barstool and like, maybe I'll need you again or I want to come on again or whatever. Like there's enough clout or whatever that it was. It's not, it's not like totally, I don't think like a guy like Brian Callen's like, I don't want these fucking guys having my phone. No,

I totally agree. But I agree sitting here with you right now. In the moment, it does not register. That's good. It's good to remain humble like that. We should have asked Isabella for something. I want to start doing that. I just want to guess. Bring whatever you want.

Don't even bring something. When you're here. I guess with people, it'll probably be more difficult with guys. But a girl has some in her pocket. Pocketbooks she can give us. Give us some of your shit. Open that up some give me your Altoids like oh god I'll get a wallet I could give like if I have business card I do well if someone was like give me something like you right we put stuff on the walls oh definitely give me something you have

I'd be like I got like and like we'll have to label things like it won't be like clearly there's a thing right Edel Edelman's dip spit, like a Bella's lip gloss. Yep, yep, yep. That's what you got to do. Oh, Bella's lip gloss. I don't know. I'll just pull something out of my fucking head for a second. Oh, I guess that thing she put on her fucking sultry lips.

She did have nice lips. She did have nice lips. Yeah. Just randomly kind of think of a topic. So as we were wrapping up, after we wrapped up i i uh i came in here and nick was like yeah it kind of got weird at one point there was like four cameramen and there was 10 guys just surrounding her and i was not weird for her just another day it's like this is great none of them are fucking me as i as i got up to let the asmr boys in i was like uh you know you stay there and

i was about to be like so that way they're on either side of you. But I was just like, no, you just sit there. That ASMR shit somehow got creepier adding a girl. Yeah. Those boys are wild, man. So make sure that you go get Barstool Gold because you're going to want to see Abella Danger in studio. I didn't know she was a blonde right now.

I always know her as a brunette. I do. abella danger in studio just i didn't know she was a blonde right now i always know her as a brunette i knew yeah she's she's worth the price of admission on barcelona gold as well as uh my stand-up and the video fights and francis made critiquing it you have a new episode of one thing i learned where feidelberg is getting uh nazi propaganda like thrown his way we have several cutting room floors we have a brand new uh kfc radio classic with k with uh k marco which features one of the funniest stories feidelberg has ever told feidelberg's funeral christmas picture is one of the funniest feidelberg family stories and that's saying a lot really yes i'm subtly funny oh yeah i guess i guess so it's just so unique to you in your family like i i think you are the only family in America that has that story.

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That's not my topic. And we kept saying it was Nate. So this is not casey smith's topic not casey i i said casey smith you you were hot you got the titanic one in casey smith said uh she's like yeah i actually had one that's like it but it's really inappropriate i don't want to do it and i said come on casey smith like you got let's hear it wait you were talking to Casey Smith Casey Smith yeah and Casey Smith said um could you survive a school shooting I said wow Casey Smith that is quite a quote Casey Smith said could you survive a school shooting that was that was Casey Smith's topic for the office I couldn't believe you left the studio you went out to the bullpen and you found Casey Smith and you said to her Casey Smith give me a office topic and casey smith said could you survive a school shoot casey smith was like i went to texas a&m could you survive a school shooting i was like wow that's casey smith and

texas a&m i can't believe you said that anyway what's the answer i think a uh uh a resounding no i mean you just gotta hope they don't like come in your room yeah yeah they come in like all right I think a resounding no. I mean, you just got to hope they don't come in your room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they come in, let's say it's an office shooting. I'm going to hide behind that wall right there in the KFC radio studio, and I might be able to survive. But if they come up in here, you're dead. See, I think I'm going to take it off the school shooting thing

now that we just said it was Casey Smith's topic. And I'm just going to make it more of an action hero thing. Yeah. And I think about that all the time laying in bed. Like, you know, my mind's racing. These are big time shower thoughts, you know. I don't really have shower thoughts. Showers and showers.

I just my shower thoughts are like. Really? Oh, my shower thoughts are exclusively like all right dude like we can do it today really yeah because i actually was reading the other day i gotta find the article it's like kind of scientifically proven you know when people like i do my best thinking in the shower yeah it's true like the heat and the like it like actually kind of stimulates you a little bit more oh there's a reason why you usually have your best thinking in the shower finalberg just sits there and has blank thoughts of survival one like 1000 like i'll just i'll i'll just i have a window in my shower and so i just sit there with the water running on me and

i stare at the shampoo bottle and i'm just like i just gear myself up for the day i'm just like come on man we can like let's nail this we can we can do today we can do we can do today do you think you're really depressed Do you think you're really depressed? Yes. Clinically depressed. Yes. Cause like, cause like I'm always joking around,

like I'm always like kind of agreeing with you, but then, then there'll be like a clear line where it's like, I don't do that. Like I usually, I put some music on in my bathroom. I'm kind of like having a good time in the shower. I'm doing some thinking.

Oh no. Oh no. There's always a line where we very much, uh, separate. Like, Oh, that's the, that's where the clinical depression comes in. Oh, no. Oh, no. There's always a line where we very much separate. Like, oh, that's where the clinical depression comes in. That's like, I'm stressed. John's clinically depressed. The, today, like, my shower today was very vividly that.

So I can, you know, it's not 100% that every single time. But today it was definitely just like, okay. All right, man. Come on. But at night. A little pep talk. A little pregame speech. I was staring right at it.

I have Redken shampoo, and it was like, I was just staring at the down here. There's like two lines, and it says, barber must have or something along those lines. And I just stared at that for 20 minutes. While the rain came down and washed my dreams. You are either clinically depressed or autistic or both. I was tested for autism, not autistic.

You're on the spectrum. I was tested for retardation, I think. You're definitely not retarded, but you're kind of autistic. You're on the spectrum, no doubt. We all are, but you're a little bit further ahead. retardation, I think. You're definitely not retarded, but you're kind of autistic. Yeah. You're on the spectrum, no doubt. We all are, but you're a little bit further ahead. My mom always says that. She knows. But anyway, so, but no, so, like, bed is where I stay up until, like, 4 a.m., probably why

my morning showers are so difficult. I stay up really late just, like, thinking about things like that. And I'm always, like, and it's you know you can never know i think i would charge just because i think that's the best years of survival like i think i would like i wouldn't really depends on what like all right so uh let's say the bad guys are here right i don't think about it the movie theater too just okay fine so you're sitting in the movie theater he's like at the top of the out like the aisle you're sitting in the movie theater. He's like at the top of the aisle. You're going to get up and run down the aisle at him? He would be at the bottom of the aisle.

In movie theaters, it's hard to come in the back way. Right? You come in the bottom and you go up the stairs. What movie theater are you talking about? What are you talking about? You're in the theater and you're looking at the screen. They're behind you. They come into the movie theater.

You're talking about really old movie theaters. like new theaters you walk in the front i mean nick i'm not crazy here right the movie theater you walk in the front and you go back yeah i've seen it both ways but usually it's you come down the aisle and then come to the front that's where i'm always looking at the exits i'm i got my eye yeah well there's exits usually at the front but there's usually exits like the back i think that's the older maybe at the exits. I got my eye on that shit. Yeah, well, there's exits usually at the front, but there's usually exits at the back. I think that's the older theaters. Maybe at the side. I know what you're talking about.

I think that's the older theaters where you walk in the back and it's just like the slow down. I think stadium theaters, you mostly come in. I mean, think about it. The theater would have to be buried underground to come in the back in a stadium theater. I see what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You come in and you loop around. Yeah. Yeah. So either way, there's a lot of space between you and him to like yeah i guess i'd have to like sneak my way i i think what i'm on the other side so i'm like crawling down the stairs on the other side you're doing an army crawl yeah stand low and then getting low because he's like you know it's dark and he the other side. And then what's your move when you get to him? I think, I honestly think, like, I could just, like, tackle a shooter.

Yeah, you probably could. I'm bigger than most people. Yeah. And if I, like, if I could sneak up on it, like, I mean, like, it would have to be, like, no, that couldn't be just pointing at me and, like, waiting, like, Charlie and Mac when he's, like, trying to, like, just shoot him with the sword. Like, it would have to be, you wouldn't see it, but, like, just couldn't be just pointing at me and, like, waiting. Like, Charlie and Mac, when he's, like, trying to, like, just shoot him with a sword. Like, you'd have to be, you wouldn't see it, but, like, just run and tackle him. I think I would go, like, no shame, and I would go, like, a low blow.

I'd do, like, a wrestling. Well, yeah. No, there's no shame in attacking a shooter. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not an honorable fight here. I'm kicking you right in your fucking dick, dude. I don't care how committed to your cause you are. You get kicked in the nuts, you're dropping your gun,

you're falling over, you're hunching over. I think you go tackle and then just try to get the hands down or get the arms on the neck. I feel like that's a good way to get shot. I guess if it's a big machine gun, maybe not, but if it's anything small, you've seen the movies, that's where you get shot in the stomach. You fall on top of them, it's like...

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It shoots you in the stomach. I think what I'm doing is I'm either WWF low blow with like my arm or I'm kicking you in the sack. And as soon as you hunch over, I'm kneeing you in the face. Jesus. I think a knee to the face is like you're fucking shit up no matter who you are. I don't know how to fight, but if I put all my knee into your face, it's not going to

feel good. That's how like if you're in a fight, that's like what you what you're supposed to do is, like, if you're, like, confronted, first kick the knee. Yeah. And then when they go down with the knee. Pow! I'm saying knees and elbows, bro, they're going to fuck shit up. Yeah. I mean, like, if you just, an elbow to, like, a face is, like, it's a combo of getting able to break.

Yeah. And I'd imagine most of these guys are not tough guys. Right. They're all, like Emo fuckboys Who just have a gun Yeah But once if you get close To they're not shooting you

I'd imagine you could Do a little damage Yeah Once you're In tight Wouldn't that be so dope To be the hero Who beats up a school shooter

It would be pretty good God that'd be so cool So cool If I could be like One thing It would be that The hero The hero

Yeah You're like whispering it Like it's like a Not a popular Well no but it's almost like if I could be like one thing it would be that the hero the hero yeah you're like whispering it like it's like a not a popular well no but it's almost like I have an unpopular opinion I'd love to be a hero well no it's like

the real opinion should be like I never want that to happen again but my real opinion is like I want it to happen one more time but I'm the hero like what I would really like is one more one more tragedy

where nobody dies and I save everyone do you think if it happened to Barstool you'd just like Barstool fans would think you're a hero and everyone else is like, wish you didn't stop.

Imagine that if like, never mind, it's going to be too morbid. I'm going to say like, you know, someone shoots up Barstool and you let them do like half and then you save them. Dave probably would. We had the Duncan Awards last night. Dave probably would let anyone shoot. Dude, Dave was so mad at me and a handful of other people.

A handful of other people? It was only five people who dressed up. Yeah. I got so lucky with you saying you were getting the blazer because I went from H&M to your home. Here's what happened last night. A lot of people didn't dress up. You know, we dressed up last year, but I thought that was kind of like it was the only time we were doing it. Once I saw it was a yearly occurrence, I thought it was going to be a little more casual.

I had a couple conversations with some people that led me to believe I was good. I'm just going to say that. I don't want to throw anybody under the bus. I've got to take my own responsibility here. But then I even had a conversation with someone on the bus, someone very important, someone at the top of the charts here charts here who was like i kind of like that you didn't dress up like i don't like that we're all dressed up it's not like who we are i was like just just putting that out there too but uh yeah dave was fuming apparently this

morning he while we were interviewing abella he was going in on multiple people yeah i mean i feel like i'm i'm getting like not a pass he definitely called me out he's mad at me but he knows. But he knows that, like, I've done a lot, and, like, you know, I'm pretty committed here. It's like some of the other people who are newer who, you know, need to show a little bit of respect, I guess. But being lumped in, I'm like, because I did have a blazer. I wasn't going to dress up, dress up. I was wearing, like, the Barstool Henley. And I was like, I'll throw my blazer on that i just happen to have at my desk and i was running around right before the bus and i was like sweating my dick off and i was just like it's too hot for a jacket and that's the

only thing that stopped you were sweating a lot to be fair to you pouring and all i needed was a blazer it would have been fine now instead i'm lumped in with the fucking this always happens dude right before dave takes his july vacation there's a blow-up last year it was with ria and the year before that there was nothing specific but everyone was like we all need a timeout like we all need to separate i remember being like thank god nantucket's here we all can kind of chill but ria's the the ria 25 year old thing was two days before nantucket and this was the same thing so it's like the hbo piece was coming out uh he had just had like an argument about a pizza review that like sales told him he couldn't publish and then people

weren't dressed up so it's like the perfect storm and i'm like i just two more days and i would have you know i would have been home scot-free instead i'm like in the crosshairs dude i i've had blows with dave on the fourth the fourth of july yes like right when it's like... Like on the 4th of July, like exchanging like angry text messages. And like, I mean, when I say a blow up with Dave, Dave blows up at me. I'm not like fighting back. Yeah, but it was like...

Yeah, I mean, I walked right over to him and I was like, my bad, man. And he just gave me that... Look, you know, Dave sometimes goes like, his eyes get wide, he just shakes his head. It's like he knows... I think Dave knows he can't really like fucking sit there and scream at me.

Like we're both, you know, veterans of this shit, but it was definitely like a, yeah, you fucking asshole. Like, all right, mission, you know, mission accomplished. I get it. Dave had, Dave and I had a blow up on the 4th of July. Again, Dave had a blow up at me where it was just like, I don't think, I don't think I was a full employee. It's probably like 23rd.

No, I was a full employee in 2013. Um, you were a full employee, but like there was, there were times where you weren't getting paid at that point, right? I think so. That was like the beginning of the Blackout Tour. It was like, all right, we have enough money to pay you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But before that, it was like, hey, photo bar, you might not get paid this month. Right.

So you were yes and no. But it was like, where the fuck are you right now? And I was like, the beach. What's up? And it was like, it was the Sagan trade had happened around then. And I'd blog the Sagan trade. And there was a bunch of stuff around, it was the Sagan trade had happened like around then. And I like, I'd played a lot of the Sagan trade and like, they were like, there was a bunch of stuff around, like all the stories. And I blogged a bunch of the stories, but then I missed one.

And it was like, this is a fucking good job. Like you would be like, you should be fucking grinding. And I'm like, I did like seven of them. Right. And it's, it's, that's always the way. I mean, it's not always the way. Sometimes people are just blatantly lazy here. And like Dave calls them out and they deserve it.

But like, like Carabas had a famous one where he stayed up till 5 a.m waiting for the young john carlson john carlo stanton trade and he went to sleep till seven and it broke in that two hour span you know it's like you know sometimes it's it's just bad luck but i don't know it was a smaller one too it's like something like his mom said about the trade and it was like It's not even that big of a deal. It wasn't a huge one. I don't remember it now. I remember a lot of the stuff that happened with it and the stories that were surrounding it.

This one was one that I can't really put my finger on. And he was just like, how the fuck is it on the site yet? I'm like, it's 3 p.m. on the 4th of July. That's why. I did a bunch of them. You know what? I mean, credit to him, though, in a way that it's like, sometimes I think it's a,

maybe a bit extreme, but there's a reason why that dude's worth like $10 million. You know, there's a reason why the company is what it is. Cause he just doesn't fucking stop. But, well, he was on vacation.

That's always where it's like, he was texting it to me cause he wasn't there. But it was July, dude. It was July. So, uh, right now it's davey warpath the hbo thing i get it why people get mad i understand why the fans get mad i understand why like rio was mad like she sat down with them for a long time and answered the questions and thought she was gonna have like a moment where she really defended barstool and they cut her out of it. But like,

this is the best thing that happens to us. This is so good for business. Yeah. Because it's the same thing as the towels, because we are a bunch of like fucking nerds and we are gifted this bad boy persona from HBO, from deadspin. Do you think that, this bad boy persona from HBO, from dead spit. Do you think that,

do you think that like, almost like you said earlier with, um, how we don't like recognize it. Like some people might want our number. Like, do you think that like in the internet world, I guess because we do just say things that, I mean,

we just talked for 10 minutes. So how would survive a school shooting and stuff? Um, like we just say things that are probably a little, a little, that's what I mean. Like all we do is we are, we just say things that are probably a little... That's what I mean. Like, all we do is... Grizzly or gray. We say things that are just over the line a little bit,

and they're like... I mean, Brian Gumbel asking if this was the most unpleasant thing Soledad O'Brien has ever done when she covered Sandy Hook. He didn't say ever. He meant for... He did say for us.

So it is like... For real sports. Yeah. Okay. So it wasn't... She didn't do Sandy Hook for real sports. Got it. Got it. Got it.

Got it. All right. So real sports is a different barometer. But I mean. But still, like, what is. What was unpleasant about it? Right. There was nothing unpleasant.

She was here laughing. You would have thought she came through and we were like, hey, mommy, sit on this dick. Like, everyone just said, like, hello. You watch us work for a little bit and you went home. Well, and it mommy, sit on this dick. Everyone just said, like, hello. You watched us work for a little bit and you went home. Well, and it wasn't even for a little bit.

That's, I think, the one thing that I think people don't get. And I never really understood in, like, segments where, like, something is like an eight-minute segment.

Maybe it was 16. They were here for months. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They did, like... So I understand the idea. I think they were here for two months, at least on, like,

they'd go to different, like, events. Like, they were here for two months at least on like they'd go to different events. They were at fucking like the golf stuff and they came to – they were on the road with us in Boston for the Stanley Cup stuff. Maybe it wasn't two. It was at least a month. I can totally understand. Filming constantly for a month. Cutting the floor is a thing for sure.

Like cutting the entirety of a female employee when the when the focus of the piece is barcelo's relationship with women and the females that work there and you sit down with someone who was a female who works here and you cut that entirely that's you fitting a narrative yeah that's not a time and that's what i mean you cut you cut some b-roll to make sure that ria gets in you know what i mean and and really what i mean you i would hope and i know this is not the way the world works but like if i were to sit down and do like an investigative piece, let's say I'm doing one of my storyboards or some shit. Let's say I had my perception of what it was going to be.

If I like sat down and got the chance to interview someone on the inside and it like totally changed my perspective, that would be what my piece is about. Yeah. You change it. I would, I would be like that or the piece would be how my opinion changed. If Soledad O'Brien was doing like narrating or whatever and was like, you know, I believed a lot of the misogynistic talk until I sat down with Maria from Barstool. Like that is what would be the interesting piece. You did what all the other outlets couldn't do or didn't do.

You actually reported on it the way it is. Like to me that's an opportunity if you're like an investigative journalist or whatever she calls herself to do it right and like to have integrity and all that shit. But I also get all – I also get the business of like this is what works. This is Colin Barstool. Right. And I actually – and I don't think that like – I'm trying to think how I would say this. I hate when we're arguing about the misogynistic stuff and people are like, well, females, it's like cro i don't think that matters i think that matters i think i think you can still be i think i mean it's just it's just saying i have black friends yeah but i i mean when there's a lot of them

like we have several successful shows we have several women who are in the behind the scenes like it's it would be i would be borderline impossible to be as misogynistic as people portray us to be with the amount of women in successful positions we have here but i think that i think the proper response to that is talk to the women here and and air their interviews yeah not like hey we have women who work here right i mean we yeah we there's only so much we can say as yes and that's why they should have ran ria's interview right right but i think i think whatever ria said because obviously I didn't see it whatever Rhea said I think is a much

better defense than like we hired Erica once yeah yeah yeah yeah but also like no keep cutting Rhea's shit keep up that persona because it keeps selling merch and clicks and views like let's fucking go

do a couple more from the office here, and we'll do voicemails. We'll do one more. And this one was from Liz. I guess they were talking about Game of Thrones. She said, do you think it's possible that you've ever had sex with a relative? Now, obviously, my answer is no no without a doubt just because like i never like grew up i feel like if you're like in a small town or a hometown it's like madison bumgarner fuck that girl named madison bumgarner right and like it's just like oh it's like i

didn't like we were in high school or something like that and i didn't realize it like i didn't i went away for high school and i didn't it's a little more possible than you really would ever guess that's what i'm certain like yeah not like even someone you knew as a cousin or anything away for high school and i didn't it's a little more possible than you really would ever guess that's what i'm certain like yeah not like even someone you knew as a cousin or anything like that like not not something you chose but like almost like i was a gang as con responsible for like a sixth of the world or whatever it is i mean i think if you want to get technical like yes we all have because we all descended from like the same blah blah blah but as far as someone in your relative immediate family like on your on your uh 23 and me tree, I don't know.

No. No. No. It's a decided no, but that made me think of a different one. Like, I don't know, a girl named Gonzalez in Mexico, you know, maybe. Maybe. Like a guy named Smith or, you know, a very like ethnic name in the right area, maybe. Yeah, like I would just.

I just don't know. There's not many Clancy's running around that I've, you know, very few Feidelbergs. Um, the, uh, but the reason, but made me think of a question I've been asked before,

which is, do you think you have any kids you don't know about or is it possible? And I was like, well, I guess it's possible. It's possible, but it's not likely. It's not.

It's possible. Is it possible? It's possible. But it's not likely. But it's not. It's possible. Is it possible? I don't think it's possible for me. Well, it's definitely possible for me. What am I talking about? Yeah. I just, I mean, I haven't had sex with that many people, and I haven't had sex with that many girls that were one and done,

disappeared, and could have been harboring a baby for nine months. Everything was in college. That's why I think it is possible. I was in Florida for two years. And then you bounced around. You were gone. And Stoolies, Florida, there are more Stoolies there. But it's not like there's some girl who loves Barstool

who then sees me and is like, wait, that's the guy I had sex with that one time. That's the father of my kid. I think by now you would know. I think you would know for sure. All right, let's do some voicemails, and then we'll get into our interviews for the day. Voicemails today are brought to you by Roman.

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quick dilemma I wanted you guys to maybe talk about. It's one of my best friends' 21st birthday on 4th of July, and obviously a big birthday, but his girlfriend is 19, and she's getting pissed at him and almost at the point of breaking up with him because he wants to go out downtown St. Louis for his birthday. And we're telling him he's crazy if he doesn't go out, and we're getting really mad, and he's maybe not going to go out. But her excuse for wanting him to not go out on his 21st birthday was because she said 4th of July is her favorite holiday. Now, we told him that that's fucking crazy and stupid,

but I just want your opinion. I need him to hear this because this is ridiculous. fucking crazy and stupid, but I just want your opinion. I need him to hear this because this is ridiculous. I mean, when the ages you're throwing around are 21 and 19, you're too young to be doing these stupid fucking fights. Yeah, but that's the thing. I mean, the narcissism everyone has is like, that's the most important age. Yeah, in that moment, know you're 21 and you

feel like you're more important than whatever age you are probably until you're 25 i know but i i think this is a time you can have some foresight i i think i i think i knew not enough but i think i knew a little bit like i'm pretty young this shit doesn't matter yet i remember one time i was super upset my high school girlfriend was older than me so she graduated and moved and moved went to college and i remember being upset and my mom was like dude come on shut the fuck up and i was like yeah you're right you're right you're right so like you you can kind of get through to these people on some level like some especially like this when when when you're when you're fighting like i hate to be the guy that's like dude break up with your girlfriend but like i don't know man it it's your birthday it's your 21st birthday

she's trying to stop you from going out whatever the circumstances are if if a girl's trying to like a guy or guy is trying to stop you from doing things and like making you change your ways when you're that age i don't know what age do you start being okay i don't even know about if it's an age thing i think it's about it's a commitment thing like if you've moved in with someone you think you're gonna marry them you think you're gonna be like in it for the long haul then i think you have to start talking about changing behavior but until then if it's something like serious like it's like if it's something actually bothering you i say fuck it i think red flag is having fourth of july be your favorite holiday

there you go by the way fourth of july birthday is a weird combo was that i don't think i know anybody like that no when you have to fuck to get that? July is the seventh month. So you'd have to fucking November. Okay. That sounds crazy. I guess there's really no month that's crazy enough to have sex. You fucking October? Jesus Christ.

Really? You're fucking deviant, aren't you? Fucking that close to the devil's day? You could probably have Halloween sex and be born on 4th of July. Yeah, no doubt. So that makes sense. But I just think that 4th of July is – I don't think – I think a lot of people love 4th of July, bro.

I think people like it. To me, I'm more of a relaxing holiday fan. I guess 4th of July now is relaxing. I'm going away with my parents. It used to be like a party weekend, party scene like even even when it was a party by the way like i don't even get it like isn't wouldn't at the age of 21 and 19 isn't this just like a perfect storm like you're gonna go to the barbecue you're gonna go to the beach you're gonna go to the beach bar you're gonna party and it's also my 21st birthday like what what is what is precluding him from what does she want him to

not do i don't i do not know this girl sucks yeah like we're just going we'll find it like i don't have to make a deal of it but like we're just gonna go drink it of a barbecue and we'll just like and we'll say it's my birthday occasionally with someone the only thing i could think by the way this one's not happened to me but i was it was my 21st birthday and i was like all right let's go to the bar and people were like nah nah nah man and i was kind of like what the fuck like i'm going to the bar like fuck you were like, nah, nah, nah, man. And I was kind of like, what the fuck? I'm going to the bar. Fuck you guys.

And everyone kind of was saying no. And I was like, I'm going to go to the bar. It's my favorite bar. I just want to go to the bar. It's my birthday. I'm just going to go. And it turned out my girlfriend at the time was flying in two of my best friends for a surprise. So everybody was trying to get me to stay because they hadn't flown in yet. And so I'm like, I don't know.

Maybe this girl has big 4th of July plans for you and your birthday and she doesn't want you being elsewhere right so just beware of the birthday surprise birthday especially when you're having a uh milestone birthday as for the uh the holiday thing though i think i think all good holidays like real holidays i think they'll be a holiday winter winter yeah it's gotta be cold i don't like holidays and it's funny because i actually think like a true holiday involves family even though a lot of times i'm like fuck my family yeah like to me like i'm a moral day july like all that shit like for july it's like a party it's like time for your friends i think a holiday is i think like your family and you're doing like you know yeah you buy the fire you're opening

presents you're in your sweater you're under the blanket you know all that shit. One-weather holidays are fucking bullshit. They're just parties. They're not holidays. If you want to call yourself a holiday, be between October and February. Deal. I'm in on that. That's what a holiday is. Fair. Anything else is just like, yo, come party days.

It's an organized celebration. What up KFC fights? Scooper Scooper BC. I had a quick hypothetical for you. Imagine all the movie villains Celebration. Yeah. What up KFC fights, super scooper BC. Um, I had a quick hypothetical for you. Um, imagine all the movie villains in every movie lived in the same universe. Who would you pick to help you take over the world?

Um, and furthermore, what would their plan be? So quick caveat. I mean, this is recency bias, but I mean, Thanos is a great like Thanos or, um,

he said no Thanos. Yeah. He said no Thanos? Yeah, he said no aliens, no Thanos, no one with, like, superpowers, more of, like, a Hans Gruber. Oh, okay. All right, I was going to say, I mean, Thanos is, like, he can control the universe. Okay, so it's regular human villains. Just villains. Yeah. Okay.

It's tough to, like, picture a villain winning because they always lose. Yeah. So it's trying to be, like, well, this guy's thing is tough to beat but then like he just you know how to beat it um uh let's see there's a tough one all right let me let me rattle off a few here uh the joker uh hannibal lecter darth vader agent smith from the the matrix uh jack torrence from the shining actor, Darth Vader, Agent Smith from The Matrix, Jack Torrance from The Shining. But a lot of these people are supernatural. So, like, the agent is supernatural. Darth Vader is supernatural.

Fine. Well, I think I like sci-fi. The guy from No Country for Mole Men who runs around with that cattle gun. That dude, fuck that guy. Oh, I know who it would be. That's crazy that guy killed so many people. He was a bad actor. He's got to be close to you shoot you shoot him far away how about you got a pistol you win how about this guy this is i mean this is really bad for me to say i'm signing up with him hans landa from inglorious bastards that nazi he's a bad which

which which nazi is he christoph waltz yeah okay i mean he's like he's a he's an evil guy but he's not a tough guy yeah but like part of it is just being like so evil that people are just like like i would like what came to me is like any of like the uh you know the cells and like jason bourne oh oh okay yeah yeah those guys are just like assassins right yeah yeah they can kill like fucking anybody they know how to shoot like from fucking i mean they're oh no you know what i know who kaiser so say from usual suspects next level thinking bro you're trying to like truly win this shit and take over the world he's the only bad guy who wins he walks away at the end yeah you're right he he's the guy you need he's you know he's tiny he's he's he's not like imposing

but he's cerebral and he'll figure that you know who you know one okay i'm gonna one up you because this one this person's violent i guess kaiser so he's violent right he'll figure that you know who you know one okay i'm gonna one up you because this one this person's violent i guess kaiser's so he's violent right he kills a couple people yeah but yeah for the most part it's more anthony hopkins in fracture i love that movie that's a good movie it's a great movie yeah gosling and cop yes that's yeah it's a real mind fuck yeah that was a great one he's if he's like now he's got the guns, and he killed his wife. He's not the super assassin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he is.

But he knows how to do shit. I'll take Anthony Hopkins' infraction. What about like Robert Durst? I don't know why, but that guy just murdered everybody he came into contact with. He got away with it for a long fucking time. Some of those true crime guys. That's just money. Yeah, I guess so. so but hey that's part of the battle man yeah i just teamed up with this billionaire we're gonna make shit we're gonna get shit done and make it disappear

robert durst is my final answer bro he was on the run you know he was living comfortably and and free for a long fucking time after murdering like dozens of people until until he came down to what was he doing he's like pissing on like the snacks at cvs as well yeah yeah that was a bad one that was that whole like perfect storm of uh the jinx where it was like the night the morning of like the season finale he got arrested yep and it was for like he was doing something weird at cvs i forget if it was pissing on pretty sure it was yeah he's exposing himself or something but then like they really fucked him with that show oh yeah where they just like why did he do that show. Oh, yeah. Where they just, like – Why did he do that show?

People always say, why did we do the HBO thing? We knew it was going to be a hit piece. I'm like, yeah, that's a good question. Why is Bob Durst not just, like, in hiding? You know you've murdered dozens of people. Animals, humans. You're, like, 80 years old. Like, is it really that worth clearing your name at this point?

Maybe that was it, though. Maybe it's just, like, I'm 80. I'm going to die soon anyway. So if this goes bad, whatever. If it goes good, great. But, like, we're speaking of cutting room floors with, like, I'm 80, I'm going to die soon anyway. So if this goes bad, whatever. If it goes good, great. But we're speaking of cutting room floors with HBO and things like that. At least HBO didn't record us and then just pretend words were said differently. Yeah, I don't think it was much of a hit piece.

It was just that they had more that would have helped us, and they just didn't air because it doesn't tell the story. But to me, that's almost like lying by omission. Last voicemail. What do we got? Hey, KFC Insights. I just wanted to call about a situation that my friend told me about last night. She apparently ordered off of Amazon the communion bread.

Can you please let us know if that is true or not? She snatched at his work like at work no i think this is a very normal thing to do and it definitely is not the disrespect for the flesh of jesus christ that is a crazy move to just forget about the religious undertones to just sit there and eat unleavened bread at your desk at work is nuts i think it's pretty good i mean it's fine it's not enough to buy it off of amazon and snack on it at work get yourself a rice cake bitch like i know what you mean sometimes it's a little you know a little satisfying a little chew on get you chew on in the middle of church but not i'll be like let me grab some hosts on the way out i definitely used to look up look like look

forward to it in church yeah but it was not but you know what actually i might do what if what if i just get it here and we just start the show with communion every day yeah we do like my grandmother used to do that at christmas she would or my great grandmother would where she was like it was christmas and you'd go and you'd feed someone the bread and uh you'd like bless them a wish for the new year that's weird uh super weird so weird yes it's pretty weird imagine just being at your desk just popping in those little circular you'd like bless them a wish for the new year. That's weird. Super weird. So weird. It's pretty weird. Imagine just being at your desk, just popping in those little circular hosts.

Well, I don't know if they come. I guess maybe she bought the circular ones. The ones we bought would be like squares. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snap them off. Yeah. But I mean, she should go get them blessed too. Yeah.

If you're going to do it, do it big. Get the actual flesh and blood of Jesus in you. Yeah, don't just eat bread. How much much do you think she eats like how many pieces how many how many pieces do you think you'd have to eat to eat all of jesus's body i mean if you think about if you just took slivers of me i'm thinking of like stacking them so like say you make a oh just like like how many how many pieces are six feet tall no no like if you made it in like made a hollow Jesus figurine, how many would it take to just fill it? You don't have to stack them one at a time. You're just throwing them.

Okay. Almost like when you fill up a bottle with corks. Right, right, right. I would say a thousand pieces if it's all jumbled up. That's way too low. Way too low. If it's all jumbled up? A thousand pieces is like the knee down in one leg.

If you put it flat. But like sometimes, they're just falling in. So sometimes they lean on, sometimes they fall up. I bet a thousand pieces is like a knee down. What are you, like 10,000? 50,000. Fit, no! 50,000 is crazy.

We're going to have to do this. Nick, that's crazy. I think around six. Okay. Yeah. No way! 50,000? Think if this thing was hollow.

How many chips could fit in that? A lot of chips. 50,000? A lot of chips fit in there. I think 50,000 is pretty close. 50,000 is crazy. Crazy number. I disagree.

I know. I know you do. By the way, speaking of Jesus, we'll wrap up quick here with a quick hypothetical I saw on Twitter, the dumbest of all time. Three things. One of them has to go. One is your mother. One is Jesus Christ. The third is $900 billion.

Who's going? See you later, Jesus. Peace, Jesus. Peace out. You had a good run for like 2,000 years. Peace. You gone. I think a lack of religion is very healthy for the world. I think stop. See you later. Just be a good run for like 2,000 years. Peace. You gone. I think a lack of religion is very healthy for the world.

I think it stops. See you later. Just be a good person. And actually, you know what? I don't even care if the world descends into anarchy because of like, no, there's no more Jesus. I got my mama and $900 billion. We good. Yeah.

You ever seen fucking The Purge? I live in the dopest Purge house ever. I'll go into my panic room with my mom, and I'll buy a whole bunch of communion off of fucking Amazon. Okay? We're good. Peace out, Jesus. All right, let's get into this interview with Julian Edelman. It's brought to you by Dave.com.

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Been a long time coming. Finally on our airwaves. Julian Edelman's here. What's up, guys? I like to let the silence ride. I'm excited to see what happens here because Kevin, obviously, is a Jets fan. And he hasn't met a Patriot player that he didn't like yet. I think you're going to be the first, though. I don't know.

We'll see. It was a nice welcome. You came in. I was like was it was a it was a nice like welcome you came in i was like all right that was good but i feel like uh if there's one person i'm not gonna like it's maybe gonna be you i brable i really like uh kyle van noy was uh he really gave me like he busted my balls a lot but i ended up liking him vinitary was cool and i didn't really like vinitary that much really not like he did It was just like... When did he come on here? He didn't come on. We met him... We hired McAfee.

He did the fake press conference for him. I think it's just I really hate him because I have a lot of bad memories with all you guys. Fuck you, man. I mean, you guys got a couple good memories, right? Yeah. You know what sucks is the one good moment when when uh when we won at foxborough in the uh in four in 11 000 years ago yeah in 11 i was on that team barstool wasn't really cooking then yet and like i gave shit to portnoy and like busted these guys balls but it wasn't what it was

now if that would happen now it would be like you know we were 14 and 2 that year. We beat them late in the season by like 35. So they had Rex and Sanchez and Bart Scott. I could not believe that game. And you guys came in. They put it to us, man. I remember that. That was the foot game, right? With Welker?

Where he goes suspended for the first quarter or something like that? First drive? I actually got to start for that. When a game like that happens afterwards is it like is it anger or like disbelief or do you just chalk it up to like well that's never gonna happen again but fuck you know dude it's it's it's like what the fuck it just happened can you swear in here oh yeah all right um yeah it's it's you get the what the fucks on that. But then also you get like you got to tip your hat because, you know, they kicked the shit out of us that game.

We didn't have anything for it. And, you know, that's why you play the game on Sundays. And sometimes it goes like that and, you know, it was unfortunate because we had a really good team that year and so did they. They just made more plays, man. It sucked. When you said, like, I got to start because of the suspension, it's so crazy to think that. First of all, that was so long ago.

But, like, did you ever picture? Like, you have documentaries about you now, and you were like you needed someone to make foot jokes to get a start. Were you ever like, did you ever in a million years think that like this would be possible um like you're you're super rich you're like rich you're really rich and you needed rich you needed welcome to go off and like run i brought my rings too i told you they're here you're gonna be the one i hate the guy who brings his rings along fucking hate him you know we brought them no um you know it i never was in the position to like daydream about it i was always so on the fence of like am i gonna get cut am i not i gotta get a position i gotta find a role i gotta do something

that you know i never really thought into the future you know i was always worrying about what was on my plate you know and we had a we had a we had a so wes welker was an insane player he was a beast you know i saw him in his prime like that dude was a phenomenal football player and you know it helped me to watch him uh so did i think it was get to where i'm at now you know i never really thought about it but i'm happy it did i mean josh j, Josh McCown just ranked you the third best wide receiver in the NFL. Did you see that? I did not. People went, you were ahead of A.B., you were ahead of, I forget who it was.

It was like Julio Jones won, someone two, you three. Do you agree with that? There's a lot of good guys out there. Come on, don't give me that bullshit answer. You don't come here to give bullshit answers like that. Are you the third best receiver in the league or what? You know, I play receiver differently than a lot of guys. So it's hard to kind of...

Yeah, namely with Tom Brady. You know what I mean? I'll take that too. It's hard. I'm not the kind of guy that's going to come on here and say I'm the best, this, that. You know, I don't try to do those types of things. I go out and I try to contribute to my team. I ask what they want me to do.

If that's going in and blocking, if that's going in and running a route, this route, that route. That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm not going to sit here and fucking promote myself on being the best. Well, we're promoting a documentary. Documentary. We'll promote the documentary. The documentary called the Julian Elvin. I'm we're promoting a documentary. Documentary. We'll promote the documentary. Yeah, a documentary about myself and my... A documentary called Julian Edelman.

I'm not the type of guy. I just let the documentary, the full-length production do the talking for me. Full protection. Do you think... What's more impressive for you? Is it the come-up you've had in football

or the come-up you've had in looks? Because you were a goofy- looking motherfucker from Kent State. The glow up has been real. Now you're a supermodel. This is fucking nuts. What is that about? Why does your face look better now? That's fucking bullshit.

I think I just grew up. I was like 19. It looked like I was 19 when I came into the league. I was still hitting puberty. I don't know. Fuck. I think there's something in the water in Foxborough. I think that's like the secret.

You guys are all good looking. That's how you guys get like the vets to come on like, you know, bare minimum. It's like Belichick's like, look at, look at, look up at, we have like the secret water here.

Look at, I mean, Tom Brady's aging backwards. It doesn't make any goddamn sense. He's a robot. He looks way better now than he did when he was 24, which is like, that's when you're supposed to be in your looks prime, I feel like, in the mid-20s.

No, but see, the thing is, like you said, he got rich. There's not good-looking and bad-looking. There's rich and poor. You got money, you get nice clothes, you get a nice tan, you get a nice stylist, all of a sudden you're good-looking. Hey, I guess that's the road we got to go. You got to build it. What's crazy is to be in the NFL and not be good-looking.

If you're ugly in the NFL, you're fucking disgusting. Look at this glow up over here. Shit. You guys ever look around your locker room? You do have a bizarrely good-looking locker room. We did have a pretty... We had Jimmy G, Dola. Gronk's got his good looks.

I feel like that was a real backhanded compliment right there. And Gronk. You know, Gronk's a good-looking dude. You got Brady. I mean. If you had to do MFK. We had some good-looking guys. You got to do Mary, fuck, kill, Brady, Gronk, Dola.

Ooh. That's tough. Mary, fuck, kill. I'd probably kill Dola because it'd probably be better for my life I'd marry Tom you gotta marry Tom and then you gotta go

to town let Gronk ragdoll you gotta go to town with Gronk Gronk will just throw you around the room like Gronk so this documentary tell me about it

now you're getting into like that's the other thing that's annoying about you guys is like you're gonna you'll be successful in like everything you do now you know what I mean yeah you can catch some football Tell me about it. That's the other thing that's annoying about you guys. You'll be successful in everything you do now. You know what I mean? Yeah, you can catch some footballs, but now all of a sudden you're going to make great documentaries. You'll probably end up being an actor or a model or some shit.

You are an actor. You're an entourage. You probably have an IMDB page. I think I do. IMDB. SAG. SAG Guild or whatever. SAG. They tax you.

They tax you. They tax you. So what's that question again? Just tell me about that documentary, man. That's like a whole other side of life. What are you doing letting Wahlberg in it, by the way? That's my guy. Wahlberg, I know he's your guy, but come on. 283?

Hey. He had the sick kids. He got kids. That's the worst. He got kids. He got sick kids. You don't believe that. I mean, that is the nice part of having kids.

You get to blame them. They are a great excuse. The only thing your kids provide right away is that they give you an excuse to not do things you want to do. I'll just explain that to Big Cat. It's the best. Hey, you got my kids. No, yeah, no. Mark, he's like a bigger brother for me. He's actually helped me in a lot of ways to even getting up and starting a production company

and all these little side things that I have going. He's been a huge part of that. He's kind of sat me down and rubbed a bunch of wisdom on me and kind of let me know how to do certain things here and there. He's been an awesome guy in my life. Who's more business savvy, him or Fieri? I mean, they're both. Guy Fieri's your boy, huh?

Guy's my guy. How do you come about becoming friends with Guy Fieri? How does that happen? His wife's from New England. We do Best Buddies charity event together. We did that for a few years. Then we had a mutual friend, my boy josh uh he's done business with them and uh we just hung out a bunch and became boys just dudes being bros

he's a fun guy he's like guy he was he got his star the other day right he did yeah and i like he got the area here like he's like awesome but like people be like oh yeah like their buddies with fieri you were surprised matthew mcgonaghy doing his speech for like introducing him for the star was stunning that i mean he's got it like he's a star bro he's he's got that star for a reason um you know guy he works his tail off so i mean anyone that i've met that uh that that's been successful i mean they're not there by accident these people are working i feel like you're a pretty smart dude when it comes to this like you recognize people who are successful and what they're doing and you like you learn from them you you get down with them and have you find

your own success i mean my dad always told me, you know, surround yourself with good people that you want to be like. And not necessarily that I want to be just like them, but you want to learn, you know, valuable information from people that have been through where you're trying to get, you know, and by doing that, you know, you create good friends and you learn things while you're doing it too. Would your dad tell you that wisdom while you guys were beating the shit out of each other on the mountain?

Well, probably after that, but that is a true story. That's one of my favorite stories I've heard. How old were you? I think I was 14. 14. We were – he used to throw me BP every day, every day before practice, before a game. We had a game, and we were at Sequoia High School. He was throwing – I was a dead pool hitter, tried to hit bombs every time.

Everyone was trying to hit bombs. Absolutely. Fucking double. I'm trying to hit a bomb. Yep. And he kept on telling me, stop dipping your shoulder. You're too in front of it. You're dipping your shoulder.

And I would spit at the mound, sit there and point the bat at him. I'm a smart-ass kid. And he threw a ball. It may have grazed me. I don't want child services being called or anything. So I threw the bat, and I went, charged the mound. He one-twoed me and put me on the ground. And I went to the game with the bloody jersey.

You know, that was my dad. I thought I had him. 14, did not. Still didn't have him. Did you ever try it again? Or was that the first and last? No, that was the last. That was the last time.

My dad could still beat me in an arm wrestling contest until like four or five years ago. Really? Yeah. I was going to say, do you think you can take him now? I think now he's getting a little older. Yeah. But he's an old mechanic, so those wrenchers. Yeah.

Plus the dad strength, man. Dad strength. There's something into it. It is. It's nuts. But with all that you know my dad was my dad was definitely very tough on me and and to bring it back to the the doc i mean this is a huge story about me and him and how we went through you know probably the two toughest

years of my life you know with the injury and and being suspended and you know you that's what you see in this doc you see uh how a professional athlete deals with adversity, how he's trying to improve himself, and how he does it through his family and with his friends. How weird is it? While you're doing personal stuff, having to leave a camera crew around? It's actually, I'm pretty anal with it. I didn't like it.

It doesn't grow on you, but it becomes a little more natural if you have a good relationship with the guy who's shooting or something like that. But that's why we made this, because going into the Super Bowl in 17, we played Atlanta. My boy, Asaf, he's my partner with in coast productions uh he came up to me and he goes yo let's let's put some cameras on you uh every day and lean into this this this

playoff and i was like uh he said it'd be good it'd be good and i just couldn't do it because i'm i didn't want to open myself up and um didn't want to fuck with my routine. And then we ended up going to win the Super Bowl and it would have been phenomenal. It would have been pretty cool. Thinking back on that and then I get hurt and he came back to me and he goes, hey, what do you think about doing

something like this? And we were doing it. We did a documentary with NFL and me and Amendola went to Mexico and we were pushing this whole production company. It took me a little time to think about it, but I thought to myself, this could be a way for me to open up my mind creatively and kind of jump into something because you have so much damn time when you're hurt. And we decided to do it, so we started it.

Is that an issue at all with the Patriots? They're pretty buttoned up, tight-knit. I feel like they let you guys open up more recently. Yeah. It feels that way, at least from a fan's point of view. It's like Tom's doing it. He has a whole enterprise. You've got cameras around.

It seems like that's something that wouldn't have happened in the past. I don't know if they've changed or if that's just... You still respect the boundaries that we have with the team. Nothing in the facility or anything like that. Everything's more about me preparing myself for a season after an injury, a suspension, nothing to do with schematics or anything like that. It's all pretty much personal um so did you have any any fear of like maybe you're not going to bounce

back maybe you're not going to be what you once were you're not going to play at all again sort of thing i think that's natural when you when you get hurt especially with uh with your knee you know i've i've broken play yeah you know i've broken both feet I've had adductor surgery, hernias, shoulder surgeries, sprained knees. Yeah, you just won't fucking die. I know all this because I'm like, he's got to stop eventually, right? And, you know, the knee, it was tough, man. And it's such a pivotal part of your game, especially if you're a lateral guy and a guy that cuts on it a lot hard or violently.

I think it's natural for you to think you're not going to be able to do it at one point how you did it. That's what this captures. It captures that feeling of let's go back to the basics. Let's just work on one thing at a time and and go forward and build your confidence confidence through constant repetition and

and just building and then that's what you got to do you got to remind yourself but you know mentally you do have a battle that's that's the hardest part about an injury is mentally i think i think physically you're gonna like it is i i feel like like that's the first cut like how hard was that like being like okay i think it's strong enough to do a real cut right now i think the first cut you're so you know you're so amped up that i i don't think it i think it was the first cut with contact with guys around yeah that you know you get a little uh you're a little hairy with but um you know i've always been kind of a guy when the doctor says, hey, you're ready to go, go.

And if it goes, it goes type mentality. That's fucking scary. If it goes, it goes. I mean, you're a lunatic. You know that. You are. You're a fucking crazy person. You're a crazy person.

You are. You're actually. You were the one mic'd up screaming and yelling at people. That's my favorite football highlight ever. When the confetti was falling. You're like, no, no, no. You're actually. You were the one mic'd up screaming and yelling at people. That's my favorite football highlight ever. When the confetti was falling. You're like, no, no, no. Shut the fuck up, Edelman. You know you're going to win this fucking game.

Shut up. My favorite football highlight. From that game, bro? That was. Yeah. I guess if there was ever a time. Like, no, just calm down. No, it was not that one.

It's the one in Seattle. When Cam hit you. And you just laughed like a psychopath. And go, I fucking love getting hit. It was like, you're a true lunatic. I think, you know, I do like, you know, playing football. I love the game. And, you know, it's a psychological battle too.

You know, if someone hits you hard and they think they gave it everything they had and they think you're hurt and you go up to them and say that's all you got. So in that moment are you actually hurting and you're just not in front not like i don't think that that one wasn't hurting that was that was okay you won't die man you're just like a cockroach just won't fucking get out of my life how many more super bowls you think you want oh come on how old are you i'm 33 all right you gotta retire man you got a daughter you gotta you gotta start thinking about the future you gotta get the fuck out of my life man i can't bronc already fake retired can i at least get a fake retirement from you soon?

I am. I'm looking forward to this year, man. I'm looking forward to it. I feel like you and Brady are going to be haunting me for like seven more years. You just think about the year in front of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The year in front of us is Gronk coming back. We ask him when Camille comes here all the time.

She's like, I honestly don't know. So it gets like a question we have to ask you, but I don't think he fucking knows. Yeah, I don't think so. You don't think he's going to come back? I don't think he's going to come back. But you don't know. Yeah. But like my guy, like he's proved it all.

Right. I mean, he's done everything. He's had what, three back surgeries? That's so many. Well, here's the thing, man. You've proved it all too, dude. Like just hang, man. You've proved it all, too, dude. Like, just hang it up. You've done it all.

You're good looking now. Like, you know, it's fine. You're good. Just go make movies. I just, I love that. You're infuriating to watch. I love football, bro. You're one of the worst to watch.

Why? Why? Like, you know, like, there's just, first of all, like, you're, there's just first of all like you're you're it's either you or gronk that's always like that third and ten that keeps the drive alive that we know they're gonna go score now like that's always you the one catch you had where it's like you know centimeters from the fucking ground like that's you in a nutshell that's you just being like like for a for a patriots hater you are definitely you're probably the worst you're probably the worst it's like obviously brady's the worst but then as far as like his options

his weapons it's like you you're the worst i appreciate that yeah you should i mean it's a compliment but it's also it's fucking terrible no you know it's it's what do you what do you like more like uh performing well for like him, making a Patriots fan happy or making a Jets fan miserable? I think I know the answer. I mean, I'd rather make a Patriots fan happy. Really? I would have thought you would say the opposite. No, you play the Jets, and I feel like we split with them a lot.

I was going to say, we actually do play. You guys play us tough. Overall, obviously, we don't. I was going to say, we actually do play. You guys play us tough. We don't. Our division plays us tough every year. I still have salty memories about the Jets beating us in that 14-2 year. The next year, they went back-to-back AFC championships that year, right? You said the division plays us tough every year. Us, like I'm on the fucking team.

But do you think you are a product of the AFC East? Like, the Patriots, like the great record they always have? Or do you think the AFC East having a bad record is a product of you? Like, everyone always says that.

Like, oh, it's easy to have those records. They play in the worst division in football. I don't think it is. I don't think we have the worst division in football because if you look at, like,

the records of our division when we play the other divisions. It's always like I think we always win it. Yeah, it's always always. You know what I mean? So like people just say that I can't get into this. This is like we had this fight all the time. I know there are certain numbers. It's like it's not.

It's not. It's not a tough division. I mean, everyone else is under 500 every single year. And I know that that's because they also lose two times to you, and I know everything you're saying about you do. Just because you play well against other. I know. But if you look at the records, you're never playing any playoff teams.

You're always playing pretty much classically dysfunctional organizations. Dolphins, we played the Dolphins with the playoffs two years ago. The Dolphins, and they do always beat you in Miami. The Dolphins are kind of a different story. Buffalo went to the playoffs two years ago. The Dolphins, and they do always beat you in Miami. The Dolphins are kind of a different story. Buffalo went to the playoffs two years ago. I know, but they're not like. We had three teams go to the playoffs. They're not like powerhouse organizations that you ever have to worry about.

You do not walk into a season ever worried about the Jets, Bills, or Dolphins. You don't. Those are the teams you worry about the most because you play them twice. I know, but you know you're going to beat them. You know you're going to be okay. I'm telling you. No, I'm telling you, okay? I mean,

they gun for you every time. Yeah, that is true. The bullseye on your back when you're as good as you guys are. It's not easy playing those guys. And they know you, and we know them. The look you just had, I hope the camera's on you, like, it was the look of a person who just has nothing. You really stared into the abyss.

I just want it to end. It sucks because in 2011, during that era, I could kind of make certain arguments and spin zones, and they were never really like, I knew I was grasping at straws, but there was something to say, and as a blogger,

there was shit to talk and balls to bust, and now I'm just like, there's nothing to fucking say anymore, and it sucks. I mean, they got a young quarterback it's pretty good yeah i mean the the the the they're trending in the right direction in some ways but as far as when it comes to talking shit about you guys it's like until you guys are literally dead i need you dead and in the dirt i don't know i need a funeral for all you guys

the last time you did it was the 28-3 game where you were like you were like the dynasty's over yeah yeah yeah tweet in pictures of like yeah like the dynasty's over yeah yeah yeah tweeting pictures of like yeah like the Brady that awful tackle I mean that tackle is one of the videos that halftime I basically was like I remember texting with big cat and I was like I'm still worried that they might come back but my logic was if you guys come back it's gonna be the worst night of my life anyway so what's what's how much worse could it get if I start talking shit right now? So I was like, and then if they don't come back, I've been talking shit for a whole half, and I'm living it up,

and then you did exactly what I thought you were going to do, and you shoved it up my ass. That was a crazy one. That was the one. Yeah, that was a crazy one. You fucking think I was in? That's a bit of an understatement, Josh. The thing is, people don't realize the Seattle one was crazy until that one.

We were down 10 points in the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's still, I think, the greatest fourth quarter in Super Bowl history as far as like 24 for 28 or something like that. He threw an outrageous number of passes. He pushed off on that touchdown? Of course. No. I don't think so either.

It's five yards, baby. I hate you. It's five yards. You can do anything um i think this this kind of became a conversation after i honestly do you get confused at the superbowls like i forget which order they happened in no no i like i can never remember i'm trying to remember what what super bowl did you win mvp this last one you won last one yeah okay so i Okay. You're being a dick right now, right? I'm being a dick, but I'm so, so serious.

After you won that, it kind of became a conversation of you and the Hall of Famer. Do you think you're a Hall of Famer? Probably not. Why? Really? Yeah. See, I think you definitively are. I think that you can't tell the story of –

I think that's what the Hall of Fame is for, is telling the story. And I think it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the story of football without Julian Edelman. And the Patriots, too. You know what I mean? You can't tell the story of the Patriots, which are telling the story of football for the past 10, 12 years, whatever. 20.

I just – I don't know. It's tough to think about that because the regular season stats aren't there. There's a criteria of what you need to be in that hall. And it's not even really fallible for me. They should probably change the criteria then. The benchmark criteria is like, well, if you have 1 thousand Super Bowls and Super Bowl MVPs and I mean, when a guy like Brady probably says like when Brady says it, then that's the

fucking answer. You know what I mean? Yeah. Julian's the most important player. Well, then he wants the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Let's say realistically, you're probably going to win two more Super Bowls. So how could they keep someone with five Super Bowls out of the Hall of Fame? You can't.

Probably have one or two more MVP. I'll say one more MVP, so you'll finish with two. And five Super Bowls, two Super Bowl MVPs, you gotta be in the Hall of Fame. I mean, that's a hell of a resume. It's a pretty strong one. I don't have that. You have three right now? I got three. How many Super Bowls did you give up?

Like, what's... How important to you is your glow-up and being good-looking? Like, if I took away a Super Bowl and you went back to being ugly, you know what I mean? Like, where's the balance? I'd keep the Super Bowls. So, you gotta be 19 years old ugly again to keep all your rings.

You're doing that trade? Because I think that's a bad trade. I think I would give up at least one, maybe two, to look like that. Maybe all of them. Like, fuck it who cares i'm taking these rings look at my face i'm taking 19 bro yeah i'm taking 19 that gives me more time on the patriots damn it all right man so this documentary is out it's on showtime on friday all right 100 julian elliman you don't hate me do you? I do Take you to dinner Take me to tonight's dinner I won't hate you

Even I want to sit across the table from that guy Looking at those baby blues Shit man No I don't hate you The picture is like 4 for 4 5 for 5 on guys who I don't actually hate I will hate If I can meet Tom Brady, I'll hate Tom Brady.

The thing is, he'd be the least person that you would hate. No, no, no. I'm telling you, he's the nicest human being you'll ever meet. He's doing that with Josh. Don't let him be around his family or his kids. Then it's awkwardly adorable. Yeah. He's just a good dude, bro.

He's doing that with the story that just came out a good dude, bro. He's doing that with, there was the story that just came out of the day that he's basically doing that with like Gordon, right. Where he kind of like, he's been like going out to dinners with them. And like, he like does not even as like a, you know,

obviously they, I think he put the picture on Instagram or the video on Instagram of like training, but also just like things. The article said like they, he noticed that Josh needed like someone to take him under his wing. Yeah. I mean,

I didn't see that article, but, I mean, it's been a great thing for me in my life to get to be around a professional like that because he's a professional in every kind of way. You know what I mean? Not just as, you know, an athlete, but, you know, how he prepares, how he takes care of himself, how he's a family guy, how he compartmentalizes work from this to that to that. I mean, it's extraordinary. He's the best for a reason. Do you get jealous when you see him hang out with other receivers? No.

Used to. Used to? Used to. Well, I used to just get mad because he didn't like me yet. It took me like four or five years to get his trust now. Really? Yeah, I didn't start getting targets until 13. I had to ship Welker out for me to get a couple targets.

Maybe a tight end had to leave too. Could you imagine playing for a team for a different quarterback now? Like will you? I mean, he's probably got a few more years left. Do you think if he calls it a day and maybe, let's say, you know, you've had your career, but you've got a little bit left in the tank, would you consider playing for another team or another quarterback? You know, I want to finish my career in New England for sure.

I don't see myself playing for another team or another quarterback. I mean, with the way this guy is. Yeah, it's a moot point. He's going to play for a thousand years. It's hard. I just hope I can outlast him. I hope I can outlast him. I literally have that little scare in me.

Yo, that's a valid fucking point in my mind. All right, I came in and he was my age. Now, when he came in, that's 33. I mean, it's a little different for a quarterback. But, I mean, now I'm like different for a quarterback. But I mean, now I'm like, I better outplay this motherfucker or I'm going to look bad. I mean, that is the coin flip at best in my mind.

I've had that in the back of my head before. Like, how many more do you got? You know what? Me too, dude. I have the same fucking thought. It's a little bit of a different spot, but it's like, how many fucking more can we do? Yeah. You guys are sickening.

Thank you, man. Really appreciate it. All day. Thanks for having me on, man. Everybody go watch that documentary. 100%. 100%. I don't know if I'll be able to stomach it, to be honest.

But I'll watch it for you, Julian. Thanks, bro. All right. Big thank you to Julian Edelman, that good-looking motherfucker. Add him to the list of patriots that I probably like. Nice. It's time to talk to Fluffy Gabriel Iglesias. It's brought to you by DHM Detox.

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Free purchases, risk-free purchases at dhmdetox.com, promo code KFC20. All right, so let's get into it. All right, we got Gabriel Iglesias here on KFC Radio, massive superstar who's been in the game forever. But you just said that this is your show. And so you feel like you take what more ownership of it. And as far as the promotion and like the drive for it to succeed, it's just on a whole other level. Yeah, well, because if I was on like, for example, I've done press for other films and projects and stuff like that.

But I'm usually just like a third or fourth supporting actor or it's been some type of film where I'm doing a voiceover, so they can't really see that it's me. So if the movie does well, great. I can say I was part of it. If it sucks and eats it, then hey, you know. Just read the script I was getting. I'm just hired. I'm hired help.

That's kind of a good spot to be, though. I know you want more and so you have your own show, but when you're kind of in that, you know, it's... You're playing it safe until you're in a good position where you can try to take the lead for yourself. I know somebody like Jack Black was right in that spot forever until he finally said, you know what, I'm going to go for it. And once he did, man, he popped. He had enough experience under his belt.

Was it very different? Now, you've obviously written a lot of stand-up and things like that. Were you involved in the writing of the show as well? I was involved in some of the ideas, yeah. As far as sitting down and writing, that's not my cup of tea. And I won't fake it. I won't be like, you know, it's my show. I got to – no, no, no, no.

I am smart enough to know when to take a step back and allow professionals to do what they need to do. That's a huge part of it, though. I mean, that's a very admirable quality to have because I feel like there's a lot of people in all walks of life who are not honest with themselves. And I certainly would imagine in Hollywood that there are people who are like, I got to write it, produce it, direct it, act it. I've seen it happen. Yeah. And I've seen it not go well. Right.

Yeah. And fortunately. What's the example of that? I'd rather not say well right yeah and unfortunately example of that i'd rather not say because i still talk to some of these people they know who they are but you know what they probably do you're honestly right they probably do and they're probably like shit i don't know how to fucking write that i should let someone who does so yeah my strengths are all right i'll bring good energy once the camera's on. I do coast during the week, like as far as rehearsals. I won't give it 110% on the rehearsals, but I always tell the director and the producers,

as soon as we yield action with an audience there, you're going to see me light on fire. And every single week I deliver on that day. I'll coast, like I said, during the week I'll be like slow. Is he okay? He looks sick. No, I'm just saving my energy. But when we got got that live audience there that's like me being up on stage that's the closest to me doing stand-up so when the audience is there i feed off of that energy and so when they're laughing and having fun i'm laughing and having fun and if they're not laughing

then i step up my game until they do now what's that like in front of a live audience i feel like many there aren't many shows like that anymore i I feel like the heyday Seinfeld, I think Friends was a live audience. But the old classic sitcoms had live audiences. I feel like that's pretty rare now. It is pretty rare now, but for me, in order for me to be excited and want to do the show, I was given the option, single cam or sitcom style.

And in order for me to make it feel like it's closer to stand-up, I need a live audience because I've done single cam, and it's cool cool but for me i need that instant validation yeah i need to know if i did good or did bad it's like why we don't use snapchat because i can't see how many retweets i got you know you need that immediate response although i mean i i also think i mean back to kind of playing it safe is like for someone like yourself, usually the immediate reaction from a live audience is good. You know what the fuck you're doing, right? You've been doing it for a long time.

You've been killing it. You have to have a lot of confidence in yourself to know that that immediate validation is going to be in a good way, in a positive instead of a negative. I feel like you, at this point, when you're in front of people live, you just know that you're going to crush it. Right. The cool part, too, is that the people that come out to watch the taping of the show are fans already. They're chanting Fluffy before the show even starts. And so I'm like, everybody's rooting for this to be successful and to be good. So the pressure is off. I just got to show up and just give them what they expect. And I'm just, you know, I do what I do.

If something doesn't go well or something didn't go well would you redo it like i think oh it happened all the time it happened all the time we'd screw up a line or i'd just completely forget and go blank and then i'd go off into a rant about what happened and why this didn't work out and i told you we should have hired that one guy and blah blah blah and my rants will turn into something funny and so yeah and i'll talk to the crowd. I go, see, huh? But what about if everything went well, the joke just fell flat? Would you read? I think back to Seinfeld, one of the more iconic lines was George when he's talking about being a marine biologist.

When he reached in and he got the golf ball out. They had done that differently and the crowd didn't respond. So Larry David was like, you know what, fuck that, and just rewrote it right there on the spot, gave it to George, gave him five minutes to remember it, and he delivered that line. The audience lost it, and it's one of the more memorable lines from the show. Would you, if something fell flat, would you go try and start again, or would you just be like, well, that one didn't work?

So at the beginning of the week when we have the script, I'm pretty jaded when it comes to comedy. So certain things will make me laugh. Certain things I'm like, oh, really? That's a little cheesy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I will do what's given. Whatever the script is, I will perform it to the best of my ability.

But they know that on Thursday I have the right to change it if it doesn't get the pop that they wanted. So there was many times. So I'll test out your way. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll do it your way first. But if it doesn't work, here we go. And I'm going to tell you about it, too. Yeah.

That's interesting. And so we have that respect for one another. Because every now and then I'm like, really, guys? You know, the writer's room. But I'm like, you know what? There's been a few times when they wrote some stuff. I didn't think it was funny. And I delivered it.

And it killed. And I'm like, oh, that's all right. Fine all right fine i guess yeah you deliver it half-heartedly it's interesting you say you're jaded because of comedy i mean you have been how long you've been doing this stand up 22 years now 22 years and i would imagine for the better part of i don't know 10 plus years you've been doing arenas and huge, huge amounts. Last decade has been pretty phenomenal. I mean, that,

I know you're just being genuine there, but that is such a flex to just be like, yeah, the last decade has been me in front of like tens of thousands of people every time. That is unbelievable, man. Thank you. I mean, I just, the monetary success the the like the i'd imagine like the social success the fact that like you did it for like your

culture and your people it's just like a for just telling jokes you know what i mean just standing up there and like cracking jokes opened up all these doors it's just remarkable i mean i feel like you uh you're doing it in a way that like only very, very few people have ever done it. Does it feel like that to you? I think that with comedy, everyone has a different way of getting to that point. I came along doing stand-up right before social media kicked in. So I still come from that era of passing out flyers and actually talking to people like, Hey,

come on out, check out my show. Here's a flyer. You know, I'd be in parking lots at night, putting flyers on windshields, you know, looking like a creeper, like, you know, people coming up to you. What are you doing? Hey, want to see a comedy show? Get away from me, you creep. So to be, to go from there to all of a sudden getting in, you know, the mix where we saw, we saw what happened with Dan Cook when he jumped on MySpace. I was like, you know what? I don't want to get on that. It's stupid.

I didn't see the benefit from it. But when you saw Dan Cook every single night doing arena after arena after arena and not doing any press, all he was doing was sending out blasts from MySpace. Him and Tila Tequila were killing it. By the time I finally decided to jump on MySpace, people had moved on to Facebook. And that's when I jumped in on Facebook. And I started catching on and posting videos and then getting involved with YouTube. And I think a lot of times people want to fight the new. They want to fight it.

They're like, no, no, this new thing, not going to catch on. And I think the more you fight it, the less service, you know, you do yourself a disservice by doing that. The times are constantly changing. They're constantly evolving. And you've got to go with the flow or you're going to get left in the dust. Do you think it's – are you happy that you at least came up in that age of the grind? Because we kind of talk about it sometimes with how our age bracket is we are the greatest generation because we knew what it was like.

You don't know shit, God damn it. You don't know nothing, you little whippersnappers. We were looking at Victoria's Secret magazines. We remember the grind. So now we have the internet, it's so easily accessible. We have the experience in both. We know how to use one, But we had to fight for the other The perspective that comes from having to grind a little bit

I think goes a long way You can use Facebook and have it explode But you also know how to work hard enough That you wouldn't need Facebook I think that's a big difference I was part of both That's kind of how Barstool is Our website stands alone

If Facebook disappeared tomorrow People will still come how barstool is where barstool is our website stands alone if facebook disappeared tomorrow people will still go to the website yeah but it's nice to have the facebook outlet to pump it so it's crazy that people resist it what do you think is next well uh something that you're currently like all right i facebook killed it for me and now you know is it youtube is it so remember i said hey there's some that'll fight it there's some that'll go with it and i was with facebook all right i'll jump in and I mean I was on the tail end of Myspace and then you know when I left that's when Tom left so I timed it just right uh and then of course when Twitter came along I jumped on Twitter right away and then uh Instagram came out boom I jumped

on Instagram and as soon as I got to Snapchat I said said, you know what? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I stopped right there. I think Snapchat's tough for me, one, because I don't like the look of myself. So, like, Twitter, I don't have to put out pictures and shit, right? Like, I can just be, like, hearing my words. When I do, like, a front-facing camera, we're always doing swipe-ups for Instagram and shit like that. I'm like, God damn it.

You look like that, huh? It fucking sucks. So, like, Snapchat, my only my only option is to show my face and i don't care for it and but i i always said that that was my first stage of feeling old me too where i was like this is the new technology and it's just not it just doesn't make even make sense to me i'm like i don't know what that button does i don't know know how to post. I don't, you know, I feel like an old man. And anytime I get people that are clearly in their 30s and 40s coming up to me and they're trying to use a Snapchat app or filter on me, I ask them, I go, how old are you? I go, if you're over 25, they're like, I'm over 25. I go, then grow up and get on Facebook like the rest of us.

Okay. Get off of this kid site. Anything you can ever get a filter with like cat ears with me i'm not a fan of snapchat for the simple fact that i feel like uh people can they feel a little bit more entitled when they use the app like if somebody wants to come take a picture with me they'll just say hey can i take a pic and we take a pic but with snapchat they'll walk up already recording and it's already a story story before we have anything going on. People were doing that to me the other day. It was the first time it happened like a lot of times in a row where it clicked.

I was in line for the bathroom. We were up. I'm from Boston, so we were doing a special show for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. And the bathroom line was so long. People were just coming up being like, Fyler, why are you waiting in line? Dude, why don't you just cut? I'm like, well, first of all, because cutting is a dickhead thing to do.

Why is it just like walking up with someone in a video? You're just being an ass, right? You're just a rude dick. Or sometimes they'll be like, hey, can we do a Snapchat? I'll be like, sure. And then I'll pose, and I'll see the right thing. That's a video.

I hate that. Wait, we're doing a video? What are we doing, man? Are we taking a picture? Are we taking a video? But they never say we're going to do a video. It's always, can we just do a snap? Yeah, exactly.

That doesn't mean, a snap is a picture. A snap is a sound that happens when you take a picture. It's not a video. All right, grandpa. As I was saying that, I was like, fuck you sound hole, man. But I stand by it. We used to put the dust on top of the camera and we'd light it on fire and it created an effect and it was a flash i i was uh talking to sean latham though

earlier and when you uh you know very well and he was on tour with you for a long time and he he mentioned how much um how often though you would do these meet and greets and how you would stay for absolutely every single person who ever showed up. I think that had a lot to do with, with my, my career and my success. The meet and greets after the shows would take twice as long as the actual show itself. And the problem is you do that night after night after night for, I don't know how many years. And I'm a big dude. I was rocking over 400 pounds for the longest time.

And my knees and my back took a beating for it. Yeah, I bet. And so after a while, I started looking like Stan Lee at the conventions where you're just sitting there hunched over. Hurry up, God damn it. And I just felt like I stopped doing it because, first of all, people would show me pictures of what it looked like, and my face just did not – I didn't look happy. And the last thing I wanted is to look like somebody that was just tired. People were like, he looks sick. He looks unhappy.

Are you okay? I said, you know what? If I don't have – I don't want to give people a bad experience. Well, I mean it makes perfect sense, and I'm sure you also reach a point when the meet and greets are 100 people. It's probably different than when it's, I don know thousands of people right i mean i used to try to pull it off in an arena show and oh when you're when you're still there at the arena taking pictures at four o'clock in the morning and you got pissed off bus drivers yeah you know it's it's yeah i i i mean hats off to people those nights those people those nights would appreciate it but

yeah you know what? I think anybody who would wait at the arena until 4 a.m., they're the weirdos too. I don't care how funny you are, man. I don't care how famous and successful you are. Waiting until 4 a.m. to just take a picture with somebody is fucking crazy, dude. We're already planning. We're going to go to Cracker Barrel after this.

It should be opening. Were you nervous to make that announcement that you're not going to do them anymore? Was it something that you thought a lot of people looked forward to and you were kind of taking away? It wasn't as much. There was no real announcement. It was just one of those, like, because I used to announce that I was going to do them. Okay. So I was like, yeah, I'll be there at the end.

You form a line here. We'll knock it out. It'll be good. So, I mean, one day we just stopped, and then I was approached by Ron White. Ron White was partners with this one dude who had a company, and they were basically doing VIP meet and greets. And so they're like, look, it's great. You only meet 50 people, blah, blah, blah. It's a paid thing, and this way everybody wins.

You get paid for the meet and greets these people get their thing and you don't you don't you don't kill yourself and i tried that for a little over a year and i felt like such an asshole for charging people to say hi and meet me yeah i mean i was making some money but it's like it really wasn't worth it in the long run to be charging people like you know because if we were outside next to the bus or at the mall or at a starbucks i'd be taking pictures all day. You'd never charge. Yeah. But it felt shitty. I wouldn't feel bad about charging.

I would just feel the pressure to deliver more than if we're just meeting on the street. I'd be like, okay. Somebody paid $50 for this, so I got to entertain them. $50 really isn't worth it. And I did have people that were like, oh, that's it? That's it? What do you mean that's it? Am I supposed to get the car too?

No, that's crazy. Come on now. Well, they only said one signature. And I'm like, okay, what would you like? You want me to do a dissent for you right here? You spent $50. This isn't that much money. What do you want?

Yeah, how much can I possibly deliver? That's crazy that people would have the nerve to say. Oh, yeah. And I'd hear people walking away and they're like, he could have smiled a little more. Oh, my God. He could have smiled a little more. my god he could have smiled a little more he could have been more you know some girl who's he could have been more jovial like what am i santa jovial jovial jovial well i had to google that word you were uh you were talking when we came in here before you started that you just bought a house. Is this your first house?

No. This is not my first house, but it's my first house as a, I guess, a Lone Ranger, as a single individual. This is basically the next chapter because I broke up with my girl of 13 years. And so it's the first house since then. Single man. And I'm going in there just me as a dude. And so I went in with all new furniture and saw all these tables and stuff. The lady keeps telling me about the coasters.

And when they tell you how much the table cost, you're like, I'm using a fucking coaster. So that's why now I look at people's furniture. And i guess that's also the 40 year old in me i'm like you know is that pine i i do this that's got that finish i do the same thing in the kitchen like is this real marble or is this this countertop's really nice and then i want to kill myself we're talking about countertop it's like uh it ain't like it used to be. Those things are so, like, funny to hear because it's almost, it's like, I am not young. I am not a youth. But it's the things you hear when you're young is like, oh, I'll never be that.

Yeah. Like, when I was six. You'll never be the turn off the light guy. Turn off the goddamn lights. That's just expensive. Turn off the fucking lights. That's one of the things I do every day when I leave my apartment is I intentionally don't because I feel like it's like, it's the rebel in me hanging on still.

I'm renting this place so I can leave it the fuck on. I'm still listening to music too loud and driving without a seatbelt. I got the fucking living room light on. I don't give a shit. I'll spend the extra $3 today. Fuck it, babe. Put it on the credit card. Let's go.

I ain't driving. Living large, man. It is. Rebellious used to be like, I'll drink on a Tuesday night. Now it's like I'll live in real life. I'll leave the AC on today too. Whatever. No big deal.

Cut the check. That new house life, where is it? Long Beach, California. So you're a Cali guy? Yeah. I mean, I grew up there. I mean, for the most part, I spend my life on the road. I'm always in a tour bus.

I'm always traveling somewhere to go do a show. And so, you know, I basically go home to check mail, do laundering, and hit the road again. Do you like that life? I know it's the life you live. I don't want to sound all institutionalized. I sound like one of those guys on freaking Gangland, you know, like, hey, that's all I know. That's all I know, hey, You know, you got to just. But like, let's say let's say Mr. Iglesias is a smash hit.

Netflix loves it. Like, would you would you just do that? Or do you think? No, no way. No way. My passion is stand up. I love I love doing stand up this this doing a series. There's a lot of work involved and it's it's fun sometimes, but not all the. Whereas with stand-up, 90% of the time I'm having a good

time. Do you ever even get nervous or stressed anymore? With stand-up, the only time I stress out is if I'm doing a show where there's a time restriction and if I gotta do a set, like for example if I'm doing the Tonight Show and they say alright, you get four and a half minutes

and I'll time out a set so it's four and a half minutes and I'll time out a set. So it's four and a half minutes. If you go on the show and the crowd is too good and they're clapping, you're like, oh, my God, I'm going to go over. I'm going to go. And then you don't get, you know, it messes with your couch time or there's an issue with commercials. And so that's what makes me realize I just asked you, like, do you ever stress out about stand up comedy? And your answer was, yeah, when the crowd laughs too much. Do you know how big of a dick you sound when you say that?

Yeah, man. Sometimes I get nervous when I'm too goddamn funny and the world just can't stop laughing. Wow. Is Mr. Iglesias, is that, I know you play Gabe Iglesias, so it feels like there's some truth to it. Is there anything, like, is that character based on someone from your own life or is that just something you thought up? It's me. I'm playing Gabriel Iglesias in an alternate universe where I chose being a teacher over being a comic because that was actually an option at one point. How fucking happy you skipped out on that one though.

You know? You're not buying number two pencil for your class. Don't get me wrong. I think I would have been a really good teacher. But yeah, I like being able to buy coasters. Well, we appreciate you coming through, man. June 21st. That's this Friday, right?

This Friday. My show comes out the same day as Child's Play, so I'm pretty jazzed about that. Nice. Me and Chucky coming out together. Thank you, man. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Great stuff, dude.