KFC Radio - Quickie: Behind The Blackout

Episode Date: April 23, 2018

Feitelberg, Devlin, and Gaz pay tribute to Avicii and tell tales of the Blackout Tour that built BarstoolYou 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

Hey, KFC Radio listeners, you can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. We got a very special edition of the KFC Radio today. The KFC Radio Quickie is featuring two gentlemen who have been here just as long as we have, but have never made a KFC Radio appearance until now. And unfortunately, it comes under somber circumstances. I'll take it. What's that?

I'll take it. What do you mean, you'll take it? You better take it. Oh, I'm taking it. These aren't bad circumstances at all for me. Someone's dead, bro. It's unfortunate for Avicii and his family. It's unfortunate for you. Okay.

This is my first time doing this. I don't know what's going on here. Unfortunately, Avicii, Consul de Avicii, dead at the age of 28. I'm shocked he lasted this long. That dude looked like he had AIDS for six years. I think Fran was saying he had a gallbladder removed, he had something else removed. He was basically just a skin suit.

He didn't have organs inside. He's a full-blown heroin addict, I think. When you blow up the way he blew up, in the era he blew up, you're going to live hard and fast real quick. So a lot of us started reminiscing here at the, at the office about the EDM phase, which of each pretty much like really not almost,

I started, but like really popularized with levels. And that's really what led to the blackout tour. And that is where barstool basically survived and made it through some dark, dark times because of the money we made from that. And that was all made possible by Fife, Gaz, and Devlin. And, of course, the Don on the Blackout Tour. But the very first spot we did was Albany. And it was with Avicii.

Yep. Wild. Crazy. I mean, he had just just dropped levels and it was like the biggest song that had ever come out. I think me and Feidelberg went to that together and I didn't even know who he was. Yeah. Like I, I just was like, what is going on with this crowd? Like people are going bananas. We threw our name on this event, like kind of last minute they were having problems selling tickets and we were getting ready to kick

off the Blackout tour in Clemson like a couple of weeks later. It was like a preour show right yeah so we just threw like barcelona tour with avicii and i didn't really know what that meant and then when i went there i quickly found out what that meant and it was it was one of the most wild things ever seen and uh yeah i mean if i were just on stage with avicii like this is 2011 when he dropped levels was it just bananas yeah he and he had actually i can't believe we didn't think of until until he went to Iowa City, but he had like the fucking guns going too. Yeah. As soon as levels dropped, like those were just like.

Shout out to the CO2 cannons. Cause that is quite literally what may have built this company. Yeah. Because we rolled into Iowa. Iowa was like November. We had done it for a couple of months and I remember we were all, we all went to Iowa being like, it's been a good run guys. Like we're not selling tickets for the next show.

This is over. Uh, let's just have fun tonight. guys. Like, we're not selling tickets for the next show. This is over. Let's just have fun tonight. And then Iowa had, shout out, what, Union City? Union City and George. Trent knows that place well. They had these CO2s from the top, and that just changed everything. The videos looked so awesome. Plus, ending every show with levels.

We had a Dante the Don version called Fuckin' Party. Yes. And that, because that was the thing. We took the levels, and that's what Don does. I'll say this. A lot And that, because that was the thing, we took the levels and that's what Don does. I'll say this, a lot of people say that Don doesn't do a lot,

he does press play, but he also, he mixes stuff after he presses play. Dope. Yeah. People go nuts for it, so shout out to Fuckin' Party.

He had a lot of like blackout tour mixes on SoundCloud that had like a crazy place. I think it all got taken down because it wasn't his music. Do you remember when he was afraid

to put out his mixes because he was like, well, if I put out my stuff, people are going to steal it. So I'm just not going to put it out at all. His logic is not funny. That's DJ world. It's the levels of the DJ world. Levels to this, man.

So the Blackout Tour, like I said, was a period of time. I mean, I think Dave had had a conversation with Feidelberg being like, I can't pay you anymore. And you were kind of sticking around for free. And I did not know how much longer it was going to last period. And then lo and behold, like it went from zero to a hundred. We were like rolling in the dough. As far as that era was concerned, it was like, we're rich. We're rich. We're tired. The beginning of it. I remember it was me, Fidelberg, Zolo and Devlin in my dad's warehouse.

And we were in my dad's warehouse. We'd bought a of lights, like Spencer lights, basically, is what it was. Literally Spencer's Gifts lights. Yeah, and we're like, we're going to have to figure out how to run these things and, like, set them up at a frat. We were doing them at frat houses early. So we were testing it out, playing music, Zolo. We were all kind of figuring it all out. And then, yeah, we took that stuff and we just started setting it up in basements. And we'd run it off, like, a gas generator, which was fucked.

Like, it was fucked. Like, we would have this gas generator. We'd run power cords through frat houses that were already dilapidated and getting ready to fall down. Just plug it in a regular wall. Yeah, plug it in a wall. We can run like 15,000 watts through a normal house. Yeah, that's no problem.

Then we need generators, so we got generators. Multiple times where we refilled it while it was running. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just don't get it on the metal part, whatever. Fucking drunk girls sitting around ripping butts and gasoline everywhere. It's like a bomb ready to go off. We were at Virginia.

Virginia. Virginia. We had a tent attached to the house. And it was like 45 minutes. The show hadn't started yet. But we had, like, had the generator running and, like, me, Gaz, and Fights, and Zolo. All our eyes are was like 45 minutes. The show hadn't started yet, but we had the generator running and me gazing fights and Zolo. All our eyes are red and we were like,

what's going on? The generator was in. It was basically in the tents. We were just like, the party hadn't started. People were like, why are my eyes burning? I'm not a scientist, bitch. To the mallion, shut up. Moving over five feet, it was fun. it. To the Molly and shut up. Move it over five feet.

It was fun. Wow. Wow. Yeah, there should have been, like, multiple deaths, I feel like. The fact that we escaped either people at the company or just at the shows, the fact that there was, like, no deaths and for the most part it was, like, pretty safe and wild. Yeah, we got, like, early on it was, like, all alcohol.

It wasn't, like, Molly wasn't, like, a big thing. We were at frat houses. It was, like, beer and, like, cuckoo juice and, like, all kinds of, like, liquor-type stuff. And that was the situation. It wasn't really a drug situation. And us potentially killing them with, like, CO2. I mean, with confetti. The fucking Don Corp to the face.

I mean, Feidelberg just, I'm surprised he didn't, like, break a fucking vertebrae or two. Oh, yeah. All the crowd died. I mean, fights used to get dropped a lot. And then people would, I don't know. Now, we had, like, masks on. So I don't know how fidelberg would always get dropped and i wouldn't yeah and then he would also do a superman jump in a superman suit then he just straight up stopped doing that and i i inherited that mantle which was great but i mean that too me and fidelberg

were just jumping on 80 pound girls that they're not gonna hold us up. So I would eventually just start pointing at people like, I am jumping there. You had a whole routine. You had the Darth Vader thing going. You had the gun. You had almost like an opening speech. You would blow it out. Yeah, I mean, you were basically a performer.

I was. I mean, Dave Horner would say I just danced as a mascot for five minutes during it. There was a little bit more to it. But to speak to that, like the traveling aspect was the worst part. And like, we didn't even really get into like,

obviously the drug scene and like that we were drinking like vodka, like eight, you know, eight drinks a night for five nights a week. Every morning you get in the car and you'd be like, dude, I don't know if it's my back or my liver, but like something's wrong.

I'm hurting. We did it for like fucking months straight. By the third year, I wasn't drinking, Gaz wasn't drinking. By the third year, did you just say? By the third year. He went on for three years. We did three solid years of this. At least I did. I got out like one and a half,

I think. Everybody progressively, me and Gaz at the end of it were just like beards. You had your boys on it too, right? At the beginning though, we were kind of fired up because it was like fun. Like we were going on campuses and like we had energy. So we'd be drinking every night. We ended up burning the candle really quickly. But it was like, you know, you'd be drinking till three in the morning.

You'd have to pack up all these lights. There'd be drunk kids passed out everywhere. And then you'd have to go from Indiana and drive to West Virginia. Like one person wouldn't drink. I was like Devlin would be our driver pretty much. And we would drive, you know, nine hours overnight. And then you'd get to a venue at 11 in the morning, set up, do it again until four in the morning.

And like, just that was a break it down. We were doing like shows Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night. And then we'd get like, we'd be like, be like off like Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And then again, we'd get to like our final city. We could speak for hours about this. I really could.

I've been waiting years to just tell somebody what this fucking experience was like because i mean that's why i like when i left barstool before like the blackout tour ended dave uh we didn't have anything else to promote i was that was kind of my thing so i didn't really fit here anymore and i needed like the time away because it was just like a like i said like, like the traveling aspect alone. By the third year when I wasn't drinking, I was feeling just as bad. I'm totally sober. Because it's like the diet, you don't have time to work out or exercise. Subway, McDonald's.

There was a time, I remember I went home so vividly. I went home for Thanksgiving break, and I was craving Subway. And I was like, what the fuck is going on with my body right now? And it's because Subway was eating at like eating out of a fucking like Ruth, Chris, like a five star restaurant. Like, Oh,

we're not getting McDonald's. We're getting subway. Oh shit. Eat fresh, baby. Thank you. Davey page views. All my dreams are coming true.

Um, so the traveling aspect, I can see like somebody like this, that is just going all the time and he's going on such a higher level. Like I think there's the draining element. Um, and you get, and then it's like,

you get to that show and like, look, I, I kept doing it. I kept going on because you would see people's faces and you could feel the energy. And to go from the drops and then something like levels comes on and you get that next level of like fist pumping, whatever. That is a real cool, tangible thing. That's a drug you can't get anywhere else. But then the show ends.

It's 2 a.m. People always say to me, David always say like, you guys are complaining to me all the time about being tired. All you guys got to do is party and fuck chicks. It's like, dude. That's exhausting. 80.

It wouldn't have been exhausting if it was happening. I would honestly say 80% of the nights of the Blackout Tour, those three years, it ended with the four or five of us guys arguing in a hotel room at 3 a.m. like, well, are we going to get sausage on the pizza?

Are we going to get five cheese? And we had one hotel room. One hotel room. One hotel room. We were all in a hotel room at 3am like, well, are we going to get sausage on the pizza? Are we going to get 5G? And we had one hotel room. One hotel room, maybe two. Let me tell you something. No 18-year-old girl, 18- to 22-year-old girl is going to show up at 8pm and be alive by 3am no matter what. And go home at 6am. And we're leaving at 8am.

We would actually be in pretty good shape when show ended. If we could just leave and go home, we would have crushed every single night. Or had a tour bus. Exactly. But we had to sit there for two hours and fucking with a wrench take down all these lights, pack these up. So then you'd hit a girl up at like four in the morning and you'd be like, hey, what's up? And you would never get a response.

They were just mangled. Yeah, they were done. You had nothing. The one night, as far as travel was concerned, I don't know where you were this night. But the night we almost died in Connecticut. We had a show. Oh, and we slept in the car? Yeah.

I forget where we wrapped the show. We wrapped the show far away from Connecticut. Yeah, somewhere in New York or somewhere, but we were going to Yukon. It was Indiana going to Yukon. It was the storm of the century. I knew it was in New York. It was Indiana. It was around Halloween.

It was far away. I knew it was in New York. Gaz was flying out of Philly. It was around Fishkill, New York, because I remember seeing that sign and being like, I'm going to get a little flower. That's where we hit the score. I'm going to get a bunch of flowers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Flowers a bunch there. Yeah, it was apocalyptic. Power lines were down. We're just sitting there with a pickup truck with a giant trailer attached. The avalanche, right? Yeah, yeah. The avalanche. And then traffic started to move after a couple hours, and a truck driver drives by.

He's like, hey, you got a flat tire on your trailer there, which happened many, many times. So Zolo's dad knew a guy, knew a guy, but he couldn't get to us till the morning so we pulled to the side of the road and snow was coming on down. We kept the car on. We watched Always Sunny. We ate the remaining fast food fries that we had earlier.

We'd get out of the car and we'd fill water bottles with snow and we'd put those on the heater so it would melt. It was some real surprise. Look at you. That's some Bear Grylls shit. That was Zola. If you want to see this video, it's called the Barstool Whiteout Tour. I remember Dave wrote a blog being like, these guys, like, they can't make the show.

And then he saw that video and he was like, oh, shit, I guess they actually. Dave was legitimately pissed at us. And it was like, the show ended up being canceled anyway. But he's like, you guys have to get there. I'm like, dude, there's a downed power line in front of us. There's a fucking tipped 18-wheeler behind us. We're literally trapped here, and it's snowing. We have a flat tire.

And it was like, the show wasn't to the boys. He's like, you guys better fucking get there. And we're like, dude, we don't know what to tell you. And the show ended up getting canceled not because of us. The show got canceled because of weather. But we were ready to go, and we were on our way, and the show was canceled. It was like, you motherfucker! 2011 Milton Dave. I mean, that was a formidable opponent. we were ready to go and we were like, we were on our way and it was like, show's canceled. It was like, you motherfucker! Dude,

2011 Milton Dave. I mean, that was a formidable opponent. If there is any indication of like, how, how like fucking warped we are in our head

with Dave Portnoy, it's that. It's like, we might die in a whiteout, but it's like, well, we got to get there because Dave's going to be mad.

Dave's going to be mad if we don't get there. Brick by brick, baby. That was my concern the whole time. It wasn't like, I mean, I never thought I was going to die, but I was uncomfortable. It was cold.

It was fucking sleeping in the car. And I was like, Dave's going to be so mad at me. But I don't know. We were watching Always Sunny eating fries. It sounds kind of cozy. It sounds fun. Yeah, it was. We made it.

Now we're here. Aside from the thunderstorm outside, the thunderstorm was snow outside, and downed power lines and sparks flying all over the place. Now, listen. I hear what you're saying. I get it. It's's hard but every time gaz would drop one of those videos i was like fuck these guys complaining this shit is fucking fire yes that i can still that was the beauty of the video editing i know exactly that's when that's when sales guy became video guys seeing

gaz like like i would be able to like watch him from like how far we're doing things whatnot and seeing gaz just in the mix with the cameras. Just, like, zooming in on asses and shit. Like, getting pink eye, basically. I mean, I thought about that. I was like, I don't think the Blackout Tour could exist in this day and age. No, absolutely not. It was only three years ago, but so much has changed with, like,

the women and, like, girls dancing like that. Yeah, no chance. I mean, we've got K.O. Barstool, but we would get that times a billion. I mean, Twitter was just starting. Yeah, Twitter was so small. So, so small so so small that i i can still see and hear the fucking foam video the one that started was like wow yeah wow and then the foam hits and everyone was just like sloppy covered in bubbles and come i was like what is going on i gotta go to one transition to foam that was like every night i was like i just hope someone doesn't drown like

you know how you see those videos like before like a beyonce show where they have like the crowd everyone's holding hands and they're bowing like we would do that be like please just don't don't want to drown in the foam tonight i just i hope when because like you and you wouldn't know yeah you wouldn't know until the show was always one and we find somebody like a zamboni would come by and like push all this foam out and it it was like, you just find a dead body. I was like, fuck. Now we're really screwed.

I mean, I went to Irving Plaza, obviously in New York. I went to the one somewhere upstate. I don't know what, what that one was. Poughkeepsie probably. I think it was further than that.

It was early. I don't know. You came to one where we had that fire drill. And then yeah, the one in Long Island where. Huntington. Yeah. Huntington was a disaster.

Inside job. What was it? The, what was the one in Mont Island where... Huntington, yeah. Yes, Huntington was a disaster. Inside job. What was it? What was the one in Montclair, New Jersey? Montclair. Montclair, New Jersey, where the fucking... That was a moment. Cops were just... I mean, it was like the entire Montclair police force.

They didn't even let the show start. No. That was right when the police... That was the day before Roseland. Yeah. Roseland Ballroom shut it down. The police commissioner in New York was commenting on us. And that's when the whole pirate ship thing happened.

The first show... He became the face of EDM. It was the first show where we had a rider. And we were so pumped. We had booze. We didn't have to go get it. We had pizza. I remember Zola walking and being like, there's thousands of people out there.

There's 800 already in. We're like, oh, my god. We did this thing. And then five minutes later, Zola comes in. He's like, somebody just punched the chief of police. And it was because they had set up the entrance with all these bike racks that basically made it one entrance. And they had literally two guys that were checking tickets. And that was the thing with our crowds was kids would see these videos.

And then 18 to 20, they can't drink. So they're getting pregame, pregame. At 8.30, they're barely sitting up. So you can't have them. Get them in the venue. I still say that. that was not on us. We'd go through a security walk. The thing you have to do is just get in the venue.

Dave did a PSA about how to enter the venue in Boston. You can't go stumbling in. Stand up straight, get in, and do whatever you want. Act smooth and then act like an asshole when you're inside. But don't do it out on the street. And they would do it on the street. They'd try to flip over the trailer. They jumped on our trailer out in Montclair.

We had an axle problem that the tire fell when we were driving like oh gotta fix that now those were the words calling david like 12 at night he'd his phone ring and he'd just be like what happened and i'd just be like it would be one of like the fire department shut us down or the police shut us down or inside additions outside or like there was just a laundry list of things that would happen in every one of these shows someone someone tweeted in response to your blog your you you tweeted a like one of the that would happen in every one of these shows. Someone tweeted in response to your blog. You tweeted one of the videos. I still can't believe we could do it.

And someone replied, how was this legal lull? And it was a gray area. It was legalism, the word I use. Three years, you know, today? It's not. Like, it's not happening. There was the one show, speaking of the bike racks, where we had, I forget where it was. It was black and yellow, so I'm thinking Pittsburgh.

Towson? Might have been Towson. The strangest spots. They pushed them right open. I want to say, there was, it started with an M, too. This is not black and yellow, but Marist was wild. Yeah, Marist was wild. The strangest spots were wild to me.

I remember seeing some of the main schools. I was like like, oh yeah, this is a big frat. We could do a whole show on University of Miami. That's where Fight Night happened. There was like the stories that would... They would set us up like we were like trailing. They'd give us like this hotel with a pool that we could have after parties at. And like this pool party. And we would go there every night.

We'd go to Miami for like four days in a row and do like four sold out shows. Like 800 people. And it was a college bar, basically. But they allowed you to do these shows at it. And they would give us like trash cans. It was like basically like six different types of like alcohol in one like 25 ounce like can. And we would all get like blackout and try to put these shows on. There was a show one time after one of the shows in Marist where I had probably 50 trash cans.

I did Molly for the first time ever. Miami University, yeah. Miami University. And we went to this after-party slash gathering at this chick's house, and I straight-up Tommy-boyed it, where I just fell forward and went right through a table. Like, just shattered some chick's table in her living room.

Just... So where was the fight? Like just shattered some chick's table in her living room. Just boom. So where was the fight? We've talked about this before on Barstool Radio. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The hooligans tried to take Dante the Don's laptop, and that was basically the keys to the kingdom at that point. You lose that playlist, and you're fucked.

Although you're probably going to just put YouTube on or whatever. But the Blackout gang like had the rally and that i mean that was basically like your uh it was like your butch cassie and the sundance kid moment where it was like you're up with your sparta moment right it was like well we're fucked but we gotta do this i wasn't in that fight i was in the hotel already and i remember so vividly it was like that scene hangover they're walking down the hallway but it's like gaz was shirtless funnel bigger shirtless there's like they're bleeding and they like but they didn't look hurt they were just like you should like you should see the other guys like hear the sirens outside

we had that was that was the wildest five have been like a ton of fights but that was without a doubt the wildest girls involved and shit right just throwing chicks off our backs because they were trying to like joke so like you'd be you'd be like trying to get on one guy i'd be on one guy and then a girl would get on your neck and like pull you off so you grab the girl and try to put her on top of the guy just to like you start piling people up just so you could keep people out of it because it was like seven or eight of them it was just me and feidelberg there was one time i was on top of a guy and i was like i was like oh i'm fucking kicking this guy's ass and then out of nowhere just had a boot yeah he's, he's got a boot.

Pow. Boot right to the face of the side. Went flying back. It was fucking, that's when we got the black eyes. My nose was all fucked up. All-time picture. All-time picture of you two with your busts. Surprisingly, that's like our only fight.

We ended up staying out of the fray a lot. And being on stage also helped with that. I don't know what happened to the crowd. But having a lanyard that says VIP or something or something on your neck i've never seen power like that there were times where i would go and like try to hand out like we had viva panties we had shirts like i tried like hey you want this whatever no one would give me the time of day and then i go on stage and i have this thing around my neck and my god and that was the thing and like dante i love you buddy the things like girls would do and like be approaching to him i was like oh my and he's just you know the dj for somebody like a vici i can't imagine like get it and diplo like

is a good diplo yes though all those guys it's like you know calvin harris like next level shit where all of a sudden you you know you were making mashups and now you're like probably banging rihanna or some shit so why the edm phase was a wild and you know this is where i i remember being like i'm just gonna stick stick to blogging and just make content because I remember being like, this is a terrible idea. We're not going to make any money off of this. I was like, what are you talking about, Dave? We're like fucking sports bloggers.

We're going to run a techno tour? Okay, Dave, good idea. Next minute, we're like selling out the fucking DCU Center or whatever it's called. Making like $250,000 a night or some shit. We were making crazy money. From when it started in the basement to what it became, we were making. We were clearing like 250 a night sometimes.

Like 250 grand. But as quickly as it like, I remember Dave being like, well, all right, we made it. Like we're all going to be rich. And then it just shut down real quick. It got so hot. It went down. There was a million people doing EDM when we got, you know, we had like Dayglo and then you had all these individual artists doing things. And then like the liability like started like piling up, you know,

you'd get all kinds of complaints about people with irritations because of the foam or just all kinds of. Fair complaints, my dude. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I mean. You also have like people like one dude slipped at a show and broke his leg and sued us and it's like. Don't follow him.

Like I could never imagine falling at something and being like, I'm suing this venue because I fell. Well, I remember the one, one dude was like a show and broke his leg and sued us. And it's like, don't follow. Like, I could never imagine falling in something. I'm suing this venue. Right. I felt. Well, I remember the one one dude was like a stool. And he was like, I don't want to do this, but I got bills and I got like lawyers and shit. They just make you do that stuff. That's where the liability just becomes too much.

But it was the only thing that kept it afloat, really. So, yeah, we hired him. Like Dave said in his blog today, there was a lot of people that were hired because of like Smitty, Dan even. Like a lot of the guys came directly from the money that was brought in from the Blackout Tour. I remember the day we were at a Blackout Tour when me and you talked about the Hot Club, which is Dan's old blog. And we were like opening Chicago. We were like, we should get the Hot Club. It was the Atlantic City show. We had like 5,000 people.

And we were just talking, like me and Fights had always like followed Hot Club. That was Big Cat's old blog. And he had retired from blogging at this point. And I remember also, like, I tweeted something about, like, a Nickelback and Nick Cage Photoshop something. And that got us started. And then we were like, we started to de-end them or something. We were like, hey, like, why don't you just come write for Chicago? And he was like, maybe I'll do Cubs blogs to start.

And we were like, sure. And then here we are. So that's the crazy thing. With Avicii dying today, it really did bring back a lot of nostalgia and just like there's a lot of connections in Barstool, but seeing like the web that just like this connects to that, to that, to that, this would end, you know, just like we're saying we couldn't do the Blackout Tour again.

Like we probably couldn't do this whole Barstool experience again if we tried, but the Blackout Tour especially to be like, to become a pop EDM show in this kind of fad, but it also like is everlasting because of these guys are like icons become a pop edm show in this kind of fad but it also like is everlasting because of these guys are like icons in a way um and it still carries on and coshell and whatever avicii was the catalyst man he he was he was our and he was our finale like levels was the finale of the blackout tour is what we ended every show it went levels then it went uh the fucking you know i like my chicken fry we tweaked with all kinds of stuff yeah we started introducing like country music it went, you know I like my chicken fried. Hold me on a fried dinner.

We tweaked with all kinds of stuff. Yeah, we started introducing country music and then tried to change it up. So probably a lot of Avicii fans probably hated us and hated Barstool because we were like a pop EDM show. We were coming in, taking their stuff and then mixing Avicii with DMX and being like, well, that's not what you do.

All right, well, fuck that noise. The fact is, that's what it really was the first time. I remember we had our sales panel a couple months ago, whenever it was, and they asked us, they were like, when did you know Barstool was Barstool? And everyone had their own different answers, and I think me and Dave both said, really, the Blackout Tour. Yeah.

That's when we knew we could do whatever we wanted. Because we were able to do stuff in New England for a few years before that, like the Sam Adams Tour and stuff like that. But then when we found ourselves at Iowa City or in Tampa tampa we did a we could talk a little bit about this tampa we did a tampa like the whole city just every night we did a phone party this is the first time i met gronkowski with you and uh we went we went down did a phone party on the beach and those guys all came and like they were like you can't put me in the video like you don't we

don't want to be. It was fine. They were guests of Barstool. We'll keep it on download. Just have a good time. They all dressed as Mario Brothers, like Warrior. They all had costumes on. They were on stage all night dancing.

No one knew. No one in the crowd knew that it was the brothers. This was pre-Super Bowl. This was the week that Gronk had just DDT'd his brother in Vegas. And it was the arm surgery. And it was weird because it was the middle of April. I'd never seen coverage like this. And it was like, East he was just obsessed with them. And it was the first night he could drink after like 12 weeks of antibiotics,

and he was on Barstool stage in a Bowser outfit. Boy, the Wario's really big. Bowser's a really big dude. So it really did. It wasn't that one. Who was like the third baseman for the Blue Jays? He was there too. Didn't he like swim across like a lake to get there?

Yeah, because there were like people jet skiing in from like Was it Brett Lowry? He was just in the mix. We didn't even know he was there until like after. He was just like, oh yeah, I was in the mosh pit in the middle. That was the thing. Everywhere we rolled into, we would tell the security guards hey look man, this is going to be a next level thing. Be ready.

Be ready. And they would look at us in our fucking pink tank tops and hangovers and be like, you fucking idiots. Like, you know anything. We had Snoop Dogg here last night. You'll be fine. And then the show would start. Not only would these guys not handle anything, but then they would most of the time just have their phones out. Get in the mix.

That was crazy, dude. Every fucking security guard was just filming butts. Filming that chick's ass. Yo, this is crazy. Yeah, dude. Pay attention to the dudes trying to jump on stage. Do some security work here. It got fun chokeslamming guys offstage. I did enjoy that.

That was my buddy. My buddies would be in there, and they would just be tossing people offstage, just launching them. I forgot about that. So many guys would come and just be like, up, boom, out of the ring. It was like, we're a rumble. You're in, you're out, buddy. Well, shout out to Avicii.

It wouldn't be possible without him. Thank you, Avicii. The thought that there's some Deloitte accountant coworkers that I have that can do six degrees of separation with Avicii. You know what I mean? I worked for this guy who worked for this blog, who ran a fucking EDM tour, who had him host. Wild, dude.

Far-reaching, like you said, the web, dude. Well, thank you for your service, gentlemen. Absolutely. Wouldn't be here without you guys today. Glad we're here. And RIP and peace to Avicii. You crazy motherfucker. You crazy. Outro Music Bye.