KFC Radio - Quickie: Pup Punk

Episode Date: July 16, 2018

Fresh off their show at Irving Plaza, the now iconic Pup PunkYou 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. Alright, it's a Monday edition of KFC Radio. Today's Quickie is featuring the most electric punk band on the planet right now, fresh off their nationwide tour at Irving Plaza, New York City. We got three of the four members of Pup Punk because the front man is out here gallivanting all around the world. He's gone international. We got

Robbie Fox. What's up? We got Frankie Borelli. Yo. And we got BFT Commentary. What's up? You can hear it in my voice. I was screaming all night long. We all, I mean, we were lucky enough to see you guys rehearse earlier in the week.

We knew what was on the horizon. We knew what the crowd was in store for. I don't think the people who were there or people who watched on pay-per-view really got it until you started. But, I mean, I guess right off the bat, like, do you feel like you guys delivered? Do you guys feel like you reached your, you did what you wanted to do out there? Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. The way it was set up going into the show was like nobody really expected that much out of us. Which is the best, by the way.

That's where you want to live. You know, there was a lot of turmoil. We had a little turnover in the band lineup over the past couple months. But, yeah, the expectations weren't very high. So we were like flying under the radar. Now the next show that we have to play, we actually have to be good. Well, no, but here's the thing. You were good.

We don't have to just not suck anymore. I mean, I think you're selling yourself short. It was just a good fucking show. You guys are just musicians who play music and play it together well. And, I mean, we all kept saying fake band, fake band, fake band. And it's like, no, I mean, they're just a band. It's an unusual band, unique band, but band, fake band. And it's like, no, I mean, they're just a band. It's an unusual band, unique band, but it's a band. Not only were the viewers and the people that were coming

probably confused walking in, like, what are we about to see? But, I mean, we alone, we only had like eight practices. So we're like, we never performed on a stage before, so how are we going to put on an actual show? We didn't know how it was going to translate, but I think it fucking translated. And, like was i was definitely the most nervous going in i was i was petrified like which was weird because i had like probably

the most experience playing on stages just from like when i was in middle school but like it i was petrified and then the second we did our sound check it all went away and then when we went out there for that thunderstruck intro and frankie on, the crowd went wild when he got behind the kid. I went, the crowd popped again, and then when PFT drops into Thunderstruck... The PFT do a Thunderstruck. I heard you in the office playing guitar. I knew you knew how to play guitar.

Crazy. But I did not know you could play it like that. I like shit myself going on when we were playing Thunderstruck because when you practice it, it's a little bit slower than that. Oh, yeah. We went too fast.

Yeah, the guitar riff is like... You were talking about the tempo all week. I fucked up. The riff isn't like—it's not super, super complicated, but if you have to play it fast, especially when you've got the nerves and you've got a little of the pre-show energy going on, it's tough. It's only natural that in our first show, we got the adrenaline going, so we're going to rush through things a little bit.

But I was a little bit shitting myself when I ran out on that stage. Well, you couldn't tell. There was none of you. There was no vibe. Even I knew that Bob was nervous, so I was looking to see if you could tell. You guys either were not nervous or you all hit it well. I feel like Thunderstruck, having no musical knowledge at all, but I feel like you can get ahead of yourself. Like running down a hill where your legs can't keep up.

Yeah, yeah. I feel like your fingers just start going. I was saying it was like my brain was chasing my hand when I was playing. I was like, come on. One of you guys has to trip up sometime. No, but I mean, the show, I think we delivered pretty well. Yeah, man. You're still selling yourself short.

From a musical standpoint, it was pretty good. It was a lot of fun. So much fun. I've kind of missed. You can tell being in the crowd, the vibe was just like just like everyone palpable man you had like the nostalgia factor first you had your own songs which are great and then you had the nostalgia factor which is just like that makes everyone go crazy we were fucking losing our minds yeah like the best was the room just felt like it felt like 1200 people that were all like in on the same joke yeah fully committed well

and and those like shout out to everyone who bought a ticket because those are going to be your true fans who get it. They know that it was a joke, but then that kind of wasn't. But it was just a fun time. It was just a blast, like the whole show. I heard Darren from the 7 Line told me that he had friends who had tickets to, I don't know who, but like a quote-unquote real concert,

and they ditched that to go to Pub Park. Oh, yeah. My cousins just ditched their tickets to Revolution, which another like a real quote unquote real concert and they ditched that to go to Pub Park oh yeah my cousins just ditched their tickets to Revolution which is like a really good band that just came to ours so your your family

your family was rolling deep your family was Bob Fox's family came through actually all you guys I don't think I get to meet Bob's family they were all yeah I don't think you did

they were right next to us so you might not know who they were but they were right next to the Brellies all of your families like represented for you guys. It was actually, as fun as it was, knowing you guys and seeing it all, it was very touching and very heartwarming.

We all know Mr. Borelli at this point, and when you took the stage and he started crying, I was like, this is the nicest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, he's a crier. So, I mean, he has had it. And we know it was passed down. The apple does not fall apart. Yeah, it doesn't.

If I keep talking, I'll just start getting teary-eyed. I was about to get choked up just introducing the topic. Dude, no joke. You can be watching America's Got Talent. Someone hits a good note and he's just bawling. I'm like, Dad, are you okay? It was very weird growing up with your dad just crying all the time. But he's very emotional.

He put on his sunglasses because he didn't want people to see him cry. He ugly cries. He's hysterical. I thought he was trying to be cool, putting on the shades. I didn't realize until... After the show, I ended up talking to your sister and she told me that

when you were playing t-ball, every time you'd get a hit, he would walk away and put his sunglasses on. So then I realized it was not a cool thing, that's his tactic. Frankie, what's the least impressive thing that you've ever done that your dad's cried over? It's probably, like, I don't know, like, hey mom, you need help with the dishes? And he just

walks into another room. That's my boy! My dad's a big crier at TVs and movies and shit. And one time, very cliche, but I caught him crying at a commercial. I was like, I think this might be a side effect of my hair or something. You're overly emotional. But in this setting, it was very, very cool to see. Because it went from him tearing up when he took the stage to like five songs later, he's like fist pumping to 69 things.

I was like, this is actually – It was so crazy that every time we would play an original, the crowd knew the words. Like we knew that we're playing The Middle by Jimmy Eat World. We're playing the anthem. We're playing all the small things. The crowd will be going for those. When we're going back to school, they're singing it back. Like when Roan started My Real Girlfriend, our final song of the night,

I just walked back to the kit and I was like, Frankie, they're singing our song right now. This is crazy. I don't want to speak for them and I might have been reading into it too much, but the first time Roan held the mic out and the crowd, I think you could see him A, relax, and B, like, holy shit, they actually know it. Nuts. I think at times the crowd popped more for your guys' songs

than some of the best covers the crowd did so much to get me into that show too, any of the nerves that I might have had going out on that stage all completely eliminated once I started hearing back from the crowd once I started seeing people have a good time out there and everyone was having a good time

and it makes it so much easier as a performer when you're doing that to see like, okay, this person's having a fucking ball out there, it gives you just so much easier as a performer when you're doing that to see like, okay, this person's having a fucking ball out there. It gives you just so much more confidence. I thought there was a point where we were going to, when we did the Blackout Tour, at one point, we were playing at Marist and they had a second level.

Marist went hard, by the way. Marist went really hard. And the producers of the show or whatever, someone came down and they said, you have to turn off, we were playing jump. And they said, you're going to go through, they're going to go through upstairs. So you have to stop.

And there was a point in that, I think it might have been during the anthem, where everyone on the second floor at Urban Plaza, we were all at the family, everyone at Barstool was like jumping up and down. I was like, we might take this thing down. There was a moment, I kept telling myself, because I've never been on a stage like that and looking out to people. And I was like, don't lock eyes with anyone, especially if you you know someone because i feel like that would just throw me off like if i spotted one of my friends but i ended up spotting my group of friends in the back because my one friend robbie's like six foot six he's like a huge guy and i just see his fucking head and i'm like

staring at him and he at first he wasn't head-bopping and when we got into like our third song i looked out at him and he's just fucking going nuts he was dancing and i was like doing it with them i was like bouncing my head it was dancing. And I was like doing it with them. I was like bouncing my head. It was the coolest moment. I was like locking with them just from like a thousand people deep. Me and my friends are just jamming out on the stage and in the crowd. Also massive credit to Buddha Ben for getting the crowd. Oh, yeah.

Buddha Ben. He was DJ Sam. Zah and Buddha together. Buddha's like behind the – he's DJing, smoking a blunt. There's actually a clip of him. Zah is on his belly on the escapee. And Buddha is just walking totally casually smoking a blunt. There's actually a clip of him. Zah is on his belly on the escape. And Buddha is just walking totally casually lighting a blunt. He's not even performing.

Which I love Buddha. I'm so appreciative of him for doing what he did for not only Pop Punk, for that show. Right before he went on, he was like, I'm so nervous, man. I'm so nervous. I was like, Buddha, listen, with all due respect, you're about to go out there and press play. He's like, I'm doing so much more. He thought that Buddha was maybe the most nervous of the whole bunch. Yeah, he was.

He dropped his joint on the floor before he went out. He's like, what the fuck, man? Yeah, he never does that. Yeah, he never does that. The thing about hanging out with Ben is you always have to be prepared that whatever your next engagement that you're going to, you have to know that you're going to smell like weed. Yeah. No matter what. And I love how he was trying to figure out what he was going to do on stage for his DJ set.

He's like, I know. I'm going to light a blunt. Yeah. Stick with old faithful, man. Try it in truth. He was like, it's going to look so cool. I'm going to ride out on a skateboard, light a blunt, and then press play. No, Ben was great, and he's definitely helped the band out a lot.

Yeah, so much. He's out there. Yeah. Bob Fox's He's out there. Bob Fox's whole family was there. At first, I met his cousins, and I couldn't really hear. The music was loud, and I thought they said that he was cousins with Tommy. And I thought, like, Tommy Smokes had his whole family. Like, all right, Tommy, two seconds, calm down.

But then, so it was all your cousins, and then I met your brother, who was, like, the guy I'm always, like, if you need to figure out why Bob is such like an old soul who knows all this like old music and old shit, it's because of him. Oh, yeah. Like he looks the part. The brother from Sing Street apparently. From Sing Street? What are you talking about? The Sing Street – have you seen the movie?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very much so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you meant my brother was in Sing Street. It was like news to me. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you meant my brother was in Sing Street. I was like, news to me. No, yeah, that very much is the case. So I feel like you kind of had a moment with him.

Oh, it was such a moment because he was racing to get there. He got out of work. He works on Broadway, so he got out of work at like 940 as we were going on. He like ran over. He said he walked in as we were doing Faith, and we were doing the Limp Bizkit Faith. He's like, bro, I walked in. You got you're on stage doing Faith. Rowan's wearing his backwards red hat.

And he's like, the crowd is going wild. He's like, it was an unbelievable scene to walk in and see like my little brother. He's the first person I went up to like right after, right after we got off stage because I was like, like, this doesn't happen without my brother. He's the guy who like probably played all the music for you. Yeah. He's the guy that got you into the guitar. He's the guy that took me to Irving Plaza in 2010 to see my favorite band of all time.

Right. So now you're on the same stage. Yeah, that was insane. The crazy thing too is in the bathrooms they have the poster for who's playing and whatnot. To see you guys next to Owl City, which is one of Twitter's favorite bands, was crazy. T.I. was on stage not too long ago. That's when people were firing guns.

And then punk there. So Frankie, at one point your mom locks eyes with me when we met, and she shakes her head and does this double take, and she goes, I thought you were Frankie for a moment. She grabs your dad. She's like, they look so alike. I couldn't tell. Was it Frankie or KFC?

I was like, what the fuck is going on here? Maybe we're just white. We're white men. Let me tell you this. You guys all looked the part. You should never. Bob, you like kind of do that right like that's like your your style yeah yeah i think everyone went out and bought stuff

for the show i did not yeah you're you're a natural pft he was rocking you know the hurley shirt yeah shorts rowan got into character but frankie braley with the bandana and like the untied tie like you should just do that on regular. You should walk around the office with that. I don't know if you guys saw Frankie after the concert, but Frankie won the night. He won the after party. After the concert, you guys were all on fire.

BFT, you were kind of on the side, and it was just soaking it in. There was I think Erica was up there. Francis was up there. Frankie Borelli was in the goddamn thing. It was so classic rock and roll drummer at the after party going wild. So this is like underrated part of the night. Bob Fox came this close from getting into a fist fight at sidebar because some guy that was some there was a guy in the front row the entire show flipping me off. And like like, yeah, it was just it was just weird.

And I thought it was funny. So I was like doing like a jerk off motion towards him, whatever. Like maliciously. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Big was just weird, and I thought it was funny. So I was, like, doing, like, a jerk-off motion towards him, whatever. Like, maliciously? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, big time. He's like, fuck you. Big time.

So I was like, all right, this guy's probably the moderator of the subreddit or something. But I hear at sidebar, like, I'm saying goodbye to my cousins, my female cousin in particular. I, like, give her a kiss on the cheek. And you're like, Robby. And I turn around, it's him. And he goes, fuck you. And I was like, again, malicious. Yeah. And I was like, what?

And he's like, fuck you. I was like, dude, suck my dick. I was like, get the fuck out of here. This is our party. And we like got face to face. And he was like, he's like, you guys suck tonight. And I was like, well, I'm glad you got there early enough to be in the front row. Sucker.

And and like that, we, I'm glad you got there early enough to be in the front row. Cock sucker. And like we get separated, right? And I go over and I'm like, this is fucking wild. I was like, I don't know where my confidence came from, by the way. Octagon Bob came out. Yeah, Octagon Bob came out. We get separated. I go over.

I'm talking. I'm like, this was so weird. This just happened. The Saugus Rocket overheard this. The Saugus Rocket beelined towards the dude got like like nose to nose with him and was like if you ever threaten my boy i mean carabas was the guy was wearing a yankee hat too so carabas was like yeah of course the yankee fan that's like the the personification of like people who talk shit on twitter but follow you yeah this guy came to your show and sat front row and then tells you how much you suck. I almost respect the effort that he put into that. Yeah, he put in a lot of-

He paid $20 diligently for his ticket. He showed up at probably 7.30 so he could make sure to get right up front. And then he waited calmly through Francis' set and Brute Events. And he's like, oh, there's Robbie. Now it's my chance. Yeah. And just committed to spending the next hour and 15 minutes going double birds. I do respect it.

We got into it. And then sideway, it was just so packed. It's very much not my scene. So I was there. I said hi to everybody. I gave hugs to the band. And then I took a cab home, ordered myself some cookies. I'm not going to give them the free ad, but I ordered cookies.

Shout out to Insomnia. Shout out to Insomnia. And I just laid in my bed like that was my night I said to Frankie we both had like our ideal night he partied I saw like a picture of him just drinking straight out of the bottle fireball someone handed me a fireball I'm like I'm not drinking fireball it's you

and Frankie pounded it I was just like in bed tearing up eating cookies. What a night. Do you remember when you almost got in a fight? I almost got in a fight. Yeah. Dude, we were punk as fuck.

That's awesome. What was your fight about? We were just trying to get up to the bar. So we were like, me and my friend kind of made like just, we were like just barricading through people. Just fucking kind of being assholes moving through. But that's the only way you can get to the bar in that place because it was fucking packed. Yeah. So we get up to the front of the bar and like someone pushes me and I bump into a guy and

he wasn't with us. He was just like some stoolie. And he like turns around, just like elbows me in the chin. He goes back the fuck off, bro. Elbow you in the chin? Like right. Because he was taller. So when he moved his arm back, I like hit me right in like the face.

I was like, what the fuck? Did you play this motherfucker just elbowed me I was like I was like oh my god and like I just saw Red I'm like I'm gonna fucking have to kill you like I can't kill you

I was like I can't kill you but I'm gonna try and like you were right behind me Final Worker's right behind me he's like you gotta relax and like Riggs comes up he goes what are we doing

and I hadn't seen Riggs yet the whole show I didn't even know Riggs was there I didn't see him there either and Riggs saw me and Riggs was clearly drinking the whole night the first didn't even know Riggs was there. I know. I didn't see him there either. And Riggs saw me, and Riggs was clearly drinking the whole night. The first thing Riggs did, he started smacking me in my abs so hard.

And it just wouldn't stop. It was like a machine gun going off. And he's like, my man. He's like, I hired you. You're my guy. He's like, you're my guy for life. And the entire time, he's smacking me. And I'm like, oh.

And then at the end of it, he goes, you got some set of abs on you, Bob. And I was like, Rick, see ya. I'm leaving. Rick's looking for it. Rick's just like, so what's the deal here? And I said, these guys are trying to fight. Because they talked about fighting you for five more minutes. Oh, yeah.

And we really almost got into it. And we just stood between the two of that. And me and Rick's like, if someone touches us, we just go. At this point, I would have been such a great way to end the night just a brawl in the bar I would have loved that brawl we really should have just for the story would they have been a problem?

no they were like my age I think size wise oh I don't know probably you know if history is any indication you probably would have beat them up it would have been a fight it would have been a fight I'll tell you there were like

five of them it would have been a fight usually when there's like those scuffles you almost get into a fight

you look back on it in like a bad way of like oh that could have been bad I feel like everything like hell yeah we almost got into a fight

that was awesome looking back on it I'm getting sad I was like nose to nose with a guy calling him a cocksucker like what a night I would have loved

to see how Large would react in that situation. Someone tells me that large can, can tear some shit up. He used to be a, like an amateur boxer. Yeah. Like legitimately throw hands. Large saw me after the show. I didn't know he came to the show and he like hugged me as if he was my dad. Yeah.

He did the same back to me. He went, he went out, he did the Brooklyn tour with, with high haters, went home and came back in, brought, brought the lady with him. And it was like a family affair for him. I think I've said like two words to him my whole life. He came up to me, gave me a huge hug. And he was like very, he was like, like you said, a father. He was like, it was very impressive what you did out there tonight, son.

I was like, thank you. I heard Large cry too. I think he was tearing up as well. Highlights reach you guys. Can you pinpoint any moments? For me, it's like you're in the green room. You're about to walk down those steps because at Irving Plaza, it's like so cool. Your green room is on top of the stage, so you hear everything going on.

You can't really see, but then you walk down the steps, and you know what's out there. You're picturing it. So for me, it was walking out with no lights on and then that fucking spotlight that's cool that was like the coolest you know it's funny so like you you obviously scoot in and then bob was able to just hit his spot yeah and then pft had to scurry across yeah yeah i taken the stage was definitely a highlight because it was just like the high of like the crowd going wild that moment that i just said where like the crowd's wild, that moment that I just said where, like, the crowd's singing My Real Girlfriend back to us, that was crazy. Just, like, being there with these guys who it's like we always say, like, we've practiced eight times, but, like, we do have, like, the band camaraderie.

Like, it's there. So being on stage with them, having my family there, having, like, you guys there, the night is the highlight. There's not, like, a specific the the night is the highlight there's not yeah it's like locking eyes with the like yeah like i looked at like pft and robbie and we're all looking at each other like holy fucking shit look at what we're doing like we say we practice eight times four of those times roan wasn't there because he was like traveling for the shows and stuff and like another time like you had to play and like your guitar wasn't working right so like

we really only practiced for under 30 hours. The best way to encompass how much it was thrown together was when you were buying the drum set. We rented a guitar center. I was like, what do you need this for, your garage? No, actually, Urban Plaza for our first show ever in 18 hours. It's funny. I was like, I always say, because I'm getting used to doing this now

with these musical stores and stuff, they always ask what the fuck I need this stuff for. And I always say, because I'm getting used to doing this now with these musical stores and stuff, they always ask, like, what the fuck I need this stuff for. And I always say, it's a fucked up story. How much time you got? Yeah, I'm like, we're this comedy band, and we work for a website, and I just need a drum set. Guy was asking me, he's like, how does this amp usually sound? This is a nice bass amp. And I was like, I don't know, man.

I've never plugged it in. I think one of the highlights for me was the first time that the Canon went off. Because I didn't know what to expect out of that. That was one back to school drop too. So that was like our first song that the CO2 was going and all that. It caught me off guard a little bit.

And then Devlin, he's got this down to his science, right? So he shoots off the confetti and he's got a whole plan. He waits till it settles and then like 30 seconds later, he'll come behind you with with a leaf blower and blow all the confetti. So Devlin was just walking around, just blowing the back of my legs. I was turning around like, what the hell is that? You guys were all getting hit with glow sticks. Yeah, we didn't practice with glow sticks and confetti and shit dropping from the ceiling.

That was not something that— Devlin straight up relapsed last night. He did. It was a blackout. And that's why there are certain things. The crowd loves free t-shirts. They love loud noises, lights, lasers, smoke, confetti. It works every time.

The blackout tour was a drunk children's birthday party. And so we've gotten to know how to keep the kids in mind. Throwing out free cigarettes and condoms. Bare cigarettes. Not even facts. Just bare cigarettes and condoms yeah bare cigarettes not even packs just bare cigarettes and condoms the one thing that I didn't realize

I knew I did it but when I threw out the sticks afterwards I was fucking hurling these things at people and it ended up hitting one of my girlfriend's friends right in the fucking neck she's like I got your stick and I also have a huge mark right here on my neck now thinking back, I really

whipped those things into the crowd. Like, if you didn't pay attention, it just hits you in the eye or something. I gotta give credit to Rowan, since he's not here, so we won't get too big of a head about this. But the dude can command a crowd. Oh my god. His stage presence is so good, and having somebody that's able to do that gives, it's like,

I was talking about earlier, when you look out into the crowd and you see people having a good time, that gives gives you confidence what also gives you a lot of confidence is having a front man yeah that can just be super comfortable and kind of like take control of the stage it makes everything so much easier and i know he said about the same thing kind of about you guys because he was like i said to him you know a lot of pressure on you but you you got the most experience doing this and he was like uh he's like yeah and usually i'm like by myself just standing there alone the fact that i just had other people to like share the light with and share the burden with so i think that kind of worked both ways that is a huge thing like being on stage it's intimidating and all of that but

like you're with like some of your best friends and you're like you're in the moment being able to enjoy it and be like holy shit we, we're going to share this experience together. Like, this is awesome. Locking eyes with Roan, and Roan was just, especially a guy that didn't grow up on pop-punk music. Like, the rest of us kind of did. Me and Frankie, for sure, this early 2000s generation, you're a little older, but, you know, same life.

Blake 182, basically classic rock. Yeah, yeah. But, like, for Roan to, Roan, likean did research on how the bands would perform those songs live, those covers, so he could have the mannerisms well. Roan was method acting, getting into character. He had the emo eyes going. He said earlier, as you guys were rehearsing, he's like, I guess maybe when you first dropped your song, it was very popular. He's like, I've been doing this fucking fucking hip hop battle rap shit for like 15 years wasting my time.

I should have been an emo guy. And he sounded great. Like a lot of the times when we practice, like sometimes he would like he was having trouble with the pitches because it's like very, very high pitch. And he fucking nailed that. That's the sign of like, he just nailed it. The moment he rose to the occasion. Some people, some people fold.

We, we had had one fuck-up in Flavor of the Week that we somehow pulled out of our ass. I don't even think any viewer or listener even know. Everyone was saying they didn't recognize it. And on stage, that was the one moment where I shit myself. I mean, you've got to remember. We all were partying, jumping, singing. We really were lost. We were lost in like what's next.

Really? For how long? I listened back to it. What the issue was, there's like this one breakdown going into the guitar solo, right? Yeah. And so I think we all got thrown off a little bit. I did like a little bit of a different guitar riff than I normally do. And I think that made Frankie go into the breakdown one measure too late or something.

But I listened back to it, and it actually sounds great the way that we did it. Well, you started slowing down and just hitting cymbals one by one, and then I could lock in with you, and we locked back in. I noticed that. Wait, wait, let me ask you a question first before you tell it. Was there a talk of if something like this happens? No, no. This was so on the fly. Like the train was going off the tracks and we were like fucking.

We're in the middle of a very, very. We were like, it's back on the tracks. Very, very famous song that probably people's favorite song in the set list. And like we are doing something. And there was a part where we all locked eyes and we're like, all right. And I'm just hitting the signals. I'm like, how are we going to get back into this song? And then you just did it.

You know what it's like? It's like if you're in a good relationship with somebody and you're just, when you like, have a little awkward moment when you're fucking,

like maybe she queefs a little bit, who knows, maybe like it starts to go away a little bit, but you just like have that rhythm with each other, you trust,

and you both end up getting your nut. Yeah. You guys got your nut on stage. We got your nut on stage. As a viewer, do you have a highlight? Actually, it wasn't even your dad crying. It was when you first got on stage.

I couldn't really see. I was kind of in the back of the top row. And I believe it was your sister had her phone out. And she was zoomed in on you for like a snap story or whatever so i was just looking at the phone so i couldn't really see the stage and i looked at you maybe i was frankie is fucking killing it you're just doing you know your drum thing and she turned around and she's like i'm frankie's sister and then your mom turns i'm his mom hell yeah after i think i think after everything, after the show

or maybe at the encore, your dad, he just had his arms crossed and I was standing behind him and he just leaned back and he was like, that's my boy. My mom wore a shirt to the show that said blessed. I said, mom, that's the least punk rock shirt I've ever seen in my life. She's like, you're my son.

I feel so blessed that you did this. It's funny, one of my dad's best friends, blessed that you did this. I love it. It's funny. One of my dad's best friends, one of my family's best friends, we call him sometimes Uncle and Aunt. You know when you have that and they're not family members? But he's a longtime drummer, drums all the time. And we share that bond of being drummers. And I've always looked up to him as a drummer. And he came to the show.

And he's a mailman. So he had to get up at 5 AM. So I was like, honestly, it's going to be a really late night. There's like a he's a he's a um a mailman so he had to get up at like 5 a.m so i was like honestly it's gonna be a really late night there's no chance he's gonna come he he hasn't really come to like events like that and he he showed up i saw him and afterwards he was like i was like very nervous to see what he was gonna say because he's like really good drummer like a great drummer and he's just like you fucking guys murdered imagine if he was like yeah i would have expected it. I would have expected that.

But that was a cool moment for me is like seeing someone that actually knows how to play the drums and like. My brother said the same thing. My brother's drummer, he texted me today. He was like, Frankie Borelli absolutely killed it. And you got like the theatrical, you know. He went out, I didn't even see him

because we're behind the stage. I saw the video afterwards, you know, he hit the dong, dong. And then he started twirling. Twirl! I love the twirls. This motherfucker knows what he's doing. I got a picture of it, actually. I got legitimate goosebumps during

Thunderstruck. These guys are about to do it. And then the very end, Rowan just standing in the middle of the stage, so punk rock, one hand up, he's grabbing his nuts. He got the emo eyes and the crowd was going fucking crazy. It was very cool. I'm wearing a shirt that said,

I don't give a fuck about shit. I think for me, when you guys all came out of the green room at the end, it was just like a parade, like one after another. That might have been the highlight. We were covered in sweat. We were all just hugging everybody. It was an awesome moment.

I think next up is House of Blues in Boston. Nothing confirmed. Jesus Christ. Once Portnoy throws the tweet out there. You can't walk that back. Dave's not one for walking shit back. I said you guys should just go Philly, New York, Boston, Boston, New York, Philly, and just go back and forth.

Even Chicago. We can throw Chicago in probably. No, I mean, at one point you're going to take this shit worldwide. But right now, just go back and forth. Can't wait until Pop Punk in Japan. I think we should go the opposite direction, just dial it back and just do bar mitzvahs for like 50 people. I told Liz we'd play her quinceañera.

She never had a quinceañera party. Do you know... And Keith, Lindsay. She was there. Yeah, she was there. She also offered me an edible. Very hospitable. Nice. She had her proposal during the pizza review. She's having her rehearsal dinner at Borelli's. And I was like, I mean, they got to at least play a song.

I was like, I'm not going to paint you into a corner where you have to hire them for your whole band, for your whole wedding. I love that they write them their first dance song. I mean, it's got to happen. I left it very open. I said, if the schedules work, we'll play a song. So we'll see. And they're probably going to make that happen. There would be some video of us playing a wedding.

Imagine. All in tuxes. Yeah. Oh, God. Just the families, the older relatives. We have to do a very just like, I don't know, like an Aerosmith song. I don't want to go. And then just go, let's go.

And then go right into right into have like the grandpa just throw his cane just fucking come up there and start rocking out the only thing I would say if I could

if I could tweak one thing I think I would've had you guys play My Real Girlfriend like five times open with it play it twice in the middle encore and then another encore

people were going you know what I was really happy about just like yes when they just played it eight times a show. I didn't expect this, but we did the thing where, you know, you go see a band sometimes and they're like, all right, we're going to play some new stuff. And you're like, fuck you. I didn't buy a ticket to hear a song I've never heard before.

We played a new song last night, Peaked in High School, and people loved it. People were jamming to it. They were dancing around. They had a great time. We were getting tweets right away like, you guys have to record that. Yeah, I didn't realize. I was like, maybe I just hadn't heardming to it. They were dancing around. They had a great time. We were getting tweets right away, like, you guys have to record that. So, yeah, I didn't realize.

I was like, maybe I just hadn't heard that one yet. I didn't know. I locked eyes with someone up front, and he was trying to sing along to the song, and I was about to, like, stop the show and be like, you just don't know the words. Impossible, dude. It's impossible. You don't know the words. But, like, you know when you're just listening to a song and you don't know, but you think

you know what the next word's going to be? Freestyle. Yeah, yeah. It's funny. Well, it was, I said last night, I was actually talking to Loud Sean about it. And he was like, where does this rank as far as just like all the shit we've done? And I threw out the one-on-one game because that was just too bizarre. Other than that, I think this was the weirdest in a good way thing that we've ever done.

It was bizarre. The Blackout Tour was a phenomenon. And Dante the Don did a great job DJing. But when you add the talent level, Mick, you know, rough and rowdy is crazy. We've done all these things that are so far gone from sports blogging. But last night or Friday, Thursday night was just, I think, the most out of left field thing Barstool's ever done. Yeah. That's what's so cool about the company is like you have an idea that you start as like a tiny little joke.

And then it snowballs a little bit. And then it snowballs. It does the second roll. And it's like, oh, OK, the snowball is a little bit bigger. And then it goes from that second tiny snowball to like the fucking Swiss Alps. Right. It becomes like a huge thing that everybody's all in on. And how about the first snowball being when we wrote Back to School, we wrote an MVMT ad into it because the mindset was if we go record this music video on the company's dime, there's no way that – we might get fired. We sold out before we even set foot into recording staff.

We were like, Dave is going to drop the hammer and be like, why did you do this? Our band was birthed by the sellout. Yeah, we were like, let's make sure somebody finances the music video, and here we are. You remember the radio segment when we dropped it. Dave was like, it's funny, but like, why did you do that? Yep. And now it's turned into selling out Irving Plaza.

Because we're a funny company and that's what it has to be. It starts as humor and then it becomes like, oh, wait a minute, we're all talented and then it becomes just like fucking cool.

It becomes like the greatest night of our lives. Back to Robbie's point, I think we could do more selling out in our songs. Oh, yeah. Like, I just want to open it up if anybody works for

the Cook Brothers or George Soros, it doesn't matter which side of the aisle you're on. If you want to finance our band, we will insert whatever propaganda you want into our music. There's a price tag and it's probably not all that high. Just reach out, make contact. I mean, a lot more to come

I'm sure for pop punk. Shout out to Rowan who killed it in his own right classic lead singer you know playing one show having a great time and then all of a sudden you're jet setting off to France too big to do media David Lee Roth already we'll be sure to keep

chronicling you guys with some behind the music hell of a show boys thank you