KFC Radio - Quickie: The Barstool Travel Show

Episode Date: July 18, 2018

We take a break from the rundown and radio in DC to talk with Rone about the new Barstool Travel Show coming later this Summer.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/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. It's another KFC Radio quickie. We're still down in D.C. for the All-Star Game. We got my man Rowan jumping in. Today's topic is all about that travel life. Rowan and Caleb got a Barstool travel show coming out. They've been, I mean, everywhere from D.C. to Philly to France for the World Cup.

So my man is well-traveled and very experienced. But right now we're taking a little break from the rundown and the radio over at this Mexican restaurant where we've been kind of getting refuge during the day because it's hot as fuck, and this place has food and air conditioning. So we put in an order. I say, can I get two chicken quesadillas and four carne asada tacos? The steak tacos that we liked a lot yesterday. Yeah, they were really good.

Well, four chicken tacos come out. I'm like, all right, well, whatever. They screwed up. I go back over there, and I'm ordering some more food. I go, can we get another couple quesadillas, and can I get four carne asada tacos? She goes, by carne asada, you mean the pollo verde, right? I said, no. Different whole thing. There's the

pollo verde, and then there's the carne asada. So I said, uh, no, I think I mean these ones here. And she goes, oh, okay, because carne asada means grilled chicken. Ma'am. I wanted to be like, I didn't say anything because I don't like awkward conversations, but I wanted to be like, if you work at a Mexican restaurant,

you need to know the difference between chicken and asada. Carne asada. Pollo is very specific. You're going to have a hard time here if you're doing pollo and carne asada as the same thing. To be clear, this is a white lady. Yes. So you were trying to tell a Mexican how to speak Spanish. Correct.

Yes, yes, yes. Venezuela. Yeah. Well, that's where I questioned myself. I was like, I'm 99% sure carne asada is steak. But maybe I'm wrong. She works here. Yeah. Well, that's where I questioned myself. I was like, I'm 99% sure Connie is out of steak. But maybe I'm wrong. She works here. Nope.

Confirmed. You looked it up? Yeah, confirmed. It's grilled steak, grilled beef. It's very obvious. I don't think. Why would she assume that otherwise? That's like saying, when you said the hamburger, you meant the hot dogs, right?

No. Totally wrong meal. Whole other meat. Whole different color, texture everything about it is different I'll eat it all but I'm just saying

for your future career here did you tell her? did you tell her? maybe on the way out we should tell her we should just as friends she's going to keep

on making that it's like if you have something on your face I was just going to say if it flies down you've got to give the barn doors open ma'am you know

that carne asada is steak maybe I'll sign it on the receipt yes carne asada is steak. Maybe I'll sign it on the receipt. Yes, carne asada is not chicken. Yeah, like a picture of the definition. You need to prove to this woman. Carne pollo. All right, so let's get into it.

Now, I have, in my older age, as I've garnered more responsibility in life, I've come to like traveling. I used to hate it. Like packing, travel to the airport, get on the plane. I don come to like traveling. I used to hate it. Packing, travel to the airport, get on the plane. I don't like sitting on planes. Not because I'm afraid of flying, because you're cramped and you're whatever. Your cattle. Yeah, I never liked that feeling.

Now, because the job is pretty stressful, it's 24-7 with the internet, wife and kids at home, stress, stress, stress. I've got to fucking take care of Feidelberg. The whole time is just a disaster. The only time I truly – I didn't even correct him. You're right.

I need to be taken care of. The only time I – You're like, oh, didn't I? I don't ever have to do anything when I'm on a plane, train. You know what I mean? You can watch some – have some Shake Shack, watch your shows. Yeah, this guy knows. I mean, like two work trips ago, I can't remember where we were going, I got first classic by accident.

It was like the only thing we had left. We got bumped up. And I was like, I had the blanket. I had the pillow. I had the champagne. I watched that dope Tom Cruise movie where he's like a drug runner. So it was a long flight. Yeah.

Yeah. It was decent. It was long enough. Good movie. And I was like, this is, I was like, I wish, I hope we just had to like circle the runway for a couple hours. I hope we get diverted. So, and then on the train down here, I watched Banshee on my laptop.

I had my Shake Shack at 8 a.m. I had a screwdriver. I love it. It's like, I can't, you know, I can't do a rundown or a podcast. My kids aren't there. I don't, I can't do anything. I'm stuck on a train. It's heaven.

You're working and you're doing nothing. It's like, oh, it's a travel day. Like, I just have to sit here. I'm stuck on a train. It's heaven. You're working and you're doing nothing. It's like, oh, it's a travel day. I just have to sit here and watch movies and get shit fixed. It's amazing. I mean, yeah, travel days are a thing. It's sports. Yeah, travel day. Really?

It's legit. You're not doing anything there. You're just traveling. If I was an athlete, I would really milk that all the time. Be like, boss, travel day. You're with the strippers again? Travel day. It's travel day.

Yeah, I've always been that way. I don't have anything stressful happening in my life. I have an adult man who takes care of me. That's about it. It's stressful to be taken care of. It's like, oh, I just need to be pampered, diapered, fucking powdered. It's fucking tough. I like it.

You feel the need to, you know, it's too much. But I'm talking about, you know, a quick flight to wherever I was, a train from New York to DC. That ain't shit compared to what you're doing, man. Here comes the chicken tacos. The chicken tacos are here. Are these the chicken tacos? Yeah, these are carne asadas. This is real chicken right here. Now we're cooking. This is the best chicken tacos are here. Are these the chicken tacos? Yeah, these are carne asadas. This is real chicken right here.

Now we're cooking. This is the worst chicken in the world. Wow, that's some dark chicken, man. Someone messed up over here. No, but we have been traveling a lot. You were doing like, you know, you traveled to France for like what? Yeah, so last week I was in Philly for the weekend, and then I flew out to Pittsburgh and went

to Youngstown for Rough and Rowdy, then came home to New York, did pop punk, then flew to Paris for two days, and then I'm down in D.C. for two days. So over the last week, it's been different states. See, I've been kind of doing the

same thing, and I don't mind it still. I did. We did L.A., Portugal. Yeah, you've been on the go. There's one more in there. There's L.A., Portugal. Columbia. Columbia, D.C., and then going to Montreal Friday.

That's wild. That's a lot of traveling, but it's fun. It's like nice. Get on that fucking plane, baby. I think I'll get my wall. See, I don't even consider buying Wi-Fi because for the same reason you're talking about where I'm like, I downloaded my movies before and I'm like, I'm not doing Wi-Fi. I'm not buying Wi-Fi because you're not going to contact me.

I do have my purest movie watching experiences on a plane. I am like completely locked in. You're not on your phone. You're not, yeah, no distractions. You're not like ordering food or whatever. Like you I am completely locked in. You're not on your phone. You have no distractions. You're not ordering food or whatever. You're just completely locked in. It's a smaller TV, but I love it. It's jammed in your face.

I've never seen a bad movie on a plane. Ever? I always wind up crying on plane movies, too. Actually, that's a lie. I watched a bad movie on a plane. I watched Justice League. I didn't even make it 10 minutes in. I mean, that's unbearable watched a bad movie on a plane I watched Justice League I didn't even make it 10 minutes in

I mean that's unbearably bad I turned it off I was like this is ridiculous Dude we've been crying a lot Yeah Me and Dwight's been crying Dude Popping off

Same bro Oh I cried Every movie Coco comes on I'll fucking cry 80% of the movie Great Greatest showman

I cried on that on the plane I was crying at your show You didn't No you weren't I was crying No you weren't I'd swim Shut the fuck up

I've been telling the story Like your girlfriend Was like so proud of you I was crying at your show No you weren't Shut the fuck up Your girlfriend was so proud of you And supporting you I obviously got my own shit going I was like this is how it's supposed to be man These people are in love You guys are taking care of each other You didn't weep

I mean I teared up The only person who was weeping was Frankie Riley's dad He was really crying He kept putting on his shades I thought was Frankie Riley's dad. He was really, really acting. Frank Riley, too, was just. He kept putting on his shades. I thought he was trying to be cool. He was trying to hide the tears. Is that what it was?

That's his go-to move. Apparently, like Frankie said, like in Little League, in like T-Ball, Frankie would hit like a double, and his dad would like walk down like the sideline, down like the first baseline, put his sunglasses on. That's amazing. My fucking kid's doing it. He's fucking doing it. Major Leagues, here we come. Yeah, man. Tears flowing. I's doing it he's fucking doing it major leagues here we come

yeah man uh tears flowing i don't he didn't i don't think he talked about it yet but he said that the next day on friday he was telling me that his friend or maybe it was his girlfriend went to his house to drop something off and like she just walks in and she's a part of the family and mr billy was sitting there looking at pictures crying. Just alone. Just soaked pictures. Just like a waterfall of tears. Frankie told me he can just tell his dad any story. And if you like build it up right, his dad will cry.

He's that emotionally invested of a human being? Everything. He was like, so dad, like we went to this Mexican restaurant and we ordered carne asada. Stop it, son. And then at the end, we finally got the carne asada. the chicken stop it son and then and then at the end we finally got the carne asada what a work that's wild but what a blessing to be that emotionally in touch with yourself uh dick ramil used to like fucking cry all the time as like a football coach like a fucking grown man in the world yeah like and then just like he's crying who said uh someone

said that you need to laugh every day uh cry every day and fucking i, I don't know, jerk off every day or something like that. But it's like a beautiful. I'm three for three on all those, man. I'm going to be the healthiest guy in the world if that's all it takes. I think traveling definitely makes me, like, cry and be more emotional, too. Like, I definitely have, like, sat on benches in different countries and just been like, look at this fucking people walking by, bro. They're just fucking walking around. I even heard the word sonder. It's the word for knowing that there's all these other stories that are going around with your life that you can't touch or that you can't experience.

Their life will just go on without you ever being involved with it. It's like a grand concept. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sondering. I'm crying. It's like me. I don't travel much, so I just live in a bubble, man. On a literal sense, I go from my house to 27th and Broadway.

Back. Boom, boom, boom. Back, back. I go from the studio to my desk. Studio to my desk. That's it. I go to gymnastics on Saturdays. That's fucking it.

It's crazy. You see how much there is in the world. Especially being in New York. And it's weird. I feel like it's got to be hard i i've definitely struggled with it like being like i'm going from my neighborhood where i live to the neighborhood where i work and i don't see anything else and there's seven million fucking eight nine million fucking people out here and like i don't know what any of the other neighborhoods are doing it's like i feel like i'm wasting it oh you absolutely i

mean i have lived in this city basically in this or around this city for my whole life. And I've gone to the same sports bars and dive bars and restaurants. There are Michelin star restaurants. There are world-class clubs. There are theaters. There's museums. I don't do any of it. And I'm not going to do any of it. I have these moments where I'm like, come on, man.

Live your life. And I'm just not going to do it. But I acknowledge at least that I'm not doing it right. It's like anything, though, where it's like I know it would make me a better person. I know it would make me happier. But just not. The laziness. See, that's why I know when I exercise every day.

I know I'm in a better place in my life. I know I'm happier. Dude, but my life. I know I'm healthier. Dude, but you say that, but you sneakily do. You're in D.C. and you're going to all these places. You say that about yourself because you probably feel that way, but I think your actions say otherwise. That's true. Well, we're also lucky that this job does afford us

or forces us sometimes to do this shit. If you were working a regular desk job, you fall into a serious rut where that's literally all you're doing is just desk work. You know, apartment, desk, apartment, desk, apartment, desk. You definitely feel for people who are just like, I mean, like if you don't have something to release or like a different valve to fucking just be able to go somewhere else or be able to set it off some different way. Like an outlet.

Yeah, for sure. But the difference is, you know, me and him are are content you've actually been doing a good amount of traveling so you've been i have been and when i'm when i'm traveling when i'm away i do it so happy and you're and you're you go totally off the grid like you were saying like you sit in a random bench like this is amazing like yeah yeah he kept texting me be like yeah well i'm in like columbia man i'm like on the side of this mountain just look look at it. I was like, fuck you, man. That's a volcano right there. That's a fucking, like, it's insane. I mean, but we, you know, are doing basically the bare minimum.

You are taking advantage of this. You're going to the max. You're doing it. But it's, quote, unquote, for work. If you were not working, do you think you would be traveling like this? If you were not working in a job, you could do a travel show. Is that a name, by the way? Is that out, by the way?

Yeah, Barstool Travel Show. Okay, Barstool Travel Show. I mean, that's going to change the way people travel, I feel like, when you see Rowan and Caleb doing it. But if you were working, where was it? The roast beef shop. Yeah, that place wasn't really getting me to travel. But with Battle Rap, though,

I was able to travel a ton. I got to go to a bunch of different countries, every event's in a different city. So it was like going to, I think I got to go to a bunch of different countries, every event's in a different city. So I think it almost attracts me to the type of job where it's like, oh, that's it. That's a possibility. That's an option or whatever. But did it ever – is that subconscious? Did you find yourself –

It is subconscious, for sure. It's not like I need a new job. Criteria number one, got to travel. It just happens to be that you find yourself gravitating towards things that travel. Yeah, just like the exploration or like the just like wanting to see different things. It kind of,

but it wasn't, I didn't come to bar school like I'm going to make a travel show there, but it's like, there's only so much you can do with like the same backdrops

and everything. Like there's only so much you could do like with like the green screen and like the office. Yeah, man, trust me, I'm milking it as much as I possibly can.

I mean, yeah, you have found it. I will find a way to do as much as I can in those shoebox studios. Yeah, blood from a stone, bro. You find fucking new ways to make something happen every time. But it is wild. Being, you know, that's what's going to be cool about your show is not only are you going to just do your thing.

You guys are creative and, you know, inventive and you're going to find cool ways to do your content. But just being Barstool in South Africa or some shit. It's just like, I know these guys. I like them. He's a Phillies fan. He's a quarterback at UNC. I know their jokes.

I know who they are. And now I just want to see them do it in Egypt. It just is its own storyline. It's its own content, really. It is going to be interesting. It's a bamboozle is what it is. It's the boondoggle. It's a boondoggle for sure.

It's not a boondoggle. I resent that. I think it's a boondoggle. I don't think it's a boondoggle. I'm very excited for this show. They could boondoggle it. They could just go and be like, we're here. Check it out. The boondoggle, the inception of boondoggle

annoys me to such an extent. It's not the golf guy's fault that their sport takes place in beautiful places. That dude's cool shit. It's not their fault that their show, that traveling, doing a show about traveling, means you have to fucking travel. I also will say that our work days on the travel shows are way more intensive than, it's like, it's up at 8 and probably done at 9. And it's like just traveling around these places and doing like four shoots a day. So it's like – This whole shit that we do, even when you're not traveling, is harder than people give you credit for.

And when you're on the road, like, you know, especially if you do like a Vegas one, right? You guys have gone to Vegas. Yes. Like you're not sitting at the blackjack table and going to – I didn't gamble at all and I didn't go to like one club. Like we did all different shit the entire time we were out there boring work like you're not sitting there crunching numbers but you're on a shoot and you need to get certain amount of content and certain amount of interviews and sound we're like yeah find an angle

on it and like everything that we did wound up coming out with the angle what confuses me about traveling and you've been to a lot of different countries recently is like and it gives me tons of anxiety i never know what to fucking tip when I'm going to different places. And I always feel like I tip the first person who takes my bag to the car at the airport way too much. And then I get in my own head. I'm like, I just fucking tip this guy so much fucking money. And then I don't tip anybody else the rest of the trip. I just fuck everybody else over.

It's like, oh, fuck. I didn't mean to do that. Sorry. I can't swing it. And also, like, I always feel like I need the need to tip just at a restaurant when they don't tip there. And then they think you're an asshole for tipping. It's like, look, I gave you money.

Why do you think I'm an asshole? Right, like you don't understand. No, not very. I mean, you can throw, like, the extra change. I think I do that, but I didn't really know that. Like, it's really, you do not do it. It's not done. They're, like, full salaries and health care is free.

It's crazy. They said, like, we sat on our last night in Paris. We sat next to a table full of waiters. And the guy we were with, Donnie, he's Donnie's intern, Donnie. And he speaks fluent French, so he was talking with these guys. Wait, Donnie has an intern named Donnie? Donnie has an intern named Donnie. And it's an intern named Donnie and it's not like a made up it's fucking wild. But this

guy has really good French and he was talking to these waiters and they were saying over there like being a waiter is like a very respected profession and these guys like go to school to be a waiter and they like, they're very on top of it and so they don't need the healthcare and the benefits but my question to that is like then why are they

assholes to Americans who come into their restaurants? Like, Caleb would go to these restaurants and, like, especially if you wanted to be a waiter. But maybe, I mean, maybe they think that we do the dining wrong. Like, maybe they think our customs are bad. But, like, I don't understand the, like, immediate, like, offended nature that they have about themselves. Like, that off-put me about France a little bit. That's the French. Yeah.

That's the stereotypical French for you. And I'm sure there's plenty who don't do it that way, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who reinforce stereotypes the same. Maybe they're out here and they know the difference between carne asada and pollo verde, but you don't need to be a dick about it. You don't have to be a dick about it, for sure. Where would you say has been your favorite place so far? Or favorite moment?

For this travel show that we did? Or just throughout your career, whatever it may be. Battle rap included. I mean, battle rap, the coolest place I went was Sydney, Australia. I went to some beach called Bondi Beach. It was just this beautiful fucking beach. I wasn't rapping on the beach. I've been to a battle rap on the beach before, but it was like under the boardwalk in Jersey.

It was trash. It was absolute trash. But for this trip, I mean, Portland was a beautiful city. Wow, I did not expect you to say Portland. Portland was just like... I thought it was something more exotic or crazy. Portland was awesome. I mean, like...

Portland, Oregon? Oregon, yeah. Portland, Oregon was really cool. I mean, in the United States, like, I guess we went to small towns in Nevada and shit like that that were, like, coal mining towns, and, like, it felt like you were in a fucking different country or, like, in the Old West. So I can already tell by your answer, you think more about, like, the intrigue, not necessarily, like, did you have the most... Yeah, like, Miami Beach is cool, but it's cool, but Miami Beach is what Miami Beach is.

You're not seeing something that new. So you're traveling more for the experience than you are for just... I'm not there to... I'm not trying to just lay out on the beach. I'm not a club guy or anything like that. So it's like... There's different things that kind of... Are you a fine dining guy?

I enjoy fine... I enjoy good food. I enjoy good food, yeah, but I'm not crazy about fine dining. It's funny. It's incredible going out with Buddha Ben because he's the most difficult orderer in any restaurant. Does Buddha Boots surprise me at all? No, it wouldn't. It's exactly what you expect. I'm sending food back or complaining about this, that, the other thing.

Yo, he's complained the last three hotel.com fucking trips that we've made or something. But he gets upgrades, though. He's like a master at getting upgrades. He wheel gets the oil. He really does, bro. Did you hear about the armrest situation? He said that guy was like a bouncer. Yeah, he was big.

He was our last trip to... You guys were doing the red carpet. We were doing L.A. We were just doing our meetings in L.A. Oh, yeah. He was... Like, we weren't taking off when we were supposed to, and I see the flight attendants walk over,

and they put their hands on their knees, and they lean into Buddha and, like, his neighbor, and they're, like, whispering, like, how are we going to fix this? And Buddha said that they were fighting over the armrest, and the guy called the flight attendant and was like, I need a seat change or there's going to be an altercation. Like, Buddha was fighting him to the point that they were about to, like, have to throw hands. And he said it was two bouncers or, like, two, like, I need a seat change or there's going to be an altercation. Like Buddha was fighting him to the point that they were about to have to throw hands. And he said it was two bouncers

or like security guys or some shit like that. And Buddha was just not having it. They were just arm wrestling for the armrest. And Buddha, I was like, was this all passive aggressive or were words had? He was like, oh, no, words were had. They were arguing. He's not shy about it. I would just be like,

I'll just sit like a like whatever and that's honestly if we're talking travel shit like i kind of recommend just like i mean you could be a problem if you want to be a problem but to me it's just like i'll conform to my environment when i'm traveling instead of making my environment conform to me but you know like sometimes you just... But he's unapologetic about it. He's like, no, like, the price is like what regular people pay, and it's like you can get more if you, like, do more.

So it's like, fucking, he just, like, I guess tries to milk it. I don't know. It's a different philosophy on life. Like, that's, for me, that's a good guy to travel with. Like, you do that, and maybe we get a free meal or an upgrade, but I'm not complaining. It can be uncomfortable sometimes, for sure. I won't lie, but

if he gets more out of it, it can be whatever you make it. Do you have your stops already lined up? Are you doing this on a whim? We're done. We're filmed for the season. We've shot our... When you were doing them, were they on a whim?

Let's make sure we hit this part during this festival, or this part during this event, so we capture... It was regional. So we have the Northeast, we have the Midwest, we have the Northwest, we have the West Coast-ish, and then we have something in the South. So we have stuff all around the United States. It should give you a different... Everyone should have a different vibe,

like the vibe of the city, the vibe of the state sometimes. And it's like we try to be a circumspect view on it, like serious travel show background with, like, whatever goofy barstool shit that we're doing throughout the entire time. Are you going to take an international, you think? I mean, we'll see what the reaction is to the first season. But, like, if it is, like, the second season, it might be interesting to go international.

What we learned from France, though, the language barrier is a real barrier for content. It's tough when you're... I mean, to set up an interview where people who work in restaurants and hospitality, they'll be able to speak English, but you can't just go up to people on the street and assume that they can speak English.

Maybe we do an English-speaking countries season, though, or something like that. England, France, South Africa, or not France, but whatever. Right, right, right. You get it. Well, I mean, I'm looking forward to it. Will we know, what does it drop? It's this summer.

It'll be starting to come out towards the end of the summer. All right. Be on the lookout. That's something I'm going to do, like, travel-ception during my travels when I'm, like, so happy to just be left alone. I'm going to watch the Barcelona Travel Show Get deep in it Alright man, appreciate you coming on Thanks for having me guys

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