KFC Radio - Quickie: We're Going to LA

Episode Date: June 11, 2018

KFC Radio heads west this week for one of the largest video game conferences in the world, E3. The only problem is that KFC and Feits know nothing about video games.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 a Monday edition of KFC Radio, a Monday quickie. Your boys are hitting the West Coast. KFC Radio goes West. The Beta Boys are now the Gamer Guys. Gamer Guys for the week. We are out in LA for E3.

The preeminent video game conference thing. guys for the week. We are out in LA for E3. The preeminent video game conference thing. Dude, I was told last night it's Comic Con times two. Whoa! Because Comic Con is times a billion already. Yeah, Comic Con's crazy. Comic Con's so extra. I'd never heard of

E3 until Wednesday. Until we found out we were taking this trip. It'll be interesting, I think. I don't know what to expect. Did you fill out your registration last night? No, whatever you're about to say, no, I didn't do any of it. Last night I just happened to be – I never check my Barstool email,

and I happened to have it open last night, and it was a forward from E3 for like you have to register. So I had to give my address and stuff, and then it was a whole sheet where you kind of choose. Like your preferences. Preferences and stuff. And it was like, what are you looking to get out of this experience? I don't know.

I don't really know what I'm doing. So what video games are you interested in? None. Goldeneye. Mario Kart 64. Yeah, so we obviously need to get into the eSports world, and Devlin and Smitty have done a good job with that over on Game Time, but they're sending us out there because they needed someone with an established show to do a live podcast in front of some clients and some gamer people,

kind of show what we're about. So we are the de facto guys. So, yeah, we don't know what we're trying to get out of this. We don't know what to expect. We want people to buy into Barstool Sports. That's what we want to get out of this. Basically. I'll sell it to you.

I'll sell it to him. I'll sell it to her. I don't care if you play video games. I don't care if you play real games. I don't care if you don't play any games. I'm trying to just fucking get money. So you want to send me somewhere and tell me it's good for business, let's go. Video games are a weird... I mean, obviously everybody knows.

Everybody knows the stats and the cliches. It's the biggest growing sport in the world. It's got more, you know, 12 to 18 males in the NFL, and it's bigger than fantasy football. You've seen some of those pictures. They sell out arenas, bro. The World Championship it was last year, I think. Yeah, like World of Warcraft type championships.

I figured it was in Tokyo or something like that, too. I don't think it was. I think it was in Lagana. Yeah, no, they do E3s also sometimes here in Barclays. Like, it's worldwide, but it's also killing it here in America. So, yeah, we all know that. That's no secret. Like, you are under a fucking rock

If you still are like Video games? What's that bro? There are colleges that give full scholarships now That guy Ninja makes 500 grand a year Or some shit 500 grand a month or something It's an absurd number So like

You can go ahead and be the Hardo with your head in the sand if you want to but I'll be out here trying to get that video game money. Now, it's weird, though, because I do think it's something that you, like, age – you can age out of. Like, if you stick with it, you stick with it, and it's not an age thing. But if you're not a hardcore gamer, I think you do check out after probably i mean for me it was like high school i think most guys will sit around their college dorms but then after that i think it's i never played in high school either actually i played in high school but but by then it dwindled to like there was certain games like when a new zelda came out i wanted to play it when there was a big like

mario i wanted to go get it i wasn't like, copping games left and right like I was earlier. Like, with original Nintendo and Nintendo 64, it was like, oh, I'll play this, I'll play that, I'll play this, I'll play that. Renting games at Blockbuster. Yeah, yeah. Oh, renting games. Oh, renting games is the best. So it was like a special, like, all right, this is something I've grown up playing. I want to continue to play it.

I think the last game I really played, and I didn't even really play it, I didn't like it, it was SOCOM Navy SEALs. Is that like a Tom Clancy thing? I think so. I'm not totally positive on that. It was kind of the first Call of Duty. Right. It was Call of Duty before Call of Duty existed.

I didn't even really like it, but I had just changed high schools, and my friends from home played it all the time, so it was kind of my connection to them. And then didn't really like it so i stopped playing i lost those friends that is the thing though man like you you know it's like uh what do you do with your friends you like watch sports right you like you go to the bar you get a beer you watch the game if you don't like to do that you probably won't hang out with those friends anymore right so if you have there's a crew of guys who are gamers and you don't game, you probably aren't going to be friends. I mean it's a major, major piece of their life.

Even as a kid when I was younger, I had one friend who loved playing video games and it was – I mean I was his friend for so long and I didn't even like it. I just – I would just sit in his house in this dark room and watch him play Mario. It's like, what am I doing here? I was going to go home and go play with my brother. This is a business. Go wrestle my brother. It was a very... It was like one speed or the other for me.

I would either be like, let's go play pickup basketball, or I'd be like, let's play 10 hours of video games until our eyes bleed. One or the other. I could flip the switch pretty fucking easily. See, I didn't like to play video games. I liked to watch back-to-back, like Mike and the Hilary Duff movie. Oh, yeah, that's right. You were a closeted person.

You were a closeted boy. Yeah, me and my buddy used to watch the Hilary Duff movie. That's her name, right? Hilary Duff? Yeah. Yeah. That was the name of the show, too, right? Lizzie McGuire.

Yeah, that's Lizzie McGuire. The Lizzie McGuire movie. We watched the Lizzie McGuire. Lizzie McGuire. That's Lizzie McGuire. The Lizzie McGuire movie. We watched the Lizzie McGuire movie. So fucking much, dude. We'd have like sleepovers just watching every night. You can change the channel

if you want. No, I'm good. We can watch that again. No, no, no, no,

no, it's okay, it's okay. This is what dreams are made of. When I see you smiling, I go, oh, oh, oh.

Okay. Sing for me, Paolo. I don't even know what you're talking about anymore. It's funny. There was one scene with her by the fountain over in Rome or Italy or somewhere over there. I don't know the same place, but I thought it was somewhere else in Italy. And she had, as 13-year-old boys, she was a 13-year-old girl. And boy, that ass wouldn't quit.

And we would just pause it and rewind. That ass today, dude, is a fucking dog. Oh, still, yeah, no doubt. But even then, as a young girl. I haven't seen the ass in a while, so I'm not commenting as an adult man talking about that ass. But as a 13-year-old looking at the 13-year-old ass, that was. Primo. It was primo. We would just rewind, play, rewind, play.

That when it came out, I think it was like last year, there was like a shot of her in like a tight dress. And black Twitter went wild. They were like, Lizzie McGuire got that wagon. Anyway, with the video games, I think I checked out, I was like a Nintendo guy so when PlayStation

took over the world, I like didn't, like I got PlayStation 1 like originally then I got 2. 2 like dominated the world. PlayStation 2 was when it like

became Sony's world and I just like never, I was like loyal to Nintendo. I just didn't really play that. I certainly checked out when you were talking. That was the Socom. Internet, chatting, and connecting with people.

I always got the new systems just because I don't know what I want in life or anything. This might make me happy. I got GameCube and I got Wii. I always got the new Nintendos. And I was like, that was kind of sucked. I don't know.

The new Switch, I think it's called. I don't know how that's performing. But those were. I think Switch is doing really well. Yeah. Like, Wii was cool with the wand, but it was like a gimmick. And GameCube just had the little tiny CDs. Yeah, there were only so many times you could fucking bowl.

Yeah, exactly. Right. Oh, I'm playing tennis again. Right, right, right. So that was the extent of my video game career. But early on, like, I'm almost surprised I fell off because, like, early on I was about it. Those Zelda games, man. Oh, Zelda I fucked with.

Zelda was like. That was after GoldenEye, right? Right around, yeah, a little bit after. That was probably the last game I really fucked with. The Ocarina of Time. Ocarina of Time. I say Ocarina. It was like a life, a period of my life.

Finding out Zelda was a woman was a life-changing experience. Yeah, that always fucks with people when they put their head out. That was really my first time. I'm a feminist. Yeah. Women are badass. But no, no, no, no, wait. The person you're playing with is a guy.

Oh. You're Link. Oh, right, right, right, right. So you're still being a guy, but people always just assume you're Zelda. It's like, no, no, you're Link trying to save Zelda. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be like if Mario was named Princess Peach. And it's like, why did we name him after the princess?

You'd never see her. I clearly never beat the game. Right. Never got to her. I mean, me and especially my brother, I mean, he was like hardcore video game nerd. I followed suit. We were like, I'm surprised I didn't. And I wish I fucking did.

I wish I kept up with video games. See, I don't think I could have. I was never very good anyway. No, I'm not saying I could. I just wish I did. Imagine that. Imagine. Because I feel like all the video gamers on Twitch are nerds.

Well, we'd be nerds too if we stuck with the video games. That's the thing. True, good point. You were saying we'd be the cool guys on Twitch. The thing is, we're not that cool. No. We think we're cool. We're not that cool.

We're cooler than Twitch guys. I don't know. I'm pretty sure Ninja's cooler than me, bro. I don't think so. He's got blue hair. And $500,000 a month. He can have whatever the fuck kind of hair he wants, bro. What do you think the people at this thing are going to be like?

I don't know I bet you that even just assuming that everyone's like a nerd loser Is a stupid stereotype Oh no doubt Like we're being ignorant assholes Yeah no for sure But I mean this isn't my first time being an ignorant asshole But I'll also say this

A tiger doesn't change its stripes I'm going to keep being an ignorant asshole forever Even like You know there are like normal people who like Comic books and comic book movies and marvel and all that and then you still might not go to comic-con like if you go to these things you probably are the nerds in a good way like you know you're the endearing like you you just you you are very passionate about this but you can like it's it's a generalization to be like

gamers are nerds i don't think it's a generalization to be like, gamers are nerds. I don't think it's a generalization to be like, people at E3 are nerds. Because if you go the extra mile to, like, join the convention, you're probably a little too into it. Yeah, what do you even talk about? The games, bro. The video games. How far did you get? I got this far. Okay.

That's the other conversation. We'll find out. How do you beat this level? This is the podcast we should do in front of everyone at E3, by the way. I mean, listen listen I went to fucking Francesacon Oh yeah You are

I'm not throwing stones You've always been Kind of a dork 100% No doubt So you might fit in here Yeah like I You know what this is

This is like You know What's the old What's the poem Like two roads In a wooded path Diverge That whole thing Yeah You know that's's the old, what's the poem? Like two roads and a wooded path diverge, that whole thing. Robert Frost.

Yeah. You know, that's me. I could have easily gone this way or that way. I went this direction with it, but I could have like stuck with the nerdy side of things. And like I said, I wish I did. So I'll probably fit in more than you for sure. I think I'll still be like, ooh. I just don't like people who are overly passionate about anything.

Just relax. Settle. Settle down. I get it. Be moderate. Everything in life. Just be right in the middle. Do you think Olivia Munn's gonna be here? She got started She was on G4. G4, I was gonna say Fusion. Attack of the Show, I think it was called. That's where that famous hot dog,

both went right there. Deep throat and that dog dangling from the ceiling. Yeah, I don't there. She's just deep-throating that dog, dangling from the ceiling. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like she maybe is beyond that, but I also feel like maybe there's that paycheck where E3 would be like, the nerds want Olivia Munn,

and we have more money than God right now because of all this shit, so here's like 250 grand to just show up and wave. You never know. I would love to meet that guy, Ninja. Are there other famous gamers? Can you name any others? I don't know any.

I'm sure there are. Isn't Rick Fox an owner of one of the teams? Yeah, so that's the other angle, too. The NBA, I think, is partnering with an E-League to each team, each franchise in the NBA has a franchise in the league. The NBA is so goddamn smart. Yeah, man. I don't know if they're smart.

It's that everyone else is so dumb. This is a no-brainer to align yourself with the fastest growing thing in the world. We're going to use the internet and video games. The NFL is like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, I don't know about that. Let's talk about the anthem. Those were the last games I played. I played a little fucking...

I played a little Madden here and there. I had a buddy who was like nationally ranked really and it was just like was that fun playing yeah no you just win even playing Madden

because you know I played football but I never liked football so I didn't really pay attention to it it was just something I thought I was supposed to do right

and so like I didn't even know like defensive schemes yeah that's the thing like when you're picking plays in Madden I'm like I don't know

looks good. Punt on fourth down? Mike Blitz. Mike Blitz on the left side. 100%. I don't even know about now that much further removed from it. I think I would be even more clueless. I feel like everything else in life, you just get worse at everything that you don't consistently do.

I think, was it you telling me this? What? That gamers do have a prime? It not but i fully believe that someone was telling me about it where they i fear they read an article they'd heard an interview or something like that where it's basically like 17 to 28 i could see that and it's i mean it's a little younger than sports but it's basically you know once you get and what is that based on like hand eye yeah hand eye you start it starts to go down once it hits one. Reflexes, reactions, shit like that.

Yeah, I could definitely see that. I'm sure now if I pick up those sticks, I'd be like – with games that I used to be like fucking nasty. Well, I did it. I can't do it anymore. Lou and I did it. I think I've told this story. Lou and I did it about three, four years ago. We bought Xbox One because we were –

we decided we were going out too much. And Xbox was going to be our methadone. And so we got Xbox. We bought Tony Hawk Pro Skater. Just for the soundtrack, basically. Tony Hawk Pro Skater. NBA Jam or NBA 2K. Whatever the fucking hot one is.

And Socom... Not Socom. Call of Duty. And we played Call of Duty the first night. For 45 minutes. Every time we respawned, we got shot in the fucking face. And we kept getting called the N-word. The N-word and the F-word.

They kept calling. I'm like, I'm tired of these children insulting me. I'm going to go back to going out and drinking. It lasted. We were gamers for 45 minutes. Gamer guys. I never had the systems, like, later in life, but I would always, like, I'd play Call of Duty at a buddy's house. Call of Duty was fun.

But, again, I wasn't doing, like, the P2P or whatever. I was just, like, playing a mission and do it at your own pace, put it on fucking as easy as possible, whatever. I don't think – I'm so bad at gaming, I don't think I figured out how to do that. You can't even set the game up I couldn't get To the start screen What was the last game You really like

Loved and played Zelda Zelda yeah Yeah I mean to me It's like the Holy Trinity Or I guess Mount Rushmore Were the four of them

N64 Is Mario 64 When it first dropped Mario Kart GoldenEye Zelda I did GoldenEye

I never got into Mario No No I did that was the first it came out obviously with with twisted metal on playstation one that was a great one twisted metal is dope there's always ice cream yeah axle yeah like the fucking two tires yeah um twisted metal was a lot of fun because those and oh granddad i was gonna say i did i did the first where you can i think i did the Liberty City one, like three or four. I think it was the first one that wasn't just above bird's eye view. The first one that was like you're really in the cars and shit.

Any game where you can play for real, but you also can just fuck around and play, that's what's up. That's way more fun. Just killing people and getting the cops to chase you. That's why I think Grand Theft Auto – I mean, I'm not a true gamer guy. I can't say for sure. But I want to say that was revolutionary in the sense that you could just play it and do whatever you wanted. You didn't have to follow the world. You had a world to live in.

Yeah. It was almost like a creation of The Sims. Yes, and violence. Yeah, The Sims was definitely dead. The Sims had violence, but it was dark. It was weird. You just had to build a room around a guy and light him on fire. And we wonder why the world is...

But, you know, listen. Video games don't lead to all that shit, but maybe they do a little bit. So we'll be out in L.A. all week. We'll be doing... Yeah, that's also quite a boondoggle, where they said, you'll go to L.A. for four days. We need you from three to seven on Wednesday. Yeah.

Or four to seven on Wednesday. It's like, oh, okay. We'll get there a couple days earlier and stay a couple days after. We have a couple other meetings. We have a couple of- Doing some big Hollywood stuff. It's a couple meetings. Universal.

Heard of them. Whatever. WB. Warner Brothers. Yeah. What's up, dude? But those will be just for- I don't even know how those meetings are going to go. I don't really know what's going to happen in there.

They probably won't go well. I mean, do any West Coast meetings for Barstool ever go well? Nope. The email we're on with Nardini says, I have the utmost faith they will represent Barstool perfectly. I'm like, you're trying to convince yourself of that. He's like, no, you're right, but like, quote, unquote, perfectly representing Barstool means like what? You know, like we just went and shook some hands, kind of embarrassed ourselves. I accidentally farted during the meeting, and they didn't like us.

Whatever. So we'll be living that West Coast boondoggle life for a little bit. We'll do the podcast. We'll do that out there Monday night for Tuesday? Yeah, sure. And other than that, I'll probably be sitting in my hotel all by myself. Don't you even try to come socialize with me. No, I won't.

Don't. This is going to be a big time alone together week. Like maybe, maybe we do like one drink at the end of the day at the hotel bar and then like I'm going upstairs. Do not try to get me to do anything else. So. Can't wait. KSU Radio goes west. I'll be out at the bars by myself.

Remember the last time we were in LA we met that fucking porn star from Europe? No. Yeah. We went to that bar in uh it was that bar like we were playing pool and there's a girl covered in bruises

oh yeah oh yeah and then she was talking about how she was a porn star in Europe and it was like she was like it was dark

yeah girls would come back from Europe come back with like darker stories like worse PTSD than people from D-Day yeah shit I saw doing

doing porn in Germany my Swedish porn was weird yeah that woman was she was special yeah did you get her number The shit I saw doing porn in Germany. My Swedish porn was weird. Yeah, that woman was special. Did you get her number that night? I did not. That chick is way too much for me.

Oh, man, that was good stuff. If you're coming in sex bruises, me and you are not on the same page. Maybe like one time. All right, West Coast KFC coming at you this week.