KFC Radio - We React to Dave Portnoy Buying Barstool Back from Penn - Full Episode

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

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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. What is that? No, that is a gaping. It's another edition of KFC Radio on the Barstool Sports Network. We were the first podcast on the network. We're going to be the last podcast on the network Cause we're doing this until we're dead, John

I'm so happy We're doing it until we literally die Do you know Do you know How rare that is To be able to just be like I Like I

We know what we're doing for the rest of our lives Yeah No, I didn't really That didn't totally click until right now And maybe not Who knows No Yeah, right you know right like i was gonna say we we could you know whatever anything can happen but if we want to we can literally do this until we are in a pine box i'm in the fucking dirt i am very very excited about that fact i it's just i mean that's a a very uh not that like anybody here I think would find a job and make money and be okay.

It's not like we'd be like out on the street. But it's just like not a worry. There are people who are worried like what am I going to do next in my career? Where am I going to go? I need to get a promotion. I need to make a move, a lateral move, a move up. We don't worry about any of that. To be fair, I never have.

As evidence shows. But it's nice to know I never will. I mean, well, here's the deal from a KFC Radio point of view. So there will be Barstool Radio if you want to go listen to that. We'll talk about things like on a whole from the company. But on KFC Radio here, since these are obviously KFC Radio listeners, from a KFC Radio point of view, I mean, this doesn't change anything. Yeah, there was some time yesterday.

It's crazy how fast. And don't get me wrong. This is a hit of a drug that will wear off to an extent. Yeah, we're in the honeymoon high right now yeah um but like it was immediate the the shift in the office oh one day it's like i don't know the company everything here changed the weight off people's shoulders exceptionally fast but that meant people were joking like i'm saying this again i'm saying that again and kevin and i were sitting like stop bro it was like the gang out front goes kill yourself jokes are back and i didn't want to be a buzzkill so i was like yeah

we can do it again suicide jokes multiple people said that like multiple you know so what i what they specifically mean because in the gambling world prior to, there was a lot of, I lost my bet. I'm going to kill myself. And we're not allowed to say that. Whereas – You can say it with depression. Hey, you can say it when you mean it. When you're saying it with your chest, not over some silly bet.

It was like straight up out of the scene from Where the Millers where people are like – it's like I'm only getting $50,000. You're getting $50,000. I'm getting $25,000. You guys are getting paid for this? You guys stopped? What are you talking about? No, I mean for real though. It's like I – whether people like believe it or not, like I don't – I never censored myself.

Nor have I. At all. And we didn't do gambling So like I I never gambled prior to them I never gambled with them And I never censored myself So I'm like I don't think this show is going to change at all

I would agree with that I'm happy that like the whole vibe is But it's like I just want people to know that Though it's like We never changed. And I don't think we ever will. Like we, and for better or worse, maybe, maybe, you know, we never had to change.

Cause like they don't give a fuck about us. And we weren't, we're not a big enough show or whatever the reason was, but like we never changed, never did, never will. It's always been this from day one. It'll be until we're fucking dead. The, um, that never changed ever since ourselves those are true statements but there's also just the i like it never i never once heard anything from anybody about right never i've never been contacted by a single person when we said that when we would say

that that was true and it remains true i think it was i think it was a knowledge that everything did funnel the gambling. So everyone who did something else – If you didn't gamble, it felt like, oh, wait a minute. We're expendable. Yeah. It's not even the corporate lifestyle. It was like dealing with government bodies and entities and laws, lobbyists, super PACs. Stock price too.

What's that? The stock price. Stock price too. What's that? The stock price. Stock price being tied to a public price. It's all very, you know, like for idiots like us. Like I don't know how to navigate any of this, you know. And it's just, I think last night I floated home on angel's wings and i i got in bed at 9 30 because i was just so excited for today like christmas and then i couldn't fall asleep until 1 a.m because i was too excited like i was looking at i was watching videos i genuinely felt like oh fuck it's back yo that

that is like the main thing is, it was almost like I became a fan again for a minute, you know? There it is. It was like going back to the days of when I read Barstool and just liked it. Dude, walking here today, I was like, I'm gonna get a fucking Barstool tattoo. Like, fucking, fucking fasoli me up, dude. Fucking

ink me, give me a pirate flag, dude. In fact, everything. I've been in the market for a tattoo. Don't let me out of this room. I'm a little too excitable. I might get it. Yo, I got so many DMs from

fans. There's a few guys. That was crazy. Kevin and I were talking out in front of the office yesterday. I tweeted it. It was the true story. That was the best moment, maybe, of my career. Dude, it was. I'm so mad we didn't just have cameras rolling somehow. That guy walking by in a Mets hat. I think he was probably listening at his phone out and just was like,

We're back, baby! The pirate ship hoist the sails! I was like, holy shit. Is this like a plant? Did somebody like... Was that a setup? Is this Tommy Smokes or something? We were talking in front for five minutes. We were out there for like the first person who walked by it's back

baby it's back that guy is listening tweet the picture of us so that because there's proof of the moment happening um that was like holy shit like that that is the old school feeling that the dms i was getting were like i mean this one guy said it best. He was like, bro, for a 41-year-old stoolie to see the whole thing from start to now has been the greatest reality show ever created. And I've always kind of joked that Barstool is the Kardashians for guys, particularly when I would talk about the Kardashians. People were like, that shit's gay. Why do you talk about it? I was like, you realize that we are the same thing for you. You worry about our relationships and our ins and outs of our lives and everything and uh but now i like

really mean it i mean this is like a you know the season the season like 19 season finale was a fucking bang you know what i mean like this is this you can't script this shit i've always said that there'll be a book. There'll be a movie. There'll be a behind the scenes documentary. But like now that the story goes this way, it's like it's one of the greatest stories literally ever told. And that's not to say it's like there. I know there are still plenty of people who like don't even know who we are and never will. But the people who do know the ride has been nuts, like shit that does not happen to other companies

and other people and other entertainment entities. Like, it is just like, what? I mean, I had people DMing me. I had real-life friends texting me being like, you guys never lose, man. Like, you're still the greatest show ever created. And that's, I mean, for the people who are like, who have ever been like, oh, this is scripted, that's scripted.

It's like, this is the sort of shit that happens like you're worried about these little storylines being like made up this is stranger than fiction this would be if this was a script for an episode of succession they would say no they'd be like come on this is yeah this would never happen so i mean it's just the wildest fucking ride to ever be on and this is particularly crazy nobody being here in the morning is fucking we'll talk more about it on barcelon radio um i i but like dave dude dave is back in like fire breathing dragon mode but he also i i truly can't imagine uh just like like that dude whether he's like meant to or or like intentionally did or not probably carried the weight of the world on his shoulders for a long fucking time whether when it was just himself being like i'm going to like make this company work and then being like i am pretty much the linchpin for like the careers of like 250 people,

300 people, 400 people. So he's probably been like, you know, I actually don't think he's very stressed. I think he's kind of like, fuck it. This is what I just,

which is what I do. But on some level it's got a way on you. Right. And then this week he was just like, you could see him smiling. Yeah. Dave was smiling. Him and Nate,

that's one of the more genuine smiles I've seen out of Dave outside of the post-game Super Bowl parties. He went to dinner with Nate. Like, what? In what? That does not happen a day ago. You know, like, that is a strictly, I lost, look at that smile!

I will say this about Nate Dogg. The Portnoy smirk for two guys who, for better or worse, whether we like to admit it or not, are just like have always just desperately been seeking Dave's approval. Oh, I think I've admitted it. Yeah. I think I've made it pretty goddamn clear. I can count how many times you said, good job.

I think I've made it clear. I know the moment. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, two guys who just want, like, you want to play catch, dad? And he always just gambles. I'm like, I can't do that. I can't do that. That's the one thing I can't do.

I remember being what about if i try and be funny he's not interested i remember the the the i don't know if i've told the story probably because i've told every story i have um the celtics christmas party way way way back yeah we were in the box and he tried to like talk to me about gambling. And I at that point really didn't know any of the lingo or any like any anything. And I was kind of just like, oh, I don't I don't know. I didn't I don't bet, man. And it was just kind of like.

OK, cool. Like I'm turning over here now. I remember being like, oh, I'm never going to be friends with this guy. It would be the same of like, you know, if, you know, I don't know, I'm talking to someone. I'm like, you know, what's your favorite TV shows? They're like, oh, I don't watch TV. I'd be like, see you never. Yeah, right.

So, but what I was going to say is that the Portnoy smirk is about the closest thing you can get to like approval. Yeah, yeah. He'll never really laugh at you. He'll never. It's Endeavor. Devil wears Prada shit at the end where she just like smirks right and that was like her moment where she's like oh she likes me when when dave goes like you know you know you've either like proved him wrong or you got him or you've said something funny that he like he thinks is funny but he

doesn't want to admit it and i will say the dog is the guy who gets the smirk the most. Yesterday, Nate goes, Kraken Aces is safe, man. And Dave just turned around, and he put his hands up to say something, and he was literally speechless. And he just smirked and nodded his head. It was great. So he, as much as it's – I mean, Nate is – he's so funny. The lack of self-awareness is so funny

he texted he texted trent five minutes into dinner i don't know why i'm here it's like yeah no fucking kidding bro why would you go oh the noogie yeah the the dog and and dave i told nate we're bringing back the the bird cage so get ready you're gonna have to work from a bird even watching that right now it's like oh my god so good um so it's just shit like that like it's actually the perfect combination as much as we we we made fun of the new couches uh the the new like front part of the office really does facilitate a lot more hanging out. And then this news along with it. Yesterday, we stayed at the office until 6.30. Just hanging out and talking.

Usually, I do the show and I'm gone. I very much feel, and maybe we're aware of it. I don't know if it will. I don't know what I feel. Again, I naturally will. But I feel part of Barcelona. Well, you know if it will. I don't know what I feel. Again, naturally it will. But I feel part of Barstool again. Well, you know what it is? It's physically the office.

It's this news. And it's like there's pride in New York again with the New York-Chicago thing. It's like people who are here want New York to be good. You have to be – Barstool or – not even Barstool. Content creating, influencing, whatever fucking word you want to use for it is 100% about wanting to do it. Like money comes and you can make a lot of money and that – and I actually think the money hurts like the content creation. When you are good at making content, it's because you want to and that is it like you can do it for the money but you won't do it as good as the person who does it because

they want to so like when we were when we used to blog i was not like if i put this blog up i'm gonna get more money it was a byproduct of it and i wanted a raise but every time i blogged i was like i gotta do it fast and good because I want to, I want to, I want the credit. I want people to know that I did it. I want to beat the other guy. And that naturally over time and as you get money and as you get older and all these reasons, you lose that.

It's like, ah, I've done this a lot. I don't, I don't have the same juice. I don't have the same desire. Uh, I don't necessarily compare myself to anybody anymore. Now it's like it's all back. It's like I want to do it all again, and I want – that's why we decided to do Barstool Radio. It's been something we were kicking around in more than one form. Like we were talking about maybe changing...

I mean, there's literally no... Adam Smith wrote seven blogs last month. Seven. Oh. So, again, how fucking... Okay, should we read it? Yeah. Yeah, okay.

So, this is a Dave Portnoy blog, day one of the new Barstool. The title is, How Fucking Braindead Are My Employees? I have an honest question. Four spaces. How fucking dumb are all my... I'm going to read out how many spaces he puts in the words, because that's part of Dave's blog. I have an honest question, period.

Four spaces. How fucking dumb are all my idiot employees? Four spaces. I've literally owned Barstool less than 24 hours. They know I'm in town and literally none of them have showed up to the office today before 10 a.m.

Four spaces. I've been here since 8 a.m. because I'm old and don't sleep anymore and was reading all the news articles and sucking my cock from buying Barstool back. Four spaces.

Anyway, back to the point. Four spaces. Nobody is here. It was so silent i noticed how silent it was and i'm not talking about valuable employees either this isn't murderer's row of content it's not big cat pft or alex cooper i'm talking about bold smitty nate glenny balls marty rico tommy clemmer rico again this is the best blog davis written in years. You can tell. The double Rico is very funny.

Guys I could cut at the drop of a hat and nobody would notice, and they'd never find another job like this again. None of them are here. None of them thought I'd show up maybe early on day one of the new regime. I mean, seriously, how fucking dumb are these people? No wonder Penn gave it back to me for pennies on the dollar. I got the dumbest group of morons who ever lived. that's great what a blog that's gonna stir up so many people of like hire me i i'll never do this to you dave that that is bad i mean that is fucking bad

that was unfortunately you and i were in here because i walked out afterwards. He was like, Feidelberg's here. Yeah. And I was like, I walked out for a reason. Because I saw that. I saw that tweet, and I kind of just moseyed my way out there. Just be like, oh, hey, boss. How you doing? Yo, I love how he's like, we're not doing any corporate shit anymore. Hey, boss. Bro, I did that shit.

I didn't do that shit during Penn. I did that shit pre-Penn. Or pre-Kernan. I did that shit pre-Penn or pre-Kernan. I did that shit back in Milton. You do it for Dave. I'm doing that shit again. I woke up at 9.26 this morning, fucking rushed in the shower, didn't do my hair, threw on clothes, and fucking got here for like 9.55.

I fucking – that wasn't – bro, it's actually scary how naturally that came, that, like, I knew. It's back. I, I think, I like to think, when I big cap hit the house, Cooper, we're right there. Yeah. And I think it's not like, where the fuck's Fidelberg and Kevin? I was like, I better be there by then. But, like, I actually, no, the weird part is, I wasn't.

It just, it was just instant. It just happened. You didn't think it. Your body just knew. I didn't, like, I need to be there. It was just't. It just it was just happened. You didn't think it. Your body. I didn't like I need to be there. It was just like 10 o'clock there. And it's I mean, you know, the joke, not even the joke, just like the ridiculousness has always been 10 a.m.

Yeah. Yeah. The fucking cut off. Like, you're almost watching Price is fucking right. We want you to be in the office. I mean, yeah, that is colossally stupid. And now, like, you know, and now you just can't leave again. I will say this about Barstool Radio,

and this might apply to the whole thing with Dave as well. A lot of people were like, I'm so excited Barstool Radio is back. People dreaded that show when it was on the air, where there's a lot of revisionist history and rose-colored glasses with barstool radio because people used to get dragged in there to talk about their personal lives and their worst moments and their drama and their gossip and it was like oh fuck i now it's like i can't wait for it to be back i i i think that it will obviously be very much that. But it's – we are not Dave personality-wise or power-wise. So like it's – you're not talking to your boss.

You're talking to – Like people used to be like, I'm going to get fired on the radio. And I think it's – I think we're a good balance. I think you can get a little more in your face. I'll probably be the Dave role and you have to be the – I used to throw everyone a lifeline even if I disagreed with them. Yeah. I'd be like, I just and you have to be the i i used to throw everyone a lifeline even if i disagreed with them yeah i'd be like i just don't want to watch this person get beaten to death live on the radio so i would be like no smitty works hard you know and then uh

and then d it was like a simon cowell uh thing you know like there's a bad guy and the good guy and now i think i'll probably have to be more of the bad guy i'm not good at that but i don't think i'll throw lifelines i i think i'm pretty i think tommy's i think you'll probably have to be more of the bad guy. I'm not good at that, but I'll try to play that role. I don't think I'll throw lifelines. I think Tommy's – I think you'll be good at that. I think Tommy's very good at everything, to be honest. But I think he's good at stirring. Tommy will be good at, like, this person needs to – like, he'll know the drama and the gossip. And he's very good at being, like, funny about it.

And then I think I'm – I think it's a curse but i think i'm always pretty good at seeing both sides of things and sometimes i will agree with you and i won't be throwing lifelines i'll be stepping on heads yeah right right right right if i uh no i mean well that's like to do a good like that even sounded too much that's not what i mean like no but to do a good – That even sounded too much. That's not what I mean. No, but to do a good and compelling radio show, like you're not going to be everybody's friends. Yeah. You know, like there are going to be – I used to – I don't know how people – I think I know how people felt about Dave on Barstool Radio. I think I could guess how people felt about me, but I don't know what people used to say about me. But like there were definitely times that you would get called in get called in and i would be like yeah man you're a fucking idiot and then like outside of barcelona radio

i would just say hello and smile to you and you and people you know like i've been calling barcelona radio when i was an idiot yeah and you know what if you told me off air i was an idiot but i fucking know yeah yeah but i'm not trying to kill you i could see people you know being like what you want to be friends now and it's like yeah i do i don't know this is just the fucking gig i think there's also you reach a point of um it's like blogging i say blogging i just mean because we don't blog anymore podcasting content whatever uh dave is currently coming at smitty right now because he wrote seven blogs yeah we read the blog yeah yeah um you reach a point of like blogging nirvana almost where you're like you don't care anymore you know like you do you

always care but it's like i are we friends or not friends i don't really care like are you gonna like me not like me do you like my content do you like my show i don't i don't care you know and that's when you can do a show like that more honestly and impartially yeah and dave could always do it because he's the boss and it's just like i'm not here to be your friend i'm here to be your boss whereas i was always kind of like we are friends but now i gotta like play this role on the radio long story short it's just like i think we're at a point where it's like we've put in enough hours to be critical or or you know whatever honest or whatever we need to be about it that

i think it'll definitely work i think and just having the gossip back the drama back the more more so the amount of people who are just like i fell off because i used to be able to just listen to like barstool for an hour and know what's going on at barstool now it's like i gotta listen to five podcasts and you know 50 different instagram accounts and all this shit it's just like bam it'll all be laid out in one show. I think the straw that stirs the drink for that will be Tommy Smokes. Yeah. I think you and I and other people in the Barstool office, New York office,

have always known that something – we're going to have some kind of radio show here, but we couldn't figure it out. I know you and I weren't interested in doing just a kevin and john show another one yeah i don't think they were we were interested i don't think there's demand for it we didn't know what how to make it work and you called me yesterday morning and you know what if we do with tommy and i was like holy shit yes yeah sometimes that's all you need it was like voicemails with kfc radio i was like let let's go. Tommy kind of was the X factor there. And then think of rotating fourth mic, which the, I think, the secret weapon.

The day that maybe someone does need to have their neck stepped on. I have a couple people. I got two. Obviously the dog. Yeah, the dog. The one I was thinking. We'll do three, two, one, and we'll say it, okay? Three, two, one.

Pat. It's our gay bulldog, baby. He's a saucy, sassy little thing. That's exactly what he is. I mean, he loves it. He backstabs on reality shows he talks shit to your face and behind your back he is gonna be he'll probably end up being a permanent mike yeah uh i mean that oh wait what are the blogging tags on it dumb morons, Rico Bosco. Fucking great.

Bro, I watched that video last night that Dave posted. It's so embarrassing, but the reception desk, make a difference. If you have concerns, suggestions, preventing illegal or unethical activity, please speak up. When you look at the back, it's like if you want to anonymously narc on somebody, uh-uh-uh. No, no, no, no. You want to fucking narc on somebody here we do it publicly on camera no more bitches no more fucking this that make a difference shut the fuck up you got a problem you turn the cameras on and you settle it for content that's how we do it gang shit gang shit dude the god is i didn't see that till right now that's fucking awesome I did see him go to the desk

And grab those And I didn't know what they were But it was It was right after that big meeting And there was so much hubbub So I just I just didn't figure it out Figure it out

That is fucking great This is This stuff dude The The minute That we were clowning Nate All just roasting him Like

The feedback immediately Was people just being like It's back, dude. I almost wish we didn't work here and we were just fans because the feeling of that, I guess it's kind of, I mean, it kind of

flopped in the long run in my mind, but when Chappelle came back, I remember being excited. I'm trying to think of, I guess it's like if one of your shows that got cancelled gets scooped up by Netflix. Yeah, hopefully we're not season four of Arrested. I just – like the rush legitimately is – It just hit me.

This could go awfully. It's not all – Oh, God. This could go really bad. Imagine if we fast forward like a month and we're all like fired. There's no money left. We're all fucked. Last night I was so jacked up.

I was like – I was just saying I was in bed watching Dave's clip of him doing the I'm not fucking leaving, which I knew was coming at some point. Yeah. But I was watching it like – I'll be honest. Like we were saying we're always looking for Dave's approval. I was like, am I going to be in the crowd? Wait. Actually, Pat, can you pull that up? There, we are the crowd, which was.

I didn't see this. It's just, it's just, I'm not fucking leaving speech. Oh, and then you put like, okay, good, good, good. You know what is funny? That is a very inside Barstool thing. I don't know if anyone's talked about publicly. And people on the outside would never know when when millmore makes videos or posters and photoshops your head onto movie

characters or whatever they are like the whatever the poster or video is about you want to be in it yeah and if you're not you're like oh fuck or like your to be in it. And if you're not, you're like, oh, fuck. Or like your placement, you know what I mean? If you're like a tiny head in the background, you're like, I guess I'm not thought of like that anymore. But I watched this last night like five separate – like more than five. Just like in bed, lights off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, if I was watching this, I'd be like, when the camera cuts, I better be in there.

Hell yeah, let's go. I'm not fucking leaving. The dog. The show goes on. That is so good. I would have liked if my mouth moved here. What is that? I just look like a fuckhole. You just look like a face to be fucked.

That is a, that is a. Bro, there are easily, there are easily one million images of you with your mouth open. Pull up any video where you say oh on camera. It's like you would just make John look like a sex doll. That looks like Millmore

printed out a piece of paper and cut it with scissors and then put it back on the computer. I was watching it like the second time. I was like it must have paused the first.

I'm like move, move, move my mouth. And that is for sure a glory hole on your face. Dude, it's like... That is hilarious. I was watching... I like a trend,

so it's perfect. That is so... Yeah, like, as easy as... It's fucking hilarious. What is that? No, that is a gaping asshole. Dude, I was watching it and like...

Wait, but what the fuck is that? Wait, you guys would know. Don't you, like, asshole. Dude, I was watching it and like... Wait, but what the fuck is that? Wait, you guys would know. Don't you have to intentionally make someone's mouth look like that? That's not human. He must have made it like that. There's no... So what happened was, those are probably your lips, but he

manipulated it in Photoshop by just smudging it up and down and didn't put much effort into it. And I think he saw what he was doing. Is that Millmore, you think? Yes, for sure. I was watching it at the end of Step Bros and like, this is the best. It's okay that mine's not movie quality.

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I was like, oh, my God. I got to start grooming Keegan to be a fucking CEO of Barstool. So it's all, it's all, it is funny because, like. Why not, Shay? Barbie bitch. Because I would never, I would never subject my little baby angel to this fucking place, this goddamn circus. That was very funny. But it is funny that, like, I don't know, this show will just be the same.

So back to what you always listen to. We're always in this studio with this gang doing our thing. We will go back to twice a week, though, because the Monday episode was always like a Barstool personality, and the whole idea was – the whole point of the Monday episode was to do a little Barstool radio, do a little Dave Portnoy show. When Dave Portnoy show left, I was like,

there's a void for Barstool personalities getting some shine, so let's do that once a week. Now, with Barstool Radio, that won't be necessary. So back to twice a week, but we'll also be on air Mondays, so if you want your fix, you can just listen to Barstool Radio, which will be on our YouTube page.

Are we going to do the Monday episode of Best to barstool radio which will be on our youtube page uh i think are we gonna do the monday episode of best of barstool radio and then yeah i don't know when that'll air yeah figure that out but either end of the week or beginning of each week will be a podcast version of barstool radio uh the the youtube whatever youtube account it ends up on will have highlights and clips so if you can't watch live, it'll be in YouTube form on demand. It'll be in podcast form on demand. So you'll be able to get your fix that way. We had even talked about when before all this happened,

but after the corporate shakeup with the GMs and the new branches of Barstool, there was a pretty clear initiative of every brand needs to grow and grow a lot. I think the vibe was like we need to make this a billion-dollar company. And so for that to happen, we have a bunch of brands that are over the fucking moon successful, and then we need to get every other brand up there. And KFC Radio, it just is what it is. We've been around forever, and we know exactly how big this show is we've always heard about the name and about how kind of

broad and vague it is. Sales was always like, they don't understand the name. We don't get what the show is. It's hard to pitch. It's a podcast. I know. I know. It's literally one of the first ones because it was just like

what podcasts are. It's people just having funny conversations. But every podcast is and every podcast always has been. And for some reason, you guys couldn't figure it out over the last fucking 15 years. But I did get – it's an unorthodox name and especially when there was radio and podcasts and all that shit. So I had talked to John and I said maybe this is the time. What I always wanted the podcast to be is the Barstool Sports Podcast because that's what it was.

It was the Barstool website in podcast form. We would talk about sports. We would talk about chicks. We would talk about viral videos. I like sports again. You like sports again? It's one of those things how work always affects how you do stuff and enjoy stuff i was talking about this like i i golfed with uh trent and frank yesterday came right in from the links for the meeting

yo let's talk about that in a second and uh and we were just talking about life and shit out there and um i was saying how like barstool has, in a sense, kind of, like, ruined just, like, calling your friend and talking to him for me. Because it's always like, wow, this is a good guy. And it, like, it's not just, like, everything we're talking about with, like, structures and stuff like that. It's never a conscious decision of, like, no, this would be better here. It's just, like, why have a conversation now? Let's do it on air. Or let's do, like air or let's do like everything

got changed and sports were one for me and maybe it's because i didn't gamble and i felt left out not even not left out because it's not like i was trying to be in like i just like it felt like there was a chasm between me and sports people and i was like even like i would i just be like and like scroll past anything sports on twitter last night i was like, I would just be like, and scroll past anything sports on Twitter. Last night I was like. Watching highlights. I was like, oh, hard knocks. Oh, yeah.

It is. I saw like Sauce Gardner. I was like, I fucking know who that is. Aaron Rodgers told me he's going to be in the Hall of Fame. It's crazy the shift I've had in the last 12, 18, whatever it's been hours. Dude, that's honestly kind of what, like, the key to life is if you can, like, harness that or flip that. Like, unfortunately, it takes monumental events to, like, trick your brain into feeling that way. The people who can, like, control their emotions and, like, just make themselves or at least trick themselves into feeling that way.

If you could give yourself that same revitalized feeling just on demand, it would be great. I don't know. I actually don't know if people can do that. I do think you need some sort of outside catalyst, but you need to wait every 10 years for a monster event like this for it to happen. But we had talked about, like, back when I started the podcast, I was like, I can't call this the Barstool Sports Podcast. Dave is not even on it, and he'll never, like, allow that. That was back when there was a lot of, like, competition, and, like, you know, he would never, I just don't think he would let me use that name.

And then, but then this time around, I was kind of like, you know, Dave is not doing content as much. He's not in the office. He's in Miami. Chicago's happening. We're kind of like the last thing that is like truly original Barstool that's here. So maybe I can use that name and maybe we can just rebrand this whole thing to the Barstool Sports Podcast. The content wouldn't have to change because that's the essence of the show, but maybe the marketing and the branding and the search engine optimization and the people stumbling

upon it, maybe that would be the one thing that could like lift us to another, you know, tier because just steady growth is not going to get us to be like a, you know, 100 million download show or whatever. But I was like, maybe we can do that. And so we kicked that idea around a couple weeks ago. And our initial conversation, I think we were both like, fuck it, let's do it. And then by the end of that same conversation,

it was like, well, wait a minute. Are we going to really just change everything we've built over the last decade? And then it's just nice that two weeks later, we can do Barstool Radio and this and just have both of them exist in the same world. So I think it's great for content. For the actual show, it's great for content, for the vibe and the atmosphere.

I think the people who were maybe nervous about where they stood and what their future is going to be. They're just like back at it. Like, no worries. But yeah, they're definitely like, well, how is this going to work? Is everybody going to be here forever? Is the money tree like still growing? How does this go on? I also was thinking about like merch last night.

I think like a big boost in merch will probably come because it's different buying from like the guys that you love, like compared to like buying from a big boost in merch will probably come because it's different buying from the guys that you love compared to buying from a big corporation. I think that merch was kind of dying for us in a way. I think buying merch for... Because it wasn't cool. It wasn't cool. Again, just what comes I've said it before where you kind of become

the mountain and you're not a cool company anymore. I think being us again makes us cool again so i think so at least i could be wrong i or people could disagree but i i think it's a cool company again i i feel like uh the fans who have been like day one fans it's probably i know this sounds silly if you're not like a diehard and you think that we're all being dramatic. But like that was probably some of the best news they've ever gotten. Like because it represents like what you do when you hate your job and how you escape and all that shit, it matters a lot.

You may not even realize it, but then all of a sudden you get the news like the thing you loved that you didn't even necessarily think was gone but like you know it had changed is back it's like it's like uh like re-sparking a relationship or something like that where it's like we're we're back in the honeymoon phase and everyone's happy again i think a lot of people were probably like holy shit i think i've said this before too where like we all know and always know that pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered. We were a pig who became a hog. I don't know if anyone's ever gotten to be a pig again. Bro, you're right.

Like, that just does not happen. People don't, you know, get their company back when it's still, like, thriving. Dave's haters must be sick to their fucking stomachs for multiple reasons number one it's a huge win number two like they probably were like that guy's gonna go away soon like he's got his money you know he's just gonna ride off into the sunset and we'll just like get to operate in our world without without dealing with him and it's like nope i'm back and i'm bad and i'm better than ever yeah there are gonna be more trump ads than you're used to uh i wonder uh but i do wonder especially as we've seen how day one has unfolded i wonder if like smitty was like oh you know like a couple people who are classically

in the crosshairs of dave i mean but but, but like, have you ever seen a worse bout batch of timing than Rico Bosco? I mean, the guy did nothing wrong. He just took a vacation from work

with his family in the middle of the fucking dog days of summer when there's only shitty baseball on and, you know, probably really tried like,

okay, football's about to come up. So let me get it in now. And it happens to be the biggest week in the history of Barstool. Did you read this blog? Where is Rico Bosco? No. This was from yesterday. This was yesterday morning. How many vacation days should new employees be given?

Okay, let's go down. This is hypothetical that I've been thinking about. Wait, this is after the news? No, before. Okay. This is hypothetical that I've been thinking about lately. How this is after the news? No, before. Okay. This is hypothetical that I've been thinking about lately. How many vacation days should a new employee get his first year? Oh.

This read goes year to year. So how many days of vacation should a new employee get in his first year of employment? Because back in early Boston days, I didn't keep track of vacation days. It was just expected that everyone would work 24-7, 365 days a year. Fact. If we didn't blog every single day, the company wouldn't have survived. Nobody bitched or complained about it. It just was what it was.

We chose that life over corporate America, and we were willing to do literally everything it took to give us the best chance to survive. That's exactly what I was saying at the top of the show, just summarized, like, you know, shorter. It wasn't even the best chance to survive. It was, but it was also just, like, this is the best chance to, like, live a life that's not – it was shitty because you had to blog every day, but no amount of blogging was worse than corporate America. Yeah, yeah. Well, obviously times have changed. I've sold Barstool twice.

We've gone slightly corporate. But to be honest, I still don't know how many vacation days work here. I know at one point you had to ask Zah permission to go on vacation. I always looked at it as people can take as much vacation time as they want. The best people will work their asses off to build their profile. The slackers will try to game the system and take as many vacation days as they can finagle. Yeah, that's true. So again, I asked the question, what's the typical amount of vacation?

I mean, I will say, as always, I reached a point. You know, it's very funny, and I hate to even – I hate to say it because it's just – it's going to make that enormous head even bigger. But there was a time in my sports fandom career where I just gave in to Tom Brady. And I was just like, I used to spin it. He's not Peyton Manning. His numbers aren't good. He's cheating.

Steroids steroids you know deflacate all this shit and eventually I think it was the Rams maybe it was deflacate I don't know they were 28-3 whatever it was

I was just like I'm not gonna talk I'm not gonna be Max Kellerman I bend the knee and like as a guy who was like was rivals with Dave and like

we were always like butting heads and there was team this and team that like I mean I can't say shit you can't say shit about the guy anymore but why the reason I say that is because I always was like you Dave has gotten us here so like he was right he I was wrong about this he was right about this but I was always like I think we could have done it your way with just a little, like, dash of humanity of treating people, like, humanely. And, like, maybe having, like, a couple vacation days would have, like, I don't know, saved the psyche of about 10 or 12 people on the planet Earth.

It really, like, Barstool, it came at the cost of, like, probably, like, six to eight people's mental health you can probably guess yeah like and and and we in exchange you know got to do all this cool shit and made some money and all that but like we'll never be the same our brains will never be the same um so maybe if it was just like yeah you know remember when he said like, all your friends who take vacations will never be successful in life? I was going to bring it up. Yeah. My friends go on vacation and they work real jobs. Your friends are never going to be successful in life.

Oh, okay. He was wrong. Sorry, Dad. He was wrong. They're all doing all right. That's what I mean. Like, you know, maybe. But, like, here's the thing.

What he said was true. Like, the people who want to be big are going to do it, right? Yes. And I'm not trying to pile on Rico because I certainly know, you know, married life and family life when you work for Barstool, those two things are diametrically opposed. And if one succeeds succeeds it pulls the other one down and vice versa so this is a big battle so there's no easy way to do it but like rico's also just gotta recognize like i i would just be like yo babe like i can't i'm i'm rico i'm in the crosshairs forever now it's just not gonna be the same for me as other employees

so when she's like you know other people go on vacation it's like well i can't i just i don't know i don't know what to tell you i can't do you think he's back today like i'd fly back i'd 100 fly back i don't know enough about like his you know family situation where like i don't know it's what it's it's it's it is a tough game when you're married i don't know what his relationship is like. There is a part of you that's like, I'm a father and a husband. And like this, I'm not leaving my kid on vacation. But there is a part of you that's like, I also am a father and a husband. I have to provide and do all that shit.

Also, for the showman in him, like if he popped on Barstool Radio today, like, holy shit. I think we'll for sure get a call. I think if we're not closing out Barstool Radio with the fucking – with the Rico song and the Rico call, I would be sorely disappointed. But it is a tough – it's not – it is the most difficult part of Barstool, at least it was for me, and still is to an extent, is being – it's not even kids, but it is marriage and relationships I think are very, very hard at Barstool. And then that goes times 100 when you're one of the punching bags. You know what I mean? So like there's just guys, me, you, whoever, like, you know, we just knew it's different for us in certain ways.

It's different for Rico. It's different for Rico. What is this video? Oh, it's just your golf attire. Oh, yeah. Okay, enough about it. So that's the news. We'll get into the regular show.

Johnny Golf came in the office yesterday, made a video with Frankie and Trent. It was very funny that me and... Look at this. We just got sucked in. Me and Trent walked in right before the announcement. Like, the announcement, our train got into...

Look at him, look at that. Our train got into the the our train got into uh pen pen at 350 so so that was i didn't say it to you because i didn't want to like stress you out but you were like we'll be back in time for the meeting like we're gonna end golf around like two and as long as there's like not crazy traffic like we'll be back i didn't know you were taking the train i I thought you said traffic. I did say traffic. I thought Trent was going to drive. And I was like, yeah, because there's never a lot of traffic going from Long Island to Manhattan on a summer afternoon. I was like, no shot you guys make it back in time. And then even taking the train, it was still close.

It was a 245 train that got us a 350 or something like that. But at least you knew there was a time. You knew you were going to get. And we strolled in and like the office was set. Everyone knew that you, Dave, and Erica were like,

I don't know, in some meeting room. Yeah. And there was this meeting and everyone was like waiting with bated breath and me and Trent sauntered in

and everyone was like, what the fuck are you wearing? I've never... This has always been your... This is the are you wearing? I've never. This has always been your. This is the cross you bear, Barstool. People just talk about your outfits all the time. But usually it's a stylish thing that people aren't used to or understand. You've gone so far that direction.

You come out the other side where if you just wear a polo and khakis, people are like, what the fuck is this? It is the most standard golf. Now, to be fair, you look like every other man in America your age. It's just so far from what you are that people are like, what in the fuck is going on here? It is. I said that people would have been less surprised if I was in scrubs like covered in blood. They'd be like, oh, John just did surgery. And I would have been fine.

But this, I'm like, what the fuck is that? It's khakis and a polo, man. It's khakis and a polo. Every single person, I watched it happen. Everybody who came in stopped. What are you wearing? You said you looked to where we were standing four separate times to find me, and I was just standing there.

It's like, where's Fidelberg? Zipping past him every time. And he was like, I was golfing. And people were like, why didn't you change? He was like, I came from the – Like, what do you think? I'm just going to wear this for the rest of the day. Trent was in the same exact clothes.

That's what's funny, though. Like, he looked normal. He looked ridiculous. It's kind of what I always say About the way you regularly dress If I were to wear that People would be like What are you fucking doing? It's just the expectation

That was almost It was great In a weird Backwards way It was like Oh we're back to making fun Of Feidelberg's outfits too It's a totally new outfit But you but let's just start calling him gay again.

Madame Feidelberg's back, dressing like a fucking corporate asshole on the golf course. It is funny that you never looked more corporate in your life on the day of the least corporate day of my life. I wanted to stay on the court. I wanted to be in the office for the announcement very badly. So you know what? I almost missed it. You did? I was – so I was in the meeting with Dave and Erica and then Erica was like, okay, I

thought she said something like, I'll come get you or I'll text you or whatever around like – it was around 4 o'clock and Iclock, and I asked to talk to Roan. So me and Roan were having a meeting about New York and everything and didn't realize that all of a sudden it was like 4.20, and we were in the green screen room, and we heard just like some random kid out here go like, we're back or something like that. And he was like, wait a minute, are we missing this this i don't want to miss the rocket ship taking off and i came in like we were like

the last to do yeah the like if ron didn't speak up i was just we were just like kind of going all on on about content i would have probably missed the whole thing it would have been very funny funny um so uh let's get into regular shit yeah um am i the asshole and voicemail zbiotics we all have busy lives these days and can't afford to waste a day stuck on the couch because of a few drinks of the the night before zbiotics is the answer we've all been looking for zbiotics is pre-alcohol probiotic It's the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. It was invented by PhD scientists to tackle rough mornings after drinking. We've all had those. They are not fun.

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Alright, Am I the Asshole? You want to pick a card? Yeah. Everybody can get their copy of Am I the Asshole? It's got 500 different scenarios. We always forget to play it on the air because it's a fucking fun game.

It's fun to do it this way. Everybody should go get theirs and do it for your parties and stuff. What do we got? Do you guys want to play? Can you play from over there? Yeah. I won't go to protests with my boyfriend anymore because I don't think they're effective.

He says I have no moral backbone. Bro, if you ever say the phrase you have no moral backbone, you're an asshole. Bro, life is too short to give a fuck about your moral backbone. I'm sure some people think the diametric opposite of that. That's what life's all about you know protesting protesting had a glow up over the last decade or so i mean during the occupy wall street days and anytime there was like a a protest that like stopped traffic or whatever pretty much like everyone i know and

and in my circle and my feed on the internet was like fuck protesters and obviously there are still a lot of people protesting is a very hot button issue but it you know it actually works and it became effective like it used to just be like a bunch of assholes crying now it like you know became like a it was almost

like the 60s again where it was like protesting like mattered so it definitely changed changed uh like the whole vibe of protesting but i mean there i used to it was easy pickings to like blog a protest and be like fuck these losers i actually remember i almost i almost fucked myself uh i i gotta give him credit the one of the the legal he who should not be named saved me. I walked through Grand Central and there was a protest and I was like, fuck all these losers. Like, get out of my way. I need to get to my train. And it was the Eric Garner protests, which was like one of the first like racial police brutality ones. Like and I published it.

It was up for like two minutes. And he was like hey man i like i don't know if you've seen what this news story is about but like this is a and i was like oh shit okay let me delete it but i i was even like all right whatever i'll just be safe but like fuck you you pussy and then i was like oh man i could have ruined my career. And we're back to that. Let's go. I was during the pandemic. I was drinking on the street in New York. It was when everything was closed.

Good old days. Yeah. It was like you're just drinking on the street. Everyone's just sitting on sidewalk corners. It was dope. And there was a protest. It's real funny you say that because i mean arguably at that point it was like you know like and i was at the point where like thousands of people a day started to die numbers and i remember there was like a group chat about a really cool picture you took of hubs do you remember that he was sitting on the curb with

like a fucking like 40 or something like that and like the sun was behind him and feidelberg sent out the picture and i think then everyone was like yo firework can you take a picture me too that was when we started to take pictures of your friends yeah yes yes one of the most successful movements of the of the pandemic and it was like people banging pots and pans and then these guys were like let's take selfies not selfies selfies, pictures. There is a difference. But there was, it was on that exact

street corner and there was a protest coming up and I wholeheartedly believe in all these protests. And there's a protest coming up at us and I was like, man, I should jump in that. And then I... You really did think that? Yeah. Yeah, I was like, man, I should jump in that. And then I –

You really did think that? Yeah. Yeah. I was like – I would never – even if – somebody could be protesting for the lives of, like, the Clancy family, and I'd be like, I'm just going to let you guys do that. And I convinced myself because that sidewalk corner was pretty comfortable. I was like –

White guilt? I was like, they're going to know I'm a poser. Yeah. I'm not a real ally. I'm going to ruin the vibe of the protest. That's how narcissistic I am. I'll ruin the vibe. You're right.

That is incredibly narcissistic. But if in that moment you jumped into George Floyd protests, they would have been like, cool, man. Thanks for coming here. Would you just go for a golf course? I was like, Let's go. You guys want a drink? I think that if you're in a relationship like that couple, you just got to – Well, I will say those two have to break up.

Yes. And I don't know who is the breaker-upper and who is the break-uppy. I don't know who is going to win or lose the break-up. But that just doesn't vibe. If you are a earthy, crunchy, hippie protester, you need to date an earthy, crunchy, hippie protester. Like you're going to live in tents on the side of the road and glue yourself to the fucking highway together. You know, you can't be it can't be like, OK, babe, I'm going to like go contribute to like morbid capitalism and, you know, watch sports and gamble. And, you know, like it's just not going to work.

So if you have a person who protesting is that that sounds like she stopped protesting, though. She said something like, yeah, that's anymore. So maybe it was like, listen, maybe that maybe you've become the radical. And it's like, I was down for like, like all lives matter or no, not that, but like everybody,

everybody, everybody like should treat each other nicely. And then it was like, you know, you become like Antifa or something. And accidental. Like if you become the radical... Kevin's radical view is all-lives matter. But if it's just, like, you both started in a relationship being, like, fight the power, change, and then one person, like, yeah, you can't stop that.

That's what, like, the fucking foundation, it's like Dennis and the, and the protest girl, you know? Yeah. That's his wife now? No,

the pharmacist. Right, right, right. Jackie, would you break up with someone? I don't,

I just don't really see, I kind of like him dumb, so I don't really see, I don't really see myself going for, like, the protesting type. You don't mean that. You really like guys to be dumb? No, I don't like him dumb, I just protesting type. You don't mean that.

You really like guys to be dumb? No, I don't like them dumb. I just like them, I guess. Like fun? Yeah, fun. Easy? Like fratty. You're in your frat boy era?

Yeah, that makes sense. Complicit. Complicit. I like my guys to be part of the problem. For real. Fucking Miss Barbie over here is like, I just want to get give fuck guys who don't care about me that's not what i meant uh yeah kind of like how you promised to never die in

like a tornado i promised like never be at a protest there's nothing i care about i really i don't think there's anything there are things that i'm passionate about there is nothing that i feel i am important enough to the cause of to protest. You know, like... I say all this despite being... It's always tough to have that Brady Ford hangover.

I was just saying, you went to jail for a protest. That was different. A grander plan. That was like a protest where we thought we were going to make a difference, but not for the thing we were protesting for. Here's the thing. I i will say this i will never be in a protest that's not funny if a protest is funny i'll do anything to be funny i'm i'm i'm desperate to make you laugh if if somebody comes to you with a fun brady for protest i'll go to jail

okay um uh my friend was getting divorced oh this is a this is from a personal uh this is like from real life my friend was getting divorced so i didn't give him a plus one for my wedding they're trying to work things out now and called off the divorce but i still won't invite her um this was a big this is a big thing it was a big thing. It was a big, this is you, not me, but like in, in my life. Um, and, um,

my buddy caved and invited them. And like two months later, the, they were divorced again. And, um, he was very like, you know,

this, no, like this girl's like treating you poorly. And it was like, she treated us poorly. And like, you know, uh, we don't want her at the wedding like, treating you poorly, and, like, treated us poorly, and, like, you know, we don't want her at the wedding, he was kind of like, well, then I'm not coming, like, this is, I'm trying to figure this out, and he was like, all right, fine, like, you have to be there, they're, like, best friends, and, and so he did, and then they broke up anyway,

but the point is, like, they're fine, like're fine like it was like in the moment at their wedding i think they were stressing over it and you're very particular about who can be at your wedding and sharing your special moment and you you have a bunch of ego and they were and they were absolutely justified to say no but you know then they caved i think that they felt stupid that they caved then they were like i you so, and then divorce happened. But the point being that all of it is now like your wedding list is like one person here, one person there. Like you're never going to think about it again. So don't lose a best friend over it.

I don't get that where like – I get there, the tier of people who get plus ones, the tier of people who don't get plus ones. But like if you're debating over a plus one, like was that stance to like like you got to get out of this kind of deal like if it's over the fucking plate no no no no it was it was like it was almost like we all disagree like it was like you shouldn't be getting back with her like it was see that's crazy too i think i well with all my friends i don't whatever the fuck you why are you asking me but no but like there it was extreme it was like this is bad for you and and and like your kids and your family i don't care about that like i i that's valid too i wholeheartedly care like because i'm you i'm the one who's doing things bad for me. I don't want you to care.

I know I'm not an idiot. I know this is bad for me. It's what I'm choosing to do. That is a bigger discussion of Am I the Asshole? Should you confront your friends when their relationship is bad or their partying is too much or their job? Whatever. their partying is too much or their job, you know, whatever. Like, is it your job as a friend to be like, I'm telling you that I think this is, like, bad for you, or is it your job to just be like, it's your life, bro?

Dude, pass. Throw another one on it for me. Tornado. Fucking. Protest. I'll never be homeless, and I will never be involved in an intervention. I don't give a fuck, dude.

You want to die? Fucking insane, bro. You already have an intervention because he's too brave like get the fuck out of here i'll never be involved in an intervention dude i'll tell someone else how to run their life it's crazy to me um you have another me um you'll never be somebody's success story or somebody's like villain arc remember you said you'll never be the reason like somebody told you that you couldn't do something oh yes what is this like when like if someone's like hey i want to do this idea or i have this thing i'm'm never going to be like the guy who's going to be like, that'll never work. I'm like, yeah, give it a shot.

Wait, why though? Because I don't want them to be able to go, John Feilerberg told me this wouldn't work. It kind of goes with the intervention thing. Yeah, don't do the heroin. I don't know. Perfect example. Well, not perfect, but a funny example. My buddy texted me the other day and he said, if you ever buy a plane, I'm your guy to be the pilot.

And this is one of my lifelong friends. I'm talking since I was six. Known him for 32 years. And he is a buffoon. And is known – one time we were partying in uh in new york they came to my apartment for the weekend we used to we used to call them week like capital w and we had like weekend one weekend two like like super bowls it was like weekend four was you know we would like go all out and after one of those weekends him and his buddy had to drive back home to Philadelphia, like a two-hour drive. My one friend was drunk and did not have his glasses,

and my friend made him drive because he was just like, I'm too lazy. I don't want to do the drive. And I was like, you are notoriously our worst traveler by land. I can't even imagine how bad you are by air. So we were talking about all that and then he we he said um i was like by the way what do you think i'm buying a fucking plane and he was like oh no i'm not talking about like a jet i mean like one of those like 100k ones

and i was like bro those are death boxes that just fly in the air and he said he said something that was like he was like it's totally safe to fly one of those things. And I was like, these are the quotes that end up in the newspaper when you fucking crash and die. I'm never going to be the guy telling you that that's a bad idea or don't buy that stock because I don't want to be the quote. I also don't want to be the guy being like, totally never going to die doing this. And then I fucking die. And that's the picture with the quote underneath it goes viral stab me yeah and the stab yes exactly that exactly that um we got a good one uh from from the gang it was uh friend sends out a invitation to his engagement party that is on labor day weekend

but sent it out like this month uh this like in the last couple weeks uh of the summer where everybody already has labor day plans do you are you the asshole if you don't go to the engagement party it depends how close like what your labor day what the fuck has labor day plans well i agree like it's not like you celebrate it but usually it's like it's our last weekend Depends how close. Like, what are your Labor Day – who the fuck has Labor Day plans? Well, I agree. Like, it's not like you celebrate it, but usually it's like it's our last weekend in our house that we rented or, like, it's like a Memorial Day thing. Like, it is, like – Yeah, yeah, yeah.

People rent – like, it might even be you rented a house for a long weekend. I never had that. I guess because, like, Fugawi and stuff like that was Memorial Day, so we do that. But we never had, like – There are definitely people who would be like, oh, I went in on a house with, like, eight people. Yeah, last weekend in the house. I've never had someone rent out – I've never heard of someone renting. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but my friend group never heard of someone renting a house for Labor Day weekend.

That is kind of a thing when you get older where it's like, we can't do a full summer, but let's do a long weekend. I'm saying all this. I made Labor Day weekend plans last night. The dumbest boy alive. We didn't set them in stone, but I think they're pretty fucking sick. You've been going. You've been traveling. Yeah, Scotland.

Bro, world traveler. Scotland for Labor Day. Blink, baby. What? Blink. Oh, okay. We haven't bought tickets yet, so it might not come to fruition. Is Nate going?

But the – When Nate hears this, he's going. Nate will show up at that concert one way or another. It was because me and my buddy's birthday is around that time, and he was like two weeks before. Yeah, I was going to say. Your birthday is like any day now. And he was like, dude, how sick would it be?

If you told 16-year-old us for our 35th birthday we could go see Blink-182 in Scotland, we'd be in. I was like, yeah, we would. So that is a Labor Day play we can Day – that hasn't come to fruition. I would not go to your engagement party in that situation. Yeah, if you had dope plans. I'd be like, I'm going to Scotland. Yeah.

Engagement party also is like there's going to be like four more events. Like there's going to be a rehearsal dinner, a wedding, a, you know, like there's just a lot more. You usually do a meet and greet if you're in the wedding, whatever. But I do think it's like,

if you are potentially like in the wedding, maybe like you might have to bite the bullet on that one. I don't know. Yeah. If you're in the wedding or, or you have to be prepared to be like cut out of the wedding. Like here's the thing. I guess I've never been to an engagement party party i don't think the girl is going to i don't even know what that

really means like i had an engagement party it was like that night it was like i had all my friends waiting at the bar and i proposed and then we went to the bar but to like do it and then like weeks later have a party i think that's kind of weird dude speaking of just wait till the like this like i said this shit starts you know this this kind of comes at the uh with all old barstool stuff coming up um keith who's not around much anymore fairly i don't know if i ever told this story on the show fairly recently i think he's on his personal instagram posted a picture of him and and the girl and one of his friends and just put we're engaged and they were like really happy and it looked like maybe it was a picture from an engagement party so i texted him

yo congratulations dude and his reply to me was you believe that it was only you and my dumb aunt a dumb aunt who believed that i was like dude why would i not believe that? It was only you and my dumb aunt who believed that. I was like, dude. Why would I not believe that? Why would I not believe that? I went back to look at it recently. The only words in the caption are, we're engaged. I was like, why would I think that was a trick? Was it like the couple was engaged and he was in the picture?

No, it was him. It was no, because I know the other guy. And I think he's already engaged or married or whatever. It just looked like two people with one of their friends. Sometimes when people – To be fair, it would be a weirder picture, like just your one random friend in a weird game. Yeah, yeah. But it looked like it could have been at a party.

It was just one or two. He's not the most active user, so I thought like, oh, like – This is a big moment. He's going to post. When people are like, you believed that thing that's, like, highly believable, like that really good Photoshop or that really good deep fake, it's like, yes, I did. I fucking did. I'm sorry. I don't know.

It was just you and my dumb ass. What the fuck, man? Never mind. Fine. Fuck you, then. And if you ever do get engaged, I'm not going to fucking congratulate you. All right. Well, you guys, would you cancel your – you guys are young, so you're not even in this mode.

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That was truly hilarious. And your shining personality. The atomic clock was one thing. There was another one. Hang on. Which one were you, by the way? What was your first pick? Wait, you couldn't tell who he was?

I could tell who I was. One is I did it on the show. Yeah. Hang on, let me pull it up. who he was? I could tell who he was. One is I did it on the show. Yeah. But all of them... Hang on, let me pull it up. I don't want to spoil the dog walk, but it was so Feidelberg that we got to do it.

No, the dog walk's out. Okay, yeah, it out. But I'm just saying, ordinarily I would say just go listen to the dog walk, but yours was so... Things we don't understand. Number two, there's only one person in the world.

Oh, yeah. Second draft pick is passion. And at first I was like, who the fuck? Oh. Also, I mean, if you're John, his first draft pick is a good one. I don't necessarily get it's a Feidelberg one. The human body is great, though. We talked about it.

If it said the female body, I would for sure have known. In the conversation, it kind of got more into that. How do girls piss and all that stuff. Passion. Satire. John's been saying for years. Which, by the way, I actually didn't bring this up on the draft. But I might just be the only person who does understand satire.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But like – The world doesn't get such argument. When I told – when I explained that on the show, all the Scott guys were like, oh, yeah, we definitely always say we're steer club. No, you're not. You're not. I actually didn't bring this up on the draft. But this – I might just be the only person who does a 10-10.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But like – The world doesn't get such argument. When I told – when i explained that on the show all scott guys were like oh yeah we definitely always say we're stupid no you're not you're not you make jokes you're just joking yes yes yes yes um and this is the one that um the two the last two you had to know why does tommy how does tommy spokes get laid and i didn't i didn't look past and also and then also why is communism evil?

That was another one that everyone was like, he's got a good point. He does. That is the one. Every time I bring that up, I'm going to have everyone in this company be a communist. I don't even like communism. I don't want to be a communist. But I don't think – Why is it so bad?

I was like, but people are like, he's a communist. Like, he's a murderer. Like, I don't know. He just has kind of silly political beliefs. I't really fucking care now this was mike portnoy then i'm his number one overall pick my why my atomic clock doesn't work but the rest were um long beards okay um the lion the lions wanting a live mascot. It was like his original pick was like the lion's having a live mascot. That's not real.

Yeah. I don't understand why they'd even want it. I'm going to skip to his last pick because this one is a real one. People who fight on airplanes. I get that. But back to his fourth overall pick. People who scream at famous people. What the fuck does that mean?

He said when he's out with Dave. And he's like, people just yell from across the room at my son. Oh, okay. I thought it was like because the picture is like someone screaming at somebody. So he means like why would you like – I'm a big fan. Yeah, okay, okay. That makes more sense. I think he said he understands a picture but not like –

Talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I thought it was like – I was like are people getting like screamed at in the streets? Okay, that makes more sense. Anyway, back to voicemails. Personality, which next to him is a challenge sometimes because he steals the show man um just got through the becoming a boat guy segment on today's episode wanted to give you my full

endorsement kev i uh i bought a boat with my wife about seven years ago we love it our kids absolutely love it um that euphoria you described in the episode does not go away it's a blessing and a curse because i think a lot of times tuesday 11 o'clock at the office, it can be a little frustrating. But it brings up the age-old question, is it better to have love than loss than to love at all? Or in this case, is it better to discover something that you absolutely love doing but logistically simply just can't do every single day? Or would you just rather have not discovered that you're a boat guy to begin with? I mean it's just like why have have passion you know why i have passion at all i mean i'm like lucky enough that if i really wanted to go do that i could but yeah if you like if you discover you love something that

you just can't afford or cannot do or whatever that sucks yeah i i will have said i will say i think in the relationship world i don't think it's better to have loved and lost i think if you find someone that is like your twin flame god bless you your kindred spirit aka you fuck really like you you match in bed whatever like i think marry that person or or like kill them or something like like to just be like a lot of people agree i was gonna say yeah that if you want people take those courses of actions quite often yeah both of those standard thing i'm either gonna marry this person and that doesn't go well when you if you have like the one and they break

up with you or whatever like you're you'll just be thinking about it all the time and trying to be replacing it. I would rather have not had that relationship if it doesn't work out to just be like, I don't know. Do most people find that? I don't know. That's the thing. I think it's bad to find that. I think find someone you're solid with.

Yeah. Honestly, it's a little bit like heroin. It's like you don't want it that high because you'll want it forever. It's like don't get that because it will be bad. That always comes with bad repercussions. It's the crazy and the sex with the passion and the fighting. It all goes hand in hand.

So it's like stay away from heroin because you'll like it too much. Don't find that person. Unless, again, you're going to just marry them and make it work, throw the craziness or whatever. And if you're lucky that you find something where it's all of that and it's not crazy. I don't believe you can find that in a first – I think you have had to have gone through one of those. Both people have had to – have gone through bad relationships and come out the other side and be like i can i i know how i could make that work but i need another person who they know how to make it work you know what i mean like if it's two people who are just freshly finding that for

like the first time it'll it'll crash and burn it'll work but afterwards you can be like uh you know i'm not going to get in another relationship ever like that again so you'll find someone who's kind of on the same boat but uh if it's not going to last or be good finding it i think is a bad thing the i i remember i was talking to chaps years ago about relationships and stuff like that i think i was getting out of one and uh and he was talking about he's like can you live without them? And I was like, well, yeah. Duh. I'm not a fucking psychopath. He's like, that's

what you need. I was like, well, I'm never going to find a person I can't live without. I was going to say, to me it's like, you know, I will get over literally anything. You know, like, I might never be quite the same. I might, you know, forever miss you.

But, like, life will go on. I think that's kind of crazy that anybody feels like they can't, like, truly live without a person. I'm a fully functioning human being. Well, except my functioning human being. Yeah, I can live without them. This kind of – it's kind of a side note but i forget i was watching a tv show or a movie recently where someone was like talking about it was really it's a relationship so it's tangentially connected connected but they were talking about how they're

scarred and they've been cheated on before so like, like, they have their trauma and their baggage and all this stuff. Shut the fuck up. Yeah. Shut the fuck up. Bro, like, that's how relationships end. Yes. Every relationship. Oh, you've been broken up with?

Every relationship, theoretically, except for one, and maybe not even that one, is going to end in a breakup. Get the fuck over cheating in particular I mean where it's like oh yeah like like yeah yeah but like I've been hurt cosine shit so have I everyone's been cheated on bro that's how relationships end

I can't I can't with the cheating anymore it's just like the amount of people still saying it I did one i did one minute man yesterday i said day port always bought back 100 of barcelona sports someone said if only kfc was 100 in on his wife and i'm just like i just i don't i can't anymore guys nobody's 100 in on their wife let me tell you a little secret everyone can live without the other person it's just it's it's it's kind of a i think it's like a sickness like uh i i stereotypically thinking i think it's primarily

female there are certainly guys who get obsessive about girls but like it's a relationship it's a thing that you can like opt into in light it's not like a you have you know what i mean it's just like why does this run your life in a good way in a negative way like should just be like a compliment to the things that you do and your other family and all that you know what I mean the idea of like it

ruins your life or completes your life is weird to me I don't get it yeah I can understand a person but just like the idea like when women women – again, stereotypically speaking, they are looking for a husband, a relationship. Like if you find the person, it's like having a friend you like, a brother, a sister. Like you want that person around you more. But just being like I need like the husband and the house and the kids and like – I'm just like why?

I had that obviously a lot when I was in college. I'd heard the stereotypes, not the stereotypes, but the cliches. And I don't know. When I was going down to Florida, I assumed that they were jokes. Ring my spring on you. Basically, I assumed they were misogynistic jokes. Yeah. Because most of the people in my life in the Northeast,

I had not met the women and everyone would not like that. And I got to Florida and I just had a bunch of tryouts. Like, we're doing Ring by Spring. Crazy. And I was like, wait. That's real. That's real? Yeah.

They're like, no, I'm just here. Like, I'm here to find my husband. We're all fucking shirtless, passed out, drunk, doing push-ups in the yard. You're going to pick one of those guys? Push-ups in the yard. Literally, that's what we would do. We would get drunk and we would work out in the yard. You're going to pick one of those guys? Push-ups in the yard. Literally, that's what we would do. We would get drunk, and we would work out in the yard. And they're like, he's mine.

You want to come in here, husband shopping? That's fucking crazy. Half of us are gay. This is... That's what I'm just saying. That's my text. Jackie's going to go to fucking FSU and find a husband. Just, I don't know why, I was going to say speaking of misogyny.

This is not really misogyny, but just the funny – it just sparked in my mind. I got a message from a – there's like a parent group email thing where just like all the parents in the neighborhood. Have they moved to text with that stuff? Yeah. Oh, God. Text. I'll never – A lot of – Have they moved to text with that stuff? Yeah. Oh, God. Text. I'll never.

I've had a million reasons why I'll never have kids. So fucking strangers don't group text. Yeah, it's shitty, but every now and then you get a gem. Calling all concerned parents, it appears that an illegal massage parlor has opened up at XYZ address. Like in town, like in the neighborhood. Their hours of operation and marketing campaign suggest that something more than reflexology is going on. If you live in the area and are compelled to help, I will be putting out a call to the non-emergency police line to request an investigation, and I urge anyone who feels the same as I do to follow suit. Not what I want around our kids in this neighborhood.

Books massage. Your boy is like, I'm going to be supporting the local small businesses. Nice of them to give the address right off the bat. I was going to say, if you don't think I popped that in Google Maps, I was like, oh, it's next to the pizza bar? Okay, cool. I was like, immediately in my head, I was like, Mac, that's disgusting. Where?

What websites is he posting these on? Great. All right, let's do one more. KFC, Vice, Crew. This guy looks cool. Right. 21, 12, 1.2, 1.2%, whatever it is. I came across an article the other day.

It was actually a study from one of the most respected institutions in the world, you know, the New York Post. And it was a study about how men often have the best sex with emotionally unstable women. And I was like, oh, I know a couple guys this relates to, myself included. And the reasoning is because those emotionally unstable women have similar traits that we have ourselves so it's like oh that's kind of me I hate me but I kind of like that in somebody else so that's what happens

and then it got me thinking about last week's episode where y'all were talking about Fife just being super self-loathing and it's a miracle he's not violent the study took place in Germany so you know Fife good on you for not becoming a full-blown nazi you just hate yourself but you kind of support hitler i don't know bro i don't

know but i'm not too german as you say so i guess i'm a little fashion punk for no reason Yeah, I mean, that's basically like they're just – it's super rare. I forgot. Can we get a clip of that? I forgot. I like that the quarter inch one way, quarter inch the other way. What were you saying with that? What's that? What were you saying with like – you're like, thank God you're like the way you are.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were talking about how like I'm the human version of hitting the post. The human version of hitting the post is, like... It's not great, but it could have been way worse. Great. I mean, it is truly God or the supreme creator or whatever science is like most evil trick that like the great sex and the wild fun comes with the the crazy and the fighting yeah and if you can it's both like it's the bad boy and all that stuff too it's both sides it's all equal but um it just sucks that that's

like the case i just wish that um people what are you doing why what are you just trying to smile through a thousand yards i just wish that you know what you know how people like they chalk up like their single phase they're just like yeah i used to like fuck a bunch of people and now i settled down they we need to go like one step further and be like that was my toxic phase. And they, people need to come out of it. I guess the problem is you're truly toxic.

You don't, it's not a phase, but like, you know what I mean? Like we need to recognize all toxic people need to recognize how toxic they were and stop that. Cause like, I think I've done it to an extent.

Totally. Definitely. I for sure have been toxic in my, in my early twenties in particular. Totally. I was definitely – For sure have been toxic. In my early 20s in particular. Okay. But so that's the thing. Toxic. Most people say – like if you find out that a chick was just a fucking slut in college, there are some guys who are going to be like turned off by that or insecure about that.

But most people are like, oh, she was young. It's when you find out – it's like, oh, you're like 35 and you're still that way. Like you're – I don't know. Maybe you got some issues,, you know, it's like, oh, you're like 35 and you're still that way. Like you're, you know, I don't know. Maybe you got some issues, right? The same thing with like toxic. It's like you can be the crazy bitch, the crazy guy, toxic when you're young. When you grow up, you can't be toxic anymore. Come on.

You can't be doing the crazy. We're just making the argument for growing up. Yes. Yes. But it needs to apply to toxic too because I think we apply it to everything else. But you'll catch a grown-ass adult stalking somebody on the internet. You'll catch a grown-ass adult with fucking burner accounts and fucking fake phone numbers and shit. It's like, what are you fucking doing?

If you were 22, I'd be like, I get it. You're fucking 30. What are you doing? Grow up. It's kind of weird now. Yeah. It's just like anything where you get – you're a guy, you get in drunk bar fights. Yes.

I don't do that anymore. I'd actually go the opposite with it. I'd say we should stop accepting it at any point. At any point. Yes. It is so weird. But there is a window of unacceptable behavior in this point in your life. The way you look at it, like when I was in a relationship in my 20 20s i'm like that was nuts but i kind of laughed about it and then

the laughter stops like that's fucking nuts and if you and and if and if it was like i'm still in one at you know 34 35 you'd be like this is pathetic yeah and you and and you know i i did it later in life too and i but i'm like i'm not like proud of like proud of it. And I don't, I don't do it anymore. And like, like I, sometimes I also don't think you can choose when the toxic finds you. Like he said, would you rather have never experienced that?

Some people find it at 21. Some people maybe have boring relationships until they're 31. And when the first time you find it, whether you're a kid or an adult, you're like, holy fucking shit. But once, so maybe it's not an age thing.

Maybe it's like, once you've done that, you can't do it anymore it anymore you know like you have a period of time and once that has that person that relationship that whatever has gone and everyone's like gotten moved on like be done with that shit come on fucking move on grow up grow on grow up yeah all right uh we have an interview no no no. The strike is basically preventing anybody from doing any interviews so it's going to be

just Johnny and I and maybe a couple comics. I'm very excited about that. Yeah, me too. Yo, Zag,

get your fucking bag, dude. Yeah, for real. I need a break. Hold out. I need a little vacation. Hold out.

It's just going to be Johnny and I and a couple local comics on the show and that's pretty much it so we'll see you guys next week for a two episode week of KFC Radio.

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no. Because we're not doing Fridays. But, we'll be back. We'll be on Barstool Radio this afternoon. Yeah, this afternoon

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I think I'll just miss Wednesdays. We're going to try and work that out. I think I'll just miss Wednesdays. Yeah, since this all came together quickly, there's going to be some times where we're going to try to make sure Barstool Radio is always the real host because I know people used to get let down when it was like a replacement host. Because we had some other commitments we made when we weren't doing a daily radio show, it will be a little bit different for a couple months. But rest assured, we're always going to try to be there. So Barstool Radio on – it will probably be on the Barstool YouTube and KFC Radio back to twice

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