Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter - NANODOSE: Feels Like '98
Episode Date: October 18, 2022On today's episode of Nanodosing, we have special guest host, The Wonton Don, on to fill in for PFT. You'll hear everything from our reaction to the Tennessee Volunteers win over Alabama to Donnie's l...iving experience in Italy. Also, a fact about Hyenas that blew everyones minds. All of this and so much more on today's show. Enjoy! Make sure to tune into MACRODOSING, every Thursday at 12am EST.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/macrodosing
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What's up, guys?
Welcome to the nanodosing.
Oh, fucking horrible.
And stop touching the mic.
People hate that.
Okay, you know what?
It makes a noise.
PFT can't be with us today.
So you get weird.
So you get hella weird.
I don't get weird.
We were all just sitting and waiting with like, I'm supposed to be the one.
Like, who gave me that around?
I got you.
I got you.
I'll start off.
Get someone else be the adult.
Much like the Vols, we are back.
PFT is out on account of some family business.
So we got my man, Wantan, Don in the building.
What's up, my guy?
Hey, how are you?
I'm actually not even in the building saying you in the building.
That's hilarious.
But welcome back to the show, man.
Reoccurring guests, man.
How's everything your way?
Things are going well.
I recently moved from Venice, Italy, back to New York.
I'll be here for the year
and it's good to be back
I'll be heading to Qatar with PFT
for the World Cup
so yeah
it's nice to be back in the mix
that's lovely
I mean watching your Instagram
I don't know you like Carmen San Diego
man that's an old reference right there
but I don't never know where you at
you always somewhere man
living in Europe for the year was sick
it was it was great
I mean it did get a little lonely
because it's like I'm just working from home
so you know during the week
It's just like me alone in my apartment.
But then you have the added benefit.
It's like I'm in Europe.
So on the weekend, I can like head down to Sicily.
And flights will be like $100 round trip.
And so a lot of pros, a couple cons, but definitely a lot of pros.
But it's actually nice being in the office a few days a week now and having some like face-to-face communication with people.
Lovely.
Lovely having you in the building, man.
Seeing your face back on a pod, though.
It's dope.
How's the brain?
He's feeling mad.
Right.
Good.
Billy.
Oh,
don't let me.
Let me stop.
Big T.
I'm the best I've ever been.
I am overwhelmed.
I am excited.
Did you, so you, you watched the whole game, right?
Like, you saw the end.
I watched.
I had to do something like the first and most of the second quarter, but I watched.
I watched from the second quarter on for sure.
I mean, we're, we're fucking back.
It seems to be the case, man.
Remember last year when you said our offense couldn't work against Alabama and Georgia?
Then we scored the most points.
Bama's given up since 1907.
Yeah, so about that.
I still feel the same way.
Oh, stop.
When you look at the game, okay, if you look at the game for me, and this is why I don't watch a lot of football,
because when I watch football, all I do is critique it, like, why things are happening,
what coverages that they're doing.
And so when I look at the game, if you look at how many,
mistakes Alabama made, the game would not be that way if they cleaned up their mistakes.
And granted, there was mistakes made on both sides, but the mistakes that Bama was making
were like so many, so many penalties, so many, they shot themselves in the foot so many times
that that happened to fall in our favor. A few things go different and Tennessee loses their
game. And the big part of the reason is exactly what I said in the group chat was
Tennessee scores so fast. The problem was I didn't.
I didn't ever think that they couldn't put points up.
The problem was that they score so fast that your defense gets tired.
Yeah, I mean, that's...
When you play against somebody who has a real offense, who can sustain drives, which Bama can.
And they were exploiting that, but they killed themselves with penalties.
They did have a ton of penalties.
I mean, at this point, though, like, there is enough film on our offense that teams should be able to know how to defend it.
And there's still just guys running wide open.
It's crazy.
And we were missing some key sense.
secondary guys, the defense should have played better than they did. But I mean, I'm not going
to complain about any single thing that happened in that game. I'm as fired up as I've ever
been. It was amazing. That's going to be the SEC championship, man. Well, it depends what
happens against Georgia. They could play off a God Georgia. What Georgia rank? I have not watched
them. They are number one. We are number three. We play them in three weeks.
damn game day been uh been around tennessee it's gonna be three times in what four weeks
well that game's in athens so but yeah i can't imagine they're at any other game that week um
yeah so it could be it could be one versus two by that time if we take care of business against
we have UT martin this week i am uh i will go ahead and be on record that we will win that
game and then it's kentucky after that so i can hear the cigar in your voice oh yeah i
let me tell you something I got as drunk as I've been in a long time on Saturday and also had a couple
cigars I was very lightheaded going home are you hooked now no I didn't I didn't love the cigars
they were it was I would love to do it once a year yeah I mean so you're not supposed to inhale
I think I think that's what you did the first time a couple times yeah it was so I had one at the
hoboken house just for a little bit and then I met up with some friends later that night
who one of whom was in town who went to UT and he hadn't had one yet so he went and got more at
like midnight and uh and that one I puffed on a little longer and that interacted with the
alcohol in an interesting way uh it was you're nice little buzz man I was I felt it for sure it was
it was really fun though it was the most fun I've had in a long time did you puke at all or no
all right yeah I turned green I met big tea out for a drink because I was around and I was like
I got to see Big T in this moment in time.
I've never seen him.
And we were at the BAM.
I mean, we were at the Tennessee Florida game.
He was so, you were so happy then.
Like the bliss that.
I mean, this was another level, though.
It was like, but you were just, it was like blissful.
It was awesome to see.
I was, I was so happy.
And I was watching it at the Bamb Bar trying not to lose my shit.
It was so fun.
It was certainly a top two sports moment ever for me.
and it might be top the world series.
I don't know that it does
because like that's a title.
But I mean, the way,
it was one of the best football games
I've ever watched, period,
regardless of who was playing.
The really good game.
The way the streak ended,
like the shots of storming the field
and taking down the goalposts
and parading them through the streets
and dumping it in the river.
Like everything was just,
and the videos of fathers with their kids
who like their kids had never seen Tennessee beat Alabama.
and the dad's crying like it was awesome it was it was really cool i heard from people that i went to
college with that i hadn't heard from in several years and like it was it was really cool um so is the
goalpost in the river right now so one of them they dumped in the river the other one i believe
ended up at a frat house and they carved it up and people have pieces of it if anyone listening to
this has a piece of that goalpost yeah i would be willing to pay you a significant sum of money for
it. And like no one's going to get in trouble
for that, right? No. Like everyone's just so
happy. There's a video of the
UT president up in his suite as they're
tearing down the goalposts and somebody said, Randy, how much
is that cost? He goes, it doesn't matter.
Okay.
They were fine. You two's find a hundred grand
for rushing the field by the SEC, which is
dumb as hell, but it is what it is. And then they have
to get new goalposts, obviously. But
something tells me they'll be just fine.
The NCA
find them? Yeah, wait. So the SEC
has the SEC has a
policy against storming the field oh because like because clems the field i feel like almost
and get this and get this it's 50 grand unless it's your uh second offense then it's 100
tennessee's first was a basketball game against florida in 2006 so they were fined a hundred
grand instead of 50 because of that the acc does not have that right no i think the SEC is the only
league that does have it geez so dumb whatever i'm saying like these old motherfuckers need to die that
in power. Like, what dumb-ass rule is that? Like, kids are excited about the school
do they go to and they store them to feel like, get the fuck out of here with your bullshit.
I am thankful that that did not prevent anyone from doing it because those scenes were
unbelievable. That was amazing. And like, just like cinematically, aesthetically, it was incredible.
It looked beautiful. It looked really good. And then they started playing Dixieland Delight,
which I levitated off the ground when I heard that song. Honestly, my favorite part of that win is that
this week or whenever Bama's next home game is,
they're going to play that song
and their fans are going to hate it and they're going to be pissed off.
It's so glorious.
So who is their
I guess competition for the top of in the SEC West?
Ole Miss is pretty good.
They still have to play Ole Miss.
But I would have, they're not,
they're a flawed team.
Their defense is not very good.
Their receivers are not.
very good.
I was really impressed with that running back.
I loved his game.
His game is awesome.
Oh, my God.
His game is beautiful.
He was at Georgia Tech the last couple years and was just tearing it up and nobody
cared because he was on a terrible team.
And then he could go wherever he wanted in the transfer portal this year.
He's Alvin Camara 2.0.
He's incredible.
He's really good back, man.
Solid cat.
Yeah, he's really good.
But they're a flawed team.
Ole Miss could beat them.
Oleis has an offense that's not as good as ours, but it's right there.
So we'll see what happens.
But I would sign me up for a rematch, sign me up for Tennessee Ole Miss.
I don't care who we play.
Get me to Atlanta.
I think there's a real chance we're the best football team in the country.
It's not high.
I don't know that it's a, but we're one of the three.
So you got Georgia number one.
Ohio State's number two.
You think Tennessee and Bamah could end up playing three times.
it's entirely possible
that'd be pretty wild
no no how
playoff
SEC then playoff
oh there's a playoff now
I forgot about
damn it's been a while
since I watched college but
it's 14
it'll be 12 in a few years
turns out when you fair catch
it anywhere below the 25
they just give it to you on the 25
on the kickoff
yeah you didn't know that
at the Florida game was a lot
I played no I found this out
like I played college football
and turns out we were doing it
during that
You weren't paying attention
I fair caught a ball
and then like below the 20
You were returning kicks
I know it was like it was an on-side
Oh yeah I was some shit
No no no I was not the main returner I was
Part I was part of like the wedge guys
And I just had to fair catch one because
I thought it was the quarterback bro
Well they got weird in college
I had to play special teams
Happens for the best of us
Do what you can to get on the field
I came in with literally the best
Quarterback recruit in New England
But, bro, bro, but, bro, it is extremely rare.
It is extremely rare that your backup, or even your third string quarterback is anywhere on the field.
No, at that time, at that time I had moved to wide receiver, a tight end.
It was just trying to play.
Oh, okay, I got you.
Yeah, so I was doing whatever I could.
And I was just blocking at that point.
So, did you play two years there?
I played all three until I played, I would have played all four, but COVID happened.
Oh, okay, yeah.
And it was like, yeah.
So if it wasn't, if it wasn't for COVID, do you think?
Yeah.
If it wasn't for COVID, do you think you'd be working for Barstool or you'd be following your football career?
Yeah, I'd probably be, I probably would be.
Working in finance now?
Yeah, just be.
Yeah.
Looking at Excel spreadsheet.
Saved by the virus.
Yeah, so some of us were.
Mm-hmm.
Yikes.
Well, damn.
I'm happy for you, Big T, man.
It was, it was great to see all of that.
And aside from that, I seen a whole bunch of pictures of my dudes that there was like a group of us that went that we planned that for like, I don't know, six months we planned going to that Florida game.
And then they was all come back.
And I was like, I couldn't come back.
I couldn't make it.
I wanted to.
But like, there was a whole new group of cats that was there that I seen.
It was all together.
Just a good time, man.
It was good to see everybody.
And that shit just brought everybody together, man.
It was awesome.
Yeah, I'm happy for everybody involved, man, for sure.
I hope we have a couple more celebrations this year.
It's a good possibility, man.
Shout out to them boys, man.
They bother.
But what about Avery?
Maddaw?
How's y'all on weekends, man?
I mean, mine was good.
I got to see Tennessee the Bama game in that.
Like, I was watching the game on Saturday,
and I didn't realize how into it I was until it started getting tight in what was,
like, the third quarter.
And I was at the Bama bar with a couple friends.
and they were pissed at me because I was rooting for Tennessee.
So then Tennessee won, I was so happy.
And then met Big T out for him to see me watch the Guardians walk off,
which was really awesome.
It didn't work out for me last night or Sunday night.
This has been brutal for the Yankees.
Yeah, but.
At least we got the win.
I'm really hoping game five goes well as with Guardians.
This is my public.
I've given up on the Browns Day.
I didn't let them ruin my Sunday yesterday.
I purposely didn't watch.
I didn't want them to make me sad.
So I didn't watch.
And I know you're Patriots fan.
I didn't want to watch and it made me feel better.
And I had a great Sunday besides the fact that I, and I didn't watch the Browns.
And it was so nice.
It was Loki my five year high school reunion over the weekend.
What do you mean?
It's just wild.
I'm already going to reunions.
Did you go?
Yeah.
Oh, you're there?
Nice.
I had my five year high school reunion.
I didn't.
I didn't go.
Well, you live close.
That's too short.
It's too short.
It just fucking happened.
Like I gotta wait
Well like there was a football game
I like saw my old coaches and stuff
You're the coolest guy there
Oh he works for part of my take
Yeah
I mean my friends my friends
Give me shit all right
100% yeah
So it's like it's like you know
It's more of just like a
Yeah do that thing
Yeah
I think five years too soon to go back
You also I wanted to see
I wanted to see like my old coaches
My old teachers
I promised my biology teacher
I'd go on the nature walk
before the football game.
Oh, so you had like a whole weekend.
Yeah, it was the whole thing.
She was like,
no I'm saying.
Did they have like a five year reunion like celebration?
Yeah,
we had a cocktail hour and we got hammered.
I talked to who I want to talk to still at this point.
I was more also trying to like go and like make amends.
Did you burn bridges in high school?
No, I mean, I just,
I think everyone thought I was a huge douchebag.
Oh, yeah.
So I would just be like, yeah.
Why did they think that?
Yeah, I was.
Because he's Billy football now?
Yeah.
he'd be like of course
Billy's not here
yeah exactly
he's too cool for school
yeah
fuck that guy
so I had to just
you know
go to you think
you're less of
a douchebag now
were you more a douchebag now
or in high school
I mean I would hope
in high school
I feel like most people
get less douchey
as time goes on
I was yeah
no you think
you think some people get
more douchey
well I guess if someone
yeah
I think
I think people kind of are figuring out who they are right after high school, and then
it gets, they dig their heels in the ground.
You know what I mean?
And so it's like, if you were an asshole, you're an asshole, like, you're an asshole, like,
you just is what it is.
Yeah.
And then sometimes life, life be beating people up and then they, you know, they, it humbles
them a little bit, but from what I see, man, I don't know.
It could be just, maybe I'm the asshole.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think there's probably somebody who make.
a lot of money and that turns them into a douche.
Like the nerds, like Jeff Bezos.
Yeah.
Make a ton of money.
Then they think they're the shit is like, we used to bully you.
That can happen.
I definitely am less of a douchebag than high school because I,
college really humbled me with the whole not starting or playing that much thing.
And then yeah, that was big formative years.
I'm glad that you have grown and matured.
That's good.
Hopefully.
Yeah.
But you had an ego.
coming out of high school you was like
I'm Billy badass
No I didn't ego until
Oh no seriously like realistically
Honestly becoming
Like internet famous
Like after high school
I realized that I had to be nice to people
Or everyone would hate you
And that was a big one
So is that your incentive to be nice to people
Yeah
People don't hate you
Well I think isn't that everyone's incentive to be nice to people
No
No
To be kind, bro, what?
No, no, I mean, but like, to be kind, but like, for example, when you met random people, when you met random people, like, in no one knows who you are, like, let's say, like, road rage, right?
Like, like, you can't get into a road rage argument with someone that have them just be like, yo, are you fucking Billy?
You know what I'm saying?
That's why you're nice.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's a great reason to be nice, but.
Okay, but I see what I'm saying.
Like, if you were a douche before, like, just being ramly, too.
dushy to someone isn't really cool when they know who you are.
Yeah, I think being randomly duchy to someone is never that cool.
I think it happens a lot in high school.
It does.
Now it's so like I get, that's like one of the learning moments.
Yeah.
This is just making me look terrible.
But no, it's, it's important to learn.
I think it's a different way to solve the equation, but I think as long as you get there,
you know, we all fix it the same problem, which is being kind.
Well, yeah.
Also, like there is like the.
obvious reasons to be less douchey but yeah those yeah hey however your motivation is man
I'm a fan of it you know also shrooms helped you eight shrooms can definitely make you
less douche I didn't know you take shrooms you take shrooms I like not like every day right
no like you're not going to get in trouble bro it's yeah no I like to work out on them and it just
gives me deeper like it's just great for the vibes in my brain i think that's a a very literal
statement that i don't know how aware you are of its accuracy but it's it's it however you get
there man i think i mean so were you like one of the best athletes at like at your high school
because that can lead to someone becoming very cocky and then maybe in turn kind of douchey yeah
was one of them okay uh we had a very successful football team we had undefeated in my senior year
uh we all and he was quarterback i we all went off i was all state uh new york state i know it's like
nowhere comparable to the all pro uh running back yeah yeah in our miss but it was a rene yo and
raise man yeah no i mean i i played a lot of sports in high school but our teams were always so bad
that i i don't think i ever even like had the option to become a douchebag because i was like oh
our basketball team just went like four and 30.
I can't like walk around super cocky and douchey.
Loser.
Yeah.
Football team went 500.
So yeah,
I never had the opportunity to really get too high on myself.
Yeah,
maybe that helped.
I've seen guys like use their status to be assholes of people.
And I never understood that shit.
Because like in my mind,
I was always like,
yo,
no matter how good you are,
is always somebody better one, two.
I never really viewed myself as like a football player.
Like, I viewed myself as somebody who enjoyed playing football, but I was never, like,
hi, I'm Aaron Foster.
I play football.
Like, I would always hide that fact.
Somebody would always have to recognize me.
And so it's like, I never wanted to be known as a football player.
So it was never something that I, it wasn't a card that I used.
Like, I never, and I never understood Casson did that.
Like, it was like, bro, look, I look at people like, this is how I look at people.
Like, if, like, you're checking out at the grocery.
Like, if you're checking my groceries out at the store, you're a clerk there or whatever you're doing,
whatever small job that you're doing.
I look at it like,
yo,
that's your conduit
to whatever dream
you're trying to do.
So I don't look at you
as the grocery store,
Clark.
I was like,
you just try to make ends meet
at this point in time
and whatever you really want to do,
like you're going to end up doing that one day.
That's how I view people.
And I feel like when you view people like that,
you just treat them kindly because nobody wants to,
I was taking my kids to McDonald's
earlier this weekend.
And we was going to McDonald's.
And we weren't sure if it closed at 1130,
I mean 11 or 1030,
which I still am not.
not really clear on. It's like 1030 or 11.
Sometimes it's 24-7.
Nah, not all the time.
It's like regional.
But anyway,
I noticed that there were some people
being assholes in the line like woo-de-whoop
and I use it as
a lesson to teach my daughter.
I was like, nobody wants
to get up in the morning to make eggs for you.
Like nobody wants to, nobody wants
to do that. Like that's their job, but they
have to do that in order to put food on their table
and that's that's the way that
they have the occupation set up right now.
And I'm like, so just be kind to them.
Like, nobody wants to do that shit for you.
I would never want to get up and make nobody else eggs.
But that's what they're doing.
And you respect that they're doing it for you.
You know what I mean?
And like she got it.
But like, that's how I kind of go about life.
Absolutely.
By the way, when I was like treating service people with respect
is like the number one telltale of someone's actual, like whether or not it's like,
like, like a thousand percent.
every every I've heard this from a lot of girls if you're on a date with a boy and he treats service workers bad it's like the biggest red flag ever yeah when I was saying I was a douche I was like more of a douche to my classmates and every day who weren't as athletic as you yeah but like not to like no one thinks you're like a bad person at your core really no no we'll see I think Billy has come a long ways yeah but no you guys didn't know me before yeah I don't know
I got you hooked on Jewel.
Remember that?
You're definitely a bad person.
You're the reason I have a vape in my hand right now.
I bullied that.
And that was like five years ago.
You were like, oh, you smoke sigs.
And I was like, yeah, I smoked the occasional SIG.
And you were like, well, try this.
And then I started vaping like 10 times more than I ever smoked Sigs.
That was hilarious.
Yeah.
But I don't like, yeah, that's not being a douche.
You were actually trying to help.
It just, it backfired.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, well, yeah, I think you had a really weird, you went straight from high school to barstool, which is such like a weird. Yeah. Like, I do think the people at the company that are maybe slightly nicer people are people that actually had to work in the real world. No, like, if you had just like a normal real world job for five years, that really humbles you. And then, and then you get a job here and you're like, oh, thank God. I get, I get to do something I love. And like, but you still remember when you were just like working, working that.
crappy job which i think helps but i'm not saying i don't think any less of you because you're
because you were because you were because you were able to skip that but no i think i think that's great
but no it was weird and then like i i didn't go to a big school i went to like a small school
yeah and so then it was such a small college that everyone just assumed that was a douche before
i even got there and that was a big changing moment for me yeah because i was like oh shit like
I didn't even act dushy yet.
Yeah, no, there's a lot of people who would just be like, oh, yeah.
I don't even act duchy yet.
There is such thing as douche profiling.
I was getting douche profile that inspired me to not be a douche.
That's really what happened.
That's what I'm trying to explain.
Yes.
No, I've done the same thing.
I've seen someone I'd be like, oh, this guy looks like such a douche.
And then you actually meet him and you're like, oh, no, this is a nice guy.
So never judge a douche by its cover.
There are a lot of duchess, though.
I think a little prejudice is healthy, man.
Yeah, yeah.
There's some prejudice and races,
but I think as long as you're open about your prejudices,
it allows you to grow as a human being.
Like, I really just think it's,
I think it's a lot of it's healthy.
But, um,
I don't know,
I don't think I've ever seen you as,
and also,
I don't even know what the fuck douche means, man.
That's such like a different term.
Like, I never really heard like a real explanation.
I know we kind of,
I think we mentioned it before on this show,
but I still don't really understand.
what a douche means
Like a frat boy
Too cool
Kind of an asshole
Rude
No like
I don't even think you need to be a frat boy
No but the frat boy
Persona so to say
It's just really it's a young male
With a lot of insecurity
That takes out on other people
And doesn't really know how to deal with himself
That just like it impacts other people
I like that definition
That's a way
I like that too
Yeah
So, you know, I got caught into the rabbit hole of like a celebrity.
I don't know how I was watching golf videos and all of a sudden the algorithm took me
somewhere.
I had some time while I was on the toilet this weekend.
And I was looking at this a celebrity and a celebrity's kid who, you know, they have a feud
or whatever.
And I was listening to both sides.
And I like to listen to social issues like that because there are things that I can relate
to and, you know, implemented my life.
But anyway, I was looking at the kid, you know, professor's case.
He said, oh, he wasn't there for me, yada, yada, yada.
But, like, he showed this, like, entitlement that it was hard for me to relate to.
He was, like, he only gave me X amount of child support.
And it was, like, a lot of money.
It was, like, six plus grand, right?
Was this 50 cent?
I don't know.
It's none of my goodness.
But, like, I'm just, I was just overall, I'm just saying,
he was it was just so much entitled to that I couldn't relate to that I think he in in the midst of listening to them and the reason why I brought up in this conversation in the midst of listening to them I just realized it's like it's just two men that cannot admit that they're hurting from the situation that what has happened and what has transpired has hurt you like this shit hurts bro like you haven't been there for that that shit hurts you weren't there that shit hurts and they can't express that
And I heard one of the most profound quotes ever on Umbrella Academy the other day.
And I was like, and she said, um, people don't want apologies.
People want confessions.
It was just, that's just a brilliant way to put it because what is an apology?
They just want to, I want you to know that you know that you hurt me.
Confess.
That's a real powerful moment for me, man.
But it's just like hearing you, hearing this whole conversation kind of just
reminded me of all that, man, that as men, I think a lot of the time we don't.
just say that shit hurts yeah man that hurt me that hurt me dog well you have never hurt me billy so
do you know this one i've hurt no i i don't so that's like i have zero proof that you are a douche
no and yeah i mean when you're just like when you're 16 years old and just like you're just so
insecure yeah and you just some people play it off differently yeah and unfortunately i just
it was the easiest way was just like to put up a douchey exterior rather than you know also y'all
are generation like where y'all are children of the internet too that's a different variable
involved where it's like you have all these outside variables that you consider in and factor
into your personality and how you want to be portrayed where when we was growing up it was just
localized like whether the neighborhood you was from and the people you was around now it's like
you have so much else to juggle that it's tough that I can't really relate to that's why I try
to be I try to listen to young folks too because they have a side that I can't relate to no I was
the only social media I had in college was Facebook and then I didn't get an Instagram until after
I'd already graduated college so I'm like super happy about that that I like I feel like being in
seventh and eighth grade and dealing with like four different forms of social media like I'd be
going insane I mean yik yak and Snapchat were very accurate.
during my high school times.
And if you don't know what is jic.
I don't even know what you're like that's cool.
You just use that to talk shit about like people.
Oh people it was like it was basically imagine the app version of a bathroom stall and
the worst thing is it's a co-ed bathroom and everyone can see it.
So it wasn't just good way to describe it.
It wasn't just dudes like people were posting the most heinous shit on there like this person like
so basically it's an app that's like an anonymous Twitter.
It's location.
Location base.
So Barstool Sports Yick Yak would actually be great content because we signed up for this.
But for high school kids, yeah.
It's like like this person did this at this time.
Yeah, Samantha B.
hooked up with Mike M in the bathroom at third period.
This person got a train ran on them underneath the bleachers.
And it's all anonymous.
Yeah.
It was a slambus example.
Did you have slambook?
This dude has a small deck with a, I mean.
Sounds brutal, though.
Yeah.
This is pretty.
So imagine you growed up in that.
I know.
Yeah.
No, we had that, but we called him Slambooks.
Slambooks was like, it was a notebook that people just, it was one notebook that everybody
passed around and it would be like a name, like they would put Arian on the top of the page
and just a whole bunch of comments in the deep.
He's ugly as fuck.
What is that mold on his face?
Ooh, he fine.
I like to.
It was just a whole bunch of different comments, dudes, females, and we would just pass it around
the school we call them slam books i don't know if they they probably don't do it now it's too much
digital shit but yeah it's basically a slam book similar but this was anybody could catch astray
like you didn't you like because there's there's you're was there some sort of like agreement
to be part of the slam book or just people were making nah oh yeah that's a mean girl if you went to
school you got a target on your back yeah nowadays if you got caught with a slam book in school
you'd probably be like expelled from the school yeah because they take that shit really
Seriously.
Snapchat.
That was a bully in that, I guess.
Well, and everything got recorded.
So, like, if something happened to a party, if something happened in school, in a locker
room, everything was recorded.
And it was getting sent around on Snapchat and people were seeing it.
And, like, so everything.
Yeah.
It was toxic.
I dodged a bullet there.
Yeah.
It was.
Yeah, I don't think I would deal with that well.
I mean, even I didn't start to work for Barstool until I was like 29 or maybe 28.
but if I had gotten this job right out of college
and then you're looking at the comments about you
and they're all like negative like
I probably wouldn't have been able to handle that well at all
actually it's easier because you went through yikyak
and went through all those like anonymous people
already roasting you
but it's still it's such it's so on a different scale
and it's different because you know you don't know these people
like high school it's like well maybe like some of it is true
to a certain extent
and we didn't have i didn't have yikyak at my high school i knew what it was but we didn't have it
at my high school because we went i went to an all-girls school girls just i mean they didn't have
that kind of thing but oh girls could be pretty vicious yeah yeah like we just would talk
we would just talk talk our shit amongst each other yeah i don't even think i think it was mostly
girls using the yikyak channels i'd be honest and like dudes and like mean dudes and angry dudes
Angry dudes.
Like, no one was posting stuff on there.
Like.
Who's happy here?
Yeah.
In like a good place.
Wanton,
Don looked so nice today in bio.
No one's saying.
Oh,
that'd be,
yeah.
That would make my day.
You know,
it was a lot of,
a lot of,
actually the horny dudes would post about girls' outfits that they
showed up in that day.
That's,
that was the bad stuff.
That's the weird.
That's weird old shit.
I never understood that.
Well,
it was kind of like shaming them for like showing up and like,
I don't even know.
slut-shaming?
Yeah, because they'd be like, this person showed up wearing this, like.
Damn, yeah, no.
It was a war zone.
High school me was not, was not happy in life to do that.
I wore my letterman jacket like a bulletproof vest.
Through that thing on there.
League champs.
Gross.
League champs.
50.
Really football.
MVP.
No, I was it.
I didn't get MVP.
But like it was literally
100% just like a suit of armor.
I don't think it was man.
I think you felt like it was.
Yeah.
No, but like a suit of armor for like
just being an insecure kid.
It's a status symbol.
Yeah.
Is it?
That was your tribe.
Like you didn't have to go out and find another tribe.
You're like as long as I wear this,
I'll be accepted within.
Yeah.
Some community.
The football community at least.
Yeah.
Maybe the cheerleading community
Yes
Okay
That's one stereotype
Did you ever date a cheerleader?
No we actually didn't have
Cheerios
Because I never
I've never even seen that
stereotype
Play out in real life
Like it because it was like
Such a stereotype
Everywhere I've been
I'm sure there's cases
But everywhere I've been
The cheerleading coaches
Were like
Do not
You cannot mess with the football players
Like it was like that all the time
Everywhere I went
It was really weird
The cheerleading
The cheer
leading coach at my school actually banged like a sophomore on the football team.
In high school.
Yeah, in high school.
A female coach banged a dude on the football team and then her boyfriend fell out about it
and then found that dude and beat the shit out of him.
Oh my God.
If you're beating up a high school kid for banging your girlfriend.
Yeah, it's a salt incentive.
Yeah, I feel like that's kind of more on your girlfriend than it's on this high school
dude. Yeah, your girlfriend's catching a charge.
Yeah. It's both. Yeah, just
we're all catching charges now. Just report your
girlfriend and she's going to jail.
Yeah. I don't think she has to sign of registry. That would be the best way
to like get back at X. Yeah. Don't say anything. Just
like turn her in. You're a sex offender.
Yeah. She was hot too. Like that
sophomore must have been just walking on clouds the rest of high school being like
yo, he's the one who bang the hot cheerleading coach.
Yeah. Like I don't think anyone went to jail. I think he was like,
going to report this that was the coolest thing i have done in my life oh you know what was nuts i don't
know at when we used to play like rivalry games since social media is everywhere the other play
like the other teams like their like cheer section would like blow up photos of like your sister
your girlfriend like and just like yeah that was a thing really yeah it was brutal or if someone on
the team was dating or had hooked up with someone on the opposing team you would just chant their
names wait how on the opposing team so like it's like to oh well like someone at the opposing
school sorry that's what I mean sorry opposing school sorry if QB1 hooked up with their running
but if like QB1 was hooking up with her dating someone at whatever school he was playing then
they would chant their names yeah oh we had a lot of that that heard a lot of feelings the internet
the internet made everybody because a yickack and then you know yeah yeah yeah
Or Ask FM, did you have that?
Ask FM was more middle school.
Yeah, but that was really, those got brutal.
Those were really mean, too.
Yeah, but you were, anyone who got an Ask FM is an idiot.
I had one.
Well, yeah, but you just opened yourself up to just tons of.
I wasn't famous in eighth grade.
No, but everybody's just getting asked you.
Oh, yeah.
And it's just like the worst shit.
See, I was like, I went to really small grades.
Ask FM was, if you don't know what it is.
It's basically like an anonymous question asking thing so you could ask people questions.
Um, and they would be like, oh, like, then you could just answer them.
I guess it's pretty simple, but I went to a really small grade school.
So I only had like 30 kids in my grade and this is with the time you were getting it.
So I would ask myself questions to make it look like I had more people like in my DMs and then be like, do you have a crush on anyone?
And then you would like make a sneaky answer to like try and attract attention.
Stir up some drama.
Yeah.
That was that was one of my move.
dodge that as well
pretty deceitful there
Maddie
You gotta do what you gotta do man
But we're gonna have to
Wrap this one up
Well you guys can bounce
We all got shit to do
Yeah you guys can
You guys stay judges
We could just talk
Yeah well I wanted to say
We could save this for a future episode
At one point I want to talk about the sport
Kelsio Storico
Because I got to see it live
And I'm putting out a video on it
In like a week
but it's definitely like the wildest sport I've ever seen live I met a bunch of dudes who did it
oh yeah when I was over there and they were some of the bartenders around that uh plaza that
did you ever go to don't I don't think so I think you did it's the pub Irish pub right off that
square I don't know if we're keeping I may have um I may have for yeah for a drink but yes I would
like to break down that sport for you have you ever heard of it arian I have not heard of this
Okay, yeah.
It's only played once a year in Florence, Italy.
It's too deadly.
Yeah.
MMA, it's like MMA rugby.
Yeah, so there's like, yeah.
With some sort of net component that you can throw it.
Yeah, you got to throw the ball in the net.
And the net goes down the whole handball and the end zone.
Yeah, so there's like 20 fist fights happening at the same time.
I don't think we need to like do it for this episode because I think it could be it's like full nanodose or something like that.
This is the nano.
Okay, yeah.
It could be a macro at some point,
but I'd like to get your guys' opinions on it.
It's insane.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
We'll have you there soon.
Anybody got anything else?
I saw this sick video of a man fighting a bear.
I saw your tweet about it.
This video is insane.
Was it a wild bear?
Yep.
All right.
Well, y'all keep talking.
We have to leave, like, right this second.
But watch the dozen this week.
That's what we're going to do right now.
Okay.
Big T's antsy, he's fired up.
We'll see how we do.
Who has to go do it?
You, Arian, and Madeline.
Okay.
Yeah.
Y'all keep talking, though.
Go as long as you want.
Yeah.
Govals.
Keep chatting.
I'll take a look at the bear video.
Yeah, I just sent it to you.
Oh, okay.
You're still in my phone is, you're now in my phone is not Chef Donnie.
Okay.
That's good.
Don, I used to accidentally text Donnie thinking I was texting chef Donnie.
Yeah.
I got some funny.
plenty of interactions oh shit yeah this is real yeah so what was a deal with that bear that was like
the size of like it's huge oh the 747 yeah is that what they actually referred to yeah here
jamie can you pull this up yeah what am i pulling up you're pulling up the i just texted it to you
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the show. It'd be pretty sick. We'll pull it up. But explain what it is.
Okay, so this mountain climber is climbing a side of a stone cliff, and he's got a GoPro on
and just hopefully play the videos for those at home.
What's happening is he's climbing up the side of the mountain, and then all of a sudden
you hear he's like heavy breathing.
It's a GoPro, POV video.
Then all of a sudden he looks up the side of the mountain, and a bear is just barreling down
at him.
And he pushes the bear off the side of the mountain, and the bear's coming at him.
And he punches the bear in the face several times.
Then the bear comes back out of him and he kicks it in the face.
And then the bear looks like it's about to run away.
But then it comes back at him.
And it's one of those videos.
It's a black bear.
And black bears, it was protecting its cubs.
Black bears aren't supposed to.
Yeah, they're not supposed to be as violent as a grizzly bear.
Right.
But also they're not supposed to be cub protective.
Really?
Yeah.
So grizzly bears are famously cub protect.
So if, like, you see the Revenant, you see a brown bear cub, you're fucked.
Like, yeah.
If you see a brown bear cub, run.
Yeah.
Like, don't wait to see.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, he comes back.
He comes.
And then he's hitting it.
And the guy's hitting the side of the mountain more than he's saying the head of the bear.
But black bears are a kick, though.
Black bears are absolute, like, gigantic raccoons.
Have you ever heard of a, I just learned about this new type of bear?
last week a sloth bear oh they're vicious as far yeah they kill a ton of people they also
fight tigers yeah so vicious that they like that tigers don't even deal with them yeah they like
siberian tigers and then they just have to fight they fight and i think the reason they're so
aggressive and that's why they kill a lot of humans is because they've evolved to be able to like
fight off tigers yeah um so yeah i mean if if you go on to youtube and search sloth bear you'll you'll
like probably a bit of it fighting a tiger and it's not like a huge bear but it's just
fucking so aggressive it's the perfect combination of a honey badger and a bear because it's
oh my god yeah so yeah holy shit look it's fighting a fucking tiger it's fighting a grown
ass tiger like jesus like so honey badgers are aggressive as fuck because they need to fight off
lions and hyenas and sloth bears are just they are the most vicious thing so like they're
taking out people on the regular there was more sloth bear uh attacks than tiger attacks in
india yeah can you can you can you send him the length that i just sent you oh yeah um i don't know
actually it hasn't gone through i like barely have the internet here um
this one might be when you have to tune into the YouTube uh no this is a Reddit video it's only like 10 seconds but it's like a sloth bear charging at you yeah and it's fucking freaks you the freak me the fuck out because they they make a sound they look exact someone made a comment on Reddit they look exactly like the creature from Temple Run that's yes chasing the guy um did that gets sent through to you
yeah i don't like how they're hunched over they just look yeah they look evil it like and then
when they run on the floor they're scurrying yeah it's like ah yeah this is just like a
a 10 second vid but he charges directly at you and it's like yeah it's like holy fuck i would not want
it and then he makes a crazy sound if you guys have yeah like it looks like a fucking or it looks like
an alien from that movie.
Oh my God.
That noise is terrifying.
Look at the scurry again.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
That's scarier.
That scurry.
I don't know why.
The way it moves just is scarier than a bear, like a regular, like even a grizzly bear running.
I don't know what it is.
It's like, it's like, it's like a horror movie scary.
Yeah.
It almost looks like a spider or something like.
they have like they're like deranged almost yeah they look like they're on drugs yeah it's
blind of rage it looks like it's on speed it looks like a crackhead black bear yeah yeah that's
yeah that's really like strung out black bear that's spot on yeah billy what else is hot in the
news crack bears crack bears yeah who do you think would win a fight a grizzly bear or sloth bear
a grizzly bear
I think they're just way too
so big that was a stupid question
but I feel like in the wild
a sloth bear would bring more fight
to the grizzly bear
and the grizzly bear would just be like
yeah dude
yeah a grizzly bear might just be like
this is not worth my time
I actually have a question
Donnie what's it like living in Italy
is it hard going from like
I mean you've been everywhere so I guess not
but like for someone for me
like I don't know if I could just pack my shit up
and leave and live in Italy for a year
Yeah, I mean, I was there for a year. I learned like five words of Italian. I didn't like learn a lot, but living in Venice, which is so touristy, like almost everybody could speak some English. And like even in the other cities in Italy, like you can get by not knowing a lot of Italian. The interesting about Venice is it's one of the only cities in the world that there's zero cars. So that was kind of cool too. You just because I would just like walk everywhere and then the public transportation.
are boats so instead of taking the subway you would just hop on a boat um things that were
hard were um uh in the summer they actually don't use air conditioning a lot like a lot of the stores
and a lot of the buildings you walk into just wouldn't have it and it got really hot there um
so that was tough and then in the winter the insulation of our apartment was just so bad
So it was very cold in the winter, very hot in the summer.
I was going to say it gets cold over there.
Yeah, it doesn't get as cold as like New York,
but the insulation was so bad that it like it felt even colder.
Yeah.
What were, I made a list of things they like didn't have there.
Flavored seltzer waters.
I'm a big fan of those.
Not a lot of flavored seltzer out there.
Central AC.
there was I mean it wasn't the hardest place obviously Europe if you're going to move
somewhere in the world Europe's probably the like easiest continent where you have to
adjust the least but it was definitely a change of pace I mean I think I didn't know a lot
of people out there but like what would you be most worried about
if you just had to move to Europe for a year?
I don't know.
Like, I just, like, think about all the simple, basic things that we have here.
I'm assuming they have it there, too.
But, like, I'm just, like, so comfortable in my own space.
Like, I live where I grew up.
Yeah.
So I don't know if I'd be able to just leave for a year.
I mean, I guess you could figure it out.
Like, you go on vacations and if you stay there for seven days, like, you, by the seventh day,
you kind of know the place you were in.
So I could see how that would work.
I just don't know.
Yeah, I guess.
You were talking about, like, the language barrier, but in Venice, it's not as much as you make it, you know, you would think it would be.
Yeah.
I mean, so you went to Europe for what, like a week this past summer?
Yeah.
I basically, I went.
Yeah, I did.
Did you have any troubles trying to get around or anything like that?
Language.
They have a much better rail system than us.
And I took a bunch of buses.
Yeah.
And I took buses at night.
So my travel and, like, board were the same, like the same, one of the same.
And I definitely, if you're looking at ball on a budget, the dollar was strong against the euro.
So just get night buses so that you can just fall asleep on them.
And then that's also where you stay for the night.
That's a good idea.
You're a little steep deprived, but like you get used to it.
But yeah.
How was, how is, did you have, see any of the impacts of like the energy prices rising?
because the when did you come back no i came back like um the end of july okay so yeah you were
seeing the ukraine that did that impact your day to day with the energy prices and whatnot or
no not really i think like maybe some flights may have been a little more expensive but because
i didn't have a car there or anything it didn't really change much i mean the rent there was so
cheap compared to New York like what was it running you like uh my rent there was uh it was nine 50
euros a month so that was around like a thousand dollars a month for like a nicer apartment than
i have now huh yeah that's what's crazy europe has so much like how is did you have to deal with any
health care um no i didn't but my girlfriend had health care through her job um so she probably
I know she had to get a doctor's appointment there,
and the doctor she went to didn't speak a word of English.
So she was like, I don't think this is going to work.
I just recalled one more thing that you can't get in Europe
that you would probably miss a bacon, egg and cheese.
Oh, yeah.
Those don't really exist there.
So I would start to miss those.
What do they have a lack of there that they won't do it?
I have no idea.
I just don't think it's part of the culture.
The only place I could get one there,
it would be if I went to McDonald's.
Yeah.
And you could get an egg McMuffin.
Is there McDonald's different?
A couple items are different, but McDonald's is pretty like, even in China,
like a Big Mac would taste like a Big Mac in China.
That's like the most constant fast food joint.
European McDonald's is amazing.
Yeah.
I know the Burger King's there, you can get a beer and stuff like that, which is nice.
but that sounds awesome
I mean one thing I always wanted to do
and I was thinking about for a long time
but then you know got caught working for barceles
I wanted to play football overseas
and what like what you did
in a dragon skin
well so I know the league over there now
they recently started a new league
if we could sell that as a series
we're like I could I could follow you
um their league
I think they have like a
team in Austria, three teams in Germany, a team in Turkey, and that's like the highest
football league they have there. They do have a league in Italy. I met a couple people who were
playing there. You could easily make that team. I don't think, they're not really paid a lot,
but they are paid a little bit. Yeah, they get like free room and board and also they get paid
maybe like a thousand euros a week or something. I got a requirement for that. So how do you even get
the hard the hard part is that they only allow a certain amount of americans okay so my buddy plays for
the coitbus crayfish in germany yeah and he like says that he's just living the life like
they he'll come up with room board uh he's he even has a car i mean i would love to do that we could do
that yeah because their season is kind of like over the summer too um it's uh i think it goes from like
maybe April or May to September like yeah
May to September but it'd be so cool and I like I know people who are playing over
there it looks like a blast they're getting a lot of people into it my buddy was saying
that the competition is like like not even D3 yeah for some levels like the worst team in
our division was how good the competition
in Germany is yeah no I think you could you could definitely make a team and even if you because I don't know
like what's the I'm trying to look up what the league is called it's called like maybe the
European League of yeah yeah the European League of football they have teams they got one team in
Barcelona they got some teams in Berlin and I could take a lot of
look at like what type of talent they're bringing from the U.S. because I think each team is maybe
only allowed like a couple players. Yeah, like three or four players from the U.S.
They usually get a quarterback in like a skill position. Yeah. I might dust it off. I think you
should. I remember I was I was talking to Will Compton about that, but I don't know if you would
He has a kid. I don't think he's trying to go and play in Europe. He scratched his itch already.
Yeah.
it would be fun though
I think I probably take two months to get in shape
like to get in good shape
and they might even just be like
oh if you come and film the series that's going to help
the league so much by getting a lot of eyeballs on it
that yeah sure we'll let
we'll make sure that Billy football
gets some playing time
yeah so this last the
the Super Bowl for their league was
Sunday September 25th
and it was the Vienna Vikings
versus the Hamburg sea devils
Austria and Germany
I once interviewed a guy who played in Sweden
and like more of the
Austria, Germany are the best teams
in compared to all Europe
that would be awesome
if we could actually figure that out for next summer
because with this whole Chicago move
like having to be in between rents
and yeah you could just take those
two months and go to Europe
and play football that would be sick
and if you were down
like I would definitely need someone to help me with some like just general stuff
and then we could also on the days we aren't playing go like do some travel content
yeah that series that series would be sick I could I could also pretend to be like a coach
um or something like that on the sidelines yeah I think they would let me on the sidelines
yeah we can figure it out that would be awesome donnie what's your favorite place you've ever
traveled? The Balkans was a lot of fun that was like Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia. I had a blast there,
but I mean, that's such a tough question. It's funny. The only place I didn't enjoy was probably
Moscow, Russia. Really? Yeah. I went with like a cameraman I wasn't really messing with. It was in
the middle of the winter. I had a fixer there who was like the least helpful, like helpful person
I've ever met like fixing.
Yeah, he was supposed to be like showing me around and I told him I was like, I'd love to go out
for a meal for like authentic Russian food and he brought me to a Hooters.
Like not as like a joke.
He just like didn't understand what I was asking.
And he had like a crush on one of the Hooters waitresses.
So he's like, yeah, we're just, we're just going to go to Hooters.
Authentic American food?
Yeah.
He was not very helpful.
And I mean, I didn't have any problems with Russian people, but like, in.
general, they're not as friendly, like walking down the street, no one's going to like smile
and be like, hey, how are you going? Like, you just see everybody on the streets walking
they're very straight-faced. Right. Like, I travel here a lot domestically, but like I've
never really been outside the country, like maybe twice. I've been to Scotland and I've been to like
a, you know, a ruba. Okay. So I'm thinking like, let's do something. Like, I want to go like
across the pond again but like where's the place to go um i mean yeah you really can't go wrong in
europe uh because being being um and on like the amalfi coast that was sick but it's also
crazy touristy that's why i recommended the balkans like it's almost just as beautiful but less
touristy less expensive and everything like that but i'd like to go back to asia too because that was
sick it's so funny you've seen so much cool shit but you've also seen so much crazy shit huh um yeah
seen a good share of crazy ship but i've also gotten very lucky like i've never been
locked up abroad or i've never had how's iraq iraq was sick that's like a long conversation
you could say for i got another day but yeah no i didn't i didn't have any um really negative
experiences there either but that was the trip I was the most nervous for um for sure like I
most trips I don't have a guide but when I went to Iraq I made sure like I had a guide the whole
time um but then after a couple days you're like oh I guess I didn't have too much to be
scared of what was your like what did you see that was the biggest remnants of the US occupation
The green zone, that's just like where the U.S. embassy was, like all of the embassies.
And that's like a cordoned off part of the city that you need permission.
Like we got permission to drive through just once, but you're not allowed to just walk through there.
Because like a lot of the new protests they've been having to, they always like surround the green zone and they'll like light fires on the bridge or try to like invade the green zone.
and I'm pretty sure it was the U.S. that, like, set up the green zone when they first invaded.
In the green zone, is that the place that has, like, all, like, the McDonald's, Taco Bell, American, for American troops?
Those are probably, like, on the military bases.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, the green zone is just where all the government buildings are and things like that.
Including the Iraqi government?
Yeah, including the Iraqi government now.
So that's why all the, like, new protests have been around there, too.
Yeah, I was going to say, because we see you push the limit a lot.
Are there times that you're just like, no, like, I can't do this or I'm going to...
When I was going to Baghdad, I was like, all right, the goal of this trip is to not push the limits.
But, I mean, after being there a few days, we started to feel kind of safe.
So we had a night off and we were like, let's just go and check out the town.
And so we found a taco bar that was a 15-minute walk from our hotel.
And we were fine, like, walking there in the middle of the night, gotten hammered on like the
worst margaritas I've had in my life yeah and then like by the end of the night we were just
walking around the streets of bagdad hammered and like not too concerned do you feel lucky or
you feel like you're you're you get to a point where you're so comfortable that you can just
go crazy kind of thing yeah I just you know I just got like a feel for the Iraqi people like my
first day there there were all these people yelling out of their cars as they drove by and I was like
oh shit like what are they yelling are they telling me to fuck off to get out of their country and
And then, like, I realized they were just saying, hey, how are you?
How are you?
Welcome to Iraq.
And they were just, like, pumped to see American tourists there because they're obviously
used to, they were only seeing the military.
And now that they just see like an American civilian there because he wants to explore
the country, it kind of makes them more proud of their country.
Yeah.
So that was, that was cool for sure.
And like, yeah, I mean, we went to a soccer game there.
that they weren't allowed to play the game in Iraq because FIFA deemed the country too unsafe to host the game.
So they ended up just having two screens and just having like a live stream there of the game.
But the place was completely packed and me and John Kelly were the only Americans in the whole place.
No way.
And we were just getting mobbed.
Everyone was like, what's your YouTube page?
Oh, my God.
Can I get a selfie?
Yeah.
what's your Snapchat and that was just unreal like we we felt like celebs there and like after that
I was like okay I definitely feel welcome here okay yeah that's cool yeah it was a blast and it
sucked for them they were actually it was supposed to be the first like FIFA game that bagdad
had hosted in maybe 20 years and then there was a rocket a rocket attack in the north of iraq a week
before and because of that they're like nope it's not it's not safe and that rocket attack was that
what what type did you hear what it was i think it was like iran like some like iran launched
a rocket at erbil which is a city in kurdistan yeah in the north of iraq so it was the kurds like
because everyone just always beats up on the kurds yeah yeah because they're like they don't
have their own country they're right in the middle of nowhere it was like an iranian back
militia. Yeah, like launched rockets at Erbil, but Arbeel's like five hours from Baghdad. But because
of that, they were like, no, it's not safe enough to host the game. So like some of the people you met
there, like, was there any possibility that some of them may have been involved in like, like, how,
was there any remnants that you felt of ISIS or anything like that? Um, no, because I know people
who have done tours and they've gone to Mosul, which was, that was like the capital. That was like the
capital of Isis.
Yeah.
And they said like now ISIS has been completely cleared out of that.
And that's actually a safe place to go.
And so now I think the only remnants of ISIS are like in the middle of the desert,
there might be like a couple camps.
But they got they got fucked up pretty badly.
I don't think.
I'm just like wondering like how the population like that goes from 10 years of war.
And then, you know, we're getting back to this peaceful place.
like are like are there some former uh combatants just walking like amongst i'm sure i mean
when we were at the soccer game most people were aged like 25 and younger it was like 15 to 25 so
those like those people weren't even like probably like they don't they didn't really experience
right the u.s invasion firsthand or they were too young to remember it but like the older people you meet
there have definitely experienced it like we met this guy running a cafe there and in 2007 the
cafe was bombed and he lost like three of his kids and two of his grandkids all in that attack
and um but then he decided he still like rebuilt the cafe and was still working there um and that was
like the saddest thing I ever heard like yeah I lost like maybe like four of his kids and one of his
grandkids and then I think his wife later died of grief and then he was just still working
obviously very scarred oh my god so yeah I mean everyone there has been affected by it but you know
that was just a random suicide bomb attack it's crazy like most of the suicide bomb attacks there
were just like killed local Iraqis like where it's like a lot of them weren't geared towards like
trying to blow up the U.S. military.
They were just trying to like, I don't know,
if it was like Sunnis versus Shias or anything like that, that's just, yeah.
And how is the food out there in Iraq?
I saw you, I was just pulling up the video here from your trip.
What is this, what's this thing here?
That was great.
That was like a breakfast dish.
It was kind of almost like fried dough and then they put sweet cream and honey on it.
And that was a delicious.
Yeah.
go to like the first yeah that was uh very good that was one of my first meals in the city
i thought is it cheap out there i'm assuming it probably is right the food it is cheap i think
traveling like that trip wasn't as cheap as some of my other trips because like yeah there's not
as much tourism there so you definitely got a you definitely got to pay that was a wolf being sold
in a pet market i was just like oh these dogs are cute and he was like that's not a dog
that's a wolf that the the wolves were not cheap i think he said they were like two thousand dollars
oh wow oh wow huh well i feel like there's definitely some very cute could you buy like so
cute i feel like you buy like a leopard or something uh i didn't see any leopards or like yeah the
market's over there would you have bought one would you have bought a wolf if you knew you could
bring it back no they're dangerous as fuck yeah the things that they're still wild animals
yeah i mean a two thousand dollar wolf i don't know i mean wolf dogs are even unpredictable because
like a wolf dog will like break out in the middle of the night and like kill the dog down
the street yeah because they're you can't tame it like like my dog's laying on my couch right
now at home he knows he's getting fed he has no want to break out of the house and go like
attack the dog down the street yeah just because it smells it like the little dog that's
barking in the like on the opposite end like a wolf dog will when you hear's another dog barking
be like I'm going to go kill that dog for whatever reason but they'd be so cool to have but you
just never know because they could randomly snap yeah and then and then you're fucked there was a
clip I forget when it was but you were in a like an abandoned building and so don't usanes got
our palace yeah holy fuck and that was converted after the u.s invasion it was converted into a
military base for the U.S., and that must have been sick.
It was a beautiful mansion right next to the ruins of Babylon.
Yeah.
Because, like, Saddam Hussein wanted to, like, rebuild Babylon.
Well, it's the, it's the, you know, one of the first places of civilization.
Yeah.
Like Babylon and then, like, how far is Mesopotamia?
Yeah, we, we went to the marshes of Mesopotamia.
and I got to actually swim there
and that was unreal
like we actually spent a night
in like a reed hut
with marsh Arabs there
that's probably the coolest thing
I've ever done abroad
whoa I mean it's crazy
like when you were there
and there has been climate change
not the modern climate change
but climate change from when
ancient Mesopotamia
and first occurred
and like the cradle of civilization occurred
and like could you imagine
like when you were
there was it could you see the basically the fertile crescent like the the foundation of human civilization
there yeah i mean the marshes of mesopotamia if you search like marsh arabs every like 24 hours
with the marsh arabs yeah that is where you could see it um and obviously like 2 000 years ago
iraq was a lot more fertile and green than it is now but you could see it there um where yeah it seemed like
really green and everything and you're just swimming there and you're like this is where the first
humans swam so where um did you there was no like alligators or any type of crocodilian species
in those waters were there i don't think so there was a lot of water buffalo yeah i got to
those are transplants those are domestic so yeah uh are they no i think water buffalo
have been there forever almost i'm pretty sure water buffalo are all domestic they were domesticated at a
different time than beef cattle okay and they just were so good at what they did they spread across
most of asia and africa um but they're they're they're really like for example cape buffalo i think
are like the what like the wolf to dog i think it's like those are the ones that you see like on safari in
Africa. Yeah. Because these ones were slightly domesticated. Yeah. So I don't think Water Buffalo
are all, but I'm trying to figure out what they were domesticated from. But there's a theory that the
reason why such a great civilization was established there for the first time in history was that if
you look at like Africa could never have settlements near the water besides Egypt for different
reasons um but africa because of mosquitoes one and also all the predators that were near in the water
like crocodiles yeah i was like you swam with was that in columbia with uh oh no that was in
zimbabwe oh yeah i like i jumped in the water with with some hippos why did i think that you
were with uh pablo eskabar's hippos because i did that as well oh you swam with both hippos i didn't
swim with those ones okay but yeah i went to the like
like retreat where that's crazy some of Pablo's hippos still are but because that water was safe
mesopotamia around there it was one of the first places humans could establish like a trading
place and like bring lots of centralized trade and goods to one place to build civilization yeah
like all of the first cities in human history were all built on the tigris or the euphrates because
you have like two rivers right next to each other.
And then in between those two rivers, a great place to grow food.
Yeah.
But Saddam Hussein actually hated the marsh Arabs, the people who live there now
because they didn't support his regime.
So when he was in power, he just like drained the swamps and like destroyed.
Like they went from a population of like 200,000 down to only 40,000 because he drained
the swamps and that's where they got their entire livelihood from.
Huh. So the water buffalo was domesticated from two extant types of swamp buffalo. So they originated originally in the Indian subcontinent and spread to China and India and then to, there's a large pharaoh population in Australia.
Yeah, it says right here they weren't introduced to Mesopotamia until 1,000 BC.
Yeah.
But the first probably cities were there, maybe 3,000, 3,000, or no, maybe even like 5,000 BC.
More people depend on them than any other domestic animal.
At least 130 million water buffalo exist because they're all over China.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure.
They're all over Africa.
Yeah.
Oh, albino water buffalo are weird.
Are they violent?
No, they're pretty, they're pretty chill.
So, like, I heard in India, have you ever been to India?
No, that's like, might be one of my next trips.
So it turns out in India, cattle just walk around everywhere.
Yeah, because they're a sacred animal.
You're not, you're not even allowed to eat them.
Right.
And water buffalo are, they also hold them in high regard, but they just walk around the streets like
it's no one's business.
Like, yeah.
It's like, oh, there's a butt, like they don't.
Like, you could have a Porsche driving down the street and then a water buffalo walking down the street directly next to it.
But they just let them do whatever they want.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
A sacred animal.
The most likely ancestor domesticated water buffalo is a wild water buffalo, which is native to the Indian subcontinent.
Okay, so the wild water buffalo.
Oh, yeah, that looks a lot bigger and scarier.
That's wild.
Yeah, because those ones have to fight off alligators.
and tigers and lions
Swamp buffalo are funny looking
Water buffalo skull
Yeah so there's two types of
There's like a swamp buffalo and then there's a water buffalo
And they look a little different
Very good at swimming
Actually the first time I saw the water buffalo swimming
I like thought they were crocodiles
Because all you see is their head
And you can't even tell
have you seen anything that you're like crazy scared up like i wouldn't go to australia because i know
they have giant spiders i'm like out on spiders big out but is there anything that you've seen that
you're like fuck that i mean i feel like you could go to australia and avoid the spiders yeah
you just like stay in the right places is that a thing i don't know no i mean yeah that australia does
have giant spiders um when i was in africa they have
the black mamba we saw one one time my friend was walking walking out of the bathroom and just
walked walked over one no shit and then was like oh shit and then two staff of the place came out
and just beat the shit out of it but it's like one of the most violent snakes i think on the planet
so like one bite he would have been dead within like 20 minutes yeah because in those places i
I mean, the medical assistance probably isn't even close to as good as what you would get
if you got, like, stung by a bee here or something.
You know, it's not comparable, but I'm just saying, like, they don't have the readily, like,
anti-venom, right?
Yeah, no, they would have to get to a hospital.
And if you don't get it, you don't get to a hospital over and a half hours, you're dead.
Yeah.
Wow.
I mean, but that's the bush in Australia.
Most of Australia is pretty arid.
Oh, yeah, I mean.
Yeah, I mean, you're talking.
I'm talking to a guy who's only been to, like, St. Martin and Scotland, so I don't know.
I have no idea.
I'm just curious, since we have Donnie here, I've just, like, I have no idea what it's like, you know.
Where have you been in Oceana, if you have?
I've never been.
Huh.
No, I think Singapore is, like, the closest I've been.
Have you ever been to, where, where's the place in China that has all the gambling?
Macau.
Macau.
Yes.
That I've heard is crazy
Like everyone's like
Oh Bangkok's crazy
But Macau's like
Macau looks crazy
It's honestly
Not a lot of fun
Because so they gamble
Like an insane amount
I think
Like the amount of money
That goes through the casinos there
Is maybe triple the amount
That goes through the casinos
In Las Vegas
Yeah
But it doesn't have
The crazy party atmosphere
Like people show up
Just to gamble
And whereas like
In Vegas
people show up just to have a crazy time.
So Macau is like right next to Hong Kong.
You can take like a 45 minute ferry in between the two.
And Hong Kong was way more fun than Macau.
I don't know if that's changed since China sort of has like asserted themselves there.
But it used to be like one of the funnest places.
Like if I was saying you only had one weekend in Asia,
it'd be like you should go party in Hong Kong for the weekend.
Do you think that COVID was released to stop the Hong Kong protests?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's funny, the protest started like right after me and PFT left.
Yeah.
And they were brutal.
And they really, they didn't stop until COVID.
I mean, if they had to put a genie back in the bottle.
Yeah.
Like maybe they're like, yeah, we'll just release a little COVID, calm the protest down and that'll be it.
And like, maybe they didn't expect it to go worldwide.
Or hey, we got to start a, start a pandemic.
I could get all these protesters back inside so we can control them.
I mean, I'm not going to say, I really have no idea.
That was my theory when it first happened.
But we know a lot more now.
It definitely was convenient.
Hmm.
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Yeah, but I'm trying to think of like an animal or something
where I'd just be like terrified to even go there.
Like I think I could go to like a safari
and just, you know, see lions.
and shit and see elephants, but if I saw
like a wolf spider on the wall, I think I'd
kill myself on the spot. So I was
I don't get that spider thing.
It's just the look. I know you're a bug and animal guy
but it's just a look and it's... Yeah, you are. Don't lie. I'm not a bug
guy. You're an everything guy.
One thing
that does scare the shit out of me is grizzly bears.
Okay. Yeah.
Like, grizzly... Like, I was
hiking out west
and you know that's one of the reasons why everyone carries a gun out west hiking like we'll
not that's a generalization but in certain areas um if you're hiking without bear spray you know
you got to have a bear bell like if you're there in the wrong place in the wrong time a bear will
just straight up eat you yeah mountain lines too yeah i've seen those vids where the guy has to walk
he has to walk backwards for like 20 minutes and it keeps you
so I'm like charging and stopping charging and stopping and that would I would have a heart attack
like well yeah there was that story um what's his name Timothy treadwell I was looking it up just
now Timothy treadwell he's the guy who got like mauled on camera with his girlfriend yeah oh yeah
they just snapped on the recordings yeah someone listened to it and he's like that'll never
get released yeah I can't I mean that guy it may have gotten leaked I wouldn't want to play it on
the show. No, never. I can't listen to that. I don't think it got leaked. I think they played part of it at the
end of Grizzly Man, the documentary they did. Yeah. But they didn't play the whole thing.
The beginning video of like them right next to the baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it. And then yeah,
but at one point you like hear him being like, it's eating me or something like that. I heard
this crazy story out of Russia that this girl was eaten. We talked about it when we were talking on the
most deadliest animals. The Russians love bears, huh? Yeah. They just like keep their own
Bears captive. It's crazy. But this bear was eating a woman while she was camping and she called her
mother while she was being eaten to tell her that she was being eaten. Oh my God. Yeah, it was the craziest story
ever. I got one hyena story. Oh. I heard when I was on safari in Africa. So hyenas will never just
come up and attack you. They'll like if you're asleep or if someone's like hurt, then they'll attack you. And it's
Usually they'll only attack like a small person, like a four-year-old, a five-year-old.
So a new couple and their kid were on safari and they had two tents and they wanted to have
sex and they weren't going to have sex right next to their three or four-year-old kids.
So they go in the other tent to have sex, but I think maybe accidentally left a flap open
and this was in the middle of the night and a hyena just walked in and just bit off the head
of their, like, three-year-old kid.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
That's fucked up.
Yeah, that would be fucking...
Hyenas are some prehistoric creatures.
Yeah, they're fucking wacky looking.
They got...
So, turns out all hyenas have penises, including the females.
I've never heard that.
Yeah.
What?
Is that real?
What the fuck?
That's crazy.
So in the females or the alphas,
all females spotted hyenas
yeah they have a pseudo penis
they use it just
they use it just
for submission
yeah well it says they can use it to pee it says it's like a functional
piece like a functional penis
it's specifically to anally mount males
and females for dominance
they have a strap on they have a built in strap on yeah
They're just using it to peg dudes.
Dude, that is a new fact for me.
Pegged dudes for freaking dominance.
That is wild.
Oh my God.
Yeah, you learn something new every day.
I did not know about that.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there's some wild.
So everyone's like, oh, they're like a dog.
Like, they're nothing like dogs.
They're, they are ugly creatures.
Yeah, I don't even know what their closest relative.
is i don't other hyenas they're like their own they're a literal prehistoric like there's all
these creatures that just don't exist anymore that were these weird half bear dog like is it a cat
is a dog it's some weird in between a raccoon yeah is it a raccoon like and they're just one of the
last of them yeah and like moose moose are like some of the last megafauna in north america like
the last megafaan north or well the bison but they're just gigantic creatures yeah
I saw this video of two moose going at it in a driveway, two bull moose.
I think it's from Alaska, and they like make this pickup truck look tiny.
And yeah, the, I've eaten moose lips before and it was, I had a moose lip stew.
It was actually very good.
And then I've had bare meatballs and those are pretty tasty.
Speaking of penises, like whenever I travel, I like to swim, but I feel like the one
place I wouldn't swim would be the
Amazon because they have that
thing that can like, yeah, swims up
swim up your dick. It's like super small
right? Yeah, so it swims up
the pee hole and then like spikes
come out and so the only way you can get it out
of your dick is if you have
dick surgery. It swims right up your bladder
too. Yeah, so that just
I probably wouldn't be jumping
in the Amazon. Nope.
Some guys had to
I heard a story that guys were jumping
in the Amazon but they all were wearing condoms.
maybe yeah but I don't know if a condom would stay on if you're not erect yeah maybe I would
just like tie a plastic bag around my balls just put like a rubber band over the plastic bag
an amazon chastity belt yeah someone needs to make that maybe we should do that yeah if you
want to swim in the amazon you buy the macrodosing chastity belt and they're just condoms
yeah custom made for macrodosing condoms those might sell just tighter condoms very tight
Which is like extra smoke
It could just be like a plastic sock
It could be like a big thing
That can go over your whole package
Yeah
But what if the what do the fish just go take the back door
I think they're attracted to urine
Which is why they always swim up your dick
Instead
That's so wild that hyena females
Literally are just like pegging dudes
For dominance
That's the wildest animal fact
I've probably heard all year
maybe in the last five years.
You might need to do it like an investigative report on that.
Yeah.
Yeah, they can.
Or it's like if two females are interacting,
they'll use their female dick to just establish dominance over the other female.
That's wild.
The one who wants to back down signals by erecting her penis.
Oh, so it's like a, it goes when two females interact with each other
in a struggle for dominance,
the one who wants to back down
signals by erecting her penis.
Wait, so if you have an erect penis
it means you're backing down,
this is getting fucking more confusing.
So then is the one who's getting,
is the person who's,
is the key,
then is the person who's using the key
and not the key hole,
are they submissing to the keyhole?
Because they're like,
like it's just totally,
opposite.
This is something I can't really learn as we're talking about it.
We could come back.
We could both read a lot about the female penises of hyenas.
Yeah.
And then get back to it.
Interesting.
But it's, yeah, it's a full-fledged replica of male genital anatomy.
Oh, it's complete with a sack too.
So they also have balls.
They also have a scrotal sack.
Wait, what's in the scrotal sack?
fat bodies. So they just have like fake balls too. They have fake balls. How the hell does this evolve? This is like the craziest thing. Like evolution is just so much trial and error of like what works or what doesn't. Yeah. Did a like how how many millions of years did it take for like this type of genitalia? Yeah. Here it says the labia are fused to form a scrotum containing fat and connective tissue resembling testicles.
so the female oh my god so but so the animal they they can pee a female can pee using her penis
whoa so what's the and it contains the erectile tissue so female hyenas can get boners
whoa this that is did not expect to be learning this on today's episode of macrodose hyenas have
crazy bite strength too
I need a bite force
1,100 PSI
yeah their bite force is just
short of
polar bears
which have 1,200
yeah because they
they like feed off
of the bone marrow
because a lot of the times when they find
a carcass all
all of the tigers and stuff
have already eaten all the meat
but they can just crunch
they can bite through those bones
and then suck out all
the bone marrow. Yeah, hyenas are wild. Oh, did you guys see, this is a very famous one, but the guys,
the guys in Africa that used to keep, I think Nigeria that used to keep hyenas on chains.
Yeah. Also, Harley Quinn had hyenas on chains. Yeah, but no, this were, were they like,
in like a gang? Yeah, they were like, check this guy out. I'm going to put into, let me send it to
you donnie but it was these dudes
that kept hyenas on chains
um
and let me show throw you this
into macrodosing
yeah the hyena
and other men yeah these a bunch of these
dudes whoa I just found a
photo of a
hyena female penis
oh it's pretty big
it might be bigger than mine
Jesus
the hyena men of Nigeria
yeah these this is
wild this is wild
bro so they would
oh my god
these guys used to put their heads between
the hyenas
the hyena jaws
they used to do like crockett like alligator
that's crazy
first learn about Nigeria's hyena men in 2005
thanked to a picture that gone viral the caption
said they were debt collectors in Lagos
what
these guys were rolling up to
these guys were lone sharks with pet hyenas
who needs a baseball bat when you have a
They are itinerance.
Are you allowed to show a female hyena penis on the show?
Yeah, we can, yeah.
Yeah, I'll show it.
There's the anatomy of it.
Yeah.
This is a great, a great photo.
Actually, I can send it directly to you.
It's fucking, this thing is pretty fucking big.
All right, I just sent you a picture of it via text.
Yeah, I'll pull that up.
It's crazy.
Let's see if I can get that up.
These guys always had scratch marks.
Yeah.
Baboons.
Holy shit.
What?
Dude.
That is.
so these guys that's a full-fledged penis yeah these guys get so the the hyenas were good pets these guys are like a traveling circus and they also were used to collect debts um the hyenas weren't trouble because if you just fed them and watered them they're cool they wouldn't attack the people who give them food um but they were muzzled most of the time but the baboons were super
problematic
and they'd get into fights with the baboons
like fist fights
wait so because they had
they had pet baboons too
yeah they'd pet baboons
baboons are
terrifying
I know they
my friend rented a car in Africa
and they tore off the windshield wipers
and then he had to pay
a shit time when he returned it
but that's not as bad
they've been known to like
kidnap kids if you have a baby
and a stroller they'll just like
take it out of the stroller
So in India, there's a huge, like, gang war between monkeys, like, the wild monkeys that live amongst the city and wild dogs.
Oh, so, uh, so what happened was like a group, I don't know where exactly it was, but a group of wild dogs killed a baby monkey.
And now the monkeys have just, like, engaged in total warfare against the wild stray dog population.
They're like taking puppies and dropping them out of trees.
And it's like straight up, like, yeah.
I there's a video of like monkeys first dogs in India yeah rampaging monkeys kill 250 dogs and revenge killings like that's nuts that should be a Pixar movie yeah monkeys versus dogs like look at these these guys are actually going nuts after each other it's they're in gang wars and they're yeah so the monkey's big thing is they kidnap the
puppies and then just drop them off buildings and then the dogs just if there's ever a monkey
on the ground they're just going after them and tearing them apart do you know where in india uh yeah
maharashtra all right when i go i should i should hit that up marha rastra i don't want to get
caught in the crossfire of that though yeah which side are you picking your monkeys are assholes
kind of but i'm we're more closely related to like you can't you can choose your friends
but you can't choose your family.
I think it's the ultimate man's best friend or part of the human family.
Are you choosing blood or companionship?
I might have to choose companionship.
Yeah, I'm choosing.
I'm team dog.
Yeah.
I know they say that they started it, but I have a feeling the monkeys were fucking with the dogs.
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, I have a feeling the monkeys were fucking with the dogs.
and then the dogs caught one monkey and killed it.
100%.
Hmm.
Have you ever tried horse?
No.
It's pretty damn good.
It is?
How is it compared to like venison?
It's more comparable to beef.
Like if I served you a horse steak and didn't tell you, I don't think you would know.
So it's not gamey taste?
No, it's just like it tasted a lot.
Where'd you eat it?
Sicily is where it's really popular, but then in Japan they eat raw horse, which was very good as well.
What colors the meat?
When it's cooked, it just looks like a steak, and then when it's raw, it's like very red.
Oh, it's like red, red, red?
Yeah.
Huh.
Because I guess because some meats aren't that red.
Yeah.
Depending, like, for example, pork isn't red.
It's like.
it's like pink yeah but i guess there's more uh like blood up red blood cells yeah in horses
because they have to have so much more stamina yeah or is cattle just like huh so you like have a farm
have you have you ever owned horses there there a long time ago but there was the barn
collapsed oof yeah with the horses inside i know they got out the barn
collapsed one winter so that was lucky but it was more just fostering other people's horses
so just there's all these people with horses that don't like have a place to put them so they
just send them to us okay and do you take care of them but then after the barn collapsed
we kind of like yeah well I feel like we covered a lot of ground we did this is great I'm kind
getting hungry yeah yeah all that horse talk yeah oh look this yeah i i did pull this up i don't know
if you saw this video it's crazy i'll put it in the youtube for people who are watching but it's
this mountain line was like stalking this elk hunter and he yeah if he didn't have a gun
probably would have died so all like the missing there's this whole conspiracy called like missing
four-one one about people like people who think all the missing people in uh the uh national parks
are getting abducted by aliens or, like, eaten by Sasquatch.
Yeah.
But in reality, it's just literal mountain lions killing them,
then dragging their bodies, somewhere to eat them.
And then, you know, no one finding the body,
because it's usually one of those rock slides.
Yeah.
Because the rock slides, because they cover all the bot.
Like, they tend to hide their kills in those rock.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know those sides of the mountains, which is like a bunch of rocks, but it's a lot of boulders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
because then they tend to like it's very hard to look around there yeah after they end up getting but yeah it's just
yeah because i mean i'd be scared of just like a house cat charged to me and then these things which are
i know it's crazy all right all right well great nanodose yeah no we we covered a million topics
i feel like we could do a deep dive into like into like any of those as well too yeah we need to do
an episode on the sport that you said that you watched.
Yeah. Calcio Storico.
Definitely tickle some brains today.
For sure. I'm happy.
And we also did a great interview with Randy Lanier. That'll be out on Thursday.
Check that out.
And hopefully you guys will have them back at some point too when PFT's back in the office.
100%.
What, um...
And, uh, yeah, if you want to go to Iraq, I would recommend it.
Hmm.
Mm.
Mm.
Mm.
Oh.
I don't know.