Americas Shoe | Son of a Boy Dad #413

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I each of you gets a copy. Ironically PFT was making the same point aisle was make to our employees. No signature ball in the teeth for our enemies. Wow. That's a gem right there. This is the autobiography of Dave Portner. I cancel me if you can. It is not even out yet. It's coming out in a week on June 29th. You can reserve our purchase a copy in advance today, which you should do when I hired little Sasquatch. Oh, man, this kid is not only weak, he's gay too. Yeah, I wrote that. What? I thought we were done using gay as a disparaging term. Um, so yeah, this is the book. Wow. Unbelievable. Josh Richards has three chapters. Really? What the hell? This picture. Oh, that's funny. So that's the book. They got the pictures right in the middle of it. Yeah. I had pictures all throughout anti-disestablishmentarianism. This has to be a you word, Francis. No, I haven't used that word since I learned how to spell it in third grade. Neumann or Ultramaric? I get chicks. Silicon, volcano, coniosis. Wow. I wanted to see if I had a book that I was going to you're going to go book for a book. I was going to go book for a book, but I guess I'm taking that in my backpacks. The silliest thing I've ever heard. I actually wondered to myself, I was like, I'm going to give Harry this book and what will he do with it? Read it. Read it multiple times. I'm probably going to read it a couple times today. Honestly. I'll be done. I'll be done by the time I finished recording. It's a great summer. Read. It really is. What's that hard cover look like? It was just versus read the tail for 3699. I'll be telling this for 36 or something like that, but on Amazon, it's a little less. Wow. Do you have pride in this book coming out? Well, I was wondering if you were going to ask me that actually. I have, I have, I am proud of it. I'm proud of having been part of it in some way. I don't really know whether or not I was like a net positive or not, but I still am pleased to have helped, hopefully. And I really wanted to do well. So that's for sure. So honestly, like, I'm proud of you for it. There's some great stuff. I mean, I don't know. I like the book. I read it like a hundred times now. And it's funny. The new version? Yeah. Of course. It's funny. It's, there's some crazy shit in here that people don't know about. I think a lot of the, like business dealings behind the pen deal, the book, yeah, the, some of this stuff, the caller daddy stuff, revisiting grudgement day. If you've been a fan of bar stool for a while, there's a, there's some great nostalgia as well as like, you know, call it like behind the scenes DVD stuff of, of some of the amazing moments that we've had. There's funny descriptions of like the key players, you know, yeah, throughout the course of the company. You got a real look inside Dave's brain and he doesn't hold back at all. Truly. The story that he was telling the other day of Sophia Franklin, pinning spider on the ground outside of the Christmas party. Yeah. I thought that one was never getting out. To be honest, I was shocked to see that online. Yeah. That was crazy. And that's not, I don't think that's the only story of her that night. No. I remember hearing that story like right when I got hired and being like, damn, that's crazy. Like, I'm not going to have to wrestle her. Yeah. I'm not going to have to get in the fucking ring with Franklin. Yeah. Well, yeah. I heard spider held his own. So that's good. He had her in a fucking leg lock, yeah, yeah, eight leg lock, hook it down, he had her in the arachnid clutch. So yeah. Uh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for the book and enjoy it. So fun. The picture on the back. I don't think as anyone seen the picture on the back yet, peaches and Pete, I like the picture on the back. Really nice stuff. I think a portion of each book goes towards uh, animal rescue centers. Would you say you're a peaches man or a Pete man? You know, every time I've met peaches, she's snuggled up to me and wanted love. Pete's pretty loving too, but I, I just think that, I don't know. It's hard not to have your heart melt with peaches. Pete will just chase a tennis ball day though. That's what he's talking about. He's a fucking definitely a Pete guy. We just give us a sentence, just a one sentence out of context. Okay. Alex Cooper was a self starter, not just a pretty talking head. She was far more than met the eye and had a vision for herself that extended beyond the podcast. She was thinking long term, finding missing pieces of the zeitgeist and filling them in a way no one else had. If she presented Ditsy, it was intentional. Behind the facade of lip gloss and platinum blonde highlights, stood an ambitious, enterprising woman with a fierce belief in herself and a willingness to learn whatever skills necessary to become the absolute Titan. We now know her to be. That's a Frances sense that is a million percent of Frances sense. No, I actually, there's no way that Dave couldn't put all those works in the book. None of my work is in the book. I didn't, uh, nothing. I, I'm not in it at all. That was a good not even. That's a hint. That's a hint. It's a solid lip gloss. Yeah. That's a splash. That's a splash. Francis for sure. Oh, my God. I didn't have anything to do with. That was a heavy pour of friends. Yeah. That was this. Wow. That was a double. That was a double. That was a double. That was a quad. That was a quad, right? I've heard that there's some very funny things that he says in the, uh, the audio book. So that's another way you can get the book and he reads it himself, which is great, um, let's see. No wonder it took him so long to read it. It's your senses. No, no, no, no, it's really not. I promise you. I'm joking. I'm joking. Dave knows I love to joke and I'll be glazing him like he was glazing Cooper in that sense. I have nothing to say. I think the book's great, and I'm excited to read it. We're looking for the one other sentence of mine that remained. It's in there somewhere, it's somewhere deep in there. How did you get these? Who sent these out to you? He stole them from Barnes and Noble this morning. They haven't come out yet. They sent me, uh, they sent me a box of 10 of them as a gift. For what? For the word as your payment. There's 10, you could try to sell it. Oh man, it was funny. funny. What did they want? They want you to give them out? What if they send you like an absurd amount? There's like thousands coming to your apartment. All I do is to hide up your garage. Is there heavier than your obsidian table that's cracking through the floor? All right, one last sentence. Okay. Before Stula Paloza, I didn't have a clue whether Barstool sports had traction on college campuses. Within five minutes of arriving on campus at UMass, I realized that Barstool sports was bigger than I had ever expected. The next generation had found us. They weren't just reading Barstool. They were gigantic fans. It felt like a movement. Everybody at UMass knew who I was and was happy to see me. Happy to see Sammy Adams. It was surreal. Now UMass is a powdered keg of a campus. It doesn't take much of a spark for the students to go from controlled fun to an all out blitz that borders on booze-fueled rioting. They actually take pride in this, affectionately referring to themselves as Zoomass. When we showed up at Hobart, we didn't bring a spark. We brought a barrel of napalm. Whoa, thousands of kids were going nuts around us. People started throwing bottles, climbing onto roofs, telephone poles, executing daring wrestling moves from tree branches. It was like they wanted to prove to us that we had chosen the right place to build our nascent live concert business. Not that I needed any convincing. As we drew nearer to concert time, it felt like the zoo knew that feeding time was near. Good God. So they just took your name off it. I literally like regret two of the sentences that state, but it is all Dave's work. Of course. Of course. I'm not just saying that. There's stuff in there that I would have been like, "I don't know." And he was like, "No, this is the truth, and this is what I want." So that's what you get. Yeah, the amount of meetings and Zoom calls where you guys would sit in and go over everything. It's like Paul and everybody like kind of ensuing the memory of it all was a lot of work that you put in. So I want to applaud you for the amount of effort that it took. You're very kind. No. I mean, I did all this work over a year, and then Dave redid it in six weeks. So, well, it seems like he used a good outline that you had. Maybe. But I mean, if you left full sentences in. No, I think it was always going to just be chronological and what was good was that my sort of path that I cut jogged loose some additional memories that, you know, have added a lot. But I'm telling you, I mean, there were so many things that I asked him about that, like, even in his responses, we didn't, they weren't there. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then in reading what I had done, he remembered like, "Oh, this happened and this happened." So it's hard. Um, I think when you're, you okay? I thought you were going to throw out. I should. What the hell was that? I just burped one time. Oh, sorry. You just like, uh, yeah, I was like, I had to lean forward to burp and the mic was away from me, but the mic is also forward. So yeah. Yeah. Of course the mic. Yeah. But I can't burp. I can't burp if I'm recumbent. I have to sit up to burp. Makes sense. But I didn't, that wasn't intended to do right now. No, no, no. I think that was a good reminder that I shouldn't talk anymore. That's not what I did that for. No, I know, but I know when I, that's God's way of being like, get it put a fucking muzzle on for me. Yeah, computer, put a burp in his stomach. What is that guy? Can you explain that guy to me? I mean, he's just a master level troll. Who? Computer, Biden blasts these people. Oh, I don't like I've seen this. He's, I mean, he just goes around and, and fucks with people. He's like, computer, turn this dude's dick into a pretual. Paul Haude, his ankles. I love that biopologies. And he just fucks with people all day. He is truly hilarious. You know what? Just ran on to on the streets. Uh, no cap on God for real. Do you know who that dude is? Sounds familiar, though. Last year at Pride, he, someone, he, like, went up to a woman and was like, when did you, uh, transition? Oh, and she, she was like, I never transitioned. And she was like, I'm a real woman. He's like, no, of course you're a real woman, like, but like when he just does a masterful job. No cap on God for real. You don't know this, you don't know this guy. He's fucking hilarious because I know no cap on God, but I don't think I know no cap on God for real. It kind of looks like you, Ron. Oh, wish, bro. Oh, maybe not never mind. Ron, how was the Norway game last night? Yeah. Let's say it was a lot. Yeah. Good game. It was a really good game. I mean, the dude Holland who scored the two goals is a absolute Viking. He's doing the, because I saw them doing it. Were you doing it? I wanted to, I was trying to buy a jersey there. They don't have jerseys for sale at the stadium at best. They had like a t-shirt. And I thought I was going to have like one little stand, but I was going to try to assimilate with my Norwegian brothers. So you didn't, you didn't hit one row? That wasn't in the rowing section. Oh, you got to start the rowing section yourself. I was amongst like the wave. There are Senegalese near me. Oh god. The Senegalese were, you know, they're dying in a row as well. They were jealous as well. Everyone wants to hit a row. They definitely had to have been super jealous. I saw it. I thought you were definitely hitting it because it didn't look like it was just Norwegians doing it. It was mostly Norwegian. Did you see the video I posted? It's like all dudes in red. It's exclusively people in red. Yeah, but a lot of them look like they were just like people that just got jerseys. I don't know. I think that these are like legit, uh, weages. You think? Yes. I think that they travel. I don't think you can be a travel with the team. So sick. Are they known for rowing? Why is that their thing? I think it's a Viking Viking lore. Yeah, sure. But what are the Vikings row to Iceland? Europe, like mainland Europe, they came down from Scandinavia and pillaged and raped France, Spain, Germany, Belgium. They don't include that in the row. Right. About the raping. Now, if they were so proficient at taking what they thought to be theirs, why are they so genetically specific? Do you know what I mean? Because they're all spreading their seat, huh? Aren't they all in bread? I don't know. The Icelandic were. Yeah, they had a big time, like 50%. Yeah. Yeah. That's why they all have like those the eyes. Didn't you say that? You told me I remember when I was going there. You told me you were like, you were like everyone in Iceland's related. Yeah. They they the what I had read was that they are attracted to and sees upon hooking up with foreigners because it's a guarantee that they're not related. That they're not hooking up with someone they're related. That's what you told me. I remember that. That's insane, which is why I wasn't great that I look like them. Yeah. Because girls are quite standoff. Surely we're related. No, I'm from Maine. Yeah. Oh, the main ones. Hi there. Hi there. Would you like to have a beer with me? A core's light perhaps. School. Yeah. I don't know why they have such a rowing a rowing culture, but it did make me want to go to Norway. I'll watch like the 4k walk around videos of Oslo and it does look like a very beautiful and modern city. Yeah. I've been to Oslo. What's it like? Stunning. It's really clean. Really nice. Everyone's beautiful. It's expensive in a way that like feels broken. What do you mean? I remember going to a 7/11 and getting a snapple juice and it was like $13. What? Oh, yeah. And I was like, what the fuck? At a convenience store? That's inconvenient. That's insane. $13. In the face. Yeah. Is that because of tariffs or imports? No, that was in 2013. Maybe 2012. It's got to be the imports, right? It was like Iceland. Everything was insanely expensive. Not that expensive though. Yeah. They're probably so beautiful that they don't manufacture any of their own things. I guess not. No, they don't do shit. When I went to Iceland, dude, they're big on, see, you keep talking about Iceland. We're not talking about Iceland. We moved on from Iceland. What are we talking about? Norway? Norway. Same thing. No, it's not. Same shit. No. Iceland people are not attractive. Norwegians are very attractive. Come on. It's the same shit. Tell your Iceland. I'll just pretend I'm talking about Norway. When you went to Norway. They drink a lot of soda that it seems like we don't drink here. And it seems like they got some sort of discount deal. And we gave it all to them. You know what I'm talking about? I swear to God, bro. They got the thing is I can't even, I don't even think I can say the name of the soda. But, yeah, it was like a soda that came out in America when I was young. I remember it coming out. and I remember everyone being like this. - You can say the name of the soda. - I don't think I can. - Since when do you get cold feet about offending a sponsor? - Since I feel like my job's on the line. - No, but yeah, no one drank it. And then I think I, it's a theory. I'm not sure if it's real, but it seems like they gave it. - It really had to contraband spill out of your backpack 10 minutes ago. - Well, I mean, that's just common mistake. - Yeah, it's just smuggling. - So it's like when they send boxes of like - It's like a mansion. - Just continued t-shirts to Africa. - Literally that, but it's exactly like RC Cola. - Like, remember when they did like Dr. Pepper for men? You remember that? - Yeah, yeah. - You don't remember Dr. Pepper for men? He was like, this is for men only. - Why? - No one knew. That was the whole point. - It was like, it's just regular Dr. Pepper. - It was just like a marketing campaign. - Yeah, it was just a marketing campaign of like no girls allowed. And it would be like that. Like that didn't really do anything. Didn't really make any waves. And then it would be like if we just gave all that ties, lend for maybe like a million bucks. - I'm sure that happens. - I think that is what happened. Dude, they had billboards of a drink that I have not seen in years. - Really? - Billboards of it. And it was the only diet soda that you could find anywhere. - Maybe they had just gotten it over there? - I don't know. - But it was late. Some cultures are just late behind us. Like Canada's five years behind, England's ten years behind, and Australia's 15 years behind. - Australia's 15 years behind. - Yeah. - So what did they not have like Facebook yet? - They're hoping for it. - Poppawa New Guinea is 150 years. - Well, that's a completely remote island, isn't it? Isn't that the one with all the tribes? - There's so many people. - Yeah, that place, I think that might be like, imagine like if waking up on that island, I think is my worst nightmare ever. - I don't think you have to worry about it. - No. - It's possible. - What do you mean? They're covered in like mud. Have you seen that shit? Were they like covered in mud, blending in with like the waterfalls and shit? And they're like, they'll eat you. - Well, why does it look like that? - And there's like a guy with like the meta glasses on. - You're not gonna wake up on that island though. That's like me being afraid of like getting sucked into a wormhole or waking up on Mars. - Yeah, you wake up on the other side of the world. - I guess maybe like being on a boat that's accidentally drifting in that direction. As the bows are flying in over our heads. - Yeah. - You're not a risk of that. - The blow darts. - That's a unreal. - Sipping by. - You have to run to a waterfall and like dive off to escape the blow darts. Yeah, that's one of my great fears as well. - Speaking of fears, I went and I saw obsession last night. - Oh, though, when we were after. - After my friends denied going with me multiple times. - We didn't deny, we just have worked, we have worked to do. - At nine pm. - Well, we had to work dinner, a three of us. - Exactly. You guys decided dinner over the movie, that's fine. Nothing wrong with that. - We had to eat. - I had to go see the movie. - You were slurping down octopus tentacle like it was the last time I had to go see the moon. - I had to go see the moon on Earth. - It was pretty good, it was pretty scary. It wasn't as scary as I thought it was gonna be though. Which I feel like is kind of a reoccurring thing. Maybe just your tolerance for scary is getting higher. - I think I build up the movies in my head like this is gonna change my life. - You don't have to say if this is weird, but are you going to these movies alone? - No, no. - Okay, thank God. Because going to a horror movie alone at the theater is really dark behavior. - That's the scary, that's scarier than any movie. - I don't think that's that, but I don't think that's that weird. I've gone to movies alone. - I've gone to movies alone. - I think I've gone to scary movies. - One of my buddies saw that movie by himself. - That's one of my greatest fears waking up in obsession alone. (laughing) - Going to the movies alone is fun. - It's great, it's not that great. - I like it. - It depends. - Would you guys rather go to a movie alone or go and eat alone? - Oh, eat alone every day of the week, buddy boy. - Movie alone for sure. - Stay in case. - If I'm gonna eat alone, I mean, I guess you can make this argument for the movie too, but if I'm gonna eat alone, I'd rather just eat at my apartment. Not me. - All right. - Hey, son of a boy ad listeners, we'll be right back, but first, a quick message from one of our partners. - Football is back. And with Draft King Sportsbook, September comes with a boost. All September long, opt in and get a 50% profit boost every game day with the Draft King's Game Day boost pass. New Draft King Sportsbook customers sign up with a code BSS and get 50% profit boost every game day. That's code BSS. And partnership with Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Gambling problem, call 1-800-Gamberler. 1-800-My-Reset, Connecticut call 888-7897-777. Visit ccpg.org. On behalf of Boothill Casino in Kansas, Wagertax pass through may apply in Illinois, 21+ in most states, void in Canada, one football boost per customer, maximum bet limits and wagering restrictions apply. Tokens are single use and expire at the end of the final select game each day win offered. Terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. - All right, now back to the episode. - I love eating at the bar at a restaurant, talking to the bartender. - Yeah. - I like to eat and not even talk to the bartender, the restaurant tour. I like to just be sitting there, fucking brooding. - Yeah, you're a big young guy. - Yeah, just stare at the wall. It's so nice. - Reset your brain. - Yeah, that's pretty good. - Eat some fish. What is nice to talk to the bartender too? - Well, you just have somebody to talk to because you're at the bar. - I feel like sometimes they're like a captive audience, a negative way. Like, how do I get out of this conversation? How do I get into it? Where do I look to show them that I'm finished with them? - I used to go to bars alone. - That's not fun. (laughing) - Some people swear by it though. - That is depressing. - Why did you do that? - 'Cause I wanted to keep drinking by yourself. - No, it would be like the end of the night and people would be like, I'm going to go home and I'd be like, all right, and then I would walk by a bar and I'd be like, I'm going to get way more drunk, not even warmed up yet. - That's a little fish. - That's where I used to go. - And would you chop it with the bartender? - Yeah, I would chop it with anybody. - I would chop it up with everyone. I remember walking in one time. This is when I was like, I was like, I'm probably drinking too much. I remember I walked in and there was like two old ass dudes, like probably like in their like 70s. And I walked in and they were like, there he is. To me. And then they were like, I remember I was in Chicago visiting my sister, she was graduating and they were like, I was Chicago. Like all this shit. And I was like, I don't know who either of these people are at all. (laughing) I have never met these people. And they knew everything about me. - So you got my plans for the weekend. You got shit-faced and just spilled to some ancient dudes. - I mean, that's pretty much what I used to do. - And at the night. - That's basically what this podcast is now. - Essentially. - Except for your sober. - And then I got kicked out by myself. One time as well. - What do you mean? Oh, you, oh, I see. - I think I, I don't know if I've told the story on the podcast, but I was at the bar. Or maybe I have. I was at same bar, kettle of fish, West Village. Great bar. I used to go there because like Bob Dylan went there like once, so I was like, I'm Bob Dylan. I go to this bar and I went and they had a like a jukebox, but it was free. Like you could just select whatever song you wanted, but it was like really old. They only had like old-ass music. They had a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Johnny Cash. I put on, and like when you would, if no one picked a song the music would automatically go to like the bartender's phone. And a song kept on coming on in between when I was picking song, no one was picking songs. So I was like, I'm just gonna play whatever songs I wanna listen to. And I put on Knockin' On Heaven's Door and right when it started the bartender was like, man, I've been waiting to hear that song for 30 fucking minutes. The song that was playing in between that canceled when I played Knockin' On Heaven's Door. And then he stopped. He was like, I'm not giving you any more drinks. And then we had to sit and listen to Knockin' On Heaven's Door and then he walked over and he pulled the plug out of the wall from the jukebox. And I was like, and he was like, you're not getting any more drinks and then I left. - What? - Yeah. He punished you. - It was pretty, it was actually like humiliating. - Do you know what the name of his song was? Do you remember what song he was so keen to play? - It was like, you would hear the first like five seconds of the song and then it would stop because I would start playing a song. - You were paying the jukebox the whole time? - No, it was free. That's what I said. - Oh, I'm sorry. - That's so funny. - Yeah, and then they kicked me to the street. I think that was honestly the last time I ever went there. 'Cause then there was like a fire. And then they became a bar where like, I remember trying to go back and they just had like a cooler outside where you could like pay and sit outside and have beers out of a cooler 'cause the whole bar was destroyed. - Probably the guy burnt it down where there was an electrical fire 'cause he pulled the-- - I'm ripped to the cable. - I'm quite sure I've been to that bar since you became sober. So yeah, I think they fixed it. - I know they definitely did fix it. - Yeah. - But when there was a fire at one point, hmm. - No more jukebox. Was there a jukebox in there? Do you remember? - I can't remember. - It's a nice bar. - Sorry, they have darts there, right? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's why we went. - I would love to get back to that bar just me and Francis without you. - Find by me? - Yeah. - That'll be amazing. Yeah, you really, you burnt it hard when you were drinking. - I think I just thought I was gonna be like a poet or some shit, you know. - I rewatched. - See, they got any, what do you got for me? (laughing) - You're in this jukebox. - Yeah, that's pretty much like what I thought of myself. - Oh, these modern things, music's going to hell. - Yeah. - That was me literally from age 20 to 22. - 25. - Probably 22. - I was literally like, I was like, I'm a beat, like I'm like a poet. Dude, I remember driving with you somewhere and you were talking about all the novelists you were reading and-- - Oh yeah, I used to read those guys a lot. I mean, I've read all their books, they're great books, but they can send you down a dark path. - Yeah, and you know. - What's the message? - They promote a style of living that's not really realistic to humans. - What was becoming a nihilist, basically. And then he said, you know what? I don't wanna believe in nothing. I am just going to do nothing. - No, I don't think it was even that. I think it's more so just like they kind of promote like a free lifestyle of like getting fucked up and like traveling and doing whatever you want. And I-- - Who was there author that you liked to watch? - Jack Carrick. - No, there was another one that you named. - Oh, Charles Bukowski. - That's who it was. - Yeah, that one I wasn't trying to be Charles Bukowski. He's got a, he's a bad guy. - What's his, what's his about main thing that he did? That was nasty. - Drank and hit women. - Okay, so he's Chris Brown. - Pretty much, yeah. Great writer, the hell of a writer. - Good dance. - Did he make money? - Probably. Have you guys not, have you ever read any Bukowski? - I have not read any Bukowski. I usually watch it. - I've heard, it translates well, but no, I have not read any of that Chuck. - Have you ever read any Carawak on the road? - I have never read any Jack Carawak. Weirdly. - I don't know why. It's one of those things that slipped through the cracks. - I feel like you would like Bukowski more than Jack Carawak, just 'cause Jack Carawak is like very, his grammar's not great. - I got a number of requests from people who asked that we do not talk about Tell You Right Bush anymore on the podcast. - Oh, okay, well, we're gonna keep talking about it for sure. That's not gonna happen. - You guys have your own podcast. - We do, yes, but we also have this podcast. - You don't wanna save it for that? - No, and we also weren't even talking about it. What a weird time to bring it up. - You brought it up. - When? - Five minutes ago. When I was talking about Dave, you were like Bush. - Oh yeah, they don't want that. That's that cross is the line for them. - I just felt like we were heading down a slippery slope. - Got it. - All right. - Is that noted? 'Cause by the way, I'm definitely gonna ask you about Bush and about 10 minutes when we run out of this to talk about. - There's not really much to talk about with Bush right now, but-- - 10 minutes, save it. But I heard that they are working on a novel. Tell you how we're writing our first book right now as well. If you wanna have any part in it, we'd love that. - Wow, you should write Tell You Right book. - That's pretty good. Instead of pages, it's leaves. - That would be fun. - Well, you guys gotta get out to tell you right. Do a pilgrimage. - I've been. - I'm saying for the show. Don't tell me a fucking trade came through. How about ya, honest bro, if we're just talking about our other podcast on this podcast. - Yeah, I mean, I don't love it as a Celtics fan. - I didn't even see what happened to be on this. - Or always a fucking problem for the Celtics. They're always this team that they see in the Eastern Conference semis that somehow takes them to like six or seven games and wears them out for the fucking Eastern Conference finals. - Where did he go? - He, honest went to the heat and started the Celtics. - So we're gonna have to rewrite the book. (laughing) - Yeah, honest is on there now. - We don't want them on the Celtics anyway. It guy's a bum. - Yeah, honest is a bum. - Yeah. - That's official from SAS. - What are they doing with Aaron? Are we getting rid of someone though? Are we getting rid of Jalen Brown? - Yeah. - For Janus. - That was originally the plan. - I couldn't be more out of the loop on basketball. - Well, now you know how the Tell You Right Bush talk feels? - I wasn't even talking about Bush. I don't know where this is, what's going on. - I'm just relaying what the people said. I personally love to talk about the-- - I could relay a lot of nasty nasty things that I'm not going to. - Relay, let's lay it bare. - Oh no. - Let's lay it bare. - No, I'm keeping it to the chest. - Just for Chase Sapphire. - I'm tied to the chest. - Let's do it for Sapphire, per's bird. It'll be good for the show if you lay some stuff bare. - I'm not laying anything. - We want to make sure that they get banged for their buck. - They're getting their bang for their buck. - How? - I have no idea. - I love talking about Tell You Right Bush brother. - All good, all good. - All good is Harry's shutdown word. Whenever he starts saying all good. - It's true, that is. - It's very accurate. - It is. - And it's funny too, because that's what he says when we start talking about Tell You Right Bush and we the worries that it's going to get them in trouble. - All good? - Yeah. So, all right, let's talk about. - I think we need to do more. I think feel like last week was so successful going to Chicago. I think that more team building exercises will be good. - Like what? - I mean, the golf, golf would be good, but Francis has already locked in on golf. Bowling is always good. - Bowling? - All right, I'm fucking spitballing bro. You come up with an idea. - Definitely not bowling. I'm not a big bowler. Every time I go bowling, I feel like I leave in my, I feel like I need to get Tommy John's surgery. - I would say use lighter balls, but weirdly, I could see you being really good at bowling. - No, I'm talking to it at bowling. I think bowling might be one of the worst things. - Somehow you have the frame for bowling. - Now, somehow bowling really like emphasizes every way that I'm not athletic, like it combines all of them into one, and then it's just like one bowling stroke. - I feel like you can fix it by just getting some shots in with a low pressure situation. - Like with the bumpers on? - No, I'm saying like-- - We all go bowling together? - No. - Yeah, it sucks. - Or we went in Boston. - Before a live show. - I thought that was fun. - Yeah, exactly. - But that was so we were drinking, we were getting hammered. That was more about the beers than it was about the bowling. - How about you boys give up your stand-up comedy careers when we just put all of our live show efforts into son of a boy that live shows? - Where we start a bowling show? - Oh, we do a bowling show. - We're bowling shirts. - I'll tell you what. - Son of a bold ad? - Yeah, you kind of got a bowling shirt on. - This one? - You could wear that to the alley. - Hmm, maybe. - You wouldn't catch any flag with that at the alley? - Oh, lavender. - Honestly, this is a Woody Guthrie fit. I think Guthrie would be fucking salivating over your fit. - Very well, and I have a question. - Very Kennedy. - Why are people so mad at West Wilson? - 'Cause he fucked his ex's best friend. - Okay, but if they stay together, will that absolve them? - I think that's usually the hope. - Yes, but I think that the best friend said that if she stays with him, she's weak. So she basically put in a fail safe against them staying together. She's like, if you stay with this guy, it'll just be the kind of person that he wants and it will just prove that he just wants this subservient woman that'll just do whatever he says. So if she stays with him, it's like a catch-22 of a self-fulfilling prophecy that this woman Sierra will say that, yeah, Amanda, you're weak if you stay with him. So if she stays, she confirms that she's weak. It was actually a beautiful trap laid by Sierra. - That is a good trap. - It was on a show. - Yeah, it was on a summer house. And that could have been Francis a couple times. - Yeah. - What do you talk about getting recruited to do summer house? - Dave asked me a couple times to do that show. - Dave did? - No, Dave. - He said Dave. - Dave did do it. - Yeah. - He said, damn. - The first time I remember was in probably 2021, 2020, and they were like. - Those were the cocaine years on that show. - They reached out to me and they were like, and by the way, it was like Carl and Kyle. - Who reached out? - Yeah, maybe I even have the text. - Wow. - It's pretty funny. - I mean, they used to be on. - What do they say? - Maybe they're still on cocaine. - We've been admiring your body from afar. Would love to get that on the screen. - Those dudes do have rock and bots. - Yeah. - I think that's the number one thing you need. - I think that's all you really need to be on it. - Is a rock and bot? - Yeah, well, yeah. I think that recently they've been like, yeah, there's dudes who have less rock and bot. - Do they got any dudes that are just rockin' like a black hoodie? Just hot as fuck. - On Love Island, there are some new dudes who just, who have bad bodies. - Just sweating. - Yeah, there's like a dude who's like, when he stands straight up, his knees touch, and he has love handles. I'm like, that's relatable. - The women on that is very relatable. - Chops. - But in a, when your hips are wider than your legs, (laughing) you just have an air bag over the lining of your underwear. That's, I mean, maybe that's disgusting to some people, but that's what Love Island should be. - That's relatable. - I remember when you said years ago, you were like, - You're like my body's the shape of a water tower? (laughing) - It's like a golf ball, let's see. - I can't find it, but I'll tell you that they reached out to me and they were like-- - Was it Carl or Kyle? - I think it was both of them. - Tech? - And they were like, hey Francis, wanted to see if you might be interested in joining the cast for this upcoming season. First question, are you single? And I was like, no, I live with my girlfriend and then they wrote, would you consider breaking up with her for the sake of your career? - That's insane, that's crazy. - I'll never forget it. - And what did you say? You were like, you give it a glit. (laughing) - A million views in episode, I don't know. (laughing) I don't think, I don't think at that time the show now, it's grown, all because of the scandal, right? That's what happens. - Yeah. - I feel like just in the last year, I've just like everyone I talk to, all of my sisters are watching it, like every one of them. - It used to be one of the-- - All of my little sisters, Ron. (laughing) - It used to be one of the lower tier shows over there. And then over the last couple of years, it has blossomed into like the Alpha Predator show. - And correct me if I'm wrong, is that the one that has, that's every day, or is that love island? - That's love island. - And you're watching, you watch both. - Of course. (laughing) - Summer house is over. So you-- - How is it over? - Summer's just started. - They filming this. - It was last summer. - Oh, oh, I kind of like that. - I like that. - Yeah. - Yeah, it was last summer. So now they're about to start filming a new one, but Wes Wilson bailed on it. - Did he bail or did he get forced out? - No, they would have loved to have him back. - He's a lightning rod, everybody hates him. - I thought that Sierra said that she would, I read that Sierra said she would not come back if Wes was on the show. - Oh, they come back. - What's it recurring? I mean, these people have been doing it for 10 plus years. - Wait, so is this just like, is this like very similar to the show that Barcel does? - There was Barcel shows based on this. - Okay, okay. - It's like everybody just goes to-- - And they just get like fucked up. - Yeah, but you know why our show is realistic? - 'Cause they all work together. - Well, more because they're all like 23 to 28 doing a share house at the beach. Where at this point, it's like season 400 of summer house. - Yeah, they're all 40. - And they're all in their 40s going to do share houses in the Hamptons. And having like theme parties six times a summer. - Has it been the same cast? - Dude, if I'm 42 years old and I'm going to like a revolutionary war theme party. (laughing) - I need you to come find me and fucking save me. - Well, especially a revolutionary war party where everyone's trying to fuck. Like if you're having a revolutionary war party in '42, there should be six year-old running around. - Yeah, it should be like a multi-tiered family affair. - A kid not like-- - It's like the redcoats. - Yeah, that's like a cocaine room in like a shotsky. - Yeah, exactly. - Oh, I was thinking of a bit last night and I couldn't quite figure it out. So I'll just share the general premise, but like there had to have been bar tenders on Epstein Island. - Oh, yeah. - For sure. - Who were like, do you have ID? (laughing) And you know what, never fucking aligns me. - Okay, this is a library card. (laughing) - I think that's the joke. - For big parties. - Yeah. - They were like, you know what, just fucking-- - Yeah. - You go ahead. - Your book photo? - Show me something. - There you go. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You're the yearbook. This is hand drawn. This is a drawing in crayon. - Yeah. - It's gonna make love in one. - That's so funny. Those guys, those guys are bad guys. They've seen in them. - Really bad. - But thank God. - I like these Converse All Stars, you're wearing. - Yeah, I'm gonna, uh, in a cheap shoe vortex, but it's nice. All shoes are-- - Converse are good shoe. - This is a sub-hundred dollar shoe. - Oh. - Hey, son of a boy that listeners will be right back, but first, a quick message from one of our partners. - It's Fran from Chicks in the Office. The weather is getting cooler and Abercrombie's fall drop has everything I need for the season. The best selling A&F Sloan Taylor pant is a closet staple for me. I'm always wearing it to work events. Happy hour, anytime I want to be a bit more dressed up. And the viral Dillon dress is easy, one and done perfection. But my fall uniform will always be denim pair with a Henley sweater, a bra-free top. It's comfortable, effortless, it just never fails. Find your fall capsule at Abercrombie, shop in the app online and in stores. When I was in, I think eighth grade, Bo and I got in a blowout argument. Like, I think we didn't speak for a couple of weeks about if Converse or New Balance were, it was about Bo said, he got a pair of new balances. And he said that new balances were the most American shoe. And I was like, I don't know about that. I was like, I think Converse are. And then it was like a back and forth. - How long ago was this? - I was in eighth grade. - Cause new balance, I think that 993s are manufactured in America. - They make a whole line of shoes that are still made in America. - Yeah, yeah. - But then the rest are probably made in China. - Yeah, where are Converse made? - I think not in America. - I agree. You can't sell shoes for $14 if they're made in America. - Yeah, the new balances that are made in America cost like $500. - Yeah, but he didn't have those. - So, but. - He had the ones that are made in fucking. - Was he arguing for the brand as a whole or the ones he had on? - He was arguing for the brand as a whole, but he was referencing the ones that are made in America. But I was like, you don't have the ones that are made in America. - Truly the most American shoes are probably like haydudes or something like that. - Yeah, yeah, probably. - Or like if you rock those in Europe, people haven't seen those yet, man. - You don't think they got those down on that? (laughing) - I don't know. - I feel like they probably got them in like Australia. - They're the haydudes down on that? - Yeah, probably. - Maybe the. - Where are those from? - The Crocs, I think are pretty American. - Oh, yeah. Ah, German. - Crocs? I think they might be German. - Really? - I don't know. I'm just totally making tune up. (laughing) - You know what country has my eye right now is Poland. - Oh, yeah. - Why? - Because I saw Instagram. - Oh, Crocs, Boulder, Colorado. - Italian ride Crocs. - That was what I was gonna say after Germany. - He's Boulder. - He has been acquired by Crocs. - Holy shit. (laughing) - Callbo. - Small world, we've got a head bow on the line. - Head bow and Joe on the line. - But originally, originally haydudes are from Italy. They were designed in Italy. - No way. - No way. - Can we get a Google on Converse? Just like where they, you know. Or maybe just like what's the most American shoe as well? - My guess would be Converse. - Oh, Massachusetts Converse. - Now we're talking. - Now we're talking. - Beam has asked, what about Steve Madden? Those are pretty American Wolf of Wall Street. - We're gonna say like Red Wing. - Look, we were both, we were both definitely wrong. - New bounce is number one on this AI talk list. - Number one. - Oh, no. - 9993. - I'm losing a multi decade old argument right now. - Wow. - Yeah, that's tough. I just proved myself wrong. - Bo. - Number one. - Can I send Bo copy of the book? - Oh yeah, definitely. I think he might already have one. - Do you think he preordered? - Well, it hasn't come out yet. - Preorder. - Well, that's not how him having one counts as. - What do you mean? - What do you explain? - What you're saying. - I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying. - That's the whole show. (laughing) - That's why they keep on coming back. That's why Chase wanted on board. (laughing) - Yeah, this guy doesn't know who he's mad. They can say, I'm wrong. I'm not trying to be right. - Right. - Even you think you're wrong. - I know I'm wrong. - That's a J Williams saying. - Yeah. - He says, I don't even think I'm right. - Yeah. - I don't even think I'm right most of the time. - Oh man, that's funny. - Oh man, so this is funny. Yesterday, so casually, we're leaving the office. And I think you were friends. I think you had to do another ad or something. I don't know, me and Ron were walking out together. And I pulled out my lanyard to show Ron. I brought my, I was like, I left my apartment this morning, grabbed my lanyard, leave the door, get the lanyard, no keys attached to the lanyard. (laughing) It's just the lanyard. And Ron was like, oh shit, he's like, what are you gonna do? And I was like, I'm not worried about it. They got like an office next to my building. Like, I'm sure they'll be able to just let me in. I had to stand in the rain for an hour. And wait for a locksmith to come. Office was shut down. It was hell. - And you take it to a bar. - No, no. - You banned yourself from all bars. - Well, the thing was, I was like, maybe I'll go get some food, but then I was like, well, the locksmith has no way of getting in touch with me because the building reached, I called the building, they called the locksmith. - Yesterday's rain was biblical. - It was biblical. - I started walking home yesterday, or I started walking to the subway yesterday. And I was like, you know what? It's starting to let up. Let me hop on a bike. - I bike through it too. - Wrong decision. I took my shirt off afterwards. The entire back was changed. just spat her in black rain water from the fucking - It's so gross, I tried to hang it up to dry it. Today, my shirt is still wet this morning. It's still dense with rain. My, I was wearing white pants. You could see through to like my, like you could see the, the cards in my wallet. You could see everything. - At one point I walked over to the deli. I was like, I was like, I may well see if they have an umbrella. No umbrella. Just walk back in the rain. - I get it. Well, once you got to a certain point, after a minute, I was like, I'm at terminal velocity wetness. - Yeah, you can't, you hit your peak. - Yeah, my pants, I was wearing heavy jeans. - Yeah. - Those don't feel good, especially if you're biking. - No. - They're probably like 20 pounds by the time you were done. - Yeah, my dormant, when I walked in, he was like, wow, looks bad out there. I'm like, yeah, I just also made horrible decisions. - Yeah, yeah. - I was like, the hippie with a, you know, it's raining out. - Oh yeah. - Shoked. - Love that. (laughing) - Walking in like fucking daffy duck in there. It was brutal. And I had the whole time, it's in my head, how long you said it takes to get to MetLife. It's always fucking bugging out. - Oh yeah, I was that. - It wasn't that bad, honestly, get in there. - How long? - The time went up. It was probably like an hour 30 to get from door to, actually, yeah, probably an hour or 20 hour 30. We walked in, had the beer walked in as they did the countdown to the first. - Oh hell yeah. - So I didn't really miss anything. And then getting out was just, I made a fucking, like, it was the perfect exit. It feels so good to leave like, right at the perfect time, go out the right exit, didn't hit a fucking single lick of traffic on the way back to the back of 40 minutes. - Nice. - It felt so triumphant. - Love that. - It felt like such a fucking man. - Love that, glad to hear it was a success. - People are shitting on the take and it was a facetious take that World Cup is better than SEC football. But it was pretty fucking awesome. It's like SEC football is great. Have you ever wanted to SEC game? - I've never been to an SEC game. - No, I don't like SECs. (laughing) - Yeah, with all the tax filing stuff, you always have been at odds with the SEC. - Yeah. - But I think that it was like, nobody was like, super fucked up. Nobody was like, stumbling, falling over drunk. And in the SEC, everybody is super fucked up. There's like, women in hounds tooth, who are fucking drunk as possible. There's like, 65 year old women who are like, about to fall face first into a key line probably in a SEC game. Like, nobody, it's like a 90 minute game. It's pretty tight, you're kind of in and out. It's nice. I thought that it was, it left me craving more football. - I'd like to go to football or football. - Football. - Yeah. - I'd like to go to, maybe that's an adventure for us. Maybe we go to, across the pond. - Okay. - To a football game. - I would love to do that. That would be fun as well. - Or like, what's the, like, the Dublin Derby or some shit like that? I'm not familiar with that. - Well, in, in Scotland, it's like, hearts versus Rangers, I think. I think we gotta go to like a Manchester game. - Man, city's my squad now. - I've been, I went and saw Liverpool City. - Yeah. - With my dad like five, six years ago at Anfield. - What's it amazing? - Unbelievable. And then in probably 20, 2010, I saw Liverpool United at Old Trafford. - So would like a game like that be like crazier than like a game where like Argentina plays? - Well, what's, I mean, what's fun about that is that there truly is a home team. - Yeah. - And there's so much unison between the home fans. Although I'm hearing that some of these world cup games like the stadium is heavily favored to one side. - There was definitely a bigger Norway crowd. - Versus Senegal. - Right. - And I think that there's more tourists, like I didn't have a dog in the fight. Like there's more tourist set of game like that that I went to, whereas I bet a game in Manchester, everybody cares. No one's like traveling for the most part for that game. - Did I ever, I don't think I told you this, but when my dad and I went to that Liverpool City game, right? We were, we weren't sitting in the cop, which is like the die hard fans behind one of the goals. We were on the other end. And I remember, everyone sings to stand, you'll never walk alone, which is the song of the whole stadium sings before the game starts. It's pretty cool. And shortly after that, my dad, my dad's not a Liverpool fan. Like he was asking me some questions about the players. And these guys who were sitting in front of us, who were probably in their 40s, like turned around and looked at us and were like, this is you guys first time coming to one of these games. You're not from here, are you? And they were being very like judgmental. Like, who gave, how'd you get these tickets if you're not a serious fan? But guess what? They were American. - Oh, really? - Yeah. - That would drive me insane. - They were American. They lived in, they lived in Liverpool, I presume, and had season tickets at this point. - That's like Williamsburg energy. Yeah, but it's time. - They still had full-blown American accents. And where my dad was at, it got to, I was like, who the fuck are you? You learned all this? - Yeah. - At one point. - They're pulling up the ladder behind them, type of thing. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, that's insane. The fact that they were American is crazy. - 'Cause I bet British people wouldn't be like that. Or like if someone's coming to their first Eagles game, like something I care about, I'm like, yeah, that's cool that you now wanna care about this. I'm not gonna be like, we'll name their fucking backup right guard. If you actually wanna fucking do that, what kind of offense are they running? Who is their defensive coordinator in 1999? - It's just, I mean, that's insane. That's just, those guys are just assholes. But like, that's just like, it's just like a sports. - It's gatekeeping, it's gatekeeping. - It's gatekeeping and sports is like insane. - It's the worst. - That's right. - Anyone who knows more than anyone else wants it to be known that I'm a bigger fan than you are. I deserve this more than you. - Yes, and I hate that. - Yeah. - In reality, you don't deserve anything. - Yeah, you're just a fit. You're just like, yeah. - You just watch TV, weren't you? - We're different level artists. - Yeah, yeah, you're, yeah. - You got a better memory. - It's so annoying. I was listening to a basketball podcast this morning and somebody was like, I can't even watch the game unless you're at the same level as sicko as me. Like, I can't watch, I can't be around people who aren't the same level of fucking sicko as me. It's like, no dude, you're a fucking loser. - Yeah. - Welcome to that. - Yeah, that's it. This is a deep CD like a psychological problem that you have that you want to like, that's why I didn't have a problem with random people being in on the next stuff 'cause like, it's just a party in the city. Like, everybody's like, should be able to enjoy it. You haven't watched every regular season game like good. It's like fun for the city of New York. - Yeah, the only reason I had a problem was that one of my best friends when the Celtics are good, which they so often are, always complains in our group chat about the people that come out of the woodwork to support the Celtics when they're making a run and sites different people and all this that are like going to games and it bothers and I'm, and then I'm like, you know, dude, you think Taylor Swift is watching the majority of the fucking regulars. There's no bigger, I want to be seen connected to the NYX team than the NYX when they're in the playoffs. - Yeah. - Fundamentally, other than maybe the Lakers because it becomes a celebrity like offense. Also, it's just like that's just how things go. - Right. - If the team sucks, a lot of people are gonna stop watching the team. - Like that's just how it is. - It's crazy about like, you see way more Arsenal fans this year than you would probably see Liverpool fans or something because Arsenal's killing it. So they're having parades in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria and so because they're popping off this year. Like the Patriots were dog shit for seven years after Tom Brady left and like the state, like I went to games where the stadium was like empty. That's just how it is. - Or like the kids in Dave's feature reviews were wearing like Justin Herbert jersey shit like that 'cause they didn't, they weren't bought in. There's like seven year old kids who were like, yeah, I like Joe Borough. - Exactly. - That's just the nature of the beast. - Nature of the beast. - So fuck these fans, like what would your, - I agree, like I do think it is annoying, especially if you are a big fan of that team, but at the same time, it's not annoying enough to be like, this like keeping you up and down. - But break down what's annoying about it. Like guys don't know as much as me. - Like if people start saying like getting their opinions off, like people get mad at me when I do it. Like if I'm getting my opinions off and then people are like, you don't know ball. I could see that being annoying, but at the same time, it's like who gives a fuck? - Dude, Grootin said that he would hire you to be on the bucks that. - Literally. - Literally. - So how can they say you don't know ball when you literally will be brought with him to whatever job he gets? - Also, correct me if I'm wrong. I believe I said in the beginning of last year that the Patriots were gonna go to the Super Bowl. - Yeah. - Then I'm on the head. - I have a, we're Aryan, I believe said, no, they won't. So for me, zero for him. - You have a weird what? - I need, I need a favor. Okay. There's a guy. - Get the body bags ready. who won't stop. up trolling me and he's DMing me and trolling me. And that'd be fine. - Are you giving oxygen to the fire? - Well, sounds like it. My issue, my issue is that it's his real account. And he owns a tutoring company. And his bios is professional tutor in college consultant, former Caltech UC San Diego Medical scholar and he looks very nerdy and he won't leave me alone. And I almost want to ask the people go out there and give his company negative reviews. - No, that's crazy. - Why? - It's a bad idea. - Why? - It's a bad idea. - What else do I have? - The show. - What else do I have to get back at him with? - Nothing. - Sometimes you just got to roll over it. - I posted it as just the story version of me stopping the traffic video that I did and he wrote, "Cool." - Sounds like he's a big fan. - Well, we'll read us the entire interaction so we can see exactly what we're working with. - He wrote, "When I posted my Harvey Weinstein song, he goes, "Team U Bo Burnham, eight plus for effort, I guess." - Eight plus. - I don't know if this justifies destroying his company, though. - So you, I go, "I'm going to absolutely destroy you now." (laughing) I've got an army of people ready to turn Sam's tutoring company to ash. You're fucked. He goes, "Why so easily vindictive? One would think a Harvard grad would be a bit more even keelt. I never understand that." - He's getting under your skin. - Of course he is. - Yeah. - Harvard grads don't have a lot. - What happened to your brick? - I feel like you're not bricked at all. - I said, "I'm coming for you, Sam, buckle up. You've made a terrible mistake." And he goes, "Yes, sir." And then I forgot about it and moved on, didn't care. And then he fucking poked me again. - Yeah. - Well, what was the poke? - When he responded and he wrote, "Cool to my story." And then I wrote, "I tried to let you off the hook and I forgot about you. Why are you messaging me this?" But you know what? - Well, you are in the tutoring world. - That's the problem. I want to start another tutoring company and steal his clients. - I like that. I like that better than the native reviews. - No, but I'm not asking people to be like, "Whatever, I want people to literally write as their reviews like we use Sam's tutoring company for our child and they didn't get into any of their top schools. I would not recommend it. Their methods are too abstract." - Something fucking believable. - Sticking with C'mon. - Sam's tutoring company.com. Excuse me, Sam's tutoring company.wordpress.com. His website is horrible. So look at this fucking dweeb. You kidding me? - I think you can't ruin him. - Is that definitely his, could that be a fake profile? - I don't think so. There's too much going on. - I think that you're led in an ant to eat off your plate. - You could just, just give him a block. - Remove him. He needs to, it's too deep now. If we didn't, how are we honest? Out of all of your interactions, that one seems pretty. - It's the fact that we both had tutoring companies. - That's what it is. You know the grind of tutoring. - In terms of, I don't like his methods. I don't like how full of himself he is. I didn't write shit like that about myself on my own website when I was running a tutoring company. - You didn't see it through as long as he did. - We don't know how long he's been doing this. I had a tutoring company for five years. - But maybe once you hit that 10 year threshold. - What's the fuck kind of a name is Sam's tutoring company? Okay, made a meta much. - I don't mind it. - Expert in virtue and online tutoring. Yeah, right, dude. - You know, Ron's kids are going to Sam. They better not, they better not be. - No, they're not going to Sam. They're going to Fran's tutoring company. - Yes, Ellis Prep was the name of my tutoring company. - Oh, that's a good name. - That is a good name. - We had a logo that I had designed from a crowdsourced website. - Really? - A $300 prize to the logo designer who won. And they were all from the Philippines and Indonesia. - $300 to a Filipino. - Very hard to communicate. - You made a king. (laughing) - You got fleeced. - Yeah, I'm pretty sure that guy became Roberto Duterte. - Yeah. He's like on $300 Street Cleansing Campaign. - That was a typo. He meant to say $3. - Just another AR-15 of the hands of some oped warrior who went and gunned down every suspected drug dealer in some district. - That guy is a G-Duterte. - My students average an increase of 360 points on the SAT. That's impressive. - That's true, that's so much. - Is it? 'Cause when I did it, I doubled mine. (laughing) - What? - Yeah, I swear to God. But also the first time I took it, I failed. - You can't fail. - I failed. - What are you talking about? - I got the name. I got the points for the name. - Was it at a 16? - Yeah, like 600 points for writing your name or something. - And you got a 600? - Close. - Oh, jeez. - But then I got it up to like a, I guess like around like a 12, not actually a 12, I don't wanna, I didn't get a 1200. - He did it and I didn't. - I got, I was around 11. - Out of 16. - Yeah. - That's fine. - It's not great, not terrible. - It's not gonna get you into Harvard. - He might be pretty smart this guy. - Yeah, but sure he's smart. But also like, what do you think his, what's his inspiration for trying to make you feel lesser than? - I don't, that's the thing is like, he's messaging me from like his company's account. Like dude. - Maybe he's trying to get broken. - What are you doing? - Maybe this is exactly what he was like. - Well, you know what? To be honest with you, I've kind of come around on some. (laughing) - I've really come around. - Text him, text him that. Honestly, that will get him off your back. You catch way more flies with. - Sometimes that doesn't take though. (laughing) That's the worst. - If you're when you try to, try to be positive. - Try to be positive. - Hey, you seem like I still have a guy. - That does a nice to do so. - Yeah, no, I know my tutoring's going great. You still suck though. - I did that with a guy in Nashville who owned a brewery 'cause he was sending me the most file shit. And I was like, I'm gonna come to soon and I'd love to come to your restaurant. It looks good. And he's like, go fuck yourself. - Oh my God. - And then I was like, all right, I get it. You don't like me, that's okay. But honestly, I was looking at your menu and I really would love to try it. He's like, fine. (laughing) - You can come. - Fine, when? - When are you coming? (laughing) - Put a nice table together. - And then I was like, I'm never coming to your fucking restaurant. You fucking bitch. (laughing) - Oh, I would have long gone to him and I would have been like, I'm outside right now. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Can you bring me in? - That would have been really good. - Can you bring me in the back door? - Hey, son of a boy, dad listeners. We'll be right back. But first, a quick message from one of our partners. - I'm a girl of donating $1 million to dog rescues in 2026. So if you love true sweet tea, this one's a no-brainer. Pick up a lucky one sweet tea today and give back one can at a time. I'm going to Wyoming in a couple of weeks. - Really? - I was telling, yeah, I was telling-- - With whom? - With some of my buddies from home. - Oh. - Some of them, yeah. - What was going? - Wait, this is our last episode before break. 'Cause on break, we have back that episode. - Oh, yeah. So yeah, I guess we'll really get into the weeds. - Let me get comfortable here. - We're going to Wyoming and I was telling Sean and Tyler about this, every year we plan the trip and every year the trip gets more intense. But like every year I push for an Airbnb. - For nicer. - Nice, I say guys, let's get a condo. Let's get an Airbnb somewhere where we can just go fish. And that's all we got to think about is going in fishing. We don't got to think about surviving and bears and mousse and mountain lions and starving to death and freezing to death. - Yeah. - So that was the plan, in May the plan was like, we're going to get an Airbnb. We're going to get a lodge. This is going to be great, it's going to be glamping. We're going to really let loose, relax and enjoy ourselves. - Sure. - Somehow the trip has turned into a 10 mile backpacking trip where we will now no longer, we won't even have the car. Usually we have the car to rely on. We don't have anything. We just have what's on our backs. And usually we will end the trip with a hotel. And this year, the counts, has decided no hotel. And I am on the boat of like, you need, you need to end the trip on the hotel because then you get to like shower, clean up, get that, get on the plan, go home, right? Right. As of right now, our plan is wake up on the last morning at 4 a.m. straight from the tent to the airport. You're going to be smelling like bun's dog shit. Yeah. Dog. How many total days is it? It is the we're flying out. I think so it'll be the full day of the 9th to the 10th. It's like four days. All right. That's not it. I thought maybe it was a week in a 10 or so. You're going to wind up getting. It's like four. But this is the thing. And this is what I've said. I said, I'm not I'm done with these because I was telling them, I'm still recovering from the hotels in Iceland. Like the hotels in Iceland set me back years. Right. Because this is what we do every single year. We say, I say, let's get a hotel. They say we're not going to get a hotel. And then it's the night of and they're like, we got to get a fucking hotel. Is it an I pay for the hotel? I was going to say, is it more principle or cost that is for them? It's cost for them. It is only why don't you just fucking sponsor the trip? Because they have jobs. They got the money. But if you care this much and they don't, you should, you have more money than them. You have gone on four years of trips where I have paid for everything. Well, you've already, you set the expectations. You can't be 25 and still be like, I'm not. I can't get the hotel. You can get the hotel. Oh, bro. There's people that are 40 that are like that. Yeah. I know. I know. I know these guys. And if you're willing to sleep in a tent and go straight to the airport, yeah, you can do whatever you want. But what I'm saying, they're like, we are fine with this. And you're not. So the only way it's going to change is if you pay. This is a, this is exactly it. Like you're right. But the problem is is that they are not fine with the hotel without a hotel. Are they saying that or you just know that's going to happen? They say that every single year and then every single year by like the second night, they're like, how much would a hotel be? They're giggling in the side chat because they know I'm going to pay for the hotel. Well, then why don't you just get your own. That's what I said. That's what I was telling them. I said this year, I'm getting, I, if I'm getting a hotel, I'm getting my own hotel. Why don't you, but why don't you do it right now? That's a good idea. That is actually a great plan. And then what then they'll be forced to come. Yeah. Well, but you're going to have to hike out of the wilderness. You're going to have to go out of the wild. I can just get an Uber from the wild. Yeah. You're going to be riding a rattle. If you reserve them, you can get them wherever you want. I think they have ATVs. Yeah, what? No, I'll tell them, hey, guys, you got to drop me off at my hotel. The Ritz Jackson for seasons. I mean, Jackson does have great hotels. That's the problem is that the hotels aren't saying like expensive. Well, you don't have to stay there. There's a cheaper one. Is it a lot of their most of them are pretty expensive. I think it's also because of the time frame that we're going. Is he time? Isn't there someone up there, I think? Oh, yeah. Jesus, yeah. There is. That's too much. Do it. I might have to. I might have to. No, worth it. No, not going to. It's so worth it. It'll be so worth it. It's more just the it's it's it's the history of we went to Iceland. Iceland, we said we were going to camp every single night. We camped one night and then got a hotel and we just we rented a bunch of camping gear for no reason. Then we go to Wyoming. We say we're going to camp the entire time. Second, the last night, we decided we're going to get a hotel for two nights instead of one night. Last year, we said we're going no hotel at all. We're only doing three nights. Second night, we got a hotel. So it's like history is really consistent here. Then then this is simple. You know what's coming. You need to get your own hotel ahead of time. I like this. I like this plan a lot. And then you watch as they are watching and you say, I had my foot down. This was always my policy. Yeah. And I like this. I'm making a call as soon as the somehow it's like if everyone in the moment improvisationally decides to switch to a hotel, I can see maybe how you're more on the hook for covering. But if you make the decision and say, all right, you guys made your bed. You're sleeping there. I made my bed. I'm sleeping here. And if you want warmth and showers and all that on the second night, well, it's going to cost a fee. Best of luck. Yeah. Break off a rack each. Don't stay there. That's too much. No, I'm not going to we're going to. I'm going to get a hotel somewhere shitty, but it is just it's crazy that they haven't realized why it's going to talk about the lap of luxury. Because if I know Harry as well as I think I do, he wouldn't use the hotel to it's it's you know, yeah, he wouldn't explore it. Yeah, I don't. And I think that in order to really make a place like that worth it, you need to utilize every inch of the hotel. Yeah. Like which I which is what I do. I mean, I eat every grape on the free brick sort of fruit centerpiece. Yeah. Yeah. I have all the bottles of water that they give you. Oh, yeah. Me too. Champagne. Welcome champagne. Do you guys use a whole bottle of shampoo? Oh, yeah. When I'm in the shower, squeeze it till it's empty. Correct. Yeah. That's what I do too. And then if I don't use it, I pour them out. I pour them down the drain. Right. Exactly. I I stuffing a bar of soap through the drain. Grading like tea. Flushing towel. I'm going for it. Yeah, I do that. I do the same thing. Do you guys use the many, do you guys abuse the minibar? I know you've obviously had your history with it. We have to pay for the minibar though. I do that. I don't do that unless I'm filming it. Oh, can I say a little right off? I see how you're working. Not even that. It's a right off. It's just like sneaking away from the tax man. Why do I need to he deseed the SEC? Why would I why would I why would I need a fucking bottle of vodka in my hotel room alone? Yeah. It is a good question. The whole bottle. Sometimes it's a big bottle too. But sometimes the minibar I thought that was all on the company's dime. So I was kind of just 1942 down the drain. Class A. Zool down the drain. Things. Sorry Dave. $75 bonus. Use it or lose it for getting charged. Anyway, might as well dump it down. Turns out that was all going to my card. Bad news. Three times as much as the room to make some calls. I was never in Chicago. Someone stole my card. Jesse Smollett. That's the real Jesse Smollett. I'm about to go to Portugal over this break. Hell yeah. With my with my with my children. That's real. Oh, shit. Yeah. Is that your first one? Wow. This is my first flight with them. I'm terrified. Yeah, they've had passports. Hell yeah. I'm terrified. Wow. That's cool. Yeah. It's going to be so. I mean, it's going to be harrowing. The flight is going to be nasty. Then we get right into a car two hours going through customs. The global. We're supposed to get global entry, but they delayed the global entry interviews here at the office until after the trip. So I'm just what does global entry help that much? Yes. What is it? Anything in the world? Really? Yeah. What do you just get to skip costumes? We've had this conversation so many times that I'm no longer going to sell it, because you simply won't do it. Understood. Understood. And even though they come to the office, like they'll be like in the room next door and you'll be like, I'm good. I'll set you the link. No, that was for TSA, I thought. Oh my God. You'll be like, all good, all good. Isn't there a difference between it? How many times do I have to say it? Global entry includes TSA pre-check. You get both. That's why it's so valuable. And I said that when I sent you the link, and then they still were like, not enough people signed up. And I'm certain you hadn't. I took your name in, but you needed to. Yeah, not in sauna. Like a redress number, where they need all your old addresses for the last 10 years. Coming back from Ireland, the global entry was the most efficient thing I've ever experienced in travel. They've actually improved. It used to be that you'd have to go to a kiosk, get a photo taken of you. It would print out this little slip, and then you'd that present that to a guy. He'd look at it and then wave you right through. When I got back from Ireland, I went up to an eye scan, scanned my eyes, got like a go, and then did not speak to a human. That was it. Just walked through. Wow. And they got your social security. They got everything they needed from you. I trust the FAA. That is true. Wow. Or whatever. Good border. I wonder if I'm going to, like, do I need to get my, like, can I get my kids through on like TSA precheck on my TSA precheck? No, I don't know the answer to that. That is a good question. Or like, I mean, I've only taken kids to the airport one time. And it was only one way. Maybe yes. I feel like I remember going through with my dad. But is it, can you bring more than one? You might have to make a choice. Who's getting it? They both have their passports. If I ever need to get a last minute passport again, I'm going to an ethnic enclave of New York, because I was walking, I went to fleshing on Father's Day. My, my family's like, what do you want to do? My wife's like, what do you want to do? I wanted to go back to FAA. and it's like, you could get a passport on the spot. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, they make them say that. - They're selling them on the street next to live crowds. - Yeah. - It's fucking insane. It's so nice. - If I ever lose my passport again, I think I'm just not gonna leave the country ever again. That's just it for me. - I was one of the most brutal processes. - How are you getting to Wyoming? Are you flying direct to Jackson from Newark? You're taking that flight? - Yeah. - That's the United flight? - Yeah. - It's the only one. He's been to Jackson brother. He's a skiing man. - I'm going to Jackson. - So which Jackson is he is referring to? - Tennis. - No, I've always always wondered. - Paul Simon? - No, Johnny Cash. - Oh. - Well, I'm going to Jackson. - What am I thinking of? - He can't be going to Jackson. - I thought he was Tennessee. - I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Texas. - I'm going to Portugal. - Algarve, Portugal. - No one knows. - I'm going to the Algarve region. - Too awesome. - Oh, no one, it's really, no one knows. It's wherever. - Oh wow. - Like that, I like that. So I'm going to Jackson. That's what it's about. Pumped. - Yeah. - That changes things. - The boys are going to love to hear this. - We're going to be ripping that in the car. - So we got Nate Bo Peters all going. - Nate's not going, unfortunately. - Nate doesn't do shit, bro. - No, he has work. You Bo and Peters, that's it? The three of you? - Yeah. - What's Nate's job again? I forgot. - I mean, he works in, he works for Maine. - He works for Maine. - The state of Maine. - He does Maine for a living. - Yeah, essentially. - Maine Street, he works on, you know, what's good for Wall Street is good for Maine Street. - Exactly. - There's so many myths that Harry has propagated on this podcast. Like what? - Well, I mean, I think there's like a top five of, you know, basic untruths that you've tried to convince us of. One, that you have an older sister who's married. Two, that Nate exists and lives in Maine. - He does not live in Maine. - We've been over that. - Oh, so you're changing to Maine? - He lives in Maine. He lives in Massachusetts. - Yeah. The whisper down the lane gets even more obfuscated. - That's it. - Obfuscated was a word I saw on this book. - Oh, that's why Dave's favorite. This is a classic obfuscated. I was gleeced and not in the mix yet. Why does it always jump to the call her daddy chapter when you open it? And also building superstars is a. - Neither of you is anywhere in the book. - I shouldn't in the book. I'm not mentioned in the book. - I had a feeling. I was about to ask and then I was kind of scared. - It'd be so weird. I was glad I wasn't honest. It'd be weird as fuck. 'Cause I don't think it'd be good. - Yeah. - At one point we had to fire the fuck face who's written the fuck to this. - Yeah. - Well, we had him back on at the insistence of his friends. (laughing) - You should have written half the book about that. (laughing) - Like that's like the whole end. (laughing) - That's the focal point of the book ends with you getting hired back. - Yeah. - Pat, Alex Cooper, Caleb Presley, Busson, et cetera. Like he could have just kept on adding commas and threw a couple more names in there. - It's tough. - Just for the boys. - It's tough. - You know. - No, you should count your blessings. - Is that those are the only superstars he listed? - Yep. - Those are the superstars. Well, I think in that chapter he has biz. - I think biz is in there. And he had, yeah, he had Josh Prey in there too. (laughing) - What the hell? - There's a whole chapter on Prey and publicity. - Eat Prey love, publicity and Prey. - I thought I saw publicity at the airport the other day. - She was probably on her way. - Every well could have been her. - Yeah. (laughing) - She was on her way to one of her weddings. - You know what was interesting about this book was that when we came back with edits for Dave's version, the publisher wanted him to add more stuff about his work with animal rescue stuff. And he was like, I don't really, he's like, I don't want to self-promote. I don't want to self-aggrandize, basically. - Yeah. - But on the back of the book is a picture of him with peaches and peat. - Well, eventually he, I think he decided he wanted to donate a portion of the proceeds to that, but he just didn't want to be too heavy handed with like look at how generous and charitable I am. - Yeah. - Which is kind of impressive. - Except for there is a whole subsect of the book about the bar soul fight. - There is, but that's because that meant so much to him. - Oh, oh yeah, totally. - Whereas all those dogs he rescues, he just killed him. - Yeah, he has given a fuck. - He's just crew well of Deville. - Dave has been wearing a lot of dogskin coach lately. (laughing) - What the hell is that all about? - It's a nice jacket. - Smith's peaches. (laughing) - It's a. - I keep my Saint Bernard coat under the bed for winter. - Have you ever seen that episode of Always Sunny where they move to the suburbs? - Yeah. - He's like, - Who's flash? I've been hearing it the whole time. - Yeah, but the part where he's like, he's like, "I'm not surprised that Dennis likes Dennis." And he's like, "What?" He's like, "You're eating the dog." (laughing) He's like, "What, do you think I didn't notice?" "You added meat junks to the back and cheese." (laughing) - I think that's probably. I think that I would actually go as far as, to say that's probably my favorite episode of any show ever. It's so funny. It's unbelievable. - Yeah. - All right. - Okay. - We're gonna wrap it up. Okay. We're gonna have a bunch more episodes coming out over the break. Regularly scheduled programming over our break. We wanted to make sure that you guys have something to watch. So next week you can look out for Nick and KB on Tuesday and Coach Gruden on Thursday. Nick and KB, absolute classic episode with the Anus guys and Coach Gruden, you know, a little something different. - Yeah. - To be very fun. - Yeah. 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